Late news reports on Monday, citing political sources, said that Eliot Spitzer, a.k.a. George Fox, a.k.a. Client Number Nine, would resign the governorship of New York on Tuesday after having all but confessed to an extremely expensive Feb. 13 tryst with a prostitute at a well-known District of Columbia...

From San Jose, Costa Rica Seven years ago, a couple of friends, one of whom owned a mare, and I agreed that it would be a good idea to breed a horse, specifically a New York-bred. If we were fortunate and the resultant horse had enough ability to race competitively in New York, the state-bed program...

Note: This report, detailing the dire position in which the New York Racing Association faces in the weeks ahead, appears in Saturday’s editions of The Saratogian. It is reproduced here because we feel that the resignation of Charles Wait from the NYRA board is a significant development and a loss to...

While the inability of lawmakers to settle differences concerned the details of the now inevitable renewal of the New York Racing Association franchise, at least the association’s creditors are capable of consensus. NYRA received support from more than 97 percent of its creditors for a recently submitted...