As Saratoga Springs celebrates 150 years of thoroughbred racing, Liz O’Connell tells the tale of John Morrissey, an Irish immigrant who organized, operated and had the vision to develop what is now one of the world’s greatest racecourses. A scant month after the Confederate Army was pushed back at Gettysburg, the “swells” holidaying in Saratoga Springs, New York, flocked to … [Read more...] about Saratoga’s Irish Visionary: John Morrissey
Saratoga’s Irish Visionary: John Morrissey
By Liz O'Connell, Contributor
October / November 2013