GROUP URGES CENTRALIZATION.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Horse racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with needs to emulate other pro sports, pooling television and simulcast rights as part of a united approach to save live racing and to boost its stature, a horse owners' group said Thursday. Reorganizing the structure of horse racing and how it is presented to the public will be vital if the sport is to compete with other sports, the National Thoroughbred Association said in a preliminary business plan. Thoroughbred racing must be recast as a modern sport and business, having virtually disappeared from television except for the Triple Crown and the Breeders' Cup The Breeders' Cup World Championships is an annual series of Grade I thoroughbred horse races operated by Breeders' Cup Limited, a company formed in 1982 by a consortium of North American racing organizations, led by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. , the association said. Former White House Chief of Staff Hamilton Jordan, an adviser to the association, said it hopes to prompt discussion and debate. The aim is to refine the plan over the next several months so that it can be put into place for the 1998 racing season. ``The real message here is that in order to compete successfully with the other sports, thoroughbred racing needs to centralize and specialize its media rights the way every other major sport is organized,'' said Tim Smith Tim Smith is a common name. Notable people with the name Tim Smith include:
The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. for the PGA (1) (Professional Graphics Adapter) An early IBM PC display standard for 3D processing with 640x480x256 resolution. It was not widely used. (2) (Programmable Gate Array) See gate array and FPGA. men's golf tour. That means pooling television and simulcast rights, he said. The plan calls for marketing horse racing through a national advertising campaign, increasing network television exposure to at least 30 times a year, and increasing purses, Smith said. While simulcasting has increased - and with it the amount of money bet off track - attendance plunged 17 percent last year alone. Attendance dropped from 54.4 million to 34.4 million between 1991 and 1995. ``We must support live racing,'' Smith said. As it is now, racing's television and simulcast broadcasts are fragmented, with each track selling its simulcast rights to its live racing separately, Smith said. |
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