Originally posted by Lone Star Stables
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New owners come along for their first few seasons and supplant old ones as the current "cash cows" (currently, it is clear which trainers are supplying the requisite $1-2k per month, but there are only 2-3 now, instead of 5 or 6).... But, things change, and it goes from GLL, to Orb Farms, to Greeko, then to the current top-3 stable, just as an example.
Someone usually steps up and "takes one for the team"; only now there are fewer contributors, and the overall site volume is shallow..... most of the big races have 3 entries apeice from today's top 3 stables.
I would love to contribute more, but since I cannot contribute like I did when i was purchasing $1-2k per month, the overall experience is one hundred-fold less entertaining, and FAR less successful.
in any business, one must keep their existing client base - but in an extremely narrow field such as online virtual horse racing, the combination of being left at the mercy of virtually-random breeding, virtually random association between workout times and success, and random gate draws (the Gate draws in sprints at Belmont - why not just eliminate Belmont as a track entirely if you admit the inside sprint bias is significant?)
....In my observations, this is why there is no more GLL, Ryan Express, Aquaman, Royal Oaks, etc... and a mere tiny fraction of Burky, Greeko, Orb, WCR...not to mention the permanently-retired stables that most of the newer stables do not know or never saw race.....
Somehow, retention must be far more important than acquisition in order for the site to flourish. I wish it the best of luck..... Not sure if the site reached out to Toc, or vice versa.....but it seems like desperation to reach out to a former site owner, if that is in fact the case???
.....Oh and as you stated "He no longer has access to the back end"...... So at one point, he did have access to the back end??? I can look at the answers to a crossword puzzle in today's paper, at the bottom of the page..... then throw the answer key in the trash......but I still remember the important answers to fill into the blank crossword puzzle. Smh
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