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Saratoga Raceway Seasonal Win Record Broken
Frank Coppola Jr thought he had a once-in-a-lifetime season at Saratoga in 2008 when he set a seasonal win record (321) and was named Driver and Horseman of the Year.
Big Payoff at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway
Harness racing fans born on March 7 or who reside on 37 Anywhere Street USA got a kick out of the first race at Saratoga Gaming and Raceway on 11/19/09.
Women Trainers Succeeding at Saratoga Raceway
Women trainers, like their more prevalent male counterparts, are the daily caretakers of pacers and trotters at Saratoga Raceway and other tracks in the USA and Canada
Star Trotters of the Palo Alto Farm, 1881-1895
The Palo Alto Stock Farm consistently produced trotting horses that lowered records.
World's Largest Trotter Horse Farm, Late 1800s
In 1876 he began building his huge horse operation in Palo Alto, about 30 miles south of San Francisco.
Rules for Raising a Champion Trotting Horse
The Palo Alto System, devised by Leland Stanford and implemented by the skilled personnel he hired, was a blueprint for producing fast trotters.
Eadweard Muybridge's Horse Photos, Late 1870s
After an absence, photographer Eadweard Muybridge was back in Sacramento, California by 1877 to take more photos of Leland Stanford's famous trotter Occident.
Eadweard Muybridge Photographs Running Horse,'73
In the 1870s some racehorse cognoscenti pondered whether at any time while running, horses have all hooves off the ground, an idea sometimes called unsupported transit.