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Friday’s Saratoga picks – August 22

Here we go. Travers Weekend arrives Friday – technically – and a 10-race card awaits to whet the appetite for the main event Saturday. The 10-race card features a pair of New York-bred stakes – the $150,000 Seeking The Ante for 2-year-old fillies and $150,000 Yaddo for older fillies and mares on the grass. The … Read more

Stacked Deck: Full field of New York-breds set for Yaddo

Horacio De Paz thought about running Barry Schwartz’s homebred Awesome Czech between her July 4 allowance win and Friday’s $150,000 Yaddo Stakes. So much so that he entered the stakes winner in another allowance race, going longer than the daughter of Mendelssohn might want to go before taking a different tact. “I tried her in … Read more

Thursday’s Saratoga picks – August 21

Travers Week rolls on with a 10-race card Thursday topped by a pair of $200,000 New York-bred stakes – the Albany for 3-year-olds and the Fleet Indian for 3-year-old fillies – at Saratoga Race Course. The 9-furlong Fleet Indian goes first, as the third race at 2:18 p.m., and attracted a field of five led … Read more

Sunday’s Saratoga picks – August 17

The sixth week of the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting and Alabama weekend comes to a close with a 10-race card Sunday topped by the $150,000 Bolton Landing for 2-year-old fillies sprinting on the grass. The 5 ½-furlong Bolton Landing, which goes as the eighth race on the card with post time of 5:12 p.m. … Read more

Saratoga Special August 16 edition

Norway to Saratoga. Now that’s a commute. We’ve got the story of Queen Azteca who swings for the fences in today’s Grade 1 Alabama. Sandal’s Song returns for his first start since finishing third at Royal Ascot in today’s Skidmore. Future Is Now adds another chapter to Larry Johnson’s legacy with another win in the … Read more

Friday’s Saratoga picks – August 15

The sixth week of the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting rolls along with a 10-race card Friday topped by the $150,000 Smart And Fancy Stakes for fillies and mares sprinting on the turf. Future Is Now, already the winner of the Grade 3 Caress at the meet and a close second in the Grade 2 … Read more

Thursday’s Saratoga picks – August 14

Alabama Week rolls on with a 10-race card Thursday topped by the Cab Calloway division of the New York Stallion Series for 3-year-olds on the grass. A field of eight entered the 1-mile Cab Calloway, including the 1-2-3 finishers from the NYSS Spectacular Bid in Friend Ofthe Devil, River Of Time and I’m Due. Friend … Read more

Team 25

“Welcome to the best summer of your lives.” Those eight words were delivered the Tuesday before Opening Day to five of our six interns for the 25th season of The Saratoga Special. We’ll call them Team 25, since they follow every other squad since Joe and Sean Clancy rolled out the first edition of The … Read more

Sunday’s Saratoga picks – August 10

The fifth week of the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close Sunday with a 10-race card topped by the Grade 3 Mahony Stakes for 3-year-olds sprinting on the grass. The 5 1/2-furlong Mahony, newly upgraded for this year and the ninth race with post time of 5:50 p.m., lured a field of … Read more

Friday’s Saratoga picks – August 8

Rolling right along, the 2025 Saratoga Race Course meeting passed the midpoint Thursday and continues Friday with a 10-race card topped by the Grade 2 Ballston Spa for fillies and mares on the grass. The 1 1/16-mile Ballston Spa goes as the eighth race on the card with post time set for 5:12 p.m. A … Read more