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. 11 SARATOGA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER ON THOROUGHBRED RACING Monday, August 4, 2008 Sales Days Fasig-Tipton holds first Saratoga sale of new era Inside ❱ Red Giant wins Fourstardave Stakes. ❱ Talking sales with Boyd Browning and consignors. ❱ Hall of Fame profiles. ❱ Entries, Handicapping for Monday. Tod Marks photos EDDINGTON, a son of UNBRIDLED, won/placed in nine stakes, all graded. His first foals are yearlings this year. 2008 Fasig-Tipton Select Yearlings Eddington by UNBRIDLED 1st Crop Yearlings from Grade 1 SW of $1.2 Million sss 98 filly / Actceptional 101 colt / Appealing Jewel Pulpit by A.P. INDY Four Graded SWs in 2008 18% Stakes Horses from Foals Lifetime sss 35 colt / Ramatuelle 146 colt / Doppio Espresso Strong Hope by GRAND SLAM 2 Winners in 1st 5 Starters Brilliant Winner of the Jim Dandy-G2 sss 39 colt / Reboot 43 filly / Rose of Summer 59 colt / Soccory 111 colt / Bisbee 182 filly / Ionlyhaveeyesforu Selling August 4 & 5 Post Office Box 150 Paris, Kentucky 40362-0150 Tel.(859) 233-4252 Fax 987-0008 claibornefarm.com INQUIRIES TO BERNIE SAMS e-mail: [email protected] PHOTO © HORSEPHOTOS.COM 80868.CLB.Sale.SarSpec. Aug2.indd 1 8/1/08 3:46:34 PM 2 Monday, August 4, 2008 rethink everything. going on now! Fuccillo Hyundai of Schenectady 5Liner.com (518) 382-0274 Prices as of 7/30/08 based on New York State averages according to www.fuelgaugereport.com Monday, August 4, 2008 3 Th e ARATOGA Here & There at Saratoga 100 Lake Avenue Worth Repeating Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 At the corner of Lake and Regent “I’ll miss the first three days, but I’ll get out there Thursday.” Phone: (518) 490-1175 Sales buyer Noel Twyman, on the start of hound exercising back home in Virginia or (302) 545-7713 or (302) 545-4424 Fax: To be Announced “That shouldn’t affect us, Bob.” E-mail: [email protected] Jill Baffert, wife of trainer Bob Baffert or [email protected] (who was 0-for-20 at Del Mar), Internet: www.saratogaspecial.com when hearing they were cutting purses “Thanksgiving.” Published Wednesday through Sunday Kip Elser, when asked how long he was planning during the racing season. on staying at the Darley party Saturday night Every day of Sales Week Aug. 4-10. “I need to get some water, just to be able to talk.” The Staff Owner Hal Earnhardt, after watching Indian Blessing win the Test Saturday Editors/Publishers: Sean Clancy, Joe Clancy Copy Chief: Jamie Santo “She knows who she is and what she is. She’s usu- Staff Writers: Brian Nadeau, John Panagot, ally a sweetheart, my granddaughter usually plays Karen Johnson, Laura Pepper with her, (Saturday) at the barn, you could tell, she Graphic Designer: Carl Hott wanted nobody around her, ears back, I just left her alone. She’s a professional, she knows it. After the Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, race, little granddaughter can play with her back at Connie Bush, Barbara Livingston the barn.” Distribution: Barry Watson Earnhardt about Indian Blessing Menial Tasks Division: Ryan Clancy, Jack Clancy, Nolan Clancy “You don’t look like all those college kids they’re usually throwing out here.” Advertising Sales: Contact a Clancy or call Trainer Pat Reynolds when seeing Jon Bordeau (518) 812-4545 The Special ’s Brian Nadeau on the backstretch ST Publishing Inc. Home Office “You know: read here, follow these instructions 364 Fair Hill Drive, Suite F, and add this water at certain times and it happens – yeah, right.” Elkton, MD 21921 Country Life Farm owner Mike Pons, (410) 392-5867 • Fax (410) 392-0170 on the method of producing a quality stallion www.st-publishing.com [email protected] “We’re taking all donations in here.” Clocker Brian Walls, as The Special was deliv- Tod Marks The Saratoga Special ered to the clockers’ stand Sunday morning RAINY DAYS AND SUNDAYS. Two fans braved the elements at Saratoga Race Course. Steeplechase/Eventing Times Thoroughbred Racing Calendar “If he was knocking Bobby Hurley, then he just moved on to my list of all- Name of the Day time favorite jockeys. If he was just confused, that’s OK too.” The Best of The Saratoga Special Pronto Pronto, 4th race: Will this filly break her maiden “immediately im- Saratoga Days and other acclaimed Ruthie Bowen, a Tar Heel fan, on Robby Albarado’s quote which referred to a horse owned by former Duke mediately” as the Latin root of her name suggests? Well, when your dad products and services roundball star Hurley as “Danny Ferry’s horse” (Fusaichi Pegasus) has wings over land, and your mom (a Salt Lake mare) within the equine industry. sails onto the board five times in seven starts, she just very well may. “Horse. Good Horse.” Call us about your editorial needs. Hall of Fame exercise rider/jock’s agent Angel Cordero, Weather as Champs Elysees crossed Union Avenue Sunday morning “Editorial excellence is not a goal to be Today: A Some clouds and possibly an isolated thunderstorm in the after- sought and one day acquired and then noon. High 79. Chance of rain 30 percent. retired to the trophy case. It is instead an Take A Number Tonight: A few clouds. Low near 60. ambition which must be pursued each 8: Photographers taking pictures of Curlin at 6:19 Sunday morning day, never ending, never totally achieved. Tuesday: Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 79. Winds light and variable. That striving, that ambition is an essential 110: $2 win payoff for Hint – PICKED ON TOP BY THE SPECIAL’S BRIAN NADEAU – in Sunday’s last race. part of our newspapers, a cornerstone of Wednesday: Partly cloudy. High in the upper 70s and low in the low 60s. what we have been, what we are, and what we will be.” License Plate Thursday: Scattered thunderstorms. High in the low 70s and low in the low 60s. – Lee Hills, Pulitzer Prize winner, CURLIN (Guess whose?) 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