Interesting.
https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/belmont-and-aqueduct-how-long-can-they-both-survive/
While I understand that Belmont needs some other source of revenue in the winter months to keep it going, I really hope they do not do a full redo of the grandstand and open up the infield to drunks…I mean spectators. One of the things I love about Belmont is that big serene infield. I can’t stand watching the Preakness with all the patrons at Pimlico falling over themselves drunk at the infield. I hate how racing has just become one other place to get wasted. I understand the issue of needing winter racing, but moving the grandstand would cost a fortune and the track would still be frozen. Is there anyway they can modify the track to heat it from underneath?
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I guess Finger Lakes is adding to NY horse racing concerns. I watched VA Governor Terry McAuliffe allow the demise of our state’s racing, so I guess the fact that a like political mind in Cuomo raping NY racing shouldn’t be a surprise. Fortunately for VA, McAuliffe will be gone in about a year with no place else to go politically to do harm. Not being a life long Virginian maybe he’ll pull a Scott Brown and change his residence to make another run at political office.
Well at least NY has a chance to survive. But look out NY, McAuliffe is Clinton hack.
NY moves money around to save 2017 meet. Horsemen, no doubt, had to agree to creative accounting. Nothing new here for horsemen as creative accounting has been sustaining the industry for decades.
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Excellent!
Ain’t creative accounting wonderful. But sadly, imagination and optics aside, there is this?
https://www.thoroughbredracing.com/articles/new-yorks-out-competition-drug-testing-abysmal/
I’m convinced Belmont is doomed. Twenty years ago, a ticket in the lower grandstand was a whopping $10. I went online to buy my Belmont Stakes tix for this year, and they want $270 for the same seats. I love how they think greed solves all things. Seats should be cheap. Hell we’re all gonna donate at the windows anyway. It’s been all downhill there since NYRA took over.
This news should surprise no one who follows the poor state of the industry. NYRA privatization stalled again.
https://www.nybreds.com/2017/03/28/nyra-privatization-stalls-during-ny-budget-wrangling/
Can’t help what wonder if there is anything that politicians like Governor Cuomo aren’t able to screw up.
