At the request of the New Jersey Racing Commission, the Meadowlands Racetrack has submitted a revised 2019 live racing schedule application comprised of 76 dates with the addition of eight racing dates in September.
Monmouth Park has submitted an application for 20 fall Thoroughbred dates at the Meadowlands, racing Friday and Saturday from October 4 through December 7.
The Meadowlands, in conjunction with the SBOANJ, continues to make every effort to secure a purse subsidy for 2019. If that purse subsidy should become a reality, the Meadowlands would add $1 million from the sports betting proceeds and will attempt to work with the management and horsemen of Monmouth Park with the ultimate goal 83 live harness racing dates and the preservation of the fall stakes program.
With the subsidy at the discussed level of $20 million with $6 million of that directed to Meadowlands purses plus the $1 million from sports betting, the Meadowlands should be able to increase overnight purses by 75 per cent beginning in January as well as maintaining all of the existing stakes that the Meadowlands raced in 2018.
(Meadowlands Racetrack)
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