This summer, in addition to playing host to the Belmont Stakes for the second year in a row, Saratoga Race Course will also welcome NYRA's July 4th Racing Festival for the first time. Get your red, white, and blue ready, because the stakes schedule has just been announced:
Thursday, July 3
The festival begins with two stakes on tap: the Listed $150,000 Wild Applause for sophomore...
If a Mount Rushmore honoring the important figures in the history of Saratoga Springs were to be commissioned, Gideon Putnam would be the George Washington of the localized monument. Today, Putnam’s name is most commonly associated with the iconic hotel in the Spa State Park, but many generations ago the Massachusetts native played a lead role in the establishment and development of Saratoga Springs.
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