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12-15-2008, 03:30 PM | #1 |
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Bad news for Tim
Cangamble, at PA, just posted a news story that Fort Erie will not run in 2009.
They cited losses the last few years due to slot competition. I always enjoyed visiting FE and this is indeed sad news. Tim was right about EP being King at the Fort. The will be a press conference Tuesday am. |
12-15-2008, 03:47 PM | #2 |
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I hope it's not so. The first track I ever went to (age 5 or 6). The only track Mom's ever been to...
Ted
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12-15-2008, 04:19 PM | #3 |
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When my boss (Randy) at Telephoto was there in the Spring, these rumors were starting. The owner was trying to get investors to come in but with the meltdown I am hardly surprised that he did not get support there with all the new casinos in Buffalo and the border security now crazy. The purses were telling the tale also and when Randy came back from there, he said the place looked awful with paint peeling off the grounds and "pigeon poop" covering an entire closed part of the grandstands.
When I was last in Toronto in August, I had arranged to meet all my television counterparts there, but my good friend's mom just got the grim news that she had inoperable cancer the day we were to go there and he understandably canceled to be with her. Lou Cauz, the curator of the Canadian Thoroughbred Hall of Fame, warned me that this was coming and stressed that I go there to see the "old time" clubhouse before it was no more. Maybe, if the weather is okay, I can borrow my sister-in-law's car when I arrive on Friday (before my birthday lunch with Lou, who promised me a good Italian meal near Woodbine) and finally drive out there wearing my Fort Erie hat that one of the HPI girls (Lisa) sent me last year. Too bad but I had an idea that it was coming. I hope HPI picks up Philly in its place as it is another e/l paradise and one of the few ones that runs on Monday/Tuesdays.
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12-15-2008, 04:28 PM | #4 |
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How sad!! My first ever real bet was there.
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