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Situated in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, Saratoga Race Course is a racetrack for horse racing. It is the oldest organized sporting facility of any type in the United States, having debuted for business on August 3, 1863. Racing usually takes place there from late July until early September.
Saratoga Race Course History
William R. Travers and John Hunter, who went on to become The Jockey Club’s first chairman, constructed Saratoga Race Course. The modern Oklahoma Track (training track), which opened the following year, was the original track, located across Union Avenue from the current Saratoga Race Course. The centerpiece of the yearly summer race meeting is the Travers Stakes, the oldest significant thoroughbred horse race in the United States, held at the track since 1864. The Saratoga meet was formerly limited to four days, but it was later extended, and for a number of years, it ran for four weeks. Five weeks was the extension in the 1990s. The six-week meeting that starts today ends on Labor Day. NYRA added four extra days to the 2010 racing event in 2009. Due to travel limitations during the war, Saratoga Race Course did not host races from 1943 until 1945. The stakes races held at Belmont Park during those years took the place of the scheduled races at Saratoga Race Course.
The Saratoga Race Course is also known as the “Graveyard of Champions” due to the upsets that have happened there, and The Spa due to the natural springs that are close by. At Saratoga Race Course, Man o’ War lost his lone race in twenty-one starts; Onion defeated Secretariat there following his Triple Crown victory; and in the 1930 Travers Stakes, 100-1 long shot Jim Dandy defeated Gallant Fox. Saratoga Race Course was named the tenth-best sports arena of the twentieth century by Sports Illustrated in 1999.
On August 2, 2006, a heat wave that had swept the Eastern Seaboard forced the closure of the track. This was only the fourth time in the track’s existence that it had closed. In 1911 and 1912, after Governor Charles Evans Hughes’ administration passed legislation prohibiting all forms of horse racing wagering, the track had closed for three full seasons during World War II and because it was no longer financially viable.
Saratoga Race Course has three distinct tracks in its main course, just like the other two tracks run by the New York Racing Association, Aqueduct and Belmont Park.
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