Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
A wet opening day diminished the crowds but didn’t keep everyone away from Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday. “When we got here, it was pouring,” said Mary Jane Steele of Enfield, Conn.
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