SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Check the Label will aim for her fourth consecutive victory at as many tracks when she competes at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Woodford Reserve Lake Placid for 3-year-old fillies on the turf.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Better known as a top breeding operation that has produced more than 120 stakes winners, including Venetian Way (1960 Kentucky Derby) and Pike Place Dancer (1996 Kentucky Oaks), Glencrest Farm has remained relatively low-profile when it comes to racing horses.

This year, however, the small stable has a big star in Devil May Care, the East coast’s top filly who Saturday faces California-based Blind Luck and four others in the 130th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Betfair TVG Alabama at Saratoga Race Course.

Saratoga Race Course to celebrate Fabulous Fillies; Proceeds from all-day event to support breast cancer research

WHAT: The New York Racing Association will celebrate women and the glamour they bring to Saratoga Race Course with a special day dedicated to the ladies.

WHEN: Friday, August 20

· 11 a.m. Opening Ceremony featuring Pink Parade with breast cancer survivors and supporters in the Paddock

* Miner’s Reserve and Ice Box to work tomorrow, Fly Down Saturday; Travers remains a possibility for all three
* First Dude to arrive Tuesday for Travers
* Afleet Again coming to Midsummer Derby
* Hollendorfer hails The Chief
* Whitney winner Blame returns to work tab
* Buoniconti visits namesake, Rock Hard Nicky
* Get Stormy working toward Grade 2 Bernard Baruch

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When a striking 2-year-old daughter of Saint Liam stepped off the van from South Carolina at Tony Dutrow’s barn in May of last year, all the trainer could say was “Wow.”

“Like all of [owner] Rick Porter’s horses, she was big and beautiful, and I looked at her and said, ‘I am so glad that this one found its way to my barn’,” said Dutrow, standing outside Havre de Grace’s stall at Saratoga Race Course several days before the 130th running of the Grade 1 Betfair TVG Alabama.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Longtime New York sportswriter Vic Ziegel, who passed away at the age of 72 on Friday, July 23, will be honored by NYRA with a race in his name on Friday, August 27 at Saratoga Race Course.

Ziegel, born August 16, 1937 in New York City, worked for the New York Post in the 1960’s and 70’s, was hired by The Daily News in 1985 as executive sports editor, and became a sports columnist for The News in 1990.

He was a regular in the press boxes at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga for much of the past half a century.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jockey Rajiv Maragh was discharged from the hospital tonight after a spill earlier today at Saratoga Race Course.

Maragh fell to the ground when his mount, Pico Dinero, stumbled and lost his footing on the backstretch in the 7th race at Saratoga, a one-mile maiden claiming race on the inner turf course.

The 25-year-old Jamaica-native was alert and taken to Albany Medical Center, where x-rays were negative. He will follow up with doctors on Thursday, and potentially could be cleared to ride.

Daily Double of events at Saratoga Race Course with Serling Syndicate and special tribute to The Singing Waiter

WHAT: Thursday’s lineup at Saratoga Race Course will feature two special events: a chance for fans to partner with professional handicapper Andy Serling in a $2,000 Pick 6 play; and a touching tribute to Saratoga fixture John Salerno, Saratoga’s own “singing waiter.”

WHEN: Thursday, August 19

1:35 p.m. Plaque presentation and named race in honor of John Salerno in the Winner’s Circle (following second race)

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It will be “East meets West” Saturday afternoon at Saratoga Race Course when Devil May Care and Blind Luck, the top two 3-year-old fillies in the country, face off in the 130th running of the Grade 1, $500,000 Betfair TVG Alabama at 1 ¼ miles.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A victory by Tizahit in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Betfair TVG Alabama would provide the perfect 35th wedding anniversary for her owners Jim and Susan Hill, who could pick up their second triumph in a major race over a six-day span.

Miami Deco gave the Hills their most lucrative triumph to date in Sunday’s $483,172 Breeders’ Stakes – the third leg of the Canadian Triple Crown – at odds of 65-1, but the outcome wasn’t entirely unexpected to the residents of Calgary, Alberta.