Horseracing on ice, " 10 Out of 10" .

冰上赛马，“十分之十”。

See, this " shoo-in" comes from horseracing.

看，这个“胜负” 来自赛马。

Consider one example of an influential innovation in US horseracing.

考虑美国赛马中一项有影响力的创新的例子。

It's called FT Weekend, and it's a story all about how technology is changing the business of horseracing.

它叫做《金融时报》周末， 讲述的是技术如何改变赛马业务的故事。

And he did that because, without exaggeration, Scotty is trying to entirely save horseracing as a sport.

他这样做是因为， 毫不夸张地说，斯科蒂正试图将赛马作为一项运动完全保存下来。

But horseracing is really his passion.

但赛马确实是他的爱好。

And, you know, the horseracing tracks are a mile long, so they're very, very big.

而且，你知道，赛马跑道有一英里长， 所以它们非常非常大。

I mean, time was in the US that there were three sports: baseball, boxing and horseracing.

我的意思是， 当时美国只有三种运动：棒球、拳击和赛马。

And he's had a sort of side gig in the past as a horseracing commentator on a horseracing TV network.

过去，他曾在赛马电视网络担任赛马评论员。

He thinks that in order for horseracing to survive, the little guy, as he calls them, needs to learn these technological tools.

他认为，为了让赛马运动能够生存下去，他所说的小家伙需要学习这些技术工具。

That's a third of all the money bet annually on all horseracing in the US.

这是美国每年所有赛马赌注的三分之一。

I think I love a few things about horseracing.

我想我喜欢赛马的一些事情。

And, Oliver, can you just explain to us, like in simple terms, why is horseracing so vulnerable right now?

而且，奥利弗，你能简单地向我们解释一下，为什么赛马现在如此脆弱？

We're also going to talk about horseracing and something called the Triple Crown, a famous group of three horse races in the United States.

我们还将讨论赛马和所谓的三冠王，这是美国著名的三项赛马。

And adjusting for inflation in the last 20 or so years, dollar spent on horseracing had been roughly cut in half.

在过去 20 年左右的时间里， 根据通货膨胀进行调整后，花在赛马上的钱大致减少了一半。

Yeah, I mean, most simply, there's just far, far fewer dollars bet on horseracing in the US and that's just a function of basically declining popularity.

是的，我的意思是， 最简单地说，在美国投注赛马的资金要少得多， 这只是受欢迎程度基本上下降的结果。

If these people get bored and move on to other kinds of gambling, horseracing as a sport will be even worse off than it was before.

如果这些人感到无聊并转向其他类型的赌博，赛马作为一项运动将比以前更糟。

To all this, add lotteries, horseracing, and bingo, and you get a $27 billion industry with the average Canadian household betting ￡1,200 every year --- twice that of the average American household.

所有这些，再加上其他各种彩票、赌马和宾戈游戏，赌博业的总产值可高达 270 亿美元，相当于加拿大平均每户每年下赌注 1，200 英镑，这一数额是美国平均每户每年下赌注数额的两倍。

Though Seabiscuit is one of the most famous American horses, he never ran in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes or the Belmont Stakes, the three events that make up the Triple Crown of horseracing.

虽然海Seabiscuit是美国最著名的马之一，但它从未参加过肯塔基德比、普瑞克尼斯锦标赛和贝蒙锦标赛，这是构成赛马三冠王的三个比赛。

Yeah, that's, that, that Ja Rule. And at one point he was doing his set in front of a big advertisement for a NFT horseracing company. So kind of metaverse horseracing, metaverse gambling.

是的，就是那个 Ja Rule。有一次，他正在一家 NFT 赛马公司的大型广告前做布景。那种虚拟宇宙赛马，虚拟宇宙赌博。