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The Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission is now accepting statements of intent from parties wanting to apply for a Historical Horse Racing (HHR) license. The deadline for submitting your statement of intent is Friday, October 14, 2022. Interest parties should submit the following information with the statement of intent: Company name, Ownership information, and contact information. Please email your statement of intent to:

Todd Allen Director of Sports Wagering and HHR This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Anyone interested in this opportunity should be advised of the following:

1. The Statement of Intent is a preliminary step to allow the KRGC to identify parties interested in offering historical horse racing (HHR). It is not an application to apply for an HHR license.

2. An organizational license application will be sent to those entities who have expressed their intent to apply for an HHR license. The organizational license is the first step toward award of a license to offer HHR in Sedgwick County, Kansas.

3. If awarded an organizational license, the applicant may then apply for a facility management license and a license to offer HHR in Sedgwick County.

4. Award of an organizational license does not guarantee the applicant will be granted the license to operate an HHR facility.

5. Historical horse racing will not be offered in Kansas unless/until the Kansas Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of HHR and any requirement to repay Plaintiff’s privilege fee in a currently pending case in Shawnee County District Court ( case number 2022-CV-000301.)

6. If the Supreme Court rules that HHR is constitutional and that the plaintiff is owed a refund of its privilege fee and accrued interest, the applicant for the HHR license will be required to pay the privilege fee plus accrued interest to the KRGC in advance as a condition of the grant of the HHR license.

7. If there are multiple applicants for an HHR license, the privilege fee and accrued interest paid in advance by non-winning applicants will be refunded, and the winning applicant’s fee and accrued interest will be paid to the plaintiff.

8. The privilege fee refund will be $25 million. Accrued interest will be determined by the court, but accrual is expected to cover approximately thirteen years.

9. The winning applicant will be required to make up any difference in the amount collected and the amount actually owed to the plaintiff. Any fee and interest collected that exceeds the amount owed to the plaintiff will be refunded to the winning applicant.

10. Applicants not in the financial position to pay the fee and accrued interest in advance should not apply for the HHR license.

11. The holder of an organizational license, by statute, cannot offer live greyhound racing at the HHR facility in Sedgwick County.