HARNESS TRACKS OF AMERICA Executive Newsletter

HARNESS TRACKS OF AMERICAExecutive NewsletterA daily fax and e-mail report on racing and gaming developments in North America and beyondStanley F. Bergstein, EditorTuesday, June 8, 2010JUNE BERGSTEIN DIES AT 84 Gabriel, California, where he was working at theWestern Harness meeting at Santa Anita. She issurvived by Stan; their son Al, who retired fromMicrosoft after 10 years to found MountainstoneProductions, a video documentary firm, in PortTownsend, Washington; their daughter Lisa,married to Dr. Craig Tremback, president ofAtmet, an international atmospheric and meteorologicalfirm in Lafayette, Colorado; and fourgrandsons. Funeral services will be private. Memorialcontributions may be made to the HTACollege Scholarship Fund and sent to HTA, 4640E. Sunrise Drive, Suite 200, Tucson, AZ 85718.June Carol Bergstein, wife of HTA Executive VicePresident Stan Bergstein, died early this morningat Hospice Family Care in Tucson, four daysafter the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary.A regal and elegant popular model in her youth,June had worked at Mme. Marguerite Pick’sMichigan Avenue salon in Chicago, for GeneralMotors and J. L. Hudson in Detroit, and for thefamed Ford Agency in New York. She studiedopera in Chicago with the renowned sopranoand teacher Rosa Raisa, before hermarriage to Stan on June 4, 1950, in SanNEVER-ENDING PLAY IN NHThe legislative dispute over gaming at tracks inNew Hampshire, which seemingly is a dramawithout end, continues this week with a specialsession of the legislature. Norma Love, whoseAssociated Press story appeared in the NashuaTelegraph, put it best when she wrote, concerningwhether slots would or would not play a role inmeeting the state’s projected $295 million budgetshortfall, that a lantern was needed in the Statehousedome, to indicate by “one lantern if videoslots is in the budget bill or two if it is out...giventhe two chambers’ distrust of one another, anythingcan happen Wednesday,” when the issue isdue to be debated. An “informational session” isscheduled for today. The Senate wants slots; theHouse and governor do not. With HTA memberRockingham Park’s future at stake, even passagecould be vetoed by Gov. John Lynch. Thiswould appear to be the final act in the long-runningmelodrama.ALL CASINOS NOT WINNERSOne that is not is the Majestic Star in Gary, Indiana.The rough, tough steel city says the casinoowes it $21.9 million in property taxes, andthinks the Indiana Gaming Commission shouldnot renew its license. The casino says it hasappealed its assessed value.