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Old 04-12-2014, 04:12 PM
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I said I don't blame them for being frustrated with Frankfort and nearly a decade of inactivity. Try approaching this from a practical standpoint where you're in this business in KY watching as Iowa, Indiana, Pennsylvania and now even Ohio syphon off your horse population with their gaming-enhanced purses. What are you supposed to do? If you say, what does Keeneland do, note that Churchill doesn't have a horse sales business to underwrite their racing program. It's not a defense for raising takeout. It's an explanation of the environment in which the decision was made.
I do understand why they want slots. I'm from Maryland, grew up on Maryland racing, so I know what happens when all the neighboring states have slots. It sucks. But I also know slots are nothing but a short term cure and getting them does nothing to help horseplayers, absolutely nothing.

Not only don't they help horseplayers, they generally make things worse.
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