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SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S ✫ T COMPLIMENTS OF T O L The aratoga A T I H E EC S SP ARATOGA Year 10 • Issue 19 Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Saturday, August 14, 2010 ‘In’ Thing Interactif prevails in Hall of Fame photo Dave Harmon Hall of Fame Ceremony • Sword Dancer Preview • Entries/Handicapping CELEBRATING 1 0 0 YEARS Flatter A.P. INDY – PRAISE, by MR. PROSPECTOR TAR HEEL MOM Lifetime: 8% SWs • 12% Stakes Horses 117 Winners from 163 Starters To date in 2010: New GSW • New SW Seven Stakes Horses CHAMPAGNE EYES Brother to Top Freshman Sire CONGRATS Post Offi ce Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com PASHITO THE CHE INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] INSET PHOTOS © ADAM COGLIANESE / BENOIT / EQUI-PHOTO 00628.CLB.FlatterSarSpcl8-14.indd 1 8/13/10 2:05:36 PM 2 Saturday, August 14, 2010 Saturday, August 14, 2010 3 here&there... at Saratoga 517 Broadway, Suite 207 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (Second Floor, around the back) The Special quotes from Saratoga Phone: (518) 490-1175 WORTH REPEATING Sean Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Mobile: (302) 545-4424 “Boy it was nice to have hair.” [email protected] Former jockey, and Hall of Fame keynote speaker, Weather E-mail: Gary Stevens after watching himself in an old video clip or [email protected] Today: Partly cloudy. Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com “I wish I had some wonderful anecdotal stories about Harry Bassett, High 84. but since he preceded me by a few years . I have none.” Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Libby Jones, in her acceptance speech for Hall of Famer Harry Bassett – who raced in the Tonight: Partly cloudy. 1870s; Jones’ great-grandfather A.J. Alexander bred the distance-loving, 23-race winner Every day of Sales Week Aug. 2-8. Low 58. “We had a different philosophy about training horses – they thought The Staff Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy. we should be winning races.” Staff Writers: Phil Janack, Karen Johnson, Trainer Bob Baffert, on his first stint as trainer for The Thoroughbred Corporation High 84. Mike Kane, Terese Karmel, Ben Meyers, Katie ended; he got the job back and picked up future Hall of Famer Point Given. Bo Williams. Monday: Scattered Layout/Design: Dan Vunk. “I’d like a crack at a couple of those Breeders’ Cup races.” thunderstorms. High 79. Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Retired jockey John Rotz, on the comparatively rich purses of today Connie Bush. Handicappers: Gaile Fitzgerald, Dean Keppler, “You can’t put somebody else there.” Tuesday: Scattered Brian Nadeau, John Panagot, John Shapazian Assistants: Chelsea Brown, Maggie Kimmitt. Trainer Ralph Nicks on Valiant Passion’s residency in the pony stall thunderstorms. High 83. Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy, Jane Motion. “At least the horses will be quiet.” Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Stephanie Brennan, about beginning the Kathy Rubin at (203) 650-6815. breaking process in the heat of Ocala ST Publishing Inc. Home Office “Is it true, Rudy Rodriguez 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, claimed the winner to run back in Elkton, MD 21921 the Turf Writers?” (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Valet Rodney Paine, after the Jonathan www.st-publishing.com Sheppard-trained Lead Us Not won an [email protected] optional claimer over hurdles Thursday The Saratoga Special Steeplechase Times “You picked a good time to try Thoroughbred Racing Calendar and beat Voss and Sheppard.” The Best of The Saratoga Special Tom Bellhouse to a steeplehase handicapper Saratoga Days and other acclaimed who tossed Sheppard and Tom Voss products and services from Thursday’s jump race within the equine industry. (Sheppard went 1-2 for a $91 exacta) Call us about your editorial needs. “They’ll leave the husband before they’ll leave the baby.” “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be Trainer John Campo, on the sought and one day acquired and then tendencies of wives/mothers retired to the trophy case. It is instead an ambition which must be pursued each day, never ending, never totally “You’ve got to be greedy in this achieved. That striving, that ambition is game. You’ve got to want to win an essential part of our newspapers, a everything.” cornerstone of what we have been, Jock’s agent Matt Muzikar what we are, and what we will be.” Tod Marks – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Little Jock. A Saratoga fan got into the Halloween spirit Friday. Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 4 Saturday, August 14, 2010 Continued from Just Sayin’ here&there... previous page “She had a great, big frame on her, I liked her pedigree, she had a lot of leg. She had The Special quotes WORTH REPEATING from Saratoga hair on her long like a Shetland pony.” Trainer Linda Rice when asked about her first impression of In Te Domine as a weanling “He was doing what I told him to do. Wait.” Trainer Ralph Nicks, asked what Julien Leparoux was doing during Valiant Passion’s debut win “Tell him, he only borrowed her.” HORSE TRANSPORTATION 800-523-8143 www.brookledge.com Injured jockey Robby Albarado, about Leparoux, who replaced Albarado on Valiant Passion “Smart, smart horse.” Nicks when asked about Horse of the Year Cigar “This is the house horse. It’s important for my children, my children’s “When she ran as a maiden last year and we went into that paddock, children.” we said, ‘This is hallowed ground.’ It’s gotten better and better. We are Trainer Rick Violette, giving instructions to jockey blessed.” Alan Garcia for the Statue of Liberty Stakes Tom Zyra, owner of Statue of Liberty winner In Te Domine “You have children?” “You might need this more.” Garcia in response Trainer Linda Rice, offering a glass of champagne, to NYRA’s Steve Duncker, who had two political meetings scheduled for Thursday night “Such a long, long time to be gone and a short time to be here.” Names of the Day Quintus Sertorius, seventh Former champion steeplechase jockey Arch Kingsley, race. Owned by John O’Connor, quoting Jerry Garcia, about his visit to Saratoga Raging Wit , first race. Colt is by this colt is named after a Roman Distorted Humor out of Pleasant statesman. We just liked the way “We know we didn’t win, but we’ve got a lot of respect for the winner Temper. it sounded. and we’re real proud to do what we did.” Heisman, eighth race. WinStar Trainer George Weaver on Statue of Liberty runner-up Bretton Woods homebred has a name for greatness. SEVEN 2-year-old winners in 2010 • Third Chance at Arlington Park for Ron Magers and James Divito • Sunday Splitsville at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher • Another Silver Oak, 3rd in the Sanford at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher. • Loving Dove at Monmouth Park for Red Oak Farm and Gregory Sacco. • Gambline Geraldine at Belmont Park for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher. • K.R.’s Jazz at Monmouth Park for A Woman’s Thing and Mary Hartman. • Saratoga Louie at Monmouth Park for Gary Barber and Peter Miller Our graduates include: Vineyard Haven (Gr. l) • Zensational (Gr. l) Contact Jim Crupi Bustin Stones (Gr. l) • Awesome Gem (Gr. l) Toll Free: (866) 313-5400 Macho Again (Gr. l) • Ten Most Wanted (Gr. l) Cell: (352) 427-1600 Stately Character (Gr. I) • Toccet (Gr. l) Bella Bellucci (Gr. l) • Acey Deucey (Gr. l) www.newcastlefarm.com Moon Catcher (Gr. l) • Weekend Magic (Gr. 1) Saturday, August 14, 2010 5 SWORDWHITNEY DANCER HANDICAP STAKES PREVIEW PREVIEW The Gang’s All Here Grade I turf marathon draws varied group of 10 BY SEAN CLANCY While Gio Ponti is away, the rest will play. With defending Eclipse Award winner and division- al leader Gio Ponti waiting for the Arlington Million, today’s Sword Dancer Invitational attracted an eclec- tic and accomplished bunch of turf stars. Veterans and Tod Marks youngsters, proven and unproven, millionaires and Bearpath heads into the Sword Dancer as a contender for trainer Ian Wilkes. two-other-thans and even two former winners of the Grade I stakes. For Ian Wilkes and Lothenbach Stable’s Bearpath, to give up on the 3-year-old son of Dynaformer who Expansion, Bearpath, Grand Couturier and In- it’s been a long, strange trip. was 0-for-7 at the time. terpatation exit the Man o’ War where they were en- The race is still on his chart. Maiden going 6 1/2 Sixteen months later, Bearpath is a Grade III winner gulfed by Gio Ponti. Neil Drysdale entered two, recent furlongs at Keeneland, sixth, beaten 4 1/4 lengths. and a live longshot in the Sword Dancer. Sunset Handicap winner Marlang and $2.2 million Ian Wilkes, jockey James Graham and advisor Drew “I cut him, that made the biggest difference. He had earner Marsh Side. Bill Mott returns Al Khali to the Nardiello conferred in the paddock chute, confused by a world of talent in the morning, but he just wasn’t stakes division after dominating an allowance turf the performance. Graham said he finished with a ton doing it in the afternoon,” Wilkes said from his barn race at Belmont. Christophe Clement searches for a of horse. Wilkes knew the horse worked well in the Friday morning. “It’s easy to drop them in for a tag, first stakes win for Grassy, who recently won an al- morning, but failed to reproduce it in the afternoon.