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I STony Dutrow took the iPhone in his left hand and talked like it was just an-other day. As always, his tone sounded like just another day, his words told an-other story, his left hand, shaking just a little, told yet another.

“What a thrill. Such a well-deserved win. Thanks, Maggi, enjoy every min-ute of it.”

Dutrow said goodbye to owner Maggi Moss, handed off the phone, then greeted Schuylerville winner So Many Ways, who in so many ways, had thrilled Dutrow, Moss and the Opening Day crowd who knocked her down to favoritism in the field of six 2-year-old fillies.

Javier Castellano prompted So Many Ways into a clear spot in fifth as Baby J outsprinted Can’t Explain and Brown Eye Blues through a quarter in 22.22 seconds. So Many Ways eyed them from the outside, well within touch but not being used up, as Can’t Explain ranged up to Baby J midway on the turn. After a half in 45.85, Can’t Explain and Baby

J continued to spar but So Many Ways had begun to scratch into their scrum, easing past the tiring duo to pull away to a strong 1 1/2-length win over Can’t Explain and Baby J. The Pennsylvania-bred daughter of Sightseeing finished 6 furlongs in 1:11.51. A lengthy bay with a striking blaze, So Many Ways won with style and far from looking tapped out.

Fresh off a facile debut at Parx Racing where she trounced six foes, So Many Ways had impressed Dutrow from the first day she walked in his barn. Earlier in the week, he touted her to stakes co-ordinator Andrew Byrnes.

“I was feeling really, really good about this filly. I had told Andrew that we were going to win this race. I’m not stupid, I’ve done this all my life, I know there are a hundred million bil-lion ways to lose and just one way to win, but I was feeling really good that we were going to run great today,” Dutrow said. “So mature, every time

you do something around her, she does it the right way, you give her a workout, she eats 12 quarts. You take her over to the paddock, she walks over there like she’s done it a hundred million times. I breezed her, she would go five-eighths of a mile in a minute and you’d be like, ‘Wow, I can’t believe that. Are you sure she did that in a minute?’ ”

Consigned by Marshall Silverman at Fasig-Tipton’s Yearling Sale at Timo-nium last fall, she fetched a final bid of $22,000 by James Schenck. Moss,

an all-encompassing owner with hors-es spread around the country, called Dutrow to take her. Longtime friends, but first-time business partners, Moss and Dutrow have had many animated phone calls since.

“I picked the phone up and it was Maggi and she said, ‘Tony, I’ve got one you’ve got to take, it’s a PA-bred.’ I said, ‘Well, sure, Maggi.’ She said, ‘You don’t understand, this is a PA-bred.’ I said,

Tod MarksJavier Castellano tells trainer Tony Dutrow how it happened.

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‘Maggi, of course,’ ” Dutrow said. “I was around the filly for 10 days and I called Maggi up and said, ‘I can’t tell you what you’ve got here, but you’ve got action.’ As the weeks went forward, I was like, ‘Maggi, don’t sell her this horse. Don’t sell her, Maggi. Maybe af-ter she wins something, that’s up to you, but don’t do it now. She’s unproven. If somebody says they’ll give $150,000 for her, don’t do that.’ ”

Dutrow instilled confidence in Cas-tellano as well.

“He was confident. I was confident. You could tell right away that he was confident, he said, ‘Javy, she’s a nice horse, ride her with confidence, I don’t need to tell you how to ride her, you’re on the best horse,’ ” Castellano said. “She really impressed me. I watched her races at Philadelphia, long stride, she has speed and looks like she can go long. Outside post was perfect, I didn’t want to rush her, I saved ground a little bit, the dirt hit her in the face for the first time, she reacted to it, but I waited, let her go for a little bit. I really like her, she has all the parts, she has speed and can run longer. She’s different.”

Dutrow knew that all along.“I’m not trying to make Ruffian out

of her, by any means, but I’ve been up here in this race before, half a dozen times, and the other ones didn’t do it like she did it,” Dutrow said. “You’ve got to be OK to do that.”

Schuylerville – Continued from page 6

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The six who went postward for Friday’s fifth edi-tion of the James Marvin Stakes looked like a troop of in-betweeners – specialists at 7 furlongs. At the dis-tance, four were undefeated; the other two owned 11 wins combined.

Pacific Ocean proved the most special of the spe-cialists in the $100,000 stakes as he and Joel Rosario powered to an all-the-way victory after running the slowest leading half-mile of the entire day on the dirt by almost a full second. Golddigger’s Boy closed late to catch Crossbow, who had looked like a real threat at the head of the stretch, for second, but it was all about Pacific Ocean.

Dennis Narlinger’s 5-year-old turned away them all for a 1 3/4-length triumph. Odds-on favorite Jack-son Bend failed to fire after a wide trip, losing at 7 fur-longs for the first time in five attempts and at the Spa for the first time in three tries. Joel Rosario rode the

winner, giving the transplanted Californian a stakes score to start his meet.

Prior to his latest start, Pacific Ocean had looked a specialist of a different sort, racking up four victories from six starts, all on various permutations of syn-thetic surfaces and culminating in a score in the Ver-non O. Underwood Stakes at Hollywood Park in No-vember. Pacific Ocean disappointed in his first start on conventional dirt, and his first for Rick Dutrow, in the True North Handicap at Belmont, but his trainer was confident that the son of Ghostzapper had not given his true running that day.

“In his last race he had a bad post, there was a lot of speed, you know he was in a bad spot,” Dutrow said. “Today was different, he had everything going for him, he was sitting on a race and he just liked the track, so he ran big.”

Solid works at Aqueduct had demonstrated to Dutrow that Pacific Ocean was not just a synthetic horse, and so it proved. Now 3-for-5 at 7 furlongs Pacific Ocean will point to the Forego here at the end of the meet. However, Dutrow sounded a note of cau-

Great Big Sea

Tod MarksPacific Ocean strides clear late in the James marvin Stakes.

Pacific Ocean wires field in Gr. 3 sprint

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tion about a horse who is clearly not the easiest to train with just eight starts.

“I would love to try him in the Fore-go”, said Dutrow. “We’ll just have to wait and see how he comes out of the race. He’s not the easiest horse to han-dle, and I already see an issue that I’m not crazy about, so I’ll just have to see how things are and go from there.”

He also intimated that his horses would maintain their presence at Aq-ueduct.

“It’s the best track in the country, just for the safety of the horses, that’s why I like training there,” he said. “Pa-cific Ocean will ship back there tomor-row.”

Post race comment quickly moved to events surrounding the possible revoca-tion of Dutrow’s license, and the trainer had plenty to say on the decision of the appellate court to uphold that revoca-tion.

He suggested that he would have to mind his own career in a similar vein to that of Pacific Ocean.

“I wasn’t happy about it, naturally, but I was happy with this, and I can keep doing this. I don’t know that I can look ahead, we’ll just have to see as time goes by.”

His final words were on whether he had any thoughts with regard to an alternative career “none, none at all. I won’t think about that until I’m not allowed here anymore, and that day won’t come. I’ll be here, don’t worry.”

Marvin – Continued from page 10

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THIRD $80,000, mAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 2 YO, 5 1/2F2 Lignite J. Rosario $5.60 $2.90 $2.403 Kimono J. Castellano $3.20 $2.607 Sustained J. Alvarado $4.60B Filly 2010, by Run Away and Hide - Internal Affair by OrientateOwner: Ward, Wesley A., Bell, Gatewood, Welker, Wes and Jones, Bret. Trainer: Wesley Ward. Breeder: Ron Kirk & Poplar Hill Equine, LLC (KY).Late Scratches: Nola Girl, My Happy FaceTime: 1:05.02Daily Double (1-2), $21.20; Exacta (2-3), $14.60; Superfecta (2-3-7-6), $516.00; Trifecta (2-3-7), $76.00; Pic 3 (5-1-2), $430.50

FOURTH $82,000, ALLOWANCE, 3 YO’S & UP, 7F6 Book Review J. Castellano $3.70 $2.30 $2.108 Ullapool J. Lezcano $3.00 $2.604 E Z Passer R. Dominguez $4.40Ch Filly 2009, by Giant’s Causeway - Clever Babe by Distorted HumorOwner: Gary and Mary West. Trainer: Chad Brown. Breeder: Gary & Mary West Stables, Inc. (KY).Time: 1:22.85Daily Double (2-6), $10.40; Exacta (6-8), $7.10; Quinella (6-8), $3.80; Superfecta (6-8-4-5), $124.00; Trifecta (6-8-4), $40.60; Pic 3 (1-2-6), $40.20

FIFTH $80,000, mAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 2 YO, 5 1/2F1 Kauai Katie R. Napravnik $5.60 $3.30 $2.505 Kansas J. Rosario $3.40 $2.402 Lenderoflastresort A. Garcia $2.70B Filly 2010, by Malibu Moon - More Than Pretty by More Than ReadyOwner: Stonestreet Stables LLC. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. Breeder: Spend-thrift Farm LLC (KY).Late Scratches: The Party’s Here, Ruby LipsTime: 1:03.66Daily Double (6-1), $9.30; Exacta (1-5), $21.00; Superfecta (1-5-2-7), $169.00; Trifecta (1-5-2), $40.40; Consolation Double (6-6), $3.10; Pic 3 (2-6-1), $37.00; (2-6-6), $9.70; Pic 4 (1-2-6-1), $103.00

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SIxTH $40,000, CLAImING $20,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16m10 Presumptive I. Ortiz, Jr. $75.50 $25.00 $14.208 Best Actor J. Lezcano $6.70 $4.4013 Versailles Road J. Leparoux $3.70B Gelding 2007, by Lido Palace (CHI) - Supposedly by Polish NumbersOwner: Lerman, Roy, S.. Trainer: Roy Lerman. Breeder: Roy S. Lerman (FL).Late Scratches: The Vin Man, Lt. John, Meridian Magic, SumoClaimed: Versailles Road claimed by Drawing Away Stable for $20,000, Powhatan County claimed by My Purple Haze Stables for $20,000Time: 1:41.70Daily Double (1-10), $246.50; Exacta (10-8), $535.00; Superfecta (10-8-13-7), $12,888.00; Trifecta (10-8-13), $3,014.00; Pic 3 (6-1-10), $491.00; (6-6-10), $117.50

SEvENTH $85,000, mAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT, 3 YO’S & UP, 1m2 Cosmic Energy R. Dominguez $8.20 $4.00 $3.107 Lily the Pink J. Alvarado $3.70 $2.7011 Conquesta A. Garcia $5.80Gr/ro Filly 2009, by Unbridled Energy - Cosmic Secrets by StalwarsOwner: Susi, Robert. Trainer: Timothy Hills. Breeder: Pope McLean, Marc McLean &Pope McLean Jr. (KY).Late Scratches: Bella Bandita, Geisha Gal, Lady Kierkegaard, Living My Dream, Flower Mart, Zayanna, He Loves Me MoreTime: 1:35.26Daily Double (10-2), $385.00; Exacta (2-7), $27.60; Superfecta (2-7-11-3), $1,768.00; Trifecta (2-7-11), $196.50; Pic 3 (1-10-2), $1,447.00

EIGHTH $100,000, STAkES - JAmES mARvIN S., 3 YO’S & UP, 7F5 Pacific Ocean J. Rosario $14.20 $7.40 $7.403 Golddigger’s Boy J. Lezcano $9.40 $5.404 Crossbow R. Dominguez $6.10Ch Gelding 2007, by Ghostzapper - Miss Salsa by UnbridledOwner: Narlinger, Dennis. Trainer: Richard Dutrow, Jr.. Breeder: Swordlestown Stud (KY).Late Scratches: Zero Rate PolicyTime: 1:22.53Daily Double (2-5), $91.00; Exacta (5-3), $101.50; Superfecta (5-3-4-7), $1,451.00; Trifecta (5-3-4), $675.00; Pic 3 (10-2-5), $4,248.00

NINTH $150,000, STAkES - SCHUYLERvILLE S., 2 YO, 6F7 So Many Ways J. Castellano $7.60 $4.10 $2.904 Can’t Explain J. Lezcano $3.90 $2.602 Baby J J. Rosario $3.00B Filly 2010, by Sightseeing - Happy Scene by DehereOwner: Moss, Maggi. Trainer: Anthony Dutrow. Breeder: John R. Penn & John C. Penn (PA).Late Scratches: Mr Hall’s OpusTime: 1:11.51Daily Double (5-7), $59.00; Exacta (7-4), $30.00; Superfecta (7-4-2-5), $302.50; Trifecta (7-4-2), $97.50; Pic 3 (2-5-7), $442.00; Place Pix Nine (8/10/13-2/7/11-3/4/5-7), $367.50

TENTH $37,000, mAIDEN CLAImING $25,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 5 1/2F10 To Dubai R. Dominguez $10.00 $4.80 $3.807 Spring Warrior D. Cohen $6.80 $4.504 Way of the West J. Rosario $4.40B Gelding 2009, by E Dubai - Two Miz Cs by DeerhoundOwner: David A. Ross Racing Stable, LLC. Trainer: Anthony Dutrow. Breeder: Robert M. Clinkinbeard (KY).Late Scratches: Redemption Road, Chief Gaga, Irish Etiquette, GodricClaimed: Spring Warrior claimed by Brewster, Clark O. for $25,000, Way of the West claimed by Gargan, Danny for $25,000Time: 1:02.98Daily Double (7-10), $47.40; Exacta (10-7), $74.50; Superfecta (10-7-4-11), $4,071.00; Trifecta (10-7-4), $497.00; Consolation Double (7-6), $8.20; Pic 3 (5-7-10), $468.00; (5-7-6), $63.50; Pic 4 (2-5-7-10), $2,126.00; Pic 6 (1-10-2-5-7-10), $1,436.00

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It’s the first race on the first day of the Saratoga meet, the Tag Solutions Al-lowance optional claiming race at 1 mile on the turf. High clouds let through the heat that has people sweating around neckties and fanning themselves with programs. The horses parade under the trees, only two going into their stalls for saddling. It is a good day to be outside, circling, pausing for a moment in the shade.

There are people thick against the white fence that rings the paddock, to get a look at the field. Midnight Silver is blocked by a pony for saddling, while Artest is standing in the shade of two trees, motionless, watching. Sponges wash necks and chests. “Now to the ring, number six. Six, please.” Follow-myfootsteps stares at the crowd as he passes, and the crowd stares back.

As Rosie Napravnik rides out aboard Nine O Wonderful, the fans start to call out, at first just one woman’s voice, “Welcome to Saratoga, Rosie!” Then more voices join in, call out “Go get

’em Rosie,” “Show them how it’s done, Rosie.” She follows voices to faces and smiles as she passes.

Red shirted pony boys and girls stand at the gap where the field will pass to the turf course, waiting as the horses move through the turn and back, while Tom Durkin whips the fans into a higher and higher pitch. He begins “Let’s light this candle! Begin with a rousing start!” He tells them that their job is to say those words, those three words that will start the race, that kick off the meet, “And they’re off!” By the time the horses are in the gate, the crowd has forgotten its cue and instead roars the field away.

Artest leads into the turn, then to the back until Yankee Fourtune comes up on the rail, and takes them into the stretch, where he is challenged by Fol-lowmyfootsteps. Then, just when you think it might be over, here comes Nine O Wonderful, and the crowd roars high-er as Napravnik comes down the stretch and wins the first race at Saratoga, wins her own first race at Saratoga by a neck.

Trainer H. James Bond slaps the backs of anyone near as he steps onto

the track. “This horse has been training good,”

he says. “He is a one-run horse, and Rosie really knows how to ride him. It’s his home court.”

Broad smiles for the photos, for the presentation, and the crowd behind the winner’s circle still calls for Rosie.

“It was a great trip,” she says, catch-ing her breath. “I really like this horse. He wasn’t getting the credit he deserves.” And when talk turns to winning her first race at Saratoga she says, “It is sort of like getting a monkey off my back. I have ridden a handful of races here. I’m feeling great. It’s very exciting.”

Tod MarksNine O Wonderful soaks in the attention after winning Friday’s first race.

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Saratoga Race Course witnessed increases in at-tendance, on-track handle and total handle over 2011 totals on Opening Day Friday.

Attendance reached 25,676, up more than 2 per-cent over last year while on-track handle topped $4 million – an increase of nearly 15 percent.

On the track, the racing was as good as ever.

• The second race began after a prolonged wait for aptly named Mela Dramatically, who pranced and danced her way to the starting gate, while the rest of the field waited patiently.

Once the race started, it belonged to Alwaysinmy-circle, who took the early lead and kept it – fighting off challenges from Kibosh and Fast And Strong for MeB Racing Stable and trainer Dominick Schettino. The gray 3-year-old daughter of Value Plus won the turf New York-bred maiden special by a half-length. Junior Alvarado rode the winner, who came into the race off a fourth at Belmont last month.

“She ran the way we expected her to run, and the rider was very good,” said assistant trainer Anthony Bonomo. “She’s getting better every race.”

• The Opening Day crowd sorted out the third race correctly, sending Kimono and Lignite off as heavy 1-2 choices in the maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies. The latter got the nod, edging Kimono by three-quarters of a length for trainer Wesley Ward and jockey Joel Rosario.

Second three times this spring, Lignite set the pace

throughout, and denied Todd Pletcher first-timer Ki-mono in 1:05.02 for 5 1/2 furlongs. Owned by Ward, Bret Jones, Gatewood Bell and New England Patriots star Wes Welker, the winner was bred in Kentucky by Ron Kirk and Poplar Hill Equine. She rocketed to an early lead, turned for home in front and stayed there.

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• Only two horses had race expe-rience coming into the fifth, another maiden for juvenile fillies, but this time a rookie got the better of them as Ston-estreet Stable’s Kauai Katie whipped six others by 12 lengths for Todd Pletcher and jockey Rosie Napravnik.

Sent off as the favorite, the daugh-ter of Malibu Moon outdistanced Kansas and Lenderoflastresort. Bred by Spendthrift Farm, the winner sold for $490,000 at Fasig-Tipton Flori-da in March and looked the part as Napravnik went along for the ride.

“It was a great race, she’s a great fil-ly,” said the jockey. “She stumbled out of the gate a little bit but luckily there were three horses outside of us and she took it from there.”

• Although Nine O Wonderful won the first at 14-1, bettors were still look-ing for a real longshot on Opening Day – until the sixth race.

Owner/trainer/breeder Roy Lerman saddled 37-1 shot Presumptive, who won the $20,000 turf claimer by a head over third choice Best Actor with fa-vorite Versailles Road third. The son of Lido Palace was well off the radar of many handicappers, but came into the race with three wins in eight career starts. Jockey Irad Ortiz waited patient-ly in the middle of the 12-horse field, before going after the leaders in the stretch. Presumptive took control inside

the final furlong, and held off the fast-closing Best Actor.

The winner paid a healthy $75.50 and keyed a $535 exacta.

“It was a contentious race with a

moderate pace,” said Lerman. “I told [Ortiz], ‘wait, wait, wait, we need ev-ery step to get up.’ The horse gave him a little burst at the end. He rode him perfectly.”

Despite a career tab heavy on starts at Tampa Bay Downs (seven of eight), the winner is something of a local with five local works dating to early June.

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Saturday, July 21.1ST (1Pm). $100,000 STk - WILLARD STRAIGHT, 3 & UP, 5 1/2F (TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 1 Zero Rate Policy E. Castro T. Pompay 15-12 2 Great Mills J. Leparoux S. Asmussen 6-13 3 Zeb J. Rosario D. Romans 15-14 4 Fiddlers Patriot R. Dominguez G. Weaver 4-15 5 Perfect Officer R. Napravnik A. Dutrow 3-16 6 Yield Bogey E. Prado P. Kelly 10-17 7 Bridgetown J. Castellano T. Pletcher 8-58 8 Awakino Cat C. Velasquez L. Rice 15-19 MTO Head Heart Hoof . A. Dutrow 5-2

2ND (1:30Pm). $80,000, mSW, 2 YO, 5 1/2FExacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double1 1 Exploring S. Bridgmohan M. Casse 8-12 2 Well Lawyered J. Castellano T. Pletcher 7-23 3 Hot West J. Lezcano N. Zito 4-14 4 Spurious Precision A. Garcia R. Violette, Jr. 8-15 5 That’s Gin E. Prado M. Hushion 15-16 6 Show Some Magic J. Leparoux S. Asmussen 2-17 7 Smoke Town J. Rosario R. Dutrow, Jr. 8-18 8 Holden On R. Dominguez C. Brown 8-19 AE Simon Eyes J. Rosario W. Ward 5-110 AE Park City R. Napravnik T. Pletcher 6-111 AE Volastic R. Dominguez J. Salzman, Jr. 5-112 AE Oxbow E. Prado D. Lukas 12-113 AE Honorable Dillon J. Lezcano E. Kenneally 10-1

3RD (2:00Pm). $60,000, mSW, 3 YO’S & UP, F & m , 6FExacta, Trifecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 1 Bonita Sonata J. Rosario H. Bond 10-12 2 Dontrainonmyparade A. Lezcano P. Kelly 30-13 3 Haldane R. Napravnik D. Galluscio 6-14 4 Thetrainwasgone E. Castro T. Bush 15-15 5 Clear Pasaj R. Maragh B. Levine 5-16 6 Wild Grace J. Castellano C. Brown 2-17 7 Pennymine C. Velasquez R. Schosberg 20-18 8 Cinematize R. Dominguez A. Dutrow 5-29 9 Bella Silver W. Garcia J. Ferraro 8-1

4TH (2:31Pm). $65,000, mSW, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16m (INNER TURF)Exacta, Quinella, Trifecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 1 Papa Tom E. Prado R. Ubillo 10-12 2 Trainingforsuccess J. Leparoux M. Friedman 10-13 3 Call Up the Chief I. Ortiz, Jr. J. Toscano, Jr. 20-14 4 Nelson Avenue J. Rosario A. Quartarolo 12-15 5 Mr Algebra R. Napravnik A. Quartarolo 6-16 6 Bellamy J. Castellano T. Albertrani 6-17 7 Jack’s R Wild C. Montalvo W. Allyn 30-18 8 Knock Quietly D. Cohen S. Schwartz 8-19 9 El Dreamer A. Lezcano G. DiSanto 20-110 10 Potus R. Maragh B. Levine 15-111 11 Sonnyandpally J. Alvarado N. Zito 3-112 12 Sam’s Buck C. Velasquez G. Weaver 7-213 AE Jake’s Shake E. Castro C. Domino 20-114 AE Frisky Cat E. Prado P. Kelly 15-115 AE Professor Chaos R. Napravnik R. Metivier 15-116 AE Alarmed Ndangerous C. Velasquez L. Rice 5-2

5TH (3:03Pm). $36,000, CLm $20,000, 3 YO’S & UP, 6FExacta, Trifecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 1 Cybertron J. Lezcano P. Serpe 20-12 2 Ventura Bar J. Espinoza N. Terracciano 12-13 3 Blue Creek R. Maragh W. Catalano 8-14 4 Nonno’s Boy R. Napravnik B. Brown 10-15 5 Grey Foose I. Ortiz, Jr. G. Contessa 20-16 6 Crea’s Law S. Bridgmohan L. O’Brien 15-17 7 Trinity Warrior W. Garcia R. Ubillo 50-18 8 Mandorla D. Cohen L. Albert 10-19 9 Robert’s Breach J. Rosario R. Dutrow, Jr. 6-110 10 Gramercy S. Husbands D. Shivmangal 20-111 11 How Do I Win J. Castellano T. Pletcher 3-112 12 A Boy Named Em J. Alvarado G. Gullo 5-113 13 Basalt J. Leparoux S. Asmussen 6-114 14 Dylan Dangerous E. Castro R. Rodriguez 20-115 AE Political Justice C. Velasquez R. Araya 8-116 AE Wistful Wildcat D. Cohen J. Parisella 20-1

6TH (3:35Pm). $85,000, mSW, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16m (INNER TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Pic 3, Pic 6, Daily Double1 1 Reflecting C. Montalvo C. McGaughey III 12-12 2 Lure of the South J. Espinoza P. Kelly 30-13 3 Sir Sidney J. Castellano C. Brown 8-14 4 Kris Royal J. Leparoux C. Lopresti 6-15 5 Lea J. Rosario A. Stall, Jr. 5-26 6 Ruthless Alley E. Prado R. Ubillo 8-17 7 Magnificent Moon R. Napravnik R. DeMola 15-18 8 Never On Time R. Maragh T. Pletcher 15-19 9 Candy Feat C. Velasquez J. Toner 12-110 10 Suns Out Guns Out S. Bridgmohan D. Romans 10-111 11 Night Site J. Lezcano W. Mott 3-112 MTO Grandpa Len J. Lezcano D. Donk 12-113 MTO Escape Artist J. Castellano C. Brown 3-1

7TH (4:07Pm). $67,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, 1 1/16m (TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 1 Cientifico R. Maragh J. Terranova, II 8-12 2 Parachute Coney J. Lezcano D. Galluscio 10-13 3 Sandyinthesun E. Castro R. Davis 15-14 4 Majesty’s Pilgrim J. Espinoza A. Tschan 30-15 5 Image of Disco E. Prado J. Ryerson 12-16 6 John Joe D. Cohen J. Fennessy 5-27 7 Rocky World A. Lezcano R. Metivier 50-18 8 Suspicious U I. Ortiz, Jr. W. Badgett, Jr. 15-19 9 Headingtothecity J. Leparoux G. Contessa 8-110 10 Warrior Up W. Garcia R. Ubillo 50-111 11 Roaring Conquest R. Napravnik R. Reinacher, Jr. 4-112 12 Yankee Kitten J. Castellano C. Brown 3-113 MTO Zivo J. Castellano C. Brown 2-114 MTO Piscesbymoonlight R. Napravnik B. Brown 4-115 MTO Dehere of the Cat R. Maragh M. Trombetta 5-2

8TH (4:39Pm). $37,000, CLm $20,000, 3 & UP, 1 1/16m (INNER TURF)Exacta, Trifecta, Pic 3, Pic 4, Daily Double1 AE Storiesinthedark W. Garcia J. Lostritto 30-11a AE Unguided Missile J. Espinoza J. Lostritto 30-12 1 Romantic Channel J. Castellano M. Maker 6-13 2 Brass Note S. Husbands L. Alvarez 50-14 3 Truman’s Commander R. Napravnik R. Moquett 15-15 4 Springcourt D. Cohen D. Jacobson 12-16 5 Cat Sweep R. Maragh J. Terranova, II 15-17 6 Adios Nardo J. Lezcano R. Rodriguez 8-18 7 Standing O J. Rosario H. Motion 8-19 8 Up Above C. Velasquez L. Rice 15-110 9 Troubleinrivercity E. Prado J. Parisella 15-111 10 Colonel Bill J. Leparoux B. Cox 5-112 11 Fast Grievance I. Ortiz, Jr. G. Contessa 20-113 12 Reserve Currency J. Alvarado W. Mott 8-514 AE Camp Topridge R. Maragh B. Brown 20-1

9TH (5:12Pm). $82,000, ALW, 3 YO’S & UP, 7FExacta, Trifecta, Pic 3, Daily Double1 1 Bellamy Brew J. Lezcano W. Mott 4-12 2 Shrewd One E. Prado P. Serpe 5-23 3 Saint of Saints S. Bridgmohan D. Romans 3-14 4 Clip the Coupons J. Castellano C. Brown 12-15 5 Spin Out R. Napravnik N. Zito 8-16 6 Battle Hardened J. Leparoux E. Kenneally 12-17 7 Won Kool Kid R. Maragh M. Mareina 6-18 8 Fusa Code J. Alvarado S. Asmussen 20-19 9 Major Gain J. Rosario W. Catalano 12-1

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Near the end of Tom Albertrani’s barn, under a laser blanket, Zo Impres-sive waved her tail and leaned into her handler.

Albertrani asked a question that didn’t need asking, “Is she happy?”

“Very.”Winner of the Mother Goose and fa-

vorite for the Coaching Club American Oaks, Zo Impressive arrived in Saratoga Thursday, enjoyed an easy gallop Friday and will walk over for today’s Grade I stakes as one of the leading 3-year-old fillies in the country.

Friday morning, she was at ease and so was Albertrani and his team.

“My man Joe Green says she’s got the attitude,” Albertrani said of his longtime groom. “She walks around the barn with the attitude.”

With that, Green nodded, as he too walked down the shedrow with atti-tude.

Owned by Live Oak Stud, the 3-year-old daughter of Hard Spun won her first two starts, finished second in her next two (the Gulfstream Park Oaks to Grace Hall and the Acorn to Contested)

before returning to her best form with a win over today’s rival Disposableplea-sure in the Grade I Mother Goose at Belmont Park June 23.

“Fillies probably need that attitude because they can go off on you so easi-ly,” Albertrani said. “She’s always had a little bit of an aggressive way in the stall, that’s just her. In the stall, she doesn’t want you there, ‘Don’t mess with me.’ Out on the track, it’s a different story.”

Jockey Rajiv Maragh has guided Zo Impressive to three wins and two seconds in five starts, she gives him all the leeway a jockey could need, relax-ing early and finishing late. She does it with aplomb and style, something she’s always had.

“She always looked like a very prom-ising filly, even before she ran her first race. She actually ran better than ex-pectations the first time, I was really pleased when I saw that and then she came back and did it again the second race, we could see she had a nice fu-

Zo-mentumLive Oak filly aims for Gr. 1

off Mother Goose tallyby sean clancy CCA OAKS preVIeW

Tod MarksZo Impressive has a win and three seconds in five career starts.See OakS page 23

ture,” Albertrani said. “Right there, we put her in the deep end, she took a little bump at the start, got shuffled back ear-ly, but came with that steady run to be second to Grace Hall. We kept on seeing that progression, we were like, ‘Wow, this could be a really nice filly here.’ ”

In April, with two wins and a second to then divisional leader Grace Hall, Zo Impressive had shown enough to make Live Oak’s Charlotte Weber and Alber-trani think about the Kentucky Oaks for her fourth career start. Lacking enough earnings, Zo Impressive wasn’t guaran-teed a spot on the first Friday in May.

“At one point, we thought we might be going to the Oaks with her, but we weren’t sure we were going to get in and things were coming a little quick for her,” Albertrani said. “(Weber) said let’s not worry about the Kentucky Oaks, let’s just wait and bring her back to Belmont, which was a good idea, we were able to freshen her up and she came back with two good races. Her last was her best yet, she’s improving every time.”

Last time, Zo Impressive settled in third, splitting the five-horse field in the Mother Goose. When favorite Con-tested faded, Zo Impressive rallied and handled Disposablepleasure by three-quarters of a length.

Albertrani figures the two-month freshening between the Gulfstream Oaks and the Acorn should benefit Zo Impressive as she continues a salty sum-mer campaign which has been choreo-graphed with a month in between the Acorn and Mother Goose and another month before the CCA Oaks. If this one goes well, it’s a month before the Grade I Alabama.

“That’s usually the right timing, she came out of the race bouncing, that’s the main thing, she’s been showing every bit of life as she did before the Moth-er Goose,” Albertrani said, still eyeing

the robust filly. “She’s pretty sensible, she doesn’t get overly aggressive, just like the way she runs, you can put her anywhere. Hopefully, she can win this one and come back in the Alabama and prove that she’s one of the top fillies. She’s training good, she’s on the muscle, that’s what you want.”

As in most stakes, Todd Pletcher rolls into the CCA Oaks with a live pair, Dis-posablepleasure and In Lingerie.

Glencrest’s Disposablepleasure hasn’t won since taking the Demoiselle at Aq-ueduct in November. Since that victory, she’s finished fourth to Yara in the Da-vona Dale, third to Believe You Can in the Fair Grounds Oaks, second to In Lingerie in the Black Eyed Susan and second to Zo Impressive in the Mother Goose. Rosie Napravnik gets the call. By Giacomo, the gray filly has never finished worse than fourth in her career

while always running at distances far-ther than a mile.

Stablemate In Lingerie certain-ly sports distance qualifications as well. The daughter of Empire Maker stretched to 9 furlongs in the Black Eyed Susan, winning the Grade II stakes with a steady rally that erased a bun-gling beginning. Owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gary Bar-ber, In Lingerie won at first asking, was sold to her present connections, finished second in an allowance and then reeled off two stakes wins. She cut her pastern when stumbling in the Black Eyed Susan which forced her to freshen and reload for a summer campaign. Javier Castella-no replaces the injured John Velazquez.

Mark Casse, dominant in Canada, has advanced to Saratoga for another try at America’s elite. He’ll get a chance at making his meet when John Oxley’s

Funny Proposition tries to keep her un-defeated dirt record intact. Two-for-two on the dirt and zero-for-two off it, she exits an eighth in the Regret over the Churchill Downs turf. She won a first-level allowance on the dirt at Churchill in May.

Kiaran McLaughlin sends out Brit-ish-bred Questing for Godolphin. A two-time winner, the daughter of Hard Spun has tried the dirt twice in her ca-reer, a fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and a win over first-level allow-ance rivals at Belmont a month ago. Irad Ortiz retains the mount.

Davona Dale winner Yara completes the field for Peras International and Juan Guerrero. Joel Rosario picks up the ride on the daughter of Put It Back who is winless in three starts since her shocking win over Grace Hall in the Davona Dale.

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In spite of the changes to racing over the centuries, regardless of what the field stands behind before the break – a gate, a tape or rope – one thing has never changed. The race comes down to the jockey and the horse. What we see and remember, if only during the time it takes to cash a ticket or tear one up, is that basic interaction that happens dur-ing the race itself.

No one at the track is impassive, indifferent. If you want facts, they are there in the past performances. Zo Im-pressive, who runs in today’s Coaching Club of America Oaks, has raced five times, winning three and finishing sec-ond twice, each time ridden by Rajiv Maragh. If you read those performanc-es, you will know that in her first two races she drew away to win by 6 1⁄4 lengths and 4 1⁄2. In her next two races, she was bumped and steadied, running second by 6 1⁄2, then went four wide in the turn and was second best, 5 lengths from the winner. The past performances fill a document. They tell you, in a line, what you want to know about the race.

Maragh, sitting outside the jockeys’ room at Saratoga Friday, talked about the filly.

“From day one, (trainer) Tom Alber-trani said she was a really nice filly, lots of talent,” Maragh said. “In her first race she showed that, and the second time improved and made us believe she is a top quality filly. She just keeps ad-

vancing throughout.” In the Mother Goose, she went three

wide, was brushed twice in the stretch and then dug in for the win after sitting in third at the start and first call. By the second call, she had moved up to sec-ond, then took over in the stretch. That is what the past performances show.

“We wanted to go into the race for a clean, comfortable trip, keep her on the outside and clear,” Maragh said. “I didn’t want to give too much to Con-tested. Sitting in third was the perfect scenario.”

Contested had the lead, but turning for home things changed.

“I inherited the lead with her sooner than expected,” Maragh said. “I want-ed to keep Consteted in grasp, but she stopped earlier than normal. I didn’t want to stop (Zo Impressive’s) run.”

In the replay, he checked both shoul-ders. He said he still wanted to wait un-less he had to move, unless anyone else was going to challenge.

“I looked to see if anyone was com-ing, saw Disposablepleasure and put her down hard.”

It was a tough stretch run with Dis-posable Pleasure eating away at the lead, but Zo Impressive dug in and won – proving there’s more to the story than type on a page. Read her line from the Mother Goose again, then close your eyes and imagine it.

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The gang’s all here. Today’s first race, the $100,000 Willard Straight Stakes, lured a field of eight frying-pan tough turf sprinters. Among them stand graded stakes performers, an in-ternational traveler, an 8-year-old, a 7-year-old, two 6-year-olds. The low man owns four lifetime wins, the high man 10.

All that and they’re pretty familiar with each other – the form is full of re-matches.

“It’s a good group, they’re all to be respected,” said trainer Tony Dutrow, who will saddle 3-1 second choice Per-fect Officer. The 6-year-old makes his third start of 2012 and exits a third behind Ben’s Cat and today’s favorite Bridgetown in the Parx Dash June 17. Two starts ago, Perfect Officer nailed today’s rivals Great Mills and Zeb in the Shakertown at Keeneland.

Rosie Napravnik rides the Ken-tucky-bred, who is owned by David Ross Racing Stable and breaks from post five. Last year, Perfect Officer won

three times and finished third behind Regally Ready in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. Dutrow took over to start 2012, and likes what he’s seen while training the son of Officer at Delaware Park and Fair Hill Training Center.

“My boy’s good,” he said. “He’s run twice this year, and is in great shape for this one. He’s had some extremely good efforts. We’ll see how the turf is playing right off the bat, see who gets the trip. These races are like that – if anything happens, you don’t have time to overcome especially with the qual-ity that’s in this race. One problem can throw off your whole race.”

For sure. Turf sprints turn on any number of factors: the gate, traffic, tactics, turf condition, post position, pretty much anything. The races at-tract specialists, and trainers know it.

“These turf sprinters have to be extremely athletic individuals, I think they’ve got to be real athletes, they seem to be anyway,” said Dutrow. “They can carry their form too. They stay good. I’ve had lots of them through

Tod MarksPerfect Officer won at Saratoga back in 2009.

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the years that stay in great form season after season. Good turf sprinters, they like it, they really like it. They want to run.”

Bridgetown owns three Saratoga turf victories and steps into this off runner-up efforts at Churchill Downs and Parx. The 5-year-old son of Spei-ghtstown boasts more than $774,000 in career earnings from seven wins and five runner-up efforts. Todd Pletcher named Javier Castellano to ride the Melnyk Stable homebred, who is 8-5 on the morning line and breaks from post seven.

Jim Olson and R A Hill Stable’s Fid-dlers Patriot looked sharp while win-ning at Pimlico two back for trainer George Weaver and can be a factor on a repeat after finishing fourth going 6 furlongs at Woodbine June 24. Ramon Dominguez rides the 4-1 shot from post four. Bred in New York, the 6-year-old son of Proud Citizen won here in 2010 and finished a troubled fourth in a sea-son-ending turf sprint stakes last year.

Trainer Steve Asmussen entered Mil-lennium Farm’s Great Mills, fourth be-hind Bridgetown at Churchill May 5 and a narrow second to Perfect Officer before that at Keeneland. The 4-year-old won the Quick Call here last year and gets jockey Julien Leparoux from post two at 6-1.

Four-time Saratoga turf winner Awakino Cat takes another crack for

Everythings Cricket Racing and trainer Linda Rice. The 7-year-old lost all eight starts last year, but has proven plenty capable at this level with eight wins at the distance. Cornelio Velasquez rides the son of Stormy Atlantic at 15-1.

Veteran Yield Bogey comes off back-to-back thirds going longer at Belmont for Fox Ridge Farm and Pat Kelly. Ed-gar Prado takes the call at 10-1. Third behind Perfect Officer and Great Mills at Keeneland, Zeb takes another crack

for trainer Dale Romans and jockey Joel Rosario. Trainer Terri Pompay sends out Zero Rate Policy, who makes his turf debut and comes off a fall at Monmouth Park. The 4-year-old won five races last year on dirt.

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Tod MarksBridgetown is a major player in Saturday’s Willard Straight Stakes for turf sprinters.

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Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, somewhere . . . Frank “Pancho” Martin and his son Jose were locked in a battle for leading trainer. Pancho led by two with two weeks to go in the meet, but Jose kept winning races with a claimer and looked like a threat to take the meet.

That’s when the patriarch spoke up. “You run that horse for that price again, I’m going to claim him,” he told his son. Jose didn’t run, Pancho won the crown and the rest is history.

“My father told me that story, he kept jamming that horse in and winning races; he won five in a row,” said trainer Carlos Martin, Jose’s son, Pancho’s grandson. “From his own son, he was going to claim the horse. He was tough, such a competitor. He had a way about him, a gruff exterior, but he helped so many people on the backside – he supported people, helped people, did a lot of good for a lot of people.”

Pancho Martin, a member of Thoroughbred rac-ing’s Hall of Fame since 1981 and one of the all-time greats, died Wednesday at 86. He left behind a legacy of success, horsemanship and human relationships that still bounce around the racetrack – through his grandson and others.

Martin trained Sham, runner-up to Secretariat in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness and a string of hard-knockers that included champions Autobiography and

Outstandingly. Martin won the 1959 Wood Memorial with Manassa Mauler, the 1974 Wood with Rube The Great, the 1971 Brooklyn with Never Bow and the 1972 Suburban with Hitchcock. Martin led the New York circuit in victories 11 times, including 10 straight from 1973-82. He won six individual meet titles at Aq-ueduct, four at Belmont and two at Saratoga.

A few years ago, Disney put Martin up as a brag-gart in the movie Secretariat. He cultivated the rivalry between Sham and Secretariat, he barked at press con-ferences, he made boasts. It worked for a movie, but none of it was true.

“He was a gentleman, and wouldn’t have done any of those things,” said Carlos.

Martin emigrated to the United States from Cuba and created a career – starting out in New England (Green Mountain Park in Vermont) and Florida before finding a place in New York in 1951. Sixty years ago, Martin and Allen Jerkens trained one horse apiece at Tropical Park in Florida. Jam Session (Martin) and Repeater (Jerkens) both won at the meet and the two men became friends, Hall of Famers, legends.

“He was good at it, loved the horses,” said Jerkens. “He could shoe his own horses, you don’t see many guys doing that. Years ago, if you had a problem with a horse, you went to see him.”

Angel Cordero echoed that sentiment. The retired Hall of Fame jockey won the Jockey Club Gold Cup for Martin aboard Autobiography, defeating Riva Ridge and Key To The Mint. When Cordero’s wife Marjorie trained horses, she put Martin’s opinion above pretty much anyone’s.

“She would say ‘I don’t know what is wrong with my horse, maybe Mr. Martin will look at him,’ ” Cor-dero said. “He could do anything, just look at a horse and tell you right away what was going on with that

horse. He could tell you stuff that would take some-body else a long time to find out.”

Martin instilled confidence in his jockeys, and rou-tinely sent Cordero out with the phrase “He’s doing so good, if this horse don’t win, if this horse don’t win, I’m telling you if this horse don’t win . . .”

He usually finished the sentence with a phrase un-suitable for a family newspaper, as Cordero put it, but the man was confident.

Martin stuck to a routine for decades, rising at 3 a.m., drinking coffee made by his longtime wife Charlene at 3:30 and heading to the track. Active as a trainer into 2012, he won with 66-1 longshot Ess Shape at Saratoga last season and collected more than 3,200 winners in his career. His death left his grand-son thinking about the past, and the future.

“The three biggest influences in my life were my grandfather, my father and Mr. (Carl) Lizza who I trained for for a long time, and I’ve lost them all now,” he said. “I guess this is what happens, but it’s tough to see Saratoga without those three guys.”

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this week, and the stories flowed:

Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens: “Pancho bought Never Bow from us on Monday and he was in the stake on Saturday. He said ‘I want you to keep the horse until Satur-day, train him the same way, I will stake the groom and everybody, and after the race I will take him home as if I claimed him.’ And I did that. We trained the horse for the race, he won and I finished second in the race. True story. Absolutely true. You can look it up. Knight in Armor was my horse. My son was so mad. It’s incredible. We trained the horse as if we wanted him to win the race and he did. He won the race, and beat us.”

Retired jockey Angel Cordero: “He could have a bad temper sometimes, but he was a good man when you needed him. He opened a restaurant near Belmont, wouldn’t let anybody pay. Everybody went there. He would come sit at the table with you, get a bottle of wine, drink with you, talk with you. When you got up to pay the bill, they would say Mr. Martin took care of it. Everybody was his friend. That’s how he was. He was one of the most accomplished trainers I ever saw in my life – talented, tough, a good man.”

Trainer (and grandson) Carlos martin: “He was natural, he’d take a horse out of the stall and the blacksmith wouldn’t see the bruise in his foot, but my grandfather would find it and cut it out. He’d work on horses for a year, paint their legs for a year and get them back. He had a lot of perseverance.”

Trainer Bob Ribaudo: “He was incredible. I was claiming horses at the time. When-ever you ran anything, you’d think ‘Is Pancho looking at him?’ That was the last guy you wanted to claim from you because he was great, he was just a good horseman. Not too many people remember him around here, he was born in 1925, but he was a legend in his own time, a phenom, a real racetrack character.”

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memorial slated for Hamilton: A memorial for longtime NYRA racing official Dick Hamilton will be held in the Hall of Fame Gallery at the National Museum of Racing in Saratoga Springs at 7:30 p.m. July 25. Hamilton passed away in April after suffering a heart attack. He was 76. Originally from Lowell, Mass., Hamilton was a graduate of Emerson College and served in the U.S. Army. He worked for the Daily Racing Form, ABC Radio and The Jockey Club before joining NYRA in 1975, and served as a steward for six years before taking early retirement in 1995. Hamilton went on to become the communications officer for the Museum of Racing, where he helped develop the induction ceremony that takes place every summer. After his official retirement in 2005, he continued to volunteer at the museum, as well as Saratoga Hospital and in the History Room at the Saratoga Springs Public Library.

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The new Steeplechase Exhibit at the National Mu-seum of Racing prompted a trip to the attic, over the crib, around the rugs, past the box of VHS tapes and under a hockey bag.

There she is. Dropped there, like I was going to pick her up and

go racing next weekend. Zipper broken long ago, it doesn’t close. The corner’s ripped, duct tape once held it shut for the long van rides to Nashville, now, the duct tape is gone, leaving a gaping hole, a flesh wound on an old soldier.

I pull out the navy, green-striped LL Bean bag, toss her down the attic steps, she lands with a thud and dirt (from Camden, 2000, I guess), disperses across the floor.

It’s been nearly 12 years since I closed her for the last time, after a 13-year career, a thousand races, wins, losses, falls, monumental days, desperate days. Long ago. Long gone.

Thinking Beth Sheffer, the curator for the National Museum of Racing, might want some authentic gear from the racing days of a journeyman jump jockey, I threw the tack bag in my car for her first trip to Sara-toga since 2000.

She hasn’t been opened since the morning of the Co-lonial Cup, November 19, 2000. A cold, rain-drenched day in Camden, South Carolina. Three rides, two wins, the end.

I open her for the first time. Tepidly. Part time cap-sule, part memory lane.

The program of the last day sits at the top. It has tire tracks across it. All my comrades were surprised when I walked away that day, called it quits, as quietly as I could.

Two helmets. One with a crack across the front, like it was shot with a BB gun. Skip To The Top fell at the last, while in front, at Red Bank, 1993. I guess I did have some concussions.

A pink hat cover, with Garden State Park stamped on the inside. A white one with Phila Park scrawled across the back. A blue one with Mrs. R. Chapman stitched in the back (yes, that Mrs. R. Chapman of Smarty Jones fame). I don’t think I ever bought a hel-met cover.

A yellow Sony Sports Walkman FM/AM, cassette model. No tape to be found. If it was in there, it would probably be Paul Simon, Graceland, he always could get me through a long day.

A copy of Eat to Win, the “Sports Nutrition Bible.” A bottle of bee pollen, for energy, about three-quarters full. One spur. A pair of goggles without any elastic left. An overgirth, a pair of gloves, a pile of rubber bands.

The black girth, which unbuckled during the Grand National won on Rowdy Irishman (that’s why you use overgirths). A couple of rolls of tape. A bottle of Pledge. Nylon knee highs. A pair of black wrist rubber bands Mike Smith gave me for good luck, in Saratoga, so many lifetimes ago.

Two pairs of boots, one plastic pair when I was do-ing light and one leather pair for stakes, they’re both ripped and patched, maybe I retired because I didn’t

want to buy new equipment . . . nah. A box of Glad Cling Wrap for rainy days. Two rolls

of 4-inch Ace Bandages just in case. a mold-encrusted breastplate.

A trainer telephone list, starts with Hall of Fame jockey Dooley Adams, includes Hall of Fame train-ers Burley Cocks, Mikey Smithwick and hall of fame horseman Noel Twyman. All gone.

The mudpants I wore on the last day, never washed, crusty from the last three trips into the breach.

My father’s two-pound, kangaroo hyde saddle, used by five champion jockeys (Doug Small Jr., Blythe Mill-er, Chip Miller, Jonathan Kiser and me). It must be 50 years old, Dad used it in the 1960s, Small in the ’70s, my brother used in the ’80s, Millers, Kiser and I until 2000. It’s been in the bag too long, it needs some love, a little saddle soap and a place in the museum.

A journeyman bag, in a journeyman world. I won’t make the Hall of Fame. But, maybe, my tack bag will.

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by Sean Clancy

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