Tomorrow is Kentucky Derby day, and, according to this article on Slate.com, some people will be placing bets through phone hubs in "exotic, loosely regulated locales like St. Kitts or North Dakota""Say you want to lay $1,000 on a horse running at Aqueduct. You call the hub in Fargo, then an operator takes your bet and relays it to New York, where the money is fed into the racetrack's pool."Does this really go on in North Dakota, or is Fargo just writerly shorthand for the middle of nowhere?
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Nope, it really does happen in Fargo. There's a major racing hub there. (you may remember hearing about the owner going up for tax evasion and such not too long ago). Racing Services Inc, I believe is the name. They do a lot of paramutual off track betting in bars and such. I used to bet all the time in Jamestown.
Interesting. I know North Dakota is a horse-loving state, but I didn't realize so many people enjoyed the racing aspect of it.
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