More Evidence the Racinos Don't Care About Racing

[badcompany]

Yonkers is closed the entire week for racing but they don't even bother to make an announcement on the website.

[BELMONT 6-6-09]

Yonkers is closed the entire week for racing but they don't even bother to make an announcement on the website.

They can at least 'fake' that they care about the racing product.

[badcompany]

They can at least 'fake' that they care about the racing product.

If you go to Yonkers, the track is right along the Major Deegan so, they can't hide it, but, at Saratoga, most slots players who come in through the front entrance, won't ever know the track exists.

[Pacingguy]

They did send out press releases indicating they were taking a short break.

[badcompany]

They did send out press releases indicating they were taking a short break.

To whom? I never got one:confused:

Have you ever checked their simulcast facility?

It looks like a bus station waiting room. Compared to the casino, the word sh*thole comes to mind.

[Pacingguy]

If you read the USTA, Harnessracing.com, etc. websites you would have seen them.

Oh, I am familiar with their 4th floor. Not quite sh*thole; more like something from the 1960s. But if you want to see real crap, go to Monticello and see their horse racing floor; now that looks like sh*t.

[Not4Love]

What they did to Saratoga H. is an absolute disgrace. I can't believe the horseman allowed it to happen.

[badcompany]

What they did to Saratoga H. is an absolute disgrace. I can't believe the horseman allowed it to happen.

You mean the shack on the 1st floor next to the main building? I always set up shop in the simo center on the 2nd floor. I actually like it. Then again, I just like being in Saratoga, period.

[SchagFactorToWin]

It's listed on the racing calendar, though.

[badcompany]

It's listed on the racing calendar, though.

You're right, but, c'mon. Why would someone go to the calender, which is on a separate PDF file, to check if there's racing on Friday, when there's racing EVERY Friday, except this past one?

Did it explain why there was no racing? I still don't know why they took off.

[Pacingguy]

They just took a brief break. Probably to give everyone some time off since they race year round.

[badcompany]

I posted this story in a thread on the general racing section. It's getting really hard not to come to the conclusion that our game is in its death throes.


I was recently on the westside of Manhattan and stopped in the new OTB on w72nd st. at about 7pm with the intention of to playing a few races at Yonkers and Meadowlands. I attempted to purchase a program from the cashier and was told they were out of them.

This isn't the only time this has happened. I've also had this experience on the e70th st. OTB, sometimes early in the afternoon, several hours before the night card starts.

How the F do you run a horseracing operation and continually run out of programs? It's a tribute to the degeneracy of horseplayers that OTB even does its current handle, as they make it an ordeal just to get a bet in.

[SchagFactorToWin]

Did it explain why there was no racing? I still don't know why they took off.

They race year round so each year they close part of the first week of June and then for the Christmas/New Years period (around 12/23-1/8). As for why it's not on their site except for a PDF? Because YONKERS HAS THE WORST WEBSITE EVER!

[Robert Goren]

If you are really upset about this, you should consider gamblers anonymous.;)

[badcompany]

If you are really upset about this, you should consider gamblers anonymous.;)

I understand you're joking, but, the larger point is there's a good chance that in a few years many of these racinos will have jettisoned the "rac" part.