Park Trying to Keep License

The Wichita Greyhound Park has been closed for almost two years, but that doesn’t mean that they want to give up their license. The track says that they still have hope that they will be able to open again for business one day, and that if they lose their license they know that they won’t ever open again.
 
The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission had said that they were ready to pull the track’s license, but have given them a stay until July 21st – but then the license will go back to the state. Phil Ruffin, owner of the track, says that this is good news and it gives him more time to figure out what to do.
 
Ruffin is supposed to come up with a plan to save the track – and it involves slot machines. Ruffin says that if he can get slot machines back on the ballot, they will be approved at his track and they will be back up and running. He says that the main reason they had to close before was because they didn’t have the money to stay open because they were not allowed slot machines.
 
With other tracks able to bring in slot machines and use that revenue to increase purses and bring in better horses, they just can’t compete with that kind of revenue. He argues that if he was allowed to truly compete by bringing in slot machines and boosting his own revenue that he would be able to bring in those big ticket horses with larger purses as well.

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