Travers Contenders: Then and Now
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Contenders in this year’s Travers Stakes have all amassed impressive résumés leading up to this year’s edition of the Travers at Saratoga. But before they were stars on the racetrack, they were unnamed foals playing in fields.
Thanks to The Jockey Club, the breed registry for American Thoroughbreds that you see running at tracks every day, we’ve tracked down baby pictures of the probable runners in this year’s Travers so you can see how far they’ve come. The signs in some of the images indicate the foal's dam (mother) and year of birth for identification, since the foals were unnamed at the time.
All photos of adult horses courtesy of Eclipse Sportswire unless otherwise indicated.
American Pharoah - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope Miller
Frammento - Then
Now
Photo by Melissa Bauer-Herzog
Frosted - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope Miller
Keen Ice - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope Miller
King of New York - Then
Now
Mid Ocean - Then
Now
Photo by Hoofprints, Inc.
Smart Transition - Then
Now
Photo by NYRA/Adam Mooshian
Tale of Verve - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope Miller
Texas Red - Then
Now
Photo by Penelope Miller
Upstart - Then
Now