Quick Call Stakes highlights Saratoga's Wednesday card

Wednesday's featured race, the $100,000 Quick Call for 3-year-olds at 5 ½ furlongs on the turf, is named after the oldest retired thoroughbred standing at Wallkill Correctional Facility. 

The 33-year-old Quick Call was a "Horse for the Course" at Saratoga, winning 9-of-17 races over the track, including the 1988 Forego Handicap in a stakes-record time of 1:21 for seven furlongs, and the 1988 Forego Handicap, where he defeated Dancing Spree, who later won the Breeders' Cup Sprint that year. Quick Call just missed winning a third consecutive Forego Handicap in 1990 when Lay Down beat him in a photo finish.

Quick Call plays a significant role in the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation's Second Chances Program, helping inmates transform their lives by giving them a skill set and a positive outlook on life.

Carded as Race 9, Wednesday's Quick Call will feature a six-horse field that includes Blind Ambition, Mongo Nation, Malraux, The Money Monster, Expedited Vision and Indy Hill.

Also on Wednesday, author Vicki Addesso Dodd will be on track to sign copies of her book "A Moose in My Starting Gate" with proceeds going to the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. The signing will take place from noon to 3 p.m. at the Community Outreach Booth, which is located next to the Jockey Silks Room and across from the Saratoga Walk of Fame.