New York Horse Racing Rulings on Fines and Suspensions

Horse Racing Rulings from the New York State Gaming Commission lists fines and suspensions issued by its Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering. The dataset covers rulings beginning in 1985, providing details on individuals, penalties, and infractions. It is published by data.ny.gov and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in fine amounts and suspension durations over time using the Fine Year, Fine Amount, and Days Suspended columns.
• Investigating disciplinary patterns by occupation or race track using the Occupation and Race Track fields.
• Tracking the timeline of specific rulings with the Notice Date, Suspension Start, and Suspension End columns.
• Identifying common rule violations by examining the Rules and Ruling Text columns.

Strengths

• Provides a long-term record of regulatory actions with data beginning in 1985.
• Includes detailed textual descriptions of rulings in the Ruling Text column.
• Contains specific penalty metrics such as Fine Amount and Days Suspended for quantitative analysis.

Limitations

• Key metrics like total row count and dataset size are not provided on any platform.
• The exact end date of the temporal coverage is not specified, only the start year (1985).

Provenance

Source

New York State Gaming Commission’s Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering.

Collection Method

Administratively gathered rulings and penalties issued by the regulatory body.

Time Range

Beginning 1985.

Freshness

Most recently updated on 2026-04-06 according to Socrata.

Geography

New York State, with specific Race Tracks named.