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The head of the New York Racing Association is acknowledging a number of challenges facing the beleaguered horse racing industry. But during a public conversation Wednesday, the focus was also on an influx of millions of dollars coming to the Saratoga Springs economy the next two Junes.
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The New York Racing Association is hosting a job fair this week ahead of the Belmont Stakes, coming to Saratoga Springs in June.
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(Airs 02/02/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul want to increase the temporary disability leave benefit for injured workers for the first time in 35 years, NY US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was in Albany to launch an effort to keep ghost guns illegal, and nearly $230 million dollars in federal money will connect tens of thousands of Hudson Valley homes still without access to wired, broadband internet.
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The New York Racing Association has announced more details in advance of the first Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course in June.
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(Airs 12/22/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Hochul signs a measure to look at potential reparations for New Yorker's whose ancestors suffered under slavery in the state. We’ll speak with Assemblymember Pat Fahy, Chair of the Higher Education committee; and local officials celebrate the completion of the first phase of construction of the Adirondack Rail Trail.
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In a historic first in the world of thoroughbred racing, the Belmont Stakes will be coming to Saratoga Springs in 2024 as Belmont Park, the Long Island racetrack that has hosted the race for more than a century, undergoes improvements.
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(Airs 12/01/23 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: we’ll take a look at the coming race to fill expelled Republican Congressman George Santos’ seat, we’ll examine how the Israel Hamas war is changing things inside the college classroom, and the third leg of the Triple Crown is coming to Saratoga Springs.
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One of thoroughbred racing’s biggest contests, the Belmont Stakes, may not be held at Belmont Park in 2025. NYRA says it favors Saratoga Race Course as an alternate location for the third leg of the Triple Crown. With the summer meet now under way at Saratoga, race fans weighed in on the potential move upstate.
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It's Belmont Stakes Day. The third leg of the Triple Crown will be run this evening on Long Island, and the nation will be watching to see if thoroughbred…
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History was made at the 2015 Belmont Stakes when American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the first since Affirmed in 1978. As magnificent as the champion…