This Saturday’s 139th running of the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Track looks like it may be the best 3-year-old race of the year. Certainly it’s the most competitive from top to bottom since the Kentucky Derby on the first Saturday in May. We may not have Big Brown, but we’ve...

Saratoga Springs, New York So while the august owners of Big Brown await the creation of a phony grass race at Belmont Park or more likely Philadelphia Park to accommodate their bloated egos, feed the bankroll without taxing their overblown animal, the rest of the three-year-old division will gather...

From NYRA William S. Farish and Mrs. William S. Kilroy’s Mambo in Seattle drilled a half-mile under cloudy skies just before 6 o’clock this morning in his final workout for Saturday’s 139th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Travers Stakes presented by Shadwell Farm. The Kingmambo colt was timed in 48...

Derby Trial winner Macho Again pulled a major upset in Sunday's $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. The 1 1/8 mile Jim Dandy is the traditional local prep race for the $1 million Travers Stakes on Saturday, August 23. A field of seven three-year-olds went postward for the Jim Dandy...

Saratoga Springs, New York Difficult to make much of a wildly run Jim Dandy on Sunday. At one point or another, five horses held the lead and, as is usually the case in races like this, the last horse standing won. Still, it was a useful Travers prep for Macho Again, the winner, and Pyro, who may have...

By Jenny Kellner / NYRA There was a time earlier this year that nearly every Kentucky Derby poll had Pyro on or close to the top of the list. Overshadowed at age 2 by juvenile champion War Pass, who had beaten him three straight times, the son of Pulpit finally got everyone’s attention in February with...