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The Evil of Horseracing Subsidies

FROM HorseracingWrongs.org
October 2024

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The evil of subsidizing horseracing, again.

Delaware Park is being (taxpayer) subsidized by the on-site slot machines and table games funneling cash into race purses. (It’s a subsidy because that portion of the gaming revenue going to horseracing would otherwise be going back to state coffers for education – for schoolchildren.) This decidedly unearned income also allows the track to pay first-last, which helps explain results like these from Wednesday:

  • Race 1: Bad Hombre finished last, 28 lengths back (“lacked a late response”), but his exploiters – Kerri Raven, et al. – still collected $125.
  • Race 2: Pegster finished last, 27 lengths back (“came up empty in late stages”), but her exploiters – Danielle Hodsdon, et al. – still collected $125.
  • Race 8: Royal Performance finished last, 37 lengths back (“came up empty in stretch drive”), but his exploiters – Kelly Breen, et al. – still collected $125.

Then these:

  • Race 3: Prom Knight finished last, 86 lengths back (“was eased through the lane”), but his exploiters – Erin McClellan, et al. – still collected $125.
  • Race 7: Nomoretanlines finished last, 81 lengths back (“lost action, eventually crossed the wire”), but her exploiters – Brett Brinkman, et al. – still collected $125.

The evil of subsidizing horseracing, again.

Posted on All-Creatures.org: October 5, 2024
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