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The New York Race Track Chaplaincy of America held a groundbreaking ceremony for a multi-purpose building and chapel

Eddie Brown, who worked for many years at Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course, including as an exercise rider, assistant trainer, a valet to several Hall of Fame jockeys, and most recently as the New York Racing Association’s assistant clerk of scales, has died at the age of 85.

Good morning! Where once bettors would fly from Bradley to Vegas to bet the Super Bowl, now they can drive to Bradley and bet it at the teletheater.Alternately called Winners Bradley or Bobby V’s Restaurant & Sports Book, the former OTB palace...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Didn't write a Travers pick column this year because I'm still stinging from my opening-day debacle predicting that Saratoga Race Course…

Louisville, Ky. Growing up in California, I did not know of Harvey Pack. That was my loss. When he died this week, it was a loss for all of racing. By the time I moved east in 1992, Pack had already made his mark on a generation of TV viewers across the tri-state area. That would be the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state area as opposed to Texarkana or the DMV. Those tri-state areas only knew Pack from his annual appearances on the Breeders’ Cup. So did I. “Who was that guy from New York who was making picks with Pete Axthelm?” I would ask every October. “The guy who looks like...