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Year 15 • No. 16 Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Street Kid Night Two leader hits $1.4 million Tod Marks Tod DOUBLE ISSUE: ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY • SALES RESULTS In 2015, Runners by Claiborne Stallions Won/Placed in Over 100 Stakes Races ___________________________________________________________ Arch • Eight Stakes Horses in 2015 Blame • Leads Crop with Six Graded Stakes Horses, 4 2YO Wnrs/ 8 Strs First Samurai • Four SWs, 10 Stakes Horses This Year Flatter • Top 15 Leading Sire in 2015, Three GSWs Trappe Shot • 2 Winners, 3 Placed including 2YO Belmont Record Setter Stroll • Six Stakes Horses This Year, Five Graded War Front • 11 SWs in 2015, including THREE Grade 1 SWs 2YO G1 SW 2YO TDN Rising Star AIR FORCE BLUE BLAMEITONTHELAW by WAR FRONT by BLAME GSW LEA, GSW BENT GSW/G1 Placed by FIRST ON BOURBON UPSTART SAMURAI by ARCH by FLATTER P.O. Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax (859) 765-0804 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © PETER MOONEY, BENOIT, ADAM COGLIANESE, COADY PHOTOGRAPHY 2 The Saratoga Special Wednesday, August 12, 2015 here&there... at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 44: Years Ocala Cedano has been coming to Saratoga. 650: Dollars an auction item donated by The Special brought at the Agricultural Stewardship Association fundraiser. That will by itself, conserve about a half-acre of good productive agri- cultural land. 6: Offspring by Freud in Thursday’s New York Stallion Series Stakes. 2.22: Return on investment per $2 win bet on all of Chad Summers’ top picks in the Power Grid, the best of our five handicappers. 8.24: Tom Law’s average win payout for his picks, the best of our group. 71.30: Total profit if you bet $2 win on all of Chad Summers’ picks so far at the meet. He’s the only one of five with a positive ROI. Twice the News Today The Special will not publish Thursday, Aug. 13 (call it a mental-health day after back-to-back all-nighters during the sales), but includes entries, handicapping and previews Tod Marks for Wednesday and Thursday in today’s edition. Sharkyearling. This Fasig-Tipton entrant tries out for a part in the next action thrill- See you at the races. erDAR8579 on the SyFy Saratoga Channel. Special Desert Party 13 AUG15 11/08/2015 11:14 Page 1 Celebrate! Desert Party, sire of a higher percentage of Graded Stakes horses to foals than fellow sophomore sires Majesticperfection, Super Saver and Quality Road. DESERT PARTY in NEW YORK Street Cry – Sage Cat (Tabasco Cat) Standing at Sequel Stallions, New York 859-255-8537 or 800-925-2913 www.darleyamerica.com Be a part of it Wednesday, August 12, 2015 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING (RAINY VERSION) “Thank God for the rain.” Trainer Leo O’Brien, always looking on the bright side “Wet.” Exercise rider McLane Hendriks, when asked how he was doing “Could be worse.” Shirley Jerkens, on the way home from a gallop “How can you complain about this?” Trainer Shug McGaughey, referring to a little rain on a Tuesday “You going to pull out that Harvey Vanier column, ‘This is the day we get them fitter than any- body else.’ ” The Special’s Tom Law to Sean Clancy “Beautiful day in the neighborhood.” Catherine Toner, while riding the pony WORTH REPEATING (NON-RAINY VERSION) Tod Marks Hey Hoser. The key to a good sale is minimizing dust – on the yearlings and in front “I’ll like this one more when I get off him.” of the barn. Exercise rider Rodney Paine, while coming off the track “You don’t mind if I geld this horse while you’re gone?” Hotwalker Bill Higgins, while walking one of Leah Gyarmati’s horses thisishorseracing.com QUOTE OF THE DAY NAME OF THE DAY “It’s incredible, absolutely incredible. First win here. Incredible.” Quibbler, sixth race. Owner Mark Valentine, after winning the Cab Calloway Monday We have dealt with a few quibblers this week. 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Morgan Ford’s filly is by Elusive Quality out of Skipstone. Constantine, sixth race. Paradise Farm’s 4-year-old is by Roman Ruler out of Lost Love. Perhaps, Minervina named him. She was Constantine’s first lost love. Accord, 10th race. Treadway Racing’s filly is out of Hug It Out. NAMES OF THE DAY (THURSDAY) Miguel Grau, first race. Named after the Gentleman of the Seas, he’ll navigate 2 1/6-miles over hurdles today. Psychiatry, ninth race. Almost too easy, Westbury Stable’s filly is by Freud out of That’s A Take. Tod Marks Picture Day. You have to look good for the people. Raising and Selling Racehorses ® ® and its affiliate NICOMA Visit Headley and Price online … millridge.com or nicoma.com Mill Ridge Moments John Stephen Hockensmith © Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. joe @thisishorseracing.com Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. 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(410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Layout/Design: Kaitlyn Vishneowski. 6 The Saratoga Special Wednesday, August 12, 2015 with Rick Schosberg StableAsked to do a Stable Tour, Rick Tour: Schosberg, didn’t hesitate, turning Every day at Saratoga, The Special at his tack room door and walking, (with help from sponsor Fasig-Tipton) “Let’s do that.” presents an exclusive Stable Tour Schosberg started at the first stall with a Saratoga trainer. For more, see: and walked the length of the shedrow, thisishorseracing.com/stabletours talking about his Saratoga string and a few horses at Belmont Park. Watergate: “Good solid little New From White Plains, N.Y., Schos- York-bred. We claimed him at Aque- berg trained 1995 2-year-old champi- duct, we haven’t won with him yet, on Maria’s Mon and Grade 1 stakes he ran a good race in the allowance winners Affirmed Success, As Indicat- race, got in trouble, wasn’t beaten far. ed and Mossflower. The Cornell Uni- I think he’ll develop into a good New versity graduate has been stabled in York-bred in the fall. Cool personal- the low barn near the corner of Clare ity, he’s got that white eye that either Court and Greentree for 20 years. makes people jump or they’re enam- “I think Maria’s Mon was in this ored by him.” barn. It’s been a long time,” he said. “Back in the day, we filled the whole Sandy’z Slew: “He speaks for thing up, lately, we’ve been sharing be- himself, he’s trying to win for the cause we just don’t have the numbers. third year in a row. He’s a cool horse. Southern Sunshine: “Ran in the geous filly. I absolutely loved her in Eighteen to 25 is a good number for us, Diverse horse, turf sprinter but if it race after the Whitney. Ran a dyna- the sale, I had to have her, we paid 90 it’s very manageable for me, I like to comes off you’re in just as good of mite race, got parked wide and fin- for her and she’s been well worth it.” manage the whole thing. I’ve got some shape. He got beat a length here earli- ished third. We claimed her at Aque- really cool owners and this is a great er in the meet. He’s a neat horse, loves Crescent Street: “He took a long barn, quiet, it’s a really cool place.” duct, we had Dr. Ducharme do a wind it up here. He’s bred to go long, but time to figure this game out. He came Schosberg talked to The Special’s surgery on her.