The future of the Texas Racing Commission — and all Texas racetracks including Lone Star Park in Grand Prairie — is up in the air as officials wait to see whether they will receive state money to continue their mission.
If the funding doesn't come, the agency can't pay rent or employees "and will close at the end of the day on August 31, 2015," commission Executive Director Chuck Trout wrote in a letter to an attorney representing tracks.
"If the agency closes, all racing will also stop."
This is the latest development in a yearlong dispute between the Racing Commission and lawmakers who oppose allowing historical racing — replaying past races on slot-machine-like devices — at horse and dog tracks statewide.
Some lawmakers asked the commission not to approve the historical racing rules, and then sued and threatened to stop funding or dissolve the agency after commissioners approved the rules.
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