Prairie Meadows Skips on Poly,Fixes Dirt track

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

So tracks would be better off closing up?
The fact that Praire Meadows is putting in a new dirt surface as opposed to synthetic is proof that slot machines are no good? I guess you could argue the case they are being cheap by not going poly but if there were no slots there would be no Praire Meadows.

pick your poison.

In a word, yes.

If you are a horseplayer, what good does a track like Prairie Meadows or Presque do for you? Nothing. Just a waste of a half-dozen decent horses a day that robs real racetracks with real pools and less usurous takeouts of horses.

These places handle $500,000 a day with pools you cannot bet into seriously and somehow offer 250,000 a day in purses.

Was the thoroughbred racing world so much worse off 15 years ago when there was no Prairie Meadows?