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Belmont Opening Weekend Condition Book Online

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The condition book for the first weekend of racing at the new Belmont Park, encompassing the three days of racing between Friday, Sept. 18 and Sunday, Sept. 20 is now online.

The opening day program will be anchored by the running of the $1-million GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, a ‘Win and You’re In’ qualifier for the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on Oct. 31. In conjunction with and to celebrate the re-opening of Belmont following three years of reconstruction, NYRA will increase purses by an additional 50% on opening day.

Maiden races will offer prize money of $150,000, both open and state-bred company, while allowance races will range between $157,500 and $162,000 for that program. The opening day card will be drawn Sept. 12.

As previously announced, the Belmont Park fall meeting, which extends through Sunday, Dec. 6, will offer record purse money across all overnight categories. This will include purse increases in the open allowance category of a full 15% from $100,000 to $115,000. In addition, first-level optional-claiming events will be offered for $105,000 and second-level optional-claiming races will be offered for $108,000.

Maiden special weight races will receive an 18% increase from $85,000 to $100,000, while New York-bred maiden special weights will enjoy a 25% boost from $80,000 to $100,000.

The Belmont Park fall meet will feature 32 graded events among 72 stakes races worth $17.7 million in total purses. Highlighted by a series of major Saturday race days beginning in September and continuing through Cigar Mile Day on Dec. 5, the fall meet will conclude on Dec. 6.

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Top-Level Turf Tests Highlight Bing Crosby Meet at Del Mar

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The 13th Bing Crosby Season at Del Mar will be held from Friday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Nov. 29 and will feature a $2.1-million stakes schedule, highlighted by the GI Hollywood Derby and the GI Matriarch Stakes on closing weekend of the meet.

Live racing is set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the exception of Thanksgiving Day Nov. 26, which will kick off at 11 a.m. PT.

Of the 15 total added-money events, fully nine will take place on Del Mar’s Jimmy Durante Turf Course. Four of those contests on the grass are graded, including the GII Hollywood Turf Cup on Nov. 27, the GII Seabiscuit Handicap and GIII Jimmy Durante Stakes on Nov. 28 and the GIII Cecil B. DeMille Stakes on closing day.

“We’ve got one of the best turf courses in the country,” said Del Mar’s senior vice president for racing and racing secretary David Jerkens, “and we put a real emphasis on it for our fall meet. Our lineup is the best in America during that period.”

Three graded stakes are set to be run on the dirt: the GIII Bob Hope Stakes on Nov. 15, the GIII Native Diver Stakes on Nov. 21 and the GIII Bayakoa Stakes on Nov. 29.

Cal-breds have stakes opportunities in the Nov. 7 The Chosen Vron Stakes and the Betty Grable Stakes on Nov. 8.

First post will be 12:30 p.m. PT. Friday cards will consist of eight races, while nine races will take place on weekends.

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Belmont Opening Weekend Condition Book Online

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The condition book for the first weekend of racing at the new Belmont Park, encompassing the three days of racing between Friday, Sept. 18 and Sunday, Sept. 20 is now online.

The opening day program will be anchored by the running of the $1-million GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, a ‘Win and You’re In’ qualifier for the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on Oct. 31. In conjunction with and to celebrate the re-opening of Belmont following three years of reconstruction, NYRA will increase purses by an additional 50% on opening day.

Maiden races will offer prize money of $150,000, both open and state-bred company, while allowance races will range between $157,500 and $162,000 for that program. The opening day card will be drawn Sept. 12.

As previously announced, the Belmont Park fall meeting, which extends through Sunday, Dec. 6, will offer record purse money across all overnight categories. This will include purse increases in the open allowance category of a full 15% from $100,000 to $115,000. In addition, first-level optional-claiming events will be offered for $105,000 and second-level optional-claiming races will be offered for $108,000.

Maiden special weight races will receive an 18% increase from $85,000 to $100,000, while New York-bred maiden special weights will enjoy a 25% boost from $80,000 to $100,000.

The Belmont Park fall meet will feature 32 graded events among 72 stakes races worth $17.7 million in total purses. Highlighted by a series of major Saturday race days beginning in September and continuing through Cigar Mile Day on Dec. 5, the fall meet will conclude on Dec. 6.

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Top-Level Turf Tests Highlight Bing Crosby Meet at Del Mar

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The 13th Bing Crosby Season at Del Mar will be held from Friday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Nov. 29 and will feature a $2.1-million stakes schedule, highlighted by the GI Hollywood Derby and the GI Matriarch Stakes on closing weekend of the meet.

Live racing is set for Friday, Saturday and Sunday with the exception of Thanksgiving Day Nov. 26, which will kick off at 11 a.m. PT.

Of the 15 total added-money events, fully nine will take place on Del Mar’s Jimmy Durante Turf Course. Four of those contests on the grass are graded, including the GII Hollywood Turf Cup on Nov. 27, the GII Seabiscuit Handicap and GIII Jimmy Durante Stakes on Nov. 28 and the GIII Cecil B. DeMille Stakes on closing day.

“We’ve got one of the best turf courses in the country,” said Del Mar’s senior vice president for racing and racing secretary David Jerkens, “and we put a real emphasis on it for our fall meet. Our lineup is the best in America during that period.”

Three graded stakes are set to be run on the dirt: the GIII Bob Hope Stakes on Nov. 15, the GIII Native Diver Stakes on Nov. 21 and the GIII Bayakoa Stakes on Nov. 29.

Cal-breds have stakes opportunities in the Nov. 7 The Chosen Vron Stakes and the Betty Grable Stakes on Nov. 8.

First post will be 12:30 p.m. PT. Friday cards will consist of eight races, while nine races will take place on weekends.

The post Top-Level Turf Tests Highlight Bing Crosby Meet at Del Mar appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.