Delaware Park is being (taxpayer) subsidized by the on-site slot machines and table games funneling cash into race purses. (It’s a subsidy because that portion of the gaming revenue going to horseracing would otherwise be going back to state coffers for education – for schoolchildren.) This decidedly unearned income also allows the track to pay first-last, which helps explain results like these from Wednesday:
Race 1: Bad Hombre finished last, 28 lengths back (“lacked a late response”), but his exploiters – Kerri Raven, et al. – still collected $125.
Race 2: Pegster finished last, 27 lengths back (“came up empty in late stages”), but her exploiters – Danielle Hodsdon, et al. – still collected $125.
Race 8: Royal Performance finished last, 37 lengths back (“came up empty in stretch drive”), but his exploiters – Kelly Breen, et al. – still collected $125.
Then these:
Race 3: Prom Knight finished last, 86 lengths back (“was eased through the lane”), but his exploiters – Erin McClellan, et al. – still collected $125.
Race 7: Nomoretanlines finished last, 81 lengths back (“lost action, eventually crossed the wire”), but her exploiters – Brett Brinkman, et al. – still collected $125.
The evil of subsidizing horseracing, again.
If only the people in this industry could “lose action” instead of the horses…
It’s worse than unfortunate that it takes the die-hard horse-killing monsters to die before fewer and fewer horses are bred into this despicable industry.
There are too many people getting away with too many crimes in horse racing and their lobbyists and political supporters.