WAITSBURG - Members of the board of the Days of Real Sport, Dayton Days and other groups affiliated with local Class C race tracks scribbled their signatures on a letter to members of the Washington Horse Racing Commission with the hope that the commission will give the tracks money in 2012 to bring back their horse racing events.

The commission's fund balance, a cut of money earned from wagers at Auburn's Emerald Downs, only allowed for six days of Class C racing in 2011. The funding does not come from tax payers. The commission last winter decided to provide those days to the Tri-Cities H...