Saratoga Breakfast Protocol

[pmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by Storm Cadet

Please make sure you head to the backstretch one morning with the kids!

It is an unbelievable experience for the kids (and adults) to be 30-50 feet away hanging on the outside rail as the horses are working out. On the backstretch is where all the horses enter and exit the main track for works and breezes as well as be there in person for the schooling and gate drills. There is no better AM rush than to see 50 feet away, the speed of horses breaking from the gate!

There is a facility there that serves coffee, juice, pastries, sandwiches, snacks and that is where you'll see most owners, trainers and jockeys each morning up close. Bring a camera. The barns are located right there and you' and the kids can watch the horses being cooled down and washed post workouts. If you see a blacksmith near a barn, try to watch the horses being re-shoed, from a safe distance. The blacksmiths there are great guys and they'll almost always give the kids the discarded or used shoes as a memento! They have very clean restrooms for the kids and it's very safe! It's a very relaxed atmosphere, but a very special one!

If your interested, let me know when your going to be there and I wouldn't mind giving you and your family a tour of my barns where I've got horses.

Thanks for the offer. I will surely let you know when we take the kids. That would be great.

[Sightseek]

The racing museum also has some fun interactive exibits for the kids if you have time to squeeze that in.

[trifecta124]

Pmac,

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but dinner at Leon's & $50 pichers of Margaritas is just as vital.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by trifecta124

Pmac,

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but dinner at Leon's & $50 pichers of Margaritas is just as vital.

That better be a BIG pitcher.

[Samarta]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

That better be a BIG pitcher.

Or served from under the table....

[pmacdaddy]

Originally Posted by trifecta124

Pmac,

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but dinner at Leon's & $50 pichers of Margaritas is just as vital.

Yeah...

I do beleive last year's Labor Day Trip took a year or two off my life...

Irish Eggs Benedict followed by a cooler of PBR, followed by some Rob Roy's, followed by Leon's Margaritas, followed by Parting Glass followed by what ever hole in the wall we ended up at...

Can't wait to do it again!!!

[fpsoxfan]

Originally Posted by trifecta124

Pmac,

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but dinner at Leon's & $50 pichers of Margaritas is just as vital.

You ain't kidding!! Especially the Caddillac of Margaritas!!!

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by fpsoxfan

You ain't kidding!! Especially the Caddillac of Margaritas!!!

Must join you guys there on opening day!