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One incredibly important factor in refusing horse racing bets is this. A machine punter will easily be replaced, but you try and replace a life long horse racing bettor/enthusiast in marketing/monetary terms. Their mental investment, subscriptions, race days, you name it. Racing TV, Racing Post (soon to be defunct), Timeform, Proform. A racing punter is invested in the sport, a machine player is giving money to the shareholders. This is a catastrophic spiral for the game. Deliberate, who knows? But you couldn't have a worse set of regulators, nor big corp making stupid amounts of money, that stick racing in front of every problem they have created themselves. If you want to go to sleep at the end of your life and say I have racing's best interests at heart then you should read this and let it sink in. Paying your bills is vital, but this only goes one way from here if another funding model is not found.