Day/Night Doubleheaders

[ScottJ]

I remember doing the Roosevelt/Roosevelt doubleheader on Saturdays during the Saratoga thoroughbred meeting roughly 35 years back. The afternoon program had a blue cover and and the evening programs sported the standard red cover. (This four week doubleheader season taught me how differently some horses respond to afternoon versus evening racing.)

Also going back to 1977, I can remember doing the afternoon thoroughbred (Aqueduct/Belmont) meeting and then driving eastbound to either Roosevelt or continuing to Parr Meadows for the Quarterhorse meeting. (The Quarters also raced a second time in 1986 at the Parr Meadows facility under the Suffolk Meadows banner.)