Christmas is coming early to Saratoga Springs this year! There…
Early Sunday morning in Saratoga Springs, it was 0 degrees outside. (Yes, zero.) Fourteen-hundred miles…
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SARATOGA AFTER DARK
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On Friday, November 8, Homes for Orphaned Pets Exist (H.O.P.E.)…
THE BIG STORIES
One of the brave outhouse racers gets a 'head' start. (Kevin Clark)
Running Toilets: Inside Frozen Lake Desolation’s Winter Outhouse Races Tinney's Tavern and the Mulleyville Snowmobile Club making residents re-think port-o-potties since '86.
Nothing breathes life into a frigid winter day like sailing across a frozen lake on an old toilet bowl. Just ask the 500 attendees of this year’s Outhouse Races, held at Lake…
Snow tubing is a fun, kid-friendly winter activity. (West Mountain)
Ride Out The Winter At The Top Snow Tubing Spots Near Saratoga Kid-friendly destinations include Tubby Tubes and McGregor Links Country Club.
Another day, another snowstorm. This winter has been one of the coldest and snowiest in recent history, but that shouldn’t keep you and the kids feeling cooped up or snowed in. There are…
Poet Edgar Allan Poe wrote a draft of 'The Raven' in Saratoga Springs.
Did Edgar Allan Poe Really Write ‘The Raven’ In Saratoga Springs? Exploring one of Saratoga's most widely believed stories, and setting the record straight for good. We think.
If you’re a native Saratogian, you’ve heard this tasty historical morsel: famed poet of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote “The Raven” in Saratoga Springs. But how much truth is there to…
The 2017 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. (Mike Kane)
Saratoga Race Course 2018: The Travers, Whitney And Key Stakes Race Dates Summer racing meet kicks off on July 20; Whitney set for August 4; Travers' post time set for August 25.
For Saratogians suffering through this unseasonably cold winter, there are brighter (and altogether warmer) days on the horizon. The 2018 Saratoga Race Course has released its schedule with all the dates of…
Daily Racing Form
Trainer Steve Asmussen (far right) will receive a stay of suspension for two positives for the regulated sedative acepromazine while he appeals the penalty.
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Steve Asmussen will receive a stay of a 30-day suspension recently handed down by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission for two positives for a regulated sedative while he appeals…
FROM THE EDITOR
'saratoga living' Editor in Chief Richard Pérez-Feria is happily surrounded by SPAC's Junior Committee officers: (from left) Samantha, India, Amanda, Ashley, Caitlin and Katrina. (Dori Fitzpatrick)
Those who know me well—and I’m lucky to say a lot of amazing people can easily make that claim—have invariably heard my go-to refrain whenever I’m asked to do something I’m not…
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(from left) C.J. DeCrescente, Dave DeVoe, Tony Ianniello, Chad Brown and Dan Pickett are five Mechanicville natives, who’ve become captains of their industries and remain friends. (Dori Fitzpatrick) -
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(from left) Walter M. Jeffords, Sr., owners Sonny and Marylou Whitney, jockey Bill Hartack and trainer J.J. Greely, Jr. at Saratoga Race Course in 1960, after the Whitneys' horse, Tompion, won the Travers Stakes. (National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame) -
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The Adelphi Hotel's David Burke; Boca Bistro's Roslyn Riggi; Osteria Danny's Danny Petrosino; Fish at 30 Lake's Tracey Kwiecien; and Hattie's Restaurant's Jasper Alexander are five of the master chefs in Saratoga's explosive restaurant scene. (Fahnon Bennett)