Decoupling will be of paramount concern for horsemen and those worried about its imminent devastating effects on Florida's Thoroughbred, American Quarter Horse and Standardbred industries when the Florida Senate Regulated Industries Committee at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. 

When Tampa Bay Downs Thoroughbred trainer and Massachusetts transplant Laurine Fuller-Vargas recently heard that Florida legislators were considering the possibility of decoupling horse racing from slot machines, she put her anger into immediate action, walking the businesses in her hometown of Morristown, knocking on doors and distributing literature on NoDecoupling.com to spread the word among her fellow horsemen that their livelihoods could actually come to an end if Florida were to enact the misguided policy.