This year’s Travers Stakes has attracted a star-studded field of 10 3-year-olds, many of them multiple stakes winners, headlined by Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Golden Tempo. None of those 3-year-olds, accomplished as they are, has three Grade 1 wins to their credit. Missing from the Travers starting gate this weekend at Saratoga Race Course…
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…
With great power comes great responsibility, a wise man once told a young, budding superhero — and, just days after the latest Spider-Man movie hit theaters, two great racing powers, the New York Racing Association and Churchill Downs Incorporated announced their bombshell vision of a brand new day in the sport of thoroughbred racing. Advertised as a move…
In 1867, the six-day summer meeting at Saratoga Race Course began on Aug. 7. The New York Times offered a glowing preview, praising the beauty of the women in attendance, the “unclouded brilliancy” of the sun, and the condition of the racing surface. That fourth season of racing in Saratoga, The Times claimed, “promises to…
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