SUBSCR ER IPT IN IO A N R S T COMPLIMENTS OF T !2!4/'! O L T IA H C E E 4HE S SP ARATOGA Year 8 • No. 21 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Saturday, August 16, 2008 Music Note Proud Spell Doubling Grand Couturier Alabama & Sword Dancer up headline stellar Saturday Dancing Forever Better Talk Now Tod Marks Tod INSIDE: backSEat rhythm wINS lakE placID • ENtrIES & haNDIcappINg • racINg goES to thE olympIcS Political Force UNBRIDLED’S SONG – GLITTER WOMAN, BY GLITTERMAN Grade 1 SW Won/Placed in 13 of 17 Races including Suburban-G1 Metropolitan-G1 Jockey Club Gold Cup-G1 $15,000 Live Foal Retired Sound Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 1st Book Includes: 23 Stakes Producers, Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com 26 Stakes Mares, Sisters to 126 Stakes Horses INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] PHOTO © HORSEPHOTOS 80868.CLB.Sale.SarSpec. Aug2.indd 1 8/15/08 3:41:28 PM 2 Saturday, August 16, 2008 Here & There at Saratoga 100 Lake Avenue Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 At the corner of Lake and Regent 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. 4-10. The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Copy Chief: Jamie Santo Staff Writers: Brian Nadeau, John Panagot, Karen Johnson, Laura Pepper Graphic Designer: Carl Hott Proofreader: Melaina Phipps Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush, Barbara Livingston Distribution: Barry Watson, Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy (Menial Tasks Division has been promoted) Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Jon Bordeau (518) 812-4545 ST Publishing Inc. Home Office Tod Marks 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 Blinkers On – The Rail (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Trainer Del Carroll’s staff hung up the blinkers to dry Friday morning. www.st-publishing.com [email protected] “Believe me, we didn’t mind. It was a slow The Saratoga Special Worth Repeating day.” Steeplechase/Eventing Times Owner Mike Balfe, on scanning Thoroughbred Racing Calendar “Look they’ve got free water in this box.” tickets for The Special’s underage stoopers Jason Hennig, 9, while The Best of The Saratoga Special reaching into a bucket “I’m selling stalls for the second half of the Saratoga Days and other acclaimed of Saratoga Waters in Alan Brodsky’s box “Look, it’s not products and services meet. Who needs stalls?” Trainer Mitch Friedman within the equine industry. “I want to be on after the race. Not before it.” like naming Call us about your editorial needs. Trainer Bob Ribaudo, when “Against the boys.” appearing on the OTB Show Trainer Bobby Frankel, “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be before Saturday’s Sword Dancer your pooch on about Ventura’s next start sought and one day acquired and then retired to the trophy case. It is instead “I’d have invited him.” “She told me to bring an umbrella, but did I lis- Ribaudo about Better Talk Now’s rabbit the porch.” an ambition which must be pursued ten?” each day, never ending, never totally Shake The Bank, who wasn’t invited Trainer Pat Reynolds, to an Racegoer waiting out a rain squall to the Sword Dancer; Ribaudo trains fellow achieved. That striving, that ambition is owner trying to name a horse at the end of the day Wednesday an essential part of our newspapers, a come-from-behind runner Grand Couturier cornerstone of what we have been, “It’s my favorite movie.” what we are, and what we will be.” “Pulling out the binoculars, this must be Owner Allaire Ryan, when handed a DVD “Who’s in the Travers, Shaun?” important.” of Mani Bhavan’s Adirondack Wednesday – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Clocker Brian Walls to The Special’s Sean John Velazquez, seeking help from fellow Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 Clancy, on the rail at 5:30 Friday morning jockey Shaun Bridgmohan, after to see Dancing Forever blow out 3 furlongs being asked to pick the Travers winner More Here and There on Page 3 Congratulations to the connections of Another stakes winner insured by TIN CUP CHALICE HAMMERTOWN Trainer: Michael Lecesse INSURANCE Owners: Michael Lecesse and Scott Van Laer AGENCY ✔ Undefeated winner of the 2008 “Protecting Equine New York Derby and 2008 Mike Lee Stakes Investments” ✔ We wish you continued success Specializing in Equine Insurance: Mortality, on your historic road Theft, Stallion Permanent to capture the OTB Big Apple Triple! 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A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible early. Low 57. Winds light and variable. Sunday: Sunshine and some clouds. High 82. Connie Bush Monday: Plenty of sun. High in the low 80s and low A better view in the low 60s. Tuesday: Slight chance of a thunderstorm. High in A racing fan gets up close and personal during the races earlier in the meet. the low 80s and low in the low 60s. S Robert Scanlon Training Center The Bronze ASHADO Sculptures of 2008 Sanford winner Desert Party Dave Harmon GRADED STAKES-WINNING GRADUATES RECEIVED Jan EARLY TRAINING AT SCANLON TRAINING CENTER: Afleet Alex • Bernardini • Circle Of Life • Celtic Melody • Lion Heart Seattle Fitz • Master David • Artax • Sarava • Songandaprayer Woods Songster • Stevie Wonderboy • Texas Glitter • Unbridled’s Song At The Whoopi Cat • Whywhywhy • Zavata r e n Anthony M. 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