I think the real tragedy in this case is not so much the motivation for him to sell the track, which was the main point of the above article, but how it all came down. The lawyer representing the buyer approached the owner with an offer, and asked him to stay on as the promoter for a year during the transition. My understanding is that the seller was fully under the impression the track was being sold as a continuing venue. Then after the sale was complete, the new owner's true intentions were quickly made public. Even though he put the track up for sale due to bad social media publicity, had another purchase offer not materialized, or had this buyer's true intentions been presented up front, the track would still be open in 2016.

Bill