SARATOGA SPRINGS About 50 minutes apart, they ran two races, both with big purses, both at a mile and an eighth, both for 3-year-olds. The similarities end there. The Haskell was a lot better race ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS The brothers Lizza are still speaking. At least for now. Check back with us after Travers Day. Carl Lizza owns Travers starter Badger Gold. Allie Lizza and his family used to own the ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — As eight 3-year-olds battle today for $1 million and the prestige of winning the Travers, another and perhaps more intriguing race is taking place among the top contenders.

They said it last year. Yet out of the 1999 Travers came the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Cat Thief, and the current leading older handicap horse, Lemon Drop Kid. Last year’s Midsummer Derby also ...

A week before he will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame, jockey Jose Santos, 46, yesterday announced his retirement across the street from the Hall at Saratoga Race Course, ...

One of the traditional questions asked of each John Travers Award finalist is to use one word to describe yourself and why. Heather Conroy (Hower), the 1999 winner from Susquenita, could not recall ...

The enormous success of Peter, Paul and Mary’s self-titled 1962 debut record brought folk music-and with it a dose of liberal politics-out of the coffeehouses to mainstream audiences. Except for some ...