Review of Yonkers Raceway Articles

Review of Yonkers Raceway

By: Richard Bleuze

Review of Yonkers Raceway

Yonkers Raceway was founded in 1899 as the Empire City RaceTrack. Yonkers Raceway is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and Yonkers Raceway has a New York state approved casino named Empire City Casino. Yonkers Raceway is located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue in Yonkers, New York near the New York City border.

Yonkers Raceway offers harness racing 5 nights a week. Yonkers Raceway remains one of harness racing’s few year round facilities, with world class racing available throughout the calendar year. The racing schedule is Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday with first post at 7:10 PM ET on all nights. As I mentioned, the racing schedule is five nights per week, with first post at 7:10 PM ET on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Yonkers Raceway is the proud home of three major harness events: the Yonkers Trot, Art Rooney Pace and Messenger Stakes. The Yonkers Trot and Messenger Stakes are part of the Trotting and Pacing Triple Crowns, respectively, making Yonkers Raceway the only track to host legs of each gait’s Triple Crown.

Yonkers Raceway augments its year round harness schedule with 12 months of simulcasting from many of North America’s leading harness and thoroughbred venues. Evening simulcasting accompanies all live racing programs, while afternoon simulcasting is available around the NYRA schedule (usually Wednesday through Sunday).

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Major racetracks

Major horse racetracks in the U.S. were opened

at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1853;
at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1863;
at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland in 1870;
at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, New Jersey, opened in 1870;
at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, opened in 1875;
at Aqueduct Racetrack in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens in 1894;
at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1904;
at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York, just outside New York City on Long Island, in 1905;
at Fairmount Park Racetrack in the St. Louis suburb of Collinsville, Illinois in 1925;
at Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida, near Miami in 1925;
at Arlington Park in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois in 1927;
at Santa Anita Park in the San Gabriel Valley community of Arcadia, California, in the Los Angeles area, in 1934;
at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky in 1936;
at Del Mar Racetrack in the San Diego suburb of Del Mar, California in 1937;
at Hollywood Park Racetrack in another Los Angeles suburb, Inglewood, California, in 1938.

Thoroughbred horse racing in the United States has its own Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Hall of Fame honors remarkable horses, jockeys, owners and trainers.