{"id":268950,"date":"2026-06-16T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268950\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:50:08","slug":"more-than-a-dozen-horses-killed-in-new-york-barn-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268950\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a dozen horses killed in New York barn fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least 17 horses died in an early morning barn fire in the upstate New York city of Saratoga Springs – widely considered the mecca of American horse racing, officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n

Saratoga fire officials said the blaze erupted at the Saratoga Casino Hotel harness racing track at about 02:30 local time (07:30 BST) on Tuesday, destroying a barn that housed up to 18 horses.<\/p>\n

One horse escaped the barn with “minor injuries”. No human injuries have been reported, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

“This is a sobering day in our industry, a horseperson’s worst nightmare,” the Saratoga Harness Horseperson’s Association said in a statement.<\/p>\n

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Employees were just arriving to feed the horses and clean their stalls when they spotted the fire, according to a fundraising page set up for the affected horsemen. The blaze spread “too fast and too quicky”, the page states.<\/p>\n

More than $30,000 (\u00a322,000) had already been raised by Tuesday afternoon for those who lost their horses, stables and livelihood.<\/p>\n

Saratoga Casino Hotel Harness will hold a memorial service for the lost horses with details to be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n

Races at the hotel were cancelled for the rest of the day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Saratoga Casino Hotel is home to live harness racing that takes place on a historic, half-mile track. Guests can watch and wager on the races.<\/p>\n

Saratoga Springs has been synonymous with horse racing since the 1840s and has grown into one of the premier racing destinations in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 17 horses died in an early morning barn fire in the upstate New York city of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[103825,28059,9,56,63,65,64,19780],"class_list":["post-268950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-harness-racing","tag-horse-racing","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-saratoga-springs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}