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Belmont Child Care Association, the organization that provides shelter and learning to the children of backstretch workers as they tend to the horses in the mornings, held in 16th annual fundraising party at the Gideon Putnam Hotel.  The event’s honoree was Charlotte Weber, overseer of Live Oak Plantation racing. What makes the BCCA ...

Monday, the final day of Alabama Stakes (gr. I) Week, saw 14,817 people come out for the races.  The energy produced on the weekend – a memorable weekend of sport - was drained from the premises.  The atmosphere was quiet, like the scent of lavender.  By Friday, if not sooner, the juice will be back.  It is Travers Week ...

At first glance, the Friday card appeared to be loaded with NY-Bred races.  But that was the early part – three of the first three races including one of two stakes, a total of four in all. It seems as if Leo O’Brien hasn’t trained a horse into the winner’s circle in decades.  Yet, Slimshady, a NY-Bred chestnut gelding by ...

The four or five races worth walking over to the track to see live began shortly after 3:00 PM.  You wore a sweater if you wanted to be comfortable.  There was an autumn-like chill in the air – another not-so-subtle signal that horseplayers, who consider The Spa Nirvana, have little more than a dozen days left.  One week from ...

Saratoga’s on the downside of its sesquicentennial meet.  All-sources handle is up.  Good weather, which has been keeping races on the turf and horses from scratching, is at fault.  There is still plenty of heart-pounding horse racing ahead.  The fine Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winner Orb is in the house, settled in and ...

For owners and trainers of 2-year-olds, autumn means a look into the proverbial crystal ball and seeing images beginning to take shape of the following spring’s classic horses, and sometimes even beyond. Last autumn appeared no different. On Nov. 2, Beholder’s victory over grade I winners Executiveprivilege and Dreaming of Julia and grade II ...

The best action of the day began in a cool, fan-packed room where about a dozen and a half heroes of the sport gathered to welcome six more to their circle.  Calvin Borel and five horses, including Invasor - a Horse of the Year in three countries and a champion on three continents, became new members in the National Museum of Racing and ...

Thursdays have become known as Steeplechase Days.  But the racetrack tried something new this Thursday that fell flat on its face.  The inaugural International Day, a promotional event aimed to replace and expand on the upbeat Irish Day, was a snoozer.  Imagine belly dancers instead of cute little girls in bubbly wigs tapping ...

It is looking more and more as if Wise Dan will remain doing what he’s been doing best and will not venture back on the dirt for the Breeders’ Cup Classic. There had been talk about a possible start in the Whitney, but that didn’t happen, and his big brother, Successful Dan, proved to be an able substitute, running one of the best races of his ...

Over 650 people in the backyard, as if in uniform, wore the same clothes to the racecourse.  Saratoga’s biggest supporter, horse racing fan Ray Price of Mechanicville, NY, threw the season’s biggest party to celebrate his birthday and presented everyone there with a tee-shirt. Ray's Sweet 16 party tee shirts worn by many of the 650 ...