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UB ER S SCR IN IP A TI R O the T COMPLIMENTS Of N S ARATOGA T O T L H A E I SA EC RATOGA SP Year 11 • No. 4 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Wednesday, July 27, 2011 FAMILY TIES Winter Memories tries to duplicate mom in Lake George Eclipse Sportwire Overdriven handles Sanford field • Entries & Handicapping • Sunday/Monday recaps We Understand Performance air Hill Equine Therapy Center is a Fstate-of-the-art facility that houses the latest in technological equipment, designed to promote a safe and rapid advancement for horses recovering from injury. We give your horse every chance to make a successful return to competition by providing a variety of the latest effective physical therapy options that allows your horse to receive the care that Treatments include: benefits most. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Underwater Treadmill All this within easy access of Fair Hill Cold Saltwater Spa Training Center. Vibration Therapy Bruce Jackson visit www.fairhilletc.com Cell: (610) 496-5080 for therapy demonstration videos Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center 721 Training Center Drive, Elkton, Maryland 21921 Barn: 410.620.2175 Fax: 410.620.2176 Email: [email protected] 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011 the ARATOGA here&there... at Saratoga 517 Broadway, Suite 206 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] www.st-publishing.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 7-14. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy. Staff Writers: Andrew Champagne, Mike Kane, Todd Simmons, Katie Bo Williams. Layout/Design: Erin McNamee. Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Handicappers: Tod Marks Charles Bedard, Erin Finley, Gaile Fitzgerald, Clean Up Crew. Saratoga’s assistant starters try to tidy up some tracks left by the starting gate after the start of Monday’s Dean Keppler, John Shapazian Evan Shipman Stakes. Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Taylor, Hennig, Brian Badgett, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy, worth repeating The Special’s quotes from Saratoga Jane Motion, Emmy Cristiano. “Never give an owner a condition book.” “It’s a little different.” Advertising Sales: Trainer, as someone handed Book 1 to an owner Exercise rider Anne finney, on the difference between working Contact a Clancy or call for J.B Secor on the farm and Todd Pletcher at Saratoga Kathy Rubin at (203) 650-6815. “I’m going to be walking like a pirate for a while.” Owner Brant Laue, who broke his leg “That scared me.” while looking at stallions this winter Jockey Javier Castellano on Saturday’s photo finish when John Velazquez snuck through on the rail “At least you’re not trapped in a dungeon of hot dogs.” Brandon Badgett, 18, who’s serving hot dogs “We had a winner at Ellis.” at the track, when comparing summer jobs Trainer Steve Margolis when asked how his season was going The Saratoga Special Steeplechase Times “I’ve been lucky to be around some who are like her, not lately. Lady’s “If you rode this short, you’d get a nose bleed.” Exercise rider Simon Harris, after breezing one Thoroughbred Racing Calendar Secret was like that, she probably had ulcers but we didn’t know what they were then. It’s nice because she tries hard and runs hard.” The Best of The Saratoga Special Kiaran McLaughlin, after the tricky It’s Tricky won the CCA Oaks “Everything is a big word.” Call us about your editorial needs. Trainer Steve Asmussen when asked how everything was going ST Publishing Inc. Home Office “The Chief would have been happy, he switched to his left hand.” 364 fair Hill Drive, Suite f, McLaughlin, watching a replay of Eddie Castro “What is this chariot racing?” Elkton, MD 21921 switching to his left hand late on It’s Tricky Jason Hennig, 12, when seeing harness racing on the TV (410) 392-5867 • fax (410) 392-0170 www.st-publishing.com “You better change his papers, he grows a foot every time I see him.” “Turf rush is in effect. I’ll have to call you back.” [email protected] Trainer Arch Kingsley, when seeing Ryan Clancy, 18 Clocker Brian Walls, as the turf opened Monday morning WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 Continued from You're Invited To: here&there... previous page AN EVENING WITH JOSE SANTOS AT OUR FIRST MEETING OF THE 2011 SARATOGA MEET! Jose Santos, Hall Of Fame Jockey & Winner of the Kentucky Derby will talk about & sign his new book ABOVE IT ALL: THE TURBULENT LIFE OF JOSE SANTOS with Award Winning Author Bill Heller! Expected guests also include Richard 'The Mig' Migliore who will share a few of his favorite Santos stories, along with Funny Cide Trainer, Barclay Tagg! TH Tod Marks THURSDAY, JULY 28 AT 6:30 P.M. Starting Center WinStar farm’s Elliott Walden stretches his legs while watching some workouts Sunday morning. He plays in tonights Racetrack Chaplaincy charity basketball Free & Open to the Public game at the Saratoga Recreation Center (7 p.m., 15 Vanderbilt Avenue). Call (518) 587-5550 NAMES Of THE day E-mail [email protected] Hoopskirt, fourth race. Dapple Stable’s filly is out of Deep South. Situational Ethics, fifth race.Mark Grier’s 2-year-old colt is by Broken Vow. BY THE NUMBERS Horse to 1: Ops Smile Breeders’ Cup hat at Saratoga Race Course Sunday afternoon. 1: Montreal Canadiens hat at Saratoga Race Course Sunday morning. sell? 1: Tampa Bay Lightning T-shirt at Saratoga Race Course Sunday morning. -16: Low temperature reached in Saratoga this winter (twice). Story to weather write? Today: Mostly sunny. High in the mid-80s. Tonight: Parly cloudy, light winds. Low 60. Thursday: Isolated thunderstorms, high 84. Low 67. friday: Scattered thunderstorms (what’s the difference?), high 82. Low 68. Saturday: Partly cloudy. High 87. Low 64. Call the JUST SAYIN’ Clancys – “At that stage, I wasn’t allowed to know they do how hot it was. I was working for Wayne Lukas.” it all. Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin about a steamy summer spent at Monmouth Park years ago HORSE TRANSPORTATION [email protected] [email protected] 800-523-8143 www.brookledge.com 302-545-7713 302-545-4424 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011 LAKE GEORGE STAKES PREVIEW All in the Family Winter Memories tries to extend turf tradition BY JOE CLANCY Jimmy Toner took a looong, silent look at the past performances for today’s Lake George Stakes and thought about it. Then he walked across a gravel parking lot, over a green lawn and into his barn. One by one he passed the orange and white webbings in front of his horses until there was only one. “Here she is,” he said. The unassuming gray peeked around and under a Tod Marks hay net and accepted a pat on the nose. Her trainer Winter Memories goes for her third straight win of 2011 in the Lake George, a race her dam won in 1996. thought about his position, his job. “You go through every day, you just do your job, ories Of Silver won the Lake George in 1996, cap- Toner’s association with the Phillips family’s racing/ you do this and you do that and every once in a while tured the Grade I Diana, earned $1.4 million, found a breeding operation means he gets a chance to train you get a chance to stop and think about it and you place in Toner’s heart. Her youngest daughter to race generations of the same family. He’s quick to point out realize how lucky you are,” Toner said. “To have the has won four of five lifetime starts, three stakes (all that the horses don’t follow the same plan. mares that I’ve had, and be able to get the offspring? graded) and more than $450,000. At even money, she “It helps to know the families, but they’re different That doesn’t just happen. To have a filly like this who heads a field of six in the $150,000 Lake George at 1 types,” he said. “She has her way about her, and her is out of Memories Of Silver who was my favorite 1/16 miles on the inner turf. The eighth race on the mother had her own way. Her mother had her idio- horse – it’s exciting. It really is.” card also lured More Than Real, who handed Winter syncrasies. She knew who she was and she was picky Memories her only defeat in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Three-year-old filly Winter Memories occupies her See LAKE GEORGE page 6 mother’s old stall, next to Toner’s tack room. Mem- Juvenile Turf. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 Lake George – Continued from page 5 about things. This filly is the same way, but they aren’t the same things. She has her own personality, her own way about her.” Physically, they’re pretty different. As a racehorse, Memories Of Silver was small, compact, faster look- ing perhaps. Winter Memories is big and rangy, lon- ger, leaner. Like her dam, she excelled once she got a chance to work on the turf. Winter Memories ar- rived last year as a 2-year-old and Toner immediately thought longterm. “She wasn’t something where you said ‘oh wow, look at her,’ ” he admitted. “There was no wow fac- tor there.