Travers prediction: Verrazano

It is the Travers day today at Saratoga, and it is a hard race. I have Orb and Verrazano equal first choice but for my pick, I'm leaning to Verrazano assuming he can reproduce his Haskell effort. Although Verrazano is 1-0 beyond 1&1/8 mi, I envisage Johnny V. saving ground in the garden seat from the 3 post (Moreno leading from Palace Malice), then getting through on the rail at the top of the stretch and out-sprinting Palace Malice and holding off the fast-finishing Orb. he's 2/1 in ML and this seems a little short (recall last year was a dead heat between the long shot leader Golden Ticket and the 5/2 fav Alpha and they got Beyer's of 100). The G2 Del Mar Hcp. is the main route for older horses today.