Weekend Lineup: Derby Points On The Line In Loaded Travers, Ellis Park Derby

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Though it occupies an earlier recognize than usual on the calendar, the Grade 1,$ 1 million Travers Stakes succeeded in luring the top sophomore in practice as the hasten is likely to be headlined by Belmont Stakes winner Tiz the Law, the current No. 1 graded colt on the NTRA Top Three-Year-Old Poll. The 151 st rolling of the Travers will be one of five pointed stakes on the day at historic Saratoga Race Course.

For the second consecutive year, the Travers Stakes will be televised live on the FOX broadcast network as part of a 1 1/2 hour telecast from 5-6: 30 PM ET on Saturday. An expanded Travers Day edition of Saratoga Live will air nationally on FS1 beginning at 11:30 AM ET. Coverage and analysis of the day’s hastens then alters to FS2 beginning at 3:00 PM ET and continues throughout the afternoon on FS1/ FS2.

TVG will be live on site at racetracks in all regions of the country covering a loaded weekend of racing that includes evaluated ventures races from Del Mar and the Ellis Park Derby, a prep scoot for the Kentucky Derby in September.

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Friday August 7

5: 46 p.m .–$ 150,000 Grade 2 Saratoga Special Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FS2

A field of 11 adolescents will look to make their star turn in Friday’s 114 th guiding of the Grade 2, $150,000 Saratoga Special exiting six furlongs over the prime move. Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen will attempt five wins in the Saratoga Special when saddling Cazadero, who is the lone starter in the field with a graded ventures prevail. Owned and spawned by Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stables, the inlet son of Street Sense won the Grade 3 Bashford Manor on June 27 at Churchill Downs in his most recent start, which came after an 8 3/4 -length romp on introduction at the Louisville oval.

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8: 39 p.m .–$ 150,000 Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes at Del Mar on TVG

In what appears to be a wide-open edition of the Sorrento Stakes at Del Mar, six fillies will face off in a six-furlong tussle that will reward the one dwelling firstly with a nice payday, a gob of black type and a leg up toward the meet’s top loot for 2-year-old distaff runners — the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on September 6. The 52 nd guiding of the race facets a trio of neighbourhood minors who all composed their maid wins last out and have the benefit of both experience and a feel for the Del Mar strip.

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3: 42 p.m .–$ 300,000 Grade 1 Ballerina Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FS2

Blue Devil Racing Stable’s homebred Come Dancing developed as one of the country’s extending older female sprinters last-place summertime at Saratoga Race Course, and trainer Carlos Martin is hopeful the 6-year-old mare will twinkle that same constitute when she goes after a few seconds directly win in Grade 1, $300,000 Ballerina Stakes. Come Dancing is attempting to become only the second largest colt to prevail numerou volumes of the Ballerina following Shine Again in 2001 and 2002 for late Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens. A multiple graded-stakes win of more than$ 1 million in career pocketbooks, Come Dancing has raced precisely twice this year. She was 12 th in her season introduction, the Grade 1 Apple Blossom on April 18 at Oaklawn Park and second as the favorite behind person Ballerina aspirant Victim of Love in the Grade 3, 6 1/2 -furlong Vagrancy June 27 at Belmont Park

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4: 22 p.m .–$ 200,000 Grade 3 Troy Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FS2

Christophe Clement will look to add to his impressive crowds when he sends out Pure Sensation and Shekky Shebaz in Saturday’s Troy Stakes over the Spa’s Mellon turf course. Patricia Generazio’s homebred Pure Sensation, a 9-year-old Zensational gelding, boastings a record of 37 -1 4-5-7 with pocketbook earnings of $2,001, 050. The popular gray-headed won 4-of-6 starts last-place season, including a duet of graded-stakes at Parx where he captured his third Grade 3 Parx Dash and his fourth Grade 3 Turf Monster at Parx. Pure Sensation wintered at Payson Park in Florida and moved his seasonal introduction with a seventh in the Grade 1 Jaipur on June 20 at Belmont Park.

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5: 02 p.m .–$ 150,000 Grade 3 Waya Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FOX

Wise Racing’s Fools Gold looks to attack her entitlement in Saturday’s Grade 3 Waya Stakes over the Mellon turf. Geeks Gold, trained by Chad Brown, will attempt to be the first back-to-back winner of the Waya since Saratoga Source won the first two copies in 1993 -9 4. The 5-year-old daughter of Medaglia d’Oro has not prevailed since do last year’s Waya, where she sat off the pace in the early stages, inched her way into dispute and prevailed by three-quarters of a span. Her lone start this season was a well-beaten fifth in her seasonal prow in the Grade 2 New York on June 27 at Belmont Park over the inner turf.

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5: 39 p.m .–$ 300,000 Grade 1 Test Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FOX

Michael Lund Petersen’s Gamine headlines a field of six in Saturday’s Test Stakes, a seven-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies. Gamine, an Into Mischief inlet brought about by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, has swept the wire first in all three occupation starts, acquiring her March debut at Santa Anita by 6 1/4 -lengths when sprinting 6 1/2 -furlongs. In May, she edged Speech, who two starts last-minute captivated the Grade 1 Ashland at Keeneland, in an optional-claiming sprint at Oaklawn where she was subsequently disqualified from handbag coin. Last-place out, the $1.8 million Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale purchase annexed a domain of 7 in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes by 18 3/4 -lengths on June 20 at Belmont Park.

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6: 15 p.m .–$ 1,000, 000 Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FOX

Sackatoga Stable’s Tiz the Law, undefeated in his sophomore campaign with three consecutive ranked bets success, will return to the site where his racing career began last summertime as part of an eight-horse field of top 3-year-olds in Saturday’s Grade 1 Travers Stakes. Tiz the Law impelled record in become the first New York multiplied in 138 years to triumph the Belmont Stakes on June 20. With five earns in six profession starts, the Barclay Tagg trainee is the even-money morning-line favorite from announce 6 and opens the 1 1/4 -mile” Mid-Summer Derby” producing all colts with 272 modifying points to the Kentucky Derby. He has a chance to add to that record-breaking total, as the Travers will offer 100 -4 0-20-10 points to the top four finishers to the” Run for the Roses” on September 5.

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7: 30 p.m .–$ 150,000 Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes at Del Mar on TVG

Eight eras once manager Wesley Ward has echoed the bets bell at Del Mar and Saturday he’s aiming for another gong with a speedy 2-year-old colt specified Roderick, who ran away and obscured from a straight damsel domain at Belmont Park in New York on June 21 in his lone outing and looks a lot like a solid favorite for the 50 th volume of the Best Pal Stakes. The race, a six-panel spin for minors, has described a battlefield of seven athletes and Roderick has described upright No. 4 and Del Mar’s passing equestrian, Flavien Prat.

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9 p. m .–$ 150,000 Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Del Mar on TVG

Slam Dunk Racing or Medallion Racing’s Beau Recall( IRE ), who was up by a “hairs-breadth” to win last year’s Yellow Ribbon Handicap, has come back to Del Mar to try to make it two-for-two in the Grade 2 headliner for fillies and mares that will be run this Saturday. The now 6-year-old mare generates a record of seven winnings and eight seconds from 27 starts to the mile and one-sixteenth grass test, as well as a bankroll that reads $1,101, 512. Trainer Brad Cox has carried his well-traveled charge in from New York to defend her designation and has assigned Umberto Rispoli to ride.

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Sunday August 9

6: 10 p.m .–$ 200,000 Ellis Park Derby at Ellis Park on TVG

The field was placed for Sunday’s first-ever Kentucky Derby prep placed at Ellis Park, with Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes winner Art Collector heading the thirteen 3-year-old colts and geldings enrolled in the Ellis Park Derby. The 1 1/8 -mile Ellis Park Derby carries 50 points to the winner toward qualifying for the Kentucky Derby on September 5. Art Collector seeks to go to 4 for 4 since being turned over to trainer Tommy Drury this year. Thanks to the Blue Grass’ 100 pitches, owner-breeder Bruce Lunsford’s colt already has fairly points to ensure a spot in the 20 -horse Kentucky Derby environment, with Drury exercising the Ellis Park Derby as a conditioning tool rather than training the eight weeks up to America’s most important race.

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9: 30 p.m .–$ 125,000 Grade 3 La Jolla Handicap at Del Mar on TVG

Storm the Court, the dominate champion adolescent male, switches to the turf to face seven other challengers in the La Jolla as he aims his first succes since capture the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita Park last-place November. Trained by Peter Eurton, Storm the Court is winless in four starts this season and most recently finished third in the Grade 3 Ohio Derby on June 27.

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