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Monday, October 18, 2004

Ambitions for an American Betting Exchange

American players may be able to start laying bets, too. It seems TRA is thinking about taking proactive choices to avoid foreign bets exchanges to invade the local market.

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"One way the North American industry could compete would be to … uh, compete."
So wrote Chris Scherf, executive vice president of the Thoroughbred Racing Associations (TRA) in a submission to the Thoroughbred Times. The article came a little over a week after Scherf proposed to attendees of the TRA's International Simulcast Conference that race tracks in North America should carefully consider creating their own betting exchange.

You can read the full article, by Bradley Vallerius, on http://www.igamingnews.com/