An administrative law judge has dismissed a challenge to state approval of a plan for a pari-mutuel facility near St. Augustine.

Judge Suzanne Van Wyk on Friday issued an 11-page order dismissing arguments by Daytona Beach Kennel Club Inc., which has fought a decision by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation to allow the relocation of a long-existing gambling permit to the site of the planned facility in St. Johns County.

Bayard Raceways Inc. notified the department in July that it planned to relocate the permit to open a facility at an eight-acre site along Interstate 95 southwest of St. Augustine.