{"id":65619,"date":"2025-08-14T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65619\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T04:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T04:52:11","slug":"needs-a-little-bit-more-time-goal-oriented-bypasses-travers-points-to-pennsylvania-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/65619\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Needs A Little Bit More Time\u2019: Goal Oriented Bypasses Travers, Points To Pennsylvania Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulickreport.com\/news\/thoroughbred-racing\/needs-a-little-bit-more-time-goal-oriented-bypasses-travers-points-to-pennsylvania-derby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Needs A Little Bit More Time\u2019: Goal Oriented Bypasses Travers, Points To Pennsylvania Derby;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018Needs A Little Bit More Time\u2019: Goal Oriented Bypasses Travers, Points To Pennsylvania Derby<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/paulickreport.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paulick Report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goal Oriented will not run in next weekend\u2019s Grade 1 Travers Stakes, trainer Bob Baffert told Daily Racing Form on Aug. 13. Instead, the Haskell third-place finisher will await the G1 Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he needs a little bit more time,\u201d said Baffert, who told Daily Racing Form last Friday that the colt was possible for either race. \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s ready for that. He ran hard [in the Haskell]. He\u2019s a really big horse, I don\u2019t want to run him too much. I want him for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The son of Not This Time is two for four lifetime. He finished fourth in the Preakness after being bumped and steadied on the home turn.<\/p>\n<p>With the defection of Goal Oriented, the Travers field is now down to three confirmed runners: Sovereignty, Magnitude, and Strategic Focus. According to the Daily Racing Form, Bracket Buster and McAfee are possible starters.<\/p>\n<p>Gosger and Chunk of Gold are both nominated to the Midsummer Derby but are not expected to run; the latter is pointing to the Pennsylvania Derby, according to the Daily Racing Form.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/drf.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:drf.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">drf.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/paulickreport.com\/news\/thoroughbred-racing\/needs-a-little-bit-more-time-goal-oriented-bypasses-travers-points-to-pennsylvania-derby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Paulick Report;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Paulick Report<\/a> on Aug 13, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Needs A Little Bit More Time\u2019: Goal Oriented Bypasses Travers, Points To Pennsylvania Derby originally appeared on Paulick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[20442,34614,30500,3004,101,34615,16196,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-65619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-bob-baffert","9":"tag-daily-racing-form","10":"tag-pennsylvania-derby","11":"tag-racing","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-the-haskell","14":"tag-travers-stakes","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}