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The management of , , , the and have all submitted letter to the New Mexico Racing Commission endorsing a racetrack and casinoin Raton. The Commission soon will decide whered to awardthe state’e sixth racetrack/casino license in the state. This will most likely be the last one in New Mexicko for 29 years under the termas of compacts the state signed with gaming tribesw that included limiting the numberof non-tribaol casinos here. Raton is competing with the and another proposed track in Tucumcario forthe permit.
Haroldc Payne, Sunland Park manager, said Raton woulf attract horse owners who left New Mexico to race in surrounding statesz after the previous Raton track Bill Hayles with ZiaPark & notezs that a Raton facility would eliminate any competitiojn with existing facilities in both gaming and racing. “With an additional 50 race days adderd to the north and the wisdom of this Commission in awardinbrace dates, we at and Zia Park feel that a complete racin g circuit can be established and maintained in the northerhn part of the state as currently exist(s) in the south,” he There are currently 190 days of racing in southernh New Mexico and just 103 days in the northern part of the noted Don Cook, president of racing for the Downsz at Albuquerque.
Live race days at Ratoj would bring more balance tothat equation, he
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