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Tom Law 
With the 2021 Saratoga meeting all wrapped up, I’ve had some time to reflect on the opportunity given over the past two years at The Saratoga Special. I’ve never written a column before, but I hadn’t written a race recap before this summer either and things seemed to work out well.
The races are long over. So, too, was the race for leading handicapper at The Saratoga Special.
It all comes down to this. The final day of the 2021 Saratoga Race Course meeting – one marked by brilliant performances in the headline events with fans in the stands – will decide the race for leading handicapper here at The Saratoga Special.
To regular readers of this column it will come as no surprise that I know far less about horse racing than you do. A good chunk of our readership, after all, is active in the sport in one capacity or another.
A group of dedicated racing enthusiasts assembled on East Avenue each morning last year to soak in what little bit of horse racing they could outside of the Oklahoma Training Track. Though the views were limited, the same group of more than a dozen fans and photographers lined the fence each day without fail, thrilled to talk horses for a while instead of the usual pandemic discourse. This year, the view is different for the East Avenue crew, and so are the circumstances that bring them together.
The final weekend of racing at Saratoga in 2021 rolls along Sunday with a 12-race card topped by the Grade 1 Spinaway for 2-year-old fillies.
Hello Labor Day Weekend. Also known as Closing Weekend here at Saratoga Race Course.
The final week of the 2021 Saratoga meeting rolls along with another 10-race card topped by a juvenile stakes on the grass.
Travers Weekend and Week 7 of the Saratoga meeting come to a close Sunday with a 10-race card topped by the $120,000 Better Talk Now for 3-year-olds on the grass.
