Remember the BC Pick 6 scandle?

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

No, they never said how many tix, I was just guessing, as it wasn't exactly easy going into the classic ( unless you could bet after 4 races ).

My understanding was it happened at an upstate OTB.

It happened at the "Catskill District OTB" in upstate NY. In Ny the regions of the state are broken down into seperate business entities. Western OTb covers Buffalo back on to Syracuse border(no otbs allowed in Cuse). Capital District OTB stretches from Canadian Border down to Hudson Ny and out to Syracuse border on the Eastern side. NYC OtB covers the City and LI, and catskill covers Westchester County up to Kingston.
The guy who did it was a computer tech and used a phone account in the Catskill system to place and alter the bet.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by oracle80

It happened at the "Catskill District OTB" in upstate NY. In Ny the regions of the state are broken down into seperate business entities. Western OTb covers Buffalo back on to Syracuse border(no otbs allowed in Cuse). Capital District OTB stretches from Canadian Border down to Hudson Ny and out to Syracuse border on the Eastern side. NYC OtB covers the City and LI, and catskill covers Westchester County up to Kingston.
The guy who did it was a computer tech and used a phone account in the Catskill system to place and alter the bet.

Why is there no OTB's in syracuse? there's like 15 in rochester and buffalo, each. Strange.

Originally Posted by philcski

Why is there no OTB's in syracuse? there's like 15 in rochester and buffalo, each. Strange.

For some reason that Steve may know(I think we discussed this once and he had the inside on it) the county that Syracuse resides in never approved OTB's from the very inception of them. May have been political.
They still do not have them to this day. Funny thing is that so very many people from Cuse love the ponies. They have the option of driving to the recently reopened Vernon Downs harness track and slots to play horses, but most go to an OTB that is about one mile over the border into the next county. I believe it is Capital OTB's biggest handle parlor. Its in a place called Bridgeport. My friend told me about it and I was driving home from western NY one day, I attempted to find it and did so. I was stunned. In the middle of nowhere in this cow town, there is a huge OTB that was absolutely stuffed with people playing horses. It was like Field of Dreams, you are in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden this huge OTB with a million cars in the parking lot appears.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by oracle80

For some reason that Steve may know(I think we discussed this once and he had the inside on it) the county that Syracuse resides in never approved OTB's from the very inception of them. May have been political.
They still do not have them to this day. Funny thing is that so very many people from Cuse love the ponies. They have the option of driving to the recently reopened Vernon Downs harness track and slots to play horses, but most go to an OTB that is about one mile over the border into the next county. I believe it is Capital OTB's biggest handle parlor. Its in a place called Bridgeport. My friend told me about it and I was driving home from western NY one day, I attempted to find it and did so. I was stunned. In the middle of nowhere in this cow town, there is a huge OTB that was absolutely stuffed with people playing horses. It was like Field of Dreams, you are in the middle of nowhere and all of a sudden this huge OTB with a million cars in the parking lot appears.

Haha that's funny. I know where Bridgeport is, thought that was still Onandaga county but i guess not.
You're right though- Cuse people definitely like to play- there's tons of them at FL (well, tons relative to the "crowd" size i guess...)

Originally Posted by philcski

Haha that's funny. I know where Bridgeport is, thought that was still Onandaga county but i guess not.
You're right though- Cuse people definitely like to play- there's tons of them at FL (well, tons relative to the "crowd" size i guess...)

Phil,
Its right over the border of Daga, in Oneida County by a matter of yards.
You wouldn't believe the place if you saw it. They recently rebuilt it and refurbished it and made it even bigger. Its the size of the Albany teletheater and I've been there four times now and its packed like a sardine can. If you are ever up there you have to check it out. You won't believe that that many horseplayers could be found in the middle of nowhere.

Originally Posted by oracle80

Phil,
Its right over the border of Daga, in Oneida County by a matter of yards.
You wouldn't believe the place if you saw it. They recently rebuilt it and refurbished it and made it even bigger. Its the size of the Albany teletheater and I've been there four times now and its packed like a sardine can. If you are ever up there you have to check it out. You won't believe that that many horseplayers could be found in the middle of nowhere.

CAn't believe that the county which syracuse resides in would have their heads in the sand so much as to let all that money from OTB's go to the next county. But then again its new york which is letting hundreds of millions go at the Big A with the mess over slots there.

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that story was a real black-eye on the industry that something like that could happen.