The absence of a Triple Crown threat is not diminishing the excitement as Saratoga Race ... track season and it is also bringing in a lot of first-time visitors who wouldn’t have come if the ...

Normally run at 1½ miles, this year’s Belmont will be shortened to 1¼ miles, as the race was a year ago. The main track configuration at Saratoga does not work well for a 1½-mile race.

New York Racing officials ... excavators are everywhere! Belmont Park is so big that when Marylou Whitney’s Birdstone upset Smarty Jones in the 2004 Belmont, the track jammed more than 120 ...