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Aratoga Final Edition of 2014 Year 14 • No. 35 Sunday, August 31, 2014 T he aratoga Final Edition of 2014 Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Super Dan Horse of the Year makes stylish return Tod Marks Tod Keeneland September Yearlings • Week One Book 1 Tuesday • September 9 215 WAR FRONT Colt Out of G2 SW SANGRITA. Family of G1 SW OFFLEE WILD 260 WAR FRONT Colt Out of GSP SO GLITZY. Family of G1 SW SILVER WAGON 353 FLATTER Colt Out of GSW / Stakes Producer TRIP. Family of G1 SW ZENSATIONAL Wednesday • September 10 382 WAR FRONT Colt Out of GSW WEND. Family of GSW and NTR CLEARLY NOW Thursday • September 11 680 WAR FRONT Colt Out of GOLD VAULT, dam of multiple G1 SW CONTESTED Book 2 Saturday, September 13 Yearlings by Such Sires as: Arch • Flatter • War Front Trappe Shot • Pulpit • Curlin • Speightstown • Blame From the Families of G1 SWs: Zensational, Preach, Lion Tamer, I’m the Tiger, English Channel, Harmony Lodge, etc. Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] 2 14-0555.CLB.SeptWeekOne.Aug22.indd 1 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August8/29/14 31, 1:57 2014 PM here&there... at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Idiosyncratic, seventh race. She’s by Thewayyouare. Sacred Ground, 11th race. In tribute to Saratoga, the most sacred of all. Summer Sunset, Monday’s sixth. Another sunset on Saratoga, see you next year. BY THE NUMBERS 1: Box of Blow Pops on the tailgate of a blacksmith’s truck. 5: Ties on a shelf in Tom Law’s office at The Special. Time to bring them home. 26: Text messages on Kelly Breen’s phone in the winner’s circle after the Prioress. WORTH REPEATING “He’s got a long neck.” Charlie LoPresti, after Wise Dan stuck his neck out to win the Bernard Baruch by a nose “How do you know which race the horse is running in today?” Fan, watching horses train Saturday morning “Good racing. Good reading, too.” Trainer Leo O’Brien, while reading The Special Saturday morning “That’s a pamphlet. This is the bible.” Tod Marks Reader holding The Special to his friend holding another publication DAR6956 Saratoga Special half Hard Spun 31 AUG14 29/08/2014 11:58 Page 1 So Long Saratoga. It’s time to go. Thanks for a great year. Core strength! Hard Spun has sired three American G1 winners this season, including Arlington Million hero Hardest Core. No US sire has more, and only Tapit has as many. After Tapit, Hard Spun leads all American stallions by 2014 worldwide earnings – and Tapit has had three more racing-age crops! Hard-nosed! Also sire of G1 Travers near-miss Wicked Strong. HARD SPUN Danzig – Turkish Tryst (Tukoman) 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com Back in Kentucky in 2015. His fifth-crop yearlings are a must-see. Darley Sunday, August 31, 2014 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga “This is the VIP section. Members only.” “You’ve taken a little bit off your fastball.” WORTH REPEATING Morning Line Kitchen’s Ivan Maira, Former West Point Thoroughbreds’ chief operating “He used to predict winners, now he manages losers.” taking some orders at the side window officer to current West Point COO Tom Bellhouse Trainer about a racing manager “I should get two points for that one, right?” “Have you been with The Saratoga Special for a long time? Do “The Christmas tree is in the street.” Maira, admiring his wit you know Ryan Martin?” Adam Newman, about the end of Saratoga for another year Stoneway Farm’s Terri Burch, to Special founder “I’ve got a Ph.D., but in my case it stands for post hole digger.” Joe Clancy, about 2013 staff writer “I came to America and nobody called to me, nobody said good Trainer Eric Guillot and Burch’s student at the University of Louisville morning. I wanted to go home.” Jock’s agent Winston Heslop, “Get a good picture of Eddie Plesa because I need to get a good “We keep winning this.” on life in Jamaica vs. life in America voodoo doll of him made.” Burch, watching the Prioress replay Eric Guillot after Itsmyluckyday of Stonetastic winning the Grade 2 stakes “The noise he made scared all the hawks out of Saratoga.” beat Moreno in the Woodward Harry Rice, about fellow valet Tony Millan “That first year, I just wanted to go home. Who was I, coming who was stepped on while saddling a horse Friday “We finished early and now we just wait and fret. It’s a good out of an a-other-than and a two-other-than and running up fret though.” here in a Grade 1?” “Mott, Motion, McLaughin, Maker . I should get T-shirts Kelly Wheeler, exercise rider Trainer Charlie LoPresti made.” for Charlie LoPresti, waiting on Wise Dan about his first trip to Saratoga Jockey Rajiv Maragh, on a future M&M promotion with Here Comes Ben for the 2010 Forego QUOTE OF THE DAY “I love Saratoga. I could stay here. I love the racing here, I love the whole environment so am I looking forward to leaving? No, I actually hate when it closes but you know it’s been a good meet for us and hopefully we can get out of here with another win.” Trainer Phil Serpe 800-523-8143 Tod Marks Fall in the air. The Oklahoma mist carries with it a hint of the end of the season. 2014 Breeding Partnership forming now! Since 1978, Dutchess Views Farm has assisted owners with racing and breeding programs. • Mare care, foaling and race horse lay-ups Contact resident owners: • Bloodstock, insurance Michael Lischin & Anya Sheckley and legal services in Pine Plains, New York (518) 398-5666 • Breeding and racing [email protected] partnerships dutchessviewsfarm.com 4 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 31, 2014 Sunday,LE-14303-City August Zip-Saratoga 31, Special 2014 FP-Aug 30.indd 1 The Saratoga Special 8/30/14 9:17 PM5 The aratoga Building two-year-olds one individual at a time Gone Home 112 Spring Street, Suite 109 of the day by Connie Bush (859) 312-3414 | kirkwoodstables.com Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phones Sean Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-4424 Tom Law Mobile: (859) 396-9407 E-mail: [email protected] joe @thisishorseracing.com [email protected] www.thisishorseracing.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 4-10. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Managing Editor: Tom Law Staff Writers: Kristin Brennan, Katelyn Brush, Ashley Dingeman, Jackie Dugas, Ryan Jones, Dan McDonough, Dan Tordjman Layout/Design: Katherine Lasak Photographers: The Chief . .Day 35 Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Handicappers: “My father would say, ‘That Allen, he think he know everything.’ I would be reading all about the horses, Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald, Tom Law, Turf and Sport Digest and there was a book, Training for fun (and Profit – Maybe), by Keene Daingerfield, John Shapazian, Chad Summers I read that back and forth. My father saw me rubbing on my horses, he said, ‘At least you know how to take care of a horse.’ I probably rubbed on them too much, when you only had one, he’d say leave Chief Head Honcho of Circulation: that horse alone. My father got mad at me for not running a horse, he said, ‘Why haven’t Jack Clancy you run Otter Brook?’ I said to him, ‘I’m trying to get him to look good.’ He said, ‘stop Help When We Need It: looking at him and start running him.’ He wound up being a nice cheap horse. I’ll tell Nolan Clancy, you when he won those races in a row, I was the man then, he was a big, rangy horse, Ryan Clancy, Miles Clancy. would run off, but he could run a little bit. My father was proud of me. He was as good a guy as you could ever meet.” – Trainer Allen Jerkens The Saratoga Special thisishorseracing.com Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special Call us about your editorial needs. The New York Thoroughbred ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Horsemen’s Association Elkton, MD 21921 www.nytha.com | 516.488.2337 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 visit us on Facebook www.thisishorseracing.com Tod Marks photo Tod 6 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 31, 2014 INTRODUCING FOR 2015 TRITAP TAPIT - VICTORY ROAD, BY IKARI $2,500 LF Record-Setting Son of TAPIT Leading North American sire by earnings, G1 SWs, GSWs and SWins Sire of 2014 classic winner TONALIST, leading 3YO filly UNTAPABLE, and G1 Florida Derby winner CONSTITUTION © TOD MARKS An outstanding individual — highest priced sales yearling by Tapit in 2010, selling for $450,000 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 3 Won from 7 fur. at Saratoga to 1 ⁄16 mi. at Churchill Downs, where he set NTR Second by a head to MGSW FED BIZ in 2013 G2 San Fernando S earning 115 Equibase speed figure. H––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––ERITAGE STALLIONS Inquiries to: Brooke Bowman, DVM & Louis Merryman (443) 907-7122 H 319 Myrtle Wilson Road Chesapeake City, Maryland www.heritagestallionsinc.com S NOW BEING SYNDICATED Sunday, August 31, 2014 The Saratoga Special 7 WOODWARD STAKES RECAP Pressing Buttons Itsmyluckyday pushes early, prevails late to win Grade 1 slugfest BY TOM LAW Eddie Plesa wasn’t about to take complete credit for one equipment change making all the difference in one race.
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