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Year 14 • No. 24 Saturday, August 16, 2014 T he aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Good Credit Stopchargingmaria looks tough in Alabama Tod Marks Tod BROWN HOLDS STRONG HAND IN LAKE PLACID • ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING • WEEKEND HIDEAWAY WINS MORRISSEY $1,250,000 SARATOGA Sale Topper Filly by War Front Out of CHARMING Consigned by Eaton Sales Purchased by Willis Horton War Front Danzig – StARRY DREAMER, by RUBIANO In 2014: 4 Sales Toppers in U.S. and Europe 8 SWs, 14 Stakes Horses including Undefeated 2YO SW SOUPER COLOSSAL Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © PHOTOS BY Z, EQUI-PHOTO 2 14-0555.CLB.WarFront.SarSp.Aug16.indd 1 The Saratoga Special SATURDAY, August8/13/14 16, 4:02 2014 PM here&there... at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Can’t Happen Here, fourth race. Klaravich and William Lawrence name their horses after eco- nomic terms. They doubled it here, 2-year-old colt is out of Forbidden Kiss and perhaps also named after Sinclair Lewis’ book It Can’t Happen Here, a semi-satirical novel about drastic economic reforms. Security Risk, fourth race. Phipps Stable homebred is by War Front out of Smuggler. Now that’s a security risk. Baratti, fifth race. Darley homebred is out of Surf Song. Baratti, along the Tuscan coast, sounds like a nice place to surf and sing. BY THE NUMBERS – FOILED AGAIN DIVISION Star pacer Foiled Again runs in tonight’s sixth annual Joe Gerrity Jr. Memorial Pace at Sarato- ga Raceway. The 1-mile pace is worth $250,000 and lured the best pacer in training Foiled Again. He’s 5-2 in the Gerrity, the ninth race on tonight’s card, which starts at 7:05 p.m. A look at the 10-year-old’s career: 80: Lifetime wins. 212: Lifetime starts. 6.33: Million dollars in earnings, the most of any harness horse in North American history. 1:47 1/5: Time of his fastest mile, when third to world-record setter Sweet Lou in June. Saturday’s card includes 15 races, headed by several New York Sire Stakes events, a T-shirt Tod Marks giveaway and a visit from former harness racer Jupiter, now a member of the Saratoga Springs TheDAR6945 Master. Saratoga Special Announcer Street Tom Cry Durkin16 AUG14 checks 15/08/2014 his notes during18:26 Pagea race 1 Thursday. Police Department. Special thanks to reader Joe McVey for the tip. Street’s Street Cry $344,000 Distorted Humor $311,000 ahead! War Front $305,000 The number one Bernardini $298,000 Tapit $293,000 leading sire by US Medaglia d’Oro $273,000 Unbridled’s Song $213,000 yearling average Speightstown $147,000 since 2011. Kitten’s Joy $104,000 Sixteen more potential stars sell at Keeneland this September. STREET CRY Machiavellian – Helen Street (Troy) 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com Darley SATURDAY, August 16, 2014 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga “You love Italian. Clancy’s Italian, right?” “It’s 56 degrees.” BY THE NUMBERS Garlic Rob, as The Special’s Sean Clancy Mimi Voss, Friday morning 1: Morning at Saratoga (yesterday) this summer where blan- said he smelled like an Italian restaurant kets were relatively standard attire on the backside. “The best race of the meet.” “I thought Roll Bounce was a movie, but I was living it.” Robert Cutler, former assistant to Mickey Walsh, Jump jockey Xavier Aizpuru, after a rolling and bouncing before Thursday’s novice stakes named after WORTH REPEATING fall with Sporty in Thursday’s first race; Jockey the Hall of Fame trainer “It’s the least I could do for all those free papers you’ve given and horse emerged relatively unscathed (though we (Cutler helped present the trophy) me over the years.” are a bit worried about Aizpuru’s movie choices – Roll Trainer Dallas Stewart, when buying a Bounce is a 2005 film about a roller skating crew). “Jackie Gleason-like.” round of drinks for The Special’s Sean Clancy John Fahey, describing trainer Merrill Scherer “You could tell it was finished at 8:30.” “We’ve got this area covered.” Trainer Todd Wyatt, after reading Thursday’s Special “Punchestown’s time will come.” The Special’s Nolan Clancy, which was finished at 8:30 Wednesday night Airdrie Stud’s Bret Jones, after a as five “reporters” from The Special hovered potential jumper won again on the flat at the quarter pole of the main track Friday morning Doctor after a jockey clears a physical: “He can ride.” Assistant clerk of scales Eddie Brown: “We’ll see about that.” “A steak at Prime at Saratoga National.” “A hit man in Florida wanted to buy it off me, he said it’s a Trainer Phil Serpe when asked what he was going three-body trunk.” “What can I do to make The Special? I want to make The Spe- to pick out next after Weekend Hideaway Agent Mike Kelly, after slamming the trunk on cial.” won Friday’s John Morrissey his Lincoln Continental Friday morning Jockey Dylan Davis, Wednesday morning QUOTE OF THE DAY “We planned on this, we freshened her up after the (Kentucky) Oaks and the allowance race was a pretty good effort. She’s all A. P. Indy to me, she’ll keep going and going and going, this race should be a natural.” – Trainer Todd Pletcher, about Got Lucky’s chances in the Alabama 800-523-8143 Nolan Clancy Rail Bird. A backstretch hawk found a nice perch atop a Volvo parked near the quarter-pole gap Friday morning. New York’s Leading Equine Insurance Agency BREEDING SALES RACING Equine Full Mortality • Specified Perils • Liability Anya Sheckley. 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Staff Writers: Kristin Brennan, Katelyn Brush, Ashley Dingeman, Jackie Dugas, Ryan Jones, Photo by Connie Bush Dan McDonough, Dan Tordjman Layout/Design: Katherine Lasak Photographers: The Chief . .Day 24 Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Handicappers: “I always had my pony and a working pony. I bought that old white pony, Whitey, for $425 Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald, Tom Law, from a cowboy in California. He had a nice little way of going, you could sit to his trot, I got to John Shapazian, Chad Summers liking him so I bought him. Sure enough, my pony boy clips him and I go to get on him the next Chief Head Honcho of Circulation: day. He was only 4 at the time, he had that little round back, the saddle Jack Clancy wasn’t quite tight, I put my foot in the stirrup and it kind of turned a little Help When We Need It: bit and he went to crow hopping, it wasn’t three minutes and it was Nolan Clancy, Ryan Clancy, Miles Clancy. all over Santa Anita, how the cowboy (screwed) Allen Jerkens, sold him a bronc. If he knew I was going to still have him 20 years later, he would have asked more than four and a quarter.” – Trainer Allen Jerkens The Saratoga Special thisishorseracing.com Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special Call us about your editorial needs. The New York Thoroughbred ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Horsemen’s Association Elkton, MD 21921 www.nytha.com | 516.488.2337 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 visit us on Facebook www.thisishorseracing.com Tod Marks photo Tod 6 The Saratoga Special SATURDAY, August 16, 2014 SATURDAY, August 16, 2014 The Saratoga Special 7 Saratoga Fall Mixed & Horses of Tod Marks Stopchargingmaria seeks to give the Pletcher stable back-to-back sweeps of the CCA Oaks Racing Age and Alabama. Tuesday, October 7, 2014 ENTRIES CLOSE Back JULY 25 for More Pletcher, Stopchargingmaria aim at Grade 1 stakes double BY SEAN CLANCY ALABAMA STAKES PREVIEW “Compare last year to this year.” Walking and talking Friday after- A notch below Princess of Sylmar noon, Todd Pletcher stopped. Then is still lofty territory. laughed. Stopchargingmaria aims for her The question needed to be asked. third consecutive win and sixth A year after turning the Coaching overall. Twenty-seven days ago, the Club American Oaks/Alabama dou- daughter of Tale Of The Cat stormed ble with Princess Of Sylmar, Pletcher to a 5-length win over Alabama rivals tries to do it again, this time with Re- Unbridled Forever, Miss Besilu and pole Stable’s Stopchargingmaria. America. Pletcher noted the speed Last year, Princess Of Sylmar sand- figures, marked the calendar and wiched the CCA Oaks and Alabama watched his horse. between the Kentucky Oaks and Bel- “She’s given every indication com- dame in the midst of an 8-for-9 skein ing out of the Oaks that she’s every of brilliance.