Vaccaro v. Joyce

OPINION OF THE COURT

Edward J. Greenfield, J.

June 12, 1989 should have been a red-letter day for Roberto *644Vaccaro. He went to an office of the Nassau Off-Track Betting Corp. (OTB) and purchased $85 worth of pari-mutuel tickets on the daily double to be run that day at Belmont Park. His choices were the C horse, Dyna Mite Mollie, in the first race, and the F horse, Jazz City, in the second. Sure enough, Dyna Mite Mollie came through and won by AVz lengths, and when Jazz City took the lead in the second race and kept it to the finish line, Vaccaro thought he was a winner. However, the Stewards…