Two developers are proposing to resurrect Michigan's thoroughbred horse racing industry on opposite sides of the state, and one of those potential moves involves Great Lakes Downs, the Muskegon-area track that's ready to close its doors. The state's racing commissioner has a month to decide if there's enough horseflesh to go around.
According to excerpts from the story:
The once-fading pulse of the Michigan thoroughbred horse-racing industry might have a beat after all.
Two applicants presented proposals in Lansing Monday afternoon to run live racing next year, including one by a Flint developer who says he's trying to buy Great Lakes Downs in Fruitport Township and run a racing meet there next year.
The track's current owner, Magna Entertainment Corp., has said it will close the track next month and sell it.
The two race meet proposals -- both ambitious and uncertain -- were made during a public hearing before Office of Racing Commissioner Christine C. White at Lansing's Constitution Hall.
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