SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Saturday will be yet another emotional day for the proud Clement family. The day's featured ninth race is the $750,000 GI Christophe Clement Stakes, named for the newly-minted Hall of Fame trainer and patriarch of the family.Christophe Clement passed away in May at the age of 59 and has left a huge void in the stable and at home.“He would have loved it, I suppose,” his son and trainer Miguel said while standing outside the Clement barn on the Oklahoma Training Track. “Especially a race of this caliber.”The 1 1/2-mile marathon on the Inner Turf Course was formally called the Sword Dancer, a race Christophe Clement won a record five times.Miguel Clement will saddle Tawny Port (Pioneerof the Nile) in the race and, obviously, it's a race he wants to win as his father is honored. A field of seven has been entered and Tawny Port is listed at 8-1 on the morning line.The 7-year-old has won two of three career starts at Saratoga, the latest coming in the GII Belmont Gold Cup on June 4. He won the two-mile race by 2 1/2 lengths. In 10 tries at the 1 1/2 -mile distance, he has no wins, three seconds and two thirds.“He has run some valiant races at 1 1/2,” Miguel Clement said.Tawny Port | Sarah AndrewThe summer has been an emotional one for the family. Christophe was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame last week and the barn won the Hall ofFame Stakes with Bottas (Vekoma) on the same day.The next day, Deterministic (Liam's Map), one of Christophe's favorite horses, won the GI Fourstardave for the second straight year. It was the 5-year-old's sixth straight win.“The (Christophe Clement) will be very meaningful for the entire stable, the CC tribe and the family,” Miguel Clement said. “It has been an irreplaceable void for all of us for many reasons. He had a larger-than-life personality, and we all held him in such high esteem. It hasn't been easy, but we're trying.”Renegade, The Puma Work Toward TraversTwo horses being pointed to the $1.25-million GI Travers Stakes were putting in work on Friday morning on the main track at Saratoga.Renegade (Into Mischief) had his first work since winning the GII Jim Dandy on Aug. 1 as he went four furlongs in company with stablemate Sassmaster (Curlin) in 50.66 (98/113) with exercise rider Nora McCormack on board.Sassmaster, who worked to the outside of Renegade, has won both his starts this year and could be pointed to the $1 million GI Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept 19 or the $300,000 Bourbon Flight at Churchill Downs on Sept. 26.The Puma (Essential Quality) and jockey Javier Castellano worked a solo five furlongs in 59.80 (1/10) in his second Saratoga breeze since arriving here following a fourth-place finish in the GI Haskell Stakes at Monmouth on July 18.“Thought it was excellent,” Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher said outside his office on the Oklahoma Training Track about Renegade's move. “He was on the bridle throughout and showed good enthusiasm to the pole.”The Puma works Friday morning | Sarah AndrewWith two weeks to go to the Travers, Pletcher was asked if this was a major work for Renegade, who is owned by Robert and Lawana Low and Repole Stable.“They are all major,” he said, “Don't let anyone tell you they are not.”Renegade came out of a grueling effort in the Jim Dandy where he rallied to beat Commandment (Into Mischief) by a half-length. Pletcher is extremely pleased the colt has not appeared to have any lingering effects from such a tough race.“I would say it's a little surprising and encouraging,” he said. “I liked the way he recovered from the race so quickly. It gives us optimism that he will run his 'A' race back in four weeks.”Castellano, who has won a record seven Travers Stakes, could find no fault in The Puma's work. A week ago, he worked the same distance in 1:02.16.“I like the way he did it,” Castellano said after conferring with trainer Gustavo Delgado and his son/assistant, Gustavo Jr. “This was a good, solid work, exactly what we were looking for.”The Puma, owned by OGMA Investments, LLC, JR Ranch, High Step Racing, LLC, TCC Stables, LLC and YNG Stables, LLC, has raced five times in his career, all of them this year.He has one win (GIII Tampa Bay Derby), two seconds and a third.“Yes, absolutely, he fits,” Gustavo Delgado Jr. said about The Puma and the Travers. “He has always been very competitive.”The Puma finished second behind Commandment (Into Mischief) in the GI Florida Derby and only lost by a nose. The Haskell was his first start since that race as The Puma missed the GI Kentucky Derby due to swelling his leg from a skin infection.The Haskell brought an off track, and The Puma did not take to it.“He needed that race,” Delgado Jr. said. “And we think he likes it here.”Ole Crazy Bone | Sarah AndrewOle Crazy Bone Looking for a Saratoga DoubleLast month, 6-year-old gelding Ole Crazy Bone (Ghostzapper) went gate-to-wire when he won the GII Bowling Green Stakes at Saratoga. Owned by Jay Provenzano's Flying P Stable, Ole Crazy Bone is sticking around the Spa to see if he can get another graded stakes win.The Mike Maker-trained horse could be the one to catch in Saturday's $750,000 GI Christophe Clement.Ole Crazy Bone, claimed last year by Maker and Flyng P Stable, hasn't run a bad race since coming into the new barn as he has two wins and two seconds. Last year he won the $1 million GII Turf Cup at Kentucky Downs.After winning the Bowling Green at the Spa this year, a return trip to Kentucky Downs could have been in the offing. Instead, he is staying here. Flying P Stable has never won a Grade I.“Jay is from New York, and he loves Saratoga, and he points to this meet every year,” Maker said outside his barn on the Saratoga backstretch. “(Ole Crazy Bone) is very professional, does his job and has no bad habits. He is in perfect health.”When asked about running at the Spa or Kentucky Downs, Maker said, “the owners wanted to do it,” meaning they wanted to stay at the Spa.Follow up question: what did the trainer want to do?“Whatever the owner wanted to do,” Maker said with a sly smile.The post Saratoga Notebook, Presented By NYRA Bets: Emotional Summer Continues For Clement Family appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.