The turf race for fillies and mares was first run in 1996 and is named after the town located about 15 minutes north of Saratoga Spring. Also known as “Hometown U.S.A.,” a title given to it by Look magazine in 1944, Glens Falls was given its name in 1788 by Colonel Johannes Glen, referring to a large waterfall in the Hudson River at the southern end of the city. In the HBO series “The Sopranos,” Tony Soprano’s brother-in-law Bobby Baccalieri owns a home in Glens Falls, which Tony and Carmela visited in the sixth season episode “Soprano Home Movies.”
In 2013, the race was moved from the turf to the dirt where it was run at 1 1/8.
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