Blue Ribbon Downs to be shuttered

11/5/2009 11:15 AM  | thoroughbredtimes.com
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The Choctaw Nation will close Blue Ribbon Downs at the end of the Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse meeting on November 28, six years after purchasing the track in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. 

Even with the installation of 250 slot machines in 2005, the track was losing about $1-million a year, Oklahoma Racing Commission Executive Director Constantin Rieger told the Oklahoma Journal Record.

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