Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred January 2008

RACING’S QUEST
TO GET ON THE
RIGHT TRACK

IIIVI SCAT UOTi CHID

HANNELS TO THE TOP

BENNY THE BULL WINS
BE FRANCIS DASH-G1

Pulpit—Arrested Dreams, by Dehere

A.P. Indy's son Pulpit: 4-for-6, Blue Grass S., Gr. II
Pulpit's son Oratory: 3-for-5, Peter Pan S., Gr. II

At Country Life, we've excelled in recognizing sire
ability in lightly raced but beautifully bred horses.
Allen's Prospect (by Mr. Prospector), Carnivalay
(by Northern Dancer), Citidancer (by Dixieland
Band) and Malibu Moon (by A.P. Indy).

Add Oratory to that list.

Brilliant racehorse: 114 Beyer.

Immediate acceptance at stud. Booked
full first two seasons at stud.

Third season 2008: $5,000 Stand and Nurse.

Country Life Farm Stallions

Oratory by Pulpit
Parker's Storm Cat by Storm Cat

Malibu Moon by A.P. Indy (in Kentucky)

No Armistice by Unbridled

Country Life Farm —

Established 1933 • MARYLAND'S OLDEST THOROUGHBRED FARM
Josh or Michael Pons • P.O. Box 107, Bel Air, Maryland 21014

(410) 879-1952 • Fax (410) 879-6207 • www.countrylifefarm.com • e-mail: info@countrylifefarm.com

Midlantic
Winter Mixed

February 4, 2008

Maryland State Fairgrounds • Timonium, Maryland

r . n Since 1898

£5 FasiG'Tipton

410-392-5555 www.fasigtipton.com

Photo: horsephotos.com

IN THIS ISSUE

Volume 16, Number 1

How futures hinge on
finding the right track

Owners, breeders, trainers, along with various industry leaders, provide
wide-ranging views on the pros and cons of synthetic track surfaces.
Interviews by Michele MacDonald. Page 26

DEPARTMENTS

Calendar 6
Mid-Atlantic report 8
Obituaries 22

Editorial,

by Lucy Acton 24

’Chasing about,

by Joe Clancy Jr. 72

Invested in racing: the genius of
Jim Scatuorchio

From relatively modest auction buys, New Jersey resident has
campaigned one top runner after another, including world-beater
English Channel. Story by Bill Finley. Page 48

Benny the Bull wins Grade 1
Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash

Breeders’ Cup Sprint-GI contender moves on

to prestigious victory at Laurel Park. Story by Sean Clancy. Page 54

Figures fall at Fasig-Tipton
Midlantic December Mixed sale

A total of 287 horses grossed $2,056,500 at the auction
held December 2 and 3 atTimonium. Page 58

Health notes,

by Denise Steffanus 78

Around the ovals,

by Sean Clancy, Linda
Dougherty, Joe Fonte
and Ryan Goldberg 82

Stallion news,

by Cindy Deubler 100

Sire rankings 112
Stakes winners 113
Looking back 125
Maryland newsletter 127
New Jersey newsletter 135
Pennsylvania newsletter 139
South Carolina newsletter 143
Virginia newsletter 145

COVER: Japeta surface installed at Pennsylvania’s new track, Presque Isle Downs, is one of several synthetic
mixtures currently available. Photograph provided by Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort.

West Virginia newsletter 147

2 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

BUDDHA

Unbridled's Song - Cahooters, by Storm Cat

Mid-Atlantic/Northeast's Leading Second
Crop Sire for 2007

Eight 2yo winners in 2007, including SW HISSE
($96,805,1st or 2nd in 4 starts) and DEITIES
DAY (MSW winner by 7 1/4 lengths)

Other stakes horses include 2007 SW

GLORIFICATION ($102,420), Lenaro and Aviv

Won Wood Memorial S.-G1 defeating
MEDAGLIA D'ORO in first stakes appearance

Out of STORM CAT mare from the family
of leading sire DAMASCUS

2008 Fee: $5,000 live foal

2008 Fee: $3,500 live foal

SERVICE STRIPE

Deputy Minister - Wedding Picture,

by Blushing Groom (Fr)

■ Sire of outstanding 2yo stakes winners,
including Grade l-winning juvenile
CASHIER'S DREAM ($423,042), NTR
2yo SW SECRET ROMEO ($865,790,
won 17 stakes), four-time 2yo SW BORN
TO DANCE ($577,519, won/placed in 19
stakes), and MISS MARY PAT (3 wins in
5 starts, 2 stakes wins)

■ Sire of 11% stakes horses/starters,
including SWEETWATER PROMISE

($376,439,10 wins)

■ Half-brother to the dam of leading
sire BROKEN VOW, #1 Leading
Third Crop Sire and sire of 18 stakes
horses in 2007

Pin Oak Lane Farm & Equine Clinic owned and managed by William J. Solomon, V.M.D

P.O. Box 129, New Freedom, PA 17349 • Phones (717) 235-4954 ♦ 1-800-346-8398 * Fax (717) 235-8190
E-mail: bsolomon@cyberia.com ♦ Web Site: www.pinoaklane.com
Fees payable when foal stands and nurses • Registered Pennsylvania Stallions * Breeders' Cup Nominated

Upcoming

Maryland Fund Stakes

Fillies and Mares, Three-Years-Old and Up

March 15 ConniverS $60,000-guaranteed 7 fur.

These 2008 LAUREL PARK STAKES include a
$20,000 purse premium for Maryland-breds:

January 5

NATIVE DANCERS

Four-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

1 mi.

January 12

WHAT A SUMMERS

Fillies and mares
Four-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

6 fur.

January 19

FIRE PLUG S

Four-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

6 fur.

January 26

NELLIE MORSE S

Fillies and mares
Four-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

1 mi.

February 2

DANCING COUNT S

Three-year-olds

$70,000-guaranteed*

6 fur.

February 9

MARSHUAS

Fillies, Three-year-olds

$70,000-guaranteed*

6 fur.

February 16

JOHN B. CAMPBELL H

Three-year-olds and up

$95,000-guaranteed*

\V% mi.

February 23

MARYLAND RACING MEDIA H

Fillies and mares
Three-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

\Vs mi.

March 1

MIRACLE WOOD S

Three-year-olds

$70,000-guaranteed*

7 fur.

March 8

WIDE COUNTRY S

Fillies, Three-year-olds

$70,000-guaranteed*

7 fur.

March 22

PRIVATE TERMS S

Three-year-olds

$80,000-guaranteed*

1 mi.

March 29

HARRISON E. JOHNSON
MEMORIAL H

Three-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

\Vs mi.

April 5

PRIMONETTA S

Fillies and mares
Three-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

6 fur.

April 12

DAHLIAS

Fillies and mares
Three-year-olds and up

$80,000-guaranteed*

1 mi.
turf

*Purse premium included in total guaranteed purse. The stakes schedule is approved through
April 12, 2008. For more information, contact the Maryland Horse Breeders Association at
(410) 252-2100, fax (410) 560-0503 or visit MHBA’s Web site at www.marylandthoroughbred.com.

MARYLAND-BREDS HAVE AN ADVANTAGE FOR PREFERENCE DATES!

Preferences are in order of dates entered or run with the oldest date having first preference.
Maryland-breds having an equal date will have first preference.

Horses enter for the first time with zero and are behind all those with dates.

SPECIAL

Maryland-bred Bonuses

$5,000 to the owner of a registered Maryland-bred who
wins a Maiden Special Weight race or an
"a other than/non-winners of two races" allowance.*
Contact the Maryland Horse Breeders Association office
for more information (410) 252-2100.

*Horses running for a claiming price in allowance/optional claiming races
are ineligible for the bonus

BONUS

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Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association, Mark A.
McDermott, executive secretary, 701 E. Baltimore
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4 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Eyes of the Storm

■ Full brother to BERNSTEIN, sire of 29
stakes winners, 51 total stakes horses

■ Full brother to 3-time G3 NYRA SW
CARESS, dam of G1 2Y0 SW and
freshman sire SKY MESA, sire of eight
2yo winners

■ Full siblings have sold for $5.5-million,
$3.1-million and $1.5-million

■ Out of a half-sister to champion
OUTSTANDINGLY, family of leading sire
and Horse of the Year BUCKPASSER

■ First crop will race in 2008

2008 Fee: $2,500 live foal

nr

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COASTAL STORM

Storm Cat - Pearl City, by Carson City

■ Pennsylvania's Leading Freshman Sire
of 2005, Leading Second Crop Sire of
2006, and Leading Third Crop Sire of
2007

■ 33% 2yo winners have won stakes,
including EAGLE SPEED and
FANCY DAN ($122,855, won or
placed in 10 of 14 starts)

■ 2007 winners include TAXOXCAC
($83,150) and GODSAID ($74,247)

■ Three-quarter brother to leading sire

HENNESSY (by STORM CAT out of

Grade 1 winner PEARL CITY)

2008 Fee: $2,500 live foal

Pin Oak

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E-mail: bsolomon@cyberia.com • Web Site: www.pinoaklane.com

Fees payable when foal stands and nurses • Registered Pennsylvania Stallions • Breeders' Cup Nominated

CERTAIN STORM

Storm Cat - La Affirmed, by Affirmed

Calendar

MID-ATLANTIC TRACKS

Atlantic City

4501 Black Horse Pike, Mays
Landing, N.J. 08330, (609) 641-
2190; fax (609) 645-8309. Racing
secretary: Sal Sinatra. Racing
dates: April 23-25; April 30,

May 1,2.

Charles Town

P.O. Box 551, Charles Town,
WVa. 25414. (304) 725-7001;
(800) 795-7001. Racing dates:
Jan. 1 to Dec. 31;
www. ctownraces. com.

Laurel Park

P.O. Box 130, Laurel, Md.

20725. (301) 725-0400,

(410) 792-7775; (800) 638-1859.
Racing Secretary: Georganne
Hale. Racing dates: Jan. 1 to
April 12. www.marylandracing.
com.

Monmouth Park

175 Oceanport Avenue,
Oceanport, N.J. 07757. (732)
222-5100; fax (732) 571-8658.
Racing secretary: Michael
Dempsey. Racing dates: May 9 to
Sept. 28. wwwmonmouth park,
com.

Penn National

P.O. Box 32, Grantville, Pa.
17028.(717) 469-2211; (800)
233-8238. Racing Secretary:

Paul N. Jenkins. Racing dates:
Feb. 5 to Dec. 31; www.
pennnational.com.

Philadelphia Park

P.O. Box 1000,

Bensalem, Pa. 19020-2096.

(215) 639-9000; (800) 523-6886.
Racing Secretary: Sal Sinatra.
Racing dates: Jan. 1 to Dec. 31;
www.philadelphiapark.com.

OTHER TRACKS

Aqueduct —Oct. 24 to April 27
Bay Meadows —Feb. 6 to
May 11

Fair Grounds —Nov. 22 to
March 23

Golden Gate —Dec. 26 to
Feb. 3

Gulfstream Park —Jan. 3 to
April 20

Hawthorne —Jan. 1 to Jan. 13;

March 7 to April 28
Hollywood Park —April 23 to
July 13

Keeneland —April 4 to April 25

Mountaineer —Jan. 19 to
Dec. 30

Oaklawn Park —Jan. 18 to
April 12

Sam Houston —Nov. 23 to
April 5

Santa Anita Park —Dec. 26 to
April 20

Tampa Bay —Dec. 8 to May 4
Turfway Park —Nov. 25 to
April 3

MID-ATLANTIC AUCTIONS

Winter Mixed, Fasig-Tipton
Midlantic, Timonium Sales
Pavilion, Timonium, Md.
(410) 392-5555 or 252-5860.
Feb. 4.

Two-Year Olds in Training,

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic,
Timonium Sales Pavilion,
Timonium, Md. (410) 392-
5555 or 252-5860.

May 19,20.

OUT-OF-STATE AUCTIONS

January Horses of All Ages,

Keeneland, Lexington, Ky.
(800) 456-3412. Jan. 7-13.
Winter Mixed, Ocala Breeders’
Sales Co., Ocala, Fla. (352)
237-2154. Jan. 16-18.

Winter Mixed, Fasig-Tipton
Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.

(859) 255-1555. Feb. 10,11.
Selected Two-Year-Olds in
Training, Ocala Breeders’
Sales Co., Ocala, Fla. (352)
237-2154. Feb. 12.

Selected Two-Year Olds
in Training, Fasig-Tipton
Florida, Calder Race Course,
Miami, Fla. (859) 255-1555.
Feb. 26.

Adena Springs Two-Year-
Olds in Training, Ocala
Breeders’ Sales Co., Ocala, Fla.
(352) 237-2154. March 17.
Selected Two-Year-Olds in
Training, Ocala Breeders’
Sales Co., Ocala, Fla. (352)
237-2154. March 18,19.

Two-Year-Olds in Training,
Fasig-Tipton Texas, Lone Star
Park, Grand Prairie, Tex. (972)
262-0000. April 1.

April Two-Year-Olds in
Training, Keeneland,
Lexington, Ky. (800) 456-3412.
April 8, 9.

Spring Two-Year-Olds in
Training, Ocala Breeders’
Sales Co., Ocala, Fla. (352)
237-2154. April 21-24.

ASSOCIATION EVENTS

Virginia Thoroughbred
Association Annual Stallion
Season Auction, Warrenton,
Va. (540) 347-4313; fax (540)
347-7314; www.vabred.org.
Feb. 12,13.

SPRING P0INT-T0-P0INTS

Casanova, Warrenton, Va.

Feb. 23.

Rappahannock, Washington,
Va. March 1.

6 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY
TO HOST MUNNINGS SYMPOSIUM

T he National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Va., will
host a full-day symposium on Saturday, February 9, in
conjunction with its exhibition “Reflections on a Life
with Horses: Paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings” from the Paul
Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art.

Royal Academician Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) is
among the most renowned painters of equestrian and sporting
subjects of the 20th century. The exhibition at the library,
curated by Elizabeth Manierre and on view until March 29, is
part of an international commemoration of the 100th birthday
of art collector, philanthropist and sportsman Paul Mellon
(1907-1999).

The symposium will feature lectures by four art historians
followed by a panel discussion and reception. Speakers include
Mitchell Merling (Paul Mellon curator, Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts), Diane Roe (director, Sir Alfred Munnings
Museum), Angus Trumble (curator, Yale Center for British
Art) and Lorian Peralta-Ramos.

Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis
and early registration is encouraged. The cost is $50 or $30 for
students. For more information and to request a registration
brochure, contact Elizabeth Tobey at (540) 687-6542 ext. 25 or
etobey@nsl.org.

Blue Ridge, Berryville, Va.
March 8.

Warrenton, Warrenton, Va.
March 15.

Howard County-Iron Bridge,

Ellicott City, Md. March 22.
Piedmont, Upperville, Va.
March 22.

Green Spring Valley, Hunt
Valley, Md. March 29.

Orange County, Middleburg,
Va. March 30.

Elkridge-Harford, Monkton,
Md. April 5.

Old Dominion, Ben Venue, Va.
April 5.

Loudoun, Leesburg, Va. April 13.
Fairfax, Leesburg, Va. April 20.
Middleburg, Middleburg, Va.
April 27.

Bull Run, Culpeper, Va. May 4.
Bedford, Forest, Va. May 10.

SEMINARS AND COURSES

Developing Future Leaders
for the Equine Industry
Short Course, Cook College
Campus, Rutgers, The State
University of New Jersey,

New Brunswick, N.J. (732)
932-9271; www.esc.rutgers.
edu. Jan. 9,10.

Marion duPont Scott Equine
Medical Center, “Tuesday
Talks,” Leesburg, Va. (703)
771-6843; www.equinemedi-
calcenter.net; e-mail: atropp-
mann@vt.edu. Equine Eye
Care, Jan. 15; Stem Cell Therapy
for Musculoskeletal Injury, Feb.

19; The New Equine Medicine ,
March 11. Pre-registration
required.

Advanced Equine Health
Care and Management,

Cook College Campus,
Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey, New
Brunswick, N.J. (732) 932-
9271; wwwesc.rutgers.edu.
Semester course starting Jan.
23—Monday and Wednesday
evenings.

Horse Short Course Series,

North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, N.C. (919)
515-5784; www.cals.ncsu.edu/
an_sci/ extension/horse /
hhmain.html. Equine Hoof
Care and Shoeing, March 14,15;
Horse Feeding, May 15; Horse
Forage Management, May 16.

EVENTS

Horse World Expo,

(301) 916-0852;
wwwhorseworldexpo.com.

Timonium Fairgrounds,

Timonium, Md. Jan. 17-20;
Pennsylvania Farm Show
Complex, Harrisburg, Pa.

Feb. 21-24.

Reflections on a Life with
Horses: Paintings by Sir
Alfred Munnings —National
Sporting Library, Middleburg,
Va. (540) 687-6542, ext.

25; e-mail: etobey@nsl.org.
Exhibition through March 29;
One-day symposium, Feb. 9.

/ /

Smoke Glacken - Saunter, by Strolling Along

m Won Keeneland's Lafayette S.-G3,
wire-to-wire, winning by 14 1/2
lengths, posting a 112 Beyer Speed
Figure, setting fractions of :21 3/5,
:44 4/5, :56 4/5 and 1:09 4/5

■ Set all the pace to win Pimlico's
Dancing Count S. (by 3 3/4 lengths)
and Monmouth's Select S. (by five
lengths), after running fractions

of :211/5, :44 1/5 and :56 4/5

■ Third to Champion Sprinter

LOST IN THE FOG in Gulfstream
Park's $150,000 Swale S.-G2

■ By Champion Sprinter

SMOKE GLACKEN, sire of 32
stakes winners, three juvenile
stakes winners in 2007, including
IRISH SMOKE ($187,200, Spinaway
S.-G1) and NYRA SWs GLACKEN'S
GAL and SMOKE'N COAL

■ Out of a young mare who has
also produced Grade 1-placed
Squallacious. Family of champion
and three-time Grade 1 SW

HIDDEN LAKE ($947,489)

2008 Fee: $3,500 live foal

Pin Oak Lane Farm & Equine Clinic

Owned and managed by William J. Solomon, V.M.D
New Freedom, PA 17349 ♦ Phones (717) 235-4954 * 1-800-346-8398 * Fax (717) 235-8190
E-mail: bsolomon@cyberia.com ♦ Web Site: www.pinoaklane.com
Fees payable when foal stands and nurses • Registered Pennsylvania Stallions • Breeders' Cup Nominated

ComiiT at Full Speed

r

MID-ATLANTIC REPORT

Lou Raffetto (left) has been replaced by Chris Dragone
as the Maryland Jockey Club’s president and chief operating officer.

MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB
UNDERGOES CHANGE
IN MANAGEMENT

L ouis J. Raffetto Jr. has been
ousted from his post as
president and chief oper¬
ating officer of the Maryland
Jockey Club (MJC). Replacing
him is Chris Dragone, who
most recently served as exec¬
utive director of New York
Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.

Raffetto, 57, had been in
charge of day-to-day opera¬
tions at Maryland's two major
Thoroughbred tracks, Laurel
Park and Pimlico, since
January 1, 2001. The tracks
conduct business under the
banner of the MJC, which
this past September passed
into the sole ownership of
Magna Entertainment Corp.
Magna had owned a control¬
ling interest in the MJC since
November 2002.

Dragone joined Magna in
2002. He served as general
manager of two tracks owned
by that company—Great
Lakes Downs and Portland
Meadows—and had a stint as
general manager of Laurel and
Pimlico in 2006. Dragone left
the MJC after eight months
for personal and family rea¬
sons and since that time had
held the post in New York.

The son of former New
York Racing Association
Chairman Allan Dragone,
Chris Dragone has worked in
numerous management jobs
at race tracks across the coun¬
try. The Dragone family owns
December Hill Farm in New
Jersey.

NEW JERSEY ADDS 21
RACING DAYS IN 2008

T he New Jersey tracks
remained in limbo, as of
mid-December, regarding
a purse supplement for this year.

However, at its November
28 meeting, the New Jersey
Racing Commission awarded
Monmouth Park and Meadow-
lands a total of 141 Thorough¬
bred racing dates in 2008. That
is 21 more dates than the two
tracks ran in 2007, but it is the
exact number of days required
by law, in order for Monmouth
and Meadowlands to operate
Internet account wagering and
off-track wagering facilities.

A four-year, $86-million
purse supplement from Atlantic
City’s casinos expired last fall.
Without a similar subsidy this
year, purses at Monmouth will
fall to an average $180,000 per
day from more than $300,000
per day, according to Dennis
Dowd, the senior vice-presi¬
dent of racing for the New
Jersey Sports and Exposition

Authority, which owns and
operates Monmouth and
Meadowlands.

Monmouth was granted 99
five dates from May 10 through
September 28. In recent years,
the Oceanport track limited its
May five racing to Saturdays
and Sundays and the Memorial
Day holiday. This year it is set
to open on a Friday and race all
Fridays during the month.

The Meadowlands meeting
will consist of 42 live dates
during a six-week span between
September 19 and November
15; racing will be conducted six
days a week.

The Racing Commission
allotted Atlantic City six live
dates, along with a warning
that it must run at least 20 days
per year beginning in 2009, and
prepare to export a simulcast
signal.

Atlantic City will conduct
five racing on April 23 through
25 and April 30 through May 1.

NEW HORSEMEN’S
GROUP ADDRESSES
SIMULCASTING ISSUES

S everal Mid-Atl antic

horsemen’s associa¬
tions are participat¬
ing in a new organization
known as the Thoroughbred
Horsemen’s Group, a limited
liability company created to
promote individual and col¬
laborative interstate simul¬
casting activities.

The Thoroughbred
Horsemen’s Group includes
Horsemen’s Benevolent
and Protective Association
(HBPA) organizations from
Virginia and Pennsylvania
as well as the Delaware
Thoroughbred Horsemen’s
Association. Also partici¬
pating are groups from Ken¬
tucky, Ohio, Louisiana, Texas
and Florida.

“The Thoroughbred
Horsemen’s Group is the
logical next step for horse¬
men’s organizations dealing
with simulcast issues in a
multi-jurisdictional busi¬
ness environment with
multi-track consortiums and
integrated companies tike
TrackNet Media,” said Ohio-
based owner Bob Reeves,
who serves as president of
the new organization.

Joe Santanna, the Penn¬
sylvania HPBA president
who also heads the HBPA’s
national office, is treasurer
of the Thoroughbred Horse¬
men’s Group, and Virginia
HBPA executive director
Frank Petramalo is its secre¬
tary and general counsel.

8 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Delivering the Goods

SIPHON

Itajara - Ebrea, by Kublai Khan

■ Sire of 24 stakes horses lifetime,

12 stakes winners, including champion
SIPHONICA and NYRA Graded SW

SHARP IMPACT ($206,568)

■ Sire of a graded stakes winner in each
of his first four crops, including Grade 1
winners SIPHONIC ($774,778) and

I'M THE TIGER ($593,662),

SIPHON CITY (G2, $372,716)
and SIPHONIZER (G2, $294,132)

■ Eight 2007 stakes horses, including
Colonial Downs SW PARK AVENUE
PRINCE ($156,171), 15-length SW

DELOSVIENTOS, and 2yo Baldassare,

who finished 3rd in $150,000 Clarendon S.
at Woodbine

■ His 2yos averaged $75,250 in the sales ring
in 2007, including a $350,000 colt at the
OBS February Select Sale

■ Progeny earnings over $1.9-million in 2007
2008 Fee: $5,000 live foal

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P.O. Box 129, New Freedom, PA 17349 • Phones (717) 235-4954 • 1-800-346-8398 ♦ Fax (717) 235-8190
E-mail: bsolomon@cyberia.com • Web Site: www.pinoaklane.com
Fees payable when foal stands and nurses • Registered Pennsylvania Stallions • Breeders' Cup Nominated

MID-ATLANTIC REPORT

MID-ATLANTIC STAKES
MAKE GRADE FOR 2008

BREEDERS’ CUP
ADDS THREE MORE
RACES FOR 2008

T hree previously ungraded
stakes in the Mid-Atlantic
were accorded Grade
3 status for 2008: the Obeah
Handicap and Robert G.
Dick Memorial Breeders’ Cup
Handicap, both at Delaware
Park; and the Virginia Oaks at
Colonial Downs.

No other Mid-Adantic
stakes underwent change in the
annual process conducted by
the American Graded Stakes
Committee.

Breeders’ Cup had request¬
ed Grade 1 status for its three

races inaugurated in 2007—the
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf,
Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare
Sprint, and Breeders’ Cup Dirt
Mile. But Breeders’ Cup chair¬
man Bill Farish subsequendy
asked the committee to table
that request.

The committee assigned
grades to 481 races in 2008,
seven more than in 2007. A
total of 110 races are desig¬
nated as Grade 1, and all races
that earned Grade 1 status last
year will retain their rating for
2008.

T he Breeders’ Cup World
Championships will
expand again in 2008
with the addition of three
more races for the Friday pro¬
gram on October 24 at Santa
Anita Park.

New to the program will
be the $1 million Breeders’
Cup Turf Sprint for 3-year-
olds and up at six and a half
furlongs, $1 million Breeders’
Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at
one mile; and the mile and a
half $500,000 Breeders’ Cup

Dirt Marathon, for 3-year-
olds and up.

The additions will push
the two-day program to 14
races worth a total of $25.5
million.

Three races were added in
2007, when the program was
expanded to two days at Mon¬
mouth Park. Last year, the
Friday card featured the inau¬
gural runnings of the Breed¬
ers’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint,
Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile and
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

WEST VIRGINIA
BREEDERS CLASSIC
WINNER DISQUALIFIED

FEBRUARY 1 IS DEADLINE
TO NAME FOALS OF 2006

E astern Delite, winner of
the $500,000 West Vir¬
ginia Breeders Classic on
October 20 at Charles Town,
has been disqualified, and the
purse for the race has been
redistributed, based on a post¬
race test that indicated the pres¬
ence of caffeine in the horse’s
system.

The disqualification was the
result of a November 28 stew¬
ards’ hearing. The stewards
also handed trainer Freddie R.
Johnson a 15-day suspension.

Johnson, who owns and
bred the 5-year-old gelding
in the name of his Wind N
Springs Farm near Charles
Town, has launched an appeal
to the West Virginia Racing
Commission. The date for the
Commission hearing had not
been set as of mid-December.

At stake is a winner’s share
of the purse amounting to
$225,000.

Confucius Say, runner-up to
Eastern Delite, moved up to

be credited with the victory,
his third in the Classic, which is
Charles Town’s richest race.

Danny Wright, chief stew¬
ard at Charles Town, said the
level of caffeine was consistent
with contamination from a cup
of coffee or a candy bar, and
ingestion of the substance did
not likely take place on race
day.

“It was a set of circum¬
stances that had to be adjudi¬
cated,” Wright commented.
“Everybody feels bad about
it. These are good people on
both sides.”

Johnson was held responsi¬
ble under the trainers’ absolute
insurer rule, which is standard
throughout the industry.

Wright added that Eastern
Delite was shipped in to race
in the Classic and, following
Charles Town’s standard pro¬
cedures, he was kept in the
receiving barn under camera
surveillance beginning at 9 a.m.
on race day.

T he Jockey Club reminds
owners and breeders that
a valid attempt to name
foals of 2006 must be made
by February 1, 2008, to avoid a
$75 late fee.

As an aid in selecting a
desired name, The Jockey Club
has published on the registry’s
Web site a list of approxi¬
mately 30,000 names released
from active use. A majority of
the released names are those
of horses over 10 years old
who have not raced or been
bred during the preceding five
years. Names appearing on the
list must be approved by The
Jockey Club prior to use pursu¬
ant to Rule 6 of the Principal
Rules and Requirements of
The American Stud Book.

Owners and breeders are
also encouraged to consult the
Online Names Book to check
the potential availability of
Thoroughbred names.

“We check approximate¬
ly 65,000 name submissions

each year and we reject more
than 15,000 of them because
they are identical or simi¬
lar to names already in use,”
said Matt Iuliano, The Jockey
Club’s vice-president of regis¬
tration services. “The number
of rejections could be reduced
if applicants would check the
Online Names Book to see if a
name may be available prior to
submitting it.”

The list of recently released
names and the Online Names
Book are accessible through the
registry’s home page at www.
registry.jockeyclub.com. Both
resources are updated daily as
names are claimed so that users
are always looking at the most
current information.

Interactive Registration is
the quickest and easiest way
to submit name applications
and is available at no charge
through the registry’s Web site.

/The Jockey Club

10 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Crypto Star

Cryptoclearance—One I Love, by Sir Ivor

Sire of seven stakes horses, including champion LADY HASTINGS (at 2
in Jamaica), LEXI STAR ($440,624 to 5, 2007), STEPHAN'S ANGEL
($96,440), Crypto Secret ($166,729), Gussie's Secret ($148,155),
Crypto Prime and Cryptic Skier. Ten $1 00,000-plus earners.

A.E. per starter $36,248. MGSW of $730,090. $2,500 LF*

Louis Quatorze

Sovereign Dancer—On to Royalty, by On to Glory

Perennially among leading sires in the Mid-Atlantic. Lifetime
sire of 2 champions, 1 2 graded SWs, 31 SWs, 2 millionaires, including
REPENT ($1 ,255,660, among leading freshman sires in 2007),
CHOCTAW NATION ($1,224,800), multiple G 1-winner BUSHFIRE
($802,507), PAPUA. Classic winner of $2,054,434. $7,500 LF*

Scipion

A.P. Indy—Strawberry Reason, by Strawberry Road (Aus)

Grade 3 stakes-winning son of A.P. INDY, out of Grade 3 stakes winner
STRAWBERRY REASON. A $1.9 million Saratoga Sales yearling entering
stud for 2008. Won Saratoga msw first time out at 2. Won Grade 3
Risen Star and earned $194,056. Three-quarter-brother to unbeaten
2YO champion and leading freshman sire VINDICATION. Outcross for
Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector-line mares. $6,000 LF*

Wayne County (ire)

Sadler's Wells—Detroit (Fr), by Riverman
MGSP son of two champions.

A.E. per starter $38,276. Sire of 12 stakes horses, including DR

DETROIT, MR MUTTER, SADLER'S SARAH, etc Sire of 17
$1 00,000-plus earners. By champion and sire of sires SADLER'S WELLS
(290 SWs, 56 champions), out of horse of the year DETROIT (Fr). Full
brother to champion CARNEGIE (Ire). $2,000 LF

Yarrow Brae

Deputy Minister—Bally Five, by Miswaki

Sire of 13 stakes horses. A.E. per starter $46,715. Total progeny earnings
over $6.3 million. Sire of G3-placed MSW CELTIC INNIS
($375,054), FAGEDABOUDIT SAL ($326,752), FIVE STEPS

($289,526), G3-placed HAIL HILLARY (7 wins, $264,310), G3 winner
FINALLY HERE (5 wins in 8 starts, $1 89,200), etc.

G2 winner of $571,580. $3,000 LF*

Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen Murray Jr.
1334 Stafford Road
Darlington, MD 21034

ALL STALLIONS ARE MARYLAND
MILLION NOMINATED. FEES PAYABLE
WHEN FOAL STANDS AND NURSES
^BREEDERS' CUP NOMINATED

(410) 836-3491; fax (410) 836-3489
www.murmurfarm.com
E-mail: murmurfarm@erols.com

BARBARA D. LIVINGSTON

MID-ATLANTIC REPORT

MID-ATLANTIC-BREDS SOLD FOR $200,000 OR
MORE AT THE KEENELAND NOVEMBER SALE

Promenade Girl[ shown in the paddock before the 2007 Delaware Handicap-G2,
campaigned as a homebred for Sondra and Howard Bender and was trained by
Larry Murray. A Maryland-bred champion, she won five stakes and earned $668,990.

F ollowing are all Mid-At-
lantic-breds sold for
$200,000 or more at the
Keeneland November sale,
conducted November 5 to 19
in Lexington, Ky.

For more information on
the top-selling Mid-Atlantic-
bred, Promenade Girl, who
sold for $1,125 million as a
broodmare prospect, see page
3 of the Maryland newsletter.

The second-highest price, at
$750,000, was for stakes win¬
ner Zenith, in foal to cham¬
pion Bernardini. Now 11, the
Virginia-bred daughter of Roy
is the dam of Great Hunter, a
Grade 1 winner at 2 and one
of the top 3-year-olds of 2007,
with earnings of $772,500.
Zenith last sold, as part of
the Ivy Dell Stud Breeding
Stock Dispersal, at the 2006
Keeneland January Mixed sale
for $30,000 in foal to Golden
Missile.

The list that follows includes
names of breeder, consignor
and purchaser:

$1,125,000. Promenade Girl,
b.m., 2002, Carson City—
Promenade Colony, by
Pleasant Colony. Sondra
Bender and Howard M.
Bender (Md.); Eaton Sales,
agent; Thoroughbred
Advisory Group Inc.
$750,000. Zenith, b.m., 1997,
Roy—Sequins, by Northern
Fashion (in foal to Bernar¬
dini). Keswick Stables (Va.);
Walnut Green, agent, for
Daniel M. Ryan; Stones tree t
Thoroughbred Holdings
LLC.

$525,000. Celestial Legend,
ch.m., 2003, City Zip—
Lunar’s Legend, by Polish
Numbers (in foal to Blue-
grass Cat). William Fitzgib-
bons Sr. and David H. Wade
(Md.); Legacy Bloodstock,

agent LXVI; B. Wayne
Hughes.

$525,000. Stellar, ch.m. 2000,
Grand Slam—Starr County,
by Ogygian (in foal to Hen-
nessy). Edward P. Evans
(Va.); Paramount Sales,
agent XXXII; Edward
Evans.

$450,000. Gamely Girl, b.m.,
2003, Arch—Helstra, by
Nureyev. Lazy Lane Stables
Inc. (Va.); Woods Edge
Farm (Peter O’Callaghan),
agent; Pas c ale Menard.

$300,000. Partners Due, gr./
ro.m., 2002, Partner’s Hero
—D owhatyouwanttwodo,
by Two Punch (in foal to
Street Cry-Ire). Legacy
Farm (Va.); Needham-Betz
Thoroughbreds Inc., agent;
Nofa Equestrian Resort.

$260,000. Love You Madly,
b.m., 2000, Parmer’s Hero—
Georgia K, by Horatius (in
foal to Fusaichi Pegasus).
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
McGinnes (Md.); Nursery
Place; Berkey Bloodstock
Services Inc., agent.

$250,000. Trusten, ch.m., 2002,
Mt. Livermore—Entrusted,
by Private Account. Eugene
Weymouth (Pa.); Walnut
Green, agent; Pam and
Martin Wygod.

$225,000. Joyous Song, b.m.,
2002, American Chance—
Joyous Melody, by Phone
Trick (in foal to Rock Hard
Ten). North Wales LLC (Va.);
Warrendale Sales, Agent V;
My MeadowView LLC.

$225,000. Willie’s Luv, b.m.,
1999, Williamstown—Dixie
Fever, by Dixieland Brass
(in foal to Speights town).
Y. Kolybabiuk (N.J.); Denali
Stud (Craig and Holly Ban-
doroff), agent, for Freedom
Acres Inc.; Gilbert G.
Campbell.

$220,000. Suzy Smart, b.f., 2004,
Smart Strike—Minicolony,
by Pleasant Colony. Edward
P. Evans (Va.); Hinkle
Farms, agent III; Belmont
Bloodstock Agency.

$210,000. Hail Hillary, ch.m.,
2000, Yarrow Brae—Capital
Hill, by Temperence Hill
(in foal to Maria’s Mon).
Alan S. Kline (Md.); Three
Chimneys Sales, agent, for
Golden Eagle Farm (phase
II of a major reduction);
Nofa Equestrian Resort.

$200,000. Afleet Summer,
b.m., 1995, Afleet—Steal
the Thunder, by Lyphard
(in foal to First Samurai).
Heronwood Farm Inc. (Va.);
Elm Tree Farm LLC (Mr.
and Mrs. Jody Huckabay),
agent II; Sense Bloodstock.
$200,000. Grant’s Moon, dk.b./
br.m., 2001, Malibu Moon—
Grant a Wish, by Nureyev.
B. Wayne Hughes (Md.);
Eaton Sales, agent, for
Diamond Edge Farm and
Bianca Francis Equine;
Steve Brem, agent.

12 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

LYDIA A. WILLIAMS

—PENSIONERS ON PARADE—

FLATTERER

F latterer, a living legend in
his home state of Pennsyl¬
vania, turned 29 this year.
Since 1995, the steeplechase
great has been fully retired
at his co-owner William L.
Pape’s 90-acre My Way Farm
in Unionville, Pa., but he hasn’t
lost his competitive spark.

Two pensioners in a neigh¬
boring field, Royal Romp and
Asking for Love, are “rather jeal¬
ous” that Flatterer has a mare—
by the name of Bo Derek—
turned out with him, according
to Pape.

“About a month ago they
were picking on him,” Pape
said. “I checked on him one day
and he was down in the cor¬
ner. He came up the fence fine
to get a drink, and those two
bums couldn’t run with him!
And Royal Romp is a stakes
horse. But there will never be
another horse like him. We’ve
all had a wonderful time, and
the trip continues.”

Bred by Pape in partner¬
ship widi Hall of Fame trainer
Jonathan Sheppard—who con¬
ditioned him throughout his
career—Flatterer campaigned
for a three-way partnership of
Pape, Sheppard and George
Harris.

His story goes back to the
early years of Pape and Shep¬
pard’s association, which began
some four decades ago. Flatter¬
er’s sire, Mo Bay (by Cyane),
was also a Sheppard trainee,
winning 10 stakes and earning
$350,808 for George Straw-
bridge’s Augustin Stable. Mo
Bay was a Sheppard favorite,
considered by the trainer as one
of the kindest, soundest and
most useful horses he’s ever
known.

Flatterer’s dam, Horizontal,
was claimed as a broodmare
prospect. Though physically
unimpressive and uninspiring
on the race track, the daughter
of the *Nasrullah stallion Nade

had bloodlines coveted by
Sheppard. *Nasrullah appears
in the pedigrees of four of
the best steeplechasers he has
trained—Leaping Frog, Cafe
Prince, Double Reefed and
Martie’s Anger.

Flatterer launched his career
on the flat as a 3-year-old. He
started 18 times at six different
tracks, winning four races and
nearly $46,000. He ran for a
tag in 10 of those starts, and
could have been claimed for
as little as $32,000. Sheppard
observed that Flatterer wasn’t
fast enough to catch a breather
in flat races; he always had to
go full-out to keep up. The
trainer suggested trying him
over fences.

Flatterer’s steeplechase
debut came in April 1983 at a
rainy meet in Atlanta. Although
he won easily, his jumping—in
Sheppard’s view—was barely
adequate with much room for
improvement. Itdidn’ttakelong.
That fall, Flatterer became the
first horse to sweep U.S. stee¬
plechasing’s Triple Crown—
the American Grand National
at Foxfield, Temple Gwathmey

at Belmont Park and Colonial
Cup at Camden.

Still the only jumper to
earn an Eclipse Award in four
consecutive seasons (1983 to
’86), Flatterer became an icon
while also elevating interest in
the sport of steeplechasing.
His great rivalry with Census,
trained by Janet Elliot, attract¬
ed the attention of the entire
racing world.

One of Flatterer’s great¬
est feats came in the National
Hunt Cup at Radnor, Pa., in the
spring of 1986. Assigned 176
pounds, he conceded a mini¬
mum of 26 and a maximum
of 40 pounds to each of his
four rivals—and won by seven
lengths.

Flatterer was also a feather
in the cap of Sheppard’s young
assistant Graham Motion, now
a top trainer in his own right.
Motion has scrapbooks full of
clippings and articles chroni¬
cling their journeys, which
included several forays outside
the U.S.

“Those trips abroad were
pretty special,” said Motion. In
the Grande Course de Haies

d’Auteuil in Paris in June 1986,
Flatterer overcame massive
fences and brutal heat and Han
his heart out” while finishing
second. “He was so tired after
that race; it was so hard on him.
It’s pretty amazing, all he did,”
Motion recalled. In November
that year. Flatterer showed no
ill effects, winning his fourth
consecutive Colonial Cup by 17
lengths.

Flatterer bowed a tendon
while contesting the 1987
Breeders’ Cup Steeplechase at
Fair Hill, and Sheppard’s assis¬
tant Betsy Wells, along with
Motion, led the great champion
off the course for the last time.
He retired after winning 20 of
27 sanctioned jump starts and
§ earning $538,807.

“We kept him for a little
while just on the farm [Shep¬
pard’s Ashwell Springs Farm in
Unionville, Pa.] and rode him
when time permitted; he hunted
a few times,” Sheppard explain¬
ed. “He did a bit of very prelimi¬
nary eventing. But in view of
his age and the fact that he’d
suffered a pretty major injury,
we thought that maybe the
jumping wouldn’t be too good.
To get to any serious level, he’d
have to be going over some
quite big fences. And we wanted
him to be happy, so then we
decided just to do dressage.

“He actually did quite well.
He got quite a few ribbons.
Then when he got to be about
17, we thought—well, that was
enough. But he looked good,
and it was great for him, physi¬
cally and mentally. And he was
beautifully looked after and
pampered. You know, that’s
nice for horses. So we were
happy to do it.

“When we decided it was
time to pull the plug on that
campaign, I talked to Bill and
we brought him over here where
he’s been turned out ever since.”

/Maggie Furbay

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 13

Winning Millionaire

lion Station Photo: Anne Litz

Citidancer - Cherokee Wonder, by Cherokee Colony

2008 Fee: $2,500 LF

Cherokee’s Boy

MARYLAND

STALLION S TAT IO N

Graded Stakes - Winning Millionaire

We guarantee you a live foal!
Call for details.

• Out of multiple stakes-winning Cherokee Wonder
($284,010), half-sister to the dam of 2006 Eclipse
Champion older mare Fleet Indian ($1,704,513)

Maryland Stallion Station, LLC
3301 Tufton Avenue, Glyndon, MD 21071

Inquiries to: Donald P. Litz
Office (410) 833-1299 • Cell (443) 253-2856
Fax (410) 833-1266

www. marylandstallions. co m

• FAST - Won 19 races, 14 stakes, $1,177,946 —
Nine Triple Digit Beyers

• DURABLE - Stakes winner annually from 2 through
6 years of age

• CONSISTENT - Won or placed 37 times in 48
career starts

• Maryland’s Horse of the Year in 2005, Champion
2 year old in 2002

• By G1-performing Citidancer, leading sire of more
than 25 SWs, including Graded SWs Urbane
(Gl, $1,018,568), Hookedonthefeelin
(Gl, $488,554)

• Northern Dancer sire line and free of
Mr. Prospector/Raise A Native blood

The Name Says It All

Storm Cat - Lotta Dancing, by Alydar

2008 Fee: $4,500 LF

Fantasticat

Super Derby winner by the world’s super sire

• The only G2-winning son of Storm Cat
standing in the Mid-Atlantic region

• Defeated Borrego & Imperialism
in the $500,000 Super Derby (G2)

• By the mighty Storm Cat, the most sought after
stallion in the world

• Out of a graded stakes winning Lotta Dancing

• Never off the board as a 2 year-old

• This is the female family that produced Northern
Dancer, Halo and Danehill

“I had 5 Fantasticats on my short list
and purchased 2 including this colt”
Michael O’Quinn

MARYLAND

STALLION STATION

Maryland Stallion Station, LLC
3301 Tufton Avenue, Glyndon, MD 21071

Inquiries to: Donald P. Litz
Office (410) 833-1299 • Cell (443) 253-2836
Fax (410) 833-1266

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Miss Dreamland colt bred in PA by Dr. & Mrs. Tuck Hunter
sold for $35,000 co top priced weanling by a first crop sire
at the recent Fasig Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale -
Congratulations to Michael O’Quinns Flying Z Farm on the
purchase of this colt

We guarantee you a live foal!

Call for details.

Precocious, Fast, and Durable

Stormy Atlantic - I’ll Be Along, by Notebook

2008 Fee: $5,000 LF

Gators N Bears

Winner at the Track and in the Sales Ring

• Brilliant speed winning or placing in 24 of 32 career
starts, Won the G3 Maryland Breeders’ Cup H. and
G3 Jersey Shore Breeders’ Cup H.

• Posted 100 or better Beyers 17 Times!

• Placed to Champion Speightstown in the G2
Alfred G. Vanderbilt H.

• Placed in the G1 Frank J. De Francis Memorial
Dash S. (109 Beyer)

• Out of a half-sister to a multiple graded stakes
winner Friendly Lover

• By the 2006 Leading Juvenile Sire and 2007 Top-15
General Sire Stormy Altlantic

Boston Lass colt bred in PA by Vicky Beam was sold to CCS
Bloodstock at the recent Fasig Tipton Midlantic December Sale.
This strapping colt is a good example of the type of foal Gator gets.

RJN

STALLION STATION

Maryland Stallion Station, LLC
3301 Tufton Avenue, Glyndon, MD 21071

Inquiries to: Donald P. Litz
Office (410) 833-1299 • Cell (443) 253-2856
Fax (410) 833-1266

■www.maryIandstallions.coni

We guarantee you a live foal!
Call for details.

photo Lydia Williams, Weanling photo Anne Litz

MarylancTStallion Station Photo: Anne Litz

Here Comes The Sun

Greek Sun winning the Grade II Oak Tree Derby

Danzig — Sunlit Silence, by Trempolino
2008 Introductory Fee: $3,500 LF

Standing as the Property of Marathon Farm

STALLION STATION

Maryland Stallion Station, LLC
3301 Tufton Avenue, Glyndon, MD 21071

Inquiries to: Donald P. Litz
Office (410) 833-1299 • Cell (443) 253-2856
Fax (410) 833-1266

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Greek Sun

Grade II Winning Son of Danzig Entering
Stud in 2008

• Winner of the Oak Tree Derby (G2) & Cinema Breeders’
Cup H. (G3)

• 2nd to champion Kitten’s Joy in the Secretariat S. (Gl)

• Undefeated Stakes Winner at Two

• By sire of sires Danzig out of a stakes-winning mare

• From the same cross that produced Danehill Dancer

• From the family of Gl winners Mea Domina and
A1 Bahathri

We guarantee you a live foal!
Call for details.

A Leading Sire in the Mid-Atlantic

Danzig - Lassies Lady, by Alydar

2008 Fee: $4,000 LF

Outflanker

#1 Son of Danzig in the Mid-Atlantic,

#2 Sire in Maryland

• Sire of ’07 GSWs Bushwacker &

Amazing Margery

• Annabil, winner of the $200,000
Elmer Heubeck Distaff H.

• Saxet Heights, undefeated juvenile winner
of the $50,000 Added Tri-State Futurity

• 2007 Graded Stakes placed Bayous Lassie
and Ballado Dancer

— Sire of 26 Stakes Horses Lifetime —
Over $3-million in ’07 progeny earnings
$48,782 avg. earnings/starter lifetime

We guarantee you a live foal!
Call for details.

MarylancTStallion Station Photo: Anne Litz

MARYLAND

STALLION STATION

Maryland Stallion Station, LLC
3301 Tufton Avenue, Glyndon, MD 21071

Inquiries to: Donald P. Litz
Office (410) 833-1299 • Cell (443) 253-2836
Fax (410) 833-1266

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A Complete Winner

A.P. Indy — Prospectors Delite, by Mr. Prospector

2008 Fee: $7,500 LF

Rock Slide

Winners on the Track and in the Sales Ring

• One of the Leading Freshman Sires in the
Mid-Atlantic

• Full Brother to Horse of the Year Mineshaft

• In 2007 2 Year-Old Sales Average $81,167,
Yearlings $27,150

• Sire of Stakes Placed Body Rock and multiple
winner Happy Hailey

Oblivious T colt bred in PA by Brandywine Bloodstock sold by
Murray Smith at the Fasig Tipton Preferred Two Year-Olds in
Training Sale to Richard Violette agent for $170,000

We guarantee you a live foal!
Call for details.

STALLION STATION

Maryland Stallion Station, LLC
3301 Tufton Avenue, Glyndon, MD 21071

Inquiries to: Donald P. Litz
Office (410) 833-1299 • Cell (443) 253-2836
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IN MEMORIAM

EVE FOUT

Longtime steeplechase sup¬
porter, owner and noted equine
artist Eve Prime Fout died on
December 5 due to complica¬
tions from heart surgery. She
was 78.

Mrs. Fout was the mother
of steeplechase trainer Doug
Fout and wife of the late Paul
Fout, a prominent Virginia
horseman.

She was born in Connecticut
but grew up in Warrenton, Va.,
where she moved with her par¬
ents when she was 10 years old.

Mrs. Fout and her husband,
who died in 2005, were a force
in the steeplechase, horse show
and foxhunting worlds. They
settled in The Plains, Va., and
formed a racing stable named
Coosaw after a family planta¬
tion in Beaufort, S.C.

In 1964, Mrs. Fout became
the first woman trainer to sad¬
dle the winner of the Virginia
Gold Cup, with Moon Rock.

Mrs. Fout was an active rider
until just days before her death.
She won the North American
field hunter championship with
Morning Pleasure in October.
She hunted with the Middleburg
Orange County Beagles several
times a week.

Mrs. Fout was instrumental
in supporting the local U.S.
Pony Club chapter, the Middle -
burg-Orange County Pony
Club.

She was also co-founder
of the American Academy of
Equine Art, with works—draw¬
ings, oil paintings and, later in
life, bronze sculptures—on dis¬
play in the National Sporting
Library in Middleburg, Va., and

in private homes around the
world.

Mrs. Fout was well known
for her bronzes depicting horses
in action, including two per¬
petual trophies given by the
National Steeplechase Associ¬
ation.

An active supporter and the
chairman over the past decade
of the nine-county, Warrenton-
based Piedmont Environmental
Council, Mrs. Fout is widely
credited with saving thousands
of acres of open land from
commercial development. She
played an instrumental role in
the successful battle to prevent
Disney Corp. from building a
theme park near the Manassas
battlefield.

She was an active board
member of a range of organiza¬
tions involving conservation,
equestrian sports and sporting
art, including the Outstanding
Virginian Board, Friends of
Sporting Art of Virginia, and
the Scenic Virginia Board of
Trustees.

She was also on the board of
Virginia Gold Cup Association.
Among her many contributions,
one of the most significant
was her role in establishing the
Great Meadow Field Events
Center near her home.

The Fouts’ son, and daugh¬
ters Nina and Virginia, are all
well-known in the horse world.
Doug, a former champion
steeplechase jockey, manages
a public training operation at
Coosaw, and was represented
by 2004 Eclipse Award-winning
steeplechaser Hirapour (Ire).

Nina Fout was a member
of the 2000 bronze medal-win¬
ning Olympic three-day event
team on one of her father’s for¬
mer race horses, Three Magic
Beans.

Virginia Fout grew up fox¬
hunting and horse showing
and remains active in horse
showing while operating an
event-coordination business in
California.

PATSY GRANT

Patsy Grant, a fixture in the
Charles Town racing commu-

Patsy Grant

nity for nearly seven decades,
died on November 8 at the age
of 86.

Mr. Grant launched his
career as a jockey in New York
in 1935, competing on the fair
circuit. He rode at tracks
throughout the East Coast and
in Cuba before settling at Charles
Town in the early 1940s.

After retiring from the sad¬
dle in the late 1950s, Mr. Grant
plied his trade as a trainer at
Charles Town for 17 years, then
served as a steward at that West
Virginia track. He retired from
the stewards’ stand in the 1980s,
but continued to gallop horses
until about 10 years ago.

Mr. Grant was an avid golf¬
er and card player, and enjoyed
those activities until his death.
Survivors include his wife of 63
years, Evelyn Dorsey Grant.

MERRALL

MACNEILLE

Merrall MacNeille, 98, a for¬
mer steward at Maryland tracks,
died on November 19.

Mr. MacNeille, who had
been retired since 1978, went
to work on the Maryland/
Delaware racing circuit in 1948
and served in other official
capacities—including those of
horse identifier, paddock judge
and placing and patrol judge—
before being promoted to the
post of steward in 1956.

He was widely respected for
his keen judgment, fairness and
polished yet affable manner.

Since 1948, Mr. MacNeille
and his wife of 57 years, the
former Margie Fisher (daughter
of the late prominent Maryland
horseman Janon Fisher Jr.), had
maintained 200-acre King’s
Eye Farm near Butler, Md.
Ardent land conservationists,
the MacNeilles raised a variety
of animals, including cattle and
sheep, along with horses.

A native of New York City,
Mr. MacNeille enrolled in Yale
University at the age of 16. He
played polo in college, while
majoring in English literature,
and found his first job with an
advertising firm in New York.

It was his marriage to the
late horsewoman Adelaide
Close Riggs that prompted his
move to Maryland, in 1938.
The couple established Happy
Retreat Farm in Howard
County, which Mrs. Riggs (sub¬
sequently the wife of the late
Augustus Riggs IV) contin¬
ued to operate until her death
several years ago. Merrall and
Adelaide had two daughters,
one of whom, Melissa Canta-
cuzene of Aldie, Va., is a long¬
time Thoroughbred breeder/
owner.

PETER

THOMPSON

Peter Thompson, described
by steeplechase authority Mar¬
garet Worrall as “the most
dedicated steeplechase owner
on two continents,” died on
September 30. He was 89.

A World War II veteran who
served in the Pacific theater and
was awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross and Air Medal
nine times, Mr. Thompson set-

22 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

tied in Easton, Md., following
the war and made his career as
a stockbroker in that Eastern
Shore town.

He became involved in
steeplechase ownership in the
1970s as a partner with the
great rider and trainer Charlie
Fenwick.

His top performers includ¬
ed Knock Hill (in England)
and Priest’s Rock (Ire), whom
Paul Webber, the son of Mr.
Thompson’s English trainer
John Webber, rode to a sec¬
ond-place finish in the 1985
Grand National at Butler (Md.)
and seventh in that year’s espe¬
cially challenging edition of the
Maryland Hunt Cup.

As a partner with trainer
Rusty Carrier, Mr. Thompson

Peter Thompson

campaigned Dr. Fusco (who
counted among his victories
the 1992 Radnor and New

Jersey Hunt Cups) and Jamaica
Bay (1993 International Gold
Cup and 1994 Pennsylvania
Hunt Cup).

A longtime director of the
National Steeplechase Associ¬
ation, Mr. Thompson was cred¬
ited with organizing a timber
race at Arlington Park on 1982
Arlington Million Day. With
a purse of $15,000, it was the
richest timber race in NS A his¬
tory up to that time.

“ [Thompson] leaned on
owners and trainers, produc¬
ing a field of 10 that included
eventual timber champion
Prince Saran, and Thompson’s
entry, the Tom Voss-trained
Shy Donald,” Worrall reported
in The Steeplechase and Eventing
Times . “With 30,000 fans bet¬

ting more than $164,000 on
this race alone, Shy Donald
at 4-1 beat the favored Prince
Saran by 22 lengths.”

Mr. Thompson’s other feats
as a steeplechase promoter
included the introduction of
corporate sponsorships at Fair
Hill in the 1980s. He was also
honorary vice-president of The
Countryside Alliance, support¬
ing field sports in the United
Kingdom and North America.

Mr. Thompson’s first wife,
Rebecca, died in 1987; he is
survived by his wife, Jacqueline
Moir, and four children, includ¬
ing Caroline T. Benson, a long¬
time Thoroughbred breeder/
owner who maintains a farm
in Easton.

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EDITORIAL by Lucy Acton

Lou Raffetto’s
firing hits hard
within Maryland
racing

J ob security is an oxymoron when it comes to Magna
Entertainment Corp.’s race track executives. The old
“revolving door” cliche frequently applies to the Frank
Stronach-led racing empire that has had about a dozen
employees exit leadership positions at its various tracks
within the past several years.

Still, Lou Raffetto’s firing hit particularly hard for many
people within Maryland racing.

Raffetto joined the Maryland Jockey Club as chief
operating officer on January 1, 2001, when the company,
which is the corporate owner of Maryland’s two major
mile tracks, Laurel Park and Pimlico, was still controlled by
Joe De Francis. The De Francis family and partners sold
a controlling interest in the MJC to Magna in November
2002. This past September, Magna exercised its right to
buy the remaining equity, and it is now the sole owner of
the MJC.

It was no coincidence that Raffetto’s dismissal, on
November 28, closely followed Magna’s acquisition.

Internal politics were apparently his undoing.

Raffetto, who was named president in addition to his
COO title a few years back, was not beloved by everyone
who came in contact with him. But his approval rating was
about as good as it gets for someone in his line of work.

Opinions differ on what makes someone well-qualified
to run a race track—and on ways to define a job well-done.

If prerequisites include a passion for racing, Lou, a
frustrated trainer, has an obviously ample supply of that.

He was willing to work toward reasonable solutions
on those inevitable occasions when tensions ran high
between the race tracks and other segments of the industry,
including horsemen, breeders and the Maryland Million.

As a result, Maryland racing held together fairly well
over the past several years, during what has been arguably
the most challenging phase in its long history.

Raffetto’s replacement, Chris Dragone, has a big job
ahead of him. And he deserves the industry’s support.

As much as we empathize with Raffetto over the loss
of his job, we tend not to dwell on his trouble. Raffetto no
doubt will have his choice of desirable career moves, while
the Maryland Jockey Club may be at a loss without him. ^

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Synthetic racing surfaces will affect all
ents of the Thoroughbred industry—
+ hat much is certain. But more
ions than answers surround the

new technology. Interviews by Michele MacDonald

ankind searches for per¬
fection in many areas
of life, and in racing,
desire for the faultless has
never been more acute than
with the current quest to find
the ideal race track surface.

Some believe that the sport
has nearly reached the thresh¬
old of flawlessness with the
advent of synthetic surfaces
that were, somewhat ironically,
pioneered in Britain as footing
for lesser runners who com¬
peted in the dark and damp of
the winter months.

But, in a twist of the notion
that one man’s trash is another
man’s treasure, others contend
that the synthetic tracks are
not a panacea and could indeed
be an unfortunate misuse of
funds.

Questions have been raised
about whether they are as safe
as they have been promoted,
and whether they are worth

expenditures of $5 million to
$10 million when such funds
could just as easily provide
exceptional dirt tracks.

No one has the answer,
although many concur that syn¬
thetics have, at the very least,
shown that their high-technol¬
ogy vertical drainage systems—
a large part of the installation
costs—are a vast improvement
over the horizontal drainage of
traditional dirt surfaces.

Synthetic surfaces require
less watering and generally
are said to be far cheaper to
maintain than dirt tracks. More
importantly, the drainage sys¬
tems, when properly construct¬
ed, eliminate the possibility of
sloppy, dangerous surfaces.
Additionally, if turf races have
to be moved due to rain, more
runners tend to compete on
synthetic surfaces than on dirt
tracks, usually spurring larger
betting handle.

With an enthusiastic endorse¬
ment from the Keeneland
Association, a powerful indus¬
try leader that has partnered
with British-based Martin
Collins International to be the
North American distributor for
the Polytrack brand of the sur¬
face, synthetic tracks have been
installed at Keeneland, its part¬
ner Turfway Park, Woodbine,
Arlington Park and Del Mar (all
Polytrack), as well as at Holly¬
wood Park and Santa Anita
Park (Cushion Track, another
product with British roots), and
Golden Gate Fields and Pres¬
que Isle Downs (Tapeta Foot¬
ings, invented by British-born,
Maryland-based former trainer
Michael Dickinson).

Five of those tracks debuted
their surfaces in 2007: the new
Presque Isle, Golden Gate,
Del Mar, Arlington and Santa
Anita. California led the way
because of a mandate from the

California Horse Racing Board
that racing surfaces in the state
be converted to improve safety
and equine welfare.

While most statistics indi¬
cate marked decreases in the
numbers of fatal breakdowns
on synthetic tracks versus the
previous dirt surfaces, there
have been whispers of increas¬
ing numbers of soft tissue and
hind end injuries, as well as
pelvic fractures. Further, there
have been well-documented

DR. RICK
ARTHUR

C urrendy the equine
medical director for the
California Horse Racing
Board, Dr. Rick Arthur was
a race track veterinary practi¬
tioner in southern California
for 30 years. He has long been
an advocate for horse wel¬
fare and has been involved in
addressing race horse medica¬
tion and drug testing issues in
state, national and international
forums. He chaired the racing
committee of the American
Association of Equine Practi¬
tioners, of which he is a past
president, and served on the
Quality Assurance Program
of the Racing Commissioners
International. He also serves
on the executive committee
of the Racing Medication and
Testing Consortium.

What is your assessment
of synthetic racing surfaces?

I think they’ve certainly
been positive overall. They cer¬
tainly are not as easy to main¬
tain as everybody had expected
and hoped they would be, but
in terms of reducing injuries in
racing, they Ve been quite posi¬
tive, certainly in the reduction
of fatal injuries. It’s not quite
as clear on training injuries. But
if you look at the racing fatali¬
ties on the synthetic surfaces in
California—and this is just an
estimate as I haven’t done all
the calculations yet—it’s proba¬
bly about one fatality per 1,000
starts, which is actually quite a
good figure compared to what
most people experienced (with
dirt tracks). So, in that area, it’s

instances of maintenance prob¬
lems, particularly at Turfway,
Woodbine and Santa Anita.

Statistics from Arlington,
Keeneland and Del Mar show
that more runners overall
trained and raced on the syn¬
thetic surfaces than they did
on the previous dirt surfaces at
those facilities.

Yet Del Mar’s track sparked
controversy over the summer
by yielding markedly slow¬
er racing times and seeming

deeper during racing than dur¬
ing morning training hours. In
contrast, Keeneland’s Polytrack
surface has been faster than the
dirt track was, perhaps indicat¬
ing how the product, which
includes a wax coating, can vary
in differing climatic conditions.

Whether synthetic surfaces
should be installed at more
locations, including tracks in
the Mid-Atlantic region, which
currently is home to only the
one at Presque Isle Downs in

certainly been positive for us in
California.

There are a lot of differ¬
ences between the surfaces;
they aren’t nearly as uniform
as all of us had expected or
hoped. We have three different
surfaces in southern California
now, two of which are from the
same manufacturer (Cushion
Track at Hollywood and Santa
Anita), and the same manufac¬
turer has enormous variations
in the surfaces. It probably has
to do with the wax makeup of
the surfaces. There was a con¬
cern at Santa Anita, for exam¬
ple, which experiences very hot
weather, as to whether the wax
would melt in the higher tem¬
peratures because we actually
race when it’s 100 degrees. So
they put a higher melting point
wax in it, which has changed
the surface from what we see
even over at Hollywood. Those
sorts of things are a little bit
confusing, trying to figure out
what’s what and what’s the best
way to go.

We certainly had very large
fields during the Oak Tree at
Santa Anita meet in the fall,
which could be attributed to the
very kind surface at Del Mar in
the summer. The problem with
Del Mar, however, is that it was
quite a slow track. Even though

the races were competitive and
everything went well, there was
some consternation on the
part of trainers simply because
horses were running so much
slower on the Polytrack than on
Q the other surfaces.

| Do you have any evidence
| yet if any of the products
£ stands out above the others?
I It’s way too early to tell; it’s
certainly not obvious if there is
a difference at this stage. You
have to remember that they’re
all very similar. What you’re
talking about is sand, wax, a
synthetic material—some sort
of a fiber material—and then
there is an oil base. All the
tracks are that way and the
variation is what sand you use,
what wax you use, what fiber
you use and what oil you use.
The basic design is very similar
among all of them, despite what
you hear otherwise. Obviously,
there are people trying to sell
their particular surface. They
all have their good points. All
of them will be positive, but I
still think we’re on a learning
curve here and we’ll know a lot
more about these surfaces in a
few years from now than we
do today.

What maintenance issues
have arisen and have they
varied by track?

I’m not totally convinced
that some of the maintenance
issues are not man-made issues.
Most of the people who are
maintaining these surfaces real¬
ly don’t have a lot of experi¬
ence with them and they’re try¬
ing to take their dirt experience
and translate it to the synthetic
track. And I’m not sure that’s
entirely appropriate. That’s
why I think there has been a

Erie, Pa., is a matter that will
continue to be debated.

Following are the thoughts
of a variety of national and
regional leaders, whose views
range from strong advocacy of
synthetics to undisguised skep¬
ticism.

problem. We’ve had instanc¬
es where we’ve had concern
that tracks have been slow and
when trainers have complained
about it, they’ve tried to tighten
the tracks up and then it ends
up with more problems than
they had to begin with. Exactly
how you make a track faster or
slower, how you maintain the
track, are still issues that need
to be resolved.

Has data been collected
about injuries on the synthet¬
ics and compared to what
occurred on dirt tracks?

We’re actually trying to do
that as we speak. Part of the
problem is that the data was
not kept in the same format
or the best format to answer
those questions. We have prob¬
ably the best fatality data of
any racing jurisdiction in the
country here in California, but
it was not kept in a way that
we can necessarily do the type
of analysis we want to do. So,
we are trying to figure out the
best way to go back and reana¬
lyze the data in a more useful
manner. The bottom line is
that we are looking at that spe¬
cific issue and hopefully within
the next few months we’ll be
able to come up with some
answers. But we do know that
if you look at fatalities per
start, that we’ve seen a dramatic
decrease.

What was the general
fatality rate on dirt tracks?

In California in the previous
year, it was about one fatal¬
ity per 400 starts, in a pretty
bad year. We had been running
about one per 600 starts. And
nationwide the figure that is
typically used is about one per
800. But not all jurisdictions

28 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

keep track of fatalities the same
way, so it’s a little bit difficult
comparing one surface where
the data is collected in one
fashion with data from another
jurisdiction that collects it dif¬
ferently

Do you agree with the
contention that while there
may be fewer fatalities and
fractures, there are more soft
tissue injuries on synthetic
surfaces?

No. I spent a lot of time
talking to veterinarians about
this and they are all in virtu¬
ally uniform agreement that
the number of injuries of all
sorts is less on the synthetic
surfaces. Certainly, the num¬
ber of fractures is down dra¬
matically. The number of soft
tissue injuries—you don’t see
as dramatic a decrease, but it
certainly is no worse than it
was before. It’s just not as dra¬
matic an improvement. I’m not
entirely sure that (the belief
there are more soft tissue inju¬
ries) is more than an old wives’
tale. I’ve seen no documentary
evidence that would lead me
to support that conclusion. It’s
one of those things that I think
a lot of people start talking
about and it kind of gets a
life of its own. But as far as
I’m concerned, that’s anecdotal
among trainers, and certainly
it’s not the case among veteri¬
narians as a rule.

Do you think the Breeders*
Cup should be run every
year at a facility that has a
synthetic track to lessen the
chance of injuries, especially
after the sloppy 2007 renewal
at Monmouth Park?

It will be next year (at Santa
Anita). Monmouth was a bad
example of any dirt track; they
had all that rain. I was there and
I saw the track and it was the
type of track that always causes
concern for horsemen. I do
think synthetic surfaces are an
improvement, and that senti¬
ment for the Breeders’ Cup to
be run on them may very well be
the case in a few years, but I’m
not willing to say that’s going
to be the definitive answer.
There’s certainly more to inju¬
ries than just track surfaces. I
think there have been definite
changes in the way horses are
managed, in the way they are

Turfway Park Winter/Spring

2005 (Pre-Polytrack)

2006

2007

Race Days

52

69

60

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$7,564,629

$9,039,053

$8,822,975

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$145,474

$131,001

$147,050

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$122,607,118

$198,343,642

$166,621,869

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$2,357,829

$2,874,546

$2,777,031

Average Number of Starters Per Race

8.18

8.33

8.30

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at
the Finish

2.93

2.42

2.15

’Average Winner’s Lengths Behind in
the Stretch

0.5

0.51

0.63

Average Lengths Separating Field at
Finish

25.08

22.61

20.22

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main

Track (p.m.)

14

0

7

Catastrophic Breakdowns During
Training (a.m.)

NA

0

3

Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

2005

2006

2007

5 furlongs

1 : 00.22

:58.85

.57.62

5 V 2 furlongs

1:05.78

1:07.32

1:06.14

6 furlongs

1:11.96

1:13.79

1:12.19

6 V 2 furlongs

1:18.88

1:20.78

1:19.02

1 mile

1:40.29

1:42.23

1:39.88

11 /i 6 miles

1:46.85

1:49.25

1:47.23

1 ’/smiles

1:50.70

1:51.54

1:51.09

VA miles

NA

2:10.34

2:08.35

V /2 miles

2:41.58

2:37.21

NA

1 % miles

NA

2:53.59

NA

Italics denotes less than 5 races run at distance

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt

1,645

NA

NA

All-weather

NA

2,890

2,506

Times and selected data provided by Equibase

trained, the way that veterinary
care is provided—all those are
things that you can’t take out
of die equation. Certainly, the
synthetic surfaces have ame¬
liorated some of the long-term
trends that have been going on
in horse racing with injuries.
I’ve never believed, by the way,

that racing surfaces are the only
problem.

If the surfaces can help
change the trends, particu¬
larly with injuries, can that
make the economics of the
sport more appealing and
draw more owners into rac-
mg?

Sure. There are two aspects
of it. Obviously, the econom¬
ics are a big aspect of get¬
ting people to participate. The
other aspect is I think avoiding
the negative connotations that
horse racing has gotten over a
series of incidents over the past
few years. Those are certainly

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 29

not positive, particularly for the
incidental fans that see injuries
and just really wonder in their
own minds whether it’s worth
it or not. I do think we have
to recognize that whatever we
do to provide a safe surface for
race horses should be consid¬
ered an obligation, not only for
the horse, but for the sport

Do you think there are
any major drawbacks to syn¬
thetic surfaces?

The major drawback is the
expense of putting in the new
surfaces. The other drawback
that I can see is that I still think
we’re in the development stage
with these surfaces. I think they
are very exciting; they have a

lot of promise. But for a race
track to put $10 million into
a racing surface that may not
be the optimal surface—there
may be something a little bit
different down the road in a
few years—I think is a real
concern to a lot of race tracks.
There are going to have to
be some questions answered

BOB BAFFERT

A fter beginning his career
as a jockey and a train¬
er of Quarter Horses,
Bob Baffert established him¬
self as a national star in the
1990s. He has trained seven
Thoroughbred champions
and perhaps two more after
saddling 2007 Breeders’ Cup
winners Indian Blessing and
Midnight Lute. The winner
of three Eclipse Awards and
national leading trainer by earn¬
ings from 1998 to 2001, Baffert
has won two legs of the Triple
Crown with four horses—Sil¬
ver Charm, Real Quiet, Point
Given and War Emblem. He
also is the only American train¬
er to win the world’s richest
race, the Dubai World Cup,
twice, with Silver Charm and
Captain Steve. Baffert raised
concerns last summer about
Del Mar’s Polytrack surface and
moved some of his runners to
Saratoga Race Course.

What are your thoughts
on synthetic racing surfaces?

I like training over them; I
prefer racing on dirt because I
think dirt really tells you what
kind of horse you have. It’s
hard to get a line on a horse
(with synthetic surfaces)—they
either like it or they don’t. It’s
a third surface. It’s good for
really wet weather; it probably
would be great for Aqueduct’s
inner track. I think that what
they’re best for is wet weather.

The really positive thing
about the advent of synthetic
surfaces is [race tracks] are final¬
ly putting money into the track
surfaces. That was the biggest
problem with the California
tracks—they were old. With
Santa Anita, Seabiscuit used to
run on that surface.

What [new synthetic sur¬
faces] did is make a level base,
which is very important. But

most of the track guys I’ve
talked to have said, “Hey, if you
give me $10 million, I could
build you a state-of-the-art dirt
track.”

Do you find that your
horses tend to stay sounder
when they train over syn¬
thetics?

I’m still getting problems.
You get different kind of prob¬
lems—tibias, hind ends. But
everybody that speaks against
these tracks, it’s almost tike
you’re against having safety for
the horses.

At Del Mar, believe me,
every trainer hated the track,
but nobody would say anything
because they couldn’t pack up
and leave. They were stuck. It
just wasn’t a fair surface. I want
a safe race track, but I also want
a fair race track.

Horses are still going to get
hurt, unfortunately. I like to
train horses on it, because it’s
an even, softer surface, but I’d
rather run on a dirt track.

How much of a differ¬
ence did it make to move
some of your horses to
Saratoga—did they perform
better than they would have
at Del Mar?

I wouldn’t have known what
I had if I had kept them at Del
Mar. You don’t know what you
have because at Del Mar, it was
totally different in the after¬
noon and it was like anybody

can win. It’s good for gambling.
Del Mar has a great atmo¬
sphere, so people are going to
show up no matter what you
have; but for a trainer, we make
a living at this. And a horse
really couldn’t excel. He either
loved it or he hated it, and if
he hated it, the only thing to do
. was sit there and wait.

o

5 I think the Cushion Track at

1 Hollywood Park is really good;

S it’s even and fair. Hollywood
looks more like a dirt surface.
I think the most important fac¬
tor that synthetic surfaces have
brought is that somebody final¬
ly spent the big money to fix the
base. Now, if it doesn’t work
out, they can always scrape it
off and put eight inches of
silty dirt on there and it will
be great.

In California, we needed a
change. These dirt tracks were
bad. Del Mar’s track needed a
change and it’s a lot better than
it was before. . . At Del Mar,
they knew they had a problem.
They had such a bad rap about
horses breaking down there in
years past that they didn’t want
any more negative publicity.

At Keeneland, they only run
for a few weeks and it’s good to
train on. It would be great to
have (a synthetic surface) on a
training track and then run on
the dirt.

Should there be an eval¬
uation period before more
synthetic tracks are built?

I think they’ve got to give
it a few more years. We’re just
learning about them. I know
there are headaches; the main¬
tenance on them is really hard.
It’s a challenge. It’s for bad
weather. It’s great for tracks like
Turfway, for winter racing, for
areas where it really rains, but
it’s not for dry weather.

With so many already
installed, and with California
representing about one-third

before every race track goes
to them, particularly some of
these smaller venues. Some of
the problems that we’re seeing
in maintaining these surfaces—
racing associations are going to
be aware of that and be a little
bit hesitant to move forward
until some of these problems
get sorted out.

of American racing, will
these surfaces change the
sport?

I think it’s going to keep cer¬
tain horses out of California. I
know there are certain breeding
fines that were popular—sires
that I won’t even get near now.
I’ve really changed the kind of
horses that I buy. . .

A grass pedigree is going to
be important. I call the synthet¬
ic surfaces ‘white grass.’ There
are some sires that you can
see the big difference. Empire
Makers—they love that stuff.

I think they still have a lot
of kinks they have to work
out of synthetic surfaces. Once
they get it closer to looking
more like dirt, it will be bet¬
ter; they’re just not there yet.
I think eventually it will be
on training tracks. That stuff
would be great for Belmont
Park’s training track—it would
be awesome. Or put it on
another track inside (the main
track). Then when it rained,
they could put everything on
synthetic. What hurts horses is
these wet, sealed race tracks—
that’s hard on them. That’s
really tough on them.

I think the jury is still out on
this stuff, but with time, they’ll
work the kinks out of it.

Can you give examples of
what kind of horses you buy
now versus previously?

No (laughs). I know now
what to stay away from. I’m not
saying anything, but I’ve got it
down now. You have to train
totally different on it. But the
thing is, a really good horse will
run everywhere.

I think the Tapeta and
the Cushion are better than
the Poly; the Poly is just not
very fair. I run less horses at
Keeneland now because you
just don’t know what to expect
there. You need more of a
turf horse (on Polytrack). Now

30 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Midnight Lute, he ran well on
Poly or whatever. He can han¬
dle the different surfaces.

I was talking to (WinStar
Farm co-owner) Bill Casner the
other day when he was out
here; he really loves the syn¬
thetic tracks. I told him, “You
love it because the Tiznows
love it.”

And you know what’s a
good example—that little horse
(Daaher) that beat (Midnight
Lute) in the Cigar Mile. He
was just an ordinary horse
(when running at Woodbine
on Polytrack). It makes a good
horse look ordinary and an
ordinary horse look good. They
said (his improvement) was due
to putting on blinkers. They got
him off the synthetic and he
became a monster. . .

With synthetics, the horses
either love it or they hate it, so
it doesn’t give you a fair feeling
of what you have. Some horses
struggle over it. But nobody
wants to say anything against it.
I like them for the horses that
like it. I have horses that move
way up on it and I’ve got horses
that couldn’t handle it. I got rid
of those horses; I sent them
away. I had about 20 that I told
die owners, “They need to go
where there is dirt. They’re not
going to hack it here.”

Do you notice a big differ¬
ence between the Polytrack,
Tapeta and Cushion sur¬
faces?

Every one is different. A lot
of horses are going to be vul¬
nerable on them; it takes their
speed away from them. And
that’s what this game is about:
speed. That’s what the big argu¬
ment was: Slow your horses
down. Okay. We’ll just start
buying slower horses. That’s
one way I can slow them down.
I tell my people we’re going to
buy some slower horses.

If I was building a race track
and I was forced to use a syn¬
thetic surface, Polytrack would
be my least favored choice.
When I’m joking I say Poly track
is like Las Vegas. Whatever hap¬
pens on Poly stays on Poly.

California needed some¬
thing and these surfaces have
improved California racing. But
Del Mar needs work. Once
they get it tweaked, it’ll be great
down there. All we ask for is
safety and fairness.

Turfway Park Fall

2005

2006

2007

Race Days

22

22

22

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$2,905,545

$3,039,290

$3,232,536

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$132,070

$138,150

$146,933

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$47,379,056

$58,560,856

$53,395,447

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$2,153,593

$2,661,857

$2,427,066

Average Number of Starters Per Race

8.68

8.98

9.02

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at
the Finish

2.46

1.62

2.16

’Average Winner’s Lengths Behind in
the Stretch

0.59

0.6

0.54

Average Lengths Separating Field at
Finish

23.52

19.99

23.65

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main

Track

0

1

0

Catastrophic Breakdowns During
Training

NA

0

0

Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

2005

2006

2007

5 furlongs

NA

:57.98

:59.06

5V 2 furlongs

1:06.84

1:05.37

1:05.75

6 furlongs

1:12.59

1:11.88

1:11.87

6V2 furlongs

1:19.51

1:17.92

1:18.31

1 mile

1:40.92

1:39.64

1:40.46

11/16 miles

1:47.60

1:45.53

1:46.75

1 Vs miles

1:52.11

1:50.77

1:50.09

1 1/4 miles

NA

NA

NA

1 V 2 miles

NA

2:36.73

2:34.66

1% miles

NA

NA

NA

italics denotes less than 5 races run at distance

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt

NA

NA

N7

All-weather

927

1,229

87C

Times and selected data provided by Equibase

NICK

NICHOLSON

P resident of the Keeneland
Association since 2000,
Nick Nicholson over¬
saw the organization’s part¬

nership with Martin Collins
International to become the
North American distributor of
Polytrack. In 2004, Keeneland
became the first American pub¬
lic facility to place Polytrack on
its training surface; it followed

up by converting its main
track for the fall meet in 2006.
Nicholson, who previously
was executive vice-president
and executive director of The
Jockey Club and helped form
the National Thoroughbred

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 31

Racing Association, serving as
die NTRAs first chief operat¬
ing officer, has been a strong
advocate of safety in racing
and champions synthetic sur¬
faces in that regard.

Now that so many synthet¬
ic tracks have been installed
around North America, what
is your assessment of their
functionality and how they
might benefit racing?

I think it’s been a giant
step forward for the horse.
History will look back on the
past couple of years and the
next 10 years or so as a time
when we became more aware
of, and committed to, safer
Thoroughbred racing. I think
we’re at the beginning of the
revolution, not the end. I feel
very positive about it.

There were more injuries
this fall at Keeneland than in
the two previous meets. But
overall, how has the injury
rate changed?

It’s very interesting. We
went for a year, or 11 months,
in which I think we had three
ambulance runs. And then in
one hour and a half on that
one Saturday in October, we
had three. To say that we were
befuddled is an understate¬
ment. Since those incidents,
we’re back to being just fine. So
I can’t tell you what happened;
I can tell you it was an aberrant
result from what we had seen
every day here. But it also hap¬
pened; we were crushed that it
happened. You get lulled when
you go weeks and weeks and
weeks without any problem;
you forget that it can happen.
And then we had that brutal
reminder.

JOHN SIKURA

O wner and president of
Hill ‘N’ Dale Farms in
Lexington, Ky., where
champion Vindication, a lead¬
ing freshman sire, and 11 other
stallions stand at stud, John
Sikura wrote a letter to The
Blood-Horse magazine last sum¬
mer questioning whether syn¬
thetic tracks are as good for the
sport as some have asserted.

So, what we’re trying to do
is be very disciplined. We do
not have all the answers. In fact
we’re still trying to figure out
the questions. We need to keep
that attitude. We need to keep
open-minded and we need to
be objective, almost removed.
We need to be very analytical
and objective here. We need
to look at all the variants and
there were some variants that
took place on those days in
October. The weather was one;
it was unusually hot and dry—
it was record-breaking, the hot¬
test ever. There was that dry,
bright sunshine and perhaps it
did some things to the surface
of the track.

One of the factors that
makes it difficult to analyze is
that by and large the incidents
that happened were very, very
early in a race. In fact, in two
of the instances, literally a few
steps from the starting gate.
You have to think what does
the track have to do with that?

We shouldn’t look as this as
the end of the revolution or
that we have the perfect prod¬
uct, nor should we let these

accidents deter us from the fact
that this is a huge step forward
for the safety of the horse and
the rider, and I think that is
clearly the case.

Will there be more of
these surfaces installed or
a pause for more study of
them?

I think you’ll see some of
both. I really haven’t spent
much time worrying about that.
I’ve never speculated much or
thought much or cared much
which track would be next.
Every track has to make its own
decision. And there is a race
track company or two that just
does not like to be told what
to do and that, in my opinion
anyway, is clouding some of
the judgment here.

We’re thrilled we made the
decision we made; that’s all I
know about.

After the Breeders’ Cup,
some in the European media
suggested that future edi¬
tions of the Cup should
only be run at facilities with
synthetic surfaces. Do you
agree?

I thought that the people
in New Jersey did the best
that could be done under the
circumstances and should be
commended. The weather
there was a prime example of
how these all-weather tracks
are indeed better. There’s no
way to sugarcoat that—they
are better. We had virtually the
same storms at Keeneland and
raced on a fast track. A well
constructed vertical draining
track is better in rainy weather
than the horizontal draining
tracks—in my opinion, that’s
just a fact. We did not scrimp
on our drainage system here

and we’re glad we didn’t. It
handles these downpours we
get in Kentucky with ease.

There are two important
elements to these tracks. One
is the drainage system—it’s a
totally different philosophy
in drainage. And the other is
the surface material. My per¬
sonal guess is that the vertical
drainage system will end up
being seen as a major break¬
through and that the surface
material, which is better than
dirt, will continue to evolve
and improve, and in five to 10
years from now, the surface we
run on will be much better than
what we’re running on now.

Are you continuing to do
research and development
on the surface material?

We are.

From your perspective at
Keeneland, which conducts
some of America’s most
important races and also
auctions more horses than
anywhere in the world, how
do you think these tracks
can change racing and
breeding?

The most important change
that we should focus on is
that horses and riders will be
safer and they’ll be healthier.
Whatever changes evolve from
that, it will all work out. I don’t
know what they’ll be, but if
horses are safer and healthier
and live longer and race lon¬
ger, then that means that fewer
jockeys and exercise riders are
going to get hurt, and that’s the
combination to keep our eye
on. Whatever other effects it
will have on the breed, we’ll just
deal with them.

Sikura was particularly con¬
cerned about the Polytrack sur¬
face at Del Mar, which seemed
to hinder speed horses.

What are your major con¬
cerns about synthetic race
tracks?

I guess a lot of the ulti¬
mate trends and changes are
unknown since it is a new sur¬
face. There’s a variety of dif¬
ferent surfaces; people often
interchange the word synthetic

as a singular but really it’s a
plural because there is some
variation.

It seems like a politically
correct statement, but in my
opinion it’s inaccurate, to say
less horses die so we must have
a great surface. There are many
questions but one of the most
appropriate questions to ask is
the ability, when you spend that
kind of money, to build a safe
race track with natural compo-

32 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

nents. When you have a race
track like Del Mar that has had
severe problems, and you fix it
with Polytrack, does that mean
that no other remedy would
have worked? We don’t know
the answer to that.

We’re all for safe racing. As
a breeder, the more times the
horses that we breed can run,
the better it is for stallions, for
mares and all their progeny, and
certainly for the welfare and
safety of the horses. There’s
never going to be a racing sur¬
face that is a panacea for inju¬
ries, that stops injuries. Horses
have died on all kinds of race
tracks; it’s a dangerous sport.

When you talk about a sport
that’s also a business and can
affect the lives of so many
in such a dramatic way, then
ultimately if you have a new
surface, it must be one that
allows the best horses to per¬
form in the best manner or, if
not, the integrity of the chal¬
lenge of who’s the best horse is
really lost.

If Storm Cats are no longer
really Storm Cats, then you’ve
upset the breeding industry.
How have you affected the
buyer? How have you affected
the breeder? And our concerns
as stakeholders are as legiti¬
mate, if not more legitimate,
than a race track that wants
to save on maintenance costs
because when races come off
the turf, they’ll run on the
Polytrack and they don’t have
to water the track.

You have to understand
their motivations, too. We want
a fair, consistent and safe race
track. If we achieve those goals,
then it’s a great remedy. But you
still have to have the best horses
give you their ultimate perfor¬
mance. If you dumb down the
performance to where horses
can’t exhibit their true qualities,
then it’s a hindrance on the
breed. It clouds true abilities
and certainly affects the eco¬
nomics of everyone.

Have other synthetic sur¬
faces besides Del Mar yield¬
ed skewed racing results?

I don’t know. Keeneland has
had quite good reviews on their
race track and I’ve understood
that the Cushion Track that
Santa Anita has installed has
led a lot of people to speak in
glowing terms.

Turfway Park Holiday

2004 (Pre-Polytrack)

2005

2006

Race Days

22

24

25

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$2,658,932

$3,237,724

$3,479,946

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$120,861

$134,905

$139,198

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$53,987,705

$74,332,516

$88,224,228

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$2,453,987

$3,097,188

$3,528,969

Average Number of Starters Per Race

9.9

10.40

10.20

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at
the Finish

2.28

1.94

’Average Winner’s Lengths Behind in
the Stretch

0.66

0.61

Average Lengths Separating Field at
Finish

28.16

19.94

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main

Track (p.m.)

4

3

6

Catastrophic Breakdowns During
Training (a.m.)

NA

NA

2

1 Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

5 furlongs
51/2 furlongs

6 furlongs
6 I /2 furlongs

1 mile
1 Vi 6 miles
ll/s miles
114 miles
114 miles
1 % miles

italics denotes less than 5 races run at distance

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt NA NA

All-weather 1,425 1,253

Times and selected data provided by Equibase

2005

2006

NA

:57.80

1:07.61

1:04.52

1:14.19

1:11.15

1:21.76

1:17.66

1:42.88

1:38.45

1:50.73

1:45.50

1:52.50

1:50.23

2:08.56

2:05.75

NA

NA

NA

NA

I’m not anti anything. If you
slow down horses where they
run, by time, 40 lengths slower
than they have before, of course
that affects performances. We
stand a very valuable sire in
Vindication and when (his son)
Maimonides won by 1H /2

lengths at Saratoga, everybody
was wowed and it created quite
a stir. If that had translated to a
short head victory somewhere
else, that has a big effect on
perception of ability.

What will happen now
that so many of these tracks

have been installed so quick¬
ly? Should there be a lengthy
evaluation before others are
constructed?

It’s important to know the
motivation for installing syn¬
thetic surfaces. If it’s to save
maintenance costs, then it’s a

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 33

selfish goal. And if we do that
under the guise of it is safe—
but we really don’t know if
it’s safe—then it’s self-serving
It would seem to me that if
these tracks had put down a
synthetic surface on their train¬
ing track and left performing
horses on a traditional surface,
that would have been a very
good, measured way to maybe
evolve into it.

I heard Michael Dickinson
quoted as saying that in five to
10 years, all the tracks will be
synthetic surfaces. I don’t agree
with that. I know that there are
a lot of traditional horsemen
that are not believers in a man¬
made product out-performing
natural materials.

If at a race track all of a sud¬
den there are a rash of horses
that die, there’s something
wrong with the track; there’s
a significant fault somewhere
and it has to be remedied. I
think people improperly tried

to simplify the argument—if
you don’t put down Polytrack,
you don’t care about the horses.
I think that’s an unfair state¬
ment and I don’t agree with it.

People have to be able to
bet on the races and have a true
reproduction of form. That’s
why people gamble and that’s a
big part of our business. There
are probably a lot of contribu¬
tory factors to horses getting
hurt, and we have to take all of
those into account as well.

Are there other breeders
who feel the same way you
do?

Yes. A lot of people in Sara¬
toga were advocating synthetic
tracks but they were racing at
Saratoga. I saw what happened
with Vindication and how visu¬
ally impressive his offspring
were (on dirt), and I doubt very
much they would have had that
performance on that synthetic
surface at Del Mar. And that’s
not to say that they won’t adjust

that track to make it a little dif¬
ferent next year. I’m not criti¬
cal of something they’re doing;
I think everybody is a little
uncertain of how to handle
the surface, how to maintain it,
what to do with it. But to say
here it is, get used to it—that’s
not a respectful or fair answer
to someone who has a legiti¬
mate concern or question.

I’m a large stakeholder in
the industry and I have a lot
of concern for all the things I
think are important. Welfare of
the horse is one of them but
so are the other concerns, and
they don’t have to be mutually
exclusive, which again is the
politically correct thing to say.
To say if you don’t do this, you
don’t care about the horse, that
really oversimplifies the issues.

What do you see happen¬
ing in the future?

I think there has been sort
of a rush to try the Polytrack,
and it’s still an experiment in

MICHAEL

DICKINSON

A former top amateur stee¬
plechase rider and three¬
time champion jump
trainer in Britain before relo¬
cating to Maryland, Dickinson
invented Inis Tapeta Footings
surface and holds a patent on
part of the manufacturing
process for synthetic surfaces
involving wax coatings. Tapeta
has been installed at racing or
training facilities in five coun¬
tries after first being placed
at Dickinson’s Tapeta Farm in
North East, Md.

Dickinson, who trained two-
time Breeders’ Cup Mile-Gl
winner Da Hoss and who was
the runner-up for an Eclipse
Award, plans to devote himself
full time to marketing Tapeta
beginning in 2008.

How would you compare
synthetic tracks to regular
dirt tracks?

Dirt tracks are 100-year-old
technology—little has changed
in the last 100 years in the way
we maintain dirt tracks. The
alarming thing is we have about
one fatality per 600 starts. The

34 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBREI

big point here is synthetics are
one fatality per 2,000 starts.
There you are in black and
white. The synthetic data came
from Dr. Anthony Stirk, who is
the chief veterinary officer for
the English Jockey Club. This
was a survey on four differ¬
ent synthetic tracks in England
from 2000 to 2006. It involved
100,000 starters over a five-year
period on four different syn¬
thetic tracks.

The dirt statistics came from
Dr. Rick Arthur in California.
There were several studies out
there and they’re not all the
same, but that’s the one he
gave me.

What was your experi¬
ence as a trainer—what were
the benefits?

A huge reduction in bone
injuries, chips and fractures on
the synthetic. We had only one
fatality in nine years on our
synthetic track at Tapeta Farm.

In looking at the prob¬
lems experienced with syn¬
thetic tracks at Del Mar,
Turfway Park and Woodbine
(all Polytrack), which have
ranged from slowness to the
material clumping in horses’
hooves, what would you
acknowledge as drawbacks?

I can think of only two rea¬
sons not to install a synthetic
track. The first being tradition
and the second is cost.

The problems you men¬
tioned should not happen.
Although I cannot comment on
another product, I can say that
we have been fortunate in that
we have not experienced these
issues with any of our installa¬
tions. As part of our contract,
we spend a lot of time with the
track superintendent to ensure
that they are comfortable with
the maintenance of the surface
and that there isn’t anything we
have not addressed. The only

progress. Whether Polytrack
will proliferate, whether it will
stay the same, will it be con¬
sidered a great training surface
that keeps horses sound but
not a racing surface, I don’t
know. . . I don’t think I’m
judgmental on will it work or
won’t it work, but I certainly
have caution. I would not want
to see someone radically install
synthetic surfaces as the only
option.

I don’t want to sound too
radical; I’m open-minded. To
do something for 100 years and
then overnight do something
to radically change it and say it’s
wonderful—nobody can make
a statement like that with any
intelligence. You can say we
hope, we think and there are
some things we have to work
on, but to say there is a single
answer, that’s an oversimplifi¬
cation.

thing we cannot handle is an
ice storm. So, if anyone has the
answer please let us know.

We all want a level play¬
ing field and good synthetic
provides just that, as proven
at Golden Gate and Presque
Isle Downs. Our goal is for
any running style to win. We
just want the best horse to win
whether he is a speed horse or
a closer.

You have said dirt rac¬
ing would become obsolete
in North America because
these synthetic surfaces are
available. Do you still believe
that?

No race track manager
wants to spend $8 million. His
job is to make a profit. To
spend $8 million, he’s got to
have some very good reasons,
economic and otherwise.

The test is: who is going to
benefit from it? Number one,
the owners are. If an owner
owns a horse, say it costs
between $50,000 and $100,000,
which isn’t very much these
days, and you’ve got two tracks,
one is synthetic and one is dirt,
he’s going to go to the synthetic
because he wants to protect
his investment. Even if he is

running for a bit less money,
he wants to protect his invest¬
ment. Once his $100,000 horse
has a fracture, it’s over. So,
number one, the owners will go
to the safer track.

Number two, the jockeys.
They have less falls.

Number three, you have
reduction in maintenance.

Number four, it’s a huge
reduction in water use, which
is big.

What else have we got? The
insurance companies are giving
lower rates for synthetic tracks.

And the mutuel managers.
There are fuller fields as horses
can run more often and there
are no sloppy tracks. As you
know, this year the Breeders 7
Cup was down 20 percent (on
handle) and a survey they did
of their major players indicated
they didn’t like betting sloppy
tracks.

And when a race comes off
the turf, instead of 12 runners,
we have three on a sloppy track.
That hurts the race track.

And finally, peace of
mind—to know that the race
track manager has done every¬
thing he could do. Supposing
a jockey gets hurt on a dirt
track and they wheel him into
court two years later because
he’s hurt, and they say, “Here’s
our race track, which is very
good. Here’s our track super¬
intendent, who is very good.”
But the ruling comes from the
judge which says, “You had
a 100-year-old product when
synthetic tracks have proven to
be safer. You didn’t do every¬
thing you could, you were neg¬
ligent—guilty.” That’s the way
this world is going.

So, you still think dirt
tracks won’t exist in the near
future?

I do, absolutely.

The other thing we didn’t
touch on is animal rights. Bar-
baro was one thing and the
Breeders’ Cup two years ago
had fatalities and this year
(European champion George
Washington-Ire was fatally
injured). The Breeders’ Cup
came in for a huge amount
of criticism from the foreign
press; they were appalled.

Should the Breeders’
Cup be run only at facilities
that have synthetic tracks in

Woodbine

Sept-Oct. 2005
(Pre-Polytrack)

Sept.-Oct. 2006

Sept.-Oct. 2007

Race Days

43

43

44

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$31,268,570(39)

$32,112,870(41)

$31,056,580 (41)

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$801,758(39)

$783,241 (41)

$757478(41)

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$86,835,950 (39)

$84,774,690(41)

$78,033,180 (41)

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$2,226,563 (39)

$2,067,675(41)

$1,903,248(41)

Average Number of Starters Per Race

7.97

8.78

8.67

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at
the Finish

2.43

2.06

1.73

’Average Winner’s Lengths Behind in
the Stretch

0.53

0.66

0.84

Average Lengths Separating Field at
Finish

18.55

17.6

15.11

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main
Track

2

3

0

Catastrophic Breakdowns During
Training

NA

NA

NA

Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

2005

2006

2007

5 furlongs

:59.71

:59.36

:58.66

5V2 furlongs

1:05.14

1:06.09

1:04.80

6 furlongs

1:11.77

1:11.84

1:10.91

6 V 2 furlongs

1:18.06

1:18.42

1:17.26

7 furlongs

1:24.95

1:25.15

1:24.21

1 mile, 70 yards

1:45.37

1:45.23

1:44.38

1 Vi6 miles

1:46.60

1:46.94

1:45.81

1 ’/smiles

1:53.43

1:53.49

1:52.12

114 miles

2:06.88

2:06.62

2:05.22

1’/2 miles

NA

2:34.40

2:35.77

italics denotes less than 5 races run at distance

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt 3,196

All-weather

6,557

4,669

Times and selected data provided by Equibase

the future, as some in the
European media suggested?

Absolutely, I hope we have
witnessed the last Breeders’
Cup run on dirt.

What countries are you
working in now and how
much interest is there world¬
wide?

There is a huge amount of
interest worldwide. We are in
America, the United Kingdom,
the United Arab Emirates,
Singapore and Korea. We have
inquiries from other countries:
Ireland, France, Australia and
New Zealand.

What do you think the
future is with synthetic sur¬
faces?

We’re spending a lot of
time and money on R and D
(research and development).
That is half my time now. I
want the best possible surface
for the welfare of the horse

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 35

and rider. We will never be
able to completely eliminate all
injuries or accidents but I know
that we can reduce them and
that has to be good.

How do you contemplate
improving the product?

We are all trying to get bet¬
ter and better. We would like
to use horsemanship together

with science so that we can
obtain measurable standards
throughout the industry.

We have 58 jockeys on per¬
manent disability (in North

America) and we have two
horse fatalities per day in
American racing.

We’ve got to do something,
haven't we?

TOM AMOSS

B orn in New Orleans but
now a resident of Louis¬
ville, Ky., after losing his
Louisiana home to Hurricane
Katrina, Tom Amoss has col¬
lected nine training titles at
the Fair Grounds and also has
led his colleagues at Churchill
Downs, Ellis Park and Ken¬
tucky Downs. Last year, his
stable made him leading trainer
of the inaugural meeting at
Presque Isle Downs. Amoss,
46, took out a trainer’s license
at 25 after walking hots for Hall
of Famer Jack Van Berg while
he was just a teenager. Amoss
occasionally works as a televi¬
sion racing analyst.

As the leading trainer at
Presque Isle, and with your
experiences at traditional
dirt tracks, what is your
opinion about synthetic sur¬
faces?

On the positive side, the
synthetic surfaces are definite¬
ly safer. I carry a stable of
50 horses around to different
tracks and I can tell you that
we’ve had much less incidence
of injury when they are train¬
ing over the synthetic surfaces.
From that standpoint, they’re
definitely a plus.

On the negative side, syn¬
thetic surfaces bring a form all

their own; it doesn’t correlate
to what the horses have done
in the past on traditional dirt
surfaces. So, it makes it very
difficult to place your horses
with confidence and it makes
for some different results, and
that’s very frustrating from the
standpoint of a trainer who is
getting horses ready to run.

Along with that, I would say
that watching the races at the
tracks I’ve been at, the races
are typically slower than on
the dirt tracks, and racing has
a sense of almost looking too
slow as you view it—it’s boring.
This last negative is a perceived
negative on my part but the
other things are facts that I’ve
seen throughout our stable.
The last one is sentiment—
that synthetic racing is similar
almost to the trotters.

Is there a push for more of
these tracks to be installed?

When you look at what
California has done, a require¬
ment that all tracks become
synthetic, you realize there is
a certain momentum to make
a switch and the question
of whether that momentum
is premature or not is really
what’s at stake here. Most of
these surfaces have been down
| for less than five years.

| The question I would pose
-J to the industry would be this:
If you would compare it to
buying a new car, no matter
what the quality of your car
is, I’m sure the first 20,000
miles are going to drive great,
but what happens after that?
With these synthetic surfaces,
they’re brand new and every¬
body’s very comfortable with
them, but what happens in the
long term? We don’t know how
the surface is going to take
the wear and tear of continual
training and racing over them;
we have no idea.

And yet, as is usually the case
in the United States and with
people in the United States,
we clamor for something that
works right off the bat with¬
out fully researching it. I can
give you examples of other
things like it that we now look
back on and say, “That was a
mistake.” Something as simple

as the dietary drugs out there
that had such popularity in the
past, we found bring problems
to people. I just don’t think we
have enough time with these
surfaces to say emphatically
this is the way we need to go.
I find it to be premature and
I think it’s really quite frankly
fueled by what has been in the
media.

Do you find big differ¬
ences in the various track
products?

The Tapeta that they had at
Presque Isle Downs, whether it
was the fact it was the Tapeta
at Presque Isle or the Tapeta
itself—I don’t know the answer
to that and I’d like to make that
clear. But it brought a result
much different than anything
in the horse’s past performance.
I can back that up with the
number of winning favorites
over the Presque Isle surface. It
was very low, compared to the
industry average. And the aver¬
age win payoff for the races
there was much higher than the
industry average. The Tapeta
has brought a real change of
surface, no different than going
back to when we first started
racing on the grass and the
grass brought about different
results than the dirt.

DALE ROMANS

A Louisville, Ky., native and
son of the late trainer Jerry
Romans, Dale Romans is
a major force in his home state
and has won multiple train¬
ing titles at Churchill Downs,
Keeneland and Turfway. The
41-year-old has saddled more
than 1,000 winners, including
Roses in May, victor in the
$6 million Dubai World Cup
in 2005, and 2004 American
champion turf runner Kitten’s

Joy. He also has sent divisions
of his stable to compete at
Gulfstream Park and Del Mar.

What is your opinion of
synthetic surfaces?

Personally, I prefer the dirt
surface but it’s a good option to
have for a place to train. I don’t
think that any track is going to
suit every horse, and I think
Q it’s still way early to see how
| they’re going to hold up—or to
| be spread around the country
3 or be mandated anywhere. I
I like having it as an option but

I wouldn’t want to be forced to
use Poly track all the time. Only
time will tell (how good it is).

Why do you prefer the tra¬
ditional dirt surfaces?

We didn’t see any less train¬
ing injuries when I trained on
the Polytrack than when I did
on the dirt courses. The cata¬
strophic injuries seem to have
gone down in the races, but
we’re still having some training
issues.

After racing on Polytrack
at Keeneland and Turfway,

36 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Keeneland Fall

2005

(Pre-Polytrack)

2006

2007

Race Days

17

17

17

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$20,321,797

$20,972,799

$20,790,718

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$1,195,400

$1,233,694

$1,222,983

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$118,590,289

$135,219,720

$133,210,884

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$6,975,899

$7,954,101

$7,835,934

Average Number of Starters Per Race

9.14

10.18

10.18

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at the

Finish

3.86

1.63

1.84

’Average Winner’s Lengths Behind in the
Stretch

0.42

0.71

0.77

Average Lengths Separating Field at Finish

29.40

16.42

19.31

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main Track

(P-m.)

2

0

4

Catastrophic Breakdowns During Training
(am.)

0

0

0

Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

2005

2006

2007

5% furlongs

NA

NA

1:04.00

6 furlongs

1:12.84

1:10.23

1:10.63

6 V 2 furlongs

1:19.45

1:16.71

1:16.64

7 furlongs

1:26.00

1:23.12

1:23.19

About 7 furlongs

1:29.60

1:26.99

1:27.45

IV-ie miles

1:48.68

1:44.44

1:45.04

1’/smiles

1:54.66

1:50.76

1:51.14

1 3 /ie miles

2:02.48

1:57.47

1:58.27

1’/4 miles

2:12.14

2:05.02

2:06.40

1% miles

NA

NA

2:47.89

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt

554

NA

NA

All-weather training

253

4

6

All-weather main track

NA

1,628

1,542

Times and selected data provided by Equibase

what did you think of the
Del Mar surface?

I had a lot of horses come
back with injuries; no cata¬
strophic breakdowns, but a lot
of injuries. I don’t really know
what the cause was, but the
Poly hasn’t been as consistent
as people thought it would be
when they first installed it. I
think they’re still tinkering with
it a little bit. It’s good to keep
working for the safest race
track we can find, but to rush
to judgment on it, it’s still a little
bit early. We still need to be
looking at the bigger problem
of why horses are breaking
down so easily.

Do you think the industry
has rushed to judgment that
synthetic tracks are best?

I think it definitely has, just
by mandating it in California.
It was way too early for some¬
thing like that.

Will more synthetic tracks
be installed or will more
study be given to their per¬
formance?

It seems to me like we’re in
kind of a holding pattern to
see what happens. There are
enough of them out there and
they’re in different climates and
there are two or three different
types, so I think we can really
get a good read of what is the
best product and what is the
best product for what climate.
Give it a few years and see what
we need to do—if we need to
do anything.

Have you noticed changes
in terms of what kind of
horses usually win in Ken¬
tucky?

It’s become another option.
You have turf, you have dirt and
you have Poly. You have some
horses that like the Polytrack
and some horses seem to like
the turf and some like the dirt.
It’s just one more option. You
have to run on it to see whether
they like it.

Do the synthetic tracks
have the potential to change
the sport and breeding pat¬
terns?

I think it definitely depends
on how many of them show up
around the country and how
many opportunities there are to
run on them. But it shouldn’t
stop us from looking at the big¬
ger problem of why horses are

running less than they did years
ago.

We’re preparing more horses
for sales than we ever did and I
think they’re being raced a little
bit differently. We’re doing a lot
of corrective surgeries we’ve
never done before. There’s
obviously steroids used in
developing horses. There’s a lot

of things that could be looked
at; I don’t know of any one
thing to pinpoint as this is
what’s causing it but I know
that even dirt race tracks should
be better today than they were
30 years ago with technology,
and yet horses are breaking
down at a much higher rate and
running much less. We need to

figure out what the problem is
and what’s different today than
it was 30 years ago.

I think (the focus on sales,
corrective surgeries and use of
steroids) are the biggest factors
and I’d hate to hear people
say that we’re going to put in
a safer surface and our horses
are going to break down less. I

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 37

want to figure out why they’re
breaking down to begin with, at
a higher rate than they used to.
I don’t think there is (enough
emphasis on that); I don’t think

we’ve come close to research¬
ing it the way we should. If we
put all the money into it that we
put into installing Polytracks,
we may have been able to fig¬

ure out something that we’ve
done wrong, either raising or
breeding or correcting their
legs, and fix that before we fix
the surfaces.

It’s politically incorrect to
speak out against Polytrack and
I don’t want to be a naysayer; I
just think there are other things
we need to keep looking at.

SCOTT LAKE

N orth America’s leading
trainer by winners in 2006
with 528, Scott Lake also
was leading his colleagues for
2007 through November. At
age 42, the Mid-Atlantic based
trainer saddled the 4,000th win¬
ner of his career on October 31.
Lake also ranked as third-lead¬
ing trainer during the inaugural
meeting this past September
at Presque Isle Downs on its
Tapeta surface although his
experience there was marred
by the fatal breakdown of his
stakes-winning filly Cantrel in
the track’s very first race, the
Inaugural Stakes.

What is your general view
of synthetic racing surfaces?

Great to train over but I
don’t like running over them.
A lot of horses don’t handle it.
And you’ll see a lot more soft
tissue injuries.

At Presque Isle, I was there
for 30 days, and we saw a lot
more soft tissue injuries. They
had three catastrophic break¬
downs which I don’t think
would be (any less than on) a
dirt track.

Another point is that bet¬
tors don’t like it when they get
horses that don’t handle it real
well.

Synthetic tracks differ and
some contend they are not
always fair. Do you agree?

If you look at the num¬
bers from Presque Isle, the
first three weeks of the meet,
I think it would be that the
speed hardly held at all. As it
got a little colder at the end of
the meet, the track tightened
up and the speed horses were
able to hold. But it seemed like
during the first three weeks of
the meet, if you were three,
four, five or six lengths off the
lead, in that range, you had an
80 percent chance to win. That
was my assessment of it.

I’ve been over the Keeneland
track, and I didn’t really like
the Polytrack at all. I liked the
Tapeta a little bit better. I think
it’s a good surface to train over,
but as far as running over it,
I’m not sold on it at all.

Do you find it deeper, is
that why there are more soft
tissue injuries?

When you walk on that track
at Presque Isle Downs and you

go down the backside at, say
4:30 or 5 o’clock in the after¬
noon, the sun is going down
and it casts a shadow on the rail
down the backstretch. If you
were walking on that shadow
and stepped one step off of
that into the sunlight, you sunk
down about three more inches
than you were on that shadow.
When they hit that thing, it’s
not a natural surface for them.

When I was in school and
you played basketball on a
wooden court and you left there
and went and played on one of
those indoor/outdoor courts
that were almost like a rubbery
cushion and you bounced back
off of it, that’s the same kind
of difference.

Why do you like to train
horses on synthetic surfac¬
es?

You could go out there
and gallop a horse over that
Tapeta track and say, “Wow.
He’s going super. He didn’t go
that way over a dirt track.” But
if you take him out and jog him
down a road at the end of the
morning, he’s no sounder than
he was when he was training
over the regular track. With
the Tapeta, they just kind of
bounce over it a little bit easier.

The three catastrophic
breakdowns at Presque Isle
were all very, very nice horses.
My filly broke her leg on open¬
ing day; (Grade 2 winner and
millionaire) Super Frolic broke

his leg down the backside, and
another horse, a 2-year-old who
won first time out and ran a big
number, real fast on that track,
broke down after the wire. To
me, it just seems like those
horses who are better horses
will run over anything and they
won’t change their stride; they’ll
extend themselves 1,000 per¬
cent, no matter what. And
they’re the ones that you see
break down on that surface,
whereas the cheaper ones pro¬
tect themselves a little bit by
changing their style of moving
rather than the horses that are
going to run over anything.

Did you have any feelings
when Cantrel broke down
that it was due to the sur¬
face?

I don’t think it was the track
itself. My belief is that it was an
unnatural surface for her and
she was trying 1,000 percent
and took a bad step over it.

Do you think we’ll see
more of these tracks
installed, perhaps expand¬
ing into the Mid-Atlantic
region?

There’s a lot of talk about
them. I think everybody’s
jumping the gun a little bit. I
honestly believe if you put a
training track in each one of
these places and horses use that
surface to train over and then
you went and ran over a regular
dirt track, you’re going to see a
big decrease in breakdowns.

JOHN FRANZ0NE

C hairman of the Maryland
Racing Commission, John
Franzone has been on the
front lines of those endeavor¬
ing to save Maryland racing in
the face of competition from
nearby states that allow slots at
race tracks. He chairs a Racing
Commission panel known as
“Keep It In Maryland” and has
testified before state lawmakers

on the challenges facing the
sport.

What is your overall
impression of how synthetic
surfaces have performed,
and do you think they have
a future in Maryland racing?

I’ve seen some of the data
that obviously shows they are
safer and I think they probably
will be everywhere.

But the question I have is
which one is the right one?

There are so many competing
products. As cars go, it’s not
the same Model-T it was years
ago. So what are they going
to be 10 years from now? But
you’ve got to start somewhere.
We do have a good start, and
competition is a good thing.
Competition drives innovation,
and innovation usually leads to
a better product.

The concern that I have is
that we’ve really only studied

38 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

one aspect of this, the concus¬
sion to the horse. But I’m just
curious if this material is a toxic
material.

Anything that has a petro¬
leum base to it puts up a little
bit of a red flag to me. When
you see these horses come back
in a mud bath, obviously it’s
not good, but they’re inhaling
this stuff along with the jockey,
and is there any negative side
to that? Are we making their
legs better but destroying their
lungs? That’s another thing that
needs further study.

It may be totally unfounded
or it may be an issue. It’s like
working around asbestos dust.
Twenty years later, you found
out that this isn’t good stuff. I
don’t think anybody that looked
at this had an immediate con¬
cern there was something toxic
to it that would cause problems.
But I would rather breathe in
basically organic material than I
would a petroleum product.

If Maryland voters
approve slots in the Novem¬
ber referendum and racing’s
economic picture improves,
would the commission begin
discussions about whether
these surfaces should be
installed at Pimlico and
Laurel?

I’m not really in favor of the
big brother approach unless it’s
absolutely necessary. One of
the few good things that Magna
did when they redid that turf
course (at Laurel), they also
improved the dirt track. Our
track management is excellent;
they do an excellent job with
the racing surfaces. But sure, it
should be a collective discus¬
sion among the commission,
the race track managers and the
horsemen. Personally, I think
we’ve got a good surface. We
don’t need to jump to put (an
artificial) one in, and let’s just
kind of sit back and see how
this all shakes out in the next
couple of years.

If someone scientifically
said, here’s the latest, greatest
product and you can take a
bath in this stuff and it can’t
hurt you, I’d say maybe we
should move toward that if it’s
conclusively proven to be bet¬
ter for the horse.

And this is my own personal
opinion, we’re just going the
wrong way with horse training

Arlington Park

2006 (Pre-Polytrack)

2007

Race Days

95

94

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$46,215,951

$54,600,942

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$486,484

$580,861

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$371,109,123

$418,283,378

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$3,906,412

$4,449,823

Average Number of Starters Per Race

7.14

8.19

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at the

Finish

2.60

2.04

’Average Winner’s Lengths Behind in the
Stretch

0.62

0.85

Average Lengths Separating Field at Finish

19.21

17.98

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main Track

(P-m.)

22

13

Catastrophic Breakdowns During Training
(am.)

7

7

Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

2006

2007

4’/2 furlongs

:52.05

:52.35

5 furlongs

:58.75

:58.66

5’/2 furlongs

1:05.04

1:03.76

6 furlongs

1:11.16

1:11.39

6 V 2 furlongs

1:17.53

1:17.56

7 furlongs

1:24.00

1:23.97

71/2 furlongs

1:29.48

1:30.97

1 mile

1:37.86

1:37.75

11/i 6 miles

NA

1:45.27

1 Va miles

1:52.25

1:50.69

1 3 /i6 miles

1:55.79

1:55.17

VA miles

2:04.72

2:07.51

1 V 2 miles

2:32.04

NA

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt

11,142

All-weather

14,268

Times and selected data provided by Equibase

and what we’re doing there.
American trainers get so hung
up on speed. Pretty soon, if
this keeps going, we’re not
going to have to worry about
ovals because the only thing
we’re going to be able to do is
Quarter Horse race since they
can’t do the distance anymore.

Not to go off on a tangent, but
these horses are so inbred, the
basic circulatory and breath¬
ing charac tens tics these horses
possess just get passed down
because it’s mitigated by the
use of drugs. You think this
horse is a great runner but he’s
a great runner only if he’s on

clenbuterol. He really shouldn’t
be bred; it’s a bad trait.

I’d rather see them out-
crossed to Hanoverians and
see how they do as opposed to
what we’re doing. Why not train
to run mile and a half races and
forget about this crazy speed
stuff? Pick up the pace as you

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 39

go. Everything is too drag-race
oriented.

Do you think the sport
will change due to the spread
of synthetic surfaces?

The industry needs to—and
this is where I was hoping the
NTRA would go but it doesn’t
seem like it really focused on

RICHARD

HOFFBERGER

ongtime president of the
Maryland Thoroughbred
^■Horsemen’s Association
(MTHA) and president of The
Hoffberger Insurance Group in
Baltimore, Richard Hoffberger
knows the racing industry from
a variety of perspectives. An
owner, breeder and pinhooker
with horses based in Maryland,
Pennsylvania and Kentucky
at various times of the year,
he also presides over a com¬
pany that provides bloodstock
and farm insurance to the
Thoroughbred community.

What are your views on
synthetic tracks?

The problem we’re seeing
with die stuff is that a lot
of the race track managers
don’t have any experience on
how to work with it. While
certainly the number of cata¬
strophic breakdowns seems to
be reduced—I don’t have any
hard scientific data here with
me that it is or isn’t but I accept
everybody’s word that the cata¬
strophic breakdowns are sig¬
nificantly less—we are starting
to see high suspensory injuries
and bone injuries that we never
saw before.

The other thing that hap¬
pens, and this doesn’t pertain
to any kind of surface.. . but in
the horse industry, we track the
number of fatal breakdowns
that occur on the race track
and that’s a horse that’s dead
on the race track. But what
we’ve never done is say, okay,
a horse was injured on the race
track, went back to the barn,
and we put him down in three
days. Or the horse is finished
and will never run again. Most
horses stop running because of
injuries; that’s just the nature
of our business. Why don’t we
track that? Because as horse

that agenda. Look at breeding
and what we’re doing here. I
agree with (Dogwood Stable
president) Cot Campbell that
racing really should go back to
hay, oats and water. This is all
a joke. . . In every other sport,
basically, the times get faster
and the athletes get bigger and

stronger, but we’re going back¬
wards. The use of drugs con¬
tinues to be crazy. It’s totally
out of control. It confuses the
breeding industry, which is all
wrapped up in this fervor for
speed. Protect the breed, with
quality racing with some more
endurance racing and a little

more logic in the business, and
it would save everybody a for¬
tune because injuries to these
horses—not to mention how
bad that is for the animal—are
a huge economic cost.

owners, we don’t want to adver¬
tise that a horse had a problem.
And as trainers, we don’t like
to advertise it. And trainers
who to some extent are at the
mercy of the race tracks, have
a little bit of reluctance to put
their thumb up—to say to the
race track management, ‘Your
track is bad.” The statistics that
we have are very difficult to
analyze because we’re not com¬
paring apples to apples.

An owner of one of the
surfaces called me after he saw
what I wrote about synthetics
in the MTHA newsletter, and
said certainly there are less inju¬
ries at Arlington Park. . . . But
so many horsemen at Arlington
say their horses are having
injuries that are career-ending.
Certainly I wouldn’t expect
Arlington to promote that.

And another thing—I don’t
have data on this, but a lot of
horses that have been running
and training on synthetic tracks
have gotten fractured hips.
Usually a fractured hip only
occurs when you bump into
something; it’s a fairly rare inju¬
ry on the race track. If you’re
on a surface that bounces but
bounces hard, if a shock wave
goes up your leg, it gets to the
end of the leg. In a horse’s hind
leg, the end is the hip. What
some veterinarians think is hap¬
pening is that if the surface is
hard but it might have some
bounce to it, the shock is kind

of like lightning going up the
leg and that’s what’s causing the
fractured hip, which is consis¬
tent with high suspensory inju¬
ries. These injuries are not nec¬
essarily life threatening, but
they are career-ending.

I am a believer in synthetic
tracks; I just think there’s a
lot of information we have to
gather and we have to learn how
to maintain them. So I wrote
this comment in the newsletter
several months ago, and some
race track people called me and
said that’s the dumbest thing;
you’re really wrong. I had a lot
of trainers stop me and say,
“You’ve written what every¬
body’s thinking”. . .

Another issue is, as an
industry, we don’t know how
to solve the (maintenance)
problems. A race track super¬
intendent told me that certainly
you have to have a different
kind of surface in southern
California, where it gets to be
100 degrees on the track, than
you do in Canada, because
you have different weather
conditions. Even surfaces in
Maryland and Philadelphia are
changed for the winter. They
know how much salt to put on
them; they know what to do.
We don’t have that experience
on the synthetic. While the
trainers don’t like to talk about
it, they’re having problems with
their horses (as a result).

Should lengthy analysis
be done before any other
tracks put in these surfaces?

I would think they would
want to do a little more research
before they put more in. How
you build a race track in south¬
ern California is different than
how you build a race track in
New York. Assuming the same
surface is used, what happens
when it is 115 degrees and it’s
melting the wax is a differ¬
ent reaction than when it’s 20
degrees for days at a time and

you don’t want the thing to
freeze.

Another thing is, the train¬
ers will tell you they’re ’scoping
the horses and finding little
pieces of rubber in the horses’
lungs. . . It sounds bad; I don’t
know if it is bad. And it might
not be, since the average horse
lives to be 18 years and 3
months old, and if rubber
causes a problem after 20 years,
the horse is going to be dead
anyway.

There are a lot of questions.
Do I think that synthetics are
the wave of the future? Yes. Do
I think it could be real good?
Yes. Do I think that California
jumped the gun by mandating
that it had to be done? Yes. But
if tracks want to go ahead and
put in synthetic, they should go
ahead and do it.

My gut tells me there is a
difference between training and
racing on this stuff. The com¬
ments that you hear out at Fair
Hill Training Center (which has
a Tapeta surface)—you can’t
find a bad word.

The horse industry is kind
of noted for believing what
we want to believe and jump¬
ing into the frying pan, and
maybe that’s what happened
in California. I hope not. It
seems like they had a prob¬
lem in California and mandat¬
ed synthetics because no one
was smart enough to say we
can show you how to fix dirt
(tracks).

I’m glad we don’t have syn¬
thetic surfaces in Maryland. I
don’t think that the track super¬
intendents have had a chance
to figure out what to do with it
when it’s 20 degrees. We know
what to do with the (dirt) track
when we get the weather report
and it says two inches of rain
on Sunday and then that night
it’s going to drop to 20 degrees.
These guys know what to do
to that track and have it open

40 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

NEENA EWING

by 7 o’clock the next morning.
If you’re wrong in what you do
with a different surface, you’ve
got problems.

ANDY BEYER

A racing columnist for The
Washington Post since 1978
and author of four books
on handicapping, Andy Beyer
originated the speed rating for¬
mula that bears his name. Beyer
also has been a regular contrib¬
utor to Daily Racing Form, which
in 1992 began publishing his
Beyer Speed Figures as part
of horses’ past performance
lines. Beyer has written criti¬
cally about synthetic surfaces,
particularly the Polytrack at
Keeneland, which he said “has
given rise to a style of racing
that is alien to most Americans.
The most prized quality of
American Thoroughbreds—
speed—has become a liability.
Polytrack has turned the sport
upside down.”

What are your concerns
about racing on synthetic
surfaces?

I might be in a minority
but as a gambler, I certainly
don’t like the change—maybe
because I’m 64 years old and at
this age I don’t feel that I want
to re-learn the sport. If I were
going to learn a whole new
game, given the state of horse
racing, maybe I’d just take up
something else. There are just
so many differences, and they
are subtle ones in many cases.
So to this point, I am just stick¬
ing with playing at traditional
dirt tracks.

I feel the racing industry has
to some extent been sold a bill
of goods on artificial surfaces.
Obviously, the industry should

Del Mar

2006 (Pre-Polytrack)

2007

Race Days

43

43

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$103,595,646

$104,800,659

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$2,409,201

$2,437,225

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$582,455,558

$601,453,672

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$13,545,478

$13,987,295

Average Number of Starters Per Race

8.57

8.82

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at the Finish

2.30

1.89

’Average Winner’s Lengths Behind in the Stretch

0.61

0.61

Average Lengths Separating Field at Finish

21.93

18.43

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main Track (a.m.)

8

2

Catastrophic Breakdowns During Training (p.m.)

6

4

1 Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

2006

2007

5 furlongs

:58.06

NA

5 V 2 furlongs

1:04.95

1:06.56

6 furlongs

1:10.98

1:12.88

6 V 2 furlongs

1:17.64

1:19.37

7 furlongs

1:23.75

1:26.09

1 mile

1:38.24

1:41.28

1 Vi 6 miles

1:44.99

1:48.08

11/8 miles

1:51.40

1:55.61

VA miles

2:01.62

2:07.29

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt 6,500

All-weather 7,422

Times and selected data provided by Equibase

do everything it can for horse
safety. But if tracks had said
let’s spend $10 million to build
the best, safest, most well-de¬
signed dirt track that we pos¬
sibly can, would the safety with
them be less than with an arti¬
ficial surface? I don’t know the
answer. But I think certainly in
the case of California, because
of all those breakdowns at Del
Mar, there was almost a pan¬
icky response of “We’ve got to
do something.” When you look
at the nature of California rac¬
ing and the number of trainers
who wheel and deal with claim¬
ing horses and in many cases
are suspected of using illegal

substances, I just think to say
this was all the fault of the race
track is really a simplification.

What are some of the
major differences you’ve
noted in dirt versus synthet¬
ics and what is particularly
frustrating for gamblers?

When artificial surfaces
came in, we all thought they
were going to be uniform and
unchanging, whereas the dirt
tracks clearly do change from
day to day. But track superinten¬
dents seem to have an almost
limidess ability to manipu¬
late these tracks. Poly track at
Keeneland was one of the
fastest racing surfaces ever

seen in America, based on our
track variants for our speed
figures. Del Mar this summer,
also Poly track, was certainly
the slowest racing surface ever
seen in California. There can
be a tremendous change in the
speed of the track from day to
day or week to week, depend¬
ing on how they manipulate it,
what they do with the wax and
so on.

What makes these surfaces
so difficult and impossible to
deal with as a gambler is when
horses are moving from dirt to
artificial and artificial to dirt,
you frequently don’t know what
to expect. You can guess, may-

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 41

be, that a horse with a particu¬
lar pedigree may like an artifi¬
cial surface, but there’s really no
way to know for sure. And
when you have situations like
you’ve got in Kentucky—they
go from Keeneland to Churchill
—you just don’t know what to
make of horses’ form. And
from Hawthorne to Arlington.
That adds an element of gigan¬
tic uncertainty. Now if you had
a race track that ran year-round,
once everybody had form on
an artificial surface, you
wouldn’t have that element and
you could handicap how they
had performed on the artificial
surface. This going back and
forth is impossible.

We’ll get dirt horses going to
the Breeders’ Cup (on Cushion
Track) next year, and who is
going to be able to bet with
confidence?

Some international media
called for all Breeders’ Cups
to be run at facilities with syn¬
thetic surfaces and blamed
the sloppy Monmouth track

for the fatal injury to George
Washington. What is your
reaction?

Every year they don’t do
well, the Europeans have an
excuse. Florida is too hot,
California is too far. Here you
had a horse with whom there
was absolutely no reason to
think he was anything but a turf
horse, so I don’t think that’s
valid. But the fact is, everyone
who has observed artificial sur¬
faces has noted, by and large,
there is more of a correlation
between turf form on artificial
surfaces than there is dirt form.
A lot of times, you’ll see horses
with pure turf form go on the
Keeneland Polytrack and win. I
would say it is somewhat self-
serving for a continent that is
basically all turf racing to say,
“Gee, we’d like Polytrack.” I
guess they would.

Of the different arti¬
ficial surfaces, I believe that
Keeneland’s clout in the indus¬
try has certainly been a big
factor in the fact that Polytrack

is the most commonly used of
these surfaces. But have you
seen a track in North America
with Polytrack that hasn’t had
major problems with it? They
had to rebuild Turfway; trainers
were practically rioting the first
season at Woodbine. If anyone
was taking an objective look at
the performance of Polytrack,
I think there would be a lot
of questions raised. But it just
seems to be almost a conspira¬
cy to just tell the “good news”
about artificial surfaces.

Do you think there will
be more of these surfaces
installed?

I can’t answer that question.
I think it was very interest¬
ing when Bob Baffert pulled
his horses out of California
and went to Saratoga. That
underscored one of the issues
here. The thing that has made
American horses, the hallmark
of theAmericanThoroughbred,
is speed—particularly the
California Thoroughbred. For
racing commissions, without

really much study or thought,
to say, “We’re going to change
the whole world and say that
speed isn’t really that impor¬
tant in Thoroughbred racing,”
is a pretty radical shift. When
horses start going to stud, I’m
just wondering, as Baffert said,
is a horse clonking up to win a
mile and a quarter at Del Mar
in 2:07 going to thrill the breed¬
ing world? Is that what we bred
horses for?

I’m a little bit biased on the
subject. But whenever you read
anything about artificial sur¬
faces, it’s always “good news.”
When horses broke down at
Del Mar on the dirt, it was
always a big story. When a
Polytrack track has a rash of
breakdowns, it’s sort of in the
17th paragraph. I don’t think
we’re seeing a really even-hand¬
ed assessment in the industry
of the pros and cons.

TIM RITCHEY

B est known as the trainer
of 2005 Preakness and
Belmont Stakes winner
Afleet Alex, the champion
3-year-old colt of his genera¬
tion, Tim Ritchey began rid¬
ing horses before he turned 3.
He went on to be an accom¬
plished show jumping, dres¬
sage and three-day event rider
before becoming a professional
steeplechase jockey. After later
working as an exercise rider
and assistant trainer, he built
up his own stable, beginning in
1974 at Waterford Park. A lead¬
er in the Mid-Atlantic region,
he has won five training titles
at Delaware Park.

What do you think of syn¬
thetic tracks?

I’ve only run one time on
one and I’m not so sure it’s the
answer, to be honest.

My feelings are, if they had
a place to teach people how
to take care of dirt tracks and
what kind of dirt should be
on them, we’d be better off.
You can go to school for a
lot of things, but as far as I
know, I don’t think there is

any school that will teach you
what surfaces need to be put
on race tracks, what percent¬
ages of clay, what percentages
of sand and everything else
should be used. I really feel if
they had something tike that,
where they could teach people
how to become track super¬
intendents besides people just
going to work for somebody
and learning it on their own, I
think the money would be a lot
better spent than spending mil¬
lions of dollars on a synthetic
surface.

Maybe synthetics are the
answer—I really haven’t run
over them enough—but
I know they spent a lot of

money doing it in a lot of
different places. Some of my
friends have trained over it and
some of them like it, some
of them hate it. There have
been a significant amount of
breakdowns on some of those
race tracks. And they’re going
to run into some of the same
problems there, as far as people
knowing how to take care of
them properly. If they’re mis¬
managed, obviously they’ll fall
apart, too. I just think they
jumped the gun on it and the
industry has really dropped
the ball by not having places
where people can learn all the
scientific data, everything that
needs to be done to have a safe
race track. I’ve run on dirt race
tracks that have been properly
managed and then you see a
change in the track superin¬
tendent and right away, all of a
sudden a year or two later, the
track goes to hell.

I just think the money
would be better spent educat¬
ing people and having people
do apprenticeships with those
who know what they’re doing
or go to school or whatever.

I’ve always been very happy
with good, safe dirt tracks.

Which synthetic track did
you race on?

Turfway Park. I’ve gotten
input from a lot of friends of
mine who have run at Presque
Isle, Keeneland, Woodbine.
Some are happy with them,
some of them have had com¬
plaints. But I just think we’ve
jumped the gun on all this.

As a trainer, you come up
under horsemen, you serve
your apprenticeship and you
become an assistant trainer
before you get a trainer’s license.
But if someone works on a race
track and drives a tractor for a
while and then he gets a little
expertise, he becomes a track
superintendent. Well, some of
them are qualified and some
of them aren’t. I think we need
to have some kind of a way to
give these people proper expe¬
rience, proper education on a
dirt race track.

The synthetic tracks are
going to have the same prob¬
lems you have with dirt. What
they’re doing now is trying to
educate them on how to take

42 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

care of the synthetic surfaces.
I think they need to educate
them on how to take care of
die dirt surfaces.

In your observations, do
you think synthetic tracks
are fair to all runners and the
bettors?

After you have a certain
amount of horses run over
it, you can see which horses
like it and which horses don’t.
Some horses that run well on
the dirt at Laurel may not run
well on die dirt at Philadelphia
because they are different kinds
of surfaces. But until you get
that history on a horse’s perfor¬
mances, you don’t really know.
And it’s the same thing with
synthetic tracks. Some of them
seem to handle them and some
of them don’t seem to handle
them. I do know there is still a
significant amount of fly-back
with a synthetic surface from
the races I’ve watched.

From a handicapper’s point
of view, you really need to
watch horses and see how they
run over it. I’m really glad they
put that (synthetic track nota¬
tion) in the Racing Form, that
gives the handicappers some
kind of line. Until you’ve seen a
horse run over it several times,
you really have no idea, so it’s a
litde tough to pick winners.

You look at Keeneland in
the first meet or two, and they
had a lot of longshots. That’s
kind of changed a litde bit in
that now it’s got a history in
what pedigrees, what horses
actually handle the track.

If the numbers of these
tracks increase, how will the
sport change?

There are certain horses that
pedigree-wise are more for the
turf and others more for the
dirt, and then you’re going to
have certain pedigrees that are
going to excel on the synthetic
surfaces. Some sire lines have a
way of producing a horse that
can get over the ground in a
way they’re going to like the
turf or they’re going to tike the
dirt or also in the way they like
a synthetic surface. So, you’re
going to see some kind of
change, if they move to a lot of
synthetic surfaces, in the domi¬
nant sire lines. I know right now
there are certain sire tines that
I believe have become stand¬
outs on synthetic surfaces.

Keeneland Spring

2006

2007

Race Days

15

15

On-Track Mutuel Handle

$21,833,015

$20,919,811

Average On-Track Mutuel Handle

$1,455,534

$1,394,654

All Sources Mutuel Handle

$138,182,892

$153,428,895

Average All Sources Mutuel Handle

$9,212,193

$10,228,593

Average Number of Starters Per Race

7.81

9.48

Average Winner’s Lengths Ahead at the Finish

4.33

1.32

’Winners’ Average Lengths Behind in the Stretch

0.35

0.78

Average Lengths Separating Field at Finish

29.71

17.15

Catastrophic Breakdowns on Main Track (p.m.)

2

0

Catastrophic Breakdowns During Training (a.m.)

0

’Calculation based on lengths behind of zero when winner was on the lead in the stretch

Average Race Times by Distance

2006

2007

4’/2 furlongs

:52.72

:50.57

5’/2 furlongs

NA

1:04.27

6 furlongs

1:11.72

1:09.93

6 V 2 furlongs

1:17.96

1:16.25

7 furlongs

1:24.55

1:23.17

About 7 furlongs

1:28.36

1:26.20

11/16 miles

1:46.67

1:44.56

1 Yd miles

1:51.71

1:51.47

1 3 /ie miles

2:01.55

1:57.12

1’/4 miles

NA

2:06.08

Number of workouts on Main Track during meet:

Dirt

750

All-weather Training

298

8

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LARRY MURRAY

A s the trainer for Sondra
and Howard Bender and
the manager of their
Glade Valley Farms near
Frederick, Md., Larry Murray is
a key figure in Maryland racing.
Based at Laurel, he has worked
with Glade Valley since 1979,
developing the program that
earned the Benders the title
of Maryland’s leading breeder
from 2001 to 2003.

What are your thoughts
about synthetic racing sur¬
faces?

I haven’t had a lot of experi¬
ence with them; I’ve only been
at Keeneland to run on it a few
times, and it’s fantastic. But I’m
not too sure that it isn’t a little
overrated at this point.

While I was there at Keene¬
land this fall, I saw two cata¬
strophic breakdowns, and I
don’t know that the synthetic

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surface is going to eliminate
breakdowns. They have had
problems with it.

Horses that run are going
to break down, no matter what
they run on, to some degree.

I wasn’t too sure that Cali¬
fornia did the right thing by
mandating that everybody had
to switch to a synthetic surface.
They had a lot of trouble with
some of their race tracks—
Del Mar had that bad time
diis summer—and horses have
been running on dirt for a long
time and most horses survive.

So, I don’t know where I
stand on the synthetic surfaces.
I think certainly if you have a
race track that has a problem,
and there are some on the East
Coast that a lot of horsemen
have trouble with, maybe that’s
something to try. But I think
there are still some bugs to be
worked out of the synthetic
race tracks as far as the mainte¬
nance and the upkeep goes.

Do you think the synthet¬
ic surfaces would be a boost
for Maryland racing, assum¬
ing that the overall economic

conditions improve to make
installation feasible?

We’re in such big trouble
here in Maryland that that’s
the least of our worries. We’re
hanging on by a thread and the
news gets worse by the day.
Maryland is not in any position
to even think about synthetic
surfaces.

Will synthetic tracks
change both training and
racing?

Absolutely. I think it has
changed the whole game. It
used to be everybody bred for

speed and most synthetic sur¬
faces I’ve seen, that’s the last
thing you want.

Will that aspect of the
synthetic revolution change
breeding philosophies? Has
the approach at Glade Valley
changed?

Not yet, because here on
the East Coast it’s not a fac¬
tor, and I don’t know anybody
that’s getting ready to change
over to a synthetic surface. But
certainly, if I raced mainly in
California, I’d have to think
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Devil His Due—Flying Hill, by Flying Paster

Graded stakes winner of $367,743. Won the G3
Laurel Futurity at 2 after winning his first start in
maiden special company. Second in the G3
Holy Bull S and Iowa Derby, 3rd in G2 Remsen
S. Half-brother to HILLWALKER ($197,304),

Cabo Queen ($196,349), Hill of a Deal (stakes
producer), from the family of champion
J. O. TOBIN (sire). First crop yearlings of 2008.

$2,500 live foal. $1,500 for mares foaling in PA.

Blushing Groom (Fr)—Disconiz, by Northern Dancer

G1 winner at 2 and sire of 20 stakes horses
competing around the world, including
champions ROMANONO (in Panama) and
Kalaf (in Austria), Hollywood Park track record-
setter Dig for It ($543,618, G1-placed), etc. Sire
of 13 $100,000-plus earners, five over $200,000.

$1,500 live foal. $1,000 for mares foaling in PA.

Quarry

Forty Niner—Bound, by Nijinsky II

Sire of 22 winners from 38 starters, including
Iroquois H winner NITTANY EXPRESS
(9 wins, $228,088, twice sp), and allowance
winners Gold Stones (6 wins, $128,270), Quarry's
Princess ($63,438), Silent Quarry ($54,817), Smarty
Nicole ($46,305), Holdeverything ($38,074),
Noaffairforgeorge ($35,500).

MR. PROSPECTOR-line sire from immediate
family of champions and leading sires SADLER’S
WELLS and NUREYEV.

$2,000 live foal.

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Gone West—Meteor Colony,
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Mid-Atlantic’s
leading
freshman sire

Sire of SW COLD TRAIL (Hoover
S), Ovechkin (2nd Oliver's Twist
S) and NINE additional winners
from 28 starters in his first crop.
Winner of G1 Grey Breeders'
Cup S at 2. Won or placed in
seven stakes, earning $441,247.
Posted triple-digit Beyers in three
consecutive graded stakes.

Out of a winning full or half-sister
to champion PLEASANT STAGE
($844,272) and GSWs STAGE
COLONY ($327,908), COLONIAL
PLAY ($244,679), FULL STAGE.

$3,500 live foal. $3,000 for mares
foaling in PA. BC nominated.

Not For Love—Ten's Testamony, by
Deputed Testamony

Multiple graded
stakes winner
of $747,812

Sire of Sweet Sugar (2nd
Pennsylvania Nursery S) and
msw winner Hornbrook in his first
crop to race. Leading sire NOT
FOR LOVE's top son at stud.

Won the G2 Hawthorne Gold
Cup, G3 Ben Ali S (by 7 lengths).
Northern Dancer S (1 Vs mi. in
1:4875) and Harrison E. Johnson
Memorial H (1'A mi. in 2:00 3 /s).
From the family of champion
ALL ABOARD.

$2,500 live foal. $2,000 for mares
foaling in PA. BC nominated.

INVESTED IN RACING:

THE GENIUS OF
JIM SCATUORCHIO

From relatively modest auction buys,

New Jersey resident has campaigned one top runner
after another, including world-beater English Channel.

by Bill Finley

Y ou could say that New
Jersey-based owner Jim
Scatuorchio was lucky to
win the Breeders’ Cup Turf-
G1 with English Channel. But
anyone who could dismiss
that spellbinding victory at
Monmouth Park last fall as a
matter of good fortune clearly
hasn’t been paying attention.

Sure, Scatuorchio has been
lucky in the racing business.
He’s the first to admit it. But
there’s more to it than that—he
knows what he’s doing, and has
the results to back that up.

A $50,000 yearling purchase,
English Channel, now retired
and off to stud, earned $5.3
million, won six Grade 1 stakes
and is a cinch to be named
champion grass horse of 2007.

Scatuorchio has also made
his mark with Scat Daddy, who
won last year’s Florida Derby-
G1 and Fountain of Youth
Stakes-G2 (adding to his victo¬
ries in the Champagne S takes-
G1 and Sanford Stakes-G2 at
2) and earned $1.3 million. . .
More Than Ready, another
Grade 1 winner who earned
over $1 million. . . and graded
stakes winners Ready’s Gal and

Ready to Please. None of them
cost more than $270,000 at the
sales.

Then there is Ready’s Image,
the Maryland-bred colt who
ranked as the early leader of
the nation’s 2-year-old division
in 2007 while campaigning for
Scatuorchio.

“Jim Scatuorchio is respect¬
ed as one of the most successful
American buyers at the sales,”
says breeding market analyst
Bill Oppenheim. “Finding
More Than Ready—probably
the fastest 2-year-old seen in
America in the last 10 years—
is one thing, but then follow¬
ing it up with a top middle-
distance grass horse, English
Channel, and probably More
Than Ready’s best son, Ready’s
Image. Well, it can’t just be a
coincidence, can it?”

Itusedtobe that Scatuorchio,
60, used his smarts on Wall
Street. A native of Allenhurst,
N.J, he landed there shortly
after college. He bought his
first horse more than 25 years
ago, and had modest success
with a partnership known as
Bid Side Stable, but he didn’t
have the time to immerse him¬

self in the racing business. After
some 30 years at the firm of
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette,
he was burned out and ready to
do something else. Still in his
early 50s, he retired in 1998.

“If you know Wall Street,
they’re retiring even younger
now” he said. “When I turned
50, I was a dinosaur. That’s
kind of sad to say, but it’s true.
On Wall Street, you run so hard
and you’re always under pres¬
sure. The money is good, but
it takes a lot out of you. I had
had enough and I knew I had
reached my time. During the
last year of my career, retire¬
ment was on my mind all the
time. That happens, and you
know it’s time to go.”

He planned on a fairly typi¬
cal retirement—golf, relaxation,
a few days here and there at
the track, and he’d fool around
with some horses.

Scatuorchio had participat¬
ed in New Jersey-based trainer
John Forbes’s Phantom House
Stable syndicate that went on
a modest spending spree at
the 1995 Keeneland September
Yearling sale. It was there that
Phantom House came up with

Tale of the Cat, who won the
King’s Bishop Stakes (then
Grade 2) in 1997 and the fol¬
lowing year finished second in
the Whitney Handicap-Gl and
third for the second time in
the Vosburgh Stakes-Gl—not
at all bad for a horse who was
bought for $375,000.

A son of Storm Cat (out
of the Mr. Prospector mare
Yarn), Tale of the Cat was sold
to Ashford Stud for $12.9 mil¬
lion following his racing career.
Scatuorchio and the rest of
the Phantom House partners
had parlayed a small investment
into a small fortune. Tale of the
Cat currently ranks among the
top 20 sires in the nation.

Scatuorchio came away from
the experience convinced that
there was a way to make money
owning horses. The key, he fig¬
ured, was to find more Tale of
the Cats—horses who could
be purchased for a reasonable
amount of money but had the
potential to win major stakes
and become valuable sires.

Scatuorchio decided to go
on his own, and one of his first
purchases was More Than
Ready, who was bought for

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“Ifs very important that the
whole family loves racing. That
has allowed me to immerse
myself in the sport. ”

English Channel preps for his final start in the Breeders ' Cup Turf-GI (above).
Below ; Scatuorchio congratulates trainer Todd Pletcher after the win.

$187,000. After Bill Mott
turned down the offer to take
Inis horses, Scatuorchio turned
to Todd Pletcher. With Pletcher
plotting the course, More Than
Ready exploded onto the scene.

More Than Ready (Southern
Halo—Woodman's Girl, by
Woodman) won by seven and
a half lengths in his debut,
a 2-year-old race in April of
1999 at Keeneland. Before his

2- year-old season was over,
he accounted for four stakes
and finished third in the Grade
1 Futurity at Belmont. As a

3- year-old, he won the King's
Bis hop-G1 and Hutches on-
G2 and finished fourth in the
Kentucky Derby. More Than
Ready concluded his career
with $1,026,229 in earnings,
money that gave Scatuorchio
ammunition for future sales.

“More Than Ready has
been the foundation of every¬
thing we have done since,”
Scatuorchio said.

Scatuorchio still owns 10
percent of More Than Ready,
who stands at Vinery in Lex¬
ington, Ky., for $60,000. He
has supported the horse at the
sales, buying a number of his
offspring, with the most note¬
worthy being Ready's Image.

A $410,000 Keeneland Sep¬
tember purchase (and the most
expensive of 68 More Than
Ready yearlings sold at public
auction in 2006), Ready's Image
won the Sanford Stakes-G2 and
Tremont Stakes, and finished
second (to Majestic Warrior)
in the Hopeful Stakes-Gl. He
was sidelined with a bone chip
in his left knee after trailing in
last in the Champagne Stakes-
Gl in October, but is expected
to recover fully, and is being
pointed toward the Kentucky
Derby.

Virtually all of Scatuorchio's
top horses have been purchased
at the sales, where he constantly
is on the lookout for bargains,
or at least what amounts to a
bargain in an era when there
are plenty of buyers who don't
think twice about paying seven
figures.

“I get uncomfortable when
the bidding gets over $500,000,”
he said. “That's an awful lot of
money.”

He is also uncomfortable
with the prospect of a large
stable. Normally, he has no
more than 10 horses in train¬
ing, which makes his success all
the more remarkable.

To find that future star for
under $500,000 is not easy, so
Scatuorchio surrounds himself
with advisors, people who are
experts in all things relating
to yearlings. Todd Pletcher's
father, J.J. Pletcher, helps select
the horses at the sales and has,
Scatuorchio says, “an excellent
eye for picking out an athlete.”
Alan Porter analyzes pedigrees
for him. Veterinarian Scott Hay
is another trusted consultant.
Scatuorchio, himself, works
tirelessly at the horse business,
studying, planning and strate-
gizing.

“This has turned into a full¬
time job,” he says. “I'm on
the phone every morning with
Ocala, Lexington, with Todd.
You can't be successful in this
business doing it any other
way.”

He recalls telling Pletcher
from the get-go: “I'm a hands-
on guy because I love the sport.
You're going to see me walking
around the barn in the morn¬
ings. If that bothers you, let me
know now.”

Family involvement is also
key. He and his wife, Terry (a
high school sweetheart), and
their grown children, Kevin
and Courtney, plus Courtney's
husband, Bryan Sullivan, are
a close-knit group and usually
travel to the races together.

Kevin Scatuorchio is also
involved in the racing busi¬
ness and, along with Sullivan,
formed a partnership known
as Let's Go Stable. Their best
horse has been Glacken's Gal,
who won the 2007 Astoria
Stakes at Belmont.

“It's very important that the
whole family loves racing,” Jim
Scatuorchio said. “That has
allowed me to immerse myself
in the sport. If any one of
them had any qualms about
what I do and how I go about
it, that would make it much
harder.”

The Scatuorchio team found
English Channel at the 2003
Keeneland September Yearling

50 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

sale. He is by Smart Strike, but
was bought before that stallion
became red hot. Still, Scatuor-
chio was skeptical when J.J.
Pletcher called him to tell him
about his newest acquisition.

“He told me he had bought
this Smart Strike colt for
$50,000 and that he really liked
him,” Scatuorchio said. “I said,
‘Only $50,000? What's wrong
with him?' ”

English Channel came into
the 2007 Breeders' Cup with
impressive credentials. Within
the previous four months, he
had won the Joe Hirsch Turf
Classic and United Nations
Handicap (both Grade 1),
capturing each for the second
straight year. But he saved the
best for last. English Channel
dominated the Breeders' Cup
Turf, winning by seven lengths.

For Scatuorchio, who lives
about six miles from Mon¬
mouth Park and spent what
seems like half his youth there,
the Breeders' Cup win was a
thrill that will be difficult to
surpass.

“It was obviously very spe¬
cial, the type of thing you could
never have scripted any bet¬
ter,” he said. “Friends, even
complete strangers, still come
up to us and congratulate us
and pat us on the back. Our
goal has been to win Grade
1 races in order to make the
value of the horses exceptional.
The Kentucky Derby is the
race everyone, myself included,
wants to win and the Breeders'
Cup is right behind that. These
are the races that I’ve aspired
to win.”

The Breeders’ Cup win
pushed Scatuorchio's 2007
purse earnings to $3,407,873,
as of mid-December. In his
best year yet, he ranked 12th
among North American own¬
ers by earnings, and although
he won just 14 races, seven of
them were stakes—including
three Grade 1 s.

English Channel has gone
to Hurricane Hall farm in Lex¬
ington, Ky., where he will stand
for a stud fee of $25,000.

Scat Daddy has also moved
on. A son of Johannesburg and
die Mr. Prospector mare Love
Style, ScatDaddy was purchased

by Scatuorchio for $250,000 at
the 2005 Keeneland September
sale. Scatuorchio subsequendy
gave Todd and J.J. Pletcher each
a 25 percent interest in the colt
as a token of appreciation for
their efforts.

Michael Tabor privately pur¬
chased the Pletchers' interests in
the fall of 2006. Derrick Smith
joined the ownership group
following Scat Daddy's victory
in the Florida Derby. After fin¬
ishing 18th in the Kentucky
Derby, Scat Daddy came down
with a tendon problem in his
right front leg and was retired.
He will stand his first season
at Ashford Stud for a fee of
$30,000.

With two of the best horses
he has ever owned now retired
to stud, Scatuorchio worries
that 2008 will be a rebuild¬
ing year. Along with Ready's
Image, he has 10 2-year-olds in
progress, but obviously there
are no sure things.

“When you have a horse
like English Channel for three
years you're not going to have
too many downs,” he said. “He
was just so consistent and he
never disappointed us. He was
always running for big purses
and we almost always got a nice
check. We always had that to
fall back on.

“We've got to start building
again. It had to come some
day. That's something that
happens to everyone in rac¬
ing. You're always wondering
where the next one will come
from. There's no question that
there are years where you don't
fire on all cylinders and you're a
tittle bit disappointed.”

Then again, Scatuorchio
hasn't ever really had one of
those years. In hopes of keep¬
ing the momentum going? ho
was active once again at the
2007 Keeneland September
sale, buying more prospects
in the $150,000 to $350,000
range. He also went in with
Coolmore, buying half of a
Johannesburg colt who sold
for $1 million. That horse will
be trained in Ireland by Aidan
O’Brien.

For the first time, he was
also active at the Keeneland
November sale, where he

Multiple Grade 1 winner and $1.3 million-earner Scat Daddy is shown in
an April 2007 photo—just prior to his career finale in the Kentucky Derby

Ready’s Image, bred in Maryland by David and JoAnn Hayden’s Dark
Hollow Farm, carries Sctauorchio’s colors to victory in the Sanford Stakes.

Million-dollar-earner More Than Ready Scatuorchio’s "i foundation”
horse, counted the King’s Bishop Stakes-GI among his six stakes wins.

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“We've got to start
building again. It had
to come some day. ”

bought six mares. He's not
looking to become a breeder,
but wants to send mares of his
own to English Channel and
Scat Daddy.

Buying some mares may be
something new, but he's not
going to veer too far away from
a formula that works. The plan
is to continue to buy a handful
of modestly priced yearlings
every year, send them to Todd
Pletcher, and then hope that he
can develop them into the type
of race horse that someone
wants to pay good money for
as a stallion prospect.

It's a system that has worked
several times and there's no
reason to believe it won't keep
on working.

Scatuorchio is always look¬
ing for the “next one” and

believes that horse is out there,
just waiting to be found.

“That's one of the things
that's so exciting about this
game,” he says. “We bought
English Channel for $50,000,
and he became one of the
most successful turf horses in
recent times. I'm a big Seattle
Slew fan. Look at him. He
cost $17,500 and he was one
the most successful horses in
history. I don't know what that
would be in today's dollars, but
what a bargain.

“That's what's so exciting
about this industry. You can
compete with people who have
10 or 20 times the amount of
capital you have and still do
well.” #

STANDING IN PENNSYLVANIA

This Fleet Is Due

Stakes-placed winner of $351,090

Never worse than third in his first 8 starts (at Belmont, Saratoga,
Gulfstream Park, Keeneland), including two allowance wins, This
Fleet Is Due then placed second in the $100,000 Long Branch
Breeders' Cup (to Burning Roma), and just missed in the Grade 1
Haskell Invitational H by a mere 1 y 2 lengths (finishing fourth to
Point Given, Touch Tone and Burning Roma). With 6 wins in 23
lifetime starts, he also finished fourth in the Grade 1 Oaklawn H.

By leading sire DEVIL HIS DUE, he is out of a winning
daughter of champion AFLEET. This Fleet is Due is half-
brother to G3 winner CATBOAT ($221,659) and Betty Garr,
from the family of track record-setter NORTHERN WOLF.

$2,000 live foal; special consideration to mares foaling in PA

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CASTLE ROCK STALLIONS 2008

HARRY THE HAT

SEATTLE SLEW—AFFIRMATIVELY, by Affirmed

Winning son of sire of sires SEATTLE SLEW. Half or full
brother to three stakes horses. Second dam is champio
STRAIGHT DEAL. Immediate family of leading sire

BELONG TO ME,

etc. Sire of 20%
stakes horses
from winners,
including BETTY'S
HAT ($364,588),

PRINCE JOSEPH,

MR. BOXCAR, etc.

$1,000 LF
Special consid¬
eration to mares
foaling in PA

PARTNER’S HERO

DANZIG—SAFELY HOME, by Winning Hit

G2 winner of $554,731; a graded stakes horse at 2, 3
and 4. ETR in Hansel S for 6 fur. Half-brother to champion
sprinter SAFELY KEPT ($2,194,206). By sire of sires DAN¬
ZIG.

PARTNER'S HERO

has sired 24 stakes
horses, including
graded winners

NEW YORK HERO
($628,438) and
HEROS REWARD
($543,616).

$2,500 LF
Special consid¬
eration to mares
foaling in PA

PATTON

LORD AT WAR (ARG)—SLEW ME DOWN, by Seattle Slew

Graded stakes winner of $237,462. Ran 5 fur. in 1:04 4 / 5 .
6 fur. in 1 : 08 3 / 5 , 7 fur. in 1:21 Vs, and 1 mi. in 1 :35 3 /s.
Proven sire of 21 stakes horses, including G1 winner

KELLY'S LANDING _

($1,805,557 to
6 , 2007), G3SW

YESSIRGENERAL-

SIR ($329,055),
G3SW PATTON'S
VICTORY, etc.

A. E./starter
$44,271.

$2,500 LF
$2,000 for mares
foaling in PA

POWER BY FAR

POWER OF MIND—FARRAH FOXET, by T. V. Commercial

Multiple stakes winner at 3, 4 and 5, earning $544,335.
A top sprinter in the region, won going 6 fur. in 1:08 2 /s,

1 : 08 3 /5 (twice), 1:08 4 / 5 , 1:09V 5 , 1:09 3 / 5 (twice). Mr.

Prospector-line

proven sire ot 17

winners, including /

POWER BY LEIGH , ✓

($217,818), J.D.

Safari (3-times
stakes-placed,

$177,855), Miss 'fgpT: _

$3,000 LF 51 ' 726 '' %

$2,500 for mares -

foaling in PA

PRINCE JOSEPH

HARRY THE HAT—BARCAR, by Carnivalay

Multiple stakes winner at 3, twice stakes-placed, winner
of $155,732. Won or placed in 10 of 14 starts, going 6
furlongs to 1 1/16 miles. By a son of leading sire of lead¬
ing sires SEATTLE
SLEW, whose
qrandsons are
proving themselves
at stud: MALIBU
MOON, PULPIT,

MINESHAFT, etc.

$1,000 LF
$750 for mares
foaling in PA

RIMROD

DANZIG—ANNIE EDGE (IRE), by Nebbiolo

Multiple stakes winner and graded stakes-placed. By sire
of sires DANZIG, out of multiple graded stakes winner ar
champion producer. Half-brother to champion SELKIRK
(leading sire in -—

CREEK; full brother

to SEEBE, SYN¬
CLINE, SKILLING-
TON. First foals
yearling of 2008.
$2,000 LF
$1,500 for mares
foaling in PA
Breeders' Cup
nominated

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BENNY THE BULL
MAKES THE GRADE IN
DE FRANCIS DASH-G1

Breeders’ Cup Sprint-GI contender
moves on to prestigious win at Laurel Park.

Story by Sean Clancy. Photographs by Jim McCue.

B reeders’ Cup bounce? For
Benny the Bull, no such
thing.

Almost a month to the day
after finishing a non-threaten¬
ing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup
Sprint-GI, Benny the Bull ral¬
lied from sixth to capture the
18th running of the Frank J. De
Francis Memorial Dash-Gl.

The Dash anchored the Fall
Festival of Racing that attract¬
ed 11,870 fans to Laurel Park
on November 24.

Owned by IEAH Stables,
Andrew Cohen, Greg James,
Pegasus Holding Group and
Andrew Cohen, Benny the
Bull collected his first Grade 1
score by winning the $250,000

stakes. Trained by Richard
Dutrow Jr., Benny the Bull
sparred with probable sprint
champion Midnight Lute in his
prior two starts, finishing sec¬
ond in the Grade 1 Forego at
Saratoga before the Breeders’
Cup Sprint.

When Midnight Lute opted
for the Grade 1 Cigar Mile in

New York on the same week¬
end as the Dash, Benny the
Bull looked poised to break
through the Grade 1 barrier.

Sent off as the favorite (he
was coupled with Holly Time,
who was making his stakes
debut), Benny the Bull settled
near the back of the eight-
horse field while Maryland-

Edgar Prado guided Benny the Bullowned by an IEAH Stables partnership, to a length and a quarter score over Maryland-based Talent Search.

54 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

based Talent Search took up
his customary spot on the
lead and doled out fractions
of :22.64, :45.72 and :57.66.
A gutsy third in the Breeders’
Cup Sprint, Talent Search, sec¬
ond choice under regular rider
Ryan Fogelsonger, put every
rival on the ropes but Benny
die Bull, who soared past to
win by a length and a quarter
under Edgar Prado. Benny the
Bull finished the six furlongs in
1:09.86.

Four-year-olds swept the
top three spots, as the Fair Hill-
based duo of Talent Search and
Miraculous Miss completed the
$38.20 trifecta. Talent Search,
trained by Mark Shuman and
owned by Ken and Sarah Ram¬
sey, upped his on-the-board
finishes to eight in a row. The
homebred by the Ramseys’
own stallion Catienus has never
finished worse than fourth in
14 career starts while account¬
ing for stakes wins in Pimlico’s
Jim McKay and Monmouth’s
Teddy Drone and amassing
$501,640 during 2007.

The filly Miraculous Miss
fined up as the richest runner
in the Dash field and came
into the race off a sensational
effort in the inaugural running
of the Breeders’ Cup Filly and
Mare Sprint, where she fin¬
ished second by a half-length
to Maryfield.

Trained by Steve Klesaris
and owned by Pugfisi Stables
and Klesaris, who plucked her
out of the 2005 Fasig-Tipton
Midlantic May 2-year-olds in
training sale for $350,000—the
second-highest price of that
sale—Miraculous Miss collect¬
ed her second fine of Grade 1
black type, adding to a third-
place finish in the Ballerina at
Saratoga this past summer. Her
third in the Dash upped her
career earnings to $821,670.

As for Benny the Bull, the
Grade 1 status was key for his
trip to Laurel.

“This was huge to get a
Grade 1 win into this horse,”
said Mike Sherack of IEAH.
“He really ran to our expecta¬
tions. Even though he had run
in the Breeders’ Cup, he was
fresh going in and we were
looking forward to the race. It
was great for Edgar too, to get

Selima Stakes winner Bsharpsonata , owned and bred by Cloverleaf
Farms II, joined a stream of good 2-year-olds from the Salzman barn.

a Grade 1 win at his old stomp¬
ing grounds. I’m just sorry Rick
wasn’t there as well, but he was
back in New York.”

IEAH (International Equine
Acquisitions Holdings) Stables
has splashed into horse racing
like a Jackson Pollack painting
session. Started by Michael
Iavarone and Richard Schiavo
in 2003, IEAH won its first
Breeders’ Cup race in 2007 with
Kip Deville in the Mile-Gl and
has also campaigned additional
Grade 1 winner Wonder Lady
Anne L and such stakes win¬
ners as Sharp Susan, Subtle Aly,
Shaggy Mane, Rebel Rebel (Ire),
Kazoo and Willy o’the Valley.

Benny the Bull represents
IEAH’s game plan—buy prov¬
en stock, allow the present
owner to keep a share, syndi¬
cate the rest, move the horses
to high-profile trainers (usu¬
ally Dutrow), and let the games
begin.

James owned Benny the
Bull, a son of Lucky Lionel,
before selling a majority interest
to IEAH after the Florida-bred
won the Iowa Sprint Handicap
at Prairie Meadows last sum¬
mer. “I was the original owner
prior to syndicating him,” said
James, who purchased the colt
at the Keeneland September
Yearling sale for $38,000. “My
daughter, Erika, named him
after a cartoon character on
‘Dora the Explorer.’ ”

“We had a good-sized crew
at Laurel,” Sherack said. “We
had a lot of fun with it. This
was a horse that was on our
radar for a long time and we
finally were able to purchase
him after his stakes win in June
at Prairie Meadows. He had
run some huge races for us but
Midnight Lute was just better
on those days, so it was nice to
get one for ourselves. This was
the right spot for him to show
his stuff.”

Reaffirming the Breeders’
Cup bounce theory, Midnight
Lute finished second as the
favorite in the Cigar Mile.

Bred by Tom oka Farms,
Benny the Bull is the first
foal out of the stakes-winning
Birdonthewire mare Comet
Cat, who produced only one
other foal before her death in

2006. Benny the Bull has earn¬
ings of $468,550, and the Dash
was his fifth win from 13 life¬
time starts.

♦

The Salzman family and
Maryland 2-year-old racing go
together like Ore os and milk,
and the pattern continued in
the 2007 Selima Stakes. Tim
Salzman saddled Bsharpsonata
to pull a mild upset in the
$100,000 stakes for 2-year-old
fillies.

Owned and bred by Clover-
leaf Farms II, Bsharpsonata
claimed a stalking spot in third
before rocketing to win by a
length and a quarter under Eric
Camacho. Grace and Power
finished second with previously
undefeated Fareena third after
a mile and a sixteenth over the
firm turf in 1:43.66.

Bsharpsonata, a bay filly by
Pulpit, won her debut at Dela¬
ware Park in July before losing
two straight stakes on the road.
She won the Irish Sonnet at
Delaware by seven lengths,
then tried the grass for the first
time in the Epitome Breeders’
Cup Stakes on the Breeders’
Cup Friday undercard. She hit
the front over the yielding turf
before relinquishing her lead
and wound up fourth. Salzman
was undeterred.

“We had wanted to try
her on the turf [as she is a
daughter of Pulpit], and her
mom [Apasionata Sonata, by
Affirmed] won at a mile and a
half, so we gave it a try,” Salz¬

man said. “She ran really well
at Monmouth for her first start
on turf. It was soft ground and
she could have easily backed
up; it was the first time she had
ever stepped on the surface. So
leading her over there this time
we were very confident she
would run well. We were home
and all we had to do was walk
her over there, so that helped.”

The Cat’s Affair, a maid¬
en shipper from New York
making her second start, rated
favoritism but only managed
to finish fifth. Sent off as the
sixth choice in the field of
12, Bsharpsonata improved her
record to 3-for-6.

“She’s a really nice filly;
always has been,” Salzman said.
“She got a smooth trip and
when he called on her she was
right there for him. She’s very
versatile in that she can run on
turf or dirt. She’s won stakes on
both surfaces, so it gives us a
lot of options down the road.”

♦

Todd Pletcher doesn’t have
options with Cowboy Cal. Not
that he needs them. Pletcher
sent out the 2-year-old son of
Giant’s Causeway to win his
second straight turf start, deci¬
mating the $100,000 Laurel
Futurity by six and a quar¬
ter lengths. Owned and bred
by Stonerside Stable, Cowboy
Cal relaxed in the early stages
before streaking home over
Maryland-bred Casanova Jack,
Titan of Industry (another son

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 55

Stonerside Stable's homebred Cowboy Cal (by Giant's Causeway) Fire Hero won the Maryland Million Starter Handicap, part of the program

dominated the Laurel Futurity reaffirming his preference for the turf. that provides expanded opportunities for Maryland Million-eligible runners.

of Giant’s Causeway) and 10
other rivals to finish the mile
and a sixteenth in 1:42.80.

Cowboy Cal made his career
debut at Saratoga, flopping
to finish seventh on the dirt.
Pletcher showed him the turf
in his next start, and he crushed
maidens at Belmont Park in
September. The Laurel Futurity
made it two in a row. Prado, in
the midst of a four-win after¬
noon, guided the Kentucky-
bred.

With stakes wins from
Churchill Downs to Laurel
Park, Pletcher shattered his
2006 North American record
for money won. Contributing
a small amount—and promis¬
ing to add more later—Pie tell¬
er’s first-time starter Crimson
Comic won the sixth race on
the afternoon.

♦

The Maryland Million
Starter Handicap kicked off
the day with veteran Fire Hero

winning for the fifth time in his
6-year-old season and 12th time
in his career. Owned by Sanford
Robbins and trained by Tony
Dutrow, Fire Hero handled six
opponents with ease, drawing
off to win by four and three-
quarters lengths over 3-year-
old Oorah (by Perfecting) and
20-time winner Irish Colony
(by Larrupin’). Under Ramon
Dominguez, who turned 31
that day, Fire Hero completed
the mile in 1:39.63.

Bred in Maryland by Mrs.
James Bayard, Fire Hero made
a living in starter races last
year. A beautiful gelded son
of Partner’s Hero, he took
the Murmur Farm Starter
Handicap in May for owner
Team West Side Stables and
trainer Enrique Arroyo, who
lost him during the summer at
Saratoga for a $22,500 tag. Fire
Hero also finished third in the
starter handicap on the 2007
Maryland Million Day card.

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Races sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association include:
Maiden Timber Race ($10,000 purse)

Open Timber Race ($20,000 purse)

Amateur Highweight Timber Race ($7,500 purse)
Amateur Riders Club of America Flat Race

Open Flat Race

Also running:

Large and Small Pony Races

The trainer with the most points will receive the Greta B. Layton Award perpetual trophy and prize.

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WALNFORD STUD of New Jersey

2008 Stallion Roster

CRAFTY FRIEND [Crafty Prospector-Companionship, by Princely Native]

• Sire of 2007 Palos Verdes H. [G2] winner FRIENDLY ISLAND [$1,369,714]. Also ran second in
the 2007 Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1 ].

• Sire of 2006 SW WHY OH WHY ($224,404] and Haskell Inv. H. (Gl) runner-up My Snookie's
Boy [$410,183].

• Sire of 11 stakes horses, and the earners of more than $7.9-miIIion.

Fee: $6,000

DEFRERE (Deputy Minister-Sister Dot, by Secretariat]

• Sire of 33 stakes horses, average earnings per starter an impressive $71,056.

• Sire of 2007 stakes winners CARROTS ONLY ($364,918] and MY THREE SISTERS ($217,658].

• Also sire of Graded stakes winners LILAH ($510,248], SISTER FIONA ($142,997], and SW's LE
MARS GIRL ($3,881,187], SOURIS ($692,766], PRETTY IMPOSING ($276,338],

DEFRERE'S VENTURE ($218,513].

Fee: $6,000

IRON DEPUTY (Silver Deputy-Femme de Fer [Fr], by Iron Duke)

• IRON DEPUTY won the Huntington Stakes by 4 lengths at Aqueduct at two.

• IRON DEPUTY won the Count Fleet Stakes by 2 3/4-Iengths at Aqueduct at three.

• IRON DEPUTY won the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap at four with a 1 12 Beyer, defeating Breeders'
Cup Classic (Gl] winner VOLPONI, as well as Gl Stakes winners EVENING ATTIRE and
HARLAN'S HOLIDAY.

• IRON DEPUTY ran on the board in nine often starts earning $370,900.

Fee: $3,000

CAPTURE THE GOLD (Crafty Prospector-Countess B. B., by King Emperor]

• Sire of stakes winner BABAGANUSH ($197,786], and stakes-placed Raleigh Express ($73,455].

• Also sire of Imagoldseeker ($227,150], Capture the Wolf ($120,530], and Rock the Rainbow
($118,335].

• CAPTURE THE GOLD set a new-track-record of 1:08 2/5, and won three stakes earning $270,130
Fee: $1,000

GEROSA (Cherokee Run-Sky Meadows, by Conquistador Cielo]

• Sire of ENERGY CRUNCH, earner of $34,025 at two in 2007.

• Won his first four starts at Monmouth Park earning $88,300.

• Half brother to multiple Graded stakes winner DIXIE DOT COM ($1,332,775] and to the dam of
Grade 1 winner SIPHONIC ($774,778].

• Son of leading sire CHEROKEE RUN, sire of 2007 Breeders' Cup Juvenile [Gl] winner WAR PASS
($1,397,400].

Fee: $1,000

HIT THE TRAIL (Cahill Road-Valid Ms Cherokee, by Valid Appeal]

• HIT THE TRAIL broke his maiden first out in a maiden special at Gulfstream Park.

• By Wood Memorial S. (Gl] winner CAHILL ROAD, grandson of sire-of-sires MR, PROSPECTOR.

• CAHILL ROAD has sired 28 stakes winners, including 2007 Longacres Mile (G3] winner
THE GREAT FACE ($337,159] and 2007 SW WASSERMAN.

Fee: $1,000

Joe and Karen Jennings
43 Hill Road,AIIentown, New Jersey 08501
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SALES RESULTS

FIGURES FALL
AT DECEMBER
MIXED SALE

Average decreases by 9.6 percent at
Fasig-Tipton Midiantic’s auction held
December 2 and 3 atTimonium

T he Fasig-Tipton Midlandc
December Mixed sale,
held December 2 and 3
at Timonium, posted declines
in gross and average, but a 9.4
percent increase in median.

A total of 287 horses were
reported sold for $2,056,500,
marking a 23.2 percent decrease
in gross, by comparison to
2006.

The average decreased 9.6
percent to $7,166, but the medi¬
an rose to $3,500, compared
with $3,200. The buy-back rate
increased from 33.6 percent in
2006 to 39.5 percent.

The sales-topper was a
$62,000 weanling colt by
Golden Missile sold on the sec¬
ond day of the sale. Strait Draw
Stables purchased the chest¬
nut colt out of the unraced
Wild Zone mare Precious
Queenie from the consignment
of Thomas J. Gallo III Sales
Agency, agent. The colt was
bred in New York by Mia Gallo
and Sandra Sanborn.

Immune to Gloom (Citi-
dancer—Sad Refrain, by Smart¬
en) brought $40,000 to top the
opening session, and was the
highest-priced broodmare or
broodmare prospect in the sale.

David Wade, agent, purchased
the multiple stakes-placed win¬
ner of $165,968 in four racing
seasons from the consignment
of Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott's
Charlton, agent. A half-sister
to 2007 stakes winner Dirge,
Immune to Gloom was bred in
Pennsylvania by William Pape
and Jonathan Sheppard.

Donald P. Lite's Lite Blood¬
stock Services, agent, was the
leading consignor by gross,
selling 31 horses for a total
of $276,700. Charlton ranked
second with 41 horses selling
for $238,700.

The top-ranked consignor
by average was Takaro Farm,
owned by Middleburg, Va.,
horseman Hector Alcalde.
Takaro averaged $23,417 for its
six horses sold.

Leading the Takaro con¬
signment was a homebred Not
For Love weanling filly who
brought $60,000 as the second
highest-priced offering in the
sale. The purchaser was Josham
Farms. A half-sister to s takes-
placed winner Metal Chimes,
the filly, a West Virginia-bred,
is out of the unplaced Cure
the Blues mare Metal Blues,
from the immediate family of

Canadian champion Leonnatus
Anteas and English champion
Noalcoholic.

“It was as good a sale as we
expected,” said Takaro's farm
manager Mark Sell.

“This is what we do—breed
a small number of mares
and point all of the offspring
to auction sales in the Mid-
Atlantic region,” Sell added.

Among buyers, Sung Chul
Seo, a South Korean investor,
made the largest expenditure,
purchasing seven horses for a
total of $142,000. Seo bought
four broodmares for a total
of $91,000 (average $22,750)
and three weanlings, whose
prices totaled $51,000 (average
$17,000).

Maryland-based trainer
Carlos Garcia serves as a con¬
sultant for Seo, who intends to
take his purchases back home
to bolster his steadily expand¬
ing breeding and racing busi¬
ness.

Seo's most expensive pur¬
chase, at $30,000, was the
broodmare Deputy Lady,
a 1997 daughter of French
Deputy—Brilliant Lady, by
Brilliant Protege. The dam of
three winners from three foals

to race, Maryland-bred Deputy
Lady was in foal on an April
cover by Domestic Dispute.

Herself a stakes-placed win¬
ner, Deputy Lady is a half-
sister to 1992 Maryland-bred
Horse of the Year Brilliant
Brass ($767,051, Ladies H-G2,
Delaware H-G2, Long Look
H-G2, etc.) and additional
stakes winner He's Got Gall.

Seo's other broodmare buys
included the good Maryland-
bred stakes winner Case of the
Blues, purchased for $26,000;
the mare is carrying her fourth
foal, who will belong to the
first crop of Maryland-based
stallion Love of Money. Her
consignor was Becky Davis
Inc., agent. A 1997 daughter
of former Maryland sire In
Case, Case of the Blues (out
of Musical Cure, by Cure the
Blues) won or placed in 14
stakes, earning $499,621.

The most expensive wean¬
ling purchased by Seo was a
$25,000 Lion Hearted colt out
of Bocamis (by Miswaki), from
the Takaro Farm consignment.
A West Virginia-bred, the colt
is a half-brother to two stakes
horses, including Boca Flyer,
who won or placed in three
added-money races in the U.S.
and is also a three-time winner
in the Republic of Korea.

Maryland stallions led the
weanling sires list—Not For
Love had two offspring sell
for a total of $90,000, and
Domestic Dispute was rep¬
resented by five selling for a
total of $69,000. Both stand at
Northview Stallion Station in
Chesapeake City.

Complete results follow:

Sunday, December 2

133 sold, $782,800 gross; $5,886
average; 80 not sold; median
$3,000.

BROODMARES AND
STALLIONS

1— Out.

2— Glittering Prize; Walnut
Green, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

3— Grand Tomorrow; Better
Days Farm, Harry L. Landry
Bloodstock LLC, agt.; Sher¬
man Chin; $5,000.

58 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

4— Gold Charmer; Walnut
Green, agt.;Tomorrows Dream
Thoroughbreds; $5,700.

5— Golden Malibu; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reightler, agt.;
Country Life Farm, agt.;
$17,000.

6— Grammie's Gift; John
Franzone Jr. Racing Inc., Litz
Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

7— Grand Idea; R Kay Stables;
BC Inc.; $3,800.

8— Grand Total; Bill Reighder,
agt.; Red Apple Farm; $9,000.

9— Grassy Springs; Lewis S.
Wiley, agt.; Bob Nesteruk;
$2,000.

10— Grinamic; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Thornmar, agt.;
$15,000.

11— Harbor Cruise; Walnut
Green, agt.; $11,500; Not Sold.

12— Hawaiian Dancer; Takaro
Farm; Absolutely Genius
Bloodstock; $7,500.

13— Out.

14— Hester Prynne; Henry T.
Rathbun, Country Life Farm,
agt.; BC Inc.; $3,500.

15— Hester's Folly; Henry T.
Rathbun, Country Life Farm,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

16— High Fun; Bill Reightler,
agt.; Cary W Jackson; $1,200.

17— Holly Drive; Estate of Sam
Guiffrida, Charlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

18— Hot Alignment; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Corner
Farm, agt.; $3,000.

19— Out.

20— Fmbackinaction; Becky
Merkel, agt.; $9,000; Not Sold.

21— Immune to Gloom; Charl¬
ton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott), agt.; David Wade,
agt.; $40,000.

22— Irish Pride; Murmur Farm,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

23— Jealous Sword; Bill Reighder,
agt.; BC Inc.; $1,000.

24— Jet Prospect; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reighder, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

25— Julep Cup; Chanceland
Farm, agt.; BC Inc.; $21,000.

26— Justabout Gone; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

27— Out.

28— -Kiss Me Cat; New Farm,
Coleswood Farm Inc., agt.;
$3,000; Not Sold.

29— Lady Loose; A-l Stable, Bill
Reightler, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

30— Lake Bessie; Cut N Run
Farm, Country Life Farm, agt.;
$2,000; Not Sold.

31— Lakme; Bill Reighder, agt.;
Corner Farm, agt.; $2,200.

32— Land Tax; Becky Merkel,
agt.; William J. Discala; $2,200.

33— La Tina; litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Sherman Chin;
$3,500.

34— La Trick; Walnut Green,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

35— Out.

36— Lightening Mark; Muirfield
Ventures (Robert P. Levy),
Sally Thomas, agt.; Mara
Hagan; $2,200.

37— Like a Breeze; Sam Huff,
Becky Davis Inc., agt.; $4,500;
Not Sold.

38— Lone some Too; Springbrook
Farm, Lewis S. Wiley, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

39— Louie's Tap Dancer; Planta¬
tion Farms, agt.; Neil A. Petro-
celli; $1,600.

40— Love Has Foundaway;
Walnut Green, agt.; Thomas
Finacchio; $1,600.

41— Love My Wildcat; New
Farm, Coleswood Farm Inc.,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

42— Love the 'Do; PTK LLC,
Wynoaks Farm LLC, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

43— Loxina; Poor Richards
Stable, Becky Davis Inc., agt.;
Absolutely Genius Bloodstock;
$3,700.

44— Lure Me Out; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

45— Lyrical Beat; Fort Christo¬
pher's Thoroughbreds LLC,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

46— Madelaine; John Franzone
Jr. Racing Inc., litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

47— Maker Myth; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reighder, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

48— Withdrawn.

49— Mama Mucci; Northview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; Sherman Chin; $1,100.

50— Maria Go Round; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Sherman Chin; $3,700.

51— Maryanncan; Bill Reighder,
agt.; Corner Farm, agt.;
$6,000.

52— Memories of Madrid;
Marshall W Silverman, agt.;
$2,000; Not Sold.

53— Meringue; Northview Stal¬
lion Station/David Wade, agt.;
Charlton Bloodstock Agency;
$11,000.

54— Merryland Grad; Bill Reight¬
ler, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

55— Mesamillion; Northview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; Tom McClay, Ed Price,
agt.; $4,000.

56— Metal Blues; Takaro Farm;
Stormy Sales; $18,000.

57— Mighty Molly; Harold E.
Houchens, Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; $11,500; Not
Sold.

58— Minefinder; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

59— Miss H.; Moonestone Sales
LLC, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

60— Miss Leading; litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

61— Miss Tilghman; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Ricky Leppala; $3,000.

62— Miss tress; Tea Party Stable
Inc., Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.;
David Hawkins; $2,000.

63— Miss Waki Club; litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Barbara
Rickline; $1,200.

64— Out.

65— Monette; Estate of Sam
Guiffrida, Charlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

66— Monmore; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
International Bloodstock;
$ 2 , 200 .

67— Mooring; CandyLand,
Northview Station/David
Wade, agt.; Donna Tullner and
S. Glessnor; $2,000.

68— Ms. Aerosmith; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Denise Dommel; $12,500.

69— Musical Finale; Moonestone
Sales LLC, agt.; $18,500; Not
Sold.

70— My Buddy Bo; Walnut
Green, agt.; $2,500; Not Sold.

71— My Fief; Eugene Ford,
Country Life Farm, agt.; Valora
Kilby, agt.; $4,000.

72— Myth Maker; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reightler, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

73— Never Wrong; Burning Day¬
light Farm, Moonestone Sales
LLC, agt.; Tom McClay, Ed
Price, agt.; $2,500.

74— Of All the Nerve; Jack
Queen, River Rock Farm, agt.;
$7,000; Not Sold.

75— Old Irene; Saratoga Glen
Farm LLC, agt.; Tarry Bratton;
$ 1 , 000 .

76— Open and Shut; Harry L.
Landry Bloodstock LLC, agt.;
Robert E. Myers; $1,000.

77— Opening Address; Saratoga
Glen Farm LLC, agt.; Ed
Price; $4,000.

78— Paris Tango; Marshall W.
Silverman, agt.; Bob Nesteruk;
$4,500.

79— Out.

80— Peppy Shaker; litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Thornmar,
agt.; $10,000.

81 —Petes Hick Chick; Nor thview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; $19,000; Not Sold.

82—Pipit; Topsmeade LLC, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

TOP 10 SALES HORSES

$62,000 ch.c., 2007, Golden
Missile—Precious Queen-
ie, by Wild Zone; Thomas
J. Gallo III Sales Agency
LLC, agent; Strait Draw
Stables.

$60,000 dk.b./br.f., 2007, Not
For Love—Metal Blues,
by Cure the Blues; Takaro
Farm; Josham Farms
Limited, agent.

$55,000 gr./ro.f., 2007, Value
Plus—Timbia, by Stalwart;
Marshall W. Silverman,
agent; Buzz Chace, agent.

$40,000 gr./ro.c., 2007, Brok¬
en Vow—Jennymeg, by
Housebuster; Richard H.
Bos shard Jr., B e cky Merkel,
agent; Michael R. Duffy.

$40,000 Immune to Gloom,
dk.b./br.m., 2001, Citi-
dancer—Sad Refrain, by
Smarten; Charlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agent;
David Wade, agent.

$40,000 b.c., 2006, Point
Given—Wise Baroness, by
Wise Times; Becky Davis
Inc., agent; The Elkstone
Group LLC.

$37,000 ch.c., 2007, Domestic
Dispute—Running On
Faith, by Assert (Ire);
Becky Davis Inc., agent;
Ricky Leppala.

$35,000 ch.c., 2007, Fantasti-
cat—Miss Dreamland, by
Naevus; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agent; Flying Z
Farm.

$35,000 b.f., 2007, St Averil—
Sadler's Sarah, by Wayne
County (Ire); Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agent;
Shady Tree Stable.

$35,000 Danyross (Ire), b.m.,
1995, Danehill—Rosita,
by Bold Lad; Bittersweet
Farm, Marshall W Silver-
man, agent; Nancy Can¬
ning.

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 59

SALES RESULTS

83— Outskirts; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Nancy Canning
$4,000.

84— Out.

85— Please Come Home; Mar¬
shall W. Silverman, agt.; Ed
Price; $2,700.

86— Plum Gold; New Farm,
Coleswood Farm Inc., agt.;
Nancy Canning $2,000.

87— Polish Patty; Estate of
Dorothy N. Burnette, Country
Life Farm, agt.; Tarry Bratton;
$1,000.

88— Power of Alden; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reighder, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

89— Out.

90— Primequest; Takaro Farm;
Sung Chul Seo; $20,000.

91— Princess Franny; Thornmar,
agt.; Campania Stud; $1,500.

92— Out.

93— Pudding Lane; Bonnie Heath
Farm LLC, Becky Merkel, agt.;
Todd D. Bennett; $1,200.

94— Quiet Elegance; Bill Reight-
ler, agt.; Nancy Canning;
$15,000.

95— Rabbit Run Tootsie; Richard
H. Bosshardjr., Becky Merkel,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

96— Raise a Carter; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Pegasus
Farm; $6,500.

97— Rakeen Verdict; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reighder, agt.; Ed
Price; $1,200.

98— Randy's Delight; VMH
Stables Inc.; $9,500; Not Sold.

99— Ransom Queen; Marshall
W Silverman, agt.; Campania
Stud; $1,000.

100— -Withdrawn.

101— Regal Dancer; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; D.P. litz,
agt.; $2,500.

102— Retainage; Coppertree Farm,
Walnut Green, agt.; John Best;
$16,000.

103— Out.

104— Out.

105— Royal Ronique; Marshall W
Silverman, agt.; Tom McClay,
Ed Price, agt.; $17,000.

106— Run for Katie; Walnut
Green, agt.; Donna Tullner
and S. Glessnar; $2,500.

107— Sam's Diary; Liberation
Farm (Rob Whiteley), Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

108— Scarab Bracelet; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; $15,000;
Not Sold.

109— Scorpion Missile; Moone-
stone Sales LLC, agt.; EKQ
Stable; $10,000.

110— Secret Promise; Moonestone
Sales LLC, agt.; $4,500; Not
Sold.

111— Secret Snow; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reighder, agt.; Tarry
Bratton; $3,000.

112— Sejour; New Farm, Coles¬
wood Farm Inc., agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

113— Withdrawn.

114— Sensual Lady; Topsmeade
LLC, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

115— Shesafortunategirl; Marshall
W Silverman, agt.; Helen N.
Stearns; $1,000.

116— She's a Witch; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Barry Duncan for Bascule
Farm; $1,000.

117— Shining Leader; Burning
Daylight Farm, Moonestone
Sales LLC, agt.; Robert Lyn
Kee Chow; $1,000.

118— Out.

119— Shuffle the Deck; Liberation
Farm (Rob Whiteley), Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Cheryl Sweny; $9,000.

120— Silent Valley; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reighder, agt.;
Andrea Lematta; $2,000.

121— Silverdew; Dark Hollow,
agt.; Nancy Canning; $15,000.

122— Out.

123— Sister Michel; Northview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; H & F Bloodstock; $1,500.

124— Smart Erin; Bittersweet
Farm, Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; Summer House Farm;
$2,200.

125— Smarty; Henry T. Rathbun,
Country Life Farm, agt.; Karl
B. Johnson Sr.; $2,000.

126— Spicy Cocktail; Moonestone
Sales LLC, agt.; $9,500; Not
Sold.

127— Spirited Market; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Sung Chul Seo; $15,000.

128— Spring Place; Sally Thomas,
agt.; Nancy Canning; $2,200.

129— State Street Miss; Ryehill
Farm, litz Bloodstock Ser¬
vices, agt.; $19,000; Not Sold.

130— Stolen Crystal; Bus key's
Windmare Farm; $1,000; Not
Sold.

131— Streets of Rio; Chanceland
Farm, agt.; Jay Adcock;
$18,500.

132— Such an Angel; Hickory
Ridge Farm, Sally Thomas,
agt.; International Bloodstock;
$4,200.

133— Out.

1 34 — Out.

135— Sunday Thunder (Jpn); Dark
Hollow, agt.; William E. Riddle
Jr.; $11,000.

136— Supreme Hi; Walnut Green,
agt.; Corner Farm, agt.;
$3,200.

137— Withdrawn.

138— Symbol of Love; Foxharbor
Farm, Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; William E. Riddle Jr.;
$12,000.

139— Termly; Liberation Farm
(Rob Whiteley), Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Campania Stud; $4,000.

140— That Prospect Ends; Roe¬
down Farm, Bill Reightier, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

141— The Unforgivable; John
Franzone Jr. Racing Inc., litz
Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

142— Tiva; Walnut Green, agt.;
Helen N. Stearns; $1,400.

143— Out.

144 — Tru Gambler; Bill Reightier,
agt.; Jim Moloney; $3,500.

145— Tubacity; H. Sherry, Thomas
J. Gallo III Sales Agency LLC,
agt.; Glenn E. Brock, agt.;
$2,700.

146— Tulane Girl; Fort Christo¬
pher's Thoroughbreds LLC,
agt.; Helen N. Stearns; $1,200.

147— Turk's RegalLady; N or thview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; Sandy Anderson; $3,000.

148— Twilightinthe City; Walnut
Green, agt.; Robert E. Myers;
$1,000.

149— Two White Roses; Dark
Hollow, agt.; Edmondson
Stables; $4,500.

150— Ultimate Strike; Liberation
Farm (Rob Whiteley), Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Maryann Blazejewski;
$1,600.

151— Urn (Ind); Harry L. Landry
Bloodstock LLC, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

152— Out.

153— Out.

154— West Indies; Shamrock
Farms, agt.; Maryann Blaze¬
jewski; $1,300.

155— Wicks Island; Bill Reightier,
agt.; Carolyn Scire; $2,000.

156— Out.

157— Out.

158— Wire the Money; Walnut
Green, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

159— Wolanstonita (Chi); Charl¬
ton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott), agt.; Alistair Roden
Bloodstock; $7,000.

160— Wolfpack Fan; Tea Party
Stable Inc., Xanthus Farms
Inc., agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

161— Yesterdays touch; Bittersweet
Farm, Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

162— Your Ladyship; Walnut
Green, agt.; Maryann Blaze¬
jewski; $1,300.

163— Abid's Love; Eugene Ford,
Country Life Farm, agt.;
Kaygar Stable; $4,000.

164— Action Music; Thornmar,
agt.; Scott Kemp; $1,000.

165— A Firm Heart; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

166— Aisle Seeya; Golden Oak
Farm LLC, Harry L. Landry
Bloodstock LLC, agt.; Ricky
Leppala; $16,500.

167— Albarakat; Finale Farm,
Dark Hollow, agt.; Andrea
Lematta; $1,500.

168— Alden's Prospect; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reightier, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

169— All Apologies; John Fran¬
zone Jr. Racing Inc., Litz
Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

170— Alluring Elixir; Thunderhill
Farm; $3,900; Not Sold.

171— Angela; Coleswood Farm
Inc.; Jeffrey Minton, agt.;
$5,000.

172— Ardmore Colleen; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reightier, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

173— Augustness; Becky Merkel,
agt.; Corner Farm, agt.;
$1,500.

174— Avie Buck Trout; Tea Party
Stable Inc., Xanthus Farms

LEADING SIRES OF WEANLINGS
BY GROSS

Not For Love (2).$90,000

Domestic Dispute (5). 69,000

Golden Missile (1). 62,000

Value Plus (1). 55,000

Two Punch (3). 49,000

Fantasticat (4). 48,000

Broken Vow (1). 40,000

St Averil (2). 37,500

Gators N Bears (4). 35,000

Lion Hearted (3). 34,500

60 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Inc., agt.; Hatty L. Landty,
agt.; $1,200.

175— Awhim; Chatlton (Mt.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Luanne Riddle; $1,000.

176— Belles Champ; Litz Blood¬
stock Sendees, agt.; $10,500;
Not Sold.

177— Belle's Miss; Estate of Sam
Guiffrida, Chatlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

178— Bellus; Fort Christopher's
Thoroughbreds LLC, agt.;
Corner Farm; $2,000.

179— Best Issue; Estate of Sam
Guiffrida, Charlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

180— Out.

181— Bid's Femme; Moonestone
Sales LLC, agt.; William E.
Riddle Jr.; $3,000.

182— Blind Trust; North Wales
LLC, Moonestone Sales LLC,
agt.; Kafwain Sales; $10,500.

183— Out.

184— Out.

185— Out.

186— Out.

187— Broach; Becky Merkel, agt.;
Michael W. Baer Sr.; $4,000.

188— Brocco's Return; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Septre;
$2,200.

189— Bully's; Fort Christopher's
Thoroughbreds LLC, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

190— Calafia; Northview Stallion
Station/David Wade, agt.;
James R. Elliott; $3,000.

191— Out.

192— Careful Approach; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Nancy Canning; $9,500.

193— Carib Gal; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Liberation and
Brandywine Farms; $23,000.

194— Carnie's Dancer; Becky
Davis Inc., agt.; William J. Dis-
cala; $14,000.

195— Carolina Blue; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
$9,500; Not Sold.

196— Case of the Blues; Becky
Davis Inc., agt.; Sung Chul
Seo; $26,000.

197— Celestial Light; Bill Reightler,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

198— Celtic Breeze; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Ed Price;
$1,100.

199— Charivari; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

200— Out.

201— City Glitter; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Jonathan Sheppard; $2,500.

202— City Talk; Becky Merkel,
agt; EICQ Stable; $13,000.

203— Classy and Fast; Sally
Thomas, agt.; Tom McClay,
Ed Price, agt.; $3,000.

204— Cloudy All Day; Breezewood
Thoroughbreds; Royal B. Kraft
Sr.; $1,500.

205— Cold Tomato; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

206— Commanding Mom; North-
view Stallion Station/David
Wade, agt.; Joy Thompson;
$1,500.

207— Cool Number; Muirfield
Ventures (Robert P. Levy),
Sally Thomas, agt.; Mara
Hagan; $1,000.

208— Coquina Bay; Bill Reightler,
agt.; Denise Dommel; $15,000.

209— Out.

210— Crack the Books; Walnut
Green, agt.; Robert E. Myers;
$5,300.

211— Crafty But Sweet; Liberation
Farm (Rob Whiteley), Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Topsmeade LLC, agt.;
$3,800.

212— Crafty Compliment; libera¬
tion Farm (Rob Whiteley),
Charlton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott), agt.; Larry Suloman;
$3,200.

213— Cromwell's Run; Smitten
Farm, Chanceland Farm, agt.;
Corner Farm, agt.; $3,200.

214— Crossing Lane; Roe down
Farm, Bill Reightler, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

215— Crown Jubilee; Dark Hollow,
agt.; Heather Larson, agt.;
$9,000.

216— Curious Pleasures; Bill
Reightler, agt.; George Iaco-
vacci; $1,000.

217— D ancingRasha; Ryehill Farm,
Litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

218— Danyross (Ire); Bittersweet
Farm, Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; Nancy Canning; $35,000.

219— Dara Gold; Northview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

220— Date Tree Bay; Buskey's
Windmare Farm; Corner
Farm, agt.; $2,400.

221— Withdrawn.

222— Datzfast; Chanceland Farm,
agt.; Marjorie J. Flowers;
$2,000.

223— Day of Atonement; Coro¬
nach Farm; joy Thompson;
$4,300.

224— Dazzling Diva; Harry L.
Landry Bloodstock LLC, agt.;
Skating Lady Thoroughbreds
Ltd.; $5,000.

225— Debbie Sue; Becky Davis
Inc., agt.; $37,000; Not Sold.

226— Dema Dema Dancer; Becky
Merkel, agt.; $4,000; Not Sold.

227— Out.

228— Denied Access; Bill Reightler,
agt.; Nancy Canning; $3,300.

LEADING BUYERS BY GROSS

Sung Chul Seo (7)

Nancy Canning (13)
Straight Draw Stables (3)
John Best (7)

Ricky Leppala (6)

$142,000
121,100
112,000
81,700
65,000

Josham Farms Limited, agent (1).60,000

Buzz Chace, agent (1).55,000

Tarry Bratton (7).55,000

The Elkstone Group LLC (2).46,000

David Wade, agent (1).40,000

Michael R. Duffy (1).40,000

Ten Stable (2).40,000

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LEADING CONSIGNORS
BY AVERAGE, THREE OR MORE SOLD

Takaro Farm (6).$23,417

Thomas J. Gallo III Sales Agency, agt. (5).20,640

Becky Davis, agt. (9).16,044

Becky Merkel, agt. (15).11,593

Dark Hollow, agt. (7).11,429

Marshall W. Silverman, agt. (15).11,300

Litz Bloodstock Services, agt. (31).8,926

Chanceland Farm, agt. (8).8,038

Harry L. Landry Bloodstock LLC, agt. (7).7,857

Northview Stallion Station/David Wade, agt. (17).7,712

LEADING CONSIGNORS BY GROSS

Litz Bloodstock Services, agt. (31).$276,700

Charlton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt. (41).238,700

Becky Merkel, agt. (15).173,900

Marshall W. Silverman, agt. (15).169,500

Becky Davis, agt. (9).144,400

Takaro Farm (6).140,500

Northview Stallion Station/David Wade, agt. (17).131,100

Bill Reightler, agt. (25).114,700

Thomas J. Gallo III Sales, agt. (5).103,200

Dark Hollow, agt. (7).80,000

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 61

SALES RESULTS

229— Deputy Lady; Seaside Stable
Dispersal, Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Sung Chul Seo;
$30,000.

230— Devil's Squall; Bill Reightler,
agt.; Madeline Markunas;
$ 1 , 100 .

231— Dinner Party; Smitten Farm,
Chanceland Farm, agt.; Andrea
Lematta; $1,100.

232— Donebroke; Thornmar, agt.;
$9,500; Not Sold.

233— Out.

234 — Dovie Dee; Liberation Farm
(Rob Whiteley), Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

235— Dublin House; Kenneth M.
Brown, Becky Merkel, agt.;
$3,700; Not Sold.

236— Duffel; Dark Hollow, agt.;
Christopher Shelli, agt.; $7,000.

237— Out.

238— Earn Interest; Thornmar,
agt.; $6,500; Not Sold.

239— Easter Echo; Shamrock
Farms, agt.; $3,500; Not Sold.

240— Out.

241— E Mail Pat; Walnut Green,
agt.; Kimberly Smith Fleming;
$1,300.

242— Escape Hatch; Burning
Daylight Farm, Mo ones tone
Sales LLC, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

243— Fat Tale; Moonestone Sales
LLC, agt; $4,500; Not Sold.

244 — Fayette County; litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Dennis L.
Bybee; $3,500.

245— Fillypasser; Walnut Green,
agt.; H & F Bloodstock; $1,000.

246— Find the Tao; Chanceland
Farm, agt.; $16,000; Not Sold.

247— Out.

248— Out.

249— Out.

250— Out.

251— Fortunately Fast; Becky
Merkel, agt.; Ed Price; $2,000.

252— Frankly My Scarlet; North-
view Stallion Station/David
Wade, agt; $13,000; Not Sold.

253— Out.

254 — French Punch; Bill Reightler,
agt.; $4,500; Not Sold.

255— Full of Class; Becky Merkel,
agt.; Dawn Newman; $3,000.

256— Final Markdown; Symmetry
Ranch, Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

Monday, December 3

154 sold, $1,273,700 gross; $8,271

average; 107 not sold; median

$4,000.

WEANLINGS

257— Another Magic Man, dk.b./
br.c. Chief Seatde—Georgia
Anna; Coronach Farm; John
Best; $4,500.

258— gr./ro.f. Buddha—G I C
Verdict; Thoroughstock, agt.;
Halo Farm; $3,900.

259— b.c. Midway Road—Gold
Charmer; Walnut Green, agt.;
Kevin Conto; $1,500.

260— gr./ro.f. Freud—Gretta's
Dream; Thomas J. Gallo III
Sales Agency LLC, agt.; TG
Race/Sales; $12,000.

261— dk.b./br.c. Stormin Fever—
Grinamic; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Gerard L Artz;
$4,500.

262— b.f. City Zip—Harbor
Cruise; Walnut Green, agt.;
Riverview Farm; $8,500.

263— b.c. Vision and Verse—Hard
Core; Thoroughstock, agt.; Dr.
Donald S. Dreyfuss; $3,200.

264— b.c. Hold That Tiger—
Hawaiian Dancer; Takaro
Farm; Ten Stable; $10,000.

YEAR-BY-YEAR FIGURES FOR FASIG-TIPT0N
DECEMBER MIXED SALE SINCE ITS INAUGURAL IN 1984

Year

# sold

average

gross

RNAs

top price

2007

287

$ 7,166

$2,056,500

39%

$62,000

wlg.c. by Golden Missile

2006

338

7,924

2,678,300

34%

$95,000

wlg.c. by Tapit
wlg.c. by Two Punch

2005

375

9,328

3,497,900

32%

$140,000

brm. Your Out (by Allen's Prospect), in foal to lion Hearted

2004

363

10,640

3,862,300

21%

$160,000

wlg.c. by Malibu Moon

2003

360

7,506

2,702,300

22%

$150,000

wlg.f. by Malibu Moon

2002

378

6,557

2,478,600

30%

$103,000

wlg.f. by Silver Charm

2001

448

7,881

3,530,500

23%

$100,000

wlg.f. by Citidancer

2000

566

7,625

4,315,700

20%

$142,000

brm. Poised to Pounce (by Smarten), in foal to Polish Numbers

1999

483

11,198

5,408,700

16%

$240,000

wlg.c. by Boston Harbor

1998

437

8,423

3,680,700

15%

$120,000

brm. Final Deputy (by Deputy Minister), in foal to Two Punch

1997

428

6,273

2,685,000

18%

$75,000

brm. Truth and Beauty (by Private Terms), in foal to Two Punch

1996

391

5,831

2,280,100

14%

$65,000

brm. Lady Bering (by Lord Gaylord), in foal to Not For Love

1995

364

4,266

1,552,900

17%

$29,000

wlg.f. by Caveat

1994

346

4,688

1,621,900

14%

$33,000

wlg.f. by Star de Naskra

1993

403

5,181

2,088,100

9%

$55,000

brm. House of Love (by Deputy Minister), in foal to Carson City

1992

418

3,392

1,417,800

16%

$40,000

brm. Habar (by Track Barron), in foal to Carnivalay

1991

285

3,467

988,200

17%

$75,000

wlg.c. by Pleasant Colony

1990

226

4,075

921,100

22%

$31,000

wlg.f. by Relaunch

1989

255

4,012

1,023,000

32%

$40,000

brm. Stachys (by Northern Jove), in foal to Waquoit

1988

242

2,432

588,600

11%

$52,000

brm. Spring Social (by Spring Double), in foal to Golden Act

1987

363

2,580

936,400

15%

$40,000

brm. Wonder Mar (by Fire Dancer), in foal to El Baba

1986

333

2,744

913,800

25%

$25,000

(2) brm. Tweal (by In Reality), in foal to Gregorian;
ylg.f. by Gregorian

1985

228

2,892

659,400

24%

$31,000

brm. Chris' Venture (by ^Hawaii), in foal to It's Freezing

1984

154

4,920

757,700

30%

$50,000

3-y-o.f. Little Fuzzy (by Turn and Count)

Prices and statistics for 1995 are exclusive of Cohen dispersal\

62 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

HARLEY QUINN

Valiant Nature—Changing Prospects (Time for a Change)

New York allowance winner of $290,343

Ts

Won from distances of 6 furlongs to
I '/ 8 miles, fast and muddy tracks.

Half-brother to CARRILLON and EL VITI. Dam a
stakes-placed winning half-sister to MG2W CHIMES
BAND ($416,961), LADY DIXIE, Chimes Bird and
to the dam of millionaire FREEFOURINTERNET
and PLEASANT CHIMES ($314,252)

From the family of sires RUBIANO (champion
sprinter), RELAUNCH and GLITTERMAN

Outcross for Northern Dancer.

$500 LF, payable when foal stands & nurses

Special consideration to approved mares
Registered PA stallion ♦ Property of Norris Gelman

His Majesty

Valiant Nature

Premium Win

HARLEY QUINN

Time for a Change

Changing Prospects

Chimes

*Ribot
Flower Bowl
Lyphard

Classic Perfection

Damascus

Resolver

Mr. Prospector
Belle o’ Reason

GODSTONE EARM

I 16 LONG STRETCH RD., PINE GROVE, PA 17963 * 570-345-3595 • jbarrett@godstonefarm.com * godstonefarm.com

SALES RESULTS

265— b.c. Vision and Verse—
Heidi’s Marfie;Thoroughstock,
agt.; Snowflake Farm; $1,900.

266— Endless Wish, b.f. Weshaam
—Helen’s Bid; Back Creek
Farm; David Wantz; $3,200.

267— ch.c. Oratory—Hester
Prynne; Henry T. Rathbun,
Country Life Farm, agt.; CCS
Bloodstock; $4,000.

268— dk.b./br.f. Montbrook—
Hidden Curves; Thomas J.
Gallo III Sales Agency LLC,
agt.; $25,000; Not Sold.

269— ch.c. City Zip—Holdyour-
suspicions; Thomas J. Gallo
III Sales Agency LLC, agt.; TG
Race/Sales; $17,000.

270— Cookin Out, dk.b./br.f.
Outflanker—Home Cookin;
Bonnie Heath Farm LLC,
Becky Merkel, agt.; $9,500;
Not Sold.

271— Out.

272— Talelitesanddust, b.c. Med¬
allist—Ice Star; Howard

Schaeffer and Scott Kemp,
litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$7,500; Not Sold.

273— ch.f. Fantasticat—I’ll Never
Forget; Northview Stallion
Station/David Wade, agt.;
Flying Z Farm; $3,500.

274— Midnight Markdown, dk.b./
br.f. Final Markdown—In by
One; Lynn Johnson, Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Marjorie J. Flowers;
$1,000.

275— Out.

276— gr./ro.c. Broken Vow—Jen-
nymeg; Richard H. Bosshard
Jr., Becky Merkel, agt.; Michael
R. Duffy; $40,000.

277— ch.c. Domestic Dispute—
Joyeux Noel; Xanthus Farms
Inc., agt.; $6,000; Not Sold.

278— Out.

279— gr./ro.f. St Averil—Jubilant
Femma; litz Bloodstock Ser¬
vices, agt.; $2,000; Not Sold.

280— Badger’s Serene, b.c. The
Badger’s Comin—Kayserena;
lisa K. Lynn; $1,000; Not
Sold.

281— b.c. Regal Classic—Kilkenny
Kat; Bill Reightler, agt.; Neal
Bauman; $1,200.

282— Out.

283— Out.

284 — b.f. Outflanker—Kris Xpress;
litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

285— b.f. Honor Glide—La Belle
Dame; Bonnie Heath Farm
LLC, Becky Merkel, agt.;
$3,700; Not Sold.

286— dk.b./br.c. Fantasticat—
Lady Lear; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; $4,000; Not
Sold.

287— b.f. Eavesdropper—Lady
Livingston; Kensington Sales,
agt.; $8,000; Not Sold.

288— ch.c. Fantasticat—Lady
Penelope; litz Bloodstock Ser¬
vices, agt.; David McKathan;
$3,000.

289— dk.b./br.c. Ratified—Lady’s
Room; Kaz Hill Farm,
Topsmeade LLC, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

290— b.c. Outflanker—Lanes
Love; Litz Bloodstock Services,
agt.; Walter C. Reese; $5,200.

291— dk.b./br.f. St Averil—La
Tina; Litz Bloodstock Services,
agt.; James F. Lewis, agt.;
$2,500.

292— dk.b./br.c. Yonaguska—
Laura’s Lucky One; Becky
Merkel, agt.; $9,500; Not Sold.

293— Out.

294— dk.b./br.c. Vicar—Liese;
Jeffrey T. Minton, agt.; Joseph
W Delozier III; $1,000.

295— ch.f. Domestic Dispute—
Lightening Mark; Muirfield
Ventures (Robert P. Levy),
Sally Thomas, agt.; Ricky
Leppala; $2,000.

296— b.c. Bernstein—like It Is
Lil; Marshall W. Silverman,
agt.; David McKathan; $1,100.

297— Let’s Go Dancin, ch.f. Wise¬
man’s Ferry—Lively Madam;
Harry L. Landry Bloodstock
LLC, agt; $5,500; Not Sold.

298— ch.f. Northern Afleet—
Logical Reasoning; Bella Maria
Farm; $5,200; Not Sold.

299— dk.b./br.f. Meadow Monster
—Love Spanish; Hickory
Plains LLC; $2,000; Not Sold.

300— b.f. Strategic Mission—
Lyrical Beat; Fort Christopher’s
Thoroughbreds LLC, agt.;
$2,800; Not Sold.

301— Withdrawn.

302— b.c. Louis Quatorze—Mad
Dash; A-l Stable, Bill Reight¬
ler, agt.; Marjorie J. Flowers;
$1,000.

303— Out.

304 — Fly With Ravens, dk.b./br.c.
Dance With Ravens—Malvern
Rose; Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; $13,000; Not Sold.

305— b.f. Concerto—Manny’s
Gold Maker; Monhill Farm
LLC, agt.; $9,000; Not Sold.

306— gr./ro.c. Two Punch—
Maple; Becky Merkel, agt.;
$9,500; Not Sold.

307— ch.c. Here’s Zealous—
Marisara; Kaz Hill Farm,
Topsmeade LLC, agt.; Fly By
Night Farms; $1,000.

308— dk.b./br.f. Not For Love—
Metal Blues; Takaro Farm;
Jo sham Farms Limited, agt.;
$60,000.

309— Midnight Stalker, dk.b./
br.c. Teton Forest—Midnight

Stroll; Bella Maria Farm; Strait
Draw Stable; $30,000.

310— b.c. A. P Jet—Missalaric;
Jeffrey T. Minton, agt.; Corner
Farm, agt.; $4,500.

311— ch.f. WerbHn—Miss Dixie
Dream; Becky Merkel, agt.;
Dean Purdom; $18,000.

312— ch.c. Fantasticat—Miss
Dreamland; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Flying Z Farm;
$35,000.

313— ch.f. Tactical Cat—Miss
Leading; Litz Bloodstock Ser¬
vices, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

314 — Out.

315— dk.b./br.c. Tiznow—Miss
Waki Club; litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; John Best;
$11,000.

316— Out.

317— b.c. Wiseman’s Ferry—
M’Lady Doc; Moonestone
Sales LLC, agt.; $7,500; Not
Sold.

318— b.f. Chief Seattle—Moel;
Jeffrey T. Minton, agt.; $4,500;
Not Sold.

319— dk.b./br.f. Partner’s Hero—
Monette; Estate of Sam
Guiffrida, Charlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

320— Out.

321— Out.

322— Armistice Maker, dk.b./br.c.
No Armistice—Myth Maker;
Roedown Farm, Bill Reightler,
agt.; Mara Hagan; $1,000.

323— ch.f. Oratory—Nicole’s
Dancer; Edward and Eileen
Bowden, Becky Merkel, agt.;
$9,500; Not Sold.

324— b.c. Great Notion—Noddy’s
Halo; Becky Davis Inc., agt.;
Joseph W. Delozier III;
$1,200.

325— dk.b./br.c. lion Hearted—
One Account; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Riverview Farm;
$6,000.

326— b.f. Dance With Ravens—
One Tough Number; Becky
Davis Inc., agt.; Morgan W
Wayson Jr.; $2,500.

327— Stellas Groove, ch.f. Siphon
(Brz)—On the Buff; Howard
Schaeffer and Scott Kemp,
litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
Ricky Leppala; $3,000.

328— dk.b./br.f. Royal Academy
—Part With Pride; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; $17,000;
Not Sold.

329— b.f. D’wildcat—Party Stripes;
Harry L. Landry Bloodstock
LLC, agt; $4,500; Not Sold.

330— b.c. Victory Gallop—Pass¬
ing Vice; Liberation Farm
(Rob Whiteley), Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Donna Tullner and S. Glesner;
$5,000.

331— dk.b./br.f. Chief Seattle—
Petronia; Jeffrey T. Minton,
agt.; $2,400; Not Sold.

332— Fantasy’s Pip, dk.b./br.f.

Fantasticat—Pip’s Angel;

Joseph Ludford, litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; $1,200;
Not Sold.

333— Dot’s Dream, ch.f. Oratory—
Polish Patty; Estate of Dorothy
N. Burnette, Country Life
Farm, agt.; Morgan W Wayson
Jr.; $1,000.

334— ch.c. Golden Missile—
Precious Queenie; Thomas J.
Gallo III Sales Agency LLC,
agt.; Strait Draw Stables;
$62,000.

335— b.c. Louis Quatorze—

Primercy; Mrs. Orme Wilson
Jr., Lewis S. Wiley, agt.; Steve
Fairbaugh; $2,000.

336— Is This a Dream, b.c. Is It
True—Princess Dream; Full
House Farm, Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; H
& F Bloodstock; $1,200.

337— gr./ro.c. Two Punch—
Privately; Northview Stallion
Station/David Wade, agt.;
$22,000; Not Sold.

338— Out.

339— ch.c. Honor Glide—Pud¬
ding Lane; Bonnie Heath
Farm LLC, Becky Merkel, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

340— b.f. Louis Quatorze—Quest
Dancer; Joseph Ludford, litz
Bloodstock Services, agt.;
Candice Smith; $4,000.

341— Out.

342— gr./ro.f. Two Punch—
Rabbit Run Tootsie; Richard
H. Bosshard Jr., Becky Merkel,
agt.; Ridgeway; $15,000.

343— Rakeen Oratory, b.c. Oratory
—Rakeen Verdict; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reightler, agt.;
Morgan W. Wayson Tr.;
$1,000.

344— b.f. Ten Most Wanted—
Regal Baby; Thoroughstock,
agt.; $4,800; Not Sold.

345— gr./ro.c. Prized—Rekindled
Romance; Lewis S. Wiley, agt.;
$4,300; Not Sold.

346— b.c. Champ ali—Remiss;
Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; Peggy S.
Dellheim; $2,700.

347— Jump Ahead, b.f. Jump
Start—Ross Valay; Thomas F.
Hunt, Sally Thomas, agt.; John
Best; $18,000.

348— ch.f. Oratory—Royal Irish
Lace; Seldom Still Farm, Fort
Christopher’s Thoroughbreds
LLC, agt; $9,900; Not Sold.

349— Royal Parr Mission, ch.f.
Strategic Mission—Royal
Regina; Fort Christopher’s
Thoroughbreds LLC, agt.;
$1,900; Not Sold.

64 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

MEDFORD

MEADOWLAKE—REALLY QUICK, by IN REALITY

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Juvenile SW by leading juvenile sire Meadowlake

M edford has sired five winners from
10 starters, including stakes-placed
Medfordexpress ($38,940 at 2, 2007,
3rd WV Vincent Moscarelli Memorial
Breeders Classic S), and winners Meet
Miss Connie ($49,606), Punk Robinson
($45,936), Medford Whirl ($26,910), and
Met The Cat (debut winner at 2 by 2 ¥2
lengths).

Weighted on the Experimental
Handicap: stakes winner at 2, with two
wins (Dover S) and a stakes placing in
five starts. Placed second in the $150,000
Federico Tesio S at 3, earning $128,370.

Out of Grade 2 juvenile stakes winner
REALLY QUICK (by In Reality), half-
sister to HOPEDALE O. ($190,845) and
multiple stakes-placed Mr. Meadow.

$1,000 live foal

Payable when foal stands and nurses
Nominated to Breeders’ Cup and West Virginia Breeders Classics

Joan Belotti
703-754-8128

ONE SPARROW FARM

2008 Earle Road
Charles Town, WV 25414

Linda Conn
304-728-3198

SALES RESULTS

350— b.f. Hook and Ladder—Rum
Swizzle; Becky Merkel, agt.;
$7,000; Not Sold.

351— b.c. Candy Ride (Arg)—
Runaway McCann; Thorough-
stock, agt.; $8,800; Not Sold.

352— ch.c. Domestic Dispute—
Running On Faith; Becky
Davis Inc., agt.; Ricky Leppala;
$37,000.

353— b.c. Say Florida Sandy—
Runnin’ Numbers; Jeffrey T.
Minton, agt.; Paulette French;
$1,500.

354— b.f. St Averil—Sadler’s Sarah;
litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
Shady Tree Stable; $35,000.

355— dk.b./br.c. Here’s Zealous—
Salori; Kaz Hill Farm,
Topsmeade LLC, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

356— b.c. Great Notion—Salty
Beach; Marshall W. Silverman,
agt.; $1,500; Not Sold.

357— Talk to Her, ch.f. Artax—
Sam’s Farit; G & R Stables
LLC, Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; Gerard L.
Artz; $7,000.

358— Out.

359— Fivesixseven, b.c. Civilisation
—Saucy Tillie; Safe Haven;
$1,000; Not Sold.

360— b.c. Seeking Daylight—
Savvy Lady; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; Sung Chul Seo;
$10,000.

361— b.c. Perfect Soul (Ire)—
Scarab Bracelet; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Sung Chul
Seo; $16,000.

362— dk.b./br.c. Chapel Royal—
Sea View Picture; Lewis S.
Wiley, agt; $14,000; Not Sold.

363— Parker’s Secret, dk.b./br.c.
Parker’s Storm Cat—Secret
Snow; Roe down Farm, Bill
Reightler, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

364— dk.b./br.f. Fantasticat—
Send Me Roses; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
James F. Lewis, agt.; $6,500.

365— Out.

366— Out.

367— dk.b./br.f. Catienus—Show
the Mark; Moonestone Sales
LLC, agt.; Caroline Pugh;
$10,000.

368— ch.f. Vicar—Shuffle the
Deck; Liberation Farm (Rob
Whiteley), Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Charles R. Jefferis; $3,500.

369— Silent Storm Cat, dk.b./br.c.
Parker’s Storm Cat—Silent
Valley; Roedown Farm, Bill
Reightler, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

370— Limehouse Silver, dk.b./
br.f. Limehouse—Silver N
Satin; At Last Farm LLC,

Litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$27,000; Not Sold.

371— gr./ro.c. Siphon (Brz)—
Silvery Lady; Howard
Schaeffer and Scott Kemp,
Litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
Marjorie J. Flowers; $1,000.

372— ch.c. Lycius—Simply Geral¬
dine; Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; The Elkstone Group
LLC; $6,000.

373— gr./ro.f. Honor Glide—
Sister I’m a Poet; Bonnie Heath
Farm LLC, Becky Merkel, agt.;
Box Arrow Farm; $1,500.

374— b.f. Domestic Dispute—
Sister Michel; Northview Stal¬
lion Station/David Wade, agt.;
Strait Draw Stables; $20,000.

375— Out.

376— dk.b./br.f. Devil His Due—
Slewzy Floozy; Tea Party
Stable Inc., Xanthus Farms
Inc., agt.; Kimberly Smith
Fleming; $5,000.

377— dk.b./br.c. Dance With
Ravens—Smarty; Henry T.
Rathbun, Country life Farm,
agt.; Morgan W Ways on Jr.;
$2,500.

378— b.c. Here’s Zealous—Storm
in Philly; Kaz Hill Farm,
Topsmeade LLC, agt.; Pretty
Pony Farm; $1,000.

379— b.c. Buddha—Such an
Angel; Hickory Ridge Farm,
Sally Thomas, agt.; Vicki’s Boy
Syndicate; $1,300.

380— Out.

381— b.f. Two Punch—Sunday
Best; Doreen Ottaviani, Becky
Merkel, agt.; Tarry Bratton;
$25,000.

382— Out.

383— Out.

384— b.c. Mutakddim—Sweet
Stroke; Thoroughstock, agt.;
Stormy Weather Farm; $2,700.

385— dk.b./br.c. Louis Quatorze—
Swing Together; Murmur
Farm, agt.; Marjorie J. Flowers;
$1,000.

386— dk.b./br.f. Eurosilver—
Symbol of Love; Foxharbor
Farm, Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; Randy Knerr; $7,000.

387— Sweet Halucination, ch.c.
Domestic Dispute—Syrian
Dish; Thunderhill Farm; James
F. Lewis, agt.; $7,000.

388— gr./ro.c. St Averil—Tactical
Tabby; Litz Bloodstock Ser¬
vices, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

389— Out.

390— b.f. Closing Argument—
Tank’s Joy; Becky Merkel, agt.;
$14,000; Not Sold.

391— b.f. Gators N Bears—Tap
On Quality; Audley Farm,
Charlton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott), agt.; Morgan W.
Wayson Jr.; $1,000.

392— Withdrawn.

393— b.f. Aptitude—Termly;
Liberation Farm (Rob White-
ley), Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; Brandywine
Farm; $10,000.

394 — gr./ro.f. Buddha—Theresa’s
Storm; Monhill Farm LLC,
agt.; $9,500; Not Sold.

395— ch.c. Fantasticat—Tiger in
My Tank; Marshall W Silver-
man, agt.; $9,000; Not Sold.

396— gr./ro.f. Value Plus—Timbia;
Marshall W Silverman, agt.;
Buzz Chace, agt.; $55,000.

397— b.c. Sligo Bay (Ire)—Tiva;
Walnut Green, agt.; Heather
Larson, agt.; $1,000.

398— b.f. Werblin—Tom’s Crab
Cakes; Becky Merkel, agt.;
$5,500; Not Sold.

399— Badger’s Truth, ch.c.
The Badger’s Comin—
Truthfulness; Lisa K. Lynn;
$1,000; Not Sold.

400— b.c. Good and Tough—
Tulane Girl; Fort Christopher’s
Thoroughbreds LLC, agt.;
Investment Thoroughbreds
Ltd.; $5,000.

401— gr./ro.f. Roar of the Tiger—
Tutu; Tonya Jurgens, agt. IX;
$4,500; Not Sold.

402— b.c. Vicar—Ultimate
Strike; Liberation Farm (Rob
Whiteley), Charlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; Ricky
Leppala; $3,500.

403— b.f. Omega Code—Virtuous
Lass; Kensington Sales, agt.;
$1,400; Not Sold.

404 — b.c. Rock Slide—Waiting for
Sophia (Ire); Shamrock Farms,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

405— b.c. Dance With Ravens—
What Else; Gordon C. Keys,
Bill Reightler, agt.; $9,500; Not
Sold.

406— b.c. Fantasticat—Widow
Women; Robert L. Losey,
Shamrock Farms, agt.; $1,400;
Not Sold.

407— Wild Man Walkin, b.c.
lion Hearted—Wildalot; Bill
Reightler, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

408— Out.

409— b.c. Civilisation—Will Be
There; Safe Haven; Louis
Petrie, Walnut Green, agt.;
$3,000.

410— b.f. Storm Boot—Wire the
Money; Walnut Green, agt.;
Katherine Y. Hutchinson;
$6,500.

411— Out.

412— ch.c. Domestic Dispute—
Yesterdays touch; Bittersweet
Farm, Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; $2,000; Not Sold.

413— ch.c. Hold That Tiger—
Abby Curestheblues; Moone¬
stone Sales LLC, agt.; David
McKathan; $7,000.

414— Affirm the Tiger, ch.c.
Hold That Tiger—Affirm
Foundation; Jill Manno and
Robert Reiiley, Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
$9,000; Not Sold.

415— b.c. Changeintheweather—
Afilly Named Jilly; Xanthus
Farms Inc., agt.; Stephen
Mehrbach; $6,500.

416— Out.

417— dk.b./br.c. Tomorrows Cat
—A Girls Gotta Eat; Mr.
and Mrs. Michael Miller
and Howard Schaeffer, litz
Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

418— Out.

419— dk.b./br.f. Gold Token—
Alessia’s Song; Fort Chris¬
topher’s Thoroughbreds LLC,
agt.; $4,400; Not Sold.

420— Out.

421— Undisputed Sara, dk.b./br.f.
Domestic Dispute—Aly Sara;
Apple Tree Stables Inc., Bill
Reightler, agt.; $14,500; Not
Sold.

422— b.c. Toccet—Amazing Turn;
Litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
Peggy S. Dellheim; $1,000.

423— b.f. Officer—Anagalia;
Audley Farm, Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
John Best; $16,500.

424— ch.c. Western Expression—
Andover Sweep; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Clovis Crane; $2,000.

425— b.f. Lite the Fuse—AnettaJ;
Wright Good Farm, Marshall
W Silverman, agt.; Clovis
Crane; $8,000.

426— b.f. The Cliff’s Edge—Angel
Kisses; Lewis S. Wiley, agt.;
$9,500; Not Sold.

427— gr./ro.f. Buddha—Antici¬
pating Jade; Thoroughstock,
agt.; Dr. Donald S. Dreyfuss;
$4,700.

428— b.f. During—Apocalyptic;
Moonestone Sales LLC, agt.;
$14,500; Not Sold.

429— Out.

430— b.c. Dance With Ravens—
Aroma; Northview Stallion
Station/David Wade, agt.;
$1,900; Not Sold.

431— Out.

432— No Assault, b.c. No Armis¬
tice—Assault John; Roedown
Farm, Bill Reightler, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

433— ch.c. Langfuhr—Back It Up;
Sally Thomas, agt.; John Best;
$10,000.

434— b.f. Chief Seattle—Baederbe;
litz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$4,500; Not Sold.

435— b.f. Oratory—Bar the Way;
Spring Meadow Farm, Bill
Reightler, agt.; Country life
Farm, agt.; $20,000.

66 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Leading WV sire by WV-bred Juvenile sire production index
•Top ten leading sire by WV-bred earnings • Total progeny
earnings of $1,311,933 • 10% stakes horses in 2007

Sire of 27 winners from 41 starters, including
multiple stakes-placed Arlington allowance
winner Zitlaly ($212,326), Paddle’s Big
Girl ($86,508,7 wins by more than 35
lengths total), Oak Hill Princess ($67,431),
Burnwell Princess (2nd Triple Crown
Nutrition Breeders Classic S at 2,2007) and
allowance winners DR. BARCH ($91,708),

BOLD EMANCIPATOR ($97,018), AVRIL,
LUSITANIA, CUSTOMIZE, HONEY ISLAND, etc.

By juvenile champion and leading sire FORTY NINER,
out of juvenile Grade 1 winner CONTREDANCE

Sire line and family of leading sire
END SWEEP

$1,500 live foal
Standing at

BLUE SPRUCE FARM

495 Wiltshire Road, Kearneysville, WV 25430

Inquiries to John F. Jones 800-543-4287 or

Joe & Kate Painter (304) 728-4094, fax (304) 724-5276

www.emancipator.net

“The six Emancipator 2-year-olds I have in
training are all correct and well-mannered. ”
Trainer Susan Cooney

“My veterinarian commented that my 2005
colt by Emancipator is one of the best colts
she’s seen. ” Breeder Walter Holloway

SALES RESULTS

436— b.c. Great Notion—Belle's
Miss; Estate of Sam Guiffrida,
Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; David
McKathan; $1,700.

437— b.c. Good and Tough—
Bellus; Fort Christopher's
Thoroughbreds LLC, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

438— ch.f. Wiseman's Ferry—Bid
On Love; Litz Bloodstock
Services, agt.; $7,000; Not
Sold.

439— gr./ro.c. Buddha—Blind
River; Thoroughstock, agt.; Dr.
Donald S. Dreyfuss; $2,000.

440— dk.b./br.f. Zavata—Boca
Chita; Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; Bunnie
Blizzard, Ed Phelps, agt.;
$2,200.

441— dk.b./br.c. Don Hearted—
Bocamis; Takaro Farm; Sung
Chul Seo; $25,000.

442— Bold Toccet, dk.b./br.c.
Toccet—Bold N Dark;
Becky Merkel, agt.; Danzel
Brendemuehl and Sue Vitro;
$22,000.

443— Out.

444— ch.c. Devil His Due—Boot-
siebluebear; John Nash, Charl¬
ton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; $5,500; Not Sold.

445— b.c. Gators N Bears—
Boston Lass; V. Beam, Dtz
Bloodstock Services, agt.; CCS
Bloodstock; $16,000.

446— ch.c. Ground Storm—
Bound to Love; Thorough-
stock, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

447— gr./ro.f. Even the Score—
Brunswick Star; Howard
Schaeffer and Scott Kemp,
Dtz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$3,500; Not Sold.

448— dk.b./br.c. Good and
Tough—Bully's; Fort Chris¬
topher's Thoroughbreds LLC,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

449— ch.f. Action This Day—
Busy Mis; Robert L. Losey,
Shamrock Farms, agt.; $1,400;
Not Sold.

450— ch.c. La Reine's Terms—By
Invitation Only; Bill Reightler,
agt.; Joseph Besecker; $1,500.

451— Out.

452— b.f. Dance With Ravens—
Calafia; Northview Stallion
Station/David Wade, agt.;
Martha H. Schwartz; $2,500.

453— Out.

454 — b.c. Freud—Call Your Bid;
Thomas J. Gallo III Sales
Agency LLC, agt.; $7,000; Not
Sold.

455— b.c. Gators N Bears—
Canadian Halo; Dtz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Dr. Philip
J. Torsney Jr.; $10,500.

456— Out.

457— b.c. Rock Slide—Carnie's
Dancer; Becky Davis Inc., agt.;
James F. Lewis; $5,000.

458— b.f. Domestic Dispute—
Case of the Blues; Becky Davis
Inc., agt.; $21,000; Not Sold.

459— Out.

460— ch.f. Ecton Park—Chasea-
fallenstar; Hickory Ridge Farm,
Sally Thomas, agt.; Gerard L.
Artz; $1,200.

461— b.c. Artax—Chief Little
Dan; Harry L. Landry Blood¬
stock LLC, agt.; Mara Hagan;
$1,500.

462— Out.

463— ch.f. Here's Zealous—Clear
Water River; Kaz Hill Farm,
Topsmeade LLC, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

464— ch.f. Crafty Friend—
Colonial Dame; Stoneledge
Stables, Lewis S. Wiley, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

465— Out.

466— ch.c. Eddington—Crafty
Brat; Becky Davis Inc., agt.;
Simply Runaway Bloodstock;
$15,000.

467— ch.c. Leroidesanimaux
(Brz)—Crafty But Sweet; Db-
eration Farm (Rob Whiteley),
Charlton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott), agt.; Joseph Besecker;
$13,500.

468— Crossing Cat, b.f. Parker's
Storm Cat—Crossing Lane;
Roedown Farm, Bill Reighder,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

469— Out.

470— b.c. Read the Footnotes—
Cudass Miss; Becky Merkel,
agt.; Tarry Bratton; $18,000.

471— b.f. Gold Token—Cyber
Rona; Monhill Farm LLC, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

472— Out.

473— ch.f. Midas Eyes—Damask
Steel (Arg); Wolf Pen LLC,
Moonestone Sales, agt.; A.
Gordon-Watson; $6,500.

474— ch.f. Meadow Monster—
Dancing Rasha; Ryehill Farm,
Dtz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

475— b.f. Grand Reward—Danc¬
ing With Fire; Harry L. Landry
Bloodstock LLC, agt.; Nancy
Canning; $20,000.

476— Withdrawn.

477— b.c. Bowman's Band—
Dangerously Close; Northview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; Classic Bloodstock;
$20,000.

478— dk.b./br.c. Rock Slide—
Danyross (Ire); Bittersweet
Farm, Marshall W Silverman,
agt.; Joseph Besecker; $10,000.

479— gr./ro.c. Two Punch—
Datzfast; Chanceland Farm,
agt.; Harry C. Nye III; $9,000.

480— Amends, b.c. Trippi—Day
of Atonement; Coronach
Farm; John Best; $5,700.

481— b.c. Prime Timber—Deeply
Smitten; Harry L. Landry
Bloodstock LLC, agt.; Tarry
Bratton; $6,000.

482— Out.

483— Devil's Off Duty, dk.b./br.c.
Sunday Break (Jpn)—Devil's
Hold; Full House Farm,
Charlton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott), agt.; Willow Racing
LLC; $7,500.

484— ch.c. Gators N Bears—
Dinner Date; Becky Merkel,
agt.; Clovis Crane; $7,500.

485— b.f. Purple Passion—Duke's
Enya; Hickory Plains LLC;
$1,000; Not Sold.

486— ch.c. A. P Jet—Elegant
Moment; Jeffrey T. Minton,
agt.; Margo Stratis; $2,500.

487— b.f. Toccet—Elusive; Audley
Farm, Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; Larry R.
Fritts Sr.; $5,000.

488— dk.b./br.f. Sarava—E Mail
Pat; Walnut Green, agt.; Tarry
Bratton; $1,000.

489— dk.b./br.c. Is It True—
Entoria; Hickory Plains LLC;
$1,000; Not Sold.

490— ch.f. Luftikus—Estate Vouv-
ray; Glen McDowell Farm,
Dtz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

491— b.f. Gators N Bears—
Excessivelycasual; Becky
Merkel, agt.; $7,000; Not Sold.

492— b.c. Dance With Ravens—
Fancy Sheba; Northview Stal¬
lion Station/David Wade, agt.;
Gilbraltar Group; $20,000.

493— b.f. Don Hearted—Fayette
County; Northview Stallion
Station/David Wade, agt.;
Gerard L. Artz; $3,500.

494— ch.f. Not For Love—
Femma; Northview Stallion
Station/David Wade, agt.; Ten
Stable; $30,000.

495— Out.

496— dk.b./br.c. Candy Ride (Arg)
—Flying Tigress; Thorough-
stock, agt.; Nancy Canning;
$6,000.

497— b.f. Domestic Dispute—
Forgo tab outit; Northview
Stallion Station/David Wade,
agt.; Joseph Besecker; $3,000.

498— dk.b./br.c. Dance With
Ravens—Frankly My Scarlet;
Northview Stallion Station/
David Wade, agt.; David
McKathan; $1,500.

499— b.f. Mazel Trick—Frederick
Fair; Hickory Plains LLC;
Edmund Baxter; $1,000.

500— ch.f. Bop—French Punch;
Bill Reighder, agt.; $9,500; Not
Sold.

YEARLINGS

501— b.f. Explicit—Glorious
Purple; Tea Party Stable Inc.,
Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.; Jay
Bang; $4,700.

502— Mo Anam Cara, gr./ro.f.
With Approval—Gracefully
Stated; Glen McDowell Farm,
Dtz Bloodstock Services, agt.;
East Oaks Stables; $2,500.

503— b.c. Ten Most Wanted—Ice
Star; Tea Party Stable Inc.,
Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

504— Out.

505— dk.b./br.f. Gold Token—
Lilly Nilly; Thomas J. Gallo
III Sales Agency LLC, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

506— b.c. Dl's Lad—-Pi's Lass;
Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.; Stan
Severight; $1,300.

507— dk.b./br.f. More Than
Ready—Dszy; Walnut Green,
agt.; Jay Bang; $1,200.

508— Out.

509— Manhattan Shadow, ch.c.
Explicit—Monthrooke Belle;
Bill Zimmer and Barbara
Harling, Becky Merkel, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

510— Wildcat Ginny, ch.f. Kokand
—Moonlight Maiden; Richard
Harris; Steven K. Reed;
$2,200.

511— Out.

512— b.c. Quarry—Over My
Limit; Tea Party Stable Inc.,
Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

513— Miss Criglersville, dk.b./br.f.
Parker's Storm Cat—Plantation
Girl; Richard Harris; $1,000;
Not Sold.

514— A Bit Charmed, b.c.
Parker's Storm Cat—Polish
Patty; Estate of Dorothy N.
Burnette, Country Dfe Farm,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

515— Bright Id, dk.b./br.f. Bright
Launch—Press Id; Xanthus
Farms Inc., agt.; Dennis F.
Jackson; $1,000.

516— ch.g. Pure Prize—Punchout;
Walnut Green, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

517— Verdict No, b.c. No Armis¬
tice—Rakeen Verdict; Roe-
down Farm, Bill Reightler, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

518— ch.f. Victory Gallop—Reina
de Reyes; Tea Party Stable
Inc., Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.;
Michael E. Gorham; $5,200.

519— Withdrawn.

520— Meredith Angel, ch.f.
Kokand—Rosemarie's Joy;
Richard Harris; Danny P.
Diwer; $3,000.

521— dk.b./br.f. Scrimshaw—
Sculptress; Marshall W Silver-
man, agt.; $4,000; Not Sold.

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522— Snow Secret Gin, dk.b./br.c.
Parker’s Storm Cat—Secret
Snow; Roe down Farm, Bill
Reightler, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

523— Out and About, dk.b./
br.g Outflanker—Send Me
Roses; Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; Jay Bang
$4,000.

524 — Out.

525— Valley Storm Cat, dk.b./br.c.
Parker’s Storm Cat—Silent
Valley; Roedown Farm, Bill
Reightler, agt.; $1,000; Not
Sold.

526— dk.b./br.c. Not For Love—
Silverdew; Dark Hollow, agt.;
Sigmund Margulies; $32,000.

527— Jiggsie, b.f. Stephen Got
Even—Slewzy Floozy; John
Nash, Charlton (Mr. and Mrs.
Rick Abbott), agt.; Donna
Tullner and S. Glessner;
$5,300.

528— No Sound, dk.b./br.f. No
Armistice—Sound Ambition;
Roedown Farm, Bill Reightler,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

529— dk.b./br.f. Say Florida Sandy
—Sweetie; Tea Party Stable
Inc., Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

530— Withdrawn.

531— dk.b./br.c. Kafwain—
Unbridled Bird; Litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; Jay Bang
$5,000.

532— Out.

533— Out.

534— b.c. Point Given—Wise
Baroness; Becky Davis Inc.,
agt.; The Elkstone Group
LLC; $40,000.

535— dk.b./br.c. Quarry—
Wolfpack Fan; Tea Party Stable
Inc., Xanthus Farms Inc., agt.;
Charlton Bloodstock Agency;
$1,200.

536— b.f. Cocky—Aetheling;
Kensington Sales, agt.; Kevin
Conto; $1,000.

537— Out.

538— Summer Sun, b.f. Freud—
Becky’s Prospect; Marshall W
Silverman, agt.; Michael E.
Gorham; $7,000.

539— dk.b./br.c. Behrens—Bellus;
Fort Christopher’s Thorough¬
breds LLC, agt.; Jay Bang;
$2,000.

540— ch.f. Catienus—But; Thomas
J. Gallo III Sales Agency LLC,
agt.; Heather Larson, agt.;
$9,500.

541— gr./ ro.f. Domestic Dispute—
Caro City; Dark Hollow, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

542— Rachel’s Cat, dk.b./br.f.
Parker’s Storm Cat—Clever
Rache; Spring Meadow Farm,
Bill Reighder, agt.; Robert J.
Reilley Jr.; $1,000.

543— dk.b./br.g. Quarry—Fiesty
Jones; Xanthus Farms Inc.,
agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

544— R and D’s, b.c. A. P Jet—
Flying Waquoit; Estate of
Dorothy N. Burnette, Country
Life Farm, agt.; George H.
Tourangeau; $1,000.

HORSES OF
RACING AGE

545— Out.

546— Out.

547— Karli’s No Devil; Sally
Thomas, agt.; $5,500; Not
Sold.

548— Kinfolk; James M. Dinan
and Phantom House Farm,
Forbes and McBurney, agt.;
Two Rivers Stable; $5,500.

549— Kolohe; Country life Farm,
agt.; Van D. Pham; $2,200.

550— Late Launch; Chanceland
Farm, agt.; Richard Hendriks;
$6,500.

551— Looselipssailships; Becky
Merkel, agt.; $14,000; Not
Sold.

552— Loudoun County; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; Nancy Canning; $5,000.

553— Lucky Roulette; James M.
Dinan and Phantom House
Farm, Forbes and McBurney,
agt.; Dennis F. Jackson;
$ 2 , 200 .

554— Page Six Obsessed; Sally
Thomas, agt.; Joseph Be seeker;
$2,800.

555— Out.

556— Out.

557— Out.

558— Quick Strike; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Nancy Canning; $1,100.

559— Out.

560— Royal Discovery; Bill
Reighder, agt.; Hume Stables;
$1,500.

561— Out.

562— Send Help; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Craig Nicholson; $3,000.

563— Sticks and Stones; Charlton
(Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott),
agt.; $9,500; Not Sold.

564 — Out.

565— Sweetie Cat; Breezewood
Thoroughbreds; Stan Seve-
right; $1,500.

566— Out.

567— Out.

568— Town Talk; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Neil A. Petrocelli; $2,500.

569— Try Her; Charlton (Mr.
and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.;
Matthew T. Groff; $7,000.

570— Vivacious Vamp; Bill
Reighder, agt.; Nancy Canning;
$3,000.

571— Out.

572— You a Cat; PTK LLC,
Wynoaks Farm LLC, agt.;
$1,000; Not Sold.

573— Affaires d’Etat; Glen
McDowell Farm, litz Blood¬
stock Services, agt.; $1,000;
Not Sold.

514 —Afunkyreggieparty; Becky
Merkel, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

575— Cappunch; Chanceland
Farm, agt.; Joseph Besecker;
$3,000.

576— Cosmo Kramer; Becky
Merkel, agt.; $1,000; Not Sold.

577— Out.

578— Out.

579— Donatella Power; Theresa
Hanley/Innish Moor Farm;
$1,000; Not Sold.

580— Out.

581— Egypt; Charlton (Mr. and
Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt.; George
H. Tourangeau; $2,000.

582— Flyinwithobrien; James M.
Dinan and Phantom House
Farm, Forbes and McBurney,
agt.; Two Rivers Stable;
$2,500.

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’CHASING ABOUT byjoe Clancy Jr.

It’s a brand-new
day with
Good Night Shirt

E ach year at the Colonial
Cup, American steeple¬
chase racing ends the sea¬
son with a mix of champion¬
ship implications, tradition and
southern hospitality The 2007
edition added a torch-passing.

Maryland-bred Good Night
Shirtwon the $150,000 Colonial
Cup-NSAl on November 18
at Springdale Race Course in
Camden, S.C., setting a single¬
season earnings record for an
American steeplechaser and
displacing horse of the decade
McDynamo.

Sixth in the Cup, McDy¬
namo retired after seven sea¬
sons, three Eclipse Awards
and more than $1.3 million in
earnings. McDynamo’s retire¬
ment at the age of 10 closed a
chapter in steeplechase history.
Good Night Shirt’s ascension
during his 6-year-old campaign
opened one.

“Better, younger, stronger
horses are going to get their
turns,” said Michael Moran,
McDynamo’s owner.

“McDynamo is a great
horse, but he’s got a great horse

taking his place,” said Willie
Dowling, Good Night Shirt’s
jockey.

The two horses came to the
Colonial Cup with the Eclipse
Award hanging in the balance.
Win, and claim it. Lose, and be
relegated to second-best.

Good Night Shirt had two
earlier Grade 1 victories (one
over McDynamo) in 2007 for
owner Sonny Via and train¬
er Jack Fisher. McDynamo
roared his season to life with
a fifth consecutive win in the
Breeders’ Cup Grand National-
NSA1 at Far Hills a month
before the Colonial Cup.

Fourth in the Breeders’ Cup
after being rank early, Good
Night Shirt made amends by
taking control of the Colonial
Cup after four fences, immedi¬
ately ending any thoughts that
he might become unsettled or
allow McDynamo to dictate.
Dowling let the rangy chestnut
ease past McDynamo and into
the lead as the field of eight ran
past the stands for the first time.

The sprawling Springdale
layout (unchanged since 1970)
includes 17 fences made of
packed pine branches. No
fence is jumped twice. Horses
gallop and jump, gallop and
jump, gallop and jump. The
two and three-quarter-mile race
tests speed and stamina like no
other American steeplechase.

Good Night Shirt took
the lead approaching the fifth
fence and stayed there. Turning
into the long, crucial, five-fence
backstretch, Good Night Shirt
calmly held the advantage with
McDynamo keeping pace. The
leader, making his first start over
the course, blasted through the
ninth fence and looked vulner¬
able—until he flew the 10th,
rebuilt the lead, and re stoked
his energy reserves.

Good Night Shirt led
through the sweeping final turn
and braced for a flock of chal¬
lengers in the stretch. McDyna¬
mo tried yet again, but got
within only a length as the field
bunched for the final two fences.
Three Carat rallied on the out¬
side, Sovereign Duty on the
inside, Gliding (NZ) and Ori¬
son just in behind. Six horses
jumped the last within two
lengths of each other, and from
there Good Night Shirt simply
maintained his momentum to
score by two and a quarter
lengths in 5:19V£>. Pennsylvania-
bred Three Carat advanced to
second, with Sovereign Duty
settling for third.

The winner earned $90,000
with the victory, to raise his
total to $314,163 for the year.
The gaudy seasonal earnings
surpassed the record held by
the Irish mare Grabel, who
won a single rich race in 1990.

Good Night Shirt made five
starts in 2007 (all in Grade
1 company) and finished with
three wins (the Iroquois, Lone¬
some Glory and Colonial Cup),
a second (beaten a neck in the
Royal Chase) and a fourth.

Relaxation keyed the Colo¬
nial Cup score.

“What a great horse,” Dow¬
ling said afterward. “I thought
the Iroquois was the best day of

72 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Mon Villez (Fr) (Carl Rafter, left) caught up with leader Preemptive Strike at the final
jump before sprinting to victory in the Noel Laing Stakes at the Montpelier hunt races.

my life, and now this. He went
to the front, and he looked at
that fence, and said, ‘Oh, I can
slow down a bit now/ He was
much better in front than he
was behind/’

The winner also appreciated
the fast, dry ground at Camden
and had no trouble with the
nearly three-mile distance.

“Turning for home, he still
had loads left,” said Dowling.
“It went down to those last
two; he jumped those well and
he galloped all the way to the
line. He doesn’t get tired, but
he was better on the ground
today. The soft ground at Far
Hills [for the Breeders’ Cup]
was tough on him.”

Bred by leading Maryland
breeders Tom and Chris Bow¬
man, Good Night Shirt is a son
of Breeders’ Cup Classic-Gl
winner Concern, a multimil¬
lionaire who stood at North-
view Stallion Station before
moving to Oklahoma in the
fall of 2003.

Good Night Shirt won
twice on the flat at Pimlico as a
3-year-old for Sean Clancy and
Lizzie Merryman, who bought
the horse from the Bowmans
and trainer Vince Moscarelli
in 2004.

Sold to Via, of Free Union,
Va., and sent to Fisher, Good
Night Shirt made his steeple¬
chase debut the next year (win¬
ning twice in seven starts). He
graduated to stakes winner in
2006 and earned the title of
Maryland-bred champion stee¬
plechaser, but bypassed the fall
season when Fisher didn’t like
the looks of a leg.

The 2007 campaign started
in Keeneland’s Royal Chase in
April. With two Fisher horses in
the race, first-call jockey Xavier
Aizpuru chose Paradise’s Boss
(who had won a stakes the
previous month)—leaving
Dowling the ride on Good
Night Shirt. Mixed Up got the
win, defeating the hard-charg¬
ing Good Night Shirt a neck
with Paradise’s Boss another
neck back in third. Three
weeks later, Good Night Shirt
(now firmly Dowling’s ride)

won the Iroquois. Held out of
the summer stakes in favor of
a fall campaign, he returned to
take the Lonesome Glory at
Belmont Park in September.

Dowling drove a truck and
trailer to Camden for Fisher,
and works in the trainer’s
Butler, Md., barn all week. He
rides races on the weekends,
but finished 2007 with just five
wins from 52 rides. Aizpuru,
on the other hand, wound up
champion jockey with 22 wins.
The Irish-born Dowling heard
whispers of a possible change.

“It must have been so hard
for Jack and Sonny to keep me
on that horse when they’ve got
Xav,” said Dowling. “He’s win¬
ning races, and here’s me strug¬
gling along trying to win races.
I felt the pressure. They could
have put him on the horse any
time.”

Fisher minimized the pres¬
sure by repeatedly telling his
jockey he had nothing to lose.
There were no expectations, no
demands, no grandiose plans
of taking down McDynamo. If
it happened, wonderful. If not,
so be it. The trainer couldn’t
have been more pleased with
the results.

Ground and tactics (the
decision to stalk McDynamo
took something away from
Good Night Shirt) beat the
horse at Far Hills, the trainer
said. And Dowling rode just
fine.

“They fit well together,”
said Fisher. “Willie just sits
there, doesn’t do anything, and
some horses like that. You can
almost hear [Good Night Shirt]
say, ‘Leave me alone and don’t
mess with me. I know what to
do.’ And it works.”

Good Night Shirt packs
plenty of air in his big body, and
refuses to get tired—especially
when running within himself
and happily galloping along.

Restraining him behind
horses wastes energy, though
he will sit off a fast pace.

“He just keeps going,” said
Fisher after the Colonial Cup.
“He was taking shots at fences
today and it didn’t bother him.

After he jumped one bad
though, he jumped the next one
well, which was good to see.”

For Via, the victory capped
a stellar season—he ended up
the year’s champion owner (by
just $1,498 over Bill Pape). Via
and his wife, Ann, raced their
first steeplechase horses in 1998
(winning one race and $12,100)
with trainer Ricky Hendriks.
They switched the runners to
Fisher in 2003 and campaigned
a stable of just three jumpers in
2007. The trio earned $370,013
with four wins, five seconds
and two thirds. Good Night
Shirt was the only stakes winner
and the true star—a fact not
lost on his owner.

“It’s nice to be a part of
it all, but I actually think the
horse knows what he’s accom¬
plished,” said Via. “And he’s got
to be pretty proud of himself.”

COLONIAL
CUP NOTES

In other action at Camden,
Timber Bay Farm’s Slew’s Peak
won her final jump start for
trainer Jonathan Sheppard in
the $25,000 Sport of Queens
Stakes. The mare will be bred to
Artie Sduller this year... Alnoff
Stable’s Be Certain won the
Raymond G. Woolfe Memorial
for 3-year-old hurdlers for
trainer Tom Voss. The son of
Thunder Gulch was making his

second career jump start. . .
Champion trainer Fisher tripled
on the day, while Voss capped a
superb fall run with a double
(he went ll-for-27 over the
season’s final seven weeks).

MONTPELIER
BELONGS TO
MON VILLEZ

The traditional season-ender
in Virginia, the Montpelier hunt
races, turned into another tour
around the course for Calvin
Houghland’s Mon Villez (Fr)
on November 3. Trained by
Bruce Miller, Mon Villez won
the $35,000 Noel Laing Stakes
for the third consecutive year.
Carl Rafter rode the chestnut,
who thrives over the natural
hedge jumps at Montpelier.

Mon Villez sat off the
pace of Preemptive Strike
and worked his way through
the field before reaching the
leader at the last fence. Mon
Villez soared over it, as usual,
and sprinted home to win by a
length in 5:12% for the two and
a half miles. Gliding rallied for
second with Preemptive Strike
fading to third.

“It’s the distance and the
jumps,” said Miller. “You can go
through [the fences], but going
over them you gain another
length with every stride the way
he does it. He’s such a good

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 73

’CHASING ABOUT continued

jumper. He’s scopey and he just
loves this course.”

Mon Villez is winless in
10 American starts away from
Montpelier, but has turned in
some capable efforts (including
a good second to McDynamo
in the 2006 Colonial Cup).
Rafter enjoyed his first spin on
the son of Villez.

“He’s smashing, great—the
jumping is really special with
him,” said the jockey. “He was
blinded at one and he just came
up in my hands; came up, not
a problem. Some horses—you
end up in spots that are a lit¬
tle bit sticky. With him, that
doesn’t happen. He put him¬
self in between horses to land.
Awesome.”

PLANETS LINED
UP IN GEORGIA

First-year steeplechaser
Planets Aligned covered every¬
thing in 2007. He fell (in his
first jump start), he finished
10th (in his second jump start),
won a maiden race (in his third
jump start), lost his jockey (in a
Pimlico allowance on the turf
of all things). And—in his final
start of the season—he won a
grade 1 stakes.

Third behind Gliding and
Sovereign Duty in the Foxbrook
Supreme Hurdle-NSAl novice
at Far Hills on October 20,
Planets Aligned got back on
the van two weeks later and
headed south for the $100,000
AFLAC U.S. Championship-
NSA1 novice hurdle stakes at
Callaway Gardens, Ga.

Part of a field of six, Planets
Aligned needed to win to catch
Divine Fortune for the National
Steeplechase Association (NSA)
novice championship. Given to
the horse who wins the most
money after starting the year as
a maiden, the award showcases
rising talents and has been won
by future stars Sur La Tete, Para¬
dise’s Boss and Pompeyo (Chi).

Planets Aligned seized the
moment. The son of Gold
Fever rated off the pace of Dr.
Bloomer early, responded to
jockey Chip Miller’s cues over
the fences, and arrived late with

a big run up the inside to score
by one and a quarter lengths
over Lead Us Not, with Dr.
Bloomer third. Divine Fortune
settled for fourth.

Miller blamed himself for
the defeat at Far Hills, when
the horse ran and jumped too
freely and wound up in front.

“At Callaway, I did exactly
what I should have done at Far
Hills and made him go short
at every fence,” said Miller of
judging the horse’s takeoff
point. “I rode a cleaner, more
conscious race at Callaway, and
he did what he had to do.”

Bred in Kentucky by his
owner, Fox Ridge Farm, Planets
Aligned ran 23 times, winning
four, on the flat for New York-
based trainer Pat Kelly. Late in
2006, he finished eighth (beat¬
en six lengths) in the Grade
3 Knickerbocker Handicap at
Aqueduct. He moved to trainer
Tom Voss as part of annual
house cleaning by Fox Ridge,
which usually campaigns a few
steeplechasers each season.

After embarking on a new
career at age 6, Planets Aligned
promptly disappointed. He fell
while far back in his debut (April
14 at Atlanta) and finished 10th
two weeks later at Foxfield.
Miller got on at the Iroquois
in May, and Planets Aligned
delivered a three-length win in
a $25,000 maiden special field
that included future winners
Dr. Bloomer, Fantorini and
Cumulus Nimbus. Voss sent
him back to the flat for two
starts, then aimed for Saratoga
and more jumps. Sixth with
Rob Massey aboard on August
2, Planets Aligned reunited with
Miller and won a novice stakes
on August 23. This fall, the
duo finished second to Divine
Fortune at the Meadowlands,
settled for third at Far Hills,
and added the icing at Callaway
Gardens.

For the year, Planets
Aligned won $142,600 over
jumps (almost identical to his
$143,358 earned in four sea¬
sons on the flat).

“Steeplechase racing is
almost like giving a horse a

second chance. Our primary
objective is flat racing, but plan
B is steeplechase racing,” said
owner Peter Schiff. “When our
horses are no longer appropri¬
ate for our flat racing program
we look to steeplechase racing.
This can happen two different
ways: when a horse is injured
and can’t come back to his best
form, or when a horse has run
out of their conditions.”

Planets Aligned won for
$40,000 and $50,000 claiming
prices in 2006 and just missed
in a Belmont two-other-than
later that year. He ran well in
the Knickerbocker, his only
stakes attempt on the flat, but
he wasn’t going to be a stakes
horse. Until he tried steeple¬
chasing.

The Voss barn added a sec¬
ond stakes at Callaway when
homebred Lair took the $50,000
Crown Royal-NSA3 for fillies
and mares. Owned by Mimi
Voss, the trainer’s wife, Lair
shadowed early leaders Guelph
and Northern Gale before tak¬
ing over with a quarter-mile to
go and drawing off to win by
a length and a half in 3:54%
for the two and a quarter miles.
Imagina (Chi) finished second
with Thrum cap third.

James Slater rode the win¬
ner, who opened the fall season
with a distaff maiden win at
Shawan Downs in September.
The daughter of Lion Cavern,
now 6, finished third behind
Imagina at Far Hills in October,
but improved substantially at
Callaway.

“Obviously, I had my eye
on Imagina as she is in the
shake-up every time and is
a hard-knocking mare,” said
Slater, aboard for the first time.
“[Lair] was up in the bridle for
me the whole way and I had my
foot on the brakes slightly all
the way around. She surprised
me in that she was really push¬
button.”

Lair started out as a flat
horse, and broke her maiden
at Delaware Park in 2005. She
added two more wins, each for
a $7,500 claiming price, before
converting to jumps in 2006.

EARMARK
SOUNDS LIKE
A WINNER

Veteran timber horse Ear¬
mark won his first stakes at
the age of 11 by surviving a
wild rendition of the $30,000
Pennsylvania Hunt Cup timber
stakes at Unionville, Pa., on
November 4. Earmark started
as part of a five-horse field,
but wound up one of only two
finishers in the four-mile test.

Trained by Billy Meister for
Irv Naylor, Earmark let Shady
Valley set most of the pace and
then took over late to score by
eight and three-quarters lengths
in 8:56%.

Shady Valley stayed for sec¬
ond after falls by Music to My
Ears (Ire) and Patriot’s Path.
Bubble Economy refused at
the first fence.

Billy Santoro rode the win¬
ner, whose 2007 campaign
included three double-digit
defeats and a refusal at Genesee
(the start before Pennsylvania)
this year. Everything went right,
for him anyway, this time.

“I was thinking that we stood
a very good shot when I saw
the other three horses go down
[or out],” said Meister. “He’s
seen everything, so a course
like this would suit him. I knew
he was a four-mile horse; he’s a
good galloping kind of a horse
who will go all day long.”

NEWS, NAMES,
NUMBERS

Mid-Adantic-bred jump
winners in November also
included In Pursuit of Love,
Professor Maxwell, Fantorini
and Bubble Economy (Penn¬
sylvania) and Across the Sky
and Underbidder (Maryland).

Virginian Sonny Via won
the NS A owner championship
with $370,013 in a narrow vic¬
tory over Pennsylvania resident
Bill Pape. Via and his wife, Ann,
won races with Good Night
Shirt and Fantorini and also
campaigned the stakes-placed
timber horse Mr Bombastic
(Ger).

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Maryland-based Jack Fisher
won the NS A training cham¬
pionship for the third time
since 2003 with 24 wins from
102 starts. Pennsylvania-based
Jonathan Sheppard took the
earnings race among trainers,
nosing out Fisher $919,944 to
$916,628.

English transplant Xavier
Aizpuru took the jockey cham¬
pionship with 22 wins from
just 71 rides. His 31 percent
winning average is the best
since Craig Thornton won with
33 percent in 1998. Aizpuru’s
mounts earned $669,492 to top
the earnings list.

Augustin Stable’s Irish
Prince (NZ) won the timber
tide with a timber record
$102,000 earned with four wins
in four starts. Arcadia Stable’s
Footlights won the filly/mare
championship with $143,780 in
earnings. Barracuda Stable’s C
R’s Deputy captured the 3-year-
old crown with $40,500.

The season ended with a
record $5,357,645 paid in purses
(an increase of 10 percent over
2006), but sharp decreases in a
few other key areas (horses,
races and participants).

American steeple chasing
handed out its highest honor in
2007, awarding the F. Ambrose
Clark Award to longtime sup¬
porter Austin Brown. The gen¬
eral manager of Delaware Park
from 1965 to ’82, Brown took
part in steeple chasing in a vari¬
ety of capacities, including a
stint as an amateur jockey in
the 1940s.

Now 80, Brown has served
on the NS A board of direc¬
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National Steeplechase Museum
and chairman of the Carolina
Cup Racing Association. Brown
received the award at a reception
at the National Steeplechase
Museum in Camden, S.C.,
on November 17. The Clark
Award, named after the legend¬
ary horseman who was a domi¬
nant owner/trainer of the early
to mid-1900s, is given periodi¬
cally to an individual who pro¬
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HEALTH NOTES by Denise Steffanus

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Saving the foals:
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Volunteer foal-sitter Al Mehr keeps watch on a patient
at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center.

N ewborn foals have a frag¬
ile grip on life. Even foals
who are born healthy can
take a turn for the worse seem¬
ingly in an instant. When the
life of one of these delicate
babies is in jeopardy, help is
available at neonatal intensive
care units (NICUs) throughout
the region.

Jonathan Palmer, VMD, is
director of the University of
Pennsylvania’s neonatal unit
at the New Bolton Center in
Kennett Square, Pa. Opened in
1990, the specialized unit has a
team of medical professionals
dedicated solely to neonatol¬
ogy (the science of newborns).
Palmer, who obtained his vet¬

erinary degree at the University
of Pennsylvania, has been prac¬
ticing neonatal medicine there
since the early 1980s. “That’s
all I do, neonatal medicine,”
he said.

“We do a high level of inten¬
sive care,” Palmer continued.
“Usually, we have people visit¬
ing us from around the world
because we do things that other
people don’t do. We’ll ventilate
foals and put them on paren¬
teral nutrition and give them
drugs to help them with their
cardiovascular system.”

Some foals who come into
Palmer’s neonatal unit are hav¬
ing trouble breathing, either
because of illness or because

their brains have not developed
enough to tell them to breathe.
These babies are placed on
positive-pres sure ventilators,
adapted from human medicine,
that inflate the lungs and then
allow them to collapse on their
own, which artificially induces
breathing.

Ventilating foals has been
considered routine at New
Bolton since the early 1980s,
so the procedure is used there
more readily than at other clin¬
ics, Palmer said.

Premature foals, who typi¬
cally have a tough time sur¬
viving, are in especially good
hands at New Bolton.

“Part of what you need to
do is give them the support
their mother would have given
them,” Palmer said. “That is,
make sure they have nutrition,
and the nutrition may need to
be intravenous if their [gastro¬
intestinal] tract is not working
well. You need to make sure
they’re getting oxygen, make
sure they’re warm—do a lot of
the things the mother would
have done. And if you can do
that and support them, that
will give them the opportunity
to mature.”

Palmer and his team have
developed an interesting use
for colostrum, the mare’s first
milk that passes antibodies to
the foal to help fight off disease
until his immune system devel¬
ops. Palmer said that although
colostrum is most valuable dur¬
ing the foal’s first 12 to 18
hours of life, it contains sub¬
stances other than antibodies
that can help the development
of the intestinal tract and nor¬
mal intestinal function.

“So if we have, say, a pre¬
mature foal that we can’t feed
right away, we still may feed
it colostrum when it’s 2 or 3
weeks old, when we’re finally
getting it on food.”

Another common problem
widi premature foals is weak
bones; their bodies have not yet
laid down the needed calcium
in their bones.

“If they begin to stand and
put weight on their bones in
an uneven way, they actually
may start to crush their bones,”
Palmer said. “Obviously, if
they crush their bones, they will
have crooked legs, and they’re
not going to be very useful ath¬
letically later on. We have fairly
good luck in bringing those
foals through, but it takes a lot
of time and care.”

That is where the unit’s
volunteer network comes in.
About 100 people sign up each
year to sit with sick foals, keep
them clean, make sure they
are warm, and comfort them.
Usually two or three trained
volunteers are on duty in the
unit 24/7. Volunteers allow
premature foals with immature
bones to stand for five or six
minutes, and then they lay them
back down.

New Bolton’s neonatal unit
treats about 150 foals a year,
but that is just a small portion
of its workload. Besides foals,
the neonatal team also works
on goat kids, lambs, calves, and
crias, which are baby alpacas
or llamas.

“One frustrating thing for
me is that we only have a lim¬
ited amount of space,” Palmer
said, “and we often have people
with sick foals who want to
bring them here, and some¬
times we just don’t have the
room. That’s always a frustra¬
tion because they don’t have a
lot of choices as far as where to
go to get such intense care.”

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for neonatal foals opened in
1985.

Martin Furr, DVM, Ph.D.,
chief of medicine and associ¬
ate professor of internal medi¬
cine for the Virginia-Maryland
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fessors Harold McKenzie III,
DVM, M.S., and Anne Des-
rochers, DVM, supervise the
five-stall NICU. All three vet¬
erinarians are board-certified in
internal medicine, and they are
assisted by residents, interns,
technicians, nursing staff and
volunteers to provide top-
notch care for ill foals. During
its peak season in the spring, no
fewer than eight veterinarians
are dedicated to the NICU.

Furr and McKenzie esti¬
mate that since its inception,
the unit has treated nearly
2,200 neonates with an overall
success rate of 75 to 80 per¬
cent. Furr ranks the unit, which
sees 50 to 80 cases annually,
among the top in the nation.
Of those cases, as many as 40
foals admitted each year are
critically ill—down on the mat
and in need of constant care—
so the unit is equipped with all
the high-tech devices needed

to pull them through, includ¬
ing two ventilators, monitor¬
ing devices for blood pressure
and heart rate, and a video¬
monitoring system in each stall.
The video-monitoring system
is Web-based, allowing clini¬
cians to look in on patients via
computer.

“That's been a useful tool
for us to keep an eye on things,”
McKenzie said.

Furr, McKenzie, and their
colleagues have pioneered vari¬
ous techniques that now are
standard procedures in most
neonatal units. Their work with
delivery of antibiotics directly
into the lungs of foals via neb¬
ulizer has been a breakthrough
treatment to combat certain
respiratory infections.

“I think I can speak for all
the medicine faculty here, that
it’s pretty much routine that we
treat them with inhaled antibi¬
otics as well as systemic antibi¬

otics, especially at the beginning
to try to maximize the response
to treatment,” McKenzie said.

A significant benefit is that
a clinician can administer just
one-third the dosage of drugs
such as gentamicin, which can
be toxic to the kidneys when
given intravenously. The aero¬
solized form achieves 12 times
higher concentrations at the
site of the infection with a
minimum amount of the drug
entering the blood stream.

“So if you can use that drug
just as an aerosol and maybe
combine it with a different
drug that's being used [intra¬
venously] or orally, you can
avoid the potential toxicity,”
McKenzie said.

Another innovative tech¬
nique is to treat foals with
enteritis with plasma obtained
from horses who have been
immunized against diseases
that cause diarrhea.

“We found that by using
this plasma—and we would
give half the dose by stomach
tube so it was going into the
gut where the infection was
occurring, and half the dose
intravenously—we were able to
show that there was a reduction
in the duration of diarrhea,”
he said.

“It's a busy NICU, but it's
been a very successful NICU,”
McKenzie added.

Virginia Tech also has a
second neonatal care unit at
its veterinary hospital on the
Blacksburg (Va.) campus.

NORTH CAROLINA
STATE UNIVERSITY

At North Carolina State Uni¬
versity's veterinary hospital in
Raleigh, N.C., Betta Breuhaus,
MS, DVM, Ph.D., and Jennifer
Davis, DVM, Ph.D, are the key
personnel who treat neonatal
foals. Breuhaus is exception¬
ally skilled with ultrasound,
and Davis is board-certified
in pharmacology and internal
medicine. NC State's critical
care unit sees about 30 foals
a year.

NC State has magnetic reso¬
nance imaging (MRI) and com¬
puted tomography (CT) that
Breuhaus said come in handy
for diagnosing problems in
neonates. One of her memo¬
rable cases was a 2-week-old
Quarter Horse foal with a spi¬
nal cord abscess. When the
foal came into the unit last
spring, he had become para¬
plegic over a 24-hour period,
with no bladder control and the
inability to move his hind legs.
Radiographs of his spinal col¬
umn revealed nothing remark¬
able in the bony column. But
using the MRI, Breuhaus found
the abscess and was able to
drain it.

“He's still alive and still
improving, but he's not nor¬
mal yet. He doesn't completely
know where his hind legs are,”
she said in November. “He can
now walk without a sling and
he can run, but he still needs
help getting up, although not
very much.”

She added, “The likelihood
of finding it without the MRI
would have been very low”

Davis focuses on the phar¬
macologies of treatment to
assure that each foal is given
the most effective medication
in the proper dosage for its
individual metabolism so as not
to cause toxic side effects or
antibiotic resistance.

“We take plasma samples
after the drug has been admin¬
istered, and then we run it
through a machine and it gives
us the concentrations,” Davis
said. “Then I can develop
things like a half-life and a vol¬
ume of distribution. From that
we can change the dose so we
know we're getting therapeutic
concentrations.”

Monitoring a drug's level in
plasma enables Davis and her
colleagues to ensure that the
drug is cleared from the body
before the foal receives a sec¬
ond dose, which is important
when treating a foal with anti¬
biotics that can harm the kid¬
neys or those that can induce
antibiotic resistance.

80 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

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Special consideration to mares foaling in Pennsylvania
Registered Pennsylvania stallion • Nominated to the Breeders' Cup

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CONGRESSIONALHONOR

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11 Meadows Derby-G3.

Dance Quiet (c. by Saint Ballado). 2 wins at 3, $79,628.

Quiet Broad (f. by Broad Brush). 3 wins at 3 and 4, $73,280.

2nd dam

MISTY DANCER, by Lyphard. Dam of 5 winners, including—

QUIET DANCE (f. by Quiet American). Stakes winner, above.

3rd dam

Flight Dancer, by Misty Flight. 4 wins at 2 in England, 3rd Queen Mary S.
Half-sister to DANCING MOSS. Dam of 11 foals, 9 to race, 7 winners, incl.—
MINSTRELLA. 2 wins at 2 in England, Tattersalls Cheveley Park S.-G1,
etc.; 2 wins at 2 in Ireland, champion 2-year-old, Heinz 57 Phoenix S.-
G1, etc. Dam of COLONIAL MINSTREL ($556,586, Shuvee H.-G2, etc.,
dam of STORM MINSTREL, $299,339), MINIDAR ($350,900, Chicago
Budweiser Breeders’ Cup H.-G3, etc.; granddam of MINI SERMON, at
3, 2007, $166,100; Minidrop, at 4, 2007, $89,515), UNRESTRAINED
($281,513, Summit S.-L, etc.). Granddam of PLEASANT STRIKE (at 3,
2007, $192,370), SUZY SMART ($69,440), Sea Pines ($77,160).
MISTY GALLORE. 11 wins in 19 starts, 2 to 4, $479,711, Hempstead
H.-G2, Long Look H.-G3, Barbara Fritchie H.-G3, etc. Dam of
Declassified (3 wins, $73,873,2nd Autumn S., etc.). Great-granddam of Taquera.
Key to Flight. Unraced. Dam of Levitation ($178,188, 3rd Genuine Risk
S.-G2, dam of Leverage, $32,530). Granddam of KEY HUNTER
($168,-092, dam of LIQUOR CABINET (IRE), $234,968, Aqueduct
H.-G3, etc.), Star of Atticus ($123,971), Limoncella (to 3, 2007, $82,292).

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LAUREL PARK
TRAINER MIKE
TROMBETTA
“BOPS”INTO
WINNER’S
CIRCLE WITH
SON OF
FORMER STAR

SEAN CLANCY

T rainerMichaelTrombetta
continued his prolific year,
sending out a promising
youngster on November 14.

Cake, a Maryland-bred son
of Colonial Downs sprinting
legend Bop, drew off to wallop
2-year-old maiden claimers by

IIV 2 lengths on November 14,
in his second start. A chestnut
colt out of the Royal Academy
mare Trudy True, Cake cam¬
paigns as a homebred for Jonas
Cash’s Folly Quarter Stable,
which also raced his sire, with
Trombetta as his trainer.

Bop, a $95,000 purchase at
the 1998 Fasig-TiptonMidlantic
Eastern Fall Yearling sale, car¬
ried the Folly Quarter colors to
victory in six stakes, including
three consecutive runnings of
Colonial Downs’s Punch Line
Stakes (2001, ’02 and ’03). Bop
currently stands at O’Sullivan
Farms in Charles Town, WVa.
His 2-year-olds of 2007 were
his first crop.

OnNovember 15,Trombetta
saddled Larry Johnson’s Now
It Begins to her second vic¬
tory in three weeks. Facing
allowance and $25,000 optional
claiming foes, the Two Punch

filly widened her lead with every
call, finishing five and a quarter
lengths to the good of Wahoo
Moon. Julian Pimentel guided
the Maryland-bred daughter of
Two Punch, who completed
seven furlongs in 1:25.72 over
the muddy track.

Now It Begins launched her
career as a 3-year-old last sea¬
son, and finished third, beaten a
head, in the Smart Halo Stakes
in her second start, in March.

Out of the Dehere mare
Carna, Not It Begins was bred
by Cary Jackson, who exhib¬
ited her half-brother by Louis
Quatorze to win the grand
championship at the 2006
Maryland Horse Breeders
Association Yearling Show
judged by Tim Ritchey. Jackson
consigned Now It Begins to the
2005 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic
Eastern Fall Yearling sale,
where Johnson bought her for

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earned $70,900.

On November 21, Trom¬
betta won a tough allowance
race with Nancy Clark and Fred
Heyman’s veteran P. Kerney.
The hard-trying son of Pleasant
Tap drew off to win by four
and three-quarters lengths over
High Blitz and Spooky Mulder.
Travis Dunkelberger, on his
way to 3,000 wins, guided P.
Kerney to the victory.

It was the third victory
in the last four starts for the
Maryland-bred, who during his
6-year-old campaign annexed
Timonium’s Taking Risks
Stakes in September for the
second year in a row. Claimed
by Clark and Heyman for
$25,000 at Laurel in January
2006, R Kerney has since won
or placed in eight stakes. In 27
career starts, he has 11 wins
and earnings of $386,218.

Trainer Kate DeMasi and
the racing partnership that she
operates, known as Pewter
Stable, continue to reap divi¬
dends from their star sprinter
Merry Princess. Now a brood¬
mare, Merry Princess produced
as her first foal Gianna’s
Princess, who broke her
maiden over the Laurel turf on
November 1.

Gianna’s Princess nailed
Miss Mon by a head under
Horacio Karamanos, complet¬
ing the mile and a sixteenth in
1:44.63.

Merry Princess (by Polish
Numbers), purchased in the
name of Pewter Stable for
$5,700 at the 1997 Fasig-
Tipton Midlantic December
Mixed sale, won or placed in
10 stakes while sprinting over
Mid-Atlantic turf courses,
earning $319,164. Four-year-
old Gianna’s Princess is by
Point Given.

Robert Jarras enjoyed a big
day on November 7 when his
homebred Disco’s Daughter
won a 2-year-old maiden
sprint on the turf. The aptly
named daughter of Disco Rico
opened up by five and lasted
by a length over What She
Said and Kulik Cat. Trained

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TAYLOR MOUNTAIN FARM STALLIONS

MULTIPLE GRADED STAKES
WINNER OF $591,715

Won the Grade 2 Remsen S and placed in the
Nashua S-G3 and Cowdin S-G3 at 2. At 3 and 4,
placed in the Dwyer S-G2, Meadowlands Cup H-G2,
Stuyvesant H-G3, Excelsior Breeders’ Cup H-G3 and
Creme Fraiche H-G3. Won the Grade 3 Hal’s Hope
H and Grade 3 William Donald Schaefer H at 5,
and placed in the Fort Marcy H-G3.

Half-brother to NORTH COAST LTD. ($177,238) and
G3-placed Tito’s Beau ($168,722), out of a stakes-
winning mare from the solid family of G1 PRIVATE
PERSUASION ($502,046), WISHFUL SPLENDOR

($271,125), etc.

From his first crop, sire of three 2Y0 winners from
four starters: King of Windsor (3rd Tri-State
Futurity) and maiden special winners HENRY THE
LOVER (by 972 lengths) and NOT FOR NATE.

$2,500 live foal

17 SWs, a.e./starter $36,400

Fappiano—Priceless Asset, by What a Pleasure

$1,000 live foal

$2,500 live foal

Meadowlake—Andora, by Conquistador Cielo

SECOND-LEADING THIRD-CROP
SIRE IN MID-ATLANTIC

80% winners/starters. Sire of
SHESAGRUMPTOO ($206,666, West Virginia
Futurity, etc.), LOVE TO PLUNGE ($147,930,
HBPA Horsemen’s S, etc.), RHYTHMIC MOVES
($139,487, W.Va. Lottery Breeders Classic S, etc.),
BLUES IN THE NIGHT ($121,757), Hold On
Tight ($116,698), Peaceful Bliss, Redskin
Bill, Jip’s Girl, Love to Sing (at 2, 2007), etc

Equaled track record going lVi6 miles in G3 Lone
Star Park H. Won Tokyo City H and was twice
graded stakes-placed, earning $479,630 from
10 starts. Half-brother to DIVERSA ($226,751),
SENSITIVITY, etc. Second dam is millionaire
SABIN. From the family of MISS OCEANA.

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AROUND THE

OVALS

by Hamilton Smith, Disco's
Daughter finished five and a
half furlongs in 1:04.21 under
Malcolm Franklin.

An investment broker in
Boston, Jarras joined the horse
business about a dozen years
ago.

“Fve always loved the game
of racing," Jarras said. “It's a
lot of fun to breed a horse and
bring them up and see them
win; it gives you more pride
than if you purchased one at
the sales."

Jarras bought Disco's
Daughter's dam, Love That
Glitter (by Glitterman), as a
2-year-old in Florida in 1998.
It's been a long road.

“I brought her up to Suffolk
to run and she bowed, so I
turned her out but she never
made it to the races, though she
was a real promising horse,"
Jarras said. “She had a lot of

talent, sol decided to breed her
to Disco Rico.

“ [Disco's Daughter] hadn't
had any success with the
Suffolk track, so I sent her to
Maryland," added Jarras, who
races primarily at Suffolk, and
recorded his first Maryland
victory with the homebred.
“I really like the program [in
Maryland]. They get to run for
some more purse money, more
than up here, and it's some
exciting racing."

Binnie and Eddie Hough¬
ton's Buckingham Farm home¬
bred For Kisses shocked
Maryland's top distaffer Silmaril
on November 7. Shooting to
become the 17th Maryland-
bred and fifth Maryland-bred
mare in history to reach $1 mil¬
lion in career earnings, Silmaril
reached the edge of the pla¬
teau but couldn't withstand For

Kisses, who roared past in the
stretch to win by two lengths.

Trained by Richard Small,
For Kisses finished the mile in
1:39.59 under Anna Napravnik.
Silmaril held second over Take
a Check. For Kisses (by Not
For Love) finished third in the
Maryland Million Distaff in
her previous start. Silmaril fin¬
ished second that day

For Kisses, a 5-year-old
out of stakes winner Palliser
Bay (and thus a full sister to
the champion Maryland-bred
3-year-old filly of 2004, He
Loves Me), won for the fifth
time in her career. She finished
fourth in the Grade 3 Boiling
Springs in 2006, then hit the
board in two stakes, includ¬
ing the Maryland Million Oaks
that fall. She was winless last
year going into her allowance
score.

Fifteen-time winner Silmaril
is in elite company. The only
mares ahead of her on the
Maryland-bred money-earners
lis t are Safely Kept, Shine Again,
Jameela and Urbane. Cigar tops
the list with $9,999,815.

Sagamore Farm—the

late Alfred G. Vanderbilt's
Glyndon, Md., establishment
now undergoing a revival
under Under Armour founder
Kevin Plank—was listed as the
owner of Bourbon Maid, a
Menifee filly who won a 2-year-
old maiden special weight
for trainer Barclay Tagg on
November 16. Bourbon Maid
(out of Au Pair, by Unbridled)
sold for $57,000 at the 2006
Keeneland September Yearling
sale. Making her second start,
she won by two lengths under
Mario Pino.

David Butts celebrated
a thrilling maiden victory on
November 7 with his home¬
bred Louis Quatorze filly
Mam’selle, who had faltered
badly while making her debut
a month earlier at Delaware
Park. Trained by Mary Eppler,
Mam'selle put three and a quar¬
ter lengths on 2-year-old rivals
Black Bandana and first-time
starter Valay Cat to win the

seven-furlong race in com¬
manding style.

A Maryland-bred, Mam'selle
(out of the stakes-placed Bae-
derwood mare Fine Wood)
builds on a family of successful
runners that includes graded
stakes winner Who Wouldn't.

Owner/trainer Aimee Hall
collected the $17,100 winner's
share of an allowance race on
November 7 when Turk’s
Reality led every step of a
six-furlong sprint. The geld¬
ing by General Royal won by a
length and three-quarters over
Frontier Sky

The farflung stable of
Melnyk Racing made a rare
appearance at Laurel on Nov¬
ember 8 when winning with
homebred Ebsworth. Trained
by Dove Houghton, Ebs¬
worth rallied from seventh
under Jeremy Rose to score
by three and a quarter lengths
in the 2-year-old maiden race.
Thunder Charm finished sec¬
ond with Changing Funds
third, after a mile in 1:43.03.
The odds-on favorite led a
$57.20 exacta and a $619.40
trifecta.

Leo Nechamkin made a
name for himself in Maryland
when training Gators N Bears
to six stakes wins from his
Laurel base. The $804,393-earn¬
er retired to Maryland Stallion
Station in Glyndon, Md., in
2005.

On November 8, Necham¬
kin wowed bettors with an
upset win in a maiden 2-year-
old race. Shoe Freak Marlene
batded on the lead before
holding off rallying first-time
starter Elysium Fields. Ryan
Fogelsonger guided the win¬
ner, a son of Double Honor
owned by Nechamkin and
Stewart Greenebaum.

Shoe Freak Marlene paid a
cool $120 for the win. He's not
Gators N Bears yet, but give
him time.

Owner Henry Blue and
trainer Edwin Merryman
teamed up to upset a maiden
race on the turf with Sunny
Emblem on November 8. A

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Maryland-bred daughter of
Our Emblem, the winner ral¬
lied from sixth in the field of
14 to win by a one and a quar¬
ter lengths.

Blue bred the now 5-year-
old mare, who is out of Sunny
Runner, a daughter of the
late Root Boy—a graded win¬
ner who made his career for
Richard Blue Jr. Sunny Emblem
came back to finish second in
her first start against winners
later in the month.

Linda Albert continued to
reap rewards from Brass Brae
when the Yarrow Brae filly
scored again, this time against
nine juvenile rivals in an allow¬
ance on November 9. Owned,

bred and trained by Albert,
Brass Brae zipped to the lead
and never looked back, putting
two and three quarters lengths
on Inventive.

After winning her first two
starts, Brass Brae was entered
in the Maryland Million Lassie,
but Albert opted to skip that
spot. Stakes loom in the future
for the undefeated filly, who
made her debut for a $10,000
tag at Timonium.

Top Time rallied from
near the back of a full field
of fillies and mares to take a
first-level mile and an eighth
turf allowance on November
9. Owned by Keith Early and
Mark Deane, the Virginia-bred

daughter of Marquetry led a
trio of longshots across the
wire. Trained by Ferris Allen,
Top Time scored by a length
and a quarter over Bea Lucky
Please and Stonerun. At 11-1,
Top Time was the shortest-
priced horse in the trifecta,
leading a $2,977.80 payout.
Anna Napravnik rode the win¬
ner.

Trainer Mary Eppler and
John Franzone Jr.’s Flying
High Stables combined to
win a maiden special weight
on November 15. Sir Togo
reeled in Expectations to win
by three-quarters of a length.
Nick Santagata guided Sir Togo
to win the one-mile race, which

was originally scheduled for the
turf but was washed onto the
sloppy track. A now 4-year-olcl
gelding by Not For Love, Sir
Togo was bred in Maryland by
Mary Lou Lequire.

Janon Fisher put the tote-
board on tilt when upsetting
a 2-year-old maiden race with
Adorar on November 16.
Owned by Blue and Gray 2000,
Adorar rallied from last under
apprentice Emily Fewster to
win the mile race by three and a
half lengths over Ashleys Carm
and Poni Girl. Anybody brave
enough to wager on the daugh¬
ter of Private Terms collected
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Prop Me Up—“all heart” in the words of her trainer Greg Sacco—easily won
the Red Cross Stakes after her failed bid in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff-GI.

MEAD0WLANDS:
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OTHER FALL
MEET

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A quiet Meadowlands meet
ended on November
10. Small fields, espe¬
cially in stakes, plagued the
two-month stand, and several
Meadowlands staples, including
the Pegasus-G3, were moved
to Monmouth, where they
became part of the program
surrounding the Breeders’ Cup
World Championships.

Closing weekend at Mead¬
owlands showcased a success¬
ful mare, Prop Me Up, near
the end of her career and a
younger, speedy filly, Pure
Disco, with a budding career
ahead. Both horses were mul¬
tiple stakes winners during the
meet.

Prop Me Up picked up her
third stakes win of her 5-year-
old season in the $60,000 Red
Cross Stakes on November 9.
She faced a small but conten¬
tious field of four opponents,
which included stakes winners
Lexi Star, Exchanging Fire and
Jenny Bean Girl.

Prop Me Up was coming off
a distanced 12th-place finish in
the Breeders’ Cup Distaff-GI.

“It was a nice bounce
back,” said her trainer, Greg

Sacco. “The Breeders’ Cup
didn’t work out as planned.
Joe [Bravo] wrapped up on her
that day, but she bounced back
great, which is why we came
back so quickly.”

Prop Me Up is normally
a deep closer, but in the Red
Cross, she broke sharply under
Jose Lezcano and pressed the
pace set by Exchanging Fire.
She seized the lead on the far
turn and kicked on convinc¬
ingly to win by four and a

quarter lengths. Lexi Star, the
13-10 favorite, had a poor start
and traveled five-wide in the
stretch. She finished second,
more than a length ahead of
Lucky Revival.

Prop Me Up ($8) covered a
mile and a sixteenth on a sloppy
track in 1:43.18. She has earned
close to a half-million dollars
for Brian Miller, who races as
Silly Goose Racing Stables.

Miller transferred all his
horses from Kelly Breen to
1 Sacco in early August. Prop Me
1 Up shortly thereafter won the
| Lady’s Secret on Haskell Day
in her first start for the new
barn, and she added the Long
Look Stakes on September 15.
Prop Me Up has also placed in
graded stakes on turf and dirt.

Sacco, who is keeping
horses at Fair Grounds for the
first time this winter, said Prop
Me Up would have one race
before running in the Sunshine
Millions at Gulfs tream on
January 27. That will likely be
her final race before retiring,
Sacco said.

“She’s done a lot on the race
track,” he said. “She’s all heart
and has earned close to a half¬
million. She’s won on turf and

86 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

PIES PROSPECT

Crafty Prospector (Mr. Prospector)—Hot Pillow, Bates Motel

A MILER WITH SPEED!

After winning his first start at 2, a maiden special at Aqueduct, by 574
lengths (7 furlongs), PIES PROSPECT moved quickly into the miler stakes
ranks and proved himself a talented runner, racing 21 times over four
seasons, winning six races (three stakes) and placing six times (five
stakes).

Won:

GRADE 3 PEGASUS H (17s mi., defeating Eddington)

GRADE 3 FRED W. HOOPER H (17s mi. in 1:507s, 7s off the track
record, by 8 7 2 lengths)

FLOOR SHOW S (1 7i« mi., by 57 2 lengths)

A 1 7i6 mi. allowance at Tampa Bay in 1 :437s, only 7s off the track record!

Defeated more than 50 stakes winners, including 28 graded/group winners,
such as ROCK HARD TEN, TAPIT, EDDINGTON, FRIENDS LAKE, BRASS
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Female family of millionaires TOUCH GOLD (classic winner, sire), WITH
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dirt, from a mile to a mile and
an eighth”

On a sloppy track on clos¬
ing night, Pure Disco won
the $60,000 Montclair State
University Stakes for her
fourth straight stakes win of
the Meadowlands/Monmouth
fall meets. The prolific New
Jersey-bred has defeated state-
bred and open company, and
this time it was the latter.

Normally on the lead, Pure
Disco chased Lakes Tune
throughout and prevailed by a
nose after a sustained stretch
battle. Chuck Lopez was aboard
the winner, who covered six fur¬
longs in 1:09.97. The field was
scratched from seven to four
due to the sloppy conditions.
Pure Disco, the 3-5 favorite,
is trained by Tony Wilson and
owned by Patricia Generazio,
who captured the owner’s title
on the back of her charge’s
three Meadowlands wins.

“It’s been an absolutely
unbelievable year,” she said.

Generazio bred Pure Disco,
a daughter of Disco Rico out
of V for Vera, and she said a
full brother to Pure Disco was
born last year. In the past few
years, Generazio has focused
on breeding in New Jersey.

Pure Disco also won the
Queen Lib and Seton Hall
University Stakes at the Mead¬
owlands meet; at Monmouth,
she took the Goldfinch and
Revidere. She has earned
$472,460.

Generazio said Pure Disco
would be turned out in Ocala,
Fla., for several months and
resume training in mid-Feb¬
ruary for her 5-year-old cam¬
paign.

Indy Wind, soundly beaten
by Curlin and Lawyer Ron in
the Jockey Club Gold Cup-Gl
at Belmont in his prior start,
found a comfortable class drop
in the $60,000 Alysheba Stakes
on November 3.

Indy Wind was a prohibi¬
tive 4-5 favorite; he won by six
and a half lengths with Mario
Madrid aboard.

Patricia Generazio’s homebred Pure Disco (outside) battled Lakes Tune in
the Montclair State University Stakes, adding her fourth stakes win in a row.

Indy Wind, owned and trained by Amy Tarrant, lived up to his heavy
favoritism in the Alysheba Stakes, scoring by six and a half lengths.

The William Livingston Stakes showcased the victorious return of
graded winner Chatain (outside), who defeated Mr. Umphrey by a head.

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Owned and trained by Amy
Tarrant, Indy Wind improved
his record to seven wins in
16 starts. Earlier in the year
at Monmouth, he defeated
Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile run¬
ner-up Gottcha Gold in the
Frisk Me Now Stakes and also
won the Skip Away Stakes.

Also on the November 3
card, Lazy F Ranch’s Chatain
defeated Mr. Umphrey by a
head in the $60,000 William
Livingston Stakes. Trained by
Angel Penna Jr., Chatain was
making his first start off a three-
month layoff; he was plagued
by foot and ankle problems last
year. He started 2007 by win¬
ning the Hal’s Hope Handicap-
G3 at Gulfstream and finished
fourth in the Donn-Gl.

Kelly Breen, the leading
trainer at Monmouth in 2005
and 2006, recently accepted a
private training position with
owners Lori and George Hall.
Breen tied for fifth in the 2007
Meadowlands standings, with
nine wins.

“It was a frustrating year,”
Breen said. “We didn’t get to
run the 2-year-olds we antici¬
pated running. It was astonish¬
ing that the Halls came to me
and wanted to do it even bigger
after having a rough year.”

Breen’s new job started
immediately after Meadow¬
lands closed. He headed to
Gulfs tream for the winter and
plans to return to Monmouth
next summer.

The Halls are relatively new
to the sport as owners. They
purchased their first horses in
2004; among that group was
Keeneland Kat, a Breen trainee
who won the Sorority Stakes
in 2005.

Breen, a former assistant to
Ben Perkins Sr., had as many as
70 horses in his barn only a few
years ago. He is dispersing the
horses not owned by the Halls,
and took about a dozen to
Florida, a stable that will swell
this year with 21 just-turned
2-year-olds.

George Hall is currently the
president and chief executive

88 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Judge T C—Madison's Quest, Deputy Minister

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Stakes winner on dirt and turf, from distances of 7 furlongs to 1 3 /s miles,
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bottom.

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record time. Won the GRADE 3 MAC DIARMIDA H, JOHN BATTAGLIA
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stakes-placed at 2, 3 and 5; G1 -placed at 5 and 6.

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OVALS

officer of the Clinton Group,
a Manhattan-based hedge fund
started in 1991.

Apprentice rider Aldo
Arboleda is about to build a
name for himself, according to
his agent. Considering that his
agent is Randy Romero, that
may well be true.

Romero, who won more
than 4,000 races and Grade
1 races across the country in
the 1980s and 1990s, brought
Arboleda to the U.S. last year,

Kelly Breen is now the private
trainer for Lori and George Hall.

after scouts in Panama told
him about the young rider's tal¬
ent. Arboleda was at the Laffit
Pine ay riding school at the
time. Midwest jockey Carlos
Silva went to Panama to watch
Arboleda and told Romero he
was special.

Arboleda, now 20, had
five wins at the Meadowlands,
including two on November 3.
Romero took him to the Fair
Grounds for the winter meet,
and he said Arboleda would
be riding first call for Richard

Dutrow. Arboleda has his five-
pound bug until March.

“Pm teaching him every¬
thing I know” Romero said.
“We go to the gym together.
He lives with me. He's a really
good kid and he has a great
future. He's going to be a super
rider.”

Romero seems buoyed by
the opportunity to mentor the
young rider. For years he has
battled kidney and liver damage
caused by the extreme mea¬
sures he took to make weight
as a jockey. He said his health
has stabilized, although he still
undergoes dialysis several days
a week.

Other promising apprentices
were in action at the Meadow-
lands. Jermaine Bridgmohan,
the younger brother to journey¬
man Shaun, finished fourth in
the standings with 31 wins, and
Angel Arroyo finished tied for
eighth with 17 wins.

Eddie Castro, the 2003
Eclipse Award-winning appren¬
tice, won the jockeys' tide with
40 wins and led the colony
in earnings (nearly $1.1 mil¬
lion). That performance fol¬

lowed a runner-up finish in
the Monmouth standings to
veteran Joe Bravo.

Last year was only the sec¬
ond season that Castro, 22,
has ridden in New Jersey. The
native of Panama came to the
U.S. in 2003 and soon after
won a riding tide at Calder.
He won the 2006 Breeders'
Cup Mile-Gl aboard Miesque's
Approval.

Jose Lezcano, who was
born 10 days after Castro,
trailed his friend with 35 wins.
Journeyman Stewart Elliott had
32 wins, followed by Bridg¬
mohan and Rajiv Maragh (25).

In the trainers' standings,
New York conditioner Bruce
Levine took the tide with 19
wins. With 53 starts, Levine
won at a 36 percent clip and
finished in the money about
three-quarters of the time.
Frank Costa started the most
horses of any trainer—103—
and finished second with 16
wins. Jason Servis, who tied
with Levine for second in the
2007 Monmouth standings,
was third with 15 wins. W

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LINDA DOUGHERTY

I n recent years, the state-bred
restricted Pennsylvania
Nursery Stakes has served
as an early proving ground for
more than one horse who went
on to fame and fortune—nota¬
bly Kentucky Derby/Preakness
winner SmartyJones (2003) and
Grade 1 winner and millionaire

Notgivinmyloveaway, ridden by local jockey Jorge Duarte Jr., shipped from

Canada to win the state-bred restricted Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes.

Hard Spun (2006). In the 2007
running, hopes were high for
Double Down Vinman.

A son of Out of Place
named for Philadelphia sports
figure Vince Curran, Double
Down Vinman came into the
Nursery with two wins from
three starts, including an allow¬
ance tally in mid-October.
Trained by Anthony Dutrow
for a sizable group of own¬
ers that includes Curran and
Walnut Green bloodstock
agency owner Mark Reid,
Double Down Vinman was
dispatched as the 1.20-1 favor¬
ite of the 12 who lined up for
the Nursery, but failed to live
up to hopes, struggling home
a distant third.

90 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

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Rousillon—City Fortress, Troy
Multiple G1SW millionaire half to champion
DESERT BOY. Sire of Canadian champion LE
CINQUIEME ESSAI ('07 G2 SW). AE/starter
$36,339. $3,500 LF ($2,000 reg. PA foal)

Tabasco Cat—Dixie Chimes, Dixieland Band
Made to order POLYTRACK SIRE! Multiple G2
winner of $1,106,1 36, winning or placing in
12 stakes on dirt and turf. First foals yearlings
in 2008. $4,000 LF ($3,500 reg. PA foal)

Grub—La Favorita (Col), by Kabori
SW of $31 7,243. Sire of five 2007 winners
including Blue Mountain Juvenile S
winner ESPINDOLA. $1,500 LF (special
consideration for reg. PA foal)

Pies Prospect bc nom.

Crafty Prospector—Hot Pillow, Bates Motel
Multiple graded stakes winner of
$712,859. Family of Touch Gold and With
Approval. First foals arrive in 2008.

$2,500 LF ($2,000 reg. PA foal)

Request For Parole BC nom.

Judge TC—Madison's Quest, Deputy Minister
G1 winner of $1,372,224. The perfect
balance of precocity and durability, sprint
speed and route stamina, dirt and turf
ability. $3,500 LF ($2,500 reg. PA foal)

Rubiyat BC nom.

Rubiano—Blushing Madame, Blushing Groom
Classy New York graded stakes performer.
Sire of SP Rubi Echo. Total progeny
earnings nearly $850,000 with only 23
starters. $1,500 LF ($1,000 reg. PA foal)

Sort It Out BC nom.

Out of Place—Vex, Kris S.

NY open stakes winner of $312,31 8, from
the immediate family of the great Forty
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Smart Guy BC nom.

Smarten—Royal Tali, Talc
Pennsylvania Derby winner of $502,740.
Sire of MSW SECRETINTELLIGENCE
($272,980). Outcross to Mr. Prospector,
Northern Dancer and Bold Ruler.

$2,000 LF ($1,500 reg. PA foal)

AROUND THE
. OVALS

The impressive winner of
the Nursery was Canadian
invader N o tgivinmylove away,
a son of Not For Love out of
Fastria, by Fast Play, owned by
Jus Luk Stable and trained by
Reade Baker.

It was the second stakes vic¬
tory at Philadelphia Park this
year for Woodbine-based Baker,
who captured the $750,000 Fitz
Dixon Cotillion Handicap-G2
in October with Bear Stable’s
Bear Now.

Ridden by local jockey Jorge
Duartejr., Notgivinmyloveaway
was sent off the third choice
and raced in fifth position
through the first half-mile.

Double Down Vinman set
the early pace under jockey
Harry Vega and dueled with 3 3-1
longshot Pensylvaniaexpress.
The pair zipped the first half-
mile in :44.99, and then the
fractions began taking their
toll as Pensylvaniaexpress

plunged toward the back
of the pack. Double Down
Vinman began struggling but
Notgivinmyloveaway was just
finding his best stride. On the
turn, he circled three-wide and
took dead aim on the leaders.

Sweeping into the stretch,
Notgivinmyloveaway exploded
past his rivals and began open¬
ing up. He cruised under the
wire five lengths in front, hand-
ridden in 1:23.59. The 10-1
Sweet Sugar, trained by Wayne
Lukas, rallied to grab second.

The total value of the Nur¬
sery was $101,400, thanks to a
$26,400 bonus from the Penn¬
sylvania Breeding Fund, and
N o tgivinmylove away e ar ned
$63,000 for his big effort. From
four s tarts, N otgivinmyloveaway
has amassed $113,312.

The impact of Philadelphia
Park’s slots-fueled purses was
never more apparent than on
November 20, when the nation’s

leading trainer, Todd Pletcher,
shipped a 2-year-old from his
New York base to win a $43,400
maiden special weight. Geroni,
owned by Gold Square, was
Pletcher’s first 2-year-old maid¬
en starter at this track. Pletcher
has won important races at
Philadelphia—such as champi¬
on Ashado’s victory in the 2004
Cotillion Handicap-G2. But
until recently, purses for maid¬
en special weights weren’t large
enough to get his attention.

Geroni, a son of El Corre-
dor bred in the Keystone State
by Aron Yagoda and Sez Who
Thoroughbreds, also earned
breeder and owner bonuses
from the Pennsylvania Breeding
Fund. The winner’s share of
the purse was $29,400.

Owner Carson Phelps had
an exceptionally successful and
profitable season in 2007. In 41
starts (through late November),
his horses visited the winner’s

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circle 16 times (40 percent),
with seven seconds and seven
thirds, and total purse earnings
of $209,704.

Phelps has compiled these
numbers primarily with claim¬
ing horses, and an occasional
victory in allowance company.
Thanks to the claiming acumen
of his trainer, Jayne Vaders,
Phelps has seen a big return on
his investment, especially with
horses like July Child, who
reeled off five wins last season,
as of early November, from
eight starts, including four in a
row in January and February.

Phelps, a resident of
Blackwood, N.J., parlayed a
lifelong love of horse racing
into Thoroughbred owner¬
ship eight years ago. But, as he
recalls, the early years weren’t
exactly satisfying.

“In the beginning, it was
tough,” said Phelps, who owns
a horse transportation compa¬
ny based at Philadelphia Park.
“I had trainers that didn’t win
a lot of races. I went into own¬
ership with a partner; it lasted
two years, and it didn’t work
out that well. My horses raced
primarily in New Jersey—at
Garden State Park, Atlantic
City.”

Because Phelps loved the
game so much—some of his
fondest childhood memories
involve trips to the race track
with his father—he decided to
stick with it. His luck changed
about two years ago when he
teamed up with Vaders.

“I watched her [Vaders] for
a while, and I saw the percent¬
age she was winning at,” said
Phelps. “I talked to her a few
times, and then she became
my trainer, and we went from
there.”

Among the horses that
Vaders has claimed for Phelps
and sent out to victory are
Good ’n Crafty, Secret Time,
To the Crowd, Two Rock and
Ursula’s Passion.

July Child’s latest score came
in a six-furlong allowance race
on November 3. That after¬
noon, Phelps and Vaders had

92 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Smarten—Royal Tali, Talc

Pennsylvania Derby winner of $502,740

Won the GRADE 3 PENNSYLVANIA DERBY, NORTHERN DANCER S,
FRANCIS (JOCK) LABELLE MEMORIAL S, DEPUTED TESTAMONY S, and

placed in six additional stakes.

By SMARTEN, sire of champion CLASSY 'N SMART, SMART ALEC,
SMART 'N NOBLE, PRENUP, etc. Full brother to mulitple stakes winner
MARAGOLD PRINCESS. Outcross to Mr. Prospector, Northern Dancer and
Bold Ruler.

Three winners from only four starters! Sire of multiple stakes winner
SECRETINTELLIGENCE (6 wins, $272,980, Captain My Captain H,
Delaware Certified S, 2nd Hockessin S, Dave's Friend S) and the winners
Staying Single and Even Smarter.

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AROUND THE
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a double, with Intrinsic Worth
taking the nightcap, a seven-
furlong claimer.

Since Phelps claimed July
Child for $4,000 in July 2006,
the now 8-year-old son of
Distorted Humor has won six
times. His 2007 earnings stood
at $41,470 after the November
score.

Donald Campbell’s Dela¬
ware River, who won the
$125,000 Smarty Jones Classic
on Pennsylvania’s Day at the
Races last July, reaffirmed his
liking for die Philadelphia Park
strip by winning an allowance
contest on November 5.

Conditioned at the Bowie
Training Center by the owner’s

son, Bill Campbell, Delaware
River prevailed in the one-mile,
70-yard, test over Putonyer-
dancinshuz and Chase the Line.
Jockey Horacio Karamanos,
who rode Delaware River in
the Smarty Jones, was again
aboard.

Crazy Russian Stable had a
big payday on November 18,
as the owner of the winners of
both halves of the early daily
double. Both runners were
claimed.

Gallop to Glory and Disco
Stomp scored easily in their
respective contests, earning a
combined $27,600 in purses.

Gallop to Glory was claimed
for $7,500, and Disco Stomp

was taken for $15,000, bringing
the two-race hard to $50,100.
In addition, because Disco
Stomp is a Pennsylvania-bred,
Crazy Russian Stable earned a
$1,680 owner’s award from the
Pennsylvania Breeding Fund.

Both horses were trained
by Ron Dandy and ridden by
Frankie Pennington.

Sweeping Return, a Penn¬
sylvania-bred daughter of Mon¬
arches, broke her maiden by an
emphatic six and three-quarters
lengths in a one-mile maiden
special weight on November
23 under jockey Tony Black.
Unraced at 2, she had made five
earlier starts as a 3-year-old last
season, finishing in the money

PENN

NATIONAL’S
HOLLYWOOD
CASINO ON
TRACK FOR
FEBRUARY
OPENING

LINDA DOUGHERTY

T he slots era at Penn
National officially began
on November 26 when a
shipment of 515 slot machines,
most of them from Nevada,
were unloaded and placed on
the floor of the new Hollywood
Casino. Representatives of the
Pennsylvania Gaming Control
Board and casino security offi¬
cials were present to oversee
the delivery process.

Hollywood Casino, a
365,000 square-foot facility, is
scheduled to have more than
2,000 slot machines in time
for its grand opening in early
February. A six-week break in
live racing was scheduled to

begin on December 21, allow¬
ing management to prepare
both the casino and racing
operations for the gala open¬
ing.

Hollywood Casino is the last
of the six race track casinos to
open in the state, but unlike the
slots site at Philadelphia Park, it
is a permanent facility.

When Pitch a Victory
launched a last-to-first rally to
score by seven and a quarter
lengths in a one-mile allow¬
ance race on November 8, the
3-year-old filly added to anoth¬
er successful season for her
owner, Renpher Stable.

Renpher Stable, headed by
Brooklyn, N.Y., native Bob
Oliva, posted a 22 percent win¬
ning rate and 47 percent in-the-
money average through mid-
November, with a record of
27-17-15 from 125 starters.

The name “Renpher” is a
combination of the names of
Oliva’s two children, Lauren
and Christopher.

Before forming Renpher
in 2003, Oliva worked in the
telecommunications business
and was instrumental in help¬
ing restore fiber optics to lower
Manhattan in the aftermath of
the World Trade Center attacks
on September 11, 2001.

Although Oliva’s specialty
is telecommunications, for
most of his life he had a pas¬
sion for horse racing. In 1975,
he worked as a hotwalker and
stablehand for several New
York trainers, including Hall
of Famer P.G. Johnson, with
thoughts of someday riding,
but eventually went to work in
the corporate world.

“In 2002,1 decided to claim
a horse, Bookmylaunch, at
Monmouth Park,” said Oliva.
“I claimed him for $10,000,
and two weeks later he ran
second for $12,500 and was
claimed. I immediately made a
$6,000 profit, and then people
started asking me if they could
get a piece of the action on
some horses. Even my mother
wanted to get in.”

In its first year, Renpher
sported a 33 percent winning
rate. Oliva said his current
trainer, Lester Stickler Jr., was
recommended to him through
word-of-mouth. When he sent
his first starter, Moonmon,
to Penn National, he’d never
met Stickler, nor did he know
how to get to the Grantville
oval. That first meeting in
the paddock turned out to be
the beginning of a success¬
ful relationship. Not only did

four times before finding her
way to the winner’s circle.

Trained by Ned Allard,
Sweeping Return was sent off
as the second choice in her
m aiden-breaker.

Sweeping Return is a year-
older half-sister to 2007 High
Yield Stakes winner Superfecta,
by Forest Wildcat. The siblings
were bred by Anne Thoring-
ton’s Maple Leaf Farm; Super¬
fecta was sold as a yearling
for $30,000, while Sweeping
Return races as a homebred. ^

Moonmon win, but Renpher
found the winner’s circle with
seven of its first 12 starters at
Penn National.

Oliva’s guiding principle for
Renpher Stable, which offers
three types of partnerships—
private, claiming and 2-year-
olds in training—is to make
horse ownership affordable
and fun.

“We will sell 3 percent of a
$4,000 horse,” said Oliva. “We
want people to be able to par¬
ticipate and enjoy.”

Currently, Renpher has 135
partners nationwide. To keep
such a large number of inves¬
tors abreast of what their
horses are doing, Oliva sends
out at least one blanket e-mail
every day, and frequently con¬
ducts conference calls.

“I sit down with Lester
[Stickler] every morning and
we go over each horse—when
they’ll be running, how they’re
training, everything,” said
Oliva, who moved his family
to Palmyra, Pa., to be within 20
minutes of Penn National. “If
you ask any of Renpher’s part¬
ners, they’ll tell you that our
communication is great.”

Renpher has also experi¬
enced success buying 2-year-
olds in training at the Fasig-

94 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Out of Place—Vex, Kris S.

From the immediate family of the great Forty Niner.

At 2, broke his maiden by 47 4 lengths at Belmont Park in maiden
special company and placed second in the Damon Runyon S.

At 3, won two consecutive allowance races before capturing
Aqueduct's WHIRLAWAY S. Placed second in the Grade 2
Lexington S and third in the $500,000 WinStar Derby.

From the direct female family of champion and leading sire
FORTY NINER ($2,726,000), classic-winning champion
SWALE ($1,583,660), and successful sire SHADEED.

Owned in partnership with Stonerside Stable, well-known and
respected leaders in racing and breeders of more than 50 stakes
winners, including the outstanding freshman sire VAN NISTELROOY
and five-time Grade 1 winner CONGAREE.

Dam's sire, the great Kris S., is sire of five Breeders' Cup winners.

First foals arrive in 2008.

Property of Stonerside Stable & Fox Tale Stud. Registered PA sire.
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Little Thunder

Stakes winner of $208,842

Won Gulfstream Park's $100,000 Artax S by 5 lengths scoring a 110
Beyer. He ran a 103 Beyer just prior to the Artax, setting fractions of
:45 4 A, i:09 2 Aand i:2i 3 A. Third in the $100,000 Donald Levine Memorial
H. won at distances of 7 furlongs to V/s miles. Six wins in 24 lifetime
starts by a total of 38-plus lengths. Ran three Beyers over 100.

Full brother to Grade 3 winner friel'S for real ($674,544) and to
multiple graded-piaced Ryan’s for Real ($148,190). Out of a stakes-
piaced winning half-sister to G2 ivanavinalot ($647,300), shananie’S
BEAT ($242,691), SLICK LADY ($166,504), and to the dam Of WEST
COAST FLYER ($102,676).

By Nijinsky M's G2-winning son SWORD dance (ire), sire of 45 black-
type runners, including four-time Gl winner marlin ($2,398,879) and
G2 millionaire blazing sword.

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AROUND THE
OVALS

Tipton Midlantic May sale.
In 2004, the stable purchased
Crying Poverty for $20,000,
and the son of Artax broke his
maiden in special weight com¬
petition at first asking, then
went on to win five allowance
races and more than $95,000
before being claimed by trainer
Scott Lake.

Salsa Music, purchased at
that sale in 2005, won three
straight, including two allow¬
ances at Penn National, more
than doubling her purchase
price of $15,000.

At last year’s May auction,
Oliva spent $15,000 on the
Pennsylvania-bred Miabella
Colonia (by Wiseman’s Ferry).
She has earned back her pur¬
chase price, having won a maid¬
en special weight by five and
a half lengths in her first start
in September, finished third in
allowance company, and was
fifth in the Blue Mountain
Futurity.

As for Pitch a Victory, her
allowance win on November 8
was the first for Renpher since
she was claimed for $10,000
on September 6 at Presque Isle
Downs; Oliva won a three-way

shake to get her. The daughter
of Victory Gallop has earned
$12,720 for Renpher Stable.

Roger E., the namesake
of his breeder, Pennsylvania
horseman and attorney Roger
E. Legg, made his speed last in
a five and a half-furlong starter
allowance for 3-year-olds and
up on November 14, holding
off the persistent Short Hair
to prevail by a neck. It was the
13th career victory in 48 starts
for the now 9-year-old Alyten
gelding, who has lifetime earn¬
ings of $289,827.

Currently owned by Joseph
E. Besecker and trained by Tim
Kreiser, Roger E. launched
his career for Legg, and was
claimed from him for $25,000
while making his fifth start, as a
3-year-old in March 2002.

Legg has followed his career
like a proud parent, as Roger
E. has displayed talent and grit
over several seasons.

Roger E.’s career high point
came in the 2003 Devil’s Honor
Handicap, when he led wire-to-
wire to score by six lengths,
posting a 101 Beyer speed fig¬
ure. The Pennsylvania-bred has
earned Beyer figures of 100 or

more four times in his career,
and is also graded stakes-placed,
having finished third (beaten a
length by the winner, Best of
the Rest) in the 2003 Skip Away
Stakes-G3 at Gulfstream Park.

One race after Roger E.
visited the winner’s circle,
the Robert L. Cole Jr.-owned
entry of Fortunate Storm and
Cabdriver A1 ran first and sec¬
ond, respectively, in an allow¬
ance for 3-year-olds and up at
one mile, 70 yards. Sent off at
50 cents on the dollar, the entry
didn’t disappoint.

Fortunate Storm, a 5-year-
old son of Fortunate Prospect,
blew the doors off his compe¬
tition by taking the lead at the
break under William Otero and
steadily increasing his margin
to the finish, flashing under the
wire 12 V 2 lengths in front of
Cabdriver Al, who rallied from
seventh to get the place spot.

The winner was trained by
Stephanie Beattie, while his
stablemate was conditioned by
Scott Lake.

Trainer Scott Lake had a
profitable evening on Novem¬
ber 20 when he won four races
on the nine-race program,

CARTAGENA
FAMILY WRITES
APPEALING
SUCCESS STORY
AT CHARLES
TOWN

JOE F0NTE

T rainer Julio Cartagena
and his daughter, Keisy
Cartagena, send out
their 5-year-old mare Shes
Appealing in races she can
win—and she usually does.

Shes Appealing has won
10 of her last 12 starts. Her
victory on November 11 for

a $5,500 claiming tag capped
a seven-race win streak. Shes
Appealing’s average winning
margin in those seven races
was more than three and a
half lengths, and she set all but
two of the fractions in each of
those races.

Shes Appealing—whose lat¬
est victory pushed her 2007
earnings to $63,900—is the
kind of horse who is bringing
recognition to Keisy Cartagena,
the 20-year-old Charles Town
training phenom who has won
with 36 of her 100 starters
this season at Charles Town
(through November 24).

The Cartagena family’s
involvement with racing goes
back a long way. Julio Cartagena
started his career in New York
when he was 18, working as
a groom in the mid-1970s for

several top trainers including
Sidney Watters, Frank (Pancho)
Martin and Jose Martin. He
ventured to California in 1977
to work for the stable owned
by the late Fred Hooper. While
working in California, he
attended Cal-Poly University in
hopes of becoming a farrier.
He moved East several years
later to work on the Florida
circuit, and eventually took his
family back to New York where
he worked for trainers Bobby
DeBonis and Allen Jerkens.

In the 1980s, Cartagena
went to Puerto Rico for three
years to assist his father, trainer
Jesus Cartagena, who he says
“is still training two or three
horses and still winning races
at the age of 82. I think that
the horses are keeping him
young.”

including the last three in a row.
Lake was able to make four dif¬
ferent owners happy that night,
as each of his winners sported
separate silks.

Lake, who was second in
the Penn National trainers’
standings through November
29, with 94 winners from 364
starters (27 percent), behind
leader Murray Rojas (108 win¬
ners from 535 starters, or 20
percent), kicked off his parade
of winners in the fourth race,
when Acclaimed Racing Stable’s
Ancient Fleet blew away nine
rivals in winning the six-furlong
test by seven and three-quarters
lengths under jockey Thomas
Clifton. Lake then won the sev¬
enth through ninth races, with
Charles W Everett’s Just Jad,
Robert L. Cole Jr.’s Really Nice
and TradeWinds Stable’s Itchy
Spider. The average winning
margin for the four was more
than five lengths.

When Cartagena returned
to the U.S., he started at Phila¬
delphia Park, then moved to
Delaware Park, and eventually
relocated to Maryland. While
racing on the Maryland cir¬
cuit, he would occasionally
ship horses to Charles Town,
“and they would always win.
So I decided I should move
to Charles Town, and I love it
here,” he said.

A few years ago, Cartagena
began to focus on buying horses
in the U.S. and selling them
in Puerto Rico. He enjoys the
new business venture, he said,
while adding that his daugh¬
ter had reached a point where
her ability to work with horses
was “just unbelievable. I have
always taken her with me to dif¬
ferent race tracks, to sales, and
everywhere I went since she

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AROUND THE
OVALS

was a little kid. I honestly think
that one day she can be the
top trainer at Charles Town.
She really loves working with
horses.”

Recently, Keisy asked Julio
to get back into training,
because her stable had become
overstocked. They now share

a barn on the backstretch at
Charles Town, and have split
their 30-plus horses evenly.
Keisy said that they “always
train separately,” and that they
each manage their own horses.
“If I can’t get the running out
of a horse I ask him to take it,
and when he can’t get the run¬

ning out of a horse he asks me
to take it. It’s a neat little agree¬
ment that we have.”

“When anyone hires one of
us, they get two for the price of
one,” Julio added.

James H. Starkey owns
and trains the remarkable
11-year-old gelding Zavalla
Dandy, winner of a competi¬
tive $10,000 claiming race on
November 15. The Texas-bred
son of Cien Fuegos has won
three of his last nine races,
and hit the board in seven of
them.

Starkey claimed Zavalla
Dandy from Robert Cole in
December 2005 at Charles
Town, and says that the old guy
is very gentle and easy to work
with, but gets upset if he is not
taken to the track early every
morning.

“We try to give him a break
and just walk him every once in
a while, but he gets mad as hell
and snickers at me every time I
walk by him,” Starkey added.

Zavalla Dandy boasts 107
lifetime starts—with 15 wins,
20 seconds and 20 thirds—and
earnings of $390,240.

He launched his career as a
3-year-old at Louisiana Downs,
and has changed hands four
times via the claim box—twice
when claimed by Starkey, the
last time for $15,000.

Zavalla Dandy has run at
10 different tracks, in six dif¬
ferent states. By comparison,
Starkey is a homebody. His
training career began in 1965

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at Dover Downs. He moved to
Charles Town a few years later,
and has been here ever since.
He likes the area because it is
centralized—“only an hour or
two from the Maryland and
Delaware race tracks,” Starkey
noted.

“I keep my stable between
12 and 15 horses now, because
I’m 72 years old,” Starkey said.
“Back in the ’80s I used to keep
65 head here, and that got to be
a real hassle.”

Starkey grew up around
horses, as the son of a “stud
man on an Eastern Shore
farm,” and is currently assisted
by his youngest son, Charles.
An older son, James, is part
of the Charles Town starting
gate crew.

Bear’slittlebeauty, a West
Virginia-bred daughter of West
Virginia-based stallion Copelan
Too, broke her maiden in grand
style, scoring by four and three-
quarters lengths in a maiden
special weight for 2-year-old
fillies on November 11. Bred
and trained by Timothy Grams,
Bear’slitdebeauty is owned by
Baer’s Racing Stable.

Michael Gill’s Mach Speed,
making his first Charles Town
start of 2007, won a power-
packed allowance race on
November 16, going wire-to-
wire in a seven-furlong event
for 3-year-olds and up.

Of the eight who started,
six were stakes winners. Mach
Speed, a strikingly well-bred
and good-looking son of A.P.
Indy out of the Forty Niner
mare Bay Harbor who has
yet to win a stakes, was never
headed, driving home to win
by a length in a final time of
1:25.55.

Among those the Gamaliel
Vasquez-trained Mach Speed
beat was Harry and Tom Mey-
erhoff’s 2007 stakes winner
Crafty Bear, who finished sec¬
ond over the longest shot on
the board, Nicholas Capuano’s
56-1 It’sallaboutyoulou (named
for his late father, Lou Capu-
ano). ^

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CONSTANT ESCORT

Unreal Zeal—Tropical Mischief, by Fire Dancer
Multiple stakes winner of $233,122. Earned 5
triple-digit Beyers and set NTR at Calder Race
Course in the Miami Beach Sprint El. Sire of
the winner SUPER ESCORT, his first foal from
a test crop.

$500 live foal; special consideration to
approved mares.

DEVON DEPUTY

Deputy Minister—Devon Diva, by The Minstrel
Graded stakes-placed winner of $263,307.
Half-brother to TINNERS WAY (multiple G1 -
winning millionaire), WESTERN APPROACH
($177,220), DEVON HEIGHTS, Daki, etc. Sire
of 2Y0 winner SHESDEBONAIRNESS from his
first full crop.

$1,000 live foal; special consideration to
approved mares.

EMANCIPATOR

Forty Niner—Contredance, by Danzig
Sire of 27 winners from 41 starters including
Zitlaly ($212,326), Bold Emancipator
($97,018), Paddle's Big Girl ($86,508),

Oak Hill Princess ($67,431) and Burnwell
Princess (at 2, 2007). By juvenile champion
and leading sire FORTY NINER out of juvenile
G1 winner CONTREDANCE.

$1,500 live foal; special consideration to
approved mares.

FEAR THE CAPE

Cape Town—Loose Wire, by Ruritania
Stakes-placed winner of $131,373. Half-

brother to SCOTTISH MONK, WIRE ME
COLLECT, CLEVER ELECTRICIAN, ELECTRIC
SHOCK, Silver Wire, etc.

$1,000 live foal; special consideration to
approved mares.

GREEN FEE

Green Dancer—Raska, by Rahy
Grade 2 winner of $494,545. Won the
2002 Kelso Breeders' Cup H-G2 defeating GSWs

FORBIDDEN APPLE, MOON SOLITAIRE, etc.
Half-brother to POSSE, a MGSW and the nation's
leading freshman sire in 2007.

Sire of the winner EMERALD INDIAN from his first
crop of 2Y0s.

$1,000 live foal; special consideration to approved
mares.

JO JO DANCER

Boone's Mill—Dance for Jan, by Citidancer
West Virginia's own, running almost
exclusively at Charles Town. He is out of the
multiple stakes-winning Citidancer mare
DANCE FOR JAN, representing the family of
champion SEATTLE SLEW.

Complimentary to approved mares.

KOKAND

Mr. Prospector—Waving, by Nijinsky II
Sire of 78% winners from starters with average
earnings of $41,575, including stakes winners
BIG RUT ($570,487), DOUBLE STAKE

($343,481), CASHMERE MISS ($321,873),
ATTAINABLE ($190,950), etc.

$2,500 live foaUspecial consideration to approved
mares.

ONE GOLF SIERRA

Magic Prospect—Foolish Dancer, by Smarten
Stakes-placed allowance winner who was
never off the board in five starts. Half-brother to
JEST PUNCHING ($358,208), Ender Wiggin
($169,060), etc. Sire of 6 winners out of only 8
starters, including stakes-placed Sierra Quorum.
Private; special consideration to approved mares.

REPARATIONS

Forty Niner—Versailles Treaty, by Danzig
Winning half-brother to SAARLAND (GSW of
$595,250), out of multiple G1 winner VERSAILLES
TREATY ($1,271,154). Sire of MSW PROP ME UP
($452,028, multiple graded stakes-placed) and 8
additional winners from only 16 starters.

$1,000 live foal; special consideration to approved
mares.

STALLION NEWS

by Cindy Deubler

MILLIONAIRE
FREEFOURINTERNET
MOVES TO FOX TALE

F reefourinternet, a multi¬
ple graded stakes-winning
earner of $1,106,136 by
Preaknes s/Belmont winner
Tabasco Cat, has been relocat¬
ed to Fox Tale Stud in Coop-
ersburg, Pa., for 2008. The
former Florida stallion, whose
first foals arrived in 2007, will
stand as the property of Ron
Peltz for $4,000 live foal, pay¬
able when the foal stands and
nurses. Discounts are available
for foals who are registered as
Pennsylvania-breds.

A stakes winner from 3 to 6,
Freefourinternet campaigned
for six years, winning or placing
in 19 of his 44 starts. He
launched his career in England
at 2, hitting the board twice in
three starts, and won the mile
and a quarter Milcars New
Stakes at Ascot in June of his
3-year-old season.

Freefourinternet won the
Huxley Stakes in England at 4
before being shipped to the

U.S. His biggest scores came on
this side of the Atlantic, topped
by the $750,000 Hawthorne
Gold Cup Handicap-G2 during
his 6-year-old campaign. In that
mile and a quarter race on the
main track at Hawthorne Park,
he rallied from last and drew
off to win by a length and
three-quarters over multi¬
millionaire Perfect Drift.

Freefourinternet also won
Belmont Park’s Kelso Breeders’
Cup Handicap-G2 in 2003,
coming from last in the field of
10 and getting the victory in the
one-mile turf event with a fero¬
cious stretch drive over million¬
aire Proud Man and Group 1
winner Rouvres (Fr).

In Mountaineer’s one-mile
Labor Handicap on the turf, he
again flew from last to overtake
La Reine’s Terms at the wire for
the win. Freefourinternet had
seven stakes placings in his
career, two graded, and retired
sound.

Now 10, Freefourinternet is
a half-brother to $314,252-
earner Pleasant Chimes, a mul¬
tiple stakes winner who placed
in the Black-Eyed Susan and
Comely, both Grade 2 stakes.
Another half-sister, Scarlet
Chimes, is the dam of s takes -
placed $251,537-earner Rye On
the Rocks.

The dam of Freefourinter¬
net, Dixie Chimes (by Dixieland
Band), is a winning full sister to
Chimes Band and Lady Dixie.
Classy sprinter Chimes Band
won five stakes while racing in
the U.S. and France, including
die Fall Highweight Handicap-
G2 and King’s Bishop S takes -

G2, and bankrolled $416,961.
Stakes-winning Lady Dixie is
the dam of stakes-placed juve¬
nile Lit’sgoodlookngray. Dixie
Chimes is also a half-sister to
stakes-placed Chimes Bird and
Changing Prospects, the latter a
multiple stakes producer.

The family traces back to
Foggy Note, the dam of five
stakes horses, including top
sire Relaunch and stakes win¬
ner Moon Glitter, the dam
of major sprinter Glitterman
and granddam of champion
sprinter Rubiano, both solid
sires. Also found in the family
is Grade 1 winner Tapit.

GHOSTLY MINISTER’S
FIRST ROLLS ON

G hostly Thunder, the first
winner for freshman sire
Ghostly Minister, contin¬
ued on his tear through the
local ranks, running his record
to three wins from four starts
with back-to-back juvenile
stakes scores at Charles Town.

Owned by his trainer, Gary
Capuano, and Paul Fowler Jr.,
Ghostly Thunder broke his
maiden in October, won the
Tri-State Futurity next out on
November 10, and added the
West Virginia Futurity on

December 1, boosting his
career earnings to $109,158.
Bred by Charles (Buck) Wood-
son, the dark bay out of
Expressive Feather (by Chief
Honcho) was sold to his cur¬
rent connections for $13,000 at
the Ocala Breeders’ Sales
Company’s April 2-year-olds in
training sale.

Ghostly Thunder couldn’t
have been more impressive
than when getting his first
stakes score, soaring home to
win the seven-furlong Tri-State

Futurity by IOV 2 lengths under
Travis Dunkelberger as the 1-2
favorite (with entrymate Ovech¬
kin).

When he returned three
weeks later, Ghostly Thunder
was sent off at 1 -5 odds. After
a disastrous start, when getting
shut off out of the gate,
Dunkelberger settled the geld¬
ing off the pace, then surged to
the front going into the final
turn of the seven-furlong test.
Ghostly Thunder won as he
pleased by four and a half
lengths.

Ghostly Thunder is one of
five starters from 11 first-crop
foals for Ghostly Minister, an
11-year-old son of Deputy
Minister. Also the sire of
placed runners Much Adiue

and Pursuit Curve, Ghostly
Minister is owned by Woodson
and stands at Buckstud Farm
in Charles Town, WVa., for
$2,500 live foal.

An allowance winner of
three races who earned $73,945
while racing in California,
Ghostly Minister is out of
Grade 1 Ashland Stakes winner
Lunar Spook, an earner of
$419,368. Lunar Spook (by
Silver Ghost) has also produced
Broadway Moon, who finished
second in the Grade 3 Generous
Stakes and earned $94,400.

Lunar Spook is a full sis¬
ter to stakes-placed Lunar Star
and a half-sister to the dam of
graded winner Cashel Castle
(by Silver Ghost).

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MEDALLIST ADDS
LUSTER TO
NORTHVIEW ROSTER

B rilliant runner Medallist,
who won four stakes,
while setting track or
stakes records on three differ¬
ent tracks, has been moved to
Northview Stallion Station in
Chesapeake City, Md., for 2008.
The 7-year-old syndicated son
of classic winner Touch Gold
will stand for $5,000 live foal,
payable when the foal stands
and nurses.

Medallist entered stud in
2006 at Three Chimneys Farm
in Midway, Ky., following a

career in which he won or placed
eight times in a dozen starts at
3 and 4, earning $421,375. The
dark bay won at distances from
six and a half furlongs to a mile
and a sixteenth, displaying daz¬
zling speed while taking such
venerable stakes as the Grade 2
Dwyer and Grade 3 Withers.

In his stakes debut, Medal¬
list captured the Withers over
the previously undefeated
Forest Danger. The duo battled
through a quarter in :22.50, a
half in :44.06 and three-quar¬

ters in 1:07.90 before Medallist
put away Inis rival, drawing off
to win by three and a quar¬
ter lengths. The final time was
1:34.49 for the mile.

Medallist was even more
impressive when he appeared
next in the mile and a six¬
teenth Dwyer. Sprinting to the
lead, Medallist opened up by
as many as eight lengths over
the field that included The
Chff's Edge, Sir Shackle ton
and Preachinatthebar, setting
fractions of :22.83, :44.45,
1:07.96 and 1:33.27. He stroked
home three and three-quarters
lengths in front, stopping the
clock in 1:40.02, which estab-
Ushed a new stakes record and
was three-fifths off the track
record.

In the final start of his
3-year-old season, MedalUst
thrashed older runners by four
and a half lengths in Calder
Race Course's Kenny Noe Jr.
Handicap, getting seven fur¬
longs in a stakes record time of
1:22.62, which was less than a
second off the track record.

MedalUst was equally
impressive in his two starts at
4, winning his seasonal debut.
Gulfs tre am Park's Deputy
Minister Handicap-G3, while
estabUshing a new track record
of 1:15.62 for six and a half
furlongs. He scored by a length
and three-quarters over Mister
Fotis, with Kela, Paradise
Dancer, Nightmare Affair and
Voodoo trading behind.

The final start of MedalUst's
career came in the Grade 1
Carter Handicap, in which he
was a game second to Forest
Danger in the seven-furlong
contest run in 1:20.46.

MedalUst's dam, juve¬
nile stakes winner Santaria
(by sprint champion Star de
Naskra), was four times graded
stakes-placed at 3, including a
second in the Grade 1 Acorn.
His second and third dams,
Act of Magic and Pleasant Girl,
each placed in graded stakes.
MedalUst is a half-brother to
highly regarded current 4-year-
old Air Commander, who fin¬
ished second in the Grade 2
San FeUpe Stakes in his stakes
debut.

“MedalUst is off to a terri¬
fic start at stud. His foals were
really well received at Keeneland
[November] and we're excit¬
ed to partner with Northview
Stallion Station to give Mary¬
land and Pennsylvania mare
owners access to the horse,"
said syndicate manager Case
Clay of Three Chimneys. A
weanUng filly from MedalUst's
first crop topped a session of
the 2007 Keeneland Breeding
Stock sale at $67,000.

“We think his speed, com¬
bined with him being an out-
cross to Mr. Prospector and
Bold Ruler mares, wiU make
him an outstanding sire for
Northeastern breeders," added
Northview's managing partner,
Richard Golden.

First stakes winners

GHOSTLY MINISTER, b„ 1997, by
Deputy Minister—Lunar Spook, by
Silver Ghost; Charles (Buck) Woodson

Jr. at Buckstud, 592 Willingham Rd.,
Charles Town, W.Va. 25414. (304)
725-5449; e-mail: buck.stud@gte.
net. $2,500 live foal, payable when
foal stands and nurses, special con¬
sideration to approved mares.

GHOSTLY THUNDER, g.05, out of
Expressive Feather, by Chief Honcho.
$50,000 Tri-State Futurity, 7 fur.,
2-year-olds foaled in Maryland, Vir¬
ginia or West Virginia, Charles Town,
Nov. 10. B-Charles A. Woodson Jr.
(W.Va.); 0-Gary Capuano and Paul L.
Fowler Jr.

First winners

BOP, ch, 1997, by Rahy—Golden
Guinea, by Fappiano; Folly Quarter
Stable LLC at O’Sullivan Farms LLC,
P.0. Box 670, Charles Town, W.Va.
25414. (304) 725-2276, fax (304)
725-1060; e-mail: randy@osullivan
farms.org; www.osullivanfarms.org.
$2,500 live foal, special consideration
for multiple bookings.

CAKE, c.05, out of Trudy True, by Royal
Academy. Laurel Park, M25000, 6
fur., Nov. 14. B-Jonas Cash (Md.);
0-Folly Quarter Stable. Value to win¬
ner $9,120.

DUCKH0RN, gr./ro., 1997, by Not For
Love—Ten’s Testamony, by Deputed
Testamony; Windmill Manor Farm at
Xanthus Farms, Inc., 1225 Bon-Ox
Rd., Gettysburg, Pa. 17325. (717)
624-2835, fax 624-4136; www.xan-
thus-farm.com; e-mail: XanthusB©
yahoo.com. $2,500 live foal, $2,000
to mares foaling in Pa., payable when
foal stands and nurses.

H0RNBR00K, g.05, out of Clonbrook,
by Cozzene. Penn National, msw, 5V6
fur., Oct. 31. B-Rodney L. Hocker and
Ronald Hocker (Pa.); 0-Jay A. Young.
Value to winner $13,260.

WINDSOR CASTLE, b., 1998, by Lord
Carson—Frigidette, by It’s Freezing;
Taylor Mountain Farm, 347 Old Shen-
nandale Rd., Charles Town, W.Va.
25414. (304) 724-8052, (304) 724-
8080, fax 724-8081; www.taylor-
mountainfarm.com; e-mail: taylormntn
farm@aol.com. $2,500 live foal, pay¬
able when foal stands and nurses,
special consideration to approved
mares.

NOT FOR NATE, f.05, out of Dinner
Dancer, by Who’s for Dinner. Charles
Town, msw, 7 fur., Nov. 8. B-Leslie G.
Cromer (W.Va.); 0-Ronald G. Sigler.
Value to winner $15,000.

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f^Sliohvcll Farm Stallions

Cast hie Mr . wo«i, % a^t

Sire of SW CROSS CREEK ROSIE (3 wins in 6 starts, multiple stakes-placed) and
12 additional winners. Allowance-winning son of the great MR. PROSPECTOR,
sire of 181 stakes winners, 22 champions. From the family of leading sire SMART
STRIKE (Mr. Prospector), sire of classic winner and probable 2007 horse of the
year CURTIN ($5,102,800 to 3, 2007) and 2007 Breeders’ Cup Turf-Gl winner
ENGLISH CHANNEL ($5,319,028).

$1,000 LF, payable when foal stands and nurses; Registered WV stallion, WVBC

Classy E. T.

Lil E. Tee—Classy Irene, by El Baba

Allowance winner of $278,254. By classic winner LIL E. TEE ($1,437,506), sire of
16 stakes winners. Full brother to TEE TO GREEN ($172,353); half-brother to Fast
Busy and to the dam of G1 winner ADIEU ($907,934), SPEAK WISELY ($155,599)
and Clay’s Rocket. Out of a multiple stakes winner, from a solid family. Offers a
pedigree free of Mr. Prospector and Northern Dancer blood.

First foals yearlings of 2008.

$1,000 LF, payable when foal stands and nurses; Registered WV stallion, WVBC

Ahowance-winning son of FRENCH DEPUTY (Deputy Minister), sire of 36 stakes
winners, two champions. Out of champion and multiple G1 winner MOM’S
COMMAND ($902,972). Half-brother to G3 winner JONESBORO ($539,915) and
three stakes producers. Solid family of COURT RECESS (sire), FUN HOUSE, CHOP
HOUSE, SWOON’S TUNE, etc. First foals yearlings of 2008.

$1,000 LF, payable when foal stands and nurses; Registered WV stallion, WVBC

Little Tlmmler

Stakes winner of $208,842. Won the $100,000 Artax S by 5 lengths scoring a 110
Beyer. Third in $100,000 Donald LeVine Memorial H. Ran three Beyers over 100.
Won at distances of 7 fur. to l 1 / 8 miles. Six wins in 24 lifetime starts by a total of
38-plus lengths. Full brother to G3SW FRIEL’S FOR REAL and MGSP Ryan’s for
Real. By a G2-winning son of Nijinsky II. Enters stud in 2008.

$1,000 LF, payable when foal stands and nurses; Registered WV stallion, WVBC

Your Abe’s

Alphabet Soup—Cute Move, by Cherokee Fellow

Deputy Rummy French Deputy—Mom’s Command,

by Top Command

Sword Dance (Ire)—Beaties for Real,
by Unreal Zeal

Multiple stakes-placed allowance winner of $159,847. Half-brother to CUT THE
CUTENESS ($411,159), OUTRAGEOUS QUEEN, Entrepreneurial, Mighty Cute Girl
(multiple stakes producer). By Breeders’ Cup Classic-Gl winner ALPHABET SOUP
($2,988,325), sire of 32 stakes winners, including champions OUR NEW RECRUIT
and PHANTOM LIGHT. First foals arrive in 2008.

$1,000 LF, payable when foal stands and nurses; Registered WV stallion, WVBC

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STALLION NEWS

ECCLESIASTIC
HEADS NEW
VENTURE FOR WALMAC

P ulpit’s multiple graded
stakes-winning son Eccle¬
siastic is the first stallion
to stand in Pennsylvania for the
well-known Kentucky-based
Walmac Farm, which will oper¬
ate as Walmac Pennsylvania at
Regal Heir Farm. The stud fee
for the first-year syndicated
stallion, who was due to arrive
at the Grantville farm in mid-
December, is $5,000 live foal,
payable November 15 of the
year bred.

“We had been looking at the
possibility of standing horses
in Pennsylvania for a couple
of years, but wanted to make
sure we found the right place,”
said George Hills, who handles
bloodstock and stallion nomi¬
nations for Walmac. “Regal
Heir is a farm with a strong
pedigree and top-class facilities
and was therefore, in our eyes,
die ideal operation. The farm’s
owner, Michele Madonna,

will be running the day-to-day
operations but with close sup¬
port from our Kentucky base.”

Ecclesiastic, now 7, is one
of three stakes winners from
three foals of racing age for
his dam, Starry Dreamer. A
daughter of champion sprinter
Rubiano, Starry Dreamer won
or placed in 15 stakes during
her career, earning $564,789. In
addition to her stakes wins in
the Regret, Palisades and Gold
Digger, she was graded stakes-
placed eight times, topped by a
second in the Grade 1 Gazelle
Handicap.

The first foal out of Starry
Dreamer, Ecclesiastic—de¬
scribed by Hills as “a very well
put-together horse, with a ter¬
rific shoulder and strong hind
end”—was sold as a yearling at
the Keeneland September sale
to Jeanne Vance for $500,000.
Following Vance’s death in
2003, Ecclesiastic went through

the 2004 Keeneland April sale
as part of Vance’s estate disper¬
sal. His breeder, Joseph Allen,
paid $775,000 to get him back.

Two of Ecclesiastic’s seven
victories took place in Belmont
Park’s Jaipur Handicap-G3.
His first score came during
his 4-year-old season when he
dug in through the stretch to
wear down Old Forester and
win by a head. The final time
for seven furlongs on the turf
was an eye-catching 1:20.71,
about four-fifths off the course
record.

When Ecclesiastic faced
eight others for the 2007 Jaipur,
which was shortened to six fur¬
longs, he drew clear late, win¬
ning by nearly three lengths
while flying under the wire in
1:07.64, a time only three-fifths
off the course record.

Ecclesiastic turned in
another solid effort when win¬
ning an allowance over the
Gulfstream Park turf, getting
a mile in 1:33.70 while defeat¬
ing Touched by Madness and
Harbor Master.

From 37 career starts,
Ecclesiastic also placed in four
stakes, including the Northern
Dancer Stakes-G3 (over a slop¬
py track, to Suave and J Town)

DUCKHORN’S FIRST
HITS RIGHT NOTE

F 'reshman sire Duckhorn
got his first winner when
Jay Young’s 2-year-old
gelding Hornbrook drew off to
a two and a half-length victory
in maiden special weight com¬
pany on October 31 at Penn
National. The Pennsylvania-
bred trained by David Geist
completed the five and a half
furlongs in 1:05.71.

Bred by Rodney Hocker and
Ronald Hocker out of the win¬
ning Cozzene mare Clonbrook,
Hornbrook is a half-brother to
stakes winner Lady Brook.

Duckhorn is also the sire of
stakes-placed Sweet Sugar and
placed runner Ducks and Roses
from four starters (through
mid-December). Sweet Sugar
closed well to finish second
to Notgivinmyloveaway in the
$75,000 Pennsylvania Nursery
Stakes at Philadelphia Park on
November 24.

The richest runner by lead¬
ing sire Not For Love standing
at stud, Duckhorn was a multi¬
ple graded stakes winner of
$747,812. The gray/roan horse,
now 11, won eight races from

23 starts by an average winning
margin of more than five
lengths, was second or third six
times, and won or placed in six
stakes.

During his 4-year-old cam¬
paign, Duckhorn annexed the
mile and a quarter Hawthorne
Gold Cup Handicap-G2,
defeating Lido Palace (Chi),
and also captured Laurel Park’s
Harrison E. Johnson Memorial
Handicap at the same distance
in 2:00%, less than a second
off the track record.

Duckhorn came close to a
track record at Laurel the pre¬
vious year and established a
stakes record of 1:48% in the
mile and an eighth Northern
Dancer Stakes.

At 5, Duckhorn defeated
Parade Leader by seven lengths

and Fort Marcy Handicap-G3
(over turf, to Better Talk Now
and Remind). He retires with
career earnings of $346,728.

“His multiple graded stakes
wins are proof of his speed
on the track,” said Hills. “I
think he ticks all of the possible
boxes: looks, performance and
pedigree. We feel that breed¬
ers look toward speedy, attrac¬
tive individuals with a good
strong family. We believe that
Ecclesiastic has those attributes
and we are very excited about
the coming year.”

Ecclesiastic is a half-brother
to War Front (by Danzig), a
graded stakes-winning sprinter
and earner of $424,205 who
accounted for the Alfred G.
Vanderbilt Breeders’ Cup
Handicap-G2 and was Grade
1 stakes-placed when second
in the Vosburgh and Forego
Stakes.

The third stakes winner out
of Starry Dreamer is Team¬
mate, who earned $618,276,
and won the Bonnie Miss
Stakes-G2 at 3 and last year’s
Shuvee Handicap-G2 at 4.
The gray filly by A.P Indy (the
sire of Pulpit) also placed in
five Grade 1 races during her
career.

in winning Keeneland’s Ben Ah
Stakes-G3. During his career
he also hit the board in the
Washington Park Handicap-G2
and Stymie Handicap-G3.

Out of 100 percent producer
Ten’s Testamony (by Deputed
Testamony), the dam of five
winners from as many foals,
Duckhorn is from the fam¬
ily of champion All Aboard.
His third dam is graded winner
Groan.

Duckhorn has 39 foals in
his first crop. The property
of Windmill Manor Farm, he
stands at Xanthus Farms in
Gettysburg, Pa., for $2,500 live
foal, or $2,000 for mares foal¬
ing in Pennsylvania.

104 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

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• 7-time track record setter

• G1 Breeders' Cup placed miler

• Out of a SW by TROY (broodmare sire of STREET CRY)

• Proven sire of SW's on dirt and turf

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STALLION NEWS

ARTEMUS SUNRISE
NEW LIGHT AT
REGAL HEIR

G raded stakes winner Arte-
mus Sunrise will stand
his first season at Regal
Heir Farm in Grantville, Pa.,
in 2008. The stud fee for the
7-year-old, who is owned by a
partnership, is $1,500 live foal,
payable when the foal stands
and nurses.

One of 16 stakes winners
from the second crop of his
sire, Tale of the Cat, Artemus
Sunrise earned $361,130 during
his career. His best season came
at 4, when he won the Turfway

Park Fall Championship Stakes-
G3 and placed in four addition¬
al stakes.

Facing a full field of 11 in
the Fall Championship, Arte¬
mus Sunrise prompted the pace
in the one-mile test before hit¬
ting the front to win by three-
quarters of a length over Mr.
Krisley. Among those trailing
behind were Senor Swinger,
Wiggins, With Distinction,
Stormy Impact and Nkosi
Reigns.

Artemus Sunrise just
missed, when second by a head
to Bayou Buster, in the five-fur-
long Texas Glitter Handicap at
Churchill Downs. He was also
second in Mountaineer's West
Virginia Governor's Stakes
and Ho osier Park's Michael
G. Schaefer Mile Stakes and
third in Ellis Park's Governor's
Handicap.

Artemus Sunrise is the third
stakes horse produced by Eggs
Binnedict (by Naskra), who
is also the dam of Hash It
Out ($135,830, Half Moon S,
etc.) and Princes Melissa (3rd
Landaluce S-G2, etc.) and the
granddam of stakes-placed
Auto Move.

Eggs Binnedict is a half-
sister to 11-time stakes winner
and $303,583-earner Wander
Kind; multiple graded s takes-

placed Lovin' Lass ($142,113,
My Juliet H, etc.), who pro¬
duced Grade 1-placed Facts
of Love; and stakes-placed
Mile. Lyphard. Also found in
Artemus Sunrise's immediate
family is Tale of the Cat's 2007
graded stakes winner Ashley's
Kitty.

Artemus Sunrise's third dam,
^Lorgnette II, is the granddam
of Canadian champion and
sire Charlie Barley, German
and Italian champion and sire
Air Express, Breeders' Cup
Juvenile S takes-G1 winner and
sire Success Express, Sword
Dancer Invitational Handicap-
G1 winner Whitmore's Conn,
Champagne Stakes-Gl win¬
ner and sire Greenwood Lake
and Grade 2 Californian Stakes
winner and sire Mud Route.

MORE SMOKE A
HOT PROSPECT

M ore Smoke, a son of
champion sprinter
Smoke Glacken who
proved to be one of the top
sprinters of his generation, has
been retired to Pin Oak Lane
Farm in New Freedom, Pa.
The 6-year-old gray stands his
first season in 2008 for $3,500
live foal, payable when the foal
stands and nurses, as the prop¬
erty of Thomas McClay and
Harry Nye.

McClay and Nye campaigned
More Smoke over four seasons,
in which he made 15 starts,
won seven times, with three
seconds and a third, and earned
$258,087. A two-time winner
at 2, topped by a 13-length
tour-de-force in a six-furlong
allowance over a muddy track
at Mountaineer, More Smoke
came out blazing at 3.

On January 1, 2005, he flew
to a three and three-quarter-

length victory in Laurel Park's
six-furlong Dancing Count
Stakes.

In his first graded stakes
attempt, More Smoke faced the
outstanding Lost in the Fog
in Gulfstream Park's seven-fur-
long Swale Stakes-G2 in March.
More Smoke made his mark as
the only horse to lead Lost in
the Fog for the first half-mile
during the champion's Eclipse
Award-winning season. More
Smoke set fractions of :22.07
and :44.67 before giving way
and finishing third behind Lost
in the Fog and Around the
Cape.

But the gray colt rebounded
spectacularly, winning Keene-
land’s Grade 3 Lafayette Stakes
next out by 14% lengths, get¬
ting six furlongs in 1:09.88. He
earned a Beyer Speed Figure
of 112 for the effort. More
Smoke followed with a five-

length score in Monmouth
Park's Select Stakes.

More Smoke, out of Saunter
(by Strolling Along), is a half-
brother to Grade 1-placed
Squallacious, who won twice
and was second in the La
Brea Stakes-Gl and third in
the Hollywood Breeders' Cup
Oaks-G2 in four starts at 3.

Friendly Circle, More
Smoke's third dam, produced
champion handicap mare
Hidden Lake ($947,489, Bel¬
dame S-Gl, Go for Wand S-Gl,
etc.), group winner Ginistrelli
and stakes winner Midway
Circle. The family also includes
champion I Can Do It All and
Group 1 winner Jaimiqui.

106 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

FOOTNOTES

Chestnut Horse, 2004

Storm Bird

Storm Cat

Dk.B.or Br., 1983

Terlingua

Northern Dancer
South Ocean

Secretariat
Crimson Saint

Nearctic
Natalma
New Providence
Shining Sun
Bold Ruler
Something royal
Crimson Satan
Bolero Rose

Flying Paster

Key Phrase

Chestnut, 1991

Sown

Gummo

Procne

G rental I
Bad Seed

Fleet Nasrullah
Alabama Gal
Acroterion
*Philomela
Graustark
Primonetta
Stevward
*Rich and Rare II

Dosage Profile:
Dosage Index:

3 3 5

2.43 Center of Distribution:

0

+0.67

RACING RECORD

FOOTNOTES did not race.

STUD RECORD

FOOTNOTES enters stud in 2008.

MALE LINE

His sire, STORM CAT, stakes winner of 4 races, $570,610, Young America S-G1,
2nd Breeders’ Cup Juvenile S-G1, etc. Leading sire.

STORM CAT has sired 158 stakes winners, 12 champions, including:

GIANT’S CAUSEWAY: Highweighted 3-year-old colt (9V&-11 fur.) in England
and Ireland, highweighted 3-year-old colt (7-9Vfe fur.) in Ireland, 9 wins,
$3,077,960 in England, Ireland, France and U.S., Prix de la Salamandre-GI,
St. James’s Palace S-G1, Coral-Eclipse S-G1, Sussex S-G1, etc. Sire.

STORM FLAG FLYING: Champion 2-year-old filly, 7 wins, $1,951,828, Breeders’
Cup Juvenile Fillies-GI, Frizette S-G1, Personal Ensign H-G1, etc.

SWEET CATOMINE: Champion 2-year-old filly, 5 wins, $1,059,600 in 7 starts,
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies-GI, Santa Anita Oaks-GI, etc.

AMBITIOUS CAT: Champion turf mare in Canada, 5 wins, $703,956, Dance
Smartly S-G2,2nd Nassau S-G2 twice, etc.

HOLD THAT TIGER: Champion 2-year-old colt in Europe, 3 wins, $646,421 in
U.S., France and Ireland, Grand Criterium-GI, Railway S-G3, etc. Sire.

ONE COOL CAT: Champion 2-year-old in Europe, highweighted 3-year-old colt
(5-7 fur.) in England and Ireland, 5 wins, $564,798, Phoenix S-G1, etc.

BLACK MINNALOUSHE: Highweighted 3-year-old colt (7-9V6 fur.) in Ireland, 4
wins, $490,005 in England and Ireland, Irish 2000 Guineas-GI, etc. Sire.

DENEBOLA: Champion 2-year-old filly in France, 2 wins, $338,742, Prix Marcel
Boussac-GI, Prix de Cabourg-G3,2nd Prix de la Foret-GI, etc.

MISTLE CAT: Highweighted older horse (7-9Vfe fur.) in Italy, 6 wins, $303,176
in England, Ireland, Italy and France, Premio Vittorio di Capua-GI, Prix du
Palais-Royal-G3, Crawley Heron S, 2nd Celebration Mile-G2, etc.

CATRAIL: Highweighted 3-year-old, highweighted older horse (5-7 fur.) in Eng¬
land, 6 wins, $262,618 in England and France, Challenge S-G2, etc. Sire.

MUNAAJI: Highweighted 3-year-old (5-7 fur.) in Germany, 5 wins, $249,948 in
Germany and Italy, Jacobs Goldene Peitsche-G2, etc.

SILKEN CAT: Champion 2-year-old filly in Canada, 3 wins, $102,120 in 4 starts,
Mazarine S.

CAT THIEF: 4 wins, $3,951,012, Breeders’ Cup Classic S-G1, Swaps S-G1, Breed¬
ers’ Futurity-G2, 2nd Whitney H-G1, Haskell Invitational H-G1, Blue Grass
S-G1, Fountain of Youth S-G1, San Fernando Breeders’ Cup S-G2, etc. Sire.

TABASCO CAT: 8 wins, $2,347,671, Preakness S-G1, Belmont S-G1, San Rafael
S-G2, El Camino Real Derby-G3, Kentucky Cup Classic S, etc. Sire.

SHARP CAT: 14 wins, $1,972,575, Beldame S-G1, Ruffian H-G1, etc.

BLUEGRASS CAT: 5 wins, $1,761,280, Haskell Invitational S-G1, Remsen S-G2,
Nashua S-G3, Sam F. Davis S, 2nd Kentucky Derby-GI, etc.

RAGING FEVER: 11 wins, $1,458,198, Frizette S-G1, Ogden Phipps H-G1, etc.

HIGH YIELD: 4 wins, $1,170,196, Blue Grass S-G1, Hopeful S-G1, etc. Sire.

FEMALE LINE

KEY PHRASE. 5 wins at 3 and 4, $233,300, Santa Monica H-G1, Market Basket
S, Crimson Saint H, Miss California S, 3rd Santa Maria H-G1. Dam of 8
other foals, 5 to race, all winners, including—

YANKEE GENTLEMAN (Storm Cat). 4 wins at 3 and 4, $202,547, Pirate’s
Bounty H. Sire.

Key Deputy (Deputy Minister). 4 wins at 3 and 4, $160,697,2nd Bold Ruler
H-G3.

Key Maker (Saint Ballado). 4 wins at 3 and 5, 2007, $107,820.

Zing (Storm Cat). Winner at 2 and 3, $39,500. Dam of HALF OURS (5 wins,
$319,680 to 4, 2007, Richter Scale Breeder’ Cup Sprint Championship
H-G2, Juvenile S, 2nd Alysheba S-G3).

SOWN. 2 wins at 3, $24,750 in 3 starts. Dam of 7 other foals, 4 to race, 3
winners—

Case Study. 5 wins at 3 and 5, $89,820.

Tribal Rule. 2 wins at 5, $77,600 in 4 starts. Sire.

Common Hope. Winner at 3, $40,220. Dam of Double Major (3 wins,
$142,619 to 3,2007,3rd Sunshine Millions Oaks).

Model Customer. Unraced. Dam of BOLD BENGIE (4 wins, $60,308 to 3,
2007, Yavapai Downs Futurity).

BAD SEED. 7 wins, 2 to 4, $89,874, Golden Poppy H, 2nd Colonial H-G3. Dam
of 9 other foals, 6 to race, 2 winners, including—

PIRATE’S BOUNTY. 4 wins at 4 and 5, $95,984, Millburn S, 3rd Aqueduct
H, Paumonok H. Sire.

Seed Case. Placed at 3. Dam of KRESGEVILLE (5 wins, $142,110, Manhat¬
tan Beach S, etc.), PALMERTON (6 wins, $131,508, Swift S, Last Chance
Derby, Answer Do S, etc.), MAXIMIZE (2 wins, $63,117, Zany Tactics
S), Ninety Four Roses (3 wins, $59,475, 2nd CTBA Marian S), Market
Cap (3 wins, $38,405, 3rd Maiden S). Granddam of SMITHTOWN
BAY (8 wins, $125,221 to 5, 2007, Minnesota Turf Championship S),
Dancetothefinish (8 wins, $45,151,3rd Ruidoso Thoroughbred Futurity,
etc.), Santa Ana Park ($32,425, 2nd Beau Brummel S).

Deciduous. Unraced. Dam of INVICTUS (4 wins, $83,447, ATBA Sales S).

*RICH AND RARE II, by Rockefella. Champion 2-year-old filly in England, 6 wins
at 2, Cheveley Park S, Houghton S, Windsor Castle S, 2nd Princess S.
Dam of 11 other foals, 7 to race, 6 winners, including—

Return to Paradise. 8 wins at 3 and 4, $42,824. Producer. Granddam of
GANDRIA (champion 3-year-old filly in Canada, 6 wins, $694,004, Prince
of Wales S, Algoma S, 2nd Maple Leaf S-G3, Canadian H-G3, Queen’s
Plate, Star Shoot S, etc.), Jet Star (3 wins, 2nd Green Carpet H).

Positive Attitude. Winner at 3 and 4, $14,696. Dam of Exuberant Attitude
(3 wins, $80,168, 2nd Daffodil S, 3rd Patricia S). Granddam of Hooded
Dancer (9 wins, $262,037, 2nd Ladies H-G2, etc.).

Dottys Dream. Unraced. Dam of ATHENIAN IDOL (champion steeplechaser,
6 wins, Temple Gwathmey International Gold Cup H). Granddam of
HONEST TO GOD (5 wins, $83,949, Nodouble H, Chicago H, etc., sire),
Primitive Pleasure (2 wins, $68,676,3rd Remsen S-G1, Laurel Futurity-
G1, sire), Ardent Effort, Pleasure Perfect (dam of PERFECTLY PROUD,
13 wins, $299,702, Ack Ack H, 3rd Hollywood Derby-GI, etc.; Donald).

PALMY DAYS, by Epigram. Sister to MERRY QUIP; half-sister to ENRAPT, CELE¬
BRATE, Themis. Dam of 9 other foals, 3 winners, including—

*Golden Rain II. Placed at 2 and 3 in England, 3rd Princess Margaret S.
Producer.

Victorian Era. Winner at 3 in Ireland. Dam of Victorian Habit (3rd Cherry
Hinton S-G3), Conte Cavour (2nd Premio Sette Colli in Italy).

Smokey. Unraced. Dam of LORD MARK (Gran Premio Citta’ di Torino-G3, etc.
in Italy). Granddam of Lifaregal (Fr).

2008 Fee—$1,000 Live Foal

Payable when foal stands and nurses
Nominated to West Virginia Breeders Classics
Registered West Virginia stallion
Property of Cynthia O’Bannon

STANDING IN WEST VIRGINIA

Cynthia O’Bannon John McKee

(304) 671 -0339 (304) 671 -0405

E-mail: magiccyndy@bellsouth.com Fax (859) 498-8912

STALLION NEWS

APALACHIAN
THUNDER JOINS
REGAL HEIR ROSTER

M ichele Madonna of
Regal Heir Farm has
announced that Apala-
chian Thunder will join the ros¬
ter at the Grantville, Pa., breed¬
ing facility for the 2008 season.
The 8-year-old gray/roan horse
will stand for $1,500 live foal,
payable when the foal stands
and nurses, with special con¬

sideration to foals registered as
Pennsylvania-breds.

Apalachian Thunder is the
leading earner among stakes
winners for his sire, multiple
Grade 1 -winning millionaire
Wekiva Springs (by Runaway
Groom).

Apalachian Thunder cap¬
tured the 2005 Whipple ton

Stakes at Calder Race Course,
leading at every call in the six-
furlong sprint before drawing
off to win by two and a half
lengths. During that season he
was also second in Arlington
Park’s six-furlong Better Bee
Stakes and was third in the mile
and a sixteenth Spend a Buck
Handicap-G3 at Calder, beaten
a length by Supervisor and B. B.
Best.

At 3, Apalachian Thunder
was second in the $100,000
California Derby at Bay Mead¬
ows and finished third in the
$500,000 WinStar Derby From
24 career starts, he earned
$298,378, winning six times

and finishing second or third in
nine other races.

A half-brother to stakes-
placed Doji Groom, a 14-time
winner in Puerto Rico,
Apalachian Thunder is out of
Doji (by Sunny Clime), a fall
sister to $603,350-earner Sunny
Blossom. A winner of 11 races,
Sunny Blossom won or placed
in 14 stakes from ages 3 to
6, with graded scores in the
Grade 3 Toboggan and Palos
Verdes Handicaps, the latter
in record time of 1:07% for
six furlongs at Santa Anita. Set
in 1989, the record still stands
as the fastest six furlongs run
over the dirt surface at the
California track.

GREEK SUN
TO MARYLAND
STALLION STATION

M ultiple graded stakes
winner Greek Sun will
stand his first season
in 2008 at Maryland Stallion
Station in Glyndon, Md. The
stud fee is $3,500 live foal for
the 7-year-old son of Danzig
who is the property of Peter
Angelos’s Marathon Farm.

Greek Sun was purchased
by Angelos for $425,000 at
the 2003 Fasig-Tipton Florida
Calder Selected 2-year-olds in
training sale. Sent to California
to trainer Bobby Frankel,
Greek Sun revealed his poten¬
tial immediately by winning
both starts at 2. After breaking
slowly in his debut, a mile and a
sixteenth maiden special weight
over the Hollywood Park turf,
he rallied to win by a length.
In late December, he started in
Santa Anita’s one-mile Hill Rise
Stakes on the turf, and once
again rallied to win going away
by four lengths.

Greek Sun reappeared six
months later and proved his
readiness by taking the Cinema
Breeders’ Cup Handicap-G3 at

Hollywood Park. He won the
mile and an eighth turf event
by two lengths over Laura’s
Lucky Boy, with Whilly (Ire)
third.

Frankel sent Greek Sun to
Arlington Park to face Kitten’s
Joy in the Grade 1 Secretariat
Stakes at a mile and a quar¬
ter. The second choice in a
field of seven, Greek Sun raced
wide, was shuffled back, boxed
in and steadied. After alter¬
ing course in the stretch, he
outfinished all but Kitten’s Joy,
who went on to earn an Eclipse
Award as that year’s champion
turf horse.

Green Sun got his final
career victory at Santa Anita
that October in the mile and
an eighth Oak Tree Derby-G2.
Again biding his time near the
back of the nine-horse field,
Greek Sun launched a five-wide
move around the far turn and
drove to a three-quarter-length
victory over Laura’s Lucky
Boy, Hendrix and Imperialism.
Also-rans included Whilly and
Borrego. He retires with a

record of four wins from eight
career starts, and earnings of
$343,097.

Greek Sun was produced by
Tremp olino’s s take s -winning
daughter Sunlit Silence. Four
yearlings out of Sunlit Silence
have sold at public auction
for an average of $260,000,
and the mare’s 2007 colt by
Elusive Quality was the top-
priced weanling at the Fasig-
Tipton Kentucky November
Mixed sale, when he sold for
$300,000.

Sunlit Silence is a half-sis¬
ter to graded stakes winners

Madame Pandit and Fiscally
Speaking. Madame Pandit,
an earner of $393,460, is the
dam of Grade 1 winner Mea
Domina.

Also found in the family,
which traces back to General
Store (by To Market), are cham¬
pions Haafhd (2000 Guineas
S-Gl, etc.), A1 Bahathri (Irish
1000 Guineas-Gl, etc.), Muta-
karrim, Almaty and Hasbah
(Ire), as well as Grade 1 winner
Spanish Fern and 2007 graded
stakes-winning sophomores
King of the Roxy and Slew’s
Tizzy.

108 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

LYDIA A. WILLIAMS

FIBER SONDE

Gray or Roan Horse, 2005

Fappiano

Unbridled

Gana Facil

Unbridled’s Song

Gray or Roan, 1993

Caro (Ire)

Trolley Song

Lucky Spell

Storm Bird

Storm Cat

Terlingua

Silken Cat

Chestnut, 1993

Chieftain

Silken Doll

Insilca

Mr. Prospector
Killaloe
*Le Fabuleux
Charedi
Fortino II
Chambord
Lucky Mel
Incantation

Northern Dancer
South Ocean
Secretariat
Crimson Saint
Bold Ruler
Pocahontas
Buckpasser
Copper Canyon

Dosage Profile: 3 6 9 0 2

Dosage Index: 2.08 Center of Distribution: +0.40

RACING RECORD

FIBER SONDE did not race.

STUD RECORD

FIBER SONDE enters stud in 2008.

MALE LINE

His sire, UNBRIDLED’S SONG, stakes winner of 5 races, $1,311,800, Breeders’
Cup Juvenile S-G1, Florida Derby-GI, Wood Memorial S-G2, etc.

UNBRIDLED’S SONG has sired 59 stakes winners, including:

UNBRIDLED ELAINE: 6 wins, $1,770,740, Breeders’ Cup Distaff S-G1, Mon¬
mouth Breeders’ Cup Oaks-G2, Iowa Oaks, Pocahontas S, etc.

OCTAVE: 4 wins, $1,660,934 to 3, 2007, C.C.A. Oaks-GI, Mother Goose S-G1,
Adirondack Breeders’ Cup S-G2, 2nd Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies S-G1,
Kentucky Oaks-GI, Ashland S-G1, Matron S-G1, etc.

SPLENDID BLENDED: 7 wins, $742,060, Hollywood Starlet S-G1, Vanity Invita¬
tional H-G1, Shirley Jones Breeders’ Cup H-G2, etc.

POLITICAL FORCE: 4 wins, $607,232 to 4, 2007, Suburban H-G1, 2nd Metro¬
politan H-G1, Nashua S-G3,3rd Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational S-G1, etc.

BUDDHA: 3 wins, $489,600 in 4 starts, Wood Memorial S-G1. Sire.

MAGNIFICENT SONG: 5 wins, $445,732 to 4,2007, Garden City Breeders’ Cup
S-G1, Lake George S-G3, Edgewood S, 2nd Regret S-G3, etc.

SONGANDAPRAYER: 3 wins, $380,480, Fountain of Youth S-G1, Huntington S,
2nd Blue Grass S-G1,3rd Jersey Shore Breeders’ Cup S-G3. Sire.

MARYLEBONE: 2 wins, $171,800, Matron S-G1.

EVEN THE SCORE: 9 wins, $751,629, Californian S-G2, Mervyn Leroy H-G2,
Mardi Gras H, 2nd Fair Grounds Breeders’ Cup H, etc.

DOMESTIC DISPUTE: 3 wins, $703,115, Strub S-G2, Santa Catalina S-G2, etc.

UNBRIDLED SIDNEY: 8 wins, $680,380 to 6, 2007, Cherokee Run Breeders’
Cup H, Distaff Turf Sprint Championship H, Mamzelle S, etc.

EUROSILVER: 4 wins, $622,310, Breeders’ Futurity-G2, Skip Away H-G3, 2nd
Stephen Foster H-G1, Swale S-G3, etc.

GREY SONG: Chairmans H-G2, Blarney S-G2, VRC St. Leger-G3, 2nd Caulfield
Cup-GI, Underwood S-G1, etc. in Australia.

EXTEND: 7 wins, $436,856, Ontario Matron H, Belle Mahone S, etc.

VALUE PLUS: 3 wins, $414,595, Artax H-ntr, 2nd Florida Derby-GI, Futurity
S-G1,3rd Westchester H-G3.

FOREST MUSIC: 6 wins, $370,566, Honorable Miss H-G2, etc.

GRIFFINITE: 5 wins, $344,267, Lafayette S-G3, 2nd Lexington S-G2, etc.

UNBRIDLED TIME: 5 wins, $341,889, WHAS-11 S, etc. Sire.

LAST SONG: 5 wins, $336,483, Bonnie Miss S-G2, Ajina S, 3rd Ashland S-G1.

ROCKPORT HARBOR: 5 wins, $324,800, Remsen S-G2, Nashua S-G3, etc.

HALF OURS: 5 wins, $319,680 in 7 starts to 4, 2007, Richter Scale Breeders’
Cup Sprint Championship H-G2, Juvenile S, 2nd Alysheba S-G3.

THORN SONG: 4 wins, $312,110 to 4,2007, River City H-G3, etc.

COJET: 6 wins, $302,646 to 8,2007, Colonel Power H, etc.

RARE GIFT: 3 wins, $292,078, Ladies H-G3, etc.

UNBRIDLED ENERGY: 4 wins, $282,862, San Lernando Breeders’ Cup S-G2, etc.

AMBITION UNBRIDLED: 7 wins, $278,286, Candy Eclair S, etc.

FEMALE LINE

SILKEN CAT. Champion 2-year-old filly in Canada, 3 wins at 2, $102,120,
Mazarine S. Dam of 3 other foals, including—

SPEIGHTSTOWN (Gone West). Champion sprinter, 10 wins at 3, 5 and 6,
$1,258,256, Breeders’ Cup Sprint S-G1, Churchill Downs H-G2, True
North Breeders’ Cup H-G2, Alfred G. Vanderbilt H-G2-etr, etc.

SILKEN DOLL 4 wins at 3, $68,550, Barn’s Penny S. Dam of 10 other foals, 6
to race, all winners, including—

JUYUSH. 12 wins, 2 to 9, $213,801 in England, Ascot Hurdle, 2nd Bahrain
Trophy, Arena Leisure December Novices Stp., 3rd Racing Post Trophy-
G1, Royal Lodge S-G2, etc.

MEADOW SILK. 13 wins, 3 to 6, $80,169, Cottonwood S. Dam of STAR
DABBLER (3 wins, $319,936, Indiana Derby-G2, 2nd King’s Bishop
S-G1), RUN PRODUCTION (3 wins, $75,600, Comet S, sire), Bay Head
King (6 wins, $210,713,2nd Gallant Bob H, etc., sire).

Raven Red. 8 wins, 3 to 8, $112,631,2nd Smoke Screen S.

Chief Appeal. 3 wins at 3, $88,250. Dam of TURKAPPEAL (4 wins, $280,440,
Valley View S, Miss Liberty S, Salem County S, 2nd Reeve Schley Jr.
S-G2, etc.), Premier Krischief (8 wins, $275,852, 2nd Jamaica H-G2,
etc.). Granddam of PINK CHAMPAGNE (2 wins, $145,957, Natalma S-G3).

Pongee. 2 wins at 3, $20,400 in 3 starts. Dam of Mississippi Chat (2
wins, $55,780, 3rd Phoenix S). Granddam of MISTER FANUCCI (cham¬
pion imported 2-year-old colt in Puerto Rico, 8 wins, $163,165, Clasico
Fanatico Hipico-GI, etc.), CINDAGO (2 wins, $98,180, El Cajon S).

Tropical Rain. Unraced. Dam of TROPICAL WAY (6 wins, $109,520 in Puerto
Rico, Clasico Dia de la Raza-GI, Clasico Eduardo Cautino Insua-GI).

INSILCA. Unraced. Dam of 15 other foals, 12 to race, 7 winners, including—

TURK PASSER. 8 wins, 3 to 5, $735,320, Turf Classic Invitational S-G1,
Bowling Green H-G2, Hialeah Turf Cup H-G3, etc.

Explosive Passer. 4 wins at 3 and 5, $109,805, 3rd Oceanside S.

Lifes Reward. 9 wins, 3 to 8, $184,332. Sire.

Silken Light. 3 wins at 3 and 4, $64,285. Dam of INCITATUS (4 wins,
$232,226, California Sires S, etc.).

Casilca. Placed at 3. Dam of G All Day (13 wins, $374,381,3rd Cardinal H),
Joyce G (4 wins, $44,868 to 4, 2007, 3rd Miss Kansas City S).

COPPER CANYON, by Bryan G. 7 wins, 2 to 4, $66,462, Pan Zareta H, 2nd
Schuylerville S, Bayou H, 3rd Black-Eyed Susan S, Post-Deb S. Sister to
Ross Sea; half-sister to BOLD EXPERIENCE, VIRGINIA DELEGATE (sire).
Dam of 7 other foals, all winners, including—

Copernica. 5 wins at 2 and 3, $121,938, 2nd Frizette S-G1, Matron S-G1,
etc. Dam of CRUSADER SWORD (6 wins, $327,476, Hopeful S-G1,
etc., sire), COPPER BUTTERFLY (in France), Latin Lyric, Penny Bank
(in England). Granddam of WAGE A PENNY (3 wins, $98,410, Tippett
S, etc.), COPPER HORIZON (4 wins, $94,667, Little Silver S, etc.), FIVE
TIMES A LADY, Advantage (3 wins, $461,152 to 4, 2007 in Japan, 3rd
Diamond S), L’Autre Monde (5 wins, $138,411,2nd Bustles and Bows
S, etc.), Lucky Appeal, Lenny’s Ransom, Gold of Autumn.

Ouachita. Winner at 2, $11,370, 3rd Cincinnati Trophy S. Producer. Grand¬
dam of BLUE HILLS (10 wins, $309,029, Carousel S, etc.), CARAMEL
CUSTARD (5 wins, $147,757, Marlboro S), ANTEQUERA.

Cherokee Phoenix. 2 wins at 3, $19,500 in 3 starts. Dam of CHEROKEE
COLONY (3 wins, $474,380, Flamingo S-G1, San Carlos H-G2, etc. sire),
RISEN COLONY (6 wins, $225,550, Honey Bee H-G3, etc.).

Is You Class. Winner at 3, $6,340. Dam of POTRA CLASICA (Arg) (6 wins,
$234,676 to 6, 2007 in U.S. and Argentina, Hollywood Wildcat Breeders’
Cup S, etc.), POTRIMAGIC (Arg) (1 win, $60,930, Flying Julia S), Potri
Class (2nd Premio Eudoro J. Balsa-G3, etc. in Argentina).

2008 Fee—$1,000 Live Foal

Payable when foal stands and nurses
Nominated to West Virginia Breeders Classics
Registered West Virginia stallion
Property of Cynthia O’Bannon

STANDING IN WEST VIRGINIA

Cynthia O’Bannon John McKee

(304) 671 -0339 (304) 671 -0405

E-mail: magiccyndy@bellsouth.com Fax (859) 498-8912

STALLION NEWS

BOP CELEBRATES
WITH FIRST WINNER

C ake, a colt by world
re cord-setting sprinter
Bop, became his sire’s first
official winner while romping
home by IIV 2 lengths on
November 14 at Laurel Park.

Bred by Jonas Cash and
campaigned in the name of
Cash’s Folly Quarter Stable,

T he first 2-year-old winner
for freshman sire Windsor
Castle was quickly fol¬
lowed by his second in early
November at Charles Town.

The filly Not for Nate came
out on November 8, in a seven-
furlong maiden special weight,
winning by a length and a quar¬
ter as the 0.70-1 favorite in the
field of eight for owner/trainer
Ronald Sigler. Bred by Leslie
Cromer in West Virginia, the
filly is out of Dinner Dancer
(by Who’s for Dinner).

The Casey family’s gelding
Henry the Lover, also odds-on
favorite while facing nine oth¬
ers, appeared in a maiden spe¬
cial weight the next evening.
The outcome was never in
doubt as the dark bay, bred and
trained by James W Casey and
racing in die colors of Taylor
Mountain Farm, set every frac¬
tion and drew off to win by
nine and a half lengths.

Windsor Castle, who stands
as the property of the Casey
family’s Charles Town-based
Taylor Mountain Farm, is rep¬
resented by four starters from
his first crop of eight foals. He
is also the sire of maiden King
of Windsor, who finished third
in the Tri-State Futurity on
November 10.

Cake was the second choice in
the field of eight 2-year-olds
contesting the six-furlong
maiden race over a muddy
track. Trained by Michael
Trombetta, Cake prompted the
early pace before taking over
near the half-mile mark and
widening in the stretch. Cake is

Windsor Castle is the most
accomplished son of his sire,
graded stakes-winning sprinter
Lord Carson, and his stakes-
winning dam, the multiple
stakes producer Frigidette (by
It’s Freezing). Making 29 starts
from ages 2 to 6, Windsor
Castle won or placed 18 times,
11 in stakes—all graded—and
earned $591,715.

He had his most lucrative
season at 2, capturing the Grade
2 Rem sen Stakes at Aqueduct
and finishing second in the
Nashua and Cowdin Stakes,
both Grade 3 races.

Second to E Dubai in the
Dwyer Stakes-G2 at 3, he faced
many of the top handicap
horses at 4 and 5, and counted
the Grade 3 Hal’s Hope and
William Donald Schaefer
Handicaps among his wins.

A half-brother to stakes
winner North Coast Ltd. and
graded stakes-placed juvenile
Tito’s Beau, Windsor Castle is
from the family of Grade 1
winner Private Persuasion.

The 10-year-old stallion
stands for $2,500 live foal, pay¬
able when the foal stands and
nurses, with special consider¬
ation to approved mares.

the first foal out of the winning
Royal Academy mare Trudy
True.

Through early December,
Bop was represented by four
starters in his first crop of 21
foals, including additional
placed runners Be Boppin
Wynn and Bopolene. His son
Class Bopper finished first in a
maiden special weight at Laurel
Park on November 3, but was
later disqualified and placed
last.

Cash’s Folly Quarter Stable
also raced Bop, after purchasing
him from his breeder, Peggy
Augus tus’s Ke swick S table,
for $95,000 at the 1998 Fasig-
Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall
Yearling sale.

A son of Rahy out of the
illustrious Keswick family of
Treasure Chest (his third dam),
Bop competed for five years,
winning 12 of his 23 starts, six
stakes, and earning $365,766.
The chestnut speedster set
three course records during his
career, highlighted by his world
record-equaling performance
of :54.61 for five furlongs on
the turf while winning the
Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup
Handicap at Penn National in
2002.

S chwarzwald, a 7-year-old
son of leading sire and
sire of sires A.P Indy, has
been retired to Andrea Wilson’s
Gallop-Away Farm in New
Cumberland, W.Va. He will
stand his first season for $500
live foal, payable when the foal
stands and nurses, or $350 for
West Virginia foaling mares.

An allowance winner of
$88,531, Schwarzwald is from

Earlier that year, Bop set a
five-furlong course record in
winning the second of his three
consecutive Punch Line Stakes
at Colonial Downs. He com¬
pleted the distance in :55.85.

In his first start of 2003,
Bop lowered Gulfstream Park’s
turf mark for five furlongs
when taking the Yankee Affair
Stakes in :55.10, after setting
fractions of :21.43 and :43.65.

Bop is out of the s takes-
placed Fappiano mare Golden
Guinea, a half-sister to stakes
winner Crown Silver.

Treasure Chest, a s takes-
winning full sister to champion
My Dear Girl, produced five
stakes horses, including Bop’s
stakes-winning second dam,
Gold Treasure (by Northern
Dancer). Other descendants of
Treasure Chest include cham¬
pions Catella (Ger), Glint of
Gold and Diamond Shoal (GB),
Irish 1000 Guineas-Gl win¬
ner Ensconse and Racing Post
Trophy-Gl winner Armiger.

Bop, now 11, stands for
$2,500 live foal, with special
consideration for multiple
bookings, at O’Sullivan Farms
in Charles Town, WVa., as the
property of Folly Quarter
Stable.

the prolific stakes-producing
family of Marianna Trench, by
*Pago Pago.

His dam, Foret Noire (by
Time for a Change), is one
of seven stakes horses out of
graded s takes winner Marianna’s
Girl (by Dewan). Foret Noire
won five races, including the
Decoration Day Handicap at
Mountaineer Park, and earned
$118,163.

FRESHMAN FIRSTS
FOR WINDSOR CASTLE

A.P. INDY SON TO
WEST VIRGINIA

110 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

HYDROGEN IN
NEW JERSEY

M ultiple stakes winner
Hydrogen, an earner of
$582,269 who is closely
related to top-class handicap
horse Behrens, has entered
stud at Starting Line Stable in
Colts Neck, N.J., for 2008.

By classic-winning cham¬
pion Pleasant Colony, the sire
of 77 stakes winners whose
sons at stud include top sire
Pleasant Tap, Hydrogen cam¬
paigned for six seasons, win¬
ning or placing in 31 of his 48
starts.

Seven times Hydrogen was
on the board in stakes, count¬
ing victories in the mile and
an eighth Stymie Handicap at
Aqueduct (defeating Aggadan),
Delaware Park’s mile and a
half Cape Henlopen Stakes,
and Woodbine’s one and
three-quarter-mile Valedictory
Handicap.

Three of the distance-lov¬
ing bay’s dozen wins were at
one mile. He was on the board
in seven of his nine starts over
wet tracks, and early in his

career captured an allowance
over Saratoga’s turf course.

Nine-year-old Hydrogen
is the first foal out of win¬
ner Novel Encounter (by
Woodman). Her second foal
is $191,530-earner Banned
in Boston, whose strength
was sprinting on the turf. He
placed in four stakes, includ¬
ing Keeneland’s Shakertown
and the Aegon Turf Sprint at
Churchill Downs, both Grade
3 races.

Stakes winner Hot Novel,
Hydrogen’s second dam, earned
$380,227 with six victories.
Four of her wins came in add-
ed-money races, topped by the
Santa Ynez Stakes-G3 and
Rancho Bernardo Breeders’
Cup Handicap-G3, and she was
stakes-placed eight times,
including a second in the Acorn
Stakes-Gl and third in the
Santa Monica Handicap-Gl.

To the cover of Pleasant
Colony, Hot Novel produced
Behrens. From 25 starts,
Behrens earned $3,243,500,
captured the Grade 1 Oaklawn

The richest runner out of
Marianna’s Girl is Crimson
Classic, a winner of 10 races
who won or placed in 13
stakes and amassed $559,338.
Crimson Classic is the sire of
multiple stakes-winning juve¬
nile King Cohl.

Other stakes winners out of
Marianna’s Girl are Marastani
($499,276 in U.S. and England,
Stars and Stripes Handicap-
G3, etc.), Christine’s Outlaw (5
wins, $351,358, Poker H-G3,
etc.) and Amansara ($140,584,
Without Feathers S, etc.). She is
also the granddam of Sapling
Stakes-G3 winner Dont Tell
the Kids.

Marianna’s Girl won the
Linda Vista Handicap-G3
and placed in seven addition¬
al stakes (three graded) while
earning $202,538. She is a
half-sister to $523,140-earner
Bold Style, whose three graded
stakes victories included the
Oaklawn Handicap-G2; among
his six stakes placings were
the Whitney Stakes-Gl and
Arkansas Derby-Gl.

Also found in the family are
West Virginia-bred stars Julie
B ($479,352) and Earth Power
($292,578), and graded stakes
winner Summer Symphony.

Handicap, won back-to-back
runnings of the Gulfs tream
Park Handicap-Gl and four
other graded stakes, and placed
in 11 more stakes, all graded.
Nine were in Grade/Group 1
company, including seconds in
the Dubai World Cup, Jockey
Club Gold Cup, Travers and
Woodward Stakes and Whitney
and Donn Handicaps.

Hot Novel is also the dam
of group-placed Delius and

granddam of graded s takes-
placed Andover Lady.

Additional Grade 1 win¬
ners found in the family are
Commentator ($816,236,
Whitney H-Gl, etc.) and
Golden Bri ($516,283, Coaching
Club American Oaks-Gl, etc.).

Hydrogen stands his first
season for $2,500 live foal, pay¬
able when the foal stands and
nurses, with special consider¬
ation to approved mares.

Stallions new to region

APALACHIAN THUNDER, gr./ro., 2000,
by Wekiva Springs—Doji, by Sunny
Clime. SW, 6 wins, $298,378. Regal
Heir Farm, 5 Bullfrog Rd., Grantville, Pa.
17028. (717) 469-2300, fax (717) 469-
7464. $1,500 live foal, payable when
foal stands and nurses, special consid¬
eration for Pa.-bred foals. Stands first
season in 2008.

ARTEMUS SUNRISE, ch., 2001, by Tale
of the Cat—Eggs Binnedict, by Naskra.
GSW, 8 wins, $361,130. Partnership
at Regal Heir Farm, 5 Bullfrog Rd.,
Grantville, Pa. 17028. (717) 469-2300,
fax (717) 469-7464. $1,500 live foal,
payable when foal stands and nurses.
Stands first season in 2008.

ECCLESIASTIC, b., 2001, by Pulpit-
Starry Dreamer, by Rubiano. MGSW, 7
wins, $346,728. Walmac Pennsylvania
at Regal Heir Farm, 5 Bullfrog Rd.,
Grantville, Pa. 17028. (717) 469-2300,
fax (717) 469-7464; George Hills or
Tamara Evans (859) 299-0473; e-mail:
ghills@walmac.com. $5,000 live foal,
payable Nov. 15 of year bred. Stands
first season in 2008.

FREEFOURINTERNET, b., 1998, by Tabas¬
co Cat—Dixie Chimes, by Dixieland
Band. MGSW, 8 wins, $1,106,136.
Ron Peltz at Fox Tale Stud, 5702
Limeport Pk., Coopersburg, Pa. 18036.
(610) 965-0656; www.foxtalestud.
com; e-mail: foxtale@ptd.net; Denise
Lingenfelter (352) 229-3937. $4,000
live foal, discounts available for reg¬
istered Pa.-bred foals, payable when
foal stands and nurses. First foals are
yearlings of 2008.

GREEK SUN, dk.b./br., 2001, by Danzig-
Sunlit Silence, by Trempolino. MGSW, 4
wins, $343,097. Marathon Farm at
Maryland Stallion Station LLC, 3301
Tufton Ave., Glyndon, Md. 21071. (410)
833-1299, fax (410) 833-1266; Don
Litz mobile (443) 253-2856; www.

marylandstallions.com, e-mail: aman-
da@marylandstallions.com. $3,500
live foal. Stands first season in 2008.

HYDROGEN, b., 1999, by Pleasant
Colony—Novel Encounter, by Wood¬
man. MSW, 12 wins, $582,269. Starting
Line Stable, Colts Neck, N.J. Inquires to
Holly Harris, P.0. Box 494, Oceanport,
N.J. 07757. (732) 895-5390; fax (732)
229-6877; e-mail: hwindshark@aol.
com. $2,500 live foal, payable when
foal stands and nurses, special consid¬
eration to approved mares. Stands first
season in 2008.

MEDALLIST, dk.b./br., 2001, by Touch
Gold—Santaria, by Star de Naskra.
MGSW, 5 wins, $421,375. Syndicate at
Northview Stallion Station, P.0. Box 89,
55 Northern Dancer Dr., Chesapeake
City, Md. 21915. (410) 885-2855, fax
885-5985; e-mail: info@northview
stallions.com; www. northviewstall ions,
com. $5,000 live foal, payable when
foal stands and nurses. First foals are
yearlings of 2008.

MORE SMOKE, gr./ro., 2002, by Smoke
Glacken—Saunter, by Strolling Along.
GSW, 7 wins, $258,087. Thomas
McClay and Harry Nye at Pin Oak Lane
Farm, P.0. Box 129, New Freedom, Pa.
17349. (717) 235-4954, (800) 346-
8398; fax 235-8190; e-mail: bsolo-
mon@cyberia.com; www.pinoaklane.
com. $3,500 live foal, payable when
foal stands and nurses. Stands first
season in 2008.

SCHWARZWALD, b., 2001, byA.P. Indy—
Foret Noire, by Time for a Change. 5
wins, $88,531. Andrea D. Wilson at
Gallop-Away Farm, 79 Stallion Dr., New
Cumberland, W.Va. 26047. (304) 387-
4442, e-mail: gallopaway1@netzero.
net. $500 live foal, payable when foal
stands and nurses, $350 for W.Va.
foaling mares. Stands first season in
2008.

Stallion moved in region

REAL QUIET: To Penn Ridge Farm, 1306 Longview Dr., Middletown, Pa. 17057. Inquiries
to Michael Jester (717) 368-2220, e-mail: mikejester@comcast.net.

Stallion leaving region

OPS SMILE: To Heavens Gate Farm, Morriston, Fla.

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 111

STALLION RANKINGS

Mid-Atlantic region leading sires in 2007

Top 65 stallions who currently stand or concluded their careers in Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
These statistics were supplied by Bloodstock Research Information Services (BRIS). Exact date is at the discretion of BRIS. fDenotes freshman sire. The following statistics,
compiled on December 12, reflect 2007 earnings from the following countries — Canada, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Puerto Rico, U.A.E. and the U.S.
Statistics from Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and countries in South America are not included.

Foals

Runners

Starts

Winners

Races

Won

Leading Earner

Earnings

%Wnrs./

Runners

Avgf

Runner

1 .

Not For Love (Md)

548

174

1,111

99

167

Talkin About Love ($375,875)

$5,621,050

57

$32,305

2.

Real Quiet (Pa)

293

124

792

69

113

Midnight Lute ($1,368,000)

4,081,810

56

32,918

3.

Outflanker (Md)

316

130

960

77

151

Annabill ($237,680)

3,219,460

59

24,765

4.

Lite the Fuse (Pa)

371

126

892

71

125

Going Ballistic ($690,140)

3,035,040

56

24,088

5.

Louis Quatorze (Md)

502

155

1,219

94

174

Tap Dancing Mauk ($200,355)

2,895,180

61

18,679

6.

Two Punch (Md)

875

123

722

63

106

Grand Champion ($279,239)

2,684,250

51

21,823

7.

Partner’s Flero (Pa)

293

113

749

58

95

Heros Reward ($515,826)

2,642,570

51

23,386

8.

Lion Flearted (Md)

209

102

594

63

103

Control System ($192,310)

2,372,160

62

23,256

9.

Patton (Pa)

356

68

529

34

58

Kelly’s Landing ($1,313,000)

2,273,690

50

33,437

10.

Allen’s Prospect (deceased)

1,047

147

964

72

129

Just Don ($100,382)

2,140,350

49

14,560

11.

Wheaton (deceased)

288

78

695

56

105

Miami Sunrise ($186,073)

2,060,580

72

26,418

12.

Service Stripe (Pa)

248

106

708

59

108

Joan’s Rose ($107,215)

2,057,590

56

19,411

13.

Banker’s Gold (Pa)

317

111

823

56

99

My List ($213,187)

1,890,550

50

17,032

14.

Crafty Friend (NJ)

274

110

726

57

92

Friendly Island ($490,000)

1,839,860

52

16,726

15.

Siphon (Brz) (Pa)

455

111

653

54

90

Wedded Woman ($136,329)

1,755,240

49

15,813

16.

Unbridled Jet (NJ)

184

74

554

41

70

Jet Away Jane ($176,604)

1,695,740

55

22,915

17.

Buddha (Pa)

251

125

579

43

71

Hisse ($116,805)

1,532,090

34

12,257

18.

Defrere (NJ)

369

80

477

34

52

My Three Sisters ($145,666)

1,500,050

43

18,751

19.

Meadow Monster (WV)

259

96

608

42

72

Westside Lady ($80,510)

1,359,850

44

14,165

20.

Caller 1. D. (deceased)

483

72

425

34

55

Who’s Happy ($217,872)

1,314,370

47

18,255

21.

Delaware Township (Pa)

129

69

453

35

55

Electrify ($237,870)

1,307,720

51

18,952

22.

Eastover Court (deceased)

167

49

378

21

41

Eastern Delite ($276,895)

1,287,090

43

26,267

23.

Prized (WV)

440

62

372

32

48

Brass Hat ($455,346)

1,240,910

52

20,015

24.

Yarrow Brae (Md)

181

60

403

31

53

Five Steps ($148,440)

1,237,060

52

20,618

25.

Luftikus (WV)

97

57

469

34

53

Love to Plunge ($127,410)

1,215,890

60

21,331

26.

Crowd Pleaser (deceased)

127

59

291

28

50

Happy Surprise ($103,045)

1,170,990

47

19,847

27.

Private Interview (NJ)

170

52

408

21

31

Corvo ($74,190)

1,128,630

40

21,704

28.

Mojave Moon (Md)

123

68

509

37

62

Bankbusted ($101,329)

1,093,350

54

16,079

29.

Housebuster (deceased)

525

83

515

33

56

Andrea’s Pic ($93,210)

1,060,300

40

12,775

30.

Citidancer (pensioned)

346

44

292

24

43

Citifest ($100,437)

1,052,370

55

23,917

31.

Polish Numbers (deceased)

513

48

292

23

46

One Eyed Joker ($120,440)

945,022

48

19,688

32.

Eastern Echo (deceased)

520

81

525

32

52

Marias Golden Rose ($67,380)

929,746

40

11,478

33.

Crypto Star (Md)

141

60

393

30

48

Lexi Star ($273,204)

914,792

50

15,247

34.

Prospect Bay (WV)

243

45

346

27

59

Prospective Kiss ($79,710)

793,407

60

17,631

35.

Carnivalay (deceased)

593

33

255

17

31

Carnival Chrome ($196,948)

777,259

52

23,553

36.

Makin (WV)

159

66

373

23

33

Makin Peace ($111,860)

759,782

35

11,512

37.

Go for Gin (Md)

266

59

343

22

39

Bootleg Annie ($118,910)

743,825

37

12,607

38.

Way West (Fr) (deceased)

303

52

334

29

42

Westerly Magic ($98,780)

685,718

56

13,187

39.

Power by Far (Pa)

52

21

153

12

24

Power by Leigh ($124,088)

670,215

57

31,915

40.

Family Calling (WV)

241

86

526

37

52

Inca Is Calling ($51,471)

630,607

43

7,333

41.

Kokand (WV)

403

61

386

25

36

Socks Bishop ($46,244)

605,821

41

9,931

42.

Coastal Storm (Pa)

89

30

181

15

30

Tatoxcac ($100,620)

597,837

50

19,928

43.

Flying Chevron (deceased)

131

33

224

21

36

1 Can See ($117,460)

591,706

64

17,930

44.

Activist (Pa)

61

16

118

8

19

Speechifying ($291,299)

552,635

50

34,540

45.

Wayne County (Ire) (Md)

190

36

246

16

29

Mr Mutter ($87,390)

523,068

44

14,530

46.

Limit Out (WV)

45

15

99

9

16

Any Limit ($182,914)

476,305

60

31,754

47.

Hay Halo (Va)

301

34

238

11

20

LaVikina ($79,420)

465,091

32

13,679

48.

Awad (pensioned)

139

44

282

15

22

John’s Pic ($130,215)

454,854

34

10,338

49.

Waquoit (deceased)

546

34

218

17

21

Jet Run ($75,731)

448,051

50

13,178

50.

Sailor’s Warning (deceased)

21

15

127

9

12

Elite Miss ($93,135)

441,627

60

29,442

51.

Reparations (WV)

31

13

92

7

14

Prop Me Up ($248,060)

433,451

54

33,342

52.

Valiant Nature (WV)

194

36

254

16

32

Valiant Love ($48,270)

425,880

44

11,830

53.

Evening Kris (deceased)

141

22

131

11

19

Stooges Fan ($53,430)

422,577

50

19,208

54.

Dusty Screen (pensioned)

113

24

188

10

20

Dancin Dusty ($78,425)

391,168

42

16,299

55.

Secret Hello (deceased)

293

33

186

13

17

D’artagnans’spirit ($119,640)

388,171

39

11,763

56.

My Boy Adam (WV)

259

40

195

12

17

Smart Pace ($59,292)

367,207

30

9,180

57.

Close Up (NJ)

50

18

127

5

9

Joey P. ($260,699)

346,242

28

19,236

58.

Emancipator (WV)

65

25

157

12

16

Oak Hill Princess ($42,480)

343,582

48

13,743

59.

Intensity (deceased)

21

13

96

7

11

Rain Song ($73,890)

330,050

54

25,388

60.

Castine (WV)

53

27

227

9

15

Castina ($95,581)

316,215

33

11,712

61.

Smart Guy (Pa)

8

5

34

3

10

Secretintelligence ($239,269)

315,309

60

63,062

62.

Purple Passion (Md)

32

13

121

8

16

Ursula’s Passion ($109,380)

308,100

62

23,700

63. fChangeintheweather (Pa)

49

28

107

11

12

Cold Trial ($40,820)

305,082

39

10,896

64.

Chelsey Cat (NC)

63

26

269

15

24

Jacob’s Shamrock ($34,825)

295,460

58

11,364

65.

Mr. Nugget (NJ)

44

26

134

8

12

Sweetheart Bear ($60,925)

294,109

31

11,312

112 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Breeders Flock To Northview's
Stallion Show Luncheon!

$ DANCE WITH RAVENS

$ DEPUTY STORM

$ DOMESTIC DISPUTE

$ GREAT NOTION

$ LION HEARTED

XX LOVE OF MONEY

Xj( MEDALLIST

jfy, NOT FOR LOVE

$ TWO PUNCH

Northview

STALLION STATION
55 Northern Dancer Dr.
Chesapeake City, MD 21915
Phone: 410.885.2855
Fax: 410.885.5985
www.northviewstallions.com

Over 500 Breeders Brave The Elements
To Give Northview Sires Accolades!

Neither rain, nor sleet nor snowy
weather could keep more than
500 guests from making the trip
to Northview Stallion Station on
Dec. 9 for Northview's annual
luncheon and stallion show.

A toasty-warm tent was filled
to the brim with visitors
eager to see Northview's nine
stallions, including recent arrival
MEDALLIST. Guests warmed
up with stirring conversation
and a delectable lunch, and
then made their way outside to
watch as Northview's sire power
was on display.

Commentary was once again
provided by co-founding North-
view partner Dr. Tom Bowman,
who offered valuable analysis
on the breeding industry while
providing critiques on each
Northview stallion.

The promise of the future was
the first on display. DEPUTY

STORM, one of the fastest
horsestoenterstudintheregion
and whose first foals arrive in
2008, was brought out first,
followed by another powerful
sprinter, GREAT NOTION. His
good-looking first crop makes it
to the races in 2008.

LOVE OF MONEY, who

was seen a year earlier after
coming right off the track,
had filled out impressively for
his second season. He was

followed by two of the most
popular young stallions in the
country, DOMESTIC DISPUTE
and DANCE WITH RAVENS,

who covered a total of more
than 250 mares in 2007. And
Bowman noted that Northview
had an enviable record a 93%
conception rate for the last
breeding season!

Northview's established guard
looked in great form— LION
HEARTED, who had his best
year yet in 2007; venerable TWO
PUNCH, in extraordinary good
shape and still extremely fertile;
and the region's leading sire
NOT FOR LOVE.

Maryland's newest addition,
MEDALLIST, was saved for
last. The young stallion, whose
first foals are now yearlings, is
considered a great fit for the
region, noted Bowman. The
well-put together speedster
offers every expectation of
being a sire of precocious
2-year-olds.

'VIEW'FROM THE SHED

PAGE 2

Lion Hearted Runners
Are On The Prowl!

With prowess and efficiency, runners
by LION HEARTED have taken
their sire to the upper echelons of
the region's sire ranks in 2007. With
earnings approaching $2.5 million for
the year, LION HEARTED ranks as the
region's leading fourth-crop sire.

From the first weeks of the year, when
he led the nation by number of winners,
LION HEARTED has sired classy run¬
ners at a consistent clip. Ten percent of
his winners are stakes horses in 2007!

Leading the way is graded stakes win¬
ner CONTROL SYSTEM, who

returned to the scene of her biggest
triumph to defeat odds-on favorite
Oprah Winney at her own game in
the 6 fur. Garland of Roses H. at
Aqueduct on Dec. 1.

Never worse than third in her career,
CONTROL SYSTEM recorded her
fourth victory in six lifetime starts—
by a combined margin of more than
27 lengths—boosting her career earn¬
ings to $192,310. Off nearly six months
following a dazzling display in the Gr.
3 Cicada Stakes at Aqueduct in the
spring, the Thomas McClay and Harry
Nye-owned filly, trained by Michael
Trombetta, returned this fall to finish
third in the Dream Supreme S. at
Belmont, and put in a solid effort
when third over a sloppy track in the
Miss Woodford S. at Monmouth on
Breeders' Cup day.

Out of the Grindstone mare Risk
Aversion, CONTROL SYSTEM was bred
in Pennsylvania by Horse Shoe Valley

Equine. She is one of four sophomore
stakes horses in 2007 for LION
HEARTED, who was also represented
by Maryland Million Ladies winner
MADDY'S HEART, multiple graded
stakes-placed Hobbitontherocks
and ROARING LION, a stakes-win-
ning juvenile who came back to place
in stakes at 3.

LION HEARTED— the 2004 leading
Mid-Atlantic freshman sire who
ranked in the top 20 nationally—
continues to get precocious runners,
and leads all Maryland sires with 12
juvenile winners in 2007 (through
mid-December). His winners have
won maiden special weights at
Aqueduct, Delaware Park,
Meadowlands and Charles Town
and include Lion's Maddy, who
snared the winner's share of a
$52,000 purse at Aqueduct on Dec.
12. LION HEARTED is also the sire of
Jakes Heart, who finished third in
Penn National's Blue Mountain
Juvenile S. in her first start.

LION HEARTED has sired the earn¬
ers of more than $5 million from
four crops of racing age, with eight
stakes winners. And his runners
have average earnings of $40,000-
plus, more than 10 times his 2008
stud fee!

This son of STORM CAT from the
stellar family of champion
RELAXING remains the cat's
meow!

A Northview-Sired Stakes Exacta!

FOR KISSES, a 4-year-old homebred
filly campaigning for Eddie and Binnie
Houghton's Buckingham Farm and
trained by Richard Small, exploded
through the stretch to catch Now It
Begins (a daughter of TWO PUNCH)
and win Laurel Park's Squan Song S. by
a neck on Dec. 15. In gaining the first
stakes win of her career, FOR KISSES
became the 11th stakes winner of 2007
for her sire NOT FOR LOVE.

NOT FOR LOVE had a record-
breaking year in 2007. Through Dec.
16, his runners earned $5.6 million,
and he ranked 18th in the nation by

progeny earnings, holding title for
the fifth year in a row as the highest-
ranked stallion standing outside of
Kentucky.

NOT FOR LOVE has 86 stakes horses

from nine crops of racing age, and
lifetime progeny earnings in excess
of $35.6 million! His runners have had
annual earnings of $4 million-plus
every year since 2002.

JIM MCCUE

Mid-Atlantic-bred
stakes winners

MD-bred: DATTTS AWESOME, DIGGER, FIRE HERO, GOOD NIGHT SHIRT, GRAND CHAMPION, HEADSANDTALES, LAIR,
ROLLICKING CALLER, STEVE’S DOUBLE, YOUR FLAME IN ME. NJ-bred: LOVE FOR NOT, PURE DISCO, ROUGH ROAD
AHEAD. PA-bred: BARBAZILLA, CONTROL SYSTEM, LORD ADMIRAL, NOTGIVINMYLOVEAWAY. VA-bred: MINI SERMON,
WARNING ZONE. WV-bred: DONALD’S PRIDE, GHOSTLY THUNDER, JULIE B, SAXET HEIGHTS.

STEVE’S DOUBLE ADDS
TO REMARKABLE RECORD
OF ACORN HILL FARM

J ess and Sharon Sweely
have a bustling sport horse
business—while dabbling
in Thoroughbred race horses—
at their Acorn Hill Farm in
Madison, Va. But their achieve¬
ments in the racing world have
been extraordinary

Steve’s Double became the
latest of three stakes winners
to represent Acorn Hill as a
breeder in the past decade
when he captured the Grade
3 $200,000 Perryville Stakes at
Keeneland in October.

A Maryland-bred, Steve’s
Double was making his stakes
debut when he defeated fellow
3-year-olds at Keeneland, pay¬
ing $26 to win and finishing in
a seven-furlong time (1:25.36)
only one second slower than
the track record.

He returned to face older
rivals in the mile and a sixteenth
$60,000 Tenacious Handicap at
Fair Grounds on December 1,
and proved just as effective in
his first attempt beyond a mile,
scoring by three-quarters of a
length in the field of seven.

Steve’s Double, a gelded
son of Stephen Got Even,
races for Art and Stephanie
Preston’s Oxbow Racing LLC.

Oxbow purchased him for
$25,000 at the 2005 Keeneland
September Yearling sale, and
consigned him to the Fasig-
Tipton Midlantic May 2-year-
olds in training sale, where he
sold on a $200,000 bid by CDP
Racing (the stable name of the
Prestons’ son, Cole Preston).

Unraced at 2, Steve’s Double
owned career stats of 8-4-1-1,
with earnings of $238,346
through December 1.

The Sweelys purchased
Steve’s Double’s dam, Think
Double (by A1 Nasr-Fr), for
$6,000 at the 1995 Fasig-
Tipton Midlantic February
mixed sale, intending to breed
her to a Warmblood stallion
and produce a handsome
three-day event performer.
But after bringing her home
they took a second look at
her race record, and reconsid¬
ered. Think Double had been
a hard-hitter on the race track,
winning six of 42 starts and
earning $100,128.

As a sort of compromise,
the Sweelys decided to breed
Think Double with the goal of
producing a steeplechaser.
Northern Dancer’s son North¬

ern Baby, the sire of many
good jumpers, was the obvious
choice for a mating.

In 1996, Think Double
produced the first of her two
stakes winners—the gelding
Northern Thinking, who won
the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup
and placed in two other stakes
over jumps, earning $123,585.

Think Double is now a pen¬
sioner at Acorn Hill, but Jess
Sweely indicated that they may
try for one more foal from the
21 -year-old mare. Her youngest
foal is a 2-year-old colt by Lion
Hearted.

The Sweelys typically send
their Thoroughbred mares for
foaling at the farm where they
are booked for return breeding.
And that explains why each
of the three stakes winners
bred by Acorn Hill has been a
Maryland-bred.

The third member of the
trio is a name well-known to
racing followers in the Mid-
Atlantic region: Case of the
Blues.

A daughter of former Mary¬
land stallion In Case, Case of
the Blues won or placed in 14
stakes, earning $499,621 in the
late 1990s and early 2000s for
Skeedatde Associates partners
Willie White and Lou Rehak,
who purchased her from Acorn
Hill for $20,000 at the 1998
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern
Fall Yearling sale.

The Sweelys, who stand
seven sport horse stallions at
Acorn Hill, purchased Case of
the Blues’s dam, Musical Cure
(by Cure the Blues), for $8,000
at the 1996 Keeneland January
sale. That was the first time
their decision to stick with race
horses paid off in a major way.

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 113

LOU HODGES JR.

STAKES WINNERS

Maryland-bred

DATTTS AWESOME

All Brandy Stakes

$50,000-guaranteed, V/a mi., turf, registered Maryland-bred fillies and mares,
3 & up. Laurel Park, Nov. 17.

Deputy Minister
Awesome Again

Primal Force

Dattts Awesome, dk.b./br.f., 2004
Pleasant Colony
Promenade Colony

Dance Review

Vice Regent
Mint Copy

Blushing Groom (Fr)
Prime Prospect
His Majesty
Sun Colony
Northern Dancer
Dumfries

Northern Dancer
Victoria Regina
Bunty’s Flight
Shakney
Red God

Runaway Bride (GB)

Mr. Prospector

Square Generation

*Ribot

Flower Bowl

Sunrise Flight

*Colonia

Nearctic

Natal m a

Reviewer

Goofed

starts

1st

2nd

06

2

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1

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10

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12

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2 (1)

3rd earnings

0 $ 10,950

_0 91,004

0 $101,954 (through Nov. 17)

2007: 1st $50,000 All Brandy S, V/s mi., turf, registered Md.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up,
Laurel, Nov. 17; 2nd Twin Lights S.

Bred by Sondra Bender and Howard M. Bender (Md.); owned by DATTT Stable; trained by
Mark Hennig.

Sire: AWESOME AGAIN, b., 94, stands at Adena Springs Kentucky, Paris, Ky.

Dam: PROMENADE COLONY, b., 92, bred by T.M. Evans (Va.). Raced 3 years, 9 starts, 1 win at 3,
$20,910. (Kee Nov 98—$460,000 in foal to Woodman; Kee Jan 07—$200,000 in foal to
Smart Strike)

97 Gypsy Swap, b.f. by Woodman. Unraced. (Kee Nov 97—$50,000; Kee Sept 98—$50,000)
Dam of SEEYOUBYCHANCE (4 wins, $95,954, H. Steward Mitchell S).

98 Wood Colony, b.c. by Woodman. In England, raced 3 years, 6 starts, 3 to 5,0 wins, $462. (Kee
Nov 98—$125,000; Tat Hou 99—$95,005)

99 Promenade Lane, b.f. by Woodman. Raced 2 years, 11 starts, 2 wins at 3 and 4, $15,760.
Producer.

00 Promenade Again, dk.b./br.f. by Wild Again. Raced 3 years, 16 starts, 3 wins at 4 and 5,
$56,650.

01 Promote Business, dk.b./br.f. by Capote. Raced 3 years, 14 starts, 1 win at 4, $42,170.

02 PROMENADE GIRL, b.f. by Carson City. Raced 4 years, 21 starts, 8 wins, 2 to 4, $678,990,
Molly Pitcher Breeders’ Cup S-G2, Golden Sylvia H, Nellie Morse S., Geisha H, Twixt S, 2nd
Northern Dancer S, 3rd Spinster S-G1, Ogden Phipps H-G1, Delaware H-G2, Conniver S,
Marshua S, Monmouth Beach S. (Kee Nov 07—$1,125,000)

03 Barren.

04 DATTTS AWESOME, dk.b./br.f. by Awesome Again. (Kee Sept 05—$250,000)

05 Colonel Grand, dk.b./br.g. by Grand Slam. Unraced.

06 dk.b./br.f. by Tale of the Cat.

07 b.f. by Smart Strike.

DIGGER

Northern Dancer Stakes

$50,000-guaranteed, V/a mi., registered Maryland-bred 3-year-olds.
Laurel Park, Nov. 3.

Jennings Handicap

$60,000-guaranteed, V/a mi., registered Maryland-breds, 3 & up.
Laurel Park, Dec. 1.

Cherokee Run

Yonaguska

Marital Spook
Digger, dk.b./br.g., 2004
Dehere

Da Choice

Millie’s Choice (Ire)

Runaway Groom
Cherokee Dame
Silver Ghost
Homewrecker
Deputy Minister
Sister Dot
Taufan
Salagangai

Blushing Groom (Fr)
Yonnie Girl
Silver Saber
Dame Francesca
Mr. Prospector
Misty Gallore
Buckaroo
Execution
Vice Regent
Mint Copy
Secretariat
Sword Game
Stop the Music
Stolen Date
Sallust
Malagangai

starts

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

06

5

1

3

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$ 39,210

07 (sw)

9

_5 (3)

1

0

155,308

14

6 (3)

4

1 (D

$194,518 (through Dec. 1)

2006: 3rd Maryland Juvenile Championship S. 2007: 1st $50,000 Deputed Testamony S,

1 mi., registered Md.-bred 3-year-olds, Laurel, Sept. 15; $50,000 Northern Dancer S, V/s mi.,
registered Md.-bred 3-year-olds, Laurel, Nov. 3; $60,000 Jennings H, V/s mi., registered Md.-
breds, 3 & up, Laurel, Dec. 1.

Bred by Skeedattle Associates (Md.); owned by Lawrence P. Roman; trained by Richard E.
Dutrow Jr.

Sire: YONAGUSKA, dk.b./br., 98, stands at Vinery, Lexington, Ky.

Dam: DA CHOICE, b., 00, bred by Kay Bullitt (Ky.). Unraced. (Kee Sept 01—$70,000)

04 DIGGER, dk.b./br.g. by Yonaguska.

06 De’ Medici, dk.b./br.c. by Lion Hearted.

07 dk.b./br.f. by Dance With Ravens.

FIRE HERO

Maryland Million Starter Handicap

$50,000-guaranteed, 1 mi., 3 & up who had started for a claiming price of $10,000
or less since Nov. 25,2006, sired by eligible Maryland stallions.

Laurel Park, Nov. 24.

Danzig

Partner’s Hero

Safely Home

Fire Hero, dk.b./br.g, 2001
Waquoit

Buckles and Kinks

Rolling Mill

Northern Dancer
Pas de Norn
Winning Hit
Arc Lamp
Relaunch
Grey Parlo
Hagley
One Spot

Nearctic

Natalma

Admiral’s Voyage
^Petitioner
Bold Ruler
Bases Full
*Stella Aurata
Flying Polly
In Reality
Foggy Note
*Grey Dawn II
Parlomia
Olden Times
Teo Pepi
*Cavan
Poll-O-Mine

starts

1st

2nd

03

3

0

0

04

17

3

3

05

5

1

0

06

12

3

0

07 (sw)

13

_5 (2)

3

50

12 (2)

6

3rd earnings

1 $ 3,530

1 95,315

0 18,467

2 46,750

2 (1) 132,720

6 (1) $296,782 (through Nov. 24)

2007: 1st $50,000 Murmur Farm Maryland Million Starter H, VAe mi., 3 & up who had started
for a claiming price of $16,000 or less since May 20, 2006, sired by eligible Maryland stallions,
Pimlico, May 19; $50,000 Maryland Million Starter H, 1 mi., 3 & up who had started for a
claiming price of $10,000 or less since Nov. 25, 2006, sired by eligible Md. stallions, Laurel, Nov.

24; 3rd Maryland Million Starter H.

Bred by Mrs. James A. Bayard (Md.); owned by Sanford H. Robbins; trained by Anthony W.
Dutrow.

Sire: PARTNER’S HERO, dk.b./br., 94, stands at Castle Rock Farm, Unionville, Pa.

Dam: Buckles and Kinks, dk.b./br., 94, bred by Mrs. James A. Bayard (Md.). Raced 3 years, 19
starts, 2 wins at 2 and 3, $106,883, 2nd Maryland Million Lassie S, Maryland Million Oaks.
(FTM Dec 01—$90,000 in foal to Concern)

99 BRONZE ABE, gr./ro. f. by Two Punch. Raced 5 years, 32 starts, 11 wins, 2 to 5, $520,564,
Sweet and Sassy H, What a Summer S, Conniver S, Skipat S, Heavenly Cause S, Jameela
S, Local Thriller S, 2nd Maryland Million Lassie S, Light Hearted H, Stefanita S, 3rd Barbara
Fritchie H-G2, Endine H-G3, Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship S, Maryland Million Distaff
H, Everget S, Primonetta S, What a Summer S.

00 Missing Assignment, dk.b./br.c. by Partner’s Hero. Raced 2 years, 18 starts, 5 wins at 3 and
4, $62,400. (FTM Dec 01—$25,000)

01 FIRE HERO, dk.b./br.g. by Partner’s Hero. (FTM Dec 01—$6,000; FTM Sept 02—$25,000)
02 Don’t Be Concerned, ch.f. by Concern. Raced 4 years, 15 starts, 2 to 5,0 wins, $13,989.

03 Chica de Mayo, f. by Two Punch. Died 2003.

04 Diamond Buckles, ch.f. by Diamond. Unraced.

06 I Know Why, ch.c. by Whywhywhy.

07 Biocat, c. by Tale of the Cat.

GOODNIGHT SHIRT

Colonial Cup Hurdle Stakes-NSAI

$150,000-guaranteed, mi. over Colonial Cup course, 4 & up. Camden, Nov. 18.

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Broad Brush

Concern

Fara’s Team

Good Night Shirt, ch.g., 2001
Two Punch

Hot Story

Media Girl

Ack Ack
Hay Patcher
Tunerup
Specialization
Mr. Prospector
Heavenly Cause
TV. Commercial
Biava

03

starts
un raced

1st

2nd

3rd

Battle Joined
Fast Turn
Hoist the Flag
Turn to Talent
The Pruner
Our Girl

Princely Native
Special Vintage
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
*Grey Dawn II
Lady Dulcinea
T. V. Lark
Your Hostess
Kennedy Road
Loyal Ruler

earnings

98 Fresh Bait, dk.b./br.c. by Private Terms. Raced 2 years, 17 starts, 4 wins at 4, $56,736.
99-00 Barren.

01 GOOD NIGHT SHIRT, ch.g. by Concern.

02 ch.c. by Citidancer. (FTM Sept 03—$6,000)

03 On the Throttle, dk.b./br.g. by Lion Hearted. Raced 1 year, 6 starts, 1 win at 3, $41,744. (FTM
Dec 03—$24,000; Kee Sept 04—$60,000)

Story of a Lion, dk.b./br.f. by Lion Hearted. Raced 1 year, 4 starts, 3 wins at 2, $53,600. (FTM
Dec 05—$3,500; FTM Oct 06—$9,000)
b.c. by Polish Miner.

05

06

GRAND CHAMPION

Fall Highweight Handicap

$100,000-added, 6 fur., 3 & up. Aqueduct, Nov. 22.

05

7

2

1 (D

1

67,060

Mr. Prospector

06 (sw)

6

1 (D

2 (2)

1 (D

69,060

Two Punch

07 (sw)

5

_3 (3)

J_ (D

0

314,163

*26

8 (4)

4 (4)

3 (D

$483,563 (through Nov. 18)

Heavenly Cause

includes NSA sanctioned starts

2005: 2nd U.S. Championship Supreme Hurdle S-NSA1. 2006: 1st $50,000 David L. “Zeke”
Ferguson Memorial Hurdle S-NSA3, 214 mi. over National fences, 4 & up, Colonial, July 16; 2nd
Temple Gwathmey Hurdle S-NSA2, A.P. Smithwick Memorial Hurdle S-NSA2; 3rd Carolina
Cup Hurdle S-NSA2. 2007: 1st $150,000 Iroquois Hurdle S-NSA1 ,3 mi. over National fences,
4 & up, Percy Warner, May 12; $150,000 Lonesome Glory Steeplechase S-NSA1, 214 mi. over
National fences, 4 & up, Belmont, Sept. 22; $150,000 Colonial Cup Hurdle S-NSA1, 2% mi. over
Colonial Cup course, 4 & up, Camden, Nov. 18; 2nd Royal Chase Hurdle S-NSA1.

Bred by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman (Md.); owned by Harold A. Via Jr.; trained by Jack
Fisher.

Sire: CONCERN, dk.b./br., 91, stands at Oklahoma Equine, Washington, Okla.

Dam: Hot Story, ch., 89, bred by Blue Seas Music Inc. (W.Va.). Raced 4 years, 16 starts, 4 wins at
4 and 5, $68,039, 2nd W.Va. Lottery and Dept, of Tourism Breeders Classic S.

96 You May Call Me, dk.b./br.f. by Private Terms. Raced 2 years, 12 starts at 2 and 3, 0 wins,
$37,216.

97 Hot Warsaw Nights, b.c. by Polish Numbers. Raced 3 years, 20 starts, 2 wins at 4 and 6,
$34,200.

Grand Champion, b.g., 2003

Wise Times

Wise Baroness

Blue Baroness

1st

Raise a Native
Gold Digger
*Grey Dawn II
Lady Dulcinea
Mr. Leader
Trying Times
Bold Lad
Blue Rage

Native Dancer
Raise You
Nashua
Sequence
*Herbager
Polamia
Nantallah
Shy Dancer
Hail to Reason
Jolie Deja
He’s a Pistol
In a Rage
Bold Ruler
Misty Morn
*Blue Choir
In a Rage

starts
05-06 unraced
07 (sw) 10 5 (2)

2nd 3rd earnings

1 4 $279,240 (through Nov. 22)

2007: 1st $150,000 Maryland Million Sprint H, 6 fur., 3 & up, sired by eligible Md. stallions,
Laurel, Oct. 13; $100,000 Fall Highweight H, 6 fur., 3 & up, Aqueduct, Nov. 22.

Bred by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman and Dr. Jason L. Layfield (Md.); owned by Susan and
John Moore; trained by James A. Jerkens.

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STAKES WINNERS

Sire: TWO PUNCH, ro., 83, stands at Northview Stallion Station, Chesapeake City, Md.

Dam: WISE BARONESS, dk.b./br., 90, bred by D. Chang, J. Sullivan and Vinery Farm (Ky.). Raced 3
years, 30 starts, 4 wins at 3 and 4, $36,670. (Kee Jan 91—$7,700; OBS Aug 91—$10,500;
OBS April 92—$10,000; OBS Oct 99—$47,000 in foal to Valid Expectations; Kee Nov
02—$35,000 in foal to Two Punch)

96 WISE SWEEP, b.g. by End Sweep. Raced 6 years, 60 starts, 15 wins, 2 to 7, $343,930, HBPA
Opequon S, 2nd Woodstock S, 3rd HBPA Governor’s Cup H, Claiming Crown Express S. (OBS
June 98—$50,000)

97 Wise Ending, dk.b./br.f. by End Sweep. Raced 6 years, 51 starts, 12 wins at 2, 3, 4 and 6,
$325,038. (OBS April 99—$17,000)

98 End Wisely, dk.b./br.c. by End Sweep. Raced 8 years, 74 starts, 12 wins, 2 to 8, $218,312.

99 Wise Forum, b.f. by Open Forum. Unraced.

00 Wise N Valid, b.f. by Valid Expectations. Raced 3 years, 23 starts, 1 win at 3, $28,970.

01 Irish Baroness, dk.b./br.f. by Larrupin’. Raced 2 years, 16 starts, 1 win at 2, $25,324.

02 SMOKING WISE, b.f. by Smoke Glacken. Raced 3 years, 11 starts, 5 wins at 2 and 3,
$118,530, Snow White S, 3rd Primonetta S. (FTM Dec 02—$20,500)

03 GRAND CHAMPION, b.g. by Two Punch. (FTK July 04—$115,000)

04 Shessomebody’shero, b.f. by Partner’s Hero. Unraced. (FTM Oct 05—$60,000; FTM May
06—$25,000)

05 Smooth It Over, dk.b./br.c. by Not For Love. Raced 1 year, 4 starts, 1 win at 2, $59,600,2nd
Maryland Million Nursery S. (FTM Oct 06—$50,000; FTM May 07—$107,000)

06 b.c. by Point Given.

HEADSANDTALES

Find Handicap

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Storm Cat
Tale of the Cat
Yarn

Headsandtales, b.g., 2003
Waquoit
Indian Head Penny

Chieftains Miss

Storm Bird
Terlingua
Mr. Prospector
Narrate
Relaunch
Grey Parlo
Chieftain
*Torrelavega

Northern Dancer
South Ocean
Secretariat
Crimson Saint
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Honest Pleasure
State
In Reality
Foggy Note
*Grey Dawn II
Parlomia
Bold Ruler
Pocahontas
*Tatan
Cantabrica

LAIR

Crown Royal Hurdle Stakes-NSA3

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3 & up. Pine Mountain, Nov. 3.

Mr. Prospector

Lion Cavern

Secrettame

Lair, b.m, 2002

El Gran Senor

Lostris

Heather Bee

starts 1st

04 unraced
05 5 2

06 9 1

07 (sw) _4 _2 (1)

*18 5 (1)

Includes NSA sanctioned starts

Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Secretariat
Tamerett
Northern Dancer
Sex Appeal
Drone
Efficient

2nd 3rd

0 2

2 3 (1)

J (D J (D

3 (1) 6 (2)

Native Dancer
Raise You
Nashua
Sequence
Bold Ruler
Somethingroyal
Tim Tam

*Mixed Marriage
Nearctic
Natalma
Buckpasser
Best in Show
Sir Gaylord
Cap and Bells
*Princequillo
Resourceful

earnings

$21,000

22,630

48,500

$92,130 (through Nov. 18)

2006: 3rd Peapack Hurdle S. 2007: 1st $50,000 Crown Royal Hurdle S-NSA3, 214 mi. over
National fences (ncr—3:54.40), fillies and mares, 3 & up, Pine Mountain, Nov. 3; 2nd Sport of
Queens Filly and Mare Hurdle S; 3rd Peapack Hurdle S.

Bred and owned by Mrs. Thomas H. Voss (Md.); trained by Thomas H. Voss.

Sire: LION CAVERN, ch., 89, stands at Wimbledon Farm, Lexington, Ky.

Dam: LOSTRIS, dk.b./br., 93, bred by Ashford Stud, Blandford Stud and Margaret Wright (Ky.).
Raced 2 years, 2 starts at 3 and 4,0 wins, $1,050. (Kee Sept 94—$12,000; FTM Dec 05—
$1,700)

99 Lucy Bliss, dk.b./br.f. by Whatever For. Raced 2 years, 3 starts, 1 win at 3, $3,420.

00 Gun Deck, dk.b./br.g. by Tamayaz. Raced 1 year, 4 starts at 3,0 wins, $480.

01 Nero, gr./ro.c. by Waquoit. Unraced.

02 LAIR, b.f. by Lion Cavern.

04 b.f. by Pleasant Tap.

05 Rafferty, b.c. by Not For Love. Unraced.

starts

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

05

3

0

0

0

$ 1,300

06

10

2

1

3

55,610

07 (sw)

9

J (D

1

1

72,150

22

5 (1)

2

4

$129,060 (through Dec. 1)

2007: 1st $50,000 Find H, 1 Vs mi., turf, registered Md.-breds, 3 & up, Laurel, Nov. 10.

Bred and owned by Skeedattle Associates (Md.); trained by Robin L. Graham.

Sire: TALE OF THE CAT, dk.b./br., 94, stands at Ashford Stud, Versailles, Ky.

Dam: INDIAN HEAD PENNY, gr./ro„ 94, bred by Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman (Md.). Raced 4
years, 28 starts, 6 wins, 3 to 5, $217,738, Rosenna S, 2nd Penn National Distaff H, Holly
Beach S, Moonlight Jig S, Sham Say S, Summertime Promise S, 3rd Maryland Million Ladies
S. (FTM Sept 95—$27,000)

03 HEADSANDTALES, b.g. by Tale of the Cat.

05 Money for Love, gr./ro.c. by Not For Love. Raced 1 year, 6 starts at 2,0 wins, $10,320.

06 ch.f. by Not For Love.

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105,678

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20,826

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07 (sw)

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186,032

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90 Paddy’s Flair, b.c. by Baederwood. Raced 4 years, 45 starts, 8 wins, 2 to 5, $52,355.

91 b.f. by Dancing Count.

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92 With a Flair, b.f. by Smarten. Unraced. Sent to Jamaica 1995. (FTM Sept 93—$7,500)

93 Super G., dk.b./br.c. by Allen’s Prospect. Raced 5 years, 27 starts, 2 wins at 2 and 3, $59,758,
2nd Star de NaskraS.

94 Moms Kathy, b.f. by Allen’s Prospect. Raced 2 years, 14 starts, 1 win at 3, $15,128. (FTM Sept
95—$12,000)

96 Barren.

97 Nine Factors, dk.b./br.c. by Marquetry. Raced 5 years, 39 starts, 4 wins at 3,5 and 7, $81,490.
(FTM Oct 98—$55,000; OBS Feb 99—$250,000)

98 Chesapeake Charm, dk.b./br.f. by Press Card. Raced 2 years, 8 starts, 2 wins at 3, $33,030.
(FTM Oct 99—$15,000)

99 Love Aflair, dk.b./br.f. by Not For Love. Raced 1 year, 2 starts, 1 win at 4, $4,500.

00 Barren.

01 ROLLICKING CALLER, b.g. by Caller I. D. (FTM Sept 02—$12,000)

02 The Love King, dk.b./br.g. by Not For Love. Raced 3 years, 19 starts, 3 wins at 3 and 4,
$52,378.

03 My Boy Rocky, dk.b./br.g. by Our Emblem. Raced 1 year, 7 starts, 1 win at 4, $52,638.

starts 1st 2nd 3rd earnings

06 unraced

07 (sw) 8 4 (2) 1 1 $238,346 (through Dec. 1)

2007: 1st $200,000 Perryville S-G3, abt. 7 fur., 3-year-olds, Keeneland, Oct. 13; $60,000
Tenacious H, 1 Vie mi., 3 & up, Fair Grounds, Dec. 1.

Bred by Acorn Hill Farm Inc. (Md.); owned by Oxbow Racing LLC; trained by Ronny Werner.
Sire: STEPHEN GOT EVEN, b, 96, stands at Lane’s End, Versailles, Ky.

Dam: THINK DOUBLE, b., 87, bred by Nydrie Stud and Mamie A. Jessup (Va.). Raced 3 years, 42
starts, 6 wins at 3 and 4, $100,128. (FTK Sept 88—$3,500; FTN Oct 91—$9,700; FTM Feb
95—$6,000)

94 Argyle Street, dk.b./br.c. by Five Star Winner. Unraced.

95 Dead Foal.

96 NORTHERN THINKING, dk.b./br.c. by Northern Baby. Raced 9 years, 40 starts, 6 wins at 5,7,9
to 11, $127,185, Pennsylvania Hunt Cup, 2nd National Sporting Library Chronicle Cup Timber
S, Pennsylvania Hunt Cup, 3rd Future Champions Cup Hurdle S.

97 Double Case, b.f. by In Case. Raced 3 years, 15 starts, 3 wins at 3 and 5, $67,910.

STEVE’S DOUBLE

Tenacious Handicap

$60,000-guaranteed, VAe mi., 3 & up. Fair Grounds, Dec. 1.

A.P. Indy

Stephen Got Even
Immerse

Steve’s Double, dk.b./br.g., 2004
Al Nasr (Fr)
Think Double

Double Think

Seattle Slew
Weekend Surprise
Cox’s Ridge
Baroness Direct
Lyphard
Caretta (Ire)
Double Jay
Solid Thought

Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Secretariat
Lassie Dear
Best Turn
Our Martha
Blushing Groom (Fr)
Avum

Northern Dancer
Goofed
Caro (Ire)

Klainia
Balladier
Broom shot
Solidarity
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98 Case in Thought, dk.b./br.c. by In Case. Raced 2 years, 5 starts at 4 and 5,0 wins, $1,114.

99 Dead foal; 00 barren.

01 Another Case, b.f. by In Case. Unraced.

02 Love’s Double, dk.b./br.f. by Not For Love. Raced 3 years, 16 starts, 1 win at 4, $25,360.

03 Double’s Lilly, b.f. by Gilded Time. Unraced. (OBS June 05—$9,500)

04 STEVE’S DOUBLE, dk.b./br.g. by Stephen Got Even. (Kee Sept 05—$25,000; FTM May 06—

$ 200 , 000 )

05 Barren.

06 Lion’s Double, dk.b./br.c. by Lion Hearted.

Dam: Go Nicholas Go, b., 95, bred by Joseph S. Rodi (N.J.). Raced 3 years, 13 starts, 1 win at 2,
$42,456,3rd New Jersey Futurity. (FTM Dec 03—$22,500 in foal to Cryptoclearance)

01 Calabria Bella, dk.b./br.c. by Accelerator. Raced 4 years, 31 starts, 4 wins, 3 to 6, $227,404,
3rd Bernie Dowd H, Garden State H.

03 Exuding Quality, ch.f. by Elusive Quality. Raced 1 year, 9 starts, 3 wins at 3, $59,420. (FTM Oct
04—$7,000)

04 Go Crypto, b.f. by Cryptoclearance. Raced 2 years, 13 starts at 2 and 3,0 wins, $45,982.

05 LOVE FOR NOT, b.f. by Not For Love. (FTM Oct 06—$60,000)

06 b.c. by Cryptoclearance.

07 ch.f. by Mutakddim.

YOUR FLAME IN ME

Lady Tak Stakes

$75,000-added, 6 fur., 3-year-old fillies. Aqueduct, Nov. 10.

Northern Dancer

Danzig

Pas de Norn

Boundary

Damascus

Edge

Ponte Vecchio

Your Flame in Me, dk.b./br.f., 2004

Mr. Prospector

Allen’s Prospect

Change Water

Icy Demeanor

Icecapade

Capp Ice

Turn Capp

Nearctic

Natalma

Admiral’s Voyage

*Petitioner

Sword Dancer

Kerala

Round Table

Terentia

Raise a Native

Gold Digger

Swaps

Portage

Nearctic

Shenanigans

Turn to Reason

Capped

starts

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

06 (sw)

2

2 (D

0

0

$ 54,000

07 (sw)

3

_2 (2)

0

0

87,000

5

4 (3)

0

0

$141,000 (through Nov. 10)

2006: 1st $50,000 Gin Talking S, 5 fur. (off turf), registered Md.-bred 2-year-old fillies, Laurel,
Sept. 16. 2007: 1st $60,000 Xtra Heat S, 5V& fur., 3-year-old fillies, Pimlico, April 28; $75,000
Lady Tak S, 6 fur., 3-year-old fillies, Aqueduct, Nov. 10.

Bred by Woodlawn Breeding Inc. (Md.); owned by Robert Goldsmith; trained by Michael J.
Trombetta.

Sire: BOUNDARY, b., 90 (pensioned).

Dam: ICY DEMEANOR, dk.b./br., 97, bred by C. Oliver Goldsmith (Md.). Raced 3 years, 13 starts, 3
wins at 3 and 4, $59,280.

04 YOUR FLAME IN ME, dk.b./br.f. by Boundary.

05 Bette to Win, b.f. by Disco Rico. Raced 1 year, 1 start at 2, 0 wins, $0.

06 ch.c. by Stormy Atlantic. (Kee Jan 07—$65,000; FTK Oct 07—$45,000)

07 Barren.

New Jersey-bred

LOVE FOR NOT

PURE DISCO

Montclair State University Stakes

$70,800-guaranteed (includes $10,800 New Jersey Fund), 6 fur., fillies and mares,
3 & up. Meadowlands, Nov. 10.

Citidancer

Disco Rico

Round It Off
Pure Disco, b.m., 2003

Concorde’s Tune

V for Vera

Pure Fire

Dixieland Band
Willamae
Apalachee
Capp It Off
Concorde Bound
Parisian Tune
Fire Dancer
Pura U. P. R.

Northern Dancer
Mississippi Mud
Tentam
Raclette
Round Table
Moccasin
Double Zeus
Turn Capp
Super Concorde
Grey Sister
Tunerup
Paris Or Bust
Northern Dancer
Forward Gal
Three Kingdoms
Fair Ally

starts

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

05 (sw)

5

2 (D

0

1 (D

$ 78,155

06 (sw)

9

2 (D

2 (2)

1 (D

109,255

07 (sw)

10

5 (5)

3 (3)

0

285,050

24

9 (7)

5 (5)

~2 (2)

$472,460 (through Nov. 10)

2005: 1st $50,000 New Jersey Futurity, 6 fur., registered N.J.-bred 2-year-old fillies, Meadow-
lands, Nov. 4; 3rd Sorority S. 2006: 1st $60,000 Goldfinch H, 6 fur., registered N.J.-bred fillies
and mares, 3 & up, Monmouth, July 4; 2nd Eleven North H, Queen Lib H; 3rd Dearly Precious S.
2007: 1st$60,000 Goldfinch H, 6 fur., registered N.J.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up, Monmouth,
July 19; $55,000 Queen Lib H, 1 mi., registered N.J.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up, Meadowlands,
Sept. 22; $60,000 Seton Hall University S, 6 fur., fillies and mares, 3 & up, Meadowlands,
Oct. 6; $100,000 Revidere S, 1 Y» mi. (off turf), fillies and mares, 3 & up, Monmouth, Oct. 25;
$70,800 Montclair State University S (includes $10,800 N.J. Fund), 6 fur., fillies and mares,
3 & up, Meadowlands, Nov. 10; 2nd Klassy Briefcase S, Ready Jet Go S, Open Mind H.

Bred and owned by Patricia Generazio (N.J.); trained by Tony Wilson.

Sire: DISCO RICO, b., 97, stands at Keane Stud, Amenia, N.Y.

Dam: V FOR VERA, gr./ro., 96, bred by Patricia Generazio (Fla.). Raced 5 years, 44 starts, 4 wins,
2 to 4, $120,444.

03 PURE DISCO, b.f. by Disco Rico.

05 Minister’s Tune, gr./ro.c. by Defrere. Unraced.

07 Hey Rico, ch.c. by Disco Rico.

New Jersey Futurity

$50,000-added, 6 fur., registered New Jersey-bred 2-year-old fillies.
Meadowlands, Nov. 9.

ROUGH ROAD AHEAD

Mr. Prospector
Not For Love

Dance Number

Love for Not, b.f., 2005

Polish Numbers
Go Nicholas Go

Whirlwind Affair

Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Northern Dancer
Numbered Account
Danzig

Numbered Account
Island Whirl
Unchain My Heart

Native Dancer

Raise You

Nashua

Sequence

Nearctic

Natalma

Buckpasser

Intriguing

Northern Dancer

Pas de Norn

Buckpasser

Intriguing

*Pago Pago

Alitwirl

Decimator

Set Me Free

starts 1st 2nd 3rd

07 (sw) 4 3 (2) 0 1

earnings

$149,273 (through Nov. 9)

2007: 1st $150,000 Maryland Million Lassie S, 7 fur., 2-year-old fillies sired by eligible Md.
stallions, Laurel, Oct. 13; $50,000 New Jersey Futurity, 6 fur., registered N.J.-bred 2-year-old
fillies, Meadowlands, Nov. 9.

Bred by Golden Dome Stable (N.J.); owned by Kathleen Willier; trained by Kevin G. Sleeter.
Sire: NOT FOR LOVE, b., 90, stands at Northview Stallion Station, Chesapeake City, Md.

New Jersey Futurity

$50,000-added, 6 fur., registered New Jersey-bred 2-year-olds. Meadowlands, Nov. 9.

Sadler’s Wells

Fort Wood

Fall Aspen

Horse Chestnut (SAf)

Col. Pickering

London Wall

Nalatale

Rough Road Ahead, ch.c., 2005

Vice Regent

Regal Classic

No Class

Teenage Queen

Tyrant

Waltzing Empress

Dancing Teddy

Northern Dancer
Fairy Bridge
Pretense
Change Water
*Wilwyn
Julie Andrews
Grey Sovereign
Antalya

Northern Dancer
Victoria Regina
Nodouble
Classy Quillo
Bold Ruler
*Anadem II
Beautiful Music
Tazanda

starts 1st 2nd 3rd

07 (sw) 6 2 (1) 1 0

earnings

$68,010 (through Nov. 24)

2007 : 1st $50,000 New Jersey Futurity, 6 fur., registered N.J.-bred 2-year-olds, Meadowlands,
Nov. 9.

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 119

STAKES WINNERS

Bred by John Bowers Jr. (N.J.); owned by Roseland Farm Stable; trained by John J.Tammaro III.
Sire: HORSE CHESTNUT (SAf), ch., 95, stands at Claiborne Farm, Paris, Ky.

Dam: TEENAGE QUEEN, ch., 95, bred by John Bowers Jr. (N.J.). Raced 2 years, 14 starts, 1 win
at 2, $38,157.

00 SMART N CLASSY, b.f. by Smart Strike. Raced 4 years, 37 starts, 7 wins, 3 to 5, $466,209,
Eatontown H-G3, April Run S, 2nd Dahlia S, Omnibus S, Politely S, Spruce Fir H, 3rd Goldfinch
S, Open Mind H, Politely S.

01 c. by Dance Brightly.

02 Born to Royalty, ch.f. by King of Kings (Ire). Raced 1 year, 4 starts, 1 win at 3, $42,077.

04 Smart Teenager, b.c. by Smart Strike. Raced 1 year, 8 starts at 3,0 wins, $23,700.

05 ROUGH ROAD AHEAD, ch.c. by Horse Chestnut (SAf).

06 Wide Open Road, b.c. by Aldebaran.

07 A Little At a Time, ch.f. by Ecton Park.

Pennsylvania-bred

BARBAZILLA

CONTROL SYSTEM

Garland of Roses Handicap

$75,000-added, 6 fur., fillies and mares, 3 & up. Aqueduct, Dec. 1.

Storm Cat
Lion Hearted

Cadillacing

Control System, b.f., 2004
Grindstone
Risk Aversion

Betamillion Bock

Storm Bird
Terlingua
Alydar
Relaxing
Unbridled
Buzz My Bell
Bet Twice
Anchorwoman

Northern Dancer
South Ocean
Secretariat
Crimson Saint
Raise a Native
Sweet Tooth
Buckpasser
Marking Time
Fappiano
Gana Facil
Drone

Chateaupavia
Sportin’ Life
Golden Dust
Iron Ruler
Sociable Angel

Eavesdrop Stakes

$75,000-guaranteed, 6 fur., registered Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old
fillies. Philadelphia Park, Dec. 1.

Valid Appeal
Successful Appeal

Successful Dancer
Barbazilla, dk.b./br.f., 2005
Mr. Redoy

My Heiress

Dusty Miss

In Reality
Desert Trial
Fortunate Prospect
Debonair Dancer
*Grey Dawn II
Near Gold
Bob’s Dusty
Googolmiss

Intentionally
My Dear Girl
Moslem Chief
Scotch Verdict
Northern Prospect
Fortunate Bid
Staff Writer
In the Bag
Herbager
Polamia
Pocket Ruler
Parachute Blonde
Bold Commander
Countess Alice
Iron Ruler
Maywood

starts 1st 2nd

07 (sw) 4 2 (1) 1

3rd

0

earnings

$64,900 (through Dec. 1)

2007: 1st $75,000 Eavesdrop S, 6 fur., registered Pa.-bred 2-year-old fillies, Philadelphia, Dec. 1.

Bred by Justice Farm, Greg Justice and Steve Justice (Pa.); owned and trained by Michael
P. Petro.

Sire: SUCCESSFUL APPEAL, dk.b./br., 96, stands at Walmac Farm LLC, Lexington, Ky.

Dam: MY HEIRESS, dk.b./br., 89, bred by Mr. and Mrs. Felty J. Yoder (Tex.). Raced 5 years, 72
starts, 16 wins, 3 to 7, $178,710, Southern Belle H, Yellow Rose H, 2nd Take My Picture S,
3rd Dans Miss H. (FTK Jan 97—$14,000; Kee Nov 98—$25,000 in foal to Cobra King; Kee
Jan 02—$5,000 in foal to Chief Seattle)

99 The Mighty King, dk.b./br.c. by Cobra King. Raced 2 years, 18 starts, 1 win at 3, $55,480. (Kee
Nov 99—$10,000; Bar Oct 00—$7,500)

00 Peaks Jewell, dk.b./br.f. by Peaks and Valleys. Raced 4 years, 37 starts, 1 win at 3, $28,700.

(FTK Oct 01—$14,500)

01 Dead foal.

03 Katwilldu, b.c. by Scatmandu. Raced 1 year, 2 starts, 1 win at 3, $16,000. (OBS April
05—$40,000)

05 BARBAZILLA, dk.b./br.f. by Successful Appeal. (FTK July 06—$90,000; OBS March 07—
$50,000; FTM May 07—$25,000)

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starts 1st

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2nd

3rd

earnings

07 (sw)

6 4 (2)

0

2 (2)

$192,310 (through Dec. 1)

2007: 1st $100,000 Cicada S-G3, 6 fur., 3-year-old fillies, Aqueduct, March 24; $75,000 Garland
of Roses H, 6 fur., fillies and mares, 3 & up. Aqueduct, Dec. 1; 3rd Miss Woodford S, Dream
Supreme S.

Bred by Horse Shoe Valley Equine (Pa.); owned by Thomas McClay and Harry Nye; trained by
Michael J. Trombetta.

Sire: LION HEARTED, dk.b./br., 96, stands at Northview Stallion Station, Chesapeake City, Md.
Dam: RISK AVERSION, b., 98, bred by Jacqueline J. Smith (Ky.). Raced 1 year, 4 starts at 3,0 wins,
$419. (FTM May 00—$7,000)

04 CONTROL SYSTEM, b.f. by Lion Hearted.

05 Dead foal.

06 b.c. by Lite the Fuse.

07 c. by Gators N Bears.

LORD ADMIRAL

Knockaire Stakes

$72,570, 7 fur., turf, 3 & up. Leopardstown, Ireland, Nov. 4.

Sadler’s Wells
El Prado (Ire)

Lady Capulet

Lord Admiral, b.h., 2001

Trempolino

Lady llsley

Sue Warner

starts 1st

03 3 1

04 9 0

05 (sw) 5 1 (1)

Northern Dancer
Fairy Bridge
Sir Ivor
Cap and Bells
Sharpen Up (GB)
Trephine (Fr)

*Forli
*Bitty Girl

2nd 3rd

In Ireland

0 0
4( D 1 (D

Nearctic
Natalma
Bold Reason
Special
Sir Gaylord
Attica
Tom Fool
Ghazni
Atan

Rocchetta

Viceregal

Quinquina

Aristophanes

Trevisa

Habitat

Garvey Girl

earnings

$ 14,764
36,673
65,019

255,336

209,784

$581,576 (through Nov. 4)

KD 0
In Ireland, U.A.E. and U.S.

06

10

0 5(5) 5

(5)

In Ireland and U.A.E.

07 (sw)

11

2 (2) 3(3) 2

(2)

38

4 (3) 13(10) 8

(8)

2004: 2nd Kilternan S; 3rd P.W. McGrath Memorial Ballysax S-G3. 2005: 1 st $59,310 Glencairn

S, 1 mi., turf, 4 & up, Leopardstown, Ireland, June 1; 2nd Meld S-G3. 2006: 2nd Al Fahidi Fort-
G2, Jebel Hatta-G2, River City H-G3, Ballycorus S-G3, Meld S-G3; 3rd Tattersalls Gold Cup-GI,
Oak Tree Breeders’ Cup Mile S-G2, Kilternan S-G3, Glencairn S, Amethyst S. 2007: 1st $93,177
Ballycorus Stakes-G3, 7 fur., turf, 3 & up, Leopardstown, Ireland, June 13; $72,570 Knockaire
S, 7 fur., turf, 3 & up, Leopardstown, Ireland, Nov. 4; 2nd Amethyst S-G3, Zabeel Mile S, Trigo S;
3rd Solonaway S-G3, Meld S-G3.

Bred by London Thoroughbred Services and Derry Meeting Farm (Pa.); owned by Dr. M.V.
O’Brien; trained by Charles O’Brien.

Sire: EL PRADO (Ire), gr., 89, stands at Adena Springs Kentucky, Paris, Ky.

Dam: Lady llsley, b., 96, bred by Derry Meeting Farm, et al (Pa.). In France, raced 2 years, 5 starts,
2 wins at 2 and 3, $35,845,2nd Prix de la Cochere, 3rd Prix de Lieurey.

01 LORD ADMIRAL, b.c. by El Prado (Ire). (Kee Sept 02—$135,000)

120 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

02 Lynnwood Chace, b.f. by Horse Chestnut (SAf). In France, raced 2 years, 2 starts at 2 and 3,
0 wins, $2,328. (Dea Aug 03—8152,474)

03 Barren.

04 Timber Treasure, dk.b./br.c. by Forest Wildcat. In England, raced 2 years, 6 starts at 2 and 3,
0 wins, $3,102. (FTF Feb 06—8340,000)

05 Sir Dynamite, b.c. by Dynaformer. Unraced. (Kee Sept 06—$450,000)

07 Barren.

NOTGIVINMYLOVEAWAY

Bred and owned by Edward P. Evans (Va.); trained by Todd A. Pletcher.

Sire: PULPIT, b., 94, stands at Claiborne Farm, Paris, Ky.

Dam: MINISTORM, gr./ro., 96, bred by Edward P Evans (Va.). Raced 2 years, 8 starts, 3 wins at 3
and 4, $95,378.

02 Cat Brush, gr./ro.f. by Broad Brush. Unraced.

03 Minidrop, gr./ro.g. by Lemon Drop Kid. Raced 2 years, 23 starts, 3 wins at 4, $90,540,3rd
Gray Pride Starter S.

04 MINI SERMON, gr./ro.f. by Pulpit.

05 Dignified Air, ch.f. by Grand Slam. Unraced.

06 c. by Gulch. Died 2006.

07 Barren.

Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes

875,000-guaranteed, 7 fur., registered Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old
colts and geldings. Philadelphia Park, Nov. 24.

WARNING ZONE

Raise a Native

Mr. Prospector

Gold Digger

Not For Love

Northern Dancer

Dance Number

Numbered Account

Notgivinmyloveaway, ch.c., 2005

Seattle Slew

Fast Play

Con Game

Fastria

Silly Season

Istria (GB)

Isabelita

starts 1st 2nd 3rd

07 (sw) 4 2 (1) 1 0

Native Dancer
Raise You
Nashua
Sequence
Nearctic
Natal m a
Buckpasser
Intriguing
Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Buckpasser
Broadway
Tom Fool
*Double Deal II
Neckar
Indra

earnings

$113,312 (through Nov. 24)

2007: 1st $75,000 Pennsylvania Nursery S, 7 fur., registered Pa.-bred 2-year-old colts and
geldings, Philadelphia, Nov. 24.

Bred by Margaret Addis (Pa.); owned by Jus Luk Stable; trained by Reade Baker.

Sire: NOT FOR LOVE, b., 90, stands at Northview Stallion Station, Chesapeake City, Md.

Dam: FASTRIA, dk.b./br., 94, bred by Robert N. Clay and Mrs. Richard C. duPont (Ky). In U.S.
and France, raced 2 years, 8 starts, 1 win at 2, $19,190. (Kee Sept 95—818,000; FTK Dec
99—840,000 in foal to Jade Hunter; Kee Nov 00—818,000 in foal to Honour and Glory)

99 Nearly An Angel, dk.b./br.f. by Diablo. Unraced. (OBS Aug 00—$25,000)

00 She’sonthemove, dk.b./br.f. by Jade Hunter. Raced 2 years, 9 starts, 1 win at 4, $6,876. (Kee
Nov 00—83,500; Lou March 02—$3,000)

02 Chasin’ Charlie, dk.b./br.g. by Distinctive Pro. Raced 1 year, 2 starts at 3,0 wins, $520.

03 Double Bridled, dk.b./br.f. by Broken Vow. Unraced. (Kee Nov 03—830,000)

04 Slipped twins.

05 NOTGIVINMYLOVEAWAY, ch.c. by Not For Love.

06 dk.b./br.c. by Silver Deputy. (Kee Sept 07—850,000)

07 Dead foal.

Virginia-bred

War Chant Stakes

865,000-guaranteed, 1 mi., turf, 3-year-olds. Hollywood Park, Nov. 7.

Mr. Prospector
Chester House

Toussaud

Warning Zone, b.c., 2004

Storm Bird

Migrate

Home Leave

Raise a Native
Gold Digger
El Gran Senor
Image of Reality
Northern Dancer
South Ocean
Alydar
Blitey

Native Dancer
Raise You
Nashua
Sequence
Northern Dancer
Sex Appeal
In Reality
Edee’s Image
Nearctic
Natalma
New Providence
Shining Sea
Raise a Native
Sweet Tooth
Riva Ridge
Lady Pitt

starts

06 (sw) 4

07 (sw) 4

8

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

2 (1)

2 (1)

0

$100,100

J (D

0

0

54,230

3 (2)

2 (1)

0

$154,330 (through Nov. 25)

2006: 1st $75,000 Generous S-G3 (1st div.), 1 mi., turf, 2-year-olds, Hollywood, Nov. 24; 2nd
Pinjara S. 2007: 1st $65,000 War Chant S, 1 mi„ turf, 3-year-olds, Hollywood, Nov. 7.

Bred by Edward P. Evans (Va.); owned by Rising Sun Racing Stable LLC; trained by John W.
Sadler.

Sire: CHESTER HOUSE, dk.b./br., 95 (deceased).

Dam: MIGRATE, ch., 95, bred by White Fox Farm (Ky.). In England, raced 2 years, 5 starts, 1 win at
3, $5,568. (Kee July 96—$400,000; Tat Dec 98—$225,000)

00 Divine Bird, b.f. by Saint Ballado. Raced 1 year, 2 starts, 1 win at 3, $29,820.

01 Powerful Legend, ch.g. by Pleasant Tap. Raced 1 year, 2 starts at 5,0 wins, $108. (Kee Sept
02—$3,700)

02 Honorable Path, b.f. by Honour and Glory. Raced 2 years, 5 starts, 1 win at 2, $15,292.

03 Quahada, b.g. by Honour and Glory. Raced 3 years, 21 starts, 5 wins at 2 and 3, $139,685.
(Kee Sept 04—$11,000)

04 WARNING ZONE, b.c. by Chester House. (Kee Sept 05—$60,000)

06 Barren.

07 f. by Seeking Daylight. Died 2007.

MINI SERMON

Top Flight Handicap-G2 West Virginia-bred

$150,000-guaranteed, 1 mi., fillies and mares, 3 & up. Aqueduct, Nov. 23. h h

A.P. Indy

Pulpit

Preach

Mini Sermon, gr./ro.f., 2004
Storm Cat

Ministorm

Minidar

starts 1 st
06 un raced
07 (sw) 9 5 (3)

Seattle Slew
Weekend Surprise
Mr. Prospector
Narrate

Storm Bird
Terlingua
Alydar
Minstrella
2nd 3rd

Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Secretariat
Lassie Dear
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Honest Pleasure
State

Northern Dancer
South Ocean
Secretariat
Crimson Saint
Raise a Native
Sweet Tooth
The Minstrel
Flight Dancer

earnings

1

2 (1) $256,100 (through Nov. 23)

2007: 1st $65,000 Marking Time S, 1 mi., 3-year-old fillies who had not won a graded stakes in
2007, Belmont, June 22; $45,000 Sweetest Chant S, VAe mi., 3-year-old fillies, Arlington, July
28; $150,000 Top Flight H-G2, 1 mi., fillies and mares, 3 & up, Aqueduct, Nov. 23; 3rd Raven
Run S-G2.

DONALD’S PRIDE

Lil Abner Stakes

$45,000-added, 1 Vs mi., registered accredited West Virginia-bred colts and geldings,
3 & up. Charles Town, Nov. 24.

Traffic Cop
Deputed Testamony

Proof Requested

Donald’s Pride, dk.b./br.g., 2000
Rollicking
Pamela’s Trial

Rita H.

Traffic Judge
Flight Bird
Prove It
Come On
Rambunctious
Martinetta
Effervescing
Splitscreen

*Alibhai
Traffic Court
Count Fleet
Pocket Edition
*Endeavour II
Time to Khal
Requested
Dog Blessed
*Rasper II
*Danae II
Martins Rullah
Gracefield
*Le Fabuleux
Sparkling
Silent Screen
Script Girl

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 1 21

STAKES WINNERS

02

starts

un raced

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

03 (sw)

10

6 (3)

0

2

$133,817

04

7

0

3 (2)

1 (D

53,880

05 (sw)

5

2 (1)

1 (D

0

55,890

06 (sw)

9

1 (D

4 (2)

2 (D

79,340

07 (sw)

10

4 (3)

1 (D

3 (3)

140,972

41

13 (8)

9 (6)

8 (5)

$463,899 (through Nov. 24)

GHOSTLY THUNDER

Tri-State Futurity

2nd division, $50,000-added, 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled in Maryland, Virginia or
West Virginia. Charles Town, Nov. 10.

West Virginia Futurity

$50,000-added, 7 fur., registered accredited West Virginia-bred or sired 2-year-olds.
Charles Town, Dec. 1.

2003: 1 st $35,000 Robert G. Leavitt Memorial H, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired
3-year-olds, Charles Town, Aug. 9; $40,000 Frank Gall Memorial H, 7 fur., registered accredited
W.Va.-bred or sired, 3 & up, Charles Town, Aug. 23; $50,000 HBPA City of Ranson H, 7 fur., 3 &
up, Charles Town, Oct. 10. 2004: 2nd Skip Away S, Gate Dancer S; 3rd Brandywine H. 2005:
1st $40,000 HBPA and WVRC S, V/s ml., 3 & up who had the most starts at Charles Town in their
last four starts, Charles Town, July 31; 2nd HBPA Governor’s Cup H. 2006: 1st $50,000 Frank
Gall Memorial H, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired, 3 & up, Charles Town, Nov. 18;
2nd Cortan S, HBPA and WVRC S; 3rd Labor Day S. 2007: 1st $50,000 Cortan S, 7 fur., colts
and geldings, 3 & up, with the most starts at Charles Town in their last four starts, Charles Town,
June 9; $45,000 Frank Gall Memorial H, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-breds, 3 & up, Charles
Town, Aug. 25; $45,000 Lil Abner S, 1 Vs mi., registered accredited W.Va.-bred colts and geldings,
3 & up, Charles Town, Nov. 24; 2nd HBPA Governor’s Cup H; 3rd Charles Town Dash Invitational
H, Quick Card S, HBPA and WVRC S.

Bred by Nancy Gaynor (W.Va.); owned by Gaynor Hough Stable; trained by Patty A. Burns.
Sire: DEPUTED TESTAMONY, b„ 80 (pensioned).

Dam: PAMELA’S TRIAL, dk.b./br., 91, bred by Glade Valley Farms (Md.). Raced 6 years, 40 starts, 9
wins, 4 to 6, $53,451. (FTM Sept 92—$5,000)

00 DONALD’S PRIDE, dk.b./br.g. by Deputed Testamony.

01 Pamela’s Slippers, dk.b./br.f. by Citislipper. Raced 2 years, 15 starts at 4 and 5, 0 wins,
$21,260.

03 Unlimited Diamond, dk.b./br.f. by Citislipper. Raced 2 years, 10 starts, 2 wins at 3 and 4,
$37,450.

05 Welcome Citi, dk.b./br.g. by Citislipper. Raced 1 year, 3 starts at 2,0 wins, $1,250.

06 Diamond Rocky, b.c. by Luftikus.

07 c. by Windsor Castle.

Vice Regent

Deputy Minister

Mint Copy

Ghostly Minister

Silver Ghost

Lunar Spook

Rafael Luna

Ghostly Thunder, dk.b./br.g., 2005

Chief’s Crown

Chief Honcho

Expressive Dance

Expressive Feather

Brilliant Protege

Fancy Feathers

Pat My Feathers

Northern Dancer
Victoria Regina
Bunty’s Flight
Shakney
Mr. Prospector
Misty Gallore
Idle Minds
New Zion Miss
Danzig
Six Crowns
Riva Ridge
Exclusive Dancer
Secretariat
Irradiate
Ruffled Feathers
Patter Foot

starts 1st 2nd 3rd

07 (sw) 4 3 (2) 0 1

earnings

$109,158 (through Dec. 1)

2007: 1st $50,000 Tri-State Futurity (2nd div.), 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled in Md., Va. or W.Va.,
Charles Town, Nov. 10; $50,000 West Virginia Futurity, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred
or sired 2-year-olds, Charles Town, Dec. 1.

Bred by Charles A. Woodson Jr. (W.Va.); owned by Gary Capuano and Paul L. Fowler Jr.; trained
by Gary Capuano.

Sire: GHOSTLY MINISTER, b., 97, stands at Buckstud, Charles Town, W.Va.

Dam: EXPRESSIVE FEATHER, dk.b./br., 96, bred by Charles N. Bassford (Md.). Raced 4 years, 23
starts, 2 wins at 4 and 5, $24,653. (CTN Sept 06—$400)

04 Easy Eight, ch.c. by Gneiss. Raced 1 year, 1 start at 3,0 wins, $0.

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STAKES WINNERS

05 GHOSTLY THUNDER, dk.b./br.g. by Ghostly Minister. (OBS April 07—$13,000)
06 Slipped.

JULIE B

Daisy Mae Stakes

$45,000-added, 114 mi., registered accredited West Virginia-bred fillies and mares,
3 & up. Charles Town, Nov. 17.

Bold Reasoning

Seattle Slew

My Charmer

Eastover Court

*Grey Dawn II

Heavenly Cause

Lady Dulcinea

Julie B,dk.b./br.m., 2003

Raise a Native

Feel the Power

Davona Dale

Ashby Inn

Shelter Half

Ani Ashby

Juanita’s Girl

Boldnesian
Reason to Earn
Poker

Fair Charmer
*Herbager
Polamia
Nantallah
Shy Dancer
Native Dancer
Raise You
Best Turn
Royal Entrance
Tentam
Gay Matelda
Jungle Cove
Marianna Trench

starts

1st

2nd

05

2

2

0

06 (sw)

9

5 (4)

2

(1)

07 (sw)

7

_3 (2)

1

(1)

18

10 (6)

3

(2)

3rd earnings

0 $ 30,000

1 (1) 293,760

J_ (1) 155,592

2 (2) $479,352 (through Nov. 17)

2006: 1st $50,000 Lady Charles Town S, 7 fur., 3-year-old fillies, Charles Town, June 17; $40,000
Ruth C. Funkhouser S, 7 fur., restricted to accredited W.Va.-bred 3-year-old fillies nominated to
the WVBC, Charles Town, Sept. 9; $350,000 Jefferson Security Bank “Cavada” W.Va. Breeders
Classic S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired fillies and mares, 3 & up, Charles
Town, Oct. 14; $50,000 Sylvia Bishop Memorial S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or
sired 3-year-old fillies, Charles Town, Nov. 4; 2nd Polly’s Jet S; 3rd Serena’s Song S. 2007: 1st

$50,000 Roger Van Hoozer Memorial S, 7 fur., accredited W.Va.-bred fillies and mares, 3 &
up, nominated to the WVBC, Charles Town, Sept. 22; $45,000 Daisy Mae S, V/s mi., registered
accredited W.Va.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up, Charles Town, Nov. 17; 2nd Jefferson Security
Bank “Cavada” W.Va. Breeders Classic S; 3rd Turn Capp S.

Bred and owned by O’Sullivan Farms (W.Va.); trained by George G. Yetsook.

Sire: EASTOVER COURT, gr., 91 (deceased).

Dam: ASHBY INN, b., 96, bred by O’Sullivan Farms and H.W. Dick Co. Inc. (W.Va.). Raced 2 years,
11 starts, 2 wins at 2, $24,987, Southern States Breeders Classic S.

01 Dinner Dance, ch.f. by Fred Astaire. Unraced. Died 2003.

02 Funky C. P. A., ch.f. by Carnivalay. Raced 2 years, 9 starts, 1 win at 4, $35,525.

03 JULIE B, dk.b./br.f. by Eastover Court.

04 Yellow Brick Bank, b.c. by Unbridled Jet. Unraced.

06 Stanford Grad, b.c. by Black Tie Affair (Ire).

07 Bavarian Inn, ch.f. by Black Tie Affair (Ire).

SAXET HEIGHTS

Tri-State Futurity

1st division, $50,000-added, 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled in Maryland, Virginia or
West Virginia. Charles Town, Nov. 10.

Danzig

Outflanker

Lassie’s Lady

Saxet Heights, b.f., 2005

Black Tie Affair (Ire)

Holiday Ball

Angelina County

Northern Dancer
Pas de Norn
Alydar
Lassie Dear
Miswaki
Hat Tab Girl
Rollicking
Cleverness

Nearctic

Natalma

Admiral’s Voyage
^Petitioner
Raise a Native
Sweet Tooth
Buckpasser
Gay Missile
Mr. Prospector
Hopespringseternal
Al Hattab
Desperate Action
Rambunctious
Martinetta
Pretense
Quillita

starts 1st 2nd 3rd

07 (sw) 2 2 (1) 0 0

earnings

$61,938 (through Nov. 10)

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Charles Town, Nov. 10.

Bred by Carey K. Miller (W.Va.); owned by Carey K. Miller Revocable Trust; trained by Jeff
C. Runco.

Sire: OUTFLANKER, dk.b./br., 94, stands at Maryland Stallion Station, Glyndon, Md.

Dam: HOLIDAY BALL, b., 94, bred by Carey K. Miller (Ky.). Raced 5 years, 31 starts, 7 wins at 3
and 4, $312,424, Stormy Blues Breeders’ Cup S, Lady Dean S, 2nd Monmouth Breeders’ Cup
0aks-G2, Marlboro H, 3rd Black-Eyed Susan S-G2.

00 Slipped.

01 Kasztanka, dk.b./br.f. by Polish Numbers. Raced 3 years, 15 starts, 1 win at 3, $40,950.

02 Holy Holiday, b.f. by Holy Bull. Raced 2 years, 11 starts, 4 wins at 3 and 4, $81,160.

03 Holiday Jazz, dk.b./br.g. by Jazz Club. Unraced.

04 Tiger Rag, b.g. by Jazz Club. Raced 1 year, 8 starts, 3 wins at 3, $64,310,3rd Humphrey S.
FinneyS.

05 SAXET HEIGHTS, b.f. by Outflanker.

07 Cactus Charlie, c. by Not For Love.

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124 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

Looking back

From The Maryland Horse (published 1936 to 1997) and Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred

YEARS

AGO

I Countess Diana, whose
emphatic victory in the Breed¬
ers 7 Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes-
G1 at Hollywood Park all but
guaranteed her an Eclipse
Award, was a Kentucky-bred
with a pedigree developed
almost entirely in Maryland.

Not only was her sire, the
Danzig stallion Deerhound,
standing in Maryland when the
filly was conceived, but Coun¬
tess Diana’s dam, T. V. Countess
(by long-established Maryland
sire T. V. Commercial out of
a Dancing Count mare), was
a second-generation Maryland-
bred stakes horse bred and
campaigned by Dr. Herman
Kossow, a Washington, DC.,
dentist.

Kossow and his train¬
er, Carlos Garcia, who sent
Countess Diana out to a track
record-setting maiden debut at
Pimlico in June, bred two stakes
winners from T. V. Countess
before selling her privately, in
foal to Deerhound. Her new
owners, Richard and Nancy
Kaster, sent T. V. Countess to

Kentucky, where she dropped
the eventual champion.

Kossow is connected to another
Breeders' Cup winner, having bred
the Bates Motel filly Barbarika out of
his foundation mare War Exchange
(the third dam of Countess Diana).
Sold for $39,000 as a yearling,
Barbarika was a multiple graded
stakes winner of $337,130 and is
the granddam of 2007 Breeders'
Cup Classic-GI winner Curlin.

I Owner Carolyn Hine and
her husband, trainer Sonny
Hine, put up $480,000 to sup¬
plement their pride and joy,
Skip Away, to the Breeders’
Cup, and he rewarded his con¬
nections by galloping to a six-
length victory in the $4 million
Breeders’ Cup Classic-GI, set¬
ting a new stakes record in the
process.

In a race decimated by
defections of the top older
horses in training (Gentlemen-
Arg and Formal Gold were
most notably absent), Skip
Away capped off a 4-year-old
campaign that “had been a
shade disappointing [going in]
despite his having earned over
$1.8 million and being in the
first three in all 10 starts.” The
Hines, who had long ties to the
Mid-Atlantic region, probably

would have kept their stable
star home if the top two horses
had run. The winner’s share of
the purse pushed Skip Away’s
career earnings to $6,876,360.

I Lonesome Glory sewed up
his fourth Eclipse Award as
champion steeplechaser by
capturing the Colonial Cup for
the third time in four years. Kay
Jeffords’s chestnut gelding,
trained by Bruce Miller and rid¬
den primarily by Blythe Miller,
also became the first U.S. stee-

cn years

DU AGO

M Top handicap horse Swoon’s
Son appeared to have the Pim¬
lico Special at his mercy; there
was even speculation that he
would have it all to himself.
But Pimlico racing secretary
and handicapper J. Fred Colwill
rounded up three rivals—
Promised Land, Tick Tock
and Third Brother—to keep
it from becoming a walkover.
And they came home in that
order, with Swoon’s Son wind¬
ing up fourth.

Mrs. Ethel D. Jacobs’s
Promised Land, a 3-year-old
gray son of Palestinian out of
Mahmoudess, by *Mahmoud,
was a member of the illustri¬
ous crop that included Bold
Ruler, Round Table and *Gal-
lant Man. Out of the barn of
trainer Hirsch Jacobs, Promised
Land found his own niche. The
durable colt was making his
26di start of the year in the
Special, and recorded his fourth
stakes win in as many weeks,
adding to November wins in
the Knickerbocker, Roamer
and Idlewild Handicaps in New
York.

Writer Joe Hickey noted
that “Swoon’s Son’s race in
the Special obviously was not
bis true measure. He hadn’t
had a testing race since the
Hawthorne Gold Cup, 49 days
earlier. [Rider Dave] Erb said
his horse was short. Several
Pimlico races designed as preps

plechaser to pass the $1-million
mark in career earnings.

I Delaware Park-based rider
Mike McCarthy tied the
Wilmington oval’s record by
winning six races on a single
card on November 2. He came
within a nose of duplicating
the feat the next day, winning
five before getting caught in
the last jump in race six. In the
first three days of the month,
McCarthy won with 12 of his
15 mounts.

for Swoon’s Son failed to fill,
and trainer Lex Wilson had to
prepare his horse with work¬
outs.”

I Mrs. Odgen Phipps’s steeple¬
chase star Neji earned his sec¬
ond championship, having also
taken the tide in 1955. Trained
by Michael Smithwick and
ridden by his brother, Paddy,
Virginia-bred Neji was by
Maryland sire *Hunters Moon
IV, who stood at Janon Fisher’s
The Caves, in Eccleston.

Neji’s most impressive win
of the season came while car¬
rying an imposing 173 pounds
in the Temple Gwathmey, stee¬
plechasing’s richest race, while
smashing the course record by
nearly three seconds.

Searching, a 5-year-old
daughter of War Admiral—Big
Hurry, by Black Toney, and a
stablemate to Promised Land,
took Pimlico’s Gallorette Stakes
for the second time, after win¬
ning the race in 1955 and finish¬
ing third in the 1956 renewal.

Searching failed to win in 13
starts at 2; however trainer
Hirsch Jacobs approached Sun¬
ny Jim Fitzsimmons about pur¬
chasing the filly from owner
Ogden Phipps. Jacobs paid
$15,000 for Searching, who
went on to win stakes each year
from 3 to 6 for Jacobs and his
wife, Ethel.

Searching, a winner of 25 races
and $327,381, left a lasting legacy
as a broodmare, producing champion
Affectionately and stakes winners
and illustrious producers Admiring
and Priceless Gem.

O C YEARS
ZD AGO

I Victory Zone, a son of
Windfields stallion Val de
l’Orne (Fr), captured the
Grade 1 Hollywood Derby in
his first start for new owners
Honeybee Farm, Ben Perkins
and Mrs. and Mrs. Martin Ritt
and trainer Bobby Frankel.
The 3-year-old Maryland-bred
colt, out of Zonely (by Round
Table), had been sold by his
breeder, Mrs. Richard C.
duPont, late that summer.

I Chesapeake City, Md.-based
Windfields Farm, home to 17
stallions for the 1983 breeding
season, estimated that three
of those horses—Northern
Dancer, his son The Minstrel

and grandson Assert (Ire)—
were valued at a combined
$ 100 million, based on syndica¬
tion prices and recent offers.

I Native Marylander Joseph
M. O’Farrell died unexpect¬
edly at the age of 70 while in
Miami, Fla., preparing 28
horses for the annual Hialeah
sale of 2-year-olds in training.

O’Farrell, who with his
brother Tom, had bred horses
at Windy Hills Farm in West¬
minster, Md., became regard¬
ed as the “man who put Ocala
on the map as a horse breed¬
ing center,” when he and fel¬
low Marylander Bruce S.
Campbell founded Ocala Stud
Farm in Florida in 1956. One
of the first stallions to relocate
from Maryland to Ocala Stud
was the Windy Hills stallion
Rough’n Tumble.

MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008 1 25

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Castle Rock Farm.53

EB Y Trailers.116

EMO Insurance.52

Eponaire.82

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic.1

Fox Tale Stud.91

Heartland Vet Supply.123

Hy-Tech Mushroom Compost.98

John Deere.69

King Construction Co.122

Maryland Fund.4, 84

Maryland Horse Fencing.118

Maryland Horse Industry Board.124

Maryland Horse Industry Foundation.23

Maryland Horse Radio.44

Maryland Million Ltd.81

Murmur Farm.11

NTRA-Advantage Finish Line.75

OCD Pellets.79

Odyssey Performance.92

Pavesafe.80

Precise Buildings Inc.76

Bill Reightler Agent.25

Shotwell Farm.103

ST Publishing Inc.124

TRM-Ireland Inc.115

Virginia Thoroughbred Association.. Back cover

Walnford Stud.57

Willowdale Farm.70

Winterthur point-to-point.56

126 MID-ATLANTIC THOROUGHBRED JANUARY 2008

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January 2008

Official publication of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association; Vol. 74, No. 1

Inside

In memoriam: Ruth Galt Eyler.... 7

Leading Maryland sires. 8

Maryland-breds at Keeneland
November Sale.3

Maryland-bred stakes winners

Dattts Awesome.4

Digger.5

Headsandtales.5

Maryland Fund report. 8

Maryland's top earners. 8

MDA hosts Philippine delegation 4

MHB A membership form.8

Slots legislation synopsis. 1

Maryland Horse Breeders

Association Inc.

30 East Padonia Road
Timoniuin, MD 21093

PCX Box 427
Timonium, MD 21094

410-252-2100

Fax 410-560-0503
www.marylandthoroughbred.com

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

James B. Steele Jr.

President

Ann W. Merryman

Vice-president

William K. Boniface

Secretary-treasurer

Cricket Goodall

Executive director

R. Thomas Bowman, Laurie
Calhoun, Christine F. Clagett,
Amy Hopkins Daney, Rebecca
B. Davis, JoAnn Hayden,
King T. Leatherbury, Donald P.

Litz Jr., E. Allen Murray,
Michael Pons, A. Brice Ridgely,

Frank P. Wright

Synopsis of
slots legislation

Prepared by Bruce C. Spizler, Senior Assistant Attorney General
and Counsel to the Maryland Racing Commission.

Following are key points of legislation approved in the November 2007 special session of the
Maryland General Assembly The slots program called for in this legislation will take effect if ap¬
proved by voters in a statewide referendum in November 2008.

House Bill 4 (Constitutional Amendment)

• State may issue up to five VLT operation licenses

• State may not authorize more than 15,000 VLTs

• Locations:

1. Anne Arundel County, within two miles of Maryland Rte. 295

2. Cecil County, within two miles of 1-95

3. Worcester County, within one mile of Rte. 50 and Rte. 589

4. Allegany County—State property located within Rocky Gap State Park

5. Baltimore City, in a non-residential area within one-half mile of Maryland Rte. 295 on
property owned by the city on date of application for VLT operator license

• Not more than one VLT operation in a single county or Baltimore City

• VLT facility shall comply with all applicable planning and zoning laws of the local jurisdictions

• After 11/15/08, General Assembly may not authorize any additional forms or expansion of

commercial gaming, except by referendum

Senate Bill 3 (Maryland Educational Trust Fund—Video Lottery Terminals)

• One member of Lottery Commission to be liaison to Maryland Racing Commission (MRC); one

member of MRC to be liaison to Lottery Commission

• MRC to award at least 40 days of live racing at Pimlico

• VLTs to be owned or leased by state

• Video Lottery Facility Location Commission (VLFLC) may not:

—issue more than five VLT operation licenses
—award more than 15,000 VLTs in the state
—award more than 4,750 VLTs at any one location

• State Lottery Commission expanded to nine members (currently five)

• Individual or business entity may not own more than one VLT facility

• Conditions of eligibility for funding under Racetrack Facility Renewal Account:

—Live racing:

1. for Laurel Park and Pimlico—minimum of 220 live race days unless otherwise agreed

by track licensee and Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association

2. for Rosecroft—minimum of 90 live race days unless otherwise agreed by track licensee

and Cloverleaf Standardbred Owners Association (CSOA)

3. for Ocean Downs—minimum of 40 live race days unless otherwise agreed by track

licensee and CSOA

—Pimlico—retain Preakness in Maryland (at Pimlico, or if Pimlico ceases to exist, another track
in Maryland approved by MRC)

—Laurel—permit Maryland Million at Laurel (unless racing licensee and Maryland Million
agree to another location approved by MRC)

—develop and submit to MRC a multi-year plan to
improve quality and marketing of horse racing
in Maryland, including a master plan for capital
improvements and maintenance at horse racing
facility of at least $1.5 million annually in addition to
commitments that have been made to MRC (amount
may include matching funds); to include improvements
to backstretch

—develop with other racing industry members a multi¬
year plan to improve quality and marketing of horse
racing industry in Maryland, to include timelines for
specific actions that will be taken by the Thoroughbred
and Standardbred industries including joint marketing
efforts

• if VLT operation license at Laurel Park, license shall be

revoked if Preakness transferred to a location outside of
Maryland

Additional conditions:

1. promote and conduct Preakness at Pimlico; if Pimlico

does not exist, at another location in the state
approved by MRC

2. permit Maryland Million at Laurel

3. maintain Bowie Training Center unless state law

no longer requires; if state law no longer requires,
convey property to state under preserved land (Open
Space Program)

• licensee to commence operation of VLT facility within

18 months of license being issued
—VLT facility at race track location—may begin in a

temporary facility; permanent location at track within 30
months after issuance of VLT operation license

• initial term of VLT license —15 years; re-licensure for

10-year periods

• VLT shall have average payout of at least 87 percent; Lottery

Commission, by regulation, may establish average payout
of not more than 90 percent; Lottery Commission may
approve average payout of not more than 95 percent

• VLT facility:

1. may operate from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m.

2. responsible for all marketing, advertising and promotion

3. may not provide free food or alcoholic beverages

4. may provide food and drink only at prices

commensurate with prices charged by restaurants in
county where VLT facility located

• Lottery to promulgate regulations which:

1. limit the number and location of, and withdrawal

amounts from, ATMs

2. require payouts above a certain amount to be made by

check

3. limit the dollar amount a VLT will accept

4. prohibit use of credit cards, debit cards in VLTs

5. prohibit cashing of paychecks at VLT facility

6. prohibit predatory marketing practices

• all proceeds from operation of VLTs electronically

transferred daily to State Lottery Fund (under control of
Comptroller)

—from State Lottery Fund, Comptroller pays following
amounts:

1.2 percent to State Lottery Agency for costs

2. to VLT operation licensee, percentage stated in
accepted bid for location, not to exceed 33 percent
3.5.5 percent in local impact grants

4. 7 percent to Purse Dedication Account, not to exceed

$100 million annually

5. for first eight years of operation of VLT facility, 2.5

percent to Racetrack Facility Renewal Account, not to
exceed $40 million annually

6.1.5 percent to Small, Minority, and Women-Owned
Business Account

7. remainder to Education Trust Fund

• Purse Dedication Account

—transmittal prepared by MRC for issuance of warrant to
pay out monies from account
—MRC to allocate funds as follows:

1.80 percent to Thoroughbred industry; 20 percent to
Standardbred industry

2. re Thoroughbreds: 85 percent to purses ($100,000 to

Fair Hill); 15 percent to Maryland-Bred Race Fund

3. re Standardbreds: 85 percent to Standardbred purses

at Rosecroft, Ocean Downs and Allegany County
race course allocated based upon number of live
racing days; 15 percent to Standardbred Race Fund
—on or before 12/1/14, MRC to conduct study to
determine impact of Purse Dedication Account on
racing industry and make recommendation to General
Assembly regarding continuation

• Racetrack Facility Renewal Account

—expenditures only upon approved transmittal prepared
by MRC

—funds from account to be used to provide grant to race
track licensee for capital construction and improvements
—80 percent to Pimlico, Laurel and Timonium; 20 percent
to Rosecroft and Ocean Downs

[$1 million to Timonium annually for five years
without matching funds]

[MRC may provide direct grant funding from
Thoroughbred portion for establishment of a
horse racing museum as part of Pimlico Race
Course]

—to obtain grant, race track licensee shall:

1. submit a capital construction plan to MRC for

approval

2. provide and expend a matching fund

—MRC, in consultation with Department of General
Services, to monitor the implementation of capital
construction plan and make provisions for recapture
of monies if construction plan not implemented within
time frame approved by MRC
[MRC to promulgate regulations to implement these
provisions]

• Lottery Commission to establish an annual fee of $425, to

be paid by each VLT operation licensee for each VLT, and
distributed to the Problem Gambling Fund

• Video Lottery Facility Location Commission (terminates

1/1/15)

—seven members (three appointed by governor; two
appointed by president of Senate; two appointed by
speaker of House)

—to contract with an independent consultant who has at
least 10 years experience in consulting matters related to
the gaming industry

—not more than five VLT operation licenses to qualified
bidders through a competitive bidding process
—locations:

1. Anne Arundel County, within two miles of Maryland

Rte. 295

2. Cecil County, within two miles of 1-95

3. Worcester County, within one mile of Rte. 50 and

Rte. 589

4. Allegany County—State property located within

Rocky Gap State Park

5. Baltimore City, located in a non-residential area within

one-half mile of Maryland Rte. 295 on property

owned by the city on date of application for VLT
operator license

[if VLT operation license issued at Ocean Downs,
operation licensee may not:

1. build any type of hotel, motel or other public

lodging, or convert an existing facility within
10 miles of Ocean Downs into any type of hotel,
motel, or other public lodging

2. build or operate a conference center, convention

center, amusement park or miniature golf course
on or within 10 miles of Ocean Downs

3. offer live music, floor shows, dancing or other

forms of live entertainment other than fireworks
and a single piano played by an individual]

—number of VLTs

1. Anne Arundel County location—4,750

2. Baltimore City—3,750

3. Cecil County—2,500

4. Rocky Gap State Park—1,500

5. Worcester County—2,500

[Video Lottery Facility Location Commission
may allocate VLTs in a different manner on
determination that market factors and other
enumerated factors so warrant; upon termination
of Video Lottery Facility Location Commission,
State Lottery Commission may allocate or

reallocate number of VLTs in a manner to ensure
highest potential revenues are achieved]

• Bid for VLT operation license to be submitted by 2/1/09:

—initial license fee in bid of at least $3 million for each 500
VLTs included in bid [all such fees accrue to Education
Trust Fund]

— provide for at least $25 million in direct investment in
construction and related costs for each 500 VLTs in bid

• Uncodified provisions:

1. MRC to study current levels of benefits provided to

employees of Thoroughbred and Standardbred race
tracks; make recommendations to ensure that the
benefits to, and funding for, race track employees are
adequate; submit report to General Assembly on or
before 1/1/09 with recommendations on statutory
changes if needed

2. Not less than 95 percent of revenues received by

Baltimore City through a partnership with a VLT
operation licensee (excluding any local impact
grants) shall be used to reduce real property taxes in
Baltimore City and for public school construction and
rehabilitation of Baltimore City public schools

3. Corporation that cumulatively spends more than $10,000

on campaign material to promote success or defeat of
constitutional amendment proposed by HB4 shall file a
campaign financial report

Promenade Girl brings $1,125 midion
at Keeneland November sale

P romenade Girl, who
won five stakes, including the
Grade 2 Molly Pitcher Breed¬
ers' Cup, placed in seven
more, including the Grade 1
Spinster Stakes and Ogden
Phipps Handicap, and earned
$668,990 for her breeders Son-
dra and Howard Bender, was
sold as a broodmare prospect
for $1,125,000 on the second
day of the Keeneland Novem¬
ber sale, which took place No¬
vember 5 through 19 in Lex¬
ington, Ky.

Promenade Girl (Carson
City—Promenade Colony, by
Pleasant Colony)—named
champion Maryland-bred old¬
er female at 4 in 2006—was
bred and raised at the Bend¬
ers' Glade Valley Farms in
Frederick, Md., and trained
throughout her career by Larry
Murray The Benders sold
Promenade Girl's dam for
$200,000 (in foal to Smart
Strike) at the 2007 Keeneland
January sale.

Promenade Girl was con¬
signed to the sale by Eaton
Sales, agent, and purchased

in the name of Thoroughbred
Advisory Group Inc.

Following are other Mary-
land-breds sold for $100,000
or more at the Keeneland No¬
vember sale. They are listed
with names of breeder, con¬
signor and purchaser:
$525,000. Celestial Legend,
ch.m., 2003, City Zip—
Lunar's Legend, by Polish
Numbers (in foal to Blue-
grass Cat). William Fitz-
gibbons Sr. and David H.
Wade; Legacy Bloodstock,
agent LX VI; B. Wayne
Hughes.

$260,000. Love You Madly,
b .m., 2000, Partner's Hero—
Georgia K., by Horatius (in
foal to Fusaichi Pegasus).
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
McGinnes; Nursery Place;
Berkey Bloodstock Services
Inc., agent.

$210,000. Hail Hillary, ch.m.,
2000, Yarrow Brae—Capital
Hill, by Temperence Hill (in
foal to Maria's Mon). Alan
S. Kline; Three Chimneys
Sales, agent, for Golden

Eagle Farm (phase II of
a major reduction); Nofa
Equestrian Resort.

$200,000. Grant's Moon, dk.b./
br.m., 2001, Malibu Moon—
Grant a Wish, by Nureyev.
B. Wayne Hughes; Eaton
Sales, agent, for Diamond
Edge Farm and Bianca
Francis Equine; Steve Brem,
agent.

$190,000. B.f., 2007, Smarty
Jones—Shashobegon, by
Broad Brush. Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas Bowman, Rich¬
ard W. Small and Robert
N. Clay; Three Chimneys
Sales, agent; Ten Broeck
Farm.

$190,000. Maddalena, ch.m.
2002, Good and Tough—
Two Foxie, by Fair Skies (in
foal to Johannesburg). Alan
Hilburg; Four Star Sales,
agent; Ben McElroy.

$160,000. Les Ry Leigh, dk.b./
br.m., 2003, Broken Vow—
Azusa, by Flying Paster.
Bittersweet Farm; Three
Chimneys Sales, agent;
Steve Brem, agent.

$160,000. Rachels Moon, ch.c.,
2007, Malibu Moon—Clev¬
er Rache, by Clever Champ.
Magalen O. Bryant; Water-
ford-Millford Farms, agent
VIII; Back Weston.

$150,000. Mazel Tov Betty,
ch.m., 2001, Mazel Trick—
Here Comes Betty, by Cox's
Ridge (in foal to Flower Al¬
ley). Glade Valley Farms
Inc.; Taylor Made Sales
Agency, agent CLXXXIII;
Kathryn Nikkei.

$100,000. Point Determined,
b.h., 2003, Point Given—
Merengue, by Broad Brush.
Bowman and Higgins Sta¬
ble and Robert N. Clay; De¬
nali Stud (Craig and Holly
Bandoroff), agent, for the
Robert and Beverly Lewis
Trust; Dr. Oscar Benavides,
agent.

$100,000. Three Deuces, gr./
ro.m., 2002, Two Punch—
Too Fast to Catch, by Nice
Catch (in foal to Bern¬
stein). Dark Hollow Farm
and Herringswell Stable;
Kingswood Farm, agent;
My Meadow View LLC.

MDA hosts Philippine delegation
for international horse sales

From the Maryland Department of Agriculture

The Maryland Depart¬
ment of Agriculture (MDA)
recently hosted a delegation of
Filipino horsemen who were
interested in purchasing race
horses directly from breeders.
The delegation, organized by
the Philippine Racing Com¬
mission, purchased 12 horses
with a total value of more than
$100,000 for the developing
racing industry in that coun¬
try The horses were in quar¬
antine at Carolyn and Ron
Green's Green Willow Farms
in Carroll County; they were
expected to be flown to the
Philippines in early Decem¬
ber.

"We are pleased to see
Filipino breeders traveling to
Maryland to purchase horses
for their racing industry and
look forward to hosting an
additional delegation of pri¬
vate horse breeders and train¬
ers in the spring," said MDA
Secretary Roger Richardson.
"Maryland's horse industry
is a strong source of jobs and
means for maintaining open
farmland. International sales
also help the seller's bottom
line, increase the demand for
Maryland-bred horses over¬
seas, and raise income for vet¬
erinarians, quarantine farm
operations, and others in¬

volved in preparing the horses
for export."

Working closely with the
Carroll and Harford County
government agricultural spe¬
cialists and the Maryland
Horse Breeders Association,
MDA organized visits to farms
interested in selling horses to
the Filipinos. The group visit¬
ed Bonita Farm, Country Life
Farm, Fanta-Sea Farm, Reveille
Farm and St. Omer's Farm in
Harford County; Dark Hollow
Farm and the Maryland Stal¬
lion Station in Baltimore
County; Green Willow Farms,
Rich Meadow Farm and
Shamrock Farms in Carroll

County; and River Rock Farm
in Cecil County.

This recent trip builds on
the relationships developed
over the past few years be¬
tween MDA and the Philip¬
pine Racing Commission.

In May 2007, a group at¬
tended the Preakness and pur¬
chased 15 horses at the Fasig-
Tipton 2-year-olds in training
sale. In 2005, Filipino breeders
purchased 15 horses who per¬
formed successfully in leading
races in the Philippines. ^

Q

Maryland Fund Stakes Recaps

Dattts Awesome

iffll All Brandy Stakes

SSO^OO-guaranteed, \V& mi., turf,
registered Maryland-bred fillies and
mares, 3 & up. Laurel Park, Nov. 17.

Dk.b./br.f., 2004, by Awesome Again—
Promenade Colony, by Pleasant
Colony. Bred by Sondra Bender and
Howard M. Bender; owned by DATTT
Stable; trained by Mark Hennig. Foaled
at Glade Valley Farms Inc., Frederick,
Md.

Lifetime

starts 1st 2nd 3rd earnings
12 3 (1) 2 (1) 0 $101,954

(through Nov. 17)

2007: 1st $50,000 All Brandy S, lYs mi.,
turf, registered Md.-bred fillies and
mares, 3 & up. Laurel, Nov. 17; 2nd

Twin Lights S.

Dattts Awesome is still
a long way from catching up

with her famous half-sister.
Promenade Girl, but she took
a big step in that direction by
winning the All Brandy Stakes
on November 17 at Laurel
Park.

Just 11 days after Prom¬
enade Girl went through the
ring at the Keeneland No¬
vember sale, where she sold
on a bid of $1,125 million
(see article on page 3 of this
newsletter), Dattts Awesome
earned her first stakes win in
the All Brandy.

A 3-year-old facing mostly
older Maryland-bred rivals,
Dattts Awesome went to post
as the 1.5-1 favorite and lived
up to hopes. She assumed

the lead on the outside enter¬
ing the stretch, increased her
margin in midstretch, and
prevailed by a length and a
quarter over the hard-charg¬
ing runner-up, Dutch Girl. Ten
Bolts rallied for third, creating
a six and a half-length gap be¬
tween herself and the remain¬
der of the field, consisting of
Beau's Trip, Lucrezia, Marias
Golden Rose and Kayla's
Smile.

Dattts Awesome finished
the mile and an eighth, over
good turf, in 1:53.75.

Dattts Awesome (by Awe¬
some Again) campaigns for
DATTT Stable, a partnership
led by Tom Ryan of Saratoga
Springs, N.Y., and Jupiter, Fla.
She was bred by Sondra and
Howard Bender, who raced
Promenade Girl as a home¬
bred, but sold the two-years-
younger Dattts Awesome for
$250,000 at the 2005 Keene¬
land September Yearling sale.

Larry Murray, who trains
the Benders' racing stable
and also manages their Glade
Valley Farms near Frederick,
Md., went out on a limb when

he advised the Benders to pur¬
chase Promenade Colony for
$460,000 (in foal to Woodman)
at the 1998 Keeneland Novem¬
ber sale. But the mare turned
out to be a gold mine.

From an accomplished fe¬
male family developed by the
late Thomas M. Evans, Prom¬
enade Colony produced seven
foals, including Promenade
Girl and Dattts Awesome,
during her stay at Glade Val¬
ley. The Benders sold Prom¬
enade Colony for $200,000,
in foal to Smart Strike, at the
2007 Keeneland January sale.

But the Benders still own
Promenade Colony's just-
turned 2-year-old Tale of the
Cat filly, who is expected
to race for them, as well as
the 3-year-old Grand Slam
gelding Colonel Grand. The
3-year-old was not considered
a sales prospect because of
offset knees, but is in training
with Murray; the 2-year-old
received her early education
from Lucia Carroll in South
Carolina last fall, and has de¬
veloped into a "very pretty
filly," in Murray's words.

Dattts Awesome failed to
break her maiden in two starts
at 2, and needed five more
tries to reach the winner's
circle last season, but regis¬
tered a win and a second in
stakes competition last fall.
She was a close runner-up to
Bachat in the Twin Lights
Stakes at Monmouth Park, in
her next-to-last start before the
All Brandy. In a dozen lifetime
starts, Dattts Awesome has
three wins and earnings of
$101,954.

| Digger

Northern Dancer Stakes

$50,000-guaranteed, lVs mi., registered
Maryland-bred 3-year-olds.

. Laurel Park, Nov. 3.

w Jennings Handicap

$60,000-guaranteed, lVs mi.,
registered Maryland-breds, 3 & up.
Laurel Park, Dec. 1.

Dk.b./br.g., 2004, by Yonaguska—Da
Choice, by Dehere. Bred by Skeedattle
Associates; owned by Lawrence P. Ro¬
man; trained by Richard E. Dutrow Jr.
Foaled at Dance Forth Farm, Chester-
town, Md.

Lifetime

starts 1st 2nd 3rd earnings

14 6 (3) 4 1 (1) $194,518

(through Dec. 1)

2006: 3rd Maryland Juvenile Cham¬
pionship S. 2007: 1st $50,000 Deputed
Testamony S, 1 mi., registered Md.-
bred 3-year-olds, Laurel, Sept. 15;
$50,000 Northern Dancer S, lVs mi.,
registered Md.-bred 3-year-olds, Lau¬
rel, Nov. 3; $60,000 Jennings H, lVs mi.,
registered Md.-breds, 3 & up. Laurel,
Dec. 1.

Trainer Ricky Dutrow has
followed a golden highway
with the speedy Digger.

Three times last fall,
Dutrow put Lawrence Ro¬
man's gelding on a van at his
barn in New York and shipped
him down to Laurel Park,
where he collected first money
in a Maryland Fund stakes.

Runaway winner, by 11 3 A
lengths, in the Deputed Testa¬
mony Stakes (September 15),
Digger returned to capture
the Northern Dancer Stakes
on November 3 and Jennings
Handicap on December 1.

Together, the three races
had first-place purses totalling
$96,000.

Digger led all the way and
scored by three and a quarter
lengths as 1-10 favorite against
rival 3-year-olds in the North¬
ern Dancer Stakes, complet¬

ing the mile and an eighth in
1:50.81.

Behind him, in order of
finish, were P V Lightening,
Silent Assassin, Kiyoshi and
Gammy's a Winner.

Returning against older
competition in the Jennings,
Digger was the only 3-year-
old in a tough field. Still, the
bettors installed him as 0.7-1
favorite, and he didn't disap¬
point. After gaining the early
lead, he surrendered to Forty
Crowns, then moved to the
fore in the upper stretch and
prevailed by two lengths over
Evil Storm (who had won
the Maryland Million Classic
in his previous start). Forty
Crowns, hero of the 2007
Maryland Million Turf, was a
half-length back in third.

Bringing up the field were
2006 Jennings winner Easy
Red, Diamond David (2007
Maryland Million Classic
third-place finisher), Head-
sandtales (who came into
the race off of a victory in the
November 10 Find Handicap)
and Due (2006 Maryland Mil¬
lion Classic winner).

Final time for the Jennings
was 1:51.49.

Digger was bred by Skee¬
dattle Associates, the stable
name of Robert (Willie) White,
Lou Rehak and Bob Orndorff,
and claimed from Skeedattle
while making his second start,
for a $25,000 maiden claiming
tag, in November 2006 at Lau¬
rel; at that time, trainer Phil
Schoenthal haltered him on
behalf of owner William Wise.

After Digger scored by nine
and a half lengths in his first
start beyond six furlongs—a
mile and an eighth maiden
special weight at Laurel on
December 15—Wise and
Schoenthal sent him out in the
Maryland Juvenile Champion¬
ship Stakes on December 30.
He finished third in the stakes,
two lengths behind the win¬
ner, Roaring Lion.

Digger made three more
starts for those connections,
winning in allowance compa¬
ny (at a mile and an eighth) at
Laurel. Early last summer he
was sold to Roman, a resident
of New York, and transferred
to Dutrow's stable.

Dutrow dispatched Dig¬
ger to a fourth-place finish
in Monmouth Park's Coro¬
nado's Quest Stakes won by
Cable Boy on June 24. Then,
on August 12 at Saratoga, Dig¬
ger proved sensational while
winning a $75,000 claimer at
Saratoga. His margin of victo¬
ry was six and three-quarters
lengths.

In between his first two
Maryland stakes wins. Digger
finished a well-beaten sixth
after setting the early fractions
in the Jerome Handicap-G2
won by Daaher on October 7
at Belmont. In 14 career starts.
Digger has won or placed 11
times, and earned $194,518.

Skeedattle still owns Dig¬
ger 's dam Da Choice (by
Dehere), who is among five
broodmares the partnership
keeps at the Bowman fam¬
ily's Roland Farm in Chesa¬
peake City, Md. Purchased by
Skeedattle for $70,000 at the
2001 Keeneland September
Yearling sale. Da Choice is a
half-sister to graded winner
Millie's Quest, out of stakes
winner Millie's Choice (Ire).

Da Choice produced Dig¬
ger as her first foal. She has
a 2-year-old colt by Lion
Hearted and a yearling filly
by Dance With Ravens, and is
due to foal this season to Lion
Hearted.

Headsandtales

l|f|| Find Handicap

$50,000-guaranteed, 1 Vs mi.,
turf, registered Maryland-breds,
3 & up. Laurel Park, Nov. 10.

B.g., 2003, by Tale of the Cat—Indian
Head Penny, by Waquoit. Bred and
owned by Skeedattle Associates;
trained by Robin L. Graham. Foaled at
Dance Forth Farm, Chestertown, Md.

Lifetime

starts 1st 2nd 3rd earnings
22 5 (1) 2 4 $129,060

(through Dec. 1)
2007: 1st $50,000 Find H, 1 Vs mi., turf,
registered Md.-breds, 3 & up. Laurel,
Nov. 10.

Skeedattle Associates—a
partnership of Marylanders
Willie White, Lou Rehak and
Bob Orndorff—had many
thrilling moments with the
Waquoit daughter Indian
Head Penny. And that mare's
first foal, Headsandtales (by
Tale of the Cat), is cast in the
same mold.

Headsandtales swept to
victory as a 25-1 longshot in
the Find Handicap on No¬
vember 10 at Laurel Park, de¬
feating some of the best older
Maryland-breds in current
competition.

After saving ground be¬
hind the pacesetter and 0.8-1
favorite Forty Crowns (who
was returning from a course
record-setting victory in the
Maryland Million Turf), Head¬
sandtales took command with
a furlong and a half to go, and
crossed the wire a length and
three-quarters to the good of
his closest rival, Foufa's War¬
rior. Easy Red rallied for third
place, a half-length back. The
remaining order of finish con¬
sisted of Nashly's Runner,
Forty Crowns, Irish Osprey,
Dr Rico and Foxs Uptown
Boy.

Final time for the mile
and an eighth turf event was
1:49.92.

It was the first stakes win
and fifth lifetime victory for
Headsandtales, who has
earned $129,060 while racing
as a Skeedattle homebred. He
is trained by Robin Graham.

Skeedattle bought Indian
Head Penny for $27,000 at the
1995 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic
Eastern Fall Yearling sale and
campaigned her to win or
place in seven stakes, includ¬
ing a victory in the Rosenna
Stakes, and earn $217,738.

Bred by Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas Bowman, Indian
Head Penny is out of the
stakes-winning mare Chief¬
tains Miss (by Chieftain), from
the family of multiple stakes
winners Shashobegon and
Heart Throbbin'.

Still owned by Skeedattle,
the 14-year-old Indian Head
Penny has a just-turned
2-year-old filly by Not For
Love and is in foal for 2008 to
that leading Maryland sire.

Maryland Fund Report

Bonuses paid for races at Maryland tracks from
September 24 to November 18,2007.

Gin Talking Stakes

September 29. Purse $45,000-guar-
anteed. For 2-year-old fillies, regis¬
tered Maryland-breds. 6 fur., turf.
6 competed. (Closed with 13 nom¬
inations.) Winner: HARTIGAN,
by Include. Breeder bonus: Fitz-
hugh LLC ($2,700). Stallion bonus:
None. Second: KOSMO'S BUDDY,
by Outflanker. Breeder bonus: Ar¬
nold Smolen ($900). Stallion bo¬
nus: Outflanker Syndicate ($450).
Third: MY DANCE PARTNER, by
Partner's Hero. Breeder bonus:
Charles Walters Jr. ($495). Stallion
bonus: Partner's Hero Syndicate
($247.50). Fourth: EXPECT NO
LOVE, by Doneraile Court. Breed¬
er bonus: Sally Thomas ($270).
Stallion bonus: None.

Oliver's Twist Stakes

September 29. Purse $45,000-guar-
anteed. For 2-year-olds, registered
Maryland-breds. 6 fur., turf. 6
competed. (Closed with 14 nomi¬
nations.) Winner: CASANOVA
JACK, by Not For Love. Breeder
bonus: Harold and Sylvia Green¬
berg ($2,700). Stallion bonus: Not
For Love Syndicate ($1,350). Sec¬
ond: OVECHKIN, by Changein-
theweather. Breeder bonus: Z.W.P.
Stable ($900). Stallion bonus:
None. Third: JO'S MOJO, by Jazz
Club. Breeder bonus: Joanna Ing¬
ham Trust ($495). Stallion bonus:
Lane's End Farm and Maryland
Stallion Station ($247.50). Fourth:
SEEYOUINTHECITY, by Slew
City Slew. Breeder bonus: See You

Stable ($270). Stallion bonus:
None.

Northern Dancer Stakes

November 3. Purse $50,000-guar-
anteed. For 3-year-olds, registered
Maryland-breds. lYs mi. 5 com¬
peted. (Closed with 10 nomina¬
tions.) Winner: DIGGER, by Yona-
guska. Breeder bonus: Skeedattle
Associates ($3,000). Stallion bo¬
nus: None. Second: P V LIGHT¬
ENING, by Sultry Song. Breeder
bonus: North Highland Farm
($1,000). Stallion bonus: None.
Third: SILENT ASSASSIN, by Un¬
bridled Jet. Breeder bonus: Hind¬
man Limited Partnership LLLP
($550). Stallion bonus: Unbridled
Jet Partnership ($275). Fourth: KI~
YOSHI, by Vicar. Breeder bonus:
Donald K. Dean ($300). Stallion
bonus: None.

Find Handicap

November 10. Purse $50,000-guar-
anteed. For 3-year-olds and up,
registered Maryland-breds. D/s
mi., turf. 8 competed. (Closed with
21 nominations.) Winner: HEADS-
ANDTALES, by Tale of the Cat.
Breeder bonus: Skeedattle Associ¬
ates ($3,000). Stallion bonus: None.
Second: FOUFA'S WARRIOR, by
Jade Hunter. Breeder bonus: Bend¬
er and Bender LLC ($1,000). Stal¬
lion bonus: None. Third: EASY
RED, by Charismatic. Breeder bo¬
nus: Dumbarton Farm ($550). Stal¬
lion bonus: None. Fourth: NASH-
LY'S RUNNER, by Cherokee Run.

Breeder bonus: Bender and Bend¬
er LLC ($300). Stallion bonus:
None.

All Brandy Stakes

November 17. Purse $50,000-
guaranteed. For 3-year-olds and
up, fillies and mares, registered
Maryland-breds. D/s mi., turf. 7
competed. (Closed with 16 nomi¬
nations.) Winner: DATTTS AWE¬
SOME, by Awesome Again.
Breeder bonus: Bender and Bend¬
er LLC ($3,000). Stallion bonus:
None. Second: DUTCH GIRL, by
Holy Bull. Breeder bonus: Kaygar
and Morris Stable ($1,000). Stal¬
lion bonus: None. Third: TEN
BOLTS, by Thunder Gulch. Breed¬
er bonus: Sycamore Hall Farm
LLC ($550). Stallion bonus: None.
Fourth: BEAU'S TRIP, by Valley
Crossing. Breeder bonus: Mrs.
J.W.Y. Martin Jr. ($300). Stallion
bonus: None.

Breeder bonuses

Alan S. Kline Revocable Trust—EXTRIA: Oct. 12,1 Oth race,
$684.

Undo Albert—BRASS BRAE: Nov. 9,6th race, $1,710.
Nancy H. Alberts—BOLD JULIO: Oct. 13,1st race, $42.

DIAMOND DAVID: Oct. 13,11 th race, $280. ($322)

John Alecci—PUNCHIN' GINGER: Oct. 25,2nd race, $570.
Alan H. Anthony—MISS STELLA: Oct. 17,8th race, $570.
Estate of Mrs. James A. Bayard—FIRE HERO: Oct. 13,3rd
race, $140.

Baywood LLC—ALL GIVING: Oct. 13,6th race, $140.
Bender and Bender, LLC—ACCESS LOVE: Oct. 27,11th
race, $1,368. DATTTS AWESOME: Nov. 17, 9th race,
$3,000. FOUFA'S WARRIOR: Nov. 10,9th race, $1,000.
NASHLY'S RUNNER: Nov. 10, 9th race, $300. WA-
QUOIT'S SMILE: Oct. 8,1 Oth race, $798. ($6,466)
Henry M. Blue—SUNNY EMBLEM: Nov. 8, 10th race,
$798.

Bonita Farm—SEASON TICKET: Oct. 13,1st race, $84.

SWEAR TO IT: Oct. 13,12th race, $770. ($854)

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman and Rebecca Davis—TWO
COLUMBUS: Oct. 13,4th race, $140.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman and Dr. Jason L. Layfield—
GRAND CHAMPION: Oct. 13,5th race, $1,540. SMOOTH
IT OVER: Oct. 13,7th race, $560. ($2,100)

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Sutton—HENRY'S HERO: Oct. 5,1 st race, $570.
Bowman Thoroughbreds LLC—PICK UP THE TEMPO: Nov.
16,7th race, $912.

Julie Bassford Bryant—JOEL'S TOUCH: Oct. 13,3rd race,
$280.

Buckingham Farm—FOR KISSES: Oct. 13,2nd race, $280;

Nov. 7,6th race, $2,394. ($2,674)

Mrs. Raymond H. Burnette—HAPPY SURPRISE: Oct. 13,
6th race, $1,540.

David H. Butts—MAM'SELLE: Nov. 7,4th race, $912.
Camaland Partnership—FUN ON THE FREEWAY: Oct. 4,5th
race, $570.

Phillip L. Capuano—DALE'S PROSPECT: Oct. 27,10th race,
$550.

Jonas Cash—CAKE: Nov. 14,2nd race, $912.

Charles A. Castrenze Sr.—CLASSY EMBLEM: Oct. 4, 2nd
race, $684.

Randy Cohen, Albert Cohen and A. Ferris Allen III—MOON
CATCHER: Oct. 13,4th race, $1,540.

Country Roads Ltd.—EVIL STORM: Oct. 13,11th race,
$1,540.

Margaret Cowan—BUSTER'S PRIDE: Oct. 31, 3rd race,
$798.

Arnold Davidov and Mary Eppler—UNTAMED HERO: Oct.
25,8th race, $1,596.

Rosalee C. Davison—SNOW PARK: Oct. 17, 1st race,
$1,596.

Donald K. Dean—GAMING FOOL: Oct. 17,2nd race, $570.

KIY0SHI: Nov. 3,8th race, $300. ($870)

Karen Dempsey—ASEENINV0GUE: Oct. 19, 1st race,
$570.

Alfred DiRico—HEZA DISCO: Oct. 25,5th race, $912.

Joseph DiRico—DR RICO: Oct. 13,1 Oth race, $560.

F. Eugene Dixon Jr.—LEMONS OF LOVE: Oct. 13,5th race,
$560.

DLS Thoroughbreds Inc.—ECHO QUEST: Oct. 8,4th race,
$1,026.

Andrew Doyle—NORJAC: Oct. 20,1 Oth race, $550.
Dumbarton Farm—EASY RED: Nov. 10,9th race, $550.
Estate of Mrs. Richard C. duPont—FORTY CROWNS: Oct.
13,10th race, $1,540.

Elberton Hill Farm—OORAH: Oct. 18,4th race, $798.

Mary E. Eppler and Jonathan Gargiulo—DOUBLE YOUR
LUCK: Oct. 24,7th race, $1,026.

W.S. Farish and Gasparilla Stable LLC—APPLE SPECIAL:
Sept. 26,5th race, $1,368; Oct. 13, 7th race, $140;
Nov. 15,6th race, $1,710. ($3,218)

Fast Kitty Farms—BROADWAY PRODUCER: Oct. 13,10th
race, $280.

D.J. Federico—MADDY'S HEART: Oct. 13, 8th race,
$1,540.

Fitzhugh LLC—ENCAUSTIC: Sept. 29, 8th race, $1,824;
Nov. 9,8th race, $1,938. GUARDIAN SPIRIT: Oct. 6,7th
race, $1,368. HARTIGAN: Sept. 29,4th race, $2,700.
INVENTIVE: Oct. 8,5th race, $1,596. ($9,426)

Galway Dreams Stable—CASEY D00N: Oct. 13, 5th race,
$140.

Mike Gill—GAMMY'S A WINNER: Oct. 6,6th race, $1,026.
Harold and Sylvia Greenberg—CASANOVA JACK: Sept. 29,
6th race, $2,700.

Fred A. Greene Jr. Rev. Trust—RED HOT LADY: Oct. 19,7th
race, $1,482.

John A. Guest and Barbara A. Anderson—WHATA MONSTER:
Oct. 13,6th race, $560.

William R. Harris—FIVE STEPS: Oct. 13,11th race, $560.

LOVE TO DATE: Oct. 26,2nd race, $513. ($1,073)
Hickory Ridge Farm—CAREY BLUE: Nov. 8, 2nd race,
$570.

High Five Stables—IA CHICA RICA: Oct. 13, 2nd race,
$140.

High Mountain Farm LLC—PAYING OFF: Oct. 13,4th race,
$560.

Hindman Limited Partnership LLLP—SILENT ASSASSIN: Nov.
3,8th race, $550.

Holly House Farm—SMOKE N NUMBERS: Nov. 1,6th race,
$798.

Mary Jo Anne Hughes—AMERIB0 PEEP: Oct. 31,1 st race,
$798.

David J. Hutchison—MOON DOGGIE: Oct. 3, 3rd race,
$456.

Estate of Joanna J. Ingham—LORD BARRISTER: Nov. 7,2nd
race, $798.

Joanna Ingham Trust—JO'S MOJO: Sept. 29, 6th race,
$495; Nov. 1,3rd race, $1,482. ($1,977)

Cary W. Jackson—NOW IT BEGINS: Oct. 24, 2nd race,
$1,710; Nov. 15,9th race, $1,824. ($3,534)

Robert Jarras—DISCO'S DAUGHTER: Nov. 7,10th race,
$1,368.

Charles R. Jefferis—CAYMAN CONDO: Oct. 13, 5th race,
$280.

Carol A. Kaye-Garcia and Barbara Smith—BALTIMORE BOB:
Oct. 5,4th race, $1,482.

Kaygar and Morris Stable—CLARA'S SONG: Oct. 27, 5th
race, $1,596. DUTCH GIRL: Oct. 25,9th race, $2,166;
Nov. 17,9th race, $1,000. ($4,762)

Barbara Kees and Robert L. Ingham—ANXIOUS: Oct.
19,8th race, $1,254. FRET: Nov. 10,3rd race, $456.
($ 1 / 10 )

Herbert B. Keil—MAGAM00: Oct. 3,8lh race, $1,710.

Alan S. Kline, Carlos A. Garcia and Morris Stable LLC—
POTOMAC FALLS: Oct. 25,7th race, $912.

K.T. Leatherbury Assoc. Inc.—DUE: Oct. 13,11th race,
$140.

Mary Lou Lequire—SIR TOGO: Nov. 15,7th race, $1,596.
Robert T. Manfuso and Katharine M. Voss—CAPPUNCH:
Nov. 17,3rd race, $456. IZZY SPEAKING: Oct. 13,7th
race, $280. ($736)

Mrs. J.W.Y. Martin Jr.—BEAU'S TRIP: Oct. 13,8th race,
$560; Nov. 17,9th race, $300. ($860)

Bridgid A. McMurtrie—JAG COLONEL: Oct. 26,1st race,
$798.

Robert E. Meyerhoff—IMPLICIT: Nov. 16, 2nd race,
$1,026.

Carey K. Miller—TIGER RAG: Oct. 12,9th race, $1,596.
Gretchen B. Mobberley—TODD'S ECHO: Oct. 6, 5th race,
$684.

Wayne and Juanita Morris—EVEN KEEL: Oct. 20,4th race,
$1,596; Nov. 10,8th race, $1,710. QUANTIC0 HERO:
Nov. 9,1st race, $912. ($4,218)

SPECIAL $5,000 BONUS PAYMENTS

MSW PAYMENTS (September 24-November 18,2007):

Sondra D. Bender; Rosalee C. Davison; Fitzhugh LLC (2);

Flying High Stables LLC; Robert Jarras; Kaygar-Morris Stables;
Mojallali Stables Inc.; Wayne Morris for Morris Stable LLC;

Kerri Posey; See You Stable; Morgan W. Wayson Jr.;

Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Wright.

A-Other-Than PAYMENTS (September 24-November 18,2007):

Linda Albert; Robert Gerczak and Kaygar Stable; Fred A. Greene
Jr.; Joanna J. Ingham Trust; R. Larry Johnson; Herbert B. Keil;
Wayne Morris for Morris Stable LLC; Thornmar Farm/Cynthia
R. McGinnes; Morgan Wayson Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. E. Allen Murray Jr—GUSSIE'S SECRET: Oct.
13,12th race, $140. REGAL SOLO: Oct. 13,7th race,
$1,540.($1,680)

The Nonsequitur Stable LLC—OFF THE MASS: Oct. 13,3rd
race, $770. TOP OF THE TREE: Nov. 14,3rd race, $570.
($1,340)

North Highland Farm—P V LIGHTENING: Nov. 3,8th race,

$ 1 , 000 .

Northview Stallion Station—PREDATOR'S PRIDE: Oct. 13,
12th race, $70.

Par Four Radng Stable—FIAMINSUN: Oct. 4, 9th race,
$1,767.

Kerry Posey and David Bloom—HUCKLEBERRYPJONES: Oct.
6,11th race, $1,368.

PTK LLC—ANDREA'S PIC: Sept. 29,1 Oth race, $2,166. UN¬
ADULTERATED: Nov. 14,1 Oth race, $570. ($2,736)
Stephen E. Quick—BOOGYMAN: Oct. 31, 6th race,
$1,026. LEXI STAR: Oct. 13,8th race, $280. PRINCESS
NYU: Oct. 13,9th race, $140. ($1,446)

Stephen E. Quick and Christopher Feifarek—SIIMARIL: Oct.
13,2nd race, $560.

Charles J. Reed—CHIP'S CHANCE: Oct. 24,10th race,
$456.

R.M. Zig Stables Inc—BE OH BE: Oct. 13,1st race, $462.
Mr. and Mrs. Randall L. Rolfe—MY SON SPIDER: Oct. 13,
10th race, $140.

Daniel M. Ryan—SHAMELESS RISK: Oct. 11, 4th race,
$1,140.

Ryehrll Farm—IRISH COLONY: Oct. 13,3rd race, $70.

Terry Salerno—TERRY THE TERROR: Oct. 3, 2nd race,
$1,026; Nov. 3,9th race, $1,026. ($2,052)

John and Nancy Salzman Sr.—HAPPY HAILEY: Oct. 17,6th
race, $1,482.

Elizabeth J. Schultz DVM—KATES BU MOON: Oct. 19,3rd
race, $570.

See You Stable—SEEYOUINTHECITY: Sept. 29, 6th race,
$270; Oct. 18,10th race, $1,368. ($1,638)

Skeedattle Assoaates—DIGGER: Nov. 3,8th race, $3,000.

HEADSANDTALES: Nov. 10,9th race, $3,000. ($6,000)
Linell C. Smith—MET A MINER: Oct. 13,12th race, $280.
Arnold Smolen—KOSMO'S BUDDY: Sept. 29, 4th race,
$900; Oct. 13,9th race, $280. ($1,180)

Rebekah A. Solobay—ALL STAR PROSPECT: Oct. 13,1st
race, $168.

Stanley Stables—DOT'S DIAMOND: Oct. 11,10th race,
$570; Nov. 1,1st race, $570. MR MUTTER: Oct. 13,6th
race, $280. ($1,420)

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Stautberg—MISTER TWINE: Oct. 6,
4th race, $798.

William M. Steinbuch Jr.—ANNIE 0: Oct. 20, 6th race,
$798.

Sycamore Hall Farm LLC—TEN BOLTS: Nov. 17, 9th race,
$550.

Sally Thomas—EXPECT NO LOVE: Sept. 29, 4th race,
$270.

Thornmar Farm LLC—ALL SMILES: Oct. 4, 4th race,
$1,710; Oct. 27,9th race, $1,596. DISCO DUDE: Oct.
27,2nd race, $1,026. ($4,332)

Phillip G. Tremper—PRINCE OF TRICKS: Oct. 12,6th race,
$1,026.

Charles Walters Jr—MY DANCE PARTNER: Sept. 29, 4th
race, $495.

Kennard Warfield Jr.—M.E.'S SMILE: Oct. 4, 8th race,
$912.

Jeanne C. Willems—IRON DIVA Nov. 15,1 Oth race, $570.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Wright—HAMBONE SNOOKY: Oct.
27,4th race, $570. JEN'S REVENGE: Oct. 17,1 Oth race,
$1,596. ($2,166)

Z.W.P. Stable—OVECHKIN: Sept. 29,6th race, $900.

Owner bonuses

Undo Albert—BRASS BRAE: Nov. 9,6th race, $1,710.
Sondra D. Bender—ACCESS LOVE: Oct. 27,11th race,
$1,368. WAQUOIT'S SMILE: Oct. 8,1 Oth race, $798.
($2,166)

Henry M. Blue—SUNNY EMBLEM: Nov. 8, 10th race,
$798.

Buckingham Farm—FOR KISSES: Nov. 7, 6th race,
$2,394.

David H. Butts—MAM'SELLE: Nov. 7,4th race, $912.
Hubert L Cave—MOON DOGGIE: Oct. 3,3rd race, $456.
Sherman Chin—EXTRIM Oct. 12,1 Oth race, $684.

Robert L. Cole Jt.—FRET: Nov. 10,3rd race, $456.

C.T.H. Partnership—PRINCE OF TRICKS: Oct. 12, 6th race,
$1,026.

Rosalee C. Davison—SNOW PARK: Oct. 17,1 st race,
$1,596.

Joseph Devereux and Triple V Stables—FIAMINSUN: Oct. 4,
9th race, $1,767.

Mary Eppler Racing Stable Inc. and John Hanoff—DOUBLE
YOUR LUCK: Oct. 24,7th race, $1,026.

Eitzhugh LLC—ENCAUSTIC: Sept. 29, 8th race, $1,824;
Nov. 9, 8th race, $1,938. GUARDIAN SPIRIT: Oct. 6,
7th race, $1,368. INVENTIVE: Oct. 8,5th race, $1,596.
($6,726)

Flying High Stables LLC—SIR TOGO: Nov. 15,7th race,
$1,596.

Folly Quarter Stable—CAKE: Nov. 14,2nd race, $912.

Robert Gerczak and Kaygar Stable—BALTIMORE BOB: Oct.
5,4th race, $1,482.

Michael J. Gill—GAMMY'S A WINNER: Oct. 6, 6th race,
$1,026.

Fred A. Greene Jr—RED HOT LADY: Oct. 19, 7th race,
$1,482.

Undo M. Harding—HENRY'S HERO: Oct. 5,1 st race, $570.

William R. Harris—LOVE TO DATE: Oct. 26, 2nd race,
$513.

Joanna Ingham Trust—JO'S MOJO: Nov. 1, 3rd race,
$1,482.

Island Wind Racing—SHAMELESS RISK: Oct. 11,4th race,
$1,140.

Robert Janas—DISCO'S DAUGHTER: Nov. 7,10th race,
$1,368.

John Alecci Stable Inc.—PUNCHIN' GINGER: Oct. 25,2nd
race, $570.

R. Larry Johnson—NOW IT BEGINS: Oct. 24, 2nd race,
$1,710; Nov. 15,9th race, $1,824. ($3,534)

Kaygar and Morris Stable—CJARA'S SONG: Oct. 27, 5th
race, $1,596.

Herbert B. Keil—AAAGAMOO: Oct. 3,8th race, $1,710.

Mary Jo Kuehn—DUTCH GIRL Oct. 25,9th race, $2,166.

Robert T. Manfuso—CAPPUNCH: Nov. 17,3rd race, $456.

Adana Marquess—BUSTER'S PRIDE: Oct. 31, 3rd race,
$798.

Carey K. Miller Revocable Trust—TIGER RAG: Oct. 12,9th
race, $1,596.

Gretchen B. Mobberley—TODD'S ECHO: Oct. 6,5th race,
$684.

Mojallali Stables Inc—UNTAMED HERO: Oct. 25,8th race,
$1,596.

Morris Stable LLC—EVEN KEEL Oct. 20,4th race, $1,596;
Nov. 10,8th race, $1,710. QUANTICO HERO: Nov. 9,1 st
race, $912. ($4,218)

One and Won Stable—DOT'S DIAMOND: Oct. 11,1 Oth
race, $570.

Kerri Posey—HUCKLEBERRYPJONES: Oct. 6,11th race,
$1,368.

PTK LLC—ANDREA'S PIC: Sept. 29,1 Oth race, $2,166. UN¬
ADULTERATED: Nov. 14,1 Oth race, $570. ($2,736)

Charles J. Reed—CHIP'S CHANCE: Oct. 24,10th race,
$456.

Terry Salerno—TERRY THE TERROR: Oct. 3, 2nd race,
$1,026; Nov. 3,9th race, $1,026. ($2,052)

John E. Salzman Sr—HAPPY HAILEY: Oct. 17, 6th race,
$1,482.

See You Stable—SEEYOUINTHECITY: Oct. 18,10th race,
$1,368.

Stanley Stables—DOT'S DIAMOND: Nov. 1,1 st race, $570.

Thornmar Farm LLC—ALL SMILES: Oct. 4, 4th race,
$1,710; Oct. 27,9th race, $1,596. ($3,306)

Morgan W. Wayson Jr.—APPLE SPECIAL Sept. 26,5th race,
$1,368; Nov. 15,6th race, $1,710. ($3,078)

Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Wright—JEN'S REVENGE: Oct. 17,
10th race, $1,596.

Stallion bonuses

ALLEN'S PROSPECT (All Giving: Oct. 13, 6th race, $70. All
Star Prospect: Oct. 13,1st race, $84. Hambone Snooky:
Oct. 27, 4th race, $285. Met a Miner: Oct. 13,12th
race, $140): Allen's Prospect Syndicate—$579.

AMERI VALAY (Ameri Bo Peep: Oct. 31,1st race, $399.
Bold Julio: Oct. 13,1 st race, $21): Elaine and Charles
Bassford—$420.

CROWD PLEASER (Happy Surprise: Oct. 13,6th race, $770.
Terry the Terror: Oct. 3,2nd race, $513; Nov. 3,9th race,
$513): Crowd Pleaser Partnership—$1,796.

CRYPTO STAR (Gussie's Secret: Oct. 13,12th race, $70.
Lexi Star: Oct. 13,8th race, $140. Love to Date: Oct. 26,
2nd race, $256.50. Top of the Tree: Nov. 14,3rd race,
$285): Crypto Star Syndicate—$751.50.

DEPUTED TESTAMONY (Season Ticket: Oct. 13,1st race,
$42): Deputed Testamony Syndicate.

DIAMOND (Be Oh Be: Oct. 13, 1st race, $231. Dot's
Diamond: Oct. 11,10th race, $285; Nov. 1,1st race,

$285. Silmaril: Oct. 13, 2nd race, $280): Diamond
Syndicate—$1,081.

DISCO RICO (Disco Dude: Oct. 27,2nd race, $513. Disco's
Daughter: Nov. 7,10th race, $684. Dr Rico: Oct. 13,
10th race, $280; Heza Disco: Oct. 25,5th race, $456.
La Chica Rica: Oct. 13,2nd race, $70): Alfred and Joseph
DiRico—$2,003.

EASTERN ECHO (Huckleberrypjones: Oct. 6, 11th race,
$684. Todd's Echo: Oct. 6,5th race, $342): Eastern Echo
Syndicate—$1,026.

JAZZ CLUB (Jo's Mojo: Sept. 29, 6th race, $247.50; Nov.
1,3rd race, $741. Tiger Rag: Oct. 12,9th race, $798):
Lane's End Farm and Maryland Stallion Station—
$1,786.50.

LION HEARTED (Maddy's Heart: Oct. 13, 8th race, $770.
Predator's Pride: Oct. 13,12th race, $35. Princess Nyla:
Oct. 13,9th race, $70): Lion Hearted Syndicate—$875.
LOUIS QUATORZE (Mam'selle: Nov. 7, 4th race, $456.
Regal Solo: Oct. 13, 7th race, $770): Louis Quatorze
Syndicate—$1,226.

MEADOW MONSTER (Whata Monster: Oct. 13,6th race,
$280): Meadow Monster Syndicate.

MOJAVE MOON (Gammy's a Winner: Oct. 6, 6th race,
$513): Mojave Moon Syndicate.

NOT FOR LOVE (Access Love: Oct. 27,11th race, $684.
Broadway Producer: Oct. 13,1 Oth race, $140. Casanova
Jack: Sept. 29, 6th race, $1,350. For Kisses: Oct. 13,
2nd race, $140; Nov. 7,6th race, $1,197. Forty Crowns:
Oct. 13,1 Oth race, $770. Lemons of Love: Oct. 13,5th
race, $280. Sir Togo: Nov. 15,7th race, $798. Smooth
It Over: Oct. 13, 7th race, $280): Not For Love Syndi¬
cate—$5,639.

OPS SMILE (Aseeninvogue: Oct. 19,1st race, $285. M.E.'s
Smile: Oct. 4,8th race, $456): Ops Smile Syndicate—
$741.

OUTFLANKER (Apple Special: Sept. 26,5th race, $684; Oct.
13, 7th race, $70; Nov. 15, 6th race, $855. Kosmo's

Buddy: Sept. 29, 4th race, $450; Oct. 13, 9th race,
$140): Outflanker Syndicate—$2,199.

PARTNER'S HERO (Annie 0: Oct. 20, 6th race, $399. Cay¬
man Condo: Oct. 13,5th race, $140. Fire Hero: Oct. 13,
3rd race, $70. Henry's Hero: Oct. 5,1st race, $285. Izzy
Speaking: Oct. 13,7th race, $140. My Dance Partner:
Sept. 29, 4th race, $247.50. Untamed Hero: Oct. 25,
8th race, $798): Partner's Hero Syndicate—$2,079.50.
PERFECTING (Oorah: Oct. 18,4th race, $399): Elberton Hill
Farm.

POLISH MINER (Jag Colonel: Oct. 26,1st race, $399. Red
Hot Lady: Oct. 19, 7th race, $741): Polish Miner Syndi¬
cate—$1,140.

POLISH NUMBERS (Double Your Luck: Oct. 24, 7th race,
$513): Polish Numbers Syndicate.

REGAL AMERICAN (Joel's Touch: Oct. 13,3rd race, $140):
Marilyn S. Ketts.

ROCK SLIDE (Happy Hailey: Oct. 17,6th race, $741): W.S.

Farish, J.A. Elkins and W.T. Webber Jr.

SWEAR BY DIXIE (Swear to It: Oct. 13,12th race, $385):
Swear by Dixie Partnership.

TWO PUNCH (Cappunch: Nov. 17, 3rd race, $228. Grand
Champion: Oct. 13,5th race, $770. Now It Begins: Oct.
24,2nd race, $855; Nov. 15,9th race, $912. Punchin'
Ginger: Oct. 25,2nd race, $285. Two Columbus: Oct. 13,
4th race, $70): Two Punch Syndicate—$3,120.
UNBRIDLED JET (My Son Spider: Oct. 13,10th race, $70.
Silent Assassin: Nov. 3,8th race, $275): Unbridled Jet
Partnership—$345.

WAQUOIT (Waquoit's Smile: Oct. 8,10th race, $399): Wa-
quoit Syndicate.

WAYNE COUNTY (Ire) (Boogyman: Oct. 31,6th race, $513.
Mr Mutter: Oct. 13,6th race, $140): Wayne County (Ire)
Syndicate—$653.

YARROW BRAE (Brass Brae: Nov. 9, 6th race, $855. Five
Steps: Oct. 13,11th race, $280. Miss Stella: Oct. 17,
8th race, $285. Quantico Hero: Nov. 9,1st race, $456):
Yarrow Brae Syndicate—$1,876.

In memoriam:

Ruth Galt Eyler

Ruth Cassell Galt Eyler,
a legendary Maryland horse¬
woman, died on November
3 at the age of 93.

Mrs. Eyler was pictured
on the cover of The Mary¬
land Horse in July 1949 after
becoming the first woman
to drive a winner under har¬
ness racing rules in Mary¬
land. She achieved that feat
with Breeze Up, a trotter
who defeated a field of pac¬
ers in an amateur event at
Rosecroft Raceway.

Subsequently, Mrs. Eyler
became a fixture on the ama¬
teur circuit at county fairs.
She drove her final race in
West Grove, Pa., in 1984.

Ten years later, she was
inducted into the Frederick

County YMCA's Alvin G.
Quinn Sports Hall of Fame.

A native of Westminster,
Md., Mrs. Eyler became in¬
volved in breeding, training
and racing trotting horses fol¬
lowing her 1934 marriage to
Joseph H. Eyler, a long-suc¬
cessful Standardbred owner /
trainer who died in 1988.

Along with her husband,
she established the Eyler Sta¬
bles Livestock Auctions in
Thurmont, Md. The Friday
night auction, which takes
place weekly, dates back to
1944 and is the oldest con¬
tinuously operated saddle
horse sale in the East. It is
still run by members of the
family. ^

Maryland’s top 20 earners in 2007

(through December 12)

1. Moon Catcher ... $663,450

2. Heros Reward_ 515,826

3. Tessa Blue. 452,800

4. Silmaril. 405,820

5. Parole Board. 329,183

6. Good Night Shirt . 314,163

7. Smart and Fancy.. 297,513

8. Grand Champion. 279,239

9. LexiStar. 273,204

10. Ready's Image_ 259,422

11. Steve's Double... $238,346

12. Maddy's Heart ... 191,374

13. Evil Storm. 188,930

14. Rollicking Caller.. 186,147

15. AhDay. 177,994

16. Raise the Bluff.... 169,190

17. Promenade Girl... 166,200

18. Digger. 155,308

19. Five Steps. 148,440

20. Silver Knockers... 139,515

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Maryland’s leading sires

Supplied by Bloodstock Research Information Services (BRIS), these
statistics were compiled on December 12. t denotes freshman sire.

Earnings in 2007

Strs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

Not For Love.

174

1,111

99

167

$5,621,050

Outflanker .

130

960

77

151

3,219,460

Louis Quatorze.

155

1,219

94

174

2,895,180

Two Punch .

123

722

63

106

2,684,250

Lion Hearted.

102

594

63

103

2,372,160

Allen's Prospect

147

964

72

129

2,140,350

Yarrow Brae .

60

403

31

53

1,237,060

Crowd Pleaser .

59

291

28

50

1,170,990

Mojave Moon .

68

509

37

62

1,093,350

Citidancer .

44

292

24

43

1,052,370

Polish Numbers

48

292

23

46

945,022

Eastern Echo .

81

525

32

52

929,746

Crypto Star .

60

393

30

48

914,792

Carnivalay.

33

255

17

31

777,259

Go for Gin .

59

343

22

39

743,825

Wayne County (Ire) .

36

246

16

29

523,068

Waquoit .

34

218

17

21

448,051

Purple Passion .

13

121

8

16

308,100

2-year-old earnings in 2007

Sirs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

Not For Love .

27

91

8

12

$614,669

Outflanker .

25

103

10

14

423,231

Lion Hearted .

31

96

11

14

362,773

Louis Quatorze ....

12

40

5

6

247,517

Two Punch .

16

42

4

4

141,684

tRock Slide .

11

40

2

5

141,143

tSeeking Daylight ...

15

40

6

6

140,833

Citidancer .

2

7

2

2

104,570

Mojave Moon .

16

47

3

3

101,312

Yarrow Brae .

5

15

3

6

99,115

Waquoit.

3

9

1

2

78,831

+No Armistice .

15 36 3

Earnings lifetime

3

67,441

Strs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

Allen's Prospect

. 920

22,011

755

3,208

$51,459,100

Two Punch .

. 729

14,093

570

2,164

43,518,800

Not For Love.

. 433

8,185

329

1,284

35,560,100

Polish Numbers

. 439

8,789

361

1,305

31,772,500

Carnivalay.

. 494

13,067

402

1,786

29,553,800

Smarten .

. 507

12,395

388

1,692

27,081,000

Horatius.

. 590

15,121

470

1,925

26,519,000

Waquoit .

. 438

10,560

346

1,446

25,400,100

Citidancer .

. 285

6,536

246

1,139

23,843,200

Norquestor .

. 293

8,709

252

1,240

20,926,800

Eastern Echo .

. 396

7,729

271

1,024

20,750,000

Deputed Testamony

350

10,046

263

1,391

18,290,300

Louis Quatorze.

. 356

5,622

259

758

17,970,000

Oh Say .

. 418

10,039

353

1,472

17,574,500

Shelter Half.

. 303

8,424

248

1,157

14,269,800

2-year-old

earnings lifetime

Strs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

Allen's Prospect

458

1,558

175

240

$5,629,410

Two Punch .

363

1,163

144

181

4,648,360

Smarten .

278

1,195

112

157

3,769,760

Polish Numbers

229

700

84

122

3,672,570

Not For Love.

198

637

77

102

3,515,790

Citidancer .

149

564

80

122

3,183,860

Eastern Echo .

220

810

73

100

3,027,930

Carnivalay.

249

1,010

88

122

2,480,130

Louis Quatorze.

194

586

58

72

2,318,260

Outflanker .

149

625

62

85

2,139,330

Waquoit .

190

662

56

81

1,885,140

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Phone

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Kenneth J. Kehoe,
Treasurer

Peter A. Roberts,
Secretary

Judith Batcha
Felice Busto
Jane Gilbert
Joe Jennings
Dr. Y.J. Kolybabiuk
Peter Nemeth
Bo Smith

Mike Campbell,

Executive Director

Newjersey Futurity showcases
strong performances by
Love for Not and Rough Road Ahead

T he Newjersey
Futurity for
state-bred 2-year-
olds was contested in
two divisions, each
worth $50,000, on the
evening of November 9
at the Meadowlands.

Kathleen Willier’s
Love for Not notched
her second consecutive
stakes victory in the
fillies’ division. The
Kevin Sleeter trainee had
entered the Futurity off
of an impressive four
and a quarter-length win
in the Maryland Million
Lassie Stakes on October
13 at Laurel Park.

Love for Not sat in
second off the early
lead set by Lion Lil and
raced between horses
approaching the far
turn. Jockey Stewart
Elliott guided Love for
Not to the lead entering
the stretch and she held
off Sister Shockey for
a three-quarter-length
score. Love for Not
covered the six furlongs
in 1:09.74 over the track
rated fast. Sammy Van
Ammy finished third,

John Bowers Jr.’s homebred Rough Road Ahead scored by a length over
Hop Skip and Away in the colts/geldings’ division of the Newjersey Futurity.

The fillies’ division of the Newjersey Futurity marked the second consecutive stakes win
for Kathleen Willier’s Love for Not, a Not For Love daughter bred by Golden Dome Stable.

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Futurity continued

followed byjazzy Jenna, first-time starter Dawn of
Freedom and Lion Lil.

Purchased by Willier for $60,000 at the 2006
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling sale,
Love for Not has won three of four career starts for
earnings of $149,273. Bred in New Jersey by Golden
Dome Stable, the daughter of Not For Love is the
fourth foal from her dam, the Cryptoclearance mare
Go Nicholas Go, who finished third in the 1997
running of the New Jersey Futurity.

Go Nicholas Go’s first foal was Calabria Bella
(by Accelerator), a multiple stakes-placed earner of
$227,404.

Rough Road Ahead— a half-brother to New
Jersey-bred champion Smart N Classy—starred in the
colts and geldings’ division.

Like his well-accomplished older sister, Rough
Road Ahead was bred by John Bowers Jr., and
campaigns in the name of Bowers’s Roseland Farm
Stable.

Rough Road Ahead sat in third place off the early
pace set by Primal Impact and Skaggs, who went the

opening quarter in :22:27. Jockey Jose Velez guided
Rough Road Ahead three-wide entering the stretch
and took over the lead at the eighth pole. The John
Tammaro III trainee continued his drive to the
wire and won by a length over the fast-closing Hop
Skip and Away, who finished a head in front of 4-5
favorite Primal Impact.

Final time was 1:10.97 over a track that an
evening downpour turned sloppy.

Completing the order of finish were Skaggs, Buzz
Off Buster and Proud Heart.

Rough Road Ahead (by Horse Chestnut-SAf) has
won two of his six career starts and earned $68,010.
He is the fourth foal from Bowers’s homebred mare
Teenage Queen (by Regal Classic), who produced
Smart N Classy as her first foal. A 2000 daughter of
Smart Strike, Smart N Classy won or placed in nine
stakes, including a victory in the 2005 running of the
Grade 3 Eatontown Handicap, earning $466,209. She
was honored as the champion New Jersey-bred older
female of2005.

Newjersey Breeders’ Incentive Program
generates more than $8.4 million

T he Newjersey Breeders’ Incentive Program
generated $8,477,399 for breeders, owners
and stallion owners during the 2007
Monmouth Park meet.

Breeders earned $ 1,544,064 based on 35 percent
of the horse’s earnings if sired by a Newjersey
stallion and 25 percent if sired by an out-of-state
stallion.

Owners earned a total of $6,648,731 that
included $170,414 in owner’s awards based on 10
percent of the horse’s earnings in an open race,
$397,317 from the 30 percent enhancement that is

deposited into the owner’s account at the race track
and $6,081,000 from the purses of New Jersey-bred
restricted races that carry purses 25 percent higher
than corresponding open races.

Stallion owners earned $284,604, based on 10
percent of what the stallions’ progeny earned while
racing at Monmouth Park.

All breeder and stallion awards are paid first-
through-third, with a $5,000 maximum on first place
and a $3,000 maximum on second and third-place
finishers. Awards are paid based on funds available
in a given year.

NewJersey Thoroughbred magazine

T he Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association
of New Jersey (TBANJ) has published the
seventh edition of New Jersey Thoroughbred , a
magazine focusing on racing and breeding news and
issues in the Garden State.

This edition features in-depth articles by the
publication’s editor, award-winning writer Bill Finley,
and nationally recognized sports journalist Bill
Handleman.

New Jersey Thoroughbred also includes the official
Newjersey stallion registry and complete details on
the state’s comprehensive breeder awards program.

"I am very excited about New Jersey Thoroughbred
and what it means to our industry,” said Mike
Campbell, TBANJ’s executive director. "It will
provide comprehensive information to our members
and serve as a valuable research tool. Perhaps equally
important, the book will help familiarize a far
broader audience with the unique opportunities here
in the Garden State for breeders and owners alike.”

To request a copy of New Jersey Thoroughbred
contact the TBANJ at (732) 542-8880 or e-mail info@
njbreds.com.

Newjersey-bred 30 percent bonus earners:
September 3 to November 10

The following is a list of the 30 percent
bonus earnings of all New Jersey-breds
competing at Monmouth Park and the
Meadowlands from September 3 to
November 10.

Race date; horse; owner; purse; placement-
purse share + 30 percent bonus: total purse share

Sept. 3—Me Conahy; P.W. Stagg and G.R.
Thompson; $14,000; 3rd—$1,540 + $462:
$ 2 , 002 .

Sept. 3—Pure Disco; Patricia Generazio;

$60,000; 2nd-$ 12,000 + $3,600: $15,600.
Sept. 3—Revival; Klaass Stables; $22,000;

1st—$13,200 + $3,960: $17,160.

Sept. 3—Victory Dayjur; John Sessa; $ 12,000;

2nd—$2,280 + $720: $3,000.

Sept. 8—Chatty Ann; Ocean View Stable;

$36,000; 3rd-$3,960 + $1,188: $5,148.
Sept. 11—Barefoot Lady; Brien Combs;

$38,000; 3rd-$4,180 + $1,254: $5,434.
Sept. 11—Bondai;J. Hackman and G.

Thompson; $12,000; 3rd—$1,320 + $396:
$1,716.

Sept. 11—Czarina's Girl; D'Arrigo Racing
Stable; $38,000; lst-$22,800 + $6,840:
$29,640.

Sept. 11—I Dare Billy; William Martucci;

$38,000; 2nd-$7,600 + $2,280: $9,880.
Sept. 11—Sea Spies; Ocean View Stable;

$ 18,000; 2nd-$3,600 + $1,080: $4,680.
Sept. 11—Shared Memories; Kathryn

Devereaux; $18,000; 3rd—$2,160 + $594:
$2,754.

Sept. 12—Moonlight Aria; Fox Tree; $36,000;

3rd—$4,320 + $1,188: $5,508.

Sept. 12—Sister Disco; Michael Infurna;

$ 19,000; 2nd-$3,800 + $1,140: $4,940.
Sept. 13—Be a General; Hope Haskell Jones;

$ 12,000; 2nd-$2,400 + $720: $3,120.
Sept. 13—Neat Solution; Eduardo Mejia;

$ 12,000; 3rd—$ 1,440 + $396: $ 1,836.

Sept. 13—Red Warning; Dennis J. Manning;

$22,000; 2nd-$4,180 + $1,320: $5,500.
Sept. 13—Runagade; Gerald Sleeter; $12,000;

1st—$7,200 + $2,160: $9,360.

Sept. 14—Bugatti Blue; J. Sands and F.
Vigilante; $16,000; lst-$9,600 + $2,880:
$12,480.

Sept. 14—Fort Seattle; John Cammeyer and
D. Murphy; $ 19,000; 3rd-$2,280 + $627:
$2,907.

Sept. 14—K. R.'s Regent; Diane B. Vigilante;
$19,000; 1st—$11,400 + $3,420: $14,820.

Sept. 14—Tweal's Sword; Frank J. Poalucci;

$11,000; 2nd-$2,200 + $660: $2,860.

Sept. 15—Big Hearted Wayne; Russell J. Cash;

$22,000; 2nd-$4,180 + $1,320: $5,500.
Sept. 15—C. D. Jewel; Carlo De Thomasi;

$11,000; 3rd-$ 1,320 + $363: $1,683.

Sept. 15—Catechol; Fox Tree; $22,000; 2nd—
$4,400 + $1,320: $5,720.

Sept. 15—Eurodollar; Joseph Rodi; $32,000;

3rd—$3,200 + $1,056: $4,256.

Sept. 15—Jersey Giant; Andrew Kligman;

$22,000; 1st—$13,200 + $3,960: $17,160.
Sept. 15—Sixteen Acres; Frank Costa; $22,000;

1st—$13,200 + $3,960: $17,160.

Sept. 18—Jersey Kid; D'Arrigo Racing Stable;

$38,000; 1st—$22,800 + $6,840: $29,640.
Sept. 18—Midnight Express; Ocean View
Stable; $38,000; 2nd-$7,220 + $2,280:
$9,500.

Sept. 18—Whapina; Edward J. Short; $18,000;

1st—$10,800 + $3,240: $14,040.

Sept. 19—Morgan's Wish; Estate of R. Louis
Nappi; $38,000; 3rd-$4,560 + $ 1,254:
$5,814.

Sept. 19—Sherunsforbilly; William Martucci;

$38,000; 2nd—$7,600 + $2,280: $9,880.
Sept. 19—Slews Enough; John Sessa; $12,000;

1st—$7,200 + $2,160: $9,360.

Sept. 20—Moonlight Watch; Ocean View
Stable; $ 18,000; 3rd-$2,160 + $594:
$2,754.

Sept. 21—American Freedom; Freedom Acres;

$28,000; 1st—$16,800 + $5,040: $21,840.
Sept. 21—Champagne Party; Deckert and
Deckert; $16,000; 2nd-$3,200 + $960:
$4,160.

Sept. 21—My Husband; Steel Your Face
Stables and Emily Racing Stables;

$26,000; 2nd—$5,200 + $1,560: $6,760.
Sept. 22—Bali Bay; Ocean View Stable;

$22,000; 2nd—$3,960 + $1,320: $5,280.
Sept. 22—Blithe Lad; Janet Laszlo; $22,000;

3rd—$2,200 + $726: $2,926.

Sept. 22—Chug More Bud; James Frangella;

$11,000; 3rd—$1,210 + $363: $1,573.

Sept. 22—Ready to Play; Madara Racing;

$32,000; 1st—$19,200 + $5,760: $24,960.
Sept. 25—Dancing Cowboy; Ramona Barney;

$21,000; 2nd—$4,200 + $1,260: $5,460.
Sept. 25—Dreamy Moment; Jeanne L.

Vuyosevich; $10,000; 2nd—$2,000 + $600:
$2,600.

Sept. 25—Sonzul; Edwin T. Broome; $21,000;

3rd-$2,520 + $693: $3,213.

Sept. 26—About Noon; Carolyn Sleeter;

$13,000; 3rd—$1,560 + $429: $1,989.

Sept. 26—Be a General; Hope Haskell Jones;

$12,000; 3rd-$ 1,440 + $396: $1,836.

Sept. 26—Capacious; Skycap Partners;

$13,000; 1st—$7,800 + $2,340: $10,140.
Sept. 26—Runagade; Gerald Sleeter; $12,000;

2nd—$2,400 + $720: $3,120.

Sept. 27—Truly Elegant; Presidential

Thoroughbreds; $11,000; 1st—$6,600 +
$1,980: $8,580.

Sept. 27—Tweal's Sword; Frank J. Poalucci;

$11,000; 2nd-$2,200 + $660: $2,860.

Sept. 28—Jay's Wish; Petal Power Racing;

$20,000; 3rd—$2,400 + $660: $3,060.

Sept. 28—Margaux de Bayeux; Arlene London;

$18,000; 3rd—$2,160 + $594: $2,754.

Sept. 28—Sixteen Acres; Frank Costa; $22,000;

3rd—$2,420 + $726: $3,146.

Sept. 29—Another Brianna; 18-A Racing
Stable; $12,000; 2nd-$2,400 + $720:
$3,120.

Sept. 29—Miss Moonmaid; Linda Simon;

$12,000; 3rd-$ 1,440 + $396: $1,836.

Sept. 29—She's a Tuf Cookie; Pasquale
Vizzoni; $26,000; 2nd-$5,200 + $1,560:
$6,760.

Oct. 2—Beknown to Me; Lembo Menotti;

$12,000; 3rd—$1,320 + $396: $1,716.

Oct. 2—C. D. Jewel; Carlo De Thomasi;

$ 11,000; 3rd—$ 1,320 + $363: $ 1,683.

Oct. 2—Dr. Miller; Fred Maffeo; $ 12,000;

2nd—$2,400 + $720: $3,120.

Oct. 2—Flirtatious Smile; Gerald Sleeter;

$43,000; 2nd—$8,170 + $2,580: $10,750.
Oct. 2—K. R.'s Regent; Diane B. Vigilante;

$26,000; 2nd—$4,940 + $1,560: $6,500.
Oct. 2—My Husband; Steel Your Face Stables
and Emily Racing Stables; $26,000; 1st—
$15,600+ $4,680: $20,280.

Oct. 3—Blazing Fuse; Arlene London;

$14,000; 1st—$8,400 + $2,520: $10,920.
Oct. 3—Peach Tree Tea; Golden Dome Stable;

$26,000; 2nd-$4,940 + $1,560: $6,500.
Oct. 3—Platinum Lace; Freedom Acres;

$15,000; 3rd—$1,650 + $495: $2,145.

Oct. 3—Tell It to Myheart; Joseph A. Ioia;

$14,000; 2nd—$2,800 + $840: $3,640.

Oct. 3—Victory Dayjur; John Sessa; $ 12,000;
1st—$7,200 + $2,160: $9,360.

Oct. 3—Zulmin; Edwin T. Broome; $26,000;

1st—$15,600 + $4,680: $20,280.

Oct. 4—Private Number; Amber Rose Stable;

$38,000; 2nd-$7,600 + $2,280: $9,880.
Oct. 5—Joey P.; John Petrini; $65,000; 1st—
$39,000+ $11,700: $50,700.

Oct. 5—Lulu's Number; Patricia Generazio;

$38,000; 3rd-$4,180 + $1,254: $5,434.

Oct. 5—Murphy Style; James K. Hoover;

$38,000; 3rd-$4,180 + $1,254: $5,434.

Oct. 5—Sixteen Acres; Frank Costa; $36,000;

1st—$21,600 + $6,480: $28,080.

Oct. 6—Dani's Destiny; Westview Stable;

$16,000; 1st—$9,600 + $2,880: $12,480.
Oct. 6—John's Pic; John Petrini; $55,000;

3rd—$6,600 + $1,815: $8,415.

Oct. 6—Pure Disco; Patricia Generazio;

$60,000; 1st—$36,000 + $10,800: $46,800.
Oct. 6—Summer Sting; Gerald Sleeter;

$60,000; 2nd-$9,021 + $2,790: $11,811.
Oct. 6—That Magic Moment; James B. Wark
and Joseph H. Pierce Jr.; $32,000; 2nd—
$6,400+ $1,920: $8,320.

Oct. 9—Gateman; William J. Corcoran;

$ 11,000; 2nd—$2,200 + $660: $2,860.

Oct. 9—Iceberg Eddie; F. Salter and J.

Salamone;$l 1,000; 3rd-$ 1,210 + $363:
$1,573.

Oct. 10—Blithe Lad;Janet Laszlo; $26,000;

3rd—$3,120 + $858: $3,978.

Oct. 10—Itllbe Allright; Denise M. Donahue;

$11,000; 3rd-$ 1,210 + $363: $1,573.

Oct. 10—Unwritten; Tee N Jay and Headless
Horsemen; $23,000; 3rd-$2,760 + $759:
$3,519.

Oct. 11—Perilous Storm; Mac Fehsenfeld;

$23,000; 1st—$13,800 + $4,140: $17,940.
Oct. 12—C. D. Jewel; Carlo DeThomasi;

$11,000; 3rd-$ 1,320 + $363: $1,683.

Oct. 12—Disco Flirt; Freedom Acres; $27,000;

1st—$16,200 + $4,860: $21,060.

Oct. 12—Gaelic Journey; R. Maghan and
Quiet Winter Farm; $ 17,000; 3rd—$ 1,870
+ $561: $2,431.

Oct. 12—Magic Skier; Diane B. Vigilante;

$27,000; 2nd-$5,400 + $1,620: $7,020.
Oct. 12—Nawratel; Fox Tree; $17,000; 2nd—
$3,400+ $1,020: $4,420.

Oct. 12—Rich Cat; Patricia Farro; $12,000;

2nd—$2,400 + $720: $3,120.

Oct. 12—Rich's Geri; Gina Lupton; $ 11,000;

2nd—$2,200 + $660: $2,860.

Oct. 12—Sherunsforbilly; William Martucci;

$38,000; 2nd-$7,600 + $2,280: $9,880.
Oct. 13—Another Brianna; 18-A Racing
Stable; $12,000; 3rd-$ 1,440 + $396:
$1,836.

Oct. 13—Beautiful Life; Pallar Inc.; $13,000;

2nd—$2,600 + $780: $3,380.

Oct. 13—Bythebeautifulsea; Char-Mari Stable;
$55,000; 3rd-$6,600 + $1,815: $8,415.

Oct. 13—Defrere the Smile; Presidential
Thoroughbreds; $19,000; 3rd—$2,280 +
$627: $2,907.

Oct. 13—Fort Seattle; John Cammeyer and D.
Murphy; $19,000; lst-$ 11,400 + $3,420:
$14,820.

Oct. 13—Peach Tree Tea; Golden Dome
Stable; $26,000; 3rd-$2,860 + $858:
$3,718.

Oct. 16—Kaufman; Larry Durocher Jr.;

$22,000; 3rd—$2,420 + $726: $3,146.

Oct. 16—Sixteen Acres; Frank Costa; $38,000;

2nd—$7,220 + $2,280: $9,500.

Oct. 16—Twice Onabet; Anthony Foglia;

$22,000; 1st—$13,200 + $3,960: $17,160.
Oct. 17—All Day Sonny; Florence Garafolo;

$14,000; 2nd—$2,800 + $840: $3,640.

Oct. 17—Big City Danse; M. Mosca and R.
Forbes; $38,000; 3rd-$4,180 + $1,254:
$5,434.

Oct. 17—Nucleus; Ocean View Stable;

$14,000; 3rd-$ 1,680 + $462: $2,142.

Oct. 17—Zulmin; Edwin T. Broome; $32,000;

3rd—$3,520 + $1,056: $4,576.

Oct. 18—Trueamericanspirit; Tee N Jay Farm;

$23,000; 2nd—$4,600 + $1,380: $5,980.
Oct. 19—Bold Survivor; June Telesco; $16,000;

3rd-$ 1,760+ $528: $2,288.

Oct. 19—Gorgie G.; John Petrini; $28,000;

3rd—$3,360 + $924: $4,284.

Oct. 20—Fake Romance; Hope Haskell Jones;

$14,000; 2nd—$2,800 + $840: $3,640.

Oct. 20—Mizzou Tiger; Lloyd Larkin; $ 11,000;

3rd-$ 1,320 + $363: $1,683.

Oct. 20—Rich Cat; Patricia Farro; $14,000;

2nd—$2,800 + $840: $3,640.

Oct. 20—Slick Attorney; Vincent Nardone;

$11,000; 2nd-$2,200 + $660: $2,860.

Oct. 24—Jersey Gia; Peter Kazamias; $50,000;

3rd—$5,500 + $1,650: $7,150.

Oct. 24—Sherunsforbilly; William Martucci;

$50,000; 1st—$30,000 + $9,000: $39,000.
Oct. 25—Charley's Diamond; A.J. Hawthorne;

$100,000; 3rd—$12,000 + $3,300: $15,300.
Oct. 25—Jenny Bean Girl; Ocean View Stable;

$100,000; 3rd—$12,000 + $3,300: $15,300.
Oct. 25—Joey P.; John Petrini; $100,000; 2nd—
$20,000 + $6,000: $26,000.

Oct. 25—Pure Disco; Patricia Generazio;
$100,000; 1st—$60,000 + $15,000:

$75,000.

Oct. 25—That Magic Moment; James B. Wark
and Joseph H. Pierce Jr.; $44,000; 3rd—
$5,280+ $1,452: $6,732.

Oct. 26—Talkin About Love; Kevin G. Sleeter;

$250,000; 3rd—$27,500 + $8,250: $35,750.
Oct. 31—American Freedom; Freedom Acres;

$35,000; lst-$21,000 + $6,300: $27,300.
Oct. 31—Ok This Way; Mat Stables; $ 11,000;
3rd-$ 1,210+ $363: $1,573.

Oct. 31—Punch the Odds; Richard Malouf;

$31,000; 3rd—$3,720 + $1,023: $4,743.
Nov. 1—Austrienna; Vienna Acres; $14,000;

2nd—$2,660 + $840: $3,500.

Nov. 1—Beautiful Life; Pallar Inc.; $14,000;

1st—$8,400 + $2,520: $10,920.

Nov. 2—Beknown to Me; Menotti Lembo;

$12,000; 3rd—$1,320 + $396: $1,716.

Nov. 2—Capacious; Skycap Partners; $17,000;

3rd-$2,040 +$561: $2,601.

Nov. 2—Disco Shaker; Ocean View Stable;

$12,000; 1st—$7,200 + $2,160: $9,360.
Nov. 2—Willi Von Loon; John Perrotta and
Thomas Keaveney; $12,000; 1st—$7,200 +
$2,160: $9,360.

Nov. 3—Defrere the Smile; Presidential
Thoroughbreds; $12,000; 1st—$7,200 +
$2,160: $9,360.

Nov. 3—Hurricane Malone; Helmetta Racing
Stable; $12,000; 3rd-$ 1,320 + $396:
$1,716.

Nov. 3—Itsacakewalk; La Marca Stable;

$24,000; 3rd—$2,400 + $792: $3,192.

Nov. 3—Megans Marvel; John Petrini;

$12,000; 3rd-$ 1,320 + $396: $1,716.

Nov. 3—Sweetheart Bear; Dennis A. Drazin;

$12,000; 2nd—$2,400 + $720: $3,120.

Nov. 3—Twice Onabet; Anthony Foglia;

$24,000; lst-$ 14,400 + $4,320: $18,720.
Nov. 7—Camacthmagnificent; Dennis A.
Drazin; $16,000; 1st—$9,600 + $2,880:
$12,480.

Nov. 7—Keepthegoodones; Char-Mari Stable;

$14,000; 2nd—$2,800 + $840: $3,640.

Nov. 7—Platinum Lace; Freedom Acres;

$17,000; 1st—$10,200 + $3,060: $13,260.
Nov. 8—Exciting Times; Ocean View Stable;

$11,000; 3rd-$ 1,210 + $363: $1,573.

Nov. 8—Lulu's Number; Patricia Generazio;

$38,000; 2nd—$7,600 + $2,280: $9,880.
Nov. 9—Dancin Dusty; R. Deckert Jr. and R.
Deckert Sr.; $14,000; lst-$8,400 + $2,520:
$10,920.

Nov. 9—Hearts Flashy Fire; Chuck Spina;

$14,000; 2nd—$2,800 + $840: $3,640.

Nov. 9—Nucleus; Ocean View Stable; $ 15,000;

2nd—$3,000 + $900: $3,900.

Nov. 10—Courageous Roy;John Sessa;

$ 11,000; 3rd—$ 1,320 + $363: $ 1,683.

Nov. 10—Dropkick Murphy; Headless

Horsemen; $19,000; 3rd—$2,090 + $627:
$2,717.

Nov. 10—Flirtatious Smile; Gerald Sleeter;

$38,000; 1st—$22,800 + $6,840: $29,640.
Nov. 10—I Dare Billy; William Martucci;

$38,000; 3rd—$4,180 + $1,254: $5,434.
Nov. 10—Private Happy; June Telesco;

$10,000; 2nd—$2,000 + $600: $2,600.

Nov. 10—Pure Disco; Patricia Generazio;
$60,000; 1st—$36,000 + $10,800: $46,800.

January 2008 Dedicated to Thoroughbred breeders Newsletter

RACING COMMISSION AWARDS 2008 RACE DATES

At its November 19, 2007, meeting, the
Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission
awarded a total of 519 race dates to the state's three
Thoroughbred tracks for 2008. The total number of
programs to be presented represents an increase of
69 over the 2007 total, and 119 more than were run
in 2006. The Commission expressed concern as to
the availability of horses to fill the cards, along with
the hope that increased purses scheduled at each
facility will attract quality, competitive fields.

Philadelphia Park will run 217 days throughout
the year, four days per week, Saturday through
Tuesday, with an additional Wednesday program
during certain holiday weeks. Penn National will
reopen in conjunction with the opening of its
Hollywood Casino in the first week of February, and
is scheduled to conduct 202 programs, five nights
per week, Tuesday through Saturday, in February,
June, and July; it will eliminate the Tuesday card
during the other months. Presque Isle Downs, which
conducted its inaugural race meet in 2007 with 25
days during September, will expand its schedule
to 100 days, opening Friday, May 9, and closing
Saturday, September 27. Mondays and Tuesdays will
be dark.

BROODMARE INSPECTIONS UNDERWAY

PHBA's field inspector, Norman Miller, is
conducting visits to Pennsylvania farms to ascertain
the presence of broodmares in conjunction with
domicile reports filed with the association. Miller will
contact various farm owners immediately prior to his
visit, indicating which mares are to be confirmed by
matching markings and/or tattoo numbers provided
by The Jockey Club. He expected to visit nearly 60
farms before the end of the year.

Based on information garnered from more
than 1,300 domicile reports, nearly one-quarter of
the state's in-foal broodmare population consists
of mares owned by Pennsylvania residents, in foal

to Pennsylvania stallions, and maintained at the
mare owner's farm. Another quarter are mares in
foal to non-Pennsylvania stallions and boarded at
commercial facilities.

PA STATE HORSE RACING COMMISSION
ANNOUNCES STEROID BAN

As of April 1,2008, the Pennsylvania State Horse
Racing Commission will prohibit the use of, and
increase testing for, anabolic and androgenic steroids
in all Thoroughbred horses racing in the state of
Pennsylvania. An acceptable plasma concentration of
naturally occurring testosterone and nandrolone has
been established for the intact male horse.

Acting commission chairman Richard D. Abbott,
in conjunction with the announcement, commented:
"Pennsylvania is in a unique position among the Mid-
Atlantic jurisdictions in that we have our own world-
famous equine toxicology lab which has allowed us
to be in the forefront of drug detection and research.
Our governor and legislature are willing to allocate
the funds to do the research and run the tests
necessary to police the sport as they believe it should
be done.

"Pennsylvania is also in the enviable position
of having alternative gaming to fuel the purses that
are becoming the envy of our surrounding neighbors.
Therefore, we feel that we can take a principled stand
with regard to steroid use without fear that entries
from other jurisdictions will disappear. We know
that this is a risk, but we feel that the vast majority
of horsemen who play by the rules will appreciate
the opportunity to run for the large purses on offer in
Pennsylvania," Abbott concluded.

The Pennsylvania State Horse Racing
Commission suggested that trainers and veterinarians
discontinue the administration of these compounds
by December 1, 2007, to allow for the elimination
of these agents from the horse's system prior to the
April 1, 2008, deadline.

Pennsylvania Breeding Fund Program Awards

Top award recipients greater than $15,000 total awards

January 1 through October 31,2007 - Awards Total $5,172,580 (rounded to dollars)

Breeding Fund + PA Bonus Disbursements + Restricted Purses + Stakes Total = $13,208,510

YTD

Breeder Stallion Owner Total

Award Recipient Awards Awards Awards Awards

Breeder Owner YTD Total

Award Recipient Awards Awards Awards

Judith M. Barrett

145,451

49,913

0

195,364

Hidden Meadow Farm LLC

27,772

0

0

27,772

Thomas N. Reigle

18,615

148,604

0

167,220

Maui Meadow Farm

19,783

7,948

0

27,731

Michael W. Jester

61,566

58,683

0

120,249

Glenn Brok

27,297

0

0

27,297

William J. Solomon VMD

37,724

72,333

0

110,057

Briter Farm

26,924

0

0

26,924

Sylmar Farm Inc.

109,882

0

0

109,882

Lori D. Swatsworth

26,510

0

0

26,510

Fiasco Farms Ltd.

108,114

0

0

108,114

Rhodes and Pagnoni

26,423

0

0

26,423

Barbara Geraghty

43,898

51,600

0

95,499

Sandra Kim Eshleman

25,951

0

0

25,951

Roberta Seeger

79,928

15,220

0

95,147

Gale L. Reveley

25,928

0

0

25,928

Charles A. Cuprill

71,927

22,944

0

94,871

Ronald Harris Parker

25,587

0

0

25,587

Xanthus Farms Inc.

30,711

53,061

0

83,771

Bryant H. Prentice III

24,287

0

0

24,287

E & D Enterprises

69,046

0

0

69,046

Warwick Stables Inc.

24,198

0

0

24,198

Castle Rock Farm

67,290

0

0

67,290

Eugene E. Weymouth

23,936

0

0

23,936

Thomas C. LeVine

62,128

0

0

62,128

Lawrence Stables Inc.

23,313

0

0

23,313

P.F.N. Fanning

60,915

0

0

60,915

John Kidwell

22,857

0

0

22,857

George Strawbridge Jr.

46,590

5,124

0

51,714

William L. Pape

22,368

0

0

22,368

Golden Oak Farm LLC

50,939

0

0

50,939

Timory H. Ridall

22,166

0

0

22,166

Shirley A. Lojeski

39,460

10,625

0

50,085

Everest Stables Inc.

21,703

0

0

21,703

Welcome Here Farm

49,658

0

0

49,658

Patricia M. Palmer

21,576

0

0

21,576

SUN Corp.

48,072

0

0

48,072

Shellaine K. Brown

21,072

0

0

21,072

Victoria Marie Herlinger

28,810

18,446

0

47,257

Ashwell Stables Inc.

20,365

0

0

20,365

Pewter Stable

46,857

0

0

46,857

Highland Meadows Farm Inc.

19,237

972

0

20,210

Anne F. Thorington

46,821

0

0

46,821

The Elkstone Group LLC

19,482

0

0

19,482

Daniel M. Ryan

45,039

0

0

45,039

Toni M. Kirwan

19,293

0

0

19,293

Spinnaker Hill Upland Spg Fm

44,831

0

0

44,831

Shirley K. Lamb

18,590

0

0

18,590

Helen N. Stearns

28,770

16,048

0

44,818

Bonnie Ratajski

18,089

0

0

18,089

Patricia Ann Fullmer

32,093

10,698

0

42,790

William E. Riddle Jr.

17,890

0

0

17,890

Jane G. Baker

41,664

0

0

41,664

Ellen Dale Racing LLC

17,672

0

0

17,672

River Ridge Farm LLC

40,990

0

0

40,990

Francis J. Puleo

13,258

3,967

0

17,225

Flint W. Stites

35,757

5,154

0

40,911

Ron and Betsy Sapp LLC

17,157

0

0

17,157

Spring Run Farm Co. LLC

39,405

0

0

39,405

Robert Drew Quinn

17,136

0

0

17,136

Kimberlite Race Farm LLC

37,951

0

0

37,951

Marcia G. Solda

16,948

0

0

16,948

Daniel J. Ljoka

35,909

1,739

0

37,647

Galen R. Behney

16,750

0

0

16,750

Peter Giangiulio

26,142

11,436

0

37,578

SMD Ltd.

16,747

0

0

16,747

Eguivine Farm Inc.

36,609

0

0

36,609

Lindsay C.F. Scott

16,660

0

0

16,660

Anthony J. Merlino

36,529

0

0

36,529

Roberta L. Schneider MD

16,517

0

0

16,517

Dun Roamin Farm Inc.

36,131

0

0

36,131

Indian Mills Stock Farm Inc.

1,512

0

15,000

16,512

Tea Party Stable Inc.

23,371

11,784

0

35,155

Frances Hartwell

16,415

0

0

16,415

Larry Ciletti

34,660

0

0

34,660

Samuel Guarino

16,254

0

0

16,254

Land of Believe Farm Inc.

33,044

0

0

33,044

PAR 3 Stables Inc.

16,254

0

0

16,254

Richard H. Bosshard Jr.

32,380

0

0

32,380

Pandora Farms LLC

16,066

0

0

16,066

Charlton Bloodstock Agency

32,321

0

0

32,321

Chickridge LLC

15,864

0

0

15,864

R FI Breeding LLC

31,624

0

0

31,624

Joseph C. Walsh

15,548

0

0

15,548

Melvin Ray Moyer

31,308

0

0

31,308

William F. Goodling

15,473

0

0

15,473

Russell B. Jones Jr.

30,888

0

0

30,888

Marcia L. Wolfe

15,440

0

0

15,440

Win More Stables Inc.

29,568

0

0

29,568

Geraldyne F. Mitchell

15,421

0

0

15,421

Horse Shoe Valley Eguine Ctr.

29,467

0

0

29,467

Salvatore Giuffrida

11,492

3,831

0

15,322

Bonnie Heath Farm LLC

28,706

0

0

28,706

Peter P. Zanette

15,259

0

0

15,259

George Herzberger III

27,998

0

0

27,998

Jane White

15,166

0

0

15,166

2007 PENNSYLVANIA-BRED STAKES SCHEDULE

Race Date Track Name of Race Eligibility Distance Value

Sat May 5 Phila Pk Lyman Sprint H 3YO & Up, c & g 6 fur. $60,000

1st - Power by Leigh; 2nd - Banjo Picker; 3rd - Songofthesailor
Thu May 10 Penn Nat Danzig S 3YO, c & g 6 fur. $45,000

1st - Bet a Buck; 2nd - White Russian; 3rd - Chase for the Gold
Sat May 12 Phila Pk pistol Packer H 3YO & Up, f & m 6 fur. $60,000

1 st - S W Al/svalentine; 2nd - Jet Away Jane; 3rd - Hailie's Girl
Thu May 17 Penn Nat Wonders Delight S 3YO, fillies 6 fur. $45,000

1st - Cantrel; 2nd - Blitzensfoxyvixsin; 3rd - All Night Special
Sat Jun 2 Phila Pk Caught in the Rain H 3YO&Up,f&m l mi., 70 yds. $60,000

1st - Raging Rapids; 2nd - Hailie's Girl; 3rd - J. D. Safari / Queen's Request
Sat Jun 9 Phila Pk Peppy Addy S 3YO, c&g 1 mi., 70 yds. $60,000

1st - Mr. Boxcar; 2nd - My Three Boys; 3rd - Louie's Terra

Sat Jun 16 Phila Pk Russian Rhythm H 3YO & Up, f&m 5 fur.-turf $60,000

1 st - Jet Away Jane; 2nd - Miss Blue Tye Dye; 3rd - Manukai
Sat Jun 23 Phila Pk Foxy J. G. S 3YO, fillies 1 mi., 70 yds. $60,000

1st - Who's Happy; 2nd - Holy Christmas; 3rd - Syd N Cady's Rose
Thu Jul 5 Penn Nat Watchman's Warning S 3YO & Up l 1/16 mi. $45,000

1st - Delaware River; 2nd - R. Earl; 3rd - Grey Dorian

Pennsylvania's Day at the Races - Philadelphia Park - Saturday, July 28th

Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Ga Hai H 3YO & Up, PA-Sired f & m 6 fur. $100,000

1st - She's Fancy Free; 2nd - Miss Blue Tye Dye; 3rd - Speechifying
Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Northern Fling H 3YO & Up, PA-Sired f & m l 1/I6mi. $100,000

1st - Raging Rapids; 2nd - Who's Happy; 3rd - J. D. Safari

Sat Jul 28 phila Pk Flatterer H - Steeplechase 4YO & up 2 1/16 mi. (Hurdle) $ 75,000

1st - John Law; 2nd - Dark Equation; 3rd - Sparkled

Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Devil's Honor FI 3YO & Up 6 fur. $ 100,000

1st - Banjo Picker; 2nd - Chase the Line; 3rd - Shouldabeenaclown
Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Captain My Captain H 3YO & Up, PA-Sired 6 fur. $100,000

1st - Secretintelligence; 2nd - Thaddeus; 3rd - Power by Leigh
Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Nepal H 3YO & Up, PA-Sired 1 1/16 mi.-turf $100,000

1st - Hissouthernmajesty; 2nd - R. Earl; 3rd - Inapinch

Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Ambassador of Luck H 3YO&Up,f&m 6 1/2 fur. $ 100,000

1 st - S W Al/svalentine; 2nd - Hailie's Girl; 3rd - Cantrel

Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Camac Memorial H 3YO & Up 5 fur.-turf $100,000

1st - Remain Silent; 2nd - Byandlarge; 3rd - Makin Peace

Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Smarty Jones Classic 3YO&up 1 1/16 mi. $ 125,000

1st - Delaware River; 2nd - Putonyerdancinshuz; 3rd - Serene Harbor
Sat Jul 28 Phila Pk Mrs. Penny S 3YO&Up,f&m 1 1/16 mi. - turf $100,000

1 st - Redaspen; 2nd - Royal Pleasure; 3rd - Jet Away Jane

Thu Aug 30 Penn Nat Betty's Hat S 3YO & Up, f&m 1 mi.-turf $45,000

1st - Royal Pleasure; 2nd - Tuff Partners; 3rd - Western Pleasure
Sat Sep 8 Phila Pk Power by Far H 3YO & Up, c & g 6 fur. $60,000

1st - Banjo Picker; 2nd - Obi Wan; 3rd - Power by Leigh

Fri Sep 21 Prsq Isle LiIE. Tee H 3YO, c&g 6 fur. $90,000

1st-Whistle Pig; 2nd - Diplomatic Charm; 3rd - Call Me Dude
Fri Sep 21 Prsq Isle Presidentialaffair H 3YO & Up 6 1/2 fur. $90,000

1st - Obi Wan; 2nd - Thaddeus; 3rd - Makin Peace

Fri Sep 21 Prsq Isle Cozy Lace S 3YO, fillies 6 fur. $90,000

1st - Look Deep; 2nd - Miss Blue Tye Dye; 3rd - Power Pack
Fri Sep 21 Prsq Isle Willy Wank H 3YO & Up 1 1/8 mi. $90,000

1st - Grey Dorian; 2nd - Serene Harbor; 3rd - Captain Ernie

Race Date Track Name of Race Eligibility Distance Value

Fri Sep 21 Prsq Isle First Approach S 3Y0 & Up, f&m l 1/I6mi. $90,000

1st - Who's Happy; 2nd - Raging Rapids; 3rd - She's Fancy Free
Sat Sep 29 Phila Pk High Yield S 2YO, c&g 5 1/2 fur. $60,000

1st - Superfecta; 2nd - Terriffico; 3rd - Body Rock

Sat Oct 6 Phila Pk Alphabet Soup H 3YO & Up, c&g l 1/16 mi. - turf $60,000

1st - Dirge; 2nd - Serene Harbor; 3rd - Sonvida Red

Thu Oct 18 Penn Nat Blue Mountain Juvenile S 2YO, fillies 5 fur. $45,000

1st - Espindola; 2nd - Dead Flowers; 3rd - Jakes Heart

Sat Nov 24 Phila Pk Pennsylvania Nursery S 2YO, c&g 7 fur. $75,000

1st - Notgivinmyloveaway; 2nd - Sweet Sugar; 3rd - Double Down Vinman
Sat Dec 1 Phila Pk Eavesdrop S 2YO, fillies 6 fur. $75,000

1 st - Barbazilla; 2nd - Willow Grove; 3rd - Driven by Winning
Updated 12/6/2007 - FINAL

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Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association,

OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2008

Austin Brown wins
F. Ambrose Clark Award

The SCTOBA
promotes the
Thoroughbred
industry and
racing in South
Carolina for
breeders, owners
and Thoroughbred
enthusiasts.

South Carolina
oroughtre d Owners and
Breeders Association

President
Lee Christian

Vice Presidents
Donna Freyer
Deborah McCutchen
Kelly Murphy

Secretary

Mary Jane Howell

Treasurer
Gwen Christian
Directors

Donald Baker, Jane Dunn,

Kip Elser, John Fort, Marshall
Lamb, Wilhelmina McEwan,
Wylie Perkins, Doris Rabon,
Tuffy Rast, Jack Sadler, Rich Scelfo,
George Thomas, Madelon Wallace

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(706) 896-6883
Web site: sctoba.org

CTOBA member Austin
Brown was presented with
the F. Ambrose Clark Award
on November 17 at the National
Steeplechase Museum in Camden,
S.C.

The Clark Award is given
periodically to an individual who
promotes, improves and encourages
the growth and welfare of American
steeplechasing.

Brown has been a longtime
steeplechase enthusiast, organizer,
participant and leader. His

amie Cornwell from Bowman, S.C.,
the rider they called “Stickman” at
Jf the Elloree Training Center, got his
first win as a jockey when he piloted
Karin Wurttemberger’s homebred
Banana Pancakes to victory in the
10 th race on October 31 at Laurel
Park.

Banana Pancakes, a 4"year-old filly
trained by Stephen Casey, was ignored
by the bettors and paid a whopping
$147 (another reason it pays to train
in South Carolina).

Jamie went to Elloree in 1999
and asked training center proprietor
Franklin Smith if he could gallop
horses. He was told no, but his
persistence finally helped to land
him a job there in 2000. Jamie kept
working hard to improve his skills
and got a chance to ride a few races at
Colonial in 2006.

His hard work paid off when
Banana Pancakes got him into the

participation in steeplechasing started
when he took out an amateur jockey’s
license in 1943 at the age of 16. He
rode in 14 renewals of the Iroquois
Steeplechase and three editions of the
Maryland Hunt Cup.

Brown also led the Carolina
Cup Racing Association, supervised
construction of the first Atlanta
Steeplechase course, organized the
only jump races held at Santa Anita
and Bay Meadows and helped found
the National Steeplechase Museum,
among other career achievements.

winner’s circle. With Jamie’s positive
attitude, he was probably thinking
“only 5,999 behind Mario Pino.”

The SCTOBA congratulates Jamie
and wishes him many more trips to the
winner’s circle.

Jamie Cornwell

rides first winner at Laurel Park

MAGGIE FURBAY

SOUTH CAROLINA RESIDENCY RACE

NOMINATION INFORMATION

WHERE: Philadelphia Park WHEN: Fall 2008

PURSE: $50,000 (estimated) DISTANCE: 6'/ 2 furlongs

ELIGIBILITY: Open for 2-year-olds of 2008 who have spent at least 90 davs in South Carolina by June 30,

2008 and whose owners have paid a nomination fee to South Carolina TOBA.

PAYMENT OPTIONS: Early Bird Nominations—One-time payment of $100 postmarked no later than January

15, 2008. A completed and signed nomination form should be included with the fee.
Regular Nominations—One-time payment of $200 postmarked no later than June 30,
2008. A completed and signed nomination form should be included with the fee.
There will be a $100 fee to enter and $200 fee to run. These fees will be added to the
purse.

NAME OF HORSE:_COLT □ FILLY □

Foal of 2006 Elser Memorial Donna Freyer

SIRE:_DAM:_

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ADDRESS:_

CITY/STATE/ZIP:_

HOME PHONE:_OFFICE PHONE:_

BOARDING OR TRAINING FACILITY IN SC:_

DATE ENTERED SC: _Van Company:_

DATE EXIT (OR ANTICIPATED DEPARTURE) FROM SC:_

Van Company:_

The information provided above is true and accurate. I understand that any misrepresentation could result in forfeiture of purse monies and/or
other penalties. I agree to abide by the decision of the SCTOBA Race Committee in any dispute regarding the race.

OWNER SIGNATURE SCTOBA MEMBER SIGNATURE

South Carolina Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association
c/o: Lee Christian • P.O. Box 1 2850 • Charleston, SC 29422

South Carolina-trained winners

10/13 to I 1/16

Horse

Training Center

Date

Track

Type of Race

Debbie’s Rose

Aiken Training Track

11/16

Hoosier Park

Maiden special weight

One Man to Beat

Webb Carroll

11/15

Laurel Park

Maiden special weight

Red Zipper

Aiken Training Track

11/11

Aqueduct

Cormorant Stakes

Headsandtales

Elloree Training Center

11/10

Laurel Park

Find Handicap

Spritely

Aiken Training Track

11/9

Churchill Downs

Allowance

Love for Not

Elloree Training Center

11/9

Meadowlands

New Jersey Futurity

Pass Play

Elloree Training Center

11/7

Laurel Park

6,000th win for jockey Mario Pino

Cosmic Belle

Aiken Training Track

11/7

Churchill Downs

Maiden special weight

Marital Asset

Aiken Training Track

11/5

Philadelphia Park

Allowance

Yate’s Black Cat

Elloree Training Center

11/4

Churchill Downs

Allowance

Art Show

Elloree Training Center

11/4

Delaware Park

Allowance

Digger

Elloree Training Center

11/3

Laurel Park

Northern Dancer Stakes

Bribon (Fr)

Aiken Training Track

11/1

Aqueduct

Allowance

Bel ie veiny esterday

Webb Carroll Training

11/1

Laurel Park

Maiden claiming

Eight Belles

Aiken Training Track

10/30

Delaware Park

Maiden special weight

Tasteyville

Aiken Training Track

10/27

Aqueduct

Sport Page Handicap-G3

Frost Lady

Elloree Training Center

10/26

Charles Town

Optional claiming

Heavy Date

Elloree Training Center

10/21

Calder

Maiden special weight

Nite Light

Aiken Training Track

10/21

Belmont Park

Allowance

Snow Park

Webb Carroll

10/17

Laurel Park

Maiden special weight

Love for Not

Elloree Training Center

10/13

Laurel Park

Maryland Million Lassie

Valentine Fever

Elloree Training Center

10/13

Keeneland

Allowance

January 2008

Audley makes major purchases at Keeneland November sale

A udley Farm Inc., the widely
successful commercial breed¬
ing farm in Berryville, Va., was
active at the Keeneland Novem¬
ber sale.

Under the supervision of gen¬
eral manager Dr. Jens von Lepel
and bloodstock advisor Peter
Pegg, the Clark County nursery
purchased the now 4-year-old
Storm Cat daughter Untouched
Talent (in foal to Unbridled’s
Song) for $1.2 million, and
additional broodmares Hatpin
($1,050,000, in foal to Johannes¬
burg), Jungle Queen ($700,000,
in foal to Ghostzapper), Cee’s
Irish ($400,000 in foal to First
Samurai) and Midtown Miss
($360,000, in foal to Forestry).

Untouched Talent, a graded-
winning and Grade 1-placed
earner of $243,550, is out of the
multiple graded stakes winner
Parade Queen, by A.P Indy.

Hatpin, a 6-year-old daughter
of leading sire Smart Strike, is one
of four stakes horses, two graded,
out of Lafayette’s Lady (by Young
Commander).

V irginia bloodstock agent
and former VTA president
Debbie Easter signed the tick¬
et for the third highest-priced
broodmare or broodmare prospect
at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky
November sale, purchasing last
year’s stellar 3-year-old performer
Dream Rush for $3.3 million on
behalf of Halsey M. Minor.

Dream Rush was outsold only
by Grade 1 winners Round Pond

Jungle Queen, a 7-year-old
Unbridled mare consigned to
the sale by Adena Springs, was
a modest winner but is a half-
sister to Grade 1-winning mil¬
lionaire Formal Gold (by Black
Tie Affair-Ire).

The 6-year-old Cee’s Irish
(Cee’s Tizzy—Zandalusia by Bold
Ruckus) earned $423,085 as a
multiple stakes winner and grad-
ed-placed runner.

Midtown Miss, a 6-year-old
daughter of ^es It’s True out of
Van Nic, by Sezyou, is a stakes
winner and graded-placed earner
of $221,183. She is a half-sister
to graded stakes-placed True and
True.

♦

Leading Virginia breeder
Edward P. Evans made two pur¬
chases, including Grade 2-placed
Stellar (Grand Slam—Starr
County, by Ogygian), in foal
to Hennessy, for $525,000. The
8-year-old mare was consigned
to the sale by Paramount Sales,
agent. Evans bred Stellar at his
Spring Hill Farm in Casanova;

($5.75 million) and Octave ($4
million).

Round Pond brought the
highest price for a horse sold by
Fasig-Tipton Kentucky since Vir¬
ginia-bred Miss Oceana topped
the Newstead dispersal in 1985
for $7 million. Miss Oceana was
in foal to Northern Dancer at
the time.

Dream Rush (Wild Rush—
Turbo Dream by Unbridled) has

she was sold through the consign¬
ment of Lane’s End, agent, at the
2001 Saratoga Selected Yearling
sale for $260,000.

Top-priced VA-bred
weanlings at
Keeneland

Listed with names of breeder,
consignor and buyer:

$135,000. Ch.f. Purge—Saintly
Hertfield, by Saint Ballado.
Lady Olivia at North Cliff
LLC; Indian Creek (Dave C.
Parrish Jr.), agent; Shivananda
Racing.

$100,000. B.c. Langfuhr—Proof
Positive, by Editor’s Note.
Morgan’s Ford Farm; Morgan s
Ford Farm; Desperado Stables
Inc.

$85,000. B.c. Grand Reward—
Uncanny Ability, by Crypto¬
clearance. Lady Olivia at
North Cliff LLC; Indian
Creek (David C. Parrish Jr.),
agent; Roman Bloodstock.
$70,000. Ch.c. Limehouse—Java
Gal, by Java Gold. Morgan’s

been a model of class and consis¬
tency, with six wins and two sec¬
onds in nine starts at 2 and 3. She
won the Prioress and Test Stakes
(both Grade 1) and recorded her
only off-the-board finish in her
last start, the inaugural Breeders’
Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

“She is just a gorgeous filly,”
Easter told The Blood-Horse. “We
hope she can keep running like
she did this year.”

Minor, new to the upper strata
of the racing world, is the founder
and CEO of Internet publisher
CNET Inc. He lives in California,
but maintains Fox Ridge Farm in
his native locale of Charlottesville,
Va., and races under the banner of
Minor Stables.

Ford Farm; Morgan’s Ford
Farm; Hill ‘n’ Dale Blood¬
stock.

$62,000. Ch.f. Hennessy—Shore¬
line, by Unbridled. James S.
Carter; Bill Reightler, agent
IV; Lobo Farm.

$50,000. Gr./ro.c. Forest Wild¬
cat—Pier Sixty Six, by Coz-
zene. Hector Alcalde; Takaro
Farm; Shivananda Racing.

Bowker to
retire from
VRC post

S tan Bowker, executive secre¬
tary of the Virginia Racing
Commission (VRC), will retire
from that post in September.
Bowker s 40-year career in the
racing industry includes a decade
of service in Virginia.

He joined the VRC in
September 1998 as senior steward
for live racing at Colonial Downs.
The following June, he succeeded
Don Price as VRC executive sec¬
retary, and has served in a dual
capacity as a steward and com¬
mission official since then.

“Stan’s commitment to the
integrity of horse racing in Vir¬
ginia made him a tremendous
asset to both the commission and
the commonwealth,” said Peter
Burnett, VRC chairman. “His
passion for the industry promotes
excellence, honesty, as the hall¬
marks ofVirginia racing.”

In addition to his duties at
the VRC, Bowker is active in
the national forum. He currently
serves as chairman of the Racing
Officials Accreditation Program.

Earlier in his career, he worked
at Ak-Sar-Ben, Canterbury
Downs and Oaklawn Park.

Virginia Thoroughbred Association

Board of Directors

Donna Dennehy, President

Deborah A. Easter

Tommy Lee Jones

Reid Nagle

George Rowand

Carol Holden, Vice-president

Gillian Gordon-Moore

Louisa Lenehan

Ernest M. Oare

Pat Schuler

Robert Bouse, Treasurer

R. Larry Johnson

Randy Miles

O.J. Peterson III

Bruce Smart

Wayne Chatfield-Taylor

Joan Jones

Jim Morris

Anne D.W. Poulson

John Tucker

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West Virginia

THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

Newsletter

January 2008

West Virginia-breds take both
divisions of Tri-State Futurity

W hen the overnight

came out for the fillies
division of the Tri-State
Futurity, run November
10 at Charles Town, owner Ray
Pennington, trainer Ollie Figgins III
and breeder Charles Woodson
must have been aghast over the
128-pound impost assigned their
bread-and-butter runner We're in
the Money

Fresh off of consecutive scores
in three Charles Town Stakes—the
Cinderella, Golden Gull and Triple
Crown Nutrition Breeders Classic—
We're in the Money had her win
streak snapped in the seven-furlong
stakes for juveniles foaled in West
Virginia, Maryland and Virginia.

Competing for the first time
beyond her comfort zone of four
and a half furlongs. We're in the
Money (by nationally prominent
freshman sire Whywhywhy) labored
early under her extreme burden
and failed to switch to her right
lead in the run to the wire, as Saxet
Heights— in receipt of 13 pounds—
swooped to a three-length victory
with Luis Perez aboard.

Saxet Fleights, a massive daughter
of Outflanker, was making only her
second career start, following a
maiden score on October 14 at
Charles Town. In two outings, she
has earned $61,938, including the
$46,938 winner's purse share for her
division of the Tri-State Futurity. We're
in the Money finished a determined
second, while Saxet Heights's
stablemate Color Parade was third.

The Tri-State is one of the few
genuine futurities remaining in this
country. Runners must be nominated
before birth; nomination fees for a
sizable group of prospective runners
traditionally swell the purse for the
$50,000-added stakes.

Trained by Jeff Runco, Saxet
Heights boasts illustrious connections
that would have marked her as
a likely future contender. She was
bred in West Virginia by her owner,
Marylander Carey K. Miller. Her dam.
Holiday Ball (by Black Tie Affair-Ire),
also campaigned as a homebred
for Miller, winning two stakes and
placing in three others (two of her
stakes placings were in Grade 2
company). Holiday Ball is a daughter

of Miller's all-time star, Angelina
County (by Rollicking), who was a
Maryland-bred champion.

The Tri-State Futurity's colts and
geldings division, run one race later
and nearly two seconds faster, in
a seven-furlong time of 1:26.63,
showcased the talent of Ghostly
Thunder, who dismissed his rivals with
startling ease.

A West Virginia-bred owned
in partnership by his trainer Gary
Capuano and Paul (Larry) Fowler,
Ghostly Thunder, dispatched as
the 1-2 favorite under jockey Travis
Dunkelberger, was ridden out to
a 1 OVsHength victory over second
choice Milwaukee Fun, getting his
first stakes win in his third start. He
returned on December 1 at Charles
Town to score by four and a half
lengths over Brother Bryant as the 1 -5
favorite in the $50,000-added West
Virginia Futurity, boosting his earnings
to $109,158.

Ghostly Thunder is from the first
crop of his sire. Ghostly Minister, a
son of Deputy Minister standing at

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West Virginia Thoroughbred Breeders Association

PO. Box 626, Charles Town, WV 25414

Phone: (304)728-6868 • Fax: (304)724-7870 • e-mail: WVBreeders@frontiernet.net
Office hours: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.,Tuesday through Saturday

Douglas Allara, DVM, President Francis (Chip) Daniel III, DVM, Vice-President

Dorothy Olley, Secretary Betty Stehr, Treasurer

Directors: Martin Blaylock, Ronney Brown, John Casey,

Ed Keenan, Rene Moore, Kate Painter DVM, Sandra Witherow

Futurities continued

Charles (Buck) Woodson's Buckstud
farm near Charles Town.

Woodson bred Ghostly Thunder
(out of the Chief Honcho mare
Expressive Feather), who was
purchased by Capuano for $13,000
at the Ocala Breeders'Sales
Company's Spring Sale of Two-Year-
Olds in Training.

♦

O'Sullivan Farms's Julie B was
soundly defeated when second
to Carnival Chrome on Breeders
Classics night in the $350,000-added
Cavada, but gained a measure
of redemption in Charles Town's
newly created Daisy Mae Stakes on
November 17.

A $45,000 stakes for West Virginia-
bred fillies and mares, contested at
a mile and an eighth, the Daisy Mae
attracted veterans Alaska Ash and
Castina, plus the nice 3-year-olds On
My Hip and B's Wild Rush—last seen
dominating her rivals on Breeders
Classics night—and Brereton Jones's
homebred invader Try to Remember,
from the barn of Graham Motion.

Jockey Larry Reynolds piloted
Julie B—Charles Town's 2006 Horse of
the Year—with supreme confidence,
and she triumphed by nearly five
lengths while being eased up.Try
to Remember stuck it out to finish
second after pressing the early
pace, and Castina rallied for third.

Julie B earned her 10th victory
(and sixth stakes win) from 18 starts.
The now 5-year-old daughter of
Eastover Court has career earnings
of $479,352.

Eastover Court (by Seattle Slew)
stood at O'Sullivan Farms in Charles

Town until his death in 2004. Julie B's
maternal grandsire, the late Feel the
Power, also made a successful stud
career at that farm, which is owned
by Randy Funkhouser.

♦

The Lil Abner Stakes for West
Virginia-bred colts and geldings, 3
8c up, on November 24 at Charles
Town, left more questions than
answers. Sent off as odds-on favorite,
O'Sullivan Farms's legendary
Confucius Say faded after setting
the early fractions in the mile and an
eighth stakes, and Donald’s Pride,
ridden by Anthony Mowing, scraped
along the fence to win by a head.

The linchpin of the Patty Burns
barn, Donald's Pride showed once
again why he should win the
Persistent Player of the Year Award.

Long or short, fast track or muddy
"the Donald" consistently grinds out
a pleasant living for owner Gaynor
Hough Stable.

C harles Town lost a piece
of history when 86-year-
old Patsy Grant died on
November 8.

Only one week earlier, the
beloved figure was seen at his
familiar haunt on the second floor
mezzanine level, trading smiles, jokes
and handicapping tips.

Known for his dapper style and
gentlemanly carriage. Grant was
reminiscent of racing's golden era.

Born on December 14,1920, in
Jessup, Pa., Grant found success as

Now 8, the son of Deputed
Testamony bred by Nancy Gaynor
has won 13 of 41 career starts, finished
second or third 17 times, and has 19
stakes wins or placings, for earnings
of $463,899. And his record would be
even better if he were eligible to run
in the Breeders Classics.

Recalling his colossal winning
effort in the West Virginia Breeders
Classic, Eastern Delite (by Eastover
Court) raced two-deep to Confucius
Say throughout in the Lil Abner, just
failing to fend off Donald's Pride in
the shadow of the wire.

Double Tollgate, an overachieving
son of Eastover Court, willingly
earned his third-place check at
odds of nearly 19-1.

Given the crowd atop the West
Virginia-bred leader board, voting for
the 2007 champions won't be easy.
Newcomers gave a fresh look to the
juvenile and sophomore categories,
while old standbys continued to
perform with reliability.

a jockey, riding predominantly in
Maryland and West Virginia, with an
occasional sojourn to Cuba during
the 1940s. He eventually settled in
Charles Town, where he made his
home for 67 years.

From jockey to trainer and
ultimately a steward at Charles Town,
Grant did not quit working until well
into his 70s. A family man and also an
avid golfer, he is survived by his wife
of 63 years, Evelyn.

In memoriam

The West Virginia Breeders
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