**Please see the attached photo finish picture from yesterday’s Travers, featuring Afleet Express (#7) defeating Fly Down (#8) by a nose**
Sunday, August 29, 2010
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ON-TRACK ATTENDANCE AND HANDLE UP ON TRAVERS DAY
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – On a picture-perfect day that saw a thrilling finish to the 141st running of the Grade 1, $1 million Travers, on-track attendance and handle continued an upward trend at Saratoga Race Course.
A crowd of 45,764 witnessed Afleet Express defeat Fly Down by a nose in the “Mid-summer Derby,” an increase of 33.7 percent over last year’s attendance of 34,221 on hand for Summer Bird’s dominant victory.
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Total all sources handle was $33,890,996, up 11.3 percent last year’s $30,449,575.
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