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Residents Fight Plan for Pennsylvania Racetrack

PENNSYLVANIA -- As reported by Bloodhorse: "Residents of a tiny riverside community outside of Pittsburgh, Pa., are banding together to fight a proposed Thoroughbred racetrack.

"'It's not that we're opposed to horse racing--we just don't feel that this is the place for it,' said Cathy Light, a resident of South Versailles Township whose one-acre property would be surrounded by the racetrack grounds and parking lots.

"Light, 39, and her husband John, 48, have formed Friends of South Versailles to fight construction of Oak Park racetrack. The facility is proposed for 140 acres next to Coulterville Road, a winding two-lane road that provides the main access to the township.

"1935 Inc., the company that plans the track, is owned by five members of the Biros family, one of five applicants for the final Thoroughbred racing license in the state. Public hearings on the applications have not yet been scheduled.

"Representatives for the company said a racetrack would bring much-needed jobs to the little community, which sits on a quiet bend of the Youghiogheny River in southeast Allegheny County..."

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