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State of the Union

By Jay Cronley
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, June 8, 2009

Where does horse racing stand after the 2009 Triple Crown races? What's good: Slot machines and related casino games. Thanks to the hypnotic trances created by spinning bars, cheap claimers at Dust Bowl Downs are running for $20,000. Tracks like Sunland are small in population only. Purse structure, not seating capacity, is now the measure of a track's value. Attendance stinks. The people who used to lose at the horse races are losing at the slot machines. The horse racing industry is to ...

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