ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Flying Black tries to extend her winning streak to four races in Friday’s featured sixth race on the inner turf at Woodbine. The hot leading rider, apprentice Pietro Moran, has given her a vote of confidence in the conditioned allowance/optional claimer, which should sway the role of favoritism her way.
With its robust population and rabid college sports fandom, Georgia would make for a fruitful sports wagering environment if its lawmakers ever found a way to get it across the legislative goal line.
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With its robust population, rabid college sports fandom, and a fair amount of pro franchises to boot, Georgia would make for a fruitful sports wagering environment if its lawmakers ever found a way to get this form – or any form – of gambling across the legislative goal line.
It's not like they haven't tried, with multiple legislative efforts coming close but ultimately failing to gain the requisite support. With key political opposition somewhat entrenched, the Peach State is like a smaller, more hopeful version of Texas on the sports betting front.
February 20, 2020
A group of state senators introduces a bill to legalize sports betting in Georgia after seeing the success neighboring Tennessee is having with this newfound revenue stream. The bill went on to die in committee, which would become a recurring theme in Georgia for years to come.
March 5, 2021
Two bills to legalize sports betting clear the Georgia Senate. However, later in the month, the legislature would adjourn without taking further action on them.
August 11, 2022
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams voices her support for a plan to legalize sports betting and casino wagering in Georgia. This plan fizzles out with the reelection of Gov. Brian Kemp, however.
February 1, 2024
The Georgia Senate approves a bill that would send the question of whether to legalize sports betting to the state's voters, but the legislature as a whole declines to pass it before the session ends.
July 29, 2025
Keeping the issue alive but sort of going back to square one, a study committee is formed in the statehouse to look at the pros and cons of legalizing various forms of gambling in the state, including sports wagering and horse betting.
Sports betting is not legal in Georgia despite repeated legislative efforts to authorize the form of gambling over the past several years.
Nobody can bet on sports in Georgia.
Legislation that's attempted to legalize sports betting in Georgia has consistently mentioned the Georgia Lottery as the likeliest regulator, but that remains speculation until sports wagering is actually legalized.
You can't bet on sports in Georgia. In fact, the only form of gambling that's legal in Georgia is the state lottery.
Again, you can't bet on anything in Georgia other than the state lottery.
While daily fantasy sports contests aren't explicitly legal in Georgia, no steps have been taken to outlaw DFS, so major operators like DraftKings, FanDuel, Underdog, and PrizePicks – which has a physical office in the Atlanta area – offer various contests to Georgians age 18 and up.
While horse racing is legal in Georgia, where a handful of special events are held each year, betting on horses is not. The Georgia Horse Racing Coalition has advocated for the authorization of parimutuel wagering in the state, to no avail.
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Daily Racing Form Southern California handicapper Brad Free provides his selections, analysis and suggested wagers for Saturday, Aug. 30 at Del Mar.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Horses who earn a 47 Beyer Speed Figure on graduation day are rarely given much consideration when stepping up against graded stakes competition in their next start. But on Thursday Dr. Agne is certain to draw attention when facing seven other juveniles in the $175,000 With Anticipation at Saratoga.
When you are a son of female turf champion Lady Eli set to debut on the grass, like Dr. Agne will be in the 1 1/16-mile With Anticipation, expectations can’t help but be high even though your one and only number might be on the low side.
Blink and you might miss it. But before the seven-day Kentucky Downs racing season comes to a halt on Sept. 10, the track, buoyed by the lucrative onsite Mint Gaming Hall, will have given away stacks of cash.
Stacks upon stacks upon stacks. Thursday’s opening-day program comprises 11 races. Total purses, including hefty Kentucky-bred supplements, come in at $2,480,000.
And that’s just getting the ball rolling.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y – Jockey John Velazquez begins closing week serving a three-day careless-riding suspension for his Aug. 17 ride in the sixth race, where he was disqualified from first aboard Scope and placed second.
Velazquez began serving the days on Sunday and will miss Wednesday and Thursday.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y – East Avenue, a Grade 1-winning 2-year-old in 2024 whose only win this year came in the Grade 3 Matt Winn in June, is sidelined for the remainder of the year with bone bruising, trainer Brendan Walsh said Monday.
East Avenue most recently finished fifth as the 4-5 favorite in the Grade 3 West Virginia Derby on Aug. 3, a race in which he veered in at the start and was unable to make the lead.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – American Sonja, a Group 1-placed runner in Europe, makes her third sojourn to Saratoga when she runs in a third-level allowance scheduled for 1 1/8 miles on turf Thursday.
Previously in the barn of Joseph O’Brien, American Sonja has been with trainer Brendan Walsh since last winter. She had worked twice at Palm Meadows in Florida when Walsh had to stop on her and give her some time.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. reported that Skippylongstocking seems none the worse for wear following his very disappointing performance last Friday when virtually eased to the wire nearly 40 lengths behind winner Banishing in the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic.
“He got pressured early and went quick on the lead for that track and came out of the race with a good case of the thumps, but neither should cause him to run a race like that,” Joseph said.
It was a major development when ESPN, in partnership with Penn Entertainment, launched the ESPN Bet platform in November 2023.
