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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Sunday, April 21, 2019
Track Code Track Name Entry Scratch 1st Post
ET 1st Post
Local Time
Zone Stakes Race(s) Stakes Grade T.V.
Indicator GG GOLDEN GATE FIELDS 48 24 3:45 PM 12:45 PM PDT LS LONE STAR PARK 72 0 3:35 PM 2:35 PM CDT SA SANTA ANITA PARK 72 24 3:30 PM 12:30 PM PDT SUN SUNLAND PARK 168 0 2:30 PM 12:30 PM MDT
WO WOODBINE 72 48
Sunday, April 21, 2019
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GG | GOLDEN GATE FIELDS | 48 | 24 | 3:45 PM | 12:45 PM | PDT | |||
| LS | LONE STAR PARK | 72 | 0 | 3:35 PM | 2:35 PM | CDT | |||
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 24 | 3:30 PM | 12:30 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 0 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | |||
| WO | WOODBINE | 72 | 48 |
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Stop scratching on holidays
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli is joining a group led by Catholic Charities of the New York Archdiocese on a mission to Central America’s so-called “Northern Triangle” to see firsthand why so many of the citizens there are fleeing to the US.
“This fact-finding trip … is going to give us the opportunity to see the human face right there in those countries that have such a focal point in the migration into this country…,” said DiNapoli at Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Center in Lower Manhattan.
“We’re going to come back hopefully with more information that will help us to inform our policymakers in New York State and our national leaders as well.”
The traveling team will include Mnsgr. Kevin Sullivan, who heads Catholic Charities, and RWDSU union leader Stuart Appelbaum.
They’ll embark on their four-day journey to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador beginning April 22.
They are expected to meet with local church and Catholic Charities leaders who’ll act as guides, as well as union leaders and some heads of state.
“If we knew all the answers, we would not be going,” Sullivan said. “ We know the global issues, but we are going to learn things that are surprising, and hopefully what we learn can impact what we’re doing here and how we can help families to reunite.”
Others at the press conference – who will not be going on the trip — included Timothy Cardinal Dolan, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and city Administration of Children Services Commissioner David Hansell.
However, they did participate in a briefing with the others on border immigration issues and their impact on the city and state.
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