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I can’t link directly to it, because of the Tennessean’s god-awful web design, but on this article about the fairgrounds hubub, commenter Jablonski suggests:

Proposal: State Fairgrounds should be converted to a park for the under-parked Neighborhoods of South Nashville. Revenues to compensate for NOT putting the property on tax rolls as HCA’s new HQ, would be paid for in one simple decision: The racetrack should be converted BACK to a horse racing track, as it originally was, and the Iroquois steeplechase moved to this redeveloped land, converted back to a natural state. Finally, betting on horse-racing would be legalized for this facility on this day each year, and television rights to the Steeplechase would be sold, as the oldest and most storied such event in the nation. QED, and you’re welcome to my genius whenever you like.

I’ve never gone to Steeplechase, but just might if they did something like this.