Saratoga Handle And Att Decline

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Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Which basically boiled down to one day (yesterday) having a sizable difference year over year. Closing weekend this year was a disaster from a handle perspective.

Granted, handle should have been up given the terrific weather and overall number of races. There's no reasonable explanation for it at this point. However, to use attendance as a metric of any type is irrelevant.

I wonder if improved racing product and weather at other venues may have hurt Saratoga? Not really sure, I know Del Mar which I follow pretty close, had its best meet probably since 2000ish. Now if we can just get real dirt.