Why has Europe turned against horse racing, choosing even Formula E over it?
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>>157279464the US games are out of datealso the WC final is not a yearly event interesting to see though
>>157279464horse racing exists purely for gambling purposes. Euros legalised sport betting decades ago so there was no longer any reason to care about the horsies. within a generation no Americans will care either since we legalised sports betting not too long ago.
>>157279464Over 5 million total attendances at racecourses in Britain in 2025.Average of over 2k per meeting.
>>157281260I find it incredibly gay that most races are handicap races. The winning horse isn't the fastest oneWhat a joke
>>157279464More people live in cities so not as any horse people around anymore.
Soccer is a soulless sport. Shame it will keep growing because immigrants refuse to watch anything but Ngububall
>>157286575>>157286575Our brains are fucked
AI says, 500-600 million watch the Grand National, every year. Which makes it bigger than every other Sporting Event, combined. And AI is never wrong.
>>157286532Business idea: urban horse racing
>>157279464>Why has Europe turned against horse racingYuro horse racing focuses too much on the betting side of horse racing, they should take a page out of the Japs playbook and focus more on the horses themselves since people like horses more than they like losing money on gambling.
>>157281260Britain is not Europe. The British Isles are a world unto themselves.
>>157279464Isn't horseracing in crisis worldwide?Here they are resorting to Umamusume to draw in anime fans and save their hippodrome. Shocking in a historically huge horse racing country. Though the largest hippodromes seem to be healthy lesser ones are struggling and closing or at risk of it.
>>157286497They’re handicapped to the jockey weighing 126 lbs holding the saddle. Not much of a handicap for a lifetime roided animal that is basically 1200 lbs of muscle.
>>157290982Yeah, here too the smaller tracks have been closing down for decades. Probably a mix of a wider range of gambling options and increased concern about the welfare of horses. The big events like the King's Plate next week are still huge though.I do sometimes wonder to what extent Umamusume has raised the profile of horse racing again. It still seems pretty healthy in Japan, but I'm curious if the game's had an impact elsewhere.
>>157291115Japan was going through a bit of a dry spell after Kitasan Black retired from racing as there wouldnt be a horse of that kind that would ignite a wild interest on the sport until at least the Contrail/Almond Eye/Daring Tact trio. The Umamusume anime dropped around 2018 and made people in Japan get more interested in horse racing through this drought, and the game launch torched new life into the sport itself because Cygames uses part of their revenue to sponsor races on Japan and even overseas and the CEO of their parent company is also a horse owner himself. To top it off he owns one of the best horses in the entire world and keeps adding new foals and yearlings to his wishlist.Cygames sponsored some events for the Breeders Cup which is the US's biggest race *weekend* (their biggest race is the Kentucky Derby which iirc they also sponsored once but im not sure), they are the title sponsors of the 3rd triple crown leg in France (Grand Prix de Paris) and they also sponsored the Gran Premio Latinoamericano (i think thats how its named?) here in South America.
>>157290959>The British Isles
>>157291350>>157290959Woops
>>157279464no way euro final has less spectators than champion's league final
Harness racing races gets over a million visitors every year here and there’s god damn dedicated tv channels for it
>>157279540Speaking of out of dateThe 2026 World Cup Final between Spain and Argentina shattered U.S. television records, drawing a combined cross-platform audience of over 62 million viewers. It stands as the most-watched non-NFL sporting event in the U.S. in decades.English-Language Broadcast: Aired on Fox Sports with 38.937 million viewers, peaking at 51.685 million.Spanish-Language Broadcast: Aired on Telemundo and Peacock with 23.9 million viewers.Total Reach: Over 128 million Americans tuned into some portion of the tournament across Fox platforms.
>>157279464You can just gamble your money away without abusing horses
>>157279464Stopped caring as soon as horses were declared athletes
>>157279540Thought CFB would be higher than that but still in 2nd place.
>>157279540>Horse Racing above Baseball I.... understand
>>157292672not a yearly event sanchez
>>157279540>>157297862seething flyover
>>157279540>out of dateAre you even aware of how old this sourceless memechart is?
>>157290959>le isles breton
>>157279464Horse racing is big here and in England. On the continent I’ve only really heard of it in France, so I don’t think it’s popular anywhere else in Europe really
>>157299838Yeah, France has some big races. A lot of Japanese horses race there for some reason. The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is even famous worldwide. I guess if >>157292579 is anything to go by, it's popular in Sweden too with harness racing instead. The track near where I live does harness racing too.
You need to drink and be a gambler to have fun watching horse racing.
>>157290959>The seethe this provoked from potatoniggersWhat’s in your head? Zombie.
