Originally Posted By: NNY78
Are you talking about the Pittsburgh Rooney's in your previous post, if so I didn't know they owned tracks in New York as well?

Yes, they've owned Yonkers Raceway for about forty years. They bought the track when it was already past its prime and going downhill. They stuck it out through the lean years when they were down to like a thousand people a night. Seriously, a thousand people, where Yonkers did forty thousand a night in their heyday.

The trotters are a dead sport. But they finally passed the video slots back in the early 2000's, and Yonkers debuted them in 2006. The rest is history. They're making money hand over fist (like the Rooneys need it---lol). The little business they do off the actual horses is just a very small bonus at this point.


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