By Alan Carasso
Saturday's GIII Troy S. at Saratoga is short on numbers, but long on quality, with two Grade I winners and a pair of multiple graded winners from the Christophe Clement barn among the field of six turf sprinters.
The Troy discussion starts with the versatile World of Trouble (Kantharos), who just as easily could have ended up in last Saturday's GI A. G. Vanderbilt S., but lands here instead as he looks to score for the fifth time in six turf tries. Victorious in the Quick Call S. over this course and distance last summer, the Florida-bred took a disgusting beat in the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, but has not tasted defeat in five runs since. Winner of an oddly run GI Carter H. on the Aqueduct main Apr. 6, the bay romped in the May 3 GII Turf Sprint at Churchill May 3 and became a dual-surface Grade I winner last time in the Jaipur S. at Belmont June 8.
The field's other Grade I winner is Wet Your Whistle (Stroll), who rallied to take Woodbine's Highlander S. June 29.
Third in the Jaipur was that race's two-time defending champion, Disco Partner (Disco Rico), still going strong at age seven. A distant third, better than seven lengths behind World of Trouble in the BC Turf Sprint, the gray is looking to snap a four-race skid Saturday.
Stablemate and fellow Generazio-bred 8-year-old Pure Sensation (Zensational) also retains his zest for racing and has won four of his last five outings, including the PA Governor's Cup over unsuitably soft ground at Penn National June 1 and a third renewal in four years of the GIII Parx Dash-also contested over easy ground–July 6.
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