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Out of Sentimental Charm, she’s named after the goddess of charm, beauty, nature… May Flowers, fourth race. Orlando DiRienzo owns the daughter of Spring Is Here. Ussery’s Alley, eighth race. If you see Luis Saez go to the outside fence and angle over at the turn, you’ll know he’s read his history books. Space Mountain, sixth race. G. Watts Humphrey and St George Farm named this homebred. She’s out of Magical Ride. RACETRACK T-SHIRTS OF THE DAY Young’s Bicycle Shop. Joe Gerrity Memorial Pace 2014. This Grandpa Knows Everything. BY THE NUMBERS 1: Bell boot in the mud at the main track’s half-mile pole Friday morning. 1: Exercise rider holding reins and a chain shank while galloping a horse Friday. Sean Clancy 19.5: Winning margin (in lengths) of the Stuart Janney-owned and Shug McGaughey-trained River Cat. This backstretch resident seems happy for Thursday night’s rain. Onus in two starts at Laurel Park this summer. DAR8589 Saratoga Special Midshipman 23 AUG15 21/08/2015 18:18 Page 1 Oneupmanship! Lady Shipman has the highest Beyer of any three-year-old filly in 2015. An d the second highest! Meanwhile, her sire Midshipman 1 Lady Shipman (Midshipman) 104 is also a class-leader: Outscoring 2 Lady Shipman (Midshipman) 102 fellow second-crop sires Lookin At 3 Super Majesty (Super Saver) 101 4 Cavorting (Bernardini) 100 Lucky, Blame and Super Saver by 5 Elusive Collection (Elusive Quality) 98 percentage of 2015 Black Type and others winners to runners. Find out more in our indispensable Darley Buyers’ Guide www.darleyamerica.com/buyers-guide-2015 or download the DARLEY COFFEE TABLE app from the App Store Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 27: Pounds from top weight to low weight in York’s Group 1 Nunthorpe Stakes in England Friday. America’s Acapulco, carrying the lightest (112 pounds), held off everybody but Mecca’s Angel, who carried 136 pounds. 7: Age difference between the oldest, 9-year-old Medicean Man, and the youngest, 2-year-old Acapulco, in the Nunthorpe. 57: More starts by Medicean Man than Acapulco. WORTH REPEATING “Send a box, doesn’t have to be big, about the size of a refrigerator box.” Mike DeVillez, when ordering extra copies of The Special with Wednesday’s jump winner Lune De Caro; Anybody know of a van headed to Versailles? “Superglue.” Assistant Bailey Poorman, when asked about how many stitches she had after Lune De Caro hit her in the head Thursday “Slow news day, when you’re quoting Shug about me.” Agent Richard DePass, after The Special quoted trainer Shug McGaughey in Thursday’s Special Annise Montplaisir Hey Cowboy. Joe Sharp finds a seat aboard Shore Runner at the barn this week (see Stable Tour page 7). QUOTE OF THE DAY NAME OF THE DAY “Three horsemen found him.” Sales agent Cary Frommer, about Wednesday winner Get Jets Benediction, eighth race. who sold to Tony Dutrow at OBS April after a bidding battle WinStar Farm’s colt is by Pulpit, out of Twist. with Steve Asmussen and Jerry Hollendorfer YOUR SOURCE FOR NY-BREDS Phone: (518) 423-2028 www.saratogaglenfarm.com 800-523-8143 4 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 Saturday,000085-LE-General-All-Saratoga August 22, Special 2015 FP-July 31.indd 1 The Saratoga Special 7/31/15 11:22 AM5 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “Neither sleet, nor snow…” Clocker Joe Williams, after being handed a Special on a rainy Friday morning “My kid is 5, can we line him up? Trainer Bruce Brown, after reading about The Special’s internship program “They counted me out.” Trainer Wayne Catalano, a year after coming down with H1N1 influenza virus and pneumonia last summer “I’ve got American Pharoah over here in the barn. Don’t tell anyone, he’s been here for a week jogging on the Eurociser.” Trainer James Bond, headed toward Gridley, on the topic of the day/week/meet “Why does it have to be funny? Why can’t it be profound? Though I suppose I deal in humor.” Parting Glass Racing’s Tom Gallo, looking for a spot in Worth Repeating “Go slow. Watch the splatter.” The Special’s Tom Law, with advice on riding a bike in the rain “I’m a distant second. I know where I stand.” Neal McLaughlin, on how his wife Trish ranks him with retired racehorse Past The Point (see page 42) Tod Marks On Ice. Do not try to take a sponge from the Lisa Lewis barn. Yearling purchase that produced G1 winner, NO MATTER WHAT ® NICOMA® An affiliate of Visit Headley and Price online at millridge.com or nicoma.com Portfolio Management Lee Thomas © Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. joe @thisishorseracing.com Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. 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(410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Layout/Design: Kaitlyn Vishneowski. 6 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 with Joe Sharp StableOn any given morning, if Joe Sharp Tour: isn’t at the barn he’s probably on the track galloping one of the nearly 40 horses in his string at Saratoga Race Every day at Saratoga, The Special Course. That was the case last Sat- (with help from sponsor Fasig-Tipton) presents an exclusive Stable Tour urday when The Special’s Annise with a Saratoga trainer. Montplaisir caught up with him for For more, see: a stable tour. Sharp was just heading thisishorseracing.com/stabletours to the track on Dolphus, a 2-year-old half-brother to Horse of the Year Ra- chel Alexandra. Blarp: “He won impressively (for Sharp is stabled at Saratoga for the Mott and owner James Karp, Aug. first time on his own after working 13). We claimed him for $35,000, as an assistant to Mike Maker. Also so hopefully we’re going to run him a former assistant to Mike Stidham, back in a first-level allowance race Sharp won 20 races from 56 starts here before the end of the meet, and last year, his first as a licensed trainer, expect him to move forward as well and has already tripled that number based on the way he ran the day we in 2015. claimed him.” Back at the barn on the Oklaho- ma Training Track, the former jockey C d’Cat: “She’s a filly that broke her talked casually about his string from maiden first time out at Belmont, and his office and even allowed a bystander was second in a first-level allowance to take a Snapchat of the interview for toga. We feel she’s a horse that could that ran second we claimed, which race (July 17 at Belmont and again her Snap Story. Before the stable tour probably win back a second time at was Abraham. He has some back Aug. 16 at Saratoga). She’s a New was finished, Sharp hopped aboard the meet. class to make us think there’s a shot York-bred and we think that she’s a Troy Stakes entrant and Breeder’s Cup we could return him to being a stakes filly moving forward and can compete Turf Sprint hopeful Shore Runner Young Anna Lee: “She is a New horse. So we’ll either look for a lit- in New York-bred stakes level. bareback for a photo op. York-bred 2-year-old filly by Posse tle more ambitious spot here at this She was second in a stake at Belmont meet, or wait for a stake race, or a Magnificent Margo: “She’s a filly Shore Runner: “Obviously he last time out as a maiden (July 19). little higher race when we go south.” that won first time out here last year won last time out in the Lucky Coin as a 2-year-old at Saratoga (for Mak- Stakes (July 27) with a rough trip, but Doc Almon: “He’s a horse that we Dolphus: “He’s a half-brother er).