SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R Compliments of S T T !2!4/'! O L T IA H C E E 4HE S SP ARATOGA Year 7 • No. 26 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Saturday, August 25, 2007 Make Sense Derby/Jim Dandy winner Street Sense lords over Travers fi eld INSIDE A quote about every stakes starter today Entries, Handicapping, Detailed Analysis Jerkens wins Personal Ensign with Miss Shop Photo by Tod Marks 70994.CLB.Pulpit.SS.8-25 8/24/07 11:18 AM Page 1 PulpitPulpitA.P. INDY – PREACH, BY MR. PROSPECTOR Pulpit’s Newest G1 Winner: 2007 Del Mar Oaks-G1 winner RUTHERIENNE has won 5 straight stakes. Some of the Standouts by PULPIT this year… • RUTHERIENNE Del Mar Oaks-G1, Boiling Springs S-G3, Lake George S-G3, etc. • CORINTHIAN Metropolitan H-G1, Gulfstream Park H-G2 • SIGHTSEEING Peter Pan S-G2, 2nd Wood Memorial-G1, etc. • ECCLESIASTIC Post Office Box 150 Jaipur S-G3 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com SEASON INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS PHOTO © BENOIT 2 Saturday, August 25, 2007 Street Sense goes all in Heavy favorite TRAVERS STAKES PREVIEW him, life’s good. Same here.” faces six in Gr. I Nafzger circled the million-dollar stakes before Street Sense had galloped BY SEAN CLANCY out in the Preakness. Curlin nailed him Carl Nafzger walked back to his barn by a head and busted the Triple Crown. Friday morning and summed up today’s So Nafzger counted backward from Travers. the Travers and made a plan. The Jim “Just remember,” Nafzger said, “no- Dandy served as the logical prep for body in this race has anything to lose the 1 1/4-mile Travers, and Street Sense but us.” chalked it up with aplomb, winning That’s what happens when you win a by a comfortable 1 1/2 lengths over C championship at 2, the Kentucky Derby P West and Sightseeing. C P West ran and Jim Dandy at 3 and never finish hard, reached the lead but couldn’t hold Dave Harmon off the board in 10 starts. Street Sense him off; Sightseeing hit his best stride Street Sense hits the line in total command of the Jim Dandy here July 29. faces six dice rollers in the Travers. late, closing roughly 6 lengths through the Alabama here last week with Lady to Saratoga and will ultimately finish at Street Sense risks everything. Helsinki, the 1 1/8-mile stakes, but still fell 2 1/4 Joanne and aims to be the first trainer Monmouth Park Oct. 27 for the Breed- C P West, For You Reppo, Grasshopper, lengths short of first. since Leroy Jolley in 1976 to pull off ers’ Cup. Purchased by Darley for stud Loose Leaf and Sightseeing risk noth- Owned and bred by Jim Tafel and the Alabama/Travers double. Lady duty, this will most likely be Street Sense ing. ridden by Calvin Borel, Street Sense Joanne trained smartly all meet, tipping one and only trip through Saratoga. Still, Nafzger wouldn’t want to be has trained forwardly all meet, ticking her hand every morning; Street Sense is “As far as his career, he’s already anywhere else. off his works with ease and sauntering playing an open hand, his cards face-up been sold. He’s an unusual horse and “At some point, you’ve got to get it through routine gallops. Nafzger put on the table. He’s trained exceptionally you want him to go as far as he can go,” on,” said Nafzger, a former bull rider. him through three drills since the Jim since he arrived from Churchill Downs. Nafzger said. “It’s fun to run – it’s the “There’s nothing worse than waiting Dandy; a half in 49 seconds, five-eighths Now, it’s time to put the next check reason we’re all in this business, for the behind the chutes to crawl down on in 59 3/5 and another five-eighths in mark on the road that led from Pimlico that big bull. Once you crawl down on 1:00 Tuesday morning. Nafzger won See TRAVERS page 6 THE ULTIMATE in Lakefront Living! This timeless, stately brick home offering 5,150 SF. Five sumptuous bedroom suites with balconies, luxury baths, media room, great room, dining room with coffered ceiling, gourmet kitchen with solid granite counter tops and custom built cabinets. Sun- lled, soaring open living spaces set against a backdrop of panoramic lake, mountain and island & views! 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The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Copy Chief: Jamie Santo Writers/Contibutors: Alysse Jacobs, Karen Johnson, David Kosak, Jim Mulvihill, Brian Nadeau, Katherine Sarasohn, Rebecca Walton Art Director: Kevin Titter Racing Analysts: Pete Fornatale, Alan Mann, Frank Scatoni Photographers: Dave Harmon, Tod Marks, Barbara Livingston Distribution: Barry Watson Menial Tasks Division: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy ST Publishing Inc. Home Ofiice 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F Elkton, MD 21921 (410) 398-5867 • Fax: (410) 392-1070 Tod Marks www.st-publishing.com BIRD TOWN. Before the horses take to the track at about dawn in Saratoga, the geese move elsewhere. The Saratoga Special The Special at Keeneland Steeplechase/Eventing Times Thoroughbred Racing Calendar Take A Number Name of the Day The Best of The Saratoga Special Saratoga Days 37: People on a backstretch tour waved to by Hall of Fame trainer Allen Incriminate, 11th race. The $1.5 million yearling, owned by Darley and Jerkens (who rode by on stable pony Circus) Friday morning. trained by Eoin Harty, is out of Roll Over Baby. National Steeplechase Association public relations consultants, 8: Photographers and onlookers watching Rags To Riches get new shoes custom Tervis Tumbler glasses at the barn Friday morning. Name of the Day (Buddhist Edition) and lawn jockeys. Borobudur, third race. The 4-year-old son of Kingmambo is named for a Weather ninth century Buddhist Mahayana monument in Indonesia. The monument “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is sought and one day acquired and then Travers Day (TODAY): Hot, hot, hot. Partly cloudy skies. A stray afternoon decorated with 2,672 relief panels and 504 Buddha statues. The monument retired to the trophy case. It is instead an or evening thunderstorm is possible. Heat index near 105. High 96. Winds is both a shrine to the Lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist pilgrimage. If ambition which must be pursued each SSW at 10-15 mph. he beats you in a photo, remember to remain fully awakened and at peace day, never ending, never totally achieved. with the world around you. Tonight: Scattered thunderstorms in the evening followed by a few showers That striving, that ambition is an essential overnight. Low 67. Winds WSW at 5-10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Noble Truth, sixth race. The 3-year-old son of Buddha is named for the part of our newspapers, a cornerstone most fundamental of Buddhist teachings. The Four Noble Truths are: all life of what we have been, what we are, and Sunday: Mix of sun and clouds. High in the low 80s and low in the 50s. is suffering; suffering is caused by desire; to eliminate suffering, eliminate what we will be.” desire; and to eliminate desire follow the Eightfold Path. 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