SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Jackie’s Warrior avenged his loss to Drain the Clock in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens eight weeks ago at Belmont Park by running that same rival off his feet Sunday at Saratoga, splashing his way to a 7 1/4-length victory in the Grade 2, $200,000 Amsterdam Stakes. Drain the Clock, who suffered his first defeat in a one-turn race Sunday, finished second by one length over Crowded Trade. Flash of Mischief, Mister Luigi and River Dog completed the order of finish. The win was the sixth from nine starts for Jackie’s Warrior and the $110,000 first-place purse pushed his career earnings to $1,058,964. It was also the 9,442nd career victory for trainer Steve Asmussen, who moved within three of tying Dale Baird’s all-time win mark of 9,445. Asmussen entered Sunday with 9,440 victories, won a race at Ellis earlier in the day and had three seconds and two thirds as he ran 10 horses at three tracks. “Any day you have Jackie’s Warrior win the Amsterdam like that you feel pretty good as a trainer,” Asmussen said. “But we are three wins away, we’ll have to pick up the slack at Louisiana Downs the next couple of days.” If Asmussen only won a single race Sunday, he wanted it to be the Amsterdam. He wasn’t happy with the Woody Stephens, in which Jackie’s Warrior somehow last a few strides out of the gate before rushing up to duel with, then overtake, Drain the Clock, ultimately getting beat a length by that one. On Sunday, after a 30-minute weather delay due to rain, thunder and lightning, Jackie’s Warrior had no excuses. Breaking alertly under Joel Rosario, Jackie’s Warrior and Drain the Clock, under Irad Ortiz Jr., were a head apart through an opening quarter in 21.46 seconds over a sealed, sloppy surface. By the middle of the far turn, before a half was run in 43.85 seconds, Jackie’s Warrior had left Drain the Clock in his wake. With Jackie’s Warrior maintaining a steady pace in the stretch, and the others floundering, Rosario had Jackie’s Warrior in hand for the last sixteenth. “He just gets out of there, he does it so easy, he’s so fast you’re not even feeling like you’re going that fast,” said Rosario, who won three races on Sunday’s card. Jackie’s Warrior, a son of Maclean’s Music, covered 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:15.46 and returned $3 as the favorite. :: DRF's Saratoga headquarters – Stakes schedule, previews, recaps, past performances, and more “We got caught being overconfident last time, I think he helped him away from there today and held him together and the horse ran extremely well,” Asmussen said. “He did win on an off track today, which is the first time; to get that variable out of the way, knowing that weather doesn’t care how important we think something is, [we know] that he’ll be able to handle that going forward.” Drain the Clock had gone 6 for 6 in races run around one turn before Sunday, including his win over Jackie’s Warrior in the Woody Stephens. “We got beat fair and square today, no excuse,” Joseph said. “We’ll try again next time.” Next time figures to be the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens on Aug. 28, a race that is also being targeted for the return of Life is Good, an undefeated colt who was the early-season favorite for the Kentucky Derby before being injured.