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Originally Posted by Hambletonian
The land is too valuable to sit idle. What do you do with a facility that is 10-20x too large for its average daily crowd? If they could use redevelopment money to reduce the grandstand footprint dramatically while somehow allowing for enough seating for major race days it could be really cool. Winterize the new grandstand, and Aqueduct is less necessary except for the stabling issue.
The other factor is that if slots every become completely disentangled from race tracks, there would be no money for purses.
Considering very few people attend live racing...moving the whole shebang out into the country, financed by the redevelopment of Belmont and Aqueduct, allowing for enough ontrack stabling and a dual facility for both breeds, would probably be in everyone's best interest. Build an enclosed grandstand for 5000 folks, and make the ontrack facility the most technologically advanced one ever devised.
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Other than the harness part of it this is what Stronach did at GP and everyone laughed!
