NY Lottery Awards Columbia County Man Harley Davidson Motorcycle

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SCHENECTADY, NY (07/16/2010)(readMedia)-- Under a giant sign reading "TRIUMPH," Doug Face, a self-employed laborer from Niverville, Columbia County, was awarded a brand new Harley Davidson Fat Boy motorcycle courtesy of the New York Lottery's Harley Davidson instant game.

Face picked up his new "hog" at Spitzie's Motorcycle Center on Central Avenue in Colonie on July 15th.

A winner just six days after his 51st birthday, Face will have a hard time fitting his whole family on his new ride. He has four children, three sons and a daughter. A frequent player, Face had never won more than $1,000 before he scored his new $30,483 Harley prize package. He purchased his winning ticket at Jimmy Mart on Route 203 in Niverville.

The bike is a 2010 Harley Davidson Fat Boy Motorcycle in Vivid Black. It is FLSTF air-cooled, rigid mounted, has a twin cam 96B™ engine, and chrome, over/under shotgun exhaust with dual mufflers. The engine is black powder-coated with chrome covers.

Harley Davidson is a $5 instant ticket that offers a chance to win a Harley Fat Boy or $1,000,000. Since the game's debut in February of 2010, the Lottery has awarded one other Harley Davidson to Daniel Sullivan from Buffalo. In addition, two of the $1,000,000 prizes have been claimed by Kristi Spillett of Yaphank in Suffolk Couty and Susan Kot of Rego Park, Queens.

The odds of winning the Harley are 1 in 1,260,000. The odds of winning $1,000,000 are 1 in 3,150,000. The overall chance of winning any prize is 1 in 4.84.

The New York Lottery continues to be North America's largest and most profitable Lottery, earning more than $39.3 billion in education support statewide since its founding over 40 years ago. The Lottery contributed nearly $2.67 billion in fiscal year 2009-2010 to help support education in New York State, which was over 12 percent of total state education funding to local school districts.

Lottery revenue is distributed to local school districts by the same statutory formula used to distribute other state aid to education. It takes into account both a school district's size and its income level; larger, lower-income school districts receive proportionately larger shares of Lottery school funding.

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