Sports betting: Would it hurt or help Washington’s horse-racing industry?

Doug Moore, the Executive Secretary of the Washington Horse Racing Commission (WHRC), represented the WHRC at the Washington State House Commerce & Gaming Committee work session last week. ... If yet another gambling industry is introduced to the state without consideration for horse racing, Moore said, the industry is in danger of disappearing from Washington completely. ... In order to keep the horse-racing industry afloat, Moore urged legislators to consider it while writing sports-betting legislation. In a follow-up phone call, he told us that means horse racing should receive some of the future sports-betting industry’s revenue — something he said is being done in all other states with both legal sports betting and horse racing.

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