Keith McCalmont

Just three live race days remain in 2024 to complete a remarkable year of racing action on the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) circuit. To celebrate the season, the NYRA Press Office checked in with a selection of trainers, owners, jockeys and racing personalities to share their reflections on the memorable year.

Keith McCalmont

Just three live race days remain in 2024 to complete a remarkable year of racing action on the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) circuit. To celebrate the season, the NYRA Press Office checked in with a selection of trainers, owners, jockeys and racing personalities to share their reflections on the memorable year.

Mary Eddy

More than six years have passed since the globetrotting Extravagant Kid brought his best to win the Lucky Coin at Saratoga Race Course, but the talented son of Kiss the Kid has not strayed far from the hallowed oval as he assists newly retired racehorses looking for a mentor just a few miles away in Ballston Spa at After the Races NY.

Mary Eddy

A decade after surprising a crowd of more than 46,000 race fans with a thrilling victory in the Grade 1 Travers at Saratoga Race Course, pensioned stallion V.E. Day has found a new calling in his third career as an ambassador for thoroughbred racehorse retirement at Old Friends Farm in Georgetown, K.Y.

Christian Abdo

In 2012, trainer Kenny McPeek believed the 1-for-9 Golden Ticket was in good enough form to contest the historic Grade 1 Travers at Saratoga Race Course. It was a massive ask for just a maiden winner, but it proved to be the right call as the 33-1 longshot dead-heated for victory with the favored Alpha in a finish for the ages.

Brien Bouyea

On August 7, 1915, a filly named Lady Rotha was declared the winner of the Travers via disqualification. Little fuss was made regarding the gender of the bay daughter of multiple stakes winner Fayette. After all, Lady Rotha was the seventh filly to win the Travers in its first 46 runnings. More than a century later, Lady Rotha’s name remains relevant as the most recent filly to win Saratoga’s signature race.