With a final surge to the finish line, champion Thorpedo Anna held off a driving Dorth Vader by a nose and won the $500,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Thorpedo Anna, the reigning Horse of the Year, gained a fees-paid automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Dist...
Travers Day is upon us. For those who bet horse racing, it’s time to put your money where your handicapping has led you. The $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1), the showcase race of the summer at Saratoga Race Course, takes place as the grand finale of five Grade 1 stakes on Saturday’s blockbuste...
In the days leading up to the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, the team at usracing.com is publishing profiles of the 3-year-olds in the field. What to make of Bracket Breaker’s chances in the 1 ¼-mile Travers? Not much from this seat. He’s 0-for-3 in gra...
In the days leading up to the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, the team at usracing.com is publishing profiles of the 3-year-olds in the field. Can an underachieving 3-year-old rise up and pull off a shocker in the Travers? The theory ‘�...
It may not be a Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series “Win and You’re In" event, but make no mistake – the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial (G1) is so deep that every horse in the field could wind up in a Breeders’ Cup race at Del Mar on Nov. 1. Let’s say this is one loaded […]...
Sovereignty rules, indeed. The Kentucky Derby (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1), and Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) winner will face just four challengers in the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday (Aug. 23). The five-horse field is the smallest since 1994, when Holy Bull took on th...
Trainer Mark Casse is having one sensational summer, especially with his 3-year-olds – colts and fillies. The dual Hall of Famer not only trains the popular Sandman – winner of the Arkansas Derby (G1) -- but his fillies have been even more fabulous. On Saturday, he sends out three of his 3-year-...
For those who bet on horse racing, it is well known that Saratoga Race Course is also called the “Graveyard of Favorites’’ as well as the “Graveyard of Champions.” Either is appropriate, as some of racing’s biggest upsets have taken place at the iconic upstate New York racetrack. A few...
When his racing career ends, Sierra Leone will be retired to stud to Coolmore America/Ashford Stud and his value as a stallion keeps rising and rising. The morning after Sierra Leone won the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday to validate his star status, trainer Chad ...
No bumping, no jostling, no issues, no problem for Sierra Leone. Seizing the lead from a game Highland Falls in the stretch with his patented closing style, Sierra Leone won the $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1) in front of packed house at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, with favorite Fierceness fadi...
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