How VLTs saved NY horse racing

... in (harness) racing, this is the best opportunity you've had in many, many years," said Bob Galterio, the COO at Yonkers Raceway, the state's largest harness track. Ninety-two percent of the money from gamblers at the state's racetracks with the ...

NY Rangers Legend Steve Vickers Will Appear at Yonkers’ Empire City Casino

Empire City Casino, in partnership with the New York Rangers, announced that New York Rangers legend Steve Vickers will make his second visit to Empire City Casino in Yonkers to host the next Rangers Viewing Party on Saturday, Feb. 25. Fans will have the opportunity to join Vickers to cheer the Rangers on as they travel across the Hudson to take on their rivals, the New Jersey Devils. Vickers is no stranger to Empire City Casino having hosted a viewing party early last year.

Yonker’s Saturday night $50,000 features

YONKERS, NY, Friday, February 3, 2017 - Red Hot Herbie and Guantanamo Bay earned the praise of the harness racing populace Saturday night, winning Favored 'Herbie'-from post position No. 5 in the week's marquee trot-stalked the second-choice, eight-baller Allerage Star through moderate intervals of :28, 58.4 and 1:27.

A look at Oakley’s feud with Knicks

... golf with his good friend Michael Jordan, opened a steak house in Miami's South Beach and oversaw a car wash in Yonkers, N.Y. In 2009, Oakley told the New York Times that he was interested in becoming an assistant coach and had mentioned his ...

Nets Honor White Plains’ Sean Kilpatrick With Bobblehead

Sean Kilpatrick, a guard for the Brooklyn Nets who was born in Yonkers and played for White Plains High School, has been immortalized in bobblehead form. The Brooklyn Nets gave out Kilpatrick bobbleheads to fans at Sunday's game against the Toronto Raptors.

Marks Wins Media Eclipse Award for Photography

The National Thoroughbred Racing Association , Daily Racing Form , and the National Turf Writers And Broadcasters announced Jan. 4 that Tod Marks won the 2016 Media Eclipse Award for Photography for a picture of the stretch run of the Sloan Hurdle at the Iroquois Steeplechase meet in Nashville, during which fallen jockey Kieran Norris is diving toward his loose whip as his luckier competitor, Hooded, streaks by. This is the first Eclipse Award for Marks, who resides in Yonkers, N.Y., and is a regular contributor to The Chronicle of the Horse , The Saratoga Special , thisishorseracing.com , and many other publications.

Yonkers, SOANY to sponsor Dan Patch night bar

The United States Harness Writers Association, harness racing's largest and leading membership organization for industry communicators, is very pleased to announce that Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway and the Standardbred Owners Association of New York are partnering with USHWA in sponsoring the cocktail party and open bar at its annual Dan Patch Awards Banquet Presented by Hoosier Park, which will be held on Sunday, Feb. 26, at the Planet Hollywood casino in Las Vegas. The sponsorship features a lavish cocktail party from 6-7 p.m. and then an open bar during the Dan Patch awards dinner until 10 p.m. In addition, every guest attending the dinner will receive a special edition Yonkers-SOA/NY-USHWA commemorative wine glass.

SOANY and Yonkers to sponsor Dan Patch banquet cocktail party

SOANY and Yonkers to sponsor Dan Patch banquet cocktail party Friday, December 23, 2016 - from the U.S. Harness Writers Association The sponsorship features a lavish cocktail party from 6-7 p.m. and then an open bar during the Dan Patch awards dinner until 10 p.m. In addition, every guest attending the dinner will receive a special edition Yonkers-SOA/NY-USHWA commemorative wine glass. Yonkers Raceway dates back as a host of harness racing to 1899 and its origins as the Empire City Trotting Club; in 1950, William Cane recast the facility as a pari-mutuel harness racing track, and the Rooney family has operated the oval since 1972.

Owner promotions provide holiday cheer

In early November, 10 harness racing fans were randomly chosen from the USTA new owner's database to each receive five percent of the earnings of a designated horse racing at Yonkers Raceway through the end of the meet. The 3-year-old trotting gelding Emerald Chip was chosen for the promotion with trainer Andrew Harris.

Yonkers hopes to construct sports complex with state grants

The City of Yonkers is hoping to use grants received from the state Economic Development Council to construct a $2 million state-of-the-art sports complex to If developers get their way, they will be converting the iconic Kawaski Rail Car building into a 137,000-square-foot facility with 5,000 seats. It would be able to host high school basketball games, volleyball tournaments, wrestling matches, track meets, as well as other events.