Anaximandros, Applicator Breeze toward Travers Day 2016

Anaximandros and Applicator breezed in company on the Oklahoma training track on Monday morning in their final works before Travers Day. Owner-trainer Mikhail Yanakov's pair were officially clocked five furlongs in 1:02.88 and galloped out three-quarters in 1:17 4/5.

Anaximandros was ridden by jockey Angel Arroyo as he prepares for the Grade 1 Travers Stakes 2016. The 3-year-old bay colt broke his maiden on May 20 and is coming off a fourth-place finish in his graded stakes debut in the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby on August 6.

Jockey Leonel Reyes, who is based in Gulfstream Park, will be in the irons for both of Yanakov's entries on Saturday. 

"We changed to the Oklahoma track because of the rain last night," Yanakov said. "I don't have too much experience with that track, but I was told those are good times. I liked their work. They were breathing good - not heavy. I'd have liked to breeze on the main track, but the weather didn't give us help. Maybe it'll bring us luck, you never know.

"For the first time on that track, they started good. I told them [the riders] 'go a little slow on the turn' because it's steep. They had a good finish."