Attendance Up, Wagering Slightly Down At Remington Park

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ For the fourth straight year, attendance at Remington Park's annual quarter horse race meeting climbed. However, track officials said the track's key wagering numbers were

Friday, June 8th 2007, 8:23 am

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ For the fourth straight year, attendance at Remington Park's annual quarter horse race meeting climbed. However, track officials said the track's key wagering numbers were down slightly from 2006.

During the track's 50-day meet, 280,275 people attended, an increase of 3.8% over 2006.

The meet's largest crowd of 13,373 attended the races on May 5th, the day the Kentucky Derby was simulcast at the track.

The track says that during the meet's 500 races, 4,473 horses started, an average field size of 8.9 per race. The track distributed almost $8 million in purses.

Remington Park's on-track live handle was a little more than $3.5 million, down 3% from 2006.

Total all sources handle -- which includes handle on imported simulcasting, both at on-track and off-track betting facilities -- dropped by 3.7% to just $35.98 million.