Whitney Stakes Results, Sat., August 1

It was an unfortunate day for the race favorite, #5 Tom’s D’etat, in the Whitney Stakes at Saratoga. After several horses acted up in gate, forcing the the starter to delay the start,  Tom’s D’etat stumbled out of the gate and trailed for much of the race until the last sixteenth, when he managed to make up ground on the outside to finish third. Otherwise, the race came down to the second and third ranked horses by final speed, as predicted in the Preview, with #2 Improbable winning by three lengths at 3-1 followed #1 By My Standards in second at 5-1.