Rain Washes Five More Flat Races Off Saratoga Turf
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Photo: Skip Dickstein
A muddy day at Saratoa Race Course
Rain dampened another day of racing at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 30 as wet conditions forced five races to be moved from the turf course to the main track and the cancellation of a steeplechase race.
The five off-the-turf races brought the total for the meet to 64 through 35 days of racing.
In the past three years, the figures for 35 days were 17 last year, 39 in 2021, and 26 in 2020.
Among the races moved to the main track, which was upgraded to fast after the sixth race, was the featured $150,000 P.G. Johnson Stakes for 2-year-old fillies. An original field of 11 was reduced to five.
Thirty-four horses were scratched from the five races that were taken off the grass, the overwhelming majority of them due to the surface switch.