Horse Betting In Florida
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Florida’s gambling laws are regulated and all legal gambling includes casino gaming, tribal gambling, casino boats, horse racing, dog racing, Bingo, the state lottery, and charitable gambling. The casino boats are interesting because they allow bettors to board luxury boats that travel offshore where gambling is technically not illegal.
Making online horse betting easier to navigate. Betting Online on Horse Races. Horse betting online took rise in the 1980s. Before that horse gambling had to take place on the tracks. As the internet developed, so did online betting horses. Now, almost all major race tracks have their betting platform. Florida horse racing betting law is codified under Chapter 550 of the Florida Statutes and Division: 61D of the state administrative code. The Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering oversees horse racing betting and other forms of parimutuel wagering. This also includes jai alai frontons and poker rooms.
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Florida Horse Racing
The sunny state of Florida is host to many horse tracks that are popular during the winter months.
Calder Race Course
This is a thoroughbred horse racing track in Miami Gardens, Florida. It's located on the Miami-Dade/Broward County line, approximately 15 miles from the centers of Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.
Gulfstream Park
This is one of the most important venues for horse racing in the United States. It opened on February 1, 1939. It is the premier East Coast track that operates during the winter months.
Hialeah Park
This race Track originally opened in 1921. It offers Quarter Horse races from November to January.
Pompano Park
This track is known as 'The Winter Home of Harness Racing'and it has been the home of world-class standardbred racing since 1964.
Tampa Bay Downs
It first opened its doors in 1926 and is the only thoroughbred race track on the West Coast of Florida. It hosts two Kentucky Derby prep races, The Sam F. Davis Stakes and The Tampa Bay Derby every year.
No, sports betting in Florida is not legal at this time.
Sports betting in Florida
Sports betting does not sound close to becoming a reality anytime soon, as there are a number of factors working against it.
Gambling is legal at the state’s tribal casinos and pari-mutuel facilities. The Seminole Tribe of South Florida has operated several brick-and-mortar casinos, paying a flat fee to the state in revenue. However, horse racetracks and jai-alai frontons were greenlighted for another form of gambling, designated player card games, sometimes resulting in wagering up to $50,000 per hand. The Seminole Tribe was unhappy that they did not have exclusivity to table-game wagering and balked at paying money back to the state.
Negotiations have been underway to make the Seminole Tribe, the pari-mutuel facilities and Republican Governor Ron DeSantis all happy. While Gov. DeSantis has been reluctant to expand gambling in the state, legislators have been working on a deal that would make the tribal casinos a hub for sports betting. This would essentially mean the tribal casinos would get a percentage of the overall gambling revenue made even outside of their facilities. The sticking point might be if the Seminole Tribe only wants sports betting at their brick-and-mortar facilities, completely shutting out the racetracks, jai-alai frontons, etc.
Another obstacle might be the voters themselves. While a deal could be hammered out to make please everyone, a ballot initiative passed by voters in 2018 required any gambling expansion outside of the tribal casinos and the lottery required to be initiated by the voters, not the state legislature.
As mentioned above, legalizing sports betting in the state doesn’t seem to be close at this point.
Online sportsbooks in Florida
None.
Retail sportsbooks in Florida
None.
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