Despite Race-Day Changes, Belmont Posts Solid Numbers

On a 2025 Belmont bets, which the New York Racing Association made some difficult decisions to guarantee the safest day as possible, that first responsibility has precedence on any economic indicator, but Surpass $ Manage Card still did it.

After a rather stable rain, sometimes heavy, flooded Saratoga career course From the afternoon of June 6 to the morning of Belmont’s day, on June 7, Nyra officials made the difficult decision to postpone a grade 1 grass -grade couple or scheduled graduates from Saturday to Sunday while moving the main corridor of the day.

With the decision to postpone the bets Jaipur (G1T) and Manhattan (G1T) until Sunday, many of the horizontal bets of the day had to be canceled, including the popular selection 5, the late selection 5 and the late collector (G1 G1). The movement of the other four scheduled grass races from the day to the main track saw numerous scratches negatively affect the size of the field.

But the card that was reduced to 12 races proved to be a safe day and the performance of the main track threw compliant with the coaches, which accredited the executive vice president of operations and capital projects of Nyra Glen Kozak. While careless and sealed for much of the day, the track proved to be fair and fair for the runners, since the races won in leadership, from intermediation and deep closing. With the sun rising later in the day and constant attention, Belmont’s bets would run in a fast track.

“I knew with all the rain that we had to Glen and its crew here in Nyra were going to have the track fantastically and they did,” said Bill Mott, Belmont Stakes Winner coach said Sovereignty . “They had it fantastically all day and it rained all morning and all last night.”

As for the numbers, the 157th day of Belmont Stakes, played in Saratoga for the second consecutive year as a house at home Belmont park $ 101,861,883 is rebuilt in the handle of all sources. Although that figure was low from the approximately $ 125.7 million that moved last year, exceeded the total of 2022 of almost $ 98.8 million.

Despite a little rain to start the day, this year’s assistance or 46,243 were not far or the crowd last year or 50,000.

The mango on the track for the Belmont Stakes day card, which included three grade 1 races among six graduated bets, reached $ 10,440,740. All prayers handle for the career of Belmont Stakes, which was carded as race 13 and was sacrificed as the 11th day event, was $ 55,456,793.

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival concludes on Sunday with a 13 -run card now headed by Manhattan and Jaipur. The first publication is 12:10 pm