No Slot Machines for Adams County

The Pennsylvania State Harness Racing Commission has decided that they will not be accepting any more applicants for harness racing licenses. There is one license left available, and it will be chosen from the applicants that have already filed. Whoever gets the license will also be able to operate up to 5,000 slot machines with an all but guaranteed slot machine license from the state gaming board.

This means bad news for Adams County, as a group of investors there had been trying to get together plans for a harness racing track there. With this decision, Adams County will not be able to apply for the racing or the slot machine licenses however, so that is the end of that dream. Two weeks ago the State Supreme Court said that the harness racing license might be available to bidders statewide, and with the harness racing commission rejecting both of the applicants for the license, the court said they could reapply.

This made other groups think that they might have a chance at applying as well, but the commission’s attorneys said that the application process was only open to the two that were rejected. Therefore, depending on the decision of the committee, either Beaver or Lawrence counties will be getting the eventual slot machines to go with their harness racing license.

Some within Adams County say that even if they are not due to get their slot machines this time around, they are confident that eventually Adams County will get a casino. The group Pro Casino Adams County says that it is inevitable that they will get slot machines; it is just a matter of when it will happen for them.

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