Saturday is Whitney Stakes day at Saratoga Race Course. The main event is one of 14 races on a massive afternoon of racing in upstate New York, and the program is one of the best assembled anywhere in the country to this point in the year.
The $1 million Whitney Stakes, a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Challenge Series race for the Longines Classic, drew a star-studded field of eight with $32,792,424 in combined lifetime earnings.
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Stakes races like the Belmont or the Woodward stand as tributes to those who make significant contributions to horse racing, their names reflective of what those Pillars of the Turf have given the sport.
