Derby City Gaming player at machine

The Louisville facility, which opened in September 2018, produced what Churchill Downs CEO Bill Carstanjen called a “best in class” profit margin of 41 percent last quarter.

Slot-like historical racing machines have helped the horse industry but generated little general tax money for Kentucky. Some want to change that.

Proponents of expanded gambling in Kentucky have long complained about residents of the Bluegrass State taking their dollars across the river to casinos in Indiana. For a brief moment next week, the reverse might happen.