nottu wrote:- Yours truly - Jogai bakken ureba -nottu
The takeout is 25% across the board, with the exception of win bets and place which is subsidized by JRA to 20%. The reason for that is less than 2% of all bets are made on those two types.
As far as keiba suffering, if you take all of the annual total turnover for the US (number two nation in total sales), include the casino sports book betting for horse racing and multiply the total by three, you will have what JRA sells in a year.
It is down but far from in difficulty.
As for Katsuragi Ace, I assume you are talking about the Japan Cup in 1984. If memory serves, I believe he paid about 45 to 1 on the win, which although not bad, was held that low by the local OENDAN bet against the gaikokuba, otherwise you would have been able to retire.
As for Mulboyne's report on the owner situation, there were many things involved to unravel that. First and foremost is the visa situation which is government. Secondly is the resistance by owner/breeders groups,
It is being slowly resolved, but essentially Riki Takahashi's problem was that he tried to solve this in the media and use the media to force his way into a closed market that was trying to open on its own at its own pace.
All he did was set the efforts in Japan back and succeed in getting himself an invitation to resign from HH Sheik Mohammed.
