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The Aratoga a T I H E EC S SP ARATOGA SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S ✫ T COMPLIMENTS OF T O L The aratoga A T I H E EC S SP ARATOGA Year 10 • Issue 21 Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Halfway Home Saratoga 2010 heads to final three weeks Tod Marks Troy Stakes Preview • Weekend Update • Entries/Handicapping 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. 2-8. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy. Staff Writers: Phil Janack, Karen Johnson, Mike Kane, Terese Karmel, Ben Meyers, Katie Bo Williams. Layout/Design: Dan Vunk. Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Handicappers: Gaile Fitzgerald, Dean Keppler, Brian Nadeau, John Panagot, John Shapazian Assistants: Chelsea Brown, Maggie Kimmitt. Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy, Jane Motion. Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Kathy Rubin at (203) 650-6815. ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Tod Marks (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Comfortable Seat. Trainer Barclay Tagg flashes his best former jump-jockey form aboard the stable pony Sunday morning. www.st-publishing.com [email protected] The Saratoga Special The Special quotes from Saratoga Steeplechase Times WORTH REPEATING Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special “I don’t know about you, Ralph, but I like Saratoga.” Saratoga Days and other acclaimed products and services Trainer Steve Hobby to friend Ralph Nicks, after winning the Sword Dancer with Telling Weather within the equine industry. “I told you.” Today: Partly sunny and mild. Call us about your editorial needs. Nicks in response High 78. “We had so much fun last year, we were coming back this year.” “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be sought and one day acquired and then Alex Lieblong, about winning back-to-back Sword Dancers with Telling Tonight: Clear and cool. Low 56. retired to the trophy case. It is instead Thursday: Partly sunny. High 84, an ambition which must be pursued “Win a Grade I a year, that should keep you happy.” each day, never ending, never totally Hobby to Lieblong, after Telling won a Grade I stakes for the second consecutive year low 60. achieved. That striving, that ambition is an essential part of our newspapers, a “The Big Unit loves The Special.” Friday: Sun and clouds, possible cornerstone of what we have been, Reader – and big fan – Randy Johnson (no, not that one) thunderstorm. High 82, low 57. what we are, and what we will be.” – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, “We needed that.” Saturday: Partly sunny. High 79, Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 Trainer Glenn Disanto, after winning the nightcap Sunday with Wishingonadream low 61. 2 Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Continued from here&there... previous page Just Sayin’ “I’m lucky enough to have a trainer who The Special quotes takes his time and he’s lucky enough to have WORTH REPEATING from Saratoga an owner who can afford it.” Owner Alex Lieblong about trainer “I had him until the last minute for the race at Monmouth. Ron (An- Steve Hobby’s delicate handling of Telling derson) gave me a 99.9 percent call but he left that little wiggle room, he rode the horse from France who won the race so what could you say? I’ve tried to get him on this horse several times. This time, I called him and he said, ‘let me make a couple of calls and I’ll get back to HORSE TRANSPORTATION you.’ It wasn’t any 99.9, it was 100 percent.” 800-523-8143 www.brookledge.com Hobby about securing Garrett Gomez to ride Telling in the Sword Dancer “See those reflexes.” Jockey Channing Hill, after his horse spooked coming out of the paddock Sunday By The Numbers 920,132: Purses earned by Linda “Don’t make an offer you’re afraid will be accepted.” 80,000: Number of pages (plus/ Rice’s three starters in today’s Troy Trainer Todd Pletcher, about a steeplechase prospect in his barn minus) that have gone through The Stakes. “You missed a Name of the Day from Sunday’s card. Hey Hey Mama Special’s HP LaserJet 4240 over the in the eighth. By By Rock Hard Ten, from Led Zeppelin’s, ‘Black past few seasons, according to the Names of the Day Dog.’ Hey, hey mama said the way you move, gonna make you sweat repairman. Flask, third race. Owned and bred gonna make you groove . ” by Stone Farm and Joe Sutton, the Tom Coyle, one of The Special’s most loyal readers 2:09: Time trainer Steve Asmus- 3-year-old filly is out of Carafe. sen’s family walked into the winner’s “It’s the pressure part, the part I love, of knowing you’re on the best circle from the box area after Kan- horse in the race. Riding a horse like him is what it’s all about.” tharos won the Saratoga Special. Hold The Salt, eighth race. Bred by Jockey Ramon Dominguez about Turf Champion Gio Ponti Cynthia Knight Stable and owned/ trained by James Dogden, the “We know our shelves.” 2:11: Time Asmussen got there 8-year-old gelding is by Salt Lake Photographer Bob Coglianese, on how he and the other shooters after watching the race from the out of With Hollandaise. keep all the Nikons straight in the winner’s circe storage box grandstand apron. SEVEN 2-year-old winners in 2010 • Third Chance at Arlington Park for Ron Magers and James Divito • Sunday Splitsville at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher • Another Silver Oak, 3rd in the Sanford at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher. • Loving Dove at Monmouth Park for Red Oak Farm and Gregory Sacco. • Gambline Geraldine at Belmont Park for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher. • K.R.’s Jazz at Monmouth Park for A Woman’s Thing and Mary Hartman. • Saratoga Louie at Monmouth Park for Gary Barber and Peter Miller Our graduates include: Vineyard Haven (Gr. l) • Zensational (Gr. l) Contact Jim Crupi Bustin Stones (Gr. l) • Awesome Gem (Gr. l) Toll Free: (866) 313-5400 Macho Again (Gr. l) • Ten Most Wanted (Gr. l) Cell: (352) 427-1600 Stately Character (Gr. I) • Toccet (Gr. l) Bella Bellucci (Gr. l) • Acey Deucey (Gr. l) www.newcastlefarm.com Moon Catcher (Gr. l) • Weekend Magic (Gr. 1) Wednesday, August 18, 2010 3 TROY STAKES PREVIEW Silver Maybe Brown mulls options for favorite Silver Timber in tough turf sprint he’s ready to go. I’d favor running him BY SEAN CLANCY here.” “We are going to take a good look at Mike Dubb and High Grade Racing it. I’m not positive I’m running but I’m claimed Silver Timber for $25,000 last probable.” April. He’s won four Grade III stakes That’s how trainer Chad Brown left since and has finished worse than sec- it Tuesday morning. By Wednesday ond once, when running a game sixth in morning, the trainer will have made a the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa decision on running 8/5 favorite Silver Anita last fall. Timber in today’s feature, the $70,0000 Brown had (or has) his sights on the Troy Stakes. The 5 1/2-furlong turf Turf Monster, worth $250,000, at Phil- sprint attracted a tough 10-horse field, adelphia Park Sept. 6. But the young led by Grade III stakes winner Silver trainer has learned to strike while the Connie Bush Timber and a three-horse entry from turf is on and figures he might be able Trainer Chad Brown leads Silver Timber out for some exercise at Saratoga. turf-sprint queen Linda Rice. She en- to do both. half-mile on the Oklahoma training and always respected him. He won a tered eight-time winner Awakino Cat, “I put him in kind of last minute, track on Thursday. Like always, Silver state-bred allowance in his first start for five-time winner Lady Rizzi and 10-time he’s doing so well and he gets a little bit Timber put in his miles without a fuss, Brown, then won the Jaipur, Woodford, winner Ahvee’s Destiny. more money being a New York-bred ticking over for this start or for a start Shakertown, Turf Sprint at Churchill The race stops and starts with Silver even though the purse isn’t that big, just on Labor Day. He’s as steady as a pitch- Downs and the Wolf Hill at Mon- Timber. If he runs. walk him across the street and run him, ing machine. The Troy will be his 21st mouth. “I’m willing to do whatever, I’ve pre- it’s a little easier and I’m not sure I can’t career stakes start. “He thought he was in awfully cheap pared the horse to run. Even though I make both races,” Brown said. “He’s Dubb and High Grade Racing were so we thought we’d take a shot, we may have decided at the last minute to been a dream, he’s got a great attitude, looking for a tough New York-bred were heading to New York in a month, enter I had the spot marked and I had he’s a classy old horse, everybody loves when they put up $25,000 to claim Sil- we never expected to win four Grade him prepared,” Brown said.
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