What the site covers
The directory lists every racino operating in the United States, grouped by state, with a page for each venue and an overview page for each state. Venue pages describe the track, the racing season, the gaming floor, dining, hotel options, directions and the minimum age. State pages explain the law that let tracks add gaming and where the money goes.
Alongside the directory sit guides to how the pieces work: what a racino is, how pari-mutuel betting pays, video lottery terminals, historical horse racing machines and the history of racinos. The racino map shows every venue in one place, and the racing schedule lists the live meets. Each guide links to venues where it can be seen in person.
Method
Every page starts from primary sources: the venue’s own website, the state racing commission, the gaming control board or lottery that licenses the machines, published annual reports and recent local reporting. The sources behind a page are listed at its foot, so a reader can check any figure, date or name against the original document rather than trusting the page.
Facts that change often, such as race dates, machine counts, owners and restaurant line-ups, are checked again whenever a page is reviewed, and the review date appears under the headline. When a fact cannot be confirmed from a reliable source, it is left out rather than estimated. Closures, renamings and sales are recorded once confirmed.
What the directory leaves out
The directory covers venues that combine live racing, or a racing license, with gaming on the same property. Tribal casinos without a track, stand-alone commercial casinos, card rooms with no racing link and off-track betting parlors are left out, even beside a racetrack. Historical racing halls in Kentucky and Virginia are included because their machines run on racing licenses.
Accessibility
Pages are built to load quickly on phones and to work with screen readers: every image has a description, the simulators can be used with a keyboard, and the map lists every venue as plain links underneath it. Problems with reading or using any page can be reported through the contact page, and they are treated like factual corrections.
Independence
The site accepts no payment from venues for coverage, and no venue sees its page before it is published. Descriptions follow the same template for every track, whether the property is a small harness oval with a few hundred machines or a resort with a hotel tower. Corrections from anyone are welcome through the contact page.
Images
Where a photograph of a venue is available under a free license, the page uses it and credits the author and the license beneath it. Pages without such a photo use an illustrative image created with AI. Those images never show a real, identifiable venue, they carry an “AI” badge, and their description says that they were generated.
The horse racing simulator uses a 3D horse adapted from 3 Dreams of Black, an interactive film by Chris Milk and Google’s Data Arts team, under the Apache License 2.0, with recolored coats; the full license text is published alongside the model. The sky and ground textures of the simulated track come from Poly Haven and are released under CC0.
How the site is funded
Most of Racinos.us is editorial and earns nothing. The online pages for West Virginia, New Jersey and Michigan, the three states where both online casino play and online race betting are legal, link to licensed operators and may earn a commission. The affiliate disclosure explains how those links work and what a commission is never allowed to change.
Gambling and age
Racinos are places for adults. Casino floors are 21+ in most states, while some states let 18-year-olds bet on races or play lottery-run machines, and each venue page states the rule that applies there. If gambling stops being fun, the responsible gambling page lists free, confidential help, including 1-800-GAMBLER and the state self-exclusion programs.