On the penultimate day of the summer meeting at Saratoga Race Course, trainer Mark Casse was standing in front of a television on the ground floor of the clubhouse, watching one of his 2-year-olds race at Kentucky Downs. 

English Law  didn’t win on Sept. 1, but Casse has made plenty of trips to the winner’s circle at Saratoga this summer: Nine of his 15 winners have been 2-year-olds. Another six of his juveniles have placed, including Sherbini (Cairo Prince ), who was second in the listed Schuylerville Stakes on opening weekend and third in the Spinaway (G1) on closing weekend. 

His 2-year-olds at the upstate meet are from a handful of owners, with one a homebred and the others ranging in price from $30,000 to $1.2 million. He has been instrumental in picking out most of them at sales. 

“I’m a big pedigree guy,” he said. “I’m big on damsires. I don’t care whether the individual horses are tall, short, whatever. If they’re athletic and I like their pedigree, and the more pedigree they have, the less I demand of their looks.”

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Mark Casse. Coglianese Photos.