Inside Silver Tree Nails First the Fourstardave Who Cut the Corner and Appeared Home Free After Sil- Ver Tree Spun out Like a Beer Mug Off a Wet Bar
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SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S T COMPLIMENTS OF T !2!4/'! O L T IA H C E E 4HE S SP ARATOGA Year 7 • No. 11 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Monday, August 6, 2007 Veteran Silver Tree skips away from the field late in Sunday’s Fourstardave Stakes. Tod Marks Inside Silver Tree nails first THE FOURSTARDAVE who cut the corner and appeared home free after Sil- ver Tree spun out like a beer mug off a wet bar. ❱ Hall Of Fame Spa stakes since ’04 Brilliant tried to shake Giant Basil while Silver Tree BY SEAN CLANCY straightened out and then punched to make it three inductee deep at the eighth-pole. Brilliant stopped abruptly as profiles. Will Phipps leaned on the outside rail and watched Silver Tree dispatched the tiring Giant Basil and then his boss Bill Mott explain how Silver Tree won the held off Drum Major and Host who rallied for the Fourstardave. place and show spots. Woodlander closed from last Phipps shook his head at the horse and his boss. ❱ Talking Sales to be fourth, a half-length to the good of Giant Basil. “This is why I signed on, what an education,” Brilliant went from first to sixth in the final call while with Boyd Phipps said. “And this horse, we kept saying he’s Fishy Advice was never a factor, finishing last. Silver never done better, then he proves it. He’s ripening in Barbara Livingston Tree completed the 1 1/16 miles in 1:41.88. Browning. his old age.” Bred in Florida by owner Peter Vegso, Silver Tree Silver Charm Better than produce at Balducci’s. Seven-year-old continued his grind-it-out career that started in Feb- Silver Tree pushed his win streak to three, with a flaw- ruary 2003, upping his career earnings to nearly $1.5 ❱ Monday Entries. less performance in the Gr. II Fourstardave. Jockey million. The son of Hennessy is no stranger to Sarato- Kent Desormeaux angled the son of Hennessy to the ga. He traded victories with Nothing To Lose in 2004, ❱ Expert Handicapping. outside soon after the break, allowing pacesetter Gi- winning the Bernard Baruch by a neck and losing the ant Basil to clear him from the outside. Desormeaux Fourstardave by a half-length. The following year, he choreographed a perfect stalking position with Silver set the pace against Artie Schiller in the Baruch but Tree, off the rail and galloping comfortably a length ❱ Hall of Fame Stakes preview. failed by another tough half-length, then Leroides- or two off of Giant Basil who went the first quarter in animaux wired him by 1 1/4 lengths in the Fourstar- 24.57 and the half in 49.24 seconds. On the turn, Ra- dave. Silver Tree missed the entire meet last year mon Dominguez wrestled with Giant Basil who was See FOURSTARDAVE page 4 lugging out, clearing a runway for favorite Brilliant, 70886.CLB.PulSTGStrgHope.SarSpec.7-28-07 8/3/07 2:15 PM Page 1 Claiborne Stallions • Saratoga Select • August 6 & 7 Pulpit 51 filly out of SW MINIMALIST, by DYNAFORMER 59 colt out of NAUGHTY NANNY, sister to four SWs 138 colt out of stakes mare & stakes producer WHEEDLE 150 filly from the family of AVOWEL by a daughter of UNBRIDLED 161 colt out of Graded stakes producer B L’S GIRL Strong Hope 49 colt out of stakes producing half- sister to VALID EXPECTATIONS 52 filly out of stakes producing half-sister to three SWs 85 filly out of multiple GSW & Graded stakes producer RESTORED HOPE 123 colt out of stakes producer THIRD STREET 186 colt out of graded stakes placed stakes producer COPELAN’S ANGEL Seeking the Gold 153 filly out of SW & stakes producer AUTUMN SLEW 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] 2 Monday, August 6, 2007 Here & There at Saratoga 71 Lincoln Avenue Take A Number Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 1: Bat that flew through the porch of Special editor Joe Clancy’s apartment (with Joe and wife Sam occupying said Phone: (518) 490-1175 porch) Sunday morning. or (302) 545-7713 Fax: (518) 490-6520 8: Cars parked on Union Avenue at 7:15 Sunday morning. E-mail: [email protected] Must have been some good T-shirts. Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com 17: Dollars owner Alan Brodsky used to get paid for a day of work as a mutuel clerk. Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. 20: Yards away owner Jack Knowlton was when Funny Every day of Sales Week Aug. 6-12. Cide smelled peppermints Sunday morning at trainer Bar- clay Tagg’s barn The Staff Weather Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Today: Showers and thundershowers likely. High 76. Winds Copy Chief: Jamie Santo S at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent. Writers/Contibutors: Alysse Jacobs, Karen Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. Highs in the low 90s and lows in Johnson, David Kosak, Brian Nadeau, the upper 60s. Katherine Sarasohn, Rebecca Walton Art Director: Kevin Titter Wednesday: Partly cloudy, chance of a thunderstorm. Highs Racing Analysts: Pete Fornatale, Alan Mann in the low 80s and lows in the mid 50s. Photographers: Dave Harmon ,Tod Marks, Barbara Livingston Thursday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the mid 50s. Distribution: Barry Watson Tod Marks Menial Tasks Division: Ryan Clancy, Jack Octave gets a heartfelt pat after an excellent workout Sunday. Clancy, Nolan Clancy “I asked Mr. Vanderbilt one time, ‘Boy, how did they run horses so much Names of the Day back then?’ He said, ‘We didn’t think anything of it, we thought racehorses ST Publishing Inc. Home Ofiice Stag Dancer, second race. This 5-year-old mare is by Running Stag out should be racing, we had horses and we ran them.’ Discovery would breeze 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F of Fast Lover. She is owned by HorsePartners Stable and trained by John a mile in the morning, get a train in the afternoon and go to Suffolk Downs, Elkton, MD 21921 Toscano. Chicago, wherever he was going.” (410) 398-5867 • Fax: (410) 392-1070 Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens www.st-publishing.com Pinpoint, seventh race. 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The public would really like them now because they could see Thoroughbred Racing Calendar “Mom said she could tell by the way Dad shut the car door whether it was them on television.” The Best of The Saratoga Special a good day or a bad day.” Jerkens, spinning another tale of days gone by Jennie Watkins, daughter of Hall of Fame Saratoga Days inductee Henry Forrest, about having American Steeplechasing yearbook a father (or husband) for a horse trainer “Is it all yours?” Jack Clancy, 11, when looking at a 10-unit, three-porch National Steeplechase Association public relations consultants, “I’m done early, that’s how I like my Sundays – I can go to mass now. My house on Ludlow Street where his uncle rents a studio apartment mom raised a good Catholic boy.” custom Tervis Tumbler glasses Exercise rider Bernie Dalton, enjoying a pre-church breakfast at the “Good, the only hard subject is Spanish. I never learned Spanish, can you and lawn jockeys. Morning Line Kitchen believe that?” Jose Santos Jr., 13, when asked about school “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be “I’m not used to that clubhouse angle – you know, the outside horse gets it sought and one day acquired and then in a photo – I’m more of a grandstand angle guy.” “I had nothing to do with the that.” retired to the trophy case. It is instead an Owner Alan Brodsky Adam Newman when mentioning the name ambition which must be pursued each of his father’s horse, Vain Vixen, who’s in this week “I know where she can start.” day, never ending, never totally achieved. Allen Jerkens to Kevin Taylor, That striving, that ambition is an essential whose daughter is studying child psychology “They wanted me to go slow, 50, 51. She’s good.” part of our newspapers, a cornerstone Angel Cordero Jr., while pulling up Belmont winner of what we have been, what we are, and “The dog races are good bets because when a dog is 1-5, he doesn’t know it.” Rags To Riches from her half-mile breeze in 49 3/5 seconds what we will be.” New York Post Publisher Paul Carlucci “If she’s here, we’ll find her.” – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner “It’s going to be a big ending.” Buzz Chace, while looking at yearlings Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 Jack Knowlton, about Funny Cide’s retirement party this week and thinking about Test winner Dream Rush Backed by over 30 years in the ThoroughbredComing to New York: ANDROMEDA’S HERO Industry. 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