Museum Winter Hours (11/28/2011) The Museum will be closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays for winter hours from November 27, 2011 through March 31, 2012. We are open Thursday through Saturdays from 10 am to 4pm and Sunday from noon until 4pm.< read more...
Hall of Fame trainer John Nerud continues support (11/13/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is most grateful to the legendary John Nerud, a Hall of Fame trainer and one of the founders of the Breeders’ Cup, who has once again made a generous financial contribution to support the Museum read more...
The National Museum of Racing’s Preschool Program is back for the 2011-2012 school year (recommended for children ages 3-5). Please join the Preschool Program at the Nat read more...
Clothing Donations for the backstretch workers (9/21/2011) The Museum will be collecting donations for the backstretch workers of new gloves, fingerless gloves, warm hats, caps and socks. You may stop by anytime during the month of October to drop them off in the Museum lobby. It gets very cold early morn read more...
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will play host to author Brendan O’Meara and photographer Juliet Harrison on Wedn read more...
The National Museum of Racing's "La Fiesta" (8/5/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will present “La Fiesta” on Tuesday, Aug. 23 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. behind the Jockey Recreation Center at Saratoga Race Course’s Oklahoma Training Track. The event is a celebration o read more...
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will hold a special screening of the film “Tho read more...
National Museum of Racing's Saratoga Preview (7/13/2011) Ramon Dominguez, Todd Pletcher, Nick Zito, Charles Hayward and P.J. Campo
to participate in National Museum of Racing’s Saratoga Preview
Eclipse Award winners Ramon Dominguez and Todd Pletcher, Hall of Famer Nick Zito read more...
Bobby Flay to deliver keynote address at Ceremony (7/12/2011) Celebrity chef and Thoroughbred racehorse owner Bobby Flay will deliver the keynote address at the National Museum of Racing’s 2011 Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday, Aug. 12 at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion. The ceremony begins at read more...
A View From the Backstretch (7/1/2011) National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame to exhibit work of backstretch photographers in “A View From the Backstretch”“A View From the Backstretch,” an exhibit featuring the photographic work of several horsemen and horsewom read more...
National Museum of Racing announces iPad tour (6/29/2011) In an effort to enhance the visitor experience and present the sport of Thoroughbred racing in the most effective way possible, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame has announced an interactive iPad tour.< read more...
Three of Thoroughbred racing’s brightest stars from the final quarter of read more...
Museum spring and summer exhibit schedule (5/12/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will open a new exhibit, A View from the Backstretch, on July 18. Award-winning photographer Dona Ann McAdams collaborated with various backstretch workers to create this unique exhibit. The von Stade read more...
Belmont Stakes bus trip (5/10/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is reserving space for its 2011 bus trip to the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 11. The price for Museum members is $185 and the non-member price is $200. The package includes bus fare, admission to read more...
Kentucky Derby day tour of Oklahoma training track (4/25/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will be offering a special Kentucky Derby day tour of the Oklahoma training track on Saturday, May 7.
Find out why this beautiful and historic site, located across the street from Saratoga Race read more...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Jockeys Calvin Borel, Garrett Gomez and John Velazquez and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer are first-time finalists for election to the Nation read more...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Jockeys Calvin Borel, Garrett Gomez and John Velazquez and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer are first-time finalists for election to the Nation read more...
Winners 2011 Horsing Around with the Arts (2/24/2011) Grade 3:
First: Andrew Warner Queensbury ES
Second: Christine Dommashk Queensbury ES
Third: Jack Randall Queensbury ES
Honorable Mentions: Oliver Caron Queensbury ES, Anthony read more...
Hall of Fame announces free Android application (2/14/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame has launched a free downloadable application for Android-powered mobile devices.
The new Android app is available for download at no cost in the Android Market on smart phones and all other Androi read more...
African-Americans in Thoroughbred Racing Program (2/14/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is offering free admission to the Museum on Sunday, Feb. 20. In recognition of Black History Month, the Museum will hold a free public program titled African-Americans in Thoroughbred Racingread more...
Hall of Fame trainer J. Elliot Burch dead at 86 (1/31/2011) J. Elliot Burch, a Hall of Fame trainer who won the Belmont Stakes three times and joined his father and grandfather in the Hall of Fame, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia in Newport Hospital in Rhode Island. He was 86.
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Free admission for active military personnel (1/7/2011) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is proud to announce that effective immediately all active United States military personnel and their accompanying family members are eligible to receive free admission to the Museum. Proper military read more...
John Nerud visits the National Museum of Racing (10/22/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is proud to announce that effective immediately all active United States military personnel and their accompanying family members are eligible to receive free admission to the Museum. Proper military read more...
Annual Countdown to the Breeders' Cup program (10/22/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is proud to announce that effective immediately all active United States military personnel and their accompanying family members are eligible to receive free admission to the Museum. Proper military read more...
Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor recipients (9/22/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is proud to announce that effective immediately all active United States military personnel and their accompanying family members are eligible to receive free admission to the Museum. Proper military read more...
Christopher Dragone Appointed Director (9/9/2010) Stella F. Thayer, President of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, has announced the appointment of Christopher Dragone as the Museum’s Director effective Jan. 1, 2011. Dragone will succeed Joseph E. Aulisi, who is retiring effec read more...
Museum will be closed Sept. 7-8 (9/2/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will be closed to the public on Tuesday, Sept. 7 and Wednesday, Sept. 8 for internal maintenance.< read more...
Old Friends founder Michael Blowen to be featured (8/16/2010) Michael Blowen, the founder and president of the Old Friends equine retirement facility in Georgetown, Ky., will be featured in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s Guests in the Gallery program on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
Old read more...
National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame Induction (8/10/2010) Jockeys Randy Romero and Don Pierce, trainer Michael “Buster” Millerick and Thoroughbreds Azeri, Best Pal, Point Given and Harry Bassett will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame on Friday at the newly re read more...
Upcoming Book Signings (7/19/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame has a number of book and artwork signings scheduled during the next few weeks. All of the books are available in the Museum’s Saratoga Silks Gift Shop. For more information on the signings, please read more...
Museum announces Breeders' Cup Trip (7/19/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is sponsoring a trip to the 2010 Breeders’ Cup, which will be held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 5-7.
The package includes round-trip airfare from Albany, N.Y., to Louisvill read more...
George Steinbrenner (7/14/2010) “The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame and its Board of Trustees are deeply saddened by the death of George Steinbrenner. Mr. Steinbrenner was a great sportsman and a stalwart supporter of the Racing Museum. He was committed and ded read more...
Saratoga Preview and McBean Gallery sneak peak (7/13/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will hold its annual Saratoga Preview panel discussion on Thursday, July 22 in the Museum’s Hall of Fame Gallery at 7 p.m. This popular program is free and open to the public.< read more...
Drawing for Breyer Collectibles (7/13/2010) In celebration of our newly renovated Discovery Paddock and Horse Play! Gallery, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will be doing a drawing for a Breyer collectible Secretariat statue and Rachel Alexandra statue at Sunday’s open read more...
Johnny Sellers dead at 72 (7/7/2010) Former jockey Johnny Sellers, a 2007 inductee of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, died on Friday, July 2, 2010 in a Fayetteville, Ark., nursing home. Se read more...
Gary Stevens to deliver keynote address (6/23/2010) Legendary jockey Gary Stevens will be the keynote speaker at the National Museum of Racing’s 2010 Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday, August 13. The ceremony will be held at t read more...
2010 summer exhibit schedule announced (6/22/2010) Two exhibits, Hall of Fame Heroes and Treasures of the Vault, open to the public in July in the Peter McBean Gallery at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. Becaus read more...
Harry Bassett, Buster Millerick and Don Pierce (6/9/2010) Nineteenth century horse Harry Bassett, trainer Michael Ernest “Buster” Millerick and jockey Don Pierce have been elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame though the Historic Review Committee process. The Historic read more...
Oklahoma Training Track tours are back this June (5/26/2010) Find out why this beautiful and historic site, located across the street from Saratoga Race Course, is a favorite base for leading trainers such as Todd Pletcher and Nick Zito. Our behind the scenes tours, offered in cooperation with the New read more...
Skip Away dies Friday morning (5/14/2010) Skip Away, a Hall of Famer and the 1998 Horse of the Year, died Friday morning of an apparent heart attack at Hopewell Farm in Midway, Ky. He was 17. During his four years of racing, Skip Away won 16 stakes races, including a nine-race win streak. H read more...
Hall of Fame luncheon tickets available (5/6/2010) Tickets are now available for the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame Day Luncheon at Saratoga Race Course.
The 2010 Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on Friday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m. at the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion. read more...
Museum will be featured on WXXA-TV Fox 23 (4/30/2010) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs will be featured in a profile segment during Sunday’s edition of “In the Spotlight” on WXXA-TV, Fox23. The program will air at 6:30 p.m. < read more...
Camera Shots (4/28/2010) Have you ever wanted to take great photographs? Learn from noted photographer Dona Ann McAdams. Come to this program to learn about basic principles of photography and have the opportunity to take different types of shots. (Dress to go outside. read more...
Hall of Fame Announces 2010 Nominees (4/26/2010) Six horses, two jockeys and two trainers are finalist nominees for election to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Under the revised format announced earlier, all the candidates are grouped together rather read more...
Triple Crown Countdown Program Scheduled for April (4/15/2010) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Capital Region handicappers and racing analysts Nick Kling, Seth Merrow and Jeanne Wood will be featured in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s annual Countdown to the Triple Crown program at 2 p.m read more...
Student Art Show Reception grades 8-12 (4/7/2010) Our 16th annual Student Art Show Horsing Around with the Arts opening reception for grades 8-12 was held on Friday, April 2 from 6 to 8pm. A crowd of 171 people attended including students, teachers, family and friends.< read more...
Student Art Work Id, Please help (3/31/2010) We have received one senior art show submissions with no information attached. If you know whose they are please contact: Karen Wheaton at 518-584-0400 ext. 118< read more...
Preschool Program at the National Museum of Racing (3/19/2010) The National Museum of Racing’s Preschool Program is back for the 2010 school year. Please join the Preschool Program at the National Museum of Racing, 191 Union Ave., Saratoga Springs, on Wednesday mornings from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Ea read more...
Solomon Trust Grant to Refurbish Exhibits (1/7/2010) A $23,263 grant from the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust will enable the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame to refurbish its Horse Play! Gallery and the Discovery Paddock exhibits.
Plans call for the unveiling of the refu read more...
Museum will close at 1pm December 31 (12/30/2009) The Museum will be closing for the New Year's holiday at 1pm. December 30. We will re-open on Wednesday January 6. Our winter hours open to the public will be from Wenesday through Saturday from 10 am till 4pm.< read more...
Breeders’ Cup Countdown Program Scheduled October (10/27/2009) Capital Region handicappers Mark Cusano, Tim Wilkin and Jeanne Wood will be featured in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s annual Countdown to the Breeders’ Cup program at 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 31.< read more...
Racing Museum closed September 8-9 (9/7/2009) The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will be closed on Tuesday, September 8 and Wednesday, September 9. The Museum will re-open to the public at 10 a.m. Thursday, September 10.< read more...
Hall of Fame Jockey “Milo” Valenzuela Dies (9/2/2009) Hall of Fame jockey Ismael “Milo” Valenzuela died early this morning, September 2, 2009, at his home in Arcadia, California after a long illness. He was 74.< read more...
Rachel Alexandra is Poised to Make History in Wood (8/31/2009) With her scheduled start against older males in the Woodward Stakes on Saturday, September 5, Rachel Alexandra is taking a path seldom traveled by 3-year-old fillies.
According to research done by National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame read more...
Chad Brown and Tim Ice featured in Program (8/24/2009) Two of Thoroughbred racing’s top young trainers, Chad Brown and Tim Ice, will be featured in the National Museum of Racing's final Guests in the Gallery program of the 2009 season at 11 a.m. Thursday, August 27.
Six Inducted into National Museum of Racing’s Hall (8/17/2009) Bob Baffert couldn’t hide the emotion he was feeling Friday at his induction into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame. Choking back tears and pausing several times to control himself, Baffert displayed a different dimension of read more...
Exercise riders featured in Guests in the Gallery (8/10/2009) Tiffany Mueller and Megan Smillie, exercise riders on Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito's staff, will be featured in the Guests in the Gallery program at 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 12. Muller and Smillie will talk about their daily routine with series h read more...
Valet Harry Rice featured in Guests in the Gallery (8/4/2009) Harry Rice, the senior member of the jockey valet team at the New York Racing Association’s three tracks, will be featured in the National Museum of Racing's Guests in the Gallery program at 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 5.
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Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin on Saratoga Preview (7/22/2009) Kiaran McLaughlin, the leading trainer at the 2008 Saratoga race meet, will be a member of the Saratoga Preview panel on Monday, July 27 at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. < read more...
Calvin Borel on Museum's Saratoga Preview (7/10/2009) Calvin Borel, who rode Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird and is the regular rider of Preakness winner Rachel Alexandra, will be a member of the Saratoga Preview panel on Monday, July 27 at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
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Art Preservation Exhibit Opens at Museum (6/29/2009) The National Museum of Racing’s new exhibit, Preserving our Past, is open in the von Stade Gallery. Featuring several paintings and trophies from the permanent collection, the exhibit, staged by Museum Curator of Collections Beth Sheffer, wi read more...
Chris McCarron to Deliver Hall of Fame Address (6/17/2009) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Twenty years after his tearful acceptance speech, jockey Chris McCarron will be the guest speaker at the 2009 Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Friday, August 14.
Six Elected to Hall of Fame (4/20/2009) Trainers Bob Baffert and Janet Elliot, jockey Eddie Maple and the horses Ben Nevis II, Silverbulletday and Tiznow have been elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame.< read more...
Triple Crown Countdown Program Scheduled for April (4/3/2009) Capital Region handicappers and racing analysts Mark Cusano, Bill Heller and Jeanne Wood will be featured in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s annual Countdown to the Triple Crown program at 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 25. read more...
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Alyssa Brimmer Earns Art Show Award (4/1/2009) Alyssa Brimmer, a student at St. Jude the Apostle School in Wynantskill, N.Y. won the competition for the Best Overall Racing Image in the division for grades three through seven in the National Museum of Racing’s annual Horsing Around with read more...
Eleven Named Finalists for Hall of Fame (2/25/2009) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Two trainers, three jockeys, and six horses have been selected as the 2009 finalists for election to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame.
The 11 finalists were determined by a vote of th read more...
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held on Friday, Augus read more...
Free Family Sundays (1/15/2009) The Museum is offering free admission to families on the third Sunday of the month starting January 18th through March 21st. Take this opportunity to come visit us. Enjoy the children's Horse Play gallery. Explore our galleries w read more...
Statement from Joseph Aulisi, director, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame on the death of Daily Racing Form Executive Columnist Joe Hirsc read more...
Breeders’ Cup Countdown Program Scheduled October (10/7/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Capital Region handicappers Mark Cusano, Tim Wilkin and Jeanne Wood will be featured in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame’s annual Countdown to the Breeders’ Cup program at 4 p.m. on Saturday read more...
Gazette Profiles Museum Historian (9/30/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Gazette Newspapers in Schenectady, N.Y. ran a front page feature story about Allan Carter, the historian at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.< read more...
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Volunteers Record Saratoga Track History (8/27/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Just before noon on Tuesday, August 19, Joe Peck finished what he started – a request that turned out to be a two-year project recording six decades of competition at Saratoga Race Course.
Aulisi Named Museum Director (8/19/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Joseph E. Aulisi has been named the Director of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Museum President Stella F. Thayer announced today.
Aulisi has served as the Acting Director since October read more...
La Fiesta (8/15/2008) La Fiesta or "Fiesta en el Museo de la Hipica", a free festival of traditional music and arts associated with the racetrack and its backstretch workers will be presented from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm on Tuesday, A read more...
Six Inducted to Hall of Fame (8/4/2008) Six Inducted to National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With a line about Barbaro, jockey Edgar Prado produced the high point Monday of an emotion-laden ceremony in which the six newest members were ind read more...
Hall of Fame Goes on the Road for Valenzuela (6/20/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Retired jockey Ismael “Milo” Valenzuela will receive his Hall of Fame jacket and plaque on Sunday, June 22 in a special induction ceremony at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif.< read more...
Belmont Stakes Favorites and Their Places in Race (6/6/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - While doing additional research on the Belmont Stakes Thursday afternoon, National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Historian Allan Carter discovered that Kingfisher also was a maiden when he won the Belmont Stakes in 187 read more...
Museum Receives Weitthoff Gift (5/27/2008) Lizet Weitthoff of Loudonville, Ohio, who owned and raced Thoroughbreds, provided for a gift of $500,000 to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in her estate.< read more...
Six Elected to National Museum of Racing’s Hall of (4/21/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Standouts from the past six decades – three horses, two jockeys and one trainer – have been elected to the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame.< read more...
Museum Schedules Belmont Stakes Trip (3/6/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will again sponsor a one-day bus trip to Belmont Park for the running of the 2008 Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7.< read more...
Dozen Named Finalists for Hall of Fame (2/22/2008) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame will again sponsor a one-day bus trip to Belmont Park for the running of the 2008 Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 7.< read more...
