New Jersey’s Meadowlands Racetrack plans to launch sports betting on Sunday, July 15.

On Friday, the Associated Press quoted Meadowlands manager Jeff Gural announcing the July start date for wagering at the track. The Meadowlands will start with land-based wagering but eventually plans to add online betting. The track has a sports betting technology deal with Betfair US, a division of UK-listed gambling operator Paddy Power Betfair.

Gural had previously suggested a less rapid rollout of sports betting at the Meadowlands, but appears to have been spurred to action by this week’s failure by New York legislators to approve betting legislation before lawmakers called time on this year’s session. The Meadowlands is just across the state line from New York City’s teeming (and legal sports betting deprived) masses.

Gural said New York “did me such a favor by not passing sports betting,” claiming that having near-monopolistic access to the roughly 15m souls who reside within 20 miles of the track was “a tremendous gift.”