I have predicted for a long time it will be around with low-class horses. I feel Gural will never shut it down. He's too involved in the sport, and there are many jobs involved. Jobs with people who have worked for him for a long time. Sure, he can make threats that he will shut down, but that was a negotiating tool to hopefully get a casino.
     I don't think he wants to be known as the person who shut down the Meadowlands. If he has to, he can run it with mostly the same Freehold-type purses. But not with the inflated purses for these same lower conditions now. These owners and trainers will still race there, for they raced for those lower purses for years at Freehold. Others will race there too for the thrill of saying they raced at the Big M


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Way to go.....Plopsters can post whatever they want anytime they want. The admins don't seem care what people post. You can put anyone you want on "ignore" whenever you want too! I have a few on "ignore" as i'm sure many of my fellow plopsters do also. So read the topics that you find interesting. And ignore the rest.

https://www.ohiolottery.com/about/about-the-ohio-lottery/financial/vlt-revenue. Miami valley races less days and does way more slot revenue plus only 14 races a night where scioto downs will go with 16 races a night.  The more you slice a pie the smaller the pieces get.