A truly bad day for N.J.

[GoIrish]

I encourage you to read the hoseracing section of the actual report here:

http://www.nj.gov/governor/news/repo...ent_final2.pdf

It's actually kind of positive regarding the thoroughbreds; not so much for the trotters. Not surprisingly the press has latched onto one segment of the report as if it's a done deal.

[joeydb]

I was a resident of South Jersey, and I haven't had the pleasure of going to Monmouth yet. I plan to sometime in the next few weeks.

But I remember Atlantic City Race Course, which is now open turf only for 6 days as a last ditch effort to keep it from closing permanently and becoming yet another shopping mall.

And Garden State Park, which used to have both trotters and thoroughbreds depending on what time of year it was. That's a shopping mall now too.

So from the south Jersey resident's point of view, racing has been dying in NJ. Of course we are closer to Atlantic City and our residents have fed that monster, so that's where the problem stems from.