A Visitor’s Guide to Colonial and Revoluntionary Mid Atlantic America
By Dick Healy Few early American historical sites can match the region in and around Lake George, New York, ideally nestled in the shadows of the Adirondack Mountains. So it seems only appropriate that Patricia and Robert Foulke whose home, located at the southern east-side of the lake is where the retired senior collage professors […]
Saratoga’s Grand Summer 2009
By Dick Healy It was a long, snowy winter in Saratoga, New York. Some claiming the longest they’ve seen in many years. On this early April day, however, as I drive down tree-lined Union Avenue passing by the famous and oldest thoroughbred Race Course in the country, temperature is in the high 70s and not […]
Saratoga’s Grand Summer #2 – 2009
By Dick Healy Opening day at Saratoga’s famous Race Course saw a crowd of 25,444 turnout to greet the Spa City’s 141st racing season. It was a 40-percent increase over last year’s opening day, defying those pundits that predicted a slow start to the season. Many fans stayed in town following the races to visit […]
Saratoga’s Grand Summer #3 – 2009
By Dick Healy A medley of Broadway and Hollywood music came to Saratoga’s Performing Arts Center last Thursday where Oscar winning composer, Marvin Hamlisch, no stranger to the Spa City, conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra which included the overture to his Pulitzer Prize musical, Chorus Line. For those of us old enough to remember, listening to […]
Saratoga’s Grand Summer #4 – 2009
By Dick Healy Saratoga has always showered special attention on its famous ladies, dating all the way back to Lillian Russell. With the running of this coming Saturday’s Grade 1 Woodward Stakes, attention will be drawn to a four-legged, 3-year-old filly, Rachel Alexandra, who will go up against older male thoroughbreds in what racing experts […]
Fasig-Tipton’s New Look
By Dick Healy Though summer visitors to Saratoga Springs, N. Y. find excitement and unparalleled thoroughbred racing at the famous Race Course on Union Avenue, attending the annual yearlings sales at the Fasig-Tipton Company’s Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion, where high-stakes horse auctioning happens, is equally exciting. The many updates at Fasig-Tipton that will greet […]
Saratoga Race Course in Full Stride
By Dick Healy Since thoroughbred racing opened on July 23, Saratoga Race Course has hosted several high profile Grade 1 stakes races, however, the big race day is Saturday, August 28 when the 141st Travers Stakes takes place. If you plan on vacationing in or near Saratoga Springs during Travers week, be prepared to enjoy […]
Saratoga Happenings
By Dick Healy The horse-racing world will be focused on the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby from Churchill Downs this Saturday, May 7, however, one grand Derby party will be held at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N. Y. According to Brien Bouyea, the Museum’s communications coordinator, […]
Historic Saratoga Offers Year-Round Activities and Events
By Dick Healy Historic Saratoga, New York, the town most people associate with thoroughbred horse racing, offers many year-round activities and events. With its close proximity to the Adirondack Mountains, nearby Vermont and New York’s Capitol City, Albany, any event that has to do with winter outdoor activity is generally well attended. The fourth annual […]
Ride the Ski Train
By Dick Healy Skiers from downstate New York, particularly metropolitan New York City, will be repeating skiing history this winter by riding Amtrak trains to Saratoga Springs, 30 miles north of Albany, the state’s capital. At Saratoga skiers can board the North Creek Rail Road to North Creek, site of the lengendery Ski Bowl where […]
