Horseracing in New York in the Progressive Era

Liebman, Bennett

doi:10.1089/glre.2008.12602

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“…Gambling and horse racing were banned in the state of New Jersey in 1898. In the state of New York, the passing in June 1908 of the Hart-Agnew Law prohibited gambling, but allowed racing to continue, yet the enforcement of this law, and additional legislation targeting racecourse owners as being responsible for gambling activities that occurred at the track, resulted in all racetracks in New York state being closed in 1910 with some popular racetracks in Brooklyn never to reopen, despite a successful legal challenge to the ban by conducting a jumps meeting with gambling at Belmont Park in 1912 (Liebman, 2008). The distribution of gambling revenue, rather than the total banning of gambling activity, became the focus of future debate in New York.…”

Section: Thoroughbred Racing and Gamblingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Horse racing and gambling: comparing attitudes and preferences of racetrack patrons and residents of Sydney, Australia

McManus

Graham

2012

Leisure Studies

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Thoroughbred breeding and racing has survived on the ability of racing administrators to capture gambling revenue, whether it is proximal, remote or virtual. Given this relationship, there is surprisingly little academic work on the perceptions of gambling, preferences for different forms of gambling, preferences for different types of thoroughbred races that may facilitate gambling, and the relationships between viewing thoroughbred races and gambling on these events. We address this important gap in the literature through a study involving racing patrons at two Sydney racecourses, including midweek and weekend racing meetings, and a corresponding study of four Sydney suburbs, with differing socioeconomic characteristics. Our research highlights the variety of attitudes to gambling and the diversity of gambling experiences among participants. It situates contemporary technological innovations such as internet gambling within a longer history of approaches to revenue capture that address the impermanence of existing borders and revenue arrangements based on the control of defined space.

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Section: Thoroughbred Racing and Gamblingmentioning

confidence: 99%