NO TRICKLE-DOWN FROM THE TRACK BUCK DOESN'T STOP AT SPA CHURCHES.(Religion)

Byline: Deborah Gesensway

The influx of an estimated 30,000 horse racing fans during August keeps church attendance high during what is a slow period for most communities. But the season is not usually a financial boon to Saratoga's congregations.

Most of the visiting worshipers don't give more than a couple of dollars each because, as the Rev. Thomas Vail of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church on Broadway said, "They have their own parishes to support."

Or, he added, "maybe we get the losers" from the track.

"It's no financial advantage at all," said the Rev. Thomas T. Parke, rector of Bethesda Episcopal Church on Washington Avenue at …