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Belmont Stakes to move to Saratoga in 2024, get cut to 1.25 miles
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Belmont Stakes to move to Saratoga in 2024, get cut to 1.25 miles

  • STEPHEN WHYNO Associated Press

Next year's Belmont Stakes will take place at Saratoga Race Course. New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the move Wednesday. The final leg of horse racing's Triple Crown June 8 will be shortened to 1 1/4 miles and the purse increased from $1.5 million to $2 million. The change of location for at least 2024 is because of a massive renovation of Belmont Park. It'll be the first time the race is held at Saratoga. The Belmont construction project is also expected to keep the race in Saratoga in 2025.

Baffert's ban from racing in New York is over
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Baffert's ban from racing in New York is over

  • BETH HARRIS Associated Press
  • Updated

Bob Baffert can once again enter horses at New York's major tracks. The Hall of Fame trainer's one-year ban by the New York Racing Association has ended, allowing him to enter horses as soon as Thursday. Baffert was suspended in June for repeated medication violations, although none of them occurred in New York. He was barred from Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga racetracks. Baffert doesn't typically run horses this time of year in New York. He targets the biggest stakes races at Belmont in the spring and Saratoga in the summer.