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.

At 7-2, Fierceness wins the 155th Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course | WAMC.

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

Power Squeeze (3), with jockey Javier Castellano, noses out Candied, ridden by Manuel Franco, in Saturday's Alabama Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Trainer Jorge Delgado, high-fives jockey Javier Castellano after Power Squeeze won the 144th running of the Alabama at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday, Aug.

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.

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.

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.

In 2024, Thorpedo Anna competed in the 155th Travers looking to become the first filly to win this race since 1915. Despite a late challenge down the home stretch, Fierceness ended up winning the race, defeating her by a nose at the wire.

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.

What was the Saratoga race fixing scandal? ›

In 1931 a man named Jimmie Meehan was indicted for running a widespread race fixing ring where he paid associates to dope and sponge horses, including the horse Sun Mission at Saratoga.

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.

Tracking him insistently, Frosted pounced heading into the far turn of the 10-furlong Travers, only to be repelled by American Pharoah. But by that time, Keen Ice and jockey Javier Castellano had made their move, running down a wearying American Pharoah and passing him late to win by three-quarters of a length.

American victory. One of the most decisive American battles of the Revolutionary War, Saratoga ended British general John Burgoyne's attempt to control the Hudson River Valley.

Chancer McPatrick is his sire's most accomplished runner to date and first stakes winner. Entering Monday, McKinzie was the seventh-ranked first-crop stallion in North America and is now the first member of his stallion class to sire a grade 1 winner.

Nearing the sixteenth-pole, New York Thunder had what seemed like an insurmountable lead. In the very moment that people were congratulating him, New York Thunder was crashing head first to the track. He suffered a catastrophic injury to his left front fetlock and had to be put down.