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Straight Story (right) blazes to victory Tod Marks

NY-bred stars clash in Yaddo • Entries/Handicapping

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The Special quotes from Saratoga

“I go to the sale, I see something I like and I call someone.”

Trainer Linda Rice on her approach to buying horses

“I knew I had the favorite inside me and I did not want to give him a break.”

Alan Garcia, about keeping favorite Silver Timber at bay in the Troy

By the Numbers 129:

Bags of feed behind Rick Violette’s barn.

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Wild turkeys spotted along the Northway Wednesday.

1: Load of laundry left in the dryer by

“Daddy, I’m not going to be a jockey.”

Michael Velazquez, 7, in response to his father John’s advice on how to place his foot in the stirrup

“Michael, I don’t want you to be a jockey.”

John Velazquez

“It’s like a rainforest.”

Chappy Motion, 7, about the forest near the half-mile pole

17-year-old former Saratoga resident (as of Wednesday) Ryan Clancy; we’re stealing the good socks before we send it all home.

Names of the Day Sextant, first race. Clyde Rice-owned mare is by Orientate. A sextant is used to measure the angle between two objects, commonly between a celestial object and the horizon.

Orbiston Parva, ninth race. John and Kim Glenney’s homebred is out of Heaven’s Above, named after a British comedy where Peter Sellers plays Reverand John Smallwood, a prison chaplain assigned to the community of Orbiston Parva.

Terevaka, ninth race. The Patricia Moseley homebred is by Storm Boot. You’ll need storm boots to cimb Terevaka, the tallest of three extinct volcanoes that form Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean.

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Early Risers. Owners Craig Peretz (left) and Mike Balfe are on the scene, and the rail, every morning at Saratoga.

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Just Sayin’ “You can’t get there from here.”

The Special quotes from Saratoga

“Do you have grenades with that helmet?”

Security guard to trainer/exercise rider Jack Fisher, who was wearing a big, black helmet without cover

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“I was like Fred Astaire on steroids.”

Trainer Doug Fout about dancing at the Hall of Fame Ball

“I’ll do it as long as I enjoy it.”

Trainer Colum O’Brien about galloping horses

“Alwuhush.”

Name on a webbing hanging from a pony stall on the Oklahoma side

“We’re really not the Bates Motel.”

Saratoga Sleigh innkeeper Cindy Nichols, after two guests locked themselves in their room Thursday morning

“He ate cereal yesterday, and he can’t find it today?”

Trainer Billy Badgett, about teenage son Brandon who had to get directions before he could make breakfast Thursday morning Tod Marks

“He couldn’t have come out better. I wanted to walk him one more day but had to take him to the track.”

Trainer Steve Hobby, about Sword Dancer winner Telling

In Memory. John Salerno, the Singing Waiter, belts out a tune at Saratoga last summer. The Saratoga fixture died in November at 87 and was honored with a race in his name Thursday afternoon.

SEVEN 2-year-old winners in 2010 • Third Chance at Arlington Park for Ron Magers and James Divito

• Sunday Splitsville at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher

• Another Silver Oak, 3rd in the Sanford at Saratoga for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher.

• Loving Dove at Monmouth Park for Red Oak Farm and Gregory Sacco.

• Gambline Geraldine at Belmont Park for Mike Repole and Todd Pletcher.

• K.R.’s Jazz at Monmouth Park for A Woman’s Thing and Mary Hartman.

• Saratoga Louie at Monmouth Park for Gary Barber and Peter Miller

Our graduates include: Contact Jim Crupi Toll Free: (866) 313-5400 Cell: (352) 427-1600

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Badgett ladies aim for repeat finish in tough turf stakes for NY-breds

BY JOE CLANCY

Trainer Billy Badgett calls them complete opposites.

They occupy different ends of Barn 35 on the Oklahoma side of Saratoga Race Course – one down by the lead pony’s stall, the other nearest the training track. One is a 4-year-old homebred, the other a Keeneland September graduate.

One broke her maiden as a 2-year-old by 9 on the turf at Belmont Park. The other dropped to maiden $35,000 at Aqueduct in February to find the winner’s circle.

But there they were, finishing a nose apart in a Saratoga stakes.

Exclusive Scheme and Chestoria, New York-bred stablemates in Badgett’s care, went 1-2 in the William B. Fasig Stakes here July 31. They meet again as part of a contentious 11-horse field in today’s Yaddo, a $100,000 test going 1 1/8 miles on the inner turf. Perennially competitive, the Yaddo lured the first four finishers from the Fasig – Badgett’s duo plus eight-time winner You Go West Girl and My Magic Moment. They finished a nose, a head and a head apart last time, at 1 1/16 miles.

“Whoever gets the best trip wins a lot See Yaddo page 6

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Stablemates Exclusive Scheme (center) and Chestoria (right) finished 1-2 in the William B. Fasig Stakes July 31 and return in today’s Yaddo.

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of these races, and that’s probably what will happen this time,” said Badgett.

“Those four were really close together last time and Chestoria had the worst trip in the world. You could throw four or five names in a hat and pull the winner out.”

Exclusive Scheme battled on the front throughout that day and prevailed by a nose over Chestoria, who found traffic in the stretch and rallied furiously before falling short. You Go West Girl also closed stoutly and just missed while My Magic Moment found a way to finish behind three horses but lose by a neck.

“The owners (Paris Hill Thoroughbreds) wanted to run and the first thing I told them was you can’t beat Chestoria,” Badgett said. “We went ahead and gave it a shot and she ran great. There was a little bit of diplomacy involved afterward, but both sides were happy. The two horses are in the same category and you just have to learn to deal with it.”

Chestoria firmly established herself in the division with stakes wins at 3, 4, 5 and 6. The daughter of Chester House owns seven lifetime wins, 16 top-three finishes and more than $505,000 in earnings. Bred by Berkshire Stud and Oak Cliff Breeders, she won two of her first five starts (including a 2-length defeat in the Grade I Garden City) with trainer Bruce Levine in 2006-07 and missed eight months with a hind-end injury before joining Badgett’s barn in 2008.

Last summer at Saratoga, she won the Lake Luzerne and placed fourth be-

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Chestoria won a stakes at Saratoga last summer for E El R Stable and trainer Billy Badgett.

hind Nehantic Cat in the Yaddo. Given her usual winter break at Goldmark Farm in Florida, Chestoria returned with a third in the Grade III Beaugay May 1 and won the Mt. Vernon over New York-breds May 30. She went to Philadelphia Park July 5, where she ran into Cherokee Queen, and settled for second.

“She’s a model of consistency, amazing,” said Badgett. “She tries hard every time, even when she gets beat. The filly

that beat her in Pennsylvania is a very, very good filly.”

The 3-1 favorite with David Cohen aboard today, Chestoria sold for $20,000 at Keeneland September in 2005 and joined the racing operation of Dick and Linda Balfour, who race as E El R Stable. The Balfours have mulled retirement options for the dark bay or brown mare, but the racing career will continue through 2010 anyway.

“They had thought about breed-

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ing her and keeping the babies to race, they’ve thought about breeding her and selling her in foal,” said Badgett. “Economy-wise the broodmare market is the weakest of any of them unless you’re a superstar. Three years ago, she might have been worth $700,000. I think she’ll make a tremendous broodmare though. She’s gritty and tough, but at the same time she’s very feminine. She’ll be a good mother.”

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add speed to the Yaddo, but Badgett thinks his filly will rate.

“She doesn’t have to be on the lead,” said the trainer, who tabbed Javier Castellano for the ride on the 12-1 shot.

“There are other speed horses in there and she can sit off them if she has to.

Relaxing is the key.”

So are the two stablemates really that different? They’re New York-breds, they each have seven career wins, they live in the same barn, they gallop in the same color saddle towels, they breathe the same air, they eat the same hay . . .

Night and day.

“They are completely different horses. Exclusive Scheme will come out here and breeze in 59 on the dirt. Chestoria, if I had to breeze her on the dirt, she’d go a half in 52. They’re as opposite as can be.”

They’re numbers 2 and 8 in your program today.

“She’s a model of consistency, amazing. She tries hard every time, even when she gets beat. The filly that beat her in Pennsylvania is a very, very good filly.”

Someday.

When Chestoria does head off to motherhood, she can hand the keys to the Badgett barn to a capable understudy in the rapidly improving Exclusive Scheme. The bay filly shocked the odds board at 25-1 in the Fasig, but has been rising through her conditions since early last year – a season in which she won five of 15 starts beginning Jan. 1 and ending Oct. 28.

She opened 2010 with back-to-back sixths going 1 1/16 miles at Belmont, then finished fourth at a mile in a $50,000 starter. She won that condition July 17 and upset the Fasig – her first two-turn turf race since she was third in the Peerless Springs here last summer. Exclusive Scheme comes into the Yaddo with a two-race winning streak, a 2-for-3 mark on the Saratoga turf and more than $208,000 in career earnings.

— Billy Badgett, trainer of Chestoria “It might be just a maturity thing with her because when she was younger we really weren’t sure what we had,” Badgett said. “It wasn’t just a bad trip for Chestoria, this filly ran really well. She’s better at two turns – she relaxes, gets a little bit off the bridle. I was disappointed in the couple of races she ran at Belmont; she was really aggressive and she wasn’t finishing.”

She finished in the Fasig, holding off the closers after relaxing on the lead. Badgett doesn’t care where Exclusive Scheme is early in her races, he just wants to see her relax. Canadian shipper Woolly Bear should

NOTES: The 11-horse Yaddo field has combined to win 51 races and more than $2.8 million.

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Tom Bush is approaching today’s $100,000 Yaddo Stakes for New Yorkbreds from both sides of the fence.

The trainer will saddle Ambidaxtrous and Our Golden Dream in the 9-furlong turf stakes, and the only thing they have in common is that both are listed as 20-1 longshots on the morning line.

A 5-year-old chestnut Deputy Commander mare owned by Saratoga Springs-based Parting Glass Stable, Ambidaxtrous has failed to win a race over the past two years. Despite the drought, she has been on the board nine times, with three seconds and six thirds.

“She’s just a really, really honest filly,” said Bush, who trained 2006 Yaddo winner Finlandia. “She’s an overachiever. She doesn’t have the greatest physical attributes, but she really is just a tryer and has a lot of quality. We’re happy to run her.”

Meanwhile, Our Golden Dream, a 4-year-old Medaglia d’Oro filly bred by Gallagher’s Stud in Ghent and owned

by Albert Weis and John Confort, is 0-for-3 in 2010 and 2-for-12 with two seconds in the past two years. Six of her eight straight losses have come by 3 lengths or less.

“She is the exact opposite,” Bush said. “She’s an underachiever. She trains fabulously and she’s getting beat 2, 2 1/2, 3, 4 lengths. She just doesn’t seem to give us that run at the end that we know is in her.”

Ambidaxtrous is coming off a 1-mile starter allowance at Saratoga Aug.

YADDO STAKES PREVIEW 5, where she wound up third of nine, beaten 3 1/4 lengths on a yielding turf course.

“She looks like she’s pretty aggressively placed, but we’re very frustrated because we can never get races long enough for her,” Bush said. “The mile and an eighth fits her profile. The level of competition is greater, so I’m not sure what to make of that. She’s super consistent. She’ll be running late in this race. Being second or third in this race . . . the Yaddo, even though it is still a restricted race, it definitely is a pretty recognizable (sales) catalogue type of race, so we feel like it’s the right thing to do.”

Our Golden Dream was sixth of seven, only 2 1/2 lengths behind longshot winner Exclusive Scheme, in the $70,000 Willam B. Fasig Stakes at Saratoga July 31. The top four finishers in that race, including Chestoria, You Go West Girl and My Magic Moment, return in the Yaddo, the eighth of nine.

Last summer, Our Golden Dream placed fourth in two Saratoga stakes, the Peerless Springs and John Hettinger, both at a mile.

“I just can’t seem to figure out how to get [a late run] out of her,” Bush said. “I’m hoping to get the filly to lay a little closer in the race. That’s my goal, just putting her into the game a little earlier in the race. It’s been frustratSee Yaddo page 10

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ing because the way she trains, I really thought this could be a special filly, and she just hasn’t lived up to my expectations. She’s doing really well, and she’s very fit, so we’re hoping she’s going to really show up and give a bang-up big race. We need a big one out of her to do something here.”

Bush is hoping his experience can help make a difference for his horses.

“You try to tinker and fool a little bit and try to figure out how maybe you could get them to improve just a little bit,” he said. “It’s frustrating when physically they’re in great shape and mentally they seem to be giving you all the right signs, but they just don’t quite fire. That’s when you’ve got to try to change your training regimen a little bit, change every little thing you can think of. Change for change’s sake, sometimes you hit it.”

Breaking from the rail is Meriwether Jessica, a 5-year-old chestnut daughter of Freud takes a two-race win streak into the Yaddo for owner Patsy Symons.

Previously trained by Linda Rice, Meriwether Jessica has won two starts since joining the barn of Rick Violette this summer. Both victories have come at Belmont Park, one at 7 furlongs and the other at a mile.

“She’s terrific,” Violette said. “She’s obviously been fun to have. The mile and an eighth is a little bit of a concern, but she breezed an awfully good mile the other day, just a bunch of 13s

in a row, and she certainly didn’t give any indication that it would be an issue. Until they do it in the afternoon, you’re never sure, but she’s training up a storm. She’s been just great up here.

We’re looking forward to it.”

Violette, who won the Yaddo in 1985 with Tall Glass O’ Water and again in 2005 with Kate Winslet, believes her current form makes Meriwether Jessica a formidable opponent.

“She’s just a big, good-looking mare, and I love her,” he said. “She’s dropdead gorgeous. She likes what she does, and she’s on a bit of a roll. I think they have us to beat, I’ll be honest with you, on pedigree and what she’s done in the past. I really thought we drew well in the one hole. I think it’s great, because we can kind of get a little position there early. You certainly hope to save ground the first turn and then you find out what happens on the second turn.

She’s fun. She’s a very, very nice mare.

I’d like to have a barn full.”

• • • The field (with jockey and morning-line odds) in post-position order: Meriwether Jessica (Alan Garcia, 5-1), Chestoria (David Cohen, 3-1), Woolly Bear (Eibar Coa, 8-1), Ambidaxtrous (Cornelio Velasquez, 20-1), Our Golden Dream (Garrett Gomez, 20-1), My Magic Moment (Ramon Dominguez, 10-1), You Go West Girl (Jose Lezcano, 4-1), Exclusive Scheme (Javier Castellano, 12-1), Great Gracie Dane (Julien Leparoux, 8-1), My Dinah (Jose Espinoza, 20-1), Paraiba (John Velazquez, 8-1). Big Brownie (Channing Hill, 8-1) was entered for the main track only.

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Sextant Exiled Princess Lights Out Lisa Cadazzle Alseera Tap for Luck McVictory Moontune Missy Southern Accents Hardwicke Hall Funky Munky Mama Copious Notes More Is Better Colour the Wind Kathern’s Kitten Rani Baba Boatman’s Dream Officer Flirt Jacky Juice Miss Odette Hear Her Roar Chestoria You Go West Girl Exclusive Scheme Kiss of Fire Conspicuous Erin Erin

Lights Out Lisa Exiled Princess Corey’s Coming My Southern Star Tap for Luck Miss Dora McVictory Southern Accents Moontune Missy Copious Notes Hardwicke Hall More Is More Colour the Wind Storm Showers Frances Gardner Officer Flirt Gone Home Long Gone Jacky Juice Miss Odette Soda Kaps You Go West Girl Chestoria Our Golden Dream Conspicuous Terevaka Kiss of Fire

Exiled Princess Lights Out Lisa Sextant Tap For Luck Bayou Tortuga Cadazzle McVictory Sneaky Girl Southern Accents More Is More Funky Munky Mama Kitten’s Kitten Kathern’s Kitten Storm Showers Persuading Rani Baba Boatman’s Dream Officer Flirt Jacky Juice Miss Odette Hear Her Roar Chestoria Wooly Bear Ambidaxtrous Conspicuous Mordecai Jones Kiss Of Fire

Corey’s Coming Exiled Princess Light Out Lisa My Southern Star Cadazzle Bayou Tortuga Moontune Missy McVictory Gemswick Park Miss Marla Millie Money More Is More Frances Gardner Colour The Wind Kathern’s Kitten Gone Home Boatman’s Dream Rani Baba Sister Berta Miss Odette Jacky Juice Woolly Bear Chestoria You Go West Girl Lily’s Doll Conspicuous Orbiston Parva

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4th (2:40) 5 1/2 Furlongs ny bred Fillies 2yo mdn clm ($50,000) Purse: $29,000 1 2 Buttonfront.................Lezcano J.............. Martin Carlos F.......10-1 1A 6 One Forty....................Maragh R.............. Martin Carlos F.......10-1 2 1 No Angel....................Lenclud F.............. Pugh Peter D..........20-1 3 3 Millie Money...............Dominguez R A..... Rice Linda................6-1 4 4 Copious Notes............Chavez J F............. Contessa Gary C.....12-1 5 5 Adriatic Pearls............Velasquez C........... Donk David.............20-1 6 7 Miss Marla.................Hill C..................... Terranova, II John....5-1 7 8 Kitten’s Kitten.............Leparoux J R......... Maker Michael J.....12-1 8 9 Hardwicke Hall...........Garcia Alan............ McLaughlin Kiaran...4-1 9 10 Funky Munky Mama...Velazquez J R........ Gullo Gary P.............6-1 10 11 More Is More.............Castellano J J........ Brown Bruce R.........9-2 11 12 Jet Fever.....................Santiago V............. Ryan Derek S.........10-1 A-Coupled: Buttonfront and One Forty Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Pick 3 Races (4-6), Pick 6 Races (4-9) Daily Double

8th (4:56) Yaddo S. 1 1/8 Miles (Inner turf) ny bred F&m 3&Up Purse: $100,000 1 1 Meriwether Jessica....Garcia Alan............ Violette, Jr. R A........5-1 2 2 Chestoria....................Cohen D................ Badgett William .......3-1 3 3 Woolly Bear................Coa E M................ England Deborah......8-1 4 4 Ambidaxtrous.............Velasquez C........... Bush Thomas M.....20-1 5 5 Our Golden Dream.....Gomez G K............ Bush Thomas M.....20-1 6 6 My Magic Moment.....Dominguez R A..... Albertrani Thomas.. 10-1 7 7 You Go West Girl........Lezcano J.............. Proctor Thomas F.....4-1 8 8 Exclusive Scheme......Castellano J J........ Badgett William Jr.. 12-1 9 9 Great Gracie Dane......Leparoux J R......... Ryan Derek S...........8-1 10 10 My Dinah....................Espinoza J L.......... Feron Kathleen M...20-1 11 11 Paraiba.......................Velazquez J R........ Donk David...............8-1 12 MTO Big Brownie................Hill C..................... Pugh Peter D............8-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Super (.10), Daily Double BLEED: —

3rd (2:06) 7 Furlongs F&M 3&Up Allow/Opt Clm ($75,000) Purse: $56,000 1 1 Gemswick Park..........Velazquez J R........ Albertrani Thomas....6-1 2 2 McVictory...................Dominguez R A..... Pletcher Todd A........2-1 3 3 Southern Accents.......Leparoux J R......... Kenneally Eddie........3-1 4 4 Perfect for You...........Bridgmohan S X.... Arnold George R ...12-1 5 5 Moontune Missy........Garcia Alan............ Harty Eoin................4-1 6 6 Sneaky Girl.................Velasquez C........... Rodriguez Rudy R....7-2 Exacta, Trifecta, Pick 3 Races (3-5), Daily Double

7th (4:22) 6 1/2 Furlongs ny bred F&M 3&Up mdn clm ($20,000) Purse: $22,000 1 1 Above the Call............Lenclud F.............. Hernandez Ramon.. 20-1 2 2 Bird in Hand...............Chavez J F............. LeBlanc Kirsten......30-1 3 3 Persky’s Love.............Lezcano A............. Ortiz Juan...............20-1 4 4 Soda Kaps..................Espinoza J L.......... Terracciano Neal.....20-1 5 5 Sister Berta................Luzzi M J............... Payne Curtis...........10-1 6 6 Angioletta...................Wilsey J A............. Winney Melvin........30-1 7 7 Miss Odette................Desormeaux K J.... Albertrani Thomas....2-1 8 8 Hear Her Roar............Lezcano J.............. Martin Carlos F.......10-1 9 9 Glance My Way..........Garcia Alan............ Martin Frank...........12-1 10 10 Jacky Juice.................Castellano J J........ Brown Chad C..........8-5 11 11 Luna Clara..................Santiago V............. Callejas Bernardo...30-1 12 12 Being Queen...............Bridgmohan J V.... Shevy Michael J.....30-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Super (.10), Pick 3 Races (7-9), Daily Double

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2nd (1:33) 5 Furlongs Fillies 2YO Maiden Purse: $50,000 1 1 Miss Dora...................Velasquez C........... Hough Stanley M......5-1 2 2 Roly Poly Goalie.........Lenclud F.............. Zito Nicholas P.......12-1 3 3 Cadazzle.....................Velazquez J R........ Pletcher Todd A........5-2 4 4 Bayou Tortuga............Mena M................. Proctor Thomas F.....5-1 5 5 My Southern Star.......Leparoux J R......... Kenneally Eddie........6-1 6 6 Tap for Luck...............Castellano J J........ Pletcher Todd A........5-1 7 7 Alseera.......................Garcia Alan............ McLaughlin Kiaran...3-1 Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Super (.10), Pick 3 Races (2-4) Pick 4 Races (2-5), Daily Double

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1st (1:00) 5 1/2 Furlongs (Turf) F&M 3&Up claiming ($25,000) purse: $28,000 1 3 Cat Grace....................Lenclud F.............. Lotruglio Edward....30-1 1A 8 Ed’s Princess..............Malasquez W......... Lotruglio Edward....30-1 2 1 Corey’s Coming..........Cohen D................ Phipps William.........9-2 3 2 Exiled Princess...........Castellano J J........ Martin Carlos F.........7-2 4 4 Sweet Madness..........Velasquez C........... Bush Thomas M.......8-1 5 5 Lights Out Lisa...........Luzzi M J............... Contessa Gary C.......3-1 6 6 Peaches......................Chavez J F............. DeMasi Kathleen A..10-1 7 7 Bobbi O......................Dominguez R A..... Contessa Gary C.......5-1 8 9 Sextant.......................Garcia Alan............ Rice Linda................6-1 9 10 Ms. Thanksgiving.......Maragh R.............. Hackworth Robert..12-1 10 MTO First Flute...................Lenclud F.............. Jerkens H Allen........6-1 A-Coupled: Cat Grace and Ed’s Princess Exacta, Trifecta, Super (.10), Pick 3 Races (1-3), Daily Double

6th (3:48) 5 1/2 Furlongs (Turf) F&M 3&Up Maiden Claiming ($25,000) Purse: $22,000 1 1 Marie’s Babe...............Bridgmohan J V.... Lotruglio Edward....20-1 2 2 Glass Path..................Velasquez C........... Miceli Michael........20-1 3 3 Boatman’s Dream.......Coa E M................ Galluscio Dominic G....3-1 4 4 Haughty Princess.......Cohen D................ Brown Bruce R.......20-1 5 5 Officer Flirt.................Maragh R.............. Contessa Gary C.......9-2 6 6 Long Gone..................Castellano J J........ Martin Carlos F.........7-2 7 7 Seattle Dynasty..........Studart M.............. Toscano John T......20-1 8 8 Gone Home................Hill C..................... Terranova, II John....6-1 9 9 Rani Baba...................Velazquez J R........ Benzel Seth..............4-1 10 10 Margaro.....................Santiago V............. Sciacca Gary..........15-1 11 AE Charmed (ARG)..........Velazquez J R........ Donk David...............6-1 12 AE Why Then...................Bridgmohan J V.... Shevy Michael J.....50-1 13 AE Lady Symphony.........Lenclud F.............. Dollase Wallace......10-1 14 AE Eliza Grace..................Espinoza J L.......... Barker Edward R....20-1 15 AE Neighborhood House.Phillips M.............. Martin Jane............20-1 16 MTO Shalaka.......................Lenclud F.............. Bond James.............4-1 Exacta, Trifecta, Super (.10), Pick 3 Races (6-8), Pick 4 Races (6-9) Daily Double

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Straight and true on turf Favorite lives up to billing with runaway triumph

BY SEAN CLANCY Alan Goldberg thought about coming to Saratoga for the West Point Thursday. Then he thought better of it.

“I’m at home.

Just stayed home WEST POINT and watched it STAKES here,” the trainRECAP er said after the $100,000 stakes.

“You think about it, you’re up at 4:30, you work all morning, you drive up there, you drive home and you get home at 9 or 10. I’m whupped for two or three days after that. In my younger days I could do it, not anymore. I’d rather just stay here, get to the barn in morning and get to work.”

Straight Story didn’t need him.

Richard Santulli’s 4-year-old went off the favorite and didn’t disappoint with an easy victory in the New York-bred turf stakes.

Based with Goldberg in New Jersey, Straight Story stumbled at the break but quickly found his stride to take his cusSee west point page 15

Straight Story (right) holds off Pocket Cowboys (left) and Icabad Crane in the final stages of the West Point.

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tomary position on the lead. It didn’t last long as longshot Spa City Fever shot through on the rail and the duo locked onto each other, opening 3 lengths on Pocket Cowboys through a quarter in 22.57.

Into the first turn, Javier Castellano asked Straight Story to take a deep breath and the favorite obliged, backing off enough to let Spa City Fever open up a 2 length lead as they turned down the backside. Straight Story managed a short breather but then pulled Castellano to the throat of Spa City Fever again, through a half in 48.12.

After three quarters in 1:12.37, Castellano forced Spa City Fever to pull the parachute and opened a solid length as Pocket Cowboys tried to draft behind the favorite. Then it was just how fast the closers were closing and how fast Straight Story could get to the wire. Not enough and fast enough.

Straight Story turned for home with a decisive advantage, streaked past the eighth pole with a 3-length lead and won by a length over Pocket Cowboys, Icabad Crane and two-time defending champ Banrock. Straight Story finished 9 furlongs in 1:48.58, while earning his fifth career victory.

Straight Story took full advantage

of the class relief, going from a fourth in the Grade I United Nations at Monmouth to taking on New York-breds for the eighth time in his career.

“I was hoping he would settle a little sooner because he’s had enough runs now. In the UN it took him an eighth or a quarter, in behind horses and he settled very nicely,” Goldberg said. “The first quarter today, he kind of let loose.

He’s a nice horse, he tries. He hasn’t run too many bad ones and when he has it’s probably my fault more than anything.”

Straight Story improved his record to 5-for-15, with five seconds. The runnerup finishes have come the hard way, losing the Grade II Colonial Turf Cup, Grade II Virginia Derby and Grade I Jamaica by a head. He even lost a statebred optional claimer by a head to begin his 4-year-old season. The $400,000 Keeneland yearling has now won three of his last four.

Goldberg sent Straight Story to Saratoga last summer where he faded to eighth in the Grade II Hall of Fame Stakes. The trainer wasn’t sure how he was going to react to the trip this year.

“The last time I shipped him to Saratoga he was not so good and usually he’s good,” Goldberg said. “I talked to my man with him and the horse was good all day, good in paddock, good in post parade, up until two minutes beSee west point page 16

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fore they went to get on the turf, he got antsy and he looked antsy in the gate.”

Castellano hopped off Straight Story in the gate but other than that, it was clear sailing for the second leading jockey at the meet. Castellano rode Straight Story in his debut back in 2008 and has now won four races aboard the son of Giant’s Causeway.

“The speed has been very good on the turf, I knew there were two other speed horses, but my horse wanted to go, he’s a good break horse. I just waited until

we turned for home but I went a little bit early because I don’t want the other horses to get a jump on him,” Castellano said. “He has natural talent, when I took a nice hold, he responded and sat beautiful behind the speed horse. He was much the best today, I could have won wire to wire today if I wanted.”

Goldberg didn’t send any instructions for Castellano, making it easy for the jockey.

“No instructions. Ride him like you own him, that’s good for me,” Castellano said. “Some people think we don’t see the form, they give so many instructions. The good, good trainers hardly say anything, ‘You know how to ride, ride him like you own him.’ ”

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Thursday’s Saratoga results Thursday, August 19, 2010 1ST 1 1/16 Miles (Inner turf) 3&Up Claiming ($20,000) Purse: $26,000 8 Go Go Pink Velazquez J R 9.80 5.20 3.70 6 Opera Heroine Lezcano J 4.10 3.10 3 Fourth Chapter Leparoux J R 4.00 Time 1:44.05 Winning Trainer: Pletcher Todd A - Owner: Scatuorchio James T. B. m. 5 by Forest Camp - Aheadnotatail by Unbridled Breeder: Meg and Mike Buckley $2 Exacta (8-6) Paid $31.00 $2 Trifecta (8-6-3) Paid $135.50 2ND 5 1/2 Furlongs 2 YO Maiden Special Weight Purse: $50,000 7 Running Tap Castellano J J 12.00 4.60 3.00 1 Justin Phillip Bridgmohan S X 3.50 2.60 8 It’s Truly Ahvee Dominguez R A 3.10 Time 1:06.01 Winning Trainer: Weaver George - Owner: Hill, Jim and Susan Gr./ro. c. 2 by Tapit - Wild Flo by Wild Again.

Breeder: Valerie McNeeley Equivine Farm $2 Exacta (7-1) Paid $34.80 $2 Quinella (1-7) Paid $12.60 $2 Trifecta (7-1-8) Paid $91.50 $2 Daily Double (8-7) Paid $67.50 Daily Double Pool $223,576 3RD RACE 1 1/8 Miles 3 &Up Allowance Optional clm ($75,000) Purse: $55,860 2 Miss Match (ARG) Gomez G K 9.40 3.80 7.10 6 Amazing Prado E S 3.70 6.30 3 Million Seller Leparoux J R 14.40 Time 1:52.71 Winning Trainer: Matz Michael R - Owner: Lael Stables Dk. b. or br. m. 5 by Indygo Shiner - Miss Simpatia (ARG) by Southern Halo Breeder: La Quebrada $2 Exacta (2-6) Paid $32.60 $2 Trifecta (2-6-3) Paid $169.50 $2 Pick 3 (8-7-2) 3 Correct Paid $267.00 Pick 3 Pool $93,016 $2 Daily Double (7-2) Paid $64.50 Daily Double Pool $51,067 4TH 6 Furlongs 3 & Up Claiming ($10,000) Purse: $20,000 2 Dance Floor Maniac Dominguez R A 6.30 2.90 2.20 5 Fuzzy’s Story Cohen D 2.60 2.20 7 Always On the Move Chavez J F 2.70 Time 1:11.93 Winning Trainer: Jacobson David - Owner: Western Resources Racing and Jacobson, Douglas B. g. 3 by Eurosilver - Dance Softly by Tiznow Breeder: Hertrich/McCarthy Livestock $2 Exacta (2-5) Paid $15.40 $2 Quinella (2-5) Paid $6.30 $2 Trifecta (2-5-7) Paid $37.80 $2 Pick 3 (7-2-2) 3 Correct Paid $154.00 Pick 3 Pool $50,900 $2 Daily Double (2-2) Paid $37.40 Daily Double Pool $56,871 5TH 5 1/2 Furlongs 2 YO Maiden Claiming ($75,000) Purse: $35,000 1 Mountain Town Lenclud F 16.40 10.00 7.40 3 Eighth Avenue Castellano J J 17.80 9.60 8 Dawly Santiago V 6.60 Time 1:06.31 Winning Trainer: Zito Nicholas P - Owner: Marylou Whitney Stables B. c. 2 by Cape Town - Mountain Bird by Mt. Livermore Breeder: Marylou Whitney Stable $2 Exacta (1-3) Paid $229.00 $2 Trifecta (1-3-8) Paid $1,490.00 $2 Pick 3 (2-2-1) 3 Correct Paid $544.00 Pick 3 Pool $72,994 $2 Pick 4 (7-2-2-1) 4 Correct Paid $3,359.00 Pick 4 Pool $195,036 $2 Daily Double (2-1) Paid $93.50 Daily Double Pool $61,809 $2 Consolation Pick 3 (2-2-4) Paid $30.00 $2 Superfecta (1-3-8-6) Paid $6,743.00 $2 Consolation Double (2-4) Paid $6.40

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6TH 7 Furlongs 3 & Up Str Allowance ($50,000 - ) Purse: $48,000 2 Star of New York Castellano J J 7.60 4.10 2.80 4 In Just We Trust Velazquez J R 4.80 3.10 5 Capt Obvious Lenclud F 3.00 Time 1:24.05 Winning Trainer: Galluscio Dominic G - Owner: Lewis Mark J. Ch. c. 4 by Five Star Day - Portent by Sauce Boat. Breeder: Ted Taylor $2 Exacta (2-4) Paid $32.80 $2 Trifecta (2-4-5) Paid $112.00 $2 Pick 3 (2-1-2) 3 Correct Paid $396.50 Pick 3 Pool $72,041 $2 Daily Double (1-2) Paid $102.50 Daily Double Pool $64,253 $2 Consolation Pick 3 (2-4-2) Paid $24.00 $2 Superfecta (2-4-5-3) Paid $593.00 7TH 1 1/16 Miles (Turf) 2 YO Maiden Special Weight Purse: $41,000 8 Deciphering Dreams Dominguez R A 5.70 3.90 2.80 2 Dual Citizen Gomez G K 5.50 3.90 9 Ordinary Joe Solis A 3.80 Time 1:43.87 Winning Trainer: Dutrow Richard E Jr - Owner: Winter Park Partners B. c. 2 by Freud - Plinking by Talkin Man. Breeder: Tony Grey $2 Exacta (8-2) Paid $38.60 $2 Trifecta (8-2-9) Paid $158.50 $2 Daily Double (2-8) Paid $24.20 Daily Double Pool $89,042 $2 Pick 3 (1-2-8) 3 Correct Paid $401.00 Pick 3 Pool $73,168 $2 Superfecta (8-2-9-4) Paid $1,819.00 8TH West Point Stakes 1 1/8 M (Inner turf) 3&Up Purse: $100,000 7 Straight Story Castellano J J 4.10 2.90 2.50 4 Pocket Cowboys Prado E S 10.80 7.30 9 Icabad Crane Leparoux J R 4.80 Time 1:48.58 Winning Trainer: Goldberg Alan E - Owner: Santulli Richard Dk. b. or br. c. 4 by Giant’s Causeway - Eventail by Lear Fan Breeder: Gallagher’s Stud $2 Exacta (7-4) Paid $52.50 $2 Trifecta (7-4-9) Paid $273.00 $2 Pick 3 (2-8-7) 3 Correct Paid $55.50 Pick 3 Pool $94,273 $2 Daily Double (8-7) Paid $14.80 Daily Double Pool $78,552 $2 Superfecta (7-4-9-10) Paid $884.00 9TH 5 1/2 Furlongs (Turf) 3&UP AOC ($35,000) Purse: $52,000 10 Mitigation Garcia Alan 45.20 13.40 5.80 2 I’ve Got Speed Dominguez R A 4.10 2.90 5 Delano Gomez G K 3.10 Time 1:02.18 Winning Trainer: Maker Michael J - Owner: Scarlet Stable Dk. b. or br. g. 5 by Cherokee Run-Sophisticatedcielo by Conquistador Cielo Breeder: Mace and Samantha Siegel $2 Exacta (10-2) Paid $157.00 $2 Trifecta (10-2-5) Paid $679.00 $2 Grand Slam (2,4,5-2,8,9-4,7,9-10) Paid $134.50 $2 Pick 3 (8-7-10) 3 Correct Paid $346.50 Pick 3 Pool $69,884 $2 Daily Double (7-10) Paid $117.50 Daily Double Pool $111,188 $2 Consolation Pick 3 (8-7-3) Paid $11.40 $2 Superfecta (10-2-5-4) Paid $5,766.00 $2 Consolation Double (7-3) Paid $3.80 10TH 1 Mile (Inner turf) 3 & Up Claiming ($25,000) Purse: $28,000 2 Such Time as This Garcia Alan 6.30 3.60 2.70 7 Song for Pupcake Castellano J J 5.50 4.30 6 Mythical Yarn Lezcano J 6.30 Time 1:37.21 Winning Trainer: Matz Michael R - Owner: Spendthrift Farm LLC Ch. f. 3 by Teton Forest - Ma Guerre by Lord At War (ARG) Breeder: B Wayne Hughes $2 Exacta (2-7) Paid $35.80 $2 Trifecta (2-7-6) Paid $258.50 $2 Superfecta (2-7-6-10) Paid $781.00 $2 Daily Double (10-2) Paid $137.00 Daily Double Pool $179,364 $2 Pick 3 (7-10-2) 3 Correct Paid $271.00 Pick 3 Pool $128,574 $2 Pick 4 (8-7-10-2) 4 Correct Paid $947.00 Pick 4 Pool $354,849 $2 Pick 6 (1-2-8-7-10-2) 5 Correct Paid $262.00 Pool $2 Pick 6 (1-2-8-7-10-2) 6 Correct Paid $44,484.00 Pool $371,074 $2 Consolation Pick 3 (7-3-2) Paid $10.40 Saratoga Attendance: 18,344 Mutuel Pool: $2,607,333 ITW Mutuel Pool: $2,735,801 ISW Mutuel Pool: $6,319,156

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Whitney, Zito 2-year-old skims rail in maiden tally

BY MIKE KANE Mountain Town’s victory in Thursday’s fifth race did not play out the way Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito figured.

Though he failed to follow Zito’s instructions, apprentice jockey Freddie Lenclud provided what turned out to be a winning ride by taking the unraced 2-yearold colt through an opening along the rail. The son of Cape Town, bred and owned by Marylou Whitney, won by a head over Eighth Avenue, giving Zito his first victory of the meet. The celebration was muted because the colt was claimed by trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. for Paul Pompa Jr. “It’s kind of ironic,” Zito said. “We’ll see what happens. I just hope he isn’t a Stymie, that’s all.”

Stymie was claimed for $1,500 in 1943 by Hirsch Jacobs and a few years later developed into a champion. He won 35 races in his career and is a member of the Hall of Fame.

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Mountain Town leads a crowd to the wire in Thursday’s fifth race.

Mountain Town was making his debut in a $75,000 maiden claimer that was eventful before the gates opened. Pretty Mr. D dropped jockey Miguel Mena in the post parade, ran about about mile and a quarter and eluded three outriders before being captured.

He was, of course, scratched. It’s My Party dropped Garrett Gomez in the post parade, but was contained and finished fifth as the favorite. The start was further delayed when Wicky Jones acted up in the gate.

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outside, so I couldn’t. I saw there was a little hole on the inside, so I just slipped in and we won. He won by saving the ground on the inside.”

Mountain Town was Zito’s 25th starter of the meet. He acknowledged that it was a calculated move to drop the colt into a position where he could be claimed.

“It’s hard to believe; a first-time starter,” he said. “Usually, they don’t do that.

You put all the work into the 2-year-old.

That’s the hard thing, developing them.

But that’s the game. I took a shot. But I didn’t think I took a shot.”

The victory was Lenclud’s sixth of the meet.

• Trainer George Weaver picked up another victory in what has been a strong meet with the 2-year-old Running Tap in the second. Sent off at 5-1, the Tapit colt beat favored Justin Phillip by 2 1/2 lengths in 1:06.01 for 5 1/2 furlongs with Castellano aboard.

Weaver smiled as he began talking about the colt, owned by Jim and Susan Hill, that gave him his sixth win.

He said a bullet half-mile work in 47.19 seconds Aug. 9 had everything to do

with picking the race that produced the performance.

“Actually, the horse has been disappointing all summer,” Weaver said.

“We’ve worked him and he’s showed some speed and he never really finished very well. That last workout we put Javier on him and he showed a huge improvement. That’s when I started looking for a race. Luckily we got one.”

The work was the fastest of 4 at the distance that day.

“Javier is a tidy, very strong rider,” Weaver said. “I said to him, ‘this horse is underperforming in the morning, I need to see if there is anything left.

Shake him up a little bit.’ Most of the time when they’re not showing you much or they’re not finishing well, you can put whoever you want on them and it’s still going to be that way. But in this horse’s case, he really woke up. That’s why you never can write off a 2-yearold until you really get to know them.

Some of them need to run a few times and they get better.”

When Running Tap engaged Justin Phillip at the top of the stretch, Weaver wasn’t sure the colt would deliver.

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ing to win at the quarter pole.’ I knew we were in position to win and started cheering pretty strongly. I’m glad we were there first at the wire.”

Running Tap was the first of Castellano’s three winners on the day, giving him 28 for the meet, three behind leader John Velazquez.

• Trainer Michael Matz had his first two winners of the meet, Miss Match ($9.40) in the third and Such Time As This ($6.30) in the 10th.

Gomez got Miss Match up in time to win the 9-furlong allowance/optional claimer for older fillies and mares by a head over Amazing. It was Gomez’s first ride on the 5-year-old mare, who had been running in stakes company.

“It played out good,” Gomez said.

“A couple of horses showed that they had tactical speed. I knew my filly wouldn’t be able to make up a whole lot of ground, so I didn’t’ give her a whole lot to do. I saw that a couple of races were pretty good. She got beat by Life At Ten by 8 lengths and she’s a really nice filly. I knew this filly had to try a little bit harder. Off her race in the Delaware, it didn’t look like she really ran to her form as much as she was doing early. I thought if she likes the race track she’ll run good. She did.”

Favorite Floating Heart finished fourth in the five-horse field, keying big show payoffs of $7.10 for Miss Match, $6.30 for Amazing and $14.40 for Million Seller.

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Miss Match (center) fights off two challenges to win Thursday’s third for trainer Michael Matz.

• In the seventh, another Freud baby won a New York-bred maiden race. Deciphering Dreams, bred by Tony Grey, raced by his Winter Park Partners and trained by Dutrow, won the 1 1/16mile turf race by a half-length. Ramon Dominguez rode the favorite, who caught Dual Citizen in the final yards.

It was the second career start for the 2-year-old colt, well-beaten at 6 furlongs July 11. Grey is a partner in

the stallion and bred the standout filly Franny Freud, who was recently retired with a leg injury.

“He’s always been a two-turn horse, so the 6 furlongs was just an education for him,” Grey said. “Rick Dutrow thought he would always be a mile and an eighth, mile and a quarter kind of horse. His full-brother Jung Man Scott loved it up here also. He broke his maiden by 10 and came back and

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Hollendorfer said that it is much more common to school horses on the West Coast than in the East.

“This paddock is so big you don’t really have to school that much here,” he said. “The same way in Arlington. We have to school them in California.”

NYRA’s decision to eliminate its pre-race detention barn did have an impact on Blind Luck coming to Saratoga to engage Devil May Care in the meeting of the top two 3-year-old fillies in the land.

“I considered running in the Monmouth Oaks instead of this if they had that detention barn,” he said. “I don’t know. It just seems like it wasn’t proper to have that. I know what the goal was on having it, but it just didn’t seem proper to me.”

Another factor in Blind Luck running in the Alabama is that it is being held on the same weekend as the Arlington Million, which made it easier to ship the Pollard’s Vision filly from Del Mar to Saratoga.

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erald Hobby called his son Steve Hobby and told him about Louie Gomez’s son.

“You won’t believe Louie’s kid, horses love him. They just love him,” Gerald Hobby said. “I’ll put him on a horse, he’ll win a work. The next week, I switch horses and he’ll win the work again. He wins the works, no matter who I put him on.”

It was 1988.

Steve Hobby, who rode races for about four years, had already outgrown Santa Fe Downs in New Mexico. Garrett Gomez wouldn’t last very long there either.

Steve Hobby knew Louie, knew him as a journeyman who rode races. He knew Louie’s son, from when the 12-year-old kid would ride the lead pony on the dirt path, along the chain link fence that bordered Santa Fe Downs. Little kid, exercise saddle, just riding and riding and riding.

“I remember him because he was real little, I mean real little,” Steve Hobby said. “He’d be riding up and down that fence, we’d see him do that all the time.”

Gerald Hobby taught his son and then watched him leave. Then he taught Gomez and watched him leave.

Both are doing fine.

The trainer and the jockey teamed up to win the Grade I Sword Dancer Invitational with Telling last weekend.

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Without a rider for the defending Sword Dancer winner, Hobby called Gomez’s agent Ron Anderson.

He took the call, made a few more and then accepted the riding assignment.

“I’ve tried to get him on this horse several times,” the trainer said. “The other day, Ron said let me make a couple of calls and I’ll get back to you. We figured he would be a good fit, we have history with the family, it was the right move.”

Gomez felt the same way.

“I’ve been a family friend with Steve for a long time, Steve works hard. When you come from the places we come from you have to,” Gomez said.

“Steve’s still in the Midwest and there aren’t a whole lot of Grade I races. He has to come here or to places like this, tough places to win. To come here and win a Grade I means a lot, to do it together means even more. I told him to tell his dad that we want that photo front and center.”

No problem. Send it to Altoona, Iowa where Gerald Hobby serves as a steward at Prairie Meadows.

He got out of Santa Fe too.

Santa Fe Downs, running Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, served its purpose for Steve Hobby and Garrett Gomez. They worked for Gerald Hobby, who always had about 15 horses, doing anything that needed doing before both became jockeys.

Hobby rode for four years before outgrowing that pipedream and Gomez, well, Gomez has gone on to win two Eclipse Awards and lead the nation in earnings the past four years. Santa Fe wasn’t a place you stayed.

“Garrett was good right from the beginning, he was just reckless and got into trouble. He didn’t stay

there long, he had way too much talent to stay there,” Steve Hobby said. “It was a nice place or at least was in those days, out in the country. Pat Valenzuela and his family were out there at the same time. Not much money but a nice place to be at the time.”

Steve Hobby had been trying to get Gomez on Telling but couldn’t secure him until the Sword Dancer. The trainer got one of the best money jockeys in the country. He also continued a tree of success that began with Hobby’s father employing Gomez’s father as a jockey at Santa Fe Downs and has spanned generations from there.

“It’s pretty cool I’ve known his dad forever. He’s been a big part of my life. I cleaned stalls, I worked in the barn, I galloped horses for him, I rode my first race for him,” Gomez said. “I ventured off, but I’ve always looked up to him like a dad. I was going through my teenage years, you know, and he was there to make sure I did things halfway decent anyway.”

Gomez has weathered some bumps along the way, he’s overcome alcohol and drug problems, to become one of the best jockeys in the country. He wins a lot of races, has won a lot of races. For a moment on Saturday afternoon at Saratoga, after a Grade I, his life had come full circle.

“It’s not every day those guys from the Midwest get to run in a Grade I at Saratoga,” Gomez said. “To be able to do it two years in a row and then to do it together . . . Hobby told me how much it meant. It’s a difficult task winning a Grade I period, much less at Saratoga, and for a lifelong family friend who doesn’t get too many opportunities it means even more.”

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