MIAMI -- Pari-mutuel owners in two South Florida counties affected by the vote in Tuesday's slot referendum are reacting to the outcome.

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In Broward County, where slots were approved, plans were already in the works to take advantage of a positive decision on slots.

At Hollywood Greyhound Track plans for new construction and expansion of existing facilities were on the drawing boards weeks before Tuesday's vote.

The track saw profits fall 9 percent last year in the face of stiff new competition from the Seminoles Hard Rock hotel and casino. But after the referendum vote, the Seminoles will no longer be the only game in town.

Allan Solomon is Executive Vice President of Isle of Capri Casinos, the company that owns Pompano Park. The track saw its gambling revenues fall by 15 percent last year, and owners think slots will reverse the trend. Solomon was very pleased with the election result.

"It's a good day for us and Pompano Park, and we believe for the people of Florida," Solomon said.

Pompano Park has already paid $200,000 for permits and fees for new construction.

Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach is already building a new facility.

In Miami-Dade County, pari-mutuels got left at the gate when voters in that county said "no" to Las Vegas-style slot machines.

Miami-Dade pari-mutuels attribute Tuesday's loss to misinformation disseminated to the public and Gov. Jeb Bush in the last minute push against slot machines.

Miami-Dade pari-mutuel representatives are being very vocal about their disappointment.

Flagler greyhound track President Fred Havenick saw a "yes" vote as an economic boost for his struggling family-owned business.

"It will be tough in the interim," said Havenick said.

But plans are already under way to bring the measure back before Miami-Dade voters, perhaps by 2007. And Havenick said the anti-slot notions -- higher crime, social ills, traffic problems -- will be gone by then, once people see the positive effect he believes slots will have in Broward.

"When the people of Dade County see what is happening in Broward, with the economic development and the jobs and the real estate taxes, they will understand this is an incredible bonanza for the county, for the children and the schools," Havenick said.

Calder Race Course President Ken Dunn said that while he is disappointed he also remains optimistic that Miami-Dade County voters will change their minds in two years

"Once they see all the money for education, the new jobs and other benefits, they'll come around," Dunn said.