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Not a lot of competitors is the problem. That's what killed it in Tampa. 
The only place to race in the East is Delaware Park. The number of 
starts is way down to what it was 10 years ago. It took off like gang 
busters then fizzled. I think part of it may have been the middle 
Easterners getting interested in TB racing and giving up on the Arab 
racing.

Ten years ago Tampa had Arabian races with full cards. When they 
couldn't get more than two or three entries they just dropped it.

I think the AHA has some problems and has missed the boat in a couple of 
respects. First is Arabian racing. Horse racing has been losing 
popularity over the past 20 years. It's a generational thing with the 
current young adult not caring much about it. The downturn in racing 
popularity was not the time to introduce a racing program for Arabs. 
There weren't many new fans and you weren't going to take away the TB 
fans with horses that ran a lot slower.

Next they wrapped themselves around the show world. While the AQHA and 
TWHBEA sold their horses as the "worlds greatest trail horse", supported 
trails conferences, advertised in trail riding publications and growing 
in numbers like gangbusters the AHA was promoting itself as a show horse 
and race horse with numbers and membership declining.

But that's just one person's opinion ;-) .

Truman

Kristen A Fisher wrote:
> Actually Arabian racing is alive and well: http://www.arabianracing.org/.
> They are promoting themselves heavily and have some pretty good purses with
> not a lot of competitors. They race at 22 tracks across US and Canada.
>
> Kristen
>
>   

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