Laurel Park Competition

All signs are pointing to Laurel Park getting the slot machines that are destined to come to Maryland. Voters will get a chance this Election Day to decide if slot machines are to be legalized or not, and many are placing bets as to where they might go if they are.

Anne Arundel County is on the short list to get the slot machines, and it would seem that Laurel Park would be the obvious choice for those machines. Millions of dollars of revenue would be going to the track and its purses, so it only seems to make sense that they would get to host them as well.

It was previously thought that a large portion of the slot machine revenue was going to education; however, it would seem that the major benefactor of the slot machines will actually be the horse racing industry. They say that they cannot compete in a world of horse racing without them.

Voters will simply be deciding if slot machines can be placed within two miles of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. They will not be deciding if Laurel Park specifically will be getting them.

Laurel Park is considered the front runner in the slot machine race; however, there are other options. There is Baltimore City, Worcester County, Cecil County, and Allegany County in the running as well.

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