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Year 19 • No. 19 Thursday, August 8, 2019 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 BIG FINISH AT SALE Muscle Man SERPE STRONG IN SARATOGA DEW Mr. Buff smashes Evan Shipman ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING Tod Marks Tod MALIBU MOON - LADY LIBERTY 54 WINNERS AND COUNTING IN 2019 INCLUDING MRS.ORB AND NORTHERN HAZE AT THE SPA LOOK FOR HIS YEARLINGS AT THE FASIGTIPTON NY BRED SALE • AUGUST 1112 Bernie Sams: 859.987.2330 | ClaiborneFarm.com 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 here&there...at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 605: Truck number of the Sallee van that waited to let a family (mom and two little kids, one pulling a cooler) cross the Fasig-Tipton driveway before pulling into the lot Wednesday afternoon. 1: High Hope Steeplechase Races T-shirt on the backside Wednesday morning. 3: People playing Boggle in the backyard before the first race Wednesday. 5: Cats shipped from Kentucky to Saratoga by Rusty and Sarah Arnold. 20: Million dollars in the purse of the inaugural Saudi Cup to be run Feb. 29, 2020 at Saudi Arabia’s King Ab- dulaziz Racetrack. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY SRATOGA, Michigan. Also, KEENLND, Michigan. Hopefully, somebody has DRC. SARDEW92, New York. T-SHIRT SLOGAN OF THE DAY Connie Bush Knot Fun. Apurate was still learning how to play with her new Jolly Ball Wednesday morning. I’m silently correcting your grammar. THE MAN WHO CAN 15% Black Type horses from starters – better than three-quarters of the stallions in Kentucky. They include 11-time Stakes winner Lady Shipman, G2 winner Princess Warrior, plus G3 winners Dearest and Sassy Sienna. He’s also theleading sire of two-year-olds in Brazil and has sired G1 winner Tweet there. MIDSHIPMAN Unbridled’s Song – Fleet Lady (Avenue Of Flags) More yearlings darleyamerica.com 859-255-8537 selling soon Darley THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 here&there...at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY California Night, fourth race. The 4-year-old colt, who races for Three Diamonds Farm and Mike Maker, is by Midnight Lute out of Moon Over Malibu. Prosperity, sixth race. Gainesway Stable’s 3-year-old filly is out of Flourish. Restructure, sixth race. The “Shell” Evans homebred 4-year-old filly is by Blame out of Credit Quality. Hierarchy, ninth race. Carl Moore’s 4-year-old is by Point Of Entry out of Place Of Honor. Spinning Kitten, 10th race. Morris Bailey’s 3-year-old colt is by Kitten’s Joy out of Carousel. QUOTE OF THE DAY WORTH REPEATING “Stay away from the Foster’s Oil Can. That stuff will kill you.” “You learn something from them all, but good ones NYRA’s Anthony Stabile giving advice to former Special staffer Annise Montplaisir, on her way to Australia for Year 2 of the Godolphin Flying Start program really show you what a good horse feels like. You need that if you’re going to work with horses.” “It barely registers. This whole thing is like reading French.” Trainer Leo O’Brien Miles Clancy, 10, proofing pages Saturday night “I think I asked her out to dinner, I always do that.” A victim of a Saratoga night out “Hot-walking is like long-snapping.” Darley Flying Start’s Corbin Blumberg, who has done both “Are we here for the season or are we here for the reason.” 800-523-8143 Trainer Jonathan Sheppard, following a runner out to the track Wednesday; we’re not sure. WORLD CLASS MILER MILLIONAIRE G1 SW BRILLIANT GSW by SPEIGHTSTOWN ALBERTUS by TAPIT TAMARKUZ MAXIMUS MOHAYMEN 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, 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. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 Come with us on a journey The world has a new richest race... Find out all about it at thesaudicup.com THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 Country Life Farm here&there...at Saratoga Racing Partnerships WORTH REPEATING “I did 142 last week and this week it’s 147 but I’m doing the same sweating.” Jump jockey Kiaran Norris, wandering the stable area Wednesday morning dressed like a cross-country skier (including the only Washington Redskins knit hat we’ve seen all meet) “We’re safe, who wants my identity?” Trainer Pat Reynolds, after there was a fraud alert on his credit card “That might be the best line ever.” Trainer Bruce Levine, after hearing Reynolds’ quote “Leave me alone, I’m listening to Nat King Cole.” Charlie Boden, early Tuesday morning “The bus is leaving at 5, I’m going for chicken wings with or without you.” Hotwalker at Steve Asmussen’s barn Tuesday morning ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN We’re excited about today’s re-opening of Virginia’s Colonial Downs. “Back when we worked up here for Mikey (Smithwick), we just didn’t go to sleep.” Pointing for the $100,000 Jamestown Stakes for Virginia-breds Jay Griswold, on life at Saratoga back in the day September 7 is our 2-year-old Carpe Diem filly Bella Aurora, recently third in debut at Laurel Park. For information, visit countrylifefarm.com Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 410-879-1952 v [email protected] v countrylifefarm.com Saratoga Moments . “We were standing right here, different barn but still Barn 8. And Tex Sutton is standing there with this horse on a shank. He said, ‘Well, Stevie, what do you think?’ I said, ‘Oh, Tex, I don’t know.’ And he said, ‘Let me tell you something. You don’t put all these horses in front of all these experts and they not bring what they’re worth. They might not bring what people want, but they’ll bring what they’re worth.’ I Connie Bush never forgot that.” Much Love. The one and only Tuba takes care of a pupil on the backside. – Fasig-Tipton’s Steve Dance, who has been Matthew J. Nielsen coming to Saratoga sales for decades Ed Kasperavich, CFA Deborah Stackpole Managing Directors Sports & Entertainment Group [email protected] 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 THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 e Presented by TOP 10 Photo of performances of the meet sponsored by the Day OSCAR PERFORMANCE Winner... At 3: Belmont derby (G1) Pinhooking Partnerships & Secretariat (G1) Standing at Mill Ridge Farm 2-year-olds The Special keeps up with the meet’s in training sales best – performances. We’ll update it daily, or try to anyway. Yearling to Covfefe: Because that Test slug- 2-year-old prep 1. fest was as good as it gets. Imperial Hint: Move over Spei- (859) 312-3414 2. ghtstown and Spanish Riddle. kirkwoodstables.com McKinzie: He can do it all, giving 3. Baffert his first Whitney win. Proud to support Follow along with us all season. Connie Bush Thoroughbred aftercare www.thoroughbredaftercare.org The Oscar goes to... The breeder of the horse who finishes with the The Chief . Day 18 Top Performance of 2019 will receive a FREE 2020 “When I first came to Aqueduct, there was a farm on both season to Mill Ridge Farm sides of the track. 1945. I used to have to take the train from stallion Oscar Performance. my house, then take the bus and I’d be walking in at 10 after 6, Good luck to all, and they’d say, ‘Where the hell do you work, the bank?’ I had been thanks for a great up for three hours just to get there. Then I got a room at the first season t r a c k .” at stud. – Trainer Allen Jerkens, 1929-2015 MillM Ridgeill Ridg eFarm, Farm, 8 5859.231.06069.231.0606 www.millridge.com www.millridge.com Marks photo Tod THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 7 Every day at Saratoga, with The Special presents an exclusive Stable Tour Mark Hennig with a Saratoga trainer. Trainer Mark Hennig won six races with The Factor at 2017 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York- seven seconds and seven thirds at the Bel- bred yearling sale. A winner in her second start last mont Park spring-summer meeting and ar- September, she finished third in allowance here July rived in Saratoga confident his string mixed 31. “She’s had a couple tough trips in a row on the of veterans and newcomers could keep things turf but she’s got a shot to win a race before the meet is over.” rolling. Then it rained. “We had a rough start,” Hennig said King Meister: Courtlandt’s 2-year-old by Bodemeis- Wednesday morning after most of his Sara- ter is half-brother to Grade 2 winner Strike Power.