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By Sean Clancy

A day before the Jim Dandy, trainer Tony Dutrow needed to get a point across. He was very confident in A Little Warm. Confident he was training well and would run well; not confident he would win the Grade II stakes.

Call the Chamber of Commerce. Blue skies, jacket until noon, sun hat for the afternoon. It’s Saturday morning in Saratoga, beginning of sales week, everybody’s in town. The coffee’s strong, the air is crisp, the conversation vibrant.

By Phil Janack

Admiral Alex, a 3-year-old son of Preakness and Belmont Stakes winner Afleet Alex making his career debut, had just won Saturday’s second race when prominent owner Satish Sanan took Leon Blusiewicz aside in the winner’s circle, and got his cell phone number.

By Katie Bo Williams

Frank Taylor summed up the market’s approach to first crop sires: “It used to be buyers would pay more for hope than they would proof. But I still think they will buy the good horses.”

By Katie Bo Williams

If big operations like Lane’s End and Taylor Made come loaded for bear (markets), smaller consignors like Lantern Hill and Hurstland Farm choose their targets as carefully as snipers.

Four trainers. One stakes. One morning.

By Katie Bo Williams

Fasig-Tipton offers a catalogue this year with a distinctly global flavor as part of a continuing initiative to broaden the international appeal of the Saratoga yearling sale, which occurs Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 2-3.

By Joe Clancy

Julien Leparoux stopped on his morning tour of the Saratoga Race Course stable area to watch Forever Together train one day this week.

A day at the races. It’s rare I get to the races for the whole card. Usually, it’s office all afternoon, scamper over for the stakes and the nightcap, rush back to give words to horses.

By Katie Bo Williams

It wasn’t that Miss Crown didn’t want to be a racehorse, it was just permitting herself to be locked into a starting gate was unacceptable.