Overview
- The Grade 1, 1⅛-mile race offers a $1 million purse and carries an automatic berth into the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar
- Ten older horses led by Fierceness, Sierra Leone, Mindframe and White Abarrio are set to contest the August 2 Whitney Stakes
- Morning-line favorite Fierceness arrives off a Churchill Downs track record in the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes
- Analyst Matthew DeSantis has identified Highland Falls as a dark-horse contender capable of upsetting the favorites
- Live coverage begins on Fox’s ‘Saratoga Saturday’ block with the Whitney Stakes airing on Fox, FS1 and FS2 and streaming on Fubo