Belmont Park's New Grandstand Draws a Sellout for Its First Card

Elmont filled to capacity on opening day at the rebuilt Belmont Park, with 6,000 racegoers on hand under clear late-summer skies as a full field of 12 broke from the gate. The cheer that went up at the break said as much about the new stands themselves as about the race in front of them — a first look, at full capacity, for a course that has waited on this moment.

With reporting from Thoroughbred Daily News.