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​Grandview Equine, Cheyenne Stable and LNJ Foxwoods multiple graded stakes winner Olympiad surpassed the $2 million mark in purse earnings with a prominent two-length score in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga Race Course.

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​As a bloodstock agent, Mike Ryan has selected multiple prominent racehorses over the years, including Breeders’ Cup winners and Eclipse Award champions. But the Irishman now appears poised to experience the thrill of high caliber success as an owner with Be Your Best, an impressive winner of Thursday’s $150,000 P.G. Johnson at Saratoga Race Course.

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​West Point Thoroughbreds, fresh off their 1,000th career victory as a syndicate, has even more to look forward to Saturday with three live contenders in $1 million stakes, including dual graded stakes winner First Captain, who will seek his first Grade 1 victory in the 10-furlong Jockey Club Gold Cup for 3-year-olds and up at Saratoga Race Course.

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When Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen started his first horse, Track Ambassador, at Ruidoso Downs in 1986, he did so with storied racetracks like Saratoga Race Course in the back of his mind as places of legend, hoping to one day make it to the Spa to leave his mark at the nation’s oldest sporting venue. 36 years later, his i​mpact at Saratoga has been monumental, adding to his long list of accomplishments with a 5 1/4-length triumph in Saturday’s 10-furlong Grade 1 Runhappy Travers by Epicenter to earn his first win in America’s oldest race for sophomores.

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​Albaugh Family Stables’ Not This Time may have had a short-lived racing career, but the son of Giant’s Causeway is making up for lost time as a highly influential stallion. The leading third crop stallion will be represented by two contestants in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Runhappy Travers in 7-5 morning line favorite Epicenter and 20-1 Iowa-bred longshot Ain’t Life Grand.

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​Growing up in the Capital Region of upstate New York, four-time Saratoga Race Course meet-leading trainer Chad Brown holds the Grade 1, $1.25 million Runhappy Travers in high regard. While yet to saddle a winner for the Spa’s marquee race, Brown appears to hold his strongest hand yet in the 153rd renewal of the oldest race for 3-year-olds in North America.