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Horse Racing Photo Gallery
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Travers Stakes (Grade 1) for Three Year Olds - 1 1/4 miles |
other photos from August 26, 2006: [Races 1-5] [Races 6-7] [Ballston Spa Handicap] [Bernard Baruch Handicap] [King's Bishop Stakes] |
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Bernardini enters the paddock at Saratoga Race Course for the Travers Stakes. |
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Hesanoldsalt is led to the paddock for the Travers Stakes. |
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High Cotton enters the paddock for the Travers Stakes. |
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Trainer Todd Pletcher saddles Bluegrass Cat for the Travers Stakes. |
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Hesanoldsalt (Eibar Coa up) is led to the track for the Travers Stakes post parade. |
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Dr. Pleasure (Cornelio Velasquez up) joins the post parade for the Travers Stakes. |
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Bernardini (Javier Castellano up) is led to the track for the Travers Stakes post parade. |
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Bernardini joins the post parade before the 137th running of the Travers Stakes. |
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Bluegrass Cat (John Velazquez up) is led to the Travers Stakes post parade. |
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The horses break from the gate for the 137th running of the Travers Stakes. |
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The field is a blur as they past the finish line for the first time early in the Travers Stakes. |
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Squint your eyes a little. See? That's Bernardini (Javier Castellano up) winning the Travers Stakes by over seven lengths. |
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Bluegrass Cat (John Velazquez up) finishes a distant, and fuzzy, second place in the Travers Stakes. |
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Minister's Bid (Edgar Prado up) returns to be unsaddled after finishing last in the Travers Stakes. |
...and then the batteries in my camera died...so there aren't any Winners' Circle photos. |
other photos from August 26, 2006: [Races 1-5] [Races 6-7] [Ballston Spa Handicap] [Bernard Baruch Handicap] [King's Bishop Stakes] |
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