Gaits and gates in 3D

This year, Saratoga Skijoring went 3D.

In previous years, there were Novice, Intermediate, and Expert classes a team could enter.

A team might enter the “Intermediate” division and have a time slower than the fastest in the “Novice” category.

That would win them … exactly nothing.

Last week’s Saratoga snow and track event featured SkijorUSA’s new 3D system.

A competing team no longer enters just a particular category and all teams are sorted into divisions based on their best times.

Say a team finishes with a day fastest 18 seconds. Everyone who finishes within a second of that time would fall...