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 […]
48th Annual Ski & Snowboard Expo ’09 set for Albany, New York
By Dick Healy When the doors open at 4 p. m. Friday, Nov 6 for the 48th Annual Ski & Snowboard Expo in Albany, New York’s Empire State Plaza Convention Center, visitors will find the latest in equipment, apparel and mountain resort offerings. Attendees can also take pride in the fact that they’ll be participating […]
Lake Placid’s Magical Appeal
By Dick Healy In a conversation I had with a world traveler and friend, I was astonished to find out that he had never been to Lake Placid. Surprising in that he lives only 110 miles south of the site of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games (recall the famous miracle on ice hockey game), and […]
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 […]
Hiker’s Challenge
By Dick Healy The leaves are turning brown, orange and red as fall season quickly approaches New England’s mountains which means skiing/snowboarding can’t be far off. Yet well in advance of snow on slopes and XC trails at Whiteface Mountain, NY, Mt Manadnock, NH and Mount Mansfield, VT, hikers are out in force scaling the […]
Mad River/Sugarbush
By Dicky Healy The Eastern Ski Writers Associations February 6, 7 and 8 meeting and conference, hosted by Mad River Glen, Sugarbush Resort and the Mad River Chamber of Commerce, produced a very special touche for ski press and corporate members by way of an on-the-hill clinic at Sugarbush, conducted by former U. S. Ski […]
Hudson Chair Grand Opening
The long awaited Gore Mountain/Ski Bowl interconnect took place Saturday, Jan 29, when the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) officially celebrated the ribbon cutting opening of the Hudson Chair. Included in the photo from left to right are: ORDA President. Ted Blazer ,former Town of Johnsburg Supervisor, Bill Thomas; Current Supervisor, Sterling T. Goodspeed; ORDA […]
