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Sean Clancy 
Sovereignty turns back Baeza in the Jim Dandy and books ticket to next month’s Travers. Four weeks and counting. Issue 7 presented by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners takes a look back and a look ahead. Rusty Arnold returns to Saratoga and upsets the Lake George. New York-breds star in the Johnstone and the John Morrissey. Horacio … Read more
“When I turned for home, I unleashed my monster.” That’s how Junior Alvarado described Sovereignty’s win in the Belmont Stakes. Well, he’s back. Godolphin’s Kentucky Derby and Belmont winner returns against four rivals in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy. Turf fillies rumble in the Lake George. Louisiana-bred Smoken Wicked wins the Amsterdam. Grade 1 winner … Read more
And just like that, we roll into the 10th racing day and the fifth edition of The Saratoga Special. Grade 1 hurdlers rumble in the A.P. Smithwick Wednesday. Three-year-olds try to stamp their tickets to bigger and better things in the Curlin Thursday. Three-year-olds rip 6 furlongs in the Amsterdam Friday. And, oh yeah, Sovereignty … Read more
Saratoga rolls on with the eighth day of racing and the fourth edition of The Special. Champion Immersive tries to climb back to the top in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks. Book’em Danno and Mullikin, 1-2 in the True North, clash in the Grade 2 Alfred G. Vanderbilt. Irish-bred Pipsy tries to make … Read more
Four race days down, 36 to go. Week two starts here. The Fasig-Tipton Tour showcases David Duggan and his burgeoning stable. Far Bridge added another stakes score in the Bowling Green, Excellent Truth dethroned She Feels Pretty in the Diana and Governor Sam trounced five rivals in the Quick Call. China Beach tries to make … Read more
The Saratoga Special rolls into the first Saturday of the meet with Issue 2 of Saratoga’s racing newspaper. The Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour features Jeremiah Englehart and his thoughts on Mo Plex potentially clashing with Sovereignty in the Jim Dandy. We featured 2-year-old colt Dr. Agne in the first edition, and again in this one, as … Read more
The Saratoga Special returns for its 25th season with Issue 1 of Saratoga’s racing newspaper in time for Opening Day. The first edition includes Todd Pletcher discussing Mindframe, Fierceness and the rest of his stars in the Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour, Heredia looking strong in the first division of the De La Rose and Spinning Colors … Read more
Bill Mott leaned on the outside rail deep in the trees near the half-mile pole of the Oklahoma Training Track early Friday morning. Alone. A horse trainer and his horse. Sovereignty and exercise rider Jimmy Quispe galloped past, loping the first time, rolling the second time. The Kentucky Derby winner’s final gallop went smoothly, a … Read more
And then there was one. The much-anticipated and somehow glad-it’s-over spring steeplechase season culminates with a five-race card at the Radnor Hunt Races Saturday. Run for the 94th time, the third-Saturday-in-May fixture attracted overnight-busting entries over the W. Burling Cocks Memorial Racecourse. Last week, Bernie and Kate Dalton, the most rooted-for couple in the history … Read more
(Editor’s note: Originally published in last week’s edition of The Irish Field) It’s late in the Saratoga meet. One final issue of The Saratoga Special. Waiting for the big one. The Stable Tour with Bill Mott. Plant the seed. Walk away. Mention it again. Drift away. Come back tomorrow. The next day. The day after. … Read more
