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Old Friends at Cabin Creek's 10th annual After the Race Cocktail Party.
On Sunday, August 4, Old Friends at Cabin Creek hosted…
THE BIG STORIES
Located at 17 Division Street, Seneca is just steps away from Downtown Saratoga. (Jeff Dingler)
Seneca, A New Restaurant From Druthers’ Former Chefs, Opens In Downtown Saratoga The restaurant, owned by Chefs Mike and Michelle Spain, is focusing its menu on wood-fire-grilled entrees and local ingredients.
Grillmasters, take note: If you’ve had enough of sweating over your backyard charcoal or gas furnace this summer, you’re in for a treat in Downtown Saratoga Springs. Former Druthers chefs (and husband-and-wife…
One of the colts sired by Curlin, a two-time Horse of the Year winner, that topped $1.5 million at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale. (Fasig-Tipton Photo)
Fasig-Tipton Has Record-Breaking Saratoga Sale With Two Yearlings Going For $1.5 Million Each One of the pricey yearlings was sold to West Point Thoroughbreds, the Saratoga-based racing partnership manager and creator.
You could say that buyers at the 99th annual Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale weren’t horsing around. For the second year in a row, the annual auction of yearling Thoroughbreds, which ran from August 5-6…
The Topps Company will be doing a pop-up giveaway in Brooklyn the day before National Baseball Card Day on August 9. (Topps)
Topps Celebrates National Baseball Card Day With Brooklyn Pop-Up, Capital Region Giveaways The Topps Company will be doing special giveaways in Brooklyn, Upstate New York and at Major League ballparks across the country August 9-10.
Apparently, this is the summer of the baseball card. At the tail-end of May, Cooperstown‘s National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum launched a standalone exhibit on the production and proliferation of the…
Tracy Bonham will be performing at Caffè Lena in Saratoga Springs on Friday, August 9.
Tracy Bonham, ’90s Alt-Rock Hitmaker, Bringing Brand-New Material To Caffè Lena Bonham, who rose to fame in '96 with No.1 single "Mother Mother," will be performing at the Saratoga venue on August 9.
In 1996, my daily diet of music consisted of a rotating cast of bought and borrowed compact discs, including everything from Beck’s Odelay (borrowed), The Figgs‘ Banda Macho (bought) and Tool’s Aenima (bought); to Rage Against…
Daily Racing Form
Tax defeats Tacitus in The Jim Dandy. (Billy Francis LeRoux)
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Tacitus, second in both the Belmont Stakes and Jim Dandy, may be equipped with blinkers when he runs in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga…
FROM THE EDITOR
One of Richard Pérez-Feria's true thrills happened standing next to legendary horse trainer, Todd Pletcher, in his barn at Belmont Park in Elmont, NY. (Arthur Gerunda)
As it was happening, it was such a non-event, such a nothingburger, that the moment wasn’t even noted by me in any significant manner; but, just a few short weeks ago, I…
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