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Saturday, August 27, 2011
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142nd running of the Grade 1 Travers Stakes $1 million purse Saratoga Race Course Admission Gates open at 7 a.m. Grandstand admission $5 Clubhouse admission $10 Parking Trackside parking $10 Gates open at 6:45 a.m. Oklahoma preferred parking $5 Gates open at 9 p.m. General parking free Post time A 13-race card begins at 11:35 a.m. Stake race post times 3:28 p.m. The Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes (Race 8) 8.5 furlongs, 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, Mellon turf Morning line favorite: Daveron, 3-1 4:03 p.m. The Grade 3 Victory Ride Stakes (Race 9) 6 furlongs, 3-year-old fillies, main track Morning line favorite: Jealous Girl, 3-1 4:38 p.m. The Grade 1 Ballerina Stakes (Race 10) 7 furlongs, 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, main track Morning line favorite: Hildas Passion, 2-1 5:12 p.m. The Grade 1 Kings Bishop Stakes (Race 11) 7 furlongs, 3-year-olds, main track Morning line favorite: Uncle Mo, 9-5 5:45 p.m. The Grade 1 Travers Stakes (Race 12) 10 furlongs, 3-year-olds, main track Morning line favorite: Stay Thirsty, 5-2 The Victory Ride, Ballerina, Kings Bishop and Travers comprise the $1 million guaranteed All-Graded Stakes Late Pick 4 (50 cent minimum wager). Races 8-13 (including all five graded stakes) make up the Pick 6.

Home, sweet home

Local trainer Chad Brown enjoys a great summer, makes first Travers start
By NICOLE RUSSO
nrusso@saratogian.com

Mechanicville native and Saratoga Springs resident Chad Brown will saddle his first starter in his native regions biggest race, the Grade 1, $1 million Travers Stakes, today. Judging by the way Brown has been going, you can bet it wont be his last. Browns rise to the top of the training ranks since he went out on his own in late 2007 has been nothing short of meteoric. Hes saddled more winners each year since opening his stable, and this summer is second in the Saratoga trainer standings behind only megatrainer Todd Pletcher. Brown, 32, saddled his first Grade 1 winner, Zagora, in the Diana here on July 30; two weeks later, he followed up with Stacelitas victory in the Grade 1 Beverly D at Arlington. Today another two weeks later Brown will send out intriguing Travers longshot Bowmans Causeway, who ran creditably in two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown. See BROWN, Page 11A

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