Year 19•No.22 Category Four Got Stormybeats boysinGrade1 The aratoga Saratoga’s DailyRacingNewspapersince 2001 CROWD CONVENESFOR GALWAY GREEN LIGHTGOWINS SPECIAL ENTRIES &HANDICAPPING Sunday, August11,2019

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2 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 here&there... LICENSE PLATE OF THE DAY TOGAGIRL, West Virginia. NAMES OF THE DAY Slip Sliding Away, third race. Jimmy Toner-trained filly is out of Leading Astray.

Leeway, third race. As you may have learned, we are suck- ers for one-word names and this one is a gem. Stone Farm’s 2-year-old is by Stroll, out of Dilly.

Highway Flyer, 10th race. WellSpring Stable’s colt is by Qual- ity Road out of Aviate.

Cobble Hill, 10th race. The 3-year-old is by Verrazano out of Relaxing Green. There is nothing like the shade of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. TODAY’S CRAZY FACT The Little League World Series uses video replay to review um- pires’ calls.

WORTH REPEATING “You told me that the Stable Tour would bring luck, now I’ve got everything going.” Tod Marks Trainer Carlos Martin, who hosted the Inquiring Minds. Assistant trainer Miguel Clement and jockeys Irad Ortiz Jr. (center) and Jose Ortiz wait on a Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour last Saturday decision after Friday’s fourth race. Miguel and Irad held on to the win. and won Friday’s Tale Of The Cat with Bon Raison Hot Frosted

Frosted’s $850k filly at Saratoga is the highest price for a first-crop sire this year. Only American Pharoah has had a higher priced first-crop yearling at Saratoga in the past decade. Darley

Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 3 Matthew J. Nielsen Ed Kasperavich, CFA here&there...at Saratoga Deborah Stackpole Managing Directors WORTH REPEATING Sports & Entertainment Group [email protected] “I feel the anvil lifted off my back.” The Special’s Tom Law, when he hears someone on the staff has finished a Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour each day

“That’s the name of the game.” Your investment Clocker Dave Lynett, about picking winners “If I’m in there again, are there royalties involved?” future starts The ever-quotable Pat Reynolds (no) here… Securities offered through Stonecrest Capital Markets, member FINRA/SIPC Advisory services offered through Stonecrest Advisors, Inc. “It will be notes lost forever.” Assistant trainer Sarah Shaffer when asked if her boss, Mike Trombetta, could type out today’s Stable Tour

QUOTE OF THE DAY “I’m not crazy about that.” Italian jockey Umberto Rispoli, visiting from Hong Kong and with agent Ron Anderson “We’ve got one by Normandy Invasion and another by Saturday morning, when asked if he could be named on some steeplechase mounts English Channel. We call one Churchill and one Ike.” “More like you need cannons around here.” Consignor Seth Gregory, about two of his yearlings in Trainer when someone suggested his barn needed a few more bullets the New York-bred sale “The last time we were here somebody made a comment that we run the horse too much. The horse is healthy, he does better when he runs. Some horses run better when they run often, some don’t.” Empire State Thoroughbreds’ Peter Tournas on Friday’s Tale Of The Cat winner Bon Raison

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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, Ben Gowans, Paul Halloran, The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com 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.

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 5 Country Life Farm Racing Partnerships ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN Mosler Safe Now being placed into a Racing Partnership, yearling colt by War Front’s son Mosler. Maryland-bred. Purchased at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July for $45,000. 10 shares at $4,500 each. Come racing with Country Life, the Mid-Atlantic leader in racing and breeding partnerships. For information, visit countrylifefarm.com Tod Marks Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 Bill’s Riding Academy. No Randy, you can’t ride the pony, and neither can Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 you Jerry. 410-879-1952 v [email protected] v countrylifefarm.com here&there...at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING Saratoga Moments . . . “It’s a great complex and the vendors do a tremendous job. They see you coming though. It’s a bit like if an American guy came down to look at my horses, I’d know what was going on, too.” Australian buyer Shane McGrath of Aquis Farm, “It was a hell of a sale when we sold (future 2-year-old which spent $1.5 million on a Curlin colt during the Saratoga select sale champion) Vindication up here in 2001. We topped the “I’m Bob or Robert, or Heyyou. I answer to ‘Hey you.’ ” sale, Vindication went for ($2.15 million), we had another, Railbird Bob Agnello, introducing himself at Oklahoma last week a Saint Ballado, that brought over a million. Back then, I “We put it in some water and it turned into a regular-sized tuxedo.” don’t think we knew. We knew we were in the hunt, but Jockey Rajiv Maragh, on the formal wear, accidentally you don’t know it’s going to go like that, hell no. You’re ordered in toddler size, from Amazon for Friday night’s museum ball

worried as hell nobody’d buy them.” “I’m looking forward to getting confused if Pat Quick has an entry in tomorrow’s eighth race and the trainer of Quick Quick Quick is someone else.” Reader Don Reed, who keeps us on our toes (we checked, no runners – Duncan Taylor, Taylor Made Sales from the Quick barn but probably plenty from quick barns, in the eighth)

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 7 Every day at Saratoga, with The Special presents an exclusive Stable Tour Mike Trombetta with a Saratoga trainer.

Mike Trombetta has come a long Somekindofmagician: Larry Johnson way from his formative summer stints. purchased the son of Street Magician for “My Saratoga was Timonium. $14,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Winter Which is still fun but it’s not this Mixed Sale in 2016. The stakes-placed geld- place. I can remember it as vividly and ing sleeps next to the tack room. “He’s run a clearly, it’s been over 30 years, it’s an couple of times here, been third and fourth, probably run one more time, he’s just banging indelible part of my memory,” Trom- around in the 35 never three condition.” betta said. “I remember the people, I remember the horses. I would be over Wet Your Whistle: Grade 1 winner fin- there from 4 o’clock in the morning ished fourth in the Troy here. “Subsequently until 6 o’clock at night. Every racing came out of it with a bit of a temperature. I day. And we used to race 38, 39 days. don’t know if he caught a little virus after the We had a lot of fun.” race or whether it caused him to maybe not be The Maryland-based trainer has at his best. We’re going to leave him here for gradually grown his stable from a a bit, if everything goes well, we’ll go to Ken- fledgling claiming outfit at the Mary- tucky Downs in his next start, the $700,000 Turf Sprint. It’s a better distance. Today was land State Fair to the nine-stall barn Michael Trombetta Jr. his first day back to the track, he’s on the in Horse Haven, a barn at Laurel Park Mike Trombetta’s barn sets the standard. mend and he should be fine. I was worried and a booming engine room at Fair about the 5 ½ of the Troy, the turf was run- Hill Training Center. This year, stakes winners Wet Bossy Bride: Three Diamonds paid $135,000 for the daugh- ning fast which wasn’t conducive to him, the way the numbers came back he probably ran his par. All that being said, now, Your Whistle and Global Access anchor the string, ter of Malibu Moon at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling I’m wondering if him getting sick afterward had anything to do overseen by Trombetta’s assistant Sarah Shaffer. Sale in 2017. She’s hit the board in three of six starts. “Ran in with his performance, because he was very unhappy a couple Trombetta bedded down his first horses at Sara- a maiden race the other day, hope to run her back one more of days later.” toga about 12 years ago. Like any father, he tells time. Going to try her on the grass, I’m going to work her on time by his children’s growth chart rather than by the grass (Sunday). She was second at Laurel, fourth at Bel- Remain Anonymous: The 2-year-old daughter of Tapiture a calendar. mont and didn’t run quite as good here, she got outsprinted, has been working steadily at Laurel Park. “She’s coming up “These guys were in car seats. You’re 15, I’m which a lot of them do on this track.” today, been working pretty good at home, I’m going to enter going to say 12, 13 years ago,” Trombetta said, her next week.” pointing to his 15-year-old son Michael Jr. “It was Enjay’s Brass: Daughter of Shanghai Bobby owns three a big move but it was cool. For the most part, each wins and finished third at Saratoga Friday. “Longest shot in Frosted Rose: Purchased for $17,000 at Fasig-Tipton Mid- year, we were able to win a race. Nobody realizes the race. We thought she could run OK, a whole lot more so lantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale in 2018, son of Oxbow won a how hard it is to come up here and win until you’ve than the public and she did. Probably try her back at the end of restricted maiden race here Aug. 1. “Cute little horse, we’ve al- the meet. Michael bet her to place, my son Dominic bet her to ways liked him. He’s going to possibly run in the Skidmore. The done it. It can go by real quick and you get out of show, she paid 20 bucks.” here and you haven’t won a race.” auction races give the B team a chance, right? For the owner Trombetta has one win so far this year to go who wants to experience this and has a better investment than Our Little Jewel: Live Oak homebred made her debut at what a claiming horse would be early, it gives them a chance. It along with 55 wins nationwide. He shuttles hors- Saratoga Friday. “She was unplaced, but she needs further, was a great idea and I hope it stays around. Even with my small es, depending on the condition book and the past she’s a two-turn type. Yesterday was her get-acquainted- stable, I’ll bring up three or four horses that can participate. performances. to-how-racing-works race. She ran good, she was beaten 7 He could have run in Maryland or Colonial in maiden special “I’ve been in this barn for the last six, seven lengths, she was steadied twice, she could have done better weights, he got a chance to come to Saratoga and win a race. years. I’ve been different places but this is very com- with a cleaner trip. We’ll leave her here for a bit and see how All the years our family has been in it, we’ve only won a couple fortable,” Trombetta said. “Some will stay up the she does, if she runs out of time here, we’ll certainly consider of races up here. To win a race here, it goes a long way. Lovely whole meet, some will run once and go home, some Belmont, seven-eighths to a mile. She’s a sweetheart.” way of going. He’s only been here a short time but everybody of them will run once, go home and come back. It knows who he is, you walk down the road and somebody will Blessingsofliberty: Trombetta purchased her for $22,000 works good. I would like to do more but I don’t call him by name, I took him back and schooled him today, the at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale. “She’s one gate guys knew who he was just walking back there.” know if I can do more well. It’s hard to leave Fair of RDM Stable. Brought her up to run in an auction race on the Hill. That’s where the staff is and it’s a great place turf, rained off, ran her anyway. Rider’s comments were she Global Access: Live Oak’s homebred stakes winner resides to train.” needs turf. I said, ‘That was the original plan.’ She’s going to in the last stall in the barn and eyes visitors like he was expect- He visited the nine stalls with The Special’s Sean hang out for a little bit longer and hope it doesn’t rain.” Continued On Page 9 Clancy Saturday morning.

8 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 A.G. VANDERBILT ALICIBIADES ARLINGTON MILLION AWESOME AGAIN Stable Tour – BELMONT DERBY BREEDERS’ CUP TURF BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC BREEDERS’ Continued from page 8 CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF DELAWARE HANDICAP DONN HANDICAP ing them. “He was third in the Hall of Fame, ran a good race. If he trains well, he’ll run DUBAIback WORLD CUP FRIZETTE FOREGO FRANK KILROE MILE GARDEN CITY in the Saranac on the 31st. John (Velazquez) got along with him OK, he’s a little hard to ride.GRAND NATIONAL HURDLE HASKELL INVITATIONAL HOLLYWOOD TURF CUP After the race, I could sense he would have done it a little bit differently, he would proba- IROQUOIS HURDLE JOE HIRSCH TURF CLASSIC KENTUCKY DERBY bly have just let him run on a bit more instead of getting him tucked in and snugged down.KING’S BISHOP LONESOME GLORY HURDLE MAKER’S 46 MILE MANHATTAN He pulls on you, he wants to go on. You can cover him up if they’re really speeding, but if MAN O’ WAR MATRIARCH METROPOLITAN MILE NEARCTIC STAKES you cover him up and they slow him down, he’s right up on their heels, then he wears you PRIORESS QUEEN ELIZABETH II SHADWELL TURF MILE SPINAWAY out, he drags you into the action. If he had a do-over, he would have let him run on SPINSTERa little SWORD DANCER TEST UNITED NATIONS VANITY HANDICAP WHIT- bit, I think, and let him get some of his energy out of him. There’s no way to practiceNEY that, HANDICAP WOOD MEMORIAL A.G. VANDERBILT ALICIBIADES ARLINGTON even if he came over here and breezed him, he had to ride him in a race. The Saranac gives MILLION AWESOME AGAIN BELMONT DERBY BREEDERS’ CUP TURF him an extra sixteenth of a mile. He’s always been a little bit of a heavy-headed horseBREEDERS’ to CUP CLASSIC BREEDERS’ CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF DELAWARE ride, some of his races have been good but they would have been better if he wouldHANDICAP have DONNWinning HANDICAP DUBAI when WORLD it CUP matters FLORIDA DERBY. FRIZETTE cooperated a little more.” FOREGO FRANK KILROE MILE GARDEN CITY GRAND NATIONAL HURDLE English Minister. Fitzhugh veteran home- Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center horses bred is in Maryland and has won three inHASKELL a INVITATIONAL HOLLYWOOD TURF CUP IROQUOIS HURDLE JOE row. “I’m going to run him in the Find next include 64 individual Grade 1 winners week (at Laurel). I talked to the owners and HIRSCH TURF CLASSIC KENTUCKY DERBY KING’S BISHOP LONESOME suggested that he retires at the end of this and the winners of 99 Grade 1 races. season. I’m going to protect him and giveGLORY him HURDLE MAKER’S 46 MILE MANHATTAN MAN O’ WAR MATRIARCH a good retirement. I was going to bring him up Just some of the races they’ve won… here for 50 but they would take him, so I didn’tMETROPOLITAN MILE NEARCTIC STAKES PRIORESS QUEEN ELIZABETH II do it. That’s the only reason he’s not here, he loves this track. He was having a hard time SHADWELL TURF MILE SPINAWAY SPINSTER SWORD DANCER TEST winning, he was grinding out enough mon- ey to pay his bills but he wasn’t gettingUNITED the NATIONS VANITY HANDICAP WHITNEY HANDICAP WOOD MEMORIAL wins, some of it was because I was trying to protect him because everybody is so fond of A.G. VANDERBILT ALICIBIADES ARLINGTON MILLION AWESOME AGAIN him. This year, I took a little different path, he’s been really fresh, really good. For a 9-year-old,BELMONT DERBY BREEDERS’ CUP TURF BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC BREEDERS’ he’s a really happy horse. He lasts because he gets the winter off every year, he goes out in a CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF DELAWARE HANDICAP DONN HANDICAP field for three months. I usually get him back February 1. As soon as his last day of racing DUBAI WORLD CUP FLORIDA DERBY FRIZETTE FOREGO FRANK or training at the end of the year, I’m not sure he even goes in the barn, he goes KILROEstraight MILE GARDEN CITY GRAND NATIONAL HURDLE HASKELL INVITATION- outside. You don’t have to let him down, you don’t have to worry about him running into a AL HOLLYWOOD TURF CUP IROQUOIS HURDLE JOE HIRSCH TURF fence, it’s the way you should treat a horse. They’re old-fashioned, when you say turn outCLASSIC KENTUCKY DERBY KING’S BISHOP LONESOME GLORY HURDLE a horse, they’re turned out.” MAKER’S 46 MILE MANHATTAN MAN O’ WAR MATRIARCH METROPOLITAN Monte Crista: Country Life Farm purchased the Maryland-bred for $30,000 fromMILE the NEARCTIC STAKES PRIORESS QUEEN ELIZABETH II SHADWELL TURF Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2017 2-year-old sale. Winner of the Riskaverse here last summer, MILE SPINAWAY SPINSTER SWORD DANCER TEST UNITED NATIONS Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy | AquaPacer | Cold Saltwater Spa | Dry Salt Room | Vibration Therapy | Training Center she’ll stick to Maryland. “She’s going to runVANITY HANDICAP WHITNEY HANDICAP WOOD MEMORIAL A.G. VANDER- in the All Brandy. Maryland Pride Day is taking 721 Training Center Drive, Elkton, Maryland 21921 some of my runners out of here. I have BILTBo- ALICIBIADES ARLINGTON MILLION AWESOME AGAIN BELMONT DER- nus Points and English Minister for the Find. I Phone: 610-496-5080 www.fairhilletc.com have Monte Crista and My Sistersledge for BYthe BREEDERS’ CUP TURF BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC BREEDERS’ CUP FILLY All Brandy, pretty solid in those two races. If they train well, I have Sky Magician andAND Never MARE TURF DELAWARE HANDICAP DONN HANDICAP DUBAI WORLD CUP Enough Time for the 3-year-old sprints.” FLORIDA DERBY FRIZETTE FOREGO FRANK KILROE MILE GARDEN CITY Sunday, August 11, 2019 GRAND NATIONAL HURDLEThe Saratoga S HASKELLpecial INVITATIONAL HOLLYWOOD TURF9 CUP FOURSTARDAVE STAKES RECAP Got a Week? On heels of De La Rose, filly beats boys in Gr. 1 BY SEAN CLANCY Gary Barber called Mark Casse Monday, two days after Got Stormy won the De La Rose and two days before entries closed for the Grade 1 Fourstar- dave. “She left half her feed,” Casse said. “Did you feed her twice as much?” Barber asked. That was just one of many exchanges between owner and trainer during a tense seven days be- tween Got Stormy’s facile win as the favorite in the restricted stakes and the audacious challenge of Tod Marks Continued On Page 12 Got Stormy pulls away from Raging Bull in the Fourstardave.

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 11 eighth pole. Made You Look offered nothing and Got Stormy sprinted Fourstardave – home, widening with every stride to Continued from page 10 win by 2 ½ lengths over the closing trio of Raging Bull, Uni and March coming back in seven days to take on To The Arch. Got Stormy stopped the the boys in the $500,000 stakes. clock in a course-record 1:32. The conversations might have been Casse tends to run his horses more tense, but the result was intense, as often than most trainers in today’s era Got Stormy set a course record while of reading the sheets and demanding dominating eight rivals in the 1-mile the rests, but this move was out of his turf stakes. Owned by Barber and wheelhouse. Southern Equine Stable, the daughter “Allen Jerkens said to me years of Got Stormy earned her seventh win ago, ‘Run them when they’re good. and first Grade 1 stakes win, increas- Rest them when they’re not,’ ” Casse ing her earnings to $760,078. Ricar- said. “We don’t do that enough. Now, do Santana Jr. guided the chestnut a week is a little unusual.” filly, deputizing for Tyler Gaffalione, Casse would not have run back committed to Casse’s other runner in seven days without Barber’s ca- March To The Arch. joling (that might be too soft for it) Got Stormy broke sharply from and without Got Stormy showing she post 6, angled left before abstaining, could handle it. sliding into fourth behind Gidu, Dr. “He’s never been this strong, but Edgar and Made You Look. Gidu he did not override me. He knew I scampered to the lead, opening up an didn’t want to do it but if I had one ambitious margin over Dr. Edgar and little doubt, all I had to do was tell Made You Look. Got Stormy settled him,” Casse said. “My only concern into a sweet spot in fourth along the about running back is hurting her. rail. That’s all. The only thing Mark Casse Gidu ripped through a quarter-mile would be known for is hurting this fil- in :22.65 and a half-mile in :44.61, af- ly. But, she was fine, I wasn’t worried ter those fractions, his trainer, Todd about that.” Pletcher, lowered his binoculars. The Barber had the Fourstardave in gray speedster was nothing but a mind before the De La Rose. When hood ornament at that stage. After Got Stormy won the mile stakes with three quarters of a mile in 1:08.36, ease. When the owner checked the Gidu was reeling as Made You Look speed numbers, he ramped up the swung past him and opened up a pressure to run back in a week. 2-length lead. Santana wasn’t wor- “Very seldom do we disagree. In ried, stealing a look under his right Continued On Page 14 arm as Got Stormy rolled past the

Tod Marks Owner Gary Barber (right) helps lead in Get Stormy after the Fourstardave.

12 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 13 Fourstardave – Continued from page 12 this case I had to do a lot of arm twist- ing,” Barber said. “I was never going to back off. My bloodstock advisors were calling me, ‘You can’t do this.’ I said, ‘I’m doing it. OK. I’ll take full blame.’ That’s it. She’s been working like a monster, that was a workout last week, he was a statue on her. I can take being wrong, I’ve been there before, that’s why I’m going to enjoy Tod Marks Trainer Mark Casse. this. You put so much into this game, these are the moments you wait for, “The way she did things, it just it’s a joy.” reminded me of Tepin,” Casse said. Bred by Mt. Joy Stable and the “Tepin didn’t start out great, Tepin McLean family, Got Stormy sold for became great. This filly started out $23,000 at Keeneland September OK and she’s just gotten better and Sales in 2016. Purchased by Equine better.” Invest, she returned at the Fasig-Tip- Got Stormy finished third in the ton Midlantic 2-year-old sale in 2017 Grade 1 Jenny Wiley in her next start in Niall Brennan’s consignment where and second in the Churchill Downs she was purchased for $45,000 by Distaff Turf in May. Freshened, she Alan Quartucci. Trained by Lisa Lew- has scourged Saratoga, winning twice is for Quartucci, the daughter of Get in seven days, her first Grade 1 and Stormy finished third in her debut at setting a course record. Yeah, she Gulfstream Park in December 2017 looks a bit like Tepin. And it might Rye Whiskey was distilled by America’s original and fourth in her second start a month not have happened with Barber pres- risk-takers and history-makers. Our freedom- later. Purchase by Barber and South- suring Casse to do the unorthodox. ern Equine, she broke her maiden in Casse has trained horses for 41 fighting forefathers crafted America’s first barrels February and has gradually climbed years, learning the nuances of dealing of whiskey——bold, flavorful, and full of passion. the ladder since, winning three stakes with horses as well as dealing with last year. Put away after finishing fifth owners. A winner of 2,746 races, At Sagamore Spirit, we’ve picked up the torch. in the Winter Memories at Aqueduct, Casse listens to his wife, Tina, when Our spring-fed Maryland-Style Rye Whiskey she returned to win an allowance race it comes to a trainer’s role. at Gulfstream in March. Casse liked “She always says, ‘It’s our job to celebrates the grit and glory of our patriotic what he saw. give the owners the beacons but they ancestors who sipped their way into history. “This is going to be the next fly the plane.’ It’s their plane,” Casse Tepin,” Casse told Barber. said. “If that’s his dream, I’m not go- Those are big shoes. Tepin won 13 ing to rip it away from him, unless races, $4.4 million and two Eclipse I feel like we’re putting her safety in Awards as champion turf mare. She jeopardy.” Savour our bold spirit and join won at Royal Ascot, Woobine, the Got Stormy was safe. Barber was Breeders’ Cup, everywhere. right. And Casse was relieved. the spirited conversation at whiskey.wiki

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14 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 15 No Stopping Green Light Go rolls to second straight win in Grade 2 stakes BY TOM LAW SARATOGA SPECIAL STAKES RECAP Jimmy Jerkens gave Junior Alvara- do some leeway for his second spin “But if you can’t take the lead, aboard Green Light Go in Saturday’s don’t keep rushing him, don’t go too Grade 2 Saratoga Special Stakes. The fast,” Jerkens said. two met in the paddock before the And there’s “some leeway.” co-feature on Fourstardave Day at Alvarado wound up not taking the Saratoga and Jerkens asked his rider lead, not going too fast early and it a simple question. worked out anyway. Green Light Go “What are you going to do?” Jerk- ran his record to 2-for-2 with a sharp ens asked. 3 3/4-length victory over the some- Alvarado, who rode Green Light what troubled Noose in the $200,000 Go to a debut victory at Belmont stakes for 2-year-olds. A homebred Park July 4, knew enough about the for Stronach Stables, Green Light Go Hard Spun colt’s talent to provide an covered 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:15.68. answer his trainer would appreciate. “I did tell Jimmy, ‘Don’t worry, I’m “Listen, I’m going to get out of going to teach him something then. there running,” Alvarado said. “I Tod Marks Continued On Page 18 Green Light Go powers to the finish of the Saratoga Special Stakes. might just take the lead again.”

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 17 lengths behind the runner-up and Peruvian Boy 4 lengths back of that one in fourth. Saratoga Special – “It turned out he didn’t break quite as fast Continued from page 16 as his first start,” Jerkens said. “But it was a little better bunch, too. He sat in the pock- We’re going to be all right,’ ” Alvarado said, et nice up against the bridle. He didn’t care continuing to relay the paddock conversa- about taking dirt, that was nice to see. tion. “I was trusting what I got from him last “He leaned a little in the stretch; maybe a time. He broke good and he was involved in little green, but I guess he’s still learning, too. the race a little bit and I could feel the first He had good purposeful works between rac- three-sixteenths of a mile he wasn’t in the es and has handled it. He was also composed bridle like I wanted. He was a little off the in the paddock, so we might really have a bridle, chasing the pace a little bit. nice one here.” “Maybe they were going a little fast for Green Light Go showed Jerkens that him but as soon as we hit the three-eighths much this spring at Belmont, training with pole he jumped in the bridle, got into his purpose over the training track for his ear- rhythm and that’s when I said, ‘Oh, now ly summer debut. He turned in three 3-fur- they’re in trouble.’ At that point I knew what long breezes and four half-mile drills before he wanted to do.” Dave Harmon his debut. Green Light Go flashed speed that Sent off as the 3-2 favorite off his 3 Green Light Go pricks his ears at the finish. day, running away from next-out winner An- 1/4-length maiden victory, Green Light Go other Miracle to do what neither his dam or settled off the pace set by the dueling Long front approaching the quarter pole when Alvarado granddam could do and win first time out. Weekend, Zyramid and Tuggle just ahead of Flor- angled a few paths off the fence and pulled along- Frank Stronach purchased Green Light Go’s ida shipper Iberico through the opening quarter in side the leaders. dam, the stakes-winning Grade 1-placed Pleasantly :21.71. Green Light Go rolled past, came in and brushed Perfect mare Light Green, in foal to Quality Road Zyramid, looking to give Steve Asmussen three Tuggle slightly in the lane before Alvarado cor- at the 2011 Keeneland November breeding stock 2-year-old winners on the card after Tumbling Sky rected the big colt for the final furlong. Alvarado sale. won the fifth and Gozilla took the seventh, backed put his whip away inside the sixteenth pole while Bred and raced by the late Ned Evans, the out first. Alvarado sent Green Light Go between Noose and Corey Lanerie continued to overcome mare sold as part of the leading breeder’s disper- Zyramid and Iberico approaching the far turn and their slow start to run past Tuggle for the place sal. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Light Green won or stayed inside the latter entering the bend. spot. Long Weekend and Tuggle continued to duel up The rest were well back, including Tuggle 1 3/4 Continued On Page 20

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the pressure. I was shaking. Steve’s been high on that horse all year. He Saturday – was saying he’s actually better than Continued from page 24 the horse that won the first race. He likes him.” Zayat Stables’ colt. Gozilla confirmed – Catherine Galbraith a missed opportunity for potential buyers when the first-time starter • Trainers say they don’t have fa- broke his maiden in the seventh. vorites. Rodolphe Brisset breaks that “We were really high on the horse,” rule when it comes to La Chancla, the said Gladwell. “Zayat said if some- winner of the tenth. one’s not going to pay the $400,000 “Every time I’ve seen him since for the horse then we’re just going to January, he tells me how much he keep him and run him.” loves her,” said Madison Scott, part The Kentucky-bred Flatter colt did of the Solis/Litt Bloodstock team on not sell on a $170,000 bid his first hand to represent owner LNJ Fox- time in the sales ring at last year’s woods. Keeneland September sale. At the After a day of looking at New Fasig-Tipton October sale, Zayat held York-bred yearlings on the Fasig-Tip- the winning $150,000 bid for Gozil- ton sales grounds, Scott and Jason la. When he didn’t sell in the spring, Litt posed for pictures in the winner’s Zayat sent Gozilla to trainer Steve As- circle after La Chancla’s victory in the mussen. 6-furlong allowance. “(Zayat) was saying even though “She was so pretty at the sale and he RNA’d, this horse is extreme- is getting prettier with every win,” ly talented so we don’t feel bad for Litt said with a wry grin. “We always keeping the horse, we think he’s spe- thought a lot of her so we gave her as cial,” Gladwell said. “That horse is so much time as she needed and she re- smart. He does everything right. The warded us with a wonderful win here only knock on that horse is maybe at Saratoga.” he wants to crib a little bit and that Solis/Litt purchased the daughter could be one of the reasons why we of Uncle Mo for $775,000 at last didn’t get him sold. Other than that year’s OBS March sale and was sent there’s not a pimple on the horse.” to Brisset at Payson Park over the Gozilla put Asmussen and jockey winter. Ricardo Santana Jr. in the winner’s “In January when we got her, she circle for the second time Saturday was not that easy. We got her to set- after first-time starter Tumbling Sky tle with the pony, we taught her to broke his maiden in the fifth. stand and all those things,” Brisset “(Gozilla) was a pro today,” said said after watching the simulcast of Gladwell. “He does everything right. He’s laid-back, eats good, handles all Continued On Page 28

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 27 Saturday – Continued from page 26 Saratoga Leaders TRAINERS...... 1ST the Secretariat Stakes. “We had to find Chad Brown...... 20 a quiet time on the track in the morn- ing. Some days I cut my gallop to only Todd Pletcher...... 9 a mile if she does too much. It’s day by Christophe Clement...... 8 day. She’s pretty tough. Some days she’s Jeremiah Englehart...... 8 really good. I’m the only one riding her Bill Mott...... 8 for that reason.” Steve Asmussen...... 7 Patience by everyone involved with Danny Gargan...... 7 La Chancla has paid off. The 3-year- Linda Rice...... 7 old filly took another step forward to Jason Servis...... 7 win for the second time in three starts, following a Belmont Park maiden score JOCKEYS...... 1ST July 7. Jose Ortiz...... 33 “Running in the Belmont maid- en was not planned at all. We were Irad Ortiz Jr...... 29 planning to come here, settle her for Tod Marks Javier Castellano...... 22 a week or so and then be able to run Tumbling Sky wins his debut in Saturday’s third race. Luis Saez...... 20 Jose Lezcano...... 17 here,” Brisset said. “All of the sudden took the lead past the sixteenth pole and drew clear late the book came out and there’s nothing to run her in here to win by 2 1/4 lengths. Joel Rosario...... 16 and the book at Belmont has a maiden on the last day. It Brisset believes La Chancla – which means the flipflop Junior Alvarado...... 15 turned out to be a good thing. She won like a good horse in Spanish – will improve even further when able to run Ricardo Santana Jr...... 11 again.” over longer distances. He hopes to stretch the bay filly out Tyler Gaffalione...... 9 Jose Ortiz rode La Chancla in that maiden score and in future starts. again Saturday. He allowed the filly to settle just off the “Even when you breeze her, she covers a lot of ground,” Through Saturday pace for the first 3 furlongs and started to ask her when said Brisset. “You don’t feel like you’re going as fast as approaching the bend. you’re going.” La Chancla drifted out a few paths in the stretch but – Ben Gowans

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 29 SIXTH $92,000, ALLOWANCE, 3 & UP, 5 1/2F TURF SARATOGA RESULTS 7 Saint Moon L. Saez $7.90 $5.30 $4.30 9 Paper Clip D. Davis $9.60 $6.60 Saturday August 10. 3 Getmotherarose J. Leparoux $5.90 Gr/ro Filly 2016, by The Factor - Mo’s Teresa by Momentum FIRST $52,000, NYB CLM $25,000, 3 & UP, 1 1/16M INNER TURF Owner: Rodriguez, Ivan, Crawford, Albert and Crawford, Michelle. 5 Wicked Freud J. Lezcano $7.00 $3.50 $2.50 Trainer: Jorge Navarro. Breeder: Ernest Frohboese (KY). 2 Startup Nation J. Rosario $3.50 $2.50 Late Scratches: Cadeau de Paix Time: 1:01.32 7 Cloontia T. Gaffalione $2.80 Daily Double (7-7), $14.60; Exacta (7-9), $52.25; Superfecta (7-9-3- Gr/ro Gelding 2012, by Freud - Pretty Wicked by The Wicked North 4), $209.00; Trifecta (7-9-3), $191.50; Pic 3 (8-7-7), $58.75 50 Owner: M and A Racing LTD. Trainer: Jason Servis. Breeder: Patricia Generazio (NY). SEVENTH $90,000, MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 2 YO, 6F Stal

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 31 Family History Sister Peacock brings Simon, McLellan brothers to Saratoga BY BEN GOWANS GALWAY STAKES PREVIEW Sometimes the reason to buy a horse is as easy as seeing a familiar bine’s all-weather surface last fall. name on the catalog page. For Stuart She was second in two starter stakes Simon, that’s all it took to buy Hip contested at a mile over Gulfstream 2893 at the 2017 Keeneland Septem- Park’s turf course this winter and re- ber yearling sale. turned to Woodbine in April before “I trained for Cecil Peacock who winning the Star Shoot Stakes. owned Brother Derek, who is in the “She always did what she had to filly’s pedigree in the second dam,” do when she worked with another Simon said of the multiple Grade 1 horse,” Simon said. “She would only winner. “I trained for him for over 25 work as fast as she had to. She’s actu- years so when I saw him in the second ally fairly laid back in her training. In dam, we thought we’d go take a look the barn, she’s nice to be around. She at her. We looked, liked her, and went just likes to eat and sleep. She keeps from there.” her weight on well. She’s very profes- It only took $9,000 for Simon to sional.” secure Sister Peacock, one of 12 en- Sister Peacock followed her first Sean Clancy tered in the inaugural running of stakes win with another. She won Sister Peacock is only a little impressed with Saratoga so far. today’s Galway Stakes. Simon also the William D. Graham Memorial at owns a piece of the Real Solution filly 6 1/2 furlongs on the turf and then for the Galway, 4-1 morning line fa- later over the same trip and surface. with brothers Brent and Russell Mc- finished third in the Grade 3 Ontario vorite Karama ships north for trainer “She was training so good on the Lellan. Colleen over Woodbine’s new inner Michael Pino and Shadwell Stable. dirt and I had never trained her on the “I started training for their dad turf course July 20. Sister Peacock “Right away, we knew she had tal- grass,” he said. “I knew she handled about 30 years ago,” Simon said of returns to running around only one ent. She’s a big filly, she’s crooked,” the dirt so I wanted to try her on the Roy McLellan. “We’ve known each turn today. Pino said referring to the filly’s leg dirt.” other ever since and have owned “She could win and beat decent conformation. “You wonder about After that, Pino thought it was time horses for at least 25 years.” horses going a mile, but I think she’ll that when you first get them but she’s to transition the filly to the surface of Sister Peacock brings her connec- beat better horses going one turn,” been great.” her pedigree – by Kitten’s Joy out of tions from Woodbine, the second of Simon said. “I’m pretty confident she Just like Sister Peacock, Karama Irish-bred mare Safarjal. two $100,000 turf sprint stakes at the doesn’t need the lead.” started her career with a win by open Pino decided on the Boiling Springs meet for 3-year-old fillies. Chris Landeros will ride the filly lengths. The Kitten’s Joy filly won a at Monmouth Park for Karama’s first The filly bred by Ken and Sarah who breaks from post 3 and is 8-1 on 7-furlong dirt maiden at Gulfstream turf start. She finished a valiant sec- Ramsey started her career showing the morning line. Park and followed up with a second Continued On Page 33 good speed in two wins over Wood- While Sister Peacock ships south in the Game Face Stakes two months

32 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 horse here and there but every once in awhile I have one that can run.” Galway – Eyeinthesky ran well in the Cor- Continued from page 32 onation Cup, the first 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint stakes for 3-year-old fillies ond after setting a strong pace but here July 14, when second to Break 2019 Fall Meet couldn’t replicate that effort five Even. That rival does not return for weeks later when seventh in Mon- today. The daughter of Sky Mesa has Stakes Schedule mouth’s 1 1/16-mile Open Mind. earned $187,536 for trainer Mark “The second time she ran long she Casse and owner Gary Barber who OCTOBER 27 - DECEMBER 1 didn’t fire and I didn’t really have a won Saturday’s Grade 1 Fourstardave reason why so I thought maybe she with Got Stormy. Joel Rosario is back STARS OF TOMORROW I just wants one turn,” Pino said. “She aboard the the 9-2 second choice on *STREET SENSE OVERNIGHT STAKES *RAGS TO RICHES OVERNIGHT STAKES came out of the race so good that I the morning line. Runs Sun., Oct. 27 Closes Oct. 19 Runs Sun., Oct. 27 Closes Oct. 19 could run her back at Laurel in the “She ran well last time, kind of $120,000 (no nomination fee) $120,000 (no nomination fee) Two Year Olds 1 Mile one-turn race.” got held up,” Casse said. “We might Fillies, Two Years Old 1 Mile Pino ran her back in the Stormy get a good trip from out there being Blues at Laurel Park July 14. Shad- that far on the outside. Ton of speed, *DREAM SUPREME OVERNIGHT STAKES well’s homebred had found her ideal there’s like six horses in there that Runs Fri., Nov. 1 Closes Oct. 26 distance and surface, winning the 5 $120,000 (no nomination fee) have speed. It’s a big field. I have to Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 6 Furlongs 1/2-furlong sprint and sending Pino think she’ll be tough.” to Saratoga. The Mid-Atlantic-based Abyssinian, Brooke Marie, Miss- CHILUKKI (GIII) trainer got the Shadwell position mizz, Chelsea Cloisters, Elsa, O’Keef- Runs Sat., Nov. 2 Closes Oct. 19 years ago through the late Bob With- fe and Bohemian Bourbon complete $200,000 ($200 nomination fee) am, who worked with the farm’s the body of the field entered in the Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 1 Mile young horses in Camden, S.C. Galway. Tobago and Peaceful are on *BET ON SUNSHINE OVERNIGHT STAKES “They were looking for a guy to the also-eligible list. take some claiming horses,” Pino Runs Sat., Nov. 2 Closes Oct. 26 $120,000 (no nomination fee) said. “I was at Delaware Park, and Three Years Old & Up 6 Furlongs (Witham) was in the barn right next thisishorseracing.com to me. He just liked my operation and Home of The Special COMMONWEALTH TURF (GIII) asked me if I’d take them. I get some Runs Sat., Nov. 9 Closes Oct. 26 of the claimers, maybe a crooked and a lot more. $125,000 ($125 nomination fee) Three Year Olds 1 1/16 Miles Turf

RIVER CITY (GIII)

Runs Sat., Nov. 16 Closes Nov. 2 $125,000 ($125 nomination fee) Three Year Olds & Up 1 1/8 Miles Turf

CARDINAL (GIII)

Runs Thurs., Nov. 28 Closes Nov. 16 $125,000 ($125 nomination fee) Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 1 1/8 Miles Turf

FALLS CITY (GII)

Runs Thurs., Nov. 28 Closes Nov. 16 $250,000 ($250 nomination fee) Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 1 1/8 Mile

MRS. REVERE (GII)

Runs Fri., Nov. 29 Closes Nov. 16 $300,000 ($300 nomination fee) Fillies, Three Years Old 1 1/16 Miles Turf

CLARK (GI) presented by Norton Healthcare

Runs Fri., Nov. 29 Closes Nov. 16 $500,000 ($300 nomination fee) Three Year Olds & Up 1 1/8 Mile

STARS OF TOMORROW II

GOLDEN ROD (GII) KENTUCKY JOCKEY CLUB (GII) 2020 Kentucky Oaks Points Race 2020 Kentucky Derby Points Race

Runs Sat., Nov. 30 Closes Nov. 16 Runs Sat., Nov. 30 Closes Nov. 16 $250,000 ($250 nomination fee) $250,000 ($250 nomination fee) Fillies, Two Years Old 1 1/16 Miles Two Year Olds 1 1/16 Miles

Tod Marks *Pending Approval and Includes KTDF monies Chelsea Cloisters represents the Wesley Ward barn in the Galway.

Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 33 Go Galway Small town honored by Saratoga stakes BY TERRY HILL Like all small towns, there’s a long tradition of Galway natives leaving to seek destinies The town supervisor of Galway, which is elsewhere. Two of its most prominent histor- about 15 miles west of Saratoga Springs, is ic citizens left town early. Allen Potter left to enough of a racing fan to know he shares his settle in Michigan, later serving as a U.S. Con- name with a Hall of Fame jockey. He’s also gressman and as the first mayor of Kalamazoo. proud to be connected to today’s Saratoga Race Nobody can remember who the second mayor Course feature, the $100,000 Galway Stakes. was. “It’s a nice little honor to have a stakes race Horace W. Carpentier, born six years af- at Saratoga named after us,” said Mike Smith, ter Potter in Galway, got bit by gold fever at who has won 5,533 fewer races than that oth- age 25. He joined the California Gold Rush in er guy. “It’s a great town. Mainly rural, with 1849 and within a few years became a founder quite a few horse farms. Some small business- of Oakland, Cal., and its first mayor. es, but not necessarily the kind that hang a sign Phyllis Keeler estimates about half of each out. A quiet town . . . maybe a little too quiet current Galway High School graduation class some might say.” moves out of town. Keeler is the town histori- But that easy pace is also why people move an and taught first grade for 30 years in town. to Galway in the first place. She offered assurances that the town has noth- “And once they do, they tend to want to ing to do with the storied Galway in Ireland. stay,” Smith said. “They also want the town “The town was founded by seven families to stay pretty much the same. There’s a strong Continued On Page 35 The town of Galway is about 15 miles west of Saratoga. preservationist mentality here.”

34 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 of an amateur historian. On the walls were faded black and white photos of scenes and people from the area. They Galway – date back to the 1920s and, as they say, every picture tells Continued from page 34 a story. Joe was willing to tell the stories himself, so the pictures didn’t need to find their voices. He enjoys serving who all came from Scotland in the 1770s on the same a little local lore with his linguini. boat. They named the town after their hometown in Scot- “During Prohibition there were several places around land – Galloway. Unfortunately when the town was incor- here with gangster ties; Dutch Schultz supposedly had a porated, the county clerk made an error and recorded it hideout house here. Yeah, it’s just rumors and pass-alongs as “Galway.” from old-timers, but it could be true.” No St. Patrick’s Day festivities are planned. Joe wants it to be anyway. Phyllis is an immigrant to Galway herself. As a young “There’s a lot of horse racing history here too. The leg- woman, she and her husband picked up roots in Broadal- endary Sanford Stud in the late-1800s used to walk all bin and made the arduous 10-mile trek to Galway. That their horses from its Amsterdam base to Saratoga for the was 64 years ago and she hasn’t regretted it for a minute. races. A 28-mile walk. About midway, they’d stop and “It’s a togetherness town,” she said. “A little town that water the horses right here in Galway.” cares about its people.” Thinking that might sound a little Joe would love to make a little Saratoga history himself. trite, she offered us proof. “I’m partners in a nice 2-year-old filly named Sienna’s “I have vertigo and I can’t drive. When my husband Ticket down in Florida right now. She’s from Golden Tick- died about a year ago, within a month or so I had 11 et’s first foal crop.” Louisa Ferncliff is a fixer. She fixes horses people come to me and offered to help with anything I Golden Ticket won the 2012 Travers Stakes here in a with scrambled eggs for brains and counsels needed, including driving me places. Half of them were dead heat with Alpha, the only dead heat in the history of lost souls on the backstretch of the racetrack... former first-grade students of mine. the race. He stands at stud in nearby Stillwater. “People worry about me and ask how I can get by on “Did you say that Galway Stakes is for 3-year-old fil- my own. ‘I’m not on my own,’ I say ‘Not in Galway.’ I lies?,” he asked. “Well, she’ll be 3 next year . . . it’d be “Always a winner! think that says quite a lot about this town.” nice.” Come along for the ride!” Our last Galway stop was the Village Pizzeria. Some- – Rita Mae Brown, mystery writer one said the owner was a horseman and that the food was great. Both turned out to be true. Try the “crispy truffled thisishorseracing.com Look for it in Saratoga artichokes.” As it happens, the proprietor Joe Guerrera, is also a bit Home of The Special & a lot more or robinwilliamsbooks.com

Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 35 Sunday, August 11. 3 ..... 3...... Lotta Ott...... R. Santana, Jr...... S. Asmussen...... 3-1 1ST (1:00PM). $90,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M 4 ..... 4...... Cloudbuster...... J. Rosario...... D. Lukas...... 15-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double 5 ..... 5...... Secondary Market...... J. Castellano...... C. Brown...... 6-1 1 ..... 1...... Street Talkin Guy...... L. Saez...... M. De Paulo...... 8-1 6 ..... 6...... Plea...... J. Alvarado...... W. Mott...... 8-1 2 ..... 2...... One Eyed Jack...... J. Ortiz...... C. Brown...... 5-2 7 ..... 7...... Velvet Crush...... M. Franco...... R. Brisset...... 10-1 3 ..... 3...... Four Ten...... J. Alvarado...... J. Jerkens...... 10-1 8 ..... 8...... Palace Avenger...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... W. Ward...... 6-1 4 ..... 4...... Majority Rules...... J. Castellano...... C. Brown...... 6-5 9 ..... 9...... Harlem Heights...... J. Leparoux...... C. McGaughey III...... 8-1 5 ..... 5...... Liberty’s Pursuit...... J. Leparoux...... K. McPeek...... 12-1 10..... 10...... Mundaye Call...... J. Ortiz...... D. Chatlos...... 7-2 6 ..... 6...... Fireball Shot...... E. Cancel...... P. Bauer...... 4-1 7 ..... 7...... Risp...... J. Rosario...... T. Bush...... 15-1 7TH (4:14PM). $80,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M (INNER TURF) Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double 2ND (1:34PM). $75,000, STR $40,000, 4 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M (INNER TURF) 1 ..... 1...... Graded On a Curve...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Brown...... 6-1 Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double 2 ..... 2...... Year of the Kitten...... J. Lezcano...... J. Servis...... 9-2 1 ..... 4...... Krewe Chief...... J. Castellano...... M. Maker...... 5-2 3 ..... 3...... Cross Border...... L. Saez...... M. Maker...... 3-1 1a ..... 6...... Noble Thought...... J. Ortiz...... M. Maker...... 5-2 4 ..... 4...... Gosilently...... K. Carmouche...... R. Falcone, Jr...... 10-1 2 ..... 1...... Dontblamerocket...... J. Lezcano...... N. Casse...... 4-1 5 ..... 5...... Honorable Hero...... R. Santana, Jr...... J. Toscano, Jr...... 20-1 3 ..... MTO...... Majestic Affair...... Rider TBA...... R. Rodriguez...... 5-2 6 ..... 6...... Southern King...... J. Rosario...... T. Pletcher...... 8-1 4 ..... 3...... Super Dude...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... R. Persaud...... 12-1 7 ..... 7...... Conforto...... J. Castellano...... T. Hills...... 15-1 5 ..... 5...... Dover Cliffs...... J. Velazquez...... J. Sweezey...... 9-2 8 ..... 8...... Opt...... M. Franco...... R. Ribaudo...... 8-1 6 ..... MTO...... Frammento...... Rider TBA...... N. Zito...... 8-1 9 ..... 9...... Not So Quiet Man...... J. Bravo...... D. Ryan...... 20-1 7 ..... MTO...... Turco Bravo (CHI)...... Rider TBA...... D. Cannizzo...... 6-1 10..... 10...... Irish Valor...... J. Ortiz...... M. Ferraro...... 15-1 8 ..... 9...... Mo Maverick...... L. Saez...... D. Cannizzo...... 8-5 11..... 11...... El Hermano...... J. Alvarado...... W. Mott...... 6-1 9 ..... 10...... Sentry...... J. Rosario...... C. McGaughey III...... 6-1 12..... 12...... Fotis...... B. Hernandez...... E. Jones...... 30-1 13..... AE...... Steelersfanforlife...... D. Davis...... L. Gyarmati...... 12-1 3RD (2:06PM). $90,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 1 1/16M (TURF) 14..... AE...... Fleet Admiral...... C. Landeros...... L. O’Brien...... 30-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 15..... AE...... Risky Sour...... J. Velazquez...... L. O’Brien...... 20-1 1 ..... 1...... Slip Sliding Away...... J. Bravo...... J. Toner...... 6-1 16..... MTO...... Bebe Banker...... R. Santana, Jr...... J. Ferraro...... 8-1 2 ..... 2...... Micheline...... J. Lezcano...... M. Stidham...... 6-1 3 ..... 3...... Leeway...... C. Landeros...... C. Clement...... 10-1 8TH (4:46PM). $95,000, AOC $62,500, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 7F 4 ..... 4...... Windfall Profit...... J. Rosario...... C. McGaughey III...... 4-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 5 ..... 5...... Gran Chemin...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... J. Englehart...... 12-1 1 ..... 1...... Free Kitty...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... R. Rodriguez...... 6-1 6 ..... 6...... Hard Won...... R. Maragh...... L. Gyarmati...... 15-1 2 ..... 2...... Cookie Dough...... R. Maragh...... K. McLaughlin...... 9-5 7 ..... 7...... Morning Gold...... J. Ortiz...... K. McPeek...... 3-1 3 ..... 3...... Talk Veuve to Me...... J. Ortiz...... R. Brisset...... 8-5 8 ..... 8...... Apurate...... J. Velazquez...... T. Pletcher...... 8-1 4 ..... 4...... South of France...... J. Velazquez...... T. Pletcher...... 6-1 9 ..... 9...... Revelment...... D. Davis...... B. Tagg...... 12-1 5 ..... 5...... Quick Quick Quick...... C. Landeros...... I. Wilkes...... 12-1 10..... 10...... Catherineofaragon...... T. Gaffalione...... R. Brisset...... 8-1 6 ..... 6...... Skamania...... R. Santana, Jr...... A. Stall, Jr...... 5-1 11..... AE...... Sharing...... M. Franco...... H. Motion...... 2-1 12..... AE...... Crack of Dawn...... E. Cancel...... P. Serpe...... 15-1 9TH (5:18PM). $100,000, STK - THE GALWAY, 3 YO, F , 5 1/2F (TURF) 13..... MTO...... Miss Marissa...... Rider TBA...... J. Ryerson...... 4-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Daily Double 1 ..... 1...... Abyssinian...... J. Velazquez...... W. Ward...... 8-1 4TH (2:38PM). $60,000, CLM $32,000, 3 YO, F , 6F 2 ..... 2...... Brooke Marie...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Clement...... 6-1 Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 3 ..... 3...... Sister Peacock...... C. Landeros...... S. Simon...... 8-1 1 ..... 1...... Takecharge Mirella...... D. Davis...... K. McLaughlin...... 5-1 4 ..... 4...... Missmizz...... T. Gaffalione...... M. Stidham...... 8-1 2 ..... 2...... Evan’s Nice Now...... L. Saez...... J. Toscano, Jr...... 12-1 5 ..... 5...... Karama...... M. Sanchez...... M. Pino...... 4-1 3 ..... 3...... Jennemily...... J. Ortiz...... B. Cox...... 7-2 6 ..... 6...... Chelsea Cloisters...... J. Ortiz...... W. Ward...... 6-1 4 ..... 4...... Destiny Over Fate...... C. Landeros...... A. Quartarolo...... 10-1 7 ..... 7...... Elsa...... J. Lezcano...... M. Stidham...... 10-1 5 ..... 5...... Cheatham Hill...... J. Lezcano...... J. Servis...... 8-1 8 ..... 8...... O’Keeffe...... M. Franco...... L. Rivelli...... 12-1 6 ..... 6...... Queendom...... E. Cancel...... C. Martin...... 15-1 9 ..... 9...... Bohemian Bourbon...... J. Leparoux...... I. Wilkes...... 8-1 7 ..... 7...... Malibu Mischief...... R. Santana, Jr...... S. Asmussen...... 6-1 10..... 10...... Eyeinthesky...... J. Rosario...... M. Casse...... 9-2 8 ..... 8...... Dovey Lovey...... J. Rosario...... G. Contessa...... 10-1 11..... AE...... Tobago...... J. Ortiz...... H. Motion...... 12-1 9 ..... 9...... Big Bennys Tribute...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... R. Rodriguez...... 4-1 12..... AE...... Peaceful...... J. Castellano...... J. Thomas...... 10-1 10..... 10...... Sharpin...... M. Franco...... R. Handal...... 8-1 10TH (5:50PM). $48,000, MCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M (INNER TURF) 5TH (3:10PM). $83,000, AOC $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 5 1/2F (TURF) Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 1 ..... 12...... Azzedine (FR)...... J. Martinez...... N. Chatterpaul...... 30-1 1 ..... 1...... High Jingo...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... J. Servis...... 8-1 1a ..... AE...... Big Wonder...... S. Jimenez...... N. Chatterpaul...... 30-1 2 ..... 2...... Saratoga Treasure...... J. Velazquez...... D. Donk...... 9-2 2 ..... 1...... Hurricane Jake...... J. Ortiz...... P. Bauer...... 6-1 3 ..... 3...... First Appeal...... J. Castellano...... B. Cox...... 3-1 3 ..... 2...... Bold Gem...... R. Maragh...... L. Gyarmati...... 15-1 4 ..... 4...... Stonefactor...... K. Carmouche...... C. Martin...... 12-1 4 ..... 3...... Sandy Lane Kitten...... K. Carmouche...... D. Gargan...... 5-1 5 ..... 5...... Merlins Muse...... M. Franco...... D. Donk...... 8-1 5 ..... 4...... Zelenka...... H. Harkie...... P. Meadow...... 50-1 6 ..... 6...... Sadie Lady...... J. Rosario...... A. Delacour...... 4-1 6 ..... 5...... Wild Weekend...... J. Rosario...... J. Sharp...... 12-1 7 ..... 7...... Amanda Lane...... D. Davis...... E. Barker...... 10-1 7 ..... 6...... Duress...... M. Franco...... R. Ribaudo...... 9-2 8 ..... 8...... Mama Mary...... L. Saez...... J. Sharp...... 5-1 8 ..... 7...... Strategic Outlook...... C. Landeros...... L. Gyarmati...... 8-1 9 ..... 9...... Wantagh Queen...... J. Lezcano...... M. Dini...... 10-1 9 ..... 8...... Highway Flyer...... L. Saez...... P. Serpe...... 10-1 10..... 9...... Lisbon...... R. Santana, Jr...... S. Asmussen...... 6-1 6TH (3:42PM). $90,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 6F 11..... 10...... Shiloh Lane...... L. Reyes...... G. Sciacca...... 30-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double 12..... 11...... Secular Stagnation...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Brown...... 7-2 1 ..... 1...... Nikki My Angel...... E. Cancel...... A. Quartarolo...... 15-1 13..... MTO...... Cobble Hill...... L. Saez...... T. Pletcher...... 5-2 1a ..... AE...... Wedontbelieveher...... M. Franco...... A. Quartarolo...... 15-1 2 ..... 2...... Noudha...... J. Velazquez...... T. Pletcher...... 10-1 Copyright 2019 EQUIBASE Company LLC. All Rights Reserved.

36 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 the Power grid John Charles Tom Rob Nolan Race # Shapazian Bedard Law Whitlock Clancy Majority Rules Fireball Shot Majority Rules Four Ten Majority Rules 1 One Eyed Jack Majority Rules One Eyed Jack One Eyed Jack Street Talkin Guy Street Talkin Guy One Eyed Jack Fireball Shot Majority Rules One Eyed Jack Mo Maverick Turco Bravo Sentry Sentry Mo Maverick 2 Maker entry Krewe Chief Mo Maverick Dontblamerocket Sentry Dontblamerocket Dontblamerocket Dover Cliffs Noble Thought Super Dude Sharing Apurate Windfall Profit Micheline Morning Gold 3 Morning Gold Crack Of Dawn Morning Gold Apurate Windfall Profit Micheline Windfall Profit Slip Sliding Away Slip Sliding Away Gran Chemin Sharpin Jennemily Big Bennys Tribute Cheatham Hill Malibu Mischief 4 Big Bennys Tribute Malibu Mischief Jennemily Big Bennys Tribute Big Bennys Tribute Evan’s Nice Now Destiny Over Fate Takecharge Mirella Jennemily Jennemily First Appeal Sadie Lady Saratoga Treasure First Appeal Sadie Lady 5 Mama Mary First Appeal First Appeal Mama Mary Saratoga Treasure Sadie Lady Saratoga Treasure Stonefactor Sadie Lady First Appeal Mundaye Call Noudha Lotta Ott Plea Mundaye Call Palace Avenger Lotta Ott Mundaye Call Lotta Ott Secondary Market 6 Secondary Market Velvet Crush Cloudbuster Noudha Velvet Crush Cross Border Cross Border El Hermano Opt Conforto Graded On A Curve Opt Cross Border Graded On A Curve Cross Border 7 Year Of The Kitten Graded On A Curve Year Of The Kitten Cross Border Graded On A Curve Cookie Dough Talk Veuve To Me Talk Veuve To Me Cookie Dough South Of France Talk Veuve To Me Cookie Dough Cookie Dough Talk Veuve To Me Cookie Dough 8 Skamania Free Kitty Quick Quick Quick Skamania Talk Veuve To Me Eyeinthesky Karama Eyeinthesky Elsa Tobago Bohemian Bourbon O’Keeffe Karama Eyeinthesky Abyssinian 9 Karama Chelsea Cloisters Sister Peacock Brooke Marie Karama Sandy Lane Kitten Sandy Lane Kitten Secular Stagnation Secular Stagnation Secular Stagnation Secular Stagnation Strategic Outlook Sandy Lane Kitten Wild Weekend Lisbon 10 Duress Secular Stagnation Duress Sandy Lane Kitten Duress Our fifth handicapper will be a special guest each day. 2019 Records 68/224 48/183 58/183 51/183 48/195*

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 37 Round Two New York-bred yearlings get set for two-session run in the ring BY TOM LAW FASIG-TIPTON SALES Joe McMahon remembers the early days of the Fasig-Tipton New York- venue, a separate venue and it didn’t bred yearling sale. Check that, he re- matter how much money the horses calls a time before the market existed made it mattered that we got some- and trying to convince Fasig-Tipton thing started.” to set it up in the early 1980s. McMahon remembers meeting “It’s a funny story,” McMahon with Fasig-Tipton officials in Sarato- said early Saturday amidst a busy ga Springs in March to discuss par- courtyard of prospective buyers look- ticulars. ing at yearlings from his family’s Mc- “If you can get the horses, 50 hors- Mahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds es, we’ll do a sale at night,” they told consignment. “They had a couple McMahon. false starts having sales like this but Appendicitis forced McMahon to they always had them in conjunction miss a skiing trip and “laid me up for with a horses of racing age. You don’t about a month,” so he hit the phones. “I gotFacebook, Jerry Nielsen yelp, committed, Instagram, so Tri - get yearling buyers for that. FrancispAdvisor (Vanlangendonck) was here. “We had tried like hell to get them Susie Raisher Continued On Page 40 to have something. We needed a real There was plenty of traffic on the sales grounds for the New York-bred sale Saturday.

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 39 am’s Map, Malibu Moon, More Than Ready, Nyquist, Quality Road, Run- Sale – happy, Speightstown, Street Sense, Continued from page 38 Tiznow, Uncle Mo, along with other by promising young stallions like Cal- Chip Landry worked with a few of ifornia Chrome, Constitution, Frost- these small breeders around here, so ed, Honor Code, Outwork, Speight- he committed about eight to 10 hors- ster and Upstart. es and I probably brought 30. We had Freud continues to carry the flag it all on this side of the road (in Barn for New York and has seven yearlings 7 across Madison Avenue from the in the original catalog. Other New main sales complex). York stallions with yearlings include “We got the 50, got the sale off and Big Brown, Central Banker, Laoban got it done. It really grew a little the and War Dancer. next year, and the next year, the next “The jump from the select sale to year, the next year, and we started get- the New York-bred sale, the gap can ting horses that were going to Mary- be wide as far as prices,” said Bluewa- land to come here. It grew into a pret- ter Sales’ Meg Levy. “I’ve noticed more ty significant sale. It’s probably the sire power here this year. The Laobans best regional market in the world.” seemed really, really nice. Up here in The strength of the sale seems to October they did well and they’re very grow every year and McMahon, oth- consistent across the board. er consignors and Fasig-Tipton offi- “We’re also seeing a lot of Out- cials hope the 2019 edition follows works at this sale. He’s a more afford- suit. The Saratoga New York-bred able sire, they like the sire line and sale starts tonight at 7. The change in they like the physical. In a way you’d the racing schedule at Saratoga Race like to see more sires make it up here. Course shifts the second session to the I don’t know what it takes. They’ve daytime Monday, with a noon start. had some good ones over the years, Fasig-Tipton cataloged 332 year- but you have to wonder who’s going lings, up from 327 last year. The to take over for Freud?” number will drop with 45 scratches Yearlings by Kentucky sires locked through Saturday evening. down the top 36 slots last year, which Bloodstock agents, trainers and saw significant gains in total receipts, owners were out in force Thursday, average and median. Friday and Saturday – some taking The average recorded the big- advantage of the extra showing day gest increase at 20.7 percent, going added by Fasig-Tipton. The parking from $89,088 in 2017 to $107,512. lot was jammed by late morning Sat- Fasig-Tipton reported sales on 172 urday, along with an area adjacent to of the 263 yearlings through the ring the Humphrey S. Finney pavilion for for $18,492,000, up 14 percent on 10 a makeshift golf cart lot while the va- fewer horses sold. Median rose 9.3 let parking crew stayed busy. percent to $76,000. “This sale’s really matured. It’s Wait times for shows at consign- grown into a real legitimate select ments were common. McMahon horse sale,” said Fasig-Tipton Pres- expects each of his 26 yearlings to ident and Chief Executive Officer average about 50 shows, or roughly Boyd Browning Jr. “It’s still called 1,300 shows total. Other consignors the New York-bred to keep its iden- dealt with similar traffic, which one tity separate from the select sale but cautioned doesn’t necessarily trans- when you average over $100,000 and late into more numbers on the board. continue to produce the graduates “The addition of the other day for that this sale produces, it shows it’s showing makes it feel a little less busy, a real horse sale. It’s grown up and it a little less chaotic to me,” Levy said. continues to, both in terms of the ped- “It’s been very chaotic in the past. igrees and the quality of the horses.” It’s hard to go from six horses and The quality of this year’s group six empty stalls and the only reason comes partly from the sires represent- we’re able to have an office is because ed. The catalog includes yearlings by we scratched one horse. That’s how successful Kentucky stallions Bernar- busy it is. dini, Candy Ride, Distorted Humor, “But that doesn’t necessarily mean Elusive Quality, English Channel, higher prices. It’s more about who it is Effinex, Flatter, Ghostzapper, Hard that’s looking at your horse. Basically Spun, Into Mischief, Kitten’s Joy, Li- we need two people on every horse.”

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 41 FASIG-TIPTON SALES Behind the Scenes Hernandez, crew keep Saratoga sales grounds in shape BY JOE CLANCY If Manny Hernandez had his way, this story would be one sentence. Something along the lines of, “They do a good job,” and that would be that. If Boyd Browning had his way, this story would take up 10 or so pages. Settle for somewhere in be- Fasig-Tipton tween. The sales grounds at Saratoga are ready, every year, thanks to the local crew led by Manny Hernandez. Hernandez, officially the New York plant man- They’re probably down there working already.” Sounds easy, but that’s the goal. Make it sound, ager for Fasig-Tipton Company, oversees the histor- As Browning said that, Hernandez was indeed and look, easy. ic sales grounds in Saratoga. Browning, the compa- walking the grounds and thinking about flipping The Saratoga sales facility touches three city ny’s Kentucky-based president and chief executive the facility from select sale to New York-bred sale. streets – East Avenue, Madison Avenue and George officer, is Hernandez’s boss and paid full credit to In the next 36 hours, yearlings would leave and Street – plus bits of Case Street, Mitchell Street and the local guy at the conclusion of Tuesday night’s more would arrive. Select-sale consignors would the tiny Tipton Lane. In roughly eight acres, there select sale that set records for median and average move out. New York-bred consignors would move are 10 barns, the Humphrey S. Finney Sales Pavil- while selling $55 million worth of yearlings. in. Every stall would be cleaned and set up, the ion, a warehouse, offices, restrooms, walking rings, “Manny and (Kentucky plant manager) David muck hauled away. By Thursday morning, the a snack bar, a restaurant/bar, foot paths for humans Kyle and those guys might get four hours sleep af- place would be back to its best self – tidy, orderly, and horses, a parking lot with two loading chutes ter working their asses off putting on the show,” raked, watered, groomed and ready. for horse vans and enough flowers and gardens to Browning said. “I’m sleeping a little bit tomorrow Hernandez paid credit to assistant Isaac Warner make Yaddo a little bit jealous. morning, they’ll be out here turning stalls and mak- and a team of 16. During the summer racing season, the place drips ing sure the next group of consignors get treated as “It’s quick, but not too bad,” Hernandez said with style. Flowers are in bloom. Grass is lush and well as this group of consignors. They’re the unsung of the work. “The challenge is to get the horses thick. Flags fly out front. Dark green paint adds heroes. I get to come up here, put a coat and tie on out and get everything ready for the next horses to Continued On Page 43 and pat ourselves on the back, say how good we did. come in.”

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42 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 11, 2019 of the place, for the order, the clean lines, the stateliness. Next year will Sales Grounds – be Fasig-Tipton’s 100th annual sale TRITON STABLE – STAKES RACING PARTNERSHIP Continued from page 42 in Saratoga and all that past carries weight. depth to the barns. Stone and wood “There are fun days, and there 75% Blacktype horses accents take everything a step further. are days when you get 24 or 18 inch- Hernandez oversees the whole thing es of snow and you worry about the and is rightfully proud of it come rooves, the sidewalks, you name it,” and 42% Stakes Winners summer when the crowds are here. said Hernandez, who lives in Sarato- “This is my baby, I don’t go to ga with his wife Melissa and 10-year- Kentucky or Maryland,” he said of old son Alejandro. “I’m proud of see- the company’s other sales locations. ing the barns in good shape. There is CALL FOR MORE INFO: “I really appreciate when Boyd says some history here and I like to take 502-773-1989 it, but it’s not just me. I have a lot of care of it.” people who work with me and I could Though there’s still snow to plow, not do it without them.” February means spring. Fasig-Tip- Hernandez grew up in Guatema- ton contracts with Sunnyside Gar- la, and came to the United States dens just outside of town on Church at 21. He worked in a restaurant in Street to plant flowers from seeds ev- Los Angeles, and later came to New ery year. Hernandez checks in once a York on the advice of a friend. Next month and starts planting at the sales came a job at the racetrack, first as grounds in May or June. Some tem- a hotwalker and then as a groom for porary pots stay at Sunnyside until MULTIPLE STAKES WINNER ICKYMASHO trainer Billy Badgett despite no horse the week prior to the sale. background. Back in Kentucky, Browning sim- “The racetrack is like that,” he ply checks it all off and waits for Au- said. “You can get a job. I got a job gust. Manny’s got it. and learned.” LINCOLN COLLINS JOE MILLER “Manny takes care of this place. [email protected] [email protected] Hernandez first came to Saratoga David Kyle and Manny Hernandez, with Badgett, and worked at Green- they treat both properties like it’s tree with the likes of graded stakes their house. Not their house, their winner End Sweep. Hernandez joined home. I sleep like a baby when there the staff at Fasig-Tipton in 1995, and are 18 inches of snow in Saratoga. I then worked for Thorobred Feed Sales don’t have to call him and check in. which was co-owned by Fasig-Tipton I do know that if something goes and operated out of what is now the wrong he’ll call, say ‘There’s a prob- company warehouse on East Avenue. lem, here’s what I recommend.’ OK, Hernandez was there for 12 years you handle it how you want to.” and when Bill Meissner, the Saratoga Just don’t write too long a story. plant manager for 43 years, decided to retire he met with Browning. “You can’t retire,” Browning told Meissner, “I don’t know how the hell I’m going to replace you.” “I might have the guy to replace me,” Meissner replied. Hernandez didn’t ask for the job. “Boyd called me and said he would like to talk to me, and asked what time I started in the morning,” Her- nandez said. “I told him like 6 in the morning. He said we could meet at 5:30. So we met in the lobby of his hotel. I didn’t know exactly what was coming. I had no idea I was going to get this job.” It’s his now. In the winter, that means plowing snow, painting inte- riors, catching up with maintenance. Everything up is taken down. Plastic tarps cover the walking ring. Every Fasig-Tipton water line is taken apart and blown Flowers on the grounds start as seeds at clear. The barns are his favorite part Sunnyside Gardens.

Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 43 Last in line Sale’s final yearling follows big footsteps for consignor Meet Hip 632, the final horse in FASIG-TIPTON SALES the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York- bred yearling sale catalog and the rea- son VanMeter Gentry Sales made its Attfield and owner William Werner first trip to the two-day sale. didn’t hurt. The sale starts tonight at 7 and “He was a New York-bred, he was continues with a second session at the reason why we set up this con- noon Monday at the Humphrey S. signment,” Dailey said. “I just start- Finney Sales Pavilion at the corner of ed looking for some more horses and East Avenue and George Street. some clients to build a consignment.” VanMeter Gentry’s Renee Dailey VanMeter Gentry put four in the explained the decision to build a con- catalog and is set up in Barn 5 in signment around a single horse. Saratoga. The squad also includes “This horse was inspired by Mr. colts by Laoban and Effinex and a fil- Hustle because he reminded us so ly by Speightster. As the last horse in Susie Raisher much of him,” said Dailey of a horse the sale, Hip 632 will have to wait his Hip 632 closes the sale for VanMeter Gentry. VanMeter Gentry sold for $235,000 turn. During a short visit Friday, he was quiet, unassuming, patient. Go- ning at 3. But this horse broke his Jeff Morris brings 40 years of ex- at Keeneland September last year af- maiden really well.” perience to this year’s Fasig-Tipton ter being purchased for $60,000 as a ing last won’t faze him. Dailey hopes for similar results to As the only yearling by Declaration Saratoga New York-bred sale with weanling. of War in this year’s New York-bred Hip 630, a Competitive Edge colt out The Saratoga colt, the first foal Mr. Hustle, in the sales ring and be- yond. sale, Hip 632 has a legacy to uphold. of the Artax mare Sundae’s A Meese. from the Street Hero mare Sweet To “He’s very similar to Mr. Hustle,” Bred by Jeff, family friend Tim Wick- The Beet, cost $55,000 as a weanling. “We did so well with Mr. Hustle in the sale ring and then he came run- Dailey said. “Personality-wise, physi- es and other partners, the bay colt His status as a New York-bred put cally, attitude, his movement. That’s joins five others in the Morris con- this sale in play, and the horse did the ning,” said Dailey. “He was in book one (at Keeneland), he’s really nice. how we ended up with him. Same col- signment in Barn 10. The group also rest. Mr. Hustle’s success – a maid- or, same swagger. We had no idea he includes yearlings by Outwork, Street en win and a score in the Victoria Roger Attfield is known for taking his time, so most of his horses are run- would be the last hip, but it turned out Sense, Twirling Candy, Bustin Stones Stakes at Woodbine for trainer Roger that way. Hopefully it works out.” and Midshipman. Stuart hopes to repeat the success • Breeding is a family affair for his consignment found at last week’s the father-son team, Jeff and Stuart select sale, when Thomas Haughey Morris of Highclere Farm and Stu- of PTK bought a son of Kantharos art Morris Sales. Jeff started from the out of Leh She Run, for $230,000. bottom in 1980 and created a career Jeff Morris bought that colt’s second not only for himself, but his son. dam Frisson for $28,000 in 1995 “It’s fun with my dad because he and her foals have combined to bring has three families out there that he’s $1,267,000 at public auction. developed,” said Stuart of his father. “My dad bought the second dam “He cut his own road on this deal. He (Frisson) when I was in high school, was buying $10,000, $20,000 horses 30 years ago,” said Stuart. “I had ac- and making these huge pedigrees and tually foaled and raised the mare (Leh all these stakes horses. Now we have She Run) for my dad 18 years ago. these third-, fourth-generation horses When she RNA’d we kept her and ran come along and we’ve made the fami- her. Since then, the pedigrees filled in lies, it’s incredibly rewarding to come dramatically with her. That’s pretty along that way. It’s the longevity of it rewarding.” and that’s hard to do.” – Catherine Galbraith

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Sunday, August 11, 2019 The Saratoga Special 45 cupofcoffee BY SEAN CLANCY Back Story There is nothing like a Saratoga morning. I’d never been here until we moved east. We said we’ve take the morning over the afternoon, the backside got to go to Saratoga, that was about 22, 23 years over the frontside. Just for the stories, the conver- ago. We’ve been here every year since. Not with sations, the light nature to a day that hasn’t gotten horses, just coming, every year,” Brent McClellan away from you – yet. said. “This is a bonus, our second horse to run here, Friday morning was running loose. Nobody was myself and my brother. I have an annual trip with saying anything glib or pithy for Here & There. my buddies. We booked the house back in February. Tom Law was 0-for-5 on Fasig-Tipton Stable Tours. They’re coming Wednesday, that’s fine, it would be The Galway preview was uncertain. I needed to find too much pressure if they were here. Know what I a photo of Sister Peacock, the Canadian shipper. mean?” Wonder where she is? Law comes through, like he Yeah, the pressure, the disappointment, the always does, with a photo of a ship-in slip for Sis- Brent McLellan and Sister Peacock. “what happened?” strides after the wire when the ter Peacock – Barn 33ABC. Underneath it, he texts dream slips away. “With Lynch.” Energized by the discovery. About that time Richard Migliore rolls into the I punch the golf cart, enticed by the acceleration Brent McLellan’s dad gave him a share in one of courtyard. Agent for Chris Landeros, who rides Sis- and disappointed by the dissipation like always, and his horses when he was 16. He doesn’t really count ter Peacock, Migliore introduces himself, checking head to Brian Lynch’s barn near the quarter pole of that as his first horse. His first horse came about in, making small talk. Minutes later, Gerry Olguin the main track. Nobody is there. I walk down the seven years later, a cheap claimer from Turf Para- walks around the corner to check on Sister Peacock. apron and ask a groom bent over a bandage about dise, never won a race. His first winner came with The former jockey traveled with the filly. Migliore the Canadian shipper. He says she’s over there, Stuart Simon, who he met when the trainer rent- lights up. points flippantly and says her groom will be back ed a house on a farm that McLellan’s dad would “We used to ride together in California,” Miglio- in a few minutes. Time is ticking. Erin Lynch arrives eventually buy in Western Canada. They became re says. “Good rider.” and offers to show the filly to me, once she talks friends. Simon became McClellan’s trainer and they I had to look him up. He won 2,000 races the to the rider about a green 2-year-old. That accom- began their crusade from the tumblebrush of Mar- hard way. plished, Lynch escorts me to John Kimmel’s barn in quis Downs and Stampede Park to the big lights of There is nothing like hearing a rider say someone the corner of Union Avenue and Yaddo. Woodbine. else is a good rider. Take it to the bank. The retired A bay filly tosses her head from the first stall on “In baseball, you’ve got your Triple A, Double jockeys compare similar scars on the forearms, talk the right. A husband and wife stand outside her A, Single A and the other stuff. Well, he was other about the old days. stall, they introduce themselves. I have a story. stuff,” McLellan said. “It’s an incredible journey, A jocks’ agent, named Trapper, you can’t make Now, this is what I love about Saratoga morn- it’s so cool to have him as a friend and a trainer.” this up, strolls into the barn. His dad, former jock- ings, the organic nature of our game and the organic They dreamed of having a horse good enough for ey/trainer, Frank Barroby, is a legend north of the nature of the story. I go from bumbling around try- a place like Saratoga. Now they’re here with a late- border. Trapper’s jockeys are on the shelf, he was ing to find a photo of a horse to standing outside a round acquisition. losing mounts, losing business, and said to himself, stall and hearing the life stories of Brent and Judy Simon discovered the daughter of Real Solution “I’m so miserable, I’m going to Saratoga.” McClellan and their horse, Sister Peacock. at Keeneland September, looking at her because he He’s enthralled, glad to be here. “This is like we’re going to Yankee Stadium to trained for Cecil Peacock, who owned Brother Der- “Whatever, it happens,” Trapper says. “It’s the throw out the first pitch,” Brent McClellan says. ek who shows up on her pedigree page. He loved business we got into.” “Or even, actually, play an inning. This is the Yan- her looks and bought her for $9,000. She’s won four Migliore nods his head. Brent McLellanan kee Stadium of horse racing.” races, two stakes and has a shot in today’s feature. laughs. Olguin smiles. I interrupt them and dash off for my recorder. “We had always heard about Saratoga but had And, sometimes, it feels like the right move.

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