Monday, July 19, 2010

ANDY SERLING SARATOGA LIVE CHAT THURSDAY AT 8 PM

Monday, July 19, 2010

 

Contact: Dan Silver

dsilver@nyrainc.com

 

 

ANDY SERLING SARATOGA LIVE CHAT THURSDAY AT 8 PM

 

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Andy Serling, TV analyst for The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA), will participate in a live chat this Thursday, July 22 at 8 p.m. EDT. The homepage for the NYRA live chats is http://www.nyra.com/livechat/index.shtml.

 

Serling, who maintains a Twitter page (http://twitter.com/andyserling) where he gives out his selections daily, will answer questions regarding all of the weekend racing at Saratoga Race Course, including the Grade 3 Schuylerville for 2-year-old fillies on Friday, the Grade 1 Betfair TVG Coaching Club American Oaks on Saturday, and the Grade 2 Sanford for 2-year-olds on Sunday.

 

NYRA is offering a $500,000 Guaranteed Late Pick 4 on Saturdays at Saratoga that Serling will also discuss.

 

Fans who wish to participate in the live dialogue with Serling may log on to http://www.nyra.com/livechat beginning this Thursday at 8 p.m. No pre-registration is necessary and users may simply type questions and comments in the chat field at the bottom of the page for Serling to address. At the conclusion of the chat, an “instant replay” is created for future reference.

 

NYRA has conducted live chats since October 23, 2009. NYRA TV Analyst Serling regularly hosts the chats, and there have been eleven guest hosts: NYRA President Charles Hayward, NYRA Chief Operating Officer Hal Handel, trainers Gary Contessa, Bill Mott, and Todd Pletcher, veteran New York jockey Richard Migliore, Hall of Fame rider Jorge Velasquez, trainer and NYTHA president, Rick Violette, NYRA Racecaller and Director of TV Production John Imbriale, NYRA TV Analyst Jason Blewitt and NYRA Oddsmaker Eric Donovan.

 

Fans who wish to view transcriptions of previous chats may do so at http://www.nyra.com/livechat.

 

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