Monday racing at Aqueduct

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Originally Posted by freddymo

How many races in the 4 days? What happens when you cancel dates because of bad weather? Harder to make up with less dates.

We keep hearing how NYRA has reduced revenue this year due to running fewer racing dates compared to 2012. My sense is that, from a budgetary perspective, they are planning to run more cards, projecting an increase in revenue year-over-year compared to 2013; this change goes hand-in-hand with the hikes in admission, parking and simulcasting fees. I just don't get the sense that the horse population around here for the winter is going to be that much different from winter of 2012-13, when NYRA determined that running five days a week was not compatible with putting on a safe, appealing product.

The irony of all this is that last winter NYS essentially forced NYRA to run four days per week, citing horse safety as the primary concern. Now, NYS is essentially forcing NYRA to run five days per week, citing the (bogus) need to have racing operations become a break even proposition (and not factoring VLT revenue into NYRA's bottome-line, which it should be).