Hal Handel, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the New York Racing Association, will leave his post after the conclusion of this summer’s Saratoga meet (July 22-Sept. 5), NYRA announced Wednesday in a release.

Handel, 63, a former deputy attorney general in New Jersey, joined NYRA in Sept. 2007 after serving as an executive at Monmouth Park, the Meadowlands and Philadelphia Park. He is one of the high-paid NYRA executives whose recent raises came under fire from the State Financial Oversight Board and is leaving just before the Genting Resorts World New York VLT casino is scheduled to open at Aqueduct.