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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. 5 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Sunday, July 29, 2007 Lawyer Ron (11) surges away from Fairbanks (right) and the rest of the Whitney field. Tod Marks Inside ❱ My Typhoon wins Grade I Diana. ❱ Ginger Punch rolls Holding Court in Go For Wand. Lawyer Ron rules track THE WHITNEY to win by 4 3/4 lengths over Wanderin Boy and Diamond ❱ Diabolical gets the in record-breaking romp Stripes. The final time of 1:46.64 crushed the track record set BY SEAN CLANCY by Left Bank in the 2002 Whitney. Vanderbilt win. Lawyer Ron’s penchant for runaway gallops and frantic Draw reins are fairly simple contraptions. Basically long moves in the afternoon had been well chronicled, ever since ❱ reins that loop from each side of the girth through the bit and he prepared for the 2006 Kentucky Derby. Trained by Bob Street Sense goes into a rider’s hands, if they work, they’re magic. If they don’t Holthus, the son of Langfuhr rattled off five stakes wins last work, they’re devilish. year but after finishing second in the Super Derby, owners in Sunday’s Jim For Lawyer Ron, they were better than pixie dust. The day made the move to Pletcher. he walked into Todd Pletcher’s barn last fall, the draw reins “We went to the draw reins, basically, from Day One. That Dandy. went on his equipment chart. They’ve never left. He wears was the first step, getting his gallops in control. With the draw them every day, usually under the precise hands of exercise reins, he’s almost kind to gallop,” Pletcher said. “It’s been a ❱ Sunday & Monday rider Eddie King. The electric colt learned to settle in the work in progress, it’s been a combination of things but most morning, making him dangerous (OK, more dangerous) in importantly it’s time and maturation of the horse. Repetition, Handicapping the afternoon. And, yesterday, a track record holder at Sara- doing things over and over.” toga. Lawyer Ron broke sharply and quickly sliced from the Owned by Hines Racing, Lawyer Ron crushed a competi- tive field in the Grade I Whitney Handicap, scampering home See WHITNEY page 4 You Call. You Save. It’s that simple. AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT save off select models of new agricultural farm equipment (For full-time equine operations only) CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENTdiscounts now NEW! available on a variety of graders and loaders LAWN & GARDEN CARE. Enjoy added savings with our NEW John Deere Partner Program! Discounts are now available toward the purchase of a variety of John Deere equipment including: select lawn and garden tractors, riding mowers (starting at X300 series and up), Gator utility vehicles, commercial mowing equipment, and compact utility tractors. Discounts valid only at John Deere John Deere Partner Program dealerships. Call today for your discount coupon. 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See you at Siro’s, Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com buddy. 12: Saratoga Race Course winners that paid $20 Published Wednesday through Sunday or above through the first four days of racing. during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 6-12. Worth Repeating The Staff “I had myself up to 25 the other day, but then I realized there was a car behind me.” Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Saratoga Sleigh innkeeper Don Nichols, Copy Chief: Jamie Santo on the “Your Speed Is” machine outside his Writers/Contributors: Alysse Jacobs, Karen front door on Union Avenue Johnson, David Kosak, Brian Nadeau, Katherine Sarasohn, Rebecca Walton “I was supposed to go home tonight but I can’t make it tonight. I’ve got something to do.” Art Director: Kevin Titter Jockey Mario Pino, on his traveling Racing Analysts: Pete Fornatale, Alan Mann (and celebrating) plans,after winning Photographers: Dave Harmon, Tod Marks, the Vanderbilt Handicap Saturday Barbara Livingston Menial Tasks Division: Ryan Clancy, “Man, there are never any four-leaf clovers.” Trainer Todd Pletcher’s son Peyton, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy moments before Lawyer Ron National Equine Product Advertising: ran away with the Whitney Saturday. Debbie LaBerge (717) 529-2158 Guess he didn’t really need them. ST Publishing Inc. Home Office Weather 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Today: A few showers early with isolated thunder- Elkton, MD 21921 storms developing later in the day. High 82. Winds (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 light and variable. Chance of rain 30 percent. www.st-publishing.com Tonight: Scattered thunderstorms during the eve- The Saratoga Special ning, then cloudy skies overnight. Low 62. Winds The Special at Keeneland light and variable. Chance of rain 40 percent. Steeplechase/Eventing Times Thoroughbred Racing Calendar Monday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in The Best of The Saratoga Special the low 80s and lows in the low 60s. Saratoga Days Tuesday: American Steeplechasing yearbook Dark, so you should be sleeping; how- ever, mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid-80s Alysse Jacobs National Steeplechase Association and lows in the low 60s. The old red barn belongs to Crown Hay and Feed. public relations consultants, custom Tervis Tumbler glasses But a truck with Crown Hay and Feed, Inc. on the side, parked under and lawn jockeys. Names of the Day the protection of an awning, suggests the structure may not be completely Admiral Bird, sixth race Sunday. The 3-year-old is by Royal Academy out of order. (where any good Navy man surely went, back in Admiral Byrd’s day) and The inside contains the essence of life, at least according to horses. “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be out of Sea Puffin (which Byrd surely saw in his polar exploration). Crown Feeds has been supplying the racetrack with the essential hay and sought and one day acquired and then grain since 1957. Some say the barn was once an ice house, before being retired to the trophy case. It is instead an Canary Yellow, fourth race Monday: The 2-year-old filly is by Mineshaft acquired by Crown. ambition which must be pursued each out of Danzig Colors. Inside are stacks of hay and grain. Rather than the anticipated moldy day, never ending, never totally achieved. air, there is an aromatic smell of alfalfa and sweet feed. A cluttered desk in That striving, that ambition is an essential a small office contains everything the company needs to deliver the pre- part of our newspapers, a cornerstone of Barns of Saratoga, Part II cious goods. what we have been, what we are, and Simply put, the old red barn near the Nelson Avenue stable gate looks Behind the barn is the only sign of life, a black cat. It darts from view, what we will be.” uninviting. All the doors have heavy locks and there is a “No Parking” sign leaving the barn lonely again. There are still a few old stalls inside. Now out front. The curvature of the roof makes the structure look unstable. used for storage, the place begs the question: who used to inhabit the old – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Throw in the chipped wood covering the building and it appears to be aban- barn? Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 doned. – Alysse Jacobs Backed by over 30 years HELPING YOUR BREEDING & RACING PROGRAM SUCCEED! in the Thoroughbred Industry. • Bloodstock services & management • First class boarding • Top stallion facilities • Legal services • Equine insurance Contact: Anya Sheckley Sunday, July 29, 2007 3 “His record at Oaklawn Park was phenomenal so I circled the Oaklawn The Whitney – Park Handicap as the first major goal,” Continued from page 1 Pletcher said. “I wanted to get a race into him so we found a mile allowance 11 hole to the three path, stalking Wan- race at Gulfstream which served the derin Boy and stablemate Fairbanks purpose of getting him to settle and re- into the first turn. Lawyer Ron tucked to Fairbanks’ right flank, just where Ve- lax. He got a good race in that day, took lazquez wanted to be through a quar- some dirt.” ter-mile in 23.86 seconds and a half in Lawyer Ron trounced eight allow- 47.37. ance foes, then won his fourth stakes in After the half, Wanderin Boy had Arkansas crushing six rivals in April’s stretched out his 10 rivals – 14 lengths Oaklawn Park Handicap. Returned to from him to longshot Awesome Twist. the Metropolitan Mile in May, he fin- Into the turn, no jockey sat as confident ished third behind Corinthian and Po- as Velazquez. litical Force then succumbed to inside “He can be a little bit difficult but now speed at Monmouth Park, failing at you can put him anywhere you want,” 1-10 and finishing second to runaway Velazquez said.