Sunday, October 22, 2006

VERNON, N.Y. An upstate harness racing track is set to become the next New York track to offer video gambling machines.
The long-suffering Vernon Downs in central New York's Oneida County is scheduled to open its video gambling facility on October 26th. The track's owners hope it will bring in (m) millions of dollars in revenues, just like similar operations have done at seven other "racinos" across New York state. The newest video-gambling emporium opened last week at Yonkers Raceway. Last summer, video gambling machines were unveiled at the newly reopened Tioga Downs, outside Binghamton. In Saratoga Springs, the city's racinos has been so popular that the facility is undergoing a multi-(m)-million-dollar expansion that will add 500 gambling machines to the 12-hundred already in operation.