Fox Hill Farm News

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When a striking 2-year-old daughter of Saint Liam stepped off the van from South Carolina at Tony Dutrow’s barn in May of last year, all the trainer could say was “Wow.”

“Like all of [owner] Rick Porter’s horses, she was big and beautiful, and I looked at her and said, ‘I am so glad that this one found its way to my barn’,” said Dutrow, standing outside Havre de Grace’s stall at Saratoga Race Course several days before the 130th running of the Grade 1 Betfair TVG Alabama.

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Drawing the outside post is Havre de Grace, who in her first graded stakes start gave Blind Luck all she could handle, missing by a nose in the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks on July 10. The lovely bay daughter of Saint Liam hasn’t been off the board in five lifetime starts, winning one of her two starts at age two and going 1-2-0 in three 2010 starts.

“We are over the moon about Havre de Grace,” said trainer Tony Dutrow of the Fox Hill farm color-bearer. “She’s improved in every one of her starts. The Delaware Oaks, the first graded stakes of her career, I’m very, very proud of what she did. Now, she’s going to go 1 ¼ miles against the very best of her generation.

“It’s a mountain to climb, and we’re going into it with our eyes wide open, but we’re feeling very good about her and are going to give it a try. I think she’ll run great, and I hope she runs great enough.”

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SARATOGA SPRINGS - Horse racing is all about bloodlines. Tony Dutrow comes from some of the best.

His father, Dick, was one of the best claiming trainers in the sport. He developed Grade I winner Lite The Fuse and King's Swan, the "King of Aqueduct."

As he trains favored A Little Warm for the Aug. 28 Travers Stakes and Havre de Grace for Saturday's Alabama Stakes, it's clear the 52-year-old Dutrow paid attention to his dad.

The Grade I Alabama is being touted as a two-horse race between Kentucky Oaks winner Blind Luck and Coaching Club American Oaks winner Devil May Care, but Dutrow thinks Havre de Grace has a chance.

"We have a lot to prove but we're feeling fantastic about our filly running very, very big Saturday," said Tony Dutrow, the oldest of three training brothers, including Rick Jr. and Chip, the youngest.

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Video (4 parts) from Delaware Park on Jul. 15. Included is video of Winslow Homer's gallop as well as a look at each of the FHF horses in their stalls.





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Morning at the Dutrow barn at Philly Park on 7/7/10. First, we have Light Your World who was getting her bath after her work, then we have Tres Chic looking out of her stall. Last, we have Cat Fight ...