Profile: Maryland's horse racing future is in question

From: All Things Considered (NPR) | Date: August 14, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

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Profile: Maryland's horse racing future is in question

Host: NOAH ADAMS, LINDA WERTHEIMER Time: 8:00-9:00 PM

NOAH ADAMS, host:

From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams.

LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:

And I'm Linda Wertheimer.

The horse racing tradition in the state of Maryland is distinguished and long. It goes back before the American Revolution. But today, the Maryland racetracks are in rickety shape, and so is the state' s whole horse racing industry. There are many reasons, but a big one is that the purses, the amount of money horses race for, are ...

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