{"id":44319,"date":"2023-07-10T17:53:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=44319"},"modified":"2023-07-10T17:53:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T21:53:39","slug":"batavia-batavia-downs-records-their-busiest-week-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/batavia-batavia-downs-records-their-busiest-week-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"BATAVIA\/Batavia Downs records their busiest week of all-time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"165\" data-attachment-id=\"44321\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/batavia-batavia-downs-records-their-busiest-week-of-all-time\/thumbnail_image001-6\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/thumbnail_image001.png?fit=207%2C165&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"207,165\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"thumbnail_image001\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/thumbnail_image001.png?fit=207%2C165&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/thumbnail_image001.png?resize=207%2C165&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44321 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/thumbnail_image001.png?w=207&amp;ssl=1 207w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/videonewsservice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/thumbnail_image001.png?resize=150%2C120&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BATAVIA \u2013Western Region Off Track Betting (WROTB) and Batavia Downs President and CEO Henry Wojtaszek announced that the week from Sunday, July 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;through Saturday, July 8<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;set new records; The top \u201cnet win\u201d week of all time with $1.9 Million and the 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;best Credits Played week of $24.08 Million.&nbsp; Attendance topped 20,000 people for the week.&nbsp; Hotel Occupancy for the week was over 89%.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Record Revenues will be returned to Member Municipalities<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Press release<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are so excited to have reached a new high benchmark for play on our gaming floor,\u201d Wojtaszek said. \u201cA record week on the gaming floor means that local governments will get critical revenue as a result of the great work on the ground by our team.\u00a0 Also, the state\u2019s education fund will receive over $930,000 from Batavia Downs from this last week\u2019s play.\u00a0 Our restaurants and hotel were packed throughout the holiday week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Revenues from Batavia Downs\u2019 are distributed to their 17 Western New York municipalities: Cattaraugus County, Cayuga County, Chautauqua County, Erie County, Genesee County, Livingston County, Monroe County, Niagara County, Orleans County, Oswego County, Schuyler County, Seneca County, Steuben County, Wayne County, Wyoming County as well as the cities of Rochester and Buffalo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release BATAVIA \u2013Western Region Off Track Betting (WROTB) and Batavia Downs President and CEO Henry Wojtaszek announced that the week from Sunday, July 2nd&nbsp;through Saturday, July 8th&nbsp;set new records; The top \u201cnet win\u201d week of all time with $1.9 Million and the 3rd&nbsp;best Credits Played week of $24.08 Million.&nbsp; \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/10\/batavia-batavia-downs-records-their-busiest-week-of-all-time\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-44319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-batavia","category-genesee-county","tag-batavia-downs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eTP4-bwP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14072,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/18\/genesee-county-batavia-downs-gaming-records-the-busiest-week-in-its-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":44319,"position":0},"title":"GENESEE COUNTY\/Batavia Downs Gaming records the busiest week in its history","author":"aka","date":"February 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Press release Record Number of Jackpots and Payouts Were Also Won BATAVIA \u2013 Officials from Batavia Downs Gaming announced the week ending on Sunday, February 16th was the busiest week in its history.\u00a0 With over $18.5 Million in Credits Played for the week, Batavia Downs paid out over $17.3 Million\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Genesee County&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Genesee County","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/category\/genesee-county\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":59416,"url":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/genesee-county-batavia-downs-honors-drew-monti-for-20-million-achievement\/","url_meta":{"origin":44319,"position":1},"title":"GENESEE COUNTY\/Batavia Downs honors Drew Monti for $20 million achievement","author":"aka","date":"November 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"By Tim Bojarski, for Batavia Downs (Photo courtesy of Wendy J. 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