TOLEDO, Ohio — A gaming company that is building two casinos in Ohio wants to move its horse racing tracks in Toledo and the Columbus area to new sites within the state if lawmakers allow video slot machines at all of Ohio’s racetracks.

The new racetracks would be built just outside Youngstown and in Dayton, at the site of an abandoned auto parts plant, Penn National Gaming announced Thursday.

Penn National plans to spend $400 million on the two new tracks that it says would create thousands of temporary construction jobs along with permanent jobs at the two sites.

The biggest hurdle may be securing approval of video slots.

Gov. John Kasich hasn’t decided yet whether he’s open to the idea, which former Gov. Ted Strickland proposed as a budget-balancing measure in 2009. Opponents sidelined the racetrack slots plan with a legal challenge, saying the machines are illegal gambling devices outside the state’s constitutional definition of a legal lottery.

Kasich first wants to do a thorough review of all gambling in the state. “He wants to see how these will work together, what impact they’ll have,” said spokesman Rob Nichols.

Moving the racetracks also will need the state racing commission’s approval. Penn National unveiled its plan at a commission meeting on Thursday.

The two new tracks would go to areas of Ohio that have lost thousands of manufacturing jobs in recent years. Dayton has been hit hard by auto job losses. The track there would be built on the site of a shuttered Delphi Automotive plant

The horse track near Youngstown would be built on vacant land in Austintown, just south of the Ohio Turnpike.