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Year 16 • No. 3
Sunday, July 24, 2016
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Songbird graces Saratoga for CCA Oaks
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NAMES OF THE DAY
Chelios, first race. “Booooooo.” His half-brother, Old Time Hockey, runs in the seventh for
breeder Glen Hill Farm.
Squeezed, fourth race. The 3-year-old filly, making her debut for Bloodlines Racing Partnership, is out of Lemons Ain’t Limes.
Hush Now, eighth race. The Berkshire Stud homebred is out of Silence Please.
Quest, ninth race. Gainesway’s 4-year-old filly is out of Treasure.
BY THE NUMBERS
3: Days exercise rider Bob Hatfield galloped for trainer Gene Weymouth at Fair Hill back in the
day. As Hatfield put it, “I had to tell him, ‘This just isn’t going to work.’ ”
1: Near dogfight at the Morning Line Kitchen Saturday morning (behave or you’ll ruin it for
everybody).
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“At least he was on the proper lead going around that turn.”
Observer, as a horse dragged an exercise rider off the track, around
a corner and up the horse path at a gallop Saturday morning
WORTH REPEATING
“You guys would pick Graham Motion if he led a Shetland pony over there for a race against
Secretariat.”
Assistant trainer Robbie Medina, talking to a small group
of The Special’s team and looking at the cover of Saturday’s issue
(that’s it, nothing but McGaughey from here on out)
“Listen, everybody should be a John Phillips. Great people.”
Trainer Jimmy Toner on his longtime owner, co-owner of Diana runner-up Recepta
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“It was too obvious, she was on the overnight and everything.”
Todd Pletcher when it was pointed out Schuylerville winner Sweet Loretta
was not included in the first Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour of the season
NAME OF THE DAY
“Hey, Puppy Dog.”
Pletcher’s greeting to bloodstock agent Steve Young on the backside Saturday morning
“I spent three summers in school there.”
Gap Year, Ninth Race.
Godolphin’s 4-year-old filly is out of Dubai Escapade,
which would be some gap year.
Former racing writer Fran LaBelle, after hearing
about The Special’s home in what used to be a school building
“What’s average marriage age in North Dakota now, like 14?”
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Medina to The Special’s managing editor
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WORTH REPEATING
“The Clancy boys done grown up.”
Ramsey, while seeing Ryan and Jack Clancy in the paddock Friday
“He’s amazing; good luck definitely follows him around.”
Terry Finley on his longtime friend and fellow former Army Ranger Vinnie Viola
“We change our minds a lot because the horses change a lot, forcing us to change our minds.”
Trainer Chad Brown, after winning the Lake George
“You would have won on that one.”
Joel Rosario, to Sean Clancy after winning
an allowance race aboard favorite Sentiero Italia Friday
“It’s so hot, the agents are even sweating.”
Jocks’ agent Steve Rushing on a sweltering Friday afternoon
“Remember how cold you were six months ago?”
Owner Lee Einsidler looking on the bright side of a hot opening day
“Yeah, yeah, that’s it, you’ve already passed one.”
Railbird as Outsider Art passed Baciami Piccola
walking out of the paddock for Friday’s Lake George
“I thought you retired.”
Owner Everett Dobson, when seeing former
Kiaran McLaughlin assistant Artie Magnusson Saturday morning
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watch the fifth race, by the time they got back to the barn, you took the horse out of
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with Ron Moquett
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Knights Key: A winner of his only start last
Sean Clancy
Trainer Ron Moquett is stabled in the stakes barn between the paddock and Siro’s.
Ron Moquett isn’t concerned with
win percentages and makes no bones
about it.
He’s concerned with developing
the horses in his care and that’s exactly what he hopes to do with his
string of 10 bedded down in the Clark
Stakes Barn just behind the paddock
on Frank Sullivan Place.
“Win percentage means absolutely
nothing to me. That’s for novice gamblers and owners that don’t know
what horsemanship is,” Moquett
said Saturday morning after completing all his training before the break.
“I tell my guys, my owners, that my
thing is I’ve had the years when I had
the high and gaudy win percentages,
but those years didn’t coincide with
the right column. The right column is
the money earned. It doesn’t matter,
you can’t eat a win percentage so you
better develop the horse and try to get
the most out of them.
“People that have them, not claiming trainers, they either wait for everything to be absolutely perfect,
which you can’t control, or they’re
entering only whenever they think
they can’t lose. Either way, with the
gaudy win percentage, when you have
25 that means you’ve got your butt
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kicked three times you thought you
were supposed to win. Three out of
four. So why don’t you give them a
race instead of five breezes and let
them come running late and then beat
them the next time?”
A native of Hot Springs, Ark., Moquett ran in back-to-back editions of
the Kentucky Derby with Far Right
in 2015 and Whitmore this year.
They’re both in training, but back
in Kentucky with the main string at
Churchill Downs. One could make
the meet, along with several others
in the 44-year-old trainer’s Saratoga
contingent.
Moquett went stall by stall with
The Special’s Tom Law and Jack
Clancy Saturday morning.
Entertainer: A maiden winner at Oaklawn
this winter for owner William Sparks, the son
of Malibu Moon is 8-1 in today’s third race
(an allowance going 6 furlongs). “He’s been
second in a couple stakes races. We bought
him off Gary and Mary West and we’ve been
happy with him. We’re looking for him to run
big. Just an a-other-than. He’s been second
in those two stakes races against horses that
have come back to win again. One was that
Toews On Ice of Bob Baffert’s, the other Will
Munnings. He’s put on 100 pounds and I’m
proud of him. Wherever he’s run, he’s run better so I’m proud of him.”
November at Churchill Downs, the son of Giant’s Causeway is out of the Lemon Drop Kid
mare Lemon Kiss. “He’s a horse Steve Hobby
had that Alex and JoAnn Lieblong own. Won
his first out and was one of the hot horses,
Derby talk. He won very, very impressively. He
had a little issue, stopped and gave him time
and now he’s coming back. Since I’ve come
up here, I’ve got this division for the Lieblongs. He’s one of them high-dollar suckers
($300,000 yearling at Fasig-Tipton Saratoga).”
Johnny Obvious: Eighth in Saturday’s
sixth race. “This isn’t really his kind of track.
He’s a front-running speedball and (Friday) it
looked like you were better off coming from
off the pace. We’re not messing with him. He’s
a first-time starter and so far I have never had
a horse leave the gates like he does, so I’m
not going to try and get him left just to make a
race. We’re going to see what he does. He’s a
little bit of a mess, doesn’t take any crap from
nobody. He’s got wee-man’s syndrome.”
Rockshaw: Owned by the Lieblongs, the
2-year-old colt breezed a half-mile on the main
track Saturday in :52.87. “He’s a Maclean’s Music. They’re running well, let’s hope he carries
that tradition. He’s a tank. One of those kinds
that causes jockey fights. Everybody that sits on
him wants him. You get those every now and
again, you just hope they take the afternoons
as good as the mornings. We’re looking at next
Saturday if the race goes and all is well. We
gave him a slow breeze, he did well and we’re
thinking all systems go for next weekend.”
Pressing Luck: The 4-year-old son of
Lookin At Lucky is 0-for-9 but finished second
last time out in maiden special at Ellis Park.
“He’s doing well, we’re going to try just a little
different tactic with him, make him a closing
sprinter I think. He’s a half to Normandy Invasion, so he’s got a bloodline that says he’s
better than what he’s shown us. We’re going
to keep on rolling, see what happens. Ellis is
always misleading. The little Pea Patch can
throw some runners at you for no money at
all. He got beat (a head) by a 28-1 horse and
should have won, got lackadaisical, lost focus.
Physically he was better and mentally he was
not. There’s a race for him next Friday.”
Air On Fire: The son of Unbridled’s Song
and the winning Pulpit mare Unaltered cost
$350,000 at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale. “Every barn at Saratoga has to
have at least one Unbridled’s Song that they
feel strongly about and this is ours. He’s a
good boy, he’s atypical in Unbridled’s Song
where he’s just a pro, he doesn’t do anything wrong. If you go up there and tell him
to stand he stands. He’s unraced, but has
some good blood on both sides and a really nice way of moving. We’re going to run
in about two weeks when the races go seven-eighths. He’s too big and long-striding of
a horse to consider this 5 1/2 junk for him.”
Fire Starter: The most experienced mem-
ber of the string with 18 starts. He’s 2-2-4,
including a win in allowance company at Oaklawn last year. “He came from David Fawkes,
another for Alex Lieblong, by Tapit. Weak
mentally. We’re looking for better things than
he has shown us.”
Midnight Visitor: The 3-year-old Midnight
Lute filly on the comeback trail after a fourth,
a third and a second in three starts last season. She breezed a half in :48.55 Friday on
the main track. “She’s built like a colt. She’s
coming to me off of a problem. Very happy
with where she’s at. I’ll talk to Mr. Lieblong
about where he wants to run her. When she
was sent to me it was with marching orders
of a certain kind but now that I’ve got her I
wonder if we might alter that a bit. She’s got
the wrong chromosomes, she looks like a guy.
Look at the foretop on her.”
Swing And Sway: The New York-bred filly
is completely stretched out in her stall as the
Stable Tour –
Continued from page 8
tour continues. “My New York-bred. Westrock’s
horse, the coffee people, Joe Ford. We bought a
New York-bred, I don’t know why or what. She’s
by Maclean’s Music. We were looking at her
and later we realized she was a New York-bred,
we like her, don’t care if she’s a New York-bred
or not. Our main places to show out for us are
here and Oaklawn. Obviously she can run here
and they don’t care if we run her there. She’ll be
tough. She needs to take her job a little more seriously. She’s very talented. When she runs, has
a good break and everything stays the way it is,
you’ll be writing about her the next day. That’s
a fast horse. I’m working her (Sunday) and if all
goes well and stays good with her shins then
we’ll probably go a week later. Just whenever
the next maiden special weight goes. I’m talking
her up, but I’m a trainer. I’m supposed to, right?
If we were in that second race (Friday) she
would have beat their brains in, from what I’ve
seen. If she brings it in the afternoon.”
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lengths. “She walked out of the gates and came
running, just got beat by Asmussen’s horse, the
$750,000 Malibu Moon. Watch her race. She
was dead last, everywhere, but look at her, the
rest of them look like sports cars and this is
an 18-wheeler. She’s a freightliner. There’s no
reason she should ever go 5 1/2 except she’s
got a crazy trainer that wanted to try to get her
focused. She’s one of those horses you’ve got
to tell them to do it three times before they get it
right. I told myself ‘it’s time for her to put it together without having to do all this work.’ I can’t
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Far Right: Winner of last year’s Grade 3
Southwest and 15th in the Kentucky Derby,
the 4-year-old son of Notional is unraced since
placing 10th in the Grade 3 Commonwealth
April 9 at Keeneland. “He’s at Churchill but he’ll
run here whenever they write the race . . . an
allowance race, one turn. Probably Den’s Legacy’s race last year. It will be a field full of graded
stakes horses, but that’s him, too.”
Whitmore: Second in the Southwest and
Grade 2 Rebel and third in the Grade 1 Arkansas
Derby, the son of Pleasantly Perfect got turned
out after finishing 19th in the Derby. “He won’t
run here. I told him if he made it to the Derby
that I wouldn’t run him until the fall. I saw him
the day before I drove up here. He’s chestnut
with a white blaze and when I saw him he was
brown. He had no white nowhere, completely
brown (with dirt). I keep him at a friend’s, an old
horseman’s place. I told him to just be a horse.
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COACHING CLUB AMERICAN OAKS PREVIEW
Soaring
in Saratoga
Unbeaten champion
Songbird stands out
in Gr. 1 for 3YO fillies
BY TOM LAW
The few days that Songbird has spent in upstate New
York make it pretty easy to comprehend why those closest to her say they feel no pressure when it comes to
maintaining the California filly’s unbeaten record, growing legend and rightful position atop her division and
among the best North American racehorses of 2016.
Songbird went about her business in her first three
mornings here the same way she’s done it in her eight
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Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer feeds Songbird some snacks in advance of today’s Grade 1 Coaching Club.
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CCA Oaks –
starts in the afternoon. She makes it look easy and
like she’s been doing it for years, not in the less than
a year it’s been since she made her debut until today’s $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at
Saratoga Race Course.
Songbird takes on four opponents in the Grade
1 Coaching Club, one the country’s premier events
for 3-year-old fillies that will be run for the 99th
time and seventh time at Saratoga. Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer will look to stretch her record to
9-for-9 when he gives Hall of Famer Mike Smith
a leg up on Rick Porter’s filly, but the trainer isn’t
feeling the heat.
“The pressure is when you don’t have one,”
Hollendorfer said Friday while Songbird cooled out
at the end of the shank held by exercise rider Edgar
Rodriguez.
Rodriguez, who got his start with his Hall of
Fame boss six years ago at Golden Gate Fields before moving with him to Southern California, gave
Songbird plenty of shank as she strolled around the
ring outside the barn housing Wesley Ward’s stock.
About a half-hour earlier Rodriguez and Songbird
made the short walk to the backstretch gap with a
small group of photographers, videographers and
reporters in tow.
Songbird, who trained early Thursday morning
after arriving from Southern California at about 8
Wednesday night, made a visit to the paddock Friday before a gallop that looked easy the way quality
horses make it look easy. Christina Jelm caught the
bay filly when she came off the track and walked
her up the path near the Morning Line Kitchen.
Songbird blended in with the sets coming and
going, a rare moment when she might be mistaken
for the everyday horse. Her balanced physique and
race record obviously say otherwise. She’s won her
eight starts by 42 1/2 lengths and the closest any
of her 55 opponents have come is 3 3/4 lengths,
twice back home this spring at Santa Anita Park in
the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel and Grade 1 Santa Anita
Oaks.
Jelm gave Rodriguez the thumbs up to let Songbird graze a bit while assembled media talked with
Hollendorfer leaning against the splintered wooden
railing.
“She’s been consistent with us, the same around
the barn and the same on the racetrack,” Hollendorfer said when asked if she’d been any different
here in Saratoga versus at home.
Rodriguez, a 29-year-old native of Mexico, described Songbird as “special,” perhaps a vast understatement for a filly some consider the best racehorse in training in North America this year.
“The best I’ve ever been on,” he later said, an
obvious assessment for a man so young but a statement that wouldn’t be out of reach for someone
on the racetrack for even twice his lifespan. Smith
has ridden races since 1982, five years longer than
Rodriguez has been alive and mentions Songbird in
similar company to Hall of Famers Azeri and Zenyatta.
“Each one takes you somewhere higher and
higher,” Smith said. “It’s funny, you ride a horse
and think, ‘God, I’ll never see another like that.’
Then the next thing you know, here comes another
one. You think, ‘God, there will never be another Azeri.’ Then here comes a Zenyatta, you think,
‘Oh, my God, there will never be another like her.’
And then here comes Songbird.”
Zenyatta did her best running from the back of
the field, Azeri close or right on the pace. Songbird
does it from the lead, her past performances showing almost all 1s and wide leads in the stretch of as
much as 10 lengths. She’s been in front at the eighth
pole in each of her last three starts by 6 lengths.
It must be some feeling.
“So far I haven’t had to worry, just slowing her
down, like, ‘Hey, let’s not do too much,’ ” Smith
said. “She’s very well balanced, both leads, she’ll
fall into a turn and, man, whoosh, she’ll hit a gear,
wow, you look back and you’ve opened up six, seven on them, like, ‘where the heck did that come
from?’ It’s crazy.”
Despite her domination on the track Songbird is
fairly placid and laid back at the barn.
“She’s not like most good fillies,” Hollendorfer
said. “Most good fillies are maybe aggressive you
might say, but she’s real sweet and has a very good
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Carina Mia and trainer BIll Mott (left) share a moment
at the Oklahoma training track Saturday morning.
Sean Clancy
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disposition around the barn. She’s real easy to work
with.”
The four rivals in the 1 1/8-mile Coaching Club
have serious work to do if they’re going to upset
last year’s champion 2-year-old filly and winner of
the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Keeneland in
her only other start on the East Coast.
The one given the best chance is Carina Mia,
winner of the Grade 1 Acorn from Hall of Fame
trainer Bill Mott’s barn.
Like the connections of Songbird, Mott and
Three Chimneys Farm hoped to make the Kentucky Oaks with Carina Mia and didn’t. Songbird
missed her chance due to illness; Carina Mia because she lacked sufficient points to secure a spot in
the starting gate despite winning Churchill Downs’
key 2-year-old filly stakes in the Grade 2 Golden
Rod last fall.
Carina Mia missed time this winter and spring
because she was stuck at Payson Park while it was
under quarantine after an equine herpes virus outbreak. The Malibu Moon filly got out in time for
the Grade 1 Ashland but finished fourth. She rebounded with back-to-back victories in the Grade
2 Eight Belles on the Kentucky Oaks undercard
and the Acorn, the latter at the expense of eventual
Grade 1 Mother Goose winner Off The Tracks and
Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia.
Carina Mia is 6-5 on the morning line with regular rider Julien Leparoux.
Coaching stone gets new home
Today’s feature, the Coaching Club American
Oaks, dates to 1917 and was run at Belmont Park
until 2010 when moved to Saratoga. The race’s
name derives from England’s Epsom Oaks, and
recognizes the Coaching Club, “for which a requisite for membership was the ability to handle
a coach and four horses with a single group of
reins,” according to NYRA’s race history notes.
Visitors to Saratoga Race Course today
can see an exhibition of the sort of coach driving evoked by the race’s name (about noon),
and while the history of the Coaching Club
is well-documented, another piece of history
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Weep No More eyes two races at Saratoga this summer.
The other three are double-digit odds, nothing
new for 10-1 third choice Weep No More, who
won the Ashland over Rachel’s Valentina, Cathryn
Sophia and Carina Mia at 30-1.
Rusty Arnold trains the Mineshaft filly for Ashbrook Farm and she’s been off since a seventh in the
Kentucky Oaks. The ultimate goal is one of Saratoga’s signature events later in the meet.
“I want to run her in the Alabama, she’s a mileand-a-quarter horse and it might be the only chance
in her life to run a mile-and-a-quarter on the dirt,
they just don’t have them any more,” Arnold said.
“We thought, let’s take two races at one track, she’s
never done that yet, we won’t have to ship in the
summer. At the time, I was pretty sure Songbird
was going to Delaware, when she changed, I just
couldn’t change my plan nor was I going to change
my plans. Two top, top horses in there, I think Billy’s filly (Carina Mia) might be even better than
people think she is, her only bad race was her first
race this year and I know she went on Lasix after
that race.”
whose origins are a little muddier, found new
life this year.
In the early days, patrons arrived at the
track by coach, pulling up to the clubhouse
entrance, located in roughly the same place as
today’s Wright Street entrance. And according
to a plaque on a large stone that until recently
sat just outside The Post bar near the paddock
horsepath, those patrons stepped out of their
high coaches and onto the stone before proceeding into the racetrack.
For the last few years, that stone – which
dates to 1864 – has essentially served as a table.
Track visitors set up folding chairs around it and
spread out beer and sandwiches and snacks on
“I’m ready to run, I expect her to run well, but
we’re looking to the Alabama, I just want the mileand-a-quarter. She’s doing great.”
Todd Pletcher said last week that he planned to
enter Mo d’Amour, fourth in the Mother Goose and
fifth in the Kentucky Oaks, if the field continued to
stay short due to the looming presence of Songbird.
Mo d’Amour breaks from the outside and is 12-1
with John Velazquez aboard.
“We are entering with the idea that sometimes
strange things happen at Saratoga and if we finish
third we’d be happy,” Pletcher said.
Flora Dora, winner of the Busanda on the inner
track at Aqueduct this winter and on a four-race
losing streak, scratched from Friday’s Lake George
on the turf and goes for Coffeepot Stables, trainer
Marialice Coffey and jockey Emmanuel Esquivel.
The purse for the Coaching Club, which for
many years was run at Belmont Park and at 12
furlongs, was originally $300,000. The New York
Racing Association juiced it up to lure Songbird
from California, adding $200,000 to the pot. That
played a role in Songbird coming to Saratoga, even
though Hollendorfer and Porter expressed interest
in the Alabama later in the meeting.
“It had some influence, yes. If they didn’t we
might have run in the Delaware (Oaks) but we really didn’t want to do that if we didn’t have to,”
Hollendorfer said. “It’s always nice to be at a big
meet like Saratoga. We’re having our big summer
meet out at Del Mar and that’s important to us,
too. It’s important to have a horse come here and
run and if you can do well here that’s well-regarded
in the racing community.”
Additional reporting by Sean Clancy.
it; at the end of the racing day, it was often buried in detritus, an ignominious fate for an artifact
that has been here since the track opened.
Not so anymore.
Before Opening Day, NYRA’s Chris Kay and
Lynn LaRocca arranged for the stone to be
moved from its corner to a place of prominence,
likely not far from its original spot. Now, the
stepping stone sits on a grassy mound, a pedestal of flowers atop it. It can’t be used as a table
anymore, and it will get the respect it deserves.
“It will get more attention than it has in the
past,” said Kay. “We put it in a place where it’s
going to be more appreciated.”
– Teresa Genaro
For Ky-Breds at Kentucky Downs
THE GRASS
IS ALWAYS
GREENER!
Courtesy of Cinthia Ane McGreevy
Barefoot Mailman on the racetrack, Cosnochta is a budding star in the show ring.
Special Delivery
Fox Hill’s Barefoot Mailman
finds a new career in show ring
BY TERESA GENARO
Two years ago, on the advice of
bloodstock agent Tom McGreevy,
Fox Hill Farm’s Rick Porter entered
the bidding fray in the Humphrey
S. Finney Pavilion at the Fasig-Tipton yearling sale in Saratoga, trying
to add a dark bay Medaglia d’Oro
filly to his already prodigious list of
stakes-winning fillies and mares.
Four-hundred thousand dollars later, she was his. He named her Songbird, and in an eight-race undefeated
career, she’s earned $2.1 million. Sunday afternoon, she’ll try to keep that
streak alive in the Grade 1 Coaching
Club American Oaks.
Three years before that Fasig-Tipton yearling sale, in Ocala, Fla., Porter spent nearly as much money as he
did on Songbird, going to $350,000
Million
7.8 IN PURSES
$
for a Silver Train colt at the OBS
March sale of 2-year-olds. Named
Barefoot Mailman, he was retired after three races, one win, and earnings
of $28,296 for Fox Hill and trainer
Steve Hobby.
“My father used to train racehorses, and I’ve always been in love with
Thoroughbreds,” said Cinthia Ane
McGreevy, Tom’s wife. “I used to ride
hunter/jumpers, and my daughter
used to ride Thoroughbreds. I still believe they’re extremely talented, and
they were superstars in the jumping
world for many years. Then warmbloods came along.”
Decades ago, Thoroughbreds
were, says trainer Rick Violette, “the
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Barefoot –
they fell out of fashion, thought to be
too hot, too hard to handle.
So in 2012, as part of the aftercare program begun by the New York
Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, of which Violette is president,
Take2 came to be. Sponsored by NYTHA and New York Thoroughbred
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“We needed to create a need for
Thoroughbreds once they’re retired,”
Violette said. “They’re better off with
a job. Thoroughbreds are a little
forward and they want to do something.”
“I found out about Take2,” said
Cinthia, “and I kept bugging Tom, ‘I
want one of your horses when they
retire.’ So I got Barefoot Mailman.”
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Now called Cosnochta (“barefoot” in Gaelic), Cos for short, he’s
based in Florida near McGreevy’s
Davie home, in training with Debbie Ward of Grassy Ridge Farm, and
he’s ranked fifth in the Take2 jumper
standings.
“He took two classes in Wellington,” said McGreevy, “and he ended
up being the Take2 jumper circuit
champion at the Winter Equine Festival.”
“He’s really taken off in the last
year,” said Ward. “He has a lot of
confidence, and he never met a jump
in the ring that he didn’t like. I’m really pleased with his progress; he’s
come such a long way.”
Ward and McGreevy paid credit to
Cosnochta’s talent and courage, and
his intelligence and sensitivity. He
adapts when his riders make errors,
and he takes it easy when McGreevy,
who has only recently returned to riding, is on his back.
“He takes care of me,” said McGreevy. “He can go 90 miles an hour
with his trainer, then I get on, and
what she can do at six strides, I’ll end
up jumping in 10.”
In addition to giving horses an op-
portunity for a successful life after
racing, Take2 also offers riders the
chance to be successful in the ring.
While open classes might attract 100
competitors, Take2 classes might attract several dozen, giving riders a
better chance at taking home ribbons.
“That’s part of what they want,”
said McGreevy. “They want to be
winning ribbons. It’s frustrating to go
in classes and never win.”
Violette, who rode Thoroughbreds
when he was a show rider, agrees.
“Hopefully their talent will show
itself,” he said, “and they can move
up into open divisions.”
Two months ago, McGreevy took
home another Fox Hill Farm retiree. Horsepower, a 2011 Bernardini
colt, was purchased as a yearling by
Porter for $420,000. He retired after
eight starts, with two wins and under
$38,000 in earnings. Soon, he’ll join
Cosnochta on the Take2 circuit.
And while these pricey horses
might, from an economic standpoint,
look like busts, McGreevy hopes
to show that retired racehorses can
make financial sense, in addition to
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Barefoot –
vested the money to re-train one, she’ll
try to sell to a rider who will continue
the education and the progress in a second career.
With a championship already to her
name, Songbird is not likely to need
McGreevy and Ward when her racing
days are finished. She’ll have a life as a
broodmare waiting for her, regardless
of how she runs Sunday afternoon or
what shape her career takes beyond
this summer.
But fortunately for her less speedy
stablemates, Take2, the McGreevys
and Fox Hill Farm have begun a program that provides them with some
options.
“The McGreevys have been a great
family to work with,” said Ward.
“They have a true passion and excitement for Thoroughbreds, not just in
racing, but in other parts of the horse
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SUNDAY’S SARATOGA ENTRIES
Sunday, July 24.
1ST (1:00PM). $25,000, CLM $12,500, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double
1 ..... 2.............Red Creme...................... L. Saez.............................. D. Jacobson.................. 8-5
1a ..... 7.............Imslopokerodriguez........ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... D. Jacobson.................. 8-5
2 ..... 1.............Perfect Disco.................. J. Torres........................... G. Gullo....................... 20-1
3 ..... 3.............Because I’m Happy......... S. Camacho, Jr................. J. Parker...................... 30-1
4 ..... 4.............Gambler’s Ghost............. A. Arroyo.......................... C. Martin....................... 8-1
5 ..... 5.............Branded Hand................. J. Leparoux....................... J. Englehart................. 15-1
6 ..... 6.............American Creed............... J. Baez.............................. O. Barrera, III.............. 20-1
7 ..... 8.............Western Tryst.................. K. Carmouche................... J. Englehart................. 12-1
8 ..... 9.............Storm Pursuit................. M. Franco......................... C. Englehart................... 7-2
9 ..... 10...........Comandante.................... R. Santana, Jr................... D. Cannizzo................. 12-1
10..... 11...........Chelios............................ J. Ortiz.............................. M. Nevin........................ 4-1
2ND (1:33PM). $83,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 1 1/16M (TURF)
Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Rimanisempreforte......... J. Lezcano........................ D. Schettino................ 12-1
2 ..... 2.............Super Marina.................. J. Ortiz.............................. G. Weaver................... 10-1
3 ..... 3.............Realism........................... F. Geroux.......................... W. Mott....................... 12-1
4 ..... 4.............Forres Lily....................... M. Luzzi............................ L. Jolley....................... 15-1
5 ..... 5.............Grand Banks................... A. Arroyo.......................... D. Donk....................... 20-1
6 ..... 6.............Angelo’s Ashes................ J. Rosario......................... W. Ward........................ 5-1
7 ..... 7.............Price too High................. I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... W. Ward........................ 4-1
8 ..... 8.............Teresa Z.......................... J. Velazquez...................... T. Pletcher..................... 3-1
9 ..... 9.............Majestic Bonnie............... M. Franco......................... G. Weaver..................... 6-1
10..... 10...........Enstone........................... J. Leparoux....................... M. Casse....................... 8-1
11..... AE..........Kencho............................ J. Alvarado....................... J. Desormeaux............ 20-1
12..... AE..........Joust............................... J. Rosario......................... C. Clement.................... 8-1
13..... AE..........Malibu Bliss.................... F. Geroux.......................... M. Casse..................... 12-1
14..... MTO.......Seam............................... . ....................................... T. Pletcher..................... 5-1
3RD (2:07PM). $85,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Evolution......................... J. Rosario......................... D. Cannizzo................... 7-2
2 ..... 2.............Homespun Hero.............. J. Castellano..................... B. Tagg.......................... 4-1
3 ..... 3.............Delta Outlaw.................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... G. Weaver..................... 5-1
4 ..... 4.............Bird Song........................ J. Ortiz.............................. I. Wilkes........................ 3-1
5 ..... 5.............Entertainer...................... R. Santana, Jr................... R. Moquett.................... 8-1
6 ..... 6.............Portando......................... L. Saez.............................. S. Asmussen................. 5-2
4TH (2:41PM). $73,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 6 1/2F
Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Wild With Style............... E. Esquivel........................ L. O’Brien.................... 15-1
2 ..... 2.............Askfor Forgiveness......... J. Lezcano........................ I. Wilkes........................ 2-1
3 ..... 3.............Pira................................. E. Cancel........................... H. Bond....................... 20-1
4 ..... 4.............Barbie On a Budget......... J. Rosario......................... J. Kimmel...................... 4-1
5 ..... 5.............Persky’s Spirit................. A. Arroyo.......................... J. Ortiz......................... 30-1
6 ..... 6.............Squeezed........................ K. Carmouche................... B. Levine....................... 6-1
7 ..... 7.............Woodville........................ M. Franco......................... J. Abreu......................... 6-1
8 ..... 8.............Grassarla......................... L. Saez.............................. C. Englehart................... 3-1
5TH (3:15PM). $62,000, CLM $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 5 1/2F (TURF)
1 ..... 1.............Sweet Nkosi.................... M. Franco......................... R. Walsh..................... 20-1
2 ..... 2.............Dauphine Russe (FR)...... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... J. Servis........................ 4-1
3 ..... 3.............Angie’s Prim Lady........... J. Rosario......................... A. Stall, Jr.................... 10-1
4 ..... 4.............Katie O............................ L. Saez.............................. J. Toscano, Jr................ 6-1
5 ..... 5.............You Lie............................ J. Ortiz.............................. C. Englehart................. 12-1
6 ..... 6.............Goodbye Sorrow............. J. Velazquez...................... W. Ward........................ 7-2
7 ..... 7.............Sunrise Kitty................... J. Lezcano........................ J. Servis........................ 5-2
8 ..... 8.............Sweet Butterfly................ J. Castellano..................... T. Hills........................... 5-1
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6TH (3:49PM). $83,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/16M (INNER TURF)
1 ..... 1.............Truth............................... J. Velazquez...................... J. Jerkens...................... 6-1
2 ..... 2.............Church Social.................. J. Ortiz.............................. C. McGaughey III.......... 4-1
3 ..... 3.............Llanita (GB)..................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... C. Brown....................... 3-1
4 ..... 4.............Mayas Queen Neetee....... S. Bridgmohan................. M. Dilger..................... 12-1
5 ..... 5.............Bluegrass Sunset............ J. Castellano..................... C. Brown....................... 8-1
6 ..... 6.............Sassy Little Lila............... L. Saez.............................. B. Cox......................... 10-1
7 ..... 7.............Tapit Together................. F. Geroux.......................... M. Matz....................... 15-1
8 ..... 8.............More Than Kisses........... J. Rosario......................... T. Pletcher..................... 7-2
9 ..... MTO.......Girl Talk........................... J. Velazquez...................... K. McLaughlin............... 8-5
10..... 10...........River City Lady................ J. Leparoux....................... E. Kenneally................. 15-1
11..... 11...........Street Strut..................... J. Alvarado....................... W. Mott....................... 20-1
7TH (4:25PM). $62,000, CLM $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M (TURF)
1 ..... 1.............Midnight Notes............... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... J. Toscano, Jr.............. 12-1
2 ..... 2.............Coalport.......................... J. Ortiz.............................. M. Maker....................... 5-1
3 ..... 3.............Coturnix.......................... A. Arroyo.......................... A. Adsit......................... 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Captain’s Affair (IRE)....... J. Leparoux....................... A. Delacour................. 12-1
5 ..... 5.............Little Jerry....................... J. Lezcano........................ M. Nevin...................... 10-1
6 ..... 6.............Trend............................... F. Geroux.......................... M. Stidham................... 6-1
7 ..... 7.............Abtaal.............................. L. Saez.............................. J. Sharp....................... 10-1
8 ..... 8.............Artic North...................... J. Rosario......................... D. Cannizzo................. 12-1
9 ..... 9.............Neoclassic....................... J. Castellano..................... A. Quartarolo............... 20-1
10..... 10...........Farhaan........................... J. Alvarado....................... K. McLaughlin............... 4-1
11..... 11...........Late Night Lu.................. S. Bridgmohan................. B. Cox......................... 20-1
12..... 12...........Old Time Hockey............. M. Franco......................... T. Proctor...................... 6-1
13..... MTO.......Winter Games................. I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... D. Jacobson.................. 3-1
8TH (5:02PM). $75,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 6F
1 ..... 1.............Here Comes Rosie.......... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... J. Englehart................. 20-1
2 ..... 2.............Super Surprise................ J. Velazquez...................... T. Pletcher..................... 4-1
3 ..... 3.............Sing for Beauty............... M. Luzzi............................ C. Baker......................... 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Even Bette....................... F. Geroux.......................... D. Cannizzo................. 12-1
5 ..... 5.............Gregorian Gold................ J. Davis............................. R. Lugovich................. 30-1
6 ..... 6.............Picco Uno....................... M. Franco......................... J. Servis........................ 6-1
7 ..... 7.............Bee Noteworthy............... E. Cancel........................... H. Bond....................... 15-1
8 ..... 8.............Suave and Smooth.......... L. Perez............................ C. Baker....................... 20-1
9 ..... 9.............Day After Day.................. J. Ortiz.............................. M. Hushion................... 8-1
10..... 10...........Big Mara......................... J. Alvarado....................... A. Ronen....................... 8-1
11..... 11...........Sabrina Ballerina............. K. Carmouche................... B. Levine....................... 5-1
12..... 12...........Black Betsy..................... J. Rosario......................... K. McLaughlin............. 15-1
13..... 13...........Madame Maybry............. J. Torres........................... J. Toscano, Jr.............. 30-1
14..... 14...........Hush Now....................... L. Saez.............................. T. Bush........................ 30-1
9TH (5:40PM). $90,000, AOC $62,500, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1M (INNER TURF)
1 ..... 1.............Ginger N Rye................... J. Lezcano........................ H. DePaz..................... 10-1
2 ..... 2.............Jc’s Shooting Star........... M. Franco......................... D. Donk....................... 10-1
3 ..... 3.............Now Power..................... L. Saez.............................. B. Lynch........................ 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Sympathy........................ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... C. Brown....................... 3-1
5 ..... 5.............Gap Year......................... R. Santana, Jr................... K. McLaughlin............. 20-1
6 ..... 6.............Quest (GB)...................... J. Rosario......................... C. Clement.................. 15-1
7 ..... 7.............Shes a True Beauty......... J. Alvarado....................... D. Stewart................... 20-1
8 ..... 8.............Sokie............................... J. Velazquez...................... G. Weaver................... 12-1
9 ..... 9.............Kitzys Rocket.................. J. Ortiz.............................. B. Tagg.......................... 6-1
10..... 10...........Kitten’s Roar................... J. Leparoux....................... M. Maker....................... 8-1
11..... 11...........Off Limits (IRE)............... J. Castellano..................... C. Brown....................... 9-2
12..... 12...........Reversiontothemean....... S. Bridgmohan................. R. Metivier................... 30-1
13..... AE..........Zubi Zubi Zu.................... F. Geroux.......................... M. Stidham................... 6-1
14..... MTO.......Jules N Rome.................. . ....................................... D. Gargan...................... 3-1
10TH (6:18PM). $300,000, STK - THE COACHING CLUB AMERICAN OAKS, 3 YO, F , 1 1/8M
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Songbird......................... M. Smith.......................... J. Hollendorfer.............. 4-5
2 ..... 2.............Carina Mia....................... J. Leparoux....................... W. Mott......................... 6-5
3 ..... 3.............Flora Dora....................... E. Esquivel........................ M. Coffey.................... 30-1
4 ..... 4.............Weep No More................ J. Castellano..................... G. Arnold, II................ 10-1
5 ..... 5.............Mo d’Amour.................... J. Velazquez...................... T. Pletcher................... 12-1
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11TH (6:54PM). $55,000, STR $50,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1M (INNER TURF)
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta
1 ..... 1.............Undercutter..................... A. Arroyo.......................... R. Barbara................... 20-1
2 ..... 2.............Lotta Gold....................... M. Franco......................... B. Tagg........................ 12-1
3 ..... 3.............Bankers Holiday.............. K. Carmouche................... J. Sharp......................... 6-1
4 ..... 4.............Romans Paradise............ J. Castellano..................... C. Domino..................... 8-1
5 ..... 5.............Data Driven..................... J. Rosario......................... C. Brown....................... 3-1
6 ..... 6.............Derby Champagne........... R. Santana, Jr................... G. Arnold, II................ 12-1
7 ..... 7.............Mav................................. L. Saez.............................. G. Weaver..................... 4-1
8 ..... 8.............Lucky Town..................... J. Torres........................... R. Ubillo...................... 20-1
9 ..... 9.............Yowl................................ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... T. Morley..................... 12-1
10..... 10...........Defining Product............. S. Bridgmohan................. W. Heffner................... 30-1
11..... 11...........Inventor’s Gate................ A. Gryder.......................... K. Streicher................. 12-1
12..... 12...........Gracious Plenty............... J. Ortiz.............................. T. Pletcher..................... 8-1
13..... AE..........Verger............................. J. Alvarado....................... D. Cannizzo................. 10-1
14..... AE..........King of Spades................ F. Geroux.......................... S. Asmussen............... 10-1
15..... MTO.......Sandy Strikes.................. . ....................................... L. O’Brien.................... 20-1
16..... MTO.......Shadow Rider................. J. Castellano..................... G. Contessa................... 3-1
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2016 September Meet
Stakes Schedule
September 16 - October 2
POCAHONTAS (GII)
2016 “Win and You’re In Juvenile Fillies Division”
2017 Kentucky Oaks Points Race
Runs Sat., Sept. 17
$200,000
Fillies, Two Years Old
Closes Sept. 3
($200 nomination fee)
1 1/16 Miles
IROQUOIS (GIII)
2016 “Win and You’re In Juvenile Division”
2017 Kentucky Derby Points Race
Runs Sat., Sept. 17
$150,000
Two Year Olds
Closes Sept. 3
1 1/16 Miles
LOCUST GROVE (GIII)
Runs Sat., Sept. 17
$100,000
Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up
Closes Sept. 3
1 1/16 Miles
OPEN MIND
Runs Sat., Sept. 17
$100,000
Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up
Closes Sept. 3
6 Furlongs
DOGWOOD (Listed)
Runs Sat., Sept. 24
$100,000
Fillies, Three Years Old
Closes Sept. 10
7 Furlongs
ACK ACK (GIII)
Runs Sat., Oct. 1
$100,000
Three Year Olds & Up
Closes Sept. 17
1 Mile
LUKAS CLASSIC (Listed)
Runs Sat., Oct. 1
$175,000
Three Year Olds & Up
Closes Sept. 17
1 1/8 Mile
JEFFERSON CUP (Listed)
Runs Sat., Oct. 1
$100,000
Three Year Olds
Closes Sept. 17
1 1/8 Miles Turf
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Bitumen (left) charges to the wire in the Sanford.
Tod Marks
Backup Plan
Two-year-old Bitumen rates early,
blasts off late in Grade 3 stakes
BY BRANDON VALVO
Nothing went according to plan
for Bitumen at the start of Saturday’s
Grade 3, $150,000 Sanford Stakes.
Jockey Javier Castellano intended to
hustle the 2-year-old Mineshaft colt
out of the gate and take a spot on or
near the lead. But as rivals Zartera,
Random Walk and Bay Numbers
broke together and sped away in a
line, Castellano had to improvise.
The speedy trio tripped the opening quarter beam in :22.61 while
Bitumen raced 6 3/4 lengths behind
in fourth. Coming to the top of the
stretch, Castellano sent Bitumen on
the outside and closed to within 4
lengths of the dueling pacesetters,
who ran a half in :45.79. Castellano
hit Bitumen left-handed, then right
and the juvenile colt struck the lead in
midstretch. Random Walk emerged as
the only survivor of the early battle,
SANFORD STAKES RECAP
but offered no resistance to Bitumen’s
fresh legs. He cruised under the wire 1
3/4 lengths clear in 1:10.68 for 6 furlongs. Zartera finished third.
“I had to go to Plan B because my
plan was to put him in the race really close to the pace,” Castellano said.
“And it worked out great, it worked
out perfect. Three horses went into a
speed duel and I just took right behind, took my time, and then when I
asked him, he responded very well.”
Racing from off the pace was a
new experience for Bitumen. In his
only other race, a 6-furlong maiden
special June 30 at Churchill Downs,
he broke from the rail and led his field
gate to wire in a 6 3/4-length romp.
“He took so much dirt . . . It’s
Sanford –
tough for the babies to run into the dirt here at
Saratoga,” trainer Eddie Kenneally said after the
win. “The kickback is pretty tough and hard on
one, but, he overcame that and he didn’t quit. That
shows a lot. He’s got three horses in line in front of
him and he’s getting so much dirt kicked in his face
and he didn’t like it, but he overcame it. That’s the
mark of a good one.”
Bitumen’s victory was the first at the young
meeting for Kenneally, who smiled at the thought
of getting it off to the right start.
“It’s important to get it off to a good start here,
for sure. It’s a prestigious meet and a very competitive meet, and you want to start off running,” he
said.
For Bitumen’s owner Joe Sutton, a Saratoga
stakes victory has been a long time in the making.
“It’s a dream,” he said. “I’ve been in the business
for 25 years now, and the closest I ever came was
the Ballerina with a horse called Warbling. I’ve had
horses win regular races, but to win a stakes race at
Saratoga, that makes it special, very special.”
Warbling finished second in the 2010 Ballerina
for Kenneally and Castellano, but they collected
Saturday. Sutton celebrated the Sanford success
with grandchildren, Mallory and Brady.
“I’ve got my granddaughter and grandson here.
Tod Marks
Sanford winner Bitumen enjoys (maybe not) a post-race
dousing after improving to 2-for-2.
This is my granddaughter Mallory’s first race. My
grandson Brady is a veteran (racegoer).”
Mallory loved it.
“It’s pretty awesome. I’m excited. He said it’s a
big deal, so I guess it’s a big deal,” she said as her
grandfather chuckled in delight.
“It’s an awesome experience,” added Brady.
Sutton purchased Bitumen from consignor Eddie Woods at the OBS March 2-year-old sale for
$280,000 on the recommendation of bloodstock
agent Barry Berkelhammer. Bred by Jamm Ltd., the
colt sold at Keeneland September as a yearling for
$110,000, from Mill Ridge Sales to Bradley Thoroughbreds. Undefeated in two starts, the dark bay
has earned $117,900 in less than a month. Bitumen’s half-sister Meshell placed in the Grade 3 Bayakoa in February.
The Sanford winner’s dam, Kobla Cat, is a
half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Quality
Road.
“We knew the horse was a good horse, they’re
very young, so you don’t know what to expect,”
said Sutton. “We were optimistic, but I was nervous. I was happy and very humbled to win this
race.”
Kenneally feels Bitumen gained a great deal of
experience from the win and has high hopes going
forward and going farther.
“I think he got a great foundation and education
from this,” the trainer said. “I think it will help him
if he runs on this track in the Hopeful. I think the
fact that he’s had this kind of a race over this racetrack will help him going forward. That would be
the goal and hopefully we’ll make it.
“The distance of these races are going to get longer and I think that’s what he’s going to be even
better at. He’s a horse for the future and distance is
going to be his thing.”
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DIANA STAKES RECAP
Dagger
Dacita arrives last
to deny Recepta, field
in wild finish to Gr. 1
BY SEAN CLANCY
Chad Brown pumped his left fist and yelled.
“She got it.”
The trainer was as definitive as a judge. Then he
walked a few steps and asked a friend, quietly, “She
got it, right?”
She got it.
Dacita got her nose down in a four-way scrum
in the Grade 1 Diana Saturday. Owned by Sheep
Pond Partners and Bradley Thoroughbreds, Dacita
rallied from last in the 10-horse field to nail Recepta in the last stride. Recepta sat mid-pack, rallied
Dacita (left) scraps with Recepta (right) and Rainha Da Bateria near the finish of Saturday’s Diana.
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Diana –
confidently, reached the lead late and
just missed. Rainha Da Bateria loped
in the back, circled and ricocheted
between Dacita and Recepta to miss
by a nose and a head. Miss Temple
City sat closer to the pace, waited for
a moment, thrust to the inside to miss
by a nose, a head and a nose.
John Phillips, owner of Recepta,
said it best when a friend said he was
sorry after the race.
“Sorry? What’s there to be sorry
about?” Phillips said. “That was a
great race.”
Before, during and after.
The $500,000 stakes lured Miss
Temple City, 38 days after finishing
fourth in the Duke of Cambridge
Stakes at Royal Ascot. It tempted
Brown to enter duel Grade 1-placed
Wekeela, last year’s Lake George winner Mrs McDougal, New York Stakes
winner Dacita and Rainha Da Bateria, second behind champion Tepin
in May. Just A Game runner-up Recepta, Grade 3 placed Sandiva, Beaugay winner Strike Charmer, Grade 3
winner Onus and Isabella Sings, the
filly who finished closest to Tepin this
year, thickened the broth.
Frontrunner Isabella Sings cleared
the field from the outside, opening up
2 lengths on Onus, Sandiva and Mrs
McDougal through a quarter mile
in :22.88. Draydon Van Dyke positioned Miss Temple City in the draft
behind that group. John Velazquez
engineered a sweet spot for Recepta, alone in sixth. Strike Charmer,
Rainha Da Bateria, Wekeela settled
off the pace. Dacita clanged into the
right side of the gate at the break and
slipped to last.
Irad Ortiz Jr., fresh off winning
four races Friday, knew his bed was
made.
“Just make one run with her, that’s
all I could do,” Ortiz said. “I waited
too long, but that’s what I had to do, I
rode her with patience, and it paid off”
Just.
Turning for home, John Velazquez
maneuvered Recepta into the passing
lane, hemming Miss Temple City behind the tiring pacesetters. It was vintage Velazquez as he sought his fifth
win in the Diana. Passing the eighth
pole, Recepta slid past Onus as Miss
Temple City found her seam between
Dacita heads to the winner’s circle.
Onus and the inside rail. All the
while, Rainha Da Bateria and Dacita churned and whittled from the far
outside.
Asked if he thought he was going
to get there, Ortiz smiled wide.
“Naaaah,” Ortiz said. “For a second, I didn’t think I was going to get
there, but she kept coming every time
Tod Marks
I hit her, so I kept hitting her. She always comes running, she was flying at
the end.”
In the waning yards, Ortiz flicked
right-handed, a smack for every stride,
as Dacita bumped Rainha Da Bateria,
who bounced into Recepta. Rainha Da
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Diana –
Bateria and jockey Julien Leparoux
lost their rhythm when bumped, taking a stride to correct while Dacita
switched leads late. The quartet finished together, four darts landing on a
dot. Ortiz was confident at the wire,
pumping his whip hand once.
“She got there,” Ortiz said. “I
knew she got there.”
Stewards called for an inquiry. Leparoux claimed foul against Velazquez
for the late bump. Velazquez watched
the head-on view and thought the
winner initiated the contact.
“It wasn’t me,” Velazquez said. “It
wasn’t me.”
The results stood.
“There was some contact,” Ortiz
said. “I was holding my line.”
While
stewards
deliberated,
Velazquez put his arm around Recepta’s trainer Jimmy Toner and walked
back to the jocks’ room.
“Man, I’m sorry,” Velazquez said.
Phillips wouldn’t have had any
part of that sentiment. How did he
put it …“Sorry? What’s there to be
Irad Ortiz flashes a winning smile.
Tod Marks
sorry about? That was a great race.”
Dacita won a great race, her ninth
career tally in a 15-race career that began in Chile. Purchased by Sheep Pond
Partners and Bradley Thoroughbreds,
the daughter of Scat Daddy made her
American debut in the Grade 2 Ballston Spa last year, rallying from the
8 lengths back to win by a head. She
flopped over good turf in the Breeders’
Cup Filly and Mare Turf in October
before taking four months off while
with Brown’s stable in Florida.
“We gave her some time, let her
get over the Breeders’ Cup,” Brown
said. “We always had our eye on the
Diana, seeing that she ran so well in
her first North American start beating
Tepin right on the wire in the Ballston
Spa. It was one of those times when a
plan worked.”
Dacita made her 5-year-old debut
in the The Very One in March, finishing second. She tried Keeneland
again, finishing fourth in the Jenny
Wiley.
“She clearly doesn’t like Keeneland,” Brown said.
Freshened for two months, she
came back to win the New York
Stakes at Belmont Park in June. That
win honed the Diana plan.
“It’s never smooth, you know
horses, but this particular plan went
fairly smooth,” Brown said.
Exercise rider Marino Garcia
helped to keep it smooth, cajoling
Dacita in the morning so she could
produce in the afternoon.
“He really is the key to this filly,
those two would be in the top five
connections between horse and rider
in my career,” Brown said. “He knows
how to deal with her and he has her
in a good frame of mind right now.
He just gets along with her, he knows
when to give and when to take. She’s
a difficult filly to figure out, she’s very
quirky, but manageable.”
Pete Bradley imported Dacita after she won three Group 1 stakes in
Chile. He rallied seven investors in
Bradley Thoroughbreds and recruited Sol Kumin’s Sheep Pond Partners
to buy the rest of her. At the end of
the day, Bradley walked toward Clark
Cottage, accepted high fives and hugs
from friends and foes, then stopped
and smiled about his first and only
South American horse deal.
“You know how hard they are to
come by. It’s so hard to buy horses in
South America, in any year the top
five horses there can be as good as
any in the world, but it’s a small pool.
Getting a line on them is so much
harder than in Europe,” Bradley said.
“A friend, Fernando Diaz-Valdes, had
sent her to me, I watched her tapes,
she had a turn of foot, she was consistent and she had what I look for
in Europe. She set four track records
down there, fast horses are usually
good horses anywhere in the world.
And then you get lucky.”
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Story Teller
Tale Of Verve spins upset score
over comebacking My Man Sam
Tale Of Verve ended a string of defeats and off-the-board performances when he outdueled My Man Sam
through the stretch to win Saturday’s
ninth race at Saratoga Race Course.
The performance got trainer Dallas
Stewart thinking back to the colt’s
big run in the 2015 Preakness Stakes,
when he finished second to eventual Triple Crown winner American
Pharoah.
“You know, I’ve loved this horse,”
Stewart said. “Last year he gave us a
great race against Pharoah and I guess
it just kind of wore him out. The
owner’s great, Mr. (Charles) Fipke.
We gave him a break, gave him time
off and he ran this race today. He beat
a very nice horse. So hopefully he’ll
be upward and onward form here.
SATURDAY RACING RECAP
I’m very happy for him, very happy.”
Last year’s Preakness was the Tale
Of Ekati colt’s first stakes appearance and he finished 7 lengths behind American Pharoah in the slop
at Pimlico. Tale Of Verve continued
on the Triple Crown trail three weeks
later, finishing seventh in the Belmont
Stakes. He failed to hit the board in
his final five starts of 2015 and was
fourth in a June 4 Churchill Downs
allowance race in his 2016 debut.
“It might have just wore him out,”
said Stewart of the Preakness, which
preceded the Belmont, West Virginia Derby, Travers, Oklahoma Derby
and Bryan Station Stakes. “He ran
Tale Of Verve (right) digs in to deny My Man Sam in Saturday’s ninth race.
that race and we were just running
him and running him and we weren’t
getting anywhere. He’s a very sound
horse, very healthy, beautiful horse.
So we just gave him a break through
the winter, brought him back and
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here he is, winning at Saratoga.”
Tale Of Verve raced last of six in
the early part of the 1 1/8-mile allowance and held the position until the
half-mile pole. He moved three wide,
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SARATOGA RESULTS
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Saturday July 23.
FIRST $42,000, CLAIMING $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6 1/2F
3 Money Changer
J. Castellano $7.60 $4.10 $2.90
7 Afleet Martini
M. Franco $4.00 $2.90
5 Battle Midway
J. Rosario $4.20
Gr/ro Gelding 2012, by Exchange Rate - Hey Little Sister by Jump Start
Owner: Dogwood Stable. Trainer: Todd Pletcher.
Breeder: Laura McKinney (KY).
Late Scratches: Benny and Alex
Time: 1:16.01
Exacta (3-7), $29.00; Superfecta (3-7-5-2), $380.00;
Trifecta (3-7-5), $103.00
SECOND $83,000, MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 2 YO, 1 1/16M
2 Conquest Sure Shot J. Lezcano
$15.00 $6.60 $4.70
1 Master Merion
J. Ortiz $4.20 $3.30
4 Unbridled Eagle
L. Saez $9.50
Dk B/ Br Colt 2014, by Scat Daddy - Involved by Speightstown
Owner: Conquest Stables, LLC. Trainer: Mark Casse.
Breeder: Betz/Magers/CoCoEquine/Kidder/Lamantia/Davidson (KY).
Late Scratches: It’s Your Nickel, Red Again, Everybodyluvsrudy, Kahramani. Time: 1:44.03
Daily Double (3-2), $59.00; Exacta (2-1), $56.50; Quinella (1-2),
$21.20; Superfecta (2-1-4-3), $6,015.00; Trifecta (2-1-4), $879.00
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THIRD $150,000, STAKES - SANFORD S., 2 YO, 6F
5 Bitumen
J. Castellano $3.90 $2.50 $2.10
2 Random Walk
J. Ortiz $2.70 $2.20
1 Zartera
I. Ortiz, Jr. $2.80
Dk B/ Br Colt 2014, by Mineshaft - Kobla Cat by Tale of the Cat
Owner: Sutton, Joseph, W.. Trainer: Eddie Kenneally.
Breeder: Jamm, Ltd. (KY).
Time: 1:10.68
Daily Double (2-5), $31.80; Exacta (5-2), $7.30; Superfecta (5-2-1-4),
$22.80; Trifecta (5-2-1), $15.60; Pic 3 (3-2-5), $131.00
FOURTH $45,000, MAIDEN CLAIMING $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F
8 Come as You Are
J. Torres
$4.60 $2.90 $2.10
7 Onlytheshadowknows E. Cancel $3.70 $2.50
3 Chomsky
I. Ortiz, Jr. $2.40
Ch Colt 2012, by Run Away and Hide - No Dress Code by Distorted
Humor
Owner: Dunne, Ciaran and Fein, Ronald. Trainer: Wesley Ward.
Breeder: Robert West Jr. & Michael Riordan (KY).
Late Scratches: Whitegate, Greyjoy
Claimed: Onlytheshadowknows claimed by Midwest Thoroughbreds,
Inc. for $40,000
Time: 1:10.28
Daily Double (5-8), $11.40; Exacta (8-7), $16.00; Quinella (7-8), $9.50;
Superfecta (8-7-3-1), $96.00; Trifecta (8-7-3), $30.60; Consolation
Double (5-9), $3.70; Pic 3 (2-5-8), $111.00; (2-5-9), $31.80
FIFTH $85,000, ALLOWANCE, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F
5 Big Rock
J. Castellano $15.40 $8.00 $5.30
8 Lord of Love
J. Alvarado $9.90 $5.40
10 Cort
G. Saez $4.00
Gr/ro Colt 2012, by Rockport Harbor - Royal G G by Royal Academy
Owner: New Phoenix Stable. Trainer: Christophe Clement.
Breeder: J. K. Griggs & Linda Griggs (KY).
Late Scratches: Entertainer, Delta Outlaw, Evolution, Gentrify
Time: 1:02.14
Daily Double (8-5), $38.20; Exacta (5-8), $140.00; Superfecta (5-810-2), $2,362.00; Trifecta (5-8-10), $722.00; Pic 3 (5-8-5), $90.00;
(5-9-5), $29.20; Pic 4 (2-5-6/8/9-5), $797.00; Pic 5 (3-2-5-6/8/9-5),
$4,281.00
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SIXTH $83,000, MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 2 YO, 5 1/2F
8 One Liner
J. Velazquez
$7.80 $4.70 $3.60
7 Royal Copy
R. Santana, Jr. $6.40 $3.90
2 Pretty Boy Flash
I. Ortiz, Jr. $4.30
B Colt 2014, by Into Mischief - Cayala by Cherokee Run
Owner: China Horse Club and WinStar Farm LLC.
Trainer: Todd Pletcher. Breeder: Kingswood Farm (KY).
Late Scratches: Magnolia Mountain
Time: 1:04.89
$3,416.00; Trifecta (8-7-2), $295.50; Pic 3 (8-5-8), $158.50
SEVENTH $90,000, AOC $62,500, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M
8 Ascend
J. Velazquez
$9.40 $4.60 $3.30
3 Slim Shadey (GB)
I. Ortiz, Jr. $6.40 $4.00
9 Adirondack Dancer
J. Ortiz $6.20
Gr/ro Gelding 2012, by Candy Ride (ARG) - Ghost Dancing by Silver
Ghost
Owner: Stone Farm and Madaket Stables LLC.
Trainer: H. Motion. Breeder: Stone Farm (KY).
Late Scratches: Hothersal
Claimed: Slim Shadey (GB) claimed by Blue Stork Stables for $62,500,
Taghleeb claimed by Hui, Michael M. for $62,500
Time: 1:41.78
$3,892.00; Trifecta (8-3-9), $388.50; Pic 3 (5-8-8), $394.00
EIGHTH $85,000, AOC $80,000, 3 YO, 1M
2 Our Way
J. Ortiz
$22.00 $10.00 $6.10
3 Tizzarunner
J. Alvarado $9.00 $5.40
9 Hockey School
J. Rosario $6.90
Dk B/ Br Gelding 2013, by Tizway - She’s Sensational by Point Given
Owner: Clifton, Jr., William, L.. Trainer: H. Bond.
Breeder: Farm III Enterprices LLC (FL).
Late Scratches: Scissors and Tape
Time: 1:35.50
Daily Double (8-2), $87.50; Exacta (2-3), $150.00; Superfecta (2-3-96), $11,197.00; Trifecta (2-3-9), $1,776.00; Pic 3 (8-8-2), $431.00
NINTH $85,000, ALLOWANCE, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M
5 Tale of Verve
J. Rosario
$37.40 $7.80 $4.40
4 My Man Sam
I. Ortiz, Jr. $2.60 $2.20
2 Cadeyrn
L. Saez $4.50
B Colt 2012, by Tale of Ekati - Verve by Unbridled
Owner: Fipke, Charles, E.. Trainer: Dallas Stewart.
Breeder: Charles Fipke (KY).
Time: 1:50.49
Daily Double (2-5), $431.50; Exacta (5-4), $94.00; Superfecta (5-4-21), $975.00; Trifecta (5-4-2), $507.00; Pic 3 (8-2-5), $1,808.00
TENTH $500,000, STAKES - DIANA S., 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M
6 Dacita (CHI)
I. Ortiz, Jr.
$10.20 $5.70 $4.20
7 Recepta
J. Velazquez $8.30 $5.90
9 Rainha Da Bateria
J. Leparoux $11.20
Ch Mare 2011, by Scat Daddy - Daja (CHI) by Seeker’s Reward
Owner: Sheep Pond Partners and Bradley Thoroughbreds.
Trainer: Chad Brown. Breeder: Haras Paso Nevado (CHI).
Time: 1:46.25
Daily Double (5-6), $290.00; Exacta (6-7), $95.50; Superfecta (6-7-92), $7,871.00; Trifecta (6-7-9), $1,217.00; Pic 3 (2-5-6), $4,169.00;
Place Pix Nine (3/8/9-2/3/9-2/4/5-6), $199.00
SARATOGA RESULTS PHOTOS
BY DAVE HARMON
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4 Procurement
J. Castellano $14.60 $7.50 $4.50
10 Dream Man
J. Alvarado $6.00 $3.90
3 Aripeka
J. Ortiz $2.90
B Gelding 2010, by Milwaukee Brew - Free to Soar by Unbridled
Owner: Maxis Stable. Trainer: Michael Maker. Breeder: Glen Hill Farm (FL).
Late Scratches: Status of Forces, All Over Me
Claimed: Dream Man claimed by Winning Move Stable for $25,000, Winter Springs (FR) claimed
by Zilla Racing Stables for $25,000, The Imposter claimed by Cutshall, Brian for $25,000
Time: 1:41.15
Daily Double (6-4), $108.00; Exacta (4-10), $92.50; Superfecta (4-10-3-2), $1,243.00; Trifecta
(4-10-3), $429.50; Pic 3 (5-6-4), $2,668.00; Pic 4 (2-5-6-4), $24,749.00; Pic 6 (8/11-8-2-5-64), $17,412.00
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Saturday –
dug deep to first put away leader Cadeyrn and then hold off My Man Sam
by a neck for the win.
“For him it was OK, because he
likes just taking his time all the time,”
winning jockey Joel Rosario said.
“But when I keep him going, he just
keeps on going forward. I know he’s
going to keep on fighting. I didn’t
know if we were going to get him, but
he was ready.”
Rosario rode Tale Of Verve in his
maiden win and the Preakness.
“He’s always been a cool horse,”
Stewart said. “Even when he wasn’t
running good, he always showed
good enthusiasm towards racing. He
always trained well, so it was a little
hard to read. The break kind of freshened him up, you know, maybe his legs
and joints were hurting a little bit, he
wasn’t showing anything. But the rest
did him a lot of good for sure.”
Our Way (right) kicks away from the field in Saturday’s eighth race.
Stewart looks forward to another
race at the meet for Tale Of Verve.
“You know, I’m always a little bit
more ambitious than I should be, but
we’ll just play it smart,” he said. “He
needs a two-turn race, it needs to be
two turns, you know, hopefully by the
end of the meet.”
My Man Sam, runner-up in this
year’s Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at
Keeneland, was making his first start
since finishing 11th in the Kentucky
Derby for trainer Chad Brown.
– Shayna Tiller
Dave Harmon
• Trainer James Bond took a walk
down memory lane as Our Way won
the eighth, a 1-mile allowance-optional on the turf.
“He’s a very special individual and
of course his father we trained, Tizway,” Bond said.
Bond saddled Tizway to victory
in the 2011 Whitney Invitational at
Saratoga during a career that saw the
son of Tiznow win seven of 20 starts
and $1,359,274. Tizway stands at
Spendthrift Farm in Lexington.
Our Way closed from the middle of
the field and outfinished Tizzarunner
for a 1 1/2-length victory, his second
from five starts this year. Our Way
made his career debut last year at
Saratoga, finishing fifth in a 1 1/16mile maiden for 2-year-olds.
“He was a 2-year-old and I’m not
really a 2-year-old push-type trainer,”
Bond said. “I kind of let him gather
himself and we kind of figured out
that he’s just a one run type. Like his
father Tizway, they didn’t get better
until they were a little older and hopefully this horse has a bright future like
his father.”
Bond trains Our Way for longtime client William Clifton, who also
owned or co-owned Tizway, Behrens
and Will’s Way.
“He’s just the nicest man to work
for,” Bond said. “We’ve been together a long time and we’ve had a lot of
great horses and we’ve been all over
the world. Great owners make great
horses.”
– Shayna Tiller
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Saturday –
• The Casse barn suffered tough
beat after tough beat last summer at
Saratoga. Despite sending out a host
of impressive runners, Mark Casse’s
stable recorded just three wins from
42 starts. In Saturday’s second race, a
1 1/16-mile maiden special for 2-yearolds on the inner turf, Casse’s luck at
Saratoga began to change as he registered his first win only two days into
the meet.
Second-time starter Conquest Sure
Shot skimmed the hedge while racing
4 lengths from the lead in the early
stages of the race. There he stayed
until Jose Lezcano shook him up and
delivered two right-handed smacks at
the top of the stretch. Conquest Sure
Shot angled out and rallied closer to
pacesetters Master Merion and Unbridled Eagle, but with a furlong to
run, still had 3 lengths to find. Inside
the final sixteenth, with Lezcano urging him home, Conquest Sure Shot
surged and was up in time to catch
Master Merion.
“You always want to get that one
over with,” Casse said of his first win.
“It’s funny because it was the reverse
last year. A couple times, I thought we
were home free and they got us at the
wire. Today, it looked like Wesley’s
horse (Master Merion) was the winner and we caught him at the wire.”
Casse picked out and bought Conquest Sure Shot on behalf of Conquest
Stables for $220,000 at the Keeneland
September yearling sale.
“We love Scat Daddy and this is
a big, beautiful horse,” he said. “For
his sire, he’s one of the more handsome horses. This horse, probably the
sky’s the limit for him. We’ll look for
a stake somewhere. When you win
here, the sky’s the limit. Probably later here and we’ll go from there.”
Casse’s other runner, Our Stormin
Norman, finished fifth after breaking
slowly and squeezing back. Casse was
still happy with the performance despite the trouble.
“(He) ran extremely well, too. Had
a tough trip. He’ll be tough next time.
He had everything go wrong and kept
running.”
– Brandon Valvo
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Double Dip
Brown sends Spring To The Sky,
Night Officer to turf sprint stakes
BY ANNISE MONTPLAISIR
LUCKY COIN PREVIEW – MONDAY
A sharp break can be the edge
needed to run away with a 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint. That’s the advantage
Spring To The Sky will be looking for
in Monday’s $100,000 Lucky Coin
Stakes.
Spring To The Sky won the 2014
Lucky Coin – along with that year’s
Troy Stakes that was rained off the
turf. He ran fifth in last year’s Lucky
Coin and Troy Stakes, both on the
Saratoga turf, after less-than-ideal
breaks. He won the Laurel Dash last
September for his lone win of the season, then ended his 6-year-old campaign with back-to-back losses.
“Last year he had a couple sub-par
efforts up here (at Saratoga),” trainer
Bruce Brown said on Saturday, sitting
at a table by his shedrow on the Oklahoma Training Track. “That was part
of the reason that we gelded him. Last
year he was getting pretty bad in the
gate, just very kind of rammy and not
standing in the gate very well. That’s
the name of his game, when he breaks
good and he’s out in front early he’s
tough. So hopefully we got that all
sorted out.”
Spring To The Sky was off for
more than five months, and gelded
over the winter, which Brown hopes
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Lucky Coin –
“He’s come back better than ever
this year,” Brown said. “We gelded
him over the winter, really seems to
have helped him focus. (He)’s a turf
horse, so yeah, we were going to give
him the winter off anyways, so we
gelded him at that point.”
Spring To The Sky butted heads
with legendary Maryland-bred Ben’s
Cat to start the season, coming up
just a neck short in the Jim McKay
Turf Sprint Stakes May 20 at Pimlico.
They met again June 4 in the Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup Stakes at Penn
National, Spring To The Sky finishing
second and Ben’s Cat third behind the
winning Take Cover.
Brown dropped Spring To The Sky
down in class for a 6-furlong allowance-optional July 4 at Belmont Park
to facilitate a step-up in performance
and it worked. Spring To The Sky appreciated the move and won gate-towire.
“He couldn’t be coming into the
race any better, very happy with how
he’s doing,” Brown said.
Spring to the Sky isn’t Brown’s
only chance in the Lucky Coin. He
also sends out 8-year-old gelding
Night Officer.
Brown highlighted the difference
in running styles between his two entries and Night Officer’s preference to
close from behind.
“They’ve both knocked heads with
(Ben’s Cat) a few times,” Brown said.
“Night Officer’s last race, he had
some feet issues, so we’ve just been
kind of working him through that.
But he’s doing great and he’s run well
up here before. The race came up
with more horses than I thought it
was going to, so we’ll see. That works
to his advantage because he’s a closer a lot of times. At least with more
horses you’re guaranteed more of a
faster pace a lot of times. It’s just a
matter of working your way through
the traffic.
“He always runs his race, it’s just
a matter of what’s in front of him.
But he always puts in his effort; he’s
a very hard-trying horse and a cool
horse to be around. And the race at
Pimlico with Ben’s Cat, the last race
he broke pretty slow and still came
running. He would have been right
there if he broke better.”
Night Officer comes into the Lucky
Coin off more than two months off
since finishing fourth in the Jim McKay Turf Sprint.
“Spring to the Sky should be in
front,” Brown said about the setup
of the Lucky Coin. “He’s always pretty speedy, and when he breaks good
he’s out there. He’s tough when he
gets to the lead. Especially, he’s kind
of toward the inside of the big field,
so we’ll get him out of there. They’re
very opposite running styles, you
know he goes to the front and Night
Officer’s a pretty deep closer.”
Cyclogenisis, Sandy’z Slew, Pool
Winner, Beantown Saint, Long On
Value, Successful Native, Choctaw
Chuck and Undrafted are also in the
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to scratch for another spot later this
week. Weekend Hideaway and All
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MONDAY’S SARATOGA ENTRIES
Monday, July 25.
1ST (1:00PM). $83,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/8M
1 ..... 1.............Girl Talk........................... J. Velazquez...................... K. McLaughlin............... 8-5
2 ..... 2.............Verve’s Tale..................... J. Castellano..................... B. Tagg.......................... 9-5
3 ..... 3.............Crystal Wave................... J. Ortiz.............................. T. Pletcher..................... 4-1
4 ..... 4.............Renown........................... R. Santana, Jr................... G. Arnold, II.................. 8-1
5 ..... 5.............Queen Emma................... L. Saez.............................. D. Lukas...................... 15-1
6 ..... 6.............Sea Cloud........................ J. Leparoux....................... B. Walsh...................... 10-1
2ND (1:33PM). $32,000, CLM $16,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F
1 ..... 1.............Taran Taran..................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... D. Jacobson.................. 6-1
2 ..... 2.............Miroc.............................. J. Rosario......................... R. Barbara................... 12-1
3 ..... 3.............Elusive Talmo.................. J. Alvarado....................... R. Schosberg................ 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Howie’s Tiz...................... A. Arroyo.......................... B. Levine..................... 10-1
5 ..... 5.............Saratoga Sight................ E. Cancel........................... O. Barrera, III................ 7-2
6 ..... 6.............Boomerang Toy............... M. Franco......................... C. Baker......................... 5-1
7 ..... 7.............New York’s Zip................ M. Luzzi............................ L. O’Brien...................... 8-1
8 ..... 8.............Grey Glory....................... J. Ortiz.............................. D. Gargan...................... 2-1
3RD (2:06PM). $50,000, CLM $25,000, 3 YO, 6 1/2F
1 ..... 1.............Legend Keeper................ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... R. Rodriguez................. 8-1
2 ..... 2.............Patton Proud................... L. Saez.............................. M. Maker....................... 4-1
3 ..... 3.............Pinstripe.......................... J. Castellano..................... T. Pletcher..................... 8-5
4 ..... 4.............Zoo Yorker...................... J. Ortiz.............................. D. Gargan...................... 5-2
5 ..... 5.............Il Fratello......................... M. Franco......................... J. Toscano, Jr................ 6-1
6 ..... 6.............Steve’s Image.................. K. Carmouche................... C. Martin....................... 8-1
4TH (2:40PM). $73,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 5 1/2F (TURF)
1 ..... 1.............Louisiana Lady................ M. Luzzi............................ L. O’Brien.................... 15-1
2 ..... 2.............With Wings..................... E. Cancel........................... R. Cash....................... 20-1
3 ..... 3.............Go Ask Alice.................... J. Torres........................... R. Lugovich................. 12-1
4 ..... 4.............Stichy G.......................... J. Davis............................. G. Gullo......................... 8-1
5 ..... 5.............Jacqueline D................... J. Ortiz.............................. D. Schettino.................. 8-1
6 ..... 6.............Lady Joan....................... L. Saez.............................. P. Serpe......................... 5-2
7 ..... 7.............Mo Promise.................... J. Castellano..................... G. Contessa................... 8-1
8 ..... 8.............Cansomebodyplease....... M. Franco......................... J. Englehart................... 6-1
9 ..... 9.............Kabuki............................. J. Lezcano........................ L. Lewis......................... 9-2
10..... 10...........Frosty Gal........................ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... B. Tagg.......................... 5-1
11..... AE..........Neetee Rides Again......... S. Bridgmohan................. M. Dilger..................... 20-1
12..... AE..........Courtly Kitty.................... J. Velazquez...................... D. Donk....................... 12-1
13..... AE..........Fast Franny..................... F. Geroux.......................... S. Asmussen................. 8-1
14..... AE..........Majestic Tango................ F. Geroux.......................... J. Englehart................. 12-1
15..... AE..........Summer Sweet............... M. Franco......................... C. Clement.................... 3-1
16..... MTO.......Tainted Angel.................. L. Saez.............................. A. Adsit......................... 8-1
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5TH (3:14PM). $50,000, MCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/16M (INNER TURF)
1 ..... 1.............O K by Me....................... D. Davis............................ B. Brown..................... 30-1
2 ..... 2.............Weekend Hottie............... K. Carmouche................... K. Streicher................. 12-1
3 ..... 3.............Anatevka......................... J. Ortiz.............................. M. Dilger..................... 12-1
4 ..... 4.............Bareeqa........................... J. Rosario......................... B. Brown....................... 8-1
5 ..... 5.............Tattletale Grey................. J. Torres........................... J. Hertler....................... 8-1
6 ..... 6.............Brooklyn Gal................... M. Franco......................... G. Sciacca................... 20-1
7 ..... 7.............Thin Dress....................... J. Alvarado....................... W. Mott......................... 5-1
8 ..... 8.............Frosty Lady..................... L. Saez.............................. D. Schettino................ 20-1
9 ..... 9.............Spa Duchess................... E. Cancel........................... H. Bond....................... 20-1
10..... 10...........Flying K C........................ J. Castellano..................... T. Morley....................... 6-1
11..... 11...........Little Mary Ellen.............. A. Arroyo.......................... K. Grusmark................ 12-1
12..... 12...........Laurel Heights................. I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... C. Brown....................... 9-5
13..... AE..........Madoo............................. C. DeCarlo........................ M. Nihei....................... 20-1
14..... MTO.......Jennifer’s Legacy............ . ....................................... J. Ryerson..................... 5-1
15..... MTO.......Ditch Em......................... M. Franco......................... G. Weaver..................... 8-1
16..... MTO.......Redemption Queen......... . ....................................... G. Goodwin................... 8-1
6TH (3:48PM). $78,000, AOC $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 5 1/2F (TURF)
1 ..... 1.............Moondance Joy............... M. Franco......................... C. Englehart................... 4-1
2 ..... 2.............Bella Kateri...................... J. Alvarado....................... A. Rawles...................... 8-1
3 ..... 3.............Little Bear Cat.................. J. Rosario......................... D. Cannizzo................... 8-1
4 ..... 4.............She’s All Ready............... K. Carmouche................... J. Ryerson..................... 5-1
5 ..... 5.............Startwithsilver................. J. Ortiz.............................. L. Rice........................... 3-1
6 ..... 6.............Dreamboat Annie............ L. Saez.............................. L. Gyarmati................. 12-1
7 ..... MTO.......Non Finisce Mai.............. . ....................................... G. Gullo......................... 6-1
8 ..... 8.............Animal Appeal................. I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... J. Englehart................... 2-1
7TH (4:24PM). $90,000, AOC $62,500, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M
1 ..... 1.............Indycott........................... J. Bravo............................ D. Jacobson.................. 8-1
2 ..... 2.............Tale of Life (JPN)............ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... H. Motion...................... 9-2
3 ..... 3.............Mills................................ J. Ortiz.............................. J. Englehart................... 5-1
4 ..... 4.............Watershed....................... J. Rosario......................... K. McLaughlin............... 5-2
5 ..... 5.............Doyouknowsomething.... J. Lezcano........................ A. Avila.......................... 6-1
6 ..... 6.............Yolo Mon........................ K. Carmouche................... A. Davies..................... 12-1
7 ..... 7.............Securitiz.......................... J. Castellano..................... J. Jerkens...................... 3-1
8TH (5:02PM). $100,000, STK - THE LUCKY COIN, 4 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F (TURF)
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Cyclogenisis.................... K. Carmouche................... G. Weaver................... 20-1
2 ..... MTO.......Weekend Hideaway......... L. Saez.............................. P. Serpe......................... 8-1
3 ..... 3.............Night Officer.................... M. Franco......................... B. Brown....................... 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Spring to the Sky............ M. Luzzi............................ B. Brown....................... 4-1
5 ..... 5.............Sandy’z Slew................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... R. Schosberg.............. 20-1
6 ..... 6.............Pool Winner.................... L. Saez.............................. A. Goldberg................. 10-1
7 ..... 7.............Beantown Saint............... J. Castellano..................... J. Servis...................... 20-1
8 ..... 8.............Doctor J Dub................... T. Gaffalione...................... J. Antonucci................ 12-1
9 ..... 9.............Long On Value................ J. Rosario......................... W. Mott......................... 6-1
10..... 10...........Successful Native............ M. Rispoli......................... R. Persaud.................. 15-1
11..... 11...........Choctaw Chuck............... J. Ortiz.............................. K. Rice......................... 20-1
12..... 12...........Undrafted........................ J. Velazquez...................... W. Ward........................ 8-5
13..... MTO.......All Star Red..................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... R. Rodriguez................. 6-1
9TH (5:40PM). $37,000, MCL $20,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta
1 ..... 7.............Heliodoro........................ J. Velazquez...................... N. Zito......................... 12-1
1a ..... 11...........Godiva’s Limousine......... E. Cancel........................... N. Zito......................... 12-1
2 ..... 1.............Bermuda Triangle............ M. Franco......................... R. Violette, Jr................. 5-1
3 ..... 2.............Wheres Willy................... L. Saez.............................. M. Pino......................... 7-2
4 ..... 3.............Tradfest........................... J. Alvarado....................... W. Mott......................... 8-1
5 ..... 4.............Rich Dalone..................... J. Torres........................... B. Levine..................... 12-1
6 ..... 5.............Porch Pounder................ J. Ortiz.............................. G. Gullo......................... 8-1
7 ..... 6.............Bold Illusion.................... S. Camacho, Jr................. R. Metivier................... 20-1
8 ..... 8.............Here and There................ K. Carmouche................... S. Cooney...................... 9-2
9 ..... 9.............Two Putt.......................... R. Santana, Jr................... G. Arnold, II.................. 8-1
10..... 10...........Shoot From the Hip......... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... G. Contessa................... 6-1
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On the horsepath, road and racetrack shaded by
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“Morning sir.” “How you doing?” “Tired already.”
A worker from Eric Guillot’s barn revs into gear
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rider pulls up with a “Whew.”
Mel Williams works on a lead change with a Tom
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Lorna Chavez, recovering from an injury, walks
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offers a “Hey, it’s a start.” Was she with Songbird
earlier?
A Tom Albertrani rider adjusts a stirrup at a
walk. That can be an awful task on the wrong horse.
Jockey Manny Franco cuts the corner in his golf
cart, headed to another horse in another barn.
Three Thoroughbreds hobby-horse the wrong
way.
Two from Mike Maker’s barn blaze along the
rail, most likely from the gate.
A stabby chestnut warms out of the stiffness.
One from Keith Desormeaux’s string pulls up after a gallop, no noseband, rider riding long.
Eight horseshoes create a beat, a rhythm, on asphalt.
Twenty-three horses occupy about a furlong of
space on the backside.
Nancy the Paper Lady rolls by, working on her
third hundred. Her next trip out of the van with a
paper or a dozen will be her 82nd of the morning.
A sweaty Maker horse heads back to the barn.
Having deposited Lance back at his home with
Graham Motion’s string, Chavez glides by in her
Jeep. It should be pink.
In a scene from any year over the past three decades, a resolute galloper – bay of course – from Bill
Mott’s barn chugs past.
Irad Ortiz Jr., your leading jockey, goes past in
a cart.
The accents are Jamaican, Spanish and three
types of English (American, proper English, Irish).
A big, stout bay from John Kimmel’s barn walks
past.
Linda Rice’s riders wear neon. Workers.
Out on the track, a rider hollers “coming by” to
another.
Chaplain Humberto, on the go as always, leaves
with “Anything, give me a holler.” He means it.
An assistant trainer offers an opinion on a horse,
or perhaps a person, “He’s always been squirrely.”
The breeze picks up. How is it almost chilly after
all that heat? The tree provided respite to Wise Dan,
Havre de Grace and surely some legends from way
back. Spanish Riddle could have picked grass under
that tree. Same with Discovery, Equipoise, Jaipur,
Lamb Chop, Open Fire, What A Summer. How old
is a tree? How can you tell, without counting rings?
A long-backed trotter steps out.
Brian Lynch’s kangaroo saddle pad flashes past.
The laundry truck – so many decals – heads to
another customer.
Jimmy Toner’s orange, a Motion horse uses its
knee as a scratching post.
Some horses make it look easy, others work and
work at it. No two breaths are quite the same.
“You waitin’ for a bus?” Nope, just standin’
here.
Tom Bush gets tall on the back of his cart to
watch a worker, binoculars up.
Then there’s a lull. Eleven horses, with lots of
room. Space on the track, gaps in the beat. A single
galloper . . . 35 seconds . . . then another horse . . .
15 seconds . . . then another . . . 51 seconds. Got a
problem horse? Train at 6:32.
A bird screeches, not the hawk. More like a gull.
“Hiya, Lubo,” someone says.
“Good girl,” someone else says, while pulling up.
Two from the NC barn, in red and white, looking
sharp, gallop together, in-step.
Chad Brown trainees, smooth, steady and in single file – 1 and 1A.
Roger Horgan and a McLaughlin horse float
past. There’s hardly a sound.
A restless horse bolts off the gap, across the road
and up the path. He’s agile anyway.
The leaves rustle again. Where is this breeze in
town?
Another screech from above, that’s the hawk for
sure.
And the end of your half-hour.
And the WINNER is ... YOU!
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cupofcoffee
BY SEAN CLANCY
The text came at 9:49 Saturday morning.
“You see that?”
I hadn’t, but I knew what it meant.
Fair Eva had won.
Stroud-Coleman Bloodstock’s Matt Coleman
sent the text, moments after Frankel’s daughter,
Fair Eva, skipped away with the Group 3 Princess
Margaret Juddmonte Stakes at Ascot Saturday.
“Unfortunately, no, I’m all in at Saratoga.”
Coleman fired back.
“Put Fair Eva in your paper, she is a superstar.”
At that point, I was in between standing in line
for a press pass and going to the stakes barn to take
photos of Ron Moquett’s shedrow for Fasig-Tipton’s Stable Tour, so writing about a superstar
– even if she was closer to London than Saratoga
– actually made sense.
Coleman doesn’t use the word superstar lightly.
We have shared observations, via text, email or in
person, every time we’ve seen something that rocks
us since meeting when he was finishing the Darley
Flying Start program in 2006. We’ve bought horses, sold horses and shared the highs and lows of
racing, from Kauto Star’s wins in the Cheltenham
Gold Cup to a rained-off card at Saratoga a few
years ago to the day Junior, a horse I told him we
should buy, won at Royal Ascot. This game is to be
shared and we’ve shared it.
When Coleman mentions a horse or a race, I go
to my computer like Pavlov’s dog.
It’s always worth it.
“Check out Valdez who won the bumper at Warwick today.” We bought Valdez and won six races
with him, earning a trip to Cheltenham for the Arkle.
“Dawalan is for sale. Look him up.” We bought
Dawalan for Irv Naylor and he was champion after
three starts in America.
“I like Covert Love for America. She might be
for sale.” We tried but failed to make anything hap-
Calling Fair
Bob Mayberger/Eclipse Sportswire
The great Frankel is now making his mark as a sire.
pen and watched her win the Irish Oaks and Prix
de l’Opera.
Of course, they don’t always turn out like that,
there have been some duds, but at that moment,
when watching that race, whether we’re going to
make something happen or not, we are fans, enthralled by a moment in time when a horse is very
good.
Fair Eva, who will never be for sale, provided
that moment when I got back to the office Saturday
afternoon. Firing up the replay, I leaned back and
watched a horse run because she’s good at it.
Fair Eva broke slightly to her left from the far
left stall on the straight course at Ascot, but righted
herself in strides. She hopped to her left as Kachess
came over on her. Frankie Dettori was far from concerned, allowing the chestnut filly to chill, composure coming with every stride. Always on the left of
all her rivals, Fair Eva galloped along on her right
lead, about eighth, chilled, flicking white socks well
past her white nose. Somewhere, at what looked
like the three-eighths pole, Fair Eva rolled to the
lead, leaned right and Dettori waved his whip in
his right hand and smacked her (oh, how dare he?),
like shaking a can of beer, she responded, lowered,
gathered, strengthened, exploded. By the wire, Dettori was more worried about pulling her up than
anything else.
The rare ones gain strength as they go – Zenyatta and Frankel are the two who come to mind in
my lifetime. In the middle of the race, they look like
they’re going fine, at the end of the race, they look
like they’re never going to stop.
Trainer Roger Charlton, who gets his 2-yearolds ready by their own clocks, saw the same thing.
“Fair Eva has done everything really professionally and looks very good. She has a wonderful action and, like most Frankels, takes a bit of
pulling up after the winning post, which is a good
sign,” Charlton told the Racing Post. “She could
clearly go another furlong and let’s hope next year
she might go a mile. She is in the Moyglare, a race
Frankie mentioned when he got off. I wouldn’t really want to run her on soft ground because she has
such a good action.”
With the win, Fair Eva became the favorite for
next year’s 1000 Guineas.
They say, breed the best to the best and hope for
the best, well, Juddmonte has the best. They bred
Group 1 sprint winner African Rose to the undefeated Frankel and got Fair Eva.
Frankel has produced seven winners from nine
starters (the other two have placed). Fair Eva won
a Group 3 stakes in her second start. Queen Kindly placed in a Group 3 in her second start. Cunco
finished third in a listed stakes in his second start.
And they look anything but precocious, hoppedup, best-day-of-their-lives 2-year-olds.
We are in the midst of watching the next great
stallion become the great stallion.
As a racehorse, Frankel wowed the world. As a
stallion, he’ll rock the world. I’ll be watching for
texts from Matt Coleman.
BROWN ADVISORY IS PROUD TO SUPPORT
RACING AT SARATOGA
BALTIMORE BOSTON CHAPEL HILL LONDON NEW YORK WASHINGTON,DC WILMINGTON
(800) 645-3923 www.brownadvisory.com
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