09-23-2008, 12:53 PM
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lurker
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: atlanta
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Originally Posted by L-Pink
A lot of money is spent on the racing infrastructure in Kentucky. When unrelated/unlicensed gambling sites siphon off money it directly affects the industries bottom line.
In this respect horse racing is like movie, music and content producers seeing their hard earned product pirated.
Money gambled illegally reduces the profit of racetracks, thus reducing purses offered in each race, thus reducing the value of horses, thus reducing the value of horse farms, thus reducing etc, etc, etc ......
Nice to see hard action taken on internet freeloaders.
BTW, attached was taken 10 minutes ago out my kitchen window in LEX, KY.
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What a great view.
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