MiamiScreamingEagles
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- Jan 17, 2004
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New York's card on Saturday is loaded with blue-chip talent.
Beside the deep Travers, Songbird is running in the Personal Ensign and Lady Eli runs in the Ballston Spa.
The handle should be off-the-charts.
Post positions were drawn today and riders named to each horse. A temporary configuration is as follows:
That is a deep, loaded field. Horses coming in from Florida, Kentucky, California and points in between.
This race could include all three winners from the Triple Crown races which last happened in a Travers in 1982.
Who can forget the 2012 Travers?
And of course of the most significant races ever run, the 1978 Travers. "Alydar appears out of the race." ...
...in which he won through a DQ.
Beside the deep Travers, Songbird is running in the Personal Ensign and Lady Eli runs in the Ballston Spa.
The handle should be off-the-charts.
Post positions were drawn today and riders named to each horse. A temporary configuration is as follows:
- Cloud Computing (Javier Castellano/Chad Brown/8-1)
- Giuseppe the Great (Tyler Gaffalione/Nick Zito/20-1)
- West Coast (Mike Smith/Bob Baffert/4-1)
- Tapwrit (Jose Ortiz/Todd Pletcher/7-2)
- Good Samaritan (Joel Rosario/Bill Mott/5-1)
- Girvin (Robby Albarado/Joe Sharp/10-1)
- Always Dreaming (John Velazquez/Todd Pletcher/6-1)
- Lookin at Lee (Ricardo Santana, Jr./Steve Asmussen/30-1)
- McCracken (Brian Hernandez, Jr./Ian Wilkes/12-1)
- Irap (Mario Gutierrez/Doug O'Neill/8-1)
- Gunnevera (Edgard Zayas/Antonio Sano/20-1)
- Fayeq (Luis Saez/Kiaran McLaughlin/30-1)
That is a deep, loaded field. Horses coming in from Florida, Kentucky, California and points in between.
This race could include all three winners from the Triple Crown races which last happened in a Travers in 1982.
- Date: August 26, 2017
- Age: Limited to three-year-old(s).
- History: First held in 1864, it is called the Midsummer Derby.
- Distance: 1 1⁄4 miles (10 Furlongs)
- Purse; $1,250,000
- Location: Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, New York
- Television: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm ET on NBC Sports Network (also the Sword Dancer will be aired).
MSG+, FSPT, FSSD, FS2, FSO, ALT (3pm-4:30pm) will broadcast from 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm ET and that will include airing Songbird in the Personal Ensign.
Who can forget the 2012 Travers?
And of course of the most significant races ever run, the 1978 Travers. "Alydar appears out of the race." ...
...in which he won through a DQ.
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