LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 11 • Issue 32 • August 12 – August 18, 2016
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Two Days: $45.5 Million! by Allison Capasso for Saratoga TODAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Saratoga Horse Sales were back in action at Fasig-Tipton on Monday, August 8 and Tuesday, August 9. One hundred fifty six yearlings were sold between the two days, for a grand total of $45,570,000. Seventy three horses were sold at Monday night’s auction for
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On Stage
Editor’s Note: You probably know Susan Farnsworth from her long tenure with the Saratoga Springs Downtown Business Association. Or the Saratoga County Fair. Or Hats Off / Final Stretch. Or even at SPAC – but as
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a total of $21,215,000. The average price for a yearling at this year’s opening session was $290,616. The median price increased from $225,000 in 2015 to $240,000 in 2016. The highest bid of the night peaked at just shy of a million, with hip number 111 selling for $950,000 by Stonestreet Stables. The colt’s father is Pioneer of the
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a planner, who was brought in as a consultant to help plan all the SPAC50 hoopla that you are enjoying this season. But what you don’t know is that Susie got a singular honor: To be asked to sit in as a performer on the SPAC stage as part of an ensemble when she was a Skidmore student in 1973! She acquired life-changing experiences at a formative age. And they happened at SPAC. I promised you when we began this series that we were going to surprise and dazzle you. Susan’s remembrances are one big way we are fulfilling this promise. - Arthur Gonick See SPAC pg. 14
by Maisie Guzi for Saratoga TODAY SARATOGA SPRINGS — Saratoga Springs’s current highest priced — and most impressive — single family home debuted on the real estate market on
Wednesday, August 10. The condominium penthouse, located on Park Place in downtown Saratoga Springs, owned by Patty and Vincent Riggi and is listed at $5,499,700. The 6,700 square foot condo holds four spacious bedrooms,
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