The jockey (Javier Castellano) has won the Travers a record seven times, including last year aboard Arcangelo. The trainer (Shug McGaughey) has won the Travers Stakes four times, one shy of the record.

The horse, Corporate Power, meanwhile, will be running in a graded stakes race for the first time and seems overmatched in the Travers Stakes despite being handled by two Hall of Famers.

Corporate Power has some strong bloodlines; a son of two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, who was sired by Quality Road, a five-time Grade 1 winner. The colt comes into the Travers Stakes off a one-length loss to Unmatched Wisdom in the listed 1 1/8-mile Curlin Stakes at the Spa on July 19. (Unmatched Wisdom also returns for the Travers at 8-1).

Then add the top 3-year-olds in the land, Dornoch, Thorpedo Anna, and Fierceness, and it seems unlikely Corporate Power would have a chance.

“I thought he ran pretty good in the Curlin, I thought he improved,” McGaughey said. “I think he came out of it to where he will improve some more. Whether it’s good enough, who knows? It’s a pretty solid bunch.”

Betting advice: Far from the best horse in here despite Hall of Fame trainer and jockey. No play.

Post position: 4

Odds: 15-1

Jockey: Javier Castellano

Trainer: Shug McGaughey

Owners: Courtlandt Farms (Donald Adam)

Career record: 5-2-2-0

Career earnings: $148,200

Last race: Curlin Stakes (2^nd)

Top Equibase Speed Figure: 105

Pedigree: Curlin-Road to Victory, by Quality Road

Color: Bay

Running style: Stalker

Notes: Purchased for $925,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale … Did not race as a 2-year-old … Broke his maiden at second asking at Gulfstream Park, ran second in an allowance optional claimer, and then won the Sir Barton Stakes on Preakness Day (May 18) by a nose.