Kentucky is the home of horse racing. More racehorses are born and bred in Kentucky than in any other state. The Kentucky Derby is the most famous horse race in The United States. In 1988, 61 percent of the Kentucky voters said they wanted a lottery, and the next year one was established that offers instant games, lotto games, and numbers games as well as Powerball interstate lottery tickets. Charitable games are also permitted.
The fact that many states bordering or near Kentucky – Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi – offer casino gambling pressured state leaders into making plans for casino gambling. In 1999, the governor recommended that as many as fourteen casinos be authorized for the state. The notion of casinos in Kentucky is not too far out of bounds for most residents, as Kentuckians remember that the middle decades of the twentieth century found many wide-open but illegal casinos operating along the Ohio border. The seven tracks of Kentucky are supporters of the idea of having casinos, as long as they are located at the tracks and operated by the tracks. The idea of casinos has not received much support in the state legislature, however.
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