Preakness Stakes about done

[bluehenbillk]

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/2 ... 002/SPORTS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's no surprise to people in the Mid-Atlantic, but Pimlico may have already hosted its final Preakness Stakes. Article doesn't mention where it'd go but Delaware Park has been mentioned before.

[UNHWildCats]

hmmm

[93henfan]

The Preakness outside of dirty Baltimore just wouldn't be right. It's the trailer park cousin of the triple crown. Bringing it to Delaware Park and drawing the Point-to-Point snobs would suck hard.

Would whoever organizes the Triple Crown not look to one of the other big-time venues? I'd guess the California tracks wouldn't make sense to fit between a race in Kentucky and New York, but Saratoga, Aqueduct (maybe too close to Belmont), even Philadelphia Park might be candidates.

[bandl]

Preakness died the year they banned alcohol in the infield.

[93henfan]

This thread is over:

LAUREL, Md. (AP) — The Maryland Racing Commission approved an agreement that will keep the Preakness Stakes, a state tradition and the second leg of racing's Triple Crown, in Baltimore.
The commission voted 5-0 to support an agreement reached by horse racing representatives and Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration earlier in the day in Annapolis. It calls for 146 days of live racing at the state's horse racing tracks.
The deal would redirect $3.5 million to $4 million in state slot machine revenue, using money now set aside for capital improvements at the tracks to defray operating costs. Horsemen also would contribute $1.7 million.

[andy7171]

Preakness died the year they banned alcohol in the infield.

This.

[93henfan]

Preakness died the year they banned alcohol in the infield.

This.

I could see kids being an issue. (Granted, if you brought your kids to the Preakness infield, you're a certified bad parent anyway.)

Why don't they just make it 21 or over to enter the infield and then let them do whatever da fugg they want there? Families could go hang out with the big hat people in the grandstands if they thought putting their poor kids through a day of stakes races in the heat and humidity would be a good time.

[andy7171]

This.

I could see kids being an issue. (Granted, if you brought your kids to the Preakness infield, you're a certified bad parent anyway.)

Why don't they just make it 21 or over to enter the infield and then let them do whatever da fugg they want there? Families could go hang out with the big hat people in the grandstands if they thought putting their poor kids through a day of stakes races in the heat and humidity would be a good time.

They brought back alcohol last year. But you had to buy it there. No more BYOB. The prices were reasonable from what I've heard. My Preakness days are long gone. I went to 4 in my day. The rainy ones were more fun than the hot ones. Nothing like walking across the track 6 inches of groomed mud with a cooler full of beer @8am.

Although the scenery was nicer in the heat.

This is all because O'Malley insisted on limiting slots into certain areas. It's stupid to build a new casino when Laurel Park and Pimlico want and need them to survive. Close to half a million jobs are going to be lost when these tracks close and all those horse farms in Northern Baltimore and Harford counties go away. Sad.

[93henfan]

Close to half a million jobs are going to be lost when these tracks close and all those horse farms in Northern Baltimore and Harford counties go away. Sad.

I can appreciate that. As Dover Downs and Delaware Park have ramped up their schedules and purses in the past decade, some pretty impressive horse farms have popped up west of Dover and up around Chesapeake City.

[bandl]

Close to half a million jobs are going to be lost when these tracks close and all those horse farms in Northern Baltimore and Harford counties go away. Sad.

I can appreciate that. As Dover Downs and Delaware Park have ramped up their schedules and purses in the past decade, some pretty impressive horse farms have popped up west of Dover and up around Chesapeake City.

Wait....half a MILLION jobs could be lost due to these tracks closing? How in the fuck? If a track creates that many jobs then why don't we just create a few dozen around the country to eliminate unemployment?

[andy7171]

I can appreciate that. As Dover Downs and Delaware Park have ramped up their schedules and purses in the past decade, some pretty impressive horse farms have popped up west of Dover and up around Chesapeake City.

Wait....half a MILLION jobs could be lost due to these tracks closing? How in the fuck? If a track creates that many jobs then why don't we just create a few dozen around the country to eliminate unemployment?

The number they were throwing around on the radio the other day was in the 350K range. I didn't want to throw out a number because some wise a-hole is going to ask me for references and I ain't have one. Should I have said several hundred thousand? It's a huge business here in MD. I drive by 4 HHHUUUUGGGGEEEE horse farms on my way to to the parents cottage in PA. And that is on just one road.
Preakness goes to Cali or Florida, that's what the MD Jockey Club has been alluding to for years.

[93henfan]

If a track creates that many jobs then why don't we just create a few dozen around the country to eliminate unemployment?

Because then everyone would have a job and would stop gambling away their government checks.

[93henfan]

Preakness goes to Cali or Florida, that's what the MD Jockey Club has been alluding to for years.

I read an article where Atlanta is lobbying hard for the Preakness by 2013.

[SuperHornet]

The Preakness is staying put, at least for now.

http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news;_ylt=A ... nessfuture

[93henfan]

The Preakness is staying put, at least for now.

http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news;_ylt=A ... nessfuture

Yeah, I sort of already posted that in the fifth post of this thread.