BSC R SU RIP FREE E TI IN O A N R S T COMPLIMENTS OF T O L T IA H C E E S SP ARATOGA Year 9 • No. 26 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Saturday, August 29, 2009 Quality Road High Road heads Travers Inside F Preiews of each of today’s graded stakes F Justenuffhumor wins Bernard Baruch F Saturday’s Entries and Handicapping Claiborne Keeneland Farm at September Champion ARRAVALE s G2 SW WEND Half-siblings to: Leading Sire PULPIT s 2009 Multiple G1 SW ZENSATIONAL G1 SW LUCIFER’S STONE s G2 SW SPICE ISLAND By Such Sires as: A.P. Indy First Samurai Out of Place Aptitude Flatter Pulpit Arch Forest Wildcat Sky Mesa Broken Vow Forestry Songandaprayer Came Home Giant’s Causeway Street Cry (Ire) City Zip Horse Chestnut (SAf) Strong Hope Dynaformer Johannesburg Touch Gold Eddington Lemon Drop Kid Vindication Empire Maker Mr. Greeley War Front Eurosilver Orientate Yes It’s True Recent Sales Graduates include: Champions WAR PASS, ARRAVALE and two-time 2009 G1 SW ZENSATIONAL Monday, Sept. 14, Barn 6 Tuesday, Sept. 15, Barn 6 Post Offi ce Box 150 Wednesday, Sept. 16, Barn 26 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Monday, Sept. 21, Barn 38 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 Wednesday, Sept. 23, Barn 3 claibornefarm.com Friday, Sept. 25, Barn 38 INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] 90695.CLB.KeeSepSaleSARSpclpg8-29.indd 1 8/28/09 3:07:40 PM 2 Saturday, August 29, 2009 Saturday, August 29, 2009 3 Here & There at Saratoga 517 Broadway, Suite 207 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (Second Floor, around the back) Phone: (518) 490-1175 Sean Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Mobile: (302) 545-4424 E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 10-16. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Staff Writers: Brian Nadeau, Karen Johnson, Ben Meyers, Katie Bo Williams, Colin Beaury Tod Marks Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Gatekeepers. The loading team waits for a group of runners on Friday. Connie Bush, Sarah Condon Handicappers: Pete Fornatale, John Pana- got, Gaile Fitzgerald, John Shapazian Worth Repeating By the Numbers Office Assistant: Jill Grant “That’s all it’ll take.” 1: Loose horse caught by jockey Kent Desormeaux Friday morning. Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Trainer George Weaver, who tripled earlier in the meet, Nolan Clancy, Jane Motion when told all he had to do was triple twice to be leading trainer 1: Hot rod golf cart won by jockey Alan Garcia at the Belmont Child Care Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Association dinner. Jon Bordeau (518) 812-4545 or Kathy Rubin “I’m halfway through, I haven’t started screaming or given you a dirty look, at (203) 650-6815 so far.” 1: Exercise rider making the sign of the cross while shedrowing a horse Edgar Prado, as he read The Special’s article on himself Friday morning. ST Publishing Inc. Home Office “From 1 to 10, I’ll give it a 7.” 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Prado, after finishing the article Name of the Day Elkton, MD 21921 “No, they look like tourists.” Closeout, ninth race. This Ballston Spa starter, owned and bred by Glen (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Hill Farm, is by Repriced out of Deep Discount. www.st-publishing.com Lerina Velazquez, deciding not to hand out The Special to a group on the backstretch Friday [email protected] Sea Biscuit. Name of the red and white NYRA Garage golf cart. The Saratoga Special “I traded Neil Howard for Merrill Scherer.” Steeplechase Times Jocks’ agent Lenny Pike, who picked up another win for Scherer Thursday Weather Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special Today: Showers early, less showers late. High 66. Chance of rain 60 percent. “I jumped off.” Tonight: A few showers in the evening, then clouds. Low near 60. Saratoga Days and other acclaimed Jockey Rajiv Maragh after parting company with a horse at the gap products and services Sunday: Afternoon showers. High in the upper 70s. Low in the low 50s. Monday: Partly Cloudy. High in the upper 60s. Low in the mid 40s. within the equine industry. “Is he serious?’ Tuesday: Mostly Sunny. High 70, low 50. Call us about your editorial needs. Jockey Robby Albarado after breezing a horse with Walter Blum Jr. “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be “It must be time for a haircut.” sought and one day acquired and then The Saratoga Sleigh’s Don Nichols, Quote of the Morning after a guest told him he looked like Albert Einstein retired to the trophy case. It is instead “I’m not mad – I’m just tired.” an ambition which must be pursued “When he was training, he’d be sitting out in front of his barn watching each day, never ending, never totally Saratoga local, on getting near the end of the meet achieved. That striving, that ambition is some horse get hosed or something and the reporters would walk up. He’d an essential part of our newspapers, a say ‘you (bleep-bleepers) don’t need to come in this barn’ and that’s as far cornerstone of what we have been, as they got. He was tough. 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The Derby win- Friday morning, Mott untacked his ner, Mine That Bird, pony, checked a run-down patch on a TRAVERS trained all summer at horse who just breezed on the turf and STAKES Saratoga but won’t scanned the 140th Travers’ past perfor- run because he hasn’t mances, given to him by a reporter. With PREVIEW recovered from throat the co-longest shot on the board, Hold surgery. The Preakness Me Back, Mott has the ability to be ob- winner, Rachel Alex- jective. andra, trained at Saratoga all summer, There in post position order read the but won’t run because she’s bowing to seven horses for the Shadwell Travers. her stablemate and has a date with older WinStar Farm’s Hold Me Back (Ju- males in the Woodward. lien Leparoux), William and Suzanne So what’s left of the story? Warren’s Charitable Man (Ramon Todd Pletcher tries to win the Travers Dominguez), Stevens Miles’ Warrior’s with a horse coming out of 6 1/2 furlong Reward (Calvin Borel), Edward Evans’ stakes. Steve Asmussen tries to win the Quality Road (John Velazquez), Robert Travers with the second best 3-year-old LaPenta’s Our Edge (Alan Garcia), Ka- in his barn. Bill Mott tries to win the larikkal and Vilasini Jayaraman’s Sum- Travers with a horse who’s never won mer Bird (Kent Desormeaux). Stonestreet a race on the dirt. Kiaran McLaughlin Stable and Gulf Coast Farm’s Kensei tries to win the Travers with a horse who (Edgar Prado). failed as the favorite in the Jim Dandy Mott studied the pages.