Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Jockey Garrett Gomez aboard Colonel John, right, and jockey Robby Albarado, aboard Mambo in Seattle, race down the final stretch during the 139th running of The Travers at Saratoga Race Course Saturday afternoon. Colonel John won the race.
