Rally: We support New York Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding and it supports us!
Alert: Our industry needs your voice and help!
For nine years we have had a VLT promise broken and cannot sit on the sidelines anymore to watch and wait. Money is being taken away from us that keeps the New York Thoroughbred racing and breeding industry alive and competitive. From breeding to training, we are the ones who put the horses on the track. We need action on what has been promised, otherwise we are being forced to leave this state. The lack of action has crippled the billion dollar thoroughbred industry in New York. The communities and businesses that we support and also support us are doomed.
We need action on what has been promised! We must save our jobs!
Close your eyes and imagine – No Saratoga, Belmont or Aqueduct. Join us on Sunday to make sure that doesn’t happen!
Join us on Sunday, March 21st at Noon at Belmont Park (enter Gate 5, on the apron in front of the Belmont Cafe’) as we come together to show that we are a united industry that demands to be heard.
Who: Workers from all spectrums of the Thoroughbred Breeding and Racing industry. Local communities supported by the industry. Local political leaders.
What: Rally to show that “We support New York Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding and it supports us!”
When: Sunday, March 21 Noon – 2pm
Where: Belmont Park (enter Gate 5, on the apron in front of the Belmont Cafe’) 2150 Hempstead Turnpike Elmont, NY 11003
Contact NYTB or NYTHA for further details on the event, questions and any other information needed.
Click here to see the flyer for distribution.
You must tell these politicians that you will use all your power to enlist everyone even remotely connected to the horse business to defeat the incumbant politicians who have screwed the horsemen and people of NY for the past 9 years. I personally will vote for anyone, of either party, who runs against these incumbant, crooked, moronic, uncaring politicians. I will vote in the booth and with my wallet to defeat them. I will likewise support any politician of any party who steps up now and does the right thing. You should enlist the bettors by handing out flyers at all NY racetracks identifying each politician who does not step up to fix this problem NOW! You must enlist the people of NY who have not been following this problem, and who are not aware that THEY have been losing $300,000,000 a year because of this ridiculous delay. It is time to be aggressive or no one who works full time in the horse business will have a job after this year.
Jim
I agree with Jim except he is too kind. The last governor and the current one are criminals. Spitzer was always high-and-mighty dealing with NYRA and the horse business, and look what a phoney he was. Patterson, just like the Saturday Night Live skits, is clueless, and now we find out he too is a criminal. Someone, maybe even the attorney general, needs to step in, sit these politicians down, and force them to award the slots contract to a reputable business, with a proven track record. OTB MUST be taken over by NYRA so the thoroughbred business can move foreward. The state should stop taking money from the handle and should treat the horse business like any other business—tax the profits at a reasonable rate, don’t take pre-tax dollars before expenses so the industry
will fail; how does that help anyone? Let’s get some common sense going here. Oh, I forgot—common sense and politicians don’t mix.
What a sad state of affairs when our politicians (both parties are to blame) are neither trustworthy nor competent enough to award a contract to a reputable organization that will provide the state and our industry a $300 million upfront payday plus a $1 million per day annuity for decades too come.
In addition to saving thousands of equine jobs, creating hundreds of new gaming and catering positions, revitalizing eastern Queens and preserving the national treasure of Saratoga Race course the racino project may be NY State’s last chance to maintain a viable breeding and racing industry.
Shame on you!!!!!! Pataki, Spitzer, Patterson and Spitzer.
Friends — election day can’t come soon enough. Support anyone but the status quo!
How foolish these politicians are. Purses in NY are droping while Monmouth announces a daily purse structure of $1,000,000 and a $12,100,000 stakes package. Gee, I wonder where I will be racing this summer?
Kentucky looks like it will have slots, and you can be sure it won’t take them 9 years to get slots up and running. Look what slots have done for Pennsylvania. And just like Nero playing his fiddle while Rome burned,Patterson and the other politicans wait, and they wait, and they wait. For what? For every owner to move his horses to another state. How incompetent can any group be? Vote them all out.