Mike MacAdam
@Mike_MacAdam
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Daily Gazette sports columnist, turf writer, ping-pong table collision survivor. [email protected]
Schenectady NY
Joined April 2011
Hot Saratoga meet for Troy native Roddy Valente continues, as he gets his 4th win, with Passing Game in the 7th. He's got Coach Pitino at 8-1 in the 4th on the Travers Day card.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Some of the ownership partners in this group are of Italian descent, and decided to name their latest Thoroughbred acquisition “Ferace,” which means “ferocious.”
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“My Manhattan College basketball team was a 13 seed playing against Oklahoma, and we beat them in the first round down in Memphis. So things happen.". Former Troy basketball star Brendan O'Brien hoping for a big upset in the Travers with Bracket Buster:.
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March Madness comes to Saratoga Race Course. Or so hopes Brendan O’Brien, a former Troy High basketball star whose horse, Bracket Buster, will take on the mighty and seemingly invincible Sovereignty...
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"Looking at the 55 turf races on the Inner Turf course, only eight have won gate-to-wire . Over half of the winners (26) were favorites in the race, winning at a monstrous 47.3%.". @EquiSpace breaks it down in his weekly Spa handicapping column:.
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It’s Travers week at the Spa with six weeks in the books heading into the final two weeks of the meet, so let’s dive right in.
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My latest favorite song "What Do I Know" by Deep Sea Diver, discovered, as usual, while tuned to @1027EQX.
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RT @Mike_MacAdam: “He is the horse to beat. By the same token, they’ve got to go around there . That’s why they’re going to run the race.….
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Sovereignty drew the No. 4 post and is the 2-5 morning-line favorite in a five-horse field for the 156th Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday.
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“The one thing that we’re all focusing on, the thing that brings us all together, the reason that we do this, is the horse.”.From @BklynBckstretch, North Country Horses gives kids a leg up on horse racing industry:.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Shortly before noon on Monday, Aug. 11, Amanda Vance was walking around the second level of the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavilion on East Avenue, looking at
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Yep. As expected, Sovereignty 2-5 favorite in five-horse Travers field.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Sovereignty drew the No. 4 post and is the 2-5 morning-line favorite in a five-horse field for the 156th Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday.
@Mike_MacAdam That’s it!!??!.
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If you're interested in informing yourself about drastic climate change and the forces at work, including man-made, please read @MichaelEMann's "The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars" and "The Madhouse Effect.". If you're not, then . don't inform yourself.
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“He is the horse to beat. By the same token, they’ve got to go around there . That’s why they’re going to run the race. Otherwise, they’d just hand us the trophy. But they don’t ever do that.”. 2-5 favorite Sovereignty towers over short Travers field:.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Sovereignty drew the No. 4 post and is the 2-5 morning-line favorite in a five-horse field for the 156th Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday.
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RT @EricaPhotog: Trainer Bill Mott on his pony with his grandson, William, 2-years-old, at their barn on Oklahoma Training Track #SaratogaR….
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RT @EricaPhotog: Sovereignty, trained by Bill Mott and ridden by exercise rider Neil Poznansky (right), breezes in company with Fort Nelson….
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Sovereignty about to go out for final breeze before Travers
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"[Santana] has won 22 races so far returning $2.57 (29%) on every $2 bet to win. That’s leading the Spa’s star-studded jockey colony right now. What’s amazing is he has been in the winner’s circle for 17 different trainers . ".@EquiSpace 'capping the Spa:.
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With five weeks in the rear-view mirror, we soar into Alabama week hoping to rival jockey Ricardo Santana Jr.’s return on investment for the remainder of the meet.
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