New York Racing Association

That's it?

I, I, I was on the phone all day yesterday with NY- I, uh...

Let's talk about this off-air.

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I-

This is, this is my crosstalk.

I was literally on the phone with NYRA, New York Racing Association, yesterday, all afternoon long.

Mm.

It's a long story we don't have time for, but it didn't happen.

And I think bringing us to the parking lot at Belmont Racetrack, introducing us to the head of NYRA, kinda laying the groundwork for the vision was a tremendous last gift that Charles gave to New York and to the Islanders.

And so UBS Arena today, um, we have a plaque inside kind of honoring Charles for all his work and his philanthropy, but it's a constant reminder of what he did as the steward of the franchise.

And what he said to us was very clear, and it was in line with what our thoughts were, which is, "You are stewards of this community asset that the community adores.

Right? It also has that as well.

So in the places where you can get both, and I think of NYRA as one of those.

Mm-hmm.

Right? Where you do have an agrarian base.

Mm-hmm.

So it'll include me, but it'll also include other geniuses, such as Eric DeCoster, who is an assistant, um, uh, racing secretary for NYRA, um, and was a full-blown secretary at, uh, Prairie Meadows.

Um, Alex Sausville, who if you think that I'm a globetrotter, he destroys everybody.

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Oh, no.

And NYRA are gonna work that one out, make it more and more attractive.

There are more and more horses just being taken elsewhere out of our system to make it worthwhile just watching British racing alone.

Surely a flat racing fan has now to have a outlook that takes in all the major racing countries.

Saratoga had record handle this summer, even though they had a 24% drop in computer-assisted wagering.

They cut off batch bets at NYRA one to two minutes before post-time.

They don't even take them for certain pick fives and pick sixes.

Del Mar had a 6% hit in its handle, both for non-computer wagering and computer wagering.