I am sure whatever is really going on, potential buyers, deals, and all that-----legally, strategically, politically, business, whatever-----all of it is light years above everybody's pay grade. Everybody hear that is. LOL. If enough people throw enough BS out there, someone will probably end up close to right. LOL. However it plays out, it's just another example of the where, how, etc., the state of the sport and industry has brought itself here.
I do know one thing for certain. The underbidder for Arlington was Roy Arnold, who had cash and plenty of it, unconditional, no use of debt money, to buy Arlington. He and his small group have been trying to buy a racetrack for quite some time. They don't need/want a full blown casino. They did want some alternative form(s) of gaming. If Hawthorne was at all viable, doable, whatever, he'd be a player. Between the debt(s), the liens (and I don't know if there are any actual judgments), the pending lawsuits (and don't forget the ones that were RICO, whistleblower, etc., which were only filed late last year and which could jeopardize the ability to conduct races), this may already be a case of the patient is too far gone. If that's the case, anything can happen.
