Timely Saratoga piece

[OldDog]

I'm not sure what happened to the earlier thread about the backside at Saratoga...

but anyway, I thought some of you might enjoy this.

http://colinsghost.org/2010/07/joe-p...ce-course.html

In an era when sports traditions are more manufactured than made, Saratoga’s authenticity stands alone. Baseball can tear down the “House that Ruth Built” but racing, even with its many problems, remains respectful of its past epitomized in a place like Saratoga. Over fifty years ago, Joe Palmer spoke in the same reverential tone that we speak of it today. Times have changed but the tradition and history at Saratoga’s core would require quite a feat of ineptitude or unimaginable disaster to erase.