Horseshoes or Homeroom in PA?

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

We have all been through this argument before. The response from the tracks has been silence as usual because they are most likely behind the deal and the horsemen for the most part havent done or said anything. In the end the people in the racing industry in PA are going to get run out of business and racing in this state will die. That of course will effect racing everywhere as even idiot politicians in other states have google and will likely try to copy what will be done here. Maryland is already on shaky grounds from rumblings there and you'd have to be an idiot to think that NY racing is not going to get the shaft soon.

Some people have this vision that there will eventually be just a few tracks left that will beam their signal out to the rest of the world. That will never happen because as soon as the tracks can make money and not have to operate, they will eventually all want to be taking the signal, not giving it.

again, what your essentially saying is as a product racing cannot make it because it cannot come close to funding itself.

Why should it not fail if that is the case, why is it up to slots players to prop up the failing business model?

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

again, what your essentially saying is as a product racing cannot make it because it cannot come close to funding itself.

Why should it not fail if that is the case, why is it up to slots players to prop up the failing business model?

Racing can not compete with casino gambling for obvious reasons especially when that casino is placed in direct competition right on top of the racing facility. This was a pretty clear reason why racing was granted these monies in the first place. Surely life will go on in area's where tracks no longer exist but there is without a doubt a economic impact that racing provides that casinos certainly do not.

Even if in states like PA if things had been done in an ideal manner the amount of growth would never keep pace with the amount of money coming from our "partners" in the casino. Lets not forget that the ONLY reason that Parx and Penn have casinos is they were established racing facilities. Now big boys realize that sentiment only lasts so long when so much money is in play but facts are facts.

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Pa horse board commission or whatever was scheduled to be bankrupt this year according to an article I read a few months back...supposed to fold into the pa gaming commission