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Second helpingof SaratogaTest runner-up Miss Behaviourreturns as player in Gr. 2 stakesBY SEAN CLANCYLorna Chavez slid the bridle downMiss Behaviour’s head and eased hertrainer’s mind about day-of-the-racetraining.“She’s good, do the same thing wedid the last time,” Chavez said to PhilSchoenthal, as she walked out of thestall and draped her saddle across awooden railing between Wayne Catalano’sstring to her right and HughMcMahon’s fleet to her left in theshaded barn behind the main track.Schoenthal agreed, paid Chavezand braced for the walk.“I didn’t train her the last timePRIORESS STAKES PREVIEWon the day of the race,” the Maryland-basedtrainer said. “I could barelykeep her on the ground.”Schoenthal kept her on the groundlong enough to nearly spring an upsetin the Grade 1 Test Stakes Aug.2. Owned and bred by Cal MacWilliamand Neil Teitelbaum, the fourtimewinning daughter of Jump Startbroke from the outside in the fieldof 10, stalked in third, reeled in thepacesetters and eventually succumbedto a tornado thrown down by SweetReason who earned her third GradeTrainer Phil Schoenthal and Miss Behaviour get a feel for Saratoga.1 victory.A month later, the daughter ofJump Start returns for the Grade 2Prioress while Sweet Reason waits forthe Cotillion in the fall.Sent off 15-1 for the Test, MissBehaviour is 5-2 for the Prioress. Afurlong shorter and without the longshadow of Sweet Reason, the PrioressSean Clancyoffers an opportunity. For the 3-yearoldfilly and the 36-year-old trainer.“You grow up your whole lifedreaming about being in a stake atSaratoga, standing next to these guyswho were your heroes growing up,”Schoenthal said. “There’s this mo-See PRIORESS page 30WININ WESTVIRGINIASaturday, October 18, 2014Post Time 7:00 PMFeaturing theWest Virginia Breeders ClassicAnd the Breeders Classics RacesTV Coverage on Fox Sports, Comcast & HRTVWest Virginia Breeders Classics, Ltd.wvbcmbn@verizon.net • www.wvbc.comP.O. Box 1251 • Charles Town,WV 25414 • 304-725-0709SAM HUFF - CEO • CAROL HOLDEN - PRES. • THERESA BITNER - EXEC. SEC.28 The Saratoga SpecialSaturday, August 30, 2014