"Racing at Historic Saratoga"

"Racing at Historic Saratoga"

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      America has its recognized "cathedrals." Baseball has Fenway Park. The music industry has Carnegie Hall and the thoroughbred racing industry has Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York.       Racing since 1863, Saratoga is North America's oldest racetrack. Open for just over 30 days each year, it plays host to the most competitive, top-level racing in the world.       Saratoga is nicknamed "The Graveyard of Favorites," because it is the most difficult place to win.  Over the years, many legends, including Triple Crown winners Gallant Fox, Secretariat and American Pharoah have all finished second there.  For nearly a century now, the term used worldwide to describe victory by an unsuspecting opponent was born at Saratoga Race Course.   In 1919, "Horse of the Century" Man 'O War suffered his only career defeat in Saratoga's Sanford Stakes to a horse named Upset.   From that point forward, according to legend, "upset " was morphed into a verb for American pop culture to describe vi

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