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Originally Posted by phystech
I, for one, would love to see Colonial sell and close. It is a beautiful track that, as we all are well aware, is in a terrible location.
They run a couple nice grass races there, but the rest of them really aren't much. I don't get very excited about cheap claimers on the turf, unless I own one that I can't figure out so I send him to Colonial in one last desperate attempt.
Their daily purses are crap. They hurt racing at Delpark, and soon will hurt MD if they start their season too early.
I say close Colonial, then close Laurel during the winter and replace those days with a summer turf meet. I mean, that's why Laurel re-did their turf course - to run turf races, right? Can't run the turf in the dead of winter.....
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I don't know how Colonial hurts Delware Park, most of the low end horses from CT, LRL, PHL end up at colonial in the summer. It's not like they're taking away awsome OCN1X type horses, the horses racing down there are going after MD10K or 15K claimers. Plus, Delaware Park is on a roll as it is with all those slots.
I also find it hard to believe that they would sell to someone who plans on putting up housing on that land given the fact of where this country is at in foreclosure rates.
Just give them what they need, let them turn a little coin and leave them be, their 1-2 month season doesn't affect ANY of the major tracks
-bt-