SARATOGA SPRINGS — The New York Racing Association has announced ticket and hospitality on-sale dates for the 2025 season at Saratoga Race Course, which includes a special July 4th Festival as a prelude to the traditional 40-day summer meet. Read MoreNYRA announces Saratoga ticket sales dates
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The 3-year-old filly Thorpedo Anna won the 2024 Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year on Thursday, becoming the first female horse to do so since Havre de Grace in 2011.
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No surprise, Thorpedo Anna was among the three finalists in the 3-Year-Old Filly category when the top vote-getters for the 54th Eclipse Awards were announced on Sunday.
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Time to turn the calendar page once again, after what was a rollicking 2024 that provided plenty of new and refreshing images, as well as shots we’ve seen before.
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On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” The Daily Gazette sports staff look back at the year in sports in the Capital Region.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Four-time Eclipse Award-winning sportswriter Tim Layden, who first started covering Thoroughbred racing for the Schenectady Gazette in 1976, has been selected to the National Museum of Racing’s Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — As expected, there will be nine additional days of racing at Saratoga Race Course in 2025, with the addition of another day to the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival and a shift of the July 4th Racing Festival from Aqueduct to Saratoga.
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On the latest edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” I talk about college hockey, horse racing and college football.
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Saratoga Race Course fans will see some familiar faces racing at the Breeders’ Cup in California this weekend.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — “Oh, she’s ready.”
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The New York Racing Association and its construction contractors remain on schedule to finish the new Belmont Park in September of 2026, while the possibility exists that the Belmont Stakes could return to Belmont Park in June of that year ev…
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SARATOGA - Chowda, Lobsta … Buttah. You get the idea.
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It started as a phone call to south Florida in the summer of 2018 seeking some insight for a story on a young Thoroughbred trainer, Cherie DeVaux, who was getting ready for her first Saratoga Race Course meet on her own.
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Former thoroughbred trainer Chuck Simon, a Saratoga Springs native, died at the age of 57 on Sunday at Saratoga Hospital after a bout with cancer.
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On the 400th edition of “The Parting Schotts Podcast,” I talk horse racing, college football and the NFL.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS - Hockey's Stanley Cup visited Saratoga Race Course Saturday. Prominent race horse owner Vinnie Viola is the owner of Florida Panthers.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Calling it “a meet for the ages,” trainer Chad Brown closed out the 2024 Saratoga Race Course season in spectacular fashion on Monday, when Chancer McPatrick won the Grade I Hopeful.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Ahem…
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Selections for Monday, Sept. 2 at Saratoga Race Course from Daily Gazette handicappers Matt Donato, Gene Kershner and Jeff Carle, as well as the NYRA Bets picks of the day from Matthew DeSantis and analysis from Gazette horse racing writer Mi…