If you are a serious horseplayer and you don’t look forward to the Saratoga Race Course meet, it might be time to check your pulse because Saratoga is the summer place to be for handicappers and horse racing aficionados. The highly looked-forward-to and anticipated 40-day Saratoga racing season lasts throughout the heart of the summer starting Thursday, July 13, and will run five days a week (Wednesdays through Sundays) ending on Labor Day, which this year falls on Monday, Sept. 4.