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00:00How about Saratoga?
00:07The summer racing season wraps up in Saratoga, and it was a good summer for them, correct?
00:12Yeah, handle was up a handful of millions of dollars, $803.8 million bet on Saratoga
00:19races from mid-July through Labor Day, up a few million from last year, which was positive.
00:27The average daily handle was up about 3% as well.
00:32Sort of the big note for me coming out of the summer was Traverse Day, their biggest
00:35day of the summer, $63 million in handle, and it just reconfirms and kind of continues
00:41the trend that we've seen in horse racing so far this year, where the big marquee mainstream
00:47events are the ones that are generating the most handle.
00:51We had record-setting handle on the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes betting increased
00:56this year compared to last year, record-setting Belmont Stakes handle for a non-Triple Crown
01:03year, and now we have the Traverse Stakes with that increase in handle as well.
01:09A lot of that early success this year during the Triple Crown season was driven in large
01:15part to the sportsbooks entering the marketplace.
01:20FanDuel had a record-setting day of horse betting for the Derby.
01:24Giraffe Kings and their DK Horse app was the most downloaded horse betting app on Derby
01:28Day.
01:29So these marquee events have really carried the water for the racing industry so far this
01:36year, and we'll see what ultimately happens at the end of the year here coming up in the
01:40fall with the Breeders' Cup.
01:42For the most part, we've seen these marquee events really boost the handle overall for
01:47the industry, while some of the other smaller tracks that don't necessarily get a lot of
01:52national attention are still sort of scrapping and clawing for whatever handle that they
01:59can get.