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Mountaineer Park on Thursday received unanimous permission from the West Virginia Racing Commission (WVRC) to shift one end-of-meet date on its schedule and add two others, moving closing day of the season from Dec. 3 to Dec. 9. "You'll recall, with the passage of recent legislation, monies were provided back to the purse fund," Joe Moore, the executive director for the WVRC, said during the commission's Oct. 23 monthly meeting. "And with the additional funding, Charles Town had previously requested three additional race dates, [which] the commission approved." Mountaineer's plan...