Thursday, August 7, 2014 Year 14 • No. 17 T he aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Tricky Horse McGaughey, Napravnik win John’s Call in photo Dave Harmon BIRDSTONE RUNNERS GO LONG IN THURSDAY FEATURE • ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING Trappe Shot TAPIT– Shopping, by PRIVATE ACCOUNT • $10,000 SARATOGA SELECT 1st CropYearlings Average $247,500 Four Offered, Four Sold Individuals for $400,000 and $300,000 ••• Watch for more 1st Crop Yearlings SARATOGA Hip 47, a colt out of Mayhavebeentheone (by Arch) was consigned by NY-BRED Yearling Sale Nursery Place and was purchased by Matthew Schera for $400,000. Aug. 9 and 10 Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © PHOTO BY Z 2 14-0555.CLB.TrappeShot.SarSp.Aug7.indd 1 The Saratoga Special Thursday, August8/6/14 7, 4:03 2014 PM here&there... at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Lillehammer, first race. Named after the host city of the 1994 Winter Olympics, the 6-year-old mare is by North Light. Navy Blue, third race. Harold Lerner’s 2-year-old colt is by Midshipman. BY THE NUMBERS 4: Cars left over in the Fasig-Tipton parking lot between East Avenue and the Oklahoma track at 6:22 Wednesday morning. 4:30: Earliest time in the morning someone has asked for a beer at the Morning Line Kitchen. Ivan said they can’t sell before 11, but “sometimes they ask at 4:30.” Yikes. 11:30: Time Wednesday morning The Special’s Joe Clancy realized he had a voice mail (the call came in at 4:53 a.m.) from the printer about an equipment problem that would delay Wednesday’s paper. SARATOGA BARN AREA TRAFFIC JAM Two red cars. One pickup truck. Two horses One Jeep Cherokee. One trainer walking a Labrador. Two golf carts. One tram full of a backstretch tour group. Four pedestrians. One guy on a bicycle. Connie Bush DAR6938 SaratogaOh, Special and one Girolamo security 7guard AUG14 to coordinate 06/08/2014 the 16:48 whole Page circus. 1 Men at Work. The clockers keep tabs on the action at Oklahoma. Vosburgh hero and A.P. Indy’s outstanding speed horse. From the legendary La Troienne tribe: his half-sister is Super Saver’s dam. Girolamo? First yearlings selling now, including 22 at Fasig-Tipton NY-Bred Preferred. Fantastico! GIROLAMO A.P. Indy – Get Lucky (Mr. Prospector) 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com Darley Thursday, August 7, 2014 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga “Another one of these disturbances could come through… “I got out of there…until tomorrow morning.” WORTH REPEATING then it’s smooth sailing.” Fasig-Tipton ring handler Cordell Anderson “I’m the super-sub. The first thing I checked when he came Weatherman on the TV at the while watching turf works Wednesday morning back was the girth. Did it slip?” Morning Line Kitchen Wednesday morning Trainer Dave Duggan, who saddled Wednesday’s “Four thousand, one hundred and forty four. I hear about it steeplechase winner Mancor for non-shipping, “That’s high cotton.” every day.” Virginia-based trainer Jimmy Day Kevin Lavin, when hearing that The Special’s Trainer Gary Contessa, when asked how many races jock- writers were being compared to Joe Palmer ey-turned-exercise-rider Nick Santagata won in his career “We saw him!!!” Reader Paul Fulgione after he and his wife saw “Whatever you do, don’t take off this horse.” “She likes Keeneland. She walks that outside path and can get Jess’s Dream, 2-year-old son of champion Retired jockey Jose Santos, when asked six backrubs a day.” Rachel Alexandra, gallop Wednesday morning what he told his agent after working future EQB’s Patti Miller, about her dog Sally Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide for the first time “I showed up in khakis and a dry cleaned shirt the first day. “I thought we were going to have a 7-footer in the paddock.” They laughed at me.” “The only way I could get my body on the ground like that is if Bona Venture Stable’s Dan Collins, when Orlando Magic Ryan Clancy, 21, as he went to his “real job” it had white chalk around it.” power forward Andrew Nicholson was planning to see his wearing an Adena Springs hat (backward), a Valet Harry Rice, describing Hall of Fame namesake Nicholson run Friday (Nicholson had to cancel) “Fear the Turtle” T-shirt and jeans Wednesday morning inductee Alex Solis’ stretching routine every day “I’m doing all right, my wife called me last night and said there “I just got through reading Tuesday’s, I just hit the double.” “That’s a nice place, just beautiful – except for those three months.” were bats in the house.” Ralph Theroux, picking up Wednesday’s Special Finn Green, about Fair Hill Training Center (and winter) Owner Richard Hoffberger, who is glad he’s in Saratoga QUOTE OF THE DAY “We’ve been in racing for 32 years so I don’t even remember.” Owner Bill Punk, after winning with Selenite, when asked about his first winner at Saratoga 800-523-8143 Connie Bush Postcard from Oklahoma... HIP 458 – FASIG-TIPTON SUNDAY 8/10 Half-sister to MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC, stakes winner of 7 of 11 starts, earner of $306,391. MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC’S dazzling displays of speed in 2014 include: 125 Equibase # (highest sprint # in North America in 2014 is a 126) 101 and 99 Beyer Speed Figures • .03 off Aqueduct track record win Pointing to graded stakes at Belmont Fall meet Classy physical by freshman sire Marsh Side. Vinery Sales/Barn 9 4 The Saratoga Special Thursday, August 7, 2014 Afleeting Lady Some of our Stakes- Shackleford All Smiles Shane Roars American Victory Winning Graduates Sharp Sensation Ami’s Holiday Ski Holiday Angel Terrace from over the Years Sky High Lady Aragorn Ami Sky Willow Art Of The Hunt Solid Appeal Aunt Ellipsis Spa City Princess Avie’s Quality Spadina Road Bayonne Stacked Deck Berbatim Carrolls Favorite Stephan’s Angel Cat’s Holiday Stolen Beauty Commander Strut The Course Congressional Page Sweet Cassiopia Coup Sweet Seventeen Coup de Grace T P Louie Dancinginherdreams Tale Of The Cat Dr. Large Tequila Hero Dynamic Holiday Trophy Collector Edgewater Turf Melody Fortune Pearl Coup de Grace shown winning the Twice Mike Fugitive Angel G2 Amsterdam S. Unacceptable Gala Goldilocks Unlawful Behavior Gala Spinaway Unspurned Gator Bay Jacody Old Fashioned Villette Go Blue Or Go Home Joyful Victory Payton D’oro War Emblem Goldencents Just Jenda Mom’s Law Penny’s Reshoot War Tigress Keep Momma Happy Mr Palmer Pie In Your Eye Water Cannon Havre de Grace Prom Shoes Hear Us Roar Kitten’s Point Mystic Love Welcome Inn Hollywood Hit La Gran Bailadora Nanaja Ravalo Well Fashioned I’m A Kittyhawk Lady Beaumont Night Breeze Rush Chairman Bill Winslow Homer It’s Gail Laus Deo Nikkis Smartypants Rusty Slipper Love’s Blush No Mine For Me Sam’s Quest Marriedtothemusic Occasional View Seaneen Girl Miscoe Gray Offlee Wild Secret Odds Webb Carroll Training Center 803.655.5738 St. Matthews, SC • Email: [email protected] • Website: www.webbcarroll.com Thursday, August 7, 2014 The Saratoga Special 5 The aratoga Yearlings To Perform 112 Spring Street, Suite 109 for Racing and Sales Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phones (859) 312-3414 | kirkwoodstables.com Sean Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-4424 Tom Law Mobile: (859) 396-9407 E-mail: [email protected] Vintage Clothing joe @thisishorseracing.com Photo by Connie Bush [email protected] www.thisishorseracing.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 4-10. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Managing Editor: Tom Law of the day Staff Writers: Kristin Brennan, Katelyn Brush, Ashley Dingeman, Jackie Dugas, Ryan Jones, Dan McDonough, Dan Tordjman Layout/Design: Katherine Lasak Photographers: The Chief . .Day 17 Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Handicappers: “I had a lot of horses win big races a week apart, Beau Purple won the Hawthorne Gold Cup on Saturday, Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald, Tom Law, came back from Chicago on the van, we didn’t even fly him back, we ran him back the following Saturday John Shapazian, Chad Summers and he won the Man o’ War the following Saturday on the grass, he beat every good horse in the country, he never run on the grass in his life. We worked him the day before on the grass, the kid came Chief Head Honcho of Circulation: back and said, ‘I don’t know, he was stumbling…’ 1962, two good horses from Europe were Jack Clancy in there too. Look it up. Kelso, Carry Back and a couple of real good grass horses were in Help When We Need It: there, Bill Boland just galloped along on the lead, a horse would gallop up inside him, Nolan Clancy, put a head on him, he’d just save him, gradually inch away from him, it was unbeliev- Ryan Clancy, Miles Clancy. able. The crowd started screaming, because Kelso started coming after him, but he never gained an inch. That was something.” – Trainer Allen Jerkens The Saratoga Special thisishorseracing.com Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special Call us about your editorial needs. The New York Thoroughbred ST Publishing Inc. 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