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The California Department of Justice removed slot-style betting machines amid a legal dispute with tribal gaming interests over gambling classification.
- On Saturday, California Department of Justice agents removed Racing On Demand terminals from Santa Anita Park's grandstand, halting the track's experiment that began without notice or advertising.
- Faced with legal disputes, Santa Anita argues terminals are pari‑mutuel, while tribes contend they violate the tribal compact, prompting a DOJ notice to destroy machines within 30 days.
- Uniformed officers with California Department of Justice patches unplugged the machines, placed them on handcarts and removed them while about 15 officers confiscated machines and cash, telling track staff to leave.
- At stake is the future of California racing and its financing, as the state lacks casino supplemental income and trails states such as Kentucky where Historical Horse Racing has increased purses.
- Legal observers say the swift removal sets up litigation, with Attorney General Rob Bonta having received legal analysis earlier and tribes warning of a `full throated` response.
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Police remove 26 new gaming machines from Santa Anita
The California government answered Santa Anita’s dare to shut off new gaming machines by confiscating them in a late-afternoon raid Saturday. Police officers from the state Department of Justice and the city of Arcadia rounded up the 26 terminals only two days after The Stronach Group activated them in a low-key launch. “The HHR machines at Santa Anita are being shut down,” a source said in a text to Horse Racing Nation on Saturday. “The Califor…
Law Enforcement Officers Remove Santa Anita's Racing on Demand Slot-Machines
Two days after first being quietly unveiled at Santa Anita, the Racing on Demand slot machine-style parimutuel games—with distinct similarities to Historic Horse Racing—were removed from the track by Department of Justice law enforcement officers Saturday afternoon. In videos shared with the TDN, law enforcement officers are seen wheeling the machines out the back of the Santa Anita grandstand on gurneys. There have been 26 machines in total ope…
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