
Ten Things to Know Before You Go: 2025 Travers Stakes
Every Sunday Noel Michaels will provide free full-card picks for a one racecard in North America. A veteran handicapper and tournament-play pioneer, Michaels also writes a weekly “Weekend Winners” blog for America’s Best Racing with a focus on key stakes races at marquee tracks. This feature will be straight-forward: full-card picks for one Sunday slate of races of his choosing.
Noel's selections have been featured just about everywhere horse racing picks can be found, including in print in the Daily Racing Form, The HorsePlayer Magazine and American Turf Monthly, online at DRF.com, Twinspires.com and USRacing.com, from the paddock on-track at Arlington International Racecourse, and on the air on HRTV, TVG, NYC OTB Extra, NYRA's Talking Horses, and on broadcast TV on WAVE-3 Louisville, ABC KOLO-8 in Reno, Nevada, and channel 72 Long Island Cablevision.
Six Beginner Betting Tools
Race 1:
2 Two By Two By Two (4-1)
3 Gorrano Ranch (3-1)
4 Nacho Problem (4-1)
Race 2:
5 Resilience (5-2)
3 Olympic Dreams (5-1)
1 Digital Ops (9-5)
Race 3:
5 Diblasi (2-1)
7 Gracie's Delight (6-1)
1 Chalky White (9-2)
Race 4:
13 Tabegauche (3-1)
10 Light the Way (9-2)
1 Determinedly (8-1)
Race 5:
3 Jackson Heights (8-1) Live Longshot
8 Amundson (5-2)
11 Cees Get Degrees (6-1)
Race 6:
6 Factually Correct (9-2)
2 Caldo Candy (2-1)
4 Ten Cent Town (4-1)
Race 7:
11 Rojo Rita (5-2)
6 Hey Bertie (4-1)
7 Fortuna Mia (20-1)
Race 8:
7 Tongue Twister (3-1)
2 Danneel (30-1)
6 Carmens Candy Jar (8-1)
Race 9:
5 Indy Bay (2-1)
1 Mila Candy (8-1)
2 Beauty Reigns (9-5)
Race 10:
7 Ball Don't Lie (3-1) Best Bet
9 Uncle George (8-1)
3 I'm Wide Awake (2-1)
Race 11:
14 Executive Order (7-2)
15 Graywing (3-1)
6 Acoustic Ave (10-1)
4 Silo Ridge (15-1)
Race 12: Jaipur Stakes
9 Ag Bullet (7-2)
5 Arzak (8-1)
2 Think Big (6-5)
Race 13: Manhattan Stakes
6 Spirit of St Louis (5-2)
9 Far Bridge (3-1)
4 Carson's Run (12-1)