Saratoga Harness Racing Ass'n v. Agriculture & New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund

This appeal presents for our consideration an attack upon the constitutionality of a legislative program enacted to aid the growth and development of a business enterprise — harness racing tracks and related operations — which provides substantial revenues to the State and its subdivisions and which the Legislature has found constitute “ an important part of the economy of the state ” (L. 1965, ch. 567, § 1).

The legislation in question created the Agriculture and New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund as a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit corporation ‘1 within…