The 2024 Travers Stakes will be held on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course and familiar names from the Triple Crown race will be back for the "Midsummer Derby." Thorpedo Anna is 3-1 in the 2024 Travers Stakes odds along with Kentucky Derby favorite and recent Jim Dandy winner Fierceness. Meanwhile, Dornoch is the 5-2 favorite coming off back-to-back wins at the Belmont Stakes and Haskell Stakes and will run from the No. 7 post. The latest 2024 Travers Stakes weather is calling for partly cloudy skies and temperatures in the 70s.

With several accomplished horses set to enter the starting gate for Saturday's 6:10 p.m. ET post, you'll want to see what SportsLine writer Gene Menez has to say before making any win, place, show or exotics picks for the 2024 Travers Stakes. Join SportsLine here to get his full Travers picks.

A former reporter and editor at Sports Illustrated, Menez covered an array of sports, including horse racing, for the magazine and its website for almost 14 years. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as SI's handicapper for the Triple Crown races and correctly predicted Super Saver to win the Kentucky Derby in 2010.

In 2015, while writing for Sports on Earth, Menez accurately gave out the Kentucky Derby superfecta (American Pharoah, Firing Line, Dortmund and Frosted), which paid $1,268.20 for $2. Then in 2017, he tweeted out his Kentucky Derby picks, including Always Dreaming to win, and hit the Pick 4, which paid almost $6,900 on a $1 bet. Join SportsLine right here to see his 2024 Travers picks.

In a span of seven races last year for SportsLine, he cashed the winner of the Lecomte Stakes, the exacta in the Southwest Stakes, the winner of the Holy Bull Stakes, the winner of the Sam F. Davis Stakes, and the trifecta in the Jenny Wiley Stakes. In May, Menez gave out 18-1 Mystik Dan as a live longshot in the Kentucky Derby. And in June he nailed Trikari to win the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes.

Now, Menez has looked at the 2024 Travers, made his picks and formulated his bets. Join SportsLine here to see them.

While a slew of horses could hit the board in the 2024 Travers Stakes, Menez is highly confident in a small group, isolating them for his exactas, trifectas and superfectas!

Menez's top pick is a horse who will "come roaring down the lane late." He also is high on a double-digit longshot who is "interesting at a big price." He is including these horses in his wagers, and so should you. You ABSOLUTELY NEED to see which horses they are before making any 2024 Travers picks of your own.

So what horse wins the Travers Stakes 2024? And how should you make your win, place, show and exotics bets? ... Join SportsLine now to get the top 2024 Travers picks and bets, all from the expert who gave out 18-1 Mystik Dan as a live longshot in the Kentucky Derby!