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Welcome to the weekend. Not just any weekend either, Travers Weekend in Saratoga. Friday kicks things off and a 12-race card topped by the Grade 1 Personal Ensign featuring defending champ and 2023 Eclipse Award winner Idiomatic and last year’s Alabama winner Randomized. The card also includes a strong renewal of the $150,000 Smart And … Read more

Travers Week rolls along with a 10-race card Thursday featuring the Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes for fillies and mares on the grass. The $300,000 Ballston Spa features a field of five – four runners trained by Chad Brown and another sent out by Todd Pletcher. Gina Romantica, a close third behind stablemate Whitebeam in … Read more

Travers Week arrives. Issue 17 (of 20, wow!) kicks off the biggest week of the season and before we dive into the spectacular Saturday we recap Power Squeeze’s narrow victory over Candied in the Alabama, Grayosh’s score in the Lake Placid and all of Sunday’s action including the Evan Shipman and Bolton Landing. Our 48-page … Read more

The sixth week of the Saratoga Race Course meeting – holy cow, only two left!? – comes to a close Sunday with an 11-race card featuring a pair of stakes. The rescheduled $125,000 Evan Shipman Handicap for older New York-breds leads off the stakes and goes as the third race at 2:15 p.m. A field … Read more

Alabama Day. We roll out another loaded edition – 56 pages – featuring previews of Saturday’s Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and Grade 2 Lake Placid Stakes, check in with Hall of Fame trainer Mark Casse for the Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour and recap all the action from the start of Week 6. Issue 17 also features … Read more

The sixth week of the 2024 Saratoga Race Course meeting – Alabama Week – rolls along with an 11-race card featuring a pair of stakes Friday. The $150,000 Skidmore for 2-year-olds going 5 ½ furlongs on the grass leads off the stakes as the second race at 1:41 p.m. A field of six entered for … Read more

Week 6 of the 2024 Saratoga Race Course meeting rolls along with a 10-race card topped by the $125,000 Rick Violette Stakes for 3-year-old New York-breds on the grass. The 1 1/16-mile Rick Violette attracted a field of eight plus a pair of main track runners. The Rick Violette goes as the seventh race with … Read more

Issue 15 of The Saratoga Special packs another punch. We roll out 48 pages, covering last weekend’s Grade 1 Fourstardave, Grade 1 Saratoga Derby and Grade 2 Saratoga Special, plus all the racing action from Saturday and Sunday. Fasig-Tipton wrapped its Saratoga summer swing with a strong New York-bred sale featuring an increase in average … Read more

Week 5 of the 2024 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with an 11-race Sunday card bolstered by the rescheduled Grade 1 Fourstardave and Grade 1 Saratoga Derby Invitational, along with the previously carded Mahony Stakes for 3-year-olds sprinting on the grass. The $500,000 Fourstardave, originally scheduled for Saturday but moved because of … Read more

The print edition returns after a two-day break – and a missed day of racing Friday because of the effects of Tropical Storm Debby. Issue 14 packs a punch, previewing all the weekend stakes, from Saturday’s Saratoga Special and Troy to Sunday’s rescheduled Grade 1 Fourstardave and Grade 1 Saratoga Derby. The Saratoga auction sales … Read more