2021 Travers Stakes Program, Saratoga, Essential Quality, Tiz the Law, Runhappy

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Up for sale is a program for the 2021 Travers Stakes, won by Essential Quality, run at the Saratoga Race Course. 2020 winner Tiz the Law is on the cover. It's in new condition. Thanks for looking.
Essential Quality prevails in 152nd Travers Stakes at
Saratoga
Essential Quality just keeps on winning, displaying a grit
that his handlers simply marvel at.
The Belmont Stakes winner added the .25 million Travers
Stakes to his resume Saturday, holding off Midnight Bourbon in a stirring
stretch duel at Saratoga Race Course for his eighth victory in nine career
starts for trainer Brad Cox and Godolphin Stable.
“He ran a tremendous race. He was very good today,” Cox
said. “He certainly seemed like he had his game face on. He knows how to
battle, he really does. He likes to have his head in front. He’s a tremendous
horse.”
The 152nd running of the Midsummer Derby had a field of
seven 3-year-olds, and only Midnight Bourbon, the runner-up in the Preakness,
offered a challenge for the reigning 2-year-old champion. The two led the field
from the gate, with Midnight Bourbon setting the pace. He was ahead by as much
as 3 1/2 lengths down the backstretch before Essential Quality began to close.
Jockey Luis Saez pulled Essential Quality even at the top of
the stretch and the two battled side by side to the wire, with Essential
Quality winning by a neck over Midnight Bourbon and jockey Ricardo Santana Jr.
“He’s very smart,” said Saez, the leading jockey at
Saratoga. “He does his job. He knows how to do it. He always does it.”
The sleek gray son of Tapit covered the 1 1/4 miles in 2
minutes, 1.96 seconds on a track that was labeled as fast despite an
intermittent drizzle. He paid .90 to win, .30 to place, and .10 to show.
Midnight Bourbon returned and .30. Miles D, with jockey Flavien Prat
aboard, was third and paid .90.