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Mike Kane

Mike Kane is an award-winning journalist based in the Capital Region who has covered Saratoga Race Course for nearly 40 years. He spent 25 years as a sports writer and columnist at the Gazette Newspapers in Schenectady. Kane and Alan Carter are the co-authors of 150 Years of Racing in Saratoga.

Travers Stakes
Tapwrit (2) runs past Irish War Cry in the stretch on his way to victory in the Belmont Stakes on June 10 at Belmont Park. Brian Spearman, who grew up in Saratoga Springs, is the chairman of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, which is a co-owner of the colt. (Mike Kane)

Travers Stakes 2017: Could Tapwrit Win the Mid-Summer Derby?

For Brian Spearman, co-owner of the Belmont winner, it would be a dream come true.

As he watched Tapwrit catch and pass Irish War Cry in the stretch to capture…

Saratoga Race Course 2017
Trainer Chad Brown, right, a native of Mechanicville, New York, walks with Cloud Computing before his victory in the Preakness Stakes. In Saratoga, Cloud Computing is expected to run in the Jim Dandy Stakes on July 29 and the $1.25 million Travers Stakes on August 26. (Mike Kane)

Saratoga Race Course 2017: Watching for Winners

Triple Crown showdown is a long shot, but there’s always plenty of action at Saratoga.

Without question, the safest bets of the 149th Saratoga season are that history will be…

Dick Severino
Maurice “Dick” Severino of Saratoga Springs and his German Shepard Gallant in a bobsled at Mount Van Hoevenberg near Lake Placid. Severino was a member of the 1952 U.S. Olympic Bobsled Team and Gallant served as the mascot and accompanied the team to the Olympics at Oslo, Norway. (Lake Placid Olympic Museum Collection)

Saratoga County’s Remarkably Long Connection To The Winter Olympics

In the last 60 years, 14 Saratoga athletes have competed in the games.

Led by a gang of speed skaters that graduated from the Saratoga Winter Club, Saratoga…

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