SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The season’s final week of racing at Saratoga Race Course begins on Wednesday with a card that features a $443,274 Pick 6 carryover.

The Pick 6 gets underway at approximately 3:13 p.m. EDT with race five, and continues with races six through ten.

Five of the six races comprising Wednesday’s Pick 6 are scheduled for the turf, including the P.G. Johnson Stakes for 2-year-old fillies (eighth race, approx 4:55 p.m. post).

The Pick 6 is a $2 minimum wager that requires bettors to select the winners of six consecutive races.

Total Wagering Now Posts Slight Gain Compared to Races Run

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Attendance and handle rebounded sharply following a weekend of glorious weather and spectacular racing, according to statistics through five full weeks at Saratoga released today by the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA).

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Juveniles take to the turf Friday for the seventh renewal of the Grade 3, $100,000 With Anticipation Stakes, which trainer Todd Pletcher will attempt to win for the second consecutive year.

In 2009, Pletcher saddled Interactif to an eye-catching 4 ¼-length victory in the race after being impressed by the way the colt – whose first two starts came on the dirt, including an eighth-place finish in the Grade 2 Sanford – worked on the turf the week before the race.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Saratoga Race Course will pay tribute to the nation’s active duty armed forces and veterans on Thursday, September 2.

Presented by the New York Racing Association Inc. (NYRA), the day will feature free grandstand admission for all United States active duty military and veterans with military ID, courtesy of the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

* Persistently doing well the morning after the Personal Ensign
* Rachel Alexandra OK following runner-up effort in Personal Ensign
* Life At Ten exits Personal Ensign in good shape; Awesome Maria makes 2010 debut Thursday; Quality Road comes out of breeze in good order; Pletcher looks to have insurmountable lead among trainers
* Miner’s Reserve to miss several months with knee injury
* Apprentice Lenclud reflects on 2010 Saratoga meeting
* Wednesday allowance comes up tough
* Stakes fields coming together for final Spa weekend

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) has added a new installment to its “Time Machine” video series, this time featuring Holy Bull’s victory in the 1994 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.

Holy Bull, later named the 1994 Horse of the Year, entered the Travers having easily won five of his previous six starts, with his sole defeat having come in the Kentucky Derby, which was contested at 1 ¼ miles, the same distance as the Travers.

Saratoga County's Hometown radio station, Star 101.3 FM will host a fun game between the Jockey and Area Personalities

(Saratoga Springs, New York) - Star 101.3 FM is hosting a charity softball game between the Saratoga Race Course Jockeys and local celebrities on Monday, August 30th at East Side Recreation Park in Saratoga Springs. The event will begin at 7pm with your announcer for the night, Star 101.3's Ric Mitchell. The National Anthem will be sung by WRGB talent, Jerry Gretzinger.

By Jon Forbes

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Persistently waited patiently behind a speed duel and made an inexorable rally in the stretch to upset Rachel Alexandra by a length on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course in the 63rd running of the Grade 1, $300,000 Personal Ensign for fillies and mares.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The next chapter in the storybook tale of Lisa’s Booby Trap will be written Thursday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course, when the undefeated filly goes for her fifth straight win in the second division of the $70,000 Riskaverse Stakes.