Inside ❱ the Special Chats with Zayat Stable’S King of Swing Sobhy Sonbol
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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. 14 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Thursday, August 9, 2007 Thunderestimate holds off Logic Way near the finish of the Cab Calloway. Tod Marks Inside ❱ The Special chats with Zayat Stable’s King of Swing Sobhy Sonbol. Martin sweats details, gets win with Thunderestimate ❱ Maimonides & BY SEAN CLANCY CAB CALLOWAY STAKES Z Humor roll to Carlos Martin cringed all the way down the stretch of the Cab Calloway Stakes. Thunderestimate had been in front the the first quarter in 23.03 seconds and a half in 47.77 and maiden wins. whole way of the 9-furlong stakes, but Logic Way was steadi- three quarters in 1:11.36. By the time he reached the second ly wearing him down. turn, Thunderestimate had shaken loose and the only horse ❱ Wednesday racing Martin wondered about the tepid half-mile breeze six days making any forward progress was Logic Way, who had lagged earlier. He worried about the cut in the turf course, making in fourth heading down the backside. recap. it more demanding. He questioned whether his horse was in Thunderestimate turned for home and that’s when Martin front for too long. started to wonder. Logic Way reached his shoulder but that’s “It looked like I left him a little short,” Martin said, while all as he hit the wire a neck in front of Logic Way with Stunt ❱ The Statue of Liberty watching the replay. “He’s just so good he overcame my train- Man rallying mildly to finish third. The final time over the ing, he’s a good horse.” yielding turf was 1:50.62. preview. Thunderestimate won his fourth in a row by assuming Martin sighed relief. command of the $150,000 turf stakes, part of the New York “I thought maybe the yielding turf got him, it was a de- ❱ Thursday Entries. Stallion Series. Edgar Prado decided early to take control of manding kind of turf course,” Martin said. “Edgar said he’s the race, allowing the gelded son of Western Expression to better with a target and he got to waiting on the horse a little ❱ Expert Handicapping. slip through on the rail to take the lead going into the first See CALLOWAY page 4 turn. While harassed by Solid Strike, Thunderestimate went Chime Bell Farm Our facilities include 200 acres of shady paddocks and pastures, all with plank fencing, and a 1-1/2 mile European style turf gallop We pride ourselves on giving each horse individual attention in a relaxed atmosphere Specializing in: BREAKING YEARLINGS and FRESHENING OLDER HORSES www.chimebellfarm.com (803) 649-1746 • 136 Chime Bell Church Rd, Aiken, SC • Mr. & Mrs. W.C. Freeman 2 Thursday, August 9, 2007 Here & There at Saratoga 71 Lincoln Avenue Take A Number Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 1: Set of dry cleaning on the NYRA conference- room table Wednesday morning. Phone: (518) 490-1175 or (302) 545-7713 7: Tractor trailer horse vans idling in the Fasig- Fax: (518) 490-6520 Tipton parking lot late Wednesday morning. E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com Weather Today: Except for a few afternoon clouds, mainly Published Wednesday through Sunday sunny. Slight chance of a shower late. High in the during the racing season. 80s.. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 6-12. Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a few showers late. Low near 60. Winds light and variable. Friday: Showers, maybe a rumble of thunder. High The Staff in the 70s and lows in the 50s. Saturday: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 70s and Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy low in the upper 50s. Copy Chief: Jamie Santo Sunday: Partly cloudy. High in the mid 80s and low Writers/Contibutors: Alysse Jacobs, Karen in the 60s. Johnson, David Kosak, Brian Nadeau, Katherine Sarasohn, Rebecca Walton Traffic Jam, Saratoga Style Art Director: Kevin Titter Backed up while leaving the backside Wedneday Tod Marks Racing Analysts: Pete Fornatale, Alan Mann, morning at 8:05 – one trolley, 11 cars, one truck, Play IT AGAIN, BOYS. In the shade of the clubhouse awning, the band played on at Saratoga Frank Scatoni one golf cart. Race Course this week. Photographers: Dave Harmon, Tod Marks, “When you buy a horse like this you have to think about the pedigree. Mr. Barbara Livingston Names of the Day – All About Alliteration Greeley is an all-purpose sire, he was a blue-collar horse to start with and Distribution: Barry Watson he’s made it to the top. When his foals first started coming to the auctions, Menial Tasks Division: Ryan Clancy, Jack Check out today’s sixth race, the Lady D’Accord Stakes for New York-bred they were just too crooked, I king of got off him for a while and lately, I see Clancy, Nolan Clancy fillies and mares. In some sort of lamentably large linguistic logjam, the how well they’re doing, you have to pay attention.” field includesStreet Sass, Smokin Sarah, Talking Treasure and Cammy’s Barry Irwin, after purchasing a Mr. Greeley colt for $2.2 million Choice. Go get ’em, Tom Durkin. ST Publishing Inc. 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That pedigree might have been www.st-publishing.com after Sort Of Tricky won Wednesday’s last in her career debut swallowed up at Keeneland September.” The Saratoga Special Reiley McDonald, of Eaton Sales, The Special at Keeneland “Wow, we have a microwave?” after selling a Storm Cat for $700,000 to trainer Dale Romans Steeplechase/Eventing Times Jack Clancy, discovering the microwave (right above the stove, same as at home) while trying to cook Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special microwave pancakes in the toaster oven at a Saratoga rental “The Mr. Greeley gives everybody an adrenaline rush, it helps create the momentum. But as an auction company, if you start being too concerned Saratoga Days “We’ve got him on simmer, we’ll turn him up to boil in time for the race.” about the absolute highs . you have to take care of the other 99 percent American Steeplechasing yearbook Trainer Sanna Hendriks, on her high-strung steeplechaser of the horses in the sale. We sold The Green Monkey for $16 million; that’s National Steeplechase Association Preemptive Strike who runs in today’s A.P. Smithwick not what made that (2006 Fasig-Tipton Calder) a great sale, it was all the public relations consultants, other things we did well that year. That was fantastic, don’t get me wrong, custom Tervis Tumbler glasses “If you know of anybody who wants in, you let me know.” the highs are good but there are 214 customers and you’ve got get those and lawn jockeys. Wayne Lukas, when asked who is partners were in Hip 160, horses sold as well. The Mr. Greeley, those are the easy ones, you get to sit a Storm Cat filly he purchased for $875,000 back and enjoy watching those.” Fasig-Tipton’s Boyd Browning Jr., after the second night of the sales “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be “I think I could pay for dinner, but I’m not gonna.” sought and one day acquired and then Six-year-old Nolan Clancy, on the way into the Stadium Cafe, “We’ve got an event this weekend, so I’ve got to get back.” retired to the trophy case. It is instead an after a good day at the track Wednesday Arlington Park’s senior vice president of racing Bill Thayer, ambition which must be pursued each on a travel schedule that required him to leave Saratoga shortly after day, never ending, never totally achieved. “Thirty years ago I’d have done it. Twenty years ago, I’d have thought about being the presenter for Henry Forrest at the Hall of Fame Monday; That striving, that ambition is an essential it. Now, forget it.” in an epic understatment, the event is Saturday’s part of our newspapers, a cornerstone Former NYRA racing department employee Gary Handfield, Arlington Million racing card. of what we have been, what we are, and on an ambitious travel schedule between Saratoga and real life what we will be.” Arthur Hancock Jr.: “What do I have to do get in that ‘Here and There’ page?” – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner The Special: “Just say something funny or stupid.” www.st-publishing.com – The Special online Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 Hancock: “I guess I should just hang out with my dad.” Backed by over 30 years in the ThoroughbredComing to New York: ANDROMEDA’S HERO Industry. 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