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Article: JOHNSEN EXPECTS TO WIN GAMBLE ON REMINGTON PARK
- Article from:
- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- August 26, 1988
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Corey Johnsen gambled on his first horse
race when he was 18-years-old.
Sixteen years later, Remington Park's assistant general manager
is still gambling on horse racing, gambling that the $90 million
track will meet the momentous expectations of Oklahoma business and
community leaders.
Johnsen's $2 bet on the seventh horse in the seventh race at
Seattle's Longacres racetrack paid off, and from the looks of the
towering glass grandstand, the revolutionary Equitrack, horsemen's
interest and advance ticket sales, Johnsen will win again.
"When I first heard an officer of the state department of
tourism say that Remington Park will be the number one tourist
attraction in the state, ...