FULL SALES RESULTS INSIDE FREE 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 9 • No. 13 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Top Hip 204 goes for TodCat Marks photo $2.8 million Tod Marks photo Performance. Buyers look for it in a Thoroughbred. And in a Thoroughbred auction company. The world’s premier Yearling sale. Keeneland September Yearling Sale Monday, September 14 – Monday, September 28 Eaton Sales, Agent for Overbrook Farm (A Complete Dispersal) September catalogs now online. [email protected] 800 456-3412 859 254-3412 KESL-09331 - Saratoga Special Sept Sale.indd 1 8/10/09 2:54:32 PM 2 Wednesday, August 12, 2009 Wednesday, August 12, 2009 3 Here & There at Saratoga Worth Repeating 517 Broadway, Suite 207 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 “Where is Ben? InDesign is not that easy. He’s wearing his headphones, is (Second Floor, around the back) he listening?” Advertiser Jan Woods, looking for The Special’s graphic designer, Ben Meyers, the King of Adobe InDesign Phone: (518) 490-1175 Sean Mobile: (302) 545-7713 “Slumming.” Joe Mobile: (302) 545-4424 Allen Jerkens, when asked what he was doing at the sales Monday night E-mail: [email protected] “That was absolutely, disgustingly terrible.” or [email protected] Trainer to his exercise rider after a breeze went awry Tuesday morning Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com “I get to claim the bug.” Published Wednesday through Sunday Jockey Richard Migliore, about riding over jumps during the racing season. Every day of Sales Week Aug. 10-16. “Sorry, we can’t right now, we’re looking at horses.” Ryan Clancy, 16, with his brother, Jack, 13, when asked to deliver papers Monday The Staff Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy “It’s been a long time, what, John Gosden’s shedrow, 1989?” Staff Writers: Brian Nadeau, Karen Johnson, Rick Mettee when seeing Goffs’ Elaine Lawlor Ben Meyers, Katie Bo Williams, Colin Beaury on the backstretch Monday morning Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, “OK, I spelled congratulations right, I think. There is now one t in cat. Any- Connie Bush, Sarah Condon thing else need fixing?” Handicappers: Pete Fornatale, John Pana- Ben Meyers, after fixing ads for today’s papers got, Gaile Fitzgerald, John Shapazian (well, yeah, you could have helped us identify Bruce Levine – not Phil Office Assistant: Jill Grant Serpe – in Tuesday’s paper – but it’s too late for that – see page 39) Distribution: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy, Jane Motion “Lots of pictures.” The Saratoga Sleigh’s Don Nichols, Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call on how to cope with huge newspapers Jon Bordeau (518) 812-4545 or Kathy Rubin at (203) 650-6815 Take A Number ST Publishing Inc. Home Office 62: People lined up on the rail to see Rachel Alexandra breeze on the Okla- 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, homa training track at 6:07 Tuesday morning. Elkton, MD 21921 (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 September 2, 1989: Date of the Racing Form Mark Reid was reading www.st-publishing.com Tuesday morning at the sales. [email protected] 8: People waiting outside the Country Corner on Church Street for break- The Saratoga Special fast tables Sunday morning. Steeplechase Times Thoroughbred Racing Calendar Names of the day The Best of The Saratoga Special Saratoga Days and other acclaimed Back Back Back, Race 2: This colt is by Grand Slam (out of Wealthy), Tod Marks but he harkens us to Chris Berman’s signature home run call, “Back, back, Raise Your Hand. A bid spotter works the floor at the first night products and services back, back . Gone!” of the Fasig-Tipton yearling sales. within the equine industry. Call us about your editorial needs. But For Money, Race 3: This filly is by Not For Love (out of Here Comes Betty). She must be a heartbreaker. Quote of the Day “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be “I don’t see why I can’t copy and paste the weather, it’s the same thing sought and one day acquired and then Dugout Deputy, Race 5: Sticking with the baseball theme, this filly is by every day.” retired to the trophy case. It is instead Deputy Commander out of Pennant Dreams. The damsire is Grand Slam. Katie Bo Williams, the woman in charge of an ambition which must be pursued collecting the weather report for The Special each day, never ending, never totally Hint, Race 10: Shhhh, but this gelding is out of Quiet Whisper and by Hold achieved. That striving, that ambition is For Gold. an essential part of our newspapers, a cornerstone of what we have been, HORSE TRANSPOrtATION Weather 1-800-523-8143 what we are, and what we will be.” Today: High of 82, with a 30 percent chance of Thunderstorms. – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, Thursday: High of 83, partly cloudy. Friday: High of 85, partly cloudy. Knight Ridder chief executive, in 1974 HAMMERTOWN INSURANCE AGENCY Call to discuss “Fall of the Hammer” coverage for the upcoming sales. “PROTECTING EQUINE INVESTMENTS” s&5,,%15).%-/24!,)49 s34!,,)/.!6!),!"),)49!.$).&%24),)49 s"!22%..%33!.$02/30%#4)6%&/!, s./'5!2!.4%%#/.6%23)/.3 s%15).%,)!"),)49 s&!2-0!#+!'%3 Contact: Anya Sheckley PO Box 90, Pine Plains, NY 12567 Tel: 646-872-6843 Email: [email protected] Fax: 518-398-5143 Web: www.hammertowninsurance.com Tod Marks photo Tod 4 Wednesday, August 12, 2009 PM 8-31-09 SS:3-14-06 CTBH 8/3/09 4:44 PM Page 1 Paramount Sales Saratoga Graduates DA’ TARA VISIONAIRE 2008 Belmont Stakes ((G1)) 2008 NetJets King’s Bishop S. (G1) Envision Your Success Saratoga Selected Yearlings, August 10-11 Yearlings by: DIXIE UNION, INDIAN CHARLIE, MALIBU MOON, MEDAGLIA D’ORO, SILVER TRAIN, SONGANDAPRAYER, STORM CAT, STREET CRY Saratoga New York Bred Preferred Yearlings, August 15-16 Yearlings by: A. P. WARRIOR, BANDINI (2), BELLAMY ROAD (2), BROKEN VOW, CLOSING ARGUMENT (2), EDDINGTON, EUROSILVER (2), FOREST DANGER, FRIENDS LAKE, FUSAICHI PEGASUS,GIACOMO, GRAND SLAM, GREELEY’S GALAXY (6), HOOK AND LADDER, INCLUDE, JUMP START, LANGFUHR, MACHO UNO, PEACE RULES, POWERSCOURT, PURGE,QUIET AMERICAN, SHARP HUMOR, SILVER TRAIN, TALE OF THE CAT, TEN MOST WANTED, THUNDER GULCH, TIZNOW, TOUCH GOLD Pat Costello 449 Lewis Hargett Circle Suite 190 Lexington, KY 40503 (859) 296-6455 • Fax (859) 296-6465 Email:[email protected] www.paramountsales.net Wednesday, August 12, 2009 5 Flying High Storm Cat colt flies to $2.8 million to cap strong two-day Saratoga sale BY MICHELE MACDONALD FASIG-TIPTON SALES Tuesday evening was young, but it “I had fun,” Sheikh Mohammed de- had started just about as badly as any- clared with a broad smile while bidding one connected with Fasig-Tipton Co. farewell to a few journalists just after could have imagined in their most trou- buying the Distorted Humor colt and a bling nightmares. $500,000 filly by Street Cry as his finale. Three horses had been announced as Overall, with his bloodstock agent, drawing seven-figure bids but none had John Ferguson, signing the tickets, sold, with two listed as RNAs and the Sheikh Mohammed bought six yearlings other the result of an unusual hoax by Tuesday to go with the six he had pur- an apparently inebriated man who fled chased Monday. His Tuesday spending the scene. totaled $6,350,000 – or about 25 per- Tod Marks Hip 204 reaches $2.8 million to top the two-day sale at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga. “If I had taken my jacket off, you cent of the session gross of $25,760,000. would not have been surprised to see the With both days combined, he boosted 11 percent compared to 2008 results “We did feel very possibly that this sweat pouring off,” said Fasig president consignors’ accounts by $11,850,000, and median price of $250,000 was up was the best colt we had put up for sale Boyd Browning Jr. hours later, when re- providing approximately 23 percent of 10 percent. to date from our farm. We knew that calling the beginning of the closing ses- the sale’s bottom line of $52,549,000 “I thought we did fantastic,” said he was special and we’re so pleased that sion that seemed more like a “Ripley’s even though his 12 yearlings represent- Fasig chairman Walt Robertson. “It’s other people thought that he was spe- Believe it Or Not” television special. ed only 7.5 percent of the 160 sold. really good to know that if you lead a cial, too,” she said after warmly thank- Yet once again, Sheikh Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed’s family mem- nice horse out there, they’ll give you ing Sheikh Mohammed. bin Rashid al Maktoum saved the day. bers and associates bought many more what the horses are worth.” While the sheikh nonchalantly smiled And how. Not only did he buy the even- horses. Thus, the Maktoum influence Browning added that “we were very during the bidding, Ferguson repelled a tual sale topper, spending $2.8 million propelled the Saratoga sale upward pleased to see (Sheikh Mohammed) and determined competition of Hall of Fame for a handsome dark bay son of Storm like a NASA rocket. In this challenging have his level of participation.” trainer D. Wayne Lukas and Westrock Cat who is a half-brother to multiple economy that has left most sales down The sale-topping Storm Cat colt, con- Stables’ Scott Ford to acquire the colt, Grade I winner Aragorn, he also bought by 30 percent or more compared to last signed by Lane’s End, agent for Jane and who is out of the Mr.