After the denunciations of the Owners' Association, Buenos Aires province horse racing will regularize its situation and will be able to activate two vital tools to try to improve the bet system
By Diego H. Mitagstein
Argentina is not an easy country; on the contrary. Politics, which should improve things, generally makes them worse, complicates them and, in many cases, makes them murky. After the complaint filed a few days ago by the Association of Race Horse Owners, through Mariano Fragueiro, its President, against Pablo Julio López, Axel Kicillof's Minister of Economy, and other officials of the provincial Executive, it seems that a beginning of a solution to the historical problems derived from the application of the Reparation Fund has been found.
The most important points indicate that the racetracks of Buenos Aires will soon receive the funds to cover the purses corresponding to the month of October -San Isidro announced that they will be available as from January 26-, and the entity controlled by Gonzalo Atanasof committed to transfer the money for November and December within a period of no more than 30 days.
With these transfers, the problems caused by the delay in the settlements will be solved, hoping that, from now on, everything will be back on track.
But the most important aspect of the agreement does not lie there, but in the possibility that the racetracks of the Province of Buenos Aires will have to start applying online gaming and the collection of bets from abroad through commingle, vital elements for the development of the sport.
The good news does not end there, since the Lottery will enable the sale of bets in the provincial agencies (as it happens with the Turfito in CABA) and the entity will intimidate the provinces for the capture of the clandestine game.
The other points of the agreement, which would be signed next Monday, would also touch on regulatory issues, such as the elimination of the couples, which could also result in an improvement in the game and in allowing the organization of races which, under the current conditions, are impossible to confirm.
If all the points of the agreement are confirmed, it would be a starting point to think that horse racing in the Province of Buenos Aires may have a future far away from the dark clouds that have been part of the forecast for a long time. The signatures are still needed, but if they are obtained, an enormous step forward will have been taken.
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