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They said it: Top sports quotes from July 2021

From each month, The Daily Gazette sports department compiles the 10 quotes from our interview subjects that stuck out the… Read more »

Canfield Casino at Congress Park in Saratoga Springs on April 8, 2020.

Saratoga County

Today in Saratoga: What’s happening on Monday, Aug. 2

Monday, August 2 in Saratoga Pick of the Day SARATOGA’S BEST HAPPY HOUR Noon to 6 p.m. All drinks and appetizers… Read more »

Swiss Skydiver, trained by Kenny McPeek, is bathed at a barn on the Oklahoma Annex at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs on Sunday, August 1, 2021.

Plan B for Swiss Skydiver is a challenging one: next Saturday’s Whitney at Saratoga Race Course

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Whitney Stakes will have a surrogate Queen of Saratoga on Saturday. For decades, that nickname was bestowed upon… Read more »

Duanesburg's Emma White is seen at the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin.

Duanesburg’s Emma White finally gets her shot at Olympic gold in cycling

She has graduated from tiger stripes to the Stars and Stripes. Emma White’s first bicycle — the one that had… Read more »

Left: Stewart Friesen and his son, Parker, at Fonda Speedway in June 2020. Right: Jessica Friesen with son Parker in victory lane at Fonda July 10 after Jessica won the night's Sunoco Modified feature. (Photos courtesy Jeff Karabin)

Montgomery County

‘It’s always chaos’: Sprakers’ Friesens embrace life of husband-and-wife racers, regulars at Fonda, elsewhere

SPRAKERS — A typical week for Jessica and Stewart Friesen? There’s no such thing. “Our typical,” Stewart Friesen said, “is… Read more »

Lexitonian, right, skims the rail to beat Special Reserve, center, and Whitmore, left, in the A.G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga on Saturday.

Lexitonian uses rail trip to upset Grade I Vanderbilt at 34-1

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The longest shot on the board took the shortest route to victory in the Grade I A.G…. Read more »

Essential Quality and jockey Luis Saez, left, hold off Keepmeinmind, right, to win the Jim Dandy at Saratoga on Saturday.

Essential Quality takes care of business in Jim Dandy

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Simple competence can be underrated. Essential Quality’s race record, on the other hand, cannot. Despite a wide… Read more »

Donato’s Saratoga selections for Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021

The Grade II Amsterdam Stakes will be a rematch of Drain the Clock (2-1), and Jackie’s Warrior (6-5), the top… Read more »

Paul Pratico will be vying for his fifth Schenectady Senior Classic title Thursday and Friday at Schenectady Municipal Golf Course.

Down the Fairway: Pratico is favorite to win Schenectady Senior Classic

Paul Pratico doesn’t hit the ball as far as he used to, and some of his other array of skills… Read more »

Dynamic One, left, ridden by Irad Ortiz, Jr., runs away from Miles D, center, and First Captain to win the Curlin at Saratoga on Friday.

Saratoga Springs

Dynamic One pulls away from Curlin field; First Captain third

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Kentucky Derby suddenly is a distant memory for Dynamic One and his connections. That’s because most of… Read more »