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Originally Posted by Hanover1
And the entity with the most clout and cash will win.....NJ long ago showed us how politics are played, and its not all red, white and blue, but lots of grey and green......
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This may be an article that you may want to read before you sound the death knell for New Jersey Racing.
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David-LV
In New Jersey, It Has Only Just Begun
Meadowlands is the most recognized brand in harness racing in North America, certainly worth more than a brush off or closure, and the apple of the eye of many North Jersey legislators that will have a say in enacting any recommendations in the report;
Whether or not it loses a few million dollars, this year’s Monmouth Park meet has set very positive tone for horse racing and represents a major change in thinking that shouldn’t be dismissed in a couple of sentences;
New Jersey should be proud to have a racetrack at which total handle is up 115%, something absolutely unheard of at a time of steady declines in pari-mutuel handle elsewhere;
The often-criticized New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has proven to be one of the top racetrack operators in the country since Meadowlands opened in the mid-1970s, so much so that racing alone produced hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue that was siphoned off and used for other programs;
Horse racing has legislative friends in high places;
New Jersey is broke and needs money.
Put all that stuff together and what you have is a report that needs to be completely reworked. And that may very well occur.
The sun isn’t setting on New Jersey racing, but it is rising on a process that, best guess, will take years and years to get through.
The whole article can be read at this link:
http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/at-la...ust-begun.aspx
