Freehold Raceway Repercussion

[gh2009]

Jason Settlemoir brags about how great their product is. Other than a handful of nights, the product is cheap and filled with amateur races with cheap horses. Jeff Gural always cries poor and talks about how he saved The Meadowlands, but he really only did it in hopes of getting a casino there and making millions.

[Bitter Truth]

Bingo

[Arnold Ziffel]

This may sound heartless, but the majority of owners at Freehold lose money year after year because their horses are cheap and the purses are low. The bottom line is, the majority of them will save money when the track closes. As for the backstretch help, most of the better stables have a shortage of grooms so jobs will be available. As for the track employees, there really aren't many live tellers anymore with self-service betting machines.

there are 96 track employees that will be out of a job.

[Arnold Ziffel]

Jason Settlemoir brags about how great their product is. Other than a handful of nights, the product is cheap and filled with amateur races with cheap horses. Jeff Gural always cries poor and talks about how he saved The Meadowlands, but he really only did it in hopes of getting a casino there and making millions.

I agree I hope he succeeded.

[gh2009]

People lose jobs all the time, and most of the 96 employees are older people. They'll collect severance pay and unemployment, then they can get a job at Wawa or a greeter at Wal-Mart.