• More racetracks are embracing the slot-like Instant Racing game instead to casinos. The Kentucky Equine Education Project, once the leader of the pony industry’s pro-casino effort, spending about $1.4 million throughout the 2006 legislative session alone, says it's fascinated by other issues — though it remains pro-casino under circumstances that favor the pony industry. Politicians say the disagreements throughout the horse industry are a larger impediment than politics.
• Political issues remain, similar to a $100,000 contribution by Churchill Downs Inc. to a political action committee whose goal is to elect conservatives in legislative races this autumn. House Speaker Greg Stumbo, D-Prestonsburg, has said his previously announced plans to make a casino amendment House Bill 1 are actually in question.
• The casino market is showing signs of saturation as casinos in New Jersey close, and others in Indiana and Ohio compete for players.
“The oversaturation of casino gambling inside the country combined with reluctance (of diverse) segments within the horse industry to embrace gaming combine to make its chances less likely and not more urgent,” said Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer, R-Georgetown. He sponsored one in all Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear’s efforts in 2012 to get a casino amendment at the ballot.
Thayer said he doesn’t know what it might take for the problem to get momentum sooner or later. “It seems that many parts of the pony industry have stabilized, particularly at the breeding and sales side.”
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