The Aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Year 18 • No. 16 Saturday, August 11, 2018 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 Love Horse Heart To Heart heads Grade 1 Fourstardave FILLIES FLY IN ADIRONDACK LURE FIELD GETS BACK IN GATE ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING Tod Marks Tod 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2018 here&there...at Saratoga Presented by Neuman Insurance ............................ equineinsurance.com BY THE NUMBERS 26: Horses waiting to enter the Union Avenue gap on the main track after the renovation break Friday morning at 8:51. 11: Vehicles (cars, trucks, golf carts) waiting for the 26 horses to get on the main track after the renovation break Friday morning at 8:51. 19: People in line at the Ben & Jerry’s outside the Fourstardave Bar at 4:06 Friday afternoon. NAMES OF THE DAY Prognostication, first race.The 5-year-old gelding, who races for Klaravich Stable and Bill Lawrence, is out of Predictress. Voodoo Song, eighth race. He’s been here before, but his dam’s name is Mystic Chant so Barry Schwartz must have had Name of the Day in mind when he came up with this one. Mask, ninth race. Lane’s End Racing’s 3-year-old colt is out of Hidden Expression. Breaking The Rules, ninth race. Phipps Stable’s 3-year-old colt is out of Protesting. Edmund Fitzgerald, Hip 433 in the sale. The bay colt is out of Gitchee Goomie, the Ojib- we Indian name for Lake Superior where the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a storm in 1975. The ship was made famous in Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” Old Ironsides, Hip 626 in the sale. Technically, this nautically named yearling sells Saturday night, but somebody knows history. The bay colt is by Constitution and the USS Constitution Tod Marks was a frigate in the U.S. Navy in 1700s. She was made of wood, but went by the nickname Hopped at Start. The turf course ditch featured a crowded field Friday. Old Ironsides. She is a museum ship now, docked in Boston. darleyamerica.com 859-255-8537 What a night: Medaglia d’Oro sires d’Omination! the two Saratoga sale-toppers and three of the top five yearlings. 7Saratoga millionaires and7select sale-toppers in the last decade, more than any other stallion. Tapit’s in second place on both lists with five. Darley SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2018 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 here&there...at Saratoga Presented by Neuman Equine Insurance ..................... equineinsurance.com LICENSE PLATE OF THE DAY RACES, Florida. TOGAGIRL, West Virginia WORTH REPEATING “We have more stakes winners than any racing stable in history.” Michael Blowen on the accomplished cast of retired racehorses at Old Friends while on Thursday’s At The Post Live with Andy Serling Now on Broadway. “I have the most socks I’ve ever had, I’m so excited.” The Special’s Joe Clancy “It would be a good day to have a great day.” Trainer Brian Lynch, who runs Heart To Heart in today’s Wear What You Love™ Grade 1 Fourstardave and Oscar Performance in the Grade 1 Arlington Million “The reason Bozo was mad is because Joe Drape is such a great writer . wrote a wonderful story in the New York Times and brought tears to Guillot’s eyes.” Eric Guillot, responding to Albany Times Union Turf writer Tim Wilkin’s EMBRACE THE RACE® wisecrack picked as Friday’s Quote of the Day in The Special. Guillot runs 327 Broadway the subject of the Times’ article, Southern Phantom, in today’s second race, and Wilkin is not a bozo, but all of this is good for a laugh. Saratoga Springs “Good thing I’m married to him, right?” embracetherace.com Exercise rider Shirley Jerkens, after a minor miscommunication with her trainer/husband over a galloping assignment (main track vs. training track, but all went well) Mating that produced Kentucky Derby G1 and Travers G1 winner, STREET SENSE ® NICOMA® An affiliate of Contact Price Bell at 859.321.5117 or visit www.nicoma.com Portfolio Management Lee Thomas © Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. [email protected] Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. [email protected] 259 East Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Writers: Ben Gowans, Sarah Newman, Shayna Tiller, The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Brandon Valvo, David Woods. (the old feed store) Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Donald Phillips, John Shapazian. thisishorseracing.com Call us about your editorial needs. Design: Todd Koch. Published Thursday through Sunday Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 during the racing season. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Plus Monday, Aug. 6 and Tuesday, Aug. 7. Distribution & More: Jane Crager, Kevin Murphy, Morgan Yaeger. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2018 SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2018 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 QUOTE OF THE DAY here&there...at Saratoga “He’s a gentle giant, but he’s a little bit headstrong. You’ve got to be a little Presented by Neuman Equine Insurance ..................... equineinsurance.com careful with him, he’s kind of a bully, but not a bad one, in a good way. He’ll run over the top of you and if he wants to go and bite you, he’s going to get you.” WORTH REPEATING Trainer Ned Allard on Tale Of The Cat Stakes winner Always Sunshine “No thanks. I don’t eat anything that’s been in my boot.” Trainer Rusty Arnold after Calumet’s Jak Knelman offered him a cracker, which evidently originated in Arnold’s boot “The good Clancy.” Doc Richardson, when seeing The Special’s Sean Clancy (we’re pretty sure Richardson would have said the same thing if Joe had driven up) 800-523-8143 “They’re going to have to run to catch him. They better not leave him alone, if he makes the lead and they leave him alone they’re in trouble.” Trainer Brian Lynch, on Oscar Performance in today’s Arlington Million “It’s a great book.” Maryland, My Maryland Trainer John Shirreffs, about Matt Winn’s Down the Stretch Country Life Farm “I like this place, everybody is having fun.” Saratoga newcomer, Chris Ambrose, Friday morning “I thought you sent him over to mess with me.” Todd Pletcher to The Special’s Sean Clancy after his 9-year-old son, Miles, asked Pletcher for his autograph “That’s his move.” Miles Clancy, after drawing a picture of Mike Smith with his hands in the air and looking at the sky. “Is that Chad Brown?” Onlooker as clocker Bryan Walls was interviewed Friday morning LYDIA WILLAIMS A. LYDIA My name’s CALL PAUL. I run Sunday in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special – “Run him three miles.” leading jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. in the irons. “My father is the A. P. Indy Jockey Joe Bravo as a loose horse made stallion Friesan Fire, at Country Life, the leading sire in Maryland. several circuits of the Oklahoma turf Friday morning He was favored in the Kentucky Derby. He’s the sire of Army Mule, winner of three races by 22 lengths – including the Grade 1 Carter. Army Mule is “Don’t knock the other guys.” Lisa Bartkowski, as Phil Serpe began to compliment at Saratoga, pointing for the Breeders’ Cup. “Me? I cost $210,000 at Luis Saez after Lady Joan’s win in Friday’s seventh race Timonium in May. I won my first race at 3-5 for my trainer Jason Servis. Who you gonna call? Call Country Life. Book to my daddy, Friesan Fire. “Quite a few of them.” Bartkowski, when asked if she wheeled yesterday’s winnings on Goodbye Brockley back into her sister Lady Joan Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 v Christy Holden 410-808-1325 Bel Air, MD 21014 v 410.879.1952 v countrylifefarm.com v [email protected] G1 Winner & BC Dirt Mile 79% W/P 1st Three Crops incl. G1-Winning Champion ALBERTUS MAXIMUS by Albert the Great Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager • 859-224-4585 • www.shadwellfarm.com 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2018 The Top 10 Gabby says goodnight Presents the The Special keeps up with a list of the Photo of meet’s best – performances, achieve- ments, oddball feats of human or equine the Day wonder. We’ll update it daily, or try to any- way. Bold means they’re new. 1. Imperial Hint. Vanderbilt July 28. You going to argue with that performance? Special, small sprinter won Grade 1 with speed, style, simplicity. And we wrote about him 18 months ago. 2. Diversify. Yo. Now that’s a Whitney. Pinhooking Best older horse on the grounds breaks on top and rips it up from there – winning in Partnerships hand and stretching his streak to three. 3. Monomoy Girl. C.C.A. Oaks July 22. How good was that? Unquestioned queen 2-year-olds of the meet. As Dylan sang, somebody get in training sales her a brand new leopard skin pillbox hat. 4. Weekend Hideaway. John Morrissey July 26. Who you callin’ old? Dismissed at Yearling to 10-1, he won the N.Y.-bred stakes for the 2-year-old prep second time – four years after the first one. 5. Chad Brown. Just when you thought Steve Asmussen and others had a chance, Proud to support the training-title favorite seized control. He won two stakes Saturday, including a 1-2 Thoroughbred aftercare www.thoroughbredaftercare.org in the De La Rose and is up by eight in the standings.