Developers submit plans for Nevada harness track

Brent Schanding of the Pahrump Valley Times reported that developers have outlined the framework to bring Nevada’s first pari-mutuel harness racing track to Pahrump.

They hope to build a mega-entertainment facility here that could include a 40,000-square-foot resort casino centered around a ⅞-mile track, with stables for 280 racing horses. Other amenities could include restaurants, batting cages, shopping facilities, campgrounds, a waterpark and movie theater, as well as parking for more than 2,500 vehicles and 200 RVs.

The Pahrump Valley Equine Performance Center of Excellence would be built on more than 400 acres of open farmland in northern Pahrump. It would be bound by David, Irene, Linda streets and Lola Lane, about a mile off Highway 160.

“It’s forward-looking and may be subject to change,” he said.

The Nevada Standardbred Association was formed a few years ago by horse trainers, caretakers and others with the intent to bring harness racing to Nevada. Pahrump could be key to that plan, Bohannon said.

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by Brent Schanding, reprinted with permission from the Pahrump Valley Times