Day at the Races, date to be determined soon. Racing at Parx will be Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So the seemingly endless wait is nearly over. So that day with fans for more tracks is coming. When will fans be able to return to Parx for racing?ĭelaware Park opens this Wednesday with fans and protocols. When the casino does reopen, how quickly will patrons return and what will the slots handle be in relation to what it was before the shutdown? When will the Parx casino reopen? Slot machine revenue that fuels purses is critical. Could it be used as a Derby prep in August? Is there money in the purse account for it this year? Derby’s traditional spot on the late September calendar would be between the rescheduled Kentucky Derby the first Saturday of September and the rescheduled Preakness the first Saturday of October, not a good fit. Will there be a Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion this year? The Pa. Bruce Casella, Keith Jones and I look forward to taping “Let’s Go Racing’’ again, with this Saturday’s show a look ahead to the Parx reopening and the Belmont Stakes which will be run without fans.Īs Sal pointed out, there are still some questions that will take some time to answer. We can’t go back in time so it is time to look forward.

Why Pennsylvania took several weeks longer than New York to give the green light to race tracks isn’t clear, but it is also no longer relevant. Government often moves in unpredictable ways. Nobody can go any faster than the regulators tell them to go. Probably.īut, as PTHA president Sal DeBunda pointed out in his recent video announcement, horse racing is a regulated sport. It will be June 22 when the next winner emerges from the first race that day.Ĭould Parx have opened a few weeks earlier? Say like June 1, two days before Belmont Park. It was March 10 when Little Neck won the last race at Parx. The waiting was hard the not knowing when it would end was even harder. So it will be 104 days between races at Parx.

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