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On hot, sunny Saratoga Sundays, it's easier to get a seat in the Clubhouse than a lounge chair at the Victoria Pool.  Saratoga Spa State Park is one of the treasures of the region and the pool, Olympic in size and grand in providing visitors the feelings of luxury and history, gets jam-packed before 9 am.  They say Bing Crosby and ...

  One of the several ways in which NYRA has made this the best Saratoga meet in recent history is the way it changed the racing calendar to accommodate the interests of others.    For example, the placement of the Whitney Stakes on the second weekend helped the Fasig-Tipton Festival of Racing to emerge as ...

The influence of steeplechase and quarter horse racing on the Thoroughbred sport was in abundant evidence at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony Friday.  Of the sixteen honorees, presenters and acceptors on the program, four had their roots in quarter horse racing, six were linked closely to steeplechasing ...

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Courtesy of Becky Johnston    There is something about a deep closer in horse racing that elicits the inner underdog in humans.  We can relate.  Who hasn’t had their back up against the wall in some task in life?  Whether through procrastination or others simply having a better start.  It is hard to beat that ...

It's a much lighter racing schedule this weekend, but of the graded stakes that are out there, most of them are challenging races to handicap. Let's take a quick look at some of the major races from around the country. Sword Dancer This came up an excellent field, with some of the top turf marathoners-many of the fan favorites-assembling at ...

I am glad to see Stroll returning to Claiborne Farm after having spent a couple years in Italy. The grade I turf star and a son of Claiborne's hot sire Pulpit has seven stakes winners in his first crop, which were 2-year-olds of 2008. As a second-crop sire he is currently co-ranked ninth by number of stakes winners (3) along with Congaree, ...

Yesterday's Blog: http://cs.bloodhorse.com/blogs/adamsturf/archive/2009/08/13/the-bald-caper.aspx After filming and editing That Handicapping Show for about two months now, I have heard the name Kensei mentioned twice in different shows. The name Kensei was pretty interesting and what Jason, Tom, Evan, Les or any of the other TwinSpires ...

The artist Greg Montgomery is saying that this year's Travers poster is selling like gangbusters.  Montgomery has produced a Travers poster every year since 1985, making his series the longest continuing series of sporting art in the world.  When he began the series, he never expected the string to last this long.  The first poster ...

Karen Johnson's take in the recap of Day 2 - this is the first mention of the mysterious bidder of hip #151 that I saw. She called him an ''interloper'' 9:11 amhttp://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/videos/watch/DFFA048A-2E52-42E6-AC33-42C4DA688355Later the story emerged as our Deirdre B. Biles investigated the story. She posted the story Wed ...