Numbers Up At Saratoga, But Down From ’07
NYRA said that attendance was up 4.1 percent and on-track handle increased 4.5 percent at Saratoga Race Course in its fifth week this year compared to the fifth week of the 2007 meet.
While the numbers boosted a sluggish year at the Spa, it still trails 2007’s record-breaking business.
Attendance for the first 29 days of the 2008 meet was 702,762, down from 795,949 in 2007, with daily averages of 24,233 compared to 27,447 in 2007. And on-track handle at Saratoga was $94 million, down from $103 million.
(Left is Colonel John after winning the Travers Stakes Saturday, the track’s biggest race of the year.)
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