Three reasons to look ahead with hope for 2007
Predicting what’s going to happen within the industry is like handicapping a race. Rarely do things turn out exactly as you might expect.

Still, it seems reasonable to predict that 2007 will be a momentous year within the Mid-Atlantic region.

Slots are coming to Pennsylvania (finally).

The Breeders’ Cup World Championships will have its first running at a Mid-Atlantic track—at Monmouth Park on October 27.

And the possibility of a slots bill passing the legislature—and being signed into law by the new governor, Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley—looms large in Maryland.

Any one of these items is enough to make anyone whose livelihood depends on local racing practically breathless with anticipation. Taken together, they could change the economic landscape forever, in a most positive way.

Breeding and racing horses is a game of hope. And never have Mid-Atlantic horsepeople had more reason to be hopeful about the immediate future.