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T he aratoga Year 14 • No. 13 Sunday, August 3, 2014 Who Dat? Moreno (right) wires Grade 1 Whitney Dave Harmon SWEET REASON, PALACE, FILIMBI, BIG BLUE KITTEN WIN SATURDAY STAKES • ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING Arch By KRIS S. Trappe Shot SELECT 177 Seafree filly By TAPIT Yearlings by 191 Spelling filly 137 La Prada colt Claiborne Stallions at 147 Mayhavebeentheone colt Blame 192 Spirit Away colt By ARCH 145 Broad Sound colt Fasig-Tipton 153 My Mammy filly 160 Pertuisane (GB) filly War Front SARATOGA 124 Wicked Looking filly By DAnziG 175 Santa Catarina filly Flatter 150 Charming filly By A.P. INDY 153 Comedy filly 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 © TOD MARKS 2 14-0555.CLB.SelectSires.SarSp.Aug3.indd 1 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August8/1/14 3, 10:20 2014 AM here&there... at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Readthebyline, fourth race. Now owned by La Marca Stable, veteran has been here before, still rings a tune with an office full of writers. Concise, ninth race. Andrew Stone’s filly is out of Cut Short. BY THE NUMBERS 4: Times The Special’s Jack Clancy was asked for directions by 7 o’clock Saturday morning. 4: Different locations needed; T.J. Maxx, Todd Pletcher’s barn, Ken McPeek’s barn and simply, “Where’s the racetrack?” 3: Commuters at an intersection on Caroline Street Saturday morning. Only in Saratoga, a jogger, a taxi and a horse. 159: Yards of the 11th hole at Idle Hour Country Club where Charlie Boden aced a 6-iron last week for his first hole-in-one. 1:02.04: Official time for two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan’s 5-furlong breeze on the main track Saturday morning. 46,943: Page views for July on thisishorseracing.com, website for The Saratoga Special. 8,588: Career wins for harness driver Walley Hennessey. The legendary driver was honored at Saratoga Casino and Raceway Friday night. 1: White racing saddle autographed by all the jockeys being auctioned off at Vapor Night Club Tod Marks to benefit the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund on Aug. 11. Todd’s Tools. Trainer Todd Pletcher keeps up with his troops with three watches, DAR6934 Saratoga Special MdO 3 AUG14 01/08/2014 15:45 Page 1 a radio, binoculars and the Daily Racing Form (he must have been reading The Special). The Half-A-Mill Club In the past three years, Medaglia d’Oro has sired 21 yearlings who have sold for $500,000 or higher. No US stallion has more. His latest medal winners: Two G1s, two G2s and two G3s in 2014.He’s striking gold. MEDAGLIA D’ORO Ten-length Deauville winner El Prado – Cappucino Bay (Bailjumper) Romeo Lima is a massively impressive 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com TDN Rising Star from his juvenile crop. Darley Sunday, August 3, 2014 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga “I think I’ll get arrested so I can spend some time away from “He sold a horse for me and I think I owe him money.” WORTH REPEATING here.” Owner, after a horse deal, Saturday morning “I knew I was in trouble when the bag handler at Graul’s Market Morning Line Kitchen’s Dennis Zoitos, Saturday morning told me to bet her last night.” “She was the fastest horse I ever had.” Former jockey Charlie Fenwick III, on the price of Luna “A good pal of mine Dick Mandella won three Grade 1s in an Trainer Rusty Arnold, Time who won Friday’s third race (Graul’s is in Maryland) afternoon at the Breeders’ Cup, so I am way behind him.” about Victory Ride who won the Test in 2001 Trainer John Gosden, at Goodwood Racecourse “Tastes like college.” in England, after being congratulated “I could be a professional student. I love it. Just go down an- The Special’s Joe Clancy, taking his first sip for winning three Group 1 stakes in a week other road and see what else you can learn.” of a bottle of Budweiser at 10:43 Friday night Trainer Leah Gyarmati, when “Her name was Winney. Well, I think there was an e in there.” discussing career options Thursday morning “They gave me the set off, I had to get out of there before they Former Allen Jerkens’ assistant Ralph Theroux, changed their mind.” after reading yesterday’s excerpt about “I close my eyes when I school that one.” Exercise rider Rob Massey, while sitting on a a filly we named Winnings, who was actually Exerciser rider Keri Brion, about a bold jumper picnic table at the Morning Line Kitchen Saturday morning named Winney (with or without the e). Our apologies. “Uh, yeah, we’ll be on the dirt.” “There’s a lot more action here.” “What is this horse doing?” Exercise rider Rodney Paine after a turf work Trainer Leo O’Brien, whose barn Trainer Elizabeth Voss, after riding is on the corner of a thruway on the in a golf cart for 30 minutes with another trainer “It’s a good place to win a race or two.” Oklahoma backside rather than hidden in the middle and three kids to watch a horse gallop Saturday morning Dogwood Stable’s Cot Campbell, about Saratoga QUOTE OF THE DAY “Fast.” Jockey Robby Albarado, when asked to describe Silver Max’s turf workout Saturday morning 800-523-8143 Tod Marks Horse Parking. Taylor Made’s lot was full Saturday morning at Fasig-Tipton. 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 Sunday, August 3, 2014 Sunday,LE-14303 - StallionAugust Creative 3, CITY 2014 ZIP - FP SS Aug2.indd 1 The Saratoga Special 8/2/14 7:50 PM5 The aratoga Saratoga 112 Spring Street, Suite 109 Junior Dance Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phones Sean Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-4424 Tom Law Mobile: (859) 396-9407 E-mail: [email protected] joe @thisishorseracing.com [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, YEARLINGS TO PERFORM FOR RACING AND SALES Ashley Dingeman, Jackie Dugas, Ryan Jones, (859) 312-3414 | kirkwoodstables.com Dan McDonough, Dan Tordjman Layout/Design: Katherine Lasak Photographers: The Chief . .Day 13 Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Handicappers: “I thought some of the racing secretaries were antiquated in my time and I would disagree with them, Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald, Tom Law, I would find out later, they were right all along. Tommy Trotter was one of them, I used to say he was too John Shapazian, Chad Summers humdrum, didn’t make any changes, most everything he did made sense in the long run. Kenny Noe was good, I thought Lakow was good. Now, you can tell they’ve been told, ‘Fill these races no Chief Head Honcho of Circulation: matter what.’ How are you supposed to fill the races if you don’t have the good horses? Jack Clancy Where are you supposed to get them? Pull them out of the sky? We don’t have the nuclei Help When We Need It: of allowance horse we used to have. Somehow. And the other thing is, people don’t run Nolan Clancy, their horses as often as they used to, everybody would run their horses at least twice Ryan Clancy, Miles Clancy. as much as they do now.” – 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 Horsemen’s ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Association Elkton, MD 21921 www.nytha.com | 516.488.2337 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 visit us on Facebook www.thisishorseracing.com Tod Marks photo Tod 6 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 3, 2014 Sunday, August 3, 2014 The Saratoga Special 7 WHITNEY STAKES RECAP Guillotine Second in ’13 Travers, Moreno upsets Gr. 1 BY SEAN & JOE CLANCY Sweating through a white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, sunglasses hanging from a strap around his neck, face growing as red as the awnings at Saratoga Race Course, trainer Eric Guillot yelled like a guy calling home a lost puppy. “Come on, Junior . Come on, Junior . Come on, Junior . ,” he shouted while watching a televi- sion above the betting windows on the bottom floor of the clubhouse. Jockey Junior Alvarado came on and got Guil- lot’s horse Moreno home first in Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney Invitational, pulling a 10-1 upset on eight rivals including 3-5 favorite Palace Malice in the feature of a stakes-filled card. Beaten a nose in Tod Marks See WHITNEY page 10 Moreno streaks toward the finish with an upset score in Saturday’s Whitney. 8 The Saratoga Special Sunday, August 3, 2014 Sunday, August 3, 2014 The Saratoga Special 9 SELECTED YEARLINGS AUGUST 4-5 • 7PM THE SARATOGA SALE G1 G1 MIDNIGHT LUCKY TONALIST 2014 HUMANA DISTAFF S.-G1 2014 THE BELMONT S.-G1 Tod Marks Junior Alvarado salutes the heavens after winning the Whitney with Moreno.