Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver leads a field of 11 3-year-olds running in the $1 million Travers Stakes on Saturday, with the race likely to sort out a muddled division.
Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver leads a field of 11 3-year-olds running in the $1 million Travers Stakes on Saturday, with the race likely to sort out a muddled division.
So, Super Saver, what have you done lately?
Quality Road will try to strengthen his challenge to undefeated mare Zenyatta for Horse of the Year honors in the $750,000, Grade 1 Whitney Invitational Handicap on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.
Quality Road, undefeated in three starts this year and ranked as the nation's leading male thoroughbred, has been made the 2-5 morning line favorite for Saturday's Whitney Invitational at Saratoga.
Nick Zito is a long-shot kind of trainer, it seems.
No one is in more of a New York state of mind these days than Nick Zito.
A horseplayer since his teens while growing up in London, Richard C. Pell could be on the verge of the greatest score of his life - winning the Belmont Stakes.
Injured Wood Memorial winner Eskendereya has been retired due to a leg injury.
Likely Kentucky Derby favorite Eskendereya is out of the Run for the Roses. Trainer Todd Pletcher said he's pulling the 3-year-old colt out of next weekend's Derby due to an "issue" in his left front leg.
Eskendereya has been made the 4-5 favorite for Saturday's Wood Memorial at Aqueduct Racetrack, a final prep race before the Kentucky Derby.
The top two Kentucky Derby contenders likely will be running their final prep races Saturday - No. 1-rated Lookin At Lucky is all but set for the Santa Anita Derby and No. 2 Eskendereya is the probable favorite for the Wood Memorial.
Just in the nick of time.
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