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Originally Posted by RunForTheRoses
FTR they never expanded into September, has always ended Labor Day. They did expand into July but not September.
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You are quite wrong. The meeting used to conclude at the end of August. By way of example, here's Steve Crist's story on the 1988 Hopeful Stakes, run on August 28, 1988:
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/28/s...s-hopeful.html
They moved the Woodward to Saratoga in 2006, to run Labor Day weekend, thereby expanding the season into September.
