Horse Racing Events 2014

2016 Travers Day at Saratoga Race Course

Travers is the most popular time throughout the whole Saratoga summer race meet, featuring the famous Travers Stakes, dating back to to 1864. Nicknamed Saratoga's Midsummer Derby, it's a Grade 1, $1, 250, 000 race for 3-year-olds, traditionally held in the final Saturday in August annually.

• Saturday, August 27
• Gates available early at 7:00 am
• Early very first post at 11:45 am
• General Admission: ten dollars
• Clubhouse Admission: $15

General Travers Information & History

A Better Go Through The Travers at Saratoga Race Course: The United States's Oldest Stakes Race for Thoroughbreds

If the Saratoga Racing Association known as the Travers Stakes for William R. Travers (among the creators of America's earliest race course), they desired simply to honor a guy which'd made their mark-on the sport of horse race. Mr. Travers' horse, Kentucky, won that first-in 1864.

Virtually instantly, the Travers became a prestigious event, as term distribute that competition was designed for only extraordinary three-year-old ponies. The battle was run at four different distances throughout its history to-date:

• 1¾ kilometers (2.81 kilometer): 1864 to 1889
• 1½ kilometers (2.41 kilometer): 1890 to 1892
• 1¼ kilometers (2.01 kilometer): 1893 to 1894, 1897
• 1? miles (1.81 kilometer): 1895, 1901 to 1903
• 1¼ kilometers (2.01 kilometer): 1904 to present

Today's length of 1 ¼ mile is a perfect length for modern three-year-olds. The race is available to colts and geldings, holding 126 lb (57.2 kg) and fillies, holding 121 pounds. (54.9 kg).

The Travers creates thoughts yearly, for lots of people. Too many wonderful experiences to recount here, many of those memories which have been provided by large numbers of race followers:

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• In 1941, Whirlaway became the only real horse previously to win the superfecta: he would won the Triple Crown, then continued to take the Travers, as well.
• In 1962, Jaipur won by a nose-bob in history time over Ridan, who was regarded as even more gifted. The lengthy fight (the whole 1 ¼ mile) saw the two ponies duke it out the whole length of the competition.
• In 1982, Runaway Groom (Champion Canadian three-year-old), who was trained by John DiMario, attained the Saratoga backstretch after a really lengthy and exhausting season. He would competed when you look at the Canadian Triple Crown: he won the Prince of Wales Stakes, the Breeders' Stakes, and finished second when you look at the Queen's Plate. Runaway Groom's Travers victory made him the only real horse in racing record to conquer the winners of the year's American Triple Crown in the same battle. (Kentucky Derby champion Gato Del Sol; Preakness Stakes champion Aloma's Ruler and Belmont Stakes champion, Conquistador Cielo.)
• Point Given, an attractive, big, 17hh beast, won the Travers on August 25, 2001. That day, aim Given received accurate documentation Travers Stakes Day audience, 60, 486 fans. The race introduced an overall total betting handle of $34, 529, 273. It was in addition a Saratoga record to that date.

Practices

Trophy
The Travers Trophy is known as the person O'War Cup, and ended up being created by Tiffany & Co. The trophy ended up being called for Samuel Riddle's great Champion: Mr. Riddle donated the trophy while the permanent award for winning the battle. A gold-plated reproduction is provided towards winner annually, by a part of the Riddle family.

Travers Blanket
The winner associated with Travers Stakes will get an extravagant flowery blanket, a beautiful blanket of flowers to drape throughout the horse, hand-made locally with over a lot of carnations.

The Travers Canoe
The Travers Canoe happens to be a lovely tribute to your champions of this Travers, yearly since 1961. Each year, the canoe is coated inside colors of this silks of reigning Travers champion. A canoe happens to be a fixture within the infield pond since 1926, nonetheless it wasn't until 1961 the canoe became connected to the Travers.

Travers Festival
The town of Saratoga Springs NY celebrates the complete week leading up to Travers Day with different activities, including a restaurant few days, rushing activities, live music and much more. It's the yearly Travers Festival!

The Travers always has been a battle that establishes the blood to streaming, whether you are a fan whoever preferred horse is running; an owner or instructor, that's entered your prize horse or a handicapper whose reputation hangs on the line. The Travers has actually generated its nickname, the Midsummer Derby, because certainly, this earliest of stakes events for Thoroughbreds is a test associated with mettle of a horse. The horse whom trots off the celebrated track at Saratoga with all the Travers plants about their neck is a Champion, indeed-and a horse whose name is permanently area of the lore and record not merely of Saratoga, but of horse race, it self.