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Events
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What to see and do in the area?
In addition to scheduled events in and around the area of Saratoga Springs, which can be found on this page, you can also use our links page, which will allow you to search out more specific information on attractions, museums, parks, shopping, restaurants and more.
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Continuous through December
Saratoga Farmers' Market
The Saratoga Springs Farmers' Market will be back in the sun Saturday at High Rock Park with an expanded market and new faces.
The market hosts 30 to 35 vendors from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through the end of October. While Wednesday market hours end in October, Saturdays will continue through November.
Contact: Debbie Bailey
Phone: 518-695-3531
e-mail: organized@email.com
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Continuous through Labor Day
Special Events at SPAC
Throughout the summer enjoy music festivals, concerts, classical events and more at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Just ten minnutes from the Six Sisters Bed and Breakfast. For more information look at sfx.com.
Contact: SPAC Box Office 518- 587-3330
Phone: 518- 587-3330
e-mail: info@spac.org
www: http://www.spac.org
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Continuous through July 26th
New York City Ballet
From July 8th - July 26th, the NYC Ballet (resident company) takes center stage at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, five minutes from the Six Sisters Bed and Breakfast. The Six Sisters B&B can also help you obtain special ticket prices. www.spac.org/explore.cfm
Specials: SPAC is the Summer Home of the NYC Ballet
Contact: SPAC Box Office
Phone: 518-587-3330
e-mail: info@spac.org
www: http://www.spac.org
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July 15 - 27, 2008
Saratoga Shakespeare Company
Actors will step onto the Alfred Z. Solomon stage in Congress Park this summer to perform with the Saratoga Shakespeare Company. Performance days are July 15-20th and July 22-27th. Donations are accepted after the show on a “pass the hat” basis. No tickets are needed. Audience is first come, first served and over 1,000 can be accommodated each day.
Phone: 518-884-4947
e-mail: info@saratogashakespeare.com
www: www.saratogashakespeare.com
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Thoroughbred Racing At The Saratoga Flat Track
Thoroughbred Racing In Saratoga
And there off....! From July 23rd - September 1st, the finest in Thoroughbred Horse Racing at the Saratoga Race Course, celebrating its 140th season, across the street from the Six Sisters Bed and Breakfast. Twilight racing this year will be on July 27th and August 31st. Enjoy the races at the oldest operating track in the United States, celebrating its 139th season. Last season the track had a record year. Everyone is looking forward to another exciting 6 weeks of the finest Thoroughbred Racing in the world. The 2007 Stakes Schedule can be seen at this Link.
Specials: We do have rooms available We will begin accepting reservations for the 139th season at the Saratoga Race Course, January 2, 2007.
Contact: NYRA, P.O.Box 90, Jamaica, NY 11417
Phone: 718-641-4700
e-mail: nyra@nyra.com
www: http://www.nyra.com
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July 25 - 27, 2008
Hats Off To Saratoga
Celebrate the beginning of the 2008 Thoroughbred Racing Season in Saratoga with music, entertainment, food and celebration throughout downtown Saratoga Springs. 7:00 - 11:00 pm. Sponsored by NYRA.
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August 4, 2008
Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremonies
The National Racing Museum and Hall Of Fame honors inductees into the museum for 2008. The Six Sisters B&B is a one minute walk up the street from the Museum. SARATOGA SPRINGS — Edgar Prado, who rode Barbaro to his Kentucky Derby triumph two years ago, trainer Carl Nafzger, and two-time Derby winner Ismael Valenzuela were among six honorees selected Monday for induction into the National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame.
Thoroughbreds Inside Information, Manila and Ancient Title completed the class of 2008, which will be installed Aug. 4.
Prado and Nafzger were elected the first year their names appeared on the ballot. They had been eligible in previous years but didn’t receive enough votes in the nominating committee to appear on the ballot.
Inside Information, Manila, Prado and Nafzger were elected in the contemporary categories by the Hall of Fame’s voting panel. Valenzuela and Ancient Title were selected by the Historic Review Committee, which considers candidates who have not been active in the sport for more than 25 years.
“I’m just speechless. I’m shaking like a leaf,” said Prado, who grew up in a racing family of 11 children in Peru and began his riding career there at age16.
Prado, 40, led the nation in victories from 1997-99 while based in Maryland. Since relocating to New York, he has been among the leaders in purse money won and has added
dozens of graded stakes wins, including the Kentucky Derby and two Belmont Stakes, to his resume. He won the Eclipse Award as the champion jockey of 2006.
Prado has 6,040 victories from 31,539 starts with earnings of $205,283,461 and 261 graded stakes. He ranks seventh on the career earnings list and became just the fourth rider in history with more than 500 victories in a season when he rode 535 in 1997.
Nafzger, 67, was a top rodeo competitor in the 1960s before turning to training horses. He handled quarter horses for a few years before switching to thoroughbreds. He is best known for developing champions Unbridled, Banshee Breeze and Street Sense.
In 1990, Unbridled became the second horse to win the Kentucky Derby and the Breeders’ Cup Classic in the same year. Banshee Breeze was the 3-year-old filly champion of 1998, winning five Grade 1 races in her career. Street Sense is the only horse to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Kentucky Derby.
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Since 1976, Nafzger has won 68 graded stakes and 140 total stakes and saddled at least one stakes winner every year from 1980-2007. He has 1,072 career victories from 8,057 starts and purse earnings of $50,329,141. In 2006, Nafzger began moving toward retirement and turned over the bulk of his stable to longtime assistant Ian Wilkes.
Though aware that he had a “50-50 shot” since the late Robert Wheeler was the only other trainer on the ballot, Nafzger was silent for a moment when told he had been elected.
“That’s good. That’s really good,” said Nafzger, who with his wife, Wanda, have operated a relatively small stable for 40 years. “If you don’t believe in God, study my life. It’s been a miracle. Horses have taken us to places you just can’t go.”
Valenzuela, who won 22 stakes aboard Hall of Famer Kelso, rode 2,545 winners from 21,203 mounts for a purse total of $20,122,760 from 1951-80. In 1958, he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness with Tim Tam. A decade later, he completed the Derby-Preakness double with Forward Pass.
“I am the happiest man today,” Valenzuela said. “This was my last chapter in my racing career that I wanted to complete. My last ride across the finish line, at 73 being inducted into the Hall of Fame.”
Inside Information won 14 of 17 races in three seasons for owner-breeder Ogden Mills Phipps. The Private Account filly closed her career for Phipps and trainer Shug McGaughey with three Grade 1 victories. In the final start of her career, the 1995 Breeders’ Cup Distaff, she beat stablemate Heavenly Prize by 13 lengths, a Breeders’ Cup record. That performance at Belmont Park helped secure the Eclipse Award as the champion older filly of 1995.
Manila, one of the most successful grass horses in American racing history, compiled a 12-3-0 record in the final 15 starts of his career, winning nine consecutive races between June 1986 and July 1987. The son of Lyphard won 12 of 18 career starts and earned $2,692,799 for trainer Leroy Jolley.
Ancient Title, a versatile California-bred gelding, was owned by the late William and Ethel Kirkland. He competed from 1972-78 and won 24 of 57 starts, 20 of them stakes, earning $1,252,791 in purse money. At the time of his retirement, he ranked 10th in career earnings.
Contact: Catherine Maguire
Phone: 518-584-0400
Fax: 518-584-4574
e-mail: nmrace@mindspring.com
www: http://www.racingmuseum.org
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Continuous through August 23rd
Philadelphia Orchestra
From August 6th - August 23rd the Philadelphia Orchestra (resident company) takes center stage at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, five minutes from the Six Sisters Bed and Breakfast.The Six Sisters B&B can also help you obtain special ticket prices. www.spac.org/explore.cfm
Contact: SPAC Box Office
Phone: 518-587-3330
e-mail: info@spac.org
www: http://www.spac.org
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August 29 - 30, 2008
Downtown Celebration
Celebrate the end of another exciting racing season with international music and entertainment along downtown Broadway. 7:00 - 11:00 pm. Sponsored by NYRA.
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September 4 - 6, 2008
Saratoga Wine and Food Festival
Select wines and elegant dining; reception and international wines and auction preview; tasting; seminars. Sponsored by the Saratoga performng Arts Center.
Contact: John Pistana
Phone: 518-4584-9330
www: www.spac.org
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October 25 - 26th, 2008
Head of the Fish Regatta
The 23rd annual Head of the Fish Rowing Regatta at Saratoga Lake. The second-largest rowing event in the East with over 500 rowers from Toronto to Penn, Nova Scotia to Buffalo, race for the coveted Fish Head Trophies. Five minutes from the Six Sisters Bed and Breakfast. For race results look at Regatta Central or Race Trak. The Saratoga Rowing Association is a co-sponsor of this event.
Contact: Bob Tarrant
Phone: 518-587-7401
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