8/25 (SAR): Travers, King's Bishop, Test (G1's), Ballston Spa (G3)

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

The Travers field is hardly a top one historically speaking but it is hard to say that it isnt a pretty good race considering the rash of injuries to higher profile horses recently. At the very least virtually all of the horses in it are likely to continue to run and possibly develop into good 4 yo's though some may be competing in races with numbers next to them as opposed to names.

Again, I think that a lot of the disagreement is that some want to say that it's good because it's the best of what's left and others want to say it's no good because the horses aren't good.

I also don't think that the odds of any of them developing into good 4yos is too high. That doesn't mean that some of them might not become major stakes winners though. Someone has got to win the races and when all of the top horses are gone, there's a vacuum that needs to be filled. I mentioned men's track. If Bolt, Gatlin, Blake, etc., all retire, that doesn't mean that the guy that wins the world title developed into a good runner. There's a huge difference between best of what's left and actual good.