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Industry-wide undercharging or failure to implement stall rent programs
Hundreds of thousands to several million dollars per year per mid-to-large track (e.g., Pompano Park’s 800 stalls at $900/year represent $720,000 in annual stall rent; tracks with similar or larger inventories that do not charge or do not bill consistently bleed comparable sums).Trade-press analysis notes that most racetracks historically provided backstretch stalls for free and that only a minority, such as Pompano Park, systematically charge annual stall rent (e.g., about $900 per stall per year for 800 stalls). This implies that where stall rent policies are inconsistently adopted or enforced, tracks forego substantial recurring rental revenue relative to the operating cost of maintaining barns.
Poor visibility into backstretch cost vs. stall rent revenue leading to suboptimal facility decisions
Seven-figure impact over several years per track (e.g., carrying hundreds of underutilized stalls with maintenance, utilities, and labor but limited or no rental recovery can easily exceed $1,000,000 over a multi‑year horizon).Industry commentary notes that tracks are reconsidering whether to maintain large backstretch stabling because it is expensive to operate, and some are pushing horsemen to pay part of the cost through stall rent programs. Without accurate stall rental billing and cost allocation, management underestimates the true cost of maintaining barns versus the rent recovered, leading to delayed rationalization of stall inventory or mispriced rent.
Unbilled NYRA backstretch stall rentals despite formal rental policy
Low-to-mid six figures per year (State audit flagged it as a material control weakness over a multi‑year period, with several hundred stalls affected, implying hundreds of thousands of dollars in forgone rent annually by reasonable extrapolation).The New York Racing Association (NYRA) was found by the New York State Comptroller to be providing backstretch stall space during the training season without consistently billing trainers, even though a rental policy requiring such billing was in place. This created a systematic loss of potential stall rental revenue across multiple seasons.
Weak stall rental receivables controls delaying collection
$50,000–$150,000 per year in financing cost and bad-debt exposure for a large track (derived from delayed collection on hundreds of thousands of dollars of stall fees, increasing days sales outstanding and write-off risk).In the NYRA backstretch operations audit, the Comptroller highlighted the need for NYRA to bill trainers for stall space in compliance with its own rental policy, implying that when billing does occur it is not timely or consistently triggered by occupancy. Lagging or ad hoc invoicing of stall rent turns what should be a predictable facility-fee cash flow into late or foregone receipts.