No more than 2 years left before it's gone. 2020 likely the last season of racing there. Not a big shock, but nearly official now.

https://www.horseracingnation.com/news/ ... h_2021_123

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

It really is sad to see the end of once incredibly popular sports to disappear. Boxing, horse racing, and baseball had nice long runs but nothing lasts forever.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Yep. And now quarterbacks are retiring like Triple Crown winners.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Horse racing will be fine

Only the weak ones. The strong ones are playing until 50 now.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Beat me to this one:



https://www.chicagotribune.com/business ... story.html

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

That's depressing.

Seems too important to let it close altogether. Hope someone can save it.

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The way the legislation was written made it inevitable. I'm sure that wasn't the intention, but in a state so desperate for cash taking care of racing interests was a minor concern. And legislators don't understand all the ins and outs. Also, Dave McCaffrey is completely overmatched vs. CDI.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I'm amazed at the number of people with whom I interact that would disagree with your statements about baseball. Baseball's revenue might be historically high, but it does not occupy the place in our culture that it did as recently as the 80's. Football was something people used to use to get through the baseball off season. Now, it's the other way around.

Rozner’s not going to like this. He is one of the idiots that believes slots should save horse racing. If horse racing can’t stand on its own, then it should die. No reason to put slot profits to prop up horse racing.

That plot of land would look great with Pulte homes on it.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I think the issue was that other tracks, such as those in Arkansas and Indiana (that were not nearly as nice as Arlington), had much larger racing purses solely because they also had casinos/slots, so it was more to try to level the playing field and keep the better horses here.

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That's too bad, My nephew worked there this summer.

You'd think that land would be valuable, but how many years did that empty Sheraton hotel sit there before they demolished it?

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

The Sheraton building is still there. It's condos or apartments now. I'm guessing the property will be developed similar to The Glen.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

It's a little more complicated than that.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

When they put poker rooms in the Florida dog tracks revenue at the dog windows plummeted--while the tracks cleaned up on the poker rooms. Dog track owners probably happy Florida's banned dog racing, as they no longer have to subsidy the pretense of hosting parimutuel wagering in order to have a poker room. Although Disney's working with the Seminoles to shut down those too.

Pretty soon there won't be any jai alai courts left, either.

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Whoa, you don't see a triple-tap shitpost every day.

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That's a good beer.

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Surprised it's held on as long as it has. Seems like there's a major betting/fixing scandal every few years involving the top players. But then NBA games still take major betting action, and NBA's the most rigged sport this side of WWE.

Jai Plai - India Pale Ale is the beer of choice for men who like to be cucks.

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Wait...you like to lick eggplant then shove it up your ass?

Interesting.

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Of course. The difference though, is that dog racing has no benefits as an agribusiness. It doesn't support the number of jobs that horse racing does nor does it preserve large green spaces.

There are several phony horse racing facilities in Florida that do the bare minimum to stay eligible for their card rooms, i.e. they race the minimum amount of races using the same small group of horses in two horse fields. No one bets on them.

Jai alai will not disappear because it's cheap enough to run in a basement fronton to maintain casino eligibility. That's what is happening at Pompano.

The intention of the Illinois bill is clearly to keep AP open, but that's really an ancillary concern. And the horsemen lack clout/lobbying power. Plus they're stupid and short-sighted. It doesn't take much for Bill Carstanjen to outwit them.

Hopefully, the gaming board enforces the bill's intent and does not license CDI for sports betting or a Waukegan casino unless AP is open. But I doubt that will happen.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Jai Alia betting stories? Feels like a sport that bond to be rigged.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Who the hell would bet that shit? I did like the frontons though. Old Florida is fading fast. I'm glad I got to Chalet Suzanne one last time. At least Mai-Kai still exists.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

As one of the few on this board that has actually been a racetrack, I can more accurately express feelings of sadness as AP and I essentially shared the same metaphorical foxhole. From one racetrack to another, RIP.

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