Tom Law

Week 3 of the Saratoga Race Course meeting kicks into gear Wednesday and Issue 5 (wow, 5!) sets the stage for another stellar stretch. The Grade 2 Honorable Miss featuring Echo Zulu and Frank’s Rockette headlines Wednesday’s card and we preview all the action, along with a look ahead to Thursday’s Birdstone and Friday’s Amsterdam. … Read more

Week 2 of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close Sunday with a 10-race card that features a showdown between champion Nest and multiple Grade 1 winner Clairiere in the Grade 2 Shuvee Stakes. The Shuvee goes early on the card – the fourth race at 3 p.m. ET – and only … Read more

Ready for the weekend? How about seeing some of racing’s marquee stars? You’re in luck because they’ll be out at Saratoga Race Course Saturday and Sunday and we preview all the action in Issue 4 of The Saratoga Special. A small but select field looms in Saturday’s Coaching Club American Oaks and a seismic clash … Read more

The second Friday card of the season and a pair of competitive stakes for horseplayers and fans on tap. The restricted $135,000 Curlin for 3-year-olds gives a trio of competitors from the spring classics a chance to possibly punch their tickets to the Travers Stakes later in the meet. Blazing Sevens, just beaten in the … Read more

The 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting rolls on Thursday with a 10-race card topped by the second of two divisions of the New York Stallion Series. The Cab Calloway for 3-year-olds on the grass goes as the featured 10th race of the day at 6:18 p.m. ET. The handicappers’ picks appear in the print edition … Read more

Ready for Week 2? Wow, we’re already into the second week of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting and Issue 3 sets the stage for more big days of racing. The jump racing slate kicks things off with Wednesday’s Grade 1, $150,000 A.P. Smithwick. We recap all the action from a busy opening weekend, including … Read more

Opening weekend at Saratoga Race Course comes to a close with a 10-race card Sunday the features the Grade 3, $175,000 Quick Call Stakes presented by the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. A field of 12 was entered for the 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint stakes features, including a pair of main track only runners that could come … Read more

The 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting sprang from the gate Thursday, beating the rain in the process, and entertaining a paid crowd of 29,102. Thursday’s opener, which featured an upset victory by 21-1 first-time starter Becky’s Joker in the Grade 3 Schuylerville, sets the stage for Day 2 and another 10-race card Friday. Two stakes … Read more

Just when the Triple Crown and even the whole of United States racing needed a jolt – even for just a day – along came Jena. And Javier. And Arcangelo. Blue Rose Farm’s Arcangelo put an emphatic cap on a turbulent spring classics season Saturday at Belmont Park, surging through the stretch en route to … Read more