Saratoga Race Course map

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past lives on at the spa

Saratoga Race Course is made

up o more than 200

buildings, many o which

particularly the barns were built

in the earliest years o the venue.

2000: Three entrancepavilionsconstructed at UnionAvenue and Wright Street gates.

1901: SanfordCourt was frst built as

a private stable area

when the race course

property doubled in

size at the turn o the

century.

1892:New clubhouse, grandstandand betting ring added, designed by Boston architect

Herbert Langord Warren. Although now eclipsed

by a bigger structure, the grandsta nd and its spires

survive today, giving the race course its badge as the

oldest continuously used stand in the country.

1864: The frst grandstandbuilt on the site where Saratoga

Race Course is today was 200 eet

long by 30 eet wide. No trace o it

or the track survived. It was built toreplace a ormer trotting track

on the other side o the street, where

the frst thoroughbred meeting was

held in August 1863.

1865: An expanded grand-stand and an open-air stand greeted

patrons and provided 4,500 seats.

Much of race courses architecture dates to the tracks early days

Fromthe collection oRalph Gosse, Albany.

TimesUnion archive

1919:Auto entrance

and parking lotbuilt between

Union and

Lincoln avenues

to accommodate

Saratogas

millionaires,

who no longer

arrived by horse

and carriage.

1927: Old clubhouse demolished, replaced with onedesigned by Samuel Adams Clark that had 1, 200 box seats and

capacity or 3,000 patrons. The clubhouse and the grandstand

were connected, as they still are today.

SkipDickstein /TimesUnion

1975: Big Red Springadded tobackyard. Originally built in 1859 to

shelter a spring on Excelsior Avenue, it

was moved to its present location and

dedicated to Man O War.

1977:Paved paths

and red-and-white

canopies

added to

back yard.

Source:

The Spa: Saratogas

Legendary Race

Course by

Paul Roberts and

Isabelle Taylor

John CarlDAnnibale /TimesUnion


The infuence o the wrought iron can beseen throughout the race course.


John CarlDAnnibale /TimesUnion


Courtesy oSaratoga SpringsHistoricalMuseum, George S. Bolstercollection

1902: Grandstandenlarged to hold 6,000

people;Clare Court

private stables added.

1903:Oklahomatraining stables and track

built. Land acquisitionallowed the owner o the race

course at the time, the Saratoga

Association led by William

Collins Whitney, to turn the

ormer trotting ring across the

street into a training acility.

1937: A newbetting ringwas built to accommodate the rusho interest in horse racing. Many

states voted to allow legal, parimu-

tuel betting. The ring designed by

Albany architect Marcus T. Reyn-

olds introduced white cast iron. It

was 360 eet by 85 eet.

1940: Parimutuel machines come to Saratoga on the heelso the state Legislatures vote to legalize gambling on horse races.

Some 300 betting and cashing windows installed.

1963-1965: Field stand andbetting ringreplaced by grandstand extension,

designed by Arthur Froehlich & Associates o Los

Angeles. It nearly doubled the buildings capacity.

1985-1991: Carousel Pavilion added tograndstand. Designed by Ewing Cole Cherry Parsky. In

1986, the walking ring and saddling shed were enclosed

by encing, a place now called the paddock. Four acres

were set aside or the back yard, urnished with picnic

tables, betting windows and TV monitors.

Page design, illustration by Carin Lane / Times Union

1863:First Saratogameet held on the oval near the

Oklahoma Training Track.

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