Lawn Jockeys

I took these pictures on my camera in Saratoga Springs, NY. We had an afternoon off, and I decided to walk through the neighborhood closest to Skidmore College. As racing and thoroughbreds are what Saratoga Springs is known for, the biggest and oldest houses still have jockeys at the street--not for function but for a signal of class it seems. The houses are enormous and very well kept; there are neighborhoods just streets over that are run-down and unkempt. It is an interesting juxtaposition.

I think of this as Saratoga's version of those posters you see of different doors throughout a region or a country: "Jockeys of Saratoga Springs." Each jockey with his house behind him.

















Jockeys rimming the fountain at the main entrance to the Saratoga Race Track.



No Byrons to be found in upstate NY...the one and only resides in Carp!