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Year 15 • No. 12 Saturday, August 8, 2015 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing His Honor Met Mile winner heads contentious Whitney Tod Marks Tod First Samurai GIANT’S CAUSEWAY – FREDDIE FRISSON, by DIXIELAND BAND G1 Stakes Winners in Each of His 1st Three Crops __________________________________________ Four SWs, 10 Stakes Horses, 5 Graded in 2015 including GSW LEA LEA has won/placed in 10 Graded stakes including Donn H.-G1, Stephen Foster-G1, and Dubai World Cup-G1. P.O. Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 765-0804 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © KENNY MARTIN 2 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 8, 2015 here&there... at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 10,000: Estimated wins by this year’s inductees at the Hall of Fame. 85,000: Estiminated wis by this year’s returning Hall of Fame inductees. 87: Horses Alfred Vanderbilt Jr. once sent by train to California. 12,881,833: Combined earnings of today’s Whitney field. NAMES OF THE DAY Say Hey Kid, second race. Turf Stable’s 2-year-old is by Haynesfield, out of Swinging. Oscar Nominated, second race. Amerman Racing’s 2-year-old is out of Devine Actress. Evidently, 10th race. Owner/trainer/breeder Roy Lerman came up with a good one for the daughter of Supposedly. WORTH REPEATING “Every time I pick up an issue I travel to where I always want to be...heaven on Earth, and you and your staff seem to pay the fare to get there.” Longtime Special reader Patrick Kerrison “Jay, I didn’t come here for the water.” Jockey Paddy Young, when asked by groom Jay Libertini if he Tod Marks should bet Choral Society in the Thursday’s A.P. Smithwick. Young came Agony of Defeat. Eric Cancel laments what might have been with James Bond. DAR8575 Saratoga Special Medaglia 8 AUG15 06/08/2015 14:01 Page 1 for the money and Libertini got the money, as Choral Society won and paid $34.40 MEDAGLIA D’ORO El Prado – Cappucino Bay (Bailjumper) THE ELITE STALLIONS 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com ranked by their career total of $300,000+ yearlings When the market Medaglia d’Oro speaks 106 LISTEN Tapit War Front 104 51 As of August 8 Darley Saturday, August 8, 2015 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “The next Jonathan Sheppard.” Overheard, as Jack Fisher walked into the winner’s circle after winning the Smithwick “You better tie on when you go out with those jump jockeys.” Kendrick Carmouche, Friday morning “He gets more press than I do.” Bruce Brown, when seeing his son’s photo in The Special “Is that today’s?” Potential reader, taking a paper Friday morning (for future reference, we only give out today’s paper) “I have to admit it does get pretty quiet up here in the winter.” Anna Hollander, who spent her winter in Saratoga “I was the paddock judge at Monmouth Park, one hot day and Antley had a propensity to be late all the time, I had finally had enough of Antley and I called the stewards and had him fined $100. As we were walking out, he looked at me and said, ‘You think that means something to me chubby and he showed me a stack of 100’s and said, that don’t mean nothing to me.’ ” Drew Mollica, about his first meeting with Hall of Fame jockey Chris Antley “If you’re ever going to take them on, it was today. There was nothing to lose. Demonstrative, he’s the best horse but maybe not the best day for him.” Jockey Paddy Young, after upsetting two-time champion Demonstrative in the Smithwick Tod Marks Horse Wash. A yearling gets a bath at Fasig-Tipton Friday. QUOTE OF THE DAY NAME OF THE DAY “They don’t give milk. They don’t lay eggs. You’ve got to run them.” Rafting, second race. Wertheimer and Frere’s homebred Overheard, along the rail Friday morning Woke Up Tired, first race. isAppropriate out of Paiota for Falls, Monday which morning looks likeof sales a good week. place to go rafting if That’syou ever us. go to Montana. YOUR SOURCE FOR NY-BREDS Phone: (518) 423-2028 www.saratogaglenfarm.com 800-523-8143 4 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 8, 2015 Saturday,000095-LE-Union August Rags-Saratoga 8, Special 2015 FP-Aug 6.indd 1 The Saratoga Special 8/6/15 3:35 PM5 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “That was not his best but not his worst.” Jockey Robbie Walsh, after finishing third aboard Demonstrative “I haven’t seen you in days.” Harper Hutchins, to The Special’s Joe Clancy who got stuck in the office for a bit “What’s your problem?” The parrot at trainer Mitch Friedman’s barn; deadlines. “To say I taught him how to ride . you don’t teach someone like him. It just comes natural.” Franklin “Goree” Smith, about new Hall of Fame jockey Chris Antley “Keep up the good work. I read it when you put it up. It’s a great thing to look forward to every night.” Bloodstock agent and digital edition reader Reynolds Bell “Effinex is notorious for that. He must have gotten cast 50 times since we got him. He’s pretty good though – I think we only had to pull him off the wall once. He gets out of it somehow.” Trainer Jimmy Jerkens, on horses rolling in their stalls “The horse got a little more downtime. He doesn’t mind.” Trainer Phil Serpe, on being forced to scratch Weekend Hideaway from the John Morrissey due to a paperwork delay “I’ve got some free time.” Trainer Todd Wyatt, while driving from Saratoga to Penn National and back Friday Tod Marks Comedy Central. Bill Mott and Javier Castellano crack each other up. 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The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Writers/Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Billy Blake, www.thisishorseracing.com Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. Gaile Fitzgerald, Teresa Genaro, Annise Montplaisir, Published Wednesday through Sunday Call us about your editorial needs. John Shapazian, Chad Summers, Brandon Valvo. during the racing season. Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 9-16. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Layout/Design: Kaitlyn Vishneowski. 6 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 8, 2015 SARATOGA STABLE TOUR. Meet the people & horses who make Saratoga GO! THE SARATOGA SALE AUGUST 10-11 with Phil Serpe StablePhil Serpe’s 18 horses at Saratoga Tour: are sound and ready to run. Him? Every day at Saratoga, The Special Not so much. And he’s got the boot (with help from sponsor Fasig-Tipton) on his right leg to show for it. presents an exclusive Stable Tour The short answer is he strained his with a Saratoga trainer. For more, see: achilles tendon sheath, which sounds thisishorseracing.com/stabletours like something a horse would do, while working out this winter in Flor- tack back on him. He’s by Munnings ida. The long answer involves trip- and Munnings is doing great. We ping over a crossbar in the door of his claimed him for The Elkstone Group barn at Belmont Park, falling to the and we’re very excited about running asphalt and fracturing both elbows. him up here. We thought he’d be “I hurt my leg in Florida, but we ready early, but now it looks like the were getting ready to come up here latter part of the meet. He’s a big, gi- and I figured I’d get it taken care of ant horse, very well made. We’re pret- when I got back to New York,” Serpe ty excited about him.” said. “I go to the doctor, get a referral and the next day I’m walking out the La Inesperada: She ran second door of the barn after feeding and my the other day (July 30). We claimed right foot got hung up on the bar. I her for $25,000 at Belmont. She’s im- put my arms out and fractured both proving. She finished second the other my radius bones.” We missed a race. It was an unfortu- like I was out of my mind. She’s go- day in an off-the-turf race. She’s put a Serpe also cut his nose and was nate set of circumstances, but he’ll be ing to run on the 13th in the stallion lot of weight back on and she’s a filly actually pretty lucky considering the back.