The place to Watch/Hear: 2024 Travers Stakes Week

One of many largest weeks of racing on the annual calendar has arrived, as Saratoga Race Course prepares for its marquee occasion of the summer time meet on Saturday, Aug. 24. The 155^th DraftKings Travers Stakes brings collectively a number of of the perfect 3-year-olds in coaching to compete for a $1.25 million purse and an excessive amount of status. Pleasure about this 12 months’s Travers is even larger than standard because of the presence of standout filly Thorpedo Anna within the eight-horse subject.

The Travers anchors a Saturday racecard at Saratoga that additionally options 4 different Grade 1 races, two of which – the Resorts World On line casino Sword Dancer Stakes and the Ballerina Handicap – are “Win and You’re In” qualifiers for the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf and the PNC Financial institution Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Dash, respectively.

Saratoga’s races can be broadcast on NYRA’s “Saratoga Reside” present from Wednesday, Aug. 21, by way of Sunday, Aug. 25 on FOX Sports activities channels. The Travers itself plus the opposite Grade 1 occasions on Aug. 24 will air nationwide throughout a three-and-a-half-hour “Saratoga Saturdays” program on FOX, and a particular broadcast of the Juddmonte Worldwide Stakes from York Racecourse in England (one other “Win and You’re In” race for the Longines Turf) will air on FS2 Wednesday. Verify the under schedule for channels and air occasions protecting subsequent week on the Spa.

The Saratoga playing cards are removed from the one main-event motion this week, although. Del Mar will host a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” prep Saturday – the Pat O’Brien Stakes for the Breeders’ Cup Dash – and that race plus all others from Del Mar throughout the week will air on FanDuel TV. That community can even present races from tracks equivalent to Gulfstream Park and Ellis Park throughout the week. A spotlight of the schedule is the Charles City Traditional Stakes and different stakes from Charles City on Friday night, Aug. 23.

Lastly, an enormous day of racing at Woodbine highlighted by the 165^th operating of the King’s Plate Stakes was postponed from Aug. 17 to Friday, Aug. 23, because of inclement climate. The primary leg of the Canadian Triple Crown will air on FanDuel TV Friday afternoon together with three different rescheduled stakes races.

Horse racing from tracks around the globe is accessible to subscribers on Racetrack Tv Community (RTN), which will be livestreamed on all units (laptop, pill and smartphone) and on TV by way of DISH Community, Amazon Hearth and Roku.

America’s Finest Racing produced two livestreams final week previewing the King’s Plate, and can current one other one this Friday, Aug. 23 protecting the rescheduled races from Woodbine. “King’s Plate LIVE 2.0” will air on ABR’s Fb, X, and YouTube channels at a begin time of 5 p.m. ET and with host Dan Tordjman again on the mic together with Ren Carothers and J.D. Fox plus a number of particular company.

Right here’s a rundown of this week’s very busy schedule of horse racing programming:

TV and Livestream Schedule

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Radio Schedule

Be aware: All occasions listed are Japanese