SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Robbie Davis raised his six children in the thoroughbred racing business. In fact, he did it right here, in the sport’s beating heart. He was a jockey, one of New York’s best for more than two decades.
In the summers here, Davis took his children to work every day. They trailed their father as he made his way from the racetrack to the jockeys’ room between races at the annual Saratoga meeting, which ends Monday. At night, Davis and his wife, Marguerite, sat at the center of a big table with their brood for dinner downtown at the Parting Glass or for jockey karaoke at Gaffney’s.