American Pharoah is 1-5 for Travers

No speed in the race. Will be a procession around the track methinks.

I hope nothing traversy happens and he wins

I know

It's why I got so nervous for the haskell

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Yes, I do hope he has an easy gallop for the win because if he loses, you can likely say goodbye to further appearances, even the Classic.

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i hate when people say ignorant shite like this. why would he possibly not run in the classic? the owner has nothing to lose to run him in a 5 million dollar race in which he will be the betting favorite


baring injury he's gonna run 3 more times.

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baring injury he's gonna run 3 more times.

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"barring Injury"…such a great built-in excuse for all owners of future, fancy stud horses.

I will fully admit to be a very bad handicapper as I let personal feelings guide me as much as anything else, but I have been following horse racing and breeding long enough to be stubborn, bitter, elated, cynical, and heartbroken, but I am not ignorant to its ways.

Believe me, if Zayat hadn't made such an undervalued deal (for him) for the stud duty back in January, American Pharaoh might very well have already been bedded down in his stall at Ashford. While I do think legacy is a very large part of it, make no mistake, these races are also about the incentives tacked on to the deal and the purse money. You have noticed they have been following the money, but hey good job on NYRA upping the Travers ante- Frammento has to earn a living too, and that increase in the bottom checks will be nice.

I am a bit dubious about a start before the Classic because it seems that the one race that might come up easy enough for him and make the most sense for him geographically and time wise, the Awesome Again/Goodwood, has a pretty low purse. However, I don't see them wanting to ship back for the JCGC. I am guessing that mythical race Monmouth is dreaming up could lure him with a big enough bonus.

As for nothing to lose… no, a loss in a top race at the end of a long and brilliant season shouldn't mean much, but alas in this new world of breeding and marketing, it does. Especially if you are about to ask people to pay $200K for the privilege of sending a top racing and/or producing mare (and thus burning an even more valuable reproductive season) to him on the hope that he will make a good sire. Just look at how Coolmore has managed Gleneagles. Now that he has won enough to gain a place in the stud stable, they keep coming up with excuses not to try him against formidable competition.

There is no chance he woulda ran in the JCGC. Whitey (Baffert) and Zayat won't run him v older horses until Keeneland BC. It's Saturday and on to Kentucky where he will train at CD and then get a work or 2 at Keeneland. Barnes will be with him like always. I don't think the average fan knows how much work Jimmy has put into the horse make him what he is today. Saturday could be one of those "trap" races just like LSU in a "trap" game. I am getting a feeling that Pharaoh is going to struggle. Not saying he will lose but another horse is going to look him in the eye and possibly duke it out. It happened in the Derby

I'll take American Pharoah at 1-5 all day.

i'm out on 1 to 5

but this is a classic bridgejumper race

Just joined the watching. At a horse show today. Wow run happy

Private Zone just so damn consistent. Joel Rosario took a helluva header at the top of the race. Hopefully he is ok.