SARATOGA SPRINGS - More than $60 million was wagered on Saturday's Travers Day card at Saratoga Race Course, a noted increase from 2025 and the second-highest all-sources wagering handle in the history of the Travers.
The New York Racing **** ociation announced Saturday night that Travers Day, headlined by Leading Change's win in the Midsummer Derby, generated an all-sources handle of $60,863,320, including an on-track wagering handle of $11,197,855.
Wagering on Travers Day jumped more than $6 million from a year ago, when $54,309,929 was wagered from all sources on a day highlighted by Sovereignty's Travers victory and a gutsy victory by the popular filly Thorpedo Anna in the Personal Ensign. This year's on-track handle was also an increase of nearly $1 million from 2025's figure of $10,369,950.
This year's Travers Day handle was second only to 2024, when a card highlighted by Fierceness winning the Travers over Thorpedo Anna generated a record $63,023,405.
The field breaks from the gate in the 157th Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday in Saratoga Springs. (Skip **** stein)
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The New York Racing **** ociation announced Saturday night that Travers Day, headlined by Leading Change's win in the Midsummer Derby, generated an all-sources handle of $60,863,320, including an on-track wagering handle of $11,197,855.
Wagering on Travers Day jumped more than $6 million from a year ago, when $54,309,929 was wagered from all sources on a day highlighted by Sovereignty's Travers victory and a gutsy victory by the popular filly Thorpedo Anna in the Personal Ensign. This year's on-track handle was also an increase of nearly $1 million from 2025's figure of $10,369,950.
This year's Travers Day handle was second only to 2024, when a card highlighted by Fierceness winning the Travers over Thorpedo Anna generated a record $63,023,405.
The field breaks from the gate in the 157th Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday in Saratoga Springs. (Skip **** stein)
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