NYRA sets 2024 calendar, with Belmont Stakes at Saratoga
The New York Racing Association announced its 2024 racing schedule, which includes 195 live race days at Aqueduct and Saratoga.
The ongoing construction of a new 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 on June 6-9. In addition, the fall and spring-summer meets traditionally held at Belmont will take place at Aqueduct in 2024.
After the 2023 Aqueduct fall meet on Sunday, the 47-day winter meet begins Monday and continues through Saturday, March 30. Live racing will be conducted Thursday through Sunday for the first three weeks of January and Friday through Sunday from Jan. 26 through the first week of March. Aqueduct will host a Presidents’ Day card on Monday, Feb. 19. Four-day race weeks resume on March 7.
The 16-day Aqueduct spring meet will run from Thursday, April 4, through Sunday, April 28. The NYRA circuit then will remain at Aqueduct for the 31-day Belmont at the Big A spring-summer meet, which will open on Thursday, May 2, and continue through Sunday, July 7. Racing will be conducted Thursday through Sunday during the spring and summer, with the exception of a Memorial Day program on Monday, May 27.
The 40-day summer meet at Saratoga will open on Thursday, July 11, and continue through Labor Day, Sept. 2. After the four-day opening weekend, live racing will be conducted Wednesday through Sunday with the exception of closing week, which will conclude on Labor Day.
The NYRA circuit then will return downstate for the 31-day Belmont at the Big A fall meet, which will open on Friday, Sept. 13, and continue through Sunday, Nov. 3. Apart from the opening weekend, racing will be conducted Thursday through Sunday during the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
?2024 will conclude with a 26-day fall meet at Aqueduct, which will open on Thursday, Nov. 7, and continue through Sunday, Dec. 29. Apart from closing week, live racing will be conducted Thursday through Sunday during the Aqueduct fall meet.
Click here for the NYRA calendar of live race dates.