re: Fair Grounds racing season is in peril after owner says it plans to pull out of Louisiana

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$22 million per year for the 4 tracks as a set aside to help offset the loss of HHR, but Churchill says the state won’t work with them

I think the real issue is they want to get out of the improvements they promised to make

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If we only have four tracks, why does the state have so many regulations regarding horse racing? We should let the tracks run as they see fit

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Something tells me you aren’t familiar with how wealth in 2025 works and how much revenue an NFL franchise generates over the past 40 years, her familial debt obligations be damned.

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There is an old adage about extremely wealthy people and debt.

When you owe the bank a few thousand dollars the bank owns you, but if you owe the bank millions or in Gayle’s case possibly billions, you own the bank.

In Gayle’s case, a valuation of the Fair Grounds of as much as 100 million amounts to nothing more than walking around money or a big player contract in the NFL or NBA.

As a gambler myself, I always stayed away from slots at the Fairgrounds and the OTB parlors. I felt they were gimmicky or glorified video poker machines with bonus slot games.

I didn’t know that the slots were tied in to historical horse races, I had heard of slots tied to bingo games in class 2 gaming especially at some Indian based casinos. You could tell the difference in that there would be a bingo card somewhere on the machine showing your bingo combination that yielded the payout instead of depending on a random number generator built into the slot machine. HHR would be something similar to slots without a RNG for payouts, instead of associating with an RNG for wins, it would randomly chose a horse race in the system to determine your level of win.


So let’s say it pulled a race where the horse with the worst odds won, that would somehow get displayed on the slot subtlety along with your win. A regular slot player would not know this unless they would look for it.

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Dixie Beer, for example, is all but a total loss.

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Hasn’t that already been sold?

I would agree with you that she probably can’t afford to buy an MLB team.,but I have no doubt she could leverage what is needed to buy a discounted fair grounds (discounted because CD has badmouthed the value and repairs are needed)

That's not true. Whereas no longer a marquee sport, there's lots of people who go to the track on weekends and holidays like Thanksgiving, New Year,s and Mardi Gras Day....just to mention a few.

Thanksgiving weekend is pretty big on the attendance and betting action.
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Thanksgiving weekend is pretty big on the attendance and betting action.

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Thats tFGs opening weekend. I would hope they have a crowd. If not, they're in worse shape than thought. Go to the tracks on regular race days (weekdays, no stakes races or promotions) and the crowds are very small.

I mean… I was not going to put her name out there. You should really edit that.

She’s the person who got it registered as historic. But her name should not be out there.

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Now weekdays except selected Fridays

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right, thats the days I was referencing.

im not going to argue with you....i dont know her background I just know who she is and her name

im sure you know more than most of us