No Travers for Big Brown.(Sports)

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. plans to send a horse to the starting gate for the $1 million Travers on Aug. 23 at Saratoga Race Course.

But it won't be the one that has spawned national headlines and packed racetracks around the country. Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown will not run in the Travers, Dutrow confirmed in a phone interview Monday, one day after the star colt needed a late rally to win a hard-fought Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

"We're not looking at the Travers," Dutrow said.

Instead, Dutrow said his Midsummer Derby entry will be Acai, who won an optional allowance race at Saratoga on July 26. …