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Blue Devil Racing Stable’s Come Dancing and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. closed into a fast early pace to win the Grade II Honorable Miss by three-quarters of a length over Lady’s Island on Sunday, September 6 at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Mike Kane/Special to the Times Union) Show MoreShow Less
Standardbreds are taken out for morning work at the Saratoga Harness Racing at Saratoga Casino facility on Friday, Aug. 28, 2020, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The state said April 14, 2021 that fans (at 20 percent capacity) can go back to the track Friday, April 23, 2021. (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
State budget requires Rivers Casino to continue payments to Saratoga harness owners | The Daily Gazette
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CAPITOL A deal struck by the involved parties and included in the state budget will keep money from gaming at Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady flowing to the owners and trainers of harness racing horses at the Saratoga harness track.
Under the deal, Rivers will make about $1.8 million in payments for 2020, and going forward will pay a set percentage of slot machine revenue, in what Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, D-Round Lake, described as a good compromise. Including it in the state budget sets the formula in state law.