NYRA Franchise: "Backwards, not forwards"

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by freddymo

Sell Aqueduct and use all the money to remodel Belmont into the very finest race track in the world. Run it like a real business. Re do the entire back stretch, level the huge grandstands, remake the training track to something synthetic and just have the very finest 10 month facilty on the planet.. BTW F the slots

If you read the John Nerud piece, you'll see that he laid that plan out a while ago. Except that they need to build the winterized Clubhouse/Grandstand on the opposite side of the track, and replace the inner turf course with a winter synthetic strip. Race at Aqueduct until the new Belmont is complete, and pay for the renovations with proceeds from a subsequent sale of Aqueduct.

[blackthroatedwind]

NYRA was amenable to a great deal of what people propose.....but not the State. It's very hard to guess about what went on, and then point fingers, without knowing the real story.