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here&there... at SaratogaBY THE NUMBERS6: 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.

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19: Cases of empty Corona bottles stacked outside a dorm room Wednes-day 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 DAYSHAVINGS: New York.EASYGOER: New York.

NAMES OF THE DAYBermuda 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.

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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

“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)

“John Shapazian is the Arrogate of Saratoga handicappers.”Dedicated reader Jerry Wisniewski,

echoing the sentiments of Reed and many others

“I’m giving my head a break.”Kevin “The Brooklyn Cowboy” Cox, who did not wear a cowboy hat to the races Wednesday

“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,

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WORTH REPEATING“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

“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

“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

“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

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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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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 three-piece 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

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 Hoff-man, 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 Bro-man 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 op-portunity. 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 train-ing 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 unfortu-nately. 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 home-bred 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 expe-rience.”

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 Satur-days 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.

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Indygita: Drawing Away’s 4-year-old Indygo Shiner filly finished second in Thursday’s sev-enth race, a starter allowance on the grass, after a fifth in similar race Aug. 7. “She’d been knock-ing on the door, got kind of a rough trip last time. She’s been a good honest horse for us.”

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.”

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 excit-ed 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.”

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 go-ing 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 personali-ty 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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BY TOM LAW & LINZAY MARKSFourth in the trainer standings

with 11 wins, Rudy Rodriguez is in the midst of a career meet at Sarato-ga. The same can be said for Charl-ton 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 Tod Marks

Royal Posse looms large in today’s Evan Shipman for trainer Rudy Rodriguez.

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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 Sara-toga,” 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 mile-and-an-eighth. He’s been here train-ing very good. So far so good.”

Royal Posse tracked the early speed of Touchofstarquality while racing in-side in the early stages of the Alydar before inching close at the quarter pole. The 5-year-old son of Posse en-gaged 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 Sarato-ga 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 com-pany 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-year-old.

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 Sara-toga appearance this season. He won for a $35,000 tag here last summer and was claimed by John Parisella.

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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Belmont Stakes Day and a 2 1/4-length 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 Ostrolen-ka 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 stretch-ing out after a good effort sprinting. Crackerjack Jones won going long af-ter sprint preps in 2014 and 2015, the first time winning a 1-mile and 70-yard allowance after a runner-up finish go-ing 6 furlongs and the second winning going 1 mile after a third going 6 fur-longs.

“He loves the first time stretching out after a sprint,” Progno said Thurs-day as he watched the field for the fi-nale 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-year-old 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 victo-ry until an allowance score at Belmont June 25.

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1ST (1:00PM). $25,000, CLM $12,500, 3 YO’S & UP, F & M , 7FExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Aix En Provence ............. J. Ortiz ............................. G. Gullo ........................ 5-22 ..... 2 ............Hold Me Down ............... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ A. Ronen ...................... 3-13 ..... 3 ............Chickaletta ..................... L. Saez ............................. J. Englehart .................. 7-24 ..... 4 ............The Lost Tigress ............ S. Camacho, Jr. ............... C. Baker ........................ 5-15 ..... 5 ............Silver Silence ................. E. Esquivel ....................... R. D’Alessandro ......... 12-16 ..... 6 ............My Jimmy Chew Girl ...... J. Alvarado ...................... G. Matties ................... 12-17 ..... 7 ............Spectacular Flash ........... R. Santana, Jr. ................. G. Contessa .................. 8-18 ..... 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 Double1 ..... 1 ............O K by Me ...................... L. Saez ............................. B. Brown .................... 12-12 ..... 2 ............Freckle de Freck ............. J. Lezcano ....................... J. Hertler ...................... 8-13 ..... 3 ............Dream a Little ................. M. Franco ........................ D. Donk ........................ 8-14 ..... 4 ............Shineady ........................ D. Davis ........................... M. Friedman ............... 30-15 ..... 5 ............Itsthemoney ................... E. Cancel .......................... J. Antonucci ............... 20-16 ..... 6 ............Messy Moon .................. F. Geroux ......................... A. Rawles ................... 30-17 ..... 7 ............Sneaky Fudge Face ......... M. Luzzi ........................... P. Kelly ....................... 12-18 ..... 8 ............Weekend Hottie .............. K. Carmouche .................. K. Streicher .................. 5-19 ..... 9 ............Rossezza ........................ J. Ortiz ............................. L. Rice .......................... 7-210..... 10 ..........Munchkin Money ........... J. Castellano .................... C. Brown ...................... 9-511..... MTO ......Three Eighty Eight .......... J. Ortiz ............................. L. Rice .......................... 4-112..... 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 Double1 ..... 1 ............Completely Bonkers ....... M. Franco ........................ G. Contessa .................. 9-22 ..... MTO ......Core Portfolio ................. . Rider TBA ...................... R. Violette, Jr. ............... 9-23 ..... MTO ......Nominal Dollars ............. J. Ortiz ............................. G. Gullo ........................ 7-24 ..... 4 ............Hirschbein ...................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ N. Esler ...................... 12-15 ..... 5 ............Sly Tom .......................... J. Rosario ........................ J. Sharp ........................ 5-16 ..... 6 ............Dujac .............................. J. Castellano .................... C. Brown ...................... 8-57 ..... 7 ............Matador ......................... J. Ortiz ............................. M. Maker ...................... 3-18 ..... 8 ............Tree Shaker .................... A. Arroyo ......................... R. Persaud ................. 20-19 ..... 9 ............Snow Trouble ................. K. Carmouche .................. J. Lawrence, II .............. 8-1

4TH (2:40PM). $39,000, MCL $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 7FExacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Buckwellspent ................ R. Santana, Jr. ................. S. Asmussen ................ 6-12 ..... 2 ............Blarney Stones ............... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ G. Contessa .................. 3-13 ..... 3 ............Majority .......................... L. Saez ............................. R. Violette, Jr. ............... 8-14 ..... 4 ............Longisland Express ........ J. Castellano .................... G. Sciacca .................. 20-15 ..... 5 ............Celtic Scout .................... A. Arroyo ......................... C. Englehart .................. 4-16 ..... 6 ............Cold Revenge ................. M. Franco ........................ D. Cannizzo ................ 12-17 ..... 7 ............Chosen One Elijah .......... J. Torres .......................... E. Jones ..................... 30-18 ..... 8 ............No Tanx Blue Chip .......... J. Rosario ........................ B. Levine ...................... 6-19 ..... 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)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 6, Daily Double1 ..... MTO ......Lutheran Miss ................ J. Ortiz ............................. J. Servis ....................... 5-22 ..... 2 ............Belle Et Bete (IRE) .......... J. Lezcano ....................... A. Avila ......................... 4-13 ..... MTO ......Kate Is a Ten................... J. Davis ............................ J. Parker ....................... 8-14 ..... 4 ............Luckystrikedelcoco ........ J. Castellano .................... D. Ryan ........................ 5-15 ..... 5 ............Porvoo ........................... J. Torres .......................... E. Jones ..................... 30-16 ..... 6 ............Marabea (GB) ................. J. Ortiz ............................. H. Motion ..................... 2-17 ..... 7 ............Electro Peg ..................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ J. Servis ....................... 7-28 ..... 8 ............Shakesperian Dream ...... J. Alvarado ...................... G. Sciacca .................. 20-19 ..... 9 ............One Penny Piece (GB) .... R. Santana, Jr. ................. P. Serpe ........................ 8-110..... 10 ..........Stroke Play ..................... K. Carmouche .................. D. Gargan ..................... 6-1

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6TH (3:48PM). $83,000, MSW, 2 YO, F , 5 1/2F (TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 5, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Happy Motoring ............. E. Wilson ......................... G. Contessa ................ 12-12 ..... 2 ............Bellavais ......................... M. Franco ........................ J. Toner ........................ 8-13 ..... 3 ............Take a Stroll ................... L. Saez ............................. K. Ritvo ...................... 12-14 ..... 4 ............Orecchiette ..................... J. Castellano .................... T. Pletcher .................... 7-25 ..... 5 ............Spanker .......................... R. Santana, Jr. ................. D. Cannizzo ................ 20-16 ..... 6 ............Two Hot Betty ................. J. Rosario ........................ A. Adsit ...................... 20-17 ..... 7 ............Black Canary .................. I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ M. Casse ...................... 2-18 ..... 8 ............Foreign Affair ................. J. Lezcano ....................... C. Martin ...................... 8-19 ..... 9 ............K J Warrior ..................... F. Geroux ......................... S. Asmussen ................ 4-110..... 10 ..........Matinee Babe ................. E. Cancel .......................... D. Cannizzo ................ 20-111..... AE..........Accepting ....................... J. Velazquez ..................... J. Jerkens ..................... 6-112..... AE..........Elite Heir ........................ K. Carmouche .................. J. Ryerson .................. 12-113..... AE..........Yorkiepoo Princess ........ J. Torres .......................... E. Barker ...................... 8-114..... AE..........Fly Swift ......................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ C. Clement.................... 7-215..... AE-MTO .Worthy One .................... K. Carmouche .................. M. Trombetta ................ 8-116..... 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 1/2FExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............First Service ................... J. Castellano .................... C. Brown ...................... 9-52 ..... 2 ............Wonder Gal .................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ L. Gyarmati .................. 7-53 ..... 3 ............Bella Joy ........................ J. Alvarado ...................... R. Nicks ........................ 6-14 ..... 4 ............Legally Bay ..................... J. Davis ............................ M. Coffey.................... 15-15 ..... 5 ............Sweet Sway .................... R. Santana, Jr. ................. M. Salazar .................. 20-16 ..... 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 Double1 ..... 1 ............You Lie ........................... M. Franco ........................ C. Englehart ................ 15-12 ..... 2 ............More Than Rainbows ..... A. Arroyo ......................... L. Miranda .................. 15-13 ..... 3 ............Goodbye Sorrow ............ J. Velazquez ..................... W. Ward ....................... 3-14 ..... 4 ............Awesome Quick ............. L. Saez ............................. M. Miceli .................... 12-15 ..... 5 ............Flaring ............................ E. Cancel .......................... J. Mazza ..................... 20-16 ..... 6 ............Sunrise Kitty .................. J. Ortiz ............................. J. Servis ....................... 7-27 ..... 7 ............Angie’s Prim Lady .......... J. Rosario ........................ A. Stall, Jr. .................... 8-18 ..... 8 ............Two Pump ...................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ D. Jacobson ................. 4-19 ..... 9 ............Simple Love ................... J. Lezcano ....................... G. Contessa .................. 5-110..... 10 ..........Gagaoveryou .................. K. Carmouche .................. D. Gargan ................... 10-111..... AE..........Katie O. .......................... J. Torres .......................... J. Toscano, Jr. .............. 6-112..... AE..........Uncle Southern .............. J. Ortiz ............................. L. Rice .......................... 5-2

9TH (5:40PM). $100,000, STK - THE EVAN SHIPMAN, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/8MExacta, Trifecta, Superfecta, Daily Double1 ..... 1 ............Crackerjack Jones .......... J. Ortiz ............................. C. Progno ..................... 4-12 ..... 2 ............Wake Up in Malibu ......... M. Franco ........................ C. Baker ........................ 5-23 ..... 3 ............Royal Posse ................... I. Ortiz, Jr. ........................ R. Rodriguez ................ 8-54 ..... 4 ............Good Luck Gus .............. J. Castellano .................... R. Rodriguez ................ 5-15 ..... 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, Superfecta1 ..... 6 ............Twenty Four Seven ......... J. Rosario ........................ D. Gargan ..................... 8-11a .... MTO ......Noble and True ............... . Rider TBA ...................... D. Gargan ..................... 8-12 ..... 1 ............Kitten’s Dilemma ............ J. Ortiz ............................. C. Brown ...................... 3-13 ..... 2 ............Bourbon City .................. J. Alvarado ...................... D. Romans ................. 20-14 ..... 3 ............Astute Warrior ................ J. Bravo ........................... E. Kenneally .................. 7-25 ..... 4 ............Archangel Rose .............. F. Geroux ......................... S. Asmussen .............. 10-16 ..... 5 ............Arch Contender .............. L. Saez ............................. J. Toscano, Jr. .............. 8-17 ..... 7 ............Core Competency ........... J. Castellano .................... C. Brown ...................... 4-18 ..... 8 ............Bermuda Triangle ........... K. Carmouche .................. J. Sharp ...................... 20-19 ..... 9 ............Means ............................ J. Torres .......................... W. Ward ..................... 10-110..... 10 ..........He’s One Wild Dude ....... M. Luzzi ........................... L. Lewis ...................... 10-111..... AE..........Rediscover ..................... K. Carmouche .................. K. McLaughlin .............. 5-212..... AE..........Mojo Rising .................... A. Arroyo ......................... J. Kimmel ................... 15-113..... AE..........Abstract Cape ................. M. Franco ........................ G. Weaver..................... 6-114..... AE..........Fried Baloney ................. L. Saez ............................. N. Zito ........................ 20-115..... AE..........Dark Gemini (IRE) .......... J. Alvarado ...................... G. Weaver..................... 5-1

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Hold Me DownChickaletta

Aix En ProvenceMunchkin Money

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MarabeaBelle Et BeteElectro Peg

Black CanaryK J WarriorOrecchietteWonder GalFirst Service

Splendid GoldUncle Southern

Two PumpGoodbye Sorrow

Royal PosseWake Up In Malibu

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MarabeaBelle Et BeteBlack CanaryOrecchietteK J WarriorWonder GalFirst Service

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Goodbye SorrowSimple LoveRoyal Posse

Wake Up In MalibuGood Luck GusAstute WarriorArchangel RoseKitten’s Dilemma

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Sneaky Fudge FaceDujac

Snow TroubleMatador

Cold RevengeBuckwellspent

KenyanBelle Et Bete

MarabeaElectro Peg

Black CanaryK J Warrior

BellavaisWonder GalFirst Service

Bella JoyGoodbye Sorrow

Sunrise KittyTwo Pump

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Spectacular FlashO K By Me

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LuckystrikedelcocoElectro Peg

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Bella JoyGoodbye SorrowAngie’s Prim Lady

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Buying fillies with a female fami-ly that appealing to buyers who race and buyers who race and breed isn’t easy, even out of Book 3 at the Sep-tember 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 Coast-ed that day at Keeneland. “Tizway, he’s really come on this summer, espe-cially 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 year-lings 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 im-proved to 2-for-3 with her rail-riding 1-length victory over Noble Ready in the 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 2-year-old 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 shuf-fled back when Bahama Halo came in slightly after running less than 50 yards. Lezcano grabbed Coasted up

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Tod MarksCoasted gears down late with her second win in three starts.Continued On Page 19

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again going into the first turn as Ba-hama Halo came in slightly again.

They were last entering the back-stretch 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 prog-ress 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 car-rying Lady Joan just to her inside and Coasted was back to fifth.

Mo Promise couldn’t hold the in-side coming into the stretch and Lez-cano 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. Lez-cano never panicked and Coasted never fal-tered, 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,” Lezca-no said. “She took it very good. She’s never shied away from an-other 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

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-fur-long maiden race on the dirt at Bel-mont Park July 2. Gyarmati hoped to get the filly started in a grass race be-fore 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-year-old 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 fol-lowed by an even bigger prize to end the season.

“On to the next thing, Miss Gril-lo next and knock on wood she’ll go to the Breeders’ Cup,” he said. “She looks like that kind of quality.”

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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 dif-ference with this horse. I’m a believer. It’s the only goofy thing I use.”

Goofy or not, the hood – essential-ly blinkers without eye cups and made of fabric containing liquid titanium –

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 hu-mans, 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 be-cause 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.”

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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. Cas-tle Hill finished second with Blue At-lantic third in the $65,000 first-level allowance hurdle going 2 1/16 miles. Hardrock Eleven improved to 2-for-11 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 any-way 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 Louisi-ana – is now trained by his former assistant Oscar Modica. The poten-tial 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.”

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• Antonio Arriaga came to Sarato-ga with one horse. When he arrived, he had four wins to his credit as a

trainer from 115 starts in his career. He’ll leave with nearly twice that af-ter a perfect Saratoga of three starts and three wins.

Two of the victories came from the 4-year-old Harlington filly Mas-tic, 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 per-fect,” 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, Ar-riaga didn’t expect this kind of suc-cess when he showed up this summer.

“Hard to believe it, right? I’ve been training for the last six years or five

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Saratoga LeadersTRAINERS .........................1STChad Brown ..................................36Todd Pletcher ................................27Kiaran McLaughlin ........................13Rudy Rodriguez ............................11Steve Asmussen ...........................10George Weaver................................9David Jacobson ...............................9Mike Maker .....................................9Charlton Baker ................................9Linda Rice .......................................9Jeremiah Englehart .........................9Bill Mott ..........................................8Graham Motion ...............................7Shug McGaughey ............................7Jason Servis ...................................7

JOCKEYS ..........................1STJose Ortiz ......................................54Irad Ortiz Jr. ..................................48Javier Castellano ...........................46John Velazquez .............................41Luis Saez .......................................27Joel Rosario ..................................25Manny Franco ...............................19Jose Lezcano ................................18Ricardo Santana Jr. .......................13Junior Alvarado .............................11Florent Geroux ................................9Kendrick Carmouche .......................7Julien Leparoux ...............................6

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years,” he said. “I worked with Rudy (Rodriguez) and Todd Pletcher. They helped me out. You need two train-ers 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 Sev-enfleethumor 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 Thurs-day. “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 compa-ny in June 2015 at Delaware Park.

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 inqui-ry sign came down and Rachel Wall stayed up. Ortiz climbed back aboard and got his picture taken for the sec-ond 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 frac-tions before taking aim at the lead-er 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 half-length win.

Rachel Wall’s victory follows a sec-ond 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

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 Mary-land, he decided to leave her in Sara-toga 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 sev-enth 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 hus-tled General Downs out of the gate from his outside No. 7 post. After stalking in third down the back-stretch, 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-

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 Bell-house, 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 pre-cocious 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 hors-es two turns off of one race,” Finley said. “Kudos to him, because I prob-ably 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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Tod MarksGeneral Downs (right) edges Tale Of Mist in Thursday’s fourth.

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FIRST $65,000, ALLOWANCE, 4 YO’S & UP, 2 1/16M7 Hardrock Eleven B. Crowley $11.00 $4.50 $3.902 Castle Hill G. Galligan $2.70 $3.205 Blue Atlantic P. Young $4.00Gr/ro G 2010, by Rock Hard Ten - Stark Beauty by Unbridled’s SongOwner: Virginia Lazenby Racing Stable LLC. Trainer: Doug Fout. Breeder: Farm III Enterprises & Off The HookPartners LLC (FL).Late Scratches: Willow U, ReporterTime: 3:46.63Exacta (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 1/2F4 Mastic J. Ortiz $8.90 $5.60 $3.403 Lady Paradime M. Franco $9.40 $4.902 Sweetrayofsunshine F. Geroux $2.80B Filly 2012, by Harlington - Mosaic by Storm CatOwner: The Players Group. Trainer: Antonio Arriaga. Breeder: Eugene Melnyk (ON).Claimed: Sweetrayofsunshine claimed by Rodriguez, Rudy for $25,000Time: 1:17.10Daily 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 1/16M3 Warranty J. Castellano $6.30 $4.10 $2.608 More Than a Legend J. Ortiz $16.00 $5.501 Stormy Alexis (IRE) M. Franco $2.20Dk B/ Br Filly 2013, by Artie Schiller - Shoppers Return by Put It BackOwner: Klaravich Stables, Inc. and Lawrence, William H.. Trainer: Chad Brown. Breeder: Craig L. Wheeler (FL).Late Scratches: Say Cin CinTime: 1:43.44Daily Double (4-3), $31.40; Exacta (3-8), $111.50; Superfecta (3-8-1-2), $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 1/8M7 General Downs K. Carmouche $38.40 $11.60 $5.505 Tale of Mist L. Saez $5.00 $3.201 T R Crew A. Arroyo $2.70B Gelding 2013, by Mineshaft - Plaid by Deputy CommanderOwner: West Point Thoroughbreds. Trainer: Dallas Stewart. Breeder: Dixiana Farms, LLC (KY). Time: 1:51.43Daily Double (3-7), $157.00; Exacta (7-5), $208.00; Quinella (5-7), $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 1/2M3 Rachel Wall J. Ortiz $12.80 $6.20 $3.506 Evidently J. Alvarado $5.30 $3.807 Daring Duchess J. Velazquez $5.80B Filly 2012, by Blame - Ocean Moon by Malibu MoonOwner: Crager, Bill. Trainer: H. Motion. Breeder: Stone Farm & John H. Adger (KY).Late Scratches: Spa Town ParadeTime: 2:27.66Daily Double (7-3), $393.50; Exacta (3-6), $65.50; Superfecta (3-6-7-5), $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 TURF8 Bareeqa I. Ortiz Jr. 5.40 3.50 2.405 Aussie Awakening J. Alvarado 5.30 3.803 Octacato A. Arroyo 2.90B. 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 TURF9 Game Girl J. Ortiz 15.20 8.00 4.705 Indygita I. Ortiz Jr. 5.60 4.003 Hudson River Gal J. Castellano 2.70Dk. 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. Su-perfecta $970.00.Time: 1:34.70.

EIGHTH $90,000 ALLOW OPTIONAL CLM. 3&UP F&M, 6F4 So You Say J. Ortiz 12.80 6.40 4.406 Know It All Anna L. Saez 5.90 3.507 Callista I. Ortiz Jr. 3.20Dk. 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. Super-fecta $546.00.Time: 1:11.21

NINTH $100,000 P.G. JOHNSON STAKES. 2YO F, 1 1/16M TURF4 Coasted J. Lezcano 3.40 2.70 2.203 Noble Ready I. Ortiz Jr. 10.40 4.907 Majestic Bonnie M. Franco 3.40B. 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 1/2F2B Haul Anchor J. Alvarado 3.80 2.30 2.501 Mo Maverick M. Franco 4.90 4.102 Can You Diggit A. Arroyo 3.80 2.30 2.50B. 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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“It was an easy pedigree to like, easy colt to like at the yearling sales,” Pletcher said Wednesday afternoon, moments after Made You Look be-came 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-year-olds 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 de-cision – 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 out-side,” 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 every-thing 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, to-day 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 – includ-ing five in a row to start his career and then add-ing 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 Sep-tember 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

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. Al-though 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 grad-ed 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, Harling-ton, 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 cele-brate 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 2016 was over before it started. The 40-year-old jump jockey fell at Parx, breaking his right arm and cracking his pelvis July 12. On the way home, Young called leading trainer Jack Fisher and told him he better make other plans for Schoodic in the A. 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 hand-icap Wednesday. Owned by Sheila Williams and Northwood Stable, the son of Bernstein drew off to win by 2

lengths over favorite Top Striker and Rudyard K. Bouncing back from a third earlier in the meet, Special Skills earned his third career hurdle victory.

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 be-hind 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 eas-ily as Young merely slapped Special Skills on the right shoulder.

Young finished the Saratoga sea-son with a win, a second aboard An-di’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 Phil-adelphia Park, so anything’s a bo-nus,” 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 Gold-berg before being purchased by Fish-er 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 Sc-hoodic 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 pret-ty 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-cham-pion 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 come-backs 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

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 Irish-man’s first big break in this country.

“I started with him and I’ll finish with him,” Young said.

– Sean Clancy

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