Wyoming: Off-track betting’s gamble pays off — for now

Wyoming: Off-track betting’s gamble pays off — for now

Article brief provided by Gillette News Record
  • Jonathan Gallardo, Gillette News Record
November 30, 2021 12:41 AM
  • Jonathan Gallardo, Gillette News Record

Since May, the historic horse racing machines at the Gillette locations of Wyoming Horse Racing and Wyoming Downs have been shut down, but they could soon be up and running again after a judge’s decision earlier this month.

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District Judge F. Scott Peasley granted their motion to stay, or delay the enactment of, a resolution that Campbell County Commissioners had passed in April that gives the live horse racing operator control over off-track betting and simulcasting in the county. Since 307 Horse Racing has an exclusive five-year contract with Cam-plex to do live horse racing, it was the only operator that could have off-track betting under the resolution.