Monday, March 14, 2005 | 9:25 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK -- Track officials aren't giving odds on the Arkansas Legislature approving their latest attempt to expand gambling in Arkansas, but they see opposition from Mississippi competitors as a sure thing.
A bill before the Legislature would let voters in Hot Springs and West Memphis decide whether they want to expand electronic wagering at pari-mutuel race tracks in their cities.
Since 2000, Oaklawn Park and Southland Greyhound Park have offered Instant Racing, in which bets are placed on previously run races. The games were allowed under the constitutional amendment that authorized pari-mutuel wagering and a 1999 statute that eased the way for the races presented by video.
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