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Originally Posted by thespaah
Broken down into the VA pop only, it's around 3.5 million residing within a 75 mile radius of DC....Clearly, the place to build.
Quite frankly, even though Colonial is a nice facility and is unique, it is in an area which is too far from the most populous metro area.
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Fair enough, but how many new tracks, unattached to a casino, have been built lately? Who would possibly invest in one? And how could they attract horses away from the slots-enhanced purses in Maryland and WVa? They can shuffle the money around, and rearrange the organizations all they want, but the economics don't change.
On the other hand, if they can find a steeplechase venue that can be adapted to run some flats races, that's probably sufficient to get them tapped in to the purse fund from the ADW tax.
