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August 16, 2025
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
The Museum will offer free admission and there will be complimentary coffee and doughnuts courtesy of Stewart’s Shops and water courtesy of Saratoga Spring Water.
This Saturday Morning Social will include a program commemorating the 25-year history of The Saratoga Special. Join co-owners and co-founders Joe and Sean Clancy and managing editor Tom Law as they talk about the origin of the paper in 2001 and the role it plays, a quarter-century later, in telling the stories of the horses and horsemen who compete at Saratoga Race Course. FanDuel Racing broadcaster Gabby Gaudet, a former intern at The Saratoga Special, will moderate the discussion.
The Clancys founded The Special seven years after establishing Steeplechase Times. Law came on board in 2013 after a stint with Thoroughbred Times. The Clancys and Law have collectively covered racing for nearly 100 years and have won six Eclipse Awards and several other honors for coverage of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes, and Breeders Cup.
The Saratoga Special will also host a handicapping seminar during the Saturday Morning Social to discuss the 145th running of the Alabama Stakes.
There will also be book signings featuring The Travers: Saratoga's Midsummer Derby 1864-2023 by Brien Bouyea and Michael Veitch; Secretariat's Legacy by Patricia McQueen; Find Me in Saratoga by Patrice Mastrianni; and When Montana Outraced the East by Catharine Melin-Moser.