Klaravich Stables and William H. Lawrence’s Annals of Time put his impressive turn of foot to good use in the $850,000 Sword Dancer Stakes (G1T) Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course, surging home late to pick up his second grade 1 win. 

The most successful trainer and jockey of the $400,000 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes (G2T) teamed up Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course to add to their records in the turf event with Significant Form scoring a neck victory in a blanket finish.

William S. Farish’s Code of Honor became the first grade 1 winner for his sire, Noble Mission, when he surged to victory with a strong rally in the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.

The slimmest of nostrils separated Midnight Bisou and Elate at the line in the $700,000 Personal Ensign Stakes Presented by Lia Infiniti (G1) Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course, and it took a review of the photo to decide the winner.

In the first £1 million Ebor Aug. 24, Mustajeer had his last run for Ger Lyons, but he signed off from his time with the trainer in the most fitting way possible by landing York’s historic handicap

Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s Mitole bounced back from a loss in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) to win the Aug. 24 Forego Stakes Presented by Encore Boston Harbor (G1) at Saratoga Race Course by three lengths.

A slow start did nothing to hamper Come Dancing’s quick finish in the $480,000 Ketel One Ballerina Stakes (G1) Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course.

Mind Control surged late to win the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes presented by Runhappy (G1) by a nose over Hog Creek Hustle Aug. 24 at Saratoga Race Course. Shancelot, the 1-5 favorite, was another nose back in third.

Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s Mitole bounced back from a loss in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes (G1) to win the Aug. 24 Forego Stakes presented by Encore Boston Harbor (G1) at Saratoga Race Course by three lengths.

If someone offered the opinion back in February that a Juddmonte Farms 3-year-old would be favored in the Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1), they technically would have been correct. Yet they probably would have been focusing on the wrong horse.

Each Saturday NTRA and BloodHorse provide a one-stop guide to the day’s graded stakes races, capsules and entries.

Gatsas Stables, R. A. Hill Stable and Swick Stable’s Funny Guy took the feature race at Saratoga Aug. 23, holding off a late charge from Bankit to capture the $256,875 Albany Stakes going nine furlongs on the main track.

Anne and William Scott’s Summer Sunday is in search of her fourth straight stakes score in the $125,000 Seaway Stakes (G3) Aug. 25 at Woodbine.

Special T Thoroughbreds’ freshman sire Boat Trip had his first winner from his first starter Aug. 23, when his gelded son Bettor Trip Nick held on by a nose to win a maiden claiming race at Golden Gate Fields.

The finalists for six of the now seven Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards, sponsored by Godolphin, have been announced.

Battaash came and he conquered, producing a sensational display in the Aug. 23 Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) that lowered the track record set by Dayjur in the same group 1 showpiece 29 years earlier.

Other than the Pat O’Brien (G2) at Del Mar and the Play the King (G2) at Woodbine Racetrack, all the graded stakes in North America Aug. 24 take place at Saratoga Race Course, climaxed by the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers (G1) for 3-year-olds.

Three-time stakes winner Bulletin will return to racing for the first time since April in the $100,000 Better Talk Now Stakes Aug. 25 on the inner turf at Saratoga Race Course.

Last season’s Cartier Horse of the Year Roaring Lion has been put down after suffering another bout of colic.