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Originally Posted by Postime
I go back a few years with the Meadows and I don't think things are so gloom and doom. Actually they look assume starting with the 1st race Saturday featuring the World Champion Foiled Again in town.
I remember before slots when the biggest purse for the week was $6,500 and
you know Ron Burke was racing then.
If Mom and Pop can't compete on the big track they should consider trying the county fairs or go over to the Meadowlands they don't have slots and always need horse's to fill the box.
You can't have it both ways folks.
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" they should consider trying the county fairs or go over to the Meadowlands they don't have slots and always need horse's to fill the box."
There is a certain irony in that statement.
Once the preeminent harness track on the Continent that opened it's doors to 42,000 people on the first night of operation. A track where in the dead of winter on a weeknight if less than 10,000 people were in the stands it was a bad night. 40 years later, the place can't draw flies and is paying smaller purses than of 35 years ago.
Shame. I don't know what Jeff Gural is thinking right now. If he's waiting for NJ voters to approve casino gambling out side of AC and banking on a casino in the Meadowlands where he can somehow get his hands on a piece of the casino money, I think he'd better consider other options. The State legislature already stripped the Casino subsidies.
There may be a casino at the front door of the Meadowlands racetrack, but I think its a long shot, the track reaps any benefit from the gambling house.
