Published: December 12, 2009 4:17 pm ET

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Officials from Woodbine Entertainment have estimated a half-million dollar weekly shortfall in wagering with Quebec's horseplayers unable to play the WEG thoroughbred and harness racing products.

Jamie Martin, WEG's senior vice-president of racing, told Beverley Smith of The Globe and Mail that over the past few months, wagering at its tracks has dropped by $300,000 on the standardbred side and $200,000 on the thoroughbred side weekly; the loss stems from the fact that Quebeckers cannot wager on horse racing after Attractions Hippiques went into bankruptcy and left the province's industry with a questionable future.

“It's really sad,” Hall of Famer Jacques Hebert, told The Globe and Mail. “I never thought that I'd live long enough to see this in Quebec.”

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