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Niskayuna native shares the stage at SPAC with the Black Crowes!

Win tickets to see the Black Crowes at SPAC this Labor Day Weekend!

They are in the stretch run of a tremendous 2021 meet at Saratoga Race Course. Tremendous crowds, record handles and some of the best horse racing in the world, made for a very successful summer for the New York Racing Association and in turn they will thank their fans this week. Yesterday, NYRA announced that they "will thank its fans with a series of special events, giveaways and offers during the final week of the 2021 season at Saratoga Race Course. Racing will resume Wednesday, September 1 through Labor Day, Monday, September 6 at Saratoga Race Course. Labor Day weekend will offer a total of seven graded stakes, including the Spa debut of the Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup on Saturday, September 4. Sunday and Monday will feature a special first post time of 12:35 p.m.

This September, the Outlaw Music Festival, featuring Willie Nelson & Family, is headed to SPAC with these COVID-19 Guidelines.

If you love summer fun, well then Saratoga is certainly the place to be. When you want to live a Saratoga weekend to the fullest, well this is the weekend for you! This weekend the SPA City will feature a dozen of the best horse racing stakes races in the world at Saratoga Race Course on Friday and Saturday, while SPAC will feature two legendary rock bands, or versions thereof, with Dead & Co. Friday night and Lynard Skynard on Saturday night. It should be fun.

For the third year, Saratoga will host a Reptile Expo. The expo will have hundreds of snakes, frogs, tarantulas, turtles, salamanders, tortoises, and more. Each year the Saratoga Reptile Expo has drawn thousands of people interested in learning about these exotic pets and purchasing them. There will also be reptile-related supplies available. It will be held at the Saratoga City Center on September 11th.

It's the first full August weekend and Saratoga Race Course season is in full stride. The 94th running of the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes on Saturday afternoon highlights a terrific weekend in the SPA City. Few families have done more for the horse racing community, especially in Saratoga, than the Whitney family. Their named stakes race has featured some of the greatest horses in racing history and this weekend may feature others. The Whitney is just one of a full weekend card of awesome Saratoga Race Course action.

The deadly rabies virus has been detected following fox attack in Saratoga Springs.

This is one sure way to be arrested at a New York concert this Summer.

Concerts are back in 2021! Here are all the Classic Rock artists coming to New York, from Saratoga to Syracuse, this Summer.

NYRA will be given first responders, doctors, nurses, and other frontline workers free admission to the grandstand on Friday, July 16th.

No vaccination? Live Nation says, no problem. All are welcome at SPAC this Summer.