The New York Racing Association has announced its 2024 racing schedule, which includes 195 live race days at Aqueduct and Saratoga Race Course as the ongoing construction of a new and re-imagined Belmont Park will require significant adjustments to the customary NYRA schedule.
Most notably, as previously announced, the 2024 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will be held at Saratoga June 6-9. In addition, the fall and spring/summer meets traditionally held at Belmont will take place at Aqueduct in 2024.
Following the conclusion of the 2023 Aqueduct fall meet Dec. 31, the 47-day winter meet begins Monday, Jan. 1 and continues through Saturday, March 30. Live racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday for the first three weeks of January and Friday-Sunday from January 26 through the first week of March. Aqueduct will host a Presidents' Day card Monday, Feb. 19. Four-day race weeks resume March 7.
The 16-day Aqueduct spring meet will run from Thursday, April 4 through Sunday, April 28. The NYRA circuit will then remain at Aqueduct for the 31-day Belmont at the Big A spring/summer meet, which will open Thursday, May 2 and continue through Sunday, July 7. Racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday throughout the spring/summer with the exception of a Memorial Day program Monday, May 27.
The 40-day summer meet at historic Saratoga will open Thursday, July 11 and continue through Labor Day, Sept. 2. Following the four-day opening weekend, live racing will be conducted Wednesday-Sunday with the exception of closing week, which will conclude on Labor Day, Sept. 2.
The NYRA circuit will then return downstate for the 31-day Belmont at the Big A fall meet, which will open Friday, Sept. 13 and continue through Sunday, Nov. 3. Apart from the opening weekend, racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday throughout the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
2024 will conclude with a 26-day fall meet at Aqueduct, which will open Thursday, Nov. 7 and continue through Sunday, Dec. 29. Apart from closing week, live racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday throughout the Aqueduct fall meet.
For the 2024 calendar of live race dates, visit NYRA.com/2024.
This press release has been edited for content and style by BloodHorse Staff.
