Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Year 14 • No. 15 T he aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Newspaper on Thoroughbred Racing Wild Night Tapit filly tops sale at $1.15 million Fasig-Tipton/Photos by Z Fasig-Tipton/Photos SELENITE, MARK MY WAY WIN N.Y. STALLION STAKES • FULL SALES RESULTS FROM FIRST NIGHT Belmont Derby Inv. S.-G1 winner Diana S.-G1 winner MR SPEAKER SOMALI LEMONADE Donn H.-G1 winner LEA Man o’ War S-G1 winner IMAGINING 14 Graded SWs This Year were Foaled/Raised at Claiborne, including Grade 1 SWs IMAGINING • LEA • MR SPEAKER • SOMALI LEMONADE • LIDERIS ___________________________________ Watch for 2014 Keeneland September Yearlings • By Such Sires as • WAR FRONT, FLATTER, BLAME, ARCH, PULPIT, HORSE GREELEY, TRAPPE SHOT, STROLL, PROUD CITIZEN, MORE THAN READY, SPEIGHTSTOWN, AFLEET ALEX, CURLIN, QUALITY ROAD, CAPE BLANCO (IRE), LANGFUHR, CITY ZIP, ESKENDEREYA, GHOSTZAPPER Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] © ADAM COGLIANESE, PATRICIA MCQUEEN, ADAM MOOSHIAN 2 14-0555.CLB.CLBRaised.SarSp.Aug5.indd 1 The Saratoga Special Tuesday, August8/4/14 5, 3:19 2014 PM here&there... at Saratoga NAME OF THE DAY Miss Metropolitan, Hip 98. The chestnut filly is a half-sister to millionaire True Metropolitan and sells tonight at Fasig-Tipton. NAMES OF THE DAY SUGGESTIONS Hip 87 is a colt by Harlan’s Holiday out of Soloing. How about Guy’s Weekend? Hip 117 is a colt by Street Sense out of Useewhatimsaying. We’d go with Fagedaboudit or maybe Badabing. BY THE NUMBERS 1: Advertiser who waved down an editor on the street to give him a check. Way to set an ex- ample for the others. 1: Moment of silence for Elisabeth Jerkens at the track Monday. It was a beautiful thing. 1: Special staffer who went to the 50-1 movie. 20: Fish Nolan Clancy estimated he and two friends caught (each) during a Monday afternoon trip to the neighborhood pond in Maryland; see below. WORTH REPEATING Connie Bush “But we definitely catch some more than once.” Welcome to Town. Jess’s Dream, a son of Horses of the Year Curlin and DAR6936 Saratoga Special Street Sense 5 AUG14Nolan 04/08/2014 Clancy, on 18:26 his fishing Page 1trip (see above) Rachel Alexandra gallops at Saratoga Monday morning. Will you pass the Test? The yearling sales: an all-against-all challenge to buy the finest future racehorses. Street Sense: Eclipse Champion two-year-old, record-setter, Kentucky Derby hero and proven G1 sire of – among many! – the remarkable Test winner Sweet Reason. He’s the kind of stallion who makes your work as a yearling buyer a whole lot easier... STREET SENSE Street Cry – Bedazzle (Dixieland Band) 859-255-8537 www.darleyamerica.com Darley Tuesday, August 5, 2014 The Saratoga Special 3 here&there... at Saratoga “I wish I didn’t have to run my whole stable against each other.” “It seems so strange without him, he was part of the family.” WORTH REPEATING Trainer Kate Dalton, as Cat Feathers Assistant trainer Hilary Pridham, “I go to the kitchen, get a little something to eat and retreat to and Lillehammer schooled Monday in preparation after retiring millionaire Willcox Inn my car-office and get some work done.” for the Mrs. Ogden Phipps Thursday The Special’s Connie Bush, “Well, let’s put it this way, ‘Did you pick it up yourself?’ ” on loading photos on her computer “I’ve read you from the beginning, I’ve never shed a tear… Saratoga Springs postal counter worker, (and then on to a CD) for us every day on the backside until today.” trying to assess the weight (and price) Bill Hirsch, after reading of a package someone planned to bring in later “I finally made it back to the three-eighths pole.” Monday’s column on Allen and Liz Jerkens Finn Green, who spent most of last year’s meet standing “So the music is like a left-handed whip at the sixteenth pole?” at the three-eighths pole watching Mucho Macho Man, “You rejuvenate all of us who care and some who don’t.” Reader, and CD sender, Bob Buika upon hearing when returning to his favorite spot Monday morning Webb Carroll, after reading the same column that the music helps get The Special through a deadline “Everything is fine until I try to stop her.” “How could you be? She was last over on the corner.” “According to the Chiclet we’re third.” Jump jockey Xavier Aizpuru, Owner Jon Kelly, when asked if he was confident watching Mike McMahon, co-owner of Forever Utopia. The Chiclet while schooling a jumper Monday morning Cat’s Claw close from last to win the Waya Stakes Sunday lied – the Utopia colt was fourth in Monday’s Cab Calloway “We parked a Winnebago up here and had a cocktail party.” “It was a very tough restricted race with a lot of graded stake “That’s Jonathan Sheppard in the middle.” George Grayson, about traveling horses, I was just amazed we won, frankly.” Assistant trainer Keri Brion, from Virginia to sell yearlings at Saratoga Kelly, after upsetting the Waya when asked about helping ID the photo below QUOTE OF THE DAY “I feel like it’s Book 3 of September already. Hopefully I get through it.” Taylor Made’s Mark Taylor, lamenting the busier than normal summer sale schedule Tod Marks 800-523-8143 Frontman. Jonathan and the Sheppardettes (from left) Theresa Dimpfel, Bailey Poorman and Keri Brion wait for Sunday stakes winner Cat’s Claw to return. HIP 458 – FASIG-TIPTON SUNDAY 8/10 Half-sister to MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC, stakes winner of 7 of 11 starts, earner of $306,391. MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC’S dazzling displays of speed in 2014 include: 125 Equibase # (highest sprint # in North America in 2014 is a 126) 101 and 99 Beyer Speed Figures • .03 off Aqueduct track record win Pointing to graded stakes at Belmont Fall meet Classy physical by freshman sire Marsh Side. Vinery Sales/Barn 9 4 The Saratoga Special Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Tuesday,LE-14307-General-All-Saratoga August 5, Special 2014 FP-July 17.indd 1 The Saratoga Special 7/17/14 10:27 AM5 The aratoga Yearlings To Perform 112 Spring Street, Suite 109 for Racing and Sales Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Phones (859) 312-3414 | kirkwoodstables.com Sean Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-7713 Joe Clancy Mobile: (302) 545-4424 Tom Law Mobile: (859) 396-9407 E-mail: [email protected] Saratoga Dapples joe @thisishorseracing.com Photo by Anita Motion [email protected] www.thisishorseracing.com Published Wednesday through Sunday during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 4-10. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Managing Editor: Tom Law of the day Staff Writers: Kristin Brennan, Katelyn Brush, Ashley Dingeman, Jackie Dugas, Ryan Jones, Dan McDonough, Dan Tordjman Layout/Design: Katherine Lasak Photographers: The Chief . .Day 15 Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald, Tom Law, “Tropical Park was great, I won the last stake race they ever had there, a horse called John Shapazian, Chad Summers Beaukins, 1972 I think it was, he was my favorite horse, even if he wasn’t the best Chief Head Honcho of Circulation: horse. He bowed, they gave him a whole year, fired him, brought him back, he ran for Jack Clancy two years, he won stakes. God, what a nice horse. He ran three times up here when it was a short meet, the stake on Saturday, finished fifth, then he won on Wednesday Help When We Need It: and the following Saturday. Cordero rode him those two times.” Nolan Clancy, Ryan Clancy, Miles Clancy. – Trainer Allen Jerkens The Saratoga Special thisishorseracing.com Thoroughbred Racing Calendar The Best of The Saratoga Special Call us about your editorial needs. The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Association Elkton, MD 21921 www.nytha.com | 516.488.2337 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 visit us on Facebook www.thisishorseracing.com Tod Marks photo Tod 6 The Saratoga Special Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Tuesday, August 5, 2014 The Saratoga Special 7 FASIG-TIPTON SALES Toppers for Tapit Two fillies fetch $1 million on Night 1 BY TOM LAW Start slow, finish strong. That was certainly the theme of the night Mon- day as the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale of selected yearlings finished on a feverish pitch with a pair of seven-figure fillies by North America’s current lead- ing sire Tapit selling in the last half hour. The flurry of bids – led by a $1.15 million Tapit filly bought by agents Alex Solis Jr. and Jason Litt and a $1 million Tapit filly bought by Nat Rea’s Re- gis Farms – sparked increases in total sales in a vi- Erica Miller See SALES page 10 Hip 69, sold by Bluegrass Thoroughbred Services for Merriebelle Stable, went for $1 million to Regis Farm. Storm Cat - She’s a Winner, by A.P. Indy A stallion standing at • 5384 Route 9h/23, Hudson, NY, 12534 8 The Saratoga Special Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Alternation by Distorted Humor Multiple GSW, Millionaire 1st Foals in 2015 Broken Vow by Unbridled 19 Stakes Horses this Year 2YOs Up to $375,000 Cowboy Cal by Giant’s Causeway Top 10 2nd Crop Sire $550,000 FTK July 2014Sale Topper Sky Classic by Nijinsky II 17% Stakes Horses 59 Stakes Winners 6 Champions Pin Oak Stud Versailles, Kentucky • pinoakstud.com Inquiries to Clifford Barry or Nancy Stephens (859) 873-1420 Tuesday, August 5, 2014 The Saratoga Special 9 “This is my 26th year coming to Saratoga and I cannot ever recall an Sales – RNA rate of less than 10 percent,” NY-BREDS Start with an Advantage .