ILLINOISE 2021 HARNESS

[Germy dDay]

 The 63-night harness meeting will be held from May
7-Sept.26

MORE THAN WE DESERVE BY ABOUT  30 DATES

[LUCPARK]

Nothin changes

4 1/2 months of racing

7 months  go unexplained

Illinois racing game is pretty much

A dead game laddies

[dollar cigar]

yes its a dead game laddies its for the small stables and older trainers.

[battleground]

Why only 4  1/2 months of racing for harness. Because we have only 1 harness track?

[racing123]

63 cards all year...its become a sad case...i wonder how many cards we ran in the heyday? when illinois raced all 12 months and had meets at QCD FP MAY SPK HAWTY BALMORAL all in the same year? sad story..

[swoodall]

63 cards all year...its become a sad case...i wonder how many cards we ran in the heyday? when illinois raced all 12 months and had meets at QCD FP MAY SPK HAWTY BALMORAL all in the same year? sad story..

I can tell how many cards!

We raced harness racing at at least one Illinois track 363 days in a year!

The only days off were Christmas and Easter.

Not to mention the double headers in the winter at Hawthorne.

You left out Aurora Downs.

Where the mud was 6 inches deep on a rainy day and Andy's Coho would never lose in the slop.

[horses first]

Hawthorne had covid delays and FBI check delays with so many family members on the racing end for a gaming license. The buildout to a casino slow played until Sept next year to gain another year of recapture. The purse account is 1.6mln in the hole with a few more days to go. Breakage this year won't help as much because there won't be the uncashed tickets the track and horsemen split. As long as tracks stay closed to patrons most of wagering is ADW which doesn't help the dark days. Maybe OTB's are opened and that helps a little selling the signal. Purses will be crappy again next year unless Careys extend some credit. Harness still has to bite fingernails that CDI upends Arlington. The only good news Careys and Hiner are still in discussions to open a only harness track racino but I didnt see the IRB giving any extra dates in 2021 so any deal on a new track could be two years out.