Hawthorne race course announced its new rebate plan. A graduated scale, depending on amount wagered in 30 days, maxing out at 4%. Hawthorne apparently understands the player.
Arlington Park, on the other hand, has "Value Day Wednesday".
If one attends on a Wednesday following a full moon but not during the year of the ox; before noon mean solar time but not after perihelion; accounting for the analemma taken from the British Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris; then one only pays $5 to get in.
Those Wednesday starter allowance races must really be something to see.
04 March 2009
A tale of two tracks
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Wow - of course Hawthorne's rebate scale was actually lowered from 2% to 1% for the day-to-day guy that doesn't pound at the windows, plus while Arlington announced its Value Day Wednesday, they already have the Twin Spires Club where top players can get a pretty good rebate as well (granted not 4%)
If you bet $30,000 per month at Arlington Park through the Twin Spires program AND you are already a VIP member, your rebate for the month on that action is exactly 1%. Whoopee!!
Now, the "top players" bet more than $30K per month, but "Anonymous" is kvetching about Hawthorne lowering the scale to 1% for the "day-to-day guy that doesn't pound at the windows" -- yeah, bet less than $5000 per month, and you only get 1%. But if you bet *six times* that much at Arlington, you still only get 1% ($300); bet that same amount at Hawthorne, and you get $1200! No comparison, no contest: Twin Spires is awful in comparison to Hawthorne's new rebate schedule.
And by the way, "Anonymous" is a shill for Arlington Park, a paid mouthpiece. I recognize his writing style from another forum.
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