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Tom Law 
There were rising artists on the backside of Saratoga Race Course during the recently concluded 2014 meeting. No they don’t use paint brushes, stencils or sponges, all they need to create a piece of art is paint, canvas paper and their nose … whiskers add a nice effect as well.
The Saratoga Special summer office is emptied out, cleaned up and the tables and chairs we like to call furniture is packed away neat and tight into our storage unit, so what better time to review what else happened over the weekend and Monday.
Where has the time gone? Seems like just yesterday we were unpacking our bags, office furniture and supplies and paper racks gearing up for Opening Day at Saratoga Race Course.
Eddie Plesa wasn’t about to take complete credit for one equipment change making all the difference in one race.
The stressors were adding up as the days clicked by for Charlie LoPresti during his annual stay here in Saratoga and an incident last weekend involving a horse he had no association with helped put his 2014 meet in perspective.
The race for leading trainer at the Saratoga Race Course meet for 2014 got awfully tight after Chad Brown capped a three-win day with a victory in, what else, a 1 1/16-mile race on the grass for 2-year-olds.
We’re almost to the end of the season and the number of papers remaining, like racing days, is in the single digits.
Chad Brown pegged Partisan Politics a bit of a tweener, as in in-betweener, when it came to deciding what race to pick for her debut.
Free as a Bird can dish it out as good as she can take it and the 5-year-old daughter of Hard Spun proved it winning Monday’s $100,000 Smart N Fancy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
