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...minutes late for my meeting with Bob Trieger, assistant general manager of the Wonderland dog track, but he's all smiles. Sitting in his modest office, I offer some bland questions but he fires off detailed responses. We talk about everything, from the track's former incarnation as a "Japanese-style amusement park" to the eight miles of underground snow-melting steel pipe to the "Rhode Island baby-sand" surface installed for the dogs' safety. I ask him about the state's involvement and he explains it thoroughly, all the way down to the "piss-catchers," the state inspectors...
...attract some young people to come in for the slots, then maybe they will become interested in greyhound racing," Trieger says...
...younger people going to casinos," Trieger says. "Our regulars our older people and so now we are trying to build up our younger crowd...
...offset the financial losses that would be caused by another casino opening, a measure which would allow them to install slot machines is currently before the legislature, Trieger says...
...casinos are coming and we have to get something to survive," Trieger says. "If there is a casino and we get the slots, that will be a plus...