Barrington Fair Ass'n v. State Racing Commission

For purposes of testing whether substantial evidence supported the decision of the State Racing Commission to deny a horse racing license to Barrington Fair Association, Inc. (the “applicant”), it is necessary to consider only two of the grounds put forth by the commission: 1) the applicant was a front for persons who wished to remain unknown; and 2) the applicant’s main purpose was not the encouragement of agriculture. The applicant had applied for a license to conduct horse races on ten days in September, 1987, at the Great Barrington Country Fair.

That fair had a long history — it began in…