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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — This year’s Travers Stakes will feature the winners of the Kentucky Derby (Mage), Preakness Stakes (National Treasure), and Belmont Stakes (Arcangelo). It will mark only the fourth time in 154 runnings of the Midsummer Derby that three individual winners of the Triple Crown races will contest Saratoga’s signature event. In 2017, […]

By Mike MacAdam/The Leader-Herald SARATOGA SPRINGS — They’re bringing a full jewelry box to the Travers stakes this year. The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes make up the Triple Crown collection, and in any given year it’s not unusual for three different horses to each claim one of

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.

With the entry of Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath in the 2022 Preakness, the daughter of the late champion Arrogate (by Unbridled’s Song) bids to become the seventh filly to win the classic.

The recently completed Kentucky Derby is the most famous horse race in history. Run at Churchill Downs in Louisville since 1875, the derby has attracted huge crowds for the last three decades. The Kentucky Derby is a significant part of the cycle of Kentucky life. Well-known humorist and country philosopher Irvin S. Cobb, of Paducah, was asked to explain the derby’s magic. “If I could do that, I’d have a larynx of spun silver and the tongue of an appointed angel,” he said. A...

Pedigree fun facts: Concert Tour Mar 13, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com Concert Tour is bred along a pattern similar to Maximum Security (Coady Photography/Oaklawn Park) Concert Tour is bred along a pattern similar to another homebred campaigned by Gary and Mary West – champion Maximum Security, who was disqualified after crossing the wire first in the 2019 Kentucky Derby (G1).  Both are by sons of Street Cry and out of A.P. Indy-line mares, but Concert Tour’s rendition of the them...