Even if NYRA required wi-fi betting, I think you folks are vastly underestimating the challenges that social distancing would pose to any scheme to open a racetrack to fans. How about the lines to the restroom? The concession stands? How about the demarcation of areas of where people can sit versus where they have to walk? How will they determine who could sit together?
And above all, how about the television monitors? At every track I have ever been to in my life, Saratoga included, patrons crowd around the television monitors to watch races and replays. You basically have to in order to be able to watch the race. It would seem basically impossible to socially distance at the TV's.
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