{"id":8039,"date":"2014-09-19T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/regulators-hope-to-save-thoroughbred-horse-racing\/"},"modified":"2014-09-19T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T15:17:01","slug":"regulators-hope-to-save-thoroughbred-horse-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/09\/19\/regulators-hope-to-save-thoroughbred-horse-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulators hope to save thoroughbred horse racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nBOSTON (AP) \u2013 State gambling regulators say they\u2019ll look for ways to preserve thoroughbred horse racing in the state now that Suffolk Downs is set to close later this month.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Massachusetts Gaming Commission says it\u2019ll focus on the impending closure of the region\u2019s lone remaining thoroughbred horse track at its Sept. 25 meeting. The live horse racing season that ends Sept. 29 will be the track\u2019s last after Mohegan Sun lost its bid for the lone Boston region casino license this week. Suffolk Downs says it will remain open and offer simulcast betting through at least November.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe commission says it is committed to an \u201cextensive and sustained exploration of every available option\u201d to preserve thoroughbred racing. It also plans to help racing employees through workforce development and identifying other employment.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2013 State gambling regulators say they\u2019ll look for ways to preserve thoroughbred horse racing in the state now that Suffolk Downs is set to close later this month. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission says it\u2019ll focus on the impending&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}