While this sounds good, makes sense in attracting more turf races to the Big A and I am certainly for more turf racing, this smells to me of an ulterior motive coming from the Cuomo administration to get Aqueduct prepared for a period to renovate Belmont so that Cuomo can complete his land grab of Aqueduct racetrack permanently. It is hard for me to believe that they would spend this money for about 8 weeks a year.
I hope I am wrong, but this is New York, the land of corrupt politicians. Where Cuomo has any involvement there is always an undisclosed ulterior motive and nothing can be taken at face value.
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