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We’re back and so is racing at Saratoga Race Course. Season 24 of The Saratoga Special kicks off with a 48-page loaded edition featuring some memorable look-backs at racing in upstate New York. We answer the onoing question “Why Saratoga?” Issue 1 also features a preview of Friday’s $175,000 Schuylerville and other racing, previews Friday’s … Read more

One final installment – at least until the fall – of The Saturday Special before our team rolls out the first edition of The Saratoga Special next week with the opening of Saratoga Race Course. The team is ready to roll, thanks in part to already producing four editions during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. … Read more

The final weekend in June and the start of the Saratoga Race Course meeting now less than two weeks away. Who’s ready? Our team at The Saratoga Special certainly is and we’re already well underway planning out our 24th season at the greatest place on earth. Surely you’ve seen our schedule for the 40-day meeting. … Read more

Royal Ascot overseas and a welcome break from the early-season heat wave in U.S. usher in the official start to summer a day after the longest day of the year. With the summer solstice in the rearview mirror, it’s also full speed ahead to the Saratoga Race Course meeting and season 24 of The Saratoga … Read more

And we’re back. Hopefully you enjoyed our four-day run of print editions of The Saratoga Special for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course. The Saturday Special returns just in time for the summer solstice and will run every week until the start of the proper Saratoga meeting Thursday, July 11. Then we’re … Read more

The Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course proved to be a rousing success, with a sold-out crowd, record non-Triple Crown Belmont Day handle and a surprising outcome in the feature. The festival finishes up Sunday with the inaugural Grade 1 Beverly R. Steinman Hurdle and New York-bred Showcase Day featuring six stakes. We also recap … Read more

Belmont Stakes Day at Saratoga Race Course. History in the making the America’s most historic track and we preview all the action in Issue 3 of the The Saratoga Special for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. Mystik Dan, Seize The Grey, Sierra Leone, Mindframe and five others tackle the 156th renewal of the Belmont. Stakes … Read more

Day 1 in the books. The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga opened Thursday with success – a lively crowd and huge handle thanks to top racing. The Grey Wizard stole the show with his rallying victory under John Velazquez in the Grade 2 Belmont Gold Cup. That win also punched his ticket to the … Read more

Saratoga goes Belmont. The first of our four editions for the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival goes to the post. Stakes previews check in with The Grey Wizard, Gary Contessa and runners from Canada, plus a look at the Belmont Stakes field, a conversation with Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, columns from Sean Clancy, Joe … Read more

Saratoga Race Course’s first of two scheduled editions of the Belmont Stakes attracted a talent-rich field that includes the first two finishers from the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes and several promising late-developers. A field of 10 entered the 156th Belmont Stakes, which will be run at Saratoga in 2024 and 2025 because of the … Read more