Monmouth Reports Handle, Attendance Gains

[Patrick333]

Monmouth Park reported increases in on-track and export pari-mutuel handle, as well as attendance, for its 57-day meet that ended Sept. 28.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...tendance-gains

[WatchandWager]

Great news for a great track. Here's to hoping that the New Jersey horsemen can build upon this success and keep it going next year!

The Meadowlands is a completely under used race track. Too bad they had only 13 racing dates for TB this year. Why is Harness more prevalent there and a beautiful Turf Course not used for most of the year.

[tanner12oz]

Meadowlands harness is the only buggy track that even sniffs my money..really nice track and I would rather have them continue to slay the harness scene then expand further with tbs

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by tanner12oz

Meadowlands harness is the only buggy track that even sniffs my money..really nice track and I would rather have them continue to slay the harness scene then expand further with tbs

They have a hard time competing for horses to allow a longer meet or more days because the surrounding tracks all have slot $ and they dont.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by helicopter11

The Meadowlands is a completely under used race track. Too bad they had only 13 racing dates for TB this year. Why is Harness more prevalent there and a beautiful Turf Course not used for most of the year.

The Meadowlands is owned by a casino/harness guy which is the reason that they race primarily harness horses there.

If the sports betting thing and potentially slots deal works out for Monmouth there is a strong possibility that the Meadowlands will return to a full meet with dirt racing as well.