SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Neither American Pharoah nor his trainer, Bob Baffert, looked worn out or deflated the morning after the colt was run down by Keen Ice in the final strides of the 146th running of the Travers Stakes. The white-haired Baffert smiled as he led his big bay colt outside his barn here, stopping to let a little girl feed him carrots.
American Pharoah, the Triple Crown champion, stomped his foot once and then twice in appreciation. He was a happy horse. Baffert, a Hall of Fame trainer, well, he was disappointed but satisfied with his colt’s gritty performance on Saturday.