This year s Breeders Cup Classic is shaping up as a perfect coda to the Triple Crown season, starring several Triple Crown heroes. Here, the back-to-school report.
Not every Travers winner gets booked into the Breeders Cup Classic. With her slow campaign for Arcangelo, trainer Jena Antonucci is thinking it will be the right one.
Archangelo's decisive victory in Saturday's Travers Stakes boosted the late bloomer to the top of the 3-year-old division in a weekend filled with top-flight racing,
Arcangelo won the $1.25 million Travers by a length at Saratoga on Saturday, giving trainer Jena Antonucci her second major Grade 1 victory after the colt won the Belmont Stakes. “I guess the more this horse does, the more we’re going to keep writing some history,” Antonucci said. The day was marred by the deaths of two horses, including New York Thunder in the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial.