Sedgefield Labour MP Phil Wilson called on him to apologise for his "outrageous" remarks.
Northern Racing own nine courses in the UK, including Hereford, Sedgefield, Newcastle and Bath.
The constituents of Sedgefield, by contrast, are used to painful economic transition and uncertain futures.
Just a few miles south of the Trimdons, the more salubrious village of Sedgefield itself is booming.
The prime minister's direct personal mandate comes from the 65, 000 voters of Sedgefield.
It was also to have provided care closer to home for people in Hartlepool, Stockton and parts of Easington and Sedgefield.
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MPs on how to make the issue popular, but Tony Blair, whose Sedgefield constituency is in the North-East, sent a message of encouragement.
When I went to Sedgefield to seek the nomination, just before the 1983 election, I was a refugee from the London-based politics of that time.
About 120 friends, family and constituency representatives were thought to have joined the Blairs at St John Fisher church in Sedgefield for the hour-and-a-half long service.
It's usual after you thank the family, you thank your agent and yes I do want to thank him and through him the wonderful people of Sedgefield.
Ffos Las will be managed by Northern Racing, which operates nine other courses in the UK, including Hereford, Sedgefield, Newcastle and Chepstow, which is home to the Welsh Grand National.
He said he had spent 14 years in opposition as MP for Sedgefield in County Durham and had been powerless to effect change because Labour's weakness in the south had meant it was unable to win elections.
Apart from Sedgefield and Mr Clinton, the other main influence on Mr Blair came from the communitarian ideas of the philosopher John Macmurray and later thinkers, such as the American sociologist, Amitai Etzioni, whom he met in 1995.
Mr Blair's response on June 15th to this seismic upheaval uncomfortably close to his Sedgefield constituency was to predict that Mr Arnold will mess up and Labour will retake the city in two years' time, as happened in Sheffield.
But the fact that Richmond is now suffering the sort of economic dislocation that Sedgefield has been used to for a generation does nothing to dispel the widespread belief that the south somehow always does do better than the north.
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