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ELMONT, N.Y. – Friday’s live racing program at Belmont Park has been canceled "due to anticipated heavy rain," the New York Racing Association announced Thursday afternoon.
As of 4 p.m. Thursday, the Friday forecast according to weather.com was as follows: "Variable clouds with showers and scattered thunderstorms, high 69 degrees; chance of rain 70 percent rainfall possibly over one inch."
Five of Friday’s nine races were scheduled for turf.
Six graded stakes races are scheduled for Super Saturday, Sept. 29.
The main track will be open for training Friday morning, with rubber cones, known as "dogs" set up to keep horses on the outer half of the surface. The training track will be open as usual.
Simulcast races will be available at the Belmont Café and at Aqueduct.
While only one day of racing was canceled at Aqueduct last winter, this is the third time all or part of a program has been scrapped at Belmont this year. Racing was canceled because of excessive heat June 21, and halted the next day after four races because of a storm and power outage.
Last fall, snow brought the Oct. 29 card to a halt after three races, and closing day, Oct. 30, was canceled as well.
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I am only 1 person, but I am now boycotting saturdays races.
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Did it even rain today at Belmont? Why isnt more being made of this strange cancellation 20 hours ahead of Post time?
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Since when does anyone listen to the weather forecast, there never right, right ?
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So NYRA cancelled racing when 0.6" of rain really fell according to the NWS, no rain in the immediate area. Smells fishy, doesn't it? Money in the big Pick-6 pool, big day of racing ahead.
NYRA has made it painfully obvious that they only care about the 25% takeout they're going to get on the pick-6 carryover pools. How have they shown it? Heavy favorites in stakes races get the race demoted to the 3rd race, Maiden Special Weights buried in the middle of the sequence. They want the high pools. They don't care about presenting an entertaining product, only the money that bettors bring in.
No wonder Cuomo wants the organization absolved. Maybe it's high time the NYSRWB meet about amending the takeout rates so that NYRA doesn't get 9% extra when there's money in the kitty.
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No rain at all,,,,,,,,,what a joke
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They just wanted the pick six carryover to go into saturday for a bigger pool
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One minute to the canceled first race.
The sun is poking through the clouds here in north-Jersey.
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to the morons at nyra IT's NOT RAINING. you fools at nyra knew this report was coming out today and you are all hiding,don't worry they will find you tommorow
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The Belmont cancellation due to rain is a disgrace and an insult to all USA racing fans.
The remedy is simple. Install a Synthetic Course at each major NY racetrack and they will never have another cancellation due to Rain! Replace the AQU Inner course and a Grass Course at both BEL and SAR. With Syntrhetic installed al these three courses they become redundent and useless. Arlington & Keeneland have Synthetic Courses and they enjoy great racing without weather disruption!
NY Senior Racing Officials need to wake up and become part of the 21st Century!
Diceman
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Could this be the actual reason for the seemingly suspicious cancellation of Friday's program at Belmont: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/sports/aqueduct-racing-officials-faulted-in-horse-deaths.html?_r=1&ref=sports
Given everything that is going on, and from what was mentioned elsewhere before I saw this, it could be proven later that NYRA officials knew this was coming and they were bracing themselves for a lot of questions on Friday. The timing of the article coming out is not a surprise given what has been happening recently with New York racing. That MIGHT answer some questions on why Friday's card was cancelled even if it were not the official reason.
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