SARATOGA SPRINGS About 50 minutes apart, they ran two races, both with big purses, both at a mile and an eighth, both for 3-year-olds. The similarities end there. The Haskell was a lot better race ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS The brothers Lizza are still speaking. At least for now. Check back with us after Travers Day. Carl Lizza owns Travers starter Badger Gold. Allie Lizza and his family used to own the ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — As eight 3-year-olds battle today for $1 million and the prestige of winning the Travers, another and perhaps more intriguing race is taking place among the top contenders.

Leo “Spider” Ernest Travers, 73, of Stillwell Dr., Plainville, died Sunday, (September 12, 1999) at Bradley Memorial Hospital. Married to Janet Travors for 31 years, he was a Southington resident for ...

OKAHUMPKA – For the second time in the past three years, Jack Travers has been selected by the United States Olympic Committee as its water ski coach of the year. And, for the second time in three ...

A week before he will be inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame, jockey Jose Santos, 46, yesterday announced his retirement across the street from the Hall at Saratoga Race Course, ...

One of the traditional questions asked of each John Travers Award finalist is to use one word to describe yourself and why. Heather Conroy (Hower), the 1999 winner from Susquenita, could not recall ...

They said it last year. Yet out of the 1999 Travers came the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Cat Thief, and the current leading older handicap horse, Lemon Drop Kid. Last year’s Midsummer Derby also ...