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By the narrowest of noses and thanks to a bob of the head, Colonel John won the Travers Stakes on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course.

The primary reason Giuseppe Iadisernia’s horse will compete in the $1 million event Sunday at Del Mar is that it does not fall on the Sabbath he observes.

Philadelphia Park and Monmouth Park are in the running for Big Brown’s final prep before the Breeders’ Cup.

With Big Brown, the nation’s best 3-year-old, taking a pass on the Travers Stakes, 12 names passed through the entry box, potentially creating a large Travers field.

After the Curlin and the Big Brown camps issued challenges, proposals and counterproposals, the sport’s two biggest stars will most likely never meet.

Curlin, the reigning horse of the year, is scheduled to make his next start on the dirt in the Woodward on Aug. 30 at Saratoga in New York.

Big Brown had just enough in his tank to grind out a one-and-three-quarter-length victory over Coal Play in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

Deweycheatumnhowe became the first undefeated horse to win the $1.5 million Hambletonian, a race first contested in 1926.

Big Brown drew the No. 4 post Thursday after entries were taken for Monmouth’s signature race, which will be worth $1 million and is run at a mile and an eighth.

Representative Bobby L. Rush is questioning the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority about Rick Dutrow’s 15-day suspension.