SLOTS PASS IN MARYLAND
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SLOTS PASS IN MARYLAND
by a vote of 2-1, the slots referendum passed last nite. unfortunately, there's a local group intent on keeping them out of laurel racetrack. hopefully, our illustrious legislators won't screw it up and we can get back in the game.
Hmm... is this why MEC's stock spiked on Monday?
The Bloodhorse had an article
And MEC did a press release:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zht ... highlight=
The Bloodhorse had an article
And MEC did a press release:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zht ... highlight=
Not to be a party pooper or anything, but my observation on the subject is that alternative gaming revenue has not necessarily been good for the horse racing industry. Too often it has been used to prop up incompetent administrators who have been running the industry into the ground: no need to fire people since they have all this new money to keep people quiet. In the meantime racing handle continues to decline, gamblers forget why they used to like betting the horses, pools decline so the big betters don't want to bet into the local track and the decline continues but it is masked by all the alternative gaming revenue that the idiots running the show have to cover up their incompetence. Maybe Maryland can beat the odds, but I doubt it.
My sister lives in Inwood and says they are all a bunch of boobs in Jefferson County lmao!!!
God I hope they go like Mountaineer and go with live dealers. That computerized crap at Delaware Park is awful......um.... not that I'd know or anything hehehehe!!!!
God I hope they go like Mountaineer and go with live dealers. That computerized crap at Delaware Park is awful......um.... not that I'd know or anything hehehehe!!!!
trying to come up with something brillant..... this may take a while. 
There are going to be those who are going to fight slots at the local level. Lovely. I'm tired of hearing the worn out arguments about the increase in crime we'll see, the suicides, the broken homes. Like those don't exist without GAMBLING. A co-worker of mine said gambling is a personal choice...and if you get addicted, be an ADULT and get help.
We'll see how this goes here in MD.
We'll see how this goes here in MD.
A horse gallops with his lungs
Perseveres with his heart
And wins with his character. --Tesio
Perseveres with his heart
And wins with his character. --Tesio
As Dave noted above, this will temporarily mask poor management. MD racing hasn't been the same since Frank DeFrancis passed. (His kids ran it into the ground.) Used to be the Laurel Fty and DC Int'l were big time races ... But poor racetrack mgt is only a part of the problem.
The deterioration of the breed through drug use and perpetuation of flaws via breeding is what's taken any predictability out of the game. Why should an old-time horseplayers stay with a game that's become harder and harder to beat? You never know when the O'Neill or Pletcher or Dutrow runner will have the juice or not (or Biancone's cobra venom, or whomever's milkshakes, etc).
When the powers that be in the game get serious, and insist on self-imposed regulation - not from the gov't - and breeders set aside their greed (including their lust for foreign money) and focus on the health and long-term betterment of the animal (like Tesio did), then maybe we'll see some change. Otherwise, just continue to plan on seeing the game spiral downwards. Tony Kornheiser, on his PTI show the other night, noted that "horse racing is gone". Even mainstream media can see the light!
Still, the slot money should help level the playing field in the mid-atlantic. But, money has not raised the quality of the game at Del or Mnr or CT or PN, so far ...
The deterioration of the breed through drug use and perpetuation of flaws via breeding is what's taken any predictability out of the game. Why should an old-time horseplayers stay with a game that's become harder and harder to beat? You never know when the O'Neill or Pletcher or Dutrow runner will have the juice or not (or Biancone's cobra venom, or whomever's milkshakes, etc).
When the powers that be in the game get serious, and insist on self-imposed regulation - not from the gov't - and breeders set aside their greed (including their lust for foreign money) and focus on the health and long-term betterment of the animal (like Tesio did), then maybe we'll see some change. Otherwise, just continue to plan on seeing the game spiral downwards. Tony Kornheiser, on his PTI show the other night, noted that "horse racing is gone". Even mainstream media can see the light!
Still, the slot money should help level the playing field in the mid-atlantic. But, money has not raised the quality of the game at Del or Mnr or CT or PN, so far ...
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spex4me wrote:My sister lives in Inwood and says they are all a bunch of boobs in Jefferson County lmao!!!
God I hope they go like Mountaineer and go with live dealers. That computerized crap at Delaware Park is awful......um.... not that I'd know or anything hehehehe!!!!
We voted it down because the deal for the horseman wasn't fair. Even if MD slots hadn't passed the gaming bill for Charles Town would have next summer due to a better deal.