Moose an early arrival at Spa
 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., June 15, 2009 -- Saratoga Race Course employees arrived at work Monday morning to find a cow moose wandering on the sidewalk outside track property, New York Racing Association officials said. After NYRA security worked in support of the Saratoga Springs police department to bring the moose to safety inside the gates to Saratoga Race Course, Environmental Conservation officials tranquilized the moose with the intention of delivering it unharmed back to its natural environment.

The moose was first spotted around 6 a.m. by Saratoga city police officers along Nelson Avenue. It eventually wandered onto Frank Sullivan Place strolling along the outside of the track fence. City police requested that NYRA security open the Lincoln Avenue entrance to the track to lure it inside in order to keep it out of harm’s way, as well as to ensure the safety of pedestrians and drivers, until workers from the Department of Environmental Conservation could arrive on the scene.

NYRA employees say while Saratoga Race Course is a 350-acre urban park, they do not recall ever before seeing a moose on the property.

So how much are the pulled moose sandwiches going to be?

It's unfortunate we won't get to hear Sumitas's take on this.

Smart Moose
 

At least when it knew he was lost, he/she went to the help desk.

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Where's his saddle blanket
 

looks like she can go a 1 1/4 no problem...lol i guess i should say her it's a cow

Has to be faster on dirt than Pioneerof the Nile.

I figured if it's a she, Sumitas is already running a nick report with her and Golden Missile

clockers caught her at 18 2/5 for the furlong, and she galloped out the quarter in 41 and change.

lol... i agree, i'm never gonna live that horse down,maybe he will win BC and vindicate me and JW, i love that guy.

.........you have talent man....

Steve : While your debarkation is a bit precocious, it only serves to whet my already fervid anticipatory earnestness for the pending equine contests.


Moose : ( sigh ).

:tro:

The Moose and I would have about the same handle on Byk's Vocab.

i hear ya him and BTW have a verbal nuaince and vocab so huge they can set you in your place and cuss you out without typing one profane word,i still
don't understand what BTW just said to Byk...lol

Perhaps the Moose will be the chief opposition for Discreet Treasure in this year's Whitney.

You have frggn moose in Saratoga in the summer?

What the hell...

I am guessing that only Steve may know the old Woody Allen routine " I Shot a Moose Once. "

I think it may end with the line " so I'm driving through Manhattan with two Jewish people tied to my front fender. " It's truly a classic. My favorite line is " the Moose and the Berkowitzs squared off in the living room. "

"After striking out at Clancy's, a dejected Heather returned to the park gates to await the arrival of Wednsday's Racing Form..."