Attendance for the 4th of July

[philcski]

With all the talk of "the live game is dead", I was thinking today at Belmont how busy it seemed. Since the 4th is a day where people can actually ATTEND the races, instead of having work and other obligations from 1-5 PM, here's the reported figures for today at major tracks:

Belmont 8,415 (seemed a lot more than that, all the front parking lots were full by the 4th race when I got there)
Churchill 12,398
Ellis (opening day) 7,088
Hollywood [not available]
Lone Star 20,000
Monmouth 15,791

Pretty impressive.