BOSTON (AP) — New England’s only thoroughbred horse racing track has told its workers it will close by year’s end because Mohegan Sun did not win a Massachusetts license for a resort casino at Suffolk Downs in Boston.
Suffolk Downs’ chief operating officer Chip Tuttle says workers were told Wednesday that the live horse racing season that ends Sept. 29 will be the track’s last. Suffolk Downs will continue to offer simulcast racing until November or December.
Tuttle says track owners Richard Fields and Joe O’Donnell have lost about $50 million to $60 million on the track over the last several years. The closing will affect hundreds of track-related workers.
Massachusetts gambling regulators this week picked Wynn Resorts’ $1.1 billion casino project for the Everett waterfront over Connecticut-based Mohegan Sun’s $1.1 billion proposal.
