Greg Montgomery

As these two beautiful horses and their riders walked the peaceful, leafy path to the track for the 139th running of Saratoga’s Travers Stakes, it was not at all evident that less than an inch would separate them at the finish. Jockey Garrett Gomez on WinStar Farm's Colonel John held off the hard-charging Mambo in Seattle in a duel that had 40,723 people standing at their seats. It was the perfect August day and the perfect Travers race.

This is the 24th poster in the longest-running series of its kind. The 2009 Travers poster (and the Saratoga version) will be available after June 6, 2009 on this web site and at selected stores and galleries in Saratoga Springs. See you at the track.