Congrats to the Philly Park Racino

Philly Park opens their "Racino" today. I have been to Philly Park and it was never anything to brag about. However, I have heard good things about the renovated main building and improvements to the ground. If anyone has been to Philly since the renovation please let me know what it is like. Also, this is HUGE regionally. Maryland has got to get slots and New York has got to follow as well. Hopefully, Ohio and Kentucky will soon follow. The Racino has been a HUGE success in WV and so far it looks positive in Delaware and could be a huge splash for Florida.

[Gander]

I have been to Philly Park and it was never anything to brag about.

Your being way too nice. The place is a dump. I've seen beaches in Staten Island nicer looking than this.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Gander

I have been to Philly Park and it was never anything to brag about.

Your being way too nice. The place is a dump. I've seen beaches in Staten Island nicer looking than this.

Where the hell have you been?

[Gander]

In a coma.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by Gander

In a coma.

I hope your joking....Gambling induced coma, I am in of those now

[saucon17]

Hopefully they can improve there paddock soon, it's one awful site. Betting the horses are occurs on the 2nd and 3rd floor only. They really have improved the entrance to the track. The track apron still needs a lot of work. I wonder how much is this going to hurt Delaware. Right now i'm still willing to drive the 1/2 hour more to Delaware, so I don't have to deal with patrons that attend Philly.

[saucon17]

EB, I think there going to have something 3,000 slots in the grandstand of the track. These may be temporary slots until the finish there brand new Hotel and casino on one of there parking lots. They are also planning to build a golf course. The local news reported that some big problems Sunday and Monday with there test run of the slot machines with test players. Also a local church who has property what next to the track is complaining about shady activities

Originally Posted by saucon17

EB, I think there going to have something 3,000 slots in the grandstand of the track. These may be temporary slots until the finish there brand new Hotel and casino on one of there parking lots. They are also planning to build a golf course. The local news reported that some big problems Sunday and Monday with there test run of the slot machines with test players. Also a local church who has property what next to the track is complaining about shady activities

Thank you for the information. Imagine a church group complaning about shady activities. I remember the churches in Lawrencebugh, IN complaing about shady activites when the riverboat casino moved into the area. But they quickly stopped complaining when they got their first check from the casino.

[saucon17]

Originally Posted by eurobounce

Thank you for the information. Imagine a church group complaning about shady activities. I remember the churches in Lawrencebugh, IN complaing about shady activites when the riverboat casino moved into the area. But they quickly stopped complaining when they got their first check from the casino.

I think their just complaining because they are totally against any
form of gambling (except their bingo nights) and protested the slots thouroughly.

[slotdirt]

Originally Posted by saucon17

Hopefully they can improve there paddock soon, it's one awful site. Betting the horses are occurs on the 2nd and 3rd floor only. They really have improved the entrance to the track. The track apron still needs a lot of work. I wonder how much is this going to hurt Delaware. Right now i'm still willing to drive the 1/2 hour more to Delaware, so I don't have to deal with patrons that attend Philly.

I don't want to hear anybody complain about a paddock until they've seen the paddock at Charles Town. Whomever - or whatever - designed that place should be in a sanitarium.

[slotdirt]

Maryland will get slots now. You can take that to the bank.

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Maryland will get slots now. You can take that to the bank.

Why do you say that Slot?

[saucon17]

Maybe I'm spoiled by the nice paddock at Delaware. If you like pigeon
sh*t, then you would love Philly's paddock.

Originally Posted by Gander

I have been to Philly Park and it was never anything to brag about.

Your being way too nice. The place is a dump. I've seen beaches in Staten Island nicer looking than this.

Well I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. But yeah, it is a dump--well used to be.

Apparently the slots were a success yesterday at Philly--big shock huh. Anyway, I also just read where Philly is starting to pay all the way to last place in a race. I really like this idea. I firmly believe that if you race then you should get rewarded. However, I think there needs to be a big enough gap between 4th and 5th place to encourage riders to ride for 4th place.

[Gander]

Hopefully Philadelphia Park will earn enough revenue to improve the look of their TV feeds, maybe use fonts that dont look like they were used in the
1970's and start placing the odds of the horses by the numbers at the bottom of the screen, while the race is being run.

Cant think of any other tracks that dont show you the odds of the first 4 horses at the bottom of the screen.

NYRA even shows you the horse's names. Thats very helpful.

Originally Posted by Gander

Hopefully Philadelphia Park will earn enough revenue to improve the look of their TV feeds, maybe use fonts that dont look like they were used in the
1970's and start placing the odds of the horses by the numbers at the bottom of the screen, while the race is being run.

Cant think of any other tracks that dont show you the odds of the first 4 horses at the bottom of the screen.

NYRA even shows you the horse's names. Thats very helpful.

Yes, I agree with that. So annoying not knowing the odds of the horses while racing.

[saucon17]

Plus there video feed never shows coupled entries, You have no
clue if one or both are running.