On Monday, BetMGM grew to become the second important sports betting operator to announce concrete programs for entry in Kentucky, wherever sporting activities wagering is envisioned to go are living on Sept. 7.
BetMGM will open up a 5,200-square-foot retail sportsbook in the slide at Sandy’s Racing and Gaming in Ashland. When Groundbreaking Racing Kentucky opens Sandy’s, it will feature Historic Horse Racing (HHR) equipment — parimutuel contraptions very similar in operate to slots — and will sooner or later extend to include things like a quarter horse racetrack that will be called Sandy Ridge.
“We promised to provide a entire world-class facility to Ashland and wanted a environment-class associate for online sports wagering across the Commonwealth and at our sportsbook lounge,” Innovative Racing CEO Prentice Salter stated in a press launch. “We’ve got that with BetMGM.”
“Kentucky has a abundant heritage in sports activities and a passionate admirer base,” additional BetMGM CEO Adam Greenblatt. “Revolutionary Racing is an ideal lover, enabling us to supply an entertaining and accountable gaming practical experience, while investing in the point out through task generation and tax earnings.”
Churchill enjoying it coy
In May possibly, Caesars declared that it would open brick-and-mortar sportsbooks at two Lexington-centered tracks: Keeneleand and Red Mile Gaming & Racing. In late July, Churchill Downs claimed it prepared to have sporting activities betting up and managing at its flagship track in Louisville but did not specify a sportsbook husband or wife, even though it has a marketplace entry deal in position with FanDuel and also boasts a partnership with DraftKings.
Beneath Kentucky’s sports activities betting regulation, every of the state’s nine racetracks are permitted to open up a retail sportsbook and have up to three mobile associates, that means there could ultimately be 27 cell sportsbooks in the state. Each individual observe will be entitled to a person actual physical sportsbook, with more retail sportsbooks positioned at HHR parlors.
