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Tod Marks 2 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 here&there... at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Forge, fifth race.Juddmonte Farm’s 4-year-old colt is out of Heat Haze.

Scholar Athlete, fifth race.West Point ’ 4-year-old gelding is by Einstein.

Dancetrack, fifth race.DARRS Inc.’s 5-year-old gelding is out of Jazz Drummer.

Weather Girl, sixth race. Paradise Farm’s 5-year-old mare is out of Ms Global Warming.

Italian Syndicate, seventh race. Midwest Thoroughbreds’ 3-year-old is by Girolamo out of Lady Giacomo. BY THE NUMBERS 45: Shirts brought to Saratoga by NYRA’s Andy Serling.

3: Seconds by The Special’s Joe Clancy’s steeplechase picks in four races at the meet. Bet to place apparently.

2: Jump races ridden by Triple Crown-winning flat at Saratoga in 1992 and 1993.

1: Jump race ridden by Hall of Fame flat jockey Jacinto Vasquez at Saratoga in 1978.

10: Steeplechase championships won by horses owned by Mrs. Ogden (Lillian) Phipps, whose stable stars included Hall of Famers (and three-time champions) Oedipus and Neji.

49: Age of jump jockey Bernie Dalton, who proved he’s still got it with a win aboard Swoop Thursday – after losing in a photo aboard Zio Elio Wednesday. Tod Marks Rematch. There’s a pretty good horse race getting ready to start on the Taylor Made barn at Fasig-Tipton. Is it tough to find value? Hardly... No stallion standing for less than $75,000 can match Hard Spun’s running total of seven G1 winners since 2012. In fact, he’s level with Curlin and above Malibu Moon and Candy Ride.

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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 3 QUOTE OF THE DAY here&there... at Saratoga Kids, on the way to the races: “Mom, are you laughing? You should do that more often.” WORTH REPEATING “If you’re going to do eight weeks, do it at Timonium – where it’s really fun and its’ five minutes Mom, on the way to the races: “Well, don’t tick me off so much.” from my house.” Trainer Mike Trombetta, on racing calendars

“They told us to come out here and rope off the front, but we’ll leave you some room. I think they just needed something for us to do.” Fasig-Tipton employee, blocking off The Special’s parking spaces Thursday morning

“It’s awesome as far as being a good read – I’m living vicariously this year.” 800-523-8143 Ex-D. Wayne Lukas hotwalker Jeff Stork, who is missing the meet this year

“I have spent three days in technology hell.” The Special’s Connie Bush, who spent three hours Allan at the Apple Store talking to a genius Tuesday “When he first came to America, (owner) Alex Leventhal had contacted me to ride him a few times. I was riding Officer’s Oath and I couldn’t ride this horse. I just stuck by the horse I had Lavin won on, but I always told him if the opportunity arose, I’d ride him.” Jump jockey Sean McDermott, who rode Invocation Bloodstock for the first time – and won – Wednesday “I can trust Steve with a mic, Contessa is not getting the mic, but Steve, I can trust.” ALLAN G. LAVIN, JR. NYRA’s Andy Serling at the Whitney Draw Tuesday night, comparing the interview skills of trainers Steve Asmussen and Gary Contessa allanlavinbloodstock.com [email protected] “Florent did not dress well for the event. Feel free to give him some clothing advice on the way out.” (502) 773-0043 Serling on jockey Florent Geroux, who sported shorts and a polo at the Whitney Draw

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4 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 Maryland’s 2017 Hall of Fame Inductees Tod Marks Tod A. Williams Lydia Good Night Shirt Thomas Voss Steeplechaser Trainer Bred in Maryland by Tom and Chris Bowman, Five-time NSA leader in wins and three-time Maryland-sired out of a Maryland-sired dam. leader in earnings. In a career that spanned Owned for the majority of his career by Sonny from 1974 through 2013, won 706 races (394 Via Jr. and trained in Maryland by Jack Fisher. steeplechase) and purses of more than $17 Champion steeplechaser in 2007 and 2008, he million ($8.8 million steeplechase). In addition to won 10 graded stakes races, eight Grade 1s, Eclipse champion Slip Away and numerous NSA and earned $1,041,083, only the third American divisional champions, trained multiple G1 winner steeplechaser to pass the $1 million mark. John’s Call. A Marylander through and through. And saluting the Congratulations from 2017 Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor recipient Jim McKay Founder of Maryland Million Day. Maryland- educated, reporter for the Baltimore Sun, with www.MarylandThoroughbred.com a brilliant career in sports broadcasting that resulted in 13 Emmy Awards. Upon retirement to his Monkton, Maryland, farm he was an

active breeder of Thoroughbreds here. Skip Ball

Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 5 Country Life Foal Patrol “I’m a MD-bred filly by Twirling Candy (sire here&there...at Saratoga of MORTICIA who just won the Coronation Cup S on Monday at Saratoga). My mom is WORTH REPEATING by Malibu Moon, the broodmare sire of two “If you ever have the unfortunate experience of going to the hospital here, the emergency room G1 winners on the same day - GIRVIN door says ‘Starting Gate,’ then you proceed from there to the ‘Backstretch,’ and on it goes.” Donegal Racing’s Jerry Crawford, at the Whitney Draw (Haskell winner) and STELLAR WIND (Clement L. Hirsch winner). I’ll “We’ll be in there, but I don’t think we’re going to jump right out on the lead. There’s some speed be offered at the F-T Midlantic in there and I hope some crazy things happen on Saturday.” Mixed Sale in December – Owner Dean Reeves on Whitney runner Breaking Lucky check me out on the Country “We saved the best for last. Gary Contessa, the trainer of Tu Brutus. He came late; he didn’t know Life Farm website!” ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN what a fun event this was.” Taking care of little things since 1933 www.CountryLifeFarm.com • 410.879.1952 Serling, providing a proper introduction to the trainer at the Whitney Draw

“Behave yourself.” Serling, before letting Contessa discuss his horse’s chances

“On behalf of my peers and the other trainers that are here that didn’t have an opportunity to say this, I truly hope Andy Serling doesn’t like him on Saturday.” Contessa, skillfully getting the last word, on Tu Brutus

“I finally made The Special . . . my resume is complete!” Turf writer Matt Graves, who has made it twice now

“You’re so much nicer to Joe.” NYRA television host Gabby Gaudet, during a spirited debate with Serling before Thursday’s sixth race (she’d like to be treated like The Special’s Joe Clancy)

“I’m closing like Forego.” The Special’s handicapper John Shapazian, who is making up ground on early leader Charles Bedard JOCKEY LEGENDS DAY NYRA will welcome top jockeys from Saratoga Race Course history back to the Spa for the fourth annual Jockey Legends Day, presented by Fasig-Tipton, Sunday. Top riders scheduled to attend include Angel Cordero Jr., Ramon Dominguez, Richard Mi- gliore, Manny Ycaza, Jose Santos, , Jean Luc Samyn, Frank Lovato Jr., , Nick Santagata, and David Erb. The jockeys will participate in a special autograph session from noon to 1 p.m. at the Jockey Silks Room Porch. Autographs will be available with a suggested $10 donation to the Perma- nently Disabled Jockeys Fund. Following the day’s fifth race, the riders will be honored with a special red carpet ceremony on the track. thisishorseracing.com

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“NewYork-breds are an You talkin’ to me? Sean Clancy excellent asset for a stable, with lots of opportunities for The Chief . . . Day 9 great purses.” “Third Martini won a stake after he was at stud, at Hialeah, a mile and sixteenth, he stood at Hobeau, the guy used to get on him bareback, gallop over to where the mare was and then gallop him home, a guy Trainer Todd Pletcher named Gene. He was a nice horse, I bought him off Elliott Burch, the first year, he won one and broke down, he did something, we sent him home and he came back a year later, sound, and won 11 races from 22 starts, all kinds of races, 6 furlongs, mile and three sixteenths on the grass. I remember being up here with him, they gave him 126 pounds, when they still Savvy trainers will be stocking had that mandatory weight. He was so game, he was a head in front for the their barns with entire journey, he was dead game, everybody took a shot at him.” registered NY-bred yearlings offered at Fasig-Tipton – Trainer Allen Jerkens The Saratoga Sale, August 7-8, 1929-2015 and NY-Bred Yearlings Sale, August 12-13

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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 7 Every day at Saratoga, The Special presents an exclusive Stable Tour with with a Saratoga trainer. Jimmy Toner other day, she’ll be ready to run, she’s OK. She doesn’t look like a 2-year-old.” Jimmy Toner walked from one end to the other of his 18-stall barn be- Boom Boom Boom. Bred by Pope Mc- hind the main track at Saratoga. Un- Lean and purchased by Ryan for e Five Racing, der the trees, with a bustling pedestri- the 3-year-old daughter of More Than Ready an (equine and human) crosswalk in breezed a solid 5 furlongs on the turf July 28. front of it, the barn is quintessential “She breezed really well last week, she’ll be Toner – straw pillows outside of the running in the next book, she’s a nice filly.” stalls, JJT initials, orange and white Hunter O’Riley. Owned by Sean Shay and webbings, a solid batch of turf horses Mike Ryan, 4-year-old son of Tiz Wondeful behind those webbings. For a change, upset the Bowling Green last weekend. “The Toner pointed to one of his horses in big horse. He loves to train, just happy, gives each stall of the barn, as opposed to you everything he’s got every time, a lunch- about 75 percent with a few visitors pail kind of guy, just comes to do his job every at one end. day, no special thing about him, just takes care “This is the first year I’ve got the of business, he’s a neat horse. It was such a barn back in about 10 years, since thrill, it’s the most excited I’ve been about win- Caesar Kimmel. We usually have the Lake George. We did a myectomy on her. well enough, I’m just trying to find that little ning a race for a long time, especially the way about 12, but this is encouraging,” She’s always had a tendency to displace. She’s extra for her to run better, I think we’ve got he did it. To have one like him who tries so doing well. We’re going to run her back here in it under control. She had an ovary that was hard, he always runs against such good hors- said Toner, who has another four at es and he keeps trying.” . “I’ve just been light the Riskaverse. I expect better things from her bothering her, mentally she seems sharp now, number-wise, but now we’ve got from here on out.” she doesn’t seem irritated at things. I think that will turn the trick, otherwise, we’ll look for Valentines Romance. Daughter of Arch some decent owners, a good group of Indurate. Purchased at the Fasig-Tipton something else to fix. She hasn’t run bad but breezed five times at Belmont and once from horses, with a little luck between now Florida 2-year-old in training sale, Toner pats you have such big expectations.” the gate at Saratoga. “She was coming along and the end of the year, we should the son of Kitten’s Joy on the head. “He’s a full pretty well, I breezed her out of the gate and finish up really well, especially when brother to Big Blue Kitten. He’s a nice horse, Bellavais. Another Phillips Racing home- she started to come up with a shin, so I’ll wait we get some of these 2-year-olds go- he really is. He’s doing really well, class horse, bred, the daughter of Tapit won the Ginger with her.” ing. We’re there, we just need a home hopefully we’ll get a run into him before the Brew Stakes in January and recently finished Louisville First. New York-bred daughter run.” end of the meet.” second in the Wild Applause at Belmont. of Girolamo won a New York Stallion Stakes Toner has always come up with “She’d fit under the webbing, she’s as tough last summer. “She finished fourth on Sunday, Last year, Toner mentioned as nails, she reminds me of a deer. Loves to those home runs – producing Grade 1 Manitoulin. she ran a nice race, we’ll get another chance to winners Soaring Softly, Memories Of that the son of Awesome Again needed to be train. I’m going to run her in a stake at Suffolk run her back here before we leave. New York- Silver, Wonder Again, Winter Memo- castrated. That happened this winter and the Saturday.” bred who’s out of conditions, 5 1/2 (furlongs) ries, Time And Motion, Flying Chev- new gelding is 2-for-3 since, taking turf allow- here is a little too short and a mile is too long, ron, I’m Splendid and Tribulation in a ance races at Keeneland and Belmont before Cool As You Like. New York-bred broke she’ll be fine once we get back to Belmont. long and storied career. finishing fourth in the Arlington Handicap. her maiden sprinting 6 furlongs on the dirt She tries hard, always tries hard.” A few years back, The Special “We gelded him, it turned him around. He ran at Bemont Park July 13. Owned by Dennis huge at Belmont, we ran him back in Chicago, Narlinger, the 3-year-old daughter of Macho created a poll, asking trainers to de- Appealing Briefs. AJ Suited Stable’s New he finished fourth, he got squeezed at the fin- Uno has improved with every start, produc- York-bred has produced three seconds in his termine the most underrated trainer, ish. I’ll run him up here in a three-other-than. ing a third, a second and a win in that order. overwhelmingly, that honor went to seven-start career, including a half-length loss He’s doing really well.” “She won at Belmont, she’s been at Belmont, at Belmont July 15. “He tries hard every time. Toner. but she’ll come back and hopefully run here.” He’s tough as nails. He and Bellavais, they’re The Special’s Sean Clancy walked Time And Motion. One of a long line of “Our dirt horse.” this big, this narrow, but they’re just tough.” down Toner’s shedrow Monday Darby Dan/Phillips Racing turf fillies to grace morning. the sport, the daughter of Tapit won four Mominou. Purchased by Mike Ryan at the Forever Wife. Three-year-old daughter of stakes, including the Queen Elizabeth II, in Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale, the daughter Medaglia d’Oro is nearing her career debut, Defiant Honor.Stakes-placed last year, the 2016. Most recently she finished third in the of Congrats breezed 4 furlongs from the gate after a sharp 5-furlong breeze here July 28. daughter of Speightstown went off the favorite Modesty and . “She’s going July 29. Assistant Tiffany Webb walked past “She was in England with Marco Botti, we just in the Lake George but wound up sixth. “She to run in the Ballston Spa. We just haven’t her stall and said, “Our second dirt horse.” brought her here in January, we turned her out won down at Belmont, little disappointing in found that groove this year. She’s running Toner laughed. “She breezed really well the for a while, she’s doing really well. We’re hap-

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10 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 School paid off with wins aboard Bellamy Road, Ghostzapper, Bernar- Hall – dini, Stay Thirsty, Keen Ice, Dayat- Continued from page 10 thespa, Flintshire and countless oth- ers. Married with three children and Rinconada in Venezuela. Castellano newly inducted into the Hall of Fame, heard the horse was going to Calder. Castellano seems to have it all, but Step two. Success is no not quite. “I asked the owner if I could ride “My dad died in 2000 and I him here. He helped me with the pro- couldn’t go home, it was tough. Dev- cess,” Castellano said. “That’s why I astating. Nothing is easy in life, you came to this country. I never see that have to go over some bumps in life. horse again.” Accident... He would be so proud, so excited,” No, Eduardo Nunez and Eibar Castellano said. “I’ve been blessed Coa would go on to win five races on from the beginning, there’s pressure Dorian. Castellano didn’t ride the bay all the time. You want everything to GUN RUNNER son of On Retainer who wound up in go perfect, but it can’t, it’s a tough claimers for Steve Klesaris and Jimmy game.” Riccio Sr. Castellano has made it look easy. NYQUIST Arriving in 1997 and based in Flor- – Sean Clancy ida for four seasons, Castellano won titles and honed his craft enough to Gomez takes his place try New York. He came for the Aque- ORB duct meet and never left, well, other Ron Anderson still fires up the than to get out of the cold and ride in replay. Just to see it again, just to Florida for the winters. make sure it really happened. After PALACE MALICE “You go step by step, little by lit- 27 Breeders’ Cup wins and 14 Triple tle, I’m very fortunate to be where I Crown wins as agent for the greats am, it’s not easy to get there,” Castel- from Jerry Bailey to Joel Rosario, An- CUPID lano said. “When I came here, there derson still watches the 2008 Travers. was Jerry Bailey, Pat Day, Jose San- There’s Garrett Gomez stopping, tos, John Velazquez was doing good, starting, switching and slashing with TWISTED TOM Jorge Chavez was winning a lot of Colonel John to stamp a nose deci- races, , Robby Albarado, sion on Mambo In Seattle. Mike Smith was winning all the races “I still to this day can’t believe for Phipps and Billy Mott…it was a he won,” Anderson said Thursday ON LEAVE tough colony, I said, ‘Man, how am morning. “I watched it yesterday, I I going to make it up here?’ It was a still can’t believe that horse won. He great school.” just had it, he was just different, just CARRUMBA amazing. He was magical.” Yes, Garrett Gomez was magical Hall of Fame – winning 3,769 races, 318 graded stakes, $205 million (14th all time), KATHRYNTHE WISE Induction Ceremony six riding titles and mantles worth of Grade 1 stakes. He was also mercuri- Friday, 10:30 a.m. al, battling addiction which ultimate- KOBE’S BACK Humphrey Finney Sales Pavilion ly killed him Dec. 14, 2016. He was East Avenue 42. Born on New Year’s day, 1972, in HUNTER O’RILEY Class of 2017 Tucson, Arizona, Gomez began his career in New Mexico in 1988, plied Javier Castellano his trade in the Midwest before mov- CARINA MIA Victor Espinoza ing to the West Coast, winning the Garrett Gomez Pacific Classic in 2000. Shortly there- Goldikova after, his career derailed because of Good Night Shirt substance abuse, he served jail time, Tom Voss but returned in 2004, and with An- derson’s help, he rose to the top of the Niall Brennan Stables sport. Pillars of the Turf “I took him on the heels of having Ocala, Fl (352) 732-7459 John Gaines Jerry Bailey for a good run, I wasn’t niallbrennan.com Matt Winn super familiar with him because I was Ogden Mills “Dinny” Phipps Continued On Page 12

Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 11 Friday, the sport will celebrate Go- mez’s exploits as a jockey and mourn Hall – Gomez’s frailties as a person. Continued from page 11 “Great person. Great rider. He was just one of those people you had to on the East Coast and he was on the care about, he was just that way. It’s West Coast, unless you watch a guy rough. It’s rough,” Anderson said. and study a guy every day, you don’t “I’m glad he’s being acknowledged really have a solid understanding of in this way because he very much de- his intricacies, what he can do and serves it. I wish he was standing there, what he can’t do but I knew he was that’s all.” on a pretty good run,” Anderson said. – Sean Clancy “I had about 13 people call and all of a sudden, Julio Canani calls and puts Good Night Shirt me on the phone with Garrett, it just felt right, I can’t really describe it. jumps among the greats The Foundation Gomez led the nation in earnings Good Night Shirt was born to be from 2006 through 2009, won the a steeplechaser, it’s just that nobody Eclipse Award in 2007 and 2008. He really knew it at first. The Mary- for American Steeplechasing guided Blame to vanquish the pre- land-bred son of Concern and the viously undefeated Zenyatta in the Two Punch mare Hot Story didn’t salutes 2017 2010, one of 13 Breeders’ Cup wins make a yearling sale or a 2-year-old from 2005 to 2012. sale for his breeders Tom and Chris Gomez combined an uncanny sense Bowman. Hall of Fame inductees of pace, a knack for being in the right At 3, in 2004, the chestnut was at place at the right time, a rhythmical Fair Hill Training Center with Vince and powerful finishing touch that Moscarelli trying to learn how to be- Tom Voss & Good Night Shirt. wouldn’t allow the likes of Behold- come a racehorse. Good Night Shirt er, Blame, Indian Blessing, Midnight trained, learned, ate, grew and grew Thanks for the performances Lute, Midshipman, Ventura, Colonel some more before selling to Riverdee John and others to lose. At least very Stable and trainer Lizzie Merryman often. who shared a barn with Moscarelli. and the memories. “He had it all,” Anderson said. Good Night Shirt made three dull And then he was gone, riding his starts on the dirt that year, switched last race in 2013, disappearing from to turf and finished third at Colonial the public, fading from his friends be- Downs in July. Two weeks later he fore resurfacing in the worst way, in won at Pimlico. A month after that an obituary. he won again at Pimlico. Stepping up “He went somewhere where no- to stakes company was a brief debate, body could reach him. I tried to but Good Night Shirt finished sev- reach out, other people did, he just enth and 10th in his final two starts withdrew,” Anderson said. “A good on the year before being marketed as kind-hearted person. He had such a a steeplechase prospect. Though no- nice, sweet side to him, he appreci- body predicted Hall of Fame, he fit ated everybody, the writers, the hot- the bill – useful on the flat, not over- walkers, he was just amazing.” ly raced, distance lover, built like an NFL tight end. The price was steep, but correct, at $50,000. Leading trainer Jack Fisher made it happen for owners Sonny and Ann Via. The Virginia residents had been owners for five years, and were Your donations support: about to take the ride of their lives. Equine Safety, Jockey Safety, “The Shirt” won two of his first five starts for his new connections, then Amateur Racing, Officiating, lost his next five over jumps (and one Youth and Pony Racing, and more. on the flat) before starting a blitz of success. Over his next 14 starts, all in stakes company, Good Night Shirt nationalsteeplechasefoundation.org won 10 times, placed second three times and was fourth once. In that [email protected] mix came eight Grade 1 wins (includ- Tod Marks Tod Marks photos Garrett Gomez, new Hall of Famer. Continued On Page 14

12 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 The Maryland Jockey Club Congratulates Tom Voss Legendary Maryland Trainer

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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 13 dence,” Fisher said. “Horses know when they get beaten and they know Hall – when it’s kind of fun. Especially ear- Continued from page 12 ly, there were a lot of un-pretty races. The jumping has a lot to do with it 2017 Fall Meet Stakes Schedule ing six in a row), back-to-back cham- and it took him a long time to get his October 29 - November 26 pionships in 2007 and 2008 and le- jumping down to where he was good gions of fans from Maryland to New at it.” STARS OF TOMORROW I Jersey, Virginia to Tennessee, New Fisher repeatedly called 2008 an SPENDTHRIFT JUVENILE FILLY STALLION STAKES SPENDTHRIFT JUVENILE STALLION STAKES York to South Carolina. “easy” year. Good Night Shirt nev- Runs Sun., Oct. 29 Closes Oct. 14 Runs Sun., Oct. 29 Closes Oct. 14 “He was just a big chestnut horse,” er missed a meal, didn’t lose a shoe, $200,000 (no nomination fee) $200,000 (no nomination fee) Fisher said of his first impression. Fillies, Two Year Olds 7 Furlongs Two Year Olds 7 Furlongs didn’t get a cough. He made, and “To be honest, he wasn’t brilliant as won, every race in the schedule. a young horse. He was kind of a big STREET SENSE OVERNIGHT STAKES RAGS TO RICHES OVERNIGHT STAKES “I had something that everybody oaf. And then he got better and better else had to fear – that’s a good feel- Runs Sun., Oct. 29 Closes Oct. 21 Runs Sun., Oct. 29 Closes Oct. 21 and better and better.” $80,000 (no nomination fee) $80,000 (no nomination fee) ing,” Fisher said. “He was a chick Two Year Olds 1 Mile Fillies, Two Years Old 1 Mile Fisher pointed to the 2007 ride, a cool horse [in the morning]. I Royal Chase. at Keeneland as a turn- bet you if you fell off he’d wait for CHILUKKI (GII) ing point. Good Night Shirt was sec- you. Some horses get really upset be- Runs Sat., Nov. 4 Closes Oct. 21 ond at 22-1, beaten a neck by Mixed fore the race and the really good ones $200,000 ($200 nomination fee) Up. Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 1 Mile do not or none of the good ones I “I wasn’t expecting it,” Fisher said trained did. They walk in like, ‘I am COMMONWEALTH TURF (GIII) of the effort. “He ran a really good the king and I’m going to kick your race and I think he might have been Runs Sat., Nov. 11 Closes Oct. 28 butt’ and that’s the way he was.” $100,000 ($100 nomination fee) able to win. He might have gotten In search of a third championship Three Year Olds 1 1/16 Miles Turf squeezed a little bit. That put him on in 2009, Good Night Shirt won the the stage of, ‘OK this is a really good CARDINAL HANDICAP (GIII) Grade 2 Carolina Cup to start the sea- horse.’ ” son and finished second in the Grade Runs Sat., Nov. 18 Closes Nov. 4 He won three of his next four $100,000 ($100 nomination fee) 1 Iroquois. While prepping for an Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 1 1/8 Miles Turf and claimed the Eclipse Award autumn return, he came up lame and as champion steeplechaser. The was diagnosed with a fractured ankle. BET ON SUNSHINE OVERNIGHT STAKES next year was even better as He had surgery, was loosely consid- Runs Sat., Nov. 18 Closes Nov. 11 Good Night Shirt went 5-for-5 ered for a comeback and ultimately $80,000 (no nomination fee) in Grade 1 company, earned a record Three Years Old & Up 6 Furlongs retired to Fisher’s farm in Monkton, $485,520 and repeated as steeple- Md. The 16-year-old spends lots of chase champion. FALLS CITY HANDICAP (GII) “A lot of it has to do with confi- Continued On Page 15 Runs Thurs., Nov. 23 Closes Nov. 11 $200,000 ($200 nomination fee) Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 1 1/8 Mile

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Runs Sat., Nov. 25 Closes Nov. 11 Runs Sat., Nov. 25 Closes Nov. 11 $200,000 ($200 nomination fee) $200,000 ($200 nomination fee) Fillies, Two Years Old 1 1/16 Miles Two Year Olds 1 1/16 Miles Tod Marks Good Night Shirt won eight Grade 1 stakes over fences.

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RACE 0591_2017 Saratoga Stakes Ad.indd 2 7/17/17 10:14 AM Hall – Continued from page 14 time cooling off in the pond with field- mates Saluter, Costly Fun and some others. “They get to swim in the summer, it’s camp, life is good. Every day I drive down the driveway, he’s there. All sum- mer long he’ll be splashing out in the pond,” said Fisher. “In the summer time I open the fields up and have nine or 10 of them out there. The younger horses get out there and they’re big and bad. Within about three days, they’ve figured it out and know their places. Saluter and Good Night Shirt rule that field. They have respect for those two old guys.” Good Night Shirt earned $1,006,493 in 23 starts (a dozen wins) over jumps – second only to McDynamo’s $1,310,104 – and becomes the 19th steeplechaser inducted into Thorough- bred racing’s Hall of Fame. The Hall’s steeplechase committee meets every four years and last inducted McDyna- mo and all-time win leader Tuscalee in 2013. – Joe Clancy Voss joins training heroes Tom Voss was supposed to win five more National Steeplechase Associa- tion championships, produce another Eclipse Award winner or two, spear- head a few more John’s Call conver- sions, and generally do more Tom Voss things. And then get in the Hall of Fame. Of course, life doesn’t always follow a script. Voss, a Marylander who suc- ceeded with flat and steeplechase hors- es, died in 2014 at 63 years old. He might have trained another 20 years. Instead, he left behind a legacy of good horses and intuitive horsemanship in a career spanning almost 40 years. Voss won five NSA training titles by races won (1997, 2000-02 and 2011) and three more by earnings, won an Eclipse Award with 2010 champion steeple- chaser Slip Away and trained eight NSA divisional champions. Beyond the jumpers, Voss was known for success with flat horses in Maryland, New York, wherever the yellow and black THV webbings were hung. He trained reformed steeplechaser Continued On Page 16

Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 15 Outside Atlanta Hall, other trainers continue the legacy. Fisher, Wyatt and others used time with Hall – Voss to kick start training success. Continued from page 15 “He started my training career,” Fisher said. “I worked for Tom and used to train a couple horses John’s Call to the top of the country’s turf division. in the afternoon. He actually gave me my first barn. As a 9-year-old in 2000, John’s Call won two Grade It was a shed out in the field. I had a barn with three 1 stakes and placed third (beaten a half-length) in or four stalls and I needed three more. There was the Breeders’ Cup Turf. Twice a winner over hur- a shed out in the field and he said, ‘You can have dles five years earlier, John’s Call won 16 races and that.’ So I tore this thing down one summer and earned $1.5 million for his career before retiring to rebuilt it. It was not worth it.” become Voss’ much-beloved and well-known stable But the lesson was. pony. “Basically, you work hard and you pay atten- In all, his horses won 706 races and earned more tion,” Fisher said when asked what he learned. “Se- than $17.3 million. Beyond John’s Call, stars on the riously, if you listen to the horses they’ll tell you if flat included graded winners Dreadnaught and Al- it’s good or bad, ‘I don’t want to do this or I love ways First. Tod Marks doing this.’ ” “He knows when his horses are right,” Todd Trainer Tom Voss. Voss joins 20 others designated steeplechase Wyatt, Voss’ chief assistant for six years, said about horsemen in the Hall including trainer Janet Elliot his boss in 2002. “He can get them to a particular death, Voss’ daughter Elizabeth carries on as the (inducted in 2009), jockey Tommy Walsh (2009) race and have a peak performance, which is hard. trainer at Atlanta Hall Farm in Monkton, Md. The and trainer Sidney Watters Jr. (2005). He’ll sit on them for a while and then he’ll cut them place has been home to five generations of Vosses. – Joe Clancy loose. He knows our horses, their idiosyncrasies, There are horses, dogs, equipment and people of how they eat, what they do, and he knows other every shape and scope and skill level. There is work Espinoza joins the legends horses too. He knows what kind of race his horse is to be done. The horses still drink out of yellow in and whether he can win.” buckets, rattle yellow feed tubs and stand behind Victor Espinoza playfully and enthusiastically Voss turned John’s Call into a Grade 1 winner those yellow webbings. told NBC Sports’ Donna Brothers that “I feel like after a bowed tendon. Voss won at Saratoga with Sounding like her father, Elizabeth summed up the luckiest Mexican on Earth” after riding Ameri- first-time starters, steeplechasers and stakes horses. her approach to taking over the barn back in 2014. can Pharoah to victory in the 2015 Kentucky Der- He befriended Bobby Frankel, another horse train- “I hate running them,” she said. “I love training by. er’s horse trainer. them. It’s nice to be out here with them every morn- Luck certainly plays a big part in the game we Now, a little more than three years after his ing, but it’s hard to run them.” Continued On Page 18

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16 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 17 horse, perhaps fitting since she holds end in 2011 when Goldikova finished a unique distinction in the U.S. third, beaten only a length by Court Hall – Raced almost exclusively in Eu- Vision and Turallure, again at Chur- Continued from page 16 rope by her owners and breeders, chill Downs. brothers Gerard and Alain Wert- Goldikova’s three victories and play, but skill, talent, intelligence, tim- heimer, and trainer Freddy Head, her third in the Breeders’ Cup Mile ing, courage and longevity play their Goldikova ventered across the Atlan- were worth $3,508,200 and account- own role. Espinoza possesses those tic Ocean four times and came away ed for nearly half of her career bank- traits and more and they’re a big rea- with three Breeders’ Cup Mile victo- roll of $7,176,551. Olivier Peslier son he’s the latest Triple Crown-win- ries and nearly a fourth. She’s the only was aboard for all 27 of Goldikova’s ning jockey to join the Hall of Fame. three-time Breeders’ Cup winner, a starts and she won 17 times, includ- Now enshrined alongside legends feat that’s only been attempted a few ing 11 Group 1 victories in England Eddie Arcaro, Johnny Longden, Ron times. and France. Turcotte and Steve Cauthen, Espino- Goldikova won her first Breed- Goldikova retired after her 2011 za is in the top 20 among all North ers’ Cup Mile in 2008 at Santa Ani- Breeders’ Cup Mile run at Churchill, American jockeys by purses won with ta Park, defeating not only her male going to the breeding shed with two more than $194.3 million earned counterparts but as a 3-year-old. She Eclipse Awards as champion turf fe- through Thursday. returned the following year and won male in North America, a European Espinoza owns three victories in again, defeating Courageous Cat by Horse of the Year crown and two Eu- the Kentucky Derby – War Emblem a half-length in 1:32.26. Goldikova’s ropean champion older horse honors. in 2002, in 2014 Tod Marks third Mile victory came away from She was also the highweight on the and American Pharoah in 2015. He Victor Espinoza. the firm ground and sunny skies of French Free Handicap four times and won the Preakness on those same California, at in the eys to win the Kentucky Derby three on the English Free Handicap three three horses and of course the crown- 2010 edition, when she defeated mul- times or more and the other nine – times. ing victory aboard American Pharoah tiple Eclipse Award winner Gio Ponti Arcaro, Bill Hartack, Bill Shoemak- – Tom Law in the 2015 . by 1 3/4 lengths. The run came to an Recognized by his peers with the er, Isaac Murphy, Earle Sande, Angel George Woolf Memorial Award in Cordero Jr., Gary Stevens, Kent De- 2016 and the Laffit Pincay Jr. Award sormeaux and Calvin Borel – are all in 2015, Espinoza’s record of success members of the Hall of Fame. thisishorseracing.com stretches far beyond the spring clas- – Tom Law sics and he’s won three Breeders’ Cup races and riding titles at Del Mar, Goldikova the great Santa Anita and Hollywood Park. Goldikova is the lone equine in- Espinoza is one of only 10 jock- ductee entering the Hall as a flat

Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders’ Cup Goldikova won the Breeders’ Cup three times.

18 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 19 Mott runner aims for turf TD Yoshida looks to rebound in G2 BY TOM LAW HALL OF FAME STAKES PREVIEW Bill Mott leaned against the out- side rail inside the winner’s circle at “Cigar brought us here, but we’ve Pimlico, the bright Baltimore sun had a number of good winners here,” of Preakness Day hitting him as he Mott said. “We always hope our watched the replay of the James W. horses and ourselves are all healthy Murphy Stakes. enough to come back to do it again.” The Hall of Famer agreed to do an Finally the topic came to New En- interview with a Baltimore radio sta- gland Patriot’s coach Bill Belichick, tion, as long as he could still watch who presented the winner’s trophy Yoshida get the better of his 11 op- for the Murphy. When asked if it was ponents in the 1-mile turf stakes for “neat” to have the five-time Super 3-year-olds. The obligatory questions Bowl winner in the winner’s circle on were asked about the colt’s 4-length such a big day, Mott responded in a victory, his trip, winning on Preakess way that is, well, classic Mott. Day and so on, before the subject “I suppose, but it was also neat Tod Marks of Cigar came up as the interview Yoshida looks for a graded stakes win in today’s Hall of Fame. Continued On Page 21 wound down.

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20 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 170728_BRENTWOOD_SARATOGA_SPECIAL.indd 1 7/28/17 5:37 PM finish, beaten 4 1/4 lengths by Oscar Perfor- mance. “I don’t know if it was too far or Stakes – if it was inexperience, you know, a lack of Continued from page 20 seasoning and maybe going up against the very best. That could have had something to to have Yoshida in the winner’s circle,” he do with it.” said, not deriding the interviewer but clearly Yoshida was favored in the Belmont Der- making his point. “That’s the main thing for by, going to the post at 3-1 against the likes of me.” Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner Spend any amount of time with Mott, Oscar Performance, European group stakes whether it’s morning training or afternoons winners Called To The Bar and Homesman at the races, and it doesn’t take long to real- and graded stakes winners Arklow and Ti- ize that the horse most certainly is the main conderoga. thing for the man. The Japanese-bred son of Heart’s Cry fin- Yoshida wound up in the winner’s circle ished fifth in the Belmont Derby, after racing that day in his stakes debut and he’ll try to in midpack most of the trip. do it again today in the $200,000 National Yoshida, who breezed once on the grass Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at and twice on the dirt on the Oklahoma Train- Saratoga Race Course. ing Track since, went gate-to-wire breaking Owned by the four-way partnership of his maiden at 9 furlongs at Keeneland April WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, SF Racing 9 and closed from last to win the Murphy. Group and Head of Plains Partners, Yoshida “He certainly gave us the indication that is one of 10 entered for the Grade 2 Hall of he would run on a little further but I guess Fame going 1 1/16 miles on the grass. He’s we’d have to try it again on another day,” also one of three coming off an also-ran ef- Mott said. “We know he can do the mile and fort in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby at Bel- a sixteenth. This is a good race, there are mont Park July 8. some horses in there that can run and he’ll Yoshida, the 7-2 third choice on the line, need another good race.” shortens up from the 10 furlongs of the Bel- Mott, himself a member of the Hall of mont Derby to 1 1/16 miles today. Fame as the youngest trainer ever inducted Tod Marks “I’m not sure it was the distance last in 1998 at age 45, bids for his seventh win in Arklow seeks his third win of 2017 for trainer Brad Cox. time,” Mott said of Yoshida’s fifth-place Continued On Page 22

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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 21 War. Joel Rosario, who rode Yoshida fourth behind eventual Preakness and ERJ racing, spent $250,000 for to victory in the Murphy at Pimlico, winner Cloud Computing, Dutrow Big Handsome at the 2015 Fasig-Tip- Stakes – rides Bricks And Mortar from post 1. sent him to Florida to try the grass. ton Kentucky October yearling sale. Continued from page 21 Big Handsome finished second to “When I bought the horse, I was “I caught a lot of hell for that,” Bricks And Mortar in the Manila and aware that there was a lot of turf Dutrow said of the price. “Actually, the Grade 2 Hall of Fame. He won his breaks next to the favorite for trainer in his pedigree. He comes out as a to the point where I didn’t get a lot first in 1992 with Paradise Creek and Tony Dutrow and jockey Javier Castel- 2-year-old, gives us a couple of good of support and I ended up owning al- his most recent in 2009 with Coura- lano, who will join Mott in the Hall of races on the dirt,” Dutrow said. “I most half of the horse. I wanted him geous Cat. Fame during Friday morning’s induc- wasn’t feeling it. I just felt there was a and in that case, I was right.” Irad Ortiz Jr. picks up the mount tion ceremony. The son of Street Boss lot more horse there. So, we took him Big Handsome raced only for Team on Yoshida and goes for his fourth won three in a row on the grass before down to Florida, and I don’t like five- D in the Manila, with the two other consecutive Hall of Fame after rid- the Manila and Dutrow hopes to get eighths-of-a-mile, 5 1/2-furlong races, partners buying in Wednesday. Now ing Wallyanna, Takeover Target and him back to the winner’s circle today. that’s just my opinion, but I had ei- they’re all involved in a colt whose Camelot Kitten in the last three edi- “We really like him. He’s such a ther that or two turns down there. I name fits his looks. tions. Ortiz rode Takeover Target character personality,” Dutrow said. was like, ‘I got to get the horse on the “When I bought him as a baby, ev- and Camelot Kitten for trainer Chad “He’s so kind and gives everything he’s turf and I don’t want to go two turns ery day I’m there with him,” Dutrow Brown, who goes for his fourth Hall got on the racetrack. Special horse.” with him.’ So, we sprinted him there said. “I got into the habit of walk- of Fame win with 5-2 morning-line Dutrow started Big Handsome on and he was very good. ing into his stall and calling him big favorite Bricks And Mortar. the main track and he finished a close “Then we brought him up to Bel- handsome. When it came time to The son of Giant’s Causeway is second and distant third in two starts mont and he went from 6 (furlongs), name him, why wouldn’t I name him 3-for-3, including the Manila Stakes at Belmont as a 2-year-old. After one to 7, to a mile and all of them were Big Handsome?” last time out over Hall of Fame en- more race on the dirt on the inner very good races. I was suspect on just The others in the field for the Hall trants Big Handsome and Secretary At track at Aqueduct, where he finished how far he would go as we were mak- of Fame are Snap Decision, winner of ing those progressions, but after see- an allowance race at 1 1/16 miles at ing him going 7 and a mile, I don’t Belmont July 3, Manila third Secre- have any concerns with the mile-and- tary At War, Grade 2 American Turf a-sixteenth distance. I do respect that winner Arklow, Parx Derby winner he’s never gone two turns, he’s got to Bonus Points, Parlor and Makarios. prove he can get the two turns.” Caviar Czar is entered for the main Dutrow, who trains the colt for track only. www.thisishorseracing.com the Team D partnership he leads and Additional reporting co-owners Head of Plains Partners by Ben Gowans.

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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 23 Friday, August 4. 6TH (3:48PM). $78,000, AOC $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/16M (TURF) Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double 1ST (1:00PM). $45,000, MCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 6 1/2F 1 ..... 5...... Weather Girl...... R. Santana, Jr...... S. Asmussen...... 5-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double 1a ..... 8...... Free N Clear...... J. Alvarado...... P. Quick...... 5-1 1 ..... 1...... Mazmania...... A. Arroyo...... G. Sciacca...... 12-1 2 ..... 1...... Iron Mizz...... J. Rosario...... T. Pletcher...... 9-2 2 ..... 2...... Queen Katherina...... A. Lezcano...... E. Jones...... 20-1 3 ..... 2...... Barrel of Dreams...... J. Velazquez...... C. Baker...... 9-2 3 ..... 3...... Burkey’s Babe...... R. Santana, Jr...... J. Terranova, II...... 6-1 4 ..... 3...... Young Anna Lee...... J. Ortiz...... L. Rice...... 8-1 4 ..... 4...... Corey Q...... J. Castellano...... C. Brown...... 5-2 5 ..... 4...... Tizzelle...... R. Maragh...... H. Bond...... 7-2 5 ..... 5...... Lightworker...... D. Davis...... C. Caiazzo...... 8-1 6 ..... 6...... Style Drift...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Brown...... 5-2 6 ..... 6...... Quick On the Draw...... J. Ortiz...... H. Bond...... 3-1 7 ..... 7...... Eloweasel...... E. Cancel...... P. Kelly...... 6-1 7 ..... 7...... Sand City...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Martin...... 2-1 7TH (4:24PM). $50,000, CLM $25,000, 3 YO, 6 1/2F 2ND (1:33PM). $32,000, CLM $16,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 6 1/2F Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double 1 ..... 1...... Conquest Sure Shot...... K. Carmouche...... B. Walsh...... 12-1 1 ..... 1...... Bahnahno...... M. Luzzi...... P. Quick...... 8-1 2 ..... 2...... The Great Ronaldo...... A. Arroyo...... J. Salzman, Jr...... 20-1 2 ..... 2...... Luna Rising...... J. Lezcano...... K. McLaughlin...... 2-1 3 ..... 3...... Curtis...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Summers...... 4-1 3 ..... 3...... Only One Wish...... S. Camacho, Jr...... J. Lostritto...... 15-1 4 ..... 4...... My Friend...... R. Santana, Jr...... M. Hennig...... 8-1 4 ..... 4...... North Eight Street...... M. Franco...... R. Handal...... 3-1 5 ..... 5...... Italian Syndicate...... M. Franco...... D. Gargan...... 7-2 5 ..... 5...... Freudee...... L. Reyes...... P. Reynolds...... 20-1 6 ..... 6...... Star Empire (GB)...... D. Davis...... D. Jacobson...... 4-1 6 ..... 6...... Talkn Til Midnight...... J. Ortiz...... L. Rice...... 5-2 7 ..... 7...... Ethan Hunt...... R. Montanez...... J. Toscano, Jr...... 6-1 7 ..... 7...... Little Miss Amy...... A. Arroyo...... R. Diodoro...... 5-1 8 ..... 8...... Lifelong Dreamer...... J. Ortiz...... G. Gullo...... 5-2

3RD (2:06PM). $83,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F (TURF) 8TH (5:02PM). $85,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, 7F Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 1 ..... 1...... Switzerland...... J. Castellano...... C. Brown...... 6-5 1 ..... 1...... Silver Assault...... M. Franco...... W. Mott...... 20-1 2 ..... 2...... Sethary...... J. Rosario...... C. Clement...... 5-2 2 ..... 2...... Cavil...... J. Velazquez...... K. McLaughlin...... 10-1 3 ..... 3...... Beltany...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... T. Morley...... 8-1 3 ..... 3...... Cowboy’s Hero...... P. Lopez...... A. Castellano...... 10-1 4 ..... 4...... Uncle Pancho...... L. Saez...... J. Sharp...... 7-2 4 ..... 4...... Petrov...... J. Ortiz...... R. Moquett...... 3-1 5 ..... MTO...... Fully Vested...... L. Saez...... T. Albertrani...... 9-2 5 ..... 5...... Gray Sky...... J. Rosario...... D. Lukas...... 15-1 6 ..... 6...... Factorial...... J. Ortiz...... W. Mott...... 8-1 6 ..... 6...... Vincento...... A. Arroyo...... R. Rodriguez...... 20-1 7 ..... 7...... Hardened...... R. Santana, Jr...... D. Cannizzo...... 10-1 7 ..... 7...... Pocket Square...... R. Albarado...... D. Romans...... 15-1 8 ..... 8...... Riff Raff...... R. Maragh...... M. Divitto, Sr...... 20-1 4TH (2:40PM). $73,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 6F 9 ..... 9...... Portfolio Manager...... J. Castellano...... C. Brown...... 7-2 Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 10..... 10...... Divine Interventio...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... S. Asmussen...... 4-1 1 ..... 1...... Starlite Mission...... J. Rosario...... G. Contessa...... 7-2 11..... 11...... Lenstar...... L. Saez...... N. Zito...... 5-1 2 ..... 2...... Ogan’s Runner...... A. Lezcano...... E. Jones...... 20-1 3 ..... 3...... Reyana Reya Delite...... S. Camacho, Jr...... R. Persaud...... 30-1 9TH (5:40PM). $200,000 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING HALL OF FAME, 3 YO, 1 1/16M 4 ..... 4...... Pauseforthecause...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... K. McLaughlin...... 2-1 (TURF) 5 ..... 5...... My Roxy Girl...... J. Castellano...... M. Friedman...... 7-2 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Daily Double 6 ..... 6...... Cartwheel...... J. Alvarado...... M. Hennig...... 5-2 1 ..... 1...... Bricks and Mortar...... J. Rosario...... C. Brown...... 5-2 7 ..... 7...... Big Expense...... K. Carmouche...... D. Schettino...... 8-1 2 ..... 2...... Big Handsome...... J. Castellano...... A. Dutrow...... 3-1 3 ..... MTO...... Caviar Czar (IRE)...... Rider TBA...... T. Pletcher...... 2-1 5TH (3:14PM). $93,000, AOC $80,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1M (INNER TURF) 4 ..... 4...... Yoshida (JPN)...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... W. Mott...... 7-2 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 6, Daily Double 5 ..... 5...... Snap Decision...... J. Ortiz...... C. McGaughey III...... 5-1 1 ..... 1...... Changewilldoyagood...... D. Davis...... B. Levine...... 20-1 6 ..... 6...... Makarios...... L. Saez...... N. Zito...... 20-1 2 ..... 2...... Backsideofthemoon...... M. Franco...... L. O’Brien...... 20-1 7 ..... 7...... Bonus Points...... K. Carmouche...... T. Pletcher...... 20-1 8 ..... 8...... Parlor...... J. Leparoux...... E. Kenneally...... 15-1 3 ..... 3...... Monster Bea...... J. Velazquez...... M. Casse...... 15-1 9 ..... 9...... Secretary At War...... J. Velazquez...... J. Jerkens...... 8-1 4 ..... 4...... Diversify...... L. Saez...... R. Violette, Jr...... 7-2 10..... 10...... Arklow...... F. Geroux...... B. Cox...... 10-1 5 ..... 5...... Forge (GB)...... J. Ortiz...... W. Mott...... 3-1 6 ..... 6...... Night Prowler...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Brown...... 4-1 10TH (6:17PM). $45,000, MCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M (INNER TURF) 7 ..... 7...... Scholar Athlete...... R. Maragh...... H. Motion...... 15-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta 8 ..... 8...... Catapult...... J. Castellano...... C. Brown...... 9-2 1 ..... 1...... Jegos Fire...... M. Franco...... R. Handal...... 3-1 9 ..... MTO...... Schivarelli...... J. Castellano...... E. Kenneally...... 4-1 2 ..... 2...... Kierland...... K. Carmouche...... M. Maker...... 6-1 10..... MTO...... Line Judge...... L. Saez...... J. Sharp...... 6-1 3 ..... 3...... There He Goes...... J. Ortiz...... D. Gargan...... 6-1 11..... 11...... Team Colors...... J. Rosario...... J. Jerkens...... 12-1 4 ..... 4...... Big Auk...... A. Arroyo...... E. Barker...... 30-1 12..... 12...... Dancetrack...... J. Leparoux...... B. Walsh...... 8-1 5 ..... 5...... Risky Sour...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... L. Young...... 12-1 13..... MTO...... Carve...... Rider TBA...... S. Asmussen...... 6-1 6 ..... 6...... Calculated Risker...... L. Saez...... G. Contessa...... 5-2 14..... MTO...... Raagheb...... F. Geroux...... T. Amoss...... 9-2 7 ..... 7...... You Like That...... E. Cancel...... B. Brown...... 20-1 Copyright 2017 EQUIBASE Company LLC. All Rights Reserved. 8 ..... 8...... Rule Number One...... R. Santana, Jr...... T. Hills...... 15-1 9 ..... 9...... Heat Check...... P. Lopez...... G. 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24 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 the Power grid John Gaile Tom Charles Matt Race # Shapazian Fitzgerald Law Bedard Hunter Sand City Sand City Corey Q Sand City Sand City 1 Burkey’s Babe Quick On The Draw Sand City Lightworker Quick On The Draw Quick On The Draw Lightworker Quick On The Draw Corey Q Lightworker Luna Rising Luna Rising Luna Rising Talkn Til Midnight North Eight Street 2 Talkn Til Midnight North Eight Street Talkn Til Midnight Luna Rising Little Miss Amy North Eight Street Talkn Til Midnight North Eight Street North Eight Street Luna Rising Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland Fully Vested Hardened 3 Sethary Sethary Sethary Switzerland Switzerland Uncle Pancho Fully Vested Factorial Sethary Sethary Starlite Mission Pauseforthecause Pauseforthecause Pauseforthecause Starlite Mission 4 Cartwheel Cartwheel Cartwheel Starlite Mission Pauseforthecause My Roxy Girl Big Expense Starlite Mission Cartwheel Cartwheel Diversify Forge Forge Forge Diversify 5 Forge Diversify Catapult Diversify Dancetrack Night Prowler Raagheb Dancetrack Night Prowler Catapult Style Drift Tizzelle Iron Mizz Tizzelle Style Drift Tizzelle Iron Mizz Barrel Of Dreams Weather Girl Tizzelle 6 Iron Mizz Paradise Farms entry Style Drift Iron Mizz Iron Mizz Curtis Lifelong Dreamer Italian Syndicate Italian Syndicate Curtis Italian Syndicate My Friend Conquest Sure Shot Lifelong Dreamer Conquest Sure Shot 7 Lifelong Dreamer Conquest Sure Shot Curtis Curtis Lifelong Dreamer Portfolio Manager Petrov Petrov Portfolio Manager Divine Interventio Cavil Portfolio Manager Cavil Petrov Portfolio Manager 8 Petrov Divine Interventio Portfolio Manager Divine Interventio Gray Sky Caviar Czar Bricks And Mortar Yoshida Snap Decision Yoshida Big Handsome Yoshida Big Handsome Big Handsome Bricks And Mortar 9 Bricks And Mortar Caviar Czar Arklow Bricks And Mortar Arklow There He Goes Jegos Fire Calculated Risker Jegos Fire Jegos Fire Kierland Kierland You Like That Captain Kitt Calculated Risker 10 Calculated Risker Calculated Risker Jegos Fire Calculated Risker There He Goes Our fifth handicapper will be a special guest each day. 2017 Records: 33/121 25/121 26/121 35/121 13/83*

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Welcome back, High Hope Steeplechase. No Tweaks Pletcher’s Hard Study stretches out to 14 furlongs with success BY TOM LAW BIRDSTONE STAKES RECAP Todd Pletcher didn’t do anything special to prepare Hard Study for ing out of the clubhouse Thursday. the longest test of his life Thursday “You can’t have one that’s going to at Saratoga Race Course. He simply get headstrong early on.” determined that one of two horses “He ran well last time and with owned by Paul Pompa Jr. pointed to- the Saratoga book, we started look- ward route stakes at the meet would ing for options for him. Paul Pompa be more ideally suited for the 14 fur- has another horse, Rally Cry, that we longs of the Birdstone Stakes as op- thought fit the Alydar, so it’s an effort posed to the nine of Sunday’s Alydar. to split the two up. I had a hunch he Hard Study, Pompa’s homebred would handle the trip. Really that’s Tod Marks son of Big Brown who won back-to- what it was all about.” Hard Study races for the finish in the 1 3/4-mile Birdstone. back starts this spring before a second Hard Study handled the trip and ond off Reigh Count’s track record the colt to Saratoga until a few days in a restricted stakes last time at Bel- a stubborn, proven marathoner in set Sept. 1, 1928. before the race. mont Park, was pegged as the one for Scuba to win the Birdstone by 2 1/2 Pletcher said he didn’t tweak Hard “Not really, to be honest with you, the $100,000 Birdstone for a couple lengths for his first stakes victory and Study’s training at all for the Bird- no,” Pletcher said when asked if any reasons. fifth lifetime win from 10 starts. Sent changes were made to Hard Study’s stone. He kept him downstate at Bel- “The key is identifying one that off as the 6-5 favorite off a second in training. “The most important thing will drop the bridle early on, and just the State Dinner July 3, Hard Study mont, breezing and galloping him on 2017 DCTP Saratoga Special Stake Nomination Ad 4.625 x 4.75.qxp_LayoutContinued 1 7/20/17On Page 4:24 27 PM Pa keep galloping,” Pletcher said walk- won in 2:56.17 and less than a sec- the training track and not bringing SARATOGA SPRINGS CITY CENTER | AUGUST 14TH–15TH Delaware Bred or Certified Restricted Stakes Better Than Ever! Free nominations • Closing September 16 Contact Delaware Park Stake Coordinator Lenny Rera at 302-994-2521 ext. 7225 Running Saturday, September 30 The $75,000 Small Wonder THE HORSE RACING For Fillies Two Year Olds • Five and One Half Furlongs First The $75,000 First State Dash CONVENTION FOR EVERYONE For Two Year Olds • Five and One Half Furlongs The $100,000 Tax Free Shopping Distaff Over 80 panels, workshops, seminars and other events. For Fillies and Mares Three Year Olds and Upward • Six Furlongs Meet racing legends, jockeys, trainers, owners, exhibitors, and get closer to the sport of racing than ever before! The $100,000 The New Castle For Three Year Olds and Upward • Six Furlongs ENGAGEMENT ENTERTAINMENT EDUCATION To find out if your horse is Delaware Certified or for more information about the Delaware Certified Program (DCTP) visit www.dtha.com and click on the DCTP link. In addition, #EQCON17 you may to download an application or find a list of participating Delaware farms. DELAWARE CERTIFIED THOROUGHBRED PROGRAM TICKETS AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT: 777 Delaware Park Blvd, Wilmington DE 19804 www.EQUESTRICON.com 302-994-2389 • 302-994-3392 fax • [email protected] • www.dtha.com

26 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 1 1/2-length advantage past the half- mile pole through a mile and a quar- Birdstone – ter in 2:05.95. Continued from page 26 “I was a little concerned obviously (about the distance),” Velazquez said. was we needed him to relax. He’s al- “The furthest he has gone is a mile ways been a strong galloping horse and an eighth. I wanted to make sure that was long-winded, just kind of fit I saved him for the end, but at the the profile of horses in the past that same time I couldn’t let Carmouche we’ve had that we’ve had success in get away with the pace that he was these type of races.” going. Pletcher won the inaugural H. “Going through the first turn, I Allen Jerkens Stakes with Unitarian made sure that he was close enough going 2 miles at Gulfstream Park in that he didn’t get away from that slow 2015 and the inaugural Belmont Gold pace. Then by the three-eighths pole, Cup Invitational with Charming Kit- I was getting my horse running, and I ten going the same distance in 2014. The Birdstone is where he’s been know he’s pretty lazy, so I was really particularly lethal, now winning four busy. By the time I got to the quarter of the six editions. He won the first pole and I caught up to Carmouche three editions, with Rule in 2011 and and he started riding. I thought, ‘may- San Pablo in 2012 when it was run be I do have it now.’ ” at 9 furlongs and with Micromanage Velazquez stayed busy on Hard in 2014 when it was extended to the Study and raced alongside Scuba past current distance. the quarter-pole. The two raced on After breaking sharply, John even terms past the eighth pole be- Velazquez allowed Hard Study to re- fore Hard Study edged clear after a lax early as Archanova took the ini- couple light right-handed taps from tiative under Chris Landeros into the Velazquez in deep stretch. Scuba held far turn. Kendrick Carmouche set up second by 1 3/4 lengths from Archa- shop just behind aboard Scuba, trying nova with Turco Bravo another 8 1/2 to return to his form from a year ago lengths back in fourth. when he won two graded stakes and Brendan Walsh, who trains Scuba a listed stakes going long on the dirt. for Daniel Ross’ DARRS Inc., said Hard Study came next with Fair the Tapit gelding’s effort was positive Hill shipper Sea Raven providing cov- after losses in the Grade 3 Ben Ali at er on the outside. Past the finish the Keeneland, Flat Out at Belmont and first time Archanova still led with Scu- Grade 3 Dominion Day at Woodbine. Success is ba tracking to his outside and Munjaz The ultimate goal is a defense of his getting into contention behind Scuba. win in the Marathon during Breed- Munjaz took a bad step as the field ers’ Cup weekend at Del Mar, and the made its way to the clubhouse turn Grade 3 Greenwood Cup in Septem- a Journey and was pulled up quickly by Joel Ro- ber at Parx. sario as Archanova and Scuba put a “He shows he’s back on track any- little gap between themselves and the way, that’s his thing you know, mile tracking Hard Study. and a half, mile and three quarters,” The early fractions were sensible Walsh said. “Todd’s horse is a nice enough - :25.77, :51.09 and 1:15.56 horse, no shame in getting beat by – and Scuba took the lead on the him. I thought he ran a good race, I backstretch shortly before going 1 wanted for him to show me that he mile in 1:41.43. Velazquez angled was coming back to last year and I off the inside after Scuba overtook think he did. Obviously the race at the early leader and Archanova, Scu- Parx and the Marathon at the end ba and last year’s Birdstone winner of the year are the goals. He’s going Crupi’s New Castle Farm Turco Bravo briefly stacked up three to take a huge leap forward from to- across in behind. Scuba opened up a day.” Six-furlong track · Starting gate · Cold saltwater spa Turnout paddocks · All levels of training thisishorseracing.com James Crupi · [email protected] (352) 427-1600 · (352) 840-5400 · (866) 313-5400

Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 27 THURSDAY RACING RECAP Off and Running Becker’s Galaxy gives Gargan fourth at meet The clubhouse filled with contrasting noise as racing fans cheered or cried out checking their tick- ets after the fourth race Thursday at Saratoga Race Course. Danny Gargan’s victorious hoot rose above the commotion as he rushed in from the winner’s cir- cle, parking himself in front of a television to watch the replay of Becker’s Galaxy win the 1 1/8-mile allowance. With 22 horses in his Saratoga string, Gargan blazed through the first 12 days of the meet with Tod Marks four wins and a second from seven starts after Becker’s Galaxy stretches for the finish in Thursday’s fourth race. Becker’s Galaxy’s victory. After racing Thursday Gargan was 4-for-9. win. We’re all about winning and trying to take the hurdle starts this spring – a fourth against maidens “We tried to set ourselves up for this meet a lit- best care we can of the animals. Everything we’re May 20 and a second in stakes company at Fair tle more than last year; we had a really good meet running right now I’m trying to run in the right rac- Hill a week later. Dalton was aboard for the latter, last year,” said Gargan. “We had a really good Bel- es, we’re trying to win every race we bring over.” because he could tack 137, and was impressed. mont, and I didn’t expect to be doing this well.” – Shayna Tiller “They went steady on soft ground, she only had Gargan has trained for owners Rich and Karen to run down over the last three,” he said of the Fair Papiese of Midwest Thoroughbreds for more than • Bernie Dalton headed from his home in South Hill race. “She jumped big and careful over a few two years and they teamed to win five at Saratoga Carolina to the Virginia Gold Cup to ride a jump of them. She was going to the last and it was like I in 2016. race a few years ago, and called a trainer. The call can really send her or I can let her chip and pop, so “Rich and his wife are wonderful to work for went to voice mail. I just let her pop, she landed a bit flat and the other and train for,” Gargan said. “He doesn’t really tell “Look, I’m coming up. I’ve only got one ride all horse came and got her. I figured on this ground, you what to do with the horse or where to run them. day and I’d be happy to school one around for you the way she quickened I just had to keep her out of They want results because that’s what this racing in the maiden. I see you’ve got three in there and trouble and put her in gear.” Swoop raced near the back early, advanced into game’s about, but he leaves you alone to either to two of them aren’t jocked up.” a striking spot alongside stablemate Sarah Joyce do good or do bad. If you do good he gives you the The trainer, Tom Voss, never called back, never after the last fence and then won a battle with credit, if you do bad he gives you the credit.” even acknowledged the call and didn’t give Dalton Wigwam Baby by three-quarters of a length. Sarah Midwest claimed Becker’s Galaxy for $40,000 the ride. Thursday, the day before Voss’ induc- Joyce stayed for third. Swoop earned $45,000 to from Michael Imperio and Nassau CC Stables tion into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall push her career mark to $129,469. She also extend- of Fame, Dalton guided home the Voss family’s while training with Rudy Rodriguez in May. The ed her family’s Saratoga streak to two as her dam Swoop in the $75,000 Mrs. Ogden Phipps hurdle 7-year-old gelding finished second for his new con- Admonish won here on the flat for Tom Voss in stakes for fillies and mares. nections at Belmont June 24, before running for 1998. $40,000 again Thursday. The irony wasn’t lost on Dalton. Dalton, an exercise rider for Kiaran McLaugh- “I claimed this horse for this meet,” said Gar- “Oh man, he was a great guy,” said the jockey lin on the NYRA circuit and in Dubai for years, gan. “We ran him last time in a mile and an eighth of Voss, who died in 2014. “I always had great fun won his second race of 2017 and first since April. race to set him up for today and learn a little bit with him, he was a real good guy and his record The 49-year-old Irishman missed a win Wednesday about him, and I figured out that he’d be better on speaks for itself. When he told you one was going by a neck after getting in front twice in the stretch the front end because when he gets around other to run well, it did. He knew his horses.” aboard Zio Elio. horses he likes to look at them. Trained by Voss’ daughter Elizabeth for her “I nearly forgot how to do it, it’s been so long,” “We sharpened him up, and he got claimed. mother Mimi, Swoop came into the Phipps as a said Dalton, who runs a training barn in Camden, Rudy went back for him, and he’s a lovely horse maiden. The Maryland-bred daughter of Louis Continued On Page 29 but sometimes you have to be in the right race to Quatorze won three times on the flat, and made two

28 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 4, 2017 you never expect a win here. I mean, you’re going to be disappointed an awful lot if you do that.” Thursday – Love You Dearly was hustled to the front by Luzzi Continued from page 28 to race in tandem with Tapceptional setting an opening quarter of :22.02. Dropped to the rail when that rival S.C. with his wife Kate. “Every one that I get now could dropped back, Love You Dearly led by 1 1/2 lengths com- be my last so I really enjoy it. I’ve been coming up here ing into the stretch and held on to win by a neck from the since 2001 for Kiaran, for ourselves. I love coming up fast-closing favorite. Newman was quick to cite the im- For 40 years, here, it’s like my second home. I know half of the crowd portance of a win at here for an owner-breeder operation. on any given day. This is as good as it gets for me. This is “We own the mare, we pretty much just breed all our Engel Law Offices my Cheltenham.” own, they’re all dropped here in New York,” Newman – Joe Clancy said. “There was a time when we first got involved, and has represented horsemen I’m going back decades ago, when we were a claiming op- with their legal issues, • Mixed emotions greeted Love You Dearly in the win- eration but we evolved over time and now we’ve got four ner’s circle after her victory in the second. or five mares that we breed every year in New York and and continues to do so. “Unfortunately, she was claimed,” Newman Racing’s some of the better mares we’ll send to Kentucky. Others, Adam Newman said. “She’s a homebred, so we’ll obvi- like the dam here (So Far So Good, by Distinctive Pro), Licensing ously just hope for the best and follow her with great we breed, and we’ve used Freud a good bit. He’s a won- interest. That’s the way it goes.” derful stallion and very predictable and always gets us a Partnership Formation

The 3-year-old Freud filly was picked up for $25,000 nice horse.” by Robertino Diodoro. Love You Dearly was making hera a a a a a a a a a a a a a– Madison a a aScott a a aGaming a a a Comm. a a Hearingsa a a second start in the 6 1/2-furlong state-bred maiden claim- Other Legal Matters er and came into the race off a third in her debut at Finger • “Man, the races are tough here,” Gary Drake said Lakes in July. after watching his 5-year-old Big Rock come out on top “Charlie (Baker) obviously is very well established of a three-way finish in the third. up at Finger Lakes and knows the lay of the land and Luckily for Drakes’ New Phoenix Stable and trainer “Lengths ahead of the field” knows the competitive balance between the two spots,” Christophe Clement, they can count on Big Rock know- Newman said. “He fully expected her to move forward ing how to reach the Saratoga finish line. The 5-year-old 518-430-0005 considerably from that effort. Much tighter, much fitter, sonCongratulations of Rockport Harbor improved his record to 3-for-3 he got a better read on her. Mike Luzzi we do some work at Saratoga to longtime winning clients the 5 1/2-furlong allowance on the 855-677-5155 with, and the rider up there probably wasn’t our go to. Long story short, we expected her to run better today, but NEWMAN RACING Continued On Page 30 www.engelatty.com

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16-0233 STPub CustomCareEq NYTB Program.indd 1 3/24/16 11:56 AM Thursday – Continued from page 29 grass. “It’s becoming a habit,” Drake said. “(Clem- ent’s wife) Valerie said, ‘he got us off the duck last year, he has to do it again today.’ So, it’s a tradition now.” After watching at his customary spot inside the clubhouse, Clement exited the clubhouse with a smile, happy to get his first winner of the meet. “He does like it here. Christophe is going to spin him back in the stake on Monday,” Drake joked to Clement while walking back through the club- Tod Marks house. “We probably will run back here at the end Tarawa draws off to win Thursday’s fifth for trainer Dave Duggan. of the meet, there’s another stake here I think and he loves this racetrack. en claimers going 5 1/2 furlongs, winning by 12 Irwin said of the purchase for 160,000 guineas. “I sent him to (Christophe) at the beginning of lengths. Four weeks later, she won the Grade 1 Spi- “He broke his maiden like a real horse, then we ran his 4-year-old year. He got injured at 2, and it took naway. him in a group race at York and he started mak- us a while to get him to the races, and then we were Three years to the day later, 2-year-old filly Tar- ing a noise about the last furlong. Then at the end playing around with distance. But then Christophe awa won a 5 1/2-furlong $50,000 maiden claimer of the race he started breathing really heavily, his threw him in that 5 1/2-furlong spot up here last with ease. Although she only won by half of Condo heart was racing, and he fell down. He collapsed. year and he won two in a row. The races at Belmont Commando’s margin, she was equally impressive. “The next day we had the vet scope him, and his are at 6, so just a hair long for him. But, he loves Tarawa’s blowout win in the fifth was trainer throat collapses. We did a dynamic scope, (he had this 5 1/2 furlongs.” David Duggan’s first Saratoga score since 2014. an operation), they told us we have a one out of 25 Big Rock started his move on the turn while go- “I love talking about winners. It’s nice to be in shot, and it’s held.” ing four-wide. Joel Rosario’s mount rallied strongly this winner’s circle, great spot,” a jovial Duggan Dream Mover ran like a horse without many in the final furlong, outfinishing third-place finisher said after getting his picture taken with the filly. limitations winning the ninth, a 5 1/2-furlong al- Platinum Prince to his inside and 4-5 favorite and Edward Seltzer’s homebred Tarawa finished lowance on the grass for trainer Jimmy Jerkens. runner-up Hogy to his outside. ninth, beaten 24 1/4 lengths in a 6-furlong maiden Dream Mover raced towards the rear of the field “He’s such a game horse if you look at his chart, special on turf at Belmont in her debut June 16. before fanning out into the stretch, powering down he runs his race every time,” Drake said. “As one of “I knew she’d run a lot better,” Duggan said. the center of the track for jockey Junior Alvarado’s Christophe’s assistants told me, ‘he always gives his “The first race was basically just a complete throw- first win of the meet. best.’ It’s fun to have a horse like that.” out. She worked good enough to be in the top three. “I can’t read that European form very well,” Jerk- – Ben Gowans She kind of impressed today.” ens said. “It looked like he was a horse where sprint- Duggan added blinkers and Lasix for the win. ing or middle distance was his thing and I thought • Impressive juvenile winners at Saratoga usually “Just a little sharper with the blinkers and with especially on a firm turf he would like it. He ran just don’t run for a claiming tag, but occasionally can everything else,” Duggan said. “She’s an automatic like we were hoping.” surprise. little filly right now, she’s done real well.” Thursday’s win was On Aug. 3, 2014, 2-year-old filly Condo Com- Tarawa is by Field Commission, who Seltzer Saratoga Dream Mover’s first mando humiliated a group of $75,000 maid- raced, and is out of Yehenara, by Greatness, anoth- start in the U.S. and his er stallion Seltzer owned during his racing career. Leaders first race since a Group Despite breaking a step slow, Tarawa showed 3 stakes in Italy last Oc- immediate speed under Dylan Davis and never Trainer...... 1st tober for trainer Marco looked back, powering clear to a 6-length victory Chad Brown...... 14 Botti. in a respectable 1:04.61. The victory was the first Todd Pletcher...... 11 “Barry just sent him of the meet for Davis. Kiaran McLaughlin...... 5 to me out of the blue “She had plenty of gears in the turn,” Davis said Linda Rice...... 5 about two months ago,” to Duggan in the winner’s circle. “Once one came Danny Gargan...... 4 Jerkens said. “We just to her, I asked her a little bit. I made sure I switched Jason Servis...... 4 weren’t sure what spot her leads early to make sure she got focused.” exactly to run him in. As for running in a tough spot like the Spinaway Jockey...... 1st We just realized he won next, Duggan wasn’t so sure. Jose Ortiz...... 19 two races, but the money “Phase one is over,” he said. “We’ll decide on Irad Ortiz Jr...... 17 was so low that he was phase two in about three weeks.” John Velazquez...... 11 eligible for this a-oth- – Ben Gowans Javier Castellano...... 10 er-than. That helped a ...... 8 lot, too. I’d like to keep • Dream Mover collapsed after his third start, Joel Rosario...... 8 him sprinting, keep him the 2015 Group 3 Tattersalls Acomb Stakes at York Luis Saez...... 7 strong. It looks like he in England. Ricardo Santana Jr...... 6 might be useful that Tod Marks “I bought him as a 2-year-old at the Craven Through Thursday way.” Big Rock (left) heads to the front in the third. breeze-up sale,” Team Valor International’s Barry – Madison Scott

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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 31 SARATOGA RESULTS Stand up Thursday August 03. SIXTH $55,000, STARTERS ALLOWANCE $50,000, 3 & UP, 5 1/2F 5 First Appeal J. Lezcano $10.20 $5.60 $3.60 FIRST $75,000, STAKES - MRS. OGDEN PHIPPS S., 4&UP, 2 1/16M 7 Avery Maeve K. Carmouche $7.50 $4.80 2 Swoop B. Dalton $23.80 $8.40 $4.50 11 Hannah’s Smile E. Cancel $6.20 1 Wigwam Baby D. Nagle $5.70 $4.20 B Filly 2014, by First Defence - Regal Approach by Thunder Gulch and be 8 Sarah Joyce (IRE) J. Doyle $3.10 Owner: Corrente, Louis. Trainer: Linda Rice. B Mare 2010, by Louis Quatorze - Admonish by Caveat Breeder: Mr. & Mrs. Bertram R. Firestone (NY). Owner: Voss, Mrs. Thomas, H.. Trainer: Elizabeth Voss. Late Scratches: R Lucky Charm Breeder: Mary Voss (MD). Time: 1:01.80 counted! Time: 3:53.36 Exacta (2-1), $117.50; Superfecta (2-1-8-3), $4,679.00; Daily Double (8-5), $212.50; Exacta (5-7), $64.00; Superfecta (5-7- Trifecta (2-1-8), $553.00 11-6), $4,370.00; Trifecta (5-7-11), $591.00; Pic 3 (2-8-5), $2,309.00; Pic 4 (3-2-8-1/5), $4,908.00; Pic 5 (12-3-2-8-1/5), $55,318.00 SECOND $39,000, NY-BRED MAIDEN CLM $25,000, 3 & UP, 6 1/2F 12 Love You Dearly M. Luzzi $16.00 $8.20 $6.30 SEVENTH $85,000, ALLOWANCE, 3 YO, 1 1/16M 1 Iwishirish I. Ortiz, Jr. $4.10 $2.90 11 Danceland E. Cancel $14.00 $5.90 $4.40 14 Desert Affair J. Ortiz $4.20 7 Overnegotiate J. Velazquez $7.30 $4.50 Ch Filly 2014, by Freud - So Far So Good by Distinctive Pro 1 Kahrumana J. Rosario $3.10 Owner: Newman Racing. Trainer: Charlton Baker. B Filly 2014, by Tapit - Wonder Woman by Storm Cat Breeder: Donald Newman (NY). Owner: Allen Stable, Inc.. Trainer: Claude McGaughey III. Claimed: Love You Dearly claimed by Bone, Robert D. for $25,000 Breeder: Mr. Joseph Allen LLC (KY). Time: 1:17.54 Late Scratches: Crimson Frost Daily Double (2-12), $297.00; Exacta (12-1), $54.50; Quinella (1- Time: 1:40.78 12), $34.60; Superfecta (12-1-14-6), $11,848.00; Trifecta (12-1-14), Daily Double (5-11), $81.00; Exacta (11-7), $101.50; Superfecta $331.00 (11-7-1-9), $6,463.00; Trifecta (11-7-1), $394.50; Pic 3 (8-5-11), $2,994.00 THIRD $93,000, AOC $80,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F Take the survey 3 Big Rock J. Rosario $6.60 $2.80 $2.10 EIGHTH $100,000, STAKES - BIRDSTONE S., 3 YO’S & UP, 1 3/4M 4 Hogy F. Geroux $2.30 $2.10 1 Hard Study J. Velazquez $4.10 $2.30 $2.30 by August 18th to 6 Platinum Prince J. Leparoux $2.40 5 Scuba K. Carmouche $2.90 $2.70 Gr/ro Horse 2012, by Rockport Harbor - Royal G G by Royal Academy 8 Archanova C. Landeros $6.10 update the Owner: New Phoenix Stable. Trainer: Christophe Clement. B B Colt 2013, by Big Brown - Hard Call by Rock Hard Ten reeder: J. K. Griggs & Linda Griggs (KY). Owner: Pompa, Jr., Paul, P.. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. Economic Impact Late Scratches: Hey Jabber Jaw Breeder: Paul Pompa Jr. (KY). Claimed: Hogy claimed by Hui, Michael M. for $80,000 Late Scratches: Tu Brutus (CHI) Time: 2:56.17 of the U.S. Equine Time: 1:01.12 Daily Double (11-1), $29.40; Exacta (1-5), $11.20; Superfecta (1-5-8- Daily Double (12-3), $57.50; Exacta (3-4), $12.60; Superfecta (3-4-6- 2), $305.00; Trifecta (1-5-8), $80.00; Pic 3 (5-11-1), $212.50 Industry 1), $43.20; Trifecta (3-4-6), $18.60; Pic 3 (2-12-3), $807.00 NINTH $85,000, ALLOWANCE, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F FOURTH $78,000, NY-BRED AOC $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M 4 Dream Mover (IRE) J. Alvarado $15.60 $9.00 $6.10 2 Becker’s Galaxy K. Carmouche $7.30 $3.30 $2.70 12 Hold Me Black J. Leparoux $14.60 $12.40 4 Beyond the Green J. Ortiz $4.10 $2.70 6 Banana Thief R. Santana, Jr. $9.90 1A Good Luck Gus L. Saez $3.60 Ch Colt 2013, by Dream Ahead - Maramba by Hussonet Gr/ro Gelding 2010, by Greeley’s Galaxy - Cheval de Joi by French Owner: Team Valor International. Trainer: James Jerkens. Deputy Breeder: D. G. Iceton (IRE). Late Scratches: Silver Assault, Hard Owner: Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc.. Trainer: Danny Gargan. Scramble. Time: 1:01.44 Breeder: Allen S Becker (NY). Late Scratches: Royal Posse Daily Double (1-4), $41.20; Exacta (4-12), $338.50; Superfecta (4- Claimed: Becker’s Galaxy claimed by Dubb, Michael for $40,000, Good 12-6-2), $26,813.00; Trifecta (4-12-6), $4,519.00; Pic 3 (11-1-4), Luck Gus claimed by Jacobson, David for $40,000, Jet Black claimed $318.50; Grand slam (1/5/7/11-1/4/7/11-1/4/5/8-4), $97.50 by Yellow Moon Stable for $40,000 Time: 1:51.14 TENTH $45,000, NY-BRED MAIDEN CLM $40,000, 3 & UP, 1 1/16M Daily Double (3-2), $27.00; Exacta (2-4), $28.60; Quinella (2-4), 9 Zenbennie A. Arroyo $28.40 $10.00 $6.20 $14.60; Superfecta (2-4-1-7), $161.00; Trifecta (2-4-1), $94.50; Pic 10 Wish Upon L. Saez $6.00 $4.70 www.horsecouncil. 3 (12-3-2), $253.50 4 Paz the Wine J. 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Friday, August 4, 2017 The Saratoga Special 33 cupofcoffee Sizing Shirt BY SEAN CLANCY “Who is that chestnut horse?” ple of times as a baby at Dela- buy the horse, “I can’t believe Nobody answered. ware, went home to grow up and they’re going to sell this horse.” The chestnut horse free-wheeled around the now he’s just coming back into That helped. shedrow at Lizzie Merryman’s barn at Fair Hill work.” Dr. Kathy Anderson vetted Training Center for the second time – big, scopey, “Yeah, who’s he by?” I asked, him for us, in the middle of the long head, free-walking, a natural sequence of mo- hoping for hope. process, she turned and looked at mentum and verve. Jockey/exercise rider Billy Hol- “Concern.” us, “This horse gives you a good lick sat still as a sprinkle on a doughnut, long leg, I huffed, searching my limit- vibe.” bracing against a horse who naturally walked too ed pedigree knowledge for a nice We made the deal for Good fast. horse by Concern. The few I had Night Shirt. “Who is that chestnut horse?” I asked again. seen were bay and small. This Lizzie, with help from Gil- Nobody answered. horse was anything but bay and lian Barnes and a team full of I handed a leather bridle I was holding to Lizzie small. patience, made him into a nice as she tacked up her stakes mare With Patience on a “What kind of mare?” I asked. horse, he could have been a run- cold Mid-Atlantic winter morning. “Two Punch.” away, they taught him to temper “Where are you going?” I puffed, trying to ignore what that natural sequence of momen- “I’m going to see that chestnut horse.” sounded like an incongruent mat- tum and verve. I rode him once, I hopped in my Honda Civic and fishtailed out ing, again, in my limited pedigree we jogged the hills of Fair Hill, he the stone driveway like it was closing time, ripped knowledge. The few I had seen ran off with me without ever get- past the speed limit signs, parked at the starting gate, were gray and fast. This horse was anything but ting out of a jog, his power was palpable as his neck ducked through the pine saplings and ran down gray and fast. went up and his head went down. to the outside rail of the dirt track. The chestnut “Is he for sale?” I asked. We sprinted him on the dirt once, he came run- horse walked onto the track, stood, stared and then “I guess Mom would sell him.” Moscarelli said. ning, then tried him long on the dirt twice, he was broke into that natural sequence of momentum and We watched him for another couple of days, galloping while the rest were running. Switched to verve again. He jogged like a soldier on a march. picking over him, “A little straight in his shoulder, the turf, he finished third at Colonial Downs, it was He galloped like a sergeant, high-blowing like he maybe a little narrow for his size…” but were still starting to click. Then he won two straight over was barking orders. And sauntered home like the impressed. the Pimlico turf. He leveled off in two tries against general, mission accomplished. Lizzie galloped him, loved him. I remember her two-other-than competition in the fall, lugging in He had me at hello. saying if we don’t buy this horse, we’ll never buy a and finishing last at the Meadowlands in his final I followed him back to the barn, leaving my car horse, or something like that. She was bullish. 3-year-old start. Chris DeCarlo rode him that night, at the starting gate, just watching him walk along I asked Suzanne Moscarelli if she wanted to sell, he came back like he had seen a ghost. the horse path and down the hill to the barn. I cor- “Well, you know, you always have to have wares in Just a few years removed from riding races, wor- nered his trainer, Vince Moscarelli. your barrow,” she said. rying about money, uncomfortable with risk (well, For the third time in 15 minutes, I asked that I called Dad about the big chestnut horse. Dad monetary risk), restless in every way, I made the de- same question. told me about buying Federico Tesio winner Four- cision to sell him that winter. Lizzie told me I was “Who is that chestnut horse?” matt from Suzannne and her husband Vinnie, making a mistake. A big mistake. I did it anyway, Moscarelli shrugged. “They raise good horses and they’re great to deal selling that chestnut horse to Jack Fisher and Sonny “He’s a homebred of Mom’s and Doc Bowman’s. with, honest, old school.” Via. Maryland-bred. Unraced. 3-year-old,” Moscarelli That helped. The rest is history. A million dollars worth of his- said. “Hasn’t done much, two minute licked a cou- Hollick was crestfallen that we were trying to tory, a Hall of Fame worth of history.

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