Ron Flatter
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Taylor Swift's wedding is going to get more than that, right?
So, I mean, honestly.
So, yeah, it's going to fade out with the old owner's.
of this track, Stronach Group, who also owns Santa Anita, who also owns Gulfstream Park.
The big story is that the expectation is they are trying to get out of racing in the worst way.
Well, they're kind of doing it.
It's almost like that scene in Major League where
The owner wants to devalue the franchise so much she can move it to Miami.
I just feel like that's what's going on here with the Preakness, although you have a new Maryland Jockey Club, which is a function of the government, which is going to take it over with Churchill Downs and their money, and we'll see where this goes next year, supposedly to the new Pimlico, where construction has been trickling along.
And we're supposed to be back there next year.
I'll believe that when I see it.
And the Belmont will be back at Belmont next year.
That thing's almost done, and they're going to christen that this fall.
So that's pretty much ready to go right now.
And it's a downsized grandstand, but it'll be back to a mile and a half next year for the Belmont.
So we'll start to see some normalcy at that point.
Well, actually, there are three horses in it, and I'm pretty much liking the Derby horses.
Incredible, who, by the way, Bill Mott decided he wasn't going to send sovereignty last year to the Preakness.