PLAINVILLE -- Officials at Plainridge Racecourse say the Route 1 harness racing track will close if a bill to extend simulcasting is not passed by the end of the year, a prospect that could cost the town a half-million dollars a year in revenue.

`` If there's no simulcasting, basically we're shut down,'' Plainridge President Gary Piontkowski said. `` That's the only thing we sell, wagering on horse and harness horse racing. We don't sell any other product.

`` We have a bar, but who's going to go to a racetrack just to have a drink?'' he said.

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