The spring/summer meet at Belmont Park kicks off Wednesday, June 3rd. Following a five-day opening week, live racing at the 25-day Belmont spring/summer meet will be conducted Thursday through Sunday until Closing Day on Sunday, July 12th. Post Time Wednesday will be 1:15. The main track at Belmont as well as the dirt training track are both now open, and fully operational seven days a … Continue reading Belmont Park To Open
There will indeed be a 2020 version of the Triple Crown, though in this rendition the last shall be first. The New York Racing Association announced the $1 million dollar Belmont Stakes will be contested June 20th at Belmont Park without fans. That makes this years Belmont the opening leg of the series that has been shuffled by the COVID-19 pandemic. Aside from the new … Continue reading The Belmont Stakes
There are still 10 weeks before the Saratoga Race Course is scheduled to open for the season on July 16th. But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has questioned whether the track will be open at all this year to fans. “You can’t open an attraction that could bring people from across the state to that attraction and overwhelm a region,” Cuomo said during a press … Continue reading Empty Grandstands At The Spa?
New York State will build a 1,000-bed emergency hospital at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens to try to help the region accommodate the expected surge of COVID-19 patients in the weeks to come. This construction was announced March 28th by New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo. The remainder of the winter and spring meets at Aqueduct have been canceled. Racing was originally scheduled to conclude at the … Continue reading NYRA & Aqueduct Step Up
The 2020 Kentucky Derby trail returns to Aqueduct Park on Saturday for the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes. The race is held each February at Aqueduct Race Track. It was first run in 1874 at Jerome Park Race Track and had been run at several tracks since, before finding a permanent home at the Big A. It is a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds that … Continue reading The Withers Stakes
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) announced last week that its 2019 race meets conducted at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course generated an all-sources handle of $2,108,126,369. For the first time in history, NYRA generated more than $700 million in all-sources handle during the 2019 meet at Saratoga Race Course, which was conducted over a five-day race week. Wagering from all-sources … Continue reading NYRA Final Accounting
