{"id":85149,"date":"2025-08-22T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85149\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:00:07","slug":"travers-weekend-arrives-in-saratoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85149\/","title":{"rendered":"Travers weekend arrives in Saratoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saratoga Race Course’s signature event is tomorrow \u2014 the 156th running of the Travers Stakes.<\/p>\n

Post time for the race is set for 6:14 p.m., with the race televised on Fox. The field for the race is just five, with Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Sovereignty the odds-on favorite.<\/p>\n

The Travers is the 13th of 14 scheduled races Saturday. The first post time is 11:10 a.m.<\/p>\n

If you’re headed to the track Saturday, parking lots open at 7 a.m., and gates open at 9 a.m. There’s no early access, so the picnic tables are first-come, first-serve. General admission tickets are $5 in advance when buying on the Saratoga website<\/a>. Officials encourage buying parking ahead of time as well.<\/p>\n

Coolers, food, drink \u2014 though alcohol must not be in glass bottles \u2014 folding chairs and tent will all be permitted Saturday. Items like drones, noisemakers, skateboards, sports equipment and weapons are not permitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saratoga Race Course’s signature event is tomorrow \u2014 the 156th running of the Travers Stakes. Post time for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[39053,34269,42870,39052,9640,50,3004,39050,39051,101,47,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-85149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-sports","tag-buffalo","tag-capital-region","tag-new-york-state","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-saratoga-racing","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85149","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=85149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}