Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes couldn’t be more intriguing. Besides bringing together the leading 3-year-old colts (Dornoch, Fierceness, Sierra Leone), there’s the injection of Girl Power with all-conquering filly Thorpedo Anna. She’ll try to be the first female to take the...
The canoe that has been floating in the infield lake at Saratoga Race Course has been around for a long time. Well, maybe not the same canoe, but a canoe nonetheless. Back in 1959, Bill Laudner wrote in the New York Herald Tribune that the canoe – then painted a cerulean blue – had been [&hellip...
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...
The Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday (Aug. 26) has a strong chance to become the most dramatic in its wild and woolly 154-year history. The 1 ¼- mile race aka the Midsummer Derby, has featured some of the most memorable upsets in thoroughbred history at a track known as the G...
Looking for the standout 3-year-old racehorse in the country? Check out Saturday's 154th running of the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, and you may get your answer. For just the fourth time, the three winners of the Triple Crown races are running, along with top-rated 3-ye...
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