{"id":77990,"date":"2025-12-10T04:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77990\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:29:06","slug":"florida-group-announces-plans-for-marion-county-racetrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77990\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida group announces plans for Marion County racetrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The CEO of the Florida Thoroughbred Owners Association announced plans to develop a racetrack in Marion County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lonny Powell announced at a symposium in Arizona, saying the association is partnering with attorney John Morgan and other investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The plans indicate a willingness to let owners of Gulfstream Park decouple live racing from their gambling operations, which would leave Florida without an active racetrack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The CEO of the Florida Thoroughbred Owners Association announced plans to develop a racetrack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,43810,43813,43812,43811,43809],"class_list":{"0":"post-77990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-florida-thoroughbred-owners-association","12":"tag-gulfstream-park","13":"tag-john-morgan","14":"tag-lonny-powell","15":"tag-marion-county-racetrack"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}