Squad Goals Squad Goals in Grade1dianastakes MR HAVERCAMP WINSFRIDAY STAKES TWO-YEAR-OLDS CLASH INSANFORD ENTRIES &HANDICAPPING The
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Year 19 • No. 3 Saturday, July 13, 2019 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 Squad Goals Brown holds strong hand in Grade 1 Diana Stakes ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING TWO-YEAR-OLDS CLASH IN SANFORD MR HAVERCAMP WINS FRIDAY STAKES Tod Marks Tod 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 Past Hard Spun’s Hard Not To Like won the G1 Diana Stakes in 2015 setting a new stakes record of 1:45.22 which still stands. Present Tod Marks In 2019, Hard Spun has three RIP. The paddock statue of Sea Hero, 1993 Travers Stakes and Kentucky Derby winner, took on a little extra meaning Friday after the Turkish Jockey Club announced that the Vir- Graded-winning three year-olds ginia-bred had died at 29. He was the oldest Derby winner, an honor that now falls to 1994 winner Go For Gin. in the US, include G1 Ashland heroine Out For A Spin. here&there...at Saratoga Only Curlin has more. GUEST HANDICAPPER The Special puts local celebrities, racing personalities and other friends to work every day we publish and today our Tom Law flips the script and appears at The Brentwood’s Handicapping Happy Hour to preview the Diana Day card. The “Racing 101” event presented by The Jockey Club’s Safety Net Foundation and Deep Eddy Vodka runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 15 Gridley Street. Other Saturday hosts include Anthony Stabile, Paul Lo Duca, Jonathan Kinchen, Peter Thomas Fornatale, Maggie Wolfendale Morley, Dan Tordjman, Peter Rotondo Sr. and Lee Davis. Future NAMES OF THE DAY Yearlings selling soon... Prisoner’s Dilemma, second race. New York-bred filly is by Blame out of Silence Please. Irked, fourth race. The first of what will surely be many Claiborne/Dilschneider names of the day, this colt is by War Front out of Vexed. Vaya Con Dios, fourth race. The saying goes, ‘Go with God.’ The 2-year-old colt is by Majes- ticperfection. Our Country, sixth race. Two-year-old colt is by Constitution. Prosperity, eighth race. Gainesway’s filly is out of Flourish. ABOUT THE COVER Designed by Todd Koch, today’s cover features trainer Chad Brown’s four (4!) runners in today’s Grade 1 Diana over a background barn scene from the trainer’s shedrow. The squad consists of (clockwise from upper left) Homerique, Thais, Rushing Fall and Sistercharlie. Photos by Tod Marks (4) and Eclipse Sportswire. Darley SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 here&there...at Saratoga POETRY CORNER THE HANDICAPPER By Peter Finley Tom Law Liked what he saw His horse was gaining fast No, it likely won’t be last Then, it moved into second gear And, suddenly, it drew near Now, behind a length or two Tom stood up to get a better view He yelled till he almost burst And by a nose his horse claimed first Finishing first was quite a feat But Tom never expected defeat. BY THE NUMBERS 1: Man sleeping in a car on East Avenue at 6:33 Friday morning. 1: Autograph signed by baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera for winning trainer Jim Ryerson Friday afternoon. Connie Bush Travel Tent. Some racing Kent fans Barnes, get ingenius Stallion while Manager staying (859) out 224-4585of the rain – www.shadwellfarm.comsort of – on Opening Day LICENSE PLATE$2.2 OF THEMillion DAY Yearling at Saratoga Thursday. EQUIDAE, Vermont. Terry Lindsey, is that you? Sire of Seven $100,000+ Earners 80% Won/Placed ALBERTUS Four SWs including a G1 Winner MAXIMUS Breeders’ Cup Winner By ALBERT THE GREAT G1 Millionaire Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager (859) 224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. [email protected] Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. [email protected] 259 East Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Writers: Catherine Galbraith, Shannon Germain, The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Ben Gowans, Terry Hill, Brandon Valvo. (the old feed store) Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. Handicappers: Charles Bedard, John Shapazian, Rob Whitlock. thisishorseracing.com Call us about your editorial needs. Design: Todd Koch. Published Thursday through Sunday Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 during the racing season. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Plus Monday, Aug. 5 and Tuesday, Aug. 6. Distribution & More: Madeline Ellsworth. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 w Blacktype Winners include Kentucky Oaks-G1 winner SERENGETI EMPRESS Over $ NINE 5 Million 83% Blacktype in Earnings Won/Placed Horses Alternation DISTORTED HUMOR – ALTERNATE, BY SEATTLE SLEW KY 3rd Crop Sires by Avg. Earnings NA/Europe per Named Foal __________________________ $ __________________________Jimmy Creed 31,736 $ __________________________ALTERNATION 30,863 $ __________________________Violence 29,075 $ __________________________Overanalyze 27,257 $ __________________________Point of Entry 26,590 $ __________________________Paynter 25,467 $ __________________________Poseidon’s Warrior 24,554 $ __________________________Flat Out 22,281 $ __________________________Graydar 20,957 $ __________________________Justin Phillip 19,568 $ __________________________Orb 19,374 $ __________________________Animal Kingdom 17,972 TDN 7/10/19 Pin Oak Stud Versailles, KY • (859) 873-1420 Inquiries to Clifford Barry or Nancy Stephens www.pinoakstud.com SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 here&there...at Saratoga Country Life Farm WORTH REPEATING Racing Partnerships “I’m in awe. I never want to leave.” Special intern Catherine Galbraith, upon entering the paddock for the first time before Thursday’s opener “I don’t know if I ever have.” COUNTRY LIFE FARM Trainer Gary Gullo, on when he last won two races on the same day at Saratoga (he doubled on Opening Day with Armament and Big Q) “Believe it or not, I have actually moved from this chair since the last time you saw me.” Joe Clancy to The Special’s Brandon Valvo when the writer returned to the office to find Clancy right where he left him last year “They found us.” Sparky at the Oklahoma starting gate Friday morning as a set of George Weaver’s arrived “I’ve always got questions, like, ‘Why am I doing this?’ ” TOD MARKS TOD Weaver, when asked if he had a question Country Life’s MONTE CRISTA, winner at Saratoga last summer of “I’ll tell you in about six hours.” $100,000 Riskaverse Stakes, runs today in Delaware Park’s $100,000 Bloodstock agent Steve Young, on how things were going Friday morning Justakiss Stakes. The $30,000 Fasig-Tipton May Sale purchase has four wins and $142,910 in earnings. “An Aussie and a Texan, imagine what we can direct.” Trainer Ralph Nicks, the latter, while talking to trainer Brian Lynch Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 “I hope you’re putting those interns hard to work.” Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 Special alum Ryan Martin, who works in the NYRA communications office, Thursday afternoon v v 410-879-1952 [email protected] countrylifefarm.com “Tell him the Kings suck.” Colorado Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson (owner of Opening Day stakes winner Comical) when writer Dave Grening told him that West Coast writer Jay Privman said hello “You live and die with your horses, to win a stake here…nobody outside the horse racing world really knows how difficult it is.” Saratoga Memories … Johnson after Comical won the Schuylerville “Erik is a good guy, he’s a good investor for the game, couldn’t be happier for him, couldn’t be “Narrowing it down to one thing would really be an impos- happier for the filly.” sible thing to do. From a personal standpoint, being part of Consignor Gene Recio after Comical won the Schuylerville the only winning pick-six ticket on Travers Day in 1993. One- “We’ve had other horses that I’ve told Erik to sell, this filly was sound, she didn’t need to go to the farm after the sale, she went straight to the racetrack. Not many horses are like that.” hundred-forty-one thousand on a non-carryover day. Right Recio about Schuylerville winner Comical now, it would be the best personal memory I can come up “It was the fastest race I’ve ever watched, it felt like it lasted 30 seconds.” with. Sea Hero won the Travers. Actually, believe it or not, the Recio, on the thrill of winning the Schuylerville last leg was Bertrando winning the Pacific Classic. That was part of it. Best Pal was the heavy favorite and we had Best Pal QUOTE OF THE DAY and the Bertrando entry (with Missionary Ridge). Sea Hero winning at $15 was the biggest price of the sequence. That “Probably American Pharoah. I went to the (Kentucky) Derby that year and said, ‘How do I get to that level?’ ” was my best gambling memory for sure.” – NYRA’s Andy Serling Colorado Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson, owner of Schuylerville Stakes winner Comical, when asked about a horse who inspired him ® Headley Bell: 859-221-5108 . Price Bell: 859-321-5117 800-523-8143 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, JULY 13, 2019 Presented by Photo of the Day Christmas in July Pinhooking Partnerships KIRKWOOD POTD 2-year-olds in training sales Yearling to 2-year-old prep (859) 312-3414 kirkwoodstables.com Proud to support Thoroughbred aftercare www.thoroughbredaftercare.org The Chief . Day 3 “Group Plan, when he won the Gold Cup, we weren’t going to run him because we were tired of running against Forego, plus he had even weights. We breezed him to run a mile and a sixteenth in the race before the Gold Cup, then we find out Forego wasn’t going to run.