and slots. horse racing is back in a big way. out at merryland and countrylife farm in hydes the horses aren't
Happy Valley Racecourse, the only ones with a little extra pep in their ste >> we have had a head wind and now we have a tailwind.
we have to look around going, what do we do next? lowell co-owner mike pons is : talking about the revival of sorts of the horse industry in maryland highlighted by a new report by the sage policy group released at goucher college monday which also is the new
home of maryland horse breeders associatio >> from the perspective of a few years ago, one would not have expected the numbers to turn out the way they did from any years -- for many years, the horse industry was in sharp declines. lowell: sage ceo anirban basu
says the report shows that decline is long gone. in 2010 for example the horse industry had an economic impac 930 million dollars. in .15, $1.5 billion. >> we were to streets -- states where we were at 50% and kentucky grew 4%.
we are moving horses to the state of maryland. lowell the president of : maryland's horse breeders association says the state actually had the largest breeding increase in the country last year. what is the reason?
mainly casino gambling which has helped increase purses and improve facilities around the state which is having a full trickledown effect. >> you are saying that we had -- seeing that we had the infrastructure in place, the feed, the veterinarians, all we
needed was some higher octane fuel. lowell that fuel being more than : $40 million in the purse account and the future starts looking very bright. in fact according to the report by 2020 we're looking at a $1.5 billion yearly economic impact
supporting more than 11,000 jobs. if you would like to take a closer look at the report, we have provided a link in our website, wbal tv.com and our mobile app.
and slots. horse racing is back in a big way. out at merryland and countrylife farm in hydes the horses aren't
Happy Valley Racecourse, the only ones with a little extra pep in their ste >> we have had a head wind and now we have a tailwind.
we have to look around going, what do we do next? lowell co-owner mike pons is : talking about the revival of sorts of the horse industry in maryland highlighted by a new report by the sage policy group released at goucher college monday which also is the new
home of maryland horse breeders associatio >> from the perspective of a few years ago, one would not have expected the numbers to turn out the way they did from any years -- for many years, the horse industry was in sharp declines. lowell: sage ceo anirban basu
says the report shows that decline is long gone. in 2010 for example the horse industry had an economic impac 930 million dollars. in .15, $1.5 billion. >> we were to streets -- states where we were at 50% and kentucky grew 4%.
we are moving horses to the state of maryland. lowell the president of : maryland's horse breeders association says the state actually had the largest breeding increase in the country last year. what is the reason?
mainly casino gambling which has helped increase purses and improve facilities around the state which is having a full trickledown effect. >> you are saying that we had -- seeing that we had the infrastructure in place, the feed, the veterinarians, all we
needed was some higher octane fuel. lowell that fuel being more than : $40 million in the purse account and the future starts looking very bright. in fact according to the report by 2020 we're looking at a $1.5 billion yearly economic impact
supporting more than 11,000 jobs. if you would like to take a closer look at the report, we have provided a link in our website, wbal tv.com and our mobile app.