Jake Henson

BetMakers has signed two-year market access and content agreements with the betting platform bet365 relating to fixed-odds wagering in New Jersey and Colorado, the Melbourne, Australia-based company said in a release. Bet365 will be licensed by BetMakers to offer fixed-odds bets on Thoroughbred racing to bet365 customers in the state of New Jersey and will also be licensed to distribute BetMakers' Thoroughbred racing content to bet365 customers in New Jersey and both Thoroughbred and Standardbred racing in Colorado.Bet365 will also be licensed to distribute BetMakers' Thoroughbred racing content to bet365...

Fixed odds wagering at Monmouth Park last year didn't exactly break sharply from the gate. In its first run, it was available only on Monmouth races and, initially, only to on-track customers. A website that took fixed odds bets did get up and going during the meet, but regulations that would allow for bettors living outside of New Jersey to bet on fixed odds never did materialize. Handle figures were never made public, but it appeared that fixed odds accounted for only a small percentage of Monmouth's total handle. Yet,...