MGM Resorts International is teaming up with its real estate arm - MGM Growth Properties - to buy the Empire City Casino, 15 miles north of Times Square in Yonkers, New York. The Las Vegas casino operator is teaming up with its real estate arm - MGM Growth Properties - to buy a casino just outside the border of New York City for $850 million.

YONKERS, NY, Thursday, May 24, 2018--It's not possible to measure the worth of a human being...until now. Well, sort of.

YONKERS, NY, Sunday, May 20, 2018 - Smalltownthrowdown was a two-move harness racing titan Sunday afternoon , winning Yonkers Raceway's $54,800 Open Handicap Trot The field of eight went as the opener and the first of four 'French' trots. Smalltownthrowdown, three-wide from post position No.

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, May 19, 2018 - Yonkers Raceway's foggy Saturday night featured harness racing eliminations for both the With 10 3-year-old boys entering the Rooney and nine sophomore girls in the Lismore, it was three games of 'musical chairs' to determine next week's finalists. Odds-on favorite Decoy made short work of his four foes in the first, $40,000 eliminations for the Rooney.

YONKERS, NY, Friday, May 18, 2018 - Stop us if you've read this one before... Odds-on Newborn Sassy did not play fair Friday night , winning Yonkers Raceway's $44,000 harness racing filly and mare Open Handicap Pace in obnoxiously facile fashion. This field, reduced to a half-dozen after a mid-pack defection , found Newborn Sassy and Call Me Queen Be hooking up early.

Harness Racing This Week: Graduate Series Trot first leg, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J.; and Art Rooney and Lismore eliminations, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y. Schedule of events: Grand Circuit action takes place this Saturday at Meadowlands Racetrack with a pair of $50,000 divisions in the first leg of the Graduate Series for 4-year-old open trotters. Also on Saturday, Yonkers Raceway will host two $40,000 eliminations in the Art Rooney for 3-year-old open pacers and a single $20,000 elimination in the Lismore for 3-year-old pacing fillies.

YONKERS, NY, Monday, May 14, 2018 - Ten harness racing 3-year-old guys - six colts and four geldings - were entered for The 28th Rooney begins with a pair of $40,000 elimination races this Saturday night , each a five-to-eliminate-one affair. Those go as races 6 and 8 during the 10-race card, with the first quartet in each returning for next Saturday night's $300,000 final.

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, May 12, 2018 - It's a Reynolds Wrap. The mercurial W.N. Reynolds Memorial found its way to Westchester Saturday night , with hosting six divisions for harness racing 3-year-olds pacers of both genders.

Bluebird Jesse making jump from Yonkers series winner to Open trotter Friday, May 11, 2018 - by Brandon Valvo, for the SOA of NY Bluebird Jesse defeated Seasoned Saint by a head in a life-best-matching 1:54.4 in the $85,000 final of the Bonus Trotting Series at Yonkers Raceway. Bluebird Jesse made his mark in Indiana as a 2- and 3-year old.

... say we expected this one to win the series final and show that he has a shot to be a very, very useful trotter at Yonkers. That says a lot about the horse." Bluebird Jesse made his mark in Indiana as a 2- and 3-year old. He won six races at Hoosier ...

Since arriving in the barn of Scott Di Domenico this year, Bluebird Jesse has surpassed expectations. The 4-year-old trotter won two of the three preliminary legs of the Yonkers Raceway/SOA of NY Bonus Trotting Series before capturing the $85,000 series final April 24. Last week, he made his first start in the local Open Trot, finishing third.

YONKERS, NY, Monday, April 23, 2018 - After three preliminary rounds and sufficient whittling, the field is set for Tuesday night's harness racing $85,000 final of the Bonus Trotting Series. and the Standardbred Owners Association of the New York, goes as the ninth of 11 races.

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, April 21, 2018 - She went from dominant to doubting in just one start. It took just one more start to restore the reputation.

YONKERS, NY, Saturday, April 21, 2018 - Foiled Again has company. Favored Keystone Velocity successfully defended his harness racing title Saturday night , winning The 31st Levy, a Free-For-All event honoring the memory of the harness-racing visionary and Hall of Fame founder of Roosevelt Raceway, wrapped its annual six-week sojourn on a brisk, spring evening.

YONKERS, N.Y. New Zealand-bred mare Shartin has proven to be aggressive by nature since arriving in the stable of Jim King late last fall. Described by her former harness racing trainer Dean Braun as a bit bossy, Shartin's eagerness finally got the better of her in the last preliminary leg of the Series April 13. Established as the 1-5 favorite off three impressive series victories in the preceding weeks, Shartin surprised punters and her trainer when she broke into a gallop as the wings of the gate folded.

YONKERS, NY, Thursday, April 19, 2018 - Sometime about a decade ago, a meeting of the minds took place. The purpose of the skull session was to put an end to rampant equine gender discrimination and 'invent' a harness racing companion event for The Levy, honoring the memory of harness-racing visionary and Hall of Fame founder of Roosevelt Raceway, was and remains a staple stop for the sport's best Free-For-Allers.

Harness Racing This Week: Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy series finals and consolations, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y. Schedule of events: The Grand Circuit at Yonkers this week features the $532,000 final and the $100,000 consolation of the George Morton Levy series for open pacers, as well as the $373,000 final and $75,000 consolation in the Blue Chip Matchmaker series for open pacing mares. All four races will take place on Saturday .

YONKERS, N.Y. Although trainer Ron Burke has sent out more than 40,000 starters who have earned more than $194 million in purses, he's never had the opportunity to work with a French trotter. That will change this spring when Burke, Mike Lachance, and Ray Schnittker travel to France to purchase 24 trotters for the French American Trotting Club, the Standardbred Owners Association of New York's pioneering effort to bring a contingent of European horses to compete at Yonkers Raceway.

YONKERS, NY, Monday, April 16, 2018 - Post positions have been drawn for North America's two richest races of the harness racing season to date, The finales, set for Saturday night , wrap up their respective six-week sojourns and highlight a 12-race card worth just over $1.3 million. First post is the usual 6:50 PM.

... year's Women of Excellence and received the Above and Beyond Award. As Director of Mutuels for Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway and assistant to Timothy Rooney, president and CEO, Ursula serves as the pari-mutuel manager for harness racing at ...

YONKERS, NY, Friday, April 6, 2018 -- With series starlets Shartin N, Twinkle and defending harness racing champ Mackenzie A getting the week off, Three, $40,000 events again brought together many of the best pacing mares, all of whom were thrilled the three queens abdicated this time around. Thus, some previous understudies stepped to the fore.

YONKERS, NY, Monday, April 2, 2018 -- Yonkers Raceway's first 'all -superfecta harness racing Monday' found an audience. The evening's equine star was Beyond Delight , who went first-up and over in the $22,000, 11th-race pace.

When he was a teenager, John Devito would hop on a bus with a friend and head to Yonkers and Roosevelt raceways, where he developed a passion for harness racing. Trips to the track these days continue to provide the 54-year-old Queens, N.Y., resident with thrills, but as much more than a fan.