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Originally Posted by dilanesp
It's interesting, because NYRA has disproven some old saws about Saratoga. The original theory was the six day week allowed them to contain the meet in August, which meant fans could get one month rentals and see the entire meet.
When they first expanded into September, the last week of the season did very poorly, despite the presence of the Woodward.
But now, they have expanded it a lot, shifted to a five day week, and added lots of giveaways. And it's worked. They had over 40,000 there on the final Sunday of the meet. That's a tremendous accomplishment.
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FTR they never expanded into September, has always ended Labor Day. They did expand into July but not September.
