This is BAD News! PETA wants a seat at the board table and their ultimate goal is shutdown racing.

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PETA Buys Stock in Racetracks

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a longtime critic of many of the practices in horse racing, has purchased stock in four companies which own racetracks-VICI Properties, Boyd Gaming, Penn National Gaming, and Gaming and Leisure Properties-in order to make their case in the boardroom, according to a press release from the organization. The

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Now that PETA is a shareholder they are already going for major changes in track surface. 
They will not stop till every track is shutdown . IMHO

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PETA Files Shareholder Resolution With Churchill Downs Over Deaths on Dirt Racetrack - Past The Wire

PETA has submitted a resolution calling on Churchill Downs, Inc., to report to shareholders on the feasibility of replacing the dirt racetrack at Churchill Downs Racetrack with a synthetic surface.

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Stronach involved in fight to make sure TBs aren’t sold/sent to South Korean interests, have some have recently been sent to slaughter

https://news.yahoo.com/two-groups-want-ban-sale-140017310.html

 Well  I don't like PETA, but this sounds like a worthwhile fight: i felt sick reading about horses being

slaughtered in South Korea. How horrible.