Party Still Going Following Big Albany Win

If you were at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 26, you saw quite the party in the winner's circle after the $250,000 Albany was run. The connections of Bossmakinbossmoves  were more than a little bit excited after their New York-bred won the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds

"We've got a great, real enthusiastic group of people with the Clear Stars Stable," trainer Rick Schosberg said Sept. 1 at his barn on the Saratoga backstretch. "Shoot, they are cheering for horses that ran third at Aqueduct in the middle of winter. When something like this happens, the emotions really come flooding out."

Schosberg is also part of the ownership group of Bossmakinbossmoves, along with Mitre Box Stable. 

The group bought Bossmakinbossmoves, a son of Laoban , at the 2021 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale for $75,000.

"It really is a good group of folks," Schosberg said. "It's great to see one of the horses that we bought at a sale develop into a stakes horse. Last year, a 3-year-old state-bred filly owned by the same group—A Bit o'Irish Sass  —won the $75,000 New York Oaks at Finger Lakes.

The Albany win was Bossmakinbossmoves first win in eight starts this year. He went off at odds of 6-1 in the Albany, the longest price of the four horses in the race. He and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. won by three lengths.

"We have a 3-year-old horse that has stamped himself as one of the top 3-year-old New York-breds at a distance of ground," Schosberg said. "It's very gratifying. We are going to have a lot of options available to us."