Tom Law

Week 6 of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting rolls and a 10-race card featuring the Rick Violette Stakes and the third annual New York Thoroughbred Aftercare Day await horseplayers and fans Thursday. The Rick Violette, named for the trailblazing horsemen’s advocate, aftercare innovator and outstanding trainer, goes as the ninth at 5:46 p.m. A … Read more

Week 5 of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close Sunday with a 10-race card topped by the $150,000 Mahoney for 3-year-olds sprinting on the grass. With five weeks in the books that only leaves three to go but some serious steam up ahead with the Alabama Stakes Aug. 19, Travers Stakes … Read more

The weekend is here and Friday kicks it off with an 11-race card at Saratoga Race Course featuring three stakes. New York-bred take their turn on the stage in the $125,000 Union Avenue for fillies and mares and older horses go in the $125,000 Evan Shipman. Friday’s card also includes the rescheduled Grade 2 Hall … Read more

Halfway. The 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting hit the midpoint Wednesday and crosses into the second half Thursday with a 10-race card without a stakes. The $125,000 John Morrissey Handicap was slated for Thursday’s card but didn’t draw sufficient entries. That leaves a card of the usual – maidens, allowances and claimers – on the … Read more

Week 4 rolls on Thursday with a 10-race card topped by War Like Goddess bidding for her third straight victory in the featured Grade 2 Glens Fall Stakes going long on the grass. War Like Goddess has made Saratoga her playground the last three seasons, winning three of four starts with a runner-up finish in … Read more

How’s your weekend recovery? What a wild scene Saturday, with Elite Power’s come-from-behind last-gasp victory over the gallant Gunite in the Grade 1 Vanderbilt, only to be topped by Forte’s rough-and-tumble win in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy. All roads lead to the Travers from there for the 2-year-old champion, where some more big names … Read more

Week 3 of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with a 10-race card Sunday topped by a strong renewal of the Grade 2 Bowling Green for older horses on the turf. Godolphin’s Rebel’s Romance, winner of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland, tops the field of 10 entered in the … Read more

Saturdays in Saratoga just hit different. Same for The Saratoga Special, which marks Jim Dandy and Vanderbilt Day with our largest edition of the season. Coming in at 48 pages, we preview the two marquee Saturday stakes, along with Sunday’s Bowling Green featuring Rebel’s Romance. The loaded edition also features recaps of this week’s Grade … Read more

The weekend is almost here. Check that, Friday kicks off the weekend and Day 12 of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting. The Grade 2, $200,000 Amsterdam Stakes for 3-year-old speedsters highlights the 11-race card and looks like a competitive affair on paper. Drew’s Gold, runner-up to Arabian Lion in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens, … Read more

Past the quarter and headed to the half. That’s how Week 3 started, with Day 10 of the meet marking the quarter-way point and now Thursday’s card sets us on course toward the halfway mark. Fear not racing fans, that’s still a long way off. We’re not even to August, the Whitney or Sales Week … Read more