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[email protected] © KENNY MARTIN 2 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 8, 2015 here&there... at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 10,000: Estimated wins by this year’s inductees at the Hall of Fame. 85,000: Estiminated wis by this year’s returning Hall of Fame inductees. 87: Horses Alfred Vanderbilt Jr. once sent by train to California. 12,881,833: Combined earnings of today’s Whitney field. NAMES OF THE DAY Say Hey Kid, second race. Turf Stable’s 2-year-old is by Haynesfield, out of Swinging. Oscar Nominated, second race. Amerman Racing’s 2-year-old is out of Devine Actress. Evidently, 10th race. Owner/trainer/breeder Roy Lerman came up with a good one for the daughter of Supposedly. WORTH REPEATING “Every time I pick up an issue I travel to where I always want to be...heaven on Earth, and you and your staff seem to pay the fare to get there.” Longtime Special reader Patrick Kerrison “Jay, I didn’t come here for the water.” Jockey Paddy Young, when asked by groom Jay Libertini if he Tod Marks should bet Choral Society in the Thursday’s A.P.