Saratoga Race Course is a famous horse-racing track in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. It opened on August 3, 1863, and is the oldest organized sporting venue of any kind in the United Saratoga Horse Racing tickets States. John Hunter, who became the first chairman of The Saratoga Horse Racing tickets Jockey Club, and William R. Travers built Saratoga Race Course. Since 1864 the track has been the site of the Travers Stakes, the oldest major thoroughbred horse race in the United States, Saratoga Horse Racing tickets which is the main draw of the annual summer race meeting. The Saratoga meet originally consisted of only four days, but over time was lengthened, and for many years, the meet lasted for four weeks. In the 1890s/1990s it was lengthened to five weeks, Saratoga Horse Racing tickets and today a six-week meeting is observed, with Labor Day now being the last day of racing. From 1943 to 1945, racing was not held at Saratoga due to travel restrictions brought on by World War II; in those years, the stakes races that would Saratoga Horse Racing tickets have been run at Saratoga were contested at Belmont Park instead. Saratoga Race Course has two well-known nicknames -- The Spa (for the nearby mineral springs), and the Graveyard of Favorites (for the upsets that have occurred there). Saratoga Horse Racing tickets Man o' War suffered his only defeat in 21 starts while racing at Saratoga; Secretariat was defeated at Saratoga by Onion after winning the Triple Crown; and Gallant Fox Saratoga Horse Racing tickets was beaten by 100-1 longshot Jim Dandy in the 1930 Travers Stakes.
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