Yonkers Raceway Casino Reopening
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YONKERS – Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts has suspended operations at its casino and harness track, Yonkers Raceway, with an anticipated reopening within 14 days. Empire City learned on Tuesday, March 10 that an employee of the Standardbred Owners Associations, the harness horsemen association, tested positive for COVID-19 before dying. Located just 20 miles north of Times Square, Empire City casino is easily accessible from all locations. Located just 20 miles north of Times Square, Empire City casino is easily accessible from all locations. If it’s any indication, Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady—about 170 miles north of New York City—issued a statement to GGB News saying it expects its staff to remain furloughed at least through June 30. And MGM Resorts International has said its Empire City racino at Yonkers Raceway probably will be the last to reopen of the company.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo came through for harness racing, as New York State casinos have been given the green light to reopen, saving Yonkers Raceway from shutting down at the conclusion of racing this weekend.
In mid-August, a joint press release from Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts and the Standardbred Owners Association of New York (SOA) announced an agreement to extend racing only through Saturday, Sept. 12, which is New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) Night of Champions (full story here).
“It was great news that the casino can reopen and begin to get back to normal,” said Yonkers Raceway director of racing Alex Dadoyan. “The first step is the 25 per cent that we start at and it’s great for everyone. There were so many employees that were out of work and can now get back to what they do, as well as the horsemen that were racing with an uncertain future.”
Racing would have ceased in August if not for MGM Resorts agreeing to continue to pay operating expenses while the SOA contributed $1.2 million to purses.
“We’ll keep the purses how they are until we see how it goes,” said SOA president Joe Faraldo. “So next week we’ll only race four days, same purse level, then we’ll go to five days, same purse level, until we see how much money we’re generating and what has to happen.”
Even though some casinos in the state reopened on the first day possible, Sept. 9, Empire City chose a different path.
“It’s never been our goal to reopen first or fastest, but safest,” said Taryn Duffy, VP corporate communications & public affairs for Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts. “We want to ensure we are opening safely for our employees and guests. There are numerous new operating procedures and protocols in place and we want to give our employees the time to be well-versed in this new way in which we will be operating – for their safety and the safety of our guests. Our extended soft opening for invited Mlife members leading up to the public opening on Sept. 21 allows us to manage the number of visitors in the first week and work towards the smoothest transition to our full opening.”
There had been rumors that racing at Yonkers might take a few weeks off to let the purse money build up, or race four – rather than five – days a week, but they turned out to be just that, rumors. Palms casino lounge.
Racing five days a week, nine races a day, Faraldo thinks is the winning combination for his horsemen as well as those watching and betting on their product.
“You want other tracks or outlets to take your signal,” said Faraldo. “There’s something to be said for a continuity of signal. When people buy a signal, their customers want to see horses and races for a longer period of time throughout the course of the year so they can bet and they can get to know the horses. When you have 234 race dates it generates interest, it generates handle, it’s all off track, but it’s handle. So, I’m not about to give that up.”
As for the Night of Champions, Kelly Young, executive director of the Agricultural and New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund, expects extremely competitive racing.
“It’s an unusual year capped off with an unusual Night of Champions, but there are many great horses to celebrate and we’re looking forward to some awesome performances on Saturday,” said Young. “We have done our best to make this season as fulfilling for the horsemen and horses as possible. Horses are earning good money in New York.”
Each final for 2- and 3-year-olds competing at the Hilltop Oval goes for the usual $225,000.
Even though listed owners are allowed to attend, they cannot bring their friends and family as has been the norm, but again, there is no norm during a pandemic.
Owners that wish to attend need to call Young at 518-388-0224 by this morning (Sept. 11) to be put on an admissions list. As per state guidelines, owners will only be allowed on the apron and not in the grandstand or the paddock, but can be part of a winner’s circle presentation as long as they are wearing a mask and adhering to social distancing.
Fans are still not allowed to attend, as they are in neighboring states, and there is no timeline for when that will change.
Yonkers is scheduled to race until Tuesday, Dec. 22.Related StoriesSomething went wrong. Please check your entries and try again.
Yonkers will end its 2020 season with the New York Sire Stakes Night of Champions, but a number of stakes, including the Yonkers Trot and Messenger Stakes, have been cancelled for the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Debbie Little
When Yonkers Raceway returned to action on Monday, June 22 after being sidelined for 15 weeks by the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed like everything was back on track at the historic Hilltop oval.
But with their casino still dark, the wheels came off on Monday, Aug. 18, when a joint press release from Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts and the Standardbred Owners Association of New York (SOA) announced an agreement to extend racing only through Saturday, Sept. 12, which is New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) Night of Champions.
“The casino has been closed since March, so that’s a long time of no money coming in for purses,” said Yonkers Raceway director of racing Alex Dadoyan. “And it’s not just the casino. Even though we have been open with racing, we have not been able to have people on property to wager either for the live racing or for simulcasting. The Saratoga [thoroughbred] meet is running upstate and that’s always the top simulcast signal for any track where you can generate some money on simulcasting and we’ve not been open the whole time.”
The release explains that racing would have ceased in August if not for this agreement where MGM Resorts will continue to pay operating expenses and the SOA will contribute $1.2 million to purses.
“Maybe people outside of the paddock at Yonkers weren’t aware, but I’ve been telling everybody when the purses run out, racing will stop here. Period. End of sentence,” said SOA president Joe Faraldo.
Table saw miter slot runners. “And then we decided to do this little bridge thing with the $1.2 million, which I was hoping we wouldn’t have to do. Maybe Christ could turn water into wine, but the SOA can’t turn pennies into millions of dollars. It just isn’t going to happen.”
The $1.2 million is coming from the SOA treasury and is not purse money. It is money that would otherwise be used for administration, welfare and retirement benefits for their membership, but the SOA did not believe that this amount would affect the form of benefits or services that they provide.
“I’ll do what I can do,” said Faraldo. “And that $1.2 million, that’s not something to sneeze about.”
The SOA of New York is stepping up to do this because we’re concerned about the Night of Champions. The vast majority of the funding [for Night of Champions] comes from revenue generated at Yonkers Raceway from racing as a minor component and from the VLTs as a major component. So we didn’t want to see all that effort go down the drain.”
Since returning to racing in June, the SOA has tried to be strategic and creative when it came to doling out their purse monies. They even picked up some sire stakes races originally scheduled for Monticello, because racing four nights with one NYSS night means only three nights would come from their purse account.
“In this economic time it is beneficial,” said Faraldo. “Because in normal times sometimes those (NYSS) races do not generate betting interest like your regular overnights, but in these times it’s absolutely essential that we have that. And actually I think the best night we had was all sire stakes which I couldn’t figure out at all. It hasn’t repeated but it did happen once this year. I’m glad we had enough reserves to get us through as long as we did. I wish we had more or that I had more alternatives, but I don’t.”
Even though Night of Champions is secure on the calendar, other stakes were not so fortunate.
The Yonkers Trot, the Messenger Stakes and their companion races – the New York, New York Mile (formerly the Hudson Filly Trot) and the MGM Park Place (formerly the Lady Maud) – are casualties of COVID-19.
“There was no more money, and if you read the release, the SOA made some maneuvers to fund for another month or so and they chose not to have those stakes and use that money for overnights instead,” said Dadoyan.
Dadoyan informed the Hambletonian Society when the decision was made to cancel the stakes with the hope that another track would step up to host the historic Triple Crown races.
“I did make some calls to various jurisdictions and a couple of tracks and nobody has any excess dollars to put into those races,” said Hambletonian Society president John Campbell. “The first priority for the SOA is to get their overnight horsemen and overnight horses raced and then the stakes would be another priority.”
It’s a balancing act putting on stakes for all these jurisdictions. I think every jurisdiction and every horsemen’s association realizes the importance of stakes to the industry, to the owners, the trainers and the breeding industry.”
According to Hambletonian Society stakes manager David Janes, a total of 47 colt trotters and 40 filly trotters made their 3-year-old payments on Feb. 15 for the Yonkers Trot and New York, New York Mile and as per the conditions, the monies will be prorated among the owners of the horses eligible at the time of cancellation.
The same conditions apply to the 44 colt pacers and 39 filly pacers for the Messenger and Park Place.
“Obviously everyone can’t wait to get back to some sense of normal and we’re all hoping for a return to that,” said Dadoyan. “Having Empire City Casino open and having Yonkers Raceway resume and get back to some bit of normal. There hasn’t been a lot of normal in this area for the last six months or so, so everyone, in all aspects of life, is looking forward to a return to what was normal.”Related StoriesRaceway Casino YonkersSomething went wrong. Please check your entries and try again.
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*Raceway Casino Yonkers
by Debbie Little Holdem poker strategy guide.
YONKERS – Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts has suspended operations at its casino and harness track, Yonkers Raceway, with an anticipated reopening within 14 days. Empire City learned on Tuesday, March 10 that an employee of the Standardbred Owners Associations, the harness horsemen association, tested positive for COVID-19 before dying. Located just 20 miles north of Times Square, Empire City casino is easily accessible from all locations. Located just 20 miles north of Times Square, Empire City casino is easily accessible from all locations. If it’s any indication, Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady—about 170 miles north of New York City—issued a statement to GGB News saying it expects its staff to remain furloughed at least through June 30. And MGM Resorts International has said its Empire City racino at Yonkers Raceway probably will be the last to reopen of the company.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo came through for harness racing, as New York State casinos have been given the green light to reopen, saving Yonkers Raceway from shutting down at the conclusion of racing this weekend.
In mid-August, a joint press release from Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts and the Standardbred Owners Association of New York (SOA) announced an agreement to extend racing only through Saturday, Sept. 12, which is New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) Night of Champions (full story here).
“It was great news that the casino can reopen and begin to get back to normal,” said Yonkers Raceway director of racing Alex Dadoyan. “The first step is the 25 per cent that we start at and it’s great for everyone. There were so many employees that were out of work and can now get back to what they do, as well as the horsemen that were racing with an uncertain future.”
Racing would have ceased in August if not for MGM Resorts agreeing to continue to pay operating expenses while the SOA contributed $1.2 million to purses.
“We’ll keep the purses how they are until we see how it goes,” said SOA president Joe Faraldo. “So next week we’ll only race four days, same purse level, then we’ll go to five days, same purse level, until we see how much money we’re generating and what has to happen.”
Even though some casinos in the state reopened on the first day possible, Sept. 9, Empire City chose a different path.
“It’s never been our goal to reopen first or fastest, but safest,” said Taryn Duffy, VP corporate communications & public affairs for Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts. “We want to ensure we are opening safely for our employees and guests. There are numerous new operating procedures and protocols in place and we want to give our employees the time to be well-versed in this new way in which we will be operating – for their safety and the safety of our guests. Our extended soft opening for invited Mlife members leading up to the public opening on Sept. 21 allows us to manage the number of visitors in the first week and work towards the smoothest transition to our full opening.”
There had been rumors that racing at Yonkers might take a few weeks off to let the purse money build up, or race four – rather than five – days a week, but they turned out to be just that, rumors. Palms casino lounge.
Racing five days a week, nine races a day, Faraldo thinks is the winning combination for his horsemen as well as those watching and betting on their product.
“You want other tracks or outlets to take your signal,” said Faraldo. “There’s something to be said for a continuity of signal. When people buy a signal, their customers want to see horses and races for a longer period of time throughout the course of the year so they can bet and they can get to know the horses. When you have 234 race dates it generates interest, it generates handle, it’s all off track, but it’s handle. So, I’m not about to give that up.”
As for the Night of Champions, Kelly Young, executive director of the Agricultural and New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund, expects extremely competitive racing.
“It’s an unusual year capped off with an unusual Night of Champions, but there are many great horses to celebrate and we’re looking forward to some awesome performances on Saturday,” said Young. “We have done our best to make this season as fulfilling for the horsemen and horses as possible. Horses are earning good money in New York.”
Each final for 2- and 3-year-olds competing at the Hilltop Oval goes for the usual $225,000.
Even though listed owners are allowed to attend, they cannot bring their friends and family as has been the norm, but again, there is no norm during a pandemic.
Owners that wish to attend need to call Young at 518-388-0224 by this morning (Sept. 11) to be put on an admissions list. As per state guidelines, owners will only be allowed on the apron and not in the grandstand or the paddock, but can be part of a winner’s circle presentation as long as they are wearing a mask and adhering to social distancing.
Fans are still not allowed to attend, as they are in neighboring states, and there is no timeline for when that will change.
Yonkers is scheduled to race until Tuesday, Dec. 22.Related StoriesSomething went wrong. Please check your entries and try again.
Yonkers will end its 2020 season with the New York Sire Stakes Night of Champions, but a number of stakes, including the Yonkers Trot and Messenger Stakes, have been cancelled for the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
by Debbie Little
When Yonkers Raceway returned to action on Monday, June 22 after being sidelined for 15 weeks by the coronavirus pandemic, it seemed like everything was back on track at the historic Hilltop oval.
But with their casino still dark, the wheels came off on Monday, Aug. 18, when a joint press release from Empire City Casino by MGM Resorts and the Standardbred Owners Association of New York (SOA) announced an agreement to extend racing only through Saturday, Sept. 12, which is New York Sire Stakes (NYSS) Night of Champions.
“The casino has been closed since March, so that’s a long time of no money coming in for purses,” said Yonkers Raceway director of racing Alex Dadoyan. “And it’s not just the casino. Even though we have been open with racing, we have not been able to have people on property to wager either for the live racing or for simulcasting. The Saratoga [thoroughbred] meet is running upstate and that’s always the top simulcast signal for any track where you can generate some money on simulcasting and we’ve not been open the whole time.”
The release explains that racing would have ceased in August if not for this agreement where MGM Resorts will continue to pay operating expenses and the SOA will contribute $1.2 million to purses.
“Maybe people outside of the paddock at Yonkers weren’t aware, but I’ve been telling everybody when the purses run out, racing will stop here. Period. End of sentence,” said SOA president Joe Faraldo.
Table saw miter slot runners. “And then we decided to do this little bridge thing with the $1.2 million, which I was hoping we wouldn’t have to do. Maybe Christ could turn water into wine, but the SOA can’t turn pennies into millions of dollars. It just isn’t going to happen.”
The $1.2 million is coming from the SOA treasury and is not purse money. It is money that would otherwise be used for administration, welfare and retirement benefits for their membership, but the SOA did not believe that this amount would affect the form of benefits or services that they provide.
“I’ll do what I can do,” said Faraldo. “And that $1.2 million, that’s not something to sneeze about.”
The SOA of New York is stepping up to do this because we’re concerned about the Night of Champions. The vast majority of the funding [for Night of Champions] comes from revenue generated at Yonkers Raceway from racing as a minor component and from the VLTs as a major component. So we didn’t want to see all that effort go down the drain.”
Since returning to racing in June, the SOA has tried to be strategic and creative when it came to doling out their purse monies. They even picked up some sire stakes races originally scheduled for Monticello, because racing four nights with one NYSS night means only three nights would come from their purse account.
“In this economic time it is beneficial,” said Faraldo. “Because in normal times sometimes those (NYSS) races do not generate betting interest like your regular overnights, but in these times it’s absolutely essential that we have that. And actually I think the best night we had was all sire stakes which I couldn’t figure out at all. It hasn’t repeated but it did happen once this year. I’m glad we had enough reserves to get us through as long as we did. I wish we had more or that I had more alternatives, but I don’t.”
Even though Night of Champions is secure on the calendar, other stakes were not so fortunate.
The Yonkers Trot, the Messenger Stakes and their companion races – the New York, New York Mile (formerly the Hudson Filly Trot) and the MGM Park Place (formerly the Lady Maud) – are casualties of COVID-19.
“There was no more money, and if you read the release, the SOA made some maneuvers to fund for another month or so and they chose not to have those stakes and use that money for overnights instead,” said Dadoyan.
Dadoyan informed the Hambletonian Society when the decision was made to cancel the stakes with the hope that another track would step up to host the historic Triple Crown races.
“I did make some calls to various jurisdictions and a couple of tracks and nobody has any excess dollars to put into those races,” said Hambletonian Society president John Campbell. “The first priority for the SOA is to get their overnight horsemen and overnight horses raced and then the stakes would be another priority.”
It’s a balancing act putting on stakes for all these jurisdictions. I think every jurisdiction and every horsemen’s association realizes the importance of stakes to the industry, to the owners, the trainers and the breeding industry.”
According to Hambletonian Society stakes manager David Janes, a total of 47 colt trotters and 40 filly trotters made their 3-year-old payments on Feb. 15 for the Yonkers Trot and New York, New York Mile and as per the conditions, the monies will be prorated among the owners of the horses eligible at the time of cancellation.
The same conditions apply to the 44 colt pacers and 39 filly pacers for the Messenger and Park Place.
“Obviously everyone can’t wait to get back to some sense of normal and we’re all hoping for a return to that,” said Dadoyan. “Having Empire City Casino open and having Yonkers Raceway resume and get back to some bit of normal. There hasn’t been a lot of normal in this area for the last six months or so, so everyone, in all aspects of life, is looking forward to a return to what was normal.”Related StoriesRaceway Casino YonkersSomething went wrong. Please check your entries and try again.
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