Mendelssohn targeting Travers 2018; see the updated field

European champion trainer Aidan O'Brien is expected to be represented by Mendelssohn and Seahenge in next Saturday's Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga. The pair are expected to arrive at Saratoga on Tuesday.

Mendelssohn was a dominant 18 ½-length winner of the UAE Derby in March before easing to a last-place finish in the Kentucky Derby. Last out, he appeared in July on Belmont Park's Stars & Stripes card, finishing third in the Grade 3 Dwyer Stakes as the favorite.

Connections have said they're pointing Mendelssohn to the Nov. 3 Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs. Until Friday's news, it was expected we'd see him next in the U.S. in the Sept. 22 Pennsvlvania Derby, another lucrative Grade 1 race.

Seahenge, fifth in the UAE Derby, made his U.S. debut with a seventh-place finish in the Grade 3 Pat Day Mile on the Kentucky Derby undercard. Both 3-year-old Scat Daddy colts are exiting the Grade 3 Dwyer on July 7 at Belmont Park, where they finished third and fifth, respectively.

Via the New York Racing Association, an updated glance at the Travers field: