Maine is doing it right

[Wawajones]

https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/01/30/theres-an-ugly-side-to-maine-harness-racing/

Article today.  Well.......

[TheGrimReaper]

The “average” earning per horse was just over $11,000.  If you took out the amount the stakes horses earned it would be lower.  11K won’t be close to the yearly cost of maintaining a horse.  Maine never was a place for the average Joe to make any money.  There have always been some monied owners dating back to the Cianchettes, Jen Southerland (New Brunswick with the Dickensons), Dillions, Andrews, Chow, and Perkins to name a few.  They played without needing to make a penny.  Racing is a ghost of what it was years ago, and at some point the ghost will be gone.  That’s life.

[bass park]

There is a large group in augusta that question why so many millions of dollars are being given to the harness racing industry. They would like to end the payments. It looks like the publicity campaign to do that has begun.

[Seamus11]

This is ABSOLUTELY the seed that people in Augusta wanted planted to begin their process of ending the industry.  It is VERY obvious this Governor does not like gambling with how she has handled the Sports Gambling.  And getting this type of bad information out to the general public is without question going to be the beginning of the end of Harnees Racing in Maine.  The funding will end...

[chief yogi]

of course this will be the final nail in racings coffin.  with zero interest  created by the way our comercial  tracks are run what can we expect. empty grandstands dont help with keeping the welfare money coming. it will be gone soon.

[oldjohn123]

This is ABSOLUTELY the seed that people in Augusta wanted planted to begin their process of ending the industry.  It is VERY obvious this Governor does not like gambling with how she has handled the Sports Gambling.  And getting this type of bad information out to the general public is without question going to be the beginning of the end of Harnees Racing in Maine.  The funding will end...

She did own horses and goes to the fairs so I think I call bull spit on she hates racing.

[Brown jug]

$221 million into the government coffers isnt chump change