currently offered slots, and perhaps even build a hotel<\/a>. This would require much more real estate than is currently devoted to the Western Fair gaming operation.<\/p>\nThe current casino building is under a lease that lasts until 2020. Gateway either wants to see the cost of that lease reduced, or to buy land from the city and Western Fair. And while the company says it hopes it can coexist with racing, it is clear where their focus lies.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe bid on a casino,\u201d said Gateway spokesperson Rob Mitchell. \u201c[It] has nothing to do with horse racing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gateway has also said that their decision will ultimately be based on \u201cgood business sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t stay in an apartment with an exorbitant rent when you can better manage your finances and your lifestyle moving to the location that was more convenient to you that offered you more amenities,\u201d Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, those in the racing industry can only wait and see what will happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got to feel kind of helpless,\u201d stable owner Mark Horner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A series of negotiations over the location and nature of casinos in Southwestern Ontario could have the unintended side effect of harming or even killing the horse racing industry in the province. According to a report in the London Free Press, many in the racing industry are concerned over the potential for a casino currently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":62919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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