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Year 19 • No. 5 Thursday, July 18, 2019 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING Rick’s Rain LET’S GO TO STILLWATER Sky Of Hook captures wet Violette BRISSET STABLE TOUR Chelsea Durand / NYRA Photo 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019 here&there...at Saratoga BENEFIT BREAKFAST Celebrate 30 years of the Backstretch Employee Service Team and honoree Tom Durkin during a festive breakfast event from 8-10 a.m. today on The Porch at Saratoga Race Course. Tickets are $50 and proceeds benefit BEST. Call Kristy at (516) 488-3434 ext. 100 or see bestbackstretch. brownpapertickets.com. BY THE NUMBERS 3: Finish position of The Saratoga Special in the masters division corporate competition at the 42nd Boilermaker 15k Road Race Sunday in Utica. The team of Joe Clancy, Sean Clancy, Tom Law and Cc Larner averaged 1:24.15, a 9:03 per mile pace for 9.3 miles. 3: Nights a house on York Avenue lit its Christmas lights last week. 9: Wheelbarrows in a truck on East Avenue Tuesday morning. 15: Times The Special’s Tom Law started and finished the Boilermaker 15k, all the way back to his first as a high schooler in 1987. 1:22.40: Joe Clancy’s time for his first Boilermaker, best of The Special in 2019. 25,000: Dollars pledged by the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association to Mercy House of Saratoga for construction of a 6,000 square-foot suite of rooms dedicated to the late Rick Violette and set aside to serve backstretch workers. The four-story 30,000 square-foot facility will be built on Washington Street near Bethesda Episcopal Church. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY Tod Marks 8THPOL, New York. 40 DAYS, New York. Class Move. NYRA draped the statue of Rokeby Stable’s Sea Hero (who died July TRAVERS, New Jersey. BOILRMKR, New York. 12) in memorial flowers for Wednesday’s races. Ver y Nyce! Nyquist’s $330,000 colt was the co-highest price for a first-crop sire at Fasig-Tipton He shared Remember the future: July since 2016. More first-crop Nyquist yearlings at Saratoga top honors with his brilliant barnmate Frosted. Go to darleyamerica.com to see our new Nyquist video Darley THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 here&there...at Saratoga NAMES OF THE DAY Hightailing, sixth race. Stuart Janney III’s homebred 3-year-old filly is out of Scampering. Sobersick N Sorry, seventh race. Joe Imbesi’s 3-year-old gelding is out of Shocking Behavior. WORTH REPEATING “I’m a champion clammer.” Bill Mott, also a Hall of Fame trainer, talking about a favorite summertime activity “You mean stuffies?” The Special’s Catherine Galbraith continuing the conversation with Mott, specifically about stuffed clams “I did the Names of the Day.” The Special’s Sean Clancy, getting ahead of Thursday’s paper Tuesday afternoon “Um, it looks like I did the Names of the Day for Wednesday.” Clancy, Wednesday morning “That’s why I drink.” Trainer watching sets train on the main track Saturday morning “Those guys are old. Those guys can’t even run.” Yankees great Mariano Rivera, about playing in the oldtimers’ game on All-Star Weekend “Who’s in the window every night? It’s like coming by and seeing the same picture every single Tod Marks night. There he is with his little glasses, hunched over....” Weathered. Jump jockey Sean McDermott was all dressed up with nowhere to go as Tils Tilbury, passing The Special’s Joe Clancy every night; Wednesday’s opener was scrapped due to rain, with horses in the paddock. Joe will sit up straighter (or close the blinds) 1st Breeders’ Cup World Class Miler Dirt Mile-G1 defeating Eclipse Champions By SPEIGHTSTOWN GUN RUNNER, ACCELERATE, Look for RUNHAPPY, etc. 1st Yearlings 1st Godolphin Mile-G2 This Year 2nd Forego S.-G1 Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager (859) 224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. [email protected] Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. [email protected] 259 East Avenue Writers: Catherine Galbraith, Ben Gowans, Terry Hill, Brandon Valvo. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (the old feed store) The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Handicappers: Charles Bedard, John Shapazian, Rob Whitlock. 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Plus Monday, Aug. 5 and Tuesday, Aug. 6. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019 SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY THE IDEAL DESTINATION FOR TRACK SEASON INNOVATIVE DINING IN OUR THREE EXCEPTIONAL RESTAURANTS THE BY DAVID BURKE 365 BROADWAY, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY | WWW.THEADELPHIHOTEL.COM | (518) 678 - 6000 THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 Country Life Farm here&there...at Saratoga Racing Partnerships WORTH REPEATING “The.” The Special’s Tom Law when asked his first name at the Boilermaker 15k road race “Some people think the gray Tapit colts are the worst and some people say the chestnut Tapit fillies are the worst. I have experienced both and I will go with the chestnut Tapit before I go with the gray Tapit.” Trainer Rodolphe Brisset, musing about the antics of Tapit’s offspring “Not because I’m French, I just like turf. I’m a big dirt guy. I’m a big fan of dirt.” Brisset, trying to break stereotypes “They ran the first quarter faster in the Meadowlands pace last night.” The Special’s Brandon Valvo, after the first fraction for Sunday’s opener was posted in :25.61 ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN At the Fasig-Tipton July yearling sale last week, Country Life bid $45,000 for a “I’m going to see if I can be a judge next year.” Maryland-bred colt by War Front’s son MOSLER, out of Sky Given, by Sky Mesa. Valvo, The Special’s fashion connoisseur, while watching the hat contest We named him MOSLER SAFE, for the famous bank vault manufacturer, the Mosler Safe Company. Now being placed into a racing partnership at no markup. “He was kind of cute in an ugly way.” Country Life will own 1 of 10 shares. Each 10% share costs $4,500. Monthly Overheard Sunday in the clubhouse expenses until MOSLER SAFE runs in 2020: $200-300. Call to hold a share. “My bread is getting moldy if anybody wants it.” For information, visit countrylifefarm.com The Special’s Sean Clancy, late Monday morning Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 “My son asked me how much did The Special cost.” Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 Trainer Mike Trombetta after bringing home Sunday’s Special 410-879-1952 v [email protected] v countrylifefarm.com “We picked him out, sometimes you take a risk with a first-season stallion, but this horse looked like an athlete, it was 90 percent physical. The individual.” Trainer Eddie Kenneally, about Sanford winner By Your Side “He’s just a really nice horse with a very efficient stride.” Kenneally about By Your Side “My wife said, ‘You don’t listen to anything I say. Why did you choose that day?’ ” Brad Anderson, owner of By Your Side, about selling eventual Grade 1 winner Bullsbay “You’re going to love training for me. I’ve done it forever, I know what I’m doing. You don’t have “I worked up here as a 14-year-old kid in 1978. We to call, works will come up on my phone. If you want to talk horses, I’ll talk all day long with you played a softball game and Angel Cordero was but I’m never going to run last and say you embarrassed me in front of my friends, it’s horse racing, I get it. Here’s what you’re really going to like, you’ll get paid the same day you send me playing third base and I hit a triple. I slid into third the bill and you’ll pick all the races. You’re there every day, who am I?” Anderson, about his conversation with Keneally and was like, ‘Oh my God, I’m standing next to “Is the pony sore today?” Angel Cordero Jr.’ Now every time I see him, he asks Agent Mike Sellito to trainer Bill Mott, who was in a golf cart Wednesday morning me if his jocks can ride my horses. I’m the biggest Angel Cordero fan there is.” QUOTE OF THE DAY – West Point Thoroughbreds’ Terry Finley “It’s been life-changing. Doesn’t matter if I have a good day or a bad day, when I go home you open the door and have him at home. I’m lucky enough between my wife and our family, everywhere we go we usually have connections, so she is able to come and help me because we need all the help we can get.” Trainer Rodolphe Brisset, on he and wife Brooke welcoming son Ryan to the family 800-523-8143 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2019 Presented by Photo of the Day Splashtastic Pinhooking Partnerships 2-year-olds in training sales Yearling to 2-year-old prep (859) 312-3414 kirkwoodstables.com Proud to support TOD MARKS Thoroughbred aftercare www.thoroughbredaftercare.org The Chief .