SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S T COMPLIMENTS OF T !2!4/'! O L T IA H C E E 4HE S SP ARATOGA Year 8 • No. 19 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Thursday, August 14, 2008 grrrrr Run Away And Hide looks tough in Special Connie Bush INSIDE: maNI bhavaN wINS aDIroNDack • wEDNESDay racINg rEcap • ENtrIES aND haNDIcappINg The Mid-Atlantic’s Most Comprehensive EQUINE THERAPY CENTER State-of-the-art facility houses the latest in ❖ Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy technological equipment designed to promote a safe, healthy and rapid advancement for ❖ Aqua Tred horses recovering from injury, making a return to training, or a variety of physical therapy ❖ Solarium Therapy options. Horses have access to all the facilities of Fair Hill Training Center, including Tapeta track ❖ European Free Walker and traditional main track. ❖ Shock Wave Therapy ❖ Magnetic Therapies ❖ Acupuncture ❖ Therapeutic Shoeing ❖ IRAP and ACP/PRP Therapy Call Today! 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Home Office The last vestiges of the recent heavy rains mirror the images of two riders. 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 www.st-publishing.com [email protected] worth repeating The Saratoga Special Steeplechase/Eventing Times “Were they allowed on the rides?’ Thoroughbred Racing Calendar Overheard about two jockeys The Best of The Saratoga Special being at Great Escape Tuesday “They’re waiting for the statute Saratoga Days and other acclaimed products and services “You’re up making deadlines and I’m up watching the Olympics. Neither one is good of limitations to run out.” within the equine industry. “ for a racetracker.” Call us about your editorial needs. Trainer Del Carroll trainer allen Jerkens, when asked if he’s ever been paid back for all the money he’s lent “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be “I gelded Big Brown. Uh, I mean Ground Frost. sought and one day acquired and then I always get those horses confused. One gets retired to the trophy case. It is instead beat 30 lengths, the other one never loses.” an ambition which must be pursued Trainer Bobby Frankel, “A jump rider miserable? Never seen that each day, never ending, never totally who trains Ground Frost, but not Big Brown before.” take a Number achieved. That striving, that ambition is Toadie Taylor, as a miserable an essential part of our newspapers, a “Are you Toadie Taylor?” jump jockey rode past Wednesday morning 53 Degrees Wednesday morning cornerstone of what we have been, Sam Clancy when being introduced what we are, and what we will be.” to “Mr. Taylor” by a 15-year-old kid. “Who did you think he was, Lure?” 4 Racetracks Selective has breezed over It was Sonny Taylor, not Lee “Toadie” Taylor before making her debut Thursday – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Trainer Danny Peitz after a jockey put his horse on the lead on the turf Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 More Here and There on Page 3 Congratulations to the connections of Another stakes winner insured by TIN CUP CHALICE HAMMERTOWN Trainer: Michael Lecesse INSURANCE Owners: Michael Lecesse and Scott Van Laer AGENCY ✔ Undefeated winner of the 2008 “Protecting Equine New York Derby and 2008 Mike Lee Stakes Investments” ✔ We wish you continued success Specializing in Equine Insurance: Mortality, on your historic road Theft, Stallion Permanent to capture the OTB Big Apple Triple! 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The 3-year-old colt, owned by Peter and Eloise Canzone, is out of Ghostly Place. weather Today: Variable clouds with scattered show- ers and thunderstorms, mainly in the after- noon. High near 75. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 50 percent. Tonight: Isolated thunderstorms in the eve- ning, mainly cloudy overnight with a few showers. Low 57. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 30 percent. Friday: Scattered thunderstorms. High in the mid 70s and low in Connie Bush the upper 50s. Saturday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. High in the mid 70s Starting out in the morning and low in the upper 50s. Sunday: Plenty of sun (really?). High in the upper 70s and low in Exercise riders head into the mist Wednesday morning before the race day begins. the upper 50s. Track Talk LIVE! 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McCain Beth Fout Daisy Phipps Carlos Martin Duncan Hinkle Undecided Richard DePass Barry Schwartz Stuart Janney Mike Hushion Maxine Correa Skip Dickstein Danielle Hodsdon Randy Romero Tom Voss Barbara Livingston Nick Martinez Mike Trombetta Kip Elser John Hennig Mike Sellito Bobby Frankel Pam Donehower Dave Grening Bruce Brown Dallas Stewart Jamie Lamonica Richard Migliore Alix Michel Wayne Lukas Roy Lerman Steve Adika Loretta Lusteg Eddie Brown Angel Cordero Jimmy Jerkens Jan Woods Pat Reynolds Barclay Tagg Bonner Young Dr. Castro Tiffany Mueller Robin Smullen Harry Walker Fay Donk Colleen O’Brien Al Stall Gaile Fitzgerald Tom Albertrani Matt Muzikar Jimmy Toner Pat Hennig Steve Bass The Fruit Man Matt Firestone Matt McCarron Seth Benzel Barbara Brown Lenny Pike Michael Martin Javier Castellano Rick Lang Ciarran Dunne Cindy Weaver Bill Mott Trevor McCarron John Adger Mark Hennig Bill Graves Moon Gamble Dr. Galvin Javier Castellano Mitch Levites Stan Hough Max Hodge Roddy Valente Barry Watson Bruce Levine Ray Amato Mitch Friedman Noel Twyman Dave Rarey John Kimmel Larry Hausman Jeff Carle Robby Albarado Trish Moseley Craig Peretz Sonny Taylor Althea Richards Doug Cauthen Rusty Arnold Jeff Hooper Bessie Gruwell Eibar Coa Sheryl Schwartz Tom Bush Don Nichols Steve Rushing Eileen Cornacchia Conor Foley Ann Macleod Cindy Nichols Dr. Hunt Joe Cornacchia Pat Turner John DeStefano Neither Danny Peitz Matt Cumani Gregg Ryan Jim Gallagher Gerry Donk Doc Danner Sal Russo Grey Price Duke Burris Brian Walls Melaina Phipps Doug Fout Tim Ritvo Rita Cutler Sandi Burris Derek Smith Will Phipps Rich Cristiano Steve Young Robert Cutler Mary Ryan Leah Gyarmati Kyle Brownell Richard DeStasio Brant Laue Jean-Luc Samyn Bill Hirsch Charlton Baker Allen Iwinski Josh Cooper Doc Richardson Webb Carroll Dave Grace Peter Pugh Freddie Bond Jerry Bailey Susie Hart Obama Wendy (clocker girl) Flaco Escobar Bob Frieze George Weaver Pug Hart Tom Goff Little Wendy (clocker girl) David Engel Danielle Rosier Gary Contessa Guy Torsilieri Sam Maloney Joanne Jones Norm Casse Terry Finley Beverly Torsilieri Sandy Maggio Toadie Taylor Daffy Duck Chris O’Connor Rick Violette Alex Neuman Pat Correa Alan Garcia Independent Kiaran McLaughlin Bob McNair Jeffrey Sanchez Tony Micallef Barry Wiseman Mike Geraghty Ben Haggin Helen Richards Sherry Ross Ross Perot Dan Pride Roger Horgan Colum O’Brien Del Carroll Phil Janack Coupled Entry Simon Harris Scott Schwartz Winston Heslop Mary Jane Howell Allan Lavin Jose Cuevas Pam Ritter Jorge Chavez Van Cushny Richard Nixon Alan Brodsky FINAL ADPat 3-31-08:FINAL Kelly ADBilly 3-27-06 Badgett 4/1/08 Keith11:03 O’Brien AM Page 1 Tara O’Brien $255,000,000 From 2000 through 2007 in black type stakes races alone, trainers who fed Hallway Feeds Racing Products earned in excess of $255-million dollars in first place purse money.