CANADIAN RACETRACK BID VOTED DOWN
 DIXON – 04/26/07 – A bid by Canada-based Magna Entertainment Corp. (MEC) to build a new horse racing complex in Northern California has suffered a fatal blow as voters in the small town of Dixon defeated a recent referendum on the proposed 260-acre, multi-use complex.
Voters overturned four separate actions that were previously approved by the Dixon City Council allowing the company’s proposed racetrack and mixed-use development.
MEC had been trying for several years to build a thoroughbred track and training center in the area near California’s high-tech Silicon Valley center.
The proposed complex would have included a second phase that involved the development of entertainment, hotel, commercial, and retail facilities along the lines of developments now under way at MEC's Gulfstream Park in Florida and Santa Anita Racetrack, near Los Angeles.
As part of its attempt to win voter approval for the plan, MEC promised never to add a slot machine casino at the proposed track, even if California reverses current law in the future and approves slot machines at racetracks.
MEC – headquartered in Aurora, Ontario – also owns Golden Gate Fields in San Francisco and operates several off-track betting (OTB) facilities.
The company also operates a national account wagering business, which permits customers to place wagers by telephone and over the Internet on horse races at over 100 North American racetracks and internationally on races in Australia, South Africa, and Dubai, as well as a European-based account wagering business.
In conjunction with its racetrack operations, MEC also owns and operates thoroughbred training centers - San Luis Rey Downs situated near San Diego, the Palm Meadows Training Center in Palm Beach County, Florida, and the Bowie Training Center, near Baltimore, Maryland.
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