For the harness tracks, the addition of gaming terminals was seen as nothing less than a savior.
It was covered by a bridge to make way for the first and second turns of a five-eighths-mile harness track.
It was founded in 1953 and quickly became one of the country's most popular harness tracks.
In 1990, the handle bet at harness tracks in New York, which has the largest such industry, was $440 million.
They can even go to a harness track and bet on a race being run at a thoroughbred track.
Slot machines have already helped to revive dying harness tracks elsewhere in the country.
His education at the harness tracks was going great, however.
"He is, in effect, the Babe Ruth of the harness track."
This was no boat race, as people say at the harness track when everybody seems to be coasting in place.
Video slot machines were approved for harness tracks in the state under legislation passed in October 2001.