2021 New York Laws
PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Article 2 - Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding
247 - Racing Zones.

§  247.  Racing zones. There are hereby created two racing zones to be
  known as the first zone and  the  second  zone.  The  first  zone  shall
  include all of the counties in the first, second, ninth, tenth, eleventh
  and  twelfth  judicial  districts. The second zone shall include all the
  other counties of the  state.  Not  more  than  six  corporations  shall
  hereafter  be  licensed  by the commission or franchised by the state to
  conduct a race course or race meeting for running races or steeplechases
  at which pari-mutuel betting shall be authorized within the first  zone,
  and  not  more  than  three  of  such corporations shall hereafter be so
  licensed within the second zone.  The  commission  shall  not  hereafter
  approve  the  incorporation  of such a corporation for conducting a race
  course or race meeting within the second zone if  the  location  of  the
  proposed race course of such corporation is within seventy-five miles of
  the race course of another such corporation.