On a summer morning in 2007, on the East Side of Saratoga near the Oklahoma training track, Ballston Spa native Andrew Wolfsont was laying brick for a summer job. He’d graduated from Ballston Spa High School the year before and attended SUNY-Oswego for a year, but, feeling aimless, he came home for the summer, looking for a job that would let him work outside.
“It was early in the morning, and I looked over and saw horses galloping, and I thought, ‘That looks like a much better job than the one I’m doing,’ and I’d get to be outside,” Wolfsont recently recalled. “I walked over the barns the next day and told someone I wanted to be a jockey.”
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About Teresa
A freelance turf writer, I'm the New York correspondent for Thoroughbred Times and the racing blogger for Forbes.com, and my work has appeared in The Saratogian, the Daily Racing Form, the Blood-Horse, Trainer magazine, and the Rail at the New York Times. I'm a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, of the board of directors for the Belmont Child Care Association, and of the voting committee for the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
I teach high school English in Brooklyn, and I'm a Brooklyn dweller and former and erstwhile resident of Saratoga Springs, New York. When not teaching or writing, I'm watching the Rangers at the Garden, playing Scrabble, or rescuing cats.
