Saratoga Race Course is getting ready to be the center of the horse racing world when the Belmont Stakes comes to town. It will be the venerable racing city's first Triple Crown race. But in many ways, Saratoga Springs, New York, has been hosting front-page spectacles longer than anywhere else.
FILE — A fog burns off as the sun rises over the Oklahoma Training Track, in Saratoga Springs , N.Y., Aug. 26, 2005. Venerable Saratoga Race Course adds to its mystique and tradition by hosting the Belmont Stakes for the next two years. The track that predates the end of the U.S. Civil War has never before hosted a Triple Crown race. FILE — Horses are spread across the track shortly after the start of the Whitney Handicap horse race at Saratoga Race Course, in Saratoga Springs , N.Y.
“I mean, this has been a rumor for a couple of years regarding the Belmont in Saratoga,” Mayor John Safford said. “The fact that it actually came about is just exciting.” “I can tell you everybody in the room wanted to hug David O’Rouke for the opportunity to host this,” Shimkus said. “We’ve been anticipating this for almost two years now and can’t wait.”
“Clearly, Saratoga is popular and clearly a lot of people are going to be here, so I get that,” Veitch said. “I think that NYRA probably knows that there’ll be a big crowd here, which there will be.” Last year, Phish played a sold-out 27,000-crowd concert at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center the night before the Travers. The Travers then had a crowd of 47,000 the next day.“It’s 50,000 people here on Saturday, June 8, that is unprecedented,” Shimkus said. “We’ve never had that many people here on a June 8 in the history of Saratoga Springs. But 50,000 people come here often over the summer.”
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