Ellis Park closing, now opening

[stonegossard]

In the end the horsemen are screwing both themselves and the game up. In the end a lot of horseplayers who dont have access to these tracks (CRC,CD,...etc) will permanently alienate them. I know on my end I dont even bother looking at CD entries or following their meet at all anymore. While I normally make a few trips to Calder by now, I have not gone once and have not made a single wager there yet. At some point if the horsemen at Calder smarten up and let out of state betting/adw's back into the game, I still probably wont bother. The quality of horses at CRC is beyond a joke, it might take a long time to fix the damage that has been done.

I hope the horsemen down here in Fla are happy with the result so far...they have all but destroyed horse racing down in S. Florida.

I applaud the owner of Ellis of basically telling the horsemen to go screw off. The guy cant run a business without out of state betting coming in, and the horsemen wont budge. I guess the horsemen would rather not run at all. Real smart move on the horsemen's end. Hopefully the McDonald's down in the Ellis area is hiring.