Suffolk Downs has announced plans to bring back the Massachusetts Handicap, the track's signature race, this September after the event was cancelled in three of the last four years.According to the Boston Herald, new owner Coastal Development and top shareholder Richard Fields hope to rejuvenate the local racing scene by spending a million dollars on the Mass Cap.
The paper goes on to say that "the decision to bring back the Mass Cap is the first major public relations salvo in what is likely to be a long campaign to win state permission to turn Suffolk into Boston’s answer to Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods..."
This comes at the same time that the Wampanoag tribe is being officially recognized by the US government and is pursuing an aggressive plan to build a casino in southeastern Massachusetts. It will be interesting to see how all of the competing interests go to battle on this matter.
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Don't know if anyone in the Boston area are aware, but the Shinnecock indians of South Hampton Long Island also wish to open a Casino.
Anyone who has ever been to Long Island in the Hampton Bays and South Hampton area know, there are only two highways connecting all of Eastern Long Island to all points West (27 and 27A). Under normal rush hour conditions they are at capacity.
If they get their Casino, I can almost bet on not being able to go the Ten Miles between Hampton Bays and SouthHampton in less than two hours.
BobBrug
Long Island NY
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