From the Paulick Report:

The clock is ticking on the end of live Thoroughbred horse racing at Gulfstream Park.

"That's the message to South Florida horsemen conveyed by Keith Brackpool, representing the Hallandale Beach, Fla., track's owner, The Stronach Group, according to several people in attendance at a contentious meeting held there on Wednesday morning.

Racing will run into 2028, Brackpool told horsemen, according to those in attendance, if legislation is passed in the state capitol permitting Thoroughbred tracks to decouple or eliminate the requirement to conduct live racing in order to maintain operations of a slot machine casino. Brackpool made no guarantees beyond 2028, those in attendance said. If the legislation, introduced earlier this month by state Rep. Adam Anderson, does not pass, Brackpool said, The Stronach Group is within its rights to pull the plug on racing at any time.

"It was a lot of talk and not a lot of facts," said trainer Dale Romans. "Basically, we were getting threatened by Gulfstream Park that they could close it anytime if they wanted to, if this decoupling didn’t go through. If it did, we were guaranteed three more years, and that was it. Decoupling will be the end of Gulfstream, in my opinion."

Romans said Brackpool stated multiple times during the meeting that Gulfstream's only obligation under the current law to maintain its slot machine license is to race a minimum of 40 days. The track races year-round now, with about 200 live racing days."

Will it survive? Where would you play instead??