OTB Is in Financial Trouble, but It's Ready to Roll.

In the event of a computer coding emergency at a horse betting parlor, the director of software development for the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation has an official car at the ready for a fast trip. The car, a 2001 Chevrolet Impala, while nothing fancy, is part of a fleet of 87 vehicles that cost the government-controlled betting operation an average of $6,700 each a year to operate, even as OTB became increasingly at risk of requiring a taxpayer bailout. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]