Get out the dart board for today’s 148th running of the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. Starting with the Kentucky Derby in May, four different horses — Always Dreaming, Cloud Computing, Tapwrit and Girven — have won the four major stakes that were the run-up to today’s Mid-Summer Derby.

Others in today’s field include McCraken, loser by a nose at the Haskell; Irap, with back-to-back wins in lesser stakes races; and Bob Baffert’s 3-year-old speed merchant from California that’s won three straight races and is aptly named West Coast.

Good Samaritan opened eyes by winning last month’s Jim Dandy at 9-to-1, and Giuseppe the Great ran second at 14-1. 

Get the picture? It’s any horse’s race.

Hinsdale OTB opens at 11 a.m. and the first race is at 11:35 a.m. The 12-race card includes seven stakes races beginning with the Grade 1 Personal Ensign in the sixth race at 2:33 p.m.

The Travers is the 11th race and is scheduled to go off at 5:44 p.m. Here’s a closer look at the 12-horse field, together with picks by our assembled staff of crack handicappers.

LEGEND: PP (ML) St. W-P-S/Best Beyer/Career Earnings

1. (8-1) CLOUD COMPUTING; 5-2-1-1; 102; $1,089,000  

JJ Castellano (155-23-73-23) Chad Brown (92-25-18-14)

Unraced as a 2-year-old, this will be colt’s sixth start in six months. Upset winner of the Preakness faded to fifth in the Jim Dandy as the near even money favorite ($1.20-to-$1). Klaravich Stables is fourth in graded stakes earnings in 2017 and has 28 percent winners and 64 percent in the money finishers at the Spa this year.

2. (20-1) GIUSEPPE THE GREAT; 6-1-3-1; 96; $287,500

Tyler Gaffalione (23-2-3-4); Nick Zito (24-1-2-1)

Surprise runner-up in the Jim Dandy had the sixth-best time of 54 that drilled on the deep Oklahoma training track on Aug. 18. “The whole thing now is to make sure he doesn’t go over the edge,” said Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito, who will be saddling his 29th Travers Stakes starter.

3. (4-1) WEST COAST; 6-4-2-0; 100; $323,800

Mike Smith (1-1-0-0); Bob Baffert (2-1-1-0)

Bob Baffert doesn’t come here to look at all the women in pretty hats. Last year his two horses Arrogate and American Freedom finished one-two, the former setting a track record and winning by 13 1/2 lengths. Now comes this aptly named 3-year-old, winner of three straight with progressively higher Beyer Speed Figures. Last out was an easy score in the Easy Goer at Belmont Park where he paid $5.70 in a nine-horse field. Jockey Mike Smith is on an all-out quest to be the all-time leader in career earnings.

4. (7-2) TAPWRIT; 8-4-1-0; 103; $1,143,902

J L Ortiz (202-46-37-25) Todd Pletcher (97-29-21-14)

Finished fifth at 27-1 in the Kentucky Derby, sat out the Preakness but closed mightily to win the Belmont Stakes at 5-1. He’s had 10 weeks of rest and owner Robert LaPenta wants to win in his home state. Lookin at Lee is the only horse from the Belmont Stakes entered in today’s contentious field. Ortiz is the Spa’s leading jockey and Pletcher is the leading trainer.

5. (5-1) GOOD SAMARITAN; 7-3-2-1; 100; $767,616

Joel Rosario (128-14-14-25) William Mott (63-9-9-8)

“It’s funny that nobody talks about Good Samaritan,” Nick Zito said last week. “He was impressive (winning the Jim Dandy.)” Mott’s known for winning on the turf, but Good Samaritan’s breeding suggested a turf-to-dirt move and it paid off with a 4 3/4-length win in the Grade II Jim Dandy when he ran the final quarter in 22-flat, handily beating Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming and Preakness Stakes Cloud Computing. Horses don’t always run such admirable encores. The saying goes, if you missed the wedding don’t go to the funeral.

6. (10-1) GIRVIN; 7-4-2-0; 102; $1,574,400

Robbie Albarado (16-4-2-2) Joe Sharp (24-2-3-3) 

The early knock on this colt was losing his strut away from the Fairgrounds where he won the Risen Star and La. Derby. He finished 13th in the Kentucky Derby and lost by a nose to Irap at odds-on in the Ohio Derby, then closed to win the $1 Million Haskell Invitational by a nose at 9-to-1 odds. There’s the bounce factor to consider after the all-out effort to win the Haskell, and his sire (Tale of Ekati) wasn’t known for his stamina.

7. (6-1) ALWAYS DREAMING; 8-4-1-2; 102; $2,344,700

Todd Pletcher (97-29-21-14) JR Velazquez (113-29-18-15)

Colt’s owners rose from the hard scrabble streets of Brooklyn and he’ll be the upstate favorite from the down-state bettors. Off at nearly even money in the Jim Dandy under Velazquez, he led to the top  of the stretch before giving way and finishing third, beaten 5 1/4 lengths. The track was deep and dusty for the Jim Dandy on July 17, but Pletcher said this month’s rains have made the surface “one second to a second-and-a-half faster.”

8. (30-1) LOOKIN AT LEE; 13-2-3-3; 98; $1,052,795

R Santana Jr (102-12-11-11) Steven Asmussen (41-6-6-5)

Ubiquitous colt has lost his flair for hitting the board after runner-up finish at 33-1 in the Kentucky Derby. He has one show effort in three subsequent starts and hasn’t visited the winner’s circle in 11 starts since last August.

9. (12-1) McCRAKEN; 8-5-1-1; 95; $672,228

BJ Hernandez Jr. (4-0-1-1) Ian Wilkes (13-1-1-3)

Needs a fast pace to close into down the stretch. He closed from fifth and led by a length down the stretch in the Haskell, only to be ambushed by Girvin at the wire. Doesn’t have a triple-digit Beyer on his resume, and that’s a concern.

10. (8-1) IRAP; 11-3-3-1; 102; $1,357,600

Mario Gutierrez (2-0-0-0) Doug O’Neill (3-0-0-0)

Seems to have come into his own with three wins and two seconds in seven starts this year. He was bumped and finished 18th in the 20-horse cavalry charge at the Kentucky Derby, but came back to win the Ohio Derby at 3-to-1 and the Indiana Derby at 7-to-5. Might be his turn to be the fifth different horse to visit the winner’s circle in the five Grade I races that have been contested since May.

11. (20-1) GUNNERVA; 12-5-2-1; 97; $1,227,200

EJ Zayas (—) Antonio Sano (—)  

Lots of starts but nary a triple-digit Beyer. After winning the Fountain of Youth and finishing third in the Florida Derby, chestnut colt finished off the board in the first two legs of the Triple Crown. Returned to Gulfstream and won a minor stakes race at 1-to-5 on Aug. 6. He won the Saratoga Special last year at 9-to-1, but might be in too deep against this talented field.

12. (30-1) FAYEQ; 4-2-0-1; 92; $99,520

Luis Saez (166-18-21-19) Kiran McLaughlin (43-11-0-7)   

Has yet to break six figures in career earnings, but the best-of-57  workout (four furlongs in 47 seconds flat) on Aug. 11 shows what he could do if he gets loose on the lead.

THE PICKS

Jeff Lajoie: McCraken

Mark Durant: Always Dreaming

Jay Butynski: Girvin

Chip Ainsworth: Irap