The $750,000 Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) is a 1 1/2-mile turf feature at Saratoga Race Course for 3-year-olds and older that is now part of the Travers Stakes Day undercard.

Although she’s raced sparingly in the last three years, there is no denying Boama’s Eda knows how to win. She’ll attempt to take that win column number to seven Aug. 27 in the Rancho Bernardo Stakes (G3) at Del Mar.

With the Breeders’ Cup set for Santa Anita Park, it will be a home game of sorts for West Coast-based runners such as the 11 squaring off in the seven-furlong Pat O’Brien Stakes (G2).

Renowned owner-breeder Lady O’Reilly has died at the age of 73. She was the owner of Haras de la Louviere in Normandy, as well as a former owner of Castlemartin Stud in Ireland.

JoAnn Pepper, of Old Friends at Cabin Creek, talks to Anne Eberhardt about the up coming New York Showcase, a day of racing exclusive to New York-bred Thoroughbreds.

J. Keeler Johnson handicaps the Travers Stakes at Saratoga.

Case Clay Thoroughbred Management will consign Puca, carrying a full sibling to 2023 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Mage, and grade 1 winner and millionaire Dalika, in a two-mare consignment at Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale Nov. 8.

There was surely a warm burst of emotion Aug. 24 under dark skies at the Spa when Mike Amendola stood in the winner’s circle with Evvie Jets after the $300,000 Ballston Spa Stakes (G2T) and reminisced about his late dad.

Saratoga Notebook

Jimmy Barnes, the assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, wasn’t worried about three of the barn’s big guns—National Treasure, Arabian Lion, and Fort Bragg—making the cross country trek from California to upstate New York.