Dick Day, a six-term Republican from Owatonna and former minority leader, told Rotary Club members in Moorhead that legislation allowing slot machines at the Canterbury Park horse-racing track in Shakopee, Minn., has a decent chance of passing this year, or at least getting a full hearing before lawmakers.

Day, president of Racino Now, described himself as a lobbyist pushing for the establishment of slot machine gaming at Canterbury that would be run by the Minnesota Lottery.