Year 18 • No. 11 Sunday, August 5, 2018 The aratoga Saratoga’s Daily Racing Newspaper since 2001 Money Man Diversify delivers in wet Whitney ENTRIES & HANDICAPPING BROWN WINS TEST, DE LA ROSE AMERICAN PHAROAH’S YEARLINGS Tod Marks Tod 2 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 here&there...at Saratoga Presented by Neuman Equine Insurance .....................equineinsurance.com LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY PICK 6, Massachusetts. SPA CITY, Florida. TYPO OF THE DAY We know Affirmed and Alydar didn’t run in the 1977 Travers. It’s just that the 7 and 8 keys are right next to each other, and it was late, and something got in our eye, and . T-SHIRT SLOGAN OF THE DAY This is my horse racing shirt. BY THE NUMBERS 1: Smoky Mountain Vikings football shirt on the backstretch Saturday morning. 4: Shirtless men engaged in a piggyback footrace on the grandstand apron during the Whitney rain delay Saturday. The “jockey” with a Coors Light in hand took the victory. 82.87: Percent increase in website sessions at thisishorsracing.com from June to July. That’s the power of The Saratoga Special. NAMES OF THE DAY Horoscope, third race. The 4-year-old gelding is by Astrology. Of course he is. Connie Bush Good Hair Day. Trainer Jonathan Thomas tends to the mane of a charge while Dogtag, sixth race. LNJ Foxwoods’ 2-year-old filly is by War Front out of Diamond Necklace. waiting to train on the main track this week. Go back to 1980. The dawn of our era. Count up all the two-year-olds who sold for $500,000 or more, and look at their sires. Two stallions dominate: Storm Cat – and the stunning Bernardini. darleyameric a.com -- Darley SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 3 here&there...at Saratoga Presented by Neuman Equine Insurance .....................equineinsurance.com WORTH REPEATING “I thought I’d go for a bike ride.” Assistant trainer Melissa Cohen riding a bike through the rain Friday morning “It will be the best, the best. Better than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.” Emcee Kenny Rice on the proposed redesign of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame announced at Friday’s induction ceremony “Now if you’ll all just look under your seats for the pledge cards.” Now on Broadway. Rice, after the project was teased with a $20 million price tag “My goodness, what a day.” Headley Bell, grandson of Pillar of the Turf Hal Price Headley, Wear What You Love™ upon taking the stage during Friday’s induction ceremony “She would have been tickled to get one of those lovely blazers.” Kate Tweedy referencing the famous Hall of Fame jackets as she accepted the Pillar of the Turf honor for her late mother Penny Chenery “Originally, my introduction of the concept of forming partnerships to own racehorses did not EMBRACE THE RACE® meet with wild enthusiasm in our industry. Early along, some very astute racing people advised 327 Broadway me to abandon the partnership idea. But my blood was up and I pushed on and you see before Saratoga Springs you today the poster boy for the slogan, ‘energy and enthusiasm can overcome stupidity and bad judgement.’ ” Cot Campbell on the early days of forming Dogwood Stables embracetherace.com “We are heading to y’all of fame cocktail party.” Price Bell, showing the vagaries of voice texting before going to the Hall of Fame cocktail party Raising and Selling Racehorses ® ® and its affiliate NICOMA Barn 5 Hip 23 - CARPE DIEM - Lemon Splendor f. Hip 98 - TAPIT - Seattle Smooth f. Hip 106 - CURLIN - Shop Again f. Contact: Headley c: 859-221-5108 Price c: 859-321-5117 millridge.com nicoma.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 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Writers: Ben Gowans, Sarah Newman, Shayna Tiller, The Saratoga Special, thisishorseracing.com Brandon Valvo, David Woods. (the old feed store) Thoroughbred Racing Calendar, The Best of The Saratoga Special. Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Donald Phillips, John Shapazian. thisishorseracing.com Call us about your editorial needs. Design: Todd Koch. Published Thursday through Sunday Home Office: 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, Elkton, MD 21921 during the racing season. (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush. Plus Monday, Aug. 6 and Tuesday, Aug. 7. Distribution & More: Jane Crager, Kevin Murphy, Morgan Yaeger. 4 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 7/8-mile dirt track 5/8-mile turf course 5/8-mile Tapeta all-weather uphill gallop Equine cold saltwater spa Abundant, spacious turn-outs Jonathan Thomas Training Stats DRF, as of 8/3/18 2017 2018 29% Win 25% Win 60% ITM 53% ITM All with horses running off the farm. George G. Isaacs, General Manager (352) 804-5568 Jonathan Thomas, Trainer (516) 732-8418 SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL 5 QUOTE OF THE DAY here&there...at Saratoga Presented by Neuman Equine Insurance .....................equineinsurance.com “As always, I thank the horses and the horses and the horses.” Cot Campbell upon being WORTH REPEATING honored as a Pillar of the Turf “We’re going to a cocktail party for the Pillars of the earth, I mean Turf.” Price Bell (again, this time in person) on his post-racing plans Friday night “I remember as a boy, I would open gates for him and my father said, ‘Dad, you’re going to spoil this boy,’ because he paid me 10 cents a gate.” Arthur Hancock III on his grandfather and Pillar of the Turf Arthur B. Hancock Sr. “I remember going through the field one day, and I remember how he’d talk, he had that Vir- 800-523-8143 ginia accent, he said, ‘Grandson, see those are colts by Blenheim and there’s a filly by Blenheim and there’s another colt by Blenheim over there. You see how they look like they’ve been cut out with a cookie cutter?’ I said, ‘Well, I’m not sure.’ He said, ‘Well you see how they all look like the same, they’ve been stamped.’ I said, ‘Yes sir, I do.’ I didn’t. He said, ‘Generally that’s the mark of a good stallion.’ ” Maryland, My Maryland Hancock, once again Country Life Farm “Her first horse went too fast and it blew off.” Exercise rider Anne Sinchak, on why Alice Clapham was riding without a helmet cover “I don’t remember.” Trainer Barclay Tagg, on the last time he claimed a horse (he took Cassies Dreamer from Friday’s first race) “The Oracle is not here this morning.” COUNTRY LIFE Dick Knapp, on the absence of Doc Richardson, on the rail at Oklahoma Saturday morning FARM “Well, we got older.” Ogden Phipps II, when hearing that we grew up in Saratoga “As fresh as lettuce.” Phipps, to The Special’s head of junior distribution, Miles Clancy “You’re making me hungry.” Trainer Wayne Catalano, when seeing biscuits on the cover of The Special Saturday ELLEN B. PONS B. ELLEN Hip #213 at the F-T Select Sale on Tuesday, by “I’ve gotten a lot of mileage from that photograph.” Palace Malice. From a deep family that includes The Special’s Tod Marks, who took the photo of steaming biscuits in Camden, South Carolina, many years ago Blowing Kisses and Jimmy Creed. All my siblings are WINNERS, and I’m a Maryland- “Good today, check back tomorrow, it’s day to day around here.” bred. Catch me while you can! Owner Roddy Valente, when asked how he was doing Saturday morning Josh Pons 443-807-0644 v Mike Pons 410-459-8517 v Christy Holden 410-808-1325 “The two wins today, those jockeys earned it, they rode from gate to wire.” Bel Air, MD 21014 • 410.879.1952 v countrylifefarm.com v [email protected] Trainer Chad Brown after Irad Ortiz won the eighth on Proven Reserves and Joel Rosario won the Hall of Fame Stakes on Raging Bull Friday Undefeated in 1st Five Starts Fountain of Youth-G2 • Holy Bull-G2 • Remsen-G2 • Nashua-G2 1st Foals in 2019 MOHAYMEN by Tapit Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager 859-224-4585 www.shadwellfarm.com 6 THE SARATOGA SPECIAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 The Top 10 Presents the The Special keeps up with a list of the Photo of meet’s best – performances, achieve- ments, oddball feats of human or equine the Day wonder. We’ll update it daily, or try to any- way. Bold means they’re new. Saratoga Trac Jam 1. Imperial Hint. Vanderbilt July 28. You Yearling to going to argue with that performance? Special, small sprinter won Grade 1 with 2-year-old prep speed, style, simplicity. And we wrote about him 18 months ago. 2. Diversify. Yo. Now that’s a Whitney. Pinhooking Best older horse on the grounds breaks Partnerships on top and rips it up from there – winning in hand and stretching his streak to three. 2-year-olds in 3. Monomoy Girl. C.C.A. Oaks July 22. training sales How good was that? Unquestioned queen of the meet. As Dylan sang, somebody get her a brand new leopard skin pillbox hat. (859) 312-3414 4. Weekend Hideaway. John Morrissey kirkwoodstables.com July 26. Who you callin’ old? Dismissed at 10-1, he won the N.Y.-bred stakes for the Proud to support second time – four years after the first one. Thoroughbred aftercare 5. Chad Brown. Just when you thought Steve Asmussen and others had a chance, the training-title favorite seized Photo: Connie Bush control.