Eric Jackson
Eric Jackson
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We are absolutely surrounded and incredibly impacted by gaming in surrounding states, ... The pressures on Oaklawn to maintain its racing program are enormous. If we're going to stay competitive, we're going to have to find a way to supplement our purses.
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Our decisions are always based on safety to horses, jockeys, fans and employees, so there was no question how we had to decide.
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Because I drink the water, I take precautions to make sure it's safe to drink, ... I think if people had an inkling of what we do to make sure their water is safe, they'd appreciate it a lot more.
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At this point, there hasn't been any evasive moves from our investigators to where they need to actually take them in for further questioning,
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Coming back, he had a lot of experience,
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We have to sharpen up our stick skills for the future. It would be nice if we were healthy, and that?s our main goal right now.
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I thought in the first quarter, we looked pretty good. But when we started to go down a couple of goals, we got some bad penalties. We have to be more aware of where their shooters are on the field, especially in a man-down situation.
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We now face a day where the temperature will not get past the freezing mark and a forecast for additional freezing rain throughout the day. Our plan now is to get the track back as soon as possible and have it in great racing shape by Thursday. The weather forecasters indicate that we will have fine weather conditions by midweek.
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We're taking this action to specifically deal with the J. Baker situation.
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If any other organization was placed in our shoes, it is so overwhelmingly in our favor, that not to take this action would raise eyebrows.
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So it either happens in early November or it happens in March. The city has encouraged us to do it in November. The horsemen want us to do it in November.
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It makes the big news. We heard about it everywhere. Every athlete here has heard about it. The reality is the river has been tested and it's all good to go,
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We really don't see this is an expansion of wagering. We had wagering yesterday and we're going to have wagering tomorrow. We do see this as an expansion of benefits. The benefits are to preserve jobs and to enhance racing at Oaklawn, create jobs and generate new tax revenue for Hot Springs and to benefit our seniors and our students.
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What this clearly illustrates is that when Scotland's two tiers of government work together they are capable of delivering for the people of Scotland.