NYRA Gets Temporary Extension
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- December
- 27
The state Racing and Wagering Board today approved dates in 2008 for the New York Racing Association to run racing temporarily at Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga.
But the 30-day approval is contigent on NYRA working out a deal with the state’s racing oversight board, which will take over racing on Jan. 1 when NYRA’s current contract expires.
State leaders have yet to reach an agreement on who will run the three tracks permanently and NYRA has not agreed yet to operate the tracks under the oversight board’s control.
The Racing and Wagering Board said it would give NYRA a temporary deal to run the races so racing can continue until a permanent solution is found.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
