Churchill Downs and Keeneland Partnership Good or Bad? Affect on K.Y. Downs?
 

The key phrasing is, "on the border with Tennessee", meaning near the Nashville market. Meaning near Kentucky Downs.

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, (even though I must say it's fun to satirize the Churchill suits as Death Star denizens), but these two working so closely on things so anti-Kentucky Downs seems to fit more of a pattern of late.

Whatever the case, the new Keeneland looks a lot more like a death star corporate track than the track they worked so hard for years to be.

http://pullthepocket.blogspot.com/20....html?spref=tw

I call for an immediate boycott of the new Quarter Horse and Standard Bred tracks proposed by CDI and Keeneland! They will not get a dime of my money for the remainder of 2017.

Track in Oak Grove KY
 

Well, this would be great for me. I live about 20 miles from Oak Grove.:headbanger:

Who owns Kentucky Downs?

It feels like Keeneland (best friend) just slept with my girlfriend...

Totally expect BS like this from Churchill Downs. Keeneland though, that is my happy place. I've always loved everything about or having to do with Keeneland, and they're changing before all of our very eyes and it literally makes me sad.

Great line.

Kentucky commission head REJECTS Churchill-Keeneland proposal

http://www.drf.com/news/kentucky-com...eland-proposal

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The chairman of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission late on Friday poured cold water on a joint announcement earlier in the day by Keeneland and Churchill Downs about their plans to apply to the commission for licenses for two new gambling facilities in southern Kentucky, stating flatly that the commission will not consider the joint applications.

As Barney Fife would say..nipped it in the bud. :ThmbUp:

What's next? Vegetarian Burgoo?

Seeing "live racing and historical racing machines" tells me all I need to know. You have a casino company and a sales house that occasionally has racing. I can see them running a five or six day meet strictly for the casino money.

To be fair, isn't that exactly how Kentucky Downs' own president described his own track? While we don't need new tracks, hard to blame competitors for wanting to get in on that money.

The owner of Kentucky Downs tries to get more dates to race every year but gets screwed over by Churchill and Keeneland.

KD is is by far better racing than CD and KEE combined.
REAL turf racing there, not the crap the other two feature.