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Batavia Downs is a harness racing track and casino in Batavia, New York. It is located in Genesee County between Buffalo and Rochester just off of the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90). It opened on September 20, 1940, and is the oldest lighted harness racetrack in the United States. The track is exactly .5 miles (0.80 km) long.
Aug. 26—Officials with Western Regional Off-Track Betting Corp. are interesting in adding new gaming machines at Batavia Downs that would allow bettors to wager on horse races that already happened.
West Paces Racing, R. A. Hill Stable, Belmar Racing and Breeding, Two Eight Racing & Pine Racing Stables [4] 9 Just a Touch 75 $247,500 Brad H. Cox: Qatar Racing, Resolute Racing & Marc Detampel [13] 10 Track Phantom 70 $300,000 Steven M. Asmussen: L and N Racing, Clark O. Brewster, Jerry Caroom & Breeze Easy [14] 11 West Saratoga 67 $363,640
Also onsite is Batavia Downs Racetrack, America's Oldest Lighted Harness Track. Batavia Downs Casino is owned and operated by Western Regional Off-Track Betting, a public benefit corporation ...
Kingsbarns is a bay horse that was bred in Kentucky by Parks Investment Group headed by Lee Seering. Seering bought Kingsbarns' dam Lady Tapit for $675,000 who was offered at the 2013 Keeneland September Yearling Sale and raced her before her career came to an abrupt halt after a training accident. [2]
On August 26, 1966, the largest crowd in the history of Batavia Downs — 15,118 — turned out for what was billed as The Pace of the Century. The race was won by Cardigan Bay. [1] In the so-called "Revenge Pace" also set up by Yonkers, driver Frank Ervin's Bret Hanover beat Dancer and Cardigan Bay in a track record 1:58 3/5. Cardigan Bay was ...
With slips of wagers from other horse racing he was betting on, Darrell Smith, 74 of Royal Oak watches another race on TV and takes notes at Northville Downs on Saturday, Feb. 3 2024.
The Breeders Crown is an annual series of harness races in the United States and Canada covering each of the sport's twelve traditional categories of age, gait and gender. The series was initiated by the Hambletonian Society, promoters of the Hambletonian Stakes, in 1984 to enhance the Standardbred breeding industry and to promote the sport of harness racing by providing a lucrative high ...