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Tickets, sponsorships now available for NY Race Track Chaplaincy brunch August 16

by Eleanor Poppe, NYRTCA

The New York Race Track Chaplaincy, an organization devoted to serving the community of stable workers and their families who make Thoroughbred racing possible at Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack, and Saratoga Race Course, announced today that tickets and sponsorships for its 16th annual brunch in Saratoga Springs, NY are now available.

The brunch, scheduled for Wednesday, August 16th at 10 a.m. EDT, will once again be held at the Saratoga National Golf Club.

Tickets and sponsorships can be obtained online by visiting www.rtcany.org or by calling 516-216-5196.

“This increasingly popular event brings together hundreds of members of the racing community in a joyful setting and, more importantly, allows the chaplaincy to continue to offer a wide variety of services and programs for our backstretch community and their families,” said Lead Chaplain and Executive Director Humberto Chavez. 

The honorees at this year’s brunch, who will receive the Marylou Whitney award, will be Tracy and Todd Pletcher for their longtime support of the chaplaincy and its programs.

Previous honorees have included: Andy Serling, Anne Campbell, Edgar Prado, Michael Dubb, Fay and David Donk, Marylou Whitney and John Hendrickson, Letty and Kiaran McLaughlin, Lisa and Kenny Troutt, Debbie and Terry Finley, the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, and Irad Ortiz Jr.

The brunch is one of two major fund-raisers hosted by the New York Race Track Chaplaincy in Saratoga Springs each summer. The other is the charity basketball game pitting horsemen versus jockeys on Thursday, Aug. 4th at the Saratoga Springs Recreation Center.

The New York Race Track Chaplaincy serves the New York backstretch and farming community with children's enrichment, teen mentoring, women’s enrichment, social service, recreational, and educational programming as well as non-denominational religious services.

Additional information about the New York Race Track Chaplaincy is available at www.rtcany.org.