Year 19 • No. 14 Saturday, August 3, 2019 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 Storm Front Thunder Snow blows in for big Whitney ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING OAKS WINNER TACKLES TEST TURF SPRINTERS GO IN TROY Tod Marks Tod 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2019 here&there...at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 1: Advertiser/Readers Club complaint at the Morning Line before 6:30 a.m. Friday. 1: Kid wearing a Tom Morley Racing helmet while riding in a bike seat on Lake Avenue this week. 16: Equibase.com tabs open on Joe Clancy’s computer at 1:05 Friday morning. 56-53: Final score of the jockeys vs. horsemen basketball game (jockeys with the win) to benefit Race Track Chaplaincy of America Thursdsay night. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY (We’ve given up trying to remember if we’ve already used these) COLTS, New York. BARERA78, New York. SLEW 77, Florida. NAMES OF THE DAY Height, third race. The 2-year-old colt, owned by Jump Sucker Stable, Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider, is out of Ascent. Amends, third race. Phipps Stable’s 2-year-old colt is out of Guilty Verdict. CORRECTIONS OF THE DAY Dick Knapp said Mickey Rivers (not River). We ruined a great line with a typo. Sorry. And, to the un-jockey’s agent initiated, the term “spinning” used here Friday means taking off one horse to ride another. Jonna Chapman Horse Kite. Saratoga Pal, a 2-year-old who has apparently mastered the art of flying, loves Saratoga. Frosted has gone on... he has EX-PLO-DED! That win... that racecall! Go to our website and relive the brilliance REMEMBER THE FUTURE See his Saratoga yearlings. His F-T July average was the best by a freshman in a decade! Darley SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 Matthew J. Nielsen Ed Kasperavich, CFA here&there...at Saratoga Deborah Stackpole Managing Directors WORTH REPEATING Sports & Entertainment Group [email protected] “I love this place. I’m like a pig in mud. I could just roll around.” Joel Politi, owner of Serengeti Empress, watching morning workouts Friday on the main track “Every major race I won, that was the best horse (I ever rode) at that time.” Hall of Fame inductee Craig Perret, Your investment when asked about the best he ever rode future starts “We’re on a field trip, over here checking out what it’s like where the people who drink Pellegrino water are.” here… Securities offered through Stonecrest Capital Markets, member FINRA/SIPC Advisory services offered through Stonecrest Advisors, Inc. Trainer Al Stall, and family, tooling around the Oklahoma side “I saw Honus play, he could hit a little bit.” QUOTE OF THE DAY Doc Richardson, when someone brought up the credentials of Hall of Famer Honus Wagner (Wagner’s baseball career ended in 1917) “She grows when you put the saddle on.” “You said concrete, the Aswan Dam is the world’s largest earthen dam.” Trainer Tom Amoss, marveling over Test contender Brant Laue, backside fact-checker, when a discussion Serengeti Empress Friday morning termed to dams, horse owners and horse names “I feel happy when I see people I know.” Saeed bin Suroor, after exchanging pleasantries with Steve Asmussen “It’s not only good for the horses, it’s good for me.” bin Suroor, who follows his horses in Newmarket on a bike from the yard to the gallops “If I had a basket for all my conditions books, I’d ride a bike too.” 800-523-8143 Jockey’s agent John Panagot, in a golf cart WORLD CLASS MILER MILLIONAIRE G1 SW BRILLIANT GSW by SPEIGHTSTOWN ALBERTUS by TAPIT TAMARKUZ MAXIMUS MOHAYMEN Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager (859) 224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. 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Distribution & More: Madeline Ellsworth. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 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 SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 Country Life Stallions here&there...at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “I said, ‘I think I owe you an apology.’ ” Jockey’s agent, and retired jockey, Richard Migliore on a conversation with his former agent Drew Mollica “Are you asking me?” Sarah Arnold, when Sean Clancy asked Bo Bromagen about Rusty Arnold as a boss “I can tell you, he’s a lot better than he used to be.” Sarah Arnold, following up her question “He was nice as a boss, he gave me two days off. Christmas and the day after.” Bo Bromagen, about his year-long stint with Rusty Arnold “Angel said it would take a jet airplane to beat him. We walk in the gate, Angel looks over, I’m a ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN kid and he’s established New York rider. ‘Keep him straight leaving here, because you can’t beat me.’ I kept her straight leaving there.” Mosler Tony Black, about the day My Juliet beat Bold Forbes War Front’s son out of Arch’s daughter Gold Vault. Two-time $100,000 stakes winner, at Belmont Park and Laurel Park. “Keystone to California. I beat Laffit Pincay. Can you imagine that? Little jock, bread and butter, claiming jock from Keystone and get to go to California.” First crop yearlings coming to the fall sales. Black about winning the Las Flores at Santa Anita Find out more at countrylifefarm.com “When you go against instinct, what feels right at the time, usually you screw it up. You’ve got to go with what instinctively feels right.” Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 Black on riding races (and life) Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 410-879-1952 v [email protected] v countrylifefarm.com “Any rider can feel pressure, but it’s about not succumbing to pressure. One thing I learned from wrestling in high school and being a jock, anxiety can be your biggest competitor.” Black, about the pressures of riding “They were mostly silent partners.” Stuart Janney III, about family members who partnered with Gladys Mills Phipps “I was crying like a baby.” Saratoga Moments . Trainer Bill Mott, when Royal Delta walked out of his barn to be sold “My favorite moment was the night the power went out in Sara- toga (in 2001). It was dark and everybody was out of business. “It wasn’t a tough decision.” Mott, after Benjamin Leon called to see if he would train Royal Delta again Our backup generator kicked on and we had one of the damnd- est horse sales you’ve seen in your life. Everybody was crammed “It was the greatest college I could ever have.” into the pavilion, it got to be about 95 degrees in there. Torrential Hall of Fame jockey Craig Perret, about working with horses on the farm thunderstorms; and it was truly one of the greatest nights of the “I had one thing on my mind, the race- sale we’ve ever had. Horses sold amazingly well that night. It was track.” nice when you make all the backup plans and you have the system Perret, about his early days on the farm in place in the event something goes wrong and it worked to per- fection. People who were flying over literally said there one was “I agree with everything Peter said.” bright beacon coming up and it was the sales pavilion, it was the George Strawbridge Jr., after partner Peter Brant talked only thing with the lights on. Even Siro’s was closed that night.” about Waya at the Hall of Fame Friday – Fasig Tipton’s Boyd Browning “I like the cover.” BBN Racing’s Braxton Lynch, whose Concrete Rose made it on the fro22nt of The Special “Everybody says to you, ‘Do you like your 2-year-olds?’ You don’t bring 2-year-olds up here if you don’t like them. Let’s be real about that.” Trainer Graham Motion, Tod Marks Headley Bell: 859-221-5108 • Price Bell: 859-321-5117 and pretty much every trainer Hometown News. Valet Dave Farley gets the scoop from the Irish Echo. 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 2019 e Presented by TOP 10 Photo of performances of the meet sponsored by the Day OSCAR PERFORMANCE toasting concrete rose At 2: Breeders’ Cup Pinhooking Juvenile Turf (G1) Partnerships Standing at Mill Ridge Farm 2-year-olds The Special keeps up with the meet’s in training sales best – performances. We’ll update it daily, or try to anyway. Yearling to Imperial Hint: Move over Spei- 2-year-old prep 1. ghtstown and Spanish Riddle. Shancelot: After the Amsterdam, (859) 312-3414 2. make that Sir Shancelot. kirkwoodstables.com Guarana: Unbeaten filly was 3.