SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) – Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has taken his first trip around Saratoga Race Course, galloping a mile in preparation for Saturday’s Travers Stakes.
American Pharoah walked onto the track about 6:40 a.m. Thursday. After a quick, smooth trip under exercise rider Jorge Alvarez, American Pharoah was on his way back to the barn. He was escorted to the stable area by Bob Baffert’s assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes.
It’s been quite a week for the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years. He had his final workout Sunday at Del Mar in California, jogged Tuesday and was flown cross-country Wednesday before boarding a horse van and receiving a police escort from the Albany, New York, airport to Saratoga.
American Pharoah is scheduled to gallop Friday morning.