“I’m glad we’re breaking grounds on sports betting, but it would’ve been nice to have the mobile component. But it’s a baby step,” state Sen. Joe Addabbo (D-Queens) said.<\/p>\n
Allowing racinos such as the adjacent Saratoga Casino Hotel to include a sportsbook would presumably only increase foot visitation to the area.<\/p>\n
\nI got racinos that could use the help,” Addabbo added. “I have racetracks that are suffering. This [sports betting] helps everyone and it stops people from going to Jersey.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The Garden State \u2013 which has recently surpassed Nevada as the richest sports gambling state \u2013 allows sports betting at its Atlantic City casinos, two horse racetracks, and online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saratoga Race Course parimutuel betting hit a record high in 2019 for the historic track’s annual summer meet, as wagering from all sources totaled more than $705.3 million. The New York Racing Association (NYRA) said in a statement that it marked the course’s first time in its 156-year history that handle eclipsed the $700 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":113967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14577,16],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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