Potentially good news: Georgia Racing
 

http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/stat...048111956.html

They would become the 39th state to have legal horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering.

It would be new to them, so it potentially could bring in a new, energized betting crowd.

I love how that newspaper runs press releases from the Georgia House.

I guess it would be good for the locals that want a place to bet, other than at home.
However, the racing would be total crap without slots.
They would be on island by themselves, with the nearest ttracks and major training facilities hundreds of miles away.

We need less (and better) racing.

A track near Atlanta could work, especially if they ran a short meet mid-summer. Run for a month and then use the next 11 months of OTB action to build up the purse account.

Yeah, I guess I am thinking more of the OTB expansion rather than a new track.

But if that new track came online as an old one closed in the future, could help to not us lose too many tracks too fast.

Colonial essentially does this and they are struggling.

More tracks are a great idea..Will the Breeder Cup be there in 2013?

I'm curious as to know if when Jacobs built Colonial and more specifically the OTB's, if there was some kind of limitations in regards to where they could be built, or was it left to the voters of different localities to decide if an OTB could be opened in their cities, towns, etc...

It has never made any sense at all to me as to the Northern most location for the OTB's is in Richmond. I mean, look at I-95 right there in Fredericksburg. Tons of traffic, tons of truckers stopping there. That place makes total sense to me. Why not at least one somewhere in Northern VA? Alexandria maybe? Right off the 495 beltway. If you don't want to go that far North, how about Woodbridge?

I mean, sweet Jesus, has anyone seen where Scott County is? I understand we have to reach out to back woods gamblers, but my God. And Martinsville? There is NOTHING in Martinsville. Maybe there was some kind of stipulation in regards to proximity of the actual track in New Kent.

Sounds like a good excuse to take a field trip to the OTB today:tro:

NASCAR

As sad as it is, Martinsville may have even more going for it than Alberta, and they have an OTB there too.:wf

Now that sounds like a nice weekend trip...Nascar race with a OTB nearby.
I'm sure The Bid would be up for the trip..he loves Nascar.

Its not even a sport. Im up for the OTB and I do have one of those Cherios nascar coats my grandma got me when I was 17

You guys underestimate the wonderful experience of going to a Nascar race.

The Johnny Benson coat..wow.
You know that those type of jackets are really popular with the blacks.
They usually wear the ones with the candy or beer sponsers.

Is that who that is Johnny Benson. My grandma didn't know. SHe saw a bunch of kids with those on and thought I would want one. Its never been worn. Sits in my closet.

Atlanta has a metro area population of 5 million, so some attempt to tap into that market is not unreasonable. Award a single racing license for the area after inviting bids. Require the winning entity to build a network of OTBS. Once certain thresholds for a purse account are met, then require the license holder to construct a track and operate a short meet. If the purse thresholds are not met within a certain period, then the exclusive license expires and others are allowed to enter the OTB market. Atlanta horseplayers get OTBs and Georgia gets its tax revenue.

It should be the Jonny Benson..#26 Ford for roush racing.
I am the drugS of nascar trivia.

You know you are from Tennessee when you can call that out.

I should put it on Ebay.

I did have a rat tail when I was in 3rd and 4th grade.

No, it would not bring anything on ebay...you should take it to the Ghetto Goodwill where it would be appreciated.

That tells me everything I need to know about you:)

We need another track in this country like we need more mares sent to Unbridled's Song.

My father would get free tickets to the Pepsi 400 every summer.

I would watch the start of the race - and maybe the first four or five laps - and at that point I'd leave for the hospitality tents and spend the rest of the race pigging out on free food and drinks and studying Daytona Kennell Club dog racing programs.

It was back in the day when dogs such as Lady Quick, I Get Around, Jay's Rule, Napolean Cavan, Paxton, and Pixie's Candy ruled Daytona.

that is sad.

haha..
but I never got the permed mullet like my Dad and brother did.

E. sadler around the time he was taking he got it..

If you are anything like me, you always felt just a touch better about yourself after leaving a Nascar race. Kind of the same way I always felt after watching an old episode of The Jerry Springer show, only I couldn't quite hear as well afterwards.

you beat me to it on that one! LOL

Can you hit a twin-tri or tri-super on a Nascar race?

Those dogs were awesome for a 3rd grader to follow - they ran twice a week with almost no exception.

Good memories. I'll never forget the time Napolean Cavan missed the break in the featured Grade TA hotbox race .. I think he broke from trap 6. He rushed up into the turn, got shuffled back to next to last again. Made a huge backstretch move into contention, but was still in traffic. He swung out in the stretch and looked like he'd do no better than 3rd with just a few jumps to go - but a final surge got him up by a nose in an impossible to call photo over a field that consisted of about 6 last out Grade A winners and the dog who was 2nd to him in a TA just a few days earlier.

Lady Quick was the best one I ever saw down there. She never missed a break - had dominant early speed - and almost never was caught late unless a quality finisher benifited on the 1st turn and ran it's A-race. You could almost count on her winning the two TA races a week at mutuals of like $2.40 and $2.60

Prince William County (read: Manassas) had a ballot initative a few years back to put a Colonial-affiliated OTB in the county and it failed miserably. So to answer GPK's question, that's why there isn't an OTB outlet somewhere in Northern Virginia.

Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer

Why would those civic leaders see a forest when they have perfectly good trees right in front of them? By the by, for anybody who's spent a minute in Manassas, "family friendly" are not the words that come to mind. MS13 more like it.

I guess you know they moved it.

I heard.

I've been there once in maybe the last 15 years.

What a fun place that area was for a degenerate 3rd grader. They had a Hooters right across the street. You could catch the matinee card - drag your gramps to Hooters for a meal before the evening card - and head back to the puppies for the conclusion to the double header.

I think I went one summer where I missed maybe two or three cards the entire summer.

There's a little more to those races handicapping wise than a lot of people think.

I ate at that Hooters once. (it wasn't because I had been to the dog track either.)
My waitress was on the cover for the annual Hooters Calendar. (1998)
My wife, who was my gilrfriend at the time, was pissed because of the service...the girl couldn't work for all the guys wanting her to sign the calendar.

We visited a track, and this tells you how little I'm into NASCAR that I think it was Martinsville but I can't remember, and it wasn't that long ago. It was for my brother's birthday. You could get in a van and they'd take you a couple laps around the track so you could see just how steep it was. Kinda neat actually. We didn't pay extra for a trip around at racecar speed, but you can. They said something about how folks take RVs to the parking area and some never leave to go into the stadium. They just want the experience so they follow the drivers from track to track and watch on tv.

Maybe they'll give it back to back BCs before it even opens. Perhaps they should just go ahead and make it the permanent site, and mandate a "plastic" surface. ;)

A NASCAR tailgate trumps pretty much any other tailgate experience out there. That I promise.

It was not Martinsville you were at..Martinsville has almost no banking...very flat.

You will never see a dentist that is for sure

I swear Alzheimer's hasn't set in yet, I just am drawing a complete blank. The other tracks I can name right now I know aren't it. Blast.

now if only Tennessee can get on board....the drive to ky downs stinks