EXTENSIONS/OPENINGS: Lone Star still on hold

[jms62]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

I thought I read something about a week ago that said Oaklawn wasn't going to extend.
If I remember correctly it had to do something with lack of money for purses and apparently they need the time to renovate the track. The renovation takes place every year after the meet and it takes the entire off season to do.

Thanks... Miss you around these parts..

[Kasept]

Tampa request to extend meet through May 30 is approved
Mike Welsch

Tampa Bay Downs has been granted approval by the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering to extend its current meeting through May 30, Margo Flynn, vice president of marketing and publicity at the track, confirmed on Thursday.

Tampa Bay, one of the few facilities in the country currently conducting a live race meet, will run on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays during the final four weeks of May.

The 2019-2020 Tampa meet was scheduled to end on May 3. But with the majority of tracks around the country either closed or delaying their scheduled openings indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic, Tampa, which has been conducting racing without spectators since March 18, will stay open in part to accommodate trainers stabled locally who have no place to ship their horses at the present time.

Tampa management had previously informed horsemen they would be able to remain at the track at least through May 31.

[TheSpyder]

Anywhere else opening?

Too bad there's no racing down here in SC. We'd be open.

[ScottJ]

... Martin Panza, senior vice president of racing for NYRA, said the proposal seeks racing to start-up at Belmont Park on Long Island, then move up to Saratoga in upstate for the scheduled July 16 opening. Belmont's scheduled April 24 opening has been delayed indefinitely.

Even without fans on-site, Panza said, the Saratoga meet is extremely important to NYRA's bottom line and to horsemen's purses, of which 35 or 40 percent are subsidized by slots revenue from the currently shuttered casino at Aqueduct.

“Those protocols are pretty extensive,” Panza told the Thoroughbred Daily News. “If given the opportunity to race, we're going to be extremely careful. There has been a lot of thought going into how we open and how we do it in the safest possible manner.”

Apparently, a meeting at Saratoga this year is very much still on the table without fans on-site according to Panza.

[jms62]

Do they use a Drunk with an IPhone to produce feed from WIll Rogers?

[casp0555]

Originally Posted by jms62

Do they use a Drunk with an IPhone to produce feed from WIll Rogers?

That's gold Jerry....

[Rupert Pupkin]

Santa Anita is going to open on May 15th. National Turf had sent an e-mail saying May 14th, but now they sent out a new one saying they had made a mistake and it will open May 15th. They may simply be getting their info from the Paulick Report. If that is the case, the article says it's not a done deal yet.