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Bob Baffert, wearing a white button-down shirt and jeans, stands in his barn area at Saratoga Race Course, holding the gray/roan horse Arrogate and toying with the horse's forelock

‘A ridiculous horse’: Looking back at Arrogate’s record-breaking Travers win, 10 years later

In 2015, trainer Bob Baffert sent American Pharoah to run in the Travers Stakes. In what has become the stuff of Saratoga Race Course legend, thousands of people turned out the day before the race to watch the Triple Crown winner gallop during morning workouts.  The excitement of seeing the first Triple Crown winner in 37…

3 hours ago August 29, 2026 in Saratoga Race Course, Travers Stakes.

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