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Daily Gazette sports columnist, turf writer, ping-pong table collision survivor. mikemac@dailygazette.com
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Sanfords' historic Amsterdam legacy on purple-and-gold display at Saratoga

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By Mike MacAdam Verified
| The Daily Gazette Verified
SARATOGA SPRINGS — If you’ve been to an Amsterdam High School football game, you’re familiar with the purple-and-gold. If you were at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday, you saw where those colors came from. Two horses in the first race on the card, the Grade I Leo O’Brien steeplechase, carried the purple-and-gold vertical-striped silks of Hurricana Farm, first registered in 1880 when carpetmaking industry king Stephen Sanford started racing Thoroughbreds as part of his pursuit to cure his ulcers.
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Starspangledbanner's daughter finishes first on the Fourth in Belmont Oaks

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By Mike MacAdam Verified
| The Daily Gazette Verified
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The bombs bursting in air on the Fourth of July at Saratoga Race Course included a filly sired by Starspangledbanner. OK, she was born in Ireland and was setting foot on a track for a race in the U.S. for the first time ever, so maybe the patriotic angle falls flat. But at betting odds of 23-1, the long shot Kensington Lane rushed away from the field in the stretch to win the Grade I Belmont Oaks by a length and three-quarters on Saturday.
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What goes around comes around, as Phileas Fogg wins another Suburban

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By Mike MacAdam Verified
| The Daily Gazette Verified
SARATOGA SPRINGS — “The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.” Jules Verne was referring to his protagonist in “Around the World in 80 Days,” Phileas Fogg. He could’ve been writing about an eponymous racehorse.
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