Resorts World Bet will soon be out of the New York online sports betting market after the company announced its plans to withdraw at the end of June.
The Genting Group-owned sportsbook was one of the original nine sportsbooks that launched when the New York online sports betting market opened in January 2022.
Despite its tenure, the platform failed to attract an audience against stiff competition in the nation’s most competitive market.
While her husband, Alex Cruz, is among the most prolific jockeys at Emerald Downs, Jaymie Pearman Cruz’s training career has been more about quality than quantity. The 24-year-old British Columbia native has saddled 20 winners in 82 starts dating back to 2022, cutting her teeth at Hastings in the province of her birth but now settled with small stateside strings at Emerald and Turf Paradise.
Louisiana lawmakers have sent legislation that hikes the state’s sports betting tax rate to Gov. Jeff Landry, who is expected to sign the measure into law.
House Bill 639 received overwhelming approval from both sides of the Louisiana State Legislature. It first passed the House 74-16 in May before the Senate approved it by a 35-3 vote on Sunday.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Neil Riser (R-20), raises the tax rate on Louisiana sports betting from 15% to 21.5%.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Sovereignty took control of the 3-year-old division with his authoritative victory in the Belmont Stakes last Saturday at Saratoga and it’s fair to wonder which horses and how many will be game to take him on during the summer stakes at Saratoga.
The top three finishers from the Kentucky Derby finished in the same order in the Belmont. In the Kentucky Derby, Sovereignty beat Journalism by 1 1/2 lengths with Baeza a neck back in third. In the Belmont, Sovereignty defeated Journalism by three lengths with Baeza finishing 6 1/2 lengths behind Sovereignty.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After answering the distance question once and for all with her authoritative, 4 3/4-length victory going 1 1/8 miles in Friday’s Ogden Phipps, Dorth Vader has suddenly emerged as a major player in the filly and mare handicap division for the second half of the season.
Trainer George Weaver said Dorth Vader came out of her first Grade 1 win in good order and that he is now in the process of mapping out an itinerary that, if all goes well, would culminate with a start five months down the road at Del Mar in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.
Sandal’s Song, who received an automatic berth in one of the six juvenile races at the Royal Ascot meet by virtue of his decisive victory in the Royal Palm Juvenile Stakes on May 10 at Gulfstream Park, departed for England on Sunday along with stablemate Tough Critic. Both horses are trained by George Weaver.
Sandal’s Song will compete in the five-furlong Norfolk Stakes on June 19. Tough Critic, who won his only previous start on turf at Keeneland, will run one day earlier in the Windsor Castle Stakes.
Tour Player, if nothing else, has the force of 10 Kentucky Derby wins behind him when he starts in the seventh race on Thursday night at Churchill Downs. Bob Baffert, who has trained six Derby winners, bred Tour Player, who campaigns for Baffert’s spouse, Jill Baffert. And Tour Player makes his first start for the barn of D. Wayne Lukas, trainer of four Derby winners.
Following a busy and pretty successful Belmont Stakes Racing Festival in Saratoga, racing on this circuit returns to Aqueduct for three weeks before the summer sojourn to the Spa takes up again in early July.
Thursday’s eight-race card includes four turf races, the most intriguing of which may be the opener, a six-furlong maiden affair for 2-year-old fillies over the outer course.
New York’s nation-leading sports betting market set a new record for monthly revenue total with nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in May.
The New York Gaming Commission reported $248.9 million in sports betting revenue for the 31-day period, edging the previous record of $247 million from January. That’s despite handle falling 10.8% from January ($2.5 billion) to May ($2.2 billion).
ARCADIA, Calif. – Closing week at Santa Anita begins Thursday with a program that features the career debut of an expensive 2-year-old filly and veterans worth betting despite poor last-out finishes.
The long Santa Anita season ends Sunday. Los Alamitos opens June 20 for a three-week meet, and the Del Mar summer meet begins Friday, July 18.
