And if state officials decide to make the change it would become just the second state to do so, after New Jersey’s legislature adopted new rules earlier this year. When you’re not on the list of sports on a sports betting site are you still a sport?”Ĭolorado’s Department of Revenue, which regulates horse racing and sports betting, is considering a change this month through a series of meetings that have drawn international attention. “As sports betting has proliferated around the country, including in Colorado, horse racing is getting left behind. “Horse racing has become very stagnant,” Michele Fischer, a vice president at Sports Information Services, a United Kingdom-based company that provides services to the gambling industry, said during a recent Colorado Department of Revenue meeting. Now, Colorado officials are considering a change to how people bet on horse races - a move being driven by sportsbooks but one that the state’s sole race track is tentatively supporting - in hopes of boosting the sport’s popularity and financial standing. That’s led horse racing to fall behind in popularity and in the amount of money it handles through betting. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ gambler in Colorado can open a sports betting app on a smartphone to place wagers on any pro sports team in the United States, British soccer games, Russian table tennis, European rugby and even Pakistan’s cricket team.īut they can’t place a bet on a horse race.

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