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Year 16 • No. 31
Friday, September 2, 2016
The
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Roller Girl
Coasted cruises home in P.G. Johnson
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The Saratoga Special
here&there... at Saratoga
BY THE NUMBERS
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Training runs on the 5-mile trail at the Saratoga Spa State Park for The
Special’s Joe Clancy and Tom Law in August in preparation for Saturday’s
Run for the Horses 5K. Depending on how you look at it, they’re probably
over the top, they might bounce or they could need a race. And rabbits won’t
help them.
Lots: Of slots available in Saturday’s Run for the Horses 5K at Saratoga Spa
State Park. Check out at www.trfinc.org/event/5k for more information.
19: Cases of empty Corona bottles stacked outside a dorm room Wednesday morning.
2:30: Time writer Dave Grening’s alarm clock went off Wednesday morning
so he could get to Saratoga from home and still see morning training.
LICENSE PLATES OF THE DAY
SHAVINGS: New York.
EASYGOER: New York.
NAMES OF THE DAY
Bermuda Triangle, 10th race. The 3-year-old gelding is by Stormy Atlantic.
Crackerjack Jones, ninth race. Chester and Mary Broman’s 6-year-old, who
runs in the Evan Shipman Stakes, is by Smarty Jones out of Confidently.
Two Pump, eighth race. The 5-year-old mare is by Second In Command out
of Lite My Pumpkin.
Feels Like Fall. Check that calendar, it’s September people.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Welcome to one of the great cathedrals
of Thoroughbred racing around the world.”
NYRA’s Jason Blewitt, opening the in-house show Wednesday
here&there... at Saratoga
WORTH REPEATING
“I never get banged at the draw. Nobody wants to ride my horses.”
Jockey, Wednesday morning
“The first, the second and the 13th. Guess I’ll take a nap.”
Jockey Dylan Davis, going over his Travers Day assignments
“Second best place to be on Travers Saturday.”
Former Special writer Quint Kessenich,
as he sat at the Maryland State Fair in Timonium Saturday
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“Can we institute a countdown number on the handicappers’ page – the daily (current) number
needed for John Shapazian to win the contest?”
Suggestion from dedicated reader Don Reed. (somebody figure out the magic number)
NAME OF THE DAY
“John Shapazian is the Arrogate of Saratoga handicappers.”
Dedicated reader Jerry Wisniewski,
echoing the sentiments of Reed and many others
Belle Et Bete, fifth race. The 4-year-old filly is by Big Bad Bob
out of Petite Cherie. Her name – Beauty and the Beast
in French – is the title of the original French fairytale.
“I’m giving my head a break.”
Kevin “The Brooklyn Cowboy” Cox, who did not wear a cowboy hat to the races Wednesday
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“You’re only as good as your horses. As long as I’ve got horses like that I’m in good shape.”
Trainer Arnaud Delacour, who won two Grade 1s at the meet with A. P. Indian
“It’s all about food on the corner.”
Mike Balfe, Mayor of Balfe’s Corner, presiding over a debate about the merits
of chowder, pizza, a sandwich and placing a wager Thursday afternoon
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Writers/Handicappers: Charles Bedard, Gaile Fitzgerald,
Teresa Genaro, Ben Gowans, Annise Montplaisir, John Shapazian,
Michael Smith, Chad Summers, Shayna Tiller, Brandon Valvo.
Photographers: Tod Marks, Dave Harmon, Connie Bush, Susie Raisher.
Layout/Design: Linzay Marks.
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here&there...at Saratoga
“Yeah, I thought I got away with something, didn’t you?”
Jockey Mike Smith on Drefong’s opening quarter-mile
of :23.11 en route to winning the King’s Bishop
WORTH REPEATING
“I should have just rented a place here and flown back there to ride on the weekdays.”
Smith, after winning his fourth Grade 1 stakes at Saratoga
“There’s no sense going to the Bugatti dealership if all you can afford is a Hyundai.”
Trainer Clovis Crane, on shopping at Keeneland September after Book 1
“Any press is good press.”
Owner Tom Gallo, dispensing media advice
“I kid them, ‘We’re only 28 behind.’ ”
Trainer Shug McGaughey, about making the trainers’ race interesting
“When he was young and would come up here, I’d go home and want to rest. He’d say, ‘Drop
me off at the front gate’ and he’d go to the races all day.”
McGaughey, on his son Reeve who is working
in the barn this summer with eyes on becoming a trainer
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“I always had my pony and a working pony. I bought that old white pony,
Whitey, for $425 from a cowboy in California. He had a nice little way of going,
you could sit to his trot, I got to liking him so I bought him. Sure enough, my
pony boy clips him and I go to get on him the next day. He was only 4 at the
time, he had that little round back, the saddle wasn’t quite tight, I put my foot
in the stirrup and it kind of turned a little bit and he went to crow hopping, it
wasn’t three minutes and it was all over Santa Anita, how the cowboy (screwed)
Allen Jerkens, sold him a bronc. If he knew I was going to still have him 20
years later, he would have asked more than four and a quarter.”
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with Phil Serpe
Every day at Saratoga, The Special
presents an exclusive Stable Tour
with a Saratoga trainer. For more, see
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Training hours were finishing up
on the main track as the final horse to
train out of Phil Serpe’s barn Thursday
morning cooled out in a walking ring
under a sign that reads Blue Heaven
and hangs high on a telephone pole.
“Blue Heaven is actually a little
restaurant in Key West, a cool little
spot, you would love it,” Serpe said,
sitting at a table under a big shade
tree that kept half of Barn 22 covered
at that point of the morning. “It’s in
an old house but you sit out back
and there’s chickens running around,
stuff like that, typical Key West. They
make great Floridian dishes. We don’t
drink, but you can sit there and have
a mimosa or orange juice and they’ll
have music. They had this cool threepiece band one time from Tennessee
or something, two guys and a girl,
and one guy is playing the banjo, the
harmonica and he’s playing the drum
with his heel. They were playing
something, sounded like mountain
music. It was great.
“We love Blue Heaven. And this is
our Blue Heaven. Sometimes up here
people say, ‘I can’t wait to go home.’
No way. I love it here.’ This is a great
place for man and beast. If you don’t
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love Saratoga you’re in the wrong
business. Sure you get tired but so
what.”
Serpe’s 17-member Saratoga string
is bedded down in one of the green
barns that parallel the backstretch.
You can see the his barn from the
grandstand, though it’s a world away.
Serpe oversees morning training from
a director’s chair along the white
board fence next to the horse path
and his assistant and girlfriend Lisa
Bartkowski breezes, gallops and jogs
most of the horses in the barn.
They’ve won two races from 17
starts at the meet and hope for more
as Monday’s Closing Day looms.
Multiple stakes winner Weekend
Hideaway provided one of the wins,
taking a state-bred allowance Aug. 22
for his 11th win from 33 starts.
Weekend Hideaway races for the
Red and Black Stable of Mike Hoffman, who bought the 6-year-old as
a yearling at a dispersal of horses
owned by the late Carl Lizza and his
Flying Zee Stable in 2011.
Hoffman is one of several clients
that helped build Serpe’s barn back
in the years following Lizza’s death
in July 2011, along with Hilly Fields
Stable, Drawing Away Stable and
more recently Chester and Mary Broman and Daniel Burke
“Just getting a few horses for Mr.
Broman has been a big plus for us,”
Serpe said. “He’s such a good guy
and the same thing as with Mr. Lizza,
when you get those guys it’s an opportunity. He’s got a lot of trainers
and he’s got a lot of nice horses. He’s
taken the New York-bred thing to its
highest level.
“The Jerkenses, Jimmy and his
father (the late Hall of Famer Allen
Jerkens), both trained for Mr. Burke
and Jimmy recommended he come
over here.”
Serpe took some time after training and before putting in entries for
the final two cards of the meeting to
talk about some of his Saratoga string
with The Special’s Tom Law.
Undertherain: Four-year-old daughter of
Warrior’s Reward finished fourth in $40,000
claiming race on the grass Aug. 12. “She’s
pretty much a $40,000, $50,000 claiming
horse that we have for the Hilly Fields guys,
who also have Lady Joan. She likes to finish
second when she runs big, she never really
likes to win. She’s supposed to run Closing
Day (and got in the fifth race). Hopefully she’ll
do us some justice.”
Lady Joan: New York-bred filly by Coura-
geous Cat finished sixth in Thursday’s P. G.
Johnson Stakes. “We like her. You saw her
in the paddock the other day. Is she a New
York-bred? Yes, but I don’t know if anybody’s
noticed, New York-breds are winning an awful
lot of big races the last few years.”
Preying Mantis: Broman homebred
daughter of Medaglia d’Oro finished fourth in
Lynbrook Stakes in career debut last year and
is 0-for-9 lifetime. “She got rained out unfortunately. Jimmy Jerkens, we’re like brothers, he
had the horse. Chester sent him some other
horse so Jimmy sent the horse over to us with
Chester’s permission. She finished second the
first time we ran her and I think we ran her
back a little quickly. She ran fourth and was
in last weekend but the race was rained out.”
Shadow Of A Doubt: Broman homebred 2-year-old by Noonmark is second foal
out of Storm Cat mare Rumors Of Glory
and is half-brother to two-time winner and
$134,320-earner earner Thirst For Glory. He’s
in Sunday’s sixth race sprinting on the turf.
“He ran in an off-the-turfer, finished eighth
and didn’t do too good. He just needs experience.”
Disavow: The Bromans purchased son of
Mission Impazible as a weanling for $24,000
at 2014 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale.
“Another nice one Chester sent us. He’s by
Mission Impazible, who’s doing well. We’re
excited about him. He was just about ready to
run and he wrenched his ankle in the stall the
night we had the big storm, a couple Saturdays ago. The lightning hit right over there,
the horses were going crazy and the next day
his leg was all filled up. He’s fine now and he’s
about to breeze again but he won’t get to run
here. He’ll run down at Belmont.
Stable Tour –
Continued from page 8
Indygita: Drawing Away’s 4-year-old Indygo
Shiner filly finished second in Thursday’s seventh race, a starter allowance on the grass, after
a fifth in similar race Aug. 7. “She’d been knocking on the door, got kind of a rough trip last
time. She’s been a good honest horse for us.”
Get them
back
on track
Front: Fifth in state-bred allowance race on
the grass won by Orino Aug. 20, he’s won six
times, including three on the grass at Belmont.
“Another one Jimmy used to have. He’s just
a good old codger. He’s 6 years old. We train
some horses for Drawing Away Stable and they
claim some horses. Again, with the void of not
having the Flying Zee horses anymore, we’re
just trying to get some horses, get on track, get
some wins. He seems like he’s pretty fond of the
turf course down at Belmont so we’re excited to
get him back down there.”
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Unnamed filly by First Samurai-Regal
Ruby, by Rubiano: Bay filly soaks up some
sun and poses as Jane Burke snaps a photo.
“There she is, she’s a pretty nicely made filly.
She’s nowhere near race ready, just worked a
couple three eighths for us and that’s it. She
looks the part, just not far enough along for us
to know how good she is. We’re pretty excited and Mr. Burke actually bred a couple horses
that broke their maidens here this meet. He’s a
smaller breeder. We just met them up here and
they’re really nice people.”
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Artie Crasher: Fifth in waiver claiming race
Aug. 19, 5-year-old son of Artie Schiller won
and was claimed by Serpe for $35,000 last
November at Aqueduct. “We claimed him for
Drawing Away Stable. We were just getting
ready to run him on the turf down at Gulfstream
and he was injured. He came back here off a
nine-month layoff and he ran fifth. We were going to try and get him in a race here but there
aren’t any for him.”
Weekend Hideaway: “Like Sean wrote he’s
the last of the Flying Zee horses that we bred
for the Lizzas. He’s a great horse. If he needs a
little break he comes back running. If he runs a
bad race he comes back running. He really is a
good horse when you consider he’s 6 years old
and he’s won races every year. He’s a personality horse and people like him. Mike wants to run
him in a big race next; I just like winning races
with him. Winning races is good for people and
it’s good for horses, too. Those horses that are
good horses, proud horses, it takes a little notch
out of them when they get beat sometimes. He’s
gone in his little cycles, but again, you freshen
him up a little and he comes back for you. He’s
been a real Godsend for us. We’ll keep going,
see what happens.”
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State-bred
Showdown
Veteran Royal Posse bids
for second stakes win of meet
Royal Posse looms large in today’s Evan Shipman for trainer Rudy Rodriguez.
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Tod Marks
BY TOM LAW & LINZAY MARKS
EVAN SHIPMAN STAKES PREVIEW
Fourth in the trainer standings
with 11 wins, Rudy Rodriguez is in
the midst of a career meet at Saratoga. The same can be said for Charlton Baker, with nine victories and tied
with six others for the sixth spot on
the same list.
Something’s got to give in today’s
$100,000 Evan Shipman Stakes for
New York-breds and perhaps it’s the
man with two slots in the starting
gate with the advantage.
Rodriguez holds that distinction
and sends out Royal Posse, a winner
over open company in the Alydar
Stakes Aug. 7, and Good Luck Gus,
winner of the Haynesfield in February
at Aqueduct and third last time out
in the Saginaw at Belmont Park July
8. Baker goes with Saginaw winner
Wake Up In Malibu, fourth in his
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Evan Shipman –
prep going 7 furlongs in the slop Aug.
10.
Royal Pose is 4-for-6 at Saratoga
and the 8-5 morning-line favorite for
owners Michael Dubb, Bethlehem
Stable and Gary Aisquith.
“He’s a nice horse, he loves Saratoga,” Rodriguez said during training
hours Monday. “He came back from
the (Alydar) very good and you know,
he’s ready to go so we are just going
to see how it goes. We know he likes
Saratoga, we know he likes a mileand-an-eighth. He’s been here training very good. So far so good.”
Royal Posse tracked the early speed
of Touchofstarquality while racing inside in the early stages of the Alydar
before inching close at the quarter
pole. The 5-year-old son of Posse engaged Touchofstarquality inside the
eighth pole and finally put that rival
away inside the final sixteenth under
Irad Ortiz Jr., who rides the gelding
back in the Evan Shipman.
Rodriguez, who won the Saratoga Dew with Jules N Rome and Cab
Calloway division of the New York
Stallion Series with Uno Emayo at the
meet, expects Royal Posse to be in a
similar spot in the Shipman.
“Royal Posse is going to be placed
a lot more forward, hopefully he gets
himself in a good spot,” the trainer
said.
Good Luck Gus’ style compliments
the favorite 12 he comes from farther
back. The 4-year-old son of Lookin At
Lucky, winner of the Albany Stakes
last summer at Saratoga, closed from
last in the Haynesfield and put in a
big run from far back in an allowance
race in the mud on Preakness Day at
Pimlico when second to Cat Fiftyfive.
“Good Luck Gus, he usually comes
from way out of it,” Rodriguez said.
“He’s another one, a very solid horse
for us. He always tries. I think we are
in a good spot. Only five horses in the
race, so hopefully somebody chases
(the speed).”
The speed figures to be Wake Up In
Malibu, although he could get company on the front from the other two
in the field, John Morrissey runner-up
Crackerjack Jones and Ostrolenka,
who was effective running at or near
the lead at times as a 2- and 3-yearold.
Good Luck Gus will look to be closing late.
Wake Up In Malibu, a 5-year-old
son of Malibu Moon Baker described
as a mellow horse in the stall who can
get a little hyped up on the racetrack,
prepped in the slop in his first Saratoga appearance this season. He won
for a $35,000 tag here last summer
and was claimed by John Parisella.
Tod Marks
Parisella quit training this year and
owners Saul and Max Kupferberg
sent Wake Up In Malibu to Baker.
His first two starts for Baker were
a second to eventual Curlin Stakes
winner Connect in an allowance race
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win over Royal Posse in the Saginaw.
“He’s a better two-turn, distance
horse,” Baker said. “We tried to sprint
him … but I don’t really think that’s his
thing. His last race was a good race, he
just got rushed off his feet a little bit.
He likes to settle into a nice good pace,
that’s his thing.”
Wake Up In Malibu is the 5-2 second
choice on the morning line and Manny
Franco, who rode the gelding in his last
two starts, gets the return call.
After finishing a late-running third
behind Moonlight Song and Ostrolenka in the John Morrissey, Crackerjack
Jones returns to Saratoga from Finger
Lakes.
Chris Progno breezed the 6-year-old
Smarty Jones gelding twice at his home
base and likes his chances stretching out after a good effort sprinting.
Crackerjack Jones won going long after sprint preps in 2014 and 2015, the
first time winning a 1-mile and 70-yard
allowance after a runner-up finish going 6 furlongs and the second winning
going 1 mile after a third going 6 furlongs.
“He loves the first time stretching
out after a sprint,” Progno said Thursday as he watched the field for the finale in the paddock. “Every time I’ve
done that he’s won. It’s been at Finger
Lakes mind you but he’s done it. First
time routing is his thing.
“Most of the time when he comes
here people think of him as a 6-, 6
1/2-furlong horse but routing is his
thing. If you want to go back in the
stats there are only two races he’s been
defeated routing. One was at Presque
Isle Downs, on Tapeta, and he hated
that track. The Tapeta really tore him
up bad and a month later I ran him in
the Genessee Valley on an off track and
he finished second. Then he rebounded
in the Fio Rito at a mile and an eighth
and he won that.”
Ostrolenka is the 3-1 third choice
for trainer Todd Pletcher. A 4-yearold son of Musket Man, who breeder
and co-owner Eric Fein campaigned to
thirds in the 2009 Kentucky Derby and
Preakness, Ostrolenka won the Sleepy
Hollow at 2 and Mike Lee at 3. He lost
seven straight after his Mike Lee victory until an allowance score at Belmont
June 25.
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1 ..... 1.............Aix En Provence.............. J. Ortiz.............................. G. Gullo......................... 5-2
2 ..... 2.............Hold Me Down................ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... A. Ronen....................... 3-1
3 ..... 3.............Chickaletta...................... L. Saez.............................. J. Englehart................... 7-2
4 ..... 4.............The Lost Tigress............. S. Camacho, Jr................. C. Baker......................... 5-1
5 ..... 5.............Silver Silence.................. E. Esquivel........................ R. D’Alessandro.......... 12-1
6 ..... 6.............My Jimmy Chew Girl....... J. Alvarado....................... G. Matties.................... 12-1
7 ..... 7.............Spectacular Flash............ R. Santana, Jr................... G. Contessa................... 8-1
8 ..... 8.............Light Years Away............ J. Torres........................... P. Kelly........................ 20-1
2ND (1:33PM). $50,000, MCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/16M (INNER TURF)
Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............O K by Me....................... L. Saez.............................. B. Brown..................... 12-1
2 ..... 2.............Freckle de Freck.............. J. Lezcano........................ J. Hertler....................... 8-1
3 ..... 3.............Dream a Little.................. M. Franco......................... D. Donk......................... 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Shineady......................... D. Davis............................ M. Friedman................ 30-1
5 ..... 5.............Itsthemoney.................... E. Cancel........................... J. Antonucci................ 20-1
6 ..... 6.............Messy Moon................... F. Geroux.......................... A. Rawles.................... 30-1
7 ..... 7.............Sneaky Fudge Face.......... M. Luzzi............................ P. Kelly........................ 12-1
8 ..... 8.............Weekend Hottie............... K. Carmouche................... K. Streicher................... 5-1
9 ..... 9.............Rossezza......................... J. Ortiz.............................. L. Rice........................... 7-2
10..... 10...........Munchkin Money............ J. Castellano..................... C. Brown....................... 9-5
11..... MTO.......Three Eighty Eight........... J. Ortiz.............................. L. Rice........................... 4-1
12..... MTO.......Zeppole........................... . Rider TBA....................... H. Bond......................... 8-1
3RD (2:06PM). $51,000, CLM $50,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M (TURF)
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Completely Bonkers........ M. Franco......................... G. Contessa................... 9-2
2 ..... MTO.......Core Portfolio.................. . Rider TBA....................... R. Violette, Jr................. 9-2
3 ..... MTO.......Nominal Dollars.............. J. Ortiz.............................. G. Gullo......................... 7-2
4 ..... 4.............Hirschbein....................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... N. Esler....................... 12-1
5 ..... 5.............Sly Tom........................... J. Rosario......................... J. Sharp......................... 5-1
6 ..... 6.............Dujac............................... J. Castellano..................... C. Brown....................... 8-5
7 ..... 7.............Matador.......................... J. Ortiz.............................. M. Maker....................... 3-1
8 ..... 8.............Tree Shaker..................... A. Arroyo.......................... R. Persaud.................. 20-1
9 ..... 9.............Snow Trouble.................. K. Carmouche................... J. Lawrence, II............... 8-1
4TH (2:40PM). $39,000, MCL $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 7F
Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Buckwellspent................. R. Santana, Jr................... S. Asmussen................. 6-1
2 ..... 2.............Blarney Stones................ I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... G. Contessa................... 3-1
3 ..... 3.............Majority........................... L. Saez.............................. R. Violette, Jr................. 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Longisland Express......... J. Castellano..................... G. Sciacca................... 20-1
5 ..... 5.............Celtic Scout..................... A. Arroyo.......................... C. Englehart................... 4-1
6 ..... 6.............Cold Revenge.................. M. Franco......................... D. Cannizzo................. 12-1
7 ..... 7.............Chosen One Elijah........... J. Torres........................... E. Jones...................... 30-1
8 ..... 8.............No Tanx Blue Chip........... J. Rosario......................... B. Levine....................... 6-1
9 ..... 9.............Kenyan............................ J. Ortiz.............................. M. Hushion................... 7-2
5TH (3:14PM). $50,000, CLM $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/16M (INNER TURF)
1 ..... MTO.......Lutheran Miss................. J. Ortiz.............................. J. Servis........................ 5-2
2 ..... 2.............Belle Et Bete (IRE)........... J. Lezcano........................ A. Avila.......................... 4-1
3 ..... MTO.......Kate Is a Ten................... J. Davis............................. J. Parker........................ 8-1
4 ..... 4.............Luckystrikedelcoco......... J. Castellano..................... D. Ryan......................... 5-1
5 ..... 5.............Porvoo............................ J. Torres........................... E. Jones...................... 30-1
6 ..... 6.............Marabea (GB).................. J. Ortiz.............................. H. Motion...................... 2-1
7 ..... 7.............Electro Peg...................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... J. Servis........................ 7-2
8 ..... 8.............Shakesperian Dream....... J. Alvarado....................... G. Sciacca................... 20-1
9 ..... 9.............One Penny Piece (GB)..... R. Santana, Jr................... P. Serpe......................... 8-1
10..... 10...........Stroke Play...................... K. Carmouche................... D. Gargan...................... 6-1
6TH (3:48PM). $83,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 5 1/2F (TURF)
1 ..... 1.............Happy Motoring.............. E. Wilson.......................... G. Contessa................. 12-1
2 ..... 2.............Bellavais.......................... M. Franco......................... J. Toner......................... 8-1
3 ..... 3.............Take a Stroll.................... L. Saez.............................. K. Ritvo....................... 12-1
4 ..... 4.............Orecchiette...................... J. Castellano..................... T. Pletcher..................... 7-2
5 ..... 5.............Spanker........................... R. Santana, Jr................... D. Cannizzo................. 20-1
6 ..... 6.............Two Hot Betty.................. J. Rosario......................... A. Adsit....................... 20-1
7 ..... 7.............Black Canary................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... M. Casse....................... 2-1
8 ..... 8.............Foreign Affair.................. J. Lezcano........................ C. Martin....................... 8-1
9 ..... 9.............K J Warrior...................... F. Geroux.......................... S. Asmussen................. 4-1
10..... 10...........Matinee Babe.................. E. Cancel........................... D. Cannizzo................. 20-1
11..... AE..........Accepting........................ J. Velazquez...................... J. Jerkens...................... 6-1
12..... AE..........Elite Heir......................... K. Carmouche................... J. Ryerson................... 12-1
13..... AE..........Yorkiepoo Princess......... J. Torres........................... E. Barker....................... 8-1
14..... AE..........Fly Swift.......................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... C. Clement.................... 7-2
15..... AE-MTO..Worthy One..................... K. Carmouche................... M. Trombetta................. 8-1
16..... AE-MTO..In It for the Gold.............. . Rider TBA....................... R. Rodriguez................. 5-2
7TH (4:24PM). $78,000, AOC $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 6 1/2F
1 ..... 1.............First Service.................... J. Castellano..................... C. Brown....................... 9-5
2 ..... 2.............Wonder Gal..................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... L. Gyarmati................... 7-5
3 ..... 3.............Bella Joy......................... J. Alvarado....................... R. Nicks......................... 6-1
4 ..... 4.............Legally Bay...................... J. Davis............................. M. Coffey.................... 15-1
5 ..... 5.............Sweet Sway..................... R. Santana, Jr................... M. Salazar................... 20-1
6 ..... 6.............Splendid Gold................. M. Franco......................... C. Englehart................... 7-2
8TH (5:02PM). $50,000, CLM $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 5 1/2F (TURF)
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............You Lie............................ M. Franco......................... C. Englehart................. 15-1
2 ..... 2.............More Than Rainbows...... A. Arroyo.......................... L. Miranda................... 15-1
3 ..... 3.............Goodbye Sorrow............. J. Velazquez...................... W. Ward........................ 3-1
4 ..... 4.............Awesome Quick.............. L. Saez.............................. M. Miceli..................... 12-1
5 ..... 5.............Flaring............................. E. Cancel........................... J. Mazza...................... 20-1
6 ..... 6.............Sunrise Kitty................... J. Ortiz.............................. J. Servis........................ 7-2
7 ..... 7.............Angie’s Prim Lady........... J. Rosario......................... A. Stall, Jr...................... 8-1
8 ..... 8.............Two Pump....................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... D. Jacobson.................. 4-1
9 ..... 9.............Simple Love.................... J. Lezcano........................ G. Contessa................... 5-1
10..... 10...........Gagaoveryou................... K. Carmouche................... D. Gargan.................... 10-1
11..... AE..........Katie O............................ J. Torres........................... J. Toscano, Jr................ 6-1
12..... AE..........Uncle Southern............... J. Ortiz.............................. L. Rice........................... 5-2
9TH (5:40PM). $100,000, STK - THE EVAN SHIPMAN, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Daily Double
1 ..... 1.............Crackerjack Jones........... J. Ortiz.............................. C. Progno...................... 4-1
2 ..... 2.............Wake Up in Malibu.......... M. Franco......................... C. Baker......................... 5-2
3 ..... 3.............Royal Posse.................... I. Ortiz, Jr.......................... R. Rodriguez................. 8-5
4 ..... 4.............Good Luck Gus............... J. Castellano..................... R. Rodriguez................. 5-1
5 ..... 5.............Ostrolenka....................... J. Velazquez...................... T. Pletcher..................... 3-1
10TH (6:17PM). $45,000, MCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M (INNER TURF)
Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta
1 ..... 6.............Twenty Four Seven.......... J. Rosario......................... D. Gargan...................... 8-1
1a ..... MTO.......Noble and True................ . Rider TBA....................... D. Gargan...................... 8-1
2 ..... 1.............Kitten’s Dilemma............. J. Ortiz.............................. C. Brown....................... 3-1
3 ..... 2.............Bourbon City................... J. Alvarado....................... D. Romans.................. 20-1
4 ..... 3.............Astute Warrior................. J. Bravo............................ E. Kenneally................... 7-2
5 ..... 4.............Archangel Rose............... F. Geroux.......................... S. Asmussen............... 10-1
6 ..... 5.............Arch Contender............... L. Saez.............................. J. Toscano, Jr................ 8-1
7 ..... 7.............Core Competency............ J. Castellano..................... C. Brown....................... 4-1
8 ..... 8.............Bermuda Triangle............ K. Carmouche................... J. Sharp....................... 20-1
9 ..... 9.............Means............................. J. Torres........................... W. Ward...................... 10-1
10..... 10...........He’s One Wild Dude........ M. Luzzi............................ L. Lewis....................... 10-1
11..... AE..........Rediscover...................... K. Carmouche................... K. McLaughlin............... 5-2
12..... AE..........Mojo Rising..................... A. Arroyo.......................... J. Kimmel.................... 15-1
13..... AE..........Abstract Cape.................. M. Franco......................... G. Weaver..................... 6-1
14..... AE..........Fried Baloney.................. L. Saez.............................. N. Zito......................... 20-1
15..... AE..........Dark Gemini (IRE)........... J. Alvarado....................... G. Weaver..................... 5-1
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the
Power
grid
John
Shapazian
Gaile
Fitzgerald
Tom
Law
Chad
Summers
Charles
Bedard
Hold Me Down
Chickaletta
Aix En Provence
Munchkin Money
Rossezza
Freckle de Freck
Dujac
Matador
Hirschbein
Kenyan
Celtic Scout
Blarney Stones
Marabea
Belle Et Bete
Electro Peg
Black Canary
K J Warrior
Orecchiette
Wonder Gal
First Service
Splendid Gold
Uncle Southern
Two Pump
Goodbye Sorrow
Royal Posse
Wake Up In Malibu
Ostrolenka
Rediscover
Astute Warrior
Twenty Four Seven
Aix En Provence
Hold Me Down
The Lost Tigress
Munchkin Money
Weekend Hottie
Dream A Little
Nominal Dollars
Dujac
Sly Tom
Blarney Stones
Kenyan
Buckwellspent
Lutheran Miss
Marabea
Belle Et Bete
Black Canary
Orecchiette
K J Warrior
Wonder Gal
First Service
Splendid Gold
Sunrise Kitty
Goodbye Sorrow
Simple Love
Royal Posse
Wake Up In Malibu
Good Luck Gus
Astute Warrior
Archangel Rose
Kitten’s Dilemma
Chickaletta
The Lost Tigress
Hold Me Down
Rossezza
Munchkin Money
Sneaky Fudge Face
Dujac
Snow Trouble
Matador
Cold Revenge
Buckwellspent
Kenyan
Belle Et Bete
Marabea
Electro Peg
Black Canary
K J Warrior
Bellavais
Wonder Gal
First Service
Bella Joy
Goodbye Sorrow
Sunrise Kitty
Two Pump
Royal Posse
Crackerjack Jones
Ostrolenka
Kitten’s Dilemma
Means
Core Competency
Aix En Provence
Hold Me Down
Spectacular Flash
O K By Me
Weekend Hottie
Dream A Little
Dujac
Sly Tom
Matador
Buckwellspent
Blarney Stones
No Tanx Blue Chip
Belle Et Bete
Luckystrikedelcoco
Electro Peg
Bellavis
Happy Motoring
Black Canary
Wonder Gal
First Service
Bella Joy
Goodbye Sorrow
Angie’s Prim Lady
Sunrise Kitty
Royal Posse
Wake Up in Malibu
Ostrolenka
Means
Archangel Rose
Core Competency
Chickaletta
Hold Me Down
Aix En Provence
Three Eighty Eight
Munchkin Money
Weekend Hottie
Dujac
Snow Trouble
Sly Tom Kenyan
Chosen One Elijah
Blarney Stones
Marabea
Lutheran Miss
One Penny Piece
In It For The Gold
Orecchiette
Black Canary
Wonder Gal
First Service
Splendid Gold
Sunrise Kitty
Two Pump
Simple Love
Good Luck Gus
Royal Posse
Wake Up In Malibu
Midwest entry
Rediscover
Astute Warrior
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Rolling
Home
Coasted roars away
with Thursday feature
BY TOM LAW
Jeff Treadway likes to dig deep when he shops
yearling and 2-year-olds in training sales. Not too
deep into his pockets mind you, but into the pedigrees of the potential racing prospects to add to his
Treadway Racing Stables operation.
When he looked at the female family of Hip
1373 at last year’s Keeneland September yearling
sale – a filly out of Malibu Pier, a multiple graded
stakes winner on the grass in Southern California
Coasted bounds home to win Thursday’s P.G. Johnson Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.
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P. G. Johnson –
from a French family of stakes winners – Treadway saw grass.
Buying fillies with a female family that appealing to buyers who race
and buyers who race and breed isn’t
easy, even out of Book 3 at the September sale. Thankfully the filly was
by Tizway – the Tizway of September
2015 is a far cry from the Tizway of
September 2016, but Treadway still
needed to dig in. He bought the filly
for $210,000.
“It was a huge reach,” Treadway
said of buying the Tizway filly Coasted that day at Keeneland. “Tizway,
he’s really come on this summer, especially on the turf. But then he wasn’t
where he is now.
“She was in Book 3 and her
full-sister was working for George
Weaver at the time lights out on the
dirt. She’s got that beautiful female
family underneath. To be honest with
her physical and the female family, to
be able to afford her I needed her to
be by some out-of-fashion stallion. It
fit perfectly for us. It was a reach but
she was beautiful, really a cut above
looks wise.”
Coasted proved a cut above as the
most expensive of 35 Tizway yearlings that sold at the sale and a few
more cuts above Thursday winning
the $100,000 P. G. Johnson Stakes at
Saratoga Race Course. Coasted improved to 2-for-3 with her rail-riding
1-length victory over Noble Ready in
the 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 2-yearold fillies.
Coasted, a 6-length winner of a
maiden race going the same distance
on the grass Aug. 7, is the second
stakes winner in the last four days at
Saratoga for Tizway following Our
Way who won Monday’s Better Talk
Now.
The bay filly with the white blaze
shaped sort of like a seahorse gave
Treadway and trainer Leah Gyarmati
plenty of worry in the P. G. Johnson.
The 7-10 favorite off her maiden
win with Jose Lezcano on the return
call, Coasted brushed with Noble
Ready leaving the gate and then shuffled back when Bahama Halo came
in slightly after running less than 50
yards. Lezcano grabbed Coasted up
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P. G. Johnson –
of Majestic Bonnie, who was 1 1/2
lengths clear of the maiden European
import Naifah in the field of seven.
Coasted’s two victories at Saratoga
followed a close fifth in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden race on the dirt at Belmont Park July 2. Gyarmati hoped to
get the filly started in a grass race before that but she was scratched after
acting up in the gate.
Even though Coasted’s pedigree
screams grass, her dam also finished
second in the Grade 1 La Brea going 7
furlongs on the dirt late in her 3-yearold season.
“I would have been perfectly happy
to run her on the dirt, too,” Gyarmati
said. “She’s bred grass. We started her
on turf, she got scratched and then we
put her on the dirt, but sprinting. She
still ran a big race. I don’t know, if we
could have stretched her out on the
dirt who knows, she might be just as
good. But we’re here now on the grass
and we’ll stay.”
Treadway said he hoped the filly
would show up next in the Grade 3
Miss Grillo at Belmont Oct. 2 followed by an even bigger prize to end
the season.
“On to the next thing, Miss Grillo next and knock on wood she’ll go
to the Breeders’ Cup,” he said. “She
looks like that kind of quality.”
again going into the first turn as Bahama Halo came in slightly again.
They were last entering the backstretch but settled as the maiden Mo
Promise set the pace ahead of Noble
Ready, Lady Joan and Bahama Halo.
“That was horrible,” Gyarmati
said when asked what it was like to
watch. “There were a lot of things
that happened in that race where I’m
like, ‘why are we there, why are we
there? Why are we so far back? …
OK, you’re that far back, let’s find
a spot where you know you can get
through or out,’ then we didn’t.”
As Treadway and Gyarmati
watched, Coasted made steady progress heading into the far turn and
raced into third position, just to the
inside of Bahama Halo and behind
the dueling leaders Mo Promise and
Noble Ready. Manny Franco made a
four-wide move with Majestic Bonnie
around the bend, her momentum carrying Lady Joan just to her inside and
Coasted was back to fifth.
Mo Promise couldn’t hold the inside coming into the stretch and Lezcano dove for the inside. As quickly
as he did the door shut.
Irad Ortiz Jr. guided
Noble Ready past the
pacesetter and to the
front while Majestic
Bonnie continued to
cut into the lead. Lezcano never panicked
and Coasted never faltered, coming through
a tight opening inside
the sixteenth pole and
proved much the best.
“It was very tight
but the filly in front
started
tiring
and
coming back and I
got through,” Lezcano said. “She took it
very good. She’s never
shied away from another horse. She could
go through that little
spot.”
Lezcano
took
Coasted in hand at the
finish and she won in
1:43.25. Noble Ready
finished three-quarters
of a length in front Coasted (left) tangles with Noble Ready at the start.
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New School
Hood helps Hardrock Eleven
take down 2016 steeplechase finale
Hardrock Eleven (and his hood) head for the finish Thursday.
Tod Marks
Paul Fout was an old-school horse
trainer who found success over jumps
with 1975 champion Life’s Illusion
and others, and on the flat with the
likes of Grade 1 winner Colstar. But
he was not one for tricks or shortcuts,
and neither is his son.
Except maybe this one time.
“I don’t believe in gimmicks, but I’ll
tell you that titanium hood works,”
said Doug Fout, Paul’s son, who won
his second steeplechase of the meet
when Hardrock Eleven scored in
Thursday’s first. “My dad would say,
‘You’ve done lost your mind, son.’ I
can hear him now, but it’s made a difference with this horse. I’m a believer.
It’s the only goofy thing I use.”
Goofy or not, the hood – essentially blinkers without eye cups and made
of fabric containing liquid titanium –
Sunrise Stallion
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was in the winner’s circle Thursday
and Fout was paying it full credit.
Liquid titanium produces negative
ions, which are supposed to generate
a sense of calm in horses – and humans, too.
Owned by Gigi Lazenby, Hardrock
Eleven can use all the calm he can get.
“I was warned up front that he
was tough,” Fout said. “He’s tough to
gallop at home. He can’t stay here because he gets too wound up. He gets
turned out at home and that helps
him. That’s the part he likes the most.
And in the mornings you can hold
him, but you can’t fight with him.”
Thursday, the 6-year-old son of
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Thursday –
Rock Hard Ten jumped up front with
the Fout-trained Secret Reward, then
took over leaving the last fence on the
backside and won by 3 1/4 lengths
for apprentice Brendan Crowley. Castle Hill finished second with Blue Atlantic third in the $65,000 first-level
allowance hurdle going 2 1/16 miles.
Hardrock Eleven improved to 2-for11 over fences, and completed a
comeback from some problems left
over from spring starts in April and
May.
“He twisted a shoe real bad in April
and it went up into his frog, and then
we had some trouble with his hind
end because of all that,” said Fout of
a pull-up at Charlotte April 30. “He
jumped so bad to the right that day,
which he kind of wants to do anyway and was all messed up. He hurt
his sacroiliac and it took us a couple
months to get him over that and get
him back going the right way.”
Hardrock Eleven started his career
by winning his second start at Delta
Downs as a 2-year-old – going 7 1/2
furlongs on the dirt – for Lazenby and
her brother, trainer David Banks. At 3,
the gray gelding placed in a stakes at
Sam Houston and even took a swing
a the big time when last of 11 in the
Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds
and ninth of 11 in the Grade 2 Rebel
at Oaklawn Park (behind Will Take
Charge and Oxbow among others) in
2012.
Banks died in 2014 and Lazenby’s
flat stable – based mainly in Louisiana – is now trained by his former
assistant Oscar Modica. The potential steeplechasers, including Aug. 24
Saratoga winner Help From Heaven,
moved to Dwight Hall in Tennessee
for early lessons and then on to Fout.
“Dwight gets them started over
poles and things and then they come to
me,” Fout said. “Gigi is great to train
for. I feel bad that she missed both of
the wins up here because her husband
has been ill, but she’s great, she never
gets mad, never gets disappointed. It
makes it so much more comfortable
to train a horse that way.”
– Joe Clancy
• Antonio Arriaga came to Saratoga with one horse. When he arrived,
he had four wins to his credit as a
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Chad Brown...................................36
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Mike Maker......................................9
Charlton Baker.................................9
Linda Rice........................................9
Jeremiah Englehart..........................9
Bill Mott...........................................8
Graham Motion................................7
Shug McGaughey.............................7
Jason Servis....................................7
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Irad Ortiz Jr....................................48
Javier Castellano............................46
John Velazquez..............................41
Luis Saez........................................27
Joel Rosario...................................25
Manny Franco................................19
Jose Lezcano.................................18
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trainer from 115 starts in his career.
He’ll leave with nearly twice that after a perfect Saratoga of three starts
and three wins.
Two of the victories came from
the 4-year-old Harlington filly Mastic, winner for a $16,000 tag Aug. 20
and for a $25,000 tag in Thursday’s
second. In between, Sevenfleethumor,
who Arriaga claimed for $20,000 at
Saratoga July 31, won a 1 1/8-mile
claimer Wednesday. Arriaga teamed
up with owner The Players Group for
all three wins.
“Is that 3-for-3? You’re still perfect,” a winner’s circle attendant
shouted to Arriaga after Thursday’s
win.
Although he’s been here for over a
decade, riding in the morning for two
regulars on the New York circuit, Arriaga didn’t expect this kind of success when he showed up this summer.
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(Rodriguez) and Todd Pletcher. They
helped me out. You need two trainers to sign you up as a trainer, so I
worked with them in the morning. I
ride for them and for myself, too.”
R. D. M. Racing Stable took Sevenfleethumor out of Wednesday’s
race for the $16,000 tag. Despite the
limited number in his stable, Arriaga
enjoys playing the claiming game and
plans on getting more horses this fall.
“I only have this one right now,”
Arriaga said after Mastic won Thursday. “The other one got claimed. This
is the only horse I have right now.
Hopefully we’ll get some more. I’m
going to claim something over the
weekend or at Belmont. No rush. In
the claiming business, you have to
be very careful. You can’t just claim
horses, you have to really study each
horse.”
Before he looks ahead, Arriaga will
try savoring the moment and hoping
he doesn’t wake from his dream.
“I’ve been here every year,” he
said. “I normally bring one or two.
This is the first time (I’ve won). It feels
great, hard to believe it.”
– Brandon Valvo
• Rachel’s Wall’s last trip to the
winner’s circle before Thursday’s
fifth, a 1 1/2-mile allowance-optional
on the inner turf course, came after
a 10-length win in allowance company in June 2015 at Delaware Park.
Mastic pulls away in Thursday’s second race.
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Although she crossed the wire first
Thursday, her connections weren’t
guaranteed a winner’s circle picture.
A stewards’ inquiry focused on her
actions in the stretch and jockey Jose
Lezcano, aboard fifth-place finisher
Bishop’s Pond, lodged an objection.
Trainer Graham Motion stood
watching Rachel Wall walk circles
on the track. Hands behind his back,
binoculars in his hands, he listened
to jockey Jose Ortiz while his eyes
remained on his horse. If he snuck a
peak at the judge’s view of the inquiry
looping on the infield video board, he
hid it well.
After a few minutes, the inquiry sign came down and Rachel Wall
stayed up. Ortiz climbed back aboard
and got his picture taken for the second of four times on the day’s card.
“That was a little cruel,” Motion
said after the race. “I didn’t really see
it, to be honest. I don’t know why it
took so long, really.”
Rachel Wall stalked the pace in the
marathon, following Daring Dutchess
a few lengths behind moderate fractions before taking aim at the leader turning for home. While Rachel
Wall ran in the clear down the lane,
she drifted in slightly just as Daring
Dutchess shifted out a path or two.
Caught in the middle, rival Bishop’s
Pond lost momentum. Out of trouble,
Rachel Wall kicked home to a halflength win.
Rachel Wall’s victory follows a second at 23-1 last out in a 1 3/8-mile
turf route at Saratoga Aug. 4. Motion
saw that she liked the added distance
and targeted Thursday’s race.
“Coming up here, we thought
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General Downs (right) edges Tale Of Mist in Thursday’s fourth.
we’d try and run her a little further,”
he said. “She acted like she’d go this
trip. I thought she ran great last time
and we just sat and waited for this
race. She ran beautifully today.”
Although Rachel Wall started her
summer at Motion’s home base at
Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland, he decided to leave her in Saratoga between races.
“She’s handled it well,” he said. “I
decided to keep her up here because
she’s pretty straightforward in the
morning. She’s done well up here, I
was looking forward to running her
today.”
Rachel Wall gave Motion his seventh win of the meet from 32 starts,
along with nine placings.
“Across the board we’ve been very
strong,” he said. “I don’t know if
we’ll have as many winners as we’ve
had before, but I think this is the most
competitive we’ve probably ever been
up here across the board.”
– Brandon Valvo
• West Point Thoroughbreds –
along with trainer Dallas Stewart –
celebrated with the usual enthusiasm
after General Downs won the fourth.
With only one previous race, the
3-year-old gelding was a determined
winner of the 1 1/8-mile maiden.
“Winning at a mile and an eighth
here after only one start is pretty
good. I couldn’t be happier,” Stewart
said.
Jockey Kendrick Carmouche hustled General Downs out of the gate
from his outside No. 7 post. After
stalking in third down the backstretch, the son of Mineshaft took a
slim lead at the top of the stretch and
showed heart in the final stages to win
by a head, holding off an outside chal-
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lenge by runner-up Tale Of Mist and
an inside bid by third-place T R Crew.
Tale Of Mist drifted in late, bumping
General Downs.
“Look at how his ears are pinned
back,” said West Point’s Tom Bellhouse, as the West Point group saw
the photo finish flash onto the NYRA
simulcast.
West Point’s Terry Finley detailed
the up and down process of getting
General Downs to the races. The
$300,000 Saratoga yearling of 2014
rewarded the patience of West Point
and Stewart.
“He was actually our most precocious 2-year-old last spring. All of
a sudden, he went through a funky
stage. He couldn’t work faster than
1:03,” Finley said. “We gave him
some time and had him ready to run
at the Fair Grounds, but he came up
with a problem in a hind ankle and
had to have surgery.”
After being outrun early in his
career debut, General Downs never
made an impact finishing seventh in
the 6-furlong maiden. Finley wasn’t
quite sure what to expect in General
Downs’ second start.
“When we ran here, I thought
it was a decent race. We kept going
back-and-forth for about 10 days if
we wanted to run him back here. I
was tentative, but Dallas felt stronger
than I did. I don’t like to run horses two turns off of one race,” Finley
said. “Kudos to him, because I probably wouldn’t have pulled the trigger.
I would’ve waited for Churchill and
run him seven-eighths or a mile and
then go two turns. That’s why we’re
a good team, we’ve been together 20
years and we test each other all the
time.”
– Ben Gowans
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Thursday September 1.
FIRST $65,000, ALLOWANCE, 4 YO’S & UP, 2 1/16M
7 Hardrock Eleven
B. Crowley
$11.00 $4.50 $3.90
2 Castle Hill
G. Galligan $2.70 $3.20
5 Blue Atlantic
P. Young $4.00
Gr/ro G 2010, by Rock Hard Ten - Stark Beauty by Unbridled’s Song
Owner: Virginia Lazenby Racing Stable LLC.
Trainer: Doug Fout. Breeder:
Farm III Enterprises & Off The HookPartners LLC (FL).
Late Scratches: Willow U, Reporter
Time: 3:46.63
Exacta (7-2), $36.80; Superfecta (7-2-5-9), $730.00; Trifecta (7-2-5),
$121.50
SECOND $50,000, CLAIMING $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6 1/2F
4 Mastic
J. Ortiz
$8.90 $5.60 $3.40
3 Lady Paradime
M. Franco $9.40 $4.90
2 Sweetrayofsunshine F. Geroux $2.80
B Filly 2012, by Harlington - Mosaic by Storm Cat
Owner: The Players Group. Trainer: Antonio Arriaga.
Breeder: Eugene Melnyk (ON).
Claimed: Sweetrayofsunshine claimed by Rodriguez, Rudy for $25,000
Time: 1:17.10
Daily Double (7-4), $56.50; Exacta (4-3), $67.00; Quinella (3-4),
$37.80; Superfecta (4-3-2-5), $2,787.00; Trifecta (4-3-2), $248.50
THIRD $56,000, MAIDEN CLAIMING $75,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M
3 Warranty
J. Castellano $6.30 $4.10 $2.60
8 More Than a Legend J. Ortiz $16.00 $5.50
1 Stormy Alexis (IRE) M. Franco $2.20
Dk B/ Br Filly 2013, by Artie Schiller - Shoppers Return by Put It Back
Owner: Klaravich Stables, Inc. and Lawrence, William H..
Trainer: Chad Brown. Breeder: Craig L. Wheeler (FL).
Late Scratches: Say Cin Cin
Time: 1:43.44
Daily Double (4-3), $31.40; Exacta (3-8), $111.50; Superfecta (3-8-12), $613.00; Trifecta (3-8-1), $269.50; Pic 3 (7-4-3), $207.50
FOURTH $83,000, MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M
7 General Downs
K. Carmouche $38.40 $11.60 $5.50
5 Tale of Mist
L. Saez $5.00 $3.20
1 T R Crew
A. Arroyo $2.70
B Gelding 2013, by Mineshaft - Plaid by Deputy Commander
Owner: West Point Thoroughbreds. Trainer: Dallas Stewart.
Breeder: Dixiana Farms, LLC (KY). Time: 1:51.43
$88.00; Superfecta (7-5-1-4), $3,895.00; Trifecta (7-5-1), $714.00; Pic
3 (4-3-7), $877.00
FIFTH $90,000, AOC $62,500, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/2M
3 Rachel Wall
J. Ortiz
$12.80 $6.20 $3.50
6 Evidently
J. Alvarado $5.30 $3.80
7 Daring Duchess
J. Velazquez $5.80
B Filly 2012, by Blame - Ocean Moon by Malibu Moon
Owner: Crager, Bill. Trainer: H. Motion.
Breeder: Stone Farm & John H. Adger (KY).
Late Scratches: Spa Town Parade
Time: 2:27.66
Daily Double (7-3), $393.50; Exacta (3-6), $65.50; Superfecta (3-6-75), $1,606.00; Trifecta (3-6-7), $509.00; Pic 3 (3-7-3), $1,182.00
SIXTH $50,000 MDN CL ($40,000) NYB 3&UP F&M, 1 1/16M TURF
8 Bareeqa
I. Ortiz Jr.
5.40
3.50
2.40
5 Aussie Awakening
J. Alvarado
5.30
3.80
3 Octacato
A. Arroyo
2.90
B. F. 2013, Girolamo-Arabic Dancer, Woodman.
Breeder: Sequel Thoroughbreds (NY).
Owner: Midwest Thoroughbreds. Trainer: Danny Gargan.
Exacta $28.80. Trifecta $84.00. Pick 3 $1,274. Pick 4 $3,887.00. Pick 5
$18,683.00. Double $37.60. Superfecta $849.00.
Time: 1:43.41.
SEVENTH $55,000 STARTER ALLOW 3&UP F&M, 1M TURF
9 Game Girl
J. Ortiz
15.20
8.00
4.70
5 Indygita
I. Ortiz Jr.
5.60
4.00
3 Hudson River Gal
J. Castellano
2.70
Dk. B./Br. F. 2013, Congrats-Grand Lioness, Lion Heart.
Breeder: Redmon Farm (KY).
Owner: Aron Yagoda. Trainer: Linda Rice.
Exacta $87.00. Trifecta $263.00. Double $42.80. Pick 3 $297.00. Superfecta $970.00.
Time: 1:34.70.
EIGHTH $90,000 ALLOW OPTIONAL CLM. 3&UP F&M, 6F
4 So You Say
J. Ortiz
12.80
6.40
6 Know It All Anna
L. Saez
5.90
7 Callista
I. Ortiz Jr.
Dk. B./Br. F. 2012, Flatter-Hurricane Hannah, Southern Halo.
Breeder: Elco Stable (KY). Owner: Gainesway Stable.
Trainer: Steve Asmussen.
Exacta $58.50. Trifecta $252.00. Pick 3 $397. Double $61.50.
fecta $546.00.
Time: 1:11.21
4.40
3.50
3.20
Super-
NINTH $100,000 P.G. JOHNSON STAKES. 2YO F, 1 1/16M TURF
4 Coasted
J. Lezcano
3.40
2.70
2.20
3 Noble Ready
I. Ortiz Jr. 10.40
4.90
7 Majestic Bonnie
M. Franco
3.40
B. F. 2014, Tizway-Malibu Pier, Malibu Moon.
Breeder: Spendthrift Farm (KY). Owner: Treadway Racing Stable.
Trainer: Leah Gyarmati. Time: 1:43.25.
Exacta $35.00. Trifecta $137.50. Grand Slam $21.40. Pick 3 $198.00.
Double $25.40. Superfecta $521.00.
TENTH $73,000 NYB MDN SPECIAL WGT 2YO 5 1/2F
2B Haul Anchor
J. Alvarado
3.80
2.30
2.50
1 Mo Maverick
M. Franco
4.90
4.10
2 Can You Diggit
A. Arroyo
3.80
2.30
2.50
B. c. 2014, Bernardini-Whichwaydidshego, Storm Cat.
Owner/Breeder: Chester and Mary Broman (NY).
Trainer: Kiaran McLaughlin.
Exacta $16.80. Trifecta $67.00. Superfecta $241.00. Double $6.70. Pick
3 $63.00. Pick 4 $476.50. Pick 6 (5 correct) $72.50. Pick 6 $6,168.00.
Time: 1:04.65.
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Trainer Todd Pletcher is all over the pedigree of
promising 2-year-old runner Made You Look.
The dark bay colt’s sire is More Than Ready, a
key horse in Pletcher’s early career who won four
graded stakes in 1999 and 2000, including Saratoga’s Grade 2 Sanford and the Grade 1 King’s Bishop. Pletcher also trained Made You Look’s dam,
Made You Look surges toward the finish line in Wednesday’s feature.
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Night And Day. She only raced once,
finishing ninth in a maiden special
going a mile on the turf. Her claim
to fame is her dam, 1995 champion
3-year-old filly Serena’s Song, who
was part of the barn when Pletcher
worked for Hall of Fame trainer D.
Wayne Lukas.
“It was an easy pedigree to like,
easy colt to like at the yearling sales,”
Pletcher said Wednesday afternoon,
moments after Made You Look became a stakes winner with a 2-length
triumph in Saratoga’s $200,000 With
Anticipation. “More Than Ready’s
been good to us for a long time. I’ve
had a lot of success with him and his
offspring so it was sort of a natural
fit for us.”
Owned by Let’s Go Stable and
Three Chimneys Farm, Made You
Look lived up to his pedigree in the
Grade 2 With Anticipation for 2-yearolds at 1 1/16 miles on the inner turf.
He took a spot running at the rail
just behind leaders Gemologister,
Monsoon K S A and Keep Quiet in
the early stages. With the pacesetters
three across and My Bo Chop to his
outside, Made You Look rode the rail
all the way up the backstretch and
around the far turn behind fractions
of :24.26, :49.34 and 1:14.14.
In the lane, Javier Castellano saw
a narrow opening at the fence inside
Gemologister. The jockey faced a decision – shoot the gap or lose time
swinging outside. Castellano chose
the former and his mount responded,
rocketing away from the field to win
the $200,000 stakes by 2 lengths in
1:43.12. Keep Quiet finished second
after getting caught wide on both
turns, and Bird’s Eye View rallied for
third.
“Turning for home, I didn’t have
any more room to go, I decided to go
inside on the rail because I could go
around but I had a couple horses outside,” Castellano said. “The hole was
a tiny hole inside at the rail. When
you ask, especially a 2-year-old to go
first time two turns, sometimes they
get spooked a little bit, but he did
it. He did it the right way. He went
through, took off and he finished very
well. I like that.”
Made You Look’s rider in all three
starts so far, Castellano has felt the
colt progress. He finished second in
his debut going 5 furlongs on the turf
at Belmont Park in May, won at 6
furlongs in June and handled everything about the longer, two-turn start
Wednesday.
“I’m very impressed,” Castellano
said. “Every single race, he gets better
and better and better and I thought he
was going to be a sprinter horse, but
the way he’s developing right now, today was a good test of how far he can
go. He did it the right way. I think he’s
going to be another level horse, he’s
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going to step up and be a graded stakes horse.”
Pletcher thought about the past afterward.
“I’ve always said there are really two horses
early in my career that got us jump started. Jersey
Girl (who won three consecutive Grade 1 stakes in
1998) was one and More Than Ready would be
the colt,” Pletcher continued. “He won significant
races, the kind of races people take note of. He’s a
horse that’s been good to us, good to me and my
family, good to the Scatuorchio family for a long
time.”
Racing for James Scatuorchio, More Than
Ready won seven of 17 starts for Pletcher – including five in a row to start his career and then adding the King’s Bishop in 2000. The son of Southern
Halo stands at WinStar Farm for $50,000 and has
sired more than 100 stakes winners including Let’s
Go Stable runners Verrazano and Daredevil.
Scatuorchio’s son Kevin and Bryan Sullivan formed
Let’s Go Stable in 2006 and joined forces with Three
Chimneys to buy Made You Look for $360,000 as a
yearling at Keeneland September last year.
“We were going to bid on him at Keeneland September and we saw Mr. Torrealba who owns Three
Chimneys was also in the back ring,” said Sullivan.
“He asked us if we liked the colt and he said, ‘I’d
love to split him with you guys. Go ahead and buy
Made You Look turns heads in the paddock.
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him, we’ll split him,’ so that’s why we partnered up
and split him together.”
Let’s Go Stables brought a large contingent to
the winner’s circle to celebrate Wednesday. Although there are about 14 partners in Made You
Look, 30 to 40 supporters showed up to see him
run and Made You Look gave them their first graded stakes win in Saratoga.
“It’s pretty cool. Anytime you can win up here
is special,” Sullivan said. “Tracks like Saratoga,
Keeneland, Belmont. It’s always nice, but here is the
mother of all tracks. It’s special, it’s tough to win
a maiden special weight let alone a graded stakes
race, so we’re excited and it’s why you’re in the
game, to win these races.”
Bred by the Robert and Beverly Lewis Trust,
Made You Look is the second foal out of Night And
Day, who made her only start for the Lewis Trust
in 2011. The daughter of Unbridled’s Song is out of
champion, Hall of Famer and $3.2 million earner
Serena’s Song and thus part of a deep female family
that includes Sophisticat, Grand Reward, Harlington, Serena’s Tune and Honor Code among others.
All that history can weigh on an owner trying to
manage expectations.
“It’s fun, it’s nerve-wracking,” Sullivan said.
“A lot of people are kind of new to the game, they
don’t know what to expect. They think we’re going
to win and you just try and do your best and at the
top of the stretch I thought we had a chance to win.
I’m just happy that he exploded and went through
the hole and Javier gave him a great ride. To celebrate with friends and family is great.”
As for Made You Look’s next start, Pletcher is
eyeing the Breeders’ Cup, but isn’t sure whether he’ll
train up to the championship or make another start
at Belmont in the Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes Oct. 1.
“We have Breeders’ Cup aspirations,” he said.
“I guess the question is whether we have a start
between now and then.”
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Paddy Young thought Saratoga
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breaking his right arm and cracking
his pelvis July 12. On the way home,
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P. Smithwick and others during the
meet.
But jump jockeys don’t stay down
for long.
With a plate in his right forearm
and a crack in the middle of his pelvis,
Young was back riding in 10 days and
back riding races by Aug. 4, when
he took a spin on veteran Spirit Of
Shankly, just for a test run.
Twenty-seven days after that test
run, Young was back in the winner’s
circle after guiding the Fisher-trained
Special Skills to win a hurdle handicap Wednesday. Owned by Sheila
Williams and Northwood Stable, the
son of Bernstein drew off to win by 2
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lengths over favorite Top Striker and
on the success of
Rudyard K. Bouncing back from a
New York-bred
third earlier in the meet, Special Skills
Femalevictory.
Sprinter finalist
earned his third career hurdle
Young settled Special Skills inside
in seventh of the eight-horse field but
lost that slot as the field turned down
the backside for the first time. Special
Skills grabbed the bit and ran up behind Rudyard K, forcing jockey Jack
Doyle into defense mode, as the duo
ripped through the field. By the time
the field left the backside, Orchestra
Leader led Rudyard K and Special
Skills, who had done a cannonball
into the field. Turning into the stretch
the second time, Special Skills pulled
Young into the back of Orchestra
Leader, clipping heals and bobbling
for a stride.
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“They didn’t go that quick today,
he settled nicely and then everything
stopped in front of him and he got
keen, I got up on Jack Doyle and set
him off,” Young said. “He clipped
heals, it was probably the best thing
to happen, it made him pay attention
a bit more.”
Special Skills continued to stalk,
flew the two hurdles on the backside,
slipped out on the turn and won easily as Young merely slapped Special
Skills on the right shoulder.
Young finished the Saratoga season with a win, a second aboard Andi’amu in the New York Turf Writers
Cup and two thirds from six rides.
“Everything I’ve ridden here has
run well, bar one horse, so I wasn’t
disappointed how things were going,
I’m lucky I’m even here after Philadelphia Park, so anything’s a bonus,” Young said. “When Andi’amu
ran well last week, I thought maybe
that’s as good as it gets, but the more
I looked at this horse, the better I
thought his chances were.”
Special Skills won three races on
the flat, including a two-other-than
allowance at Parx, for Alan Goldberg before being purchased by Fisher in his annual fall shopping spree
of Goldberg’s turf horses who aren’t
paying their way. Last season, Special
Skills broke his maiden over jumps at
Suffolk and won an allowance in his
next start. This year, he was winless in
four tries before Wednesday.
Young had never ridden the Sierra
Farm-bred 6-year-old and certainly
didn’t think he would be riding him
at Saratoga back in July.
“I called Jack on the way home
because I was supposed to ride Schoodic up here and told him he better
find someone else, no chance of being
back. After a couple of days, when
the swelling went down, I was always
able to move my fingers and in about
a week, I was able to get moving pretty good, in about 10 days I was back
riding out,” said Young who helps
train a string of horses with his wife
Leslie. “Once you’re back on a horse,
the healing is so much quicker, I knew
unless I fell, the arm was fine, it was
welded together in a sense. It was just
a matter of how much you really still
want to do it.”
At 40 years old, with five-champion jockey trophies on his mantel,
Young has thought about slowing
down but has yet to take his foot off
the gas.
“When you school something
good, you’re always thinking if you
have a superstar at home, you’ll come
back for him. You question comebacks all the time, you do think about
it, but I’ve been lucky, I know I’ve had
a fair few injuries but bones mend,”
Young said. “As long as you can get
up and get moving, there’s always a
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The father/son duo of owner Liam F. Benson (left) and trainer Liam D. Benson lead in Not So
Quiet Man after Wednesday’s third
chance and there’s always someone
worse off than me. This (comeback)
was never really in doubt, but still, I
look at my birthdate and think I’m
40, but every jump jockey wakes up
sore, every morning. There’s no sense
complaining.”
As for riding for Fisher, Young
won a race called the Legacy Chase
for him back in 2003, it was the Irishman’s first big break in this country.
“I started with him and I’ll finish
with him,” Young said.
– Sean Clancy
• Trainer Michael Dini smiled as
he watched Creaky Cricket leave the
winner’s circle and walk down the
track after the fifth race, but worried
that he hadn’t heard which horses
were claimed for the $25,000 tag.
Creaky Cricket was claimed, taken
by Gumpster Stable and trainer Bruce
Levine. Dini looked disappointed, but
the smile came back soon enough.
“We’ll get him back,” he said.
Creaky Cricket is Dini’s first winner at the meet. From just three prior starters, Dini saddled two second-place finishers, including one
from Creaky Cricket, who was the
runner up in a claimer at 28-1 Aug. 5.
Later on Wednesday’s card, Dini sent
Ballybrit Stable’s Bird’s Eye View to
a third in the Grade 2 With Anticipation.
“I’ve had a lot of luck at Saratoga,
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I don’t know why,” Dini said. “I lost
$100,000 (Coronation Cup) the other
day by a nose, this horse ran second,
the other horse just had a bad trip and
now (Creaky Cricket) won.”
Although Creaky Cricket’s last
race came as a surprise to Dini, he
expected a win Wednesday. The only
horse the trainer worried about was
Don’t Be So Salty, who dropped in for
a tag after nine straight stakes tries.
“I thought the last race was tough,”
he said. “He liked the distance, but
I didn’t know he’d run that good.
That’s why when I brought him back
I thought he’d win because the four
horses they claimed all finished behind him. Except (Don’t Be So Salty),
dropping out of stakes. But being a
trainer, you’re like, that’s a 10-class
drop. He can’t be 100 percent. We
were mad early because he was ahead
of us and he got a spot, but that’s how
racing is.”
Creaky Cricket won the 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint by 2 1/4 lengths from
favored Don’t Be So Salty at 7-1 after
a rail-skimming run.
“I love it. Everything’s good,” Dini
said.
– Brandon Valvo
• Most people frown on students
playing hooky, but Liam Benson managed to make his time away from the
classroom pay off.
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horse. Now he’s just strong, learned
to control it, a bit more mature.”
Benson may run one more horse
at Monmouth before packing up the
barn and heading back to Churchill
for the fall. Following his first Saratoga winner
to the test barn Benson summed up
his day in three words.
“That was wild,” he said.
– Linzay Marks
“Yeah, I actually missed class for
this. Missing my finance class right
now,” Benson, a senior at the University of Louisville, said after saddling
his first Saratoga winner with Not So
Quiet Man in the third.
Benson is a bit of a one-man show
when he comes to Saratoga – leading
the horse over, wearing the number
pinnie, leading the horse while legging up the rider, toting the cooler,
channel, bucket and sponge back to
the barn. He even plays van driver.
“I drove him up (Wednesday)
morning,” said Benson who keeps his
five-horse stable at Monmouth Park
in the summer. “Drove back from
Kentucky (Tuesday), got in about 9
o’clock. Slept for about three hours,
went to the barn, loaded up the trailer
and brought him in myself.”
Benson, 21, is due to graduate in
December. To make juggling school
and training easier, he moves his
string to Churchill Downs for the fall. Benson left Not So Quiet Man with
Derek Ryan last fall, hoping the son
Arella Rockstar streaks home in Wednesday’s last race.
of Freud could pick up a New Yorkbred win before getting the winter off.
Not So Quiet Man didn’t win in four
starts to end his 2-year-old season and
his win Thursday came in his fifth
start of 2016. Benson hadn’t lost faith
despite the gelding’s 0-for-10 record.
“I knew I would get it done with
him eventually, just didn’t know if it
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would be here or Belmont,” said Benson, who trains for his father Liam F.
Benson. “It’s really nice that it was
here.”
“To be honest this win is going
pay a lot of bills. Mostly the worker’s
comp he’s racked up. As a baby he was
wild. He put a couple exercise riders
in the hospital. He was a tough little
• Debut winner Arella Rockstar
gave Ralph Nicks his first win of the
meet in the finale, a 6-furlong maiden
claimer for 2-year-old fillies.
The daughter of Astrology rolled
to a 2 3/4-length win for Nicks and
owner J Stables, which paid $13,000
for the filly at last year’s Keeneland
September yearling sale.
“I felt she got away good and got
a good trip, so it gave her a chance,”
Nicks said. “I thought we were in the
right position with her.”
Arella Rockstar, who was claimed
out of the race for $50,000 by Rudy
Rodriguez for e Five Racing Thoroughbreds, got Nicks in the win column after an 0-for-12 start with three
seconds and a third.
– Linzay Marks
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Wednesday August 31.
FIRST $70,000, HANDICAP HURDLE, 4 YO’S & UP, 2 1/16M
1 Special Skills
P. Young
$11.00 $5.10 $3.20
3 Top Striker
B. Dalton $3.80 $2.70
2 Rudyard K
J. Doyle $4.70
Dk B/ Br G 2010, by Bernstein - Kentucky Whisper by Southern Halo
Owner: Williams, Sheila J. and Northwood Stables. Trainer: Jack Fisher.
Breeder: Sierra Farm (KY). Late Scratches: Overwhelming
Time: 3:54.09. Exacta (1-3), $27.80; Superfecta (1-3-2-7), $676.00;
Trifecta (1-3-2), $112.50
SECOND $37,000, MAIDEN CLAIMING $20,000, 3 & UP, 1 1/8M
1A Musical Comedy
J. Castellano $6.50 $2.90 $2.10
5 Vilma
J. Ortiz $2.50 $2.10
6 Pontastic
I. Ortiz, Jr. $2.30
Ch Colt 2013, by It’s No Joke - Musical Touch by Touch Gold
Owner: Klaravich Stables, Inc. and Lawrence, William H..
Trainer: Chad Brown. Breeder: Frank Hopewell Runner’s Dream Farm (PA).
Claimed: Musical Comedy claimed by Bulger, Joseph for $20,000, Pontastic claimed by Asmussen, Steven M. for $20,000, Active Management claimed by My Purple Haze Stables for $20,000
Time: 1:51.75
Daily Double (1-1), $29.60; Exacta (1-5), $12.20; Quinella (1-5), $5.30;
Superfecta (1-5-6-7), $113.00; Trifecta (1-5-6), $22.40
THIRD $45,000, NY-BRED MDN CLM $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F
10 Not So Quiet Man
J. Ortiz
$10.80 $5.20 $3.60
4 Colonel Andy
K. Carmouche $8.10 $5.20
9 Hopper Dropper
J. Torres $8.20
Gr/ro Gelding 2013, by Freud - Quiet Julia by Silver Ghost
Owner: Benson, Liam, F.. Trainer: Liam Benson.
Breeder: J. P. Delaney (NY). Late Scratches: Chosen One Elijah, Irish
Hope, Enchanted Forest. Time: 1:03.06
Daily Double (1-10), $46.40; Exacta (10-4), $71.00; Superfecta (104-9-1), $5,240.00; Trifecta (10-4-9), $783.00; Pic 3 (1-1-10), $141.00
FOURTH $32,000, CLAIMING $16,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8M
4 Seventhfleethumor
A. Arroyo
$19.20 $8.80 $4.60
1 Lucky Lotto
E. Cancel $6.00 $4.30
2 Castaway
J. Ortiz $3.40
B Colt 2012, by Afleet Alex - Fleeting Humor by Distorted Humor
Owner: The Players Group. Trainer: Antonio Arriaga.
Breeder: Kenneth L. Ramsey & Sarah K. Ramsey (KY).
Claimed: Seventhfleethumor claimed by R. D. M. Racing Stable for
$16,000, Marriage Fever claimed by Flying P Stable for $16,000, Cousin Stephen claimed by Geesey, Kathy L. for $16,000
Time: 1:51.69
$53.00; Superfecta (4-1-2-6), $644.00; Trifecta (4-1-2), $261.50; Pic
3 (1-10-4), $403.00
FIFTH $50,000, CLAIMING $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F
2 Creaky Cricket
J. Lezcano
$16.60 $5.90 $4.10
10 Don’t Be So Salty
J. Ortiz $3.10 $2.80
9 Gran the Man
L. Saez $4.60
Dk B/ Br Colt 2012, by Yesbyjimminy - Serene Lake by Meadowlake
Owner: Ballybrit Stable, LLC. Trainer: Michael Dini.
Breeder: Bridlewood Farm (FL).
Late Scratches: Stay Determined, Alpha Slew
Claimed: Creaky Cricket claimed by Gumpster Stable LLC for $25,000,
Don’t Be So Salty claimed by Reyana and Reya Racing for $25,000,
Latigo Trail claimed by Whisper Hill Farm for $25,000
Time: 1:02.41
Daily Double (4-2), $167.50; Exacta (2-10), $53.00; Superfecta (2-109-11), $4,039.00; Trifecta (2-10-9), $318.50; Pic 3 (10-4-2), $1,027.00
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SIXTH $50,000, NY-BRED CLAIMING $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6F
3 Comandante
I. Ortiz, Jr.
$5.40 $3.00 $2.40
6 Uncharted Course
M. Franco $3.20 $2.50
4 Sidearm
R. Santana, Jr. $2.60
B Gelding 2010, by Frost Giant - Slew Motion by Slew Gin Fizz
Owner: Mondello, Ben. Trainer: David Cannizzo.
Breeder: Andrew Cohen, IEAH Stables & Partners (NY).
Claimed: Uncharted Course claimed by Mitre Box Stable for $25,000
Time: 1:10.36. Daily Double (2-3), $50.50; Exacta (3-6), $18.00; Superfecta (3-6-4-7), $129.50; Trifecta (3-6-4), $35.40; Pic 3 (4-2-3),
$487.50; Pic 4 (10-4-2-3), $3,522.00; Pic 5 (1-10-4-2-3), $13,148.00
SEVENTH $47,000, WCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M
2 King of Spades
F. Geroux
$14.00 $7.00 $4.00
8 Task Force Glory
L. Saez $9.90 $4.50
10 Circus Performer
J. Castellano $2.90
Dk B/ Br G 2012, by Street Cry (IRE) - Dynamite Lass by Dynaformer
Owner: Brewster, Clark, O.. Trainer: Steven Asmussen.
Breeder: Adena Springs & Mark & Inez Corrado (KY). Time: 1:42.20
Late Scratches: D. S. Boyd, Parting Gift, Holy Week, American Phantom, Dixie Runner, Know Your Customer, Tom’s Vision
Claimed: Circus Performer claimed by Cloonan, Michael P. for $40,000,
Araqeel claimed by Asmussen, Steven M. for $40,000, Gunlock claimed
by Check Mark Stables for $40,000. Daily Double (3-2), $41.60; Exacta
(2-8), $146.50; Superfecta (2-8-10-11), $1,789.00; Trifecta (2-8-10),
$548.00; Pic 3 (2-3-2), $371.00
EIGHTH $75,000, NY-BRED ALLOWANCE, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M
3 Barrel of Dreams
J. Velazquez
$5.20 $2.90 $2.30
7 Table for Six
J. Castellano $4.00 $2.80
4 Weather Girl
I. Ortiz, Jr. $3.30
B Filly 2012, by Not For Love - Wide Barrel by Broad Brush
Owner: Newman Racing. Trainer: Charlton Baker.
Breeder: Tri-County Stables (NY). Time: 1:42.33
Late Scratches: Saratiago, Queen of Castle, Young Anna Lee, Razia Sultana, Lovely Lanie. Daily Double (2-3), $35.60; Exacta (3-7), $18.40;
Superfecta (3-7-4-2), $448.40; Trifecta (3-7-4), $46.40; Pic 3 (3-2-3),
$139.00
NINTH $200,000, STAKES - WITH ANTICIPATION S., 2 YO, 1 1/16M
2 Made You Look
J. Castellano $5.30 $3.00 $2.20
7 Keep Quiet (FR)
F. Geroux $3.10 $2.50
8 Bird’s Eye View
I. Ortiz, Jr. $5.40
Dk B/ Br C 2014, by More Than Ready - Night and Day by Unbridled’s Song
Owner: Let’s Go Stable and Three Chimneys Farm.
Trainer: Todd Pletcher. Breeder: The Robert & Beverly Lewis Trust (KY).
Time: 1:43.12
Daily Double (3-2), $11.00; Exacta (2-7), $14.60; Superfecta (2-7-8-5),
$957.00; Trifecta (2-7-8), $136.50; Pic 3 (2-3-2), $99.00; Grand Slam
(3/4/6-2/8/10-3/4/7-2), $12.40
TENTH $50,000, MAIDEN CLAIMING $50,000, 2 YO, 6F
5 Arella Rockstar
M. Franco
$26.00 $10.80 $6.70
4 Honor Way
J. Velazquez $7.10 $5.80
13 Banty’s Girl
D. Davis $5.80
B Filly 2014, by Astrology - Story Untold by Old Fashioned
Owner: J Stables. Trainer: Ralph Nicks. Breeder: Machmer Hall (KY).
Late Scratches: Twilight Owl, Woundwithhereyes, Tiz All Behind Us,
Buy Low Sell High, Promise Me Tiz, Murrell’s Belle
Claimed: Arella Rockstar claimed by e Five Racing Thoroughbreds for
$50,000, Loose claimed by Blue Stork Stables for $50,000, Hexameter
claimed by Gatsas Stables for $50,000, Jax claimed by Miuccio, Antonino for $50,000. Time: 1:11.73
Daily Double (2-5), $95.50; Exacta (5-4), $179.00; Superfecta (5-4-138), $7,725.00; Trifecta (5-4-13), $1,541.00; Pic 3 (3-2-5), $277.50; Pic
4 (2-3/11/12/13/14-2-5), $1,655.00; Pic 6 (2-3-2-3/11/12/13/14-2-5),
$700.00; Pic 6 (2-3-2-3/11/12/13/14-2-5), $49,772.00
On Track Handle: 2,328,891. Inter-State Handle: 8,407,502
WEDNESDAY SARATOGA RESULTS PHOTOS
BY TOD MARKS
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Help Wanted
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Middleburg, Virginia farm operation. Responsible for the care of lay-ups from
the track and assisting trainer with the re-schooling of OTTB for sport horse
careers. Perfect for an experienced horseman, who might want a break from the
track. A background with race horses and show horses is helpful. Ability to ride is
ideal but not mandatory. Enthusiasm, attention to details and patience required.
Small stable so will be asked to do all duties with the help of a full time groom.
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Table Toppers
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BY TERESA GENARO
Every Travers day, the most valued piece of real estate at Saratoga
Race Course is a picnic table in the
backyard. About 8 feet long, all 850
of them are snatched up within minutes of the gates opening at 7 a.m.,
by people who have been waiting in
line since the wee hours of the morning for the chance to run like hell to
the backyard and plant a flag – sometimes literally – at a favorite spot and
spread out food, drinks, and past performances.
While Travers Day is the apotheosis of the hunt for picnic tables, they
are in demand on pretty much every
day of the meet, so much so that in
recent years the New York Racing Association began charging for the right
to reserve one, at first only on Travers
day; last year, that practice extended to every day of the meeting, with
100 tables available to people who’d
prefer to pay than to get up early to
reserve one in person.
While the number of tables available to reserve was reduced by about
10 percent this year, the overall
number of tables in the backyard increased, with another 100 added before this summer’s meet began.
And numbers like that are music to
Brien Hollowood’s ears.
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tor of Unlimited Potential, which has sold picnic tables to the track for more than 16 years. Located on
Cady Hill Boulevard, a 10-minute drive from the
track, Unlimited Potential has for more than three
decades offered support, training, employment and
recreational opportunities to people diagnosed with
mental illness.
Unlimited Potential was established in 1979, setting up shop at first downtown, founded by people
whose children had mental health issues.
“The children were aging out of the youth system,” said Hollowood, “and there was nothing to
help them with employment. Unlimited Potential
was started to help people find work in the community and to bring them to a sheltered workshop and
training facility.”
Now serving about 78 clients, Unlimited Potential operates out of a 27,000 square foot facility
that includes offices, workspaces and a warehouse.
The workshop offers paid, minimum-wage employment to clients unable to work in the larger community.
On a recent morning, one client was individually shrink-wrapping locally made dog biscuits. Another was sifting peat that would be used in the
manufacturing of high-quality paper. The woodworking shop was quiet, but in the afternoons,
Rick Marshall, the woodwork supervisor, comes in
to cut wood supplied by Curtis Lumber and begins
to assemble Adirondack chairs, picnic tables, and
other wood products Unlimited Potential’s clients
will later complete.
Clients range in age from 18 to their 60s, diagnosed with illnesses such as bipolar disorder and
schizophrenia. As they age out of the work force,
they can join the on-site Golden Club for clients 55
and older to discuss current events, watch movies,
play computer games and engage in physical exercise and field trips.
Unlimited Potential has a staff of 13, down from
18 due to New York State budget cuts, which has
led Hollowood, reluctantly, to close programs in
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With its white Unlimited Potential tag, this picnic table was
ready to greet some racegoers..
addition to reducing staff. State funding is the organization’s main revenue stream, and Hollowood
has recently had to raise prices on the items the
company produces to help make up the shortfall.
Still, the products are reasonably priced. Unlimited Potential delivers in the Capital Region, and
Hollowood routinely gets phone calls from people
who have seen the company’s name on a picnic table at the track and want to order one for the backyard. Prices start at $145 for a 6-foot pine table
and go up to $250 for a 12-foot pressure-treated
one. Also available for sale are shrub covers and
Adirondack chairs in a variety of sizes, the latter of
which can be custom-painted.
Unlimited Potential clients also work in the
greater community, at places like the Wesley Community, which offers senior care and apartments;
the Holiday Inn, at which Hollowood’s wife Cindy
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“We hired a job-development person in November, and she’s already found work for over 30 people in the community,” said Hollowood. “One of
the strong points of being in Saratoga is that it’s
such a place that likes to do things for other people
in the community.”
In 2015, NYRA hired its first Unlimited Potential client to work the Saratoga meet, as a whitecap.
This year, another client was hired as a parking attendant.
“Unlimited Potential is an invaluable resource
for Saratoga and beyond,” said NYRA spokesperson Pat McKenna. “If NYRA can contribute to
that, if we can strengthen the organization in some
small way through commissioning tables each season, or providing a pathway to seasonal jobs at the
track, we feel proud of that relationship and hope
to continue it. It reflects our commitment to partnering with the local community and this non-profit doing vital work in Saratoga and upstate New
York.”
Unlimited Potential is a 501c3 charity that accepts donations—“the bigger, the better,” said Hollowed with a laugh—and is always on the lookout
for businesses with which it can partner to create
opportunities for clients.
In early 2017, Hollowood will get the order for
next summer’s picnic tables from NYRA, and then
the staff at Unlimited Potential will get to work, assembling the furniture that will be so highly prized
at next summer’s racing meeting. As NYRA finds
tables that have begun to weaken or degrade, they
pull them from the inventory and order replacements.
“Unfortunately, they last forever,” joked Hollowood. “We do too good a job. We wish they’d
break down a lot sooner.”
Quality products, created by the efforts of people whose lives are enriched by Unlimited Potential,
in turn enrich the experiences of people who come
to the backyard at Saratoga year after year, and of
people across the state and the country, and around
the world, who contract Unlimited Potential’s services or purchase their work.
“Good work, great results is kind of our motto,”
said Hollowood. “It’s been working that way for all
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BY SEAN CLANCY
The Salvation Army rings its bell. A woman in a
slinky black dress and six-inch heals unfolds a baby
carriage, while holding an infant, bumps her arm
and shows it to her man, he kisses it gently, they
walk into the races.
A security guard waits in the shade. Louie, who
played catcher on the last softball team I played on,
tells me about a photo he took of a bathing cat.
Chad Brown wins another race. A grandmother
takes a photo of granddaughter and grandfather,
the grandfather takes a photo of granddaughter
and grandmother, then an EMT steps in and takes
a photo of all three together, they smile and thank
him.
A young couple walks in, hand-in-hand, the sky’s
the limit for the day, for their lives. Jimmy Dintino
walks in and Bill Higgins walks out. Loretta Lusteg limps to her car. A trash cart, needing grease on
its wheels, teeters past. Three boys and my college
roommate walk out of the far gate near the paddock
chute and flag me down.
Paul Wasserman had the summer off back in
2001, he came to Saratoga to help launch The Saratoga Special. He was single, out of work and crazy
enough to believe this thing could work. He’s now
married, three kids, works for himself and is sane
enough to make a day trip to Saratoga every summer. This year, he brought two of his boys, 11-yearold Nolan and 9-year-old Robbie, and their friend,
Ryan, 11.
Boys of Summer
“This is Jimbo,” I say, asking a bay pony to come
see the boys.
Wasserman does the same clucking noise he’s
been doing since the first time I took him to Fair
Hill Training Center back in 1990. The horses have
yet to respond to the city kid’s attempt at bonding.
“Is that really his name?” Wasserman asks.
“Of course.”
I have no idea what his name is but people like
knowing horses’ names.
“Is he a racehorse?” Nolan asks.
I flip his lip to check for a tattoo.
“Why’d you do that?” Ryan asks.
“To see if he has a tattoo.”
“A tattoo?” Nolan asks. “Why would he have a
tattoo?”
I try to explain and realize it’s going nowhere.
“Let’s bet the next race.”
I read the names to the boys and they yell out
numbers like a bingo announcer. We drive the golf
cart to the betting window and just get the bets
down before the field for the fourth breaks on the
other side of the infield.
Nobody has General Downs at a big price, but
one of us hits Tale Of Mist to place. As long as we’re
cashing, everybody’s happy.
We hop back in the golf cart and tour past Clare
Court and Greentree. I ask if they want to be paperboys next summer.
They’re not convinced.
I offer them lunch. They decide they’d rather eat
Fresh off a couple of winning $1 place bets, they in town.
hop in the golf cart and the annual tour begins.
We wait for the mile-and-a-half filly and mare al“Can we see Circus?” Nolan, 11, asks.
lowance, landing on five of the seven starters.
I think of Allen Jerkens and his old standby, Cir“I tried to buy the Form last night, I went to two
cus, who we used to visit every summer.
stores and couldn’t find it,” Wasserman says, as he
“Was Circus a racehorse?” Nolan asks.
reads my Form, explaining Beyer Figures. “This
“No, just a pony,” I say. “A great pony.”
one’s trending up, this one’s trending down.”
We roll to the backside, stopping near the stalls
Wasserman tries to teach the boys how to read
of the pony barn near the Morning Line Kitchen.
the Form.
“What’s this L 122 mean?” he asks.
“The L means Lasix and the 122 is the weight
he’s carrying, the jockey and his tack.”
“What’s Lasix?” Nolan asks.
I try to explain, “It’s a medication.”
“For what?” Nolan asks.
I stammer.
“So, every horse is carrying the L medication,”
Nolan says.
I change the subject.
John Velazquez rides past.
“How many pairs of goggles do the jockeys
wear?” Ryan asks.
“Several,” I say. “They pull them down as they
get dirty.”
“So they throw them off?”
We bet the fifth, again hitting $1 place bet. We’re
rolling.
We drive back to the front side, Wasserman
handing off the three kids to me while he makes a
phone call.
“Let’s go to the Big Red Spring.”
The boys fill three cups, unsure, but willing to
try.
“Salty,” Ryan says.
“It’s like seltzer,” Robbie says.
“It’s bad every year,” Nolan says.
We walk away, laughing.
We bet the sixth, hit another place horse and
Wasserman divvies up the money.
Time to go, I drive them to the Union Avenue
gate near the Hall of Fame and they pile out of the
golf cart.
Robbie climbs a tree, walking his feet up the
trunk while holding a branch. Ryan tries it and
laughs. Robbie throws a tennis ball in the air. Wasserman comes up with a game, “Hit the geek.” A
tennis ball sails past my ear.
We say goodbye for another year.
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