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Week of June 8 – June 14, 2018
Neighbors:
Snippets of Life from Your Community
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INTERVIEW & PHOTO BY: Jessica Pavia for Saratoga TODAY
Who: Adam Newman Where: Sarazen Street Q. You just recently moved to Saratoga, what brought you here? A. I’ve been coming to Saratoga with my family for decades, about 30 years. Q. For any reasons? A. Predominantly because of my and my family’s involvement in horse racing. We were coming up for the most part in the month of August, when the racing season is open. I always knew that at some point, when I was able, I would want to spend more meaningful time up here. Q. That point has since arrived, can you talk a bit about that? A. I recently retired, so I put that plan into motion by buying a condo here. My brother and I have a little place by the lake which is not yearround, and I wanted to put down more permanent roots here. Q. How long have you been involved in horse racing? A. It started with my father, and that’s been over 40 years. The racing has always been great fun, and we’ve had, particularly the last couple of years, surprisingly good success up here. Which is not easy, and certainly not taken for granted. Q. Why was this surprising? A. We’re not a big stable, we don’t typically have headline-making horses. Usually we’re on the underbelly as far as the Saratoga scene goes. Q. What are the names of those horses? A. Our horse named Diplomat won the New York Turf Writers Cup last year. That was tremendously exciting for us. We have a mare that we bred that has won a number of races. Her name is Absotootly, which is a word my dad used to say a lot. Q. How many horses do you have that take part in racing? A. We typically have five or six horses running at any given time. They’re fragile. A lot of times you would like to have them all racing, but you can’t. It’s a tough game. Q. Do you also ride horses? A. Yes, actually. [The horse’s name] is Tough Jake, but I just call him Jake. I’ve been riding ever since high school. I didn’t grow up riding, but ever since my dad got involved with racing, I wanted to ride. But I had to give it up for awhile. Now that I’m [in Saratoga] for longer, I’ve picked it up again.