TORONTO — Sports betting sites across Canada could offer legal sports betting on horse racing before next year’s Kentucky Derby, according to one industry executive.

Woodbine Entertainment Group CEO Jim Lawson told Covers on Monday that the not-for-profit-like horse-racing company is aiming to power pari-mutuel wagering on the sport for a variety of Ontario-regulated sportsbooks by early next year — and perhaps outside the province as well.

As of last week, Toronto-based Woodbine is already doing so for bet365, enabling the operator to once again offer horse racing to Ontario sports betting customers.

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“We’re going to roll this out to other sports betting operators [in Ontario],” Lawson said. “But there’s a good chance we’ll be able to roll this out across Canada and work with the provincial lottery corporations in other provinces.”

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