Verticals / Advance deposit wagering
Advance deposit wagering
Online horse race betting (ADW) is legal and live in 25 states, as of Oct 11, 2026. North Carolina and South Dakota have legalized it but not yet launched. 4 states allow it in a limited form.
Advance deposit wagering (online pari-mutuel).
LiveLegal, not launchedLimitedContestedProhibitedNot authorizedRepealedNA
By state
| State | Status | Launched | Model | Current tax | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | Live | Competitive | ADG lists four permitted Advance Deposit Wagering providers: TwinSpires, Xpressbet, TVG (FanDuel), and NYRA Bets. | ||
| Arkansas | Live | 2013 | Monopoly State | Ark. Code Ann. § 23-110-405 lets a horse-racing franchise holder (i.e., Oaklawn) accept wagers from patrons with funds on deposit by phone, mobile device, or other electronic means, treated as if placed at the track, subject to Racing Commission approval and rule. The Commission adopted implementing ADW rules in November 2013, and Oaklawn launched its ADW platform (OaklawnAnywhere) around the end of 2013. A separate Commission rule requires any out-of-state ADW provider taking Arkansas wagers to have a written agreement with the Arkansas franchise holder and comply with the federal Interstate Horseracing Act of 1978. Secondary reporting states bettors must be 18 or older, consistent with the broader 18+ pari-mutuel/horse-racing minimum age (see facts). | |
| California | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering providers (e.g., TVG, WatchandWager/Xpressbet) are licensed and periodically renewed by the California Horse Racing Board; deductions from ADW handle fund jockey/backstretch welfare programs per statute. | ||
| Colorado | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering platforms (e.g., TVG, TwinSpires) operate under Division of Racing Events licensure. Exact launch date not confirmed from available sources. | ||
| Connecticut | Live | 2013 | Monopoly State | Connecticut's General Statutes chapter 226 define "advance deposit wager" as an off-track betting wager on racing placed by phone or electronic means, restricted to the state's single authorized OTB operator. Sportech subsidiary MyWinners.com launched in 2013 as (per contemporary reporting) the only legal horse-racing wagering website in Connecticut; it was relaunched in January 2026 as the MyWinners: Racing & Sports app/site, still licensed to CT residents for phone/online wagering on out-of-state simulcast racing (CT has no live tracks). | |
| Delaware | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering platforms licensed to take pari-mutuel wagers from DE residents on in-state and simulcast races; specific statute/launch date not independently verified in this pass. | ||
| Idaho | Live | Hybrid | Racing Commission approves advance-deposit-wagering sites/providers; a current list is published on the commission's page. | ||
| Illinois | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering is authorized "subject to rules for advance wagering promulgated by the [Racing] Board" under 230 ILCS 5/26(a); the Racing Board maintains a dedicated ADW program page (operators include TVG/FanDuel Racing, NYRA Bets, Xpressbet). | ||
| Indiana | Live | Competitive | 0% OTHER (online) | HB 1350 (2017) authorized advance deposit wagering via licensed Secondary Pari-Mutuel Organizations (SPMOs); bettors must be 21+ and physically located in Indiana. Licensed SPMOs as of July 2026 include Churchill Downs Technology Initiative Co. (TwinSpires/BetAmerica); the roster has shrunk over time (e.g., PointsBet's ADW license lapsed). | |
| Iowa | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering on horse racing is licensed separately (IRGC "Advance Deposit Wagering Operators" licensing category). | ||
| Kentucky | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit account wagering providers must be licensed by the racing commission; the commission 'may impose a license fee not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) annually.' | ||
| Maine | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering is licensed under §1073 (the prior competitive-bid licensing path in §1071 was repealed); overseen by the Gambling Control Unit. | ||
| Maryland | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering platforms licensed for online pari-mutuel wagering by MD residents; specific statute/launch date not independently verified in this research pass. | ||
| Massachusetts | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering on horse racing is available via licensed ADW providers under c.128A/MGC oversight; current operator list not independently confirmed this session. | ||
| Montana | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering is defined in §23-4-101 as a parimutuel form funded through a licensed hub operator; the Board licenses ADW providers and conducts/supervises ADW under 2007 rulemaking authority. | ||
| Nevada | Live | Competitive | Off-track and advance-deposit pari-mutuel wagering on races/events is licensed and taxed separately from on-track wagering under NRS Chapter 464 (3% tax on amount wagered, NRS 464.040); this is a distinct license category from on-track NRS 466 pari-mutuel. | ||
| New Hampshire | Live | Jul 1, 2022 | Competitive | 1.25% HANDLE (online) | RSA 284:22-c makes it "unlawful for any person or entity to accept an advance deposit wager from a New Hampshire resident" without a license; licensees must post a surety bond/letter of credit and have a commission-approved plan of operation covering dispute resolution, account security, ID verification, no credit extended, record-keeping, and annual financial/ cybersecurity audits. Minimum age 18. Pre-existing providers already serving NH residents as of July 1, 2022 could seek temporary permission to keep operating pending licensure, but "in no event shall this permission extend past January 1, 2026," so unlicensed legacy ADW operation must end by that date. |
| New Jersey | Live | Competitive | DGE regulates fixed-odds/advance-deposit wagering in consultation with the NJ Racing Commission; residents may wager by phone/electronic media on races in and outside NJ, and non-residents may wager in person or electronically at NJ tracks. | ||
| New York | Live | Competitive | PML § 1012 lets racing associations/corporations, franchised corporations, off-track betting corporations, and multi-jurisdictional account wagering providers apply to the Commission for an account-wagering license. NYRA Bets (operated under the New York Racing Association's franchise) is the best-known licensee; its ADW operations in other states (e.g., a Michigan provisional ADW license issued October 2021, and a 2026 New Jersey managing-vendor deal) are documented, though a complete current NY licensee list was not independently confirmed in this research pass. | ||
| Oregon | Live | Competitive | The Racing Commission licenses advance deposit wagering (ADW) companies and totalizer hubs. By statute/rule, 25% of ADW fees collected is directed to the state General Fund and the remaining 75% supports the racing industry; a 2025 legislative concept (LC 487) proposed eliminating the 25%-to-General-Fund mandate (not confirmed enacted). | ||
| Pennsylvania | Live | Competitive | ADW platforms (e.g., TwinSpires, TVG) licensed to accept online pari-mutuel wagers from PA residents. | ||
| Texas | Live | Competitive | Simulcast and account/advance-deposit wagering on horse racing is conducted through the licensed racetracks and their wagering systems under Racing Commission rules; not available as a standalone statewide ADW platform outside track-affiliated systems. | ||
| Virginia | Live | Competitive | Virginia Racing Commission has licensed ADW providers (TVG, Xpressbet, historically TwinSpires/NYRABets) since 2004 under the federal Interstate Horseracing Act framework; VRC suspended TwinSpires' license in 2015 over unpaid horsemen's-fund amounts. | ||
| Washington | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering for Washington residents may only be conducted by ADW providers licensed by the Horse Racing Commission under WAC 260-49; providers must contract with a licensed racing association and post a bond. | ||
| West Virginia | Live | Competitive | Advance deposit wagering platforms licensed to accept pari-mutuel wagers from WV residents; specific statute/launch date not independently verified in this research pass. | ||
| Minnesota | Limited | Competitive | Chapter 240 defines account-based advance deposit wagering on out-of-state races as a distinct, Racing-Commission-regulated activity, explicitly excluding historical horse racing. | ||
| North Dakota | Limited | Competitive | The Racing Commission licenses advance-deposit-wagering providers; a May 2026 commission agenda shows active ADW items including an ownership-change review (US Off-Track, LLC / TRPB LSX / white-label affiliates) and a new ADW application from Longshot Fantasy, Inc. | ||
| Ohio | Limited | Hybrid | Simulcast/account wagering is conducted through licensed permit holders and simulcast hosts/guests under ORC 3769.089; national ADW platforms (e.g. TwinSpires, TVG) take wagers on Ohio racing and out-of-state racing via Ohio-licensed hosts, but the specific ADW-licensing provisions (ORC 3769.26 and related sections) were not fully reviewed. Secondary source only. | ||
| Wyoming | Limited | Competitive | Confirmed via the Title 11 statute text itself: the Commission "may authorize advance deposit pari-mutuel wagering at any premise where a pari-mutuel event is authorized" subject to account-identification, auditing, and minor-access-prohibition safeguards (§11-25-201(k)). Not a separate licensing category from pari_mutuel/HHR. | ||
| North Carolina | Legal, not launched | Covered by the same Chapter 18C pari-mutuel licensing framework as retail pari-mutuel; no active advance deposit wagering provider confirmed operating as of Oct. 2026. | |||
| South Dakota | Legal, not launched | Jul 1, 2026 | Hybrid | Gov. Rhoden signed HB 1058 on 2026-02-17, requiring a person to be licensed as a multi-jurisdictional totalizator hub to operate an online/mobile pari-mutuel wagering platform for horse or dog races in South Dakota, with a separate tax structure for hubs with no in-state physical presence; the Commission on Gaming's meeting materials describe a 2026-07-01 effective date. Before this law, online ADW providers (e.g., TVG per a commercial vendor list) reportedly operated without a dedicated license category; marked limited rather than operational because this research pass could not independently confirm any hub has completed licensure and is live under the new regime as of the file's as_of date. | |
| Florida | Contested | No Florida statute expressly authorizes or prohibits advance-deposit wagering (ADW) on horse racing. A 2016 bill (SB 728) would have created a licensing framework (proposed § 550.6346) and its preamble stated the problem directly: "advance deposit wagering is neither specifically authorized nor prohibited by Florida law, and yet advance deposit wagering companies deem advance deposit wagering to be legal in this state." That bill, and earlier attempts (HB 1397 in 2012, SB 994 in 2014), all died in committee. ADW operators have continued to treat the activity as legal in the absence of a statutory bar, but this remains a legal-gray-area status rather than a confirmed operational framework. | |||
| Louisiana | Contested | La. R.S. 4:149(A) confines legal pari-mutuel wagering on horse races to licensed on-site wagering and states "all other forms of wagering on the result of horse races are illegal," with only two statutory exceptions (the section itself, and a sports-book-lounge wagering provision at R.S. 27:612, which falls within Louisiana's sports-wagering chapter rather than a dedicated ADW authorization). This research found no distinct statute authorizing account/advance-deposit wagering for Louisiana residents wagering on races run in-state or out-of-state; secondary industry marketing pages describe ADW as available to Louisiana bettors 18+, but that description was not corroborated against the statute text reviewed, so the vertical is marked contested rather than confirmed operational or prohibited. | |||
| Michigan | Contested | Competitive | Michigan's Horse Racing Law ties simulcast/advance-deposit wagering to a live race meet at a licensed track; Michigan's last track, Northville Downs, closed Feb. 2024, leaving no licensed live-racing venue. On Dec. 23, 2024 the MGCB directed all 4 licensed ADW facilitators (Xpressbet, TwinSpires, NYRAbets, TVG/ODS Technologies) to cease Michigan account wagering effective Jan. 1, 2025, reasoning ADW requires a live in-state meet that no longer exists; Xpressbet, NYRAbets, and TVG complied. TwinSpires (Churchill Downs) refused, was summarily suspended by the MGCB on Jan. 9, 2025, and sued the board in federal court over the track-linkage theory; per an Aug. 2025 trade report, the 6th Circuit upheld a lower-court ruling letting TwinSpires continue operating pending the litigation. Status is therefore contested rather than cleanly operational or not_authorized: one major ADW (TwinSpires) continues to accept Michigan wagers under an ongoing court order while the state's own position is that ADW is not currently authorized absent a live in-state meet. | ||
| Missouri | Contested | No licensed advance-deposit-wagering platform currently serves Missouri; TwinSpires exited the state January 31, 2024, citing unclear legal status. | |||
| Hawaii | Prohibited | No pari-mutuel framework exists for advance-deposit wagering to attach to. | |||
| Utah | Prohibited | SB 156 (2025) would have authorized advance deposit pari-mutuel wagering; it failed on the Senate floor, so ADW remains unauthorized. | |||
| Alabama | Not authorized | No advance-deposit-wagering licensing framework identified; pari-mutuel wagering historically confined to physical track locations under county racing commissions. | |||
| Alaska | Not authorized | No pari-mutuel racing exists for advance-deposit wagering to attach to. | |||
| District of Columbia | Not authorized | No DC statute authorizes advance deposit wagering on horse racing; no pari-mutuel framework exists in DC Code Title 36. | |||
| Georgia | Not authorized | No advance deposit wagering is possible without an underlying authorized pari-mutuel market. | |||
| Kansas | Not authorized | Resolved on follow-up research (2026-10-11), previously `unknown`, after reading the full Kansas Parimutuel Racing Act text (the same kela/pmra compilation already cited): the Act defines and licenses live racing, simulcasting, intertrack wagering, and "off-track wagering" (wagering on a simulcast race at a licensed off-track facility), but contains no definition of, or licensing framework for, "advance deposit wagering" or "account wagering" anywhere in its ~2,500-line text. K.S.A. 74-8843(f) separately and explicitly bars wagering on historical horse races "over the internet or a digital cellular network, including through any website or mobile device application," underscoring that the Act treats internet/mobile wagering as a distinct, unaddressed category rather than folding it into licensed ADW. No KRGC rule, license list, or regulation creating an ADW provider category was found. National ADW platforms nonetheless accept Kansas residents in practice: Action Network's state tracker (fetched directly) lists TwinSpires, DRF, and AmWager as available to Kansas bettors (FanDuel Racing, TVG, and DraftKings Horse as not), consistent with access under the federal Interstate Horseracing Act rather than any Kansas-specific state authorization. | |||
| Mississippi | Not authorized | Mississippi has no operating pari-mutuel racetracks (see pari_mutuel) and no statute authorizing advance-deposit wagering on horse racing. Two bills (H.B. 374 in 1998, H.B. 1524 in 2000) that would have let MGC-licensed casinos run a race book for horse/dog racing both died in committee; no subsequent ADW-specific legislation was identified. | |||
| Nebraska | Not authorized | Under current Nebraska law an unlicensed person/entity accepting pari-mutuel wagers (including an unlicensed ADW system) outside a licensed racetrack facility commits a Class I misdemeanor; a 2023 bill (LB642) to raise that to a felony and more clearly bar unlicensed ADW failed after Sen. Russ Karpisek moved to bracket it. No Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission ADW operator license was identified in the NRGC's sports-betting/licensing pages or its 2025 annual report (which lists casino and vendor licensing but no ADW operator list); horse-race wagering in Nebraska functions only in person/on-track or via licensed simulcast at racetracks. | |||
| New Mexico | Not authorized | The enacted Horse Racing Act definitions section reviewed (60-1A-2, subsections A-KK) defines "simulcast" but contains no "advance deposit wagering" term. Bills to add ADW (defining it as pari-mutuel wagering via a pre-funded account, not "gambling" under 30-19-2/-3, and directing Racing Commission rules for third-party technology providers) were introduced repeatedly -- HB636/SB564 (2019 session) and HB199/SB362 (2021 session) -- but none is reflected in the current enacted statute, indicating all failed to pass. | |||
| Oklahoma | Not authorized | Oklahoma has no dedicated ADW operator-licensing statute yet, but Senate Bill 1955 (introduced January 2026) would direct the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission to adopt rules licensing advance-deposit account wagering and would require providers accepting wagers from Oklahoma IP addresses to hold a Commission license; a similar 2022 bill (HB 3936) proposed the same licensing structure. Under the federal Interstate Horseracing Act, an interstate ADW operator may accept Oklahoma wagers only with consent from the host racing association, host racing commission, and Oklahoma's own racing commission as the "off-track racing commission" -- meaning some ADW activity already occurs via that federal consent mechanism even without a standalone state ADW statute. Enactment status of SB 1955 not confirmed this pass. | |||
| Rhode Island | Not authorized | No Rhode Island statute or Lottery Division source authorizing advance-deposit wagering (ADW) operators was identified. Rhode Island has had no live horse racing since Lincoln Greyhound Park's 2009 closure (see pari_mutuel); simulcast wagering reportedly continues in person at Twin River/Bally's Tiverton, but that is on-premises simulcast parlor wagering, not a state-licensed online/ADW platform. | |||
| South Carolina | Not authorized | No advance deposit wagering statute exists; proposed ADW licensing has only appeared inside the same failed Equine Advancement Act bills covering live racing. | |||
| Tennessee | Not authorized | ||||
| Vermont | Not authorized | No ADW licensing framework exists given the pari-mutuel racing ban. | |||
| Wisconsin | Not authorized | No Wisconsin statute defines or separately licenses "advance deposit wagering" as its own category. Ch. 562's interstate-wagering mechanism is narrower: § 562.01(8g) defines an "out-of-state legal wagering entity," and § 562.08(4) lets the department permit a Wisconsin-licensed racetrack or intertrack-wagering licensee (under § 562.05(1)(b)) to "simulcast races to any out-of-state legal wagering entity, and to commingle the licensee's wagering pools on those races with those of any out-of-state legal wagering entity" -- i.e., any account-wagering access would have to be routed through a Wisconsin-licensed in-state intermediary, not offered directly by an out-of-state hub. No live, operating racetrack or intertrack-wagering licensee was identified in Wisconsin (see pari_mutuel), so that statutory intermediary route is dormant. Secondary sources are mixed but mostly describe Wisconsin as excluded: a 2015 industry report and several current-era aggregator lists (WorldPopulationReview, BettingUSA's TVG review, Gambling911) consistently place Wisconsin among the states where TVG/TwinSpires account wagering is not available, while one 2023 promotional list and a separate BettingUSA Wisconsin-specific guide claim bettors there in practice use TwinSpires/AmWager informally -- neither source identifies a Wisconsin license, rule, or state authorization for that access. Treated as not_authorized (no statute authorizes a stand-alone ADW channel) rather than inferred from other states. |
Amount bet on U.S. horse races
Thoroughbred racing, all sourcesPer year
$10.0B$20.0B200520092013201720212025$11.0B
Thoroughbred races run in the United States, including online and out-of-state wagering into U.S. pools.[1]
By state
States measure this differently, so compare a state with itself over time, not with other states.
| State | Measure | Year | Amount bet | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | Bet in the state | 2024 | $3.0B[2] | |
| New York | Bet on the state's races, from anywhere | 2024 | $2.5B[3] | |
| New Jersey | Bet in the state | 2025 | $555M[4] | -13.0% |
| Kentucky | Bet in the state | 2019 | $501M[5] | +0.5% |
| Florida | Bet in the state | 2025 | $335M[6] | -6.0% |
Sources
- Wagering handle off sharply in December, down for year · The Racing Biz (citing Equibase) · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
- California Horse Racing Board Annual Report, FY 2023-24 · California Horse Racing Board · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
- 2024 Annual Report, Division of Horse Racing and Pari-Mutuel Wagering · New York State Gaming Commission · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
- New Jersey Racing Commission 86th Annual Report (2025) · New Jersey Racing Commission · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
- Kentucky Handle and Excise Tax Report for June, 2019 · Kentucky Horse Racing Commission · retrieved Oct 11, 2026
- 2024/2025 Permitholder Activity Report, Year-to-Date Through June 2025 · Florida Gaming Control Commission, Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering · retrieved Oct 11, 2026