The date of the Travers will never be changed to the closing weekend as the number of NYRA staff drops day by day after the Travers as most of the college kids head back to school and a lot of the High School kids take the closing weekend off to have a break before school begins.
I believe the Chamber of Commerce says that capacity in the town is reached only at Travers weekend and is about 130,000 which includes residents' (28,000 population), 38,000 or so at the track-a fair number of whom will be one of the locals and so at least 65,000+ tourists milling around town.
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