Horse Racing Tracks On the Rise in Nebraska
R. Gelfenstein - Horse racing is regularly held at just two locations in Nebraska, but communities across the state are clamoring to revive the suspended tracks and build new ones.
So many groups have proposed clues in Nebraska that lawmakers have passed a moratorium on new developments until studies determine how many lanes could reasonably operate. Two proposals put forward so far would spend $220 million to upgrade and upgrade a little-used track and add a casino and hotel.
Lance Morgan, whose company, Ho-Chunk Inc., spent $7.5 million to fund the initiative's campaign, acknowledged that the track requirement was included in part to drive competitors away.
The Ho-Chunk, a Nebraska-based branch of the Winnebago Tribe, has reached an agreement with the Nebraska Knights Benevolent and Protective Association to share proceeds from the opening of a new casino in the association's licensed lanes in Omaha and Lincoln. Meanwhile, ignorant casino operators will be frozen.
"If we're going to spend that money" on the ballot initiative, "we want to be the entity most likely to have casinos," Morgan said.
Nebraska is one of four states that have legally linked casinos to racetracks, said Christopher Browne, a spokesman for the American Gaming Association.
Some who breed and run horses in Nebraska said they hope casinos can draw more crowds back to the sport.
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