New York racing relocates back downstate to its temporary Autumn home at Aqueduct Park as the renovation project at Belmont continues.

The 2023 Belmont at the Big A race meet is ready to commence on September 14th.

The traditional Belmont Park fall meet, filled with big purses and loaded with important races, will once again be held at Aqueduct in 2023 for a 28-day season that will run four days a week through Sunday, October 29th.

But fear not racing fans, you can still find the usual high-class, day in and day out New York fall racing you’ve come to expect at Belmont, but at The Big A instead.

The meet will host 40 Stakes that will offer purses of $8.78 million dollars and include three Grade 1 races and six Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series, Win & You’re In races.

Belmont at the Big A racing might lack some of the glamour and prestige of the annual New York summer meet at Saratoga, but the quality of the racing and wagering you will find at Belmont at the Big A won’t be much of a letdown for horseplayers, who can still enjoy the fall season’s best racing and wagering.

Belmont at the Big A will have plenty to offer horseplayers, including top 2-year-old racing, the best turf racing of the season, and the extensive above-mentioned fall Stakes program.

For the average horseplayer, handicapping at Aqueduct can may be an easier assignment than Winning at Saratoga.

Field sizes are good but will be somewhat smaller than they were at Saratoga, especially on the dirt.

Aqueduct features two turf courses, the main turf course and the inner turf in the space where the old inner dirt track used to be.

If you’re strictly an east coast handicapper then the Belmont at the Big A fall meet promises to offer the best racing and wagering a horseplayer can find this fall season.

Best of luck to those that play, Belmont at the Big A.