American Pharoah – will be a prohibitive 1/5 M/L Favorite
for Saturday’s GI Travers Stakes at Saratoga!
Posted on 08/29/2015 7:31:46 AM PDT by ETL
The now $1.6 million, GI Travers Stakes, for 3yos, at 1 1/4 mile (Dirt)
Race #11, Post Time 5:46 pm local, this Saturday at Saratoga and will be broadcast on NBC as part of a two-hour live broadcast beginning at 4 p.m. on Saturday!
American Pharoah – will be a prohibitive 1/5 M/L Favorite
for Saturday’s GI Travers Stakes at Saratoga!
American Pharoah, drew the #2 hole and was made the prohibitive 1/5 M/L favorite.
Frosted, at 6/1 drew the mid-pack #6 gate with Texas Red, at 8/1 breaking from the #4 post in this 10 horse field of 3yos.
(Excerpt) Read more at downthestretchs.com ...
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Much clearer versions of the Past Performances at the following links. All free.
Free Past Performances, – from Equibase
Free Past Performances – from Brisnet
Free Past Performances – from DRF
American Pharaoh. I was sure this thread would be about Obama.
He’s still racing? Don’t triple crown winners normally retire to stud farm?
But he’s not American.
His final start will probably be the Breeder’s Cup Classic. So, in total, 3 races after winning the Triple Crown.
Rarely, if ever, did a horse immediately retire after taking the Triple Crown. I don’t know of any instances. But I could be wrong.
The Egyptian owners are running a big risk keeping the first Triple Crown Winner in 37 years on the track. Losses, or worse, an injury that requires the horse to be put down, are possible. Balanced against the 10s or 100s of millions of dollars to be made in stud fees. Just plain stupid.
Final Quarter Faster Than Secretariat
Triple Crown winner Secretariat may have taken the 1973 Belmont by a record 31 lengths and in a record time of 2:24, but American Pharoah was faster to the finish over the final 440 yards. Big Red took 25 seconds; American Pharoah was .68 seconds quicker, going two furlongs in 24.32 seconds.
“He flew home the last quarter,” American Pharoah’s trainer Bob Baffert said June 7. “I’ve never had a horse like that. I’ve never seen a horse run like that. I wasn’t around for the Seattle Slews and Secretariats. But what we witnessed... I was pretty in awe.’
http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/92491/final-quarter-faster-than-secretariat
He ended his career on the turf! (grass course)
Racing is not all about the money. They are trying to prove the greatness of their horse. In much of the horse world glory is more important than money. Even in the lower levels of the show world proving your horse is a good one is what matters. I know. Have some really good horses but no money-lol.
American Pharoah in today’s Travers at Saratoga ping!
Thanks
Calling the grammar police. Calling the grammar police. Please!!! Another public school graduate has written a criminally indecipherable sentence.
Will be anxiously awaiting!
Looks like a good field this year, never mind AP.
Thanks for posting this. Should be quite a race.
Irish
What’s wrong with it? The Travers (biggest race each year at Saratoga) will be his 2nd start (2nd race) after he won the Triple Crown. What part of it don’t you understand?
"American Pharoah went off at 1-9, his winning margin measured 2 1/4 lengths and final time for Sunday's William Hill Haskell Invitational victory 1:47.95 seconds.
The official Equibase chart is a souvenir of sorts, the backup to horse racing fans who couldn't make it to Monmouth Park for a $2 win ticket. (It's only worth $2.20 at the window, by the way.)"
You’re welcome. I’ll have to watch the replay later. Going out now.
Texas Red could be trouble.
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