A Fifth Racetrack for West Virginia?

With three of West Virginia's four racetracks allowed to operate full-blown casinos, lawmakers from north central West Virginia want in on some of the action.

The Intelligencer of Wheeling reports on House Bill 4405, proposed by Harrison and Marion county lawmakers, to permit a "horse theme park and pari-mutuel racing facility."

The newspaper also reports that "developers have added a request for a video lottery license to their proposal."

“When they first came down here with this, I didn’t think there was any push for gambling,” House Majority Leader Joe DeLong, long part of Hancock County horse racing industry, told the newspaper. “Now that they are asking for gambling, I don’t see there being a lot of support in the Legislature."