08-22-2014, 02:40 PM
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#106
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Location: Manhattan
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Originally Posted by thespaah
Closing Day at Saratoga is to me the "anti Christmas.
it's worse this year because of a few factors I could not make it up there.
This ends a streak of 22 years I had attended.
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I was up there for 3.5 weeks.
If you ask me where the time went, I have no answer.
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09-02-2014, 12:56 PM
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#107
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Educated Speculation
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Where Palm Trees Sway
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Originally Posted by thespaah
Closing Day at Saratoga is to me the "anti Christmas.
it's worse this year because of a few factors I could not make it up there.
This ends a streak of 22 years I had attended.
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Agreed. I was too busy with a little thing called "my career" this year to make the trip. Very upsetting. I've missed a few years here and there but this year really hurt. I'm burnt out and really needed the trip to recharge the batteries. Next year, I'm taking two weeks vacation around Toga.
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09-02-2014, 03:24 PM
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#108
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 6,843
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Originally Posted by badcompany
I was up there for 3.5 weeks.
If you ask me where the time went, I have no answer.
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Lucky you....Great place to live, even for a little while... 
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03-26-2015, 03:19 PM
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intus habes, quem poscis
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Brooklyn NY
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NYRA finally released prices for Festival Tent seating and all I can say is wow. $65 per table during the week and $85 on the weekend. It does say you get admission and a program with that so the during the week prices haven't gone up too much more than the cost of 6 admissions since I did this two years ago when I think it was $30 a table, no admission, which was $3 then. Also means groups have to figure out how to get admission tickets to people coming beforehand. The fan experience has been enhanced to be sure....
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03-26-2015, 04:20 PM
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#110
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Manhattan
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Originally Posted by OTM Al
Also means groups have to figure out how to get admission tickets to people coming beforehand. The fan experience has been enhanced to be sure....
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If you don't get them to people in advance, the person with the tickets would have to get to the track, first, then hand the tickets to people through the fence.
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03-31-2015, 07:51 PM
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#111
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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So I take it no one is organizing this year? What's up Al? Hope all is well.
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03-31-2015, 07:55 PM
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#112
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 7,510
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My schedule may put me up in NY in the middle of August. Typically that same week of the 'Toga Party.....I have not been able to attend the past ones.
Hopefully there is one organized this year.
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04-13-2015, 08:04 PM
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#113
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 147
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Is anyone going to Saratoga this year?
The Alabama stks weekend or any other.
I was planning on going this year again. missed last year because I had knee replacement surgery and couldn't travel.
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04-13-2015, 10:28 PM
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#114
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Originally Posted by tomack59
Is anyone going to Saratoga this year?
The Alabama stks weekend or any other.
I was planning on going this year again. missed last year because I had knee replacement surgery and couldn't travel.
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I am looking at either the first or second full week of August..MY preference is to be there for the Whitney. Always a good day.
But then again, just about any day at The Spa is a good day
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05-12-2015, 07:55 PM
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#115
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Tix went on sale for single days yesterday.. Got Aug 28-29 of course
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05-12-2015, 08:02 PM
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#116
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 7,510
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Originally Posted by tanner12oz
Tix went on sale for single days yesterday.. Got Aug 28-29 of course
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Arrive early!....Travers Day can be NUTS...Lots of one day per year people there..
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05-15-2015, 06:24 PM
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#117
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Manhattan
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If you go Travers Day, you wanna bet with a phone/internet account, unless you want to spend the whole day standing on ticket window lines behind people who don't know what they're doing.
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05-16-2015, 12:24 AM
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#118
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Originally Posted by badcompany
If you go Travers Day, you wanna bet with a phone/internet account, unless you want to spend the whole day standing on ticket window lines behind people who don't know what they're doing.
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With 40k or so on property on Whitney Day last year I hung out near the Jim Dandy Bar and used the machines adjacent to the path the horses take to the track....Yes, I'm giving away my secrets.....But, we're all friends here.
Oh, I have experienced issues with internet access on my phone on busy days there. Lots of internet traffic.
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06-04-2015, 04:01 PM
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#119
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Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 482
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im usually up there quite a bit but i know i will be there between the 11th and the 16 or 17 cant make the alabama this year
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06-05-2015, 05:05 PM
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#120
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Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 5,005
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Maybe we should change the thread title to "2015" or maybe start a new thread? I was hoping to make it up there this year, but the wife isn't in a traveling mood, and I can't leave her alone for a "road trip."
Last edited by Ocala Mike; 06-05-2015 at 05:09 PM.
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