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Oak Tree needs to go away. They served their purpose once upon a time when there was no meet during a certain time on the calendar, so they went to the track and offered to lease the track and hold a meet during that time.
A lot of people jumped on Stronach for not wanting to renew the Oak Tree lease but it makes logical business sense. Their contract called for the lease amount to be 75% of profits. It's better to get 100% of the profits from a meet that SA could hold themselves. They don't need OTRA to hold that meet.
It's in the best interest of SA that they maximize profits yet OTRA is out competing with SA for those racing dates. They should let SA have them and support SA being successful as the one track with a committed future to S. California racing. I can think of no reason why they don't do this outside of one - the men at OTRA who draw a salary off the meet.
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