GARY! The OHHA nor the tracks made a deal over the simulcasting! 
And further more, when you were here 15 years ago was ANYONE bitching about it? And why not?
Amy,
I read the beginning of this thread and without reading the rest completely, I'm making a comment in the middle.
Your recollection is incorrect, however you are also correct.
Northfield Park did make a deal.
There are two dollar figures to consider when attempting to add up the dollars.
1) One is the revenue from the wagered dollars, which is different for simulcast and live-on-track. The splits between horsemen's org and the tracks (along with other orgs (state, city, etc)) are defined by law.
On that point you are correct.
2) The signal fee and it's revenue goes to the track alone (Jeff Gural and company raised the price of the signal fee immediately upon taking possession of The Meadowlands).
The horsemen get no part of that.
Northfield Park reduced their signal fee (my recollection is to 1.5%) some years ago to promote other tracks to simulcast their feed.
Initially this was done just on Monday's and Tuesdays, however once Northfield Park saw the success of this 1.5% it was expanded to other days.
The tracks are NOT required to reveal these signal fees and many other negotiated fees that were for decades public information, thus it's nearly impossible to make a logical guess on a tracks profitability as it was decades ago.
