Pletcher Filly Repeats in Ballston
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SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S T COMPLIMENTS OF T !2!4/'! O L T IA H C E E 4HE S SP ARATOGA Year 8 • No. 25 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Friday, August 22, 2008 While back Pletcher filly repeats in Ballston Spa Wait A While (right) holds off Carriage Trail in Thursday’s feature. Tod Marks Tod INSIDE: gINgEr puNch EyES pErSoNal ENSIgN • ENtrIES & haNDIcappINg • coloNEl johN tEStS track Terry Lindsey Equidae Gallery At the Holiday InnsOpen daily 9 - 9 July 25 - Sept. 1 LECTURES AND DEMOS Each Friday at 10 a.m. — a different guest each week CHAMPAGNE OPENING Aug. 2, 6-8 p.m. — Introducing THE SARATOGA RACING BRACELET Designed by Terry Lindsey, Music by Jane Wood VIEW GALLERY WWW.EQUIDAE.COM 518-580-1766 gallery / 802-379-1156 cell / 802-325-3918 studio ARTISTS DISPLAYED Top left to right, Kate Upton, Terry Lindsey, Susie Cronin, Jaime Corum, Werner Rentsch, Kathy Partridge, Louise W. King, Louise Peterson plus 30 more wonderful artists. 2 Friday, August 22, 2008 Here & There at Saratoga 100 Lake Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 At the corner of Lake and Regent Phone: (518) 490-1175 Sean Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Mobile: (302) 545-4424 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Internet: www.saratogaspecial.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 Copy Chief: Jamie Santo Staff Writers: Brian Nadeau, John Panagot, Karen Johnson, Laura Pepper Graphic Designer: Carl Hott Proofreader: Melaina Phipps Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Distribution: Barry Watson, Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy, Jane Motion, Bryce Johnson Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Jon Bordeau (518) 812-4545 ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Connie Bush (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 www.st-publishing.com My (tin) cup runneth over [email protected] Fans (we presume) of Tin Cup Chalice were in a celebratory mood after the horse took the Big Apple Triple Wednesday. The Saratoga Special Steeplechase/Eventing Times “I’ll reduce the day before.” Thoroughbred Racing Calendar Worth Repeating Retired jockey Angel Cordero, The Best of The Saratoga Special who is set to ride in the Legends on Tour Saratoga Days and other acclaimed “Somebody get Curlin out of the way so I can race Oct. 18 at Santa Anita, while products and services saddle my maiden – wait, it must be an omen; eating a doughnut Thursday morning maybe I’m going to run against him soon.” within the equine industry. Trainer Bruce Alexander, whose horse “As George Weaver says, ‘Where Cindy goes, Call us about your editorial needs. “Don’t say that; Notorious Ness circled anonymously in the Drum Major goes.’ ” paddock while a crowd eyed paddocking Dogwood Stable’s Mary Jane Howell “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be you don’t know superstars Curlin, J Be K and Pyro about Bernard Baruch entrant Drum Major, sought and one day acquired and then who is Cindy Weaver’s designated ride retired to the trophy case. It is instead “I only brought what I knew would fit. I’ve an ambition which must be pursued what winter’s learned to not bring 25 up here.” “When I ran two seconds and then I had a 2-year- each day, never ending, never totally Trainer John Ward, old I really liked shin buck, I already saddled the achieved. That striving, that ambition is like here.” who was 3-for-5 as of Friday duck up. That don’t bother me.” an essential part of our newspapers, a Trainer Tom Proctor cornerstone of what we have been, Colleen O’Brien, when “You gave me an extra win. I hope you know what we are, and what we will be.” hearing it felt like winter something I don’t.” “I don’t want to get in on that.” – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Jockey Ramon Dominguez, when reading Proctor, regarding his voting preference Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 Thursday morning The Saratoga Special standings, which mistakenly credited Dominguez with 21 wins More Here and There on Page 4 ANOTHER STAKES WINNER FIRST EVER winner of the OTB’s Big Apple Triple! INSURED BY HAMMERTOWN TIN CUP CHALICE wins INSURANCE AGENCY THE!LBANY3TAKESANDTHE BONUS “Protecting Equine for winning the Big Apple Triple Crown Investments” Congratulations to the connections: Specializing in Equine Insurance: Trainer – Michael Lecesse Mortality, Theft, Owners – Michael Lecesse and Scot Van Laer Stallion Permanent Disability, Contact:!NYA3HECKLEYsMain: sCell: 646-872-6843 Stallion First Season Infertility, 0/"OXs0INE0LAINS .9 Barrenness-Prospective Foal, E-mail: [email protected] Claiming and Website: www.hammertowninsurance.com Fall of the Hammer Friday, August 22, 2008 3 Track Talk LIVE! Here & There at Saratoga Radio Show With Tom Gallo in the Booth & Sean Clancy on the Backstretch STAR 101.3 FM Every Saturday, 9 to 10 a.m. th th July 26 through August 30 Featuring…. i Saratoga Racetrack News and Events i Celebrity Guests answering call-in questions i Handicapping with OTB/Glens Falls Post Star Racing Analyst Kyle Brownell Listen in! STAR 101.3 or TrackTalkLIVE.net Call in! (518) 899-1013 E-Mail us! [email protected] Support the sponsors! Fasig-Tipton FINAL AD 3-31-08:FINAL AD 3-27-06 4/1/08 11:03 AM Page 1 $255,000,000 From 2000 through 2007 in black type stakes races alone, trainers who fed Hallway Feeds Racing Products earned in excess of Connie Bush It’s OK – I’m with the band $255-million dollars in A young music fan gives clarinet player Dan Levinson his due. first place purse money. Worth Repeating Name of the Day “If I work 50 horses over the Polytrack, 48 of Proven Right, second race. The 2-year-old filly them like it in the morning. They travel on it and is by Vindication. ® they go. I get on some horse with arthritis, they jog right off.” Sugarless, third race. The 6-year-old mare is Angel Cordero, on the out of Unreal Cupcake. benefits of a synthetic racetrack ® “We’ll take a gift from Frankel.” Weather Trainer John Terranova, after Pretty Carina fumbled away Today: Sunny. Warm. High 86. Winds SSE at 5 a victory to Awesome I Am Wednesday to 10 mph. Tonight: A few clouds. Low 59. Winds light and “Just eyeing these hurdles – thinking about the variable. future.” Hallway Feeds Jockey Robby Albarado, while leaning on the Travers Day: Sun and rail overlooking the hurdles in the infield of clouds. High in the low Lexington, KY the Oklahoma training track 80s and low in the low (859) 255-7602 • (800) 753-4255 60s. “That Dallas Green . ” Sunday: Sun and clouds. www.hallwayfeeds.com Greeting to trainer Dallas Stewart High in the low 80s and low in the low 60s. Take A Number Monday: Partly cloudy 3 Kids riding one bicycle on Union Avenue with a stray thunderstorm. High in the mid 70s Wednesday afternoon. and low in the low 50s. 4 Friday, August 22, 2008 Here & There at Saratoga The Special’s straw (well, hay) poll began back at Keeneland in April, The Big Horserace and we’ll keep a running total of the votes around town. McCain Pat Kelly Pam Ritter Jeanne Wood Pat Turner Ann Macleod Undecided Richard DePass Beth Fout Billy Badgett Nathan Wood Jim Gallagher John DeStefano Skip Dickstein Danielle Hodsdon Barry Schwartz Daisy Phipps Vic Gilardi Brian Walls Gerry Donk Mike Trombetta Kip Elser Randy Romero Stuart Janney Anthony Mormino Derek Smith Melaina Phipps Dave Grening Bruce Brown John Hennig Tom Voss Jeannine Edwards Leah Gyarmati Will Phipps Wayne Lukas Kyle Brownell Steve Adika Dallas Stewart Mike Sellito Tom Stone Charlton Baker Jimmy Jerkens Allen Iwinski Pat Reynolds Loretta Lusteg Jamie Lamonica Dave Grace Tiffany Mueller Barclay Tagg Eddie Brown Obama Wendy (clocker girl) Peter Pugh Al Stall Flaco Escobar Tom Albertrani Matt Muzikar Robin Smullen Bonner Young Tom Goff Little Wendy (clocker girl) The Fruit Man Joanne Jones David Engel Lenny Pike Jimmy Toner Harry Walker Sam Maloney Javier Castellano Toadie Taylor Heather Craig Bill Mott Matt Firestone Pat Hennig Sandy Maggio John Adger Alan Garcia Michael Thomas Mark Hennig Rick Lang Matt McCarron Pat Correa Mitch Levites Tony Micallef Elliott Masie Stan Hough Bill Graves Ciarran Dunne Jeffrey Sanchez Ray Amato Helen Richards Sherry Ross Susie Bricker Mitch Friedman Max Hodge Moon Gamble Jeff Carle Del Carroll Phil Janack Tim McKinsey Robby Albarado Noel Twyman Roddy Valente Kathy Jones Doug Cauthen Trish Moseley Dave Rarey Winston Heslop Mary Jane Howell Rusty Arnold Van Cushny Ethan Jones-Potts Tom Bush Jeff Hooper Craig Peretz Jorge Chavez Don Nichols Tara O’Brien Joan Ciampi Joe DiAngelo Steve Rushing Bessie Gruwell Keith O’Brien Cindy Nichols Duncan Hinkle Steve Klesaris Dr. Hunt Eileen Cornacchia Carlos Martin Danny Peitz Mike Hushion Maxine Correa Independent Matt Cumani Joe Cornacchia Barry Wiseman Sal Russo Barbara Livingston Nick Martinez Neither Grey Price Gregg Ryan Tim Ritvo Bobby Frankel Pam Donehower Doc Danner Rita Cutler Duke Burris Steve Young Richard Migliore Alix Michel Ross Perot Doug Fout Robert Cutler Sandi Burris Dan Pride Brant Laue Angel Cordero Roy Lerman Rich Cristiano Jean-Luc Samyn Mary Ryan Doc Richardson Dr. Castro Jan Woods Richard DeStasio Jerry Bailey Webb Carroll Bill Hirsch Fay Donk Colleen O’Brien Daffy Duck Josh Cooper Chris O’Connor George Weaver Susie Hart Jack Fisher Steve Bass Gaile Fitzgerald Freddie Bond Gus Brown Gary Contessa Pug Hart Ann Via Seth Benzel Barbara Brown Bob Frieze Terry Finley Guy Torsilieri Sonny Via Cindy Weaver Michael Martin Danielle Rosier Rick Violette Beverly Torsilieri Rose Hennig Dr.