Happy Birthday Saratoga Racecourse!

[Linny]

Kentucky was lucky to be at the races that day. About 2 months prior, a conferderate raiding party decended on the farm of one of his owners, a farm at which Kentucky had been stabled until only about a week prior. The raiders were looking for anything they could steal to keep the confederacy alive though the next months, including food, wagons and horses. Any horse that could stand was considered "war materiel" and could be confiscated at will by confederate officers. Once the Yankees got well into the south there was barely a horse or mule standing that was not in service to the military of one side or the other.