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Solid betting handle, admission numbers on Spa opening day | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 SARATOGA SPRINGS — A crowd hungry to get back to the track helped bolster some solid numbers on opening day of the Saratoga Race Course meet on Thursday. All-sources betting handle was $21,935,534, which included $4,023,700 on-track, compared to $15,754,227 and $3,087,839 in 2019, the last time fans were allowed on the track. Weather likely was a factor, since opening day was rainy in 2019. Thursday’s paid admission of 27,760 was over 5,000 more than 2019’s 22,591. In 2020, when fans weren’...