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SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S ✫ T COMPLIMENTS OF T O L The aratoga A T I H C E E S SP ARATOGA Year 10 • Issue 28 Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Friday, August 27, 2010 Love Man Sermon Of Love leads 1-2 finish for Sheppard Tod Marks Get Stormy eyes Baruch • Thursday Racing Recap • Entries/Handicapping here&there... at Saratoga 517 Broadway, Suite 207 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (Second Floor, around the back) The Special quotes from Saratoga Phone: (518) 490-1175 WORTH REPEATING Sean Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Mobile: (302) 545-4424 “I’ve been coming here since 1976 with Mike Hernandez. I Weather E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] was a little kid and he’s still training today.” Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com Trainer Dominic Galluscio after Stormy’s Majesty won the Albany Wednesday Today: Sunny. High 74. Tonight: Clear. Low 50. Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. “That’s who I love, I don’t trust anybody else.” Saturday: Sun and clouds. Trainer John Parisella, after someone was called a degenerate gambler Every day of Sales Week Aug. 2-8. High in the low 80s. Low in The Staff the upper 50s. Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy. “See what I’m dealing with out here?” Staff Writers: Phil Janack, Karen Johnson, Walter Blum Jr. as he passed a novice rider yelling at her horse Thursday morning Sunday: Sunshine. High in Mike Kane, Terese Karmel, Ben Meyers, Katie Bo Williams. the mid 80s. Low in the 60s. Layout/Design: Dan Vunk. “Rudy. Rudy. Rudy.” Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Chant as trainer Rudy Rodriguez rode past on a horse Thursday morning Handicappers: Gaile Fitzgerald, Dean Keppler, Take A Number Brian Nadeau, John Panagot, John Shapazian Assistants: Chelsea Brown, Maggie Kimmitt. “We’ve got a lot of good ones and a lot of bad ones. Noth- 5 People looking for themselves in a Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan ‘Were you there?’ poster commemorat- Clancy, Jane Motion. ing in between.” ing Rachel Alexandra’s 2009 Wood- Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Trainer Rick Dutrow Thursday morning ward victory. Kathy Rubin at (203) 650-6815. ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 www.st-publishing.com [email protected] The Saratoga Special Steeplechase Times Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special Saratoga Days and other acclaimed products and services within the equine industry. Call us about your editorial needs. “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be sought and one day acquired and then retired to the trophy case. It is instead an ambition which must be pursued each day, never ending, never totally achieved. That striving, that ambition is an essential part of our newspapers, a cornerstone of what we have been, what we are, and what we will be.” Tod Marks – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 16-16 Exacta Box. Paddock schoolers donned the same numbers while practicing Thursday afternoon. 2 Friday, August 27, 2010 Continued from here&there... previous page “Sounds like Harry Bassett.” Racing fan Jim Howard, comparing Monday-Thursday winner El Real Madrid to recent 1860s Hall of Fame inductee “That’s a nice train on your newspaper.” Young Special reader, who liked the back cover advertisement featuring the Sallee horse van (that looks like a train) Names of the Day Panagot, the sandwich features thinly Holy Place, 10th race. The 3-year-old sliced Isabel’s roasted beef with swiss filly, owned by Starlight Partners, is by and tomato pressed in the panini and Pulpit out of Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart served with a side of au jus. in French). 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Management promises the rail will be down for today’s Bernard Baruch. Bush promises to run Get Stormy, morning-line favorite in the Grade II turf stakes. Tod Marks Mary Sullivan’s homebred streaks into the $200,000 Get Stormy charges into the Bernard Baruch with six wins in his last seven starts. stakes fresh off a win in the Grade II Fourstardave. “I’ve been in discussion with them all week, this Get Stormy has won three of four starts over the The victory erased a poor effort at Woodbine, where horse may not run if that rail doesn’t come down. I Saratoga turf, including two stakes. Last summer, he Get Stormy faded to fourth in the Grade II King Ed- can run him at Monmouth going a mile,” Bush said. won an allowance on firm turf and the Lure Stakes ward, the only blemish in his last seven starts. “I want the best surface, it’s not so much the distance, over soft turf. The victories launched a five-race win The front-running son of Stormy Atlantic attempts I want the best surface, I don’t want anything to hap- streak which included the Grade III Bryan Station and 9 furlongs for the first time in his career. His game is pen to him. If you take the rail down, everybody’s go- Grade III Commonwealth Stakes in Kentucky last year speed and he’ll need to carry his weapon another six- ing to run on good turf. That’s what they’re supposed and the Elkwood at Monmouth Park this year. teenth of a mile. That’s why Bush wanted fresh turf on to do. Take it down for the Grade II and put it back See BARUCH page 6 the inside hedge. up, that’s OK with me.” SEVEN 2-year-old winners in 2010 • Third Chance at Arlington Park for Ron Magers and James Divito • Sunday Splitsville at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher • Another Silver Oak, 3rd in the Sanford at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher. • Loving Dove at Monmouth Park for Red Oak Farm and Gregory Sacco. • Gambline Geraldine at Belmont Park for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher. • K.R.’s Jazz at Monmouth Park for A Woman’s Thing and Mary Hartman. • Saratoga Louie at Monmouth Park for Gary Barber and Peter Miller Our graduates include: Vineyard Haven (Gr. l) • Zensational (Gr. l) Contact Jim Crupi Bustin Stones (Gr. l) • Awesome Gem (Gr. l) Toll Free: (866) 313-5400 Macho Again (Gr. l) • Ten Most Wanted (Gr. l) Cell: (352) 427-1600 Stately Character (Gr. I) • Toccet (Gr. l) Bella Bellucci (Gr. l) • Acey Deucey (Gr. l) www.newcastlefarm.com Moon Catcher (Gr. l) • Weekend Magic (Gr. 1) 4 Friday, August 27, 2010 Friday, August 27, 2010 5 Fine Art Since 1974 Lexington, Kentucky Eclipse Sportswire A winner of six races for trainer Angel Penna, Baletti (left) breaks from the rail. seven-time winner looks like Barysh- nikov on the turf. On the dirt, where Baruch – he’s never run in the afternoon, he looks Continued from page 4 like a snowplow trying to rid itself of its load. “Last year when he won on soft turf, “Oh, he’s two different horses, his they took the rail down that day, that legs go everywhere on the dirt,” Bush was virgin turf that day, that was the said. “When he first came in, he was all only race they ran on the turf that day,” legs, I thought, ‘What am I going to do Bush said. “What he doesn’t want is with him?’ Once on the turf, we found that deep grass, he doesn’t pick up his out.” big, floppy feet. A horse that’s smooth Seven rivals will try to find out if and has that bounce to him, he gets dis- they can run down Get Stormy in the combobulated on it.” Baruch. The Baruch comes 26 days after the Baletti will probably have the last Fourstardave. Bush gave Get Stormy his crack at the frontrunner. Trained by final breeze Aug. 18, a bullet 5 furlongs Angel Penna, Baletti likes to relax and in 59 3/5 seconds. Flicking his white make a run which he’s done success- legs like a guitarist picks his strings, Get fully on six occasions. He comes off a Stormy did it easily over the Oklahoma disastrous trip to Monmouth where he turf course. finished sixth, beaten 7 lengths by Get “He seems great to me, he carries his Serious in the Grade III Monmouth flesh so well. I worked him over there Stakes. Penna says the race was over be- last Wednesday, God, I mean, he was fore it started.