Within the days main as much as the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, the crew at usracing.com is publishing profiles of the 3-year-olds within the discipline.
An uncontested chief is at all times harmful, and Magnitude shapes up because the lone velocity in Saturday’s 156th Travers Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.
Invoice Mott, who trains heavy favourite Sovereignty, expects Magnitude to go to the entrance. So does Chad Brown, who entered stalker Strategic Focus.
“Our horse ought to have a great goal to run at in (Magnitude), one he very effectively may not even get by,” Brown stated. “It is not like he’ll make the lead early on that horse — that is a great horse.”
Magnitude dominated the Risen Star Stakes (G2) by 9 3/4 lengths Feb. 25 earlier than an ankle chip pressured him off the Triple Crown path. He returned in early July with one other front-end runaway, a 9 1/4-length romp within the Iowa Derby at Prairie Meadows.
“We thought that was the proper race again,” stated Scott Blasi, longtime assistant to coach Steve Asmussen. “Now we have to run towards a (potential) champion, and that’s by no means a straightforward job, however hopefully he’s doing in addition to he can bodily and might get the job completed.”
Travers Stakes Betting Recommendation
Deserves to be the second favourite, however 2-1 morning line is an underlay for a colt making his Grade 1 debut. Use beneath Sovereignty for what could be a really small exacta payoff.
Contender Data Card
Publish place: 1
Odds: 2-1
Jockey: Ben Curtis
Coach: Steve Asmussen
Proprietor: Winchell Thoroughbreds
Profession file: 8-4-1-0
Profession earnings: $596,165
Final race: Iowa Derby, July 5, 1st
High Equibase velocity determine: 111
Pedigree: Not This Time-Rockadelic, by Bernardini
Shade: Bay
Operating model: Frontrunner
Notes: Curtis, who grew up in Eire, moved his tack to america in late 2023. He is compiled spectacular stats this 12 months using in New Orleans, the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic. He is received with 17% of his mounts and exhibits a small pari-mutuel revenue … Asmussen’s 10,955 wins are essentially the most by a coach in North American historical past. In 2022 Epicenter gave him his solely Travers victory … Magnitude breezed 4 furlongs in 50.22 seconds Sunday over Saratoga’s coaching monitor.
