Noble Truth in the paddock (Sarah K. Andrew)

You know I haven’t been paying attention to the internet when I miss a post like this… my vote so far for the best post of the summer. Not only because it’s funny and from one of my favorite Ohio Valley Girls, but because as J points out in the first comment, “this post should be emailed to every racetrack marketing executive, printed and posted in racetrack office suites across the land”.

I did manage to notice a somewhat similarly themed opinion piece at Bloodhorse posted by a former track executive. Very interesting.

And if that wasn’t enough, this post by Paulick managed to catch my eye too. It seems that fans aren’t the only ones who need to take matters into their own hands! Speaking of owners, 18% of July’s Self Appointed Fan Committee submissions were from Owners!

Wait, how would I know that? Because the reports are done! The new phone book’s here, the new phone book’s here!

That’s right, this evening’s blogging is brought to you by completion of the first round of SAFC reports! Mind you, it’s just a first step… we don’t have any fancy charts or tons of interesting deeper trends discovered but we have a good idea of who made submissions what the submissions were about, statistically speaking. A month and half ago nothing like this existed. One step at a time, or as I like to say, you have to wake up before you can crawl.