Racing at Belmont Park was canceled on Thursday due to poor air quality from wildfires in Canada.
, the final leg of the Triple Crown, could be affected if conditions don’t improve by Saturday.
It was the second straight day in which the fires north of the border affected sports in the northeastern United States. In Major League Baseball, the Washington Nationals’ home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was postponed Thursday, a day after games were called off at New York andNew York Gov.
New York Racing Association vice president of communications Patrick McKenna said in a statement to The Associated Press that state officials and the NYRA consulted on how to proceed going forward in “our shared efforts to provide the safest possible environment for training and racing thoroughbred horses.”McKenna said his group remains “optimistic that conditions will allow for the resumption of training and racing on Friday in advance of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
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