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2 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 here&there... at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Ganador, third race. Means winning in Spanish. The 6-year-old has done that five times in his career.

Charis, fourth race. 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.

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1: Exercise rider holding reins and a chain shank while galloping a horse Friday.

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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).

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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)

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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). She’s going to make her first start a pretty resilient horse. He’s pointed claimed for $62,500 here at Sarato- to Rachel Alexandra, by Lookin At back off the layoff (in the seventh race towards the Troy, which is $100,000, ga at the beginning of the meet (July Lucky. Had his first breeze (Aug. 15), Sunday, 5 ½-furlong allowance race same distance going 5 ½ on the turf. 24). He had kind of a troubled trip went one-eighth of a mile in hand, on the turf). We’re looking as good if He’s been training excellent. We’re last time. We’re looking to run him nice. Seems like he has a ton of tal- not better than she was before.” starting to talk Breeders’ Cup with back in a similar spot to the one we ent.” him, as are other people, so it’s not claimed him out of and hope we get a Abtaal: “He’s a horse we claimed like we’re off in left field, so that’s win. (The son of Any Given Saturday Aztec Brave: “He is doing fantas- for Brad Grady for $50,000 (from pretty exciting. is entered for the main track only in tic after his win at Mountaineer in Shadwell and trainer Kiaran Mc- the second race Monday). the (West Virginia House of Delegates Laughlin, Aug. 5). He won the day we Pink Freud Live: “She won a Speaker’s Cup Stakes Aug. 1). A cou- claimed him. We’re looking to hope- maiden special weight first off the Abraham: “We claimed him here ple spots we’re looking at locally, and fully raise him a little bit. Either win claim here last time out at Saratoga for $50,000 (from trainer Bill Mott if not, no matter where he runs next a race here or we’ll go to Kentucky (Aug. 9). She’ll be just coming back Aug. 10) He ran second to a horse of out we’re pretty positive that he’ll run Downs and run in a stakes the begin- in a first-level allowance race at Sara- mine. We won the race, and the horse well. The best of his year is yet to run. ning of the meet down there.” Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 7 The Chief . . .Day 23 “Beau Purple came back from Chicago on the van, we didn’t even fly him back. We had him nominated for the Man o’ War, we got to thinking all week…it was the last year they were going to race at the old Belmont before they made the new one, and so we put him in and we even took him over there the day before and he went an easy three-eighths on the grass. He looked like he was stumbling and falling down on the grass. The kid came back and said, ‘I don’t know, he was stumbling…’ Most of the time when you put a horse on the grass for the first time, you think, ‘Man, he loved it.’ If you put 100 horses on the grass for the first time and ask the riders, they’ll say, ‘He loved it.’ Then you run them and you can’t find them. I didn’t think Beau Purple liked it at all. The next day, he beat every good horse in the country. 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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 9 Connie Bush Trainer Larry Jones and Lovely Maria survey Saratoga from the backside. Double Barrel Jones brings I’m A Chatterbox, Lovely Maria for historic Gr. 1 BY TOM LAW ALABAMA PREVIEW The running joke in the courtyard of Barn 26 the last few days was that Grade 1 Alabama Stakes and they’ll Larry Jones brought his reinforce- meet plenty of familiar faces in the ments for the signature 3-year-old fil- oldest race for females in the country. ly race of the Saratoga Race Course “What a great group,” Jones said, meeting. assessing the field for the $600,000 The last time Jones was in town Alabama. “They’re not making it for a big race in the division he had a easy on me.” hammerlock on earlier this spring he Not that anyone’s overly sympa- brought one filly in I’m A Chatterbox. thetic to Jones’ cause or that he was If not for an incident in deep stretch, overly serious. where I’m A Chatterbox probably He brings a strong hand to the 1 cost herself as much momentum as ¼-mile Alabama, a race he won in the adjudged winner Curalina with a 2008 with eventual champion Proud drift and a bump, he probably would Spell. Lovely Maria and I’m A Chat- have added the Grade 1 Coaching terbox will break side-by-side in the Club American Oaks to victories in field of seven in posts three and four, this year’s Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks just outside of Danette and Curalina and Ashland Stakes and Grade 2 Fair and to the inside of Embellish The Grounds Oaks. Lace, Include Betty and Sweetgrass. Jones is back today with two fil- They’re stabled together at Jones’ lies, I’m A Chatterbox and Kentucky Delaware Park base and in Barn 26 Oaks winner Lovely Maria, for the Continued On Page 12 10 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Experience Matters. Let iStable Help Grow Your Owner Experience!

Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 11 good and do stuff like that. Those two fillies aren’t the ones you want rearing up though Alabama – because you don’t know what they’re go- Continued from page 10 ing to do. They can both be very sweet, but they’re push-button in their races and have on the backstretch of Saratoga’s main track. push-button attitudes, too. You don’t know Include Betty, who shares a common co-own- what’s going to set them off. er with Lovely Maria in former Kentucky “There’s a lot of stuff going on; it’s not Gov. Brereton Jones, is in the barn, too, and like Delaware where you have the track and when they went out to train Thursday morn- a couple trees. The barns are pretty spaced ing the courtyard had the feel of the stakes out, but here you have people, sounds, trees, barn at Pimlico during Preakness week. golf carts.” Include Betty and Xavier Aizpuru, assis- Lovely Maria trained after the break, go- tant and exercise rider for trainer Tom Proc- ing through the exact routine as her stable- tor, and I’m A Chatterbox went out first at mate and finishing up at about 9. She was just after 7 on a warm and muggy morning. bright and alert back at the barn, not show- I’m A Chatterbox, who reared up and fell ing the same signs she displayed when fifth into the saddling stall before the Coaching as the 3-10 favorite in the Grade 3 Delaware Club, showed some of that same high ener- Oaks July 11 in her first start since winning gy shortly after assistant Andre Stock led her the Kentucky Oaks in May. out of her stall gave her a couple turns. The daughter of Majesticperfection was The typically laid-back Lovely Maria got bouncing back from a sickness that went a little revved up seeing her stablemate, plus Tod Marks through Jones’ barn at Delaware Park. She’s several other horses on the ring that included I’m A Chatterbox and Andre Stock look for a Grade 1 win at Saratoga this time. recovered well the last few weeks and post- veteran New York-bred stakes winner Willet, ed a pair of bullet 5-furlong breezes Aug. 10 getting ready to train. The activity set off a ward the wire and schooled the filly in the paddock and Monday before shipping to Saratoga Wednes- chain reaction and I’m A Chatterbox, hearing the for about 10 minutes. She backed up a bit in the day. Regular jockey Kerwin “Boo Boo” Clark has morning sounds of the stable area, reared up. Stock stretch and galloped about 5 furlongs, pulling up the call on the 5-1 third choice behind 7-5 favorite kept a good hold, settled the daughter of Munnings with good energy. Curalina and the 5-2 I’m A Chatterbox. and got her in place for Jones to climb aboard. “Overall though we’ve already had two good “That race (the Delaware Oaks), she came off The trainer took a quick path to the track on days with her,” Stock said as he waited for I’m A I’m A Chatterbox, jogged her the wrong way to- Chatterbox to gallop past. “Sometimes horses feel Continued On Page 14

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comes out of that sprint stallion. Both of them are by sprint horses.” Alabama – Curalina missed her chance at the top Continued from page 12 3-year-old filly stakes this winter and spring, including the Kentucky Oaks, as a sickness so I have to throw that one she returned from shin issues that surfaced out,” Jones said. “I’m A Chatterbox, she when she was scratched from last year’s had the same thing, but she ran two weeks Grade 1 Spinaway at Saratoga. later than Lovely Maria and she ran well She’s won four straight since coming so that part I’m happy with. The fact that back for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, (I’m A Chatterbox) bounced back hopeful- including the victory by disqualification last ly means Lovely Maria will, too.” time, and could give trainer Todd Pletcher The sickness issue aside, a big question three consecutive Coaching Club-Alabama of the Alabama’s 10 furlongs remains. doubles. John Velazquez rode Stopcharg- None of the seven have raced past 9 fur- ingmaria to the sweep last year, along with longs, but many possess favorable pedi- two other Alabama winners in Yanks Mu- grees for the trip. sic and Island Fashion. Curalina, who also won the Grade Pletcher said the spacing between the 1 Acorn at a mile, and Danette are both Coaching Club and Alabama, roughly a daughters of Breeders’ Cup Classic, Dubai month, was good and that Curalina’s train- World Cup and Preakness winner Curlin. ing since her July 26 victory went well. Embellish The Lace is by Kentucky Der- “Both of her breezes since her race have by winner Super Saver, Include Betty is a indicated to me that she’s in very good daughter of proven stamina sire and Pim- form,” Pletcher said. “We’ve been able to lico Special winner Include and Sweetgrass do it the last two years with Stopcharging- is a daughter of Kentucky Derby and Tra- maria and Princess Of Sylmar and this filly vers winner Street Sense. acts like she’s held her form in between the “It should be OK,” Jones said. “All (of races as much those two did.” Lovely Maria’s) other races, it doesn’t seem Curalina breezed a half-mile in :48.22 like distance will be an issue. She just keeps Aug. 8 and another half in :48.66 last Sat- getting farther in front the closer to the urday. Princess of Sylmar, who also won wire you get. I don’t think the mile-and- Tod Marks a-quarter will be a problem, although she Continued On Page 16 Curalina looks for the Coaching Club-Alabama double for Todd Pletcher.

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Tod Marks PARRANDA Include Betty stocks up on Saratoga grass for today’s Alabama.

IRONICUS in early June to start her 3-year-old campaign, Embellish The Lace dueled Alabama – for the lead and faded to ninth of 10 KOBE’S BACK Continued from page 14 in the Grade 1 Mother Goose as In- clude Betty romped to a 3 ¼-length the Kentucky Oaks during her 3-year- victory. MR SPEAKER old season, and Stopchargingmaria “I’m not going to make any ex- also breezed twice between the CCA cuses. It was a big disappointment,” Oaks and the Alabama. Dutrow said of the Mother Goose. “I RELOAD “After the Coaching Club, the only thought that the one-turn deal, when thing I had to work out in my mind young horses are looking down and IMAGINING was whether I wanted to breeze her they’re seeing nothing but straight- twice or once. And I thought she was away in front of them, I think she got doing so well, there was no reason not caught up in the moment, aggressive, SUMMER FRONT to go ahead and breeze her twice,” went and it was no good. Looking Pletcher said. “I breezed the other back on it, I also made a mistake by two twice as well. The only thing we running her back too quickly. That did is rein in the gallop out a little bit, was a mistake even if she won the she’s a good work horse, we let her race. I’ve been doing this way too go a half and gallop out five-eighths long to make a mistake like that, but I And the story continues... and reel her in a little bit on the gallop feel like I made a mistake.” out. Both her works were sharp, you Embellish The Lace schooled in the could tell she was maintaining form, paddock with Grade 1-winning sta- or at least, acting like she is.” blemate The Big Beast before jogging Niall Brennan Stables Tony Dutrow is equally pleased once around over the sloppy main Ocala, Fl (352) 732-7459 with the progress Embellish The Lace track Friday morning. The Big Beast niallbrennan.com has shown since arriving in Saratoga went with the pony, while Dutrow’s from Fair Hill Training Center late wife Kim led Embellish The Lace last month. A dominant winner of a from the barn on the Oklahoma side maiden race at Parx to end her 2-year- old season and an allowance-optional Continued On Page 18 16 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 Aaron’s Concorde M Eighty Admiral Alex Makin Money Alae Rouge Malibu Moon Allen’s Prospect Marciano Ameri Valay McKendree Amerrico’s Bullet Meadow Monster Appealing Skier Medallist Awad Mogador Bishop’s Other Boy Mojave Moon Bowman’s Band Money’s Star Bullsbay Mr. Shoplifter Carnivalay No Armistice Cat Counrty Not For Love Cherokee’s Boy One Golf Sierra Citidancer Ops Smile Concern Oratory Country Only Outflanker Crowd Pleaser Parker’s Storm Cat Over $1 million! Cruisin’ Dixie Partner’s Hero Crypto Star Perfecting in purses and nOminatOr awards Cuba Polish Miner Cyclone Cat Polish Payola For Condition Books and more information contact Racing Office at Dance With Ravens Pulverizing 800.638.1859 or Maryland Million Ltd. at 410.252.2100 Deputed Testamony Purple Passion Deputy Storm Que Man Diamond Regal American PRE-ENTRY DEADLINE: Disco Rico Rock Slide Domestic Dispute Rush Bay THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2015 Dr. Best Same Day Delivery Eastern Echo Scipion Elusive Charlie Seeking Daylight Etched Smart Guy Fantasticat St Averil Fleet Foot Standing Room Friesan Fire Only Gators N Bears Sticks and Bricks Go for Gin Storm Broker Goldmember Street Magician Great Notion Swear by Dixie Greek Sun Tomahawk Lake Gyrfalcon (GB) Touch ‘n’ Fly (IRE) Hawk in Flight Trial Prep Jazz Club Two Punch Ken Doll Unbridled Jet La Reine’s Terms Unbridled Mate Larrupin’ Waquoit Maryland Million program, are eligible to run in Maryland Million races. Maryland Million program, Lion Hearted Wayne County (IRE) Lord Concorde Who’s Your Daddy Louis Quatorze Yarrow Brae

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 17 a-quarter here, so there’s a lot for me to feel good about. I’ll walk out of Alabama – here tomorrow knowing what she is. Continued from page 16 Whether it’s good, bad or in between. That will be what she is.” across Union Avenue, through the Include Betty, the 8-1 fourth picnic area and into the paddock. choice, figures to come from well Embellish The Lace walked a full back as usual under Drayden Van loop of the paddock, stood under Dyke. She finished 2 lengths behind the awning and went to train a few I’m A Chatterbox and Curalina in the minutes after The Big Beast went out. Coaching Club after being 16 lengths The half-sister to 2010 Travers win- back through the opening half-mile. ner Afleet Express cost $320,000 as Trained by Tom Proctor, Include Bet- a yearling at Keeneland September in ty won the Grade 3 Fantasy in addi- 2013, and will be ridden by two-time tion to the Mother Goose this season. Alabama winner Javier Castellano for Sweetgrass comes to the Alabama the first time. off close losses in the Grade 3 Iowa “I was looking back at her training Oaks (third by a half-length) and chart a day or two ago and since she’s Grade 2 Indiana Oaks (second by 1 been up here she’s been asking for it length) for trainer Ian Wilkes. She’s and we’ve been training her,” Dutrow listed at 12-1 on the morning-line said. “She’s thriving on it. She’s got with Chris Landeros named to ride in a lot to prove tomorrow, make no his Saratoga debut. mistake about it. There’s no question Danette was fourth in the CCA about her talent, but everything else is Oaks after needing 13 starts to break a question mark. I’m looking forward her maiden. She’ll try to give trainer to seeing what happens. Keith Desormeaux his third graded Tod Marks “This is a different situation, dif- Danette eyes another graded stakes win for trainer Keith Desormeaux. stakes victory of the meet, along with ferent scenario and I’m looking for- Texas Red in the Jim Dandy and Ex- ward to it. She’s talented enough. Is aggerator in last weekend’s Saratoga she good enough? Her brother won Special. She’s also 12-1 on the early thisishorseracing.com the Travers Stakes going a mile-and- line with Junior Alvarado named. CENTRAL KENTUCKYS FINEST HORSE FARMS Hill & Regan Parker (859) 608-8039 WWW.LEXHORSEFARMS.COM

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 19 Maple Leaf Hereos Canadian shippers clash in turf sprint stakes

BY TOM LAW TROY STAKES PREVIEW Gail Cox drove six hours across New York Thursday, through driving rain in some of the cen- back for Something Extra), a lot of the five-eighths tral parts of the state, only to be greeted by more guys weren’t there.” of the wet stuff when she showed up at Saratoga Something Extra is based in Canada but has Race Course early Friday morning to train Some- only raced at Woodbine once since last August, and thing Extra. that came in the Highlander. The 7-year-old Indian Cox, based at Woodbine just outside Toronto, Charlie gelding raced at five other tracks at the end also couldn’t avoid a familiar rival from back home of 2014 and start of 2015. in Go Blue Or Go Home and a formidable cast of Cox describes Something Extra as “fairly plain other mostly local top turf sprinters for today’s to look at. He’s plain, brown, tall.” $100,000 Troy Stakes. She also said “he’s very fast and runs hard every Go Blue Or Go Home won the Grade 2 High- time” and the record of the Troy’s 5-2 morning-line lander going 6 furlongs at 17-1 with Something Ex- second choice proves it. tra a close fourth as the even-money favorite. He won or placed in four of those five starts Now they’re back for the 5 1/2-furlong Troy, not away from Woodbine, the lone blemish a forgiv- that Cox is surprised. able 10th in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint going the “Yep, we both came,” she said under the shed about 6 ½-furlong distance on the quirky downhill of Barn 28, avoiding the light early morning rain. turf course at Santa Anita. That race was probably “You’ll find a lot of the sprinters get together quite Sean Clancy a touch too long for Something Extra, who won the A Grade 2 winner, Go Blue Or Go Home exits the track Friday a bit, don’t they? The five-eighths specialists and the morning. three-quarters specialists. In the Jaipur (two starts Continued On Page 22

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20 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 21 Troy – Continued from page 20 Grade 3 Shakertown this spring at Keeneland going 5 ½ furlongs to start the season and was second after leading late in the Grade 3 Jaipur going 6 at Belmont Park two back. Amazingly Saratoga hasn’t been on Something Extra’s resume in his 32 career starts. “Last year what was our route? He ran in the Play The King. He’s run really well in it before but I think as he’s gotten older he’s gotten faster and wants to go a bit shorter,” Cox said. “That race was seven-eighths and it was a bit much for him. Then we went to Kentucky Downs, which was great. He ran huge there, too, going 6 ½ up the hill. Then we went to the Breeders’ Cup. “This year I thought this would be a good spot since he loves the 5 ½. I would have liked to come here a long time ago at some point but there are sprints at home so you don’t always have to ship.” Tod Marks Go Blue Or Go Home ships in for fellow Wood- Summer Breezing comes off a Sarato- bine-based trainer Reade Baker, who tries again in ga win for trainer Jeremiah Englehart. a Saratoga turf sprint stakes after sending Sharp Sensation to a nose defeat to Shore Runner in the tra finished seventh as the 2-1 favorite. Coin. The 5-year-old More Than Ready gelding is Lucky Coin July 27. Luis Saez picks up the mount on Go Blue Or Go 2-for-2 on the grass at Saratoga, the other win com- Go Blue Or Go Home was fourth in last year’s Home, the 7-2 morning-line third choice for the ing in a $40,000 claiming race going the 5 ½-fur- Lucky Coin and his win in the Highlander was the Troy. long trip last summer when he was trained by Lin- 6-year-old Bluegrass Cat gelding’s first victory since Shore Runner is the 2-1 favorite for the Troy off the 2013 Highlander, a race where Something Ex- his nose victory after a troubled trip in the Lucky Continued On Page 24 TS SNAPSHO from Saratoga

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22 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 23 ple speak very highly of him and he showed it to me. He’s got a lot of class Troy – for doing that.” Continued from page 22 Summer Breezing is 15-1 on the line for the Troy with Jose Lezcano 2015 September Meet da Rice. getting the return call. He won the Shore Runner changed barns two 2012 Tiller Stakes at Belmont Park Stakes Schedule more times before he was claimed out and comes out of a very fast win in of a winning race by Joe Sharp and 1:00.79, just .20 off the course record September 11 - 27 owner Brad Grady for $62,500 June and faster than the 1:01.00 Shore 10 at Belmont. He’s won back-to- Runner needed to win the Lucky back starts since. Coin. POCAHONTAS (GII) Jeremiah Englehart is hoping for 2015 “Win and You’re In Juvenile Fillies Division” “It’s a tough race. Joe Sharp’s 2016 Kentucky Oaks Points Race some of the same magic with Sum- horse, he ran a really good race,” mer Breezing, a New York-bred son Englehart said. “Even on numbers Runs Sat., Sept. 12 Closes Aug. 26 of Langfuhr he claimed for $40,000 $200,000 ($200 nomination fee) (Summer Breezing) is probably a little Fillies, Two Years Old 1 1/16 Miles back in May from Christophe Clem- off, but he was just two ticks off the ent. Summer Breezing prepped for the track record. Then the stakes, which Troy with a victory in a state-bred al- ran the next day, was like three ticks IROQUOIS (GIII) lowance-optional the first Sunday of 2015 “Win and You’re In Juvenile Division” slower than his race.” 2016 Kentucky Derby Points Race the meet, his sixth win in 13 career Bruce Brown will again try to re- starts. capture the form that saw Spring To Runs Sat., Sept. 12 Closes Aug. 26 Englehart credited Clement for $150,000 ($150 nomination fee) The Sky win last year’s Lucky Coin Two Year Olds 1 1/16 Miles giving him a few pointers about the and Troy. The son of Langfuhr is win- 6-year-old gelding not long after the less in four starts this year and finished claim. fifth in the Lucky Coin. Havelock LOCUST GROVE (Listed) “Christophe was really nice after looks to end a seven-race losing streak Runs Sat., Sept. 12 Closes Aug. 26 we claimed him,” he said while he dating back to the Grade 3 Wood- $100,000 ($100 nomination watched a set near the quarter-pole ford in October 2013 at Keeneland. Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up fee) 1 1/16 Miles gap Friday. “He told me a couple Sandy’z Slew finished fourth, beaten things about the horse, for safety rea- only 1 length, in the Lucky Coin, and OPEN MIND sons. I think very highly of him and Summation Time exits a third behind his barn for that. He told me that he Runs Sat., Sept. 12 Closes Aug. 26 Shore Runner and Spring To The Sky $100,000 ($100 nomination fee) can be very strong to train, that you in a Belmont allowance-optional July Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up 6 Furlongs need a really good rider on him. Peo- 3. Weekend Hideaway, entered for ple like that, I’ve always heard peo- main track only, completes the field DOGWOOD (GIII) Runs Sat., Sept. 19 Closes Sept. 2 $100,000 ($100 nomination fee) Fillies, Three Years Old 7 Furlongs

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 25 SARATOGA ENTRIES Saturday, August 22. 6TH (3:47PM). $83,000, MSW, 2 YO, 1 1/16M (INNER TURF) Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 6, Daily Double 1ST (1:00PM). $50,000, CLM $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 7F 1 ..... 7...... Wave Warrior...... J. Alvarado...... N. Zito...... 12-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double 1a ..... MTO...... Fashionable Freddy...... J. Alvarado...... N. Zito...... 12-1 1 ..... 1...... Desert Valentine...... J. Castellano...... G. Contessa...... 3-1 2 ..... 1...... Big Platinum...... E. Trujillo...... G. Contessa...... 20-1 2 ..... 2...... Bridgetta...... E. Cancel...... B. Brown...... 7-2 3 ..... 2...... Conscious Decision...... M. Franco...... B. Lynch...... 10-1 3 ..... 3...... Touching My Toes...... J. Ortiz...... L. Rice...... 5-1 4 ..... 3...... Hunter O’Riley...... L. Saez...... J. Sharp...... 15-1 4 ..... 4...... Hot Rendezvous...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... G. Gullo...... 5-2 5 ..... 4...... Life Imitates Art...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Brown...... 2-1 5 ..... 5...... What the Frost...... L. Saez...... P. Farro...... 8-1 6 ..... 5...... Gray Sky...... C. Velasquez...... D. Lukas...... 12-1 6 ..... 6...... Run a Dubb Dubb...... J. Velazquez...... J. Englehart...... 5-1 7 ..... 6...... Zero Hour...... S. Bridgmohan...... M. Casse...... 7-2 8 ..... 8...... Space Mountain...... J. Leparoux...... G. Arnold, II...... 12-1 2ND (1:33PM). $50,000, CLM $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 3/16M (TURF) 9 ..... 9...... Isotherm...... J. Lezcano...... G. Weaver...... 8-1 Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double 10..... 10...... Revved Up...... J. Velazquez...... C. McGaughey III...... 6-1 1 ..... 4...... Here’s Johnny...... C. Velasquez...... D. Jacobson...... 3-1 11..... AE...... Dissident...... J. Castellano...... T. Pletcher...... 3-1 1a ..... 9...... Tetradrachm...... L. Saez...... D. Jacobson...... 3-1 12..... MTO...... Ifyousnoozeyoulose...... M. Maker...... 10-1 1x ..... MTO...... Mr Palmer...... D. Jacobson...... 3-1 13..... MTO...... Greenpointcrusader...... J. Castellano...... D. Schettino...... 6-5 2 ..... MTO...... Tizmas...... J. Alvarado...... J. Servis...... 7-2 14..... MTO...... Silvertown...... C. Lanerie...... E. Kenneally...... 6-1 3 ..... 2...... Utopian...... J. Alvarado...... J. Shirreffs...... 5-1 4 ..... 3...... Vinceremos...... J. Velazquez...... T. Pletcher...... 4-1 7TH (4:22PM). $100,000, STK - THE TROY, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F (TURF) 5 ..... MTO...... Golden Itiz...... G. Gullo...... 5-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 6 ..... 6...... Cozy Kitten...... J. Castellano...... M. Maker...... 5-2 1 ..... 1...... Something Extra...... J. Velazquez...... G. Cox...... 5-2 7 ..... 7...... Dreams Cut Short...... J. Leparoux...... G. Contessa...... 6-1 2 ..... 2...... Shore Runner...... K. Carmouche...... J. Sharp...... 2-1 8 ..... 8...... Born in Brooklyn...... E. Cancel...... J. Terranova, II...... 20-1 3 ..... 3...... Go Blue Or Go Home...... L. Saez...... R. Baker...... 7-2 9 ..... 10...... Midnight Notes...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... M. Maker...... 6-1 4 ..... 4...... Spring to the Sky...... J. Castellano...... B. Brown...... 8-1 10..... MTO...... Rap d’Oro...... E. Cancel...... J. Ferraro...... 8-1 5 ..... MTO...... Weekend Hideaway...... J. Castellano...... P. Serpe...... 5-2 6 ..... 6...... Havelock...... C. Lanerie...... D. Miller...... 30-1 3RD (2:06PM). $75,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F 7 ..... 7...... Summer Breezing...... J. Lezcano...... J. Englehart...... 15-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double 8 ..... 8...... Summation Time...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Clement...... 10-1 1 ..... 1...... Ganador...... S. Jimenez...... O. Barrera, III...... 30-1 9 ..... 9...... Sandy’z Slew...... J. Alvarado...... R. Schosberg...... 8-1 2 ..... 2...... El Viejo Verde...... E. Cancel...... D. Cannizzo...... 20-1 3 ..... 3...... Takedown Charlie...... A. Arroyo...... C. Caiazzo...... 10-1 8TH (4:57PM). $83,000, MSW, 2 YO, 6F 4 ..... 4...... Watergate...... J. Alvarado...... R. Schosberg...... 12-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double 5 ..... 5...... Sidearm...... J. Castellano...... G. Gullo...... 5-2 1 ..... 1...... Patrick’s Day...... J. Velazquez...... T. Pletcher...... 5-2 6 ..... 6...... David Rocks...... K. Carmouche...... B. Levine...... 7-2 2 ..... 2...... King Kranz...... J. Ortiz...... J. Terranova, II...... 12-1 7 ..... 7...... Jai Alai...... J. Ortiz...... M. Hushion...... 6-1 3 ..... 3...... Forevamo...... C. Lanerie...... A. Stall, Jr...... 6-1 8 ..... 8...... Giantinthemoonlite...... S. Bridgmohan...... B. Brown...... 2-1 4 ..... 4...... Ussery’s Alley...... L. Saez...... N. Zito...... 15-1 5 ..... 5...... Portfolio Manager...... I. Ortiz, Jr...... C. Brown...... 7-2 4TH (2:39PM). $83,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 5 1/2F (TURF) 6 ..... 6...... Sky High Skyler...... J. 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28 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 29 SCHENECTADY STAKES RECAP Too Much Too Discreet dodges trouble, gets 2nd win for Generazios, Clement BY SEAN CLANCY The Schenectady took 1:04.31. The drama last- ed much longer. One Mean Man reared up and wound up fac- ing backward in the starting gate. Co-owner Bernie Flint shook his head, his friend dropped his ticket on the floor when announcer Larry Collmus an- nounced the late scratch. The remaining four runners loitered behind the gate. Joel Rosario, Javier Castellano, Jose Ortiz and Taylor Rice dismounted and waited. Christophe Clement, trainer of favorite Too Discreet, walked over to owners Frank and Patri- Dave Harmon Continued On Page 31 Too Discreet rallies in time to win Friday’s feature for trainer Christophe Clement.

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 31 send him to the lead, let him be comfortable. He broke sharp Coming this September Schenectady – because he was too nervous Continued from page 31 in the gate, the two horses at Keeneland came over, I said, this is per- “Don’t worry, he won,” Clement said. fect, I can get him back and A full-brother to multiple Grade 1 winner Discreet hopefully have a little finish. It Marq, Too Discreet improved his record to 2-for-2. A son worked out, I’m glad I listened GHOSTZAPPER of Discreet Cat, the gray colt broke his maiden here Aug. to Christophe.” 2. For Frank and Patricia Gen- “He’s a nice horse, we always thought he was a nice erazio, it was another thrill HARD SPUN horse,” Clement said. “It’s obviously a good family, there’s provided by a prolific family. no reason for him to not have a career like his sister, why The Generazios bred Pretty CITY ZIP not? So, we’ll see. His sister is mentally more difficult, Momma, she won her debut she’s tough, she’s very high strung, she has a lot of energy, at Rockingham Park in 1992. as of now, I would say she’s more difficult to train.” Frank trained her, she wound FLATTER Too Discreet showed his edgy side while waiting be- up winning eight races includ- hind the gate. ing four stakes. Pretty Momma “I think they all looked annoyed. I ran him back quick, foaled To Marquet in 1997, TALE OF THE CAT 19 days, it’s a lot to overcome, there was a lot of drama,” she was graded stakes placed and gave birth to Discreet Clement said. “It was a great move by Joel, my only in- Marq in 2010 and Too Discreet in 2013. The Generazios ARCH struction in the paddock was, ‘be careful, they’re all going sold Discreet Marq for $2.4 million at Fasig-Tipton No- to be too aggressive, I prefer to be stalking.’ He broke vember. sharp, nothing he could do, I thought it was a great move “This was very, very exciting. When you breed them BROKEN VOW to take him off the pace, get him to settle.” yourself, when you run the mother, the babies, it’s an extra Rosario could have forced his position on the rail, but special treat. I never thought he was going to get there, it would have created a different experience for Too Dis- he showed he can get over bad things,” Frank Generazio MAJESTIC WARRIOR creet. said. “We have a full-brother to this horse, a yearling. To “My horse was nervous. I thought he would be bet- Maquet lost a nice Ghostzapper filly, we were very upset INCLUDE ter in his second start, more relaxed, but he was nervous. about that, now she’s in foal to Gio Ponti, she’s getting They’re babies, sometimes they’re like that,” Rosario said. old, she won’t have many more, I hope she has a filly so “Christophe told me to he didn’t want to be in front, don’t we can carry it on. We bred all of them.” BLAME 6th Annual NOT FOR LOVE

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 33 losing streak for Jara. “She’s a pretty laid back filly,” Jara Friday – said. “I gave her time to get going. Continued from page 33 Pat told me to be patient and make one run. Everything worked out. Edward Murtaugh and Mary Lynn McKee. Sometimes the horses go from turf to Despite racing on the grass in her last three starts dirt and they get all the dirt in their and finishing second, beaten just a neck last time face. They don’t like it too much, but out in a $40,000 state-bred maiden claimer, Kelly she just kept going all day.” wasn’t concerned about the surface change. – Brandon Valvo and Billy Blake “I knew she wouldn’t mind if she came off the grass,” he said. “We thought we had a chance on • The last time Pangburn raced the grass after her last race. She had a real nice she was up the track in the Grade work the other day. She acts like she likes it.” 2 Indiana Oaks on a sloppy track Saratiago picked the perfect place to break her at Indiana Grand July 18. A lot has maiden. She was born close to Saratoga and stables changed since. here even though Kelly elects to stay at Belmont The 3-year-old daughter of Con- and no longer has stalls on the grounds. grats changed barns from Ken “She’ was born out here on the way to Schuyler- McPeek to Tony Dutrow, dropped ville, so she’s a local filly,” Kelly said. “So, it’s a real into allowance-optional compa- neat situation for everybody concerned. This is my ny and raced without blinkers. The first year in 40 years without being here. This filly moves paid off as Pangburn regis- is actually staying over with Desmond Farrell over tered a 2-length victory in the third behind the Horseshoe. Dessy had her here last year race Friday at Saratoga Race Course, as a 2-year-old. He gets them ready as youngsters her first win since February. and then I take them over later, so it’s kind of a “It’s been a while since she won team effort.” and we were hoping to get her con- Tod Marks The win aboard Saratiago also broke a 44-race fidence going,” said Dutrow, whoPangburn pulls away to win Friday’s third race. trains the filly for John Ed Anthony’s win, his fourth of the meet to go with four seconds Saratoga Leaders Shortleaf Stable. “We felt she was going just fan- and four thirds from 13 starters, and was quick to tastic. Obviously she didn’t like the slop in her last credit McPeek. TRAINERS...... 1ST JOCKEYS...... 1ST race.” “I’ve had her maybe four or five weeks,” Dutrow Todd Pletcher...... 22 Irad Ortiz Jr...... 40 Track conditions were a concern again Friday for said. “Kenny McPeek sent her to us in great shape. Dutrow. Overnight rains left the main track muddy Chad Brown...... 22 Javier Castellano.... 34 Kenny’s responsible for a great deal of this. That and sealed to start the card. The track dried enough filly come to us really, really good.” Kiaran McLaughlin.10 John Velazquez...... 30 by the third race to prompt the maintenance crew Dutrow said a return to graded stakes company Bill Mott...... 10 Jose Ortiz...... 21 to harrow the course. could be next. Christophe Clement. 9 Luis Saez...... 20 “I wasn’t there last time,” Dutrow said. “I think “If we saw what we saw today, we were con- Rudy Rodriguez...... 8 Joel Rosario...... 19 it was a very, very sloppy racetrack. I came out here sidering the Cotillion five weeks from now,” he at 11:30 to look at the track. They had it sealed. David Jacobson...... 7 Junior Alvarado...... 16 said. “I felt she ran very good. That time is going to I was feeling OK about things. I thought a couple prove to be pretty quick over the track she ran over. Shug McGaughey..... 6 Jose Lezcano...... 12 hours later it would’ve been where it wouldn’t have That was pretty good and I certainly was very hap- John Terranova...... 5 been an excuse. But I was really happy when I came py with her. It could’ve been just what we needed to Steve Asmussen...... 5 Through Friday out here and they had opened it up a bit.” get her to the Cotillion Stakes.” Chris Englehart...... 5 No excuses needed. Pangburn stalked the pace – Brandon Valvo in the 1 1/8-mile race early and drew away in the Continued On Page 35 Linda Rice...... 5 stretch as 6-5 favorite in 1:50.64. Dutrow got the

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Aqua Pacer Hyperbaric Cold Salt Spa Dry Salt Vibration Solarium Fair Hill He claimed the Gold Tribute gelding Oxygen Therapy Vapor Therapy Therapy Training Center for $25,000 in July at Belmont. “He’s not a good eater, kind of a 721 Training Center Drive, Elkton, Maryland 21921 light horse,” Englehart said. “But I like him.” Bruce Jackson Cell: 610-496-5080 • O ce: 410-620-2175 • Fax: 410-620-2176 • [email protected] – Billy Blake Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 35 74 BEEKMAN ST. SARATOGA RESULTS Friday August 21. SIXTH $83,000, MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M 7 Carrumba J. Ortiz $5.90 $3.00 $2.70 FIRST $42,000, CLAIMING $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F 4 Regia Marina J. Castellano $2.90 $2.40 2 Call Daddy J. Leparoux $8.80 $3.00 $2.20 8 A Few Good Friends C. Lanerie $4.50 3 Surfspun E. Cancel $2.30 $2.10 Gr/ro Filly 2012, by Bernardini - Castanet by El Prado (IRE) 6 Subcontractor C. Velasquez $2.80 Owner: Phipps Stable. Trainer: Claude McGaughey III. Dk B/ Br Gelding 2012, by Scat Daddy - Hold All Calls by Caller I. D. Breeder: Phipps Stable (KY). Late Scratches: Aimone. Time: 1:51.72 Owner: Fiumera, Frank. Trainer: Jeffrey Englehart. Daily Double (3-7), $8.80; Exacta (7-4), $13.60; Superfecta (7-4-8-5), Breeder: Winchester Farm (KY). Late Scratches: Fit to Keep $280.00; Trifecta (7-4-8), $100.50; Pic 3 (1-3-7), $236.00 Claimed: Call Daddy claimed by Canzone, Sr., Peter J. and Eloise for $25,000, Surfspun claimed by Reeves Thoroughbred Racing for SEVENTH $75,000, NY-BRED ALLOWANCE, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F $25,000. Time: 1:11.12. Exacta (2-3), $12.60; Superfecta (2-3-6-4), 9 Manoffire J. Rosario $8.30 $4.70 $3.10 $34.80; Trifecta (2-3-6), $26.00 4 Black Tide J. Ortiz $4.80 $3.20 10 Dark Roast M. Franco $3.50 YOICKSONLINE.COM SECOND $62,000, CLAIMING $40,000, 3 YO, 7F B Gelding 2010, by Pure Prize - Willshefire by Williamstown SPORTING ART 8 Grandpa’s Princess J. Velazquez $10.20 $6.00 $3.50 Owner: Farone Stables LLC. Trainer: Lisa Lewis. 7 La Inesperada E. Cancel $6.20 $3.50 Breeder: Thomas Farone & Joan Farone (NY). ANTIQUES 4 Tachiello J. Castellano $2.70 Late Scratches: Snake Oil Charlie, Copernicus, Watergate, Slimshady, Ch Filly 2012, by Bluegrass Cat - Miss Olive Oil by Roman Ruler Giantinthemoonlite, Sidearm. Time: 1:03.03 Owner: Big Dom Racing Stable. Trainer: George Weaver. Daily Double (7-9), $25.80; Exacta (9-4), $39.80; Superfecta (9-4-10- Breeder: Anderson Farms Ont. Inc. &Marette Farrell (ON). 8), $469.40; Trifecta (9-4-10), $145.00; Pic 3 (3-7-9), $37.80 Late Scratches: Right On Kitten, Herecomeskat Claimed: Grandpa’s Princess claimed by Jacobson, David for $40,000, EIGHTH $62,000, CLAIMING $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6 1/2F Jersey Jules claimed by Villa Racing Stables for $40,000 11 Sir Bond J. Castellano $15.20 $6.70 $4.90 Time: 1:24.95 10 Praetereo J. Velazquez $4.40 $3.50 Daily Double (2-8), $47.20; Exacta (8-7), $53.00; Quinella (7-8), 1 Non Stop J. 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Time: 1:50.64 (11-10-1-5), $2,352.00; Trifecta (11-10-1), $405.50; Pic 3 (7-9-11), Daily Double (8-2), $25.00; Exacta (2-1), $8.30; Superfecta (2-1-6-5), $169.00 $33.40; Trifecta (2-1-6), $16.60; Pic 3 (2-8-2), $112.00 NINTH $100,000, STAKES - SCHENECTADY S., 2 YO, 5 1/2F FOURTH $73,000, NY-BRED MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 3 & UP, 1 1/8M 1 Too Discreet J. Rosario $4.30 $2.70 1 Saratiago F. Jara $45.00 $14.40 $6.80 7 Bruised Orange R. Hernandez $3.20 7 Ranger’s Express J. Lezcano $5.00 $3.50 5 Don’t Be So Salty T. Rice 4 Lady in Shades A. Arroyo $3.60 Gr/ro Colt 2013, by Discreet Cat - To Marquet by Marquetry Ch Filly 2012, by Tiago - Crypto Kate by Tabasco Cat Owner: Generazio, Patricia, A.. Trainer: Christophe Clement. Owner: Bongard, E., Petrino, E., Skodinski, C., Murtaugh, M. and McK- Breeder: Patricia Generazio (NY). ee, M.. Trainer: Patrick Kelly. Breeder: Rojan Farms Inc (NY). Late Scratches: Sheikh of Sheikhs, Laxfield Road, One Mean Man, Dr. Late Scratches: Sassy Humor, Fourstar Crook. Time: 1:53.85 Shane. Time: 1:04.13 Daily Double (2-1), $95.50; Exacta (1-7), $228.00; Quinella (1-7), Daily Double (11-1), $30.80; Exacta (1-7), $16.00; Consolation Double $80.00; Superfecta (1-7-4-9), $2,816.00; Trifecta (1-7-4), $923.00; (11-3), $14.00; Pic 3 (9-11-1), $146.00; (9-11-3), $61.50; Place Pix Pic 3 (8-2-1), $546.00 Nine (4,7,8/4,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16), $24.00

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 37 Law of the Horse Toner assistant Webb dives into new career BY TERESA GENARO If you need someone to run your barn, to do some legs, or to run a horse for you, on the flat or over jumps, you might want to give Tiffany Webb a call. You could also call her if you need a little legal advice, or if you need someone to build a racecar from the ground up. Jimmy Toner’s assistant since May, Webb has spent a lot of years around horses, but she didn’t exactly get to her current position taking the direct route. The native of Damascus, Md., like a lot of peo- Tod Marks Continued On Page 39 With a background in the legal world and engineering, Tiffany Webb puts her horse sense to use as an assistant to trainer Jimmy Toner.

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 39 “He took Iron Power and I took Japan, and we put them on the van,” Webb – she said. “I heard him say to the Continued from page 39 horse, ‘Suerte, suerte,’ (Luck, luck) and I just lost it. I had to walk back in a box all day long.” to the barn by myself.” She earned her law degree and With a smaller string of horses, passed the bar, continuing to work at Hushion, now well on the road to times for Cockburn, but a life of the recovery and overseeing his Sarato- law left her dissatisfied, and when ga barn, didn’t need two assistants she got laid off five years ago, she de- at Belmont, so Webb headed back to cided to re-group. the jump world to work for Fisher “I hated myself and my life as a before getting the job with Toner. lawyer,” she said. “A friend of mine She doesn’t get to make much use offered me a job with horses, and of her engineering and legal skills at I ended up being an assistant at a the barn, but in Hushion and Toner foxhunter barn, working with jump she found trainers whose methodical, horses on the weekends, then I was structured approach suit the working an assistant for jump trainer Alicia style that served her well in her pre- Murphy.” vious endeavors. She went on to work for the country’s top steeplechase trainer Jack “I love the logistics and the orga- Fisher, overseeing his Saratoga string nizing,” she said of her role as their last summer, but with an eye on the assistant. future. She also loves the social and emo- She sought experience with flat tional elements of the job, welcom- horses and headed to Belmont Park ing owners and their families to the to work for Mike Hushion when barn, and bonding with the horses. Saratoga ended. “The other day a set of owners Since her return to racing, Webb came in, and they had two small has kept her bar membership active, girls,” she said. “The girls like horses and she has occasionally done le- but are a little cautious, and one of gal work for friends in the industry. them wouldn’t touch the horses at Though she’s left intellectual prop- all.” erty far behind, she sees a day that Webb brought her over to Thieves she might combine her two or three Guild, one of her favorites and a re- areas of expertise, and she knew that cent stakes winner who’s 3-for-5 life- she needed to broaden her racetrack time. experience beyond steeplechasing. “Thieves Guild finally got the little “If I want to be a steward, or min- girl to warm up and to pet her,” said gle horse racing and law, or even if I Webb, and then all of a sudden the just want to be a trainer,” she said, filly just licked the little girl, straight “I’d love to be a trainer like Jonathan up her face. Sheppard or Jack Fisher, somebody “She started giggling and laugh- who has jump horses and flat horses, ing,” Webb went on, “and she kept or who transitions horses from one petting her, and that’s what I love to to the other.” see: I want to see more people who She was with Hushion in Florida like horse racing, and I want to start when he became ill this winter, find- ‘em young.” ing herself almost literally overnight Webb has no plans to change ca- in charge of his string, then saying reers any time soon; she loves work- goodbye to some of them as owners ing in the Toner barn, and she enjoys transferred horses to other trainers. the travel that sends her to different “It’s horse racing,” she said. tracks and to Florida in the winter. “Horses come and go all the time, She has no regrets about giving up but when you get so attached to a career that would no doubt have them and you’re in a situation where been more lucrative and stable than you’re not prepared for them to the one she’s chosen. leave, it’s even worse.” “My mom told me, that I needed She remembered the day that she to find a job to make enough money and groom José Luis Hernandez to afford the horses so that I didn’t walked Iron Power and Japan to the have to work with horses.” van to ship to Bill Mott at Payson Webb laughed. “That kind of Park. failed in the end.” 40 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 DCTP Full Page Ad 2015-Mid-Atlantic_Layout 1 7/11/15 2:26 PM Page 1

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 41 Matched Pair Ex-racehorse Past The Point, McLaughlin form winning team BY JOE CLANCY nyside Farm on Route 9N just outside of town. McLaughlin, sister-in-law Seven years ago, he led the Wood- and a key assistant with her husband ward for a mile. Six years ago, he tried Neal to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, the Grade 1 at Saratoga again and fin- rides the 11-year-old gelding almost ished sixth. Today, he stands around every day and has him rising up the and waits for the love of his life. horse-show ranks in Florida – where And she wouldn’t have it any other he was a series champion this winter way. – and New York. “I like to think he likes me, he “We were at a show and a guy knows me and he waits here for me to comes up and says ‘I’ll give you 15 pull in the driveway in my truck, but (thousand) for him if you put him on Joe Clancy I don’t know,” said Trish McLaugh- the trailer right now,’ ” Trish said on a That’s him under the fly mask, 2008 Woodward runner-up Past The Point. lin, the proud owner of retired Grade break outside Kiaran’s barn last week. trainer Eoin Harty and later with Drop Kid Stakes at Saratoga in 2007. 1 stakes campaigner Past The Point. She told the man her horse wasn’t for the McLaughlins. The son of Indi- The Kentucky-bred finished third in “He’s got a home for life with me. I sale, but that only increased the offer. an Charlie, who goes by “Charlie” the 2008 Super Derby to Going Bal- love him.” Then she told him the horse was not around the barn, finished first or sec- listic and Grasshopper. Bred by Sequel Bloodstock and for sale at any price. Ever. He left, re- The next year, Past The Point won ond in his first four races including purchased by Darley for $400,000 as luctantly. a Saratoga optional claimer, then a 2-year-old at Barrett’s in 2006, Past Past The Point spent four seasons a Churchill Downs maiden win as a The Point spends his summers at Sun- on the track for Darley, first with 3-year-old and a second in the Lemon Continued On Page 43 SARATOGA’S BEST BETS “NOBODY HAS WRITTEN ABOUT Lyrical Ballad Bookstore RACEHORSES as beautifully and Antiquarian Booksellers evocatively as Lyn Lifshin.” More than 100,000 books and “Troy Mulligan saves me hours of work and days of worry. Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness, The Licorice old prints all sound and ready. Now, I can watch the horses again.” – Sean Clancy, Riverdee Stable Daughter: My Year with Ruffian, Specializing in books on the 7-9 Phila Street and Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle. history of Thoroughbred Troy H. Mulligan, CPA 518-584-8779 racing and breeding. Lexington, KY All on www.amazon.com lyricalballadbooks.com [email protected] • (859) 233-4146 & Texas A&M University Press: 1-800-826-8911

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44 The Saratoga Special Saturday, August 22, 2015 Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 45 cupofcoffee BY SEAN CLANCY Lessons Money By Orleans, hesitated, then lunged, head timidate you. Don’t let him win, you’ve got to be up, ears back, then slammed my 14-year-old skin- confident. Same thing with people, be confident.” and-bones body into the wall. The three-time stakes That took a while, but lesson learned. winner lived in the narrow stall, next to the firewall, Red Raven jogged along Bell Road at Augustin halfway down the shedrow at Delaware Park. After Stable’s Oxford farm. Dad jogged next to me on bouncing off the wall and regaining my balance, I Yahtzee, “When we get to the end of the road here, snatched on him, “What’s wrong with you?” just turn left and let him go to the top.” It sounded My dad snatched on me. so simple. I was 13, on the fastest race pony who “Look at that screw eye, you see that screw eye. ever lived – a Thoroughbred twin by Gun Shot – I Now look at that cooler. You see that rip in that turned and Red cut, like a barrel racer, as fast as he cooler? You see it? How many times have I told you, could go, faster than I’d ever been. I hung on, like walk the horse straight to the back wall, then turn a pennant. Eyes watering, I gripped the reins like I him gently around, then snap the webbing behind had fistfuls of dollars, Red ran for the simple free- you. You snagged the cooler on the screw eye, be- dom of running. At the top, thinking he was going cause you’re in such a damn hurry, turning before through the post and rail fence at the top of the hill, you get in the stall. It isn’t his fault.” Sechuan Fire turned, walked a couple of steps I turned him left and circled, winding him down Lesson learned. toward me. Shank in my 20-year-old right hand, I with every loop. We must have done 20 circles, like I walked Line Jumper, who won at Saratoga in walked toward him. Then he launched into a gal- a helicopter running out of gas. Finally, stopped, I 1976, up the long straightaway shedrow at Bran- lop, passed me like I was a pylon on the shoulder. As looked at Dad, I might have even smiled. dywine Stable. I was 8, maybe 10, walking, not I turned, I saw the gate swinging in the breeze. I ran “I just wanted to get the fear of speed out of paying attention, thinking about eating lunch at the a few steps but it was too late, way too late. Sech- you.” track kitchen or playing with my Matchbox cars. uan Fire hit the gap like he was let out on bail, made Lesson learned. Line Jumper stepped straight, his big, fox-hunter a left turn, bucked all the way back to the barn. Tonka walked, like an Appaloosa lead pony foot landed square, it should have hit dirt. Instead, My dad met me at the barn. should, ambling around the indoor track at Dela- it hit my sneaker, the tip of my Ked, like a stake “How many times do I have to tell you? Open ware Park. I was 10, maybe 12. Thirty odd years on the corner of a picnic blanket. Unable to move, the gate, shut the gate, latch the gate. You walk later, I still don’t know what happened or why it I stopped. Line Jumper stopped. He looked at me. out there like a dope, thinking the horse is going to happened, we switched from a walk to a run, like I looked at him. I screamed, pushed on him like I walk up to you like he’s a dog. You better wake up a flat-out run, like an Ichabod Crane run through was trying to push a friend off a diving board, then around these horses.” the woods. I screamed, “Daaaaaaaaaaaaaad” with shanked on him, “What’s wrong with you?” Lesson learned. every stride. Nancy Kirk tried to catch me, wav- My dad walked up behind me and took the Dad sent me to the farm, “Get on Gogong, jog ing her arms. Around again and again and again. shank. him in the woods for 20 minutes.” I swallowed I never stopped screaming, one syllable, one word, “Sean, Line Jumper walks straight. All hors- hard, thinking about the big gray, the best horse “Daaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Finally, Dad caught me. es walk straight. Don’t put your foot where he’s Dad had in the barn. We made it about five minutes, “Sean, I don’t know why Tonka did that. Hors- putting his. You need to pay attention. That horse maybe 10, but definitely not 20. Gogong bucked es just do funny things sometimes, but don’t panic didn’t do anything wrong. Now move him off your and I clutched. It was over fast. I hit the ground like when they do.” foot, you can’t pull your foot out from under his a bucket of sand, Gogong stepped all over me and Lesson learned. foot, just use the shank, guide him, show him how ran home. Dad wasn’t at the barn but I had to come Now, as I watch horses walk, gallop, get turned to step off your foot.” home and tell him. out, get loose, buck, do funny things, I wonder… Lesson learned. “Sean, you can ride these horses. You let him in- who’s teaching the lessons, who’s learning them?

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Saturday, August 22, 2015 The Saratoga Special 47 Time to End the Doping Question by Marc Summers, Vice President & General Counsel of The Jockey Club

Horseracing has been wrestling with the question of how to handle anti- penalties, require approval by 38 distinct government organizations, doping regulation for what seems like ages. In fact, at the first Round each with its own political processes, constituencies, desires, goals and Table Conference in 1953, one of the participants started a dialogue on the impediments. subject by saying that “It seems to me that we’ve had the question of doping As a founding member of the Coalition for Horse Racing Integrity, The for a great many years…” Jockey Club has advocated – along with Breeders’ Cup, Ltd., the Humane As I explained at the recent Saratoga Institute on Equine, Racing & Society of the United States, the Water Hay Oats Alliance, the Kentucky Gaming Law Conference held at the Saratoga Hilton in Saratoga Springs, Thoroughbred Association and the Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners & the unfortunate fact is that two major factors play against our best efforts Breeders – that only a single, independent expert body such as the U.S. to come to uniform, comprehensive anti-doping regulations: The industry’s Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) can help us past these challenges. If we state-by-state governance system, and the inherent conflict of interest in truly want to achieve the kind of reform that will enhance both the integrity self-regulation. and the perception of our sport, we need to act now. That’s why today, many of us at the forefront of the sport have come to On July 16, Saratoga’s own Congressman Paul Tonko, along with the conclusion that in order to settle (and end) the question of doping, Congressman Andy Barr of Kentucky, jointly introduced the Thoroughbred we must actually take it out of horse racing’s hands. We must acknowledge Horseracing Integrity Act of 2015. that as an industry, we have taken reform as far as we can on our own. Through this legislation, Congress would direct USADA to create an Over the past 15 years, there has been a concerted push among numerous independent not-for-profit anti-doping authority solely for Thoroughbred key racing organizations towards uniform national medication rules. horse racing. The organization would be called the Thoroughbred This culminated in 2013, with the creation of the National Uniform Horseracing Anti-Doping Authority (THADA, for short) and it would be Medication Program (NUMP). funded by the industry at no cost to taxpayers or bettors. In simple terms, this program consists of four interlocking parts or pillars: THADA will create a uniform anti-doping program for all Thoroughbred a controlled therapeutic medication schedule, an enhanced penalty system, jurisdictions. Thereafter, all Thoroughbred races in the United States will lab accreditation requirements, and limitations on the administration of be subject to the same limitations on drugs and treatments, where tests will race day medication. be conducted in accordance with the highest international standards, with a nation-wide set of penalties to deter cheaters and to penalize those caught When NUMP was created, the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, cheating. In essence, we would have true national uniformity. together with more than 50 racetrack and industry organization leaders, called on U.S. horse-racing regulators to fully adopt all parts of the program The creation of THADA would be the result of a unification of by January 1, 2014 or as soon thereafter as possible. representatives of the world’s top anti-doping body with people who have real-world Thoroughbred industry experience. And it would accomplish Since this call to action, less than a quarter of the horse racing something that we all claim to want: national, uniform standards states – and none of the major racing states such as New York, and enforcement. California, Florida or Kentucky have fully implemented NUMP. Only 20 percent of all races in the U.S. are run under the full set of For those in the industry who say that this legislation isn’t necessary, these “uniform” rules. Disarray is still the norm. I encourage you to look again at the decades of reform attempts that have led us to this point. Are we willing to go another 60 years with the question NUMP-compliant equine drug-testing laboratories have missed critical of doping still looming over our heads? “positive” tests. Furthermore, any updates to the regulations, such as stricter standards for laboratories, banning emerging drugs or changing At The Jockey Club, the answer is no.

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