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CLEVELAND — JACK Cleveland Casino and the Thistledown Racino are officially back open for business.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - JACK Cleveland Casino and JACK Thistledown Racino announced it is ready to reopen with heightened sanitation procedures, reduced capacity, reconfigured gaming floors, as. JACK Thistledown Racino dropped from $58.5 million to $29.9 million for the first five months of the year, and JACK Cleveland Casino dropped from $87.4 million to $44.6 million. Nice slot machine casino downstairs and live horse racing and simulcast horse betting. About 30 minutes east of airport and downtown. I enjoyed playing slots and placing a few horse bets upstairs. JACK Thistledown Racino.

Chad Barnhill, the Chief Operating Officer of JACK Entertainment said after 3 months of their doors being closed, they’re thrilled to reopen, but things will be slightly different.

“We’ve had a lot of training the last week with new protocol and new procedures,” he said.

The changes start with social distancing:

Both JACK properties will limit capacity by 50%. To ensure guests and team members practice social distancing while at the properties, the gaming floor has been reconfigured to provide appropriate spacing between guests at machines and table games will also accommodate fewer guests.
The bars will be closed and drinks will only be provided by waiters. JACK will reopen Nonna Pazza and STACK’D at its Cleveland location and American Burger Bar and Millcreek Grille at the Racino.
All staff will be required to wear masks. If you plan on playing a table game, you will be required to wear one, too, but if you’re sticking to slots, masks are optional.
JACK officials said they are increasing the frequency of sanitizing all surfaces throughout the properties using hospital-grade disinfectant and advanced electrostatic sprayer technology.

But despite all of these changes, Barnhill said the staff is ready to make the customer experience very similar to before.

“It’s going to be different we are running on capacity limitations, 3 people per Blackjack table, 4 for Roulette, 6 for Craps, every other slot machine is turned off,” he said. “But the team is still here, the best team in the industry is here, to still service our guests and I think once people get back they’ll see the experience is going to be very similar but still a bit different.”

Both JACK locations are open 24/7.

Jack Thistledown Racino
Location	North Randall, Ohio
Address	21501 Emery Road
Opening date	April 9, 2013
Total gaming space	57,000 sq ft (5,300 m²)
Casino type	Racino
Owner	Jack Entertainment
Website	jackentertainment.com/thistledown

Jack Thistledown Racino is a thoroughbredracetrack and casino in North Randall, Ohio, at the outskirts of the city of Cleveland. It is owned and operated by Jack Entertainment.

History and Information

The track came under the regulation of the Ohio Racing Commission in 1931 when it was formed. The track is the home of the Ohio Derby, the only graded stakes race in Ohio.

The track races under the Ohio 7/7 Program which means that live racing is held at two locations in the state at the same time. During the summer ThistleDown races seven races on a card and River Downs races the other seven. In September, Beulah Park takes over for River Downs. Ohio racing is dark January to March. The track has declined in recent years due to summertime competition and the lack of slot machines that neighboring tracks have.

In 2007, ThistleDown's parent company, Magna Entertainment, announced that the racetrack was for sale. As a result of staggering losses in which Magna Entertainment reported net losses of $87.4 million in 2006, $105.3 million in 2005 and $95.6 million in 2004, and has an accumulated deficit of $393.8 million as of March 31, 2007, Magna Entertainment stated: 'Accordingly, the company's ability to continue as a going concern is in substantial doubt and is dependent on the company generating cash flows that are adequate to sustain the operations of the business, renew or extend current financing arrangements and maintain its obligations with respect to secured and unsecured creditors, none of which is assured...'. Once-thriving ThistleDown, which hosts the $300,000 Ohio Derby, posted a pretax loss of $4.5 million in 2006.^[1]^[2] ThistleDown and parent company, Magna Entertainment, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

ThistleDown was purchased in 2010 by Harrah's Entertainment (now Caesars Entertainment) for $43 million. The track was subsequently contributed to a Caesars joint venture with Rock Gaming in Summer 2012.

In June 2012, the State of Ohio inked a memorandum of understanding authorizing the state's seven racetracks to offer video lottery terminals (VLTs), and permitted some tracks to relocate to less gaming-concentrated areas of the state.^[3]

In August 2012, Rock Ohio Caesars announced plans to invest $88 million to develop a racino at the existing North Randall site. Enhancements to the facility include transforming the main floor of ThistleDown’s grandstand into a 57,000 sq. ft. gaming space that will offer approximately 1,150 VLTs. Plans also included a 60-seat restaurant, two food court outlets, and a lounge.^[4]^[5]

Rock Gaming acquired Caesars Entertainment's 20% stake in Rock Ohio Caesars in February 2015,^[6] and later in the year announced that it would assume management of the properties, including Thistledown.^[7] Rock Gaming announced in February 2016 that the company and its casinos would rebrand under the Jack name.^[8] The racino closed for a day in March 2016 to undergo its transition to the Jack name and management.^[9]

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Physical Attributes

The track has a one-mile dirt oval. There is no turf course.

Racing

The track's premier race is the Grade IIIOhio Derby. The track also hosts numerous overnight handicaps and minor stakes during its April to September racing season. Ungraded handicaps and stakes run in 2010 are:^[10]

The Angenora Stakes
The Dr. T.F. Classen Memorial Stakes
The Mike Rowland Memorial Handicap
The J. William (Bill) Petro Memorial Handicap
The Cleveland Gold Cup
The Rose DeBartolo Memorial Stakes
The George Lewis Memorial Stakes
The Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes
The Ohio Derby
The Miss Ohio Stakes
The Governor's Buckeye Cup
The Best of Ohio Distaff
The Best of Ohio Endurance
The Best of Ohio Sprint
Juvenile Stakes
The Honey Jay Stakes

References

↑http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/09/there_it_goes_thistledown_up_f.html
↑http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602281.html
↑http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/06/thistledown_agreement_outlines.html
↑http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/08/thistledown_approved_to_obtain.html
↑Thomas Ott (April 9, 2013). 'Thistledown draws a crowd for opening of Ohio's second racino'. The Plain Dealer. Cleveland, OH. Retrieved 2013-04-11.<templatestyles src='Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css'></templatestyles>
↑Karen Farkas (February 26, 2015). 'Rock Ohio Ventures buy Caesar's 20 percent interest and now owns Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, Thistle

History and Information

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Physical Attributes

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