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Pyro, Court Vision & Colonel John Work For The Travers Stakes At Saratoga August 23
Jim Dandy Stakes (gr. II) runner-up Pyro breezed four furlongs in 52.28 in his final work for Saturday’s 139th edition of the $1-million Travers Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course.
“He’s just there,” said Pyro’s trainer Steve Asmussen, who also trains 2007 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner and Horse of the Year Curlin. “He had a pretty strong race in the Jim Dandy and trying to get two good races out of a horse here can be pretty tricky.”
Hall of Fame race horse trainer Bill Mott added another possible starter for the Travers with IEAH Stables’ Court Vision, who breezed five furlongs over Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track in 1:02.44.
“Three or four days ago, the owners voted on it and that’s what they wanted to do,” race horse trainer Bill Mott said.
Court Vision has not won a race since taking the Remsen Stakes (gr. II) and the Iroquois (gr. III) as a two-year-old last year. In his last start, the Virginia Derby (gr. II), the dark bay son of Gulch and Weekend Storm, Court Vision, was beaten a nose by Gio Ponti.
IEAH Stables is also expected to run Acai, who has won back-to-back races for race horse trainer Richard Dutrow Jr., in the Travers.
Bill Mott also gave Edmund Gann’s You and I Forever a five-furlong breeze over the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga that went in 1:02.88.
WinStar Farm’s Colonel John went five furlongs on the fast all-weather track at Del Mar in 1:00.60. The Santa Anita Derby (gr. I) winner and race horse trainer Eoin Harty are expected to arrive in Saratoga on Wednesday, along with Swaps Stakes (gr. II) winner Tres Borrachos, who runs for race horse trainer Beau Greely.
The 2008 Travers Stakes is the 11th race in Saratoga’s August 23 horse racing program. Travers Stakes post time is 5:45 pm.
Horse racing news edited from www.nyra.com.
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