Cuomo Signs Bill to Reauthorize Simulcast Betting

Gov. Mario M. Cuomo today signed legislation that reopens and expands New York’s shuttered simulcasting operations and could lead to renewed racing at Tioga Park near Binghamton in Upstate New York.

The bill also promotes twilight racing, allows race tracks to operate their own telephone betting lines and permits the New York Racing Assn. to run simulcast teletheaters in New York City, on Long Island and in Westchester County.

The new law came one day after hundreds of Off-Track Betting parlors and race tracks were left without live broadcasts of horse races because the old simulcast law expired at midnight Saturday.

The state Legislature passed the racing bill in the waning hours of the regular legislative session.