Officers with Western Regional Off-Observe Betting Corp. are fascinating in including new gaming machines at Batavia Downs that will permit bettors to wager on horse races that already occurred.
The so-called historic horse monitor racing machines, whereas not but authorized in New York state, operate like conventional slot machines with the end result of every recreation primarily based on a horse race that already occurred as an alternative of a random quantity generator.
An article on LasVegasAdvisor.com, refers back to the machines as “on the spot racing,” noting that gamers wager on the end result of horse races the identical approach they’d at any Off Observe Betting parlor or horse racing monitor.
“The distinction is that you just’re betting on precise previous races,” the article notes. “In different phrases, you don’t have to attend round for the race to be run; it’s like hitting a fast-forward button for the outcome, which renders your wager a winner or loser.”
In explaining how the machines work, LasVegasAdvisor.com reported {that a} race is randomly chosen after a wager is produced from a video library of practically 100,000 previous races. No figuring out data, reminiscent of the place and when the race was gained or which horses or jockeys participated, is made obtainable. The machines characteristic a “handicapper” idea that gives gamers with talent graph from a “each day racing type” that exhibits necessary data like horse beginning place and horse and jockey successful percentages. As soon as the sport begins, the machine exhibits an animated show of the race on the display screen with spinning wheels that LasVegasAdvisor.com described as “harking back to a slot.”
WROTB President and CEO Henry Wojtaszek mentioned the idea got here as a potential income generator for OTBs whereas he was attending a current gaming convention in Saratoga Springs. He mentioned historic horse racing machines have confirmed profitable at OTB areas in different states.
“It’s truly very talked-about,” he mentioned.
State lawmakers would wish to approve laws to permit them for use legally in New York.
Wojtaszek mentioned the earliest such laws may very well be thought-about by members of the New York State Legislature can be 2024 and WROTB intends to incorporate a request for his or her accredited use as a part of its Albany legislative agenda subsequent yr.
