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SARATOGA SPRINGS — The New York Racing Association will make general admission tickets, hospitality offerings and reserved seats for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course available to the public at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Fe…


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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Four-time Eclipse Award-winning sportswriter Tim Layden, who first started covering Thoroughbred racing for the Schenectady Gazette in 1976, has been selected to the National Museum of Racing’s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS — As expected, there will be nine additional days of racing at Saratoga Race Course in 2025, with the addition of another day to the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival and a shift of the July 4th Racing Festival from Aqueduct to Saratoga.

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The New York Racing Association and its construction contractors remain on schedule to finish the new Belmont Park in September of 2026, while the possibility exists that the Belmont Stakes could return to Belmont Park in June of that year ev…

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Selections for Monday, Sept. 2 at Saratoga Race Course from Daily Gazette handicappers Matt Donato, Gene Kershner and Jeff Carle, as well as the NYRA Bets picks of the day from Matthew DeSantis and analysis from Gazette horse racing writer Mi…