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Maryland has decided to make the “B” circuit the main circuit. Stronach wanted to have fewer dates with purse levels rivaling New York and Kentucky. The state turned over management to the breeders in favor of lower purses and more racing dates. If Stronach got their way breeders in MD would have had a hard time keeping up with horses from out of state. This is the same thing that’s playing out in California. The facts are if you’re fighting over Kentucky’s cast offs that’s a losing battle breeding wise. States having their own farms, and filling races with them, will survive in the long run. I think eventually California will go the same way MD did. 1st Racing’s model only works if states have to rely on racing’s mutual pools for tax revenue in the same way they did before internet gaming. The cats out of the bag with internet gaming and racing will revert back early 1900’s model before racing’s mutual pools were legalized. Racing is no longer the only game in town gambling wise.
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