08-07-14

here&there... at Saratoga
WORTH REPEATING
“I’m the super-sub. The first thing I checked when he came
back was the girth. Did it slip”
Trainer Dave Duggan, who saddled Wednesday’s
steeplechase winner Mancor for non-shipping,
Virginia-based trainer Jimmy Day
“We saw him!!!”
Reader Paul Fulgione after he and his wife saw
Jess’s Dream, 2-year-old son of champion
Rachel Alexandra, gallop Wednesday morning
“I showed up in khakis and a dry cleaned shirt the first day.
They laughed at me.”
Ryan Clancy, 21, as he went to his “real job”
wearing an Adena Springs hat (backward), a
“Fear the Turtle” T-shirt and jeans Wednesday morning
“I just got through reading Tuesday’s, I just hit the double.”
Ralph Theroux, picking up Wednesday’s Special
“Another one of these disturbances could come through…
then it’s smooth sailing.”
Weatherman on the TV at the
Morning Line Kitchen Wednesday morning
“That’s high cotton.”
Kevin Lavin, when hearing that The Special’s
writers were being compared to Joe Palmer
“Whatever you do, don’t take off this horse.”
Retired jockey Jose Santos, when asked
what he told his agent after working future
Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide for the first time
“The only way I could get my body on the ground like that is if
it had white chalk around it.”
Valet Harry Rice, describing Hall of Fame
inductee Alex Solis’ stretching routine every day
“That’s a nice place, just beautiful – except for those three months.”
Finn Green, about Fair Hill Training Center (and winter)
“I got out of there…until tomorrow morning.”
Fasig-Tipton ring handler Cordell Anderson
while watching turf works Wednesday morning
“Four thousand, one hundred and forty four. I hear about it
every day.”
Trainer Gary Contessa, when asked how many races jockey-turned-exercise-rider
Nick Santagata won in his career
“She likes Keeneland. She walks that outside path and can get
six backrubs a day.”
EQB’s Patti Miller, about her dog Sally
“I thought we were going to have a 7-footer in the paddock.”
Bona Venture Stable’s Dan Collins, when Orlando Magic
power forward Andrew Nicholson was planning to see his
namesake Nicholson run Friday (Nicholson had to cancel)
“I’m doing all right, my wife called me last night and said there
were bats in the house.”
Owner Richard Hoffberger, who is glad he’s in Saratoga
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“We’ve been in racing for 32 years
so I don’t even remember.”
Owner Bill Punk,
after winning with Selenite,
when asked about his first
winner at Saratoga
800-523-8143 Connie Bush
Postcard from Oklahoma...
HIP 458 – FASIG-TIPTON SUNDAY 8/10
Half-sister to MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC, stakes winner of 7 of 11 starts, earner of $306,391.
MARRIEDTOTHEMUSIC’S dazzling displays of speed in 2014 include:
125 Equibase # (highest sprint # in North America in 2014 is a 126)
101 and 99 Beyer Speed Figures • .03 off Aqueduct track record win
Pointing to graded stakes at Belmont Fall meet
Classy physical by freshman sire Marsh Side. Vinery Sales/Barn 9
4 The Saratoga Special
Thursday, August 7, 2014