Lady Eli foiled in Ballston Spa – by Strike Charmer, and by tactics?

Sun Aug 28 2016Kellie Reilly

In advance of Saturday’s $400,000 Ballston Spa (G2) at Saratoga, I kept trying to tamp down my own expectations about Lady Eli’s comeback. Just getting here was a moral victory in itself, after a near-fatal attack of laminitis last summer. Surely i ...
Travers 2016 Transcript & Quotes

Sat Aug 27 2016TwinSpires Staff

147TH TRAVERS STAKES TRANSCRIPT August 27, 2016 John Chandler Mike Smith Bob Baffert THE MODERATOR: Good evening, everybody. On behalf of the New York Racing Association, we'd like to welcome the connections of the 147th run ...
Nyquist Still Leads Three-Year-Old Male Division Even After Arrogate's Scintillating Travers Victory

Sat Aug 27 2016Ed DeRosa

In arrogating the Travers Stakes, Arrogate is in a position to arrogate the three-year-old male division and even Horse of the Year. Arrogate was 11-to-1 when winning the Travers Stakes on Saturday, August 27, at Saratoga Race Course, and would pr ...
A. P. Indian much the best in Forego

Sat Aug 27 2016Vance Hanson

A. P. Indian made short work of nine rivals in Saturday's $700,000 Forego (G1) , thus sweeping both of Saratoga's Grade 1 sprints for older horses and punching a ticket to the TwinSpires.com Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) at Santa Anita November 5. Un ...
Flintshire lives up to expectations in Sword Dancer

Sat Aug 27 2016Kellie Reilly

As just about everyone’s single, Flintshire justified 1-5 favoritism with an emphatic repeat victory in Saturday’s Sword Dancer Invitational (G1) at Saratoga. The Juddmonte homebred retained his position as the divisional leader ahead of the Breede ...
Cavorting dances to Personal Ensign score

Sat Aug 27 2016Jen Caldwell

Stonestreet Stables’ Cavorting earned her third straight graded victory when taking Saturday’s $695,000 Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) at Saratoga by a half-length under jockey Javier Castellano. The duo settled in the rear of the five-distaffer fi ...

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Drefong dazzles in King’s Bishop

Sat Aug 27 2016James Scully

Drefong sped to the lead at the break and dominated Saturday’s $500,000 King’s Bishop (G1) at Saratoga, establishing himself as a serious Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) prospect for Bob Baffert in his stakes debut. A winner of four straight from five ca ...
Haveyougoneaway takes Ballerina to sweep Spa sprints for fillies and mares

Sat Aug 27 2016Vance Hanson

Haveyougoneaway made it a clean sweep of Saratoga's graded sprint offerings for fillies and mares with a 10-1 upset of Saturday's $500,000 Ballerina (G1) . Not only did the five-year-old daughter Congrats add the Ballerina to a prior win in the ...
How to Bet the Torrey Pines

Sat Aug 27 2016TwinSpires Staff

by Scott Shapiro The penultimate Sunday of the Del Mar summer meeting is upon us and the feature is the Grade 3 Torrey Pines Stakes. The one-mile event for three-year-old fillies is conducted over the main track and is headlined by undefeated Cali ...
Travers News & Notes

Sat Aug 27 2016TwinSpires Staff

A full field of 14 was drawn for the 147th running of the Travers Stakes (G1) on Saturday at Saratoga, and the star-studded group includes Preakness Stakes (G1) and Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) winner Exaggerator and Belmont Stakes (G1) victor Cr ...
Mucciolo: Destin-ed to win the Travers

Sat Aug 27 2016John Mucciolo

It is hard for me to go against Exaggerator in Saturday’s $1.25 million Travers S. (G1) at Saratoga after his fine win in the Haskell Invitational (G1) where I thought he might be a race short but still pulled clear late, but it is also hard to swall ...
Seven things to know for Travers Day

Sat Aug 27 2016Kellie Reilly

In light of Saturday’s blockbuster card at Saratoga, “five things to know” just can’t be enough. So we’ll make it a list of seven, one for each stakes on an action-packed Travers Day.  1. A Travers (G1) victory by Exaggerator would go a long ...
Tonight’s Run to the Rose: Winx’s half-brother, Godolphin quartet, Star Turn

Sat Aug 27 2016Kellie Reilly

One week after supermare Winx kicked off her Australian season with a scintillating win in the Warwick (G2) at Randwick, her younger half-brother, El Divino , contests Friday night’s Run to the Rose (G2) at Rosehill. A prep for the Golden Rose (G1), ...