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T he aratoga Year 14 • No. 6 Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Friday, July 25, 2014 Tough Call Pure Sensation (1) just gets there Tod Marks Tod ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING • 3-YEAR-OLDS MEET IN CURLIN STAKES Ol Memorial Stable’s 2YO CRONINTHEBARBARIAN pulls away to win by 4 3/4 lengths. By PULPIT Stroll $5,000 LFSN 1st Two Crops Since Return to the U.S. Five 2YO Starters Two Winners,_______________ Three Placed 90% of his 3YOs have Won/Placed including 5 Stakes Horses and a Belmont record setter 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] © COADY PHOTO 2 14-0555.CLB.Stroll.SarSp.July25.indd 1 The Saratoga Special Friday, July7/24/14 25, 4:50 2014 PM here&there... at Saratoga TAKE A NUMBER :50.44: Half-mile split for front-running steeplechaser Saint Jerome Thursday, more than a second faster than any other starter according to Trakus; he finished eighth. 23: More feet runner-up Kingdom covered than winner Awesome Pearl in Thursday’s steeple- chase. The margin was a nose. 4: Entries made by trainer Richard Valentine in two races. 4: Outside post positions for Valentine’s four entries (Awesome Pearl won from post 9). 286: Napkins missing from a wedding at Hermitage Farm over the weekend. LICENSE PLATE OF THE DAY Tod Marks EXACTA, Massachusetts. Here’s hoping they hit a few. Laundry Day. Nick Zito’s crew sorts the whites Thursday morning. WORTH REPEATING NAMES OF THE DAY “Is this the one with the water?” Rookie steeplechase fan before Thursday’s first race (sorry, no water) Acrostic, first race. Owner/trainer/breeder Roy Lerman gets clever with this filly by Alphabet Soup out of Puzzle. “I’m going to start serving fried chicken over at my place.” Trainer, and chicken neighbor, Charlie LoPresti Life In Shambles, ninth race. Perhaps the name of the meet. Jump Sucker Stable’s 3-year-old, who runs in the Curlin Stakes, is by Broken Vow out of Life. “I sell this man horses for peanuts, peanuts, because I like him and then he comes to Belmont Park and he beats me.” DAR6927 Saratoga Special Street Sense 25 JULY14 24/07/2014 14:31 Page 1 Trainer Christophe Clement, about (mostly) steeplechase trainer Jack Fisher, Forensic, 10th race. Stuart Janney III and Phipps Stable’s 3-year-old filly is out of Criminologist. who knocked off heavily favored Clement entry Arc Above at Belmont Park last month The Sweet smell of success Sweet Reason, a $185,000 yearling purchase and multiple G1 winner, is one of six G1 performers by Street Sense, who already has eight Group or Graded Stakes performers in 2014. She’s the only reason you need to check out the Street Sense yearlings at the sales in 2014. STREET SENSE Street Cry – Bedazzle (Dixieland Band) 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com Darley 3 The Saratoga Special Friday, July 25, 2014 here&there... at Saratoga “I’d really like to buy that big bay horse of yours that just “I’m getting ready to mess with some 2-year-olds.” “I thought it would give my jock confidence.” walked by.” Dallas Stewart getting a set ready Thursday morning Saratoga winning trainer Todd Wyatt, who wore Fisher, to Clement, a tie to Penn National later in the day (it didn’t) about Thursday paddock schooler Tonalist “He’s a super rider; just a really patient rider. You should have seen the ride he gave her at Keeneland. He gave her that kind “He rode him like A.P. McCoy.” “So much for the public getting it right and favorites winning of ride today.” Assistant Gary Murray after Gus Dahl galvanized Kingdom all the time.” Graham Motion about Alan Garcia, who rode to finish second in Thursday’s opener (McCoy is the NYRA’s Andy Serling, after a 35-1 shot won Thursday’s Daring Dancer to victory in the Grade 2 Lake George greatest jump jockey in the history of the world) jump race (a day after the 1-2-3 choices ran 1-2-3) Wednesday in his first ride of the meet “My dad had to do my paper route one time. It never happened “On a humid day at the spa the favorite made you sweat.” “You got $2.50 a horse? I was robbed.” again.” Tom Durkin as odds-on favorite Sheila Clancy, after reading about her brother making Dr. Jim Hunt, after seeing The Special’s Sean Clancy Got Lucky won the third race Wednesday $2.50/horse while walking hots for their father delivering papers for Chief Head Honcho (older brother Joe’s rate was 50 cents, “I know I’m doing good if I get to see you.” but that was before the barn went big time) Jack Clancy Thursday morning Ian Wilkes to The Special’s Tom Law last week “Man, you’ve moved up, I remember when you lived above the “I’m pretending I’m at the beach.” “In The Special, on my birthday and the filly wins.” Parting Glass.” Dr. Luis Castro, while putting his feet up on his Exercise rider Vicki King, after being featured in Wednes- Trainer Jack Fisher to his former jockey car door outside Chad Brown’s barn on Caroline Street day’s Special riding Lake George winner Daring Dancer Sean Clancy, who hosted lunch QUOTE OF THE DAY “I hope I can have my players show the same kind of heart that she showed there at the end.” University of Maryland football coach Randy Edsall, in town for a day, after watching Daring Dancer win the Lake George Wednesday HORSE TRANSPORTATION www.brookledge.com 800-523-8143 Tod Marks Rooftop Serenade. Saratoga Race Course unfolds in all its glory Thursday afternoon. 4 The Saratoga Special Friday, July 25, 2014 5 The Saratoga Special Friday, July 25, 2014 July 25th, 2014 The aratoga Connie Bush 112 Spring Street, Suite 109 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phones Sean Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-4424 Tom Law Mobile: (859) 396-9407 E-mail: [email protected] joe @thisishorseracing.com [email protected] www.thisishorseracing.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 4-10. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy YEARLINGS TO PERFORM FOR RACING AND SALES of the day Managing Editor: Tom Law (589) 312-3414 Staff Writers: Kristin Brennan, Katelyn Brush, KIRKWOODSTABLES.COM Ashley Dingeman, Jackie Dugas, Ryan Jones, Dan McDonough, Dan Tordjman Layout/Design: Katherine Lasak Photographers: The Chief . .Day 6 Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald, Tom Law, “You have to handicap everything when you come here in the morning, some days the guys will gallop John Shapazian, Chad Summers them just right, other days, they gallop everything too fast. I had a groom, he was drinking. I said, ‘What Chief Head Honcho of Circulation: the hell you drinking for, it’s 9 o’clock in the morning?’ He looked at me and said, ‘Thirsty.’ Jack Clancy I couldn’t even get mad. I used to do a lot of screaming and hollering and everybody always says I kick buckets and all this stuff. I threw one bucket and kicked one thing at Help When We Need It: Nolan Clancy, Hialeah, when Step Nicely got beat a nose, when Baeza let up on him and he got beat Ryan Clancy, Miles Clancy. a nose. I threw one bucket and kicked one thing, one time. They never let you forget it.” – 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 Horsemen’s ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Association Elkton, MD 21921 www.nytha.com | 516.488.2337 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 visit us on Facebook www.thisishorseracing.com 6 The Saratoga Special Friday, July 25, 2014 7 The Saratoga Special Friday, July 25, 2014 Welcome Back Generazio homebred Pure Sensation edges Choctaw Chuck on wire BY TOM LAW QUICK CALL STAKES RECAP It’s been a long time since Patricia Generazio made a trip to the winner’s circle at Saratoga Race times in fact, and another won Thursday when Course. Pure Sensation edged Choctaw Chuck in a thrill- How long you ask? ing edition of the $100,000 Quick Call Stakes for Tod Marks Long enough that the last time she visited the 3-year-olds sprinting on the grass. Pure Sensation (left) nabs Choctaw Chuck and Favorite Tale current space reserved for the victors wasn’t even “Sure they’ve won, but we’re not usually here,” in existence. That goes back to the halcyon days of said Generazio, who bred Pure Sensation in Flori- and as Good Bye Greg continued to lead into the the chalk circle on the outside edge of the racetrack, da. “Today, fortunately, we were here.” stretch. another part of Saratoga’s history replaced and Generazio watched the Quick Call alongside her They saw Choctaw Chuck and Favorite Tale changed through the years and unknown to many. husband Frank and Clement on the ground floor of take a run at the leader into the lane, Favorite Tale “We’re just tickled,” Generazio said. “I told the clubhouse. first, Choctaw Chuck second. Choctaw Chuck was Christophe [Clement] the last time we had our pic- They watched as Arlington Park shipper Good just late enough to the breech that Pure Sensation ture taken here we had it taken out on the race- Bye Greg rocketed from the starting gate and quick- was held down on the inside when he needed to run track, they had no winner’s circle.