http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/ ... slots-fund
I'm sure they'll compromise and take only half of the committed dollars. How long will the NY politicians allow these funds to pool without siphoning it off? Especially when budget spending is out of control.
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Shammy Davis
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The horsemen should have seen this coming. Remember in VA when lottery money was supposed to be invested in education and low and behold it was ending up in the general fund. 
I remember thinking, as the general assembly claimed the money ended up in education eventually, that this maybe so but no one will ever know with the tricky accounting system the state is using.
I remember thinking, as the general assembly claimed the money ended up in education eventually, that this maybe so but no one will ever know with the tricky accounting system the state is using.
It happened in West Virginia, too.
Folks in Pa. should have seen this coming. When you have HBPA officials in the eastern part of the state strutting around Harrisburg calling the slots revenue "our money" (it's really not), trying to intimidate elected officials, refusing to turn over audits to the state, and slamming the Governor, it was only natural that when the budget process began, the Race Horse Development Fund was a sitting duck.
Those same HBPA officials are now moaning about lower purses and threatening to gut the stakes program and cut benefits for horsemen, but I'll bet even-money that none of them take a salary cut. They all need to be tossed out like trash.
Folks in Pa. should have seen this coming. When you have HBPA officials in the eastern part of the state strutting around Harrisburg calling the slots revenue "our money" (it's really not), trying to intimidate elected officials, refusing to turn over audits to the state, and slamming the Governor, it was only natural that when the budget process began, the Race Horse Development Fund was a sitting duck.
Those same HBPA officials are now moaning about lower purses and threatening to gut the stakes program and cut benefits for horsemen, but I'll bet even-money that none of them take a salary cut. They all need to be tossed out like trash.