SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S T COMPLIMENTS OF T !2!4/'! O L T IA H C E E 4HE S SP ARATOGA Year 7 • No. 16 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Saturday, August 11, 2007 Sm o o t h Sailing English Channel headlines Sword Dancer field Dorm Fever captures The Heed Stakes. Nunnery takes off-the-turf Waya Stakes. Complete results of Friday’s Preferred Sale. Saturday Entries and Handicapping. INSIDE Photo by Barbara Livingston 70920.CLB.EasingAlong.SSpcl.Aug07 8/10/07 3:52 PM Page 1 Proven Grade 1 Sire by STORM CAT • NEW FOR 2008 • EasingEasing AlongAlong Sensational 1st Crop Results! Northern Dancer Storm Bird ........................ South Ocean Storm Cat ......................... Secretariat Terlingua........................... ••• Crimson Saint EASING ALONG Raise a Native Alydar ............................... Sweet Tooth Three 2YO SWs, 13 Winners Cadillacing........................ (1984) Buckpasser Relaxing............................ Marking Time from 21 starters By STORM CAT (1983). Stakes winner of $570,610, Young America S. [G1], etc. Leading sire twice, sire of 17 crops of racing age, 1224 foals, 879 starters, 151 stakes winners, 8 champions, 640 winners of 1887 races and earning $75,732,924 & $1,257,268(CAN) in N.A., including Giant’s Causeway (Esat Digifone Irish Champion S. [G1], etc.), Storm Flag Flying including [G1] ($1,951,828), Sweet Catomine [G1] ($1,059,600), Ambitious Cat [G2], and of Cat Thief [G1] ($3,951,012), Tabasco Cat [G1] ($2,347,671). 1st dam Record-setting Grade 1 SW CADILLACING, by Alydar. 7 wins in 13 starts at 3 and 4, $268,137, Ballerina S. [G1], Distaff H. [G3], Davona Dale H.-R (GP, $21,429), 2nd Shirley Jones H. [G3], 3rd Top Flight H. [G1], First Lady H. (GP, $4,872), 4th Bed QUE PIENSA CAT o'Roses H. [G2]. Sister to EASY GOER. Dam of 7 other registered foals, 7 of racing age, 5 to race, 5 winners, including-- CAT CAY (f. by Pleasant Colony). 8 wins, 3 to 5, $488,840, Top Flight H. [G2], Thoroughbred Club of America S. [G3], Shirley Jones H. [G3] (GP, Grade 2 SW $60,000), 2nd First Lady H. [G3] (GP, $20,000), 3rd First Flight H. [G2], Safely Kept S. [G3], Raven Run S. [L] (KEE, $8,242). COMPASIVO CAT STROLLING ALONG (c. by Danzig). 6 wins, 2 to 4, $450,852, Futurity S. [G1], Gulfstream Park Budweiser Breeders' Cup H. [G2], Lawrence Realization S. [G3], Noble Dancer H. [L] (GP, $30,000), 2nd Hopeful S. [G1], National Mu- seum of Racing Hall of Fame S. [G2], Saratoga Special S. [G2], Lexington SW, Grade 1-placed S. [G3], 3rd Gotham S. [G2]. Etr at Belmont Park, 5 1/2 fur. in 1:03. Sire. Lion Hearted (c. by Storm Cat). 4 wins, 2 to 4, $191,630, 2nd Riva Ridge SENTIMIENTO CAT S. [G2], Amsterdam S. [G3]. Sire. 2nd dam RELAXING, by Buckpasser. 4 wins at 3 in England; 9 wins at 4 and 5, $573,- 721, in N.A., champion older mare, Ruffian H.-G1, Delaware H.-G1, John B. Campbell H.-G2, Gallant Fox H.-G2-ntr, Firenze H.-G2-etr, As- sault H., 2nd Long Island H.-G3, etc. Sister to Time Note, half-sister to The Watcher [G3] (sire). Broodmare of the year in 1989. Dam of-- EASY GOER (c. by Alydar). 14 wins in 20 starts, 2 to 4, $4,873,770, cham- pion 2-year-old colt, Belmont S. [G1], Suburban H. [G1], Jockey Club Gold Cup [G1], Travers S. [G1], Woodward H. [G1], Wood Memorial Invitational S. [G1], Champagne S. [G1], Whitney H. [G1], Cowdin S. [G1], Gotham S. [G2]-ntr, Swale S. [L] (GP, $34,290), etc. Sire. EASY NOW (f. by Danzig). 4 wins at 2 and 3, $359,466, Go for Wand S. [G1], Astarita S. [G2], 2nd Coaching Club American Oaks [G1], Mother Goose S. [G1], 3rd Demoiselle S. [G2], Rare Perfume S. [G2]. Producer. CADILLACING (f. by Alydar). Stakes winner, above. Comfy (f. by Seattle Slew). Winner at 2, $21,286, 3rd Davona Dale S. (MED, $3,806). RACE RECORD: At 2, two wins in 3 starts; at 3, unraced; at 4, once 3rd. Earned $56,390. 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The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Copy Chief: Jamie Santo Writers/Contibutors: Alysse Jacobs, Karen Johnson, David Kosak, Brian Nadeau, Katherine Sarasohn, Rebecca Walton Art Director: Kevin Titter Racing Analysts: Pete Fornatale, Alan Mann, Frank Scatoni Photographers: Dave Harmon, Tod Marks, Barbara Livingston Distribution: Barry Watson Tod Marks Menial Tasks Division: Ryan Clancy, Jack A cold and rainy morning caused everyone to seek out shelter and a warm cup of coffee from the Saratoga Morning Line Friday. Clancy, Nolan Clancy Take A Number Names of the Day – Pop Culture Division ST Publishing Inc. Home Ofiice 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F 1: Steeplechase schooling session for Sword Dancer starter Always First The Leopard, second race. By Storm Cat out of Moon Safari, this name Elkton, MD 21921 at Saratoga this summer – he jumped fine, but he’s sticking with the flat stands on its own four feet. 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But it’s also a whale-less novel by Herman Mel- American Steeplechasing yearbook “The team won.” ville. National Steeplechase Association Jockey John Velazquez, when asked about his public relations consultants, basketball skills at the Andrew Lakeman charity game Thursday night Akebono, fourth race. “Dawn” in Japanese, it’s well-suited to a son of custom Tervis Tumbler glasses Sky Classic out of Tsuyu. Plus, it’s also the name of a Hawaiin-born sumo and lawn jockeys. “It’s amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don’t have any wrestler. horse.” “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be Dos Hombres, fifth race. Jockey Kent Desormeaux, while watching a replay One hombre less than ZZ Top’s “Tres Hombres” sought and one day acquired and then album. retired to the trophy case. It is instead an “I don’t want to talk to them – they’re taking a poll.” ambition which must be pursued each Trainer Tom Voss, avoiding a telephone call from the racing office Uncle Indy, seventh race. Lazy F Ranch was probably thinking of the colt’s (which was trying to save the Waya) Friday morning sire, A.P. Indy. Harrison Ford fans were probably thinking “That’s what Sal- day, never ending, never totally achieved. lah’s kids called Indiana Jones in “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” That striving, that ambition is an essential part of our newspapers, a cornerstone of what we have been, what we are, and Name of the Day Weather what we will be.” Today: Psychotic Summer, fifth race. Freud can be interpreted many ways. We Sunny skies. High 84. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner like this one, out of Yesterdays Gone (by Summer Squall). It pretty much Tomorrow: Sunny. Highs in the upper 80s and lows in the mid 60s. Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 sums up Sales week at The Special. Monday: Partly cloudy, chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 50s. WANT CURRENT SARATOGA FORM IN YOUR HORSE’S PEDIGREE? Come see Hip #683 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Open Yearling Sale on August 14th. • Dam’s fi rst foal TALENTED TREASURE has come in 4th, 3rd and 2nd at Belmont & Saratoga in 2007 in her fi rst 3 lifetime starts. She is a probable starter at Saratoga on Monday August 13th. • By #2 sire in NY, Champion ARTAX (sire of DIABOLICAL, winner of the G2 Vanderbilt at Saratoga on 7/28/07) • Big, Powerful & Correct fi lly ARTAX/TALENTED BELLE fi lly available for inspection at Fort Christopher’s Thoroughbreds, Barn 7 at Fasig-Tipton sales grounds. Saturday, August 11, 2007 3 Mightier than the Sword? English Channel looms above turf foes BY JOE CLANCY SWORD DANCER PREVIEW English Channel and Better Talk Now go together like peanut butter and and unsettled – and worries jockey John jelly (on the turf), so it’s a shame to see Velazquez – early in the race. The chest- the latter scratch from the Gr. I Sword nut’s best race comes when he can sit Dancer – the weekend highlight at Sara- just off the pace, close but controlled, toga and an often epic turf stakes that and wait to unleash his run.