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Year 19 • No. 16 Monday, August 5, 2019 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 Long Game A Thread Of Blue wires Spa Derby ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING YEARLING SALES PREVIEW PERFECT ALIBI WINS ADIRONDACK Tod Marks Tod 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2019 here&there...at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 5,253: Words written by The Special’s Tom Law in Sunday’s issue. 31,835,863: Dollars wagered on the Whitney Day (all-sources) card at Saratoga Race Course Saturday. The figure established a new Whitney Day record, topping the 2017 mark by more than $1.6 million. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY UNSPURND, Ontario. Racing for owner/breeder Christine Hayden and trainer Roger Attfield, Unspurned the Ontario-bred mare won four of 16 starts including two stakes. We’ll assume the car is named after the horse. SPAAAA, Massachusetts. FTSAUG, Maine. T-SHIRT SLOGAN OF THE DAY Live Like Someone Left the Gate Open. NAMES OF THE DAY Isn’t She Lovely. The bay filly is by Into Mischief and out of Lovely. Consigned by Bridie Harrison for Peter Blum Thoroughreds, she’s Hip 52 in tonight’s sale. Flightline. The bay colt is by Tapit out of Feathered. Consigned by Connie Bush Lane’s End, he’s Hip 80 tonight. And, yes, you can change his name Water Color. The wash pad at the Oklahoma Annex looked like art this week. but why would you? Stallions ranked by all-time Saratoga Black Type winners 1 A.P. Indy 19 2 Medaglia d’Oro 18 3 Danzig 16 It’s pronounced Storm Cat 16 5 Giant’s Causeway 15 Speightstown 15 Unbridled’s Song 15 Sarad’oga 8 Smart Strike 14 Tapit 14 10 Freud 13 Mr. Prospector 13 To 8-1-19 SELLING NOW: yearlings by the best active sire of Stakes winners at Saratoga. Darley MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 here&there...at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “I’m happy for the connections, there are a lot of them here, it’s a great thing.” Jockey Julien Leparoux, after winning the Saratoga Oaks with Concrete Rose “I really wasn’t concerned about her being in front, she turns it off, they turned it into a sprint, and she’s a fast horse. People got to remember she won going 5 ½ as a 2-year-old, she’s got a quick turn of foot when you ask it. When she got three quarters in 16, hell, she worked in 49, you don’t think about running in a race slower than you worked them the other day, that usually doesn’t happen.” Trainer Rusty Arnold, about the pace setup of the Saratoga Oaks “It was more about how do you build a discipline around horse ownership, eliminate the month- ly bills, budget out through three years and treat purse money and sales as return of capital. Do the reverse of what traditional horse ownership looks like.” QUOTE OF THE DAY Brian Klatsky about the impetus to start BBN Racing “Pay it forward.” “He can’t live forever, we need to find the next one.” Father, as his son grabbed a Special from the paper box Saturday morning Gainesway’s Brian Graves, on leading sire Tapit “Don’t let Dr. Richardson, Laue and Mollica get their tongues over the bit, literally and figuratively.” Hermitage Farm’s Bill Landes, on dealing with backstretch conversationalists “Fast horses.” Bloom Racing Stable’s Jeff Bloom on what he (and everyone) looks for at the sales “Don’t pee on the feed sack.” Overheard at Robertino Diodoro’s barn Sunday morning “Ever read the one where they ask the trainer, ‘Are your horses trying?’ And he says, ‘Very.’ ” 800-523-8143 Trainer Jimmy Jerkens Sunday morning Defeated Look for 1ST Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile-G1, Eclipse Champions 1st Yearlings Godolphin Mile-G2, etc. GUN RUNNER This Year 2ND Forego S.-G1 RUNHAPPY & ACCELERATE World Class Miler By SPEIGHTSTOWN 1st GodolphinLook Mile-G2 for • 2nd Forego S.-G1 Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager (859) 224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com 1st Yearlings This Year Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. [email protected] Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. [email protected] 259 East Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Writers: Catherine Galbraith, Ben Gowans, Paul Halloran, The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Terry Hill, Brandon Valvo. (the old feed store) Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. Handicappers: Charles Bedard, John Shapazian, Rob Whitlock. thisishorseracing.com Call us about your editorial needs. Design: Todd Koch. Published Thursday through Sunday Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 during the racing season. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Plus Monday, Aug. 5 and Tuesday, Aug. 6. Distribution & More: Madeline Ellsworth. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2019 We sell only what we raise… And we're trying to raise you a good horse. Recent GRADE/GROUP 1 WINNERS Bred, Raised and/or Sold by STONE FARM ROADSTER AIR FORCE BLUE BRICKS AND MORTAR MASTERY ASCEND Winner 2015 European Over $4 Million in Undefeated Winner of of 2019 Champion 2YO, Earnings, Winner of Winner of $1,000,000 Santa Anita Highest Rated 2YO 2019 Pegasus World Cup 2016 Cash Call Woodford Reserve Derby-G1 Ever Trained by Turf Invitational-G1, Futurity-G1 & 2017 Manhattan S.-G1 Aidan O'Brien Manhattan S.-G1, etc. San Felipe S.-G2 in 2017 For Half of a Century For inquiries, please contact Arthur Hancock at (859) 987-3737 200 Stoney Point Road, Paris, KY 40361 E-mail: [email protected] www.stonefarm.com MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 here&there...at Saratoga Country Life Stallions WORTH REPEATING “Next time.” Trainer Tom Amoss, moments after Serengeti Empress lost a heartbreaker in the Test “What is this?” Miles Clancy, 10, on Caroline Street late Saturday night “Keep moving. Keep moving.” Jockey Mike Smith to his escort on the way to the Saratoga Room after the Whitney “I said, ‘I can see him. I can see him.’ I had eye surgery the other day.” Smith, when Yoshida ranged up on his outside in the Whitney “He felt good today, he was on the money. He was warming up on the bridle, I took him away ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN from the pony. Johnny (Velazquez) said, ‘Man, I’ve never seen him look like that.’ ” Smith after McKinzie warmed up and ran on in the Whitney Divining Rod by Tapit out of $2-milion earner Precious Kitten. Third in American Pharoah’s Preakness. Second by a head in Gr. 1 Cigar Mile. “Might name a horse that, finally got a Whitney.” Earner of $882,604. Owned by Roy and Gretchen Jackson, Gainesway Bob Baffert after winning his first Whitney Farm, and Country Life Farm.Well-supported in the Mid-Atlantic, Divining Rod enters his third season at stud in 2020. “Everybody is trying to buy him as a stallion but we’re thinking, maybe we’ll run him another year if he’s healthy. Have some fun with him.” Find out more at countrylifefarm.com Baffert, about 4-year-old McKinzie Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 “If you look at him, he looks like the old-type Thoroughbred. Like the old one. Light. It’s good Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 because they stay sounder. Arrogate was like that, he was light bodied, they don’t use that much oxygen. Pharoah was sort of like that.” 410-879-1952 v [email protected] v countrylifefarm.com Baffert, about Whitney winner McKinzie “Genetics is not an inexact science but that’s as close as that saying, ‘The apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree’ that I’ve seen. I don’t think it did there.” Stone Farm’s Arthur Hancock on Hip 174, a colt by Curlin who looks like his two-time Horse of the Year sire Saratoga Moments . “It probably bothered you all, we were over there partying at our cocktail party and you guys were working.” “My best Saratoga moment? Wow. I would have to say . I could Fasig-Tipton’s Boyd Browning Jr. about Saturday night outside The Special office go Affirmed Success, Giant Moon . but when Maria’s Mon won “When the game is good you can’t keep them from buying ’em. When the game is bad you can’t the Sanford (1995), it started off his 2-year-old championship make them buy ’em.” campaign. He had broken his maiden on the Fourth of July, came Browning on expectations for any sale up here and won the Sanford, got beat in the Hopeful but then he won the Futurity and the Champagne. That was a graded stake at Saratoga. I was a young trainer and it really, really meant some- thing. Me and Robbie Davis. Can you believe it? That stamps you. We belonged and so did he.” – Trainer Rick Schosberg Headley Bell: 859-221-5108 • Price Bell: 859-321-5117 Connie Bush Feel His Pain. Everybody’s had a day like this backside goat. 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2019 e Presented by TOP 10 Photo of performances of the meet sponsored by the Day OSCAR PERFORMANCE congrats len green At 2: Breeders’ Cup Pinhooking Juvenile Turf (G1) Partnerships Standing at Mill Ridge Farm 2-year-olds The Special keeps up with the meet’s in training sales best – performances.