Saturday’s first race, the 13th running of the Silks and Satins 5K was won by David Roucci. The 23-year-old runner from Germantown, New York beat a field of 1100 participants through the streets of the...
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Rachel Alexandra, the city’s most famous summer resident, slipped out of Saratoga for Monmouth Park at 4:00 am Friday before the rain and the noise started. An availability of stalls was at a premium when...
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Man does not live on food alone. Souls become nourished in Saratoga by meeting its people, by being near the Thoroughbreds and by walking the grounds and the city. Still nobody picks winners on an empty...
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The long held practice of keeping track of the date in flowers at the head of Union Avenue each morning was abandoned by the city of Saratoga Springs in what must have been a cost-cutting measure. The...
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The emphasis was on good racing again, the day after the circus left town. Oh, sure, the NYRA marketing team trotted out a nifty cooler tote giveaway to inflate the attendance numbers. But people who love...
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Saratoga officials didn’t set an attendance goal for Saturday’s invasion by Curlin. But a projected crowd of 30,000 was bandied about in many corners, and 30,000 must have been the number intended. Well...
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The police blotter in the newspaper is what all the guests at Carmel Grey’s 75th birthday party were talking about when Grey, a visitor from Indianland, South Carolina, returned from the racetrack to her...
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If you’ve ever wondered how much one of those big plastic bags stuffed with empty beer cans is worth, the answer is $25. The “goat patrol” provides a public service for NYRA, scavenging the grandstand...
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The USS Saratoga ball cap that Tom Capstraw wore on Wednesday was not a tricked-up accessory to his NYRA-issued red vest, white shirt and black bow tie. It was “Proud to be an American” day at the track...
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Six television cameras, lined up in a row like the cannons at Fort Ticonderoga, were pointed at NYRA's communications director John Lee as he began an 11:00 am press gathering in the Saratoga winner's...
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