The Travers Stakes

Dateline: 08/24/00

Results

The Travers Stakes at Saratoga, also known as the Mid-Summer Derby, run at 1 1/4 miles with a purse of $1 million will be held Saturday afternoon August 26th. This year's running attracted a quality field of 9 three year olds including the winners of this year's Belmont Stakes and Haskell

Dixie Union in the Haskell post parade

Invitational. The top two favorites both are coming out of the Haskell, winner Dixie Union and third place finisher and Ohio Derby winner Milwaukee Brew. Third favorite Unshaded is coming in off a third place in the Jim Dandy Stakes, the local prep for the Travers. It looks to be a contentious race given the small spread of the morning line odds so it should be exciting. My pick here is Curule who looked like a possible winner in the Jim Dandy before stalling out in second place and is still a nice 6-1 in the morning line.

Post time for the Travers is 5:12pm EDT and the race will be telecast, along with the King's Bishop Stakes, on ESPN from 4:00 to 5:30pm EDT. You can also catch the audio live online from Broadcast.com. Past performances will be available free from Daily Racing Form and Glenners will have his selections available late Friday.

The Travers Stakes

Conditions: Grade 1, purse $1,000,000, distance 1 1/4 miles on the dirt. Click on the name of each horse to view a profile from NYRA.

Number	Horse	Weight	Jockey	Trainer	M/L Odds
1	Country Coast	126	St. Julien	Amoss	30-1
2	Curule	126	Smith	bin Suroor	6-1
3	Commendable	126	Day	Lukas	12-1
4	Milwaukee Brew	126	Bailey	Attard	3-1
5	Postponed	126	Prado	Schulhofer	8-1
6	Unshaded	126	Sellers	Nafzger	7-2
7	Dixie Union	126	Solis	Mandella	5-2
8	Impeachment	126	Migliore	Pletcher	12-1
9	Albert the Great	126	Chavez	Zito	8-1

More Travers articles and info:

• Saratoga - official site
• Travers Stakes - official page from NYRA
• DRF Saratoga coverage
• Daily Saratoga Journal from Thoroughbred Times
• Barn Notes - from NYRA
• Travers Stakes from Equibase - free program, past performances, ChartPlus, and articles
• Past performances and Thoro-Graph sheets from DRF
• Glenners' Picks (available Friday)
• Saratoga essentials - entries, results, charts, etc.
• Current weather
• Scratches and changes
• Results Chart from Equibase (available late Saturday)
• News Index Search to find Pacific Classic articles
• Travers History - all kinds of stats and info plus video archives from NYRA
• Past Travers Winners - from Thoroughbred Champions
• Saratoga Preview an overview of the meet with lots of links to Saratoga info
• Albany - local info from About.com

Graphic courtesy of NYRA, photos by author

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