Thursday, June 14, 2012  An Indictment of the Industry  I just
received my copy of the June edition of Trot magazine and from
just looking at the copy of the magazine, you can tell the
impact of the upcoming end of the Slots at Racetracks
program are already being felt.   This edition of the
magazine appears to be much smaller than it has been
before, suggesting there is less advertising in the magazine. 
In the Speaking Out section of this publication, there was an
astute letter from owner/breeder/investor Ken
Morden, who chastised the industry for being in denial.  As Ken
Morden stated "Again the industry did not and still does not
understand that the Ontario government has already made the
decision to withdraw from the partnership-and our partnership
share of the slot revenue is gone, gone, gone".  Morden was
basically bemoaning the industry was looking back instead of
looking ahead, figuring out how racing is going to survive in
the post revenue sharing era.  But Morden was not done.  He
indicted racing'