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Plainridge Park Casino is a harness racing track and slot machine parlor in Plainville, Massachusetts. It is owned by Gaming and Leisure Properties and operated by Penn Entertainment. It opened in 1999 as Plainridge Racecource, changing to its present name in 2015 when it became a racino.
It was sold in May 2017 to a developer who plans to create housing and a shopping district. The final day of live racing at the track was June 30, 2019, [1] with the facility hosting simulcast race wagering thereafter. [3] The only remaining live horse racing in Massachusetts is at Plainridge Park Casino, which has harness racing. [4]
Parimutuel wagering on horse racing is allowed at the state's only active racetrack, Plainridge Racecourse. Simulcast wagering on horse and dog races is also offered at Suffolk Downs and Raynham Park, which previously operated as racetracks. [1] Betting on horse and dog racing was legalized in 1934. [2]
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In 1967, Pennsylvania enacted a law allowing thoroughbred horse racing with parimutuel wagering. [2] Two companies that later formed part of Penn National Gaming were founded in 1968 by groups seeking one of the four available racing licenses: Pitt Park Raceway, Inc., formed by several Erie area businessmen, [3] [4] and the Pennsylvania National Turf Club, established by a group of Central ...
Bay State Raceway, later known as New England Harness Raceway, Foxboro Raceway, and Foxboro Park was a harness racing track located in Foxborough, Massachusetts, United States that operated from 1947 until 1997. It stood next to Foxboro Stadium and the site of Gillette Stadium.
This is a list of currently active horse racing venues, both Thoroughbred racing and harness racing, sorted by country. In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses". In most English-speaking countries they are called "racecourses".
Amenities to the facility included a bicycle racing course, a 1 mile (1.6 km) long race course, a 1.75 miles (2.82 km) driveway, and use of the original Soldiers Field Road. At some point, the track was shortened to an oval around where the center of the original track now stands and use ended in the 1960s.