Sport: Memories & Moola

Everyone agreed that it was nice to be back at Saratoga, N.Y., the nation's most picturesque race track. Everything looked just as it did before the war, except where the venerable United States Hotel used to stand. There was a parking lot there now.

Horse racing first came to Saratoga the summer Grant began his final drive into Virginia. It had been there every summer since, was there the year (1885) old U.S. Grant died in a cottage near Saratoga.

Last week, after a three-year lapse, it was back for a 24-day stay at...

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