Monday, August 11 At the track… Today’s stakes race: the $100,000 Tenski for three-year-old fillies at a mile on the turf. Live-money, low roller handicapping tournament. $40 entry fee. $10 goes to the prize pool, with 70% to be awarded to the first-place finisher, 20% to second, and 10% to third; the remaining $30 comprises…
Aside from a lightning-struck tree and a couple of deluge-filled days, we’ve been blessed with perfect weather so far (please tell me I didn’t just jinx it?) and treated to some terrific racing. After last weekend’s stakes race, Jimmy Jerkens finds himself with two possible Travers Contenders, as his V.E. Day took the Curlin and…
It’s here: the week so many of us wait for beginning in September, the end of the countdown that begins with the last race on Labor Day. And as in previous years, I’ll post weekly updates about various events—racing, philanthropic, historical—taking place in Saratoga Springs, right through to closing day. Opening day is officially this…
Brooklyn Backstretch 