pari-mutuel

But racing interests say that HHR is not a game of chance but skill and is connected to a pari-mutuel hub.

If it is skill, and proved to be a pari-mutuel product, then the path to success is much easier.

The two pari-mutuel firms say the compact signed by the governor and the tribe in 2021 gives the tribe a sports gambling monopoly and creates a “backdoor” way out of the state’s requirement, passed by voters in 2018 as an amendment to the Florida Constitution, that a citizens initiative is needed to expand casino gambling outside tribal land.

The pari-mutuel firms also sued DeSantis and leaders of the Florida Legislature, which authorized the compact, in a case pending before the Florida Supreme Court.

The pari-mutuel firms’ latest petition before the U.S.