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“Listen, everybody should be a John Phillips. Great people.”Trainer Jimmy Toner on his longtime owner, co-owner of Diana runner-up Recepta

“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

“Hey, Puppy Dog.”Pletcher’s greeting to bloodstock agent Steve Young on the backside Saturday morning

“I spent three summers in school there.”Former racing writer Fran LaBelle, after hearing

about The Special’s home in what used to be a school building

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“There was a horse we beat a nose one day, the horse was in the paddock for the stake and we were in the last race, the race after the stake. I said, ‘Well, we’ll beat him.’ We just beat him, by a nose. You had to pay attention to the post time back then, we were stabled where Jimmy is now, nobody told you, they didn’t announce anything, say you were in the seventh race, you had someone watch the fifth race, by the time they got back to the barn, you took the horse out of the tub and started over, just about the right time, but you had to pay attention.”

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The Chief . . . Day 3


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 ex-actly 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 gam-blers and owners that don’t know what horsemanship is,” Moquett said Saturday morning after complet-ing 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 claim-ing trainers, they either wait for ev-erything 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

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., Mo-quett 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 bet-ter so I’m proud of him.”

Knights Key: A winner of his only start last November at Churchill Downs, the son of Gi-ant’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 Lieb-longs. 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 Mu-sic. 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 In-vasion, 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

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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 Sara-toga 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 any-thing 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 real-ly nice way of moving. We’re going to run in about two weeks when the races go sev-en-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 Oak-lawn 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 sea-son. 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.”

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Torrent: The daughter of Blame and stakes winner Tidal Pool finished a late-running third in Friday’s sixth race behind Bowie, losing by 1 1/4 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 to-gether without having to do all this work.’ I can’t stand that. I’m from the school of ‘give them a race,’ . . . I’m proud of her. Everybody was excited before the race and they’re even more excited after.”

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 Lega-cy’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. He had a tough campaign.”

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BY TOM LAWThe few days that Songbird has spent in upstate New

York make it pretty easy to comprehend why those clos-est to her say they feel no pressure when it comes to maintaining the California filly’s unbeaten record, grow-ing 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 Tod Marks

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer feeds Songbird some snacks in advance of today’s Grade 1 Coaching Club.

Soaringin SaratogaUnbeaten champion Songbird stands out in Gr. 1 for 3YO fillies

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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 to-day’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 Jer-ry 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 be-fore 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 Fri-day 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 Song-bird 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,” Hollen-dorfer said when asked if she’d been any different here in Saratoga versus at home.

Rodriguez, a 29-year-old native of Mexico, de-scribed Songbird as “special,” perhaps a vast un-derstatement for a filly some consider the best race-horse 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 state-ment 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 Ze-nyatta.

“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 anoth-er 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 show-ing 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, sev-en 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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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 Ken-tucky Oaks with Carina Mia and didn’t. Songbird missed her chance due to illness; Carina Mia be-cause 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 out-break. The Malibu Moon filly got out in time for the Grade 1 Ashland but finished fourth. She re-bounded 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 reg-ular rider Julien Leparoux.

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 Ash-brook Farm and she’s been off since a seventh in the Kentucky Oaks. The ultimate goal is one of Sarato-ga’s signature events later in the meet.

“I want to run her in the Alabama, she’s a mile-and-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 Bil-ly’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.”

“I’m ready to run, I expect her to run well, but we’re looking to the Alabama, I just want the mile-and-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 re-ally 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.

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Coaching stone gets new homeToday’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 req-uisite 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 driv-ing evoked by the race’s name (about noon), and while the history of the Coaching Club is well-documented, another piece of history

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 pro-ceeding 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

it; at the end of the racing day, it was often bur-ied 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 ped-estal 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

Carina Mia and trainer BIll Mott (left) share a moment at the Oklahoma training track Saturday morning.

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BY TERESA GENAROTwo 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-Tip-ton 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 lat-er, she was his. He named her Song-bird, and in an eight-race undefeated career, she’s earned $2.1 million. Sun-day afternoon, she’ll try to keep that streak alive in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks.

Three years before that Fasig-Tip-ton yearling sale, in Ocala, Fla., Por-ter spent nearly as much money as he did on Songbird, going to $350,000

for a Silver Train colt at the OBS March sale of 2-year-olds. Named Barefoot Mailman, he was retired af-ter three races, one win, and earnings of $28,296 for Fox Hill and trainer Steve Hobby.

“My father used to train racehors-es, 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 be-lieve they’re extremely talented, and they were superstars in the jumping world for many years. Then warm-bloods came along.”

Decades ago, Thoroughbreds were, says trainer Rick Violette, “the king of the show horse world.” Then

Courtesy of Cinthia Ane McGreevyBarefoot Mailman on the racetrack, Cosnochta is a budding star in the show ring.

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they fell out of fashion, thought to be too hot, too hard to handle.

So in 2012, as part of the after-care program begun by the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Associa-tion, of which Violette is president, Take2 came to be. Sponsored by NY-THA and New York Thoroughbred Breeders and supported by a variety of industry organizations, including

Fasig-Tipton, Take2 funds prize mon-ey and awards in hunter/jumper show classes that are restricted to Thor-oughbreds.

“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 some-thing.”

“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.”

Now called Cosnochta (“bare-foot” in Gaelic), Cos for short, he’s based in Florida near McGreevy’s Davie home, in training with Deb-bie Ward of Grassy Ridge Farm, and he’s ranked fifth in the Take2 jumper standings.

“He took two classes in Welling-ton,” said McGreevy, “and he ended up being the Take2 jumper circuit champion at the Winter Equine Fes-tival.”

“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 re-ally 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 rid-ing, is on his back.

“He takes care of me,” said Mc-Greevy. “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 at-tract 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 retir-ee. 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 being an ethical choice. Once she’s in-

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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 sec-ond 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 pro-gram that provides them with some options.

“The McGreevys have been a great family to work with,” said Ward. “They have a true passion and excite-ment for Thoroughbreds, not just in racing, but in other parts of the horse world.”

For more, see take2tbreds.com.

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1ST (1:00PM). $25,000, CLM $12,500, 3 YO’S & UP, 6FExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double1 ..... 2 ............Red Creme ..................... L. Saez ............................. D. Jacobson ................. 8-51a .... 7 ............Imslopokerodriguez ....... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ D. Jacobson ................. 8-52 ..... 1 ............Perfect Disco ................. J. Torres .......................... G. Gullo ...................... 20-13 ..... 3 ............Because I’m Happy ........ S. Camacho, Jr. ............... J. Parker ..................... 30-14 ..... 4 ............Gambler’s Ghost ............ A. Arroyo ......................... C. Martin ...................... 8-15 ..... 5 ............Branded Hand ................ J. Leparoux ...................... J. Englehart ................ 15-16 ..... 6 ............American Creed .............. J. Baez ............................. O. Barrera, III ............. 20-17 ..... 8 ............Western Tryst ................. K. Carmouche .................. J. Englehart ................ 12-18 ..... 9 ............Storm Pursuit ................ M. Franco ........................ C. Englehart .................. 7-29 ..... 10 ..........Comandante ................... R. Santana, Jr. ................. D. Cannizzo ................ 12-110..... 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 Double1 ..... 1 ............Rimanisempreforte ........ J. Lezcano ....................... D. Schettino ............... 12-12 ..... 2 ............Super Marina ................. J. Ortiz ............................. G. Weaver................... 10-13 ..... 3 ............Realism .......................... F. Geroux ......................... W. Mott ...................... 12-14 ..... 4 ............Forres Lily ...................... M. Luzzi ........................... L. Jolley ...................... 15-15 ..... 5 ............Grand Banks .................. A. Arroyo ......................... D. Donk ...................... 20-16 ..... 6 ............Angelo’s Ashes ............... J. Rosario ........................ W. Ward ....................... 5-17 ..... 7 ............Price too High ................ I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ W. Ward ....................... 4-18 ..... 8 ............Teresa Z ......................... J. Velazquez ..................... T. Pletcher .................... 3-19 ..... 9 ............Majestic Bonnie .............. M. Franco ........................ G. Weaver..................... 6-110..... 10 ..........Enstone .......................... J. Leparoux ...................... M. Casse ...................... 8-111..... AE..........Kencho ........................... J. Alvarado ...................... J. Desormeaux ........... 20-112..... AE..........Joust .............................. J. Rosario ........................ C. Clement.................... 8-113..... AE..........Malibu Bliss ................... F. Geroux ......................... M. Casse .................... 12-114..... MTO ......Seam .............................. . ...................................... T. Pletcher .................... 5-1

3RD (2:07PM). $85,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, 6FExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Evolution ........................ J. Rosario ........................ D. Cannizzo .................. 7-22 ..... 2 ............Homespun Hero ............. J. Castellano .................... B. Tagg ......................... 4-13 ..... 3 ............Delta Outlaw ................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ G. Weaver..................... 5-14 ..... 4 ............Bird Song ....................... J. Ortiz ............................. I. Wilkes ....................... 3-15 ..... 5 ............Entertainer ..................... R. Santana, Jr. ................. R. Moquett ................... 8-16 ..... 6 ............Portando ........................ L. Saez ............................. S. Asmussen ................ 5-2

4TH (2:41PM). $73,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 6 1/2FExacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Wild With Style .............. E. Esquivel ....................... L. O’Brien ................... 15-12 ..... 2 ............Askfor Forgiveness ........ J. Lezcano ....................... I. Wilkes ....................... 2-13 ..... 3 ............Pira ................................ E. Cancel .......................... H. Bond ...................... 20-14 ..... 4 ............Barbie On a Budget ........ J. Rosario ........................ J. Kimmel ..................... 4-15 ..... 5 ............Persky’s Spirit ................ A. Arroyo ......................... J. Ortiz ........................ 30-16 ..... 6 ............Squeezed ....................... K. Carmouche .................. B. Levine ...................... 6-17 ..... 7 ............Woodville ....................... M. Franco ........................ J. Abreu ........................ 6-18 ..... 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)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Sweet Nkosi ................... M. Franco ........................ R. Walsh..................... 20-12 ..... 2 ............Dauphine Russe (FR) ..... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ J. Servis ....................... 4-13 ..... 3 ............Angie’s Prim Lady .......... J. Rosario ........................ A. Stall, Jr. .................. 10-14 ..... 4 ............Katie O. .......................... L. Saez ............................. J. Toscano, Jr. .............. 6-15 ..... 5 ............You Lie ........................... J. Ortiz ............................. C. Englehart ................ 12-16 ..... 6 ............Goodbye Sorrow ............ J. Velazquez ..................... W. Ward ....................... 7-27 ..... 7 ............Sunrise Kitty .................. J. Lezcano ....................... J. Servis ....................... 5-28 ..... 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)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 6, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Truth .............................. J. Velazquez ..................... J. Jerkens ..................... 6-12 ..... 2 ............Church Social ................. J. Ortiz ............................. C. McGaughey III ......... 4-13 ..... 3 ............Llanita (GB) .................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ C. Brown ...................... 3-14 ..... 4 ............Mayas Queen Neetee ...... S. Bridgmohan ................ M. Dilger .................... 12-15 ..... 5 ............Bluegrass Sunset ........... J. Castellano .................... C. Brown ...................... 8-16 ..... 6 ............Sassy Little Lila .............. L. Saez ............................. B. Cox ........................ 10-17 ..... 7 ............Tapit Together ................ F. Geroux ......................... M. Matz ...................... 15-18 ..... 8 ............More Than Kisses .......... J. Rosario ........................ T. Pletcher .................... 7-29 ..... MTO ......Girl Talk .......................... J. Velazquez ..................... K. McLaughlin .............. 8-510..... 10 ..........River City Lady ............... J. Leparoux ...................... E. Kenneally ................ 15-111..... 11 ..........Street Strut .................... J. Alvarado ...................... W. Mott ...................... 20-17TH (4:25PM). $62,000, CLM $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16M (TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Midnight Notes .............. I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ J. Toscano, Jr. ............ 12-12 ..... 2 ............Coalport ......................... J. Ortiz ............................. M. Maker ...................... 5-13 ..... 3 ............Coturnix ......................... A. Arroyo ......................... A. Adsit ........................ 8-14 ..... 4 ............Captain’s Affair (IRE) ...... J. Leparoux ...................... A. Delacour ................ 12-15 ..... 5 ............Little Jerry ...................... J. Lezcano ....................... M. Nevin ..................... 10-16 ..... 6 ............Trend .............................. F. Geroux ......................... M. Stidham .................. 6-17 ..... 7 ............Abtaal ............................. L. Saez ............................. J. Sharp ...................... 10-18 ..... 8 ............Artic North ..................... J. Rosario ........................ D. Cannizzo ................ 12-19 ..... 9 ............Neoclassic ...................... J. Castellano .................... A. Quartarolo .............. 20-110..... 10 ..........Farhaan .......................... J. Alvarado ...................... K. McLaughlin .............. 4-111..... 11 ..........Late Night Lu ................. S. Bridgmohan ................ B. Cox ........................ 20-112..... 12 ..........Old Time Hockey ............ M. Franco ........................ T. Proctor ..................... 6-113..... MTO ......Winter Games ................ I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ D. Jacobson ................. 3-1

8TH (5:02PM). $75,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 6FExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Here Comes Rosie ......... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ J. Englehart ................ 20-12 ..... 2 ............Super Surprise ............... J. Velazquez ..................... T. Pletcher .................... 4-13 ..... 3 ............Sing for Beauty .............. M. Luzzi ........................... C. Baker ........................ 8-14 ..... 4 ............Even Bette ...................... F. Geroux ......................... D. Cannizzo ................ 12-15 ..... 5 ............Gregorian Gold ............... J. Davis ............................ R. Lugovich ................ 30-16 ..... 6 ............Picco Uno ...................... M. Franco ........................ J. Servis ....................... 6-17 ..... 7 ............Bee Noteworthy .............. E. Cancel .......................... H. Bond ...................... 15-18 ..... 8 ............Suave and Smooth ......... L. Perez ........................... C. Baker ...................... 20-19 ..... 9 ............Day After Day ................. J. Ortiz ............................. M. Hushion .................. 8-110..... 10 ..........Big Mara ........................ J. Alvarado ...................... A. Ronen ...................... 8-111..... 11 ..........Sabrina Ballerina ............ K. Carmouche .................. B. Levine ...................... 5-112..... 12 ..........Black Betsy .................... J. Rosario ........................ K. McLaughlin ............ 15-113..... 13 ..........Madame Maybry ............ J. Torres .......................... J. Toscano, Jr. ............ 30-114..... 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)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Ginger N Rye .................. J. Lezcano ....................... H. DePaz .................... 10-12 ..... 2 ............Jc’s Shooting Star .......... M. Franco ........................ D. Donk ...................... 10-13 ..... 3 ............Now Power .................... L. Saez ............................. B. Lynch ....................... 8-14 ..... 4 ............Sympathy ....................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ C. Brown ...................... 3-15 ..... 5 ............Gap Year ........................ R. Santana, Jr. ................. K. McLaughlin ............ 20-16 ..... 6 ............Quest (GB) ..................... J. Rosario ........................ C. Clement.................. 15-17 ..... 7 ............Shes a True Beauty......... J. Alvarado ...................... D. Stewart .................. 20-18 ..... 8 ............Sokie .............................. J. Velazquez ..................... G. Weaver................... 12-19 ..... 9 ............Kitzys Rocket ................. J. Ortiz ............................. B. Tagg ......................... 6-110..... 10 ..........Kitten’s Roar .................. J. Leparoux ...................... M. Maker ...................... 8-111..... 11 ..........Off Limits (IRE) .............. J. Castellano .................... C. Brown ...................... 9-212..... 12 ..........Reversiontothemean ...... S. Bridgmohan ................ R. Metivier .................. 30-113..... AE..........Zubi Zubi Zu ................... F. Geroux ......................... M. Stidham .................. 6-114..... MTO ......Jules N Rome ................. . ...................................... D. Gargan ..................... 3-1

10TH (6:18PM). $300,000, STK - THE COACHING CLUB AMERICAN OAKS, 3 YO, F , 1 1/8MExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Songbird ........................ M. Smith.......................... J. Hollendorfer ............. 4-52 ..... 2 ............Carina Mia ...................... J. Leparoux ...................... W. Mott ........................ 6-53 ..... 3 ............Flora Dora ...................... E. Esquivel ....................... M. Coffey.................... 30-14 ..... 4 ............Weep No More ............... J. Castellano .................... G. Arnold, II................ 10-15 ..... 5 ............Mo d’Amour ................... J. Velazquez ..................... T. Pletcher .................. 12-1

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ImslopokerodriguezStorm Pursuit

CheliosTeresa Z

Super MarinaEnstonePortandoBird Song

Homespun HeroAskfor Forgiveness

GrassarlaBarbie On A Budget

Dauphine RusseSunrise Kitty

Goodbye SorrowTruth

Church SocialLianita

CoalportFarhaanTrend

Sabrina BallerinaSuper Surprise

Picco UnoSympathy

Now PowerOff LimitsSongbird

Carina MiaWeep No More

Data DrivenMav

Bankers Holiday

Storm Pursuit Jacobson entry

Chelios Teresa Z

Angelo’s Ashes Enstone

Bird Song Portando

Homespun Hero Grassarla

Barbie On A Budget Ask for Forgiveness

Dauphine Russe Sunrise Kitty

Goodbye Sorrow Llanita

Church Social Tapit Together

Coturnix Coalport

Trend Big Mara

Super Surprise Picco Uno Sympathy Off Limits

Now Power Songbird

Carina Mia Weep No More

Mav Data Driven

Gracious Plenty

Storm PursuitImslopokerodriguez

CheliosEnstoneTeresa Z

Super MarinaHomespun Hero

PortandoEntertainer

Askfor ForgivenessSqueezedGrassarla

Sunrise KittySweet Butterfly

Goodbye SorrowLlanita

Tapit TogetherChurch Social

CoalportTrendAbtaal

Super SurpriseDay After DayBlack BetsySympathy

Kitten’s RoarKitzys Rocket

SongbirdCarina Mia

Weep No MoreMav

Gracious PlentyYowl

Storm PursuitGambler’s Ghost

CheliosTeresa ZRealism

Price Too HighPortando

EntertainerBird SongGrassarla

Askfor ForgivenessBarbie On A Budget

Dauphine RusseGoodbye Sorrow

Sunrise KittyTruth

Church SocialStreet Strut

Captain’s AffairLittle Jerry

TrendPicco UnoBig Mara

Sabrina BallerinaSympathyGap Year

Ginger N RyeSongbird

Carina MiaFlora DoraData DrivenLotta Gold

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American CreedJoust

Teresa ZMajestic Bonnie

PortlandoEntertainerBird Song

Askfor ForgivenessGrassariaSqueezed

Goodbye SorrowSweet Butterfly

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Church SocialGirl Talk

Old Time HockeyNeoclassic

AbtaalSabrina Ballerina

Day After DayBlack BetsySympathy

Now PowerJc’s Shooting Star

SongbirdCarina MiaFlora DoraData Driven

Inventor’s GateRomans Paradise

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11TH (6:54PM). $55,000, STR $50,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1M (INNER TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta1 ..... 1 ............Undercutter .................... A. Arroyo ......................... R. Barbara .................. 20-12 ..... 2 ............Lotta Gold ...................... M. Franco ........................ B. Tagg ....................... 12-13 ..... 3 ............Bankers Holiday ............. K. Carmouche .................. J. Sharp ........................ 6-14 ..... 4 ............Romans Paradise ........... J. Castellano .................... C. Domino .................... 8-15 ..... 5 ............Data Driven .................... J. Rosario ........................ C. Brown ...................... 3-16 ..... 6 ............Derby Champagne .......... R. Santana, Jr. ................. G. Arnold, II................ 12-1

7 ..... 7 ............Mav ................................ L. Saez ............................. G. Weaver..................... 4-18 ..... 8 ............Lucky Town .................... J. Torres .......................... R. Ubillo ..................... 20-19 ..... 9 ............Yowl ............................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ T. Morley .................... 12-110..... 10 ..........Defining Product ............ S. Bridgmohan ................ W. Heffner .................. 30-111..... 11 ..........Inventor’s Gate ............... A. Gryder ......................... K. Streicher ................ 12-112..... 12 ..........Gracious Plenty .............. J. Ortiz ............................. T. Pletcher .................... 8-113..... AE..........Verger ............................ J. Alvarado ...................... D. Cannizzo ................ 10-114..... AE..........King of Spades ............... F. Geroux ......................... S. Asmussen .............. 10-115..... MTO ......Sandy Strikes ................. . ...................................... L. O’Brien ................... 20-116..... MTO ......Shadow Rider ................ J. Castellano .................... G. Contessa .................. 3-1

SARATOGA ENTRIES


POCAHONTAS (GII)2016 “Win and You’re In Juvenile Fillies Division”

2017 Kentucky Oaks Points Race

Runs Sat., Sept. 17$200,000Fillies, 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$150,000Two Year Olds


LOCUST GROVE (GIII)

Runs Sat., Sept. 17$100,000Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up


OPEN MIND

Runs Sat., Sept. 17$100,000Fillies & Mares, Three Years Old & Up

Closes Sept. 3($100 nomination fee)6 Furlongs

DOGWOOD (Listed)

Runs Sat., Sept. 24$100,000Fillies, Three Years Old

Closes Sept. 10($100 nomination fee)7 Furlongs

ACK ACK (GIII)

Runs Sat., Oct. 1$100,000Three Year Olds & Up

Closes Sept. 17($100 nomination fee)1 Mile

LUKAS CLASSIC (Listed)

Runs Sat., Oct. 1$175,000Three Year Olds & Up

Closes Sept. 17($175 nomination fee) 1 1/8 Mile

JEFFERSON CUP (Listed)

Runs Sat., Oct. 1$100,000Three Year Olds

Closes Sept. 17($100 nomination fee) 1 1/8 Miles Turf

2016 September Meet Stakes ScheduleSeptember 16 - October 2

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BY BRANDON VALVONothing 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 open-ing 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,

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 fur-longs. Zartera finished third.

“I had to go to Plan B because my plan was to put him in the race real-ly 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 be-hind, 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.

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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 compet-itive 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.

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 Ed-

die 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 Thor-oughbreds. Undefeated in two starts, the dark bay

has earned $117,900 in less than a month. Bitu-men’s half-sister Meshell placed in the Grade 3 Bay-akoa 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 ner-vous. 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 race-track 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 lon-ger 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.”

Sanford – Continued from page 20

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BY SEAN CLANCYChad 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 Recep-ta in the last stride. Recepta sat mid-pack, rallied Tod Marks

Dacita (left) scraps with Recepta (right) and Rainha Da Bateria near the finish of Saturday’s Diana.

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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 win-ner Mrs McDougal, New York Stakes winner Dacita and Rainha Da Bate-ria, second behind champion Tepin in May. Just A Game runner-up Re-cepta, Grade 3 placed Sandiva, Beau-gay 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 posi-tioned Miss Temple City in the draft behind that group. John Velazquez engineered a sweet spot for Recep-ta, 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 be-hind the tiring pacesetters. It was vin-tage 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

Onus and the inside rail. All the while, Rainha Da Bateria and Daci-ta 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 sec-ond, I didn’t think I was going to get there, but she kept coming every time

I hit her, so I kept hitting her. She al-ways 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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Bateria and jockey Julien Leparoux lost their rhythm when bumped, tak-ing a stride to correct while Dacita switched leads late. The quartet fin-ished 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. Lep-aroux 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 Recep-ta’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

sorry about? That was a great race.”Dacita won a great race, her ninth

career tally in a 15-race career that be-gan in Chile. Purchased by Sheep Pond Partners and Bradley Thoroughbreds, the daughter of Scat Daddy made her American debut in the Grade 2 Ball-ston 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, fin-ishing second. She tried Keeneland again, finishing fourth in the Jenny Wiley.

“She clearly doesn’t like Keene-land,” 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 af-ter she won three Group 1 stakes in Chile. He rallied seven investors in Bradley Thoroughbreds and recruit-ed 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 con-sistent 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.”

Diana – Continued from page 23

Tod MarksIrad Ortiz flashes a winning smile.


Tale Of Verve ended a string of de-feats and off-the-board performanc-es 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 eventu-al 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.

I’m very happy for him, very happy.”Last year’s Preakness was the Tale

Of Ekati colt’s first stakes appear-ance and he finished 7 lengths be-hind 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 Virgin-ia Derby, Travers, Oklahoma Derby and Bryan Station Stakes. “He ran

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

here he is, winning at Saratoga.”Tale Of Verve raced last of six in

the early part of the 1 1/8-mile allow-ance and held the position until the half-mile pole. He moved three wide,

Tod MarksTale Of Verve (right) digs in to deny My Man Sam in Saturday’s ninth race.

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FIRST $42,000, CLAIMING $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6 1/2F3 Money Changer J. Castellano $7.60 $4.10 $2.907 Afleet Martini M. Franco $4.00 $2.905 Battle Midway J. Rosario $4.20Gr/ro Gelding 2012, by Exchange Rate - Hey Little Sister by Jump StartOwner: Dogwood Stable. Trainer: Todd Pletcher.Breeder: Laura McKinney (KY).Late Scratches: Benny and AlexTime: 1:16.01Exacta (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 1/16M2 Conquest Sure Shot J. Lezcano $15.00 $6.60 $4.701 Master Merion J. Ortiz $4.20 $3.304 Unbridled Eagle L. Saez $9.50Dk B/ Br Colt 2014, by Scat Daddy - Involved by SpeightstownOwner: Conquest Stables, LLC. Trainer: Mark Casse. Breeder: Betz/Magers/CoCoEquine/Kidder/Lamantia/Davidson (KY).Late Scratches: It’s Your Nickel, Red Again, Everybodyluvsrudy, Kahra-mani. Time: 1:44.03Daily 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

THIRD $150,000, STAKES - SANFORD S., 2 YO, 6F5 Bitumen J. Castellano $3.90 $2.50 $2.102 Random Walk J. Ortiz $2.70 $2.201 Zartera I. Ortiz, Jr. $2.80Dk B/ Br Colt 2014, by Mineshaft - Kobla Cat by Tale of the CatOwner: Sutton, Joseph, W.. Trainer: Eddie Kenneally. Breeder: Jamm, Ltd. (KY).Time: 1:10.68Daily 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, 6F8 Come as You Are J. Torres $4.60 $2.90 $2.107 Onlytheshadowknows E. Cancel $3.70 $2.503 Chomsky I. Ortiz, Jr. $2.40Ch Colt 2012, by Run Away and Hide - No Dress Code by Distorted HumorOwner: Dunne, Ciaran and Fein, Ronald. Trainer: Wesley Ward. Breeder: Robert West Jr. & Michael Riordan (KY).Late Scratches: Whitegate, GreyjoyClaimed: Onlytheshadowknows claimed by Midwest Thoroughbreds, Inc. for $40,000Time: 1:10.28Daily 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 1/2F5 Big Rock J. Castellano $15.40 $8.00 $5.308 Lord of Love J. Alvarado $9.90 $5.4010 Cort G. Saez $4.00Gr/ro Colt 2012, by Rockport Harbor - Royal G G by Royal AcademyOwner: New Phoenix Stable. Trainer: Christophe Clement. Breeder: J. K. Griggs & Linda Griggs (KY).Late Scratches: Entertainer, Delta Outlaw, Evolution, GentrifyTime: 1:02.14Daily Double (8-5), $38.20; Exacta (5-8), $140.00; Superfecta (5-8-10-2), $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

SIXTH $83,000, MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 2 YO, 5 1/2F8 One Liner J. Velazquez $7.80 $4.70 $3.607 Royal Copy R. Santana, Jr. $6.40 $3.902 Pretty Boy Flash I. Ortiz, Jr. $4.30B Colt 2014, by Into Mischief - Cayala by Cherokee RunOwner: China Horse Club and WinStar Farm LLC. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. Breeder: Kingswood Farm (KY).Late Scratches: Magnolia MountainTime: 1:04.89Daily Double (5-8), $53.50; Exacta (8-7), $47.80; Superfecta (8-7-2-4), $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 1/16M8 Ascend J. Velazquez $9.40 $4.60 $3.303 Slim Shadey (GB) I. Ortiz, Jr. $6.40 $4.009 Adirondack Dancer J. Ortiz $6.20Gr/ro Gelding 2012, by Candy Ride (ARG) - Ghost Dancing by Silver GhostOwner: Stone Farm and Madaket Stables LLC. Trainer: H. Motion. Breeder: Stone Farm (KY).Late Scratches: HothersalClaimed: Slim Shadey (GB) claimed by Blue Stork Stables for $62,500, Taghleeb claimed by Hui, Michael M. for $62,500Time: 1:41.78Daily Double (8-8), $49.00; Exacta (8-3), $62.50; Superfecta (8-3-9-1), $3,892.00; Trifecta (8-3-9), $388.50; Pic 3 (5-8-8), $394.00

EIGHTH $85,000, AOC $80,000, 3 YO, 1M2 Our Way J. Ortiz $22.00 $10.00 $6.103 Tizzarunner J. Alvarado $9.00 $5.409 Hockey School J. Rosario $6.90Dk B/ Br Gelding 2013, by Tizway - She’s Sensational by Point GivenOwner: Clifton, Jr., William, L.. Trainer: H. Bond. Breeder: Farm III Enterprices LLC (FL).Late Scratches: Scissors and TapeTime: 1:35.50Daily Double (8-2), $87.50; Exacta (2-3), $150.00; Superfecta (2-3-9-6), $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 1/8M5 Tale of Verve J. Rosario $37.40 $7.80 $4.404 My Man Sam I. Ortiz, Jr. $2.60 $2.202 Cadeyrn L. Saez $4.50B Colt 2012, by Tale of Ekati - Verve by UnbridledOwner: Fipke, Charles, E.. Trainer: Dallas Stewart. Breeder: Charles Fipke (KY).Time: 1:50.49Daily Double (2-5), $431.50; Exacta (5-4), $94.00; Superfecta (5-4-2-1), $975.00; Trifecta (5-4-2), $507.00; Pic 3 (8-2-5), $1,808.00

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dug deep to first put away leader Cad-eyrn 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 fresh-ened 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.”

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

• Trainer James Bond took a walk down memory lane as Our Way won the eighth, a 1-mile allowance-op-tional on the turf.

“He’s a very special individual and of course his father we trained, Tiz-way,” 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 1/16-mile 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 hope-fully this horse has a bright future like his father.”

Bond trains Our Way for long-time 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 togeth-er 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.”

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Saturday – Continued from page 25

Dave HarmonOur Way (right) kicks away from the field in Saturday’s eighth race.



• 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-year-olds on the inner turf, Casse’s luck at Saratoga began to change as he regis-tered 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 Un-bridled Eagle, but with a furlong to run, still had 3 lengths to find. Inside the final sixteenth, with Lezcano urg-ing 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 win-ner and we caught him at the wire.”

Casse picked out and bought Con-quest 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 hand-some 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 lat-er 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 de-spite 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.”

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needed to run away with a 5 1/2-fur-long 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 sea-son, then ended his 6-year-old cam-paign 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 Okla-homa 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 helped that sorting process. Tod Marks

Spring To The Sky enters another Saratoga stakes Monday.

LUCKY COIN PREVIEW – MONDAY

Double DipBrown sends Spring To The Sky, Night Officer to turf sprint stakes



“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 Pennsyl-vania 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 allow-ance-optional July 4 at Belmont Park to facilitate a step-up in performance and it worked. Spring To The Sky ap-preciated the move and won gate-to-wire.

“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 en-tries 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 clos-er 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 McK-ay Turf Sprint.

“Spring to the Sky should be in front,” Brown said about the setup of the Lucky Coin. “He’s always pret-ty 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.”

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1ST (1:00PM). $83,000, MSW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/8MExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Girl Talk .......................... J. Velazquez ..................... K. McLaughlin .............. 8-52 ..... 2 ............Verve’s Tale .................... J. Castellano .................... B. Tagg ......................... 9-53 ..... 3 ............Crystal Wave .................. J. Ortiz ............................. T. Pletcher .................... 4-14 ..... 4 ............Renown .......................... R. Santana, Jr. ................. G. Arnold, II.................. 8-15 ..... 5 ............Queen Emma .................. L. Saez ............................. D. Lukas ..................... 15-16 ..... 6 ............Sea Cloud ....................... J. Leparoux ...................... B. Walsh ..................... 10-1

2ND (1:33PM). $32,000, CLM $16,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6FExacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Taran Taran .................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ D. Jacobson ................. 6-12 ..... 2 ............Miroc ............................. J. Rosario ........................ R. Barbara .................. 12-13 ..... 3 ............Elusive Talmo ................. J. Alvarado ...................... R. Schosberg ............... 8-14 ..... 4 ............Howie’s Tiz ..................... A. Arroyo ......................... B. Levine .................... 10-15 ..... 5 ............Saratoga Sight ............... E. Cancel .......................... O. Barrera, III ............... 7-26 ..... 6 ............Boomerang Toy .............. M. Franco ........................ C. Baker ........................ 5-17 ..... 7 ............New York’s Zip ............... M. Luzzi ........................... L. O’Brien ..................... 8-18 ..... 8 ............Grey Glory ...................... J. Ortiz ............................. D. Gargan ..................... 2-1

3RD (2:06PM). $50,000, CLM $25,000, 3 YO, 6 1/2FExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Legend Keeper ............... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ R. Rodriguez ................ 8-12 ..... 2 ............Patton Proud .................. L. Saez ............................. M. Maker ...................... 4-13 ..... 3 ............Pinstripe ......................... J. Castellano .................... T. Pletcher .................... 8-54 ..... 4 ............Zoo Yorker ..................... J. Ortiz ............................. D. Gargan ..................... 5-25 ..... 5 ............Il Fratello ........................ M. Franco ........................ J. Toscano, Jr. .............. 6-16 ..... 6 ............Steve’s Image ................. K. Carmouche .................. C. Martin ...................... 8-1

4TH (2:40PM). $73,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 5 1/2F (TURF)Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 6, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Louisiana Lady ............... M. Luzzi ........................... L. O’Brien ................... 15-12 ..... 2 ............With Wings .................... E. Cancel .......................... R. Cash ...................... 20-13 ..... 3 ............Go Ask Alice ................... J. Torres .......................... R. Lugovich ................ 12-14 ..... 4 ............Stichy G ......................... J. Davis ............................ G. Gullo ........................ 8-15 ..... 5 ............Jacqueline D .................. J. Ortiz ............................. D. Schettino ................. 8-16 ..... 6 ............Lady Joan ...................... L. Saez ............................. P. Serpe ........................ 5-27 ..... 7 ............Mo Promise ................... J. Castellano .................... G. Contessa .................. 8-18 ..... 8 ............Cansomebodyplease ...... M. Franco ........................ J. Englehart .................. 6-19 ..... 9 ............Kabuki ............................ J. Lezcano ....................... L. Lewis ........................ 9-210..... 10 ..........Frosty Gal ....................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ B. Tagg ......................... 5-111..... AE..........Neetee Rides Again ........ S. Bridgmohan ................ M. Dilger .................... 20-112..... AE..........Courtly Kitty ................... J. Velazquez ..................... D. Donk ...................... 12-113..... AE..........Fast Franny .................... F. Geroux ......................... S. Asmussen ................ 8-114..... AE..........Majestic Tango ............... F. Geroux ......................... J. Englehart ................ 12-115..... AE..........Summer Sweet .............. M. Franco ........................ C. Clement.................... 3-116..... MTO ......Tainted Angel ................. L. Saez ............................. A. Adsit ........................ 8-1

5TH (3:14PM). $50,000, MCL $40,000, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 1 1/16M (INNER TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............O K by Me ...................... D. Davis ........................... B. Brown .................... 30-12 ..... 2 ............Weekend Hottie .............. K. Carmouche .................. K. Streicher ................ 12-13 ..... 3 ............Anatevka ........................ J. Ortiz ............................. M. Dilger .................... 12-14 ..... 4 ............Bareeqa .......................... J. Rosario ........................ B. Brown ...................... 8-15 ..... 5 ............Tattletale Grey ................ J. Torres .......................... J. Hertler ...................... 8-16 ..... 6 ............Brooklyn Gal .................. M. Franco ........................ G. Sciacca .................. 20-17 ..... 7 ............Thin Dress ...................... J. Alvarado ...................... W. Mott ........................ 5-18 ..... 8 ............Frosty Lady .................... L. Saez ............................. D. Schettino ............... 20-19 ..... 9 ............Spa Duchess .................. E. Cancel .......................... H. Bond ...................... 20-110..... 10 ..........Flying K C ....................... J. Castellano .................... T. Morley ...................... 6-111..... 11 ..........Little Mary Ellen ............. A. Arroyo ......................... K. Grusmark ............... 12-112..... 12 ..........Laurel Heights ................ I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ C. Brown ...................... 9-513..... AE..........Madoo ............................ C. DeCarlo ....................... M. Nihei ...................... 20-114..... MTO ......Jennifer’s Legacy ........... . ...................................... J. Ryerson .................... 5-115..... MTO ......Ditch Em ........................ M. Franco ........................ G. Weaver..................... 8-116..... 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)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Moondance Joy .............. M. Franco ........................ C. Englehart .................. 4-12 ..... 2 ............Bella Kateri ..................... J. Alvarado ...................... A. Rawles ..................... 8-13 ..... 3 ............Little Bear Cat ................. J. Rosario ........................ D. Cannizzo .................. 8-14 ..... 4 ............She’s All Ready .............. K. Carmouche .................. J. Ryerson .................... 5-15 ..... 5 ............Startwithsilver ................ J. Ortiz ............................. L. Rice .......................... 3-16 ..... 6 ............Dreamboat Annie ........... L. Saez ............................. L. Gyarmati ................ 12-17 ..... MTO ......Non Finisce Mai ............. . ...................................... G. Gullo ........................ 6-18 ..... 8 ............Animal Appeal ................ I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ J. Englehart .................. 2-1

7TH (4:24PM). $90,000, AOC $62,500, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8MExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Indycott .......................... J. Bravo ........................... D. Jacobson ................. 8-12 ..... 2 ............Tale of Life (JPN) ........... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ H. Motion ..................... 9-23 ..... 3 ............Mills ............................... J. Ortiz ............................. J. Englehart .................. 5-14 ..... 4 ............Watershed ...................... J. Rosario ........................ K. McLaughlin .............. 5-25 ..... 5 ............Doyouknowsomething ... J. Lezcano ....................... A. Avila ......................... 6-16 ..... 6 ............Yolo Mon........................ K. Carmouche .................. A. Davies .................... 12-17 ..... 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 Double1 ..... 1 ............Cyclogenisis ................... K. Carmouche .................. G. Weaver................... 20-12 ..... MTO ......Weekend Hideaway ........ L. Saez ............................. P. Serpe ........................ 8-13 ..... 3 ............Night Officer ................... M. Franco ........................ B. Brown ...................... 8-14 ..... 4 ............Spring to the Sky ........... M. Luzzi ........................... B. Brown ...................... 4-15 ..... 5 ............Sandy’z Slew .................. I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ R. Schosberg ............. 20-16 ..... 6 ............Pool Winner ................... L. Saez ............................. A. Goldberg ................ 10-17 ..... 7 ............Beantown Saint .............. J. Castellano .................... J. Servis ..................... 20-18 ..... 8 ............Doctor J Dub .................. T. Gaffalione ..................... J. Antonucci ............... 12-19 ..... 9 ............Long On Value................ J. Rosario ........................ W. Mott ........................ 6-110..... 10 ..........Successful Native ........... M. Rispoli ........................ R. Persaud ................. 15-111..... 11 ..........Choctaw Chuck .............. J. Ortiz ............................. K. Rice ........................ 20-112..... 12 ..........Undrafted ....................... J. Velazquez ..................... W. Ward ....................... 8-513..... MTO ......All Star Red .................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ R. Rodriguez ................ 6-1

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Got a half-hour? Park your car, decline a golf-cart ride, walk a bit, then find a fence to lean on beside a maple tree. It’s 6:09 in the morning and a cool breeze puffs under that maple tree next to that fence.

On the horsepath, road and racetrack shaded by that tree a morning unfolds.

“Morning sir.” “How you doing?” “Tired al-ready.”

A worker from Eric Guillot’s barn revs into gear approaching the pole. A minute or so later, Guillot’s rider pulls up with a “Whew.”

Mel Williams works on a lead change with a Tom Proctor horse.

Lorna Chavez, recovering from an injury, walks by on Lance the Pony. She’s smiling, as ever, and 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 af-

ter a gallop, no noseband, rider riding long.Eight horseshoes create a beat, a rhythm, on as-

phalt.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 de-cades, 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 sin-

gle 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.

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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-Tip-ton’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 hors-es, 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 War-

wick today.” We bought Valdez and won six races with him, earning a trip to Cheltenham for the Ar-kle.

“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-

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, en-thralled 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 con-cerned, allowing the chestnut filly to chill, compo-sure 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, Det-tori was more worried about pulling her up than anything else.

The rare ones gain strength as they go – Zenyat-ta 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-year-olds ready by their own clocks, saw the same thing.

“Fair Eva has done everything really profes-sionally and looks very good. She has a wonder-ful 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 re-ally 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 unde-feated 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 Kind-ly 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, hopped-up, 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.

cupofcoffee Calling FairBY SEAN CLANCY

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Bob Mayberger/Eclipse SportswireThe great Frankel is now making his mark as a sire.


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