Here and There in Saratoga--August 4, 2001

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"Um, let me just get that orange cone from out beneath your car."
--Felix in the horsemen's lot to a errant parker

"$5.95 for a hamburger. You get nothing with it and you gotta' stand up to eat it."
--Slightly unhappy diner at the track

"When you going to run a loser?"
--Trainer Jimmy Jerkens to hot trainer James Bond

"I'm glad to have the work in September, sometimes you have to eat snow balls up here in the winter. They call me Bow. B O W. Short for elbow. In Brooklyn they have a way of hanging names on you, you could know a guy for 20 years and never know his real name. Up here they call you by your full name. It was for when I played the congos. I'd bmm bmm with my elbow, bmm, bmm, bmm with my chin."
--Bow at the Oklahoma gap

"No, no, that's not going to cut it. Joe Hirsch isn't sleeping."
--Toadie Taylor to a resting editor/publisher

Trainer Carl Nafzger: "All right Richard."
Richard Migliore's agent Mike Sellito: "Uh, OK, Carl."
Nafzger: "Oh sorry, Mike. At least I was thinking about your rider."
Sellito: "No problem. I don't care what you call me."

Continued Hat Tricks:
"How about I trade you an Emirates World Series hat for a Saratoga Special hat?"
--Jim Cornes

"For a guy who never met Tony Pelleteri, a surprising lot of memories were revived by the news of that horseman's death in New Orleans. Ordinarily when you read of the passing of a man you didn't know it doesn't mean a great deal, but if the man had horses and you knew them, that was something like the man himself."
--Red Smith

Contact Sean Clancy via e-mail at sean@thesaratogaspecial.com or telephone at 518-581-1947.

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