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United Horseplayers of America
What is United Horseplayers of America?
It is a brand new group headed by Dave Gonzalez the owner of surethingselections.com / W.I.N. Systems and a lifelong horseracing fan and player. The purpose of this group will be to give the American horseplayer a chance to have their voice heard by those that would tax us heavily and stomp on our rights because we are fragmented and disorganized as a group. This group wants serious like-minded people to band together and change this. It was founded because quite frankly, I, Dave Gonzalez, am tired of seeing complaints about how the player, who is the backbone of this industry, gets shafted because we have no voice. Someone had to stand up and I have decided that I will do it and see who the serious people are about stopping politicians and any one else who would tread upon our rights and concerns form continuing to do so from this point on.
It’s now time for the complainers to put up or shut-up.
What are the goals of this organization?
Our goals are simple.
1)
Stop all those who would raise takeouts on any wager.
These people are greedy and lack common sense and should be stopped. It has been
shown that more money back in the pockets of the players increases handle and
thus increases the amount these people are trying to get by their very foolish
method of raising the takeout. This also includes tracks that refuse to take
wagers from circuits or tracks that have a lower takeout because they have to
take a lower cut. Where did these people learn business? First of all they
should give the customer what they want and if that means working on a smaller
profit margin then so be it. This will give them happier customers and
additionally they will still be getting some revenue. How dumb do these people
have to be to not understand the concept that 1% income on something that will
satisfy customers is better than no profit on something that drives your
customers away.
These people are not friends of the horseplayers and if we are united we can get
them out of positions that directly affect us and that are counterproductive to
the growth and well being of a game we all dearly love.
2)
Help unify tracks and jurisdictions.
Not only do horseplayers need to unite but we need to start unifying our
industry and end this nonsensical squabbling between entities. This would
benefit everyone in the game but there are too many greedy people out there
ruining it for everyone because they do not listen or pay attention to what we
the customer wants.
3)
Get us better, timelier information.
As horseplayers we need to get all tracks to give us the most up to date
information regarding anything that impacts our decisions. Little things like
shoe information should be given out BEFORE the races on a day even begin. Not
with 10 minutes to post. Most tracks try but I do not think they either know or
care how critical some of this information can be at times. By uniting we can
get them to understand this and work with us.
This organization is not built with the intent to complain about stewards decisions, storms that force tracks to switch race surfaces for safety reasons, poor rides by jockeys or trainers making foolish statements. While these things our irritating and frustrating they are largely a matter of judgement and part of the game. We are more concerned with the bigger picture at this time. If anyone wishes to volunteer to help in this matter we will more than welcome them aboard.
Does it cost anything to join? How can you join?
There
are no membership fees or dues and there never will be.
Right now we are utilizing Yahoo’s group features to get this underway. If we
get some funding and membership we will make a more permanent home on the world
wide web. The current address to join this noble cause is
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/United_Horseplayers_of_America/
See you around the track folks and let's get things going in our favor form now on!
Dave
Gonzalez
Owner of surethingselections.com & Founder of United Horseplayers of America
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