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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: PIGLAND on March 26, 2025, 07:47:34 PM

Title: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: PIGLAND on March 26, 2025, 07:47:34 PM: sad news
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: SwankToliverA on March 26, 2025, 08:08:17 PM: Was a decision made about Cal Xpo today?
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Bitter Truth on March 26, 2025, 08:51:48 PM: Looked it up. Says Cal. Board Of Directors will meet Friday to decide track's fate.
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Papillon on March 26, 2025, 09:03:53 PM: Quote from: Bitter Truth on March 26, 2025, 08:51:48 PM
Looked it up. Says Cal. Board Of Directors will meet Friday to decide track's fate.

can you please provide a link?

thank you
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Bitter Truth on March 26, 2025, 09:10:00 PM: Not hip to posting things but I put in search : 'cal expo harness track closing?' came right up tmbz1
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Papillon on March 26, 2025, 09:13:11 PM: thanks tmbz1

https://www.yahoo.com/news/future-harness-racing-cal-expo-210804827.html
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: John Moody on March 26, 2025, 09:45:27 PM: All Done
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Post by: Superfecta on March 26, 2025, 10:41:59 PM: Shitty. I liked the late hours with the west coast time difference.
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Post by: rainman2 on March 26, 2025, 11:23:01 PM: More horses to Hawthorne, Vernon, and a few other tracks if this is true!
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: SPREE2015 on March 27, 2025, 12:05:19 AM: HAWTHORNE ON LIFE SUPPORT
MIGHT CLOSE SOON OR BECOME RACINO IF CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT AGREES TO PURCHASE 65%
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: PIGLAND on March 28, 2025, 10:17:11 AM: can someone post when todays decision is made
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Grandstand Handicapper on March 28, 2025, 02:28:17 PM: Seems like it's life support now. What is it, 4 month meet, racing two days a week?
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Harness Racing Revolution on March 28, 2025, 06:29:41 PM: Quote from: Grandstand Handicapper on March 28, 2025, 02:28:17 PM
Seems like it's life support now. What is it, 4 month meet, racing two days a week?

Actually it's one of the few tracks not on life support. That's more an East Coast welfare supported harness racing you're thinking of. Cal Ex is just dying a slow death and this may be euthanasia.
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: SAW on March 28, 2025, 06:50:34 PM: https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/thoroughbred-horse-racing-at-sacramento-s-cal-expo-suspended/ar-AA1BOPSX?ocid=BingNewsVerp
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: silent one on March 28, 2025, 07:30:57 PM: Cal Expo reports that last year, thoroughbred racing at the state fair accounted for $650,000. Revenue from harness
racing last year was $22,000.

I think that says it all.

Sincerely, Silent One
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Harness Racing Revolution on March 29, 2025, 07:48:54 AM: Quote from: silent one on March 28, 2025, 07:30:57 PM
Cal Expo reports that last year, thoroughbred racing at the state fair accounted for $650,000. Revenue from harness
racing last year was $22,000.

I think that says it all.

Sincerely, Silent One

But harness racing creates jobs and contributes to society!!! They're gonna lose $60 a day in revenue!!!! 😂
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Bitter Truth on March 29, 2025, 11:04:38 AM: The reason alot of them are so keen on racing continuing there is because they actually 'LIVE' there.
Classic harness racing trivia tidbit. ngc3
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Harness Racing Revolution on March 29, 2025, 11:54:23 AM: Quote from: Bitter Truth on March 29, 2025, 11:04:38 AM
The reason alot of them are so keen on racing continuing there is because they actually 'LIVE' there.
Classic harness racing trivia tidbit. ngc3

Free rides. Same as people still stabled on the grounds wherever that still exists and not having to pay actual stall rent. It's called squatting on a whole other level.
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Harness Racing Revolution on March 29, 2025, 11:57:42 AM: In real numbers. Cal Expo last year contributed to the state the equivalent of a full time job that pays $10.57 an hour. Representing the entire harness racing "industry" in the state. Absolutely fucking hilarious. ngc3
#defundharnessracing
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: JT on March 29, 2025, 12:08:32 PM: Quote from: Harness Racing Revolution on March 29, 2025, 11:54:23 AM
Free rides. Same as people still stabled on the grounds wherever that still exists and not having to pay actual stall rent. It's called squatting on a whole other level.
Well it is California where squatting or living in a tent under a bridge or on the streets is commonplace.
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: Harness Racing Revolution on March 29, 2025, 12:46:26 PM: Quote from: JT on March 29, 2025, 12:08:32 PM
Well it is California where squatting or living in a tent under a bridge or on the streets is commonplace.

True. Cal Ex is considered high class then. Something this all demonstrates is a peek into the future when state welfare that supports harness racing elsewhere is pulled and forced to stand on its own. Those numbers aren't fake. They're reality.
Title: Re: Is cal xpo almost done
Post by: SwankToliverA on March 29, 2025, 01:22:23 PM: Quote from: Harness Racing Revolution on March 29, 2025, 11:57:42 AM
In real numbers. Cal Expo last year contributed to the state the equivalent of a full time job that pays $10.57 an hour. Representing the entire harness racing "industry" in the state. Absolutely fucking hilarious. ngc3
#defundharnessracing

Those numbers of revenue for all of 2024 were jaw dropping to me. I really feel awful for the good horsemen and women in California. As I don't see how racing there will survive, hope I'm wrong.