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Year 19 • No. 4 Sunday, July 14, 2019 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 Sister Sister Turf champ wins 2nd Diana ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING BY YOUR SIDE WINS SANFORD BREAK EVEN HEADS SUNDAY FEATURE Tod Marks Tod 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 Past Midshipman’s G1 daughter Lady Shipman won the Coronation Cup at Saratoga in 2015 – one of no fewer than 11 career Black Type victories. Present Midshipman has sired 15% Black Type horses from starters – better than three-quarters of the stallions in Kentucky – and he’s the leading sire of two-year-olds in Brazil Susie Raisher Walking Tall. Trainer Tom Morley takes a pupil for a stroll. where he has G1 winner Tweet. here&there...at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 14: Horses gate schooling on the Oklahoma training track to “Dance to the Music” by Sly and the Family Stone at 7:30 Saturday morning. Yes, the Silks and Satins 5K was revving up for its Future start. Yearlings selling soon... 0: Pairs of goggles left by the time Junior Alvarado got two-thirds of the way to the jockeys’ room after winning Friday’s Forbidden Apple. He told the kids waiting farther down the path to come back after the last race. 17:46: Retired Hall of Fame jockey Ramon Dominguez’s time in Saturday’s Silks N Satins 5K, good for seventh overall and first in the 40-44 age group. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY TBRED, New York. SARATGA, Vermont. NAMES OF THE DAY Straphanger, second race. The 3-year-old gelding is out of D’wild Ride. And the straphanger can have a wild ride. Blame The Cake, fourth race. Lothenbach Stable’s 2-year-old colt is by Blame out of Marie Antoinette. Darley SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 here&there...at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “My wife and I think I’m at work, but we both know I’m here.” One railbird to another “He said I’ve got nothing Worth Repeating. That’s Worth Repeating right there.” Trainer Eric Guillot, warming up for this section Saturday morning “Now you’re talking.” Trainer Wesley Ward, on getting interviewed after races rather than before “It was more working horses than galloping horses because I couldn’t hold them at all. I weighed 70 pounds. They put me on the ones to go fast. That’s all I could do.” Ward, on his first job in racing as a 12-year-old exercise rider “I was wondering when you were going to figure out you didn’t have a pile of newspapers in your cart.” Trainer Tom Morley, as The Special’s Sean Clancy tried to drive away in Morley’s golf cart Saturday morning “Skinny Jimmy was helping Jimmy (Jerkens) when he had three horses in the middle of the mayhem in Chief’s barn at Belmont. Skinny Jimmy looked up one day and said, ‘If a clown on a unicycle comes through here, I would expect it.” Trainer Peter Pugh, telling old Allen Jerkens stories “That sounds like a bad idea.” Connie Bush Writer Tim Wilkin when hearing about The Special’s A Saratoga Thoroughbred makes like a painting while utilizing the back You’ve Been Framed. plan to run the Boilermaker Road Race Sunday morning window of the stall. $2.2 Million Yearling Brilliant GSW by TAPIT Won 1st MOHAYMEN Five Career Starts Tapit – Justwhistledixie, by Dixie Union Undefeated Graded SW at 2 1st Foals Arrived This Year Won Fountain of Youth-G2 & Holy Bull-G2 at 3 Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager (859) 224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. [email protected] Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. [email protected] 259 East Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Writers: Catherine Galbraith, Shannon Germain, The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Ben Gowans, Terry Hill, Brandon Valvo. (the old feed store) Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. Handicappers: Charles Bedard, John Shapazian, Rob Whitlock. thisishorseracing.com Call us about your editorial needs. Design: Todd Koch. Published Thursday through Sunday Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 during the racing season. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Plus Monday, Aug. 5 and Tuesday, Aug. 6. Distribution & More: Madeline Ellsworth. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 Country Life Farm here&there...at Saratoga Breeding Partnerships WORTH REPEATING “My husband actually came down and looked after him. We put him to work. He’s a very good-looking groom.” Catherine Day Phillips on husband Todd shipping in with Forbidden Apple winner Mr Havercamp “Wow! OK!” Phillips turning to face a wall of cameras and reporters in the winner’s circle after the Forbidden Apple “I might be up all night tonight.” Owner Dorothy Fitzhenry on the high of winning the Forbidden Apple with Mr Havercamp “This is where I started really yelling.” Fitzhenry narrating the replay of the Forbidden Apple Stakes “I don’t bet, I come to enjoy the race. This is a great town. Great people. Why not?” ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN Yankees great Mariano Rivera, about coming to Saratoga Country Life’s broodmare ROCK SAPPHIRE (from a deep Claiborne family including Guide, Tour and Grade 1 winner BOLT D’ORO) with her 2019 “My greatest moment in baseball was just wearing the uniform. Just wearing the uniform. That’s Maryland-Bred filly by War Front’s son MOSLER. Mosler’s first crop of 75 how big I have the New York Yankees in my mind. The legacy. The majesty. For me, I’m honored yearlings reach the Mid-Atlantic yearling sales this fall. and humbled. Coming from Panama, a small fishing town to land in New York City and play for 19 seasons, it was amazing. There are no words to describe that because it’s something special For information, visit countrylifefarm.com and deep.” Rivera, about the Yankees legacy Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 “The only thing I didn’t do was verbally tell hitters what was coming. They already knew and still couldn’t hit it.” 410-879-1952 v [email protected] v countrylifefarm.com Rivera, on the cut fastball QUOTE OF THE DAY Saratoga Memories … “My sports hero growing up wasn’t a baseball player, it was Pele.” Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera, “Probably Wonder Again’s Diana (in 2004). She liked soft ground who was honored at Saratoga Friday, on the Brazilian soccer star and that day when we walked over it was just drizzly a little bit, so I took her inside because she was a nervous filly. We’re walking around inside and she started to break out. I told my assistant, ‘Take her outside by the trees. Keep her outside.’ We kept her out there and it starts raining harder. The valet says, ‘Jimmy, come on.’ 800-523-8143 I said, ‘No, no. You have to stay outside.’ They go on the track and it started really raining, by the time they broke from the gate you Matthew J. Nielsen couldn’t see anything. It was pouring, you couldn’t see a thing and Ed Kasperavich, CFA Deborah Stackpole then coming toward the wire, I could see, here she came. And we Managing Directors won the Diana. It was like one of those things you never Sports & Entertainment Group [email protected] forget because of the way the situation was.” – Trainer Jimmy Toner ® Your investment future starts Headley Bell: 859-221-5108 Price Bell: 859-321-5117 here… Securities offered through Stonecrest Capital Markets, member . FINRA/SIPC Advisory services offered through Stonecrest Advisors, Inc. 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 Presented by Photo of the Day STANDOFF Pinhooking Partnerships KIRKWOOD POTD 2-year-olds in training sales Yearling to 2-year-old prep (859) 312-3414 kirkwoodstables.com Proud to support Connie Bush Thoroughbred aftercare www.thoroughbredaftercare.org The Chief . Day 4 “I had a filly called Harem Lady, beat the colts, Eddie Belmonte in the tack. I thought he was a great rider, whew, he had such instinct to get through a field of horses, never seemed to get shut off. If he realized he used a horse too much, he would suspend himself in the air for four strides, left handed and get him on the right lead. Look up Pretense, he was a good horse and Handsome Boy beat him in the Washington Park Handicap at Arlington, 1967. He could make a horse do things a lot of jocks couldn’t. The last thing horses like is to be outrun on both sides by a half-length, especially in the mud, with him, they didn’t. I would get mad at him if he didn’t win, he would say, ‘No same horsey today. You’ll find out something tomorrow.’ ” – Trainer Allen Jerkens, 1929-2015 Tod Marks photo Tod SUNDAY, JULY 14, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 7 Every day at Saratoga, The Special presents an exclusive Stable Tour with with a Saratoga trainer. Wesley Ward See thisishorseracing.com for more. Wesley Ward’s horses could be anywhere. mer and owner George Bolton named her for his They’ve run at 14 North American racetracks mother whose full name is Aurelia Garland Bolton. this year, and also raced in England and Mrs.