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Harness Racing / Re: Florida DeCoupling Bill PAsses State House 77-34
« Last post by Grandstand Handicapper on February 12, 2026, 01:06:27 PM »Highest and best use. It doesn't look pretty right now. The fact is money people beat or buy brains people and the horsemen don't have any brains anyway. Repole is tight with DeSantis but nobody knows if that will even make a difference. Stronach will consider every option to maximize the value of that land. Race at Palm Meadows? Build a new track in Ocala? Hialeah? Calder? Who tf knows. Not looking good for what could have been. Sign of the times.
Repole was right about one thing, if Stronach wanted to decouple to access capital markets and develop, the horsemen should have hired the best of the best and negotiated X years of X dates a year racing. She said she would have played ball. Who tf knows. The horsemen's association, and the members at the time, who ended up walking away, did and said nothing at all. The t-bred people do better than the harness people. We'll see.
Repole was right about one thing, if Stronach wanted to decouple to access capital markets and develop, the horsemen should have hired the best of the best and negotiated X years of X dates a year racing. She said she would have played ball. Who tf knows. The horsemen's association, and the members at the time, who ended up walking away, did and said nothing at all. The t-bred people do better than the harness people. We'll see.

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