Stridesafe Sensor

[cal828]

https://paulickreport.com/news/ray-s...idesafe-sensor

Saw this on the internet. Surely, got to be a very good thing for the sport.

[Alli]

Amazing! Thanks for posting, Cal.

[DonGuido]

Good info Cal, thanks for posting this. Very interesting.

[Alli]

I just read that they're going to close Fair Grounds on New Orleans!

[JolyB]

Not entirely clear whether this might be a negotiating position by CDI to try to prod the Louisiana legislature and/or Racing Commission into granting it some relief over a state Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the operation of what are called "historical horse racing machines", which I think are a type of slot machine and a significant source of revenue to CDI at not only the Fair Grounds but also at its OTB's in the state. If so, this represents a hardball style of negotiation.

The winter racing season wouldn't be the same without the Fair Grounds.

[cal828]

Seems strange that Fair Grounds doesn't already have slot machines, but maybe it has to do with how the gambling laws were written. Maybe their law only allows riverboat casinos. I'm pretty sure that's the way the gambling laws are written for the State of Mississippi which is a bit of a joke. Some of the riverboat casinos are actually in the Mississippi River and some of them are built on barges that are in a large moat which is not connected to any body of water like a river.

Here in Arkansas, we went through an evolutionary process that included historical racing machines which are slot machines, but I think the way that they got around the law in this state was that the law said that games of chance were forbidden. The argument that was made by the supporters of historical racing was that the machines had a small window that showed an actual horse race and therefore were not a game of chance since the outcome of horse racing can be predicted. Didn't matter that you still were randomly selecting a runner. Amazing how people can come up with such BS. I guessing that the Louisiana Supreme Court wasn't buying it. Those Cajun folk are more sophisticated than us rednecks.