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Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 765-0804 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © TOD MARKS 2 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 14, 2015 here&there... at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 3: Full horse vans ready to drop yearlings off at Fasig-Tipton at 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning (one of each major brand – Morrissey’s, Sallee and Brook Ledge). Sales week rolls on. 17: Calls/texts to Sean Clancy from readers looking for The Special Thursday morning. 1,111: Price of the $2 trifecta in Thursday’s jump race. NAMES OF THE DAY Outer Orbit, seventh race. Joemar Racing Stable’s mare is by Western Expression out of Galaxy Spirit. Congress Park, 10th race. Epona Racing and CJC Racing’s filly is by Divine Park. Winston, Not a horse, but a friendly greyhound in the Oklahoma barn area who stopped by one of The Special’s golf carts on a rainy morning Tuesday LICENSE PLATE OF THE DAY EXACTA, New York WORTH REPEATING “All right, time to enter. When they look all right, I enter.” Trainer, as a horse bounced off the track Tod Marks “He just kept galloping.” Spinning Out of the Turn. A turf race from a different perspective. Jockey Joel Rosario, on Tacticus – who outstayed everyone else DAR8580 Saratoga Special Girolamo 14AUG15 13/08/2015 17:19 Page 1 to win the 1 3/4-mile Birdstone Stakes Wednesday Gee-rolamo! First-time-out daughters of Girolamo run one-two-four in a hot Saratoga MSW – the winner, She’s All Ready, being named a TDN Rising Star. He’s the first freshman with a Rising Star! Girolamo, the fastest son of A.P. Indy: off to a flyer at stud. Must-see second-crop yearlings selling now. Find out more in the Darley Buyers’ Guide www.darleyamerica.com/buyers-guide-2015 or download the DARLEY COFFEE TABLEapp from the App Store Friday, August 14, 2015 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “Lots of walking.” Crestwood Farm’s Marc McLean, on what Saratoga has been like, while strolling the backside Thursday morning “Got a full house.” Catherine Kenneally, at the wheel of a crowded golf cart (including a Golden Retriever on the seat and a child in the basket) “There’s another thing you haven’t seen before.” Assistant trainer Norm Casse, as one golf cart tried to tow another with a rope shank Thursday morning “He’d be perfectly content to be a second-flight ladies foxhunter.” Emily Day, wife of trainer Jimmy Day, about Thursday’s jump winner Bonded “Save it for Monday.” National Steeplechase Association’s Bill Gallo, to someone with Wednesday’s program (the jump race was rescheduled) “You know, The Reading Room didn’t get any of your papers today. What’s going on?” Reader George Mahoney, who didn’t get the message that we didn’t publish Thursday “When you got the horse, you get the confidence.” Tod Marks Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., after winning the Test aboard Cavorting Coming and Going. Love the trot on the dog. Big future. The horse’s hoof could stand to be picked. QUOTE OF THE DAY NAME OF THE DAY Training Wisdom from Australian trainer Gai Waterhouse Slan Abhaile, first race. About 2-year-olds: “Keep them short and sharp.” The Irish saying for “safe home.” Bred by Jayeff B Stable, the 5-year-old is out of Safe Return. YOUR SOURCE FOR NY-BREDS Phone: (518) 423-2028 www.saratogaglenfarm.com 800-523-8143 4 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 14, 2015 “Change is the law of life. And those who LOOK TO THE PAST or present are certain to miss the future.” - John F. Kennedy Friday, August 14, 2015 The Saratoga Special 5 here&there... at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “I said to Jerry Fishback, ‘I can’t see the jump. How am I going to find the jump?’ He said, ‘Your horse will find the jump.’ ” Hall of Fame flat jockey Jacinto Vasquez, on riding a jump race at Saratoga “Look, I’m ahead of Jorge.” Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero while looking at the Aqueduct standings, he was leading Jorge Velazquez, in a 1984 Racing Form “The jockey got tired.” Ken McPeek joking after Wednesday’s 1 3/4-mile Birdstone “They put me on the map.” Trainer Jim Bond, talking about EQUIX “That’s the beauty and curse of Saratoga.” Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning Jr. talking about mistaking bids from onlookers during the select sale “I hope you didn’t give too much away about the 2-year-old sister.” Fergus Galvin when told trainer Eddie Kenneally hosted The Special for a Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour (which appears on Page 7). “I was supposed to go back tomorrow. I don’t know if I’m going back now. I’ve got one running Saturday and one running Sunday.” Chicago resident Marc Detampel, co-owner of Tod Marks Statue of Liberty winner Freudie Anne Staff Horse. Verne wised up and joined the squad at The Special. Raising and Selling Racehorses ® ® and its affiliate NICOMA Visit Headley and Price online … millridge.com or nicoma.com Mill Ridge Moments John Stephen Hockensmith © Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. joe @thisishorseracing.com Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. [email protected] 112 Spring Street, Suite 205 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Circulation/Advertising Sales/Etc.: Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy. The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Writers/Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Billy Blake, www.thisishorseracing.com Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. Gaile Fitzgerald, Teresa Genaro, Annise Montplaisir, Published Wednesday through Sunday Call us about your editorial needs. John Shapazian, Chad Summers, Brandon Valvo. during the racing season. Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 9-16. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Layout/Design: Kaitlyn Vishneowski. 6 The Saratoga Special Friday, August 14, 2015 with Eddie Kenneally StableTwo tough beats on back- Tour: to-back days last week aren’t about to get Eddie Kenneally’s spirits down. Every day at Saratoga, The Special It’s a long meet, and Ken- (with help from sponsor Fasig-Tipton) neally is in the win column presents an exclusive Stable Tour with a Saratoga trainer. For more, see: thanks to Decent winning the fifth race Aug. 5. thisishorseracing.com/stabletours The two seconds were by about the combined length of start Saturday (sixth race, 6-furlong a foot-long measuring stick – state-bred maiden special). She acts a nose loss by Bugle last Fri- like she’s OK. Worked pretty well day and a head defeat by Slam here a time or two. Nice enough type Chowder the next day – but filly. By Frost Giant.” there’s always a way to look on the bright side. True Egyptian: “Nice Pioneerof the “They’re running well, so Nile filly that’s unraced. She’s been we’re not complaining,” Ken- working right along and looks like neally said Thursday morning, she’s going to be a nice filly. She be- before winning the $100,000 longs to Bill and Annie Pape, they’re New York Stallion Series Stat- steeplechase people. She’s a homebred ue of Liberty Stakes in the af- for them.” ternoon with Freudie Anne. “We’ll have the opportunity the barn, Kenneally took a seat on top won the Grade 3 Salvator Mile, both Bent On Bourbon: “He won the to run some of these horses back that of a picnic table facing his shedrow at Monmouth Park. He’s here. He’s Iowa Derby but is not here. He’s finished second and hopefully we can Thursday morning and talked about up here and he’s going to be nominat- nominated for the Travers but he turn those into wins.” some of the members of his string ed to the Woodward. He’s also nomi- probably won’t run in it. He won the Kenneally’s stable churns out plen- with The Special’s Tom Law. nated to the Iselin Handicap down at Iowa Derby and most recently ran ty of wins on an annual basis. Monmouth. He’ll run in one of those in the West Virginia Derby (finished He’s accumulated purses of Bugle: “She’s a War Front filly two races. He’s been second in those eighth). He’s a horse that looks like more than $1.3 million every year who ran in an allowance race here two races last year (Monmouth Cup a solid horse. He’s just nominated to since 2006, including a career best last Friday and was second by a nose. and Salvator Mile) and then he came $3,329,134 in 2012 and $3,161,682 that race but we’ll probably pick an She ran in a two other than.