West Coast - 2017 Travers Stakes

Race replay of the Grade 1 Travers Stakes presented by NYRA Bets at Saratoga Race Course.

[@johnkaufmann8875]

I want to add on a big race by GUNNEVARA for 2nd. Didn't think he could get the distance but he proved me wrong. Very Nice Effort.

[@duquettebeats6312]

John Kaufmann then next race he wont hit the board. You are obviously a huge fan john i see u on alot of videos, do u wager whale status or what? Lol. When did you start to love racing?

[@terablair628]

Gunnevera was wide th I entire time, ran huge from last, he ran the better race, but good home West Coast. Gunnevera is a serious racehorse, not just a sentimental story

[@JoseGonzalez-fg4vi]

Tera Blair i always think about gunnevera. Today he shows again and remenber to us the great horse he is. Would see on bredders!

[@DUCSDREAM]

Why are some of the beaten horses being knocked about when they are at least 15 lengths behind and only 300yds left to race!!

[@davidgarnett5150]

Recent news. Makes you wonder how he could rebreak like that. I had 120k coming back on gunnevera

[@youdontknow9958]

Gunnevera !!!!!

[@jaac2309]

Sano should consider the Breeders Cup Dirt Mile for Gunnevera. I still believe he might be an excellent miler

[@g0ezle0nard96]

Never heard of Irish Dreaming before, get a horse name correct. Always Dreaming I think is what you meant. Oh yeah he won the Kentucky Derby, or is the Rhode Island Derby now?

[@adamd1912]

Money Mike is the best! It's a complete embarrassment that Always Dreaming was the Derby winner this year.

[@johnkaufmann8875]

MIKE SMITH took me by surprise gunning to the lead but this is why MIKE SMITH is BIG MONEY MIKE. Mike put them to sleep. Great Ride! Once again a late blooming 3yo is a rising star! It is now the norm!

[@patp9819]

John Kaufmann but didnt push arrogate early enough

[@patp9819]

Rookie mistake by a veteran

[@johnkaufmann8875]

app2fire p Sometimes the great ones make mental mistakes. Not today from Mike!

[@Silvercharm5555]

John Kaufmann right!

[@kennethcollins6494]

Do you really believe the 16k gunnevera is a better horse than west coast ? If you do that's fine I absolutely don't and hope they see each other again

[@cipreanosolis3545]

Irap was my Derby horse it's good to see him making something of himself.

[@sSeSs808]

Good race by West Coast! Now which 3yos do you guys think will run in the Classic?!

[@victormedici3019]

Mike Smith kinda felt it but I didn't unfortunately

[@revaselvhen3200]

My pick won!! Great, awesome race by West Coast!! My 2nd & 3rd choice picks, thou I didn't bet on them were Good Samaritan & Cloud Computing.... So very impressed by West Coast!!!!

[@marilync9291]

Good pick! Congrats!

[@revaselvhen3200]

Marilyn C - Thank U!!

[@sSeSs808]

Like this horse, love his name, West Coast...the best coast!

[@stevencooke6451]

The best performance by a three year old this year. And a great ride yet again by Magic Mike.

[@RealJackHQ]

Wow! West Coast just kept digging in and high kneeing it to the wire. Good for him! Gr8 race! Well done.

[@boxcarent.3147]

Excellent field.

[@susanking7854]

Always Dreaming is a mud lark

[@vincentcampbell9780]

Great ride Mike Smith

[@terrifictroll1916]

Bob baffert won the last 2 travers with closers whom both wired the travers fields..Weird and amazing at the same time

[@alainchacon582]

gunneveraaa!!!!!

[@cgarnet01]

Irap was screwed out of second place. He was totally cut off.

[@richardhartley5629]

Very mediocre crop of undistinguished plodders. Hopefully, next year's 3 year olds will be better.

[@espnhdsport]

I only bet 2 dollar in Xpressbet,I should bet 100

[@duquettebeats6312]

公仔箱 tvboxnow then when u bet 100 u lose. Lol. I do 5 bucks lol. An always say should of wagered more,

[@yarennygonzalez80]

Tremenda carrera la de gunnevera, demostró que es de carrera.

[@DavidGarcia-cr6kl]

Hola

[@elijahmack6946]

yall dont know horse racing irish dreaming was really only front runner so smitty put his horse up close like i predicted cause he had shown front running speed in eairler races

[@elijahmack6946]

lmao learn how to handicap an u would known west coast was gonna be on or near the lead go look at pps

[@amparoortiz156]

mike Smith is the greatest jokey of all time

[@josefhurmer1453]

clear i was for Tapwrit, who had good moments, but was ridden on the backstretch, moved to early, the others had just to answer again once more behind Irap, well ending Gunnevera unreachable West Coast. its good for him, but like in KD i'm sorry he had been shifted to side while spurt starts, the rail was open.

[@luhyou8625]

Josef Hurmer Jose Ortiz is the only New York Jockey will Balls so he had to move early... He must of Yelled at all of those jockeys for being Soft

[@josefhurmer1453]

Luh You tja, Lee, Cracken, Girvin they all were never called out there

[@demelzabunny6632]

Must HAVE, not of

[@brucerobbins3584]

Smith ran a slow race. Nobody took him on early. There is something fishy here. Saratoga is supposed to be the graveyard of champios, Always Dreaming and Cloud Computing, but something funny is going on here. West Coast is 5 for 7, but all his races are four 1-1/16, and one 1-1/8. At three he has not run a mile and a quarter. This is his first. Like Arrogate. And he wins, not fast, not by 15 lengths, but nobody can catch him, even Good Samaritan, who won Jim Dandy with ease, or Girvin or McCraken who were in a photo in the Haskell. None of them in the money, far back. Only Tapwrit who finished close, 4th. Lookin at Lee a one run hose, has a great final kick, finished 2nd in the Derby, would have passed Classic Empire in the Arkasas Derby if the race were longer, second to Classic in the Breeders Cup Futurity, finishes 10th, so unlike him. He may not win races, but he usually does well. Add all this up and something seems fishy. Maybe Baffert is putting something in the horse's water.

[@johnkaufmann8875]

Bruce Robbins Nah! Surely Bob isn't juicing his horses! Lol. Who knows anymore.

[@brucerobbins3584]

John: I dunno. Good Samaritan won the Jim Dandy at Saratoga against Always Dreaming, Cloud Computing, and Guiseppe, a late stretch runner he won by 4 lengths. Maybe Baffer waits until horses who have raced a month earlier are entered, then enters one of hit well rested, little raced horses, feeds them spinach and a whole lot of vitamins and PowerAde, and Monster. I can't see another reason.

[@duquettebeats6312]

Bruce Robbins obviously the baffert fix was in as always! Tapwrit mile an half winner but cant compete here... Lol. Always dreaming even had a prep here with a stake race wins the derby but cant compete here? Gunnervea was a big surprise he all of a sudden under zayas has skill. He sucked in all Three crown races. But here he is game for 2nd?hahha

[@brucerobbins3584]

DU...Saratoga, the grave yard of champions...Tapwrit wasn't the first and won't be the last...he beat 8 other horses!! I never though much of AD or CC. Yeah, most of these horses are very inconsistent. I had two favorites this year who just didn't pan out: Uncontested and Hence. They looked really good in one race, but one race is only one race. West Coast 4-1...Why? Never ran a mile and a quarter race, only 4 minor 1-1/16, 1-1/8...Sorry, those are girlie distances. All of a sudden he beats 11 other horses who have been running since the beginning of the year. Unless you can find the answer in the Saratoga track, I find it hard to explain. Next, the Bob Bafert Derby: Connected, Arrogate, and West End. At Saratoga or Del Mar.

[@mauricewillims1656]

Bruce Robbins you should go drink some of it. You mite talk a little more sensible

[@lep2422]

That inquiry should have put Iran in 2nd

[@johnkaufmann8875]

Taylor Rogers I saw IRAP steady. But this is NYRA so anything goes

[@johnkaufmann8875]

A few rocket scientists think that if the eclipse awards were today then ALWAYS DREAMING is the 3yo Champion! What??? Hahahahaha! For winning two races greatly aided by the track superintendent? Please. He was the right horse at the right time in the perfect scenario back in the spring. WEST COAST is clearly the 3yo leader. 5 wins, 2 seconds in 7 starts now. Lets see, ALWAYS DREAMING last 3 races? A fading 8th, a fading 3rd & a fading 9th is not Championship Material

[@luannsutton3540]

John Kaufmann wouldn't have changed the order of finish.

[@johnarnold7480]

One of the best three year old crops in years simply breath taking.

[@zeecase5350]

John Arnold your joking