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Indiana Strips $17 Million from Horseracing

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – As reported by the Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal: "The Senate stripped $17 million earmarked for the horse-racing industry from a bill yesterday.

"However, it rejected attempts to add language to authorize video pull-tab gambling machines for the tracks, as well as state-funded full-day kindergarten.

"The resulting bill — available for passage in the Senate today — would provide neither new money for the state's beleaguered horse industry nor any way for it to generate additional income.

"…Democrats quickly criticized the bill — which would have brought the state's total subsidy for the industry to $44 million — saying Republicans were giving priority to horse racing above full-day kindergarten.

"…But it was a Republican — Sen. Pat Miller of Indianapolis — who wrote an amendment to strip the bill of the additional $17 million racing subsidy…"

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