How does technology play a role in Churchill Downs being able to provide such wagering?
Eric: Actually, technology doesn’t really play a heavy role in the types of wagers. What we do is poll our customers. Two departments that are really strong here with our customer base are marketing and community relations. They have a lot of input into our wagering product. Our corporate marketing staff really looks at what types of wagers are attractive to our customers. As far as technology is concerned, we put the highway there for the customer, but the types of wagers are not really an IT function. Companies like United Tote, Am Tote, and Auto Tote take the wager for us. They do the settlements for those types of things. TR: What kind of backups do you have in place to ensure that customers will be able to place their bets and cash their winning tickets? Eric: We have hot backup servers on site, and we obviously have disaster recover scenarios and tape backups off site, if we had to reconcile. If there were a major catastrophe at a racetrack, wagering would cease. We would have th
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