The weather isn't the issue. They've held it in Chicago, and Canada for pete's sake. The risk of a cold weather blast would be no greater at Saratoga than it would be a Belmont or Monmouth.
They have plenty of space to hold out. Hell they've held it Lone Star Park which is as small of a venue you can get The no room and the weather is all BS.
The bottom line is to why they haven't held it a Saratoga is NYRA doesn't feel it would be worth the effort to strip down Belmont of all the equipment and ship it back up to Saratoga just for one day when they have everything all set up and ready to go at Belmont. That is the ONLY reason why Saratoga hasn't hosted.
There maybe a time in the future where Saratoga may host it, sort of Tribute sort of thing, kind of like when Fenway hosted the AllStar Game. I see that happening but you'll never see Saratoga in the rotation.
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