(owner/trainer)“It’s iconic and it’s beautiful, but with online betting, nobody comes to the track anymore.”
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Anonymous said...
This is just so wrong for so many reasons. I am familiar with Pimlico because I was close friends with the groundskeeper, Robbie Mitten, and installed a turf track inside of the dirt track for him back in 2002.
Pimlico is in the worst, most trashy neighborhood in Baltimore and you take your life in your hands when approaching the track. The Clubhouse and ancillary buildings are junk but they just put a fresh coat of paint on things every April just to make things appear normal.
The Maryland "racing industry" benefits only rich horse owners and employs very few average citizens, and then at minimum wage, unskilled jobs. The owners of the track aren't even in or from the United States. The vast majority of horses running at Pimlico are not bred, raised or stabled in Maryland.
The track is only allowed a small number of "racing days" per year, allocated and approved by the legislature. How many days approved is based on how much money is donated to various State officials. I am old enough to remember when Governor Marvin Mandel was convicted of bribery back in the '70s and it was all because of racing days allocated to Marlboro Race Course in Prince Georges County. The Maryland racing industry may sound romantic but the whole thing stinks from top to bottom.
Your friend,
Slim
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This is just so wrong for so many reasons. I am familiar with Pimlico because I was close friends with the groundskeeper, Robbie Mitten, and installed a turf track inside of the dirt track for him back in 2002.
Pimlico is in the worst, most trashy neighborhood in Baltimore and you take your life in your hands when approaching the track. The Clubhouse and ancillary buildings are junk but they just put a fresh coat of paint on things every April just to make things appear normal.
The Maryland "racing industry" benefits only rich horse owners and employs very few average citizens, and then at minimum wage, unskilled jobs. The owners of the track aren't even in or from the United States. The vast majority of horses running at Pimlico are not bred, raised or stabled in Maryland.
The track is only allowed a small number of "racing days" per year, allocated and approved by the legislature. How many days approved is based on how much money is donated to various State officials. I am old enough to remember when Governor Marvin Mandel was convicted of bribery back in the '70s and it was all because of racing days allocated to Marlboro Race Course in Prince Georges County. The Maryland racing industry may sound romantic but the whole thing stinks from top to bottom.
Your friend,
Slim
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