Horse racing site on wobbly legs: Youbet.com reeling from bad acquisitions.(WAGERING)(Company overview)

Horse betting site Youbet.com Inc. is limping painfully down what may be the home stretch.

One business it acquired has put the company $15 million in debt, and another recent purchase was shut down amid government investigations. A client that brings in a quarter of its business has been caught in a litigation battle and has frozen its contract.

Its stock price has dropped below $1 and Nasdaq has threatened to delist the company.

Youbet.com's shares traded at around 76 cents last week, after a long dive from their peak at $6 in 2005.

The company doesn't have a permanent chief executive. Former CEO Chuck Davis walked away in November and the company's chief ...

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