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FREE 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 9 • No. 22 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Sunday, August 23, 2009 Sparkling Run Careless Jewel romps to Alabama victory F What would YOU do with Inside Rachel Alexandra? F Yaddo Preview Here & There at Saratoga 517 Broadway, Suite 207 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (Second Floor, around the back) Phone: (518) 490-1175 Sean Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Mobile: (302) 545-4424 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 10-16. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Staff Writers: Brian Nadeau, Karen Johnson, Ben Meyers, Katie Bo Williams, Colin Beaury Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush, Sarah Condon Handicappers: Pete Fornatale, John Pana- got, Gaile Fitzgerald, John Shapazian Office Assistant: Jill Grant Bob Walton Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Ready to Go. Careless Jewel dropped jockey Robert Landry twice before going on to a big score in the Alabama. Nolan Clancy, Jane Motion Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Jon Bordeau (518) 812-4545 or Kathy Rubin Worth Repeating “In our limited time in the game I’ve seen folks push horses and you only at (203) 650-6815 go to the well so many times.” “I’m for summer racing at Churchill Downs.” Sagamore Farm’s Tom Mullikin, Slogan on Kiaran McLaughlin’s T-shirt at Ellis Park, 1982 explaining why they listened to Graham Motion ST Publishing Inc. 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The Best of The Saratoga Special Trainer Tom Proctor You wait for the payoffs, they gave something back to us today, that’s ap- Saratoga Days and other acclaimed preciative at this point.” “It’s a different kind of miserable.” Sagamore Farm’s Kevin Plank, products and services Jock’s agent and ex-trainer, when asked if it’s better being an agent after winning the Lake Placid Friday, within the equine industry. when asked about giving back to the sport Call us about your editorial needs. “We won the Ben Nevis for Rita, we won the Mickey Walsh for me. Now, we just have to win the Turf Writers for Tom.” “If you break off in 11, you can’t be surprised when you finish in 14.” “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be Tom Voss assistant Robert Cutler; the stable won the Ben Nevis Exercise rider, watching a worker sought and one day acquired and then (Cutler’s wife Rita worked for his connections) and the Walsh get tired at the 3-furlong pole Saturday morning (Cutler worked for him); the stable nominated retired to the trophy case. It is instead three horses to the Aug. 27 steeplechase Grade I. an ambition which must be pursued By The Numbers each day, never ending, never totally “Give that man a red jacket.” achieved. That striving, that ambition is an essential part of our newspapers, a Trainer Del Carroll, after a groom 1: Under Armour pin on Lake Placid Mayor Craig Randall’s lapel after the cornerstone of what we have been, caught a loose horse Saturday morning Lake Placid Stakes. what we are, and what we will be.” “I just sat and waited until it was time.” 1: Lake Placid pin on Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s lapel after the Lake – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Jockey Edgar Prado, simplifying Placid, Plank owned winner Shared Account. 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Contributions through August 18, 2009 09-290-133 PAC Thank You_10x6.75_STM_BW.indd 1 8/21/09 11:43 AM Sunday, August 23, 2009 3 Tod Marks Careless Jewel pulls away from the rest of the field during her impressive victory in the Alabama on Saturday. Canadian Careless Jewel Rachel Who? rules Grade I BY JOE CLANCY miles. Going into the first turn, the and Bill Andrade, Careless Jewel won ALABAMA StaKES RECAP gray daughter of Tapit steadied and her fourth consecutive race after finish- You can get from Northlands Park crossed Be Fair’s heels as the pacesetter ing third in her career debut at Keenel- to Saratoga, but it takes awhile. best hockey accent while exiting the angled to the rail. Then, Careless Jewel and in April and made people think of Donver Stable sent trainer Josie Car- winner’s circle. set up shop outside and second down another 3-year-old filly who skipped roll a cheap bay filly named Justjoriser “Josie, we won the Bama! Woo- the backside. She took over on the far the Alabama. back in 1999. The daughter of Chero- hoo!” owner Vern Dubinsky shouted turn. Three lengths clear after a mile, “We were coming anyway, and I kee Colony won once in nine starts that before bear-hugging his trainer. she led by 7 at the top of the stretch would hope we’d have made her run,” year and went 1-for-7 the next season.