Tom Pedulla presents five takeaways from the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course and other major developments this weekend:
Zedan Racing Stables' Medina Spirit made his first race appearance in over three months a winning one as he cruised to a front-running 1 ¼-length victory in the $100,500 Shared Belief Stakes Aug. 29 at Del Mar.
Though the $202,000 Grade 2 Pat O'Brien Stakes attracted a bevy of graded stakes winners, Ginobili brought improving comeback form to spring a mild upset. The 4-year-old gelding brought home his first stakes trophy, fittingly at Del Mar, the location of all three of his lifetime victories.
Champion sprinter Whitmore, an ornery gelding who gave his fans six years of thrills and his immediate connections memories to last a lifetime, has been retired from racing.
