Yeh, we got our stimulus money today, direct deposit. It’s enough to buy a few tanks (3) of gas and maybe a trip to McDonalds. The problem is they are using last years income for these. It’s possible that people who made good money in 2019 are totally broke in 2020. Won’t help those who need it.
Month: January 2021
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Facebook Post: 2021-01-01T15:15:51
Greyhound-data is updated with the last of the 2020 races. This includes the final races at Palm Beach Kennel Club. The result charts were finally updated. My heart is heavy as I remove the last of the Florida tracks from my scripts for Greyhound-data.
Stats for 2020:
36358 races ran on North American Tracks down from 52626 in 2019.11426 individual dogs ran in North America over 2020. 5806 ran their last race on a Florida track before moving to another state or adoption. This includes the 585 at Derby Lane, 361 at Orange Park, 815 at Palm Beach that were prematurely retired by the deceit of the AR groups and the greed of the tracks.
In 2020 we had 283133 individual starts across all North American tracks, this is down from 438193 individual starts in 2019.
May 2021 be better to our breed and may the general public gain a better understanding of the damage done. May the Arkansas Kennel Association change their course and perhaps find some other avenue to continue racing. May the leaders in the NGA and the rest of the racing world finally understand that a new model for racing has to happen if it is to survive. May the politicians that support racing continue to understand the love of the breed, the race, and the people involved. I do not want to turn off another track in my upkeep of greyhound data.
Feel free to share and add your wisdom. I will delete negative comments.
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Facebook Post: 2021-01-01
It hurts to post this, but the following links will show all dogs that have run on the 3 final Florida tracks in the last 30 days of their operation. We are still updating adoption and dog placement records so please do not jump me if you already sent me information and it is not there, it is a work in progress. Please note: These are dogs that have ran graded races only, I do not capture schooling races. The gdata_id number column has a link that will take you to the dogs greyhound-data page. The final 3 days of racing are not uploaded to greyhound-data yet as there appears to be a problem in the process. Waiting on a response. The end goal is to account for each and every dog. For dogs that have moved to another track they will fall off these lists the day after they run a graded race at their new track.
Derby Lane: http://198.0.3.161/html/dl_dogs.php
Orange Park: http://198.0.3.161/html/op_dogs.php
Palm Beach: http://198.0.3.161/html/pb_dogs.php
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Facebook Post: 2021-01-01
Working with Greyhound-data to try and get the last few days of 2020 imported. Something changed on the site and it broke all of my scripts. I have the final years data, but just can’t get it to upload. Will update as soon as I possibly can.