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Racinos in the US, State by State: The Map and Directory of Every Track Near Me

Racinos are racetracks that also run casino gaming, and there are 54 racinos in the US plus eight historical racing tracks in Kentucky and Virginia, spread across 20 states. This guide maps every one, from the harness ovals of Ohio and New York to the quarter horse tracks of New Mexico, with racing seasons and gaming types.

The map below shows each venue with a near me button, and the directory under it groups them by region and then state by state. Further down, the sections explain the five kinds of racino, when the horses run, where the machine money goes, the minimum age in each state, and the few places where online play is legal.

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64listings in the directory, including two satellite gaming halls
20states with at least one
1990Mountaineer Park's lottery machine pilot
$1.40BOhio racino gaming revenue, FY2025
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The track that also deals

  1. 54 racetrack casinos in 18 states, plus eight historical racing tracks in Kentucky and Virginia.
  2. Ohio and New York have the most racinos, seven each; Pennsylvania has six.
  3. Most gaming floors are 21+; Oklahoma, Minnesota and New York lottery floors admit 18.
  4. A fixed share of machine revenue pays racing purses and breeding funds in every state.
  5. West Virginia's 1990 Mountaineer pilot put the first lottery machines at a US track.

A fixed slice of what the machines win is paid into purses and breeding funds, which keeps horses running.

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64 venues in 20 states. Select a state on the map, or narrow the pins and the list with the filters below.

At the rail

Race day at America's racinos

Thoroughbreds breaking from the starting gate at Delaware Park in Stanton, Delaware
DelawareThe gate opens at Delaware Park.Photo: Calstanhope, CC BY-SA 4.0
Horses and racegoers in the paddock at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota
MinnesotaThe paddock at Canterbury Park.Photo: Michael Hicks, CC BY 2.0
A turf race passing the infield at Colonial Downs in New Kent County, Virginia
VirginiaA turf field at Colonial Downs.Photo: Calstanhope, CC BY-SA 4.0
A jockey and groom walking a horse on the track at Sunland Park Racetrack in Sunland Park, New Mexico
New MexicoBefore the post at Sunland Park.Photo: B575, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Horses leaving the starting gate on the dirt track at Horseshoe Indianapolis in Shelbyville, Indiana
IndianaBreaking from the gate at Horseshoe Indianapolis.Photo: Wowzers122, CC BY-SA 4.0
The infield tote board and dirt track at Finger Lakes Racetrack in Farmington, New York
New YorkThe infield tote board at Finger Lakes.Photo: tmaioli, CC BY-SA 2.0
Spectators in front of the grandstand at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas
ArkansasRace day in front of the Oaklawn grandstand.Photo: Brandonrush, CC BY-SA 4.0

What racinos are, and how a racino differs from a casino

A racino is a licensed horse or greyhound track that also runs gaming on the same property.

54racinos in the US

A racino is a licensed horse or greyhound track that is allowed to run gaming on the same property, usually because a state wanted to keep live racing going. The track keeps its pari-mutuel license, its race dates and its simulcast room, while the machines or tables sit in a separate building or wing, often open around the clock.

The difference from a casino is the bargain behind it. A share of every dollar the machines keep goes back into purses and breeding funds, and the gaming license usually depends on running a minimum number of race days. The full explanation, with a simulation of how a lottery terminal settles a bet, sits on what is a racino.

Racinos state by state at a glance

Ohio and New York lead with seven racinos each, Pennsylvania follows with six.

20states with at least one

Twenty states have at least one track with gaming. Ohio and New York lead with seven racinos each, Pennsylvania follows with six, and Nebraska and New Mexico have five. Kentucky is the outlier: seven tracks and seven satellite halls run historical racing machines instead of slots. The table lists them state by state, with counts and gaming types.

StateRacinosGaming typeRacing
Ohio7Video lottery terminalsHarness and thoroughbred
New York7Lottery video gaming; full casino at Tioga DownsHarness and thoroughbred
Pennsylvania6Slots, table games, pokerHarness and thoroughbred
Nebraska5Slots and table gamesThoroughbred and quarter horse
New Mexico5Slots, no live tablesQuarter horse and thoroughbred
Kentucky7 tracks + 7 satellite hallsHistorical horse racingThoroughbred, harness, quarter horse
West Virginia4Lottery slots, tables, pokerThoroughbred and greyhound
Louisiana4Slots onlyThoroughbred and quarter horse
Delaware3Lottery slots, tables, sportsbooksThoroughbred and harness
Indiana2Slots, table games, sportsbooksHarness, thoroughbred, quarter horse
Minnesota2Card casino, no machinesThoroughbred, quarter horse, harness
Oklahoma2Electronic gaming machinesThoroughbred, quarter horse, Paint, Appaloosa
Virginia1 track + 7 Rosie’s hallsHistorical horse racingThoroughbred
Arkansas1Full casinoThoroughbred
Florida1Slots and electronic tablesThoroughbred
Illinois1Slots and table gamesThoroughbred
Iowa1Slots, tables, pokerThoroughbred and quarter horse
Maine1Slots and table gamesHarness
Maryland1Slots and table gamesHarness
Massachusetts1Slots and electronic tablesHarness

Racinos in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic

Seven states from Maine to West Virginia, where Mountaineer Park started track gaming.

1990first machines at an American track

New York

New York racinos run video gaming machines under the state lottery, a model that a 2001 law created to prop up tracks and raise money for schools. Six of the seven race harness horses, from Empire City in Yonkers to Batavia Downs near Buffalo, and Finger Lakes runs thoroughbreds. Tioga Downs is the exception, a full commercial casino since 2016.

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Pennsylvania

The six Pennsylvania racinos are full commercial casinos licensed under Act 71 of 2004, each required to keep staging live racing. Parx in Bensalem and The Meadows near Washington race nearly all year, Penn National runs at night, and Presque Isle Downs holds a summer meet in Erie. Mohegan Pennsylvania and Harrah’s Philadelphia race harness horses.

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Delaware

Delaware opened an early wave of track casinos in December 1995, when Delaware Park and Dover Downs switched on lottery machines approved the year before. Harrington followed in August 1996. The three tracks are still the state’s entire casino market, with thoroughbreds near Wilmington from May to October and harness racing at Dover and Harrington.

Maryland

Maryland approved five video lottery licenses in a 2008 referendum, but only one went to a racetrack. Ocean Downs in Berlin, a few miles inland from Ocean City, opened its casino in January 2011 and holds a summer harness meet from late May to early September. Laurel Park and Pimlico never added machines. The Maryland page has the details.

West Virginia

West Virginia placed 165 lottery machines at Mountaineer Park in 1990, the first machine gaming at an American track. Four racinos remain: Charles Town and Mountaineer race thoroughbreds, while Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras near Charleston are the country’s last two greyhound tracks. All four added table games after county votes under a 2007 law.

Massachusetts

Massachusetts has one racino, Plainridge Park in Plainville, which won the state’s single slots-parlor license under the 2011 Expanded Gaming Act and opened in June 2015. It runs slot machines and electronic table games but no live dealers, and its harness track races from spring into autumn. Part of its gaming tax goes to a horse-racing fund.

Maine

Maine voters approved slot machines at tracks in 2003, and Hollywood Casino Hotel & Raceway in Bangor grew out of that vote, opening as Hollywood Slots in 2005. It sits beside the harness track at Bass Park, known as Bangor Raceway, and now adds table games and a hotel. Scarborough Downs missed its deadline and never got machines.

Racinos in Ohio and the Midwest

Six states, from Ohio’s lottery terminals to Minnesota’s card-only tracks.

7Ohio racinos, all on lottery terminals

Ohio

Ohio racinos are seven tracks where the Ohio Lottery runs video lottery terminals, opening from Scioto Downs in June 2012 through the 2014 relocations to Dayton, Austintown and Cincinnati. Together they hold about 10,000 machines and no live table games. JACK Thistledown and Northfield Park, which MGM sold to Clairvest in April 2026, both serve Cleveland.

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Indiana

Both Indiana racinos belong to Caesars Entertainment. Harrah’s Hoosier Park in Anderson races harness horses from February to late November, and Horseshoe Indianapolis in Shelbyville runs thoroughbreds and quarter horses from April to November, including the Indiana Derby. Slots arrived under a 2007 law, live dealers in 2020, and each property runs a retail sportsbook.

Illinois

Illinois authorized casinos at racetracks in its 2019 gaming law, yet only Fairmount Park in Collinsville, across the Mississippi from St. Louis, has built one. Its temporary casino opened in April 2025 with nearly 300 slot machines, and live table games followed in 2026. Thoroughbreds race there on Tuesdays and Saturdays from April into late October.

Iowa

Iowa gave the racino idea its first large success. Prairie Meadows in Altoona, owned by Polk County and run by a non-profit, opened its slot floor on April 1, 1995 and retired the county’s bonds early. Today it runs about 1,250 slots, live tables, poker and a sportsbook, with thoroughbreds and quarter horses from May to September.

Minnesota

Minnesota allows only card games at its two tracks under a 1999 law, so Canterbury Park in Shakopee and Running Aces in Columbus deal blackjack, baccarat and poker but have no slot machines. Both admit players from 18. Canterbury races thoroughbreds and quarter horses in summer, and Running Aces runs harness cards over roughly the same months.

Nebraska

Nebraska voters approved casinos at licensed racetracks in 2020, and five have opened since WarHorse Lincoln in September 2022: WarHorse Omaha, Grand Island Casino at Fonner Park, Harrah’s Columbus and Lake Mac in Ogallala. Meets are short, from two days at Lake Mac to 31 at Grand Island, while the casinos stay open all year.

Thoroughbreds rounding the turn at Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska, home of Grand Island Casino Resort Nebraska · Grand Island
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Racinos in the South and Southwest

Seven states, from Kentucky’s historical racing tracks to New Mexico’s quarter horse ovals.

750machine cap per New Mexico racino

Kentucky

Kentucky has no slots, so its tracks run historical horse racing terminals that settle each bet as a pari-mutuel wager on a past race. Seven tracks host them, from Kentucky Downs and Turfway Park to Sandy’s Racing & Gaming near Ashland, plus seven satellite halls such as Derby City Gaming. A 2021 law wrote the machines into statute.

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Virginia

Virginia legalized historical horse racing in 2018 to bring live racing back to Colonial Downs in New Kent, which reopened with the first Rosie’s Gaming Emporium in April 2019. Seven more halls, including The Rose in Dumfries, now operate under the same license. Colonial Downs races thoroughbreds in March for the Virginia Derby and again from late June.

Louisiana

Four tracks make up the Louisiana racinos: Delta Downs near Vinton, Evangeline Downs at Opelousas, the Fair Grounds in New Orleans and Louisiana Downs in Bossier City. State law gives them slot machines only, no table games, and the gaming floors are 21 and over. Eighteen percent of slot revenue goes first to purses and breeders.

Florida

Florida still has eight slot sites on pari-mutuel permits in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, but greyhound wagering ended after 2020 and a 2021 law let the others drop live meets. That leaves Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach as the one site pairing slots with regular live racing, including its Championship Meet from December to March.

Arkansas

In Arkansas, Oaklawn in Hot Springs is the last track with a casino. It installed the first Instant Racing machines in 2000, the ancestor of today’s historical racing terminals, and became a full casino in 2019 under Amendment 100. Its thoroughbred meet runs from late November into spring. Southland in West Memphis ended greyhound racing in 2022.

Oklahoma

Oklahoma allowed electronic gaming at tracks through State Question 712 in 2004. Remington Park in Oklahoma City and Will Rogers Downs in Claremore now belong to tribal nations, the Chickasaw and the Cherokee, and both admit players from 18. Remington runs quarter horses in spring and thoroughbreds from August to December, while Will Rogers reverses that order.

New Mexico

New Mexico licenses five racinos under its 1997 Gaming Control Act, each capped at 750 machines with no live table games. Sunland Park races in winter near El Paso, SunRay Park in spring at Farmington, and Zia Park in Hobbs closes the year. Ruidoso Downs ran its 2026 meet in Albuquerque and its casino closed in July.

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Online casinos

Online casinos in the racino states

West Virginia, New Jersey and Michigan license real-money online casinos, several of them under a racino's license. Each brand below links to its review, where the state offers and terms are listed.

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21+ and physically inside the state. Offers and terms differ by state: see the West Virginia, New Jersey and Michigan pages. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER.

Five kinds of racino, from VLT floors to card rooms

Lottery terminals, full casinos, historical racing, card rooms and greyhound tracks.

5gaming models at American tracks

Most racinos use one of two machine models. Video lottery terminals in Ohio, New York, West Virginia and Delaware are controlled by the state lottery, and in New York they draw outcomes from a central system. Full-casino racinos in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska run ordinary slots and usually live tables. The video lottery terminals guide compares both.

Historical racing machines in Kentucky and Virginia look like slots but pay from pari-mutuel pools on replayed races, which is how they fit into states without casinos. Greyhound racinos survive only at Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras in West Virginia. Minnesota’s two tracks represent the last model: card casinos with live dealers and no gaming machines of any kind.

How to find racinos near me

Press near me on the map, or sort every venue by distance on the near-me page.

≈20miles, Harrah's Philadelphia to Delaware Park

The map at the top of this page centers on the visitor’s location when the near me button is pressed, and the racinos near me page sorts every venue by distance, with filters for slots, historical racing and card rooms. The densest clusters sit around Cleveland, the Philadelphia and Wilmington area, western New York and eastern Nebraska.

Some neighbors are very close. JACK Thistledown and Northfield Park lie under ten miles apart southeast of Cleveland, and Harrah’s Philadelphia in Chester is about 20 miles from Delaware Park. In the Southwest the gaps open up: Zia Park in Hobbs and Sunland Park near El Paso are more than 200 miles apart in a straight line.

Racing seasons: when the horses run

Few racinos race all year; most hold one meet and run simulcasts the rest of the time.

5tracks that come closest to racing all year

Few racinos race all year. Parx, The Meadows, Northfield Park, Charles Town and Gulfstream Park come closest, and the two West Virginia greyhound tracks run weekly cards year-round. Most others hold one meet: summer at Canterbury, Running Aces, Ocean Downs and Prairie Meadows, and winter at Turfway Park, Sunland Park, Oaklawn and the Fair Grounds.

Some meets are very short. Lake Mac in Ogallala races on two July days, and Kentucky Downs runs a turf-only meet from late August into early September. Out of season, most tracks keep a simulcast room where races from elsewhere can be watched and bet. The horse racing schedule lists dates for each track by month and breed.

The next seven months

Live racing at racino tracks

Meets and stakes from October 2026 to April 2027, taken from each track's published 2026 calendar. The full horse racing schedule lists every meet, and the map of horse racing near me shows every track with live racing.

HarnessThoroughbredQuarter horseYear-roundStakes dayToday

The tote board and VLT simulators

One shows pari-mutuel odds forming, the other how a lottery-run machine settles a wager.

2play-money simulators, no account

Two interactive pieces on the site show the mechanics behind a racino. The tote board game on the pari-mutuel betting page lets visitors place play bets on a simulated race, watch the odds shift as the pool fills, and see how takeout and breakage shrink the payout before the winning tickets are paid.

The second simulator, on the video lottery terminals page, follows a wager through a lottery-run machine and shows why its result can come from a finite central pool rather than a random draw inside the cabinet. Both run with play credits only. No account, deposit or download is involved, and nothing won on them has any cash value.

Where racino money goes

A share set by formula goes to purses and breeding; the rest to taxes, lotteries and operators.

$416MDelaware video lottery net proceeds, fiscal 2026

Every state splits machine revenue by formula. Ohio sends roughly 9 to 11 percent of VLT income to racing and breeding, Louisiana 18 percent of slot revenue to purses and breeders, and New Mexico 20 percent to purses. Delaware’s three tracks produced about $416 million in video lottery net proceeds in fiscal 2026, with $45.5 million going to purses.

The rest goes to taxes, lottery operations and the operators themselves, and in several states to schools: New York’s lottery machines and Oklahoma’s racetrack games both send a share to education. Monthly figures by state, drawn from lottery and gaming commission reports, are tracked on the racino revenue page, and the backstory is in the history of racinos.

Flow of a $2 win bet through a pari-mutuel pool at 16% takeout The $2 joins the win pool. At a 16% takeout, 32 cents leaves the pool for purses, the state and the track's costs. The remaining $1.68, 84%, is shared among winning tickets. Payouts are rounded down by breakage, usually to ten cents per dollar, and a winning $2 ticket returns at least $2.10. $2 your ticket To winning tickets $1.68 84% of the pool Breakage rounded down to 10¢ per $1 Takeout · 16% $0.32 purses · state taxes track operating costs Minimum$2.10per winning $2
Illustration at 16%, the Kentucky thoroughbred straight-bet takeout. The split of takeout between purses, the state and the track is set by each state and not drawn to scale.
The math of the tote

Where a $2 win bet goes

Takeout is the single biggest cost a horseplayer faces. It is taken from the gross pool before any winner is paid, so a 20% rate means only 80 cents of every dollar wagered comes back to bettors as a group. Rates differ by state, breed and bet type, and straight bets usually carry the lowest.

  • New York thoroughbred14%
  • California thoroughbred15.43%
  • Kentucky thoroughbred, larger tracks16%
  • Kentucky harness and quarter horse18%

Win-pool takeout as compiled in 2023 state rules. Bars on a 0–25% scale. The pari-mutuel betting guide works through every bet type, and the race simulator settles them live.

Racino age limit by state

Most floors admit players from 21; betting on the races often starts at 18.

21to play at most racino gaming floors

Most racino gaming floors admit players from 21, including every venue in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Louisiana, Nebraska, Kentucky and West Virginia. Three states set 18 instead: Oklahoma at both tracks, Minnesota at both card casinos, and New York at its lottery-run floors, though Tioga Downs, a full casino, requires 21. Saratoga’s Vapor lounge is also 21.

Betting on the races often has a lower threshold. Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Mexico and Maryland let anyone 18 or older place a pari-mutuel wager, and several grandstands admit children with an adult on live race days. Rules can differ inside one property, so the minimum age for each venue is listed in the facts box on its own page.

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Gaming-floor age set by each state's racinos; 3 of 20 states admit players from 18. Race-betting ages appear where a venue states them. Each tile opens the state page.

Online play in racino states

In Pennsylvania and West Virginia, online brands run under land-based licenses, some held by racinos.

7states with legal online casinos

Real-money online casinos are legal in only seven states, and racino licenses sit behind some of them. In Pennsylvania and West Virginia, online brands operate under land-based licenses, several held by racetrack casinos, and Delaware’s online casino runs through its three racinos. In most other racino states online casino play is not legal. The online guide covers those markets.

Off-track

Online in three states

Online horse racing betting is legal in roughly 40 US states through advance-deposit wagering apps, while real-money online casinos run in only seven. Three states where both are legal are covered here: West Virginia, New Jersey and Michigan, each with its licensed operators.

21+ only. Licensed operators per state regulator.

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The field by breed

What runs at America's racinos

Harness racing carries more of the racino map than any other breed, a legacy of the Northern fairground ovals that were first to win machines. One set of silks stands for one venue in the directory.

From the rail

Questions, answered

Short answers on racinos and the pari-mutuel system behind every American racetrack bet.

What are racinos?

Racinos are racetracks licensed to run casino-style gaming on the same grounds, from video lottery terminals and slot machines to card tables or historical racing machines. The name joins race track and casino. States allowed them mainly to support live racing, so a share of gaming revenue is set aside for purses and breeding programs.

How many racinos are in the US?

This directory lists 54 racinos in the US with slots, lottery machines, table games or card rooms in 18 states, plus eight tracks in Kentucky and Virginia that run historical racing machines. Counting the 14 historical racing satellite halls tied to those tracks, the total reaches 76 locations across 20 states, from Maine to New Mexico.

Which state has the most racinos?

Ohio and New York tie with seven racinos each. Ohio's seven all run lottery terminals with no live tables, while New York mixes six harness tracks with Finger Lakes, a thoroughbred track southeast of Rochester. Kentucky has more gaming sites in total, fourteen, but half are satellite halls without a track, and none has slot machines.

What is the racino age limit?

In most states the racino age limit is 21 for the gaming floor. Oklahoma, Minnesota and the lottery-run floors in New York admit players from 18. Wagering on live races is often allowed from 18 even where the casino is 21-only, as in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Mexico. Each venue page lists its own rule in the facts box.

Racino vs casino: what is the difference?

A casino is licensed for gaming alone. A racino holds a racing license first and gaming rights on top, usually with a duty to run a minimum number of live race days and to share machine revenue with horsemen. Some racinos, such as those in Ohio, are limited to lottery terminals, while others operate as full casinos.

How do I find a racino near me?

Press the near me button on the map at the top of this page, allow location access, and the closest venues appear first. The racinos near me page does the same with filters for slots, historical racing and card rooms. Without location access, the directory below the map lists every venue by region and then by state.

Are there racinos in Ohio?

Yes. Ohio has seven: JACK Thistledown, Northfield Park, Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Valley, Hollywood Gaming Dayton, Scioto Downs, Miami Valley Gaming and Belterra Park. All are Ohio Lottery video lottery venues with no live table games, open to players 21 and older. Harness and thoroughbred meets alternate between the tracks through the year.

Are there racinos in New York?

New York has seven racinos: Empire City in Yonkers, Saratoga Casino Hotel, Finger Lakes, Batavia Downs, Hamburg Gaming, Vernon Downs and Tioga Downs. Six run lottery video gaming machines open from age 18, while Tioga Downs holds a commercial casino license. Resorts World at Aqueduct left the list after live racing there ended in June 2026.

Are there racinos in Florida?

One. Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach is the only Florida site that still combines a slot floor with live racing, holding thoroughbred cards through most of the year. Seven other pari-mutuel permits in Broward and Miami-Dade keep slots without live racing, after greyhound wagering ended in 2020 and a 2021 law removed the live-meet requirement.

Are there racinos in Kentucky?

Kentucky has no slot racinos, but seven tracks run historical horse racing machines: Kentucky Downs, Ellis Park, Turfway Park, Red Mile, Oak Grove, Cumberland Run and Sandy's Racing & Gaming near Ashland. Seven satellite halls, including Derby City Gaming in Louisville, offer the same machines away from a track. Every gaming floor in the state is 21 and over.

Are there racinos in New Mexico?

New Mexico licenses five: Sunland Park, Zia Park, The Downs at Albuquerque, SunRay Park and Ruidoso Downs. Each may run up to 750 machines with no live dealers, and casino floors are 21 and over, while race wagering starts at 18. In 2026 Ruidoso held its meet in Albuquerque, and its casino has been closed since July.

Are there racinos in Indiana?

Indiana has two, both owned by Caesars Entertainment: Harrah's Hoosier Park in Anderson, a harness track, and Horseshoe Indianapolis in Shelbyville, which races thoroughbreds and quarter horses. Each has slots, live table games and a sportsbook, and the gaming floors are 21 and over. The 2026 racing calendar ran from February 12 to November 28.

Do racinos have table games?

It depends on the state. Racinos in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Delaware, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska and Arkansas deal live table games. Ohio, Louisiana, New Mexico, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and most of New York allow machines only, though some offer electronic table games. Minnesota is the reverse: its two tracks deal cards but have no machines.

Can you bet on horses at racinos year-round?

Usually, through simulcasting. When a track's own meet has ended, most racinos keep a simulcast area showing races from other tracks, with pari-mutuel windows and self-service terminals. Live racing itself is seasonal at most venues; Parx, The Meadows, Northfield Park and Gulfstream Park are among the few that hold live cards in most months of the year.

Where does racino revenue go?

A fixed share of machine revenue goes to purses and breeding funds, the reason racinos exist. The rest is split between state taxes, the lottery or regulator and the operator, with education receiving a portion in states such as New York and Oklahoma. Ohio, for example, sends about 9 to 11 percent of terminal income to racing.

Sources

  1. Racino – Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
  2. West Virginia Encyclopedia – Video lottery wvencyclopedia.org
  3. Ohio Lottery – VLT Central ohiolottery.com
  4. Ohio Administrative Code 3769-2-43 – racing share of VLT income codes.ohio.gov
  5. Delaware Lottery – Video lottery net proceeds and distribution, fiscal year 2025 delottery.com
  6. Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board – monthly slot revenue, FY 2026/2027 gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov
  7. Massachusetts Gaming Commission – Plainridge Park Casino revenue, August 2026 massgaming.com

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