Sentence examples for track lottery from inspiring English sources

It's a difficult question to answer because it's nearly impossible to track lottery funds in state budgets.

The first race at Aqueduct was canceled by a horsemen's protest over the failure to select an operator for the track's video lottery terminals.

Mr. Pataki's budget would circumvent the court's objection by using $108 million from the state's general fund for tracks with video lottery operations.

After payouts for prizes, the net revenues amounted to $6.6 million, with more than $4 million pledged for education and the rest going to the tracks and the lottery itself, to pay administrative costs, she said.

Hugh Robertson, the new junior sports minister, has identified overhauling the 2012 legacy plan as one of his first priorities, alongside getting the 2018 World Cup bid back on track and reforming the lottery.

Anyone who has failed to keep track of a winning lottery ticket for all of 12 months may want to consider the efforts of 39 bondholders who have been safekeeping valuable, tissue-thin, New York City securities since shortly after the Civil War.

Horse racing has long been an important contributor to New York's history, economy and culture, but for years crowds at the race tracks have been dwindling as more and more New Yorkers wishing to gamble have turned to the state lottery, Off-Track Betting salons and casinos in Connecticut and Atlantic City.

The bill also permits horse-racing tracks to install video lottery terminals, and authorizes New York to join the Powerball lottery.

Mr. Spitzer's archrival, the State Senate majority leader, Joseph Bruno, appears to be looking in a different direction for somebody to run the tracks and the video lottery terminals.

While there is already a casino in Yonkers and one being developed at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, both are technically racinos — they are attached to horse tracks and feature video lottery terminals, but not table games.

The bill approved Wednesday allows Aqueduct, Yonkers and Monticello raceways, as well as some upstate tracks, to install video lottery terminals, similar to video gambling machines in casinos and likely to face the same legal challenges.