One year after just missing in the Travers (G1), Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna was involved in another thriller on Saratoga’s marquee Saturday.

The Travers Day program at Saratoga on Saturday features three Breeders' Cup Challenge races, with the $500,000 Personal Ensign (G1) garnering much of the pre-race day attention.

A drop in class and a dry racing surface were conditions that helped propel Leslie's Rose to victory in the $200,000 Shuvee (G2) at Saratoga on Friday.

Although Friday’s $200,000 Shuvee (G2) at Saratoga isn’t a Grade 1 race, the 49th running of the 1 1/8-mile dirt race for fillies and mares has drawn a top-tier field.

Heavy afternoon rain on Friday turned Saratoga's main track into a sea of slop, which aided the two longest shots in the $500,000 Ogden Phipps (G1) for fillies and mares.

The Belmont Stakes Racing Festival kicks up a gear at Saratoga on Friday, with a total of six graded stakes on tap. Fillies and mares take center stage in the three dirt stakes.

Alpha Delta Stables' homebred Raging Sea followed the leaders from well back in Friday’s $992,000 La Troienne S. (G1) at Churchill Downs, gained the initiative in between rivals in midstretch, and despite switching to her left lead was able to hold onto victory by three parts of a length over longshot Taxed.

Thorpedo Anna outclassed rivals in Saturday’s $1,728,000 Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar, drawing off to a 2 1/2-length decision.

Potential Breeders’ Cup contenders were out in full force for a trio of graded stakes on Sunday afternoon at Aqueduct.

The historic $250,000 Beldame (G2), the first of three stakes at Aqueduct on Sunday, has seen better days.

Trainer Chad Brown dealt reigning older female champion Idiomatic a second loss on the season in Friday's $485,000 Personal Ensign (G1) at Saratoga, but not with the filly most expected.

Raging Sea capitalized on a rail run into the stretch to beat Shotgun Hottie in Sunday’s Shuvee (G2) at Saratoga.

With divisional champion Idiomatic bound for Saturday’s Molly Pitcher (G3) on Haskell Day at Monmouth Park, Sunday’s $200,000 Shuvee (G2) at Saratoga presents a resume-enhancing opportunity for distaffers inclined to take it.

Seven months after losing a stretch battle with Idiomatic by a half-length in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1), Randomized got her revenge over the reigning champion older dirt mare in the $500,000 Ogden Phipps (G1) at Saratoga on Saturday.

A pair of favored two-year-old fillies secured their spots in the Breeders’ Cup with front-running victories on Keeneland’s Friday opener - Wonder Wheel in the Alcibiades and Delight in the Jessamine.