The first condition book for Saratoga Race Course's summer meet is now available online. The book spans racing from opening day, July 3, through July 26.
The 46-day summer meet, totaling a nearly 14% overall increase in overnight purses, features open maiden special weight races upped by 15%, from $100,000 to $115,000. First-level allowance events will be contested with purses of $120,000 and second-level allowance races will be offered for $125,000. Stakes purses for the meet increased this year to a total of $23.575 million over 73 stakes races.
The New York Racing Association has also raised purses for the maiden allowance auction category to $90,000, a 12.5% increase. Initially launched by NYRA in 2019, maiden allowance auction races are restricted to horses that either sold or RNA'd for $65,000 or less at their most recent public auction.
Starter allowance purses have been raised from $70,000 to $78,000.
NYRA also increased purses for races restricted to New York-breds, including state-bred maiden special weights offered for $100,000, first-level allowance races for $105,000 and second-level allowances for $110,000.
New York-bred 2-year-old maiden special weights will be run for $115,000, equivalent to their open-company counterparts and a nearly 28% increase from last year's $90,000.
The Saratoga summer meet runs through Sept. 7.
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