The crown jewel in this precious setting that is Saratoga Race Track is set to sparkle, as Saturday is the 149th running of the Travers Stakes.  It is a wonderful day of racing at The Spa with races six through twelve being Graded Stakes Races, with total purses of 4 million dollars.  The Daily Racing Blog was going to change format and just concentrate on the main event, … Continue reading It’s Time.

The biggest weekend of the year at The Saratoga Race Course begins on Friday.  There are eleven races on Friday’s card, including six stakes races.  Daily Racing Blog will do its best to sort through the ‘Also Eligible Entries’ as well as those horses entered for the ‘Main Track Only’.  So let’s get right to it. 1st:  #7 ML 9-2.  #3 ML 4-1.  #6 ML 8-1.  #9 … Continue reading Travers Weekend Begins

The first race on Wednesday’s card was the steeplechase, which was run on the grass as expected.  Three subsequent turf races were moved to the main track.  Not counting the jumpers, three out of five races were taken off the turf.  Maybe the title to this post should be; And The Beat (as in bad) Goes On.  But the Daily Racing Blog will persevere, and vows to get back … Continue reading And The Meet Goes On

Only twelve days of racing remain at The Spa, in what seems to be one of the wettest meets in recent history.  Wednesday’s forecast in Saratoga calls for a chance of showers throughout the afternoon.  Not sure how that will affect the turf races, we have to wait and see. When making our selections for turf races the Daily Racing Blog does not consider the horses entered … Continue reading Week Five

When Saratoga proceeds with racing on Wednesday (Tuesday is dark) it will be the start of a great week of racing.  Culminating, of course, on Saturday, which features seven Graded Stakes races with total purses of four million dollars.  The grandest of which is the $1.25 million dollar Travers Stakes– often referred to as The Mid-Summer Derby.  Here is an early look at the probable starters … Continue reading Mid-Summer Derby

We here at the Daily Racing Blog hope that is not the case.  Once again on Saturday the early races were taken off the turf.  Only the feature event in the 8th race stayed on the grass.  Regular readers of this column know that when races get taken off the turf course there are a lot of scratches, which leads to smaller fields that produce inferior … Continue reading Sunday Muddy Sunday

OFF TURF.  That has been the sad track listing the last 10 days at Saratoga.  Saturday’s weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, with scattered showers.  It has been quite the rainy season at The Spa.  The Daily Racing Blog is hard pressed to recall so many lousy days (see off turf) in the first four weeks of the meet.  We’ll move ahead to Saturday, and hope … Continue reading The Alabama

Beats a good day at work.  And no one is having better days of work at Saratoga than Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. (pictured)  The jockey title is his to lose, and barring injury he should win easily.  His mounts are in the money 55% of the time.  Thursday was no different.  The young man was in 8 of 9 races, and the horses he rode … Continue reading Any Day At Saratoga…

Last week the Daily Racing Blog talked about the leading jockeys at this years meet at Saratoga.  Today  lets take a look at the top three trainers.  (these numbers come at the end of racing on Monday and do not reflect Wednesday’s card)  The top two are no surprise.  Ranking third at this point is Steve Asmussen.  He has had 44 starters, of which 24 have been … Continue reading Day 24 & We Want More!

The Daily Racing Blog apologizes for not publishing any new posts the last few days.  We were on hand in Saratoga from Friday through Monday and were experiencing some technical difficulties which made it impossible to file any reports while away from our headquarters. It was another sloppy weekend of racing at The Spa as many of the races on the turf were moved to the dirt … Continue reading We’re Back!