nyra

[Linny]

In the past, NYRA has run on the day after the Belmont but this year they chose not to. I am not sure of the reasons but my guess would be, in no particular order:
Many huge crowd days when a TC was on the line (they had no idea when presenting the state with their calendar if a TC would be on the line) Cleanup after 100k patron day is a nightmare.

The fact they Memorial Day was the prior Monday AND they added Wed to the week. Usually Wed after a Monday holiday is dark.

The fact that MON has been a horse drain for them and filling good races has been tough.

Comparing Saratoga to Belmont is pointless. Fans would show up at Saratoga if they ran 9 New Jersey bred mule races.


The carryover is irrelevant. There was no way to know that there would be a carryover. In fact, I'd guess just by my recent play on big NYRA days (Belmont, JCGC etc) that more often it's a chalky P6. It's not like, at 7pm on Sat that they could suddenly get a card slated for Sunday because of the C/O. Having the few extra days should have been helpful to bettors and the casual fans that might have added to the ranks on Sunday were probably not playing the P6 anyhow.

NYRA had (realistically speaking) run too many races over the last two weeks between the holiday weekend cards and the 10 and 13 race days on Fr and Sat. They needed the break.