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SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S ✫ T COMPLIMENTS OF T O L The aratoga A T I H E EC S SP ARATOGA Year 10 • Issue 24 Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Saturday, August 21, 2010 Showdown Devil May Care and Blind Luck square off in Alabama Maggie Kimmitt Tod Marks Friday Racing Coverage • Entries/Handicapping Two of the Top 10 Freshman Sires First Samurai By GIANT’S CAUSEWAY Sire of 2YO Graded SW LE MI GEAUX ••• Keeneland September: Yearling half-siblings to 2YO GSW LAUGHING LASHES and G1 SW ESKENDEREYA Schuylerville S.-G3 winner LE MI GEAUX War Front By DANZIG Five 2YO Winners 15 Won/Placed from 20 Starters ••• Keeneland September: Yearlings from the families of ZENSATIONAL, STREET SENSE, VERSAILLES TREATY, GOLD FEVER, MR. GREELEY, WAR PASS, etc. 6 1/4-length MSW winner SUMMER SOIREE Post Offi ce Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel. 859-233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES: BERNIE SAMS [email protected] PHOTOS © ADAM COGLIANESE, HOOFPRINTSINC.COM 200628.CLB.1stSam&WarFront.SSpcl.Aug21.indd 1 Saturday, August8/20/10 21, 4:02:51 2010 PM Saturday, August 21, 2010 3 here&there... at Saratoga 517 Broadway, Suite 207 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (Second Floor, around the back) The Special quotes from Saratoga Phone: (518) 490-1175 WORTH REPEATING Sean Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Mobile: (302) 545-4424 “To the Ken and Barbie of the backside.” “Which one?” Proud father Duncan Patterson, in a toast for daughter, Jen, Jack Clancy, 14, when told by Ron Anderson E-mail: [email protected] and future son-in-law, Carl, at their engagement party Thursday that he put money in the Special’s paper box or [email protected] Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com “That was the way you used to ride too.” “You guys out of gas?” Published Wednesday through Sunday Trainer Dave Donk to The Special’s Sean Clancy, Dr. James Hunt, as he threaded during the racing season. when taking one step forward and two steps backward Thursday his way past two golfcarts in the Every day of Sales Week Aug. 2-8. middle of the road Friday morning “I’m going to interview the man with the musket.” The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy. Daily Racing Form’s Dave Grening after the West Point trophy was presented by By The Numbers Staff Writers: Phil Janack, Karen Johnson, Civil War re-enactors (trainer Alan Goldberg nor owner Richard Santulli were on hand) 1: Man playing pool in the rec hall at Mike Kane, Terese Karmel, Ben Meyers, Katie 6:27 Friday morning Bo Williams. Layout/Design: Dan Vunk. Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, License Plate Connie Bush. Handicappers: Gaile Fitzgerald, Dean Keppler, PLC2B, New York Brian Nadeau, John Panagot, John Shapazian Assistants: Chelsea Brown, Maggie Kimmitt. Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Name of the Day Clancy, Jane Motion. Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Adulare, first race. Wind River Stable’s Kathy Rubin at (203) 650-6815. 2-year-old is by Flatter out of Corking. Her name in Italian means to flatter. ST Publishing Inc. Home Office Morning Line, fifth race. Thorough- 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, bred Legends’ 3-year-old reminds us of Elkton, MD 21921 our favorite kitchen on the backside. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 www.st-publishing.com Blind Luck, 10th race. Buy a filly for [email protected] $11,000, sell her for a profit and she The Saratoga Special goes on to win eight races from 12 Steeplechase Times starts. Wow, that’s blind luck. Thoroughbred Racing Calendar Strolldownbroadway, 11th race. Ex- The Best of The Saratoga Special actly what we’re going to do on Sunday. Saratoga Days and other acclaimed products and services within the equine industry. Weather Call us about your editorial needs. Today: Partly cloudy. High, 82. “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be Tonight: Showers late. Low, 64. sought and one day acquired and then retired to the trophy case. It is instead Tomorrow: Scattered an ambition which must be pursued each day, never ending, never totally thunderstorms. High, 76. achieved. That striving, that ambition is an essential part of our newspapers, a Monday: Showers. High, 71. cornerstone of what we have been, Tod Marks what we are, and what we will be.” Tuesday: Few showers. Lonely View. An early morning spectator takes in the action from the viewing stand – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, High, 78. Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 on the Oklahoma side. 4 Saturday, August 21, 2010 Continued from Just Sayin’ here&there... previous page “A lot of horses are overlooked at the sales but the guy who bought her has a particularly good eye. Juvenal Diaz, he rode in Chicago. His brother The Special quotes WORTH REPEATING from Saratoga was a rider at Golden Gate.” Jerry Hollendorfer about $11,000 yearling purchase Blind Luck “I came here expecting to run out two and a half million, you know what I mean? I came here hoping to be on top of the money list. If HORSE TRANSPORTATION we’re not, hopefully we’re second or third. We have high expectations 800-523-8143 www.brookledge.com no matter where we go. It’s been a little more difficult this year, we got off to a slow start, but now it’s snowballing a little bit. Hopefully we can keep it going.” Jockey Garrett Gomez, whose horses have earned $1.4 million at the meet. “Rider’s up.” British trainer George Baker, as he left the house at 5:15 Friday morning “He’s a nice looking horse, a little offset in one knee but a pretty hand- some horse and the New York-bred thing is there. You’ve always got “You can drink it.” that with a horse like him. You can go back to that.” Garlic Rob, tasting his garlic spray in front of Blind Luck’s stall Friday morning Trainer Alan Goldberg about West Point winner Straight Story “Isn’t it too cold for mosquitos?” “Once he’s behind horses, he’s easy. He’s like a European horse. When Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer he sees daylight he wants to go, go, go which is better than stop, stop, stop.” “It was a shock, that’s for sure. She’ll be on our mind for a long time Goldberg, about the front-running Straight Story but you can’t keep it on your mind as a focus because if you’re in horse racing you have to go forward and keep trying to do well when things “Father and son.” aren’t going well, that’s just how the game is.” Tom Bellhouse suggesting a caption for the photo Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, who lost stakes star Tuscan Evening earlier this month of Craig Peretz and Mike Balfe in Friday’s Special “He’s one of the best good young riders coming up in California and I “I wouldn’t leave.” would think the whole United States. He’s a very strong rider.” Trainer Eoin Harty, about going to the Goffs Sale in Ireland Hollendorfer about Blind Luck’s jockey Joel Rosario Saturday, August 21, 2010 5 ALABAMA STAKES PREVIEW More than Two Superstar 3-year-old fillies headline field of six for Grade I BY SEAN CLANCY odd Pletcher says it’s not a two- the 130th time, the Alabama will again horse race. Jerry Hollendorfer says serve as the summer place to be for any Tit’s not a two-horse race. 3-year-old filly. Pletcher’s Devil May Care and Hol- “It’s what you look for; bring what lendorfer’s Blind Luck, the most ac- is perceived as the two best together. complished 3-year-old fillies in the Hopefully there’s not a third one who is country, square off in today’s Grade I better than both of them,” Pletcher said. Tod Marks Betfair TVG Alabama Stakes. Run for See ALABAMA page 8 Blind Luck makes her Saratoga debut in today’s Alabama. 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