The Travers Stakes (G1), often called the “Midsummer Derby,” is the most significant race remaining for 3-year-olds. It is a final chance to determine the pecking order in the division before summer turns to fall and the leading sophomores step up to the handicap division to face their elders on...
The 155th running of the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday (Aug. 24), aka the “Midsummer Derby,” is considered the marquee race of the summer. A field of eight 3-year-olds was entered on Sunday. usracing.com is publishing profiles of the contenders. 2024 Trave...
The 155th running of the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday (Aug. 24), aka the “Midsummer Derby,” is considered the marquee race of the summer. A field of eight 3-year-olds was entered on Sunday. usracing.com is publishing profiles of the contenders. 2024 Trave...
Thorpedo Anna will attempt to become the first filly since 1915 to win the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday – and she will have to do it from the inside post. Thorpedo Anna second choice with Fierceness against the boys in the Travers The fantastic filly traine...
For those who bet horse racing, it’s always worth a wager on a Chad Brown-trainee turf runner offering good value at Saratoga. Longshot upset in the Lake Placid at Saratoga And it paid off Saturday in the 1 1/16-mile, $200,000 Lake Placid Stakes (G2) on the inner turf – 7-1 longshot Grayosh outd...
Kevin Attard will again look to win the $1 million King’s Plate at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto on Saturday with a filly. The longtime trainer has done it before, with Moira in 2022, but his filly Wickenheiser finished 11th of 17 in last year’s edition of the first leg of the Canadian Triple Cr...
It’s been more than a century since a filly won the Travers Stakes (G1), so when Thorpedo Anna takes on the boys in the 155th edition of the “Midsummer Derby’’ on Aug. 24, there’s history on the line at storied Saratoga. Thorpedo Anna will try to become be the first filly to win the Traver...
Anisette parlayed a victory in last year’s Del Mar Oaks (G1) into bigger and better things. The Del Mar Oaks was the first of three Grade 1 victories for the talented 4-year-old filly. Her other top-level victories include the American Oaks and the Gamely Stakes. Can any filly in Saturday’s Oaks...
Saratoga’s stakes spotlight is on the 3-year-old fillies Saturday in the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (G1) and the $200,000 Lake Placid Stakes (G2). If trainer Kenny McPeek had pointed the brilliant Thorpedo Anna to the Alabama Stakes, she would have been a 1-5 favorite in an expected coronation. Inste...
Five weeks of racing at Saratoga Race Course are in the books, leaving three more weeks to go at the most prestigious meet in the land. Some familiar names sit atop the leaderboard at Saratoga Looking at the showcase races over the final weeks at the Spa, there’s the $600,000 Alabama Stakes (G1) f...
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