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Saturday’s Travers Stakes (gr. I) was not just about V.E. Day, but also V.J. Day. We had the Victory in Europe tie-in and the Victory for Jerkens tie-in.The Travers was also about family and the perpetuation of family history through the generations. Only in the Sport of Kings can images and memories reappear after a half century, untouched by ...

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The Grade 1 TraversSaratoga / August 23 / Race 12 / 5:45 EDT by TimeformUS Analyst Mike Beer Get started with FREE TimeformUS PPs for the TraversThe 145th Travers Stakes, a Grade 1 for 3yos contested over 1 1/4 miles and carrying a purse of $1.25 million, has drawn an excellent field of 10.  The contenders seem to be coming from ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') Get ready, folks! On Saturday, Saratoga will host a spectacular fourteen-race card featuring four graded stakes races, including a trio of grade I events headlined by the $1,250,000 Travers Stakes (gr. I). Each race has drawn a wide-open field of talented competitors, and there should be plenty of ...

There are some simple factors regarding this year’s Travers Stakes. First, Bayern is going to be very tough on an uncontested lead, especially breaking from post 2 and with a stone closer, Commanding Curve, inside him. Second, Tonalist and Wicked Strong are both sitting on big efforts, and it was apparent from the Jim Dandy Stakes that Wicked ...

By Nicole Sauer Yearlings by young and unproven sires can be a risky investments, but those by proven sires tend to be more costly. Consequently, weighing the risks against the potential returns may seem like a rock and a hard place situation for value-seeking buyers at the yearling sales. MarketWatch looked at first- through fifth-crop ...

Hello old friend. With its return to dirt racing this fall, Keeneland hopes to hear that greeting--cue Eric Clapton--from more horsemen interested in prepping their top starters for main-track races in this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships. When Keeneland after this year’s spring meet removed a remarkably safe Polytrack that ...

As part of the ongoing debate about the future of medication testing and enforcement in American racing, let’s hope out-of-competition testing takes on a greater sense of urgency.Being able to test a horse at any time serves an important role in finding banned substances that would otherwise go undetected because they could have cleared a horse’s ...

By J. Keeler Johnson (''Keelerman'') With less than a week remaining before the running of the historic Travers Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga, I thought I would share my preliminary thoughts on some of the major contenders and try to get a feel for how the race might unfold. So without further ado, here’s my analysis of six well-regarded Travers ...