B2 l WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021 RAWLINSTIMES.COM RAWLINS TIMES Campbell commissioners sued over horse racing UW soccer to host summer camps missioners approved resolutions The resolution “imposed illegal LARAMIE – University of Wyo- from Sunday-Wednesday, July 18-21. By JONATHAN GALLARDO allowing Wyoming Horse Racing restrictions on the approval of ming women’s soccer head coach Pete It’s open to anyone ages 12-17. Reg- Gillette News Record and Wyoming Downs to conduct simulcasting,” stripping Wyoming Cuadrado will host four camps in istration cost for the Team Camp is Via Wyoming News Exchange parimutuel wagering in the county. Downs and Wyoming Horse Rac- June and July for players ranging from $345 for overnight and $305 for com- This followed the passage of a bill, ing of their vested rights without preschool through high school. The muters. The Team Camp is for groups GILLETTE — Two Wyoming co-sponsored by former Rep. Sue due process of law.” camps will take place at the Louis S. of 8 or more. The ID camp is $425 for live horse racing outlets are betting Wallis, R-Recluse, that allows for The injunction also accuses Madrid Complex. overnight and $375 for commuters, that a lawsuit they’ve filed against the simulcasting of parimutuel commissioners of acting beyond The two Future Pokes Camps will while the. Each camper will receive a the Campbell County commission- events, also called historic horse the their authority. take place Monday-Thursday, June camp ball and University of Wyoming ers will pay off in their favor. racing. State statute delegates authority 7-10, and Monday-Thursday, July 19- t-shirt. Wyoming Horse Racing and Based on those 2013 decisions, over parimutuel activities to the 22. It is open to anyone ages 4-12. The Those interested can register at Wyoming Downs have filed an Wyoming Downs and Wyoming Wyoming Gaming Commission, registration fee is $115 for the 4-6 age wyomingsoccercamps.com. For more injunction against a resolution the Horse Racing have operated in and leaves “a very small role for group and $150 for the 7-12 age group. information or questions regarding commission passed this spring that Campbell County since. county commissioners,” according Each camper will receive a camp ball the 2021 summer camps, contact gives control over off-track betting In 2020, 307 Horse Racing to the injunction. The commis- and University of Wyoming t-shirt. assistant coach Jessica Nei at jnei@ and simulcasting activities to who- signed an exclusive contract with sioners’ role is to grant approval The Team and ID Camps will run uwyo.edu. ever is operating live horse racing Cam-plex to conduct live horse for those activities to take place in in the county. racing at Morningside Park for the their county. Without a ruling in their favor, next five years. By giving Wyoming Downs and when live horse racing starts its Wyoming law states that “no Wyoming Horse Racing approval season at Morningside Park on simulcasting may be conducted to do off-track betting in 2013, the Saturday, Wyoming Horse Racing within 100 miles of any premises” commissioners created a vested and Wyoming Downs in Gillette where live horse racing happens. right and do not have the power to will basically be abruptly out of 307 Horse Racing argues that it has take that away, the attorneys wrote. business, and dozens of people will full rights to any off-track betting The commissioners also are be unemployed, according to their machines within 100 miles of Cam- being accused of not giving proper, lawsuit. plex for the whole year. legal formal notice of the April 20 The injunction asked the 6th Ju- The injunction said that 307 meeting. dicial District Court to scratch the Horse Racing asked the Wyoming As of 9 a.m. April 19, there was resolution out of the gate. The busi- Gaming Commission to demand no public notice or agenda posted nesses claim they will “both suffer that the other two operators shut to the county’s website. catastrophic and irreparable harm down in Campbell County. The Typically, the county posts if the resolution is not stayed.” Gaming Commission denied the meeting agendas the Friday before The lawsuit accuses the commis- request, and 307 Horse Racing Tuesday meetings. An agenda was sioners of playing favorites. The then asked it to remove the rule. posted later Monday morning, but resolution passed April 20 is “an The Gaming Commission decided that was less than 24 hours before exercise in crony capitalism” and is to keep the rule in place. the start of the meeting. As a result, Wyoming Downs did AP PHOTO/ELISE AMENDOLA “illegal, beyond the scope of their The Wyoming Attorney Gen- Magic Johnson, left, shares a laugh with Marv Albert during preliminary basketball authority, arbitrary and capricious, eral’s opinion was that 307 Horse not have enough time to partici- and has zero basis in objective fact, Racing would have the rights to pate or make public comment, the action between Brazil and Puerto Rico at the Centennial Summer Olympic Games in logic, or law,” it says. those machines only on race days, attorneys wrote. Atlanta on July 20, 1996. It also alleges that the commis- or 16 days out of the year. The Wy- The commissioners “simply sioners are “intentionally seeking oming Gaming Commission came desired to cost two private entities Marv Albert retiring before Finals to destroy two businesses.” to the same conclusion. millions of dollars in lost invest- Wyoming Downs and Wyoming 307 Horse Racing then went to ment and more importantly cause NEW YORK (AP) — From Mi- al in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Horse Racing are represented by the Campbell County Commission, dozens of people to lose their jobs chael Jordan soaring through the air Silver said his earliest memories of attorneys Matthew J. Micheli and which passed its resolution giving without even pretending to have to Willis Reed simply walking onto basketball were listening to Albert call Macrina M. Sharpe with Holland a live horse racing operator control any evidence or basis for making the court, Marv Albert supplied the Knicks games. Many fans who came and Hart, and Robert C. Jarosh of off-track betting. Because of 307 that decision.” sound that went with the sights. to the game during Jordan’s run to six and Traci L. Lacock with Hirst Horse Racing’s exclusive contract If the resolution is not stayed, Albert has called numerous sports championships in the 1990s heard the Applegate. Both firms are out of with Cam-plex, it is essentially the their three off-track betting loca- during a Hall of Fame career that same voice first. Cheyenne. only operator that can have off- tions in Gillette will have to shut spans nearly 60 years, though he is “From his remarkable run as play- The companies also are asking track betting. down May 22, the attorneys wrote, mostly linked to basketball. by-play announcer for the Knicks to for a declaratory judgment that Commissioner Colleen Faber, which will “injure the reputation “There is no voice more closely his prominent national roles calling the commissioners exceeded their who drafted the resolution, said and goodwill of both parties.” associated with NBA basketball than our marquee games on NBC and statutory authority and jurisdiction off-the-track betting operations Wyoming Downs and Wyoming Marv Albert’s,” NBA Commissioner Turner Sports, Marv has been the in passing the resolution. “are part and parcel to live horse Horse Racing have spent years and Adam Silver said in a statement re- soundtrack for basketball fans for Wednesday, the commissioners racing,” and that operators should millions of dollars building up their leased Monday by Turner Sports. nearly 60 years,” Silver said. hired a pair attorneys to represent not be operating OTBs if they are businesses and developing a loyal Albert plans to retire after calling Albert became the voice of the New customer base. If they closed down, them in the suit. not also running live horse races. the NBA’s Eastern Conference finals, York Rangers in 1965 and the Knicks about 50 jobs would be lost. If they ending a career that began on the two years later. He was on the radio As of Friday morning, no hear- Instead of control only on its reopened, not all of the former ing had been scheduled for the civil race days, the commissioners gave radio in 1963. call in 1970 when the Knicks won employees would return to work Albert will call the series for TNT. their first championship, a memo- action that had been filed with Dis- 307 Horse Racing carte blanche for them, and finding and training He has been with Turner for 22 years, rable moment in NBA history after trict Judge Thomas Rumpke. And for the next five years because of new workers is “something that the case that had been assigned to its exclusive contract, the other op- cannot be adequately compensated 19 as an NBA play-by-play announc- an injured Reed emerged from the District Judge John R. Perry has erators argue in their lawsuit. The through damages.” er. locker room moments before Game been reassigned to District Judge resolution, in effect, kills a pair of The commissioners passed the “My 55 years of broadcasting the 7 against the Los Angeles Lakers at Scott Peasley of the Eighth Judicial businesses that have been operating resolution on a 4-1 vote, with NBA has just flown by and I’ve been Madison Square Garden. District. for eight years without problems. Commissioner D.G. Reardon the fortunate to work with so many won- “And here comes Willis, and the The resolution gives the county’s “They are attempting to directly lone dissenting voice.