With another year coming to an end, BloodHorse staff members voted on the best races of 2024.
This series launched Dec. 20 with No. 10 and and now, here’s No. 1:
The Travers Stakes (G1), Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course
How played it out
The Travers Stakes (G1) had it all. An exciting matchup. A thrilling finish. A packed house at America’s most beloved racetrack.
It figures to be a race that in the years to come will be frequently mentioned as one of the great moments in the long and storied history of Saratoga Race Course.
The victory by Fierceness over determined filly Thorpedo Anna lands as the No. 1 race of 2024.
The race matched the quality of the field that included a trio of grade 1 winners in Fierceness, the reigning 2-year-old male champion and winner of the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) a month earlier at the Spa; Sierra Leone , who finished second in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Jim…
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