NYRA Contract Extended — Again
The governor’s office said today that the New York Racing Association has received an extension until Feb. 13 to continue running three thoroughbred tracks in New York.
Gov. Spitzer and the state Legislature is at odds over who will run the tracks at Belmont and Aqueduct, in the New York City-area, and at Saratoga north of Albany.
NYRA’s contract to run the tracks expired at the end of 2007, yet leaders agreed to give them an extension until Jan. 23.
Now they have given them another extension to “allow discussions of the final remaining issues related to the racing franchise to continue without any interruption to the current Aqueduct meet,” Spitzer’s statement reads.
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