Met Mile, other stakes moved to Belmont Day

[ranger5830]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Can you give me the handle for Memorial Day over the last, say, ten years please. Then, give me the average weekday handle at Belmont for that time of year. Thanks in advance.

Here you go, the average handle for the last ten Memorial Day cards at BEL is $15,057,854.10, ranging from a low of $13,046,747 in 2011 to a high of $17,127,488 back in '04. The average handle for the race day following Memorial Day (usually Thursday but they did run on Wednesday once) is $7, 283,730.10 ranging from $5,634,793 in '12 to $10,123,254 in '07 ($262k pick six carryover that day tho)

To say it will be like a regular weekday is obviously hyperbole, but if you were to set the over/under total handle at $15 million, I would take the under.