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Down to one. That’s all that remains of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting – one more racing day and one more chance for a big day at the greatest place on earth. Monday’s 11-race Labor Day card features a pair of stakes, including a strong renewal of the Grade 1 Hopeful for 2-year-olds. A … Read more

Here we are, all down to the final two acts of the Saratoga Race Course meeting. Weeks and months of anticipation, then the rush of it all in July and August before the fleeting feelings of September and closing weekend. Sunday’s card almost brings the stand to a close with a 10-race card topped by … Read more

Finish Line. The Special wraps up its 2023 season with our final big Saturday edition. We preview the Jockey Club Gold Cup, Flower Bowl, Prioress and Harvey Pack (about time he got a race) plus cover Wednesday, Thursday, Friday racing and take one of our favorite Fasig-Tipton Stable Tours of the season with Hall of … Read more

It’s all down to this now – the final Friday, of the final week, of the final weekend of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting. Another 10-race card awaits as the start of Labor Day weekend begins. The Grade 3 Saranac for 3-year-olds on the turf headlines the day, with seven entered for the 1 … Read more

The final week of the 2023 Saratoga Race Course meeting rolls on Friday with a 10-race card topped by the Grade 3 With Anticipation Stakes for 2-year-olds on the grass. A field of eight entered the 1 1/16-mile With Anticipation, named for the five-time Grade 1 winner and $2,660,543-earner who was trained by the late … Read more

Travers Dude. Arcangelo adds the Grade 1 Travers Stakes to his win in the Belmont Stakes in June to take control of the 3-year-old division. He’s won four in a row. Plus we cover the rest of a bittersweet Travers Day which included a Grade 1 double by trainer Steve Asmussen and more. We take … Read more

New York-breds take center stage Sunday with the annual Saratoga Showcase Day program at Saratoga Race Course. The six-stakes card puts a cap on Travers Week and the seventh week of the Saratoga meet. The entry box overflowed in some races, and came up a little light in others. Either way it’s a day to … Read more

Travers Day. We made it. Sixty-four (64) pages of previews, recaps, columns and so on. Saratoga Race Course hosts five Grade 1 stakes. We look at them all. Travers: Forte and the classic winners clash in the meet’s signature race. Forego: Katie Davis gets a chance to ride her first Grade 1. Jerkens: Canterbury shipper … Read more

Travers Day is almost here, but first a 10-race card topped by a stellar edition of the Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes Friday at Saratoga Race Course. Nest, Clairiere and Secret Oath headline the 9-furlong Personal Ensign, which also attracted Delaware Handicap winner Idiomatic. The $500,000 stakes for fillies mares goes as the ninth race … Read more

Week 7 rolls on – and inches closer to Travers Day – with a 10-race card Thursday topped by the Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes for fillies and mares on the grass. The $300,000 Ballston Spa looks like another showcase for trainer Chad Brown’s deep base of distaff grass runners, with Technical Analysis, Consumer Spending, … Read more