Last year, I shared a post with favorite photos I took at Saratoga Race Course in years past. With the 2023 meet almost here, I will share some more favorite photos from previous years in this post (all ones I haven’t shared in awhile or, in some cases, ever). Click here to read my other posts about the track.
A mostly empty track apron in the morning, 2013.
Big Red Spring in the track’s backyard, 2013.
The first floor, 2013.
Hail to the Nile is led to the paddock, 2013.
Horses zoom by at the Oklahoma Track, 2013.
An H. James Bond trainee is exercised on the main track, 2013.
Horses and exercise riders at sunrise at the Oklahoma Track, 2013.
Lucky Travers Day tickets, 2013.
Another early morning at the Oklahoma Track, 2014.
Thumbs up at the Oklahoma Track, 2014.
Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen sits on his pony at the Oklahoma Track, 2014.
Stopchargingmaria is led out to the track with John Velázquez onboard before winning the Grade I Alabama Stakes, 2014.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas rides alongside a charge at the Oklahoma Track, 2014.
Feathered (in front), dam of 2022 Horse of the Year Flightline, breaks her maiden at Saratoga, 2014.
Crowds in the grandstand, 2014.
A pony rider on a fall morning at the Oklahoma Track, 2014.
Fall colors at the Oklahoma Track, 2014. Do you see the horse?
A Todd Pletcher trainee at the Oklahoma Track, 2014.
Dramatic black and white edit, 2015.
A man dances to the music of Reggie’s Red Hot Feet Warmers, 2015.
2014 Belmont Stakes winner Tonalist works out at the Oklahoma Track, 2015.
Fans hold up their devices to capture Triple Crown winner American Pharoah gallop around the track the day before his infamous defeat in the Travers Stakes, 2015.
Champion sprinter Jackie’s Warrior is ponied at the Oklahoma Track, 2021.
A horse silhouette captured at the Clubhouse turn, 2021.
Jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. celebrates his win of the Grade I Jockey Club Gold Cup aboard Max Player, 2021.
Multiple graded stakes winning turf mare War Like Goddess is ridden at the Oklahoma Track, 2021.
Mulitple Grade I Stakes winning sprinter Cody’s Wish, still a maiden after his first three starts, is led at the Oklahoma Track, 2021.
Corniche runs in the Grade II Amsterdam Stakes, the only race of his three-year-old campaign, suffering his only career defeat, 2022.
A Bill Mott trainee heads around the Clubhouse turn on a sunny morning, 2022.
War Like Goddess gets a bath after winning the Grade II Glens Falls Stakes, 2022.
Multiple graded stakes winner Hot Rod Charlie gets a bath after his third place finish in the Grade I Whitney Stakes, 2022.
Multiple Grade I Stakes winning sprinter Mind Control is hot walked at the Oklahoma Track, 2022.
Julia Shining, graded stakes winner and half sister to Eclipse winner Malathaat, still unraced in this photo, is hot walked by groom Martín Baez at the Oklahoma Track, 2022.
The field heads down the stretch in a claiming race on Ukraine Day, 2022.
The dappled light illuminates part of Rockemperor’s face as he is led out of the paddock for the Grade I Sword Dancer Stakes, 2022,
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Beautiful…hard to believe it’s already time for another season!