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@grok why is Hawthorne Race Course Bankrupt?

@Jackpotkimm Would get 2 days at Parx or GP for that, plus the industry heads would go on a "he's a good person or we all make mistakes" social media campaign.

This is what they should be doing in the United States. Saratoga.

@MLBPipeline @Cubs Is this because Dansby got hit in the face?

The @Cubs are reportedly calling up their No. 7 prospect, James Triantos, for what would be his MLB debut. The 23-year-old was slashing .306/.344/.440 with Triple-A Iowa this season: atmlb.com/45h4byr

@AlCimaglia She's in the camp "shut up and bet". Nevermind the industry address problems or plan for the future by making a better product. The response is so horse racing. The fans should just show up and pay, because it's horse racing.

This opinion is about as logical as.... You stumble into a Crate and Barrel after too many drinks and bump into a table of crystal glasses. As they smash to the floor, you complain the guy with the broom took took too long to get there.

@JimmyOG64 @horse_scott thoroughbreddailynews.com/the-week-in-re… Towards the end of this article there is an interested party that wants to build a harness track in the south suburbs. They say there is a better pathway for harness but leaves the door open for Thoroughbred later on.

@StoleItBreezing @horse_scott Just curious. Can a new track or racino in a different near by location choose harness or regular racing? Harness is the worst. IMO

Could horse racing make a comeback in Illinois? McCook is interested in building a racino. They have 150 acres. 10 miles from me. Let’s get it done

@aisarcore @Jackpotkimm this is like the CAWS getting rebates right?

A gambler negotiated custom rules at three Atlantic City casinos and walked out with $15 MILLION in five months. Every casino he beat rewrote its rulebook right after. – Don Johnson was a 49 year old horse-racing statistics executive from Bensalem, Pennsylvania with a serious blackjack background. – In late 2010, struggling Atlantic City casinos were desperate for high rollers. Johnson used it as leverage. – He didn't count cards or cheat. – He simply negotiated the table conditions before sitting down. – A hand-shuffled shoe, favorable rules, and a 20% rebate on his losses. – Playing up to $100,000 a hand between December 2010 and April 2011, he took the Tropicana for $5.8 MILLION in one 12-hour session, a record loss for that casino. – He also beat the Borgata for about $5 MILLION and Caesars for over $4 MILLION. – Total haul across the three casinos: roughly $15 MILLION. All legal, all in the open. – Once the run ended, all three casinos quietly killed the loss-rebate deals that had made his edge possible. – Casino insiders started calling it "the Don Johnson Rule." – No casino offers that kind of rebate to a skilled player anymore. He never touched a marked card or hacked a machine. He just asked for rules the casinos were desperate enough to say yes to, then did the math better than they did.

@TonyRav California the land of fruits and nuts. 😆

This fucking guy literally singled with one of his balls leaking. Gutsiest player of all time.

@dcarboni21 @hhhracingpod you can just tell her yourself if you're in the Arlington memories group Facebook page. She's soliciting responses there. Also, patrons alone would not be enough to prop up IL racing. It would need racinos and an increased foal crop to be sustainable.

@hhhracingpod Remember that opinions are like rear ends; everyone has one and they all stink.

I recommend everyone write to Patti Davis (the person who wrote the opinion) and explain to her what good racing and bad racing looks like. Apparently, she never saw "Field of Dreams".....build it, and people will come (and did go for years when the product justified its attendance). #horseracing

@InsideThePylons The industry has done a huge disservice to its customers and fan base by merely teaching people how to pick horses, but not how to BET horses. How many fans wish they were told how to bet value early on to offset the inevitable losing streaks?

Yes. It’s definitely one of the problems. Hard to keep customers alive or interested when the people promoted as experts to the viewers keep telling them that a straight beats a flush and always stand on 15 vs a face card or ace.

Horrible take to put this on fans... IL politicians, the IRB, and poor track leadership doomed the foal crop and IL horse racing.

"Against all odds" unless you're going against Illinois politicians...

@joemanb1 @ShotTakingTime I wonder that too. It appears Carey was in over his head and didn't have the financing or ability to get it...he should've been up front so the horsemen and workers could plan.

@ShotTakingTime Ill never understand why they didnt put a casino in a giant tent in the parking lot (like the Waukegan casino). Insta cash flow.

Owners are walking away with nothing. $90m purchase price against $500m in debt. Owners/trainers are getting stiffed for July purses. Backstretch workers lose their home/employment. No sendoff (funeral) day of racing. Track itself getting demolished. Death without dignity.

@George1Glass @fager_doctor @JerseyTom @AndrewChampagne @RubenUnemployed Did Carey run out of money to finance the casino project or was it incompetence from the get go? How do you screw up a legal way to print money? This is the most painful loss imo, 7 years ago it could've saved the track.

@fager_doctor @JerseyTom @AndrewChampagne @RubenUnemployed And they had a higher offer from horsemen. They killed a $1B IL industry.

No two ways around it: Hawthorne closing sucks. There are good, solid, passionate people who work there and give a damn. They're now looking for work in an industry that can't afford to lose people like that...but are somehow simultaneously running out of spots for them to work.

@AlCimaglia @polarcritter if he wasn't so broke and could finish the Casino 7 years ago, we wouldn't be here.

@StoleItBreezing @polarcritter Yep, I have seen that it in more than once place. Not much of an appetite for the land. I heard a couple of months ago they were thinking the price would be around $120 million.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong...So the opening bid was the winning bid for Hawthorne $90 mill. Now the next maybe, might be, could be, is the new owner will allow the race track to still operate. Still operate how...???

@AlCimaglia @DRFHersh He's still downtown talking to someone for a Savior contract to operate the Racino....the biggest lie 🙄

@DRFHersh It’s not hard to spin the IRB in circles, and Carey and his lawyers did a great job.

Did you get a comment from Tim Carey?

@AlCimaglia @polarcritter I read the only qualifying and winning bid was the Delaware company.

@polarcritter That's what I read....They called it a stalking horse bid basically sets the low end price.

@BloodHorse Don't forget they won't pay off any of the carryovers to bettors either.

The July 20 Hawthorne Race Course bankruptcy hearing provided a triple whammy for horsemen: Racing is over; there is no money to pay purses due to them; and they have to clear out by Aug. 31. go.bloodhorse.com/4fltl3C

@ClubHawthorne one less happy place

@diceman1973 @ClubHawthorne gift shop. 2 bucks a hat while supplies last. I regret not buying more

@StoleItBreezing @ClubHawthorne Nice hat ! Can we buy those somewhere ?

@ClubHawthorne goodbye gift