Year 16 • No. 31 Friday, September 2, 2016 T he aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing since 2001 Roller Girl Coasted cruises home in P.G. Johnson Tod Marks Tod MADE YOU LOOK WINS WITH ANTICIPATION • WHO MADE YOUR PICNIC TABLE? • ENTRIES & RESULTS 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 here&there... at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 6: Training runs on the 5-mile trail at the Saratoga Spa State Park for The Special’s Joe Clancy and Tom Law in August in preparation for Saturday’s Run for the Horses 5K. Depending on how you look at it, they’re probably over the top, they might bounce or they could need a race. And rabbits won’t help them. Lots: Of slots available in Saturday’s Run for the Horses 5K at Saratoga Spa State Park. Check out at www.trfinc.org/event/5k for more information. 19: Cases of empty Corona bottles stacked outside a dorm room Wednes- day morning. 2:30: Time writer Dave Grening’s alarm clock went off Wednesday morning so he could get to Saratoga from home and still see morning training. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY SHAVINGS: New York. EASYGOER: New York. NAMES OF THE DAY Bermuda Triangle, 10th race. The 3-year-old gelding is by Stormy Atlantic. Crackerjack Jones, ninth race. Chester and Mary Broman’s 6-year-old, who runs in the Evan Shipman Stakes, is by Smarty Jones out of Confidently. Two Pump, eighth race. The 5-year-old mare is by Second In Command out Connie Bush of Lite My Pumpkin. Feels Like Fall. Check that calendar, it’s September people. Have you seen Sense? No stallion standing for less than $75,000 can top Street Sense’s percentage of G1 horses from starters. STREET SENSE Street Cry – Bedazzle (Dixieland Band) 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com Darley FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 QUOTE OF THE DAY here&there... at Saratoga “Welcome to one of the great cathedrals of Thoroughbred racing around the world.” WORTH REPEATING NYRA’s Jason Blewitt, opening the in-house show Wednesday “I never get banged at the draw. Nobody wants to ride my horses.” Jockey, Wednesday morning “The first, the second and the 13th. Guess I’ll take a nap.” Jockey Dylan Davis, going over his Travers Day assignments “Second best place to be on Travers Saturday.” Former Special writer Quint Kessenich, 800-523-8143 as he sat at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium Saturday “Can we institute a countdown number on the handicappers’ page – the daily (current) number needed for John Shapazian to win the contest?” Suggestion from dedicated reader Don Reed. (somebody figure out the magic number) NAME OF THE DAY “John Shapazian is the Arrogate of Saratoga handicappers.” Dedicated reader Jerry Wisniewski, Belle Et Bete, fifth race.The 4-year-old filly is by Big Bad Bob echoing the sentiments of Reed and many others out of Petite Cherie. Her name – Beauty and the Beast “I’m giving my head a break.” in French – is the title of the original French fairytale. Kevin “The Brooklyn Cowboy” Cox, who did not wear a cowboy hat to the races Wednesday YOUR SOURCE FOR NY-BREDS Phone: (518) 423-2028 “You’re only as good as your horses. As long as I’ve got horses like that I’m in good shape.” www.saratogaglenfarm.com Trainer Arnaud Delacour, who won two Grade 1s at the meet with A. P. Indian “It’s all about food on the corner.” Mike Balfe, Mayor of Balfe’s Corner, presiding over a debate about the merits of chowder, pizza, a sandwich and placing a wager Thursday afternoon Building Speed for the Future... 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Every day of Sales Week Aug. 8-14. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 *No edition Aug. 11, Sept. 1 Distribution: Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy, Gabe McGarry. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 The Sport of Kings Opens its Doors to All. 2017 G’S PREMIER RACIN CONVE RSE NTIO r HO N r TRD ESTD MRK MMXV The first-ever international horse-racing convention, trade show and fan festival. AU G U S T 1 3 - 1 5 , 2 0 1 7 S A R AT O G A S P R I N G S, N Y #EQcon17 | Equestricon.org | [email protected] @equestricon Equestricon @EQconvention FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 “Yeah, I thought I got away with something, didn’t you?” Jockey Mike Smith on Drefong’s opening quarter-mile here&there...at Saratoga of :23.11 en route to winning the King’s Bishop “I should have just rented a place here and flown back there to ride on the weekdays.” WORTH REPEATING Smith, after winning his fourth Grade 1 stakes at Saratoga “There’s no sense going to the Bugatti dealership if all you can afford is a Hyundai.” Trainer Clovis Crane, on shopping at Keeneland September after Book 1 “Any press is good press.” Owner Tom Gallo, dispensing media advice “I kid them, ‘We’re only 28 behind.’ ” Trainer Shug McGaughey, about making the trainers’ race interesting “When he was young and would come up here, I’d go home and want to rest. He’d say, ‘Drop me off at the front gate’ and he’d go to the races all day.” McGaughey, on his son Reeve who is working in the barn this summer with eyes on becoming a trainer Maggie Kimmitt Railkids. Two young racing fans wonder what happened to their horse – and to their summer – on the backside last week. Raising and Selling Racehorses ® ® and its affiliate NICOMA Contact: Headley c: 859.221.5108 Price c: 859.321.5117 Mill Ridge Moments John Stephen Hockensmith © millridge.com nicoma.com 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 The Chief . .Day 31 Building two-year-olds one individual at a time (859) 312-3414 | kirkwoodstables.com “I always had my pony and a working pony. I bought that old white pony, Proud to support Thoroughbred aftercare Whitey, for $425 from a cowboy in California. He had a nice little way of going, you could sit to his trot, I got to liking him so I bought him. Sure enough, my Fore Furlongs. pony boy clips him and I go to get on him the next day. He was only 4 at the time, he had that little round back, the saddle wasn’t quite tight, I put my foot in the stirrup and it kind of turned a little bit and he went to crow hopping, it wasn’t three minutes and it was all over Santa Anita, how the cowboy (screwed) Allen Jerkens, sold him a bronc. If he knew I was going to still have him 20 years later, he would have asked more than four and a quarter.” – Trainer Allen Jerkens 1929-2015 The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association www.nytha.com | 516.488.2337 visit us on Facebook Connie Bush (859) 224-2756 www.thoroughbredaftercare.org of the day Visit our website or call 518.388.0174 to learn about the advantages of breeding a registered NY-BRED. nytbreeders.org | 518.587.0777 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2016 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 7 with Phil Serpe Every day at Saratoga, The Special presents an exclusive Stable Tour with a Saratoga trainer. For more, see thisishorseracing.com/stabletours Stable, Drawing Away Stable and York-bred? Yes, but I don’t know if anybody’s more recently Chester and Mary Bro- noticed, New York-breds are winning an awful man and Daniel Burke lot of big races the last few years.” “Just getting a few horses for Mr. Broman has been a big plus for us,” Preying Mantis: Broman homebred Serpe said. “He’s such a good guy daughter of Medaglia d’Oro finished fourth in Training hours were finishing up love Saratoga you’re in the wrong Lynbrook Stakes in career debut last year and on the main track as the final horse to business. Sure you get tired but so and the same thing as with Mr. Lizza, is 0-for-9 lifetime. “She got rained out unfortu- train out of Phil Serpe’s barn Thursday what.” when you get those guys it’s an op- nately. Jimmy Jerkens, we’re like brothers, he morning cooled out in a walking ring Serpe’s 17-member Saratoga string portunity. He’s got a lot of trainers had the horse. Chester sent him some other under a sign that reads Blue Heaven is bedded down in one of the green and he’s got a lot of nice horses. He’s horse so Jimmy sent the horse over to us with and hangs high on a telephone pole.