Every August, the best yearlings bred in New York State are offered at the Fasig-Tipton sale on East Avenue in Saratoga. In 2019, the average price for a yearling at the sale was $87,000, with the sale topper going for $775,000. In 2021, the top seller brought $495,000, the average rising to $91,000. At Saratoga…
On July 31, 2006, a 3-year-old black horse named Songster made his Saratoga debut in the Grade 2 Amsterdam Stakes. The Darley-owned colt was already a graded stakes winner: he achieved that when he won the Grade 3 Hirsch Jacobs Stakes on the Preakness undercard, crushing the field by 10 lengths. Three weeks later, he took the Grade 2…
In Friday afternoon’s Curlin Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, trainer Tom Albertrani’s Romansh crossed the wire second, but within seconds of the finish, he knew he had the winner. Standing on the track and watching the race replay next to a flashing “inquiry” sign, Albertrani was fairly confident that the winner, Transparent, would be taken…
Drive south on Nelson Avenue, with the track on your left; you’ll come to the corner of Gridley Avenue. If you turn left, you’ll be on the Saratoga backstretch, with Clare Court barns and the half-mile training track on your right. If you keep going down Nelson, you’ll shortly see an expansive farm, with a…
Brooklyn Backstretch 