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Racing fans over the past several years have held extended vigils, some lasting for months, for stricken horses such as Barbaro, Paynter, and most recently Rachel Alexandra. During those times, the internet was inundated with prayers for these courageous equine heroes who fought for life as hard as they fought for victory on the ...

You can turn on your TV as early as 9:00 AM to begin hearing tips from the handicappers.  There are several shows on Channel 12 with two hosts who rarely agree on selections.  Depending on how many horses they choose – three or four, each show is different – you are most likely to collect six or seven names to bet, which is like ...

NYRA held two off-campus gatherings this week – the first which was billed as a public forum and the second a board meeting.  It was the first opportunity for new CEO Chris Kay to present what he’s done in his first 60 days. Despite his non-racing background, Kay seems to indicate that he’s cut from the same cloth as his predecessors, ...

You can go back in history and find a number of trainers who have had spectacular years. D. Wayne Lukas, Todd Pletcher, and Bobby Frankel are just a few of the modern trainers who smashed the record books, saddling dozens of major stakes winners and dominating their sport like few, if any, before them. But when it comes to the greatest year ...

Ideal summer weather greeted fans at the racecourse again.  Despite pop-up showers in the Berkshires and Mohawk Valley, Mother Nature seemed to prefer sun and mid-80s temperatures for Saratoga and, no doubt, so do horsemen. It’s tough to remember a sloppy track or a race that’s been pulled off the turf course.  Owners and ...

Party people who witnessed the last cocktails poured in the Caroline St. bars must have loved that some pilot in a Piper Cub airplane was buzzing the skies above Saratoga Racecourse at 6:00 AM.  Whoever scheduled the noisy reconnaissance had no knowledge that horseplayers asleep in their beds would soon be handicapping a 14-race card and ...

After training hours on Friday morning, trainer Eric Guillot hosted one of his Louisiana gumbo parties at Barn 34.  There was a big pot of Cajun boil, trays of steaming rice, hot sauce and a guy with a paddle to stir things up, plus a Zydeco band and plenty of smack talk. Zydeco band at Eric Gullot's Louisiana gumbo party on the ...