One leading breeding farm and two venerable stakes will be linked in 2008 as Shadwell Farm becomes the presenting sponsor for the New York Racing Association’s Travers Stakes (G1) and Suburban Handicap (G1) through 2009. With 259 runnings between them, the two events boast stakes histories crowded with champions, classic winners and Hall of Fame horses ... more

The 2008 logo for the 139th Travers Stakes presented by Shadwell Farm commemorates the dramatic finish of last year’s edition, won by Kentucky Derby hero Street Sense over the game longshot Grasshopper. With the distinctive roofline of the Saratoga Race Course grandstand in the background ... more

On-track handle at the 2007 Saratoga Race Course meeting was $123,018,041, smashing the on-track handle record of $117,368,204 set during the 2003 Saratoga meet. Attendance and all-sources handle for the 36-day meet that ended today posted significant increases over 2006 figures ... more

Majestic Warrior As he watched Majestic Warrior step onto the track for the Grade 1, $250,000 Hopeful Stakes, Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott could not help thinking a victory would be a great way to cap off the 139th Saratoga Race Course meet. Mott, who clinched his ninth training title days earlier, had never won the Spa’s most prestigious race for two-year-olds ... more

Rosinka With the scratch of Barancella from Monday’s 12th running of the Grade 3, $100,000-added Glens Falls Handicap, Allistair McDonald Buchanan’s Rosinka only had to worry about seven other fillies and mares in the 11-furlong, inner turf course race ... more