Man o' War suffered his only defeat in 21 starts while racing at Saratoga Race Course Secretariat was defeated at Saratoga Race Course by Onion after winning the Triple Crown and Gallant Fox was beaten by 100-1 long shot Jim Dandy in the 1930 Travers Stakes. Saratoga Race Course has two well-known nicknames - The Spa (for the nearby mineral springs), and the 'Graveyard of Champions' (for the upsets that have occurred there). During those years, the stakes races that would have been run at Saratoga Race Course were contested at Belmont Park instead. From 1943 to 1945, racing was not held at Saratoga Race Course due to travel restrictions during the war. In 2009, NYRA extended the 2010 racing meet by 4 days. Today it is a six-week meeting ending on Labor Day. In the 1990's it was lengthened to five weeks. The Saratoga meet originally consisted of only four days, but over time was lengthened, and for many years, the meet lasted for four weeks. Since 1864 the track has been the site of the Travers Stakes, the oldest major thoroughbred horse race in the United States, which is the main draw of the annual summer race meeting. The original track was built across Union Avenue from the present Saratoga Race Course at the current location of the Oklahoma Track (training track), which opened the following year. John Hunter, who became the first chairman of The Jockey Club, and William R.
