By Jarrod Horak
The Grade 1, $1,250,000 Travers Stakes will be run at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, August 24, 2024. Eight sophomores will travel 1 1/4 miles on the main track and Dornoch is the 5-2 morning line favorite. The Travers goes as the thirteenth race with a scheduled post time of 6:10 p.m. EDT.
Travers Stakes Analysis
Thorpedo Anna might be aggressively handled from the inside post. She is 2-for-2 at Saratoga and easily won all four graded routes versus sophomore fillies this year. This is her longest and toughest test yet and she might be aggressively handled from the inside post under Brian Hernandez Jr. She earned her best number yet in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks on July 20.
Sierra Leone is getting faster for Chad Brown and he is more professional as well. Five of his rivals are early-pressing types and he is the best closer in the field. He always finishes in the top three and Flavien Prat got to know him in his last pair, and he could easily rally for the win.
