A recent stopover at James Madison’s Montpelier estate in Orange County, Virginia, which provides a vista comparable in beauty to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello while blissfully attracting a fraction of the latter’s crowds, combined two interests […]
Judging by the fact that he doesn’t have his own Wikipedia page, Eurasian might be one of the more forgettable Travers Stakes winners, which also might account for the owner’s trophy being available at auction […]
by TERESA GENARO “My lady prioress, and by your leave, So that I knew I should in no way grieve, I would opine that tell a tale you should, The one that follows next if […]
by TERESA GENARO The sight of a filly in the Mid-summer Derby is about as rare as an empty picnic table in the Saratoga backyard at 7:01 on Travers morning, but back in 1867, the […]
by TERESA GENARO Not much remains in the easily available historical record on 19th century Thoroughbred owner and breeder Francis Morris. The New York Times seems not to have published his obituary, and the guy […]
by Teresa Genaro The stakes schedule at Saratoga at the turn of the last century was already robust. Announced in February in the New York Times for the 1901 season, it featured 25 races worth […]
by Teresa Genaro They sure don’t do things like they used to at Saratoga Race Course. Back in 1922, the Alabama Stakes was already a venerable race, having been first run in 1872, and it […]
They could have been very easy to overlook given the quantity of luminaries resting all around them, but a discerning visitor to the Calumet Farm cemetery in April made a point, at least for a […]
by Teresa Genaro For thirty years and more there was hardly a great race run in which one of their horses did not figure conspicuously. They were a city-bred pair, but they possessed an instinctive […]
by Teresa Genaro By the eve of the last century, the Suburban Handicap had already been run 15 times, a fixture at the old Sheepshead Bay track in Brooklyn, already established, according to The New […]
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