Year 19 • No. 13 Friday, August 2, 2019 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 Concrete Rose eyes rich Saratoga Oaks ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING FRIDAY STAKES PREVIEWS HALL OF FAME GUIDE Tod Marks Tod Gladys Phipps & Edelweiss | 1933 Coaching Club American Oaks Ogden Phipps & Easy Goer | 1989 Jockey Club Gold Cup It is with tremendous gratitude that Phipps Family Horses in Hall of Fame we salute the Phipps family for our Bold Ruler long and successful relationship. Buckpasser Easy Goer Congratulations on the induction of Heavenly Prize Inside Information Ogden Phipps & Gladys Mills Phipps Personal Ensign into the Hall of Fame as Pillars of the Turf. Seabiscuit Claibornefarm.com | Paris, Kentucky Photos courtesy of the Keeneland Library. 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 here&there...at Saratoga BY THE NUMBERS 31: Stakes winners in the Old Friends “family” who won stakes at Saratoga, from the late Gulch in 1986 to Kharafa in 2018. 83: Old Friends’ horses who ran, but did not win a stakes race, at Saratoga. 63: Jalapenos picked in first “harvest” Sunday from Tom Law’s garden. 17: Wifi networks reachable at Tom Law’s house on Circular Street. LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY RACE4ME, Florida. UWON1, Kentucky. NAMES OF THE DAY Soulmate, sixth race. Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s homebred is out of A Time To Love. Swamp Rat, seventh race. Hey, sometimes a horse is named after a bull. Award Winner, seventh race. The younger brother to Oscar Performance out of the mare Devine Actress. Her Royal Highness, ninth race. Albert Frassetto’s filly is out of Joan Of Arc. Fika, 10th race. A Swedish term for a coffee and cake break and, deeper, a state of mind. Sounds good to us. Tod Marks Awesome. The aptly named Awestruck gallops to the start – under some brewing clouds – before Wednesday’s Shine Again. Stallions ranked by all-time Saratoga Black Type winners 1 A.P. Indy 19 2 Medaglia d’Oro 18 3 Danzig 16 It’s pronounced Storm Cat 16 5 Giant’s Causeway 15 Speightstown 15 Unbridled’s Song 15 Sarad’oga 8 Smart Strike 14 Tapit 14 10 Freud 13 Mr. Prospector 13 SELLING SOON: yearlings by the best active sire of Stakes winners at Saratoga. Darley FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 Matthew J. Nielsen Ed Kasperavich, CFA here&there...at Saratoga Deborah Stackpole Managing Directors WORTH REPEATING Sports & Entertainment Group [email protected] “They took me to the middle of the Oklahoma and I went over one of those little jumps and I almost fell off. I said, ‘I’m not doing this. No I’m not. I’m not a jumper.’ ” Trainer Luis Carvajal Jr., on schooling a horse (once) for trainer Leo O’Brien back in the day “In the stall, he’s quiet. He walks quiet. Everything is quiet. He goes to the track and he can stand Your investment there with the rider and look. He can stand there for 10 minutes. He’ll walk and jog, whatever you want. Turn him around and start galloping . as soon as you hit the five-eighths pole, then future starts you’ve got to hold on. He’ll try you. He’ll switch leads and go. And then he’s ‘RRRRRaahhhh.’ We had a few problems with riders who couldn’t ride him the right way. He’s not easy.” here… Securities offered through Stonecrest Capital Markets, member FINRA/SIPC Advisory services offered through Stonecrest Advisors, Inc. Carvajal, on training Imperial Hint “That was the last time you talked to me.” Hall of Fame trainer Carl Nafzger to The Special’s Sean Clancy QUOTE OF THE DAY when signing a photo from the Street Sense years “I’d really worked on my speech. I wanted it to be right and I didn’t “Tomorrow.” Retired trainer Mike Hushion on when agent Winston Heslop’s want to read it so I had put a lot of time into that and I was ready 15-year “suspension” for spinning him would be over to get it over with. Exciting day, exciting time, still is.” Trainer Shug McGaughey, on his Hall of Fame induction “I spun Joe Pesci. Can you believe that? Joe Pesci. Wesley Ward is still mad at me for that one.” Heslop, about the owner/actor “I know. I know. Land the plane.” Gabby Gaudet, reiterating deadline advice she learned at The Special “Your group had some brilliant dance moves.” Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager (859) 224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com Anna Laloe on The Saratoga Special’s crew at Tuesday night’s 800-523-8143 Fire Feast event at Pitney Meadows Community Farm MILLIONAIRE G1 SW Building ALBERTUS MAXIMUS Speed for BRILLIANT GSW by TAPIT the MOHAYMEN Future WORLD CLASS MILER by SPEIGHTSTOWN TAMARKUZ Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager (859) 224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com Editors/Publishers The aratoga Sean Clancy: (302) 545-7713. [email protected] Joe Clancy: (302) 545-4424. [email protected] Managing Editor Tom Law: (859) 396-9407. [email protected] 259 East Avenue Writers: Catherine Galbraith, Ben Gowans, Terry Hill, Brandon Valvo. Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (the old feed store) The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Handicappers: Charles Bedard, John Shapazian, Rob Whitlock. Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. thisishorseracing.com Design: Todd Koch. Call us about your editorial needs. Published Thursday through Sunday Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 during the racing season. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Distribution & More: Madeline Ellsworth. Plus Monday, Aug. 5 and Tuesday, Aug. 6. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 Presents Peter Howell: Forty Years in Saratoga - A Retrospective As part of their annual exhibition at Fasig-Tipton August 2 - 13 www.crossgategallery.com | [email protected] | 859.233.3856 or 859.583.5330 153 George Street, Saratoga Springs NY FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 Country Life Stallions here&there...at Saratoga WORTH REPEATING “Today’s Cup of Coffee doesn’t fit on one page. You guys are really enjoying the five-day week.” Longtime reader and advertiser Matt Nielsen after Sean Clancy’s Cup of Coffee about watching 13 races ran overtime “As they say, I didn’t have time to write it short.” Clancy, on his two-page spread “That guy right there changed it all.” Trainer Phil Gleaves, pointing to D. Wayne Lukas Thursday morning “Sign him up.” Trainer Mike Trombetta when The Special offered his son a job “Loved reading Saratoga Moments this morning…that sure was a moment to remember! Right ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN up there in my 39 years of coming here.” Rich Cristiano after reading Martin Panza’s memory of Divining Rod by Tapit out of $2-milion earner Precious Kitten. Third American Pharoah galloping at Saratoga in American Pharoah’s Preakness. Second by a head in Gr. 1 Cigar Mile. Earner of $882,604. Owned by Roy and Gretchen Jackson, Gainesway “Another feature on Rusty Arnold?” Farm, and Country Life Farm.Well-supported in the Mid-Atlantic, Sarah Campion as The Special interviewed her favorite trainer Divining Rod enters his third season at stud in 2020. she’s not employed by Thursday morning Find out more at countrylifefarm.com “All toe-ins are fast – you heard it here.” Doc Richardson, conformation expert, giving a dissertation Thursday morning Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 Christy Holden 410-808-1325 v Bel Air, MD 21014 “You’re right, Mickey River was fast.” 410-879-1952 v [email protected] v countrylifefarm.com Dick Knapp, baseball fan, in response to Richardson’s assessment “If he hadn’t picked me up, I might still be going.” Trainer Bill Mott, about the time he got some help with a runoff from trainer Richard Hazelton (and a lead pony); the Chicago-based Hazelton, who died Tuesday at 88, won more than 4,700 races in a 54-year career as a trainer. “All three of us wouldn’t fit on the bike.” Saratoga Moments . Trainer Phil Gleaves, driving visitors around in his car for a change “Two come to mind. When Heart To Heart won the Better “He’s got good taste.” Talk Now (in 2014), he really announced his arrival as a nice Sarah Arnold as a studdish colt noticed Concrete Rose Thursday morning 3-year-old and then when Grand Arch won the Fourstardave (2015). That was a good field of horses he beat that day. He really took a step forward to show us he was the real deal. From there he went on to win the Shadwell and was third in the Breeders’ Cup Mile. He was an awesome old horse, had a great personality. A big independent bugger, didn’t want anybody to have too much to do with him.” – Trainer Brian Lynch Tod Marks Headley Bell: 859-221-5108 • Price Bell: 859-321-5117 Kid’s All Right. A stakes winner on Wednesday, and Special cover horse on Thurs- day, Kid Is Frosty laughs it up at the barn. 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2019 e Presented by TOP 10 Photo of performances of the meet sponsored by the Day OSCAR PERFORMANCE sales time At 2: Breeders’ Cup Pinhooking Juvenile Turf (G1) Partnerships Standing at Mill Ridge Farm 2-year-olds The Special keeps up with the meet’s in training sales best – performances. We’ll update it daily, or try to anyway. Yearling to Imperial Hint: Move over Spei- 2-year-old prep 1.