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06-25-2005, 05:59 PM
Saratoga, fastest 6 weeks in sports
35-day extravaganza has something for all racing fanatics
By John Pricci
NBCSPORTS.COM CONTRIBUTOR
Updated: 4:54 p.m. ET June 24, 2005
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Horseplayers headed north on Route 87 are usually so anxious to get to the races here that they’ll exit at 13 instead of 14 and take Route 9 north into town. That way they can get a feel for the place all over again as they wheel past the motels, the parks, the drive-in barbecue joints and vegetable stands rife with local corn, tomatoes and melons from the Hand family farm.
They’ll know they’ve arrived when they see a welcome sign that reads “Saratoga: History, Health and Horses” and won’t mind even if they think the chamber of commerce folks got it a little backwards. Instead, they’ll recall the best directions ever given horseplayers who make the annual Saratoga sojourn: “Take Northway exit 14, make a left on Union Avenue and go back a hundred years.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8348271/
35-day extravaganza has something for all racing fanatics
By John Pricci
NBCSPORTS.COM CONTRIBUTOR
Updated: 4:54 p.m. ET June 24, 2005
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Horseplayers headed north on Route 87 are usually so anxious to get to the races here that they’ll exit at 13 instead of 14 and take Route 9 north into town. That way they can get a feel for the place all over again as they wheel past the motels, the parks, the drive-in barbecue joints and vegetable stands rife with local corn, tomatoes and melons from the Hand family farm.
They’ll know they’ve arrived when they see a welcome sign that reads “Saratoga: History, Health and Horses” and won’t mind even if they think the chamber of commerce folks got it a little backwards. Instead, they’ll recall the best directions ever given horseplayers who make the annual Saratoga sojourn: “Take Northway exit 14, make a left on Union Avenue and go back a hundred years.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8348271/