Canterbury Park Suspends Gaming Operations; Currently Halted

Effective at midnight on June 30, 2011, Canterbury Park Holding Corporation CPHC suspended all of its gaming operations. This action was taken due to the fact that Minnesota's Governor and Legislature failed to reach an agreement on the State's budget for the biennium beginning July 1, 2011. The inability to reach an agreement forced many state agencies to immediately shut down due to the lack of an appropriation of funds. The Minnesota Racing Commission, the agency which regulates Canterbury Park's pari-mutuel and Card Casino gaming operations, was one state agency ordered to close. During its suspension of gaming operations and despite a continuation of the impasse between the Governor and Legislature, the Company will continue to pursue measures through legal channels that would allow gaming operations to resume at Canterbury Park. As previously reported, the Company is one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed in Scott County District Court that seeks an order directing the State to provide funding for the MRC during the budget impasse because the monies needed to provide such funding are supplied 100% by payments from racetracks and other racing industry sources. Yesterday, the Minnesota Supreme Court directed that this lawsuit be consolidated with other applications for relief from the partial government shutdown.