21.Jul
The racing disaster in New Jersey .wmv
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New Jersey scheme calls for alarms to sound By Stan Bergstein TUCSON, Ariz. - The racing disaster in New Jersey - and it is just that - is the clearest demonstration yet of how powerless American racing is in a political environment dominated by casinos. Last week, a panel convened by Gov. Chris Christie recommended that the New Jersey racing industry should no longer receive financial assistance, and the Meadowlands racetrack should be closed or sold for a nominal fee. It should be no consolation to those in Thoroughbred racing that the principal victim in this travesty is harness racing. Monmouth Park is in equal danger. It is frightening that Christie is willing even to consider the recommendations of a stacked commission he appointed to study the issue, and sacrifice the nation's leading harness track and one of its finest Thoroughbred operations, along with some of racing's classic events, including harness racing's Kentucky Derby, the Hambletonian, and Monmouth's Haskell. Even more frightening is that racing nationally has not fully realized the threat and the possible result. What is happening in New Jersey should provoke an unprecedented groundswell of objection, a tidal wave of anger and opposition that could at least make Christie aware that if he doesn't care for racing, thousands of others, in New Jersey and across the land, do. Instead, American racing is divided and fractured by breed lines and breed prejudice, and each segment has little interest in or ... |
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