[ml/nj]

I thought it was the eclipse I saw at Va. Beach, Mar 7, 1970.

I got to witness that total eclipse on Nantucket Island.

It doesn't work with an eclipse in March or an eclipse in July. The thoroughbred horses raced then up in Saratoga for only four weeks in August. (There are standardbred races in July and other months at a different, smaller, Saratoga track but only degenerates like me know about them.)

FTR:

Well I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse, naturally, won
Then you flew your jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun

For this, you wouldn't need a jet at all to get from Saratoga to Nova Scotia. You could probably walk.

ML/NJ

[ETL]

It doesn't work with an eclipse in March or an eclipse in July. The thoroughbred horses raced then up in Saratoga for only four weeks in August.

I suspect something along those lines did happen. She just screwed up the chronology. I mean it wasn't as if Jagger needed the money he won at Saratoga in order to fly his private Lear Jet to Nova Scotia. The song does make it seem that way, though.

"Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun"