Monday at Saratoga: Five-Spot
That’s one way to put some distance in the win column.
Tom Law
Successful Buy
The crowd gathering at the exit to the paddock stared at each horse as they walked by before Sunday’s Evan Shipman Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
Sunday at Saratoga: Maiden no more
Leigh Delacour sat in her office – one of the portable sheds many trainers use at Saratoga Race Course as offices, tack rooms and whatever else – at about 9 a.m., just outside of her and husband Arnaud’s stalls at the end of Carlos Martin’s barn on the far turn of the main track. She waited for the Oklahoma Training Track to reopen at 9:30 after a renovation break, at that time she would hop on No Dozing and breeze the 3-year-old for the last time before this week’s Grade 1 Allen Jerkens.
Gut Check
Although trainer Barclay Tagg only had one entrant in Sunday’s $100,000 Summer Colony Stakes, he brought two horses to the paddock at Saratoga Race Course.
Monday’s Saratoga picks – Aug. 21
The Alabama in the books and the Travers right around the corner as Week 5 of the 2017 Saratoga Race Course meeting comes to a close with a nine-race card Monday.
2017 Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour with Ron Moquett
Ron Moquett’s shedrow in the Clark Stakes Barn between the paddock and Siro’s stays plenty busy during the Saratoga Race Course meeting.
2017 Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour with David Donk
David Donk took a realistic approach into the Belmont Park spring-summer and Saratoga Race Course meetings, knowing his barn didn’t include any major stakes winners like Awad, Ordway, Incurable Optimist, Pennine Ridge, Hessonite and King Kreesa.
2017 Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour with Rudy Rodriguez
Rudy Rodriguez hopped aboard a chestnut filly, departing his barn at the corner of East and Union Avenues on the Oklahoma Training Track late Monday morning. With his son Rudy Rodriguez Jr. on a pony by his side and two other chestnuts, the group made their way to the track for turf training, galloping around the track in a blue and yellow blur. They returned to find Rodriguez’s main owner Michael Dubb and bloodstock agent Kim Valerio passing out peppermints to the stable.
Deep Water
The Grade 1 Alabama Stakes – America’s oldest stakes race for 3-year-old fillies with a star-studded history – delivers an extremely deep and talented field for the 136th renewal today at Saratoga Race Course.
2017 Fasig-Tipton Stable Tour with Jeremiah Englehart
Jeremiah Englehart hit the sales grounds a little midway through Saturday morning, scouting future prospects after he wrapped up training of several current prospects he’s excited to run later in the Saratoga meeting. (Originally published in the Aug. 6 issue of The Saratoga Special.)
