[Improvements from better food to more than a dozen private conference rooms outfitted with telephones and fax machines are designed to keep customers in the building] a few more hours buying horses, ... Buying horses makes them happy. That makes us happy. That makes everybody happy. |
[Today, people fly in from around the world. The September sale stretches over 15 days. The first horse goes on the auction block at 10 a.m. and selling runs sometimes till 10 or 11 p.m.] If people don't take care of their body, if they're hungry, tired, they might go back to their hotel, or fly back home because many of them come in on their own planes, ... It's important to the dynamics of the marketplace that they be comfortable. |
At our core, it's an old-fashioned vacation that takes place in one afternoon. |
From an economic standpoint, you have to look at expanded gaming, but this has nothing to do with horses, |
I could tell 30 seconds into the conversation that he was a race fan. |
I'm sure you've heard the word ambassador a lot today. That's the way he represented the sport in public; he was a great sportsman and handled victory and defeat with equal style and class. But I also had the privilege of seeing the leadership he gave to our industry in private, when the cameras were not on. |
If I were a member of the legislature, the affect of Kentucky's horse industry on the expanded gaming issue would not be enough for me to vote 'yes,' ... It's got to make sense from a broader standpoint. The issue to me, which I think it is to most people, is more about how our children are educated, or about seniors, and the basic services provided by the government and the problems of funding and the infrastructure of government at the local level. It's about all these things that add up to what kind of Commonwealth we have and how we're going to pay for it. |
If I were a member of the legislature, the effect of Kentucky's horse industry on the expanded gaming question would not be enough for me to vote yes, |
If people don't take care of their body, if they're hungry, tired, they might go back to their hotel, or fly back home because many of them come in on their own planes, |
It also will be an opportunity for everyone to be proud of our community, because it portrays central Kentucky at its most beautiful. |
It looks nice, but at the core it's all business, |
It's of Boswell's opinion that there is a need for other places in the state to have licenses, and I think we should be respectful of that, ... And I agree with his words that this is on the table and this is a starting point, or a suggestion, and we ask that it be done in the context of broader things...a Constitutional amendment should deal with the proliferation issue. |
Sometime around late August we expect this project to be completed. |
The sales produce virtually all of our net, |
The sales produce virtually all of our net, ... we just try to break even on the races. |