For now, 50,000 will be a crowd for the Belmont Stakes.
The New York Racing Association announced that tickets for the 154th running of the Triple Crown’s final leg on June 11 will go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster.com, and attendance at Belmont Park will now be capped at 50,000 instead of the pre-COVID-19 pandemic capacity of 90,000.
NYRA said the construction of adjacent UBS Arena reduced the size of Belmont Park’s backyard. So, while the size of the grandstand has not changed, the new, $1.1 billion facility has gobbled up much of the space outside the grandstand.