Since January 2023, Wheeling Island is one of only two live greyhound tracks in the United States, along with Mardi Gras Casino and Resort in Nitro, West Virginia.

Wheeling Downs began its life as a thoroughbred horse race track in 1937 and continued in that capacity until a 1962 fire heavily damaged the property, keeping it closed for the next 5 years.

[5] In June 2007, as revenue from greyhound racing declined, Ohio County voters approved a referendum permitting table games.

From fall 2012 to 2015, the casino served as the site of the Wheeling Jamboree, the second oldest country music radio broadcast in the United States after the Grand Ole Opry.

[7][8] In 1988, Ogden sold Wheeling Downs to Delaware North,[9] a global food service and hospitality company headquartered in Buffalo, New York.