Saratoga Otb Results (2024)

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What happened in race 7 at Saratoga today? ›

- Sunday's seventh race at Saratoga was declared a no-contest because several jockeys pulled their horses up on the backside at the direction of an outrider due to a malfunction with the starting gate tractor.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Fierceness held off Thorpedo Anna's late charge to win the $1.25 million Travers Stakes by a head on Saturday, denying the filly's attempt to become the first female winner of the Grade 1 race in over a century.

Saratoga 2024: Arthur's Ride shakes loose and wins Whitney.

The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war.

Malfunction with starting gate forces New York Racing Association to make ruling.

Grossman explained that ending his long tenure at Saratoga Race Course was a simple career decision. “I make my living now as a public school teacher north of Miami,” he noted.

Velazquez won the first of his five Saratoga riding championships in 1998 and set a Spa record with 65 victories in 2004. He has won a total of 26 riding titles at New York tracks and in 2013 became the all-time leading rider at Saratoga with his 694th career win at the Spa.

Of the first five Travers Stakes races run, three were won by fillies. The 1867 winner, Ruthless, the second filly to win in the Travers, also won the inaugural running of the Belmont Stakes earlier in the summer of 1867. Surprisingly, a filly hasn't won the Travers Stakes in over a century.

Just a few weeks after winning the 1973 Triple Crown, Secretariat lost the Whitney Stakes to a little-known horse named Onion at the Saratoga Race Course.

Although she made history last year with a horse named Arcangelo (Arrogate), trainer Jena Antonucci hardly ever watches replays of the 2023 GI Belmont Stakes or GI Travers Stakes.

Who is the horse statue at Saratoga race track? ›

A bronze statue of Sea Hero stands in the paddock at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 2015, another statue was installed at the National Sporting Library & Museum in Middleburg, Virginia. Sea Hero Road in Frankfort, Kentucky is named for the horse, as is Sea Hero Court in Napa, California.

The winner of this prestigious race will earn a $1 million purse and a guaranteed bid to the Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar. The race honors the legacy of the Whitney family and will feature a field of 12 horses.

But the victory of General Horatio Gates at Saratoga also led to a serious but ultimately unsuccessful effort to replace Washington with Gates as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. The battle of Saratoga took place on the fields of upstate New York, nine miles south of the town of Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — A mechanical problem with the tractor that moves the starting gate on and off the track at the Saratoga Race Course caused the seventh race on the 10-race to be declared “No contest.” That decision by the stewards caused several glitches in the multi-race bets that include the seventh.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — For the first time of the 2024 Saratoga Race Course meet, a racehorse died from injuries sustained in a race on Friday, when The Big Torpedo broke down as he approached the finish line in the Grade III Saranac stakes.

Irad Ortiz, Jr.

Since 1864, the track has been the site of the Travers Stakes, the oldest major thoroughbred horse race in the United States. Like the Kentucky Derby, the Travers Stakes is contested on dirt and is open only to three-year-olds, with a purse of $1,250,000.