NYRA announces 2024 race dates

By Pat McKenna —-

OZONE PARK, N.Y. –-The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) today announced its 2024 racing schedule, which includes 195 live race days at Aqueduct Racetrack and Saratoga Race Course.

The ongoing construction of a new and re-imagined Belmont Park will require significant adjustments to the customary NYRA schedule. Most notably, as previously announced, the 2024 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will be held at Saratoga Race Course from June 6-9. In addition, the fall and spring/summer meets traditionally held at Belmont will take place at Aqueduct Racetrack in 2024.

Following the conclusion of the 2023 Aqueduct fall meet on December 31, the 47-day winter meet begins Monday, January 1 and continues through Saturday, March 30. Live racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday for the first three weeks of January and Friday-Sunday from January 26 through the first week of March. Aqueduct will host a Presidents’ Day card on Monday, February 19. Four-day race weeks resume on March 7.

The 16-day Aqueduct spring meet will run from Thursday, April 4 through Sunday, April 28. The NYRA circuit will then remain at Aqueduct for the 31-day Belmont at the Big A spring/summer meet, which will open on Thursday, May 2 and continue through Sunday, July 7. Racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday throughout the spring/summer with the exception of a Memorial Day program on Monday, May 27.

The 40-day summer meet at historic Saratoga Race Course will open on Thursday, July 11 and continue through Labor Day, September 2. Following the four-day opening weekend, live racing will be conducted Wednesday-Sunday with the exception of closing week, which will conclude on Labor Day, September 2.

The NYRA circuit will then return downstate for the 31-day Belmont at the Big A fall meet, which will open on Friday, September 13 and continue through Sunday, November 3. Apart from the opening weekend, racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday throughout the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.

2024 will conclude with a 26-day fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack, which will open on Thursday, November 7 and continue through Sunday, December 29. Apart from closing week, live racing will be conducted Thursday-Sunday throughout the Aqueduct fall meet.

For the 2024 calendar of live race dates, visit NYRA.com/2024.