Here’s a recap of the good news and bad news in the greyhound racing world:

Colorado

Good News
The last live greyhound racing venue in Colorado, Mile High Greyhound Park, closed its doors early for the season. Mile High decided live races would end in June after track officials and kennel owners couldn’t come to a financial agreement to keep running races until September. The track ran a full season in 2007 and lost money after being profitable in 2006. The track is scheduled to reopen April 2009.

Bad News
When a track closes permanently or for the season, dogs are displaced and adoption groups are flooded with placing dogs and all the expenses that go along with the process.

Good News
In the long run, a closed dog track means there is less  breeding, less unnecessary risk of injury and death, and less off-track-betting revenues to add to the coffers of other tracks. 

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Massachusetts

Bad News
The owner of Raynham-Taunton dog track sued the Committee to Protect Dogs, an umbrella group that wants to end greyhound racing by 2010.    

Good News
The owner of the Raynham-Taunton dog track LOST the suit! Proposition 3, “Yes on 3” is on the November ballot. Read about it and watch the slideshow.

More Good News
Wonderland Greyhound Park is being threatened with foreclosure and losing its liquor license if it doesn’t pay almost $800,000 in back taxes. 

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Arizona

Good News
The Tucson Dog Protection ballot initiative collected enough signatures to make it on the November South Tucson ballot. The initiative asks for three modest measures to improve the conditions of racing greyhounds at Tucson Greyhound Park.
 

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Kansas

Good News
“We’re not in Kansas anymore!” Kansas is the home of the National Greyhound Association, the racing industry organization. But Kansas is no longer home to live greyhound racing. The Woodlands race track closed.

Good News and Bad News
Here’s the good and bad of what happens when a track closes. Still, in the long run, one less track is a step in the right direction as mentioned above.  

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