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Year 15 • No. 28 Saturday, August 29, 2015 A Hero Horse American Pharoah graces Saratoga for Travers Tod Marks Tod TRAVERS DAY PREVIEWS • N.Y. SHOWCASE DAY COVERAGE • ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING Orb MALIBU MOON – LADY LIBERTY, by UNBRIDLED 1st • Kentucky Derby-G1 1st • Florida Derby-G1 1st • Fountain of Youth-G2 ______________________________ Won Five Consecutive Races $2.6 Million in Earnings 1st Foals Arrived This Year Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © KENTUCKY DERBY PHOTO BY Z 2 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 29, 2015 DAR8593 Saratoga Special Hard Spun 29 AUG15 26/08/2015 17:30 Page 1 HARD FACTSelect $35k+ stallions by number of 2015 Graded Stakes winners HARD SPUN $35K 6 WAR FRONT $150K 6 SPEIGHTSTOWN $80K 6 DISTORTED HUMOR $100K 5 Dave Harmon KITTEN’S JOY $100K 5 Full House. Triple Crown winner and heavy Travers favorite American Pharoah gal- lops for a crowded Saratoga Friday morning. ELUSIVE QUALITY $40K 4 STREET SENSE $35K 4 GHOSTZAPPER $60K 4 here&there... at Saratoga SCAT DADDY $35K 3 BY THE NUMBERS 15,000: A rough estimate of the attendance at American Pharoah’s morning gallop at Sara- toga Friday. Amazing. 2: Fans from Texas, who hitched a ride in The Special’s golf cart to the main gate after watching the Triple Crown winner gallop. They’ve got family in the area, but still. 1: Special staffer who went to the Chris Brown concert at SPAC Friday night. 3: Special staffers who had never heard of Chris Brown. 1: American Pharoah sandwich on the menu at Spring Street Deli. It’s a chicken cutlet on a hard roll with bacon, cheddar, lettuce, tomato and sriracha ranch. NAMES OF THE DAY Frosted, 11th race. The Travers starter is out of Fast Cookie. Condominium, second race. The 2-year-old colt is out of Garden District. Attraction, second race. The 2-year-old colt is by Blame out of Sweet Temptress. More like this at www.darleyamerica.com Hundred Years, second race. It’s subtle, but we like it. The 2-year-old colt is by Misremembered out of Sentebale, which means “forget me not” in the Sesotho language of the African country Lesotho. The Sentebale charity formed by England’s Prince Harry aims to help needy and vul- Darley nerable children in the country. Saturday, August 29, 2015 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “I don’t know how you guys do it. I read it and think, ‘how do they have time to do all this?’ There are a lot of little things that make Saratoga awesome and it’s one of them.” Assistant trainer Norm Casse about The Special “That was like a fighter’s punch.” Trainer John Shirreffs, while showing a video of Slim Shadey kicking a cameraman (Google it) before a European race “I’m glad I went with the pony.” Jockey John Velazquez, after galloping Travers hopeful Smart Transition “The pad was so forward, the whip went between the horse’s shoulder and the pad, when I went to pull it up, the pad sucked it out of my hand. It’s only happened once.” Velazquez, when asked how he lost his whip aboard The Big Beast in the Vanderbilt “Calamity Jane and Smokey The Bear.” Mike Balfe, when asked for the names of the protagonists in a funny story “He is a little reluctant to get up at that time in the morning.” Trainer Graham Motion, about his son Chappy’s potential as paper boy “I know it’s a little unusual for me to have a sprinter, but . .” Tod Marks Motion, about Forego runner Bourbon Courage Big and Tall Sale. Jerry Bailey (left) and Tom Durkin try on each other’s red jacket at the ceremony honoring Marylou Whitney and Dinny Phipps Friday. QUOTE OF THE DAY NAME OF THE DAY “I can give you 500,000 reasons why we’re taking a shot.” Fashionable Freddy, second race. Trainer Brian Lynch, on why Loose On The Town We’re not sure who Freddy is, but if he’s fashionable maybe is in today’s King’s Bishop (worth a half-million dollars) he wears High Button Shoes (the dam of the 2-year-old colt). 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He said ‘No more, you can’t work a horse for me anymore.’ ” Jockey Kendrick Carmouche, hopping off a Motion horse (that went much better) Friday “I have a trainer’s license.” Mike Lauer, when introduced as a trainer Friday “I wish we weren’t taking on a Triple Crown winner, but it’s going to be a great day of racing.” Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, on the mystique of facing American Pharoah in the Travers with Frosted “I guess they were scared of him.” Trainer Rick Violette, on owner (and NYRA board member) Len Riggio being stopped at the stable gate Thursday “I’m having lobster for breakfast, things are great.” Trainer Tom Morley, at the Lobster Hut early Friday “Like coming home.” Trainer Ben Colebrook, after bedding down Limousine Liberal in former boss Christophe Clement’s barn Tod Marks Mood Lighting. The place will look a bit different this afternoon. 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Every day of Sales Week Aug. 9-16. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Layout/Design: Kaitlyn Vishneowski. 6 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 29, 2015 with Jeremiah Englehart StableJeremiah Englehart sat in his patio Tour: set outside his shedrow while his team wrapped up post-training chores Fri- Every day at Saratoga, The Special day morning before the Saratoga (with help from sponsor Fasig-Tipton) Showcase card and marveled at his presents an exclusive Stable Tour good fortune at the current meeting. with a Saratoga trainer. “I was stabled here two years and For more, see: never won a race and then last year thisishorseracing.com/stabletours we won five, which I thought was a great meet,” Englehart said. “I wasn’t Saint Joseph: “He’s for Joe Bucci and looking forward to my Saratoga last Joe Riccelli. Chad (Brown) had him last year, year, but we managed five wins. This laid him up with an injury and brought him year I thought we had some horses back, we got him started back at Finger Lakes, that fit, had conditions and were do- tried to utilize the pool there. He just had his ing well. first breeze last week. Seems like a horse that “To be at seven right now, I texted will have a nice late fall, winter campaign that I’m excited to get going.” Kiaran McLaughlin that ‘I’m pinch- ing myself,’ after he texted to congrat- Luckybuck Syndrome: “He’s a 2-year- ulate me about a win.” old colt by Lookin At Lucky for Terra Di Sienna Another text to The Special’s Tom Stables. At first I was going to lean toward try- Law Friday afternoon, after The Tea fessional, the ability is there and a lot of times still very boyish. Hasn’t grown. I’m looking for ing him on grass but I think I’ll try him on the Cups took down the Yaddo to give at this stage of the game if they’re developed that light bulb to go off mentally and he starts dirt. There’s a race on the 4th that we’ll point the Englehart barn its eighth win of mentally and can handle racing and it doesn’t handling things better. He’s got a lot of talent, to. He’s been working right along with some of the meet from 32 starters, summed it bother them they have an advantage over the could be a super, super horse. He’s going to the other 2-year-olds I’ve been high on.” up some more. other ones. She’s like that.” work his first half (today).” “What a ride,” he wrote.