Harrah's Entertainment Acquires Thistledown Race Track

CLEVELAND, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Thistledown race track in Cleveland, Ohio.

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"With this acquisition, Harrah's Entertainment looks forward to enhancing the guest experience at Thistledown--through continuing the long history of thoroughbred racing and providing our support for the Ohio Lottery's efforts to bring video lottery terminals to the track," said Peter E. Murphy, president of strategy and development, Harrah's Entertainment.  "Harrah's has a long history of maintaining high standards in the gaming industry.  We look forward to continuing our commitment to our guests, employees and the community in this new Cleveland operation."

About Harrah's Entertainment

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is the world's largest provider of branded casino entertainment. Since its beginning in Reno, Nevada, more than 70 years ago, Harrah's has grown through development of new properties, expansions and acquisitions, and now operates casinos on four continents. The company's properties operate primarily under the Harrah's®, Caesars® and Horseshoe® brand names; Harrah's also owns the World Series of Poker® and a majority interest in the London Clubs International family of casinos. Harrah's Entertainment is focused on building loyalty and value with its customers through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, unsurpassed distribution, operational excellence and technology leadership. Harrah's is committed to environmental sustainability and energy conservation and recognizes the importance of being a responsible steward of the environment. For more information, please visit www.harrahs.com.

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• the impact of the company's significant indebtedness;  
• the effects of local and national economic, credit and capital market conditions on the economy in general, and on the gaming and hotel industries in particular;
• construction factors, including delays, increased costs for labor and materials, availability of labor and materials, zoning issues, environmental restrictions, soil and water conditions, weather and other hazards, site access matters and building permit issues;
• the effects of environmental and structural building conditions relating to our properties; access to available and reasonable financing on a timely basis;
• the ability to timely and cost-effectively integrate acquisitions into our operations;
• changes in laws, including increased tax rates, smoking bans, regulations or accounting standards, third-party relations and approvals, and decisions of courts, regulators and governmental bodies;
• litigation outcomes and judicial actions, including gaming legislative action, referenda and taxation;
• the ability of our customer-tracking, customer loyalty and yield-management programs to continue to increase customer loyalty and same store sales or hotel sales;
• our ability to recoup costs of capital investments through higher revenues;
• acts of war or terrorist incidents, severe weather conditions or natural disasters;
• abnormal gaming holds; and
• the effects of competition, including locations of competitors and operating and market competition.

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SOURCE Harrah's Entertainment, Inc.