Saratoga Special July 13 edition

Week 1 of the 2024 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with a 10-race card topped by the $175,000 Quick Call Stakes for 3-year-olds sprinting on the grass.  A stacked field of nine, along with two main track only runners, entered the Grade 3 stakes going 5 1/2 furlongs. Star Of Mystery, Godolphin’s … Read more

Canadian-based mare makes season debut in Grade 1 Kevin Attard and Korina McLean leaned over a black and red Phipps webbing Friday morning. Behind the webbing in stall six on the east side of Shug McGaughey’s barn, way back in the stall stood Moira. The 5-year-old mare didn’t prick an ear, didn’t move a muscle, … Read more

A successful Opening Day in the books, it’s time to turn the page to Friday’s 10-race card at Saratoga Race Course. The Saratoga Special handicappers face a new challenge this season. In addition to searching for winners on the day’s card, we’re also going to see how they’d fare from a wagering standpoint with a … Read more

Saratoga still creates the perfect racing canvas as 2024 meet arrives Why Saratoga? You can ask anyone in Thoroughbred racing that question and get an answer. Nobody hesitates, not for long anyway. People know why.  “It’s the blue-ribbon meet of America, it’s like the Royal Ascot of America, the Cheltenham of America,” said Bruce Jackson, … Read more

Eleven juvenile fillies clash in the Opening Day Stakes Saratoga has been pretty good to trainer Danny Gargan this year. In the first ever Belmont Stakes held at Saratoga Race Course in June, his current stable star Dornoch delivered a 17-1 upset victory to give Gargan the biggest win of his career.  “It’s a horse … Read more

We’re back and so is racing at Saratoga Race Course. Season 24 of The Saratoga Special kicks off with a 48-page loaded edition featuring some memorable look-backs at racing in upstate New York. We answer the onoing question “Why Saratoga?” Issue 1 also features a preview of Friday’s $175,000 Schuylerville and other racing, previews Friday’s … Read more

One final installment – at least until the fall – of The Saturday Special before our team rolls out the first edition of The Saratoga Special next week with the opening of Saratoga Race Course. The team is ready to roll, thanks in part to already producing four editions during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. … Read more

The final weekend in June and the start of the Saratoga Race Course meeting now less than two weeks away. Who’s ready? Our team at The Saratoga Special certainly is and we’re already well underway planning out our 24th season at the greatest place on earth. Surely you’ve seen our schedule for the 40-day meeting. … Read more

Royal Ascot overseas and a welcome break from the early-season heat wave in U.S. usher in the official start to summer a day after the longest day of the year. With the summer solstice in the rearview mirror, it’s also full speed ahead to the Saratoga Race Course meeting and season 24 of The Saratoga … Read more

And we’re back. Hopefully you enjoyed our four-day run of print editions of The Saratoga Special for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course. The Saturday Special returns just in time for the summer solstice and will run every week until the start of the proper Saratoga meeting Thursday, July 11. Then we’re … Read more