NYRA increases purses

[ARyan]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

For those of you that think 30 years is too long....

The land claim is worth in excess of $1 Billion. If anything, NYRA may have sold their equity in that claim short by getting " only " 30 years. Being that they are better than 50% to win the claim they are forgoing over a half a billion dollars in value. Those of you that think they should have settled for less than 30 years should be careful next time you are in any kind of bargaining position.

Those of you that think NYRA should not get a franchise extension need to tell us which bidder should get the franchise and why. Otherwise your arguments hold no water. It is a CHOICE by the Governor. Please tell us why he chose the wrong candidate and why.

I am not saying NYRA is the wrong canidate, I am saying is this Governor has become very inconsistent in his views on NY Racing in 4 years. As I pointed out in another thread on this subject, this report is an interesting read;
http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/rep...yra_report.pdf

Seeing how this report was founded by the now Governor and NYRA supporter, he may want to give us some truthful insight into how he came to the conclusion that NYRA now is better then the NYRA he wanted thrown under the bus a few years ago.