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January 2015

Maryland Jockey Club shakes up staff, makes big plans

Looking forward & back: 15 for’15 • Retired Racehorse Project matures • December sale

Super Mhfety Nine takes
^ the Sou^hv)est by storm

PLUS:

juvenil®

Sales preview

Pulpit- Exogenetic, by Unbridled’s Song

His mother is in foal to War Front. His father sired Tapit.

His owners are Spendthrift Farm and Country Life Farm.

His lifetime breeding rights are owned by signers of "Share the Upside" contracts,
terms of $5,000 for each of the first two breeding season's live foals. Stud Fee: $4,000.
He is the next BIG Sire in the Mid-Atlantic.

_ Country Life Farm Stallions _ _

Cal Nation by Distorted Humor ($3,500 LFSN) • Freedom Child by Malibu Moon ($3,500 LFSN)
Friesan Fire by A.R Indy ($4,000 LFSN) • Malibu Moon by A.P. Indy ($95,000 in Kentucky)

Country Life & Merryland Farms -

Country Life Farm, P.O. Box 107, Bel Air, Maryland 21014
Merryland Farm, 12901 Bottom Road, Hydes, Maryland 21082

Josh or Michael Pons (410) 879-1952 • Fax (410) 879-6207 • wwwxountrylifefarmxom • e-mail: info@countrylifefarmxom

Midlantic 2Y0 Gralt
Breeders’ Cup
Classic. Winner

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Midlantic 2Y0s in Training

May 18-19 Entries Close: February 6

Midlantic Fall Yearlings

September 29 Entries Close: July 10

Midlantic December Mixed

December? Entries Close: September 21

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DEPARTMENTS

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In this issue

Volume 23, Number 1

Changes at top for Maryland Jockey Club

Tom Chuckas resigns from post; The Stronach Group hires Sal Sinatra from Parx Racing,
commits to new direction at Laurel and Pimlico. By Tom Law Page 24

Fifteen Horses

Looking back, looking ahead, we check in with 15 notable racehorses as one year ends and
another begins on the region’s racetracks. Page 28

Ridgely’s last moment

A half-sister to champion Declan’s Moon tops the Fasig-Tipton December Mixed Sale
as part of the dispersal of late Maryland breeder Brice Ridgely. By Joe Clancy. Page 38

Retired Racehorse Project grows up

The Maryland-based second-career organization completes successful Thoroughbred
Makeover event at Pimlico, heads to national stage in 2015. By Teresa Genaro. Page 42

Oh what a year it was

Led by stakes stars Demonstrative and Divine Fortune, who
accounted for five of the six Grade 1 stakes on the year, the
steeplechase season comes to a close. Irishman Willie McCarthy
wins his first jockeys’ championship. Hot Rize jumps to timber
crown. By Joe and Sean Clancy. Page 56

Cover: a fixture at Laurel Park, no matter the weather, BiUy Barton keeps an eye on the Maryland
track as major changes sweep the management team and direction. Photo by Jim McCue.

Mid-Atlantic Report 8

Pensioner on Parade

by Maggie Kimmitt 20

Editorial

by Joe Clancy 22

Around the Ovals

by staff and correspondents 46

Stallion Rankings 64
Stakes Winners 66
Maryland newsletter 73
New Jersey newsletter 79
North Carolina newsletter 83
Pennsylvania newsletter 85
South Carolina newsletter 89
Virginia newsletter 91
West Virginia newsletter 93
NSA newsletter 95
Looking Back 98
Calendar 100
The Connection 101

Classifieds & Advertisers’
Index 102

Acrostic 103
Past Time 104

2 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

LYDIA A. WILLIAMS

Your best bet for

Quality Stallions in PA

ALBERT THE GREAT

GO FOR GIN-BRIGHT FEATHER, by FAPPIANO
G1 winner of $3,012,490 at classic distances. Sire of 21
stakes horses, 3 millionaires, including 2014 G1 Stephen
Foster H winner MOONSHINE MULLIN. $2,500 LF

CORINTHIAN

PULPIT-MULTIPLY, by EASY GOER
Breeders'Cup DirtMile&GI Metropolitan Mile winner of
$1,267,273.17 stakes horses-7 in 2014; total earnings over
$10 million. Family of NUREYEV, SADLER'S WELLS. $4,000 LF

MORE SMOKE

SMOKE GLACKEN-SAUNTER, by STROLLING ALONG
G3 winner by 14V2 lengths posting a 112 BEYER. Sire of
RAGING SMOKE ($175,200). From thefamily of champions

BIG BROWN, HIDDEN LAKE and I CAN DO IT ALL. $1,500 LF

NORMAN ASBJORNSON

REAL QUIET-MERRYLAND MISSY, by CITIDANCER
MSW of $536,600. G3-placed in Gotham S and Excelsior S.
Defeated Eighttofasttocatch, Javerre, Winchill, Arlo, etc. Out
of SW from the family of millionaire SMART BID. $1,500 LF

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 • 800-346-8398 • Fax: 717-235-8190
E-mail: annschultz(a)pinoaklane.com • bsolomon@cyberia.com
www.pinoaklane.com

Fees payable when foal stands and nurses • Registered Pennsylvania stallions

MARYLAND-BRED FUND STAKES
AT LAUREL WINTER MEET 2015

Fillies and Mares, Three-Years-Old and Up

March 21 ConnlverS $75,000-guaranteed 7 fur.

+ $25,000 Maryland-sired

MARYLAND-BRED

RACE FUND

ADMINISTERED BY
MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS ASSOC.

The stakes schedule is approved through March 28,2015.
For more information, contact the Maryland Horse Breeders
Association at (410) 252-2100, fax (410) 560-0503 or visit
MHBA’s website at www.marylandthoroughbred.com.

For a complete breakdown of Maryland-bred bonus
awards, please refer to the current condition book.

A great 2015
for Maryland-breds!

40% MARYLAND-SIRED
BREEDER BONUSES

I For FIRST, SECOND and THIRD place for Maryland-sired Maryland-breds running
in Maryland (all races; stakes capped at $100,000).

Paid on horse's share of purse. (Stallion must be registered with MHBA)

II OR 30% BREEDER BONUSES

For FIRST, SECOND and THIRD place for out-of-state sired Maryland-breds
running in Maryland (all races; stakes capped at $100,000).

Paid on horse's share of purse.

SffiiUlWMEftBONUSES

For FIRST, SECOND and THIRD place for Maryland^reds runnm^n
Maryland in ail overnight races. Paid on horse's share of purse.

10% STALLION
_ BONUSES _

For FIRST, SECOND and THIRD^place for m
Maryland-breds running in Maryland I
(all races; stakes capped at $100,000).

Paid on horse's share of purse.

MARYLAND MILLION STAKES PERCENTAGES CALCULATED SEPARATELY
Subject to semi-annual review by Maryland Racing Commission.

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SAY IT AGAIN

''You look forward to it, then a week after it’s over
you’re like 'man I’m missing racing already’ ”

Jump jock£y Ross Geraghty on the end of the season

"I knew you were in trouble when I said to myself, 'I’m getting
stuck behind Demonstrative.’ I never said that before.”
Geraghty, aboard Parkeds Project, to jockey Robbie Walsh, after
Demonstrative finished third in the Grade 1 Colonial Cup

"I wanted to give that horse a hug.”

Kevin Cox, the Brooklyn Cowboy, after Divine Fortune,
at age 11, finished second in the Grand National-G1 at Far Hills

"Woody Stephens is rolling over in his grave.”

National Steeplechases Bill Calk after hearing about trainers using GPS
tracking ystems to monitor mileage, heart rates and speed of their horses

"I cried, but I tried not to let anyone see me.”
Trainer Tim Keefe, after Eighttofasttocatch won his fourth
consecutive Jennings Handicap to retire as a millionaire

"Thanks for the memories.”

Laurel Park announcer Dave Rodman
as Eighttofasttocatch crossed the finish in the Jennings

"I brought horses and I’m taking home money.”

Consignor Rick Abbott, defining success
at Fasig-Tipton Midlantids December sale

"You can name that one. Answer The CaU.”
Fasig-Tipton announcer Reed Ringler, after a would-be buyer
could not be reached via telephone during the December sale

"The mare was pretty tough to get in foal and somebody,
somewhere must have said 'There’s no way, Tom.’”
Veterinarian Tom Bowman, about a horse he bred named No Wcy Tom
(who won 18 of 91 starts—and was a stall-walking demon—from 1978-84)

GO FIGURE

OR nnO 1 mrifecta payoff

I U(for a 50-cent

ticket) when longshots Vicky Ticky Tavie,
War Relic and Mavourneen ran 1 -2-3 in
Laurel Park’s 10th race Oct. 25.

1 ^ Average win payout of

I I the 131 turf winners at

I I Laurel Park’s fall meet.

The grass course was closed Nov. 19.

“I Percentage of top-three finishes

I yjyjhy the team of trainer Jack
Fisher and jockey Sean McDermott over
the final four weeks of the steeplechase
season. They produced six wins, six
seconds and three thirds in their final 15
races together.

3 Maidens broken by Raven’s Choice
for trainer Todd Wyatt. The
Maryland-bred won on the flat in
2010, over hurdles in 2011 and over
timber in 2014. The now 8-year-old races
for Ann Jackson and was bred by her late
husband Cary.

54,171.11

Average purse
earnings in the
nine starts for Eighttofasttocatch and
jockey Forest Boyce. The duo produced
six wins from nine starts since teaming up
in April 2013.

I Odds of Divine
Fortune when he
made his career
debut in a $50,000 maiden claimer on
the dirt at Delaware Park May 16, 2006.
Ramon Dominguez guided the 3-year-old
to a sixth-place finish.

4.90-1

Odds of Ben’s Cat when
he made his career debut
as a $20,000 maiden claimer at Pimlico
May 8, 2010. Julian Pimentel guided the
4-year-old to a front-running win going 6
furlongs on the dirt.

10-1

Odds of

Eighttofasttocatch
when he made his
career debut in a 2-year-old maiden at
Laurel Park Oct. 25, 2008. The late Joe
Farley guided him to a fourth-place finish.

8 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

STREET MAGICIAN

STREET CRY (IRE)-MAGICAL MEADOW, BY MEADOWLAKE • $ 3,0 0 0 LFSN

Maryland’s Leading Sires of 2-year-olds

stallion

‘15 Stud Fee

2014 2YOs

Rnrs

Wnrs

SWrs

SHs

‘14 Earnings

1. Not For Love

$15,000

$296,251

2. Street Magician

$3,000

$287,247

AS OF 12/19/2014

The choice is obvious.

In his first crop, sire of ROCKIN JOJO ($101,050, pictured above twinning Blue Mountain Juvenile
Fillies S), MY MAGICIAN (Maryland Million Lassie S), Blitzensmajikreign (3rd Pennsylvania Nursery S).

His first crop runners have won on the dirt and turf, sprinting and at a distance
First 2YOs averaged $68,333 at the sales in 2014

Track record-setting Graded Stakes Winner from one of the hottest sire lines in the country!

Inquiries to the farm or Larry Johnson 301.807.3803, ljohnson@verisconsulting.com

HERITAGE STALLIONS

Brooke Bowman, DVM & Louis Merryman (443)907-7122
319 Myrtle Wilson Roa6 Chesapeake City, Marylan(j
www.heritagestallionsinc.com

MID-ATLANTIC REPORT

Penn Mile joins list of region’s graded stakes

G raded stakes changes on the Md-Atlantic calendar for downgraded from Grade 2 to 3-Monmouth Park’s Molly Pitcher

2015 were balanced, with two upgrades and two down- and Delaware Park’s Delaware Oaks.

grades, as announced by the American Graded Stakes Mid-Atlantic tracks will once again card five Grade 1 stakes

Committee in December. in 2015: the Delaware Handicap (Delaware Park), Haskell

The region’s newest graded race is Penn National’s Penn Mile, Invitational and United Nations (Monmouth Park), Cotillion
which will be a Grade 3 in its third running and the first graded (Parx Racing) and Preakness (Pimhco).
race at the GrantviUe oval since the Pennsylvania Governor’s
Cup in 1989. The $500,000 turf race for 3-year-olds was won by
Rydilluc in 2013 and by eventual Breeders’ Cup Turf Sphnt-Gl
winner Bobby’s Kitten in 2014.

The committee reviewed 750 unrestricted U.S. stakes races
with a purse of at least $75,000, and assigned graded stams to
463, eight more than in 2014. Pimlico’s Miss Preakness Stakes,
last run as a Grade 3 in 2009, had its graded status reinstated. The
winner this past year was Miss Behaviour.

Nationally no changes were made to the Grade 1 schedule and
no races were elevated to Grade 2, but two regional races were

XTrack

Charles Town

Colonial Downs

Delaware Park

Ifiurel Park

Monmouth Park

Parx Racing

Penn National

Pimlico

Presque Isle Downs

Mid-Atlantic-breds at the November sales

M id-Adantic-breds selhng for six
figures at the November mixed
sales in Kentucky rose to 38 in
2014, compared to 31 in 2013.

Grade 1 -winning Pennsylvania-bred
Princess of Syknar led the way, selling as a
broodmare prospect for $3.1 million at
Fasig-Tipton’s November Sale Nov. 3.

For the second year in a row Virginia-
bred Her Smile topped $1 million. In foal
to Tapit, she attracted a final bid of $1.5
million during Keeneland’s second session
Nov. 5. The Grade 1 winner sold a year
earlier in foal to Ghostzapper for $1,075
million at Fasig-Tipton’s November Sale.

Mid-Adantic-breds to sell for $200,000
or more with breeder, consignor and buyer:

FASIG-TIPTOII

$3,100,000. Princess of Sylmar, ch.m., 2010,
Majestic Warrior—Storm Dixie, by Catienus.
Ed Stance (Pa.); Tayior Made Saies Agency
Agent XXIV; Shadai Farm.

$250,000. Pureiy Hot, b.m., 2008, Pure Prize-
Wood Not, by Kissin Kris (in foai to Bode-
meister). Dr. and Mrs. A. Leonard Pineau
(Md.); Paramount Saies Agent iii; Winstar
Farm LLC.

KEENEIAND

$1,500,000. Her Smiie, dk.b./br.m., 2008,
Inciude—Hepburn, by Capote (in foai to
Tapit). William M. Backer (Va.); Gainesway,
Agent XXVII; KatieRich Farms.

$500,000. Wickedly Wise, gr./ro.m., 2001,
Tactical Cat—Winter Display, by Cold
Reception (in foal to Bernardini). Dr. and Mrs.
A Leonard Pineau (Md.); Y-Lo Racing Stables
LLC, Warrendale Sales, agent; Gainesway.

$400,000. Fashion Cat, ch.m., 2002, Forest
Wildcat—Hold to Fashion, by Hold Your
Peace (in foal to Tapit). Blair E. Minnich (Pa.);
Gainesway, Agent I; SF Bloodstock.

$400,000. Access to Charlie, dk.b./br.m., 2008,
Indian Charlie—Media Access, by Devil’s
Bag (in foal to Tiznow). Sondra Bender and
Howard M. Bender (Md.); Eaton Sales, agent;
Hillwood Stable LLC (Ellen M. Charles).

$300,000. Liszy’s Union, dk.b./br.m., 2010,
Dixie Union—Liszy, by A.P. Indy (in foal to
The Factor). Silent Indy Stables LLC and
DDS Stables LLC (Pa.); Eaton Sales, agent;
Whisper Hill Farm LLC.

$280,000. Quantum Miss, gr./ro.m., 2008,
Smoke Slacken-Quanah County, by Valid
Expectations (in foal to Elusive Quality).
Daniel M. Ryan (Pa.); Dispersal of Smart
Angle LLP, Walnut Green, agent; Yushun
Company.

$260,000. Cee’s My Lady, gr./ro.m., 2009,
Malibu Moon—Cee’s Irish, by Cee’s Tizzy (in
foal to Pioneerof the Nile). S. Barton Inc. (Va.);
Audley Farm Equine LLC, Brookdale Sales,
agent; Kempton Bloodstock, agent.

$240,000. b.c., 2014, Kitten’s Joy—Maid
Service, by Arch. Blackstone Farm LLC (Pa.);
Warrendale Sales, agent XXXIII; Chestnut
Valley Farm.

$220,000. dk.b./br.c., 2014, Union Rags—
Sapphire n’ Silk, by Pleasant Tap. Chadds
Ford Stable LLC (Pa.); Royal Qak Farm
(Damian and Braxton Lynch), agent; Ingordo
Bloodstock.

$220,000. Classy Coco, ch.m., 2010, Not For
Love—Very Classy Gal, by Giant’s Causeway.
Jonathan Thorne and Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott (Pa.); Darby Dan Farm, agent XLVIl;
Larry Johnson/Jane Buchanan, agent.

$210,000. Sacred Smoke, dk.b./br.f., 2011,
Indian Charlie—Lady’s Legacy, by Matchlite
(in foal to Scat Daddy). Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson
McNeely III (Va.); Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency,
agent; Hunter Valley Farm.

$200,000. Dancing Afleet, b.m., 2010, Afleet
Alex—Mrs. Vanderbilt, by Citidancer. Barbara
Brown and Chuck Zacney (Pa.); Gainesway,
agent XXII; J. Armando Rodriguez Racing
Stable Inc.

$200,000. Holiday Fashion, b.m., 2009, Harlan’s
Holiday—Screening, by Unbridled (in foal
to Smart Strike). George Strawbridge Jr.
(Pa.); Paramount Sales, agent LXII; Fred W.
Hertrich III.

$200,000. Merryland Monroe, b.m., 2003,
Allen’s Prospect—Cruella, by Tyrant (in foal
to Union Rags). Country Life Farm and Grade
1 LLC (Md.); Hidden Brook, agent VII; Fred W.
Hertrich III.

$200,000. Undeterred, dk.b./br.m., 2009, More
Than Ready—Social Director, by Deputy
Minister (in foal to Sidney’s Candy). Mr. and
Mrs. C.W. McNeely III (Va.); Warrendale Sales,
agent XLV; Equine Equity.

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DESPITE THE ODDS

SPEIGHTSTOWN - LADY AL0MA, BY COZZENE • $1,500 LF

GSW by Leading Sire SPEIGHTSTOWN

Emerging sire of sires: son Mannings a leading freshman sire of 2014

On the board in 13 of 19 starts

including Grade 1 King’s Bishop S

Won or placed 2nd

in over half his starts

TON Rising Star

11-length debut winner

A $300,000 2Y0-in-training purchase

Inquiries to the farm or Larry Johnson 301.807.3803, ljohnson@verisconsulting.com

HERITAGE STALLIONS

Brooke Bowman, DVM & Louis Merryman (443)907-7122
319 Myrtle Wilson Road Chesapeake City, Maryland
www.heritagestallionsinc.com

ADAM COGLIANESE

MID-ATLANTIC REPORT

Much more than a number

T he Stable name for Maryland-based trainer

Dylan Smith is 537 Racing as you can tell from
her pink and black webbings featuring the simple 537
logo. The number comes from a Bible verse, and is a tribute
to her former employer Dickie Small. Matthew 5:37 is
part of the Sermon on the Mount and reads, ‘‘But let your
communications be. Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more
than these cometh of evil.” Loosely, it means let yes mean yes
and no mean no, or a simple yes or no should be sufficient. It
stands for honesty, directness and a get-to-the-point simphcity.
Smith isn’t overly religious and neither was Small, but as Smith
put it “the meaning was what he was all about.” Amen.

MILESTONES

Selected: Canada, as the host nation for the international
pavihon at the 2015 Preakness at Pimhco Race Course May 16.
Introduced in 2010, the international pavihon has parmered with
the embassies of Spain, Mexico, Denmark, Japan and Peru. The
infield area is an invitation-only destination catering to leaders
in business, culture and diplomacy. For more, see international-
pavihon.com.

Approved: A 2015 schedule including new summer dates
at Laurel Park, by the Maryland Racing Commission. Laurel
will conduct 11 days, Aug. 1 -23, as part of the Maryland Jockey
Club’s 149-day annual hve schedule that includes the traditional
fall/win ter slate at Laurel and the spring meet at Pimhco.

Relocated: To Fair Grounds from Laurel, jockey Forest
Boyce. A Maryland regular for five years, Boyce was encouraged
to make the move to New Orleans by recently retired jockey
Rosie Napravnik and will ride through the winter meet. Boyce’s
Maryland success is nearly 350 of her 490 career wins (through
Dec. 4). She was runner-up for an Echpse Award for outstanding
apprentice in 2010.

Released: A capital improvement plan for the Aiken
Horse Park in Aiken, S.C., with a ceremonial groundbreaking
Nov. 8. The park wiU be designed to accommodate a variety
of equine competitions and events, including show jumping,
steeplechase racing and carriage driving. The development will
reah 2 e the vision of R. Bruce Duchossois, who purchased the
66-acre field and steeplechase track in 2000 with the goal of
preserving it from residential development. Before his death in
2013, Duchossois formed the Aiken Horse Park Foundation.
Construction wiU take place this winter and segue into the 49th
Aiken Spring Steeplechase in March. In memory of Duchossois’
legacy and his gift to the community, the park’s main field will be
named Bruce’s Field.

Named: As recipients of the Thoroughbred Charities
of America’s Allaire duPont Leadership Award, Maryland-based

trainer Graham
Motion and his
wife Anita. The
Motions retired
stakes winner Icabad
Crane and placed
him with Olympic
eventer PhiUip
Dutton to start a
second career as an
event horse. Icabad
Crane has competed
successfully in
several events and
was named America’s Most Wanted Thoroughbred at the Retired
Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover in October. The
Motions are long-time supporters of TCA and other aftercare
groups. The award will be presented Jan. 10 in Lexington,

Ky. In addition, the Communication AQiance to Network
Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses will receive the TCA’s Industry
Service Award. CANTER was formed in 1997 and has 13
affihate organizations whose volunteers work to educate owners
and trainers about options for ex-racehorses. The organization
has placed more than 20,000 Thoroughbreds since its founding.
For more, see tca.org.

Formed: The Virginia Equine AQiance (VEA).

A collaboration of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association,
Virginia HBPA, Virginia Harness Horsemen’s Association and
Virginia Gold Cup, the organization will focus on reestablishing
as many racing opportunities as possible in 2015. David Ross,
Wayne Chatfield-Taylor, Will AQison and Charlie Dunavant make
up the interim board of directors. Jeb Hannum, former executive
director of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association, was
named as interim executive director and Debbie Easter was
named as interim president.

12 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

MAGGIE KIMMITT

Top 5 Sire
in Maryiand

Four G1 Performers

Past Two Years

13% ^ 1

Stakes Horses |

Lifetime, inci. 4

2014 G3 SW FANCY CRUZ
and CLASSIC GIACNROLL,

2nd Jerome S.-G2,

Smarty Jones S.-G3 /i

Inquiries to: Brooke Bowman, DVM & Louis Merryman (443)907-7122
Dermot Catty (416) 518-1449 www.AdenaStallions.com

319 Myrtle Wilson Road Chesapeake City, Maryland
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MID-ATLANTIC REPORT

Owner/Breeder:
James F. Miller

Resides: Hagerstown, Md.

Owns: About 45 horses; nine in training,
plus yearlings at Bridlewood Farm
in Florida, and mares and young horses at
his 20-acre farm near Charles Town, WVa.,
and at Mill Ridge Farm in Kentucky

Best Runner: Multiple graded stakes
winner Aurelia’s Belle.

Trainers: Wayne Catalano (Midwest),

Jeff Bonde (California), Keturah Obed-
Letts (West Virginia) and Jeff Runco
(West Virginia).

I n a few short years, Jim Miller has
ascended to the highest levels of rac¬
ing while still being a staunch supporter
of the West Virginia racing and breeding
programs.

After purchasing his first horse in
2010, the native of Berkeley Springs,
WVa., hit the national stage this past
year when Aurelia’s BeUe, whom he
bought at the 2012 Keeneland September
yearhng sale, won three graded stakes and
competed in the Grade 1 Kenmcky Oaks
at Churchill Downs.

Miller’s homebreds have proven
successful in the sales ring and at the
racetrack: at the 2012 Saratoga yearhng
sale, he sold a Tapit filly out of Sainthke
for $500,000, while his West Virginia-
breds Harlan’s Destiny won an allowance
at Churchill Downs Nov. 29, and
Dynamizzen captured a maiden special
weight at Charles Town Nov. 19.

Miller, who is in the finance business
for large projects such as airports, recently
purchased a small farm near Charles
Town. He and his wife, Terry, attend all
their horses’ races, no matter where they
occur.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred's Linda
Dougherty caught up with Miller in
December.

How did you get
interested in racing?

My parents took me to Charles
Town and Shenandoah Downs when
I was as young as 5.1 learned all about
mathematics from being at the track. I
used to pick up tickets on the floor to see
if I could make some money. One time

14 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

I found a ticket that was worth $5.80,1
thought it was a big deal. I had two uncles
that were trainers-Norman Haymaker,
who trained in the 1950s at places hke
Bowie and Hialeah, and Larry Miller,
who was based in West Virginia. As I
got older, I went to the racetrack a lot,
and about five or six years ago my Uncle
Larry encouraged me to get involved with
the West Virginia breeding program. I
bought my first horse. Cape Cod Bay, at
the Keeneland November sale in 2010 in
foal to Broken Vow (for $95,000), with
the intention of having her foal in West
Virginia, which she did. [In 2014] I sold
a West Virginia-bred Harlan’s Holiday
colt out of Cape Cod Bay for $330,000 at
Keeneland September.

What’s your strategy for success?

I try to buy into good female families.

I foal my mares in Kentucky and West
Virginia; the West Virginia-breds also
have excellent pedigrees, so if a horse
isn’t competitive on a national level, it can
come back to West Virginia and race here,
with the added bonus of breeder awards.

I keep my more expensive mares in
Kentucky, but the babies out of my West
Virginia mares are selling just as well. I did
my due diligence before I chose to work
with Mill Ridge Farm; I spoke to quite
a few farms and went down my list to
see which one felt the most comfortable.
MiU Ridge now helps me with buying and
seUing, as well as with determining which
staUions to breed my mares to; they have
my absolute trust and confidence. It’s
been very profitable so far; the first year
wasn’t so much, but years two and three
have been.

What has the success
of Aurelia’s Belle meant?

One of my goals was to have a fiUy
good enough to run in the Kentucky
Oaks-that was a hfelong dream. I was
happy I was able to get Aurelia’s Belle
for only $170,000; she was a httle on the
small side, but comes from one of the
best female families in the stud book. She
wasn’t ready to run during the summer
of her 2-year-old year, we waited until
October at Keeneland. Even though she
finished ninth in the Oaks she won two
graded stakes afterward and right now
she’s turned out for the rest of the year.
She’s stiU growing and maturing.

Describe your commitment
to the West Virginia program.

Two broodmares I bought at
auction (in 2011) were Stolen Heart and
MantekiUa. Stolen Heart produced my
first West Virginia-bred stakes winner,
Henny’s Princess (a Breeders Classics
stakes winner in 2013); MantekiUa
produced Harlan’s Destiny (a Breeders
Classics stakes winner in 2014). It’s very
important, very significant to me to win
the Breeders Classic races. That’s really
what it’s aU about when you breed to
race in West Virginia, and I’ve made a
big commitment to the state’s breeding
program. It’s also a big deal to my famUy;
my whole family was there for both wins,
and there were so many people that we
didn’t aU fit in the winner’s circle.

My Uncle Larry was involved with the
Charles Town HBPA, and he thought
with my legal background that I would be
able to help the organization. I thought
I’d give it a go, and got elected. One of
the biggest concerns is that competition
from other states with gaming revenue has
negatively impacted our revenue. I would
hke legislators to see our farms and meet
people in the horse industry—just my httle
farm, for example, affects 50-60 people.

What’s next?

My wife Terry and I just bought a
20-acre farm off Route 51 near Charles
Town, where we’U keep our West
Virginia-foahng mares and babies. Terry
is as passionate about the horses as I
am; she names them all and is guUty
of overfeeding them carrots. The farm
already had a barn and was pretty weU set
up, we put fencing in and I’d hke to add
some more acreage.

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MID-ATLANTIC REPORT

NAMES OF THE MONTH

Fourth and Long. Mixing sports but creating a catchy
name, Thomas Coulter’s 4-year-old Pennsylvania-bred is by
Grand Slam out of Look Deep.

Pilot Light. Brandon Kulp’s Pennsylvania-bred is by
Dte the Fuse out of Red Glare.

Wokeuponhomeplate. You’ve heard of people
being born on third base and thinking they hit a triple. . .
The Delaware Park-based claimer is by Grand Slam out of
Beg Borrow n Steal.

Scree. Kenton Stalheim’s 7-year-old Pennsylvania-bred
is by Quarry.

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The lidependent Voice for Mid-Atlaitic Radn^ and Breeding

Ben’s Cat earns top
Midlantic-Bred Poll honors

T he Racing Bi 2 , a website

covering Mid-Atlantic racing,
launched in April 2013 and
hits some of the bases Mid-Atlantic
Thoroughbred can’t-more timely news,
quicker racing coverage and other
bits and pieces. The independent
site, headed by Frank Vespe, can be
accessed at theracingbi 2 .e 0 m or via
a feed from midatlantictb.com.

A few recent highlights:

Handle, facilities keys for
Maryland racing, says Ritvo: A
conference call with Stronach Group
chief operating officer Tim Ritvo
suggested that change-but not too
much change-is coming to Maryland.

Maryland racing task force to
have broad scope: A new racing
task force to be created by the
Maryland Racing Commission will
have a wide-ranging charge and the
chance to ‘‘define its own scope of
work,” commission chairman Bruce
Quade told Vespe.

Making the grade: A deeper look
at the 2015 graded stakes schedule
reveals that although the number of
races run in the U.S. has dechned
more than 25 percent since the
grading system began in 1974, the
number of races receiving a grade
has risen by a whopping 40 percent.

Thankful for Ben’s Cat, Russell
Road and friends: It’s for those
runners - those hard-hitters who
come back year after year to entertain
us, whom we describe as ageless
though surely age affects them as it
does all of us — that we are thankful.

Bj Frank Vespe,

W hat do members of the media and racing and breeding industries have in
common with racing fans?

At least one thing, as it turns out: a love of last year’s top 8-year-old in
training, Maryland-bred Ben’s Cat.

The former group, voting in the final Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred/T\\Q Racing Bi 2
Top Midlantic-bred Poll of 2014, named the Parker’s Storm Cat gelding the season’s
top horse bred in the region.

Ben’s Cat, bred, owned, and trained by King Leatherbury, certainly did his share
to earn the honor. He won four of eight starts, including the Grade 3 Parx Dash
for the third consecutive year, and earned $458,350 to push his career earnings past
$2.3 million.

And the old-timer’s earned his popularity, too, running at a high level for five
consecutive seasons. Though he didn’t debut until 4, he’s made up for lost time ever
since, winning 28 races. In addition to the trio of Parx Dash titles, he’s also won the
Mister Di 2 at Laurel five times and the Jim McKay Turf Sprint (at Pimlico), Fabulous
Strike (at Penn National) and Maryland Million Turf Sprint (at Laurel) three each.

Given Ben’s immense popularity and sterling record, you might have expected the
vote for Top Midlantic-bred to be a landshde.

That it wasn’t speaks of the quality of horses bred in the region, and that was
one of the main reasons Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred and The Racing Bi 2 began the Top
Midlantic-bred Poll earher in 2014: to showcase that quality.

Take Real Solution and The Big Beast, for example.

Those two Grade 1 winners, the former bred in Pennsylvania and the latter in
Maryland, could do no better than finish third and fourth in the poll, respectively.

Real Solution won the Grade 1 Manhattan this year and also placed in the Grade 1
Man o’ War, while The Big Beast won the Grade 1 King’s Bishop during the season.

And then there was Pennsylvania-bred Miss Behaviour, second in the poU. She
won a Grade 3 during the season and placed in a trio of other graded races, including
a Grade 1. Which is not to ignore the three Virginia-breds-Valid, Thank You
Marylou and Long On Value—who rounded out the hst.

Or look at some of the horses that didn’t make the top seven: millionaires like
Eighttofasttocatch, Russell Road and Down Town AHen, or two-time 2014 graded
winner Daring Dancer.

The bolstering of the region’s breeding programs has been one of the most
significant benefits of the introduction of alternative gaming revenues. And the result
is a Mid-Atlantic roster that includes plenty of graded stakes-quality runners.

StiU, in the end, the voters agreed with what one of them e-mailed me after the
results were announced: “One can’t ignore the power of Ben.”

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J im Dandy winner and Travers runner-
up Wicked Strong enjoyed a nearly
three-month break at Centennial
Farm's Middleburg, Va., farm this fall/
winter. The son of Hard Spun returned
to Centennial, a 63-acre spread adjacent
to the Middleburg Training Center, for
the first time since being prepped there
as a yearling and 2-year-old. The two-time
stakes winner was due to rejoin trainer
Jimmy Jerkens in Florida for his 4-year-
old season.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred's Sean Clancy
talked to Centennial's farm trainer Paula
Parsons about her involvement with the
parmership and her experiences with
Wicked Strong.

Describe his early training.

We bought him at Keeneland
September (in 2012). Steve (Carr) and I go
to the sales and pick out these horses, he
came directly here from the sale, we broke
him, got him galloping over the winter,
got him OK'd from the gate. Some years
you have setbacks but this particular year,
this horse and Juba (a son of Tapit) were
very sound and very forward, they did
their early bree 2 es well and I sent them
out to Jimmy around the first of June.

This is the first time he's been home since
then, we bring them home and do a bone

scan and his was negative. It was so good,
we're giving him what will amount to be
about two and a half months rather than
three or four.

What was he like to be
around as a young horse?

He was a handful. We had this great
little ex-jockey who never got after him
and adored him. He went so well for him.
I don't know if we would have gotten him
going without him. He's not mean, he's
a happy horse. It's not a spook, it's not
any of the things that annoy you, he's just
feeling good.

How has he done this winter?

He's done great, he's had his time, he's
ready to go down [to Florida] and get
going. He's put on a ton of weight, most
of them win come back from the races
and look tucked up, but he really wasn't.
When you think of the distance and
number of races, he was in great shape.
His coat stiU looks good.

Are you surprised by his
success on the racetrack?

Honestly, I know people always
say this, but you can ask anyone in the
barn, he was always my favorite, he had

everything I like in a horse - he was big,
he was strong and he was scopey. He's so
well-proportioned. He's my kind of horse.

How long have you been
working with Centennial?

Since the very beginning. When we
started, I had a few stalls at the training
center, I met Don Little at the Saratoga
sale, I was working for Tyson Gilpin,
we're talking 30.. .33 years ago. He bought
a filly we had in that consignment and
you know like aU people they're hustling,

I gave him a card and said if you need
someone to train her, send her down to
Middleburg. About two weeks later, I got
this phone call, he sent me that filly and
three others. That was the beginning.

When did Centennial buy
this farm?

We were riding out one morning about
30 years ago and there was this place
with a for-sale sign on it. I called Don
Little and asked if he could put together
a partnership to buy it. And he did it. The
next year, he called me and said he wanted
to send Dr. Carr and me to the sale, he
said, ‘if you pick out winners, you'll get a
raise and if they can't run, you're going to
get fired.'

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Sire of 23 stakes horses, including SHESAORUMPTOO
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Sire of 20 stakes horses, including DOWN TOWN ALLEN ($1,029,387,
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PENSIONER ON PARADE by Maggie Kimmitt

^\/ ou can’t do that with a Thoroughbred.”

Y Samantha Graham heard that a lot when she
I adopted Fast Talking in 2012. But it takes only a brief
conversation with Graham to recogni 2 e that remarks meant
to deter simply serve to spur her on. The 21 -year-old niece
of Laurel Park-based trainer Robin Graham was looking for
a horse to use in Western speed events-barrel racing, pole
bending, keyhole, flag race, etc.

^dn high school I worked off lessons and riding time. My
dad would always take me down to the racetrack on Saturdays;
Ld get there around 5 a.m. So I had no social Hfe per se; it was
all about the horses. I worked for my aunt and also for Rachel
Lively for a little bit.”

When it came time to find a horse, Samantha sought plenty
of opinions. Some suggested a Quarter Horse. Robin had other
ideas and mentioned a horse on her farm.

‘‘There’s no reason that a Thoroughbred can’t do it, and this
horse tries to do whatever you want him to do,” she told her
niece. The horse was the third foal of Skeedattle Associates’
multiple stakes winner Gin Talking (Allen’s Prospect—Chattin,
by Rollicking). Trained early in her career by Hamilton Smith,
Gin Talking won three consecutive stakes at Laurel as a 2-year-
old in 1999: the Maryland MiUion Lassie, Heavenly Cause and
Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship.

Transferred to Robin Graham’s barn the next year. Gin
Talking repeated her stakes triple with scores in the Maryland
MiUion Oaks, Anne Arundel Stakes-G3 and the Broad Brush
Stakes against colts. It was enough to earn her Maryland-bred
awards as 3-year-old fiUy champion and Horse of the Year in
2000.

Retired early in 2001, Gin Talking banked $348,206 from
seven wins in 11 starts. Her first two foals were fillies-graded
stakes winner Dixie Talking (Dixieland Band) and the multiple
stakes-placed Keep On Talking (Royal Academy). Dixie Talking’s
son Done Talking (Broken Vow) won the lUinois Derby-G3
for Smith in 2012 and gave the trainer his first starter in the
Kentucky Derby-Gl.

Hopes were understandably high when Gin Talking dehvered
a strong bay colt by Hennessy on Jan. 27, 2005. Offered at the
2006 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Fast Talking was a
$500,000 RNA. The Skeedattle parmers brought him home and
sent him to Robin.

His maiden-breaking first start at Pimlico in June 2007 was
encouraging enough that he immediately moved to stakes
company. He showed little in his next two efforts but earned
confidence and a win in a first-level aUowance at Laurel in April
2008. Back in stakes company two weeks later, he was fifth to
Icabad Crane in the Federico Tesio Stakes at Pimlico.

Undeterred, Fast Talking’s connections sent him to Belmont
for a crack at the Peter Pan Stakes-G2. Waiting quietly in the
receiving barn before the race. Fast Talking suffered what Robin
believes was a career-altering injury.

“He was in his staU and a pigeon flew up in his face while
he was standing there tied in the front, waiting. He slammed
backward into the back waU, and we all think that’s when
something happened. And he ran a horrible race that day-it
was just terrible.”

He finished last of nine, beaten nearly 60 lengths. Fast
Talking missed the next nine months, returning at Gulfstream
Park in February 2009 for trainer Dale Capuano. In six starts
over two more seasons, including one for a $10,000 claiming
price, the horse finished no better than fifth. And that was
enough for Skeedattle to close the curtain.

20 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

The owners asked Robin if she wanted the colt. She didn’t
take long to answer, though she did have Fast Talking gelded to
help him fit into life away from the racetrack.

‘‘No matter how nice they are, if they ever get time off they
have to be alone, and that just seems horrible to me,” she said
of colts off the track. “As far as dealing with him day to day he
didn’t need to be a gelding, but someday someone was going to
want to turn him out, so it seemed real wrong not to do it. I took
him because I Hked him; I certainly didn’t have a need for him. I
didn’t want him going someplace where somebody didn’t think
he was as cool as I did.”

Samantha fits that description and has taken an oath to never
sell.

“He’s my main man,” she said of the horse she calls Cash
because he eats her money and was once a $500,000 yearling.

Most of Samantha’s friends ride Western, and she had always
wanted to pursue it. Robin had used Fast Talking as a pony at
Laurel for a short while, so he was accustomed to Western tack.
But plenty of people offered discouraging opinions about using
an off-the-track Thoroughbred for the events.

“Everyone told me he couldn’t do it,” Samantha said, “and I
said ‘l^j-he can.’”

As it happened, she took Fast Talking to a show less than 24
hours after bringing him home. Looking for some education, she
planned on riding him around, not competing. Of course, he
ended up going in several classes and handling it all with grace.

Just another day in the life of a Thoroughbred.

Naturally, it’s been suggested that she compete in hunter/
jumper shows with him, but she much prefers the laid-back,
casual atmosphere of the Western events. Fast Talking, for his
part, seems agreeable to pretty much anything.

“I love jumping,” Samantha said. “I work on it with him, but
I don’t really like getting all dressed up. I love being able to wear
my cowboy boots, jeans and a nice shirt.”

She’s determined to keep the Skeedattle partners and her aunt
in the loop, sharing videos and photos of the horse honing his
new skills.

“They all think it’s great,” she said, “but I would say that
everyone is kind of surprised that I’m doing aU of this with him.”

As for the friends who swore she couldn’t do this with a
Thoroughbred? They’re believers now too, calling Fast Talking
“cow-y”—pretty much the highest praise one can bestow upon
mounts used for the sorting and penning events. And her
experience with him has been so positive that she recently
adopted another young Thoroughbred retired from training-
5-year-old Scipion gelding Meredith’s Joy who raced for Benny
Fehciano.

“I call him Chief,” Samantha said. “I got him in July; he came
off the track in March. He’s pretty quiet. He and Cash are in
a field with seven other horses. All the other horses are doing
their thing, but those two are off by themselves. They have been
best buddies since I got him. He is in training right now, and
if it works out the way I want it to, he will be my main barrel
horse. I would never have anything other than an off-the-track
Thoroughbred now.”

Robin Graham couldn’t be happier with the way things have
worked out for Fast Talking.

“He was a horse who tried. He always did the best he could
do. He just got looked after because everybody loved him so
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Editorial

by joe Clancy

A 2015
to-do list
for region’s
racing industry

J anuary is for lists. So here’s mine.
Fifteen things for racing to work on in
2015, not really in any particular order.

1. Uniformity. I know there has been
progress, but I want to know the rules are
the same everywhere. And I want to know
the penalties carry weight everywhere. And
I can’t be alone.

2. Medication rules. You want to move
toward the end of raceday medication?
Start by decreasing the maximum allow¬
able Lasix dosage and go from there, but
not until you’ve got uniformity.

3. Real penalties. People are tired of
drawn-out appeals to suit the schedules of
trainers and jockeys given suspensions by
stewards or commissions. People are also
tired of trainers simply transferring horses
to assistants and moving on with business
as usual. Couldn’t racing create a sensible.

legal, fast appeals process that helps tracks
and commissions do their jobs and gives
participants fair hearings? What a concept.

4* More horses hke Eighttofasttocatch.
To become racing fans, people need horses
to foUow not just horses to bet. Year after
year, he left his races on the racetrack
and his excuses back at the barn—win¬
ning three Maryland Million Classics, four
Jennings Handicaps and aU the rest.

5« More horses like Ben’s Cat, RusseU
Road, Lucy’s Bob Boy and Down Town
Allen. See above.

6. Safety. Only in Thoroughbred rac¬
ing is a national safety initiative optional.
Tracks apply to be accredited by the NTRA,
and many have, but some don’t and never
wiU. Even those that get accredited have
varying levels of standards. There reaUy
ought to be a tiered safety standard for aU
tracks. Base it on purses or racing days or
some other variable, but make it actually
mean something.

7. Cooperation. You really want to
make progress in the region? Start working
together racetracks and racing states. Now.
You’re deahng with the same population
of horses, owners and trainers. Share them.

8. More cooperation. How much fun
would it be to have a day’s racing for
regional-breds. The Mid-Adantic Million
or something. Move it around, open it to
horses bred in Maryland, Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Virginia and New Jersey.
Then work toward figuring out how to
involve states with smaller crops-Dela¬
ware and the CaroHnas. Then let them run.
I see big fields, and lots of fun trying to
figure out the winners.

9. Experiences. I had lunch at the new
Tips Restaurant at Laurel in December and
it was good. Really. The food, the atmo¬
sphere, the televisions, the company were
aU first rate. Keep it going.

10. A sense of history. Progress and
modernization are great, but don’t forget
what got us here. There are certain staples
of Mid-Atlantic racing that should be
preserved and celebrated. Laurel’s pad¬

dock; the Preakness weathervane; that
giant horse head sculpture at Parx (which
isn’t aU that historic but it sure is cool);
the mountain view at Penn National; the
paddock at Delaware Park; there’s more
(there’s always more) but the point is don’t
change it aU just because you can.

11. Sales. At the last two Fasig-Tipton
Midlantic sales, people talked about the
buyers not being there because the horses
weren’t there or the horses not being there
because the buyers weren’t there. Like the
chicken or the egg argument, which comes
first? Well, it starts at home. Regional
breeders should sell their horses in the
region. Buyers will come.

12. Stallions (and mares). Related to No.
11, one criticism of the region’s market is
the depth of the breeding industry. Better
sires bring better mares and it’s nice to see
the additions to Maryland’s roster over the
past two years. Nature is in charge, but
a breakout stallion that makes an impact
nationally should be the goal.

13. Jump racing. Pm on a task force
that’s supposed to be addressing growth
and development and at some point we
called jump racing ‘‘the first second career.”
And that’s a good place to start. Own a flat
horse that hit a ceding? Before you look for
a cheaper race, think about having some¬
body evaluate him or her as a steeplechase
prospect. You never know.

14. Crossover. Related to No. 13, the
back-and-forth of people and horses
between flat racing and jump racing is
a good sign. Virginia’s plan for some
flat races at steeplechase meets, hke the
October card at the International Gold
Cup, is a good one. Expand on that con¬
cept.

15. Aftercare. The progress is astound¬
ing. More Thoroughbreds are doing more
things in more places than ever, and more
people know about it. But the job will
never be finished. Racing can always do
better by its horses.

Happy New Year. Now get to work. See
you at the races. ^

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Operation Next

The Stronach Group makes changes,
sets sights on improvements in Maryland

By Tom Law

A week after Thanksgiving and
two days before Gulfstream Park
opened its doors for the popular
winter meeting, Tim Ritvo was more than
1,000 miles away in Maryland.

Such is the new normal, or at least the
new direction of The Stronach Group as
it plans to put the same kind of attention
into its properties in the Free State that it
put into the Sunshine State over much of
the last decade. The latest move came in
late November with news that one execu¬
tive was leaving, another was coming on
board and that Ritvo, chief operating offi¬
cer of The Stronach Group and in charge
at Gulfstream since 2011, would be much
more involved in Maryland.

^‘Florida is healthy and moving in the
right direction, not that you can ever stop
in this business,’’ Ritvo said. ^‘California is
definitely moving in the right direction and
now we’re going to emphasi 2 e all of our
efforts on Maryland. We’re going to try and
bring Maryland back to where it should be
in the sport. Maryland is definitely the next
big project.”

The latest project involves a key change
in leadership at the Maryland Jockey Club.

Tom Chuckas resigned from his posi¬
tions as president and chief operating offi¬
cer of the MJC effective Nov. 30, ending a
more than six-year run with the operation
that runs racing at Laurel Park and Pimlico
Race Course. Ritvo moves into a more
direct management role-he will spht time
four days to three days in Maryland and
Florida-and The Stronach Group hired
veteran racing executive Sal Sinatra.

Sinatra, director of racing at Parx
Racing since 1999, joined the MJC as vice-
president and general manager effective

24 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

Dec. 1. Ritvo, Sinatra and other members
of the MJC management team got started
in earnest on the latest re-dedication of
The Stronach Group’s efforts in Maryland
a week later.

So what exactly did they get started on?

Ritvo outlined three specific areas that
management will focus on to bring Mary¬
land racing back to a more prominent
position not only in the region but the East
Coast and North America. MJC plans to:

■ Improve facilities at Pimlico and
Laurel;

■ Concentrate on the day-to-day rac¬
ing product by lowering takeout
rates and working to improve field
sizes; and

■ Develop a cooperative circuit with
other tracks in the Mid-Atlantic
region.

“There are two parts to this: Obviously
how do you fix what we have now and how

do we get more eyeballs on the product?”
Ritvo said. “There are no silver buUets.
It’s a lot of hard work and grinding. How
do you change the culture that people
just come in and go to work and they just
accept things? How do you make employ¬
ees become owners of the property? Is the
reason people aren’t watching something
I consider to be a decent product because
the takeout rate is too high?

“All of those things are going to be
worked on. These aren’t select problems to
Laurel or Maryland, they’re industry prob¬
lems. But we’re going to look at Maryland.
The thing is a lot of our focus is going
to go on Maryland because we honestly
beheve that Maryland has a very, very rich
horse culmre. The breeders, the people
involved, the horsemen and the fans want
to see Maryland survive and they want to
see it flourish.”

A more specific plan on how the MJC
will address the three target areas is expect¬
ed this spring.

Plant improvements

Changes and improvements to the facil¬
ities, including stabling and housing for
backstretch workers, at Laurel and Pimlico
is much needed. The Preakness Stakes is
obviously tied to any changes at Pimlico
and improvements there are expected to
continue to enhance the second jewel of
the Triple Crown.

“The facihties,” trainer Tim Keefe,
president of the Maryland Thoroughbred
Horsemen’s Association, said when asked
what he’d hke to see addressed first. “The
Pimlico facihty and the stabling. Improve¬
ments to the dorm rooms, they need it.

“I would also say the customer service
is something that needs to be addressed.
Paying attention to the customers, trying
to get new customers and keeping the ones
we have. Opening Day here at Laurel this
past year was a disgrace. I think everybody
knows that. AH of those things are going
to be addressed now. I truly beheve that
things are going to be different. Things are
going to start picking up here and changes
are going to happen pretty quick.”

The last significant changes to the Mary¬
land tracks came a decade ago with
improvements to the main and turf courses
at Laurel.

“We have old buildings that need some
upkeep,” Ritvo said. ‘We need investments
into these facihties. We need a master plan
somewhere down the road and it’s not far
away. We wiU have a master plan. Ah of
that is in the works and wih be discussed
with the horsemen and the racing com¬
mission.”

The Stronach Group commenced a
massive renovation project at Gulfstream
Park around the same time Laurel’s racing
surfaces were reworked, tearing down the
grandstand, conducting the popular winter
meeting in tents and finally opening a new
facihty complete with casinos, restaurants,
retah shopping and other amenities.

The changes at Gulfstream yielded myr¬
iad complaints from horsemen and racing
fans, who said it was cramped, forced the
racing crowd to mingle too much with casi¬
no players, offered poor sight hnes from
some of the seats and felt detached. Many
of those complaints are rare these days, as
years have passed and changes continue to
be made at the new Gulfstream.

“Yes, we took a lot of hits at Gulfstream
Park when we knocked down the old budd¬
ing. Ah of that is gone now,” Ritvo said.
“People see the vision. It’s a great, enjoy¬
able experience. Yes, there are some flaws.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 25

nothing’s perfect. At this point we can’t
house the Breeders’ Cup, but we have plans
on how to do that.

“The same kind of thought process will
take place in Maryland. How do we con¬
solidate services? How do we get horses
and horsemen together so we are racing
under one jurisdiction or one facility with
a couple training centers? Those are long¬
term plans that wiU be laid out clearly and
everybody wiU be supportive of them as
we move down the road.”

The product

Ritvo’s trip to Maryland in early
December also came a few days before the
latest strong Saturday racing program at
Laurel this fall and winter.

The Jim McKay Maryland Million was
first, attracting a crowd of 18,870 for the
29th edition of the event and total handle
of $2,801,718.

Laurel hosted two other stakes-heavy
cards that attracted strong interest nation¬
ally before the year was out—the Nov. 15
Fall Festival of Racing anchored by the
Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash, and
a Dec. 6 four-stakes card highlighted by
Eighttofasttocatch’s final career start and
win in the $100,000 Jennings Handicap.

Ritvo, Keefe and Sinatra all acknowl¬
edged that the current product in Maryland
is strong, while saying the trick will be for
it to maintain or improve and to gain more
interest nationwide.

The De Francis card did that, thanks
largely to its placement on the calendar
two weeks after the Breeders’ Cup World
Championships and a little less than two
weeks before Thanksgiving. The reception
nationwide was strong and total handle on
the day was $3,237,552. The Dec. 6 card
was also strong, especially considering the
time of year and blackouts of the signal at
several tracks and simulcast facilities, post¬
ing total handle of $1,465,814.

The big Saturday cards don’t tell the
whole story, however, and Ritvo isn’t
impressed with how things have gone as
of late.

“I’m honestly disappointed in our per¬
formance when I look at our handle num¬
bers and where we fit among the country’s
racetracks, with good product,” he said.
^We have good horsemen, we have good
trainers, we have a good field sHe, a good
racing secretary in Georganne Hale who
does a good job putting a good program
out there. Nowit’s my job, Sal’s job and our
company’s job to make people watch us.
And we’U find out why they’re not watch¬
ing us. Whether its adjustments in takeout.

experiments like that that we have the con¬
duct to see, we’re going to try.”

Sinatra is well versed in putting together
signature events—he was one of the key
players in running the Pennsylvania Derby
and Cotillion Stakes on the same pro¬
gram at Parx and subsquently developing
it into the biggest racing day of the year
in Pennsylvania. A native of New Jersey
who got his start as a copy clerk with
Daily Racing Form when its offices were
in Hightstown, Sinatra also knows where
Maryland racing fits in the region and that
is part of what lured him away from Parx.

“It’s a great opportunity. I’ve been at
Parx for nearly 16 years and they’ve been
great to me, but I got an opportunity to
be part of the Maryland team and the
Preakness, which to me is exciting,” Sinatra
said. “Maryland racing has a lot more his¬
tory than Pennsylvania racing.

“They’ve got an influx of new money
and are probably trying to do what they
did at Parx and strengthen the program. I
know they’ve been waiting on some change
down there. Tim has some ideas. I’ve got
some ideas. So we’U sit down and start
working full force in getting those things
to happen.”

Cooperative movement

Money will go a long way toward help¬
ing the revamped MJC management team
accomplish the first two areas outlined by
Ritvo.

Significant investments to renovate the
facihties will produce noticeable and tan¬
gible results.

Dollars spent on marketing and pro¬
motion of the day-to-day Maryland racing
product, money added to the purse struc¬
ture with a goal of increasing field size and
cutting back on the amount taken from
horseplayers by reducing takeout should
theoretically increase handle.

Money may or may not help accomplish
any cooperation in the region.

Ritvo said The Stronach Group is
involved in discussions with tracks in Dela¬
ware, Virginia and Parx to possibly develop
a collaborative schedule and avoid the cur¬
rent mish mash of overlapping race dates.

The MJC’s 2015 schedule, approved by
the racing commission in November, calls
for 149 days of racing-at Laurel through
March 28; at Pimlico April 2 through June
6; a new, 11 -day stand at Laurel in August;
and Laurel’s fall meet Sept. 10 through the
end of the year.

In the past, some collaboration was
in play when Virginia’s Colonial Downs
raced and Laurel closed for the summer.
Parx races aU year and Delaware Park runs

from mid-May to mid-October, so there’s
plenty of overlap with Maryland, leaving
those three tracks frequently competing
for horses in the same pool, reducing field
si 2 es and subsequently creating an unat¬
tractive product for horseplayers.

Talking about cooperation and acm-
aUy achieving it are two completely dif¬
ferent animals and an example of how
difficult it can be to pull off played out as
the Gulfstream meet opened and Laurel
hosted its four stakes Dec. 6.

Simulcast pricing was at the center
of a dispute between Monarch Content
Management Co., a subsidiary of The
Stronach Group which acts as a simulcast
purchase and sales agent for numerous
North American tracks including the MJC,
and the Mid-Atlantic Cooperative, which
represents some of the aforementioned
tracks that could help form a regional rac¬
ing circuit.

The two sides could not come to an
agreement over pricing and horseplay¬
ers from 23 tracks-including Parx, Penn
National, Delaware, Colonial and Charles
Town—were unable to bet on races from
popular winter venues Gulfstream, Laurel
and Tampa Bay Downs.

The Mid-Atlantic group said proposals
in mid-October “included unprecedented
rate increases, a limited term and revised
conditions that altered prior agreement
terms.”

Monarch contends that the “The Mid-
Atlantic Cooperative was formed over a
decade ago in order to keep the price that
its member tracks pay for simulcast signals
as low as possible. Unfortunately, this
business model does nothing to reward
racetracks and their horsemen partners for
investing in their racing product in order to
keep and create fans.”

Ritvo indicated the dispute wasn’t so
much about other racetracks that carry
the signal, but other simulcast outlets like
Standardbred tracks and off-track betting
parlors.

“I feel strongly that the tracks and the
horsemen deserve a fair share,” he said.
“With that said the places like Philadelphia,
Charles Town, who run a full card of
racing, they should get charged a brick
and mortar price. Places like Rockingham
Park, which hasn’t run a race in two years,
they should be treated like OTBs and be
charged like OTBs. It’s very simple. I don’t
think it’s that comphcated. I think places
like Rockingham have joined the Mid-
Atlantic just to get in for the one price that
fits aU and we don’t believe one price fits
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Mid-Atlantic racehorses
tull of success stories
as New Year dawns

T hey’re old and young, male and female.
Bay, brown and chestnut. They come
from West Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Kentucky and points in between.
Some will run this year. A few earned a
retirement.

All matter.

And while they certainly are not the only
ones, they are 15 notable Thoroughbred
racehorses for the Mid-Atlantic in 2015,
based on 2014 performance and news¬
worthiness for the coming season. And we
caught up with them for a quick look back
and an even quicker look ahead.

Ben’s Cat

Maryland-bred keeps on going.

Added four wins in 2014 to pass
$2.3 million in earnings. On vacation for
winter with eyes on 9-year-old campaign.

Looking for a hot new winter vacation
spot? Think Ashland, Va. It’s the new cold-
weather home of Ben’s Cat, who just com¬
pleted his fifth season of excellence for
owner/trainer/breeder King Leatherbury.

The 9-year-old relocated to Stephanie
Nixon’s place in Virginia for his annual
respite when his previous spot in Warwick,
Md., closed. Not that it matters, the sched¬
ule will still be the same. Ben’s Cat will do
pretty much nothing for the better part of
three months.

‘‘He’ll stay down there until it’s time
to pick him up again,” said Leatherbury.
“We’ll stick with what works. There’s no
sense changing the schedule now.”

No, there isn’t. Ben’s Cat put together
another standout season in 2014 with four
wins from eight starts and $458,350 in the
bank. He won the Mister Di 2 Stakes, Jim
McKay Turf Sprint, Parx Dash-G3 and
Fabulous Strike. Of course, he’d won them
aU before. His nearly two-year streak of
top-three finishes came to an end with a

28 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

fourth in Belmont Park's Grade 3 Jaipur in
June. Even that was one of his best efforts,
however, as he stepped outside the com¬
forts of the Md-Atlantic for a change and
missed third by a neck after a rough trip.

He went right back to winning a month
later in the Parx Dash and closed 2014 with

a repeat score in the Fabulous Strike on
dirt at Penn National.

‘‘That might have been the best race of
his Hfe, which is ama 2 ing, cra 2 y when you
think about it," Leatherbury said. “He was
8 years old. I say the same thing all the time
but he's as good as ever and I expect him

to come back as a 9-year-old (this year) and
probably as a 10-year-old."

Ben's Cat won't return to training until
early February, with eyes on a sixth con¬
secutive win in the Mister DH.

- Joe Clancy

Delaunay

Maryland-bred adds Grade 3 Aristides, two other stakes to growing resume.

Maggi Moss remembers the conversa¬
tion, the back-and-forth with trainer Tom
Amoss hke it was yesterday. They were
debating the potential claim of Delaunay,
a Maryland-bred son of Smoke Glacken
who'd raced exclusively in the Mid-Atlantic
for nearly four seasons and showed up at
ChurchiU Downs in May 2012.

He'd won six of 30 starts and was in a
$40,000 claiming race going 7 furlongs. He
was nearly midway through his 5-year-old
season, had changed hands a few times
over the winter and didn't really stand out
in the flesh.

“I remember it because those were the
days. What do I mean by ‘those were the
days?' There used to be a reaUy strong kind
of middle-class claiming game," Moss said
in December, more than 2y2 years after
she and Amoss won a three-way shake for
Delaunay. “When I say middle class I'm
talking 30, 40, 50,000. They used to be
reaUy strong, three or four years ago, and
I've always hked hard-knocking, sound
good horses. I do remember I loved him."

Amoss was concerned because
Delaunay had been claimed in four con¬
secutive starts in early 2012, moving from
trainer Dickie Small to Jamie Ness to Hugh
McMahon back to Ness and then to Dane
Kobiskie.

Moss gave her trainer a green light, tell¬
ing him, “I really, really want this horse."

Going on three years later, Delaunay is
stiU in the barn and has never run for a tag.

“Everybody asks now, ‘what did you do
with him?' We just gave him lots of time,"

Moss said. “If you look at this horse, I just
saw him over Thanksgiving, and I thought,
‘God he looks nine months pregnant.' He
carries a lot of weight. He's a good keeper.
He's kind of a fat old guy."

Delaunay has certainly earned what he
gets. He's won 10 of 17 starts since the
claim, aU stakes including a pair of graded
races, and earned $819,591. He passed
$1 million in career earnings in 2014, with
17 total wins from 48 starts.

Amoss says Delaunay is the best claim
he's ever made, a pretty strong statement
from a conditioner with more than 3,000
wins, 10 training titles at Fair Grounds
and scores of others around the Midwest.
Moss doesn't quantify it that way, but
there's no denying her fondness for the
bay gelding.

“He's just a laid back, cool horse," she
said. “I'm lucky, lucky to own him. Very
lucky."

Delaunay probably feels the same way,
especially considering the goodness that
awaits him annually

Because she says she gets nervous “if
they've been running for a year straight,"
Moss doesn't hesitate to send her horses
for some down time to Del Lowell's La
Croix Training Center in La Grange, Ky,
not far from Louisville. Delaunay's been
to La Croix the last two years, first in 2013
after finishing fourth in the Grade 1 Alfred
G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga and then again
last summer after finishing third in a small
stakes at Mountaineer.

“Knock on wood he's been the sound¬
est horse in the barn, but he just seems to
always do well if you just kick him out and
let him eat grass for 60 days," Moss said.
“That's what we've always done with him
and not because he's unsound. Just give
him time if he starts to look Hke he's taihng
off, after hard races Hke at Mountaineer,
then we send him to the green grass of
Kentucky and let him eat grass. It always
seems to pay off."

Delaunay came back from his 2013
respite and won three stakes, including the
Grade 3 Aristides at Churchill. He added
a second Thanksgiving Handicap in late
November at Fair Grounds, setting up
more runs at that track in 2015 and pos¬
sibly a new chaUenge.

“I think we're going to try him on the
turf," Moss said of a return to the surface
where Delaunay raced five times from
2010 to 2012 with some success. “He's
doing so good, there's no need to leave him
in the barn until February."

- Tom Taw

Down Town Allen

Charles Town heroine won six races (five stakes) in 2014 to pass the $1 million mark
in career earnings. She eyes (what else?) a stakes at Charles Town in March to start 2015.

Describing Down Town AUen as a
pleasant surprise would be an understate¬
ment. West Virginia's newest miUionaire
went 6-for-6 in 2014, surpassing the seven-
figure mark in the $50,000 My Sister Pearl
Stakes in November at Charles Town.

And to think, John Casey—the man who
bred, broke, trains and owns Down Town
Allen-never thought she'd amount to
much.

“She's one of those fiUies that didn't
want to do anything," Casey said. “She

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 29

COADY PHOTOGFWHY

NIKKI SHERMAN

always had an attitude, didn't want to go.
A lot of trainers would've given up on her.
I probably would've given up on her but I
didn't have too many horses that year and
figured, ‘well, you've got to have some¬
thing in the stalls.' "

The year was 2009 and Down Town
AUen, named after Casey's son Allen, just
didn't seem interested in training. The
second foal of Like Down Town changed
Casey's mind, in a hurry.

‘All of a sudden, one day, it aU just
clicked," he said. “We worked her, it was
me and a friend of mine [watching], and
I said, ‘was that my horse? I think it was.'

Ever since then, you couldn't ask for a bet¬
ter horse."

The now 8-year-old Windsor Castle
mare has passed nearly every test since
those early days, while surpassing every
expectation. She has gotten better with age
and following her perfect 2014 campaign,
she's now amassed $1,029,387.

She has won 25 of her 41 starts, 24 at
Charles Town. She's also more versatile
than a Leatherman Tool.

In 2014, she won stakes races at four
distances from AVi furlongs to 1 Vs miles.

She also repeated in multiple stakes,
adding 2014 scores to previous titles in

Eighttofasttocatch

Maryland-bred won two of three in 2014, and was retired after a fourth
consecutive score in the Jennings Handicap at Laurel Park Dec. 6.

“If I had a dollar for every time..."

Tim Keefe says it nonchalantly, a throw¬
away hne at the end of a roiling week
when his best horse Eighttofasttocatch
won the Jennings Handicap for the fourth
consecutive time and retired on the spot.
Planned, the exit couldn't have worked
out better for Sylvia Heft's now 9-year-old
Maryland-bred gelding as he eclipsed the
miUion-dollar mark in earnings, becoming
the 24th Maryland-bred to accomphsh the
feat. Eighttofasttocatch danced off the
stage, an encore performance before head¬
ing home to Keefe's 27-acre farm in Sandy
Spring, Md., to try an eventing career with
Keefe's wife Rumsey.

But if Keefe had a dollar. . .

“. . . for every time I'm
asked why I'm retiring
him," Keefe said in early
December.

He'd be a rich man.
Eighttofasttocatch won
five of his last six starts,
including his third triumph
in the Maryland Milhon
Classic and his fourth
Jennings by a cool 10y4
lengths. In each of the run¬
nings of the one-mrn mile
Jennings, the front-running
chestnut led at every call
every time-20-for-20. With
jockey Sheldon Russell for
the first two and Forest
Boyce for the latter two,
Eighttofasttocatch led 25
rivals through a quarter-
mile, a half, three-quarters,
seven-eighths and at the finish. The biggest
margin? His winning distance in this year's
Jennings. Time? His first quarter ranged
from :24.06 in 2014 to :24.81 in 2012. His
final times ranged from 1:35.76 in 2011 to
1:36.86 in 2012.

So why retire him? Because it feels right
to Keefe, and everybody else.

“He's done everything anybody's asked
him, he gave us our first miUion-dollar
earner, he taught a bunch of us. . . he
taught me how to train better, he taught
Peter [Brown-Whale] how to be a bet¬
ter exercise rider, he taught Sheldon and
Forest to be better riders, they both have
told me that," Keefe said. “He doesn't owe
anybody anything. It's not always about

the West Virginia Jefferson Security Bank
“Cavada" Breeders Classic (2012), My
Sister Pearl (2012), Sadie Hawkins (2011,
2012, 2013), Fancy BucHes (2011, 2012,
2013) and Original Gold (2013).

“Everybody wants a Kentucky Derby
winner but we can't all have one," Casey
said. “If you can't have one like that, you
hope you can have one like Down Town
Allen. If you were breeding horses in this
area or any area, you'd love to have a horse
hke that."

- Dan Tordjman

money, maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think
I am. We always retire them after they get
hurt, he's not hurt. It just seems like the
right thing to do. This has always been the
goal, win a million dollars, win the Jennings
for the fourth time, end on a high note and
move on."

For the record, the chesmut son of Not
For Love and the Nice Catch mare Too
Fast to Catch won 17 of his 49 starts. Bred
by Dark Hollow Farm and HerringsweU
Stable, he finished second seven times and
third another four. He earned $1,072,970.
Keefe picked him out as a yearhng at
Fasig-Tipton Midlantic in 2007 and spent
$47,000 on behalf of Sylvia Heft's hus¬
band Arnie, who died in March 2014.

Eighttofasttocatch will move on to
Keefe's farm as an event prospect for his
wife Rumsey or their daughter Ryan.

The horse knows the place well. He's
freshened there for a few months every
year. He'll do the same this year. Laurel
Park hosted a retirement ceremony Dec.
13. A few days later Keefe shipped his big
horse home from Laurel for the final time.
Back at the farm, he'll get turned out dur¬
ing the day for a few weeks before hving
out with 16-year-old retired broodmare
Donebroke. In the spring, he'll begin his
segue from racehorse to eventer.

“Rumsey told me the first day, ‘Don't
mess this one up, I Hke him,"' Keefe said.
“Well, I guess I didn't mess him up because
he's coming home."

- Sean Clancy

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Embarr

Virginia-bred mare won her third Brookmeade and second Dahlia Stakes
during her final campaign for owner/trainer/breeder Susan Cooney.

Considering that Susan Cooney turned
down what she called a substantial offer
during Embarr’s 3-year-old season it comes
as no surprise that she’s decided to keep
the soon-to-be broodmare’s future foals.

“I don’t think I could ever sell any of her
children,” Cooney said in early December,
not long after a trip to Kenmcky to look at
potential future mates for the now retired
7-year-old daughter of Royal Academy
^‘We had the chance to sell her as a 3-year-
old for a pretty good chunk of change and
Pat [her husband] and I thought about,
decided we’re always going to have to work
for a living and the joy of having a horse
tike that and winning races and going to the
big races was worth more than the money
to us.”

Embarr heads to the breeding shed
later this year after a career that started
when Cooney bought her dam. In too
Deep, out of a field as a weanling for $1 in
1999. The Virginia-bred daughter of The
Deep (Ire) won six races, placed in a stakes
and earned $122,141 for Cooney.

More importantly she produced
Embarr, who retired with nine wins in 31
starts and earnings of $358,247. She was a
five-time stakes winner-three editions of
the Brookmeade for Virginia-breds and
two of the Dahlia—and was second in
Belmont Park’s Grade 3 Athenia in 2012.

She never got a graded stakes win, but not
for lack of trying as 14 of her 31 career
starts came in graded races in Illinois,
Kentucky, New York, Maryland, Virginia
and Canada.

‘‘It’s one of those small-trainer, even-
smaUer-breeder and the horse-of-a-Hfetime
stories,” Cooney said. “She ran well this
year. She was a very sound mare and it
was a tough decision whether to retire her
or not. She just could not seem to win
that graded race. There are so few other
oppormnities to run her and I hate to
keep running her where she couldn’t win.
I would have loved to get that graded win.

but she got graded stakes-placed, so at least
she did that.”

Cooney picked Exchange Rate over
Sky Mesa for Embarr’s first mate, liking
the chances for the son of Danzig to add
a little size to the fumre foal. Embarr is
“only about 15.3 standing on her tip-toes
and needs a tittle size and bone.”

Embarr will return to her native state if
and when she gets in foal.

She’ll take up residence at Lee Ann
Smith’s Paradigm Farm in Warrenton,
where Cooney foals her mares and where
Embarr was born.

Embarr won two of seven starts in
2014-the Dahlia in the spring at Pimlico
and the Brookmeade in the fall at Laurel-
and earned $108,602 for the year. It wasn’t
her best season, but she still leaves a sizable
hole in the stable.

Cooney will have a 2-year-old half-sister
to Embarr in the barn this year, a filly by
Artie Schiller named Aine. Pronounced
on-yah and Irish for Annie, the filly was
named for another beloved member of the
Cooney family.

“We’re excited about her; we got her
broke this fall and she was very easy to
break,” Cooney said. “It looks tike she’s
got a really good way of going. I tike
her action. She was born the day after
my most favorite Labrador in the world
named Annie died. So she got to be Aine.
Hopefully she’ll get a start or two as a
2-year-old.”

- Tom Taw

Golden Years

West Virginia-bred Not For Love colt won three of four in 2014, and flashed enough
potential to have his connections-and others-talking about big things for 2015.

Rodney Jenkins heard the oohs and ahs
when Golden Years walked into the pad-
dock at Laurel Park before the $100,000
Marylander Stakes Dec. 6. It wasn’t the first
time the trainer had heard or seen looks of
admiration for the Not For Love colt who
won two Maryland stakes and three of four
starts during in his 2-year-old campaign in
2014.

Jenkins remembered feeling much
the same way a year earlier in Timonium
before the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall year¬
ling sale.

“He was probably the most beautiful
yearling that you could lay your eyes on,”
said Jenkins, who spent $120,000 on behalf
of client Ellen Charles’ Hillwood Stable.
“That’s one thing that made us buy him.
He had everything that Mrs. Charles want¬
ed. She had bought a bunch of yearlings.

but she didn’t have a Maryland Million
yearling. So we bought him because he
was eligible for the Maryland Million and
he’s eligible for the West Virginia Breeders
Classics, so it was kind of best of both
worlds. Now that he’s running, and beat¬
ing open company, I guess it’s the best of
three worlds.”

Golden Years landed a Maryland Mil¬
lion victory in mid-October. He added a
second stakes win two starts later in the
Marylander, a 7y2-length romp in the mud.

“That was his best race yet,” Jenkins
said. “It was a tittle further than he’s been
running and it was encouraging since he
seemed to relish that, which makes me
happy.”

Bred by O’Sullivan Farms, Golden Years
probably put himself into the early conver¬
sations for the 2015 Triple Crown prep

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season with his juvenile campaign. Jenkins
freshened the colt after the Marylander,
keeping him at Laurel but only jogging to
maintain some fitness while trying to put
“100 pounds of weight on him.”

The $100,000 Frank Whiteley Jr. Stakes
Jan. 24 at Laurel is an early target and a
good showing in the 7-furlong race wiU
present another challenge.

‘WeT see how he runs, if he looks like
he can go that mile, mile-and-a-sixteenth,
ril probably run him in New York after
that,” Jenkins said, indicating the Grade 3
Gotham going in early March and possibly
the Grade 1 Wood Memorial in early April.

When races Hke the Gotham and Wood
are mentioned it only makes sense to ask
the next logical question, does Jenkins

think Golden Years can become a classics
contender?

“If he can handle the distance and his
class can carry him that far,” he said. “Yes,
we always have dreams. This time of year
all we have are dreams and hopes, but so
far he’s passed the tests for us.”

- Tom Taw

Guts For Gaiters (Ire)

The steeplechaser won the Maryland Hunt Cup on his second try
in 2014, and at age 12 is being pointed for another run this year.

Sanna Neilson doesn’t know the origin
of the rule. She just knows to follow it.

“Mom told me, maybe Johnny Fisher
learned it from Mikey (Smithwick). . . I
don’t know, but it was to school your Hunt
Cup horse after the race,” Neilson said.
“Typically you pull their shoes and turn
them out, but it makes a lot of sense to
school them a bit after the race.”

The Pennsylvania-based trainer won the
2014 Maryland Hunt Cup with Guts For
Garters (Ire) in April. A week after the
arduous 4-mile, 22-fence journey, she put
the tack on the Irish-bred and schooled
him for a few weeks. Hall of Fame trainer
and six-time Maryland Hunt Cup winning
rider Smithwick would have been impressed.

“I gave him a week off and then I just
kind of popped him around for three
weeks,” Neilson said. “Just jumped a lot of
logs, anything we could find, nothing big,
just to make sure he had his confidence.”

Neilson followed the same regime after
Guts For Garters finished third in his first
Hunt Cup foray in 2013, but that was dif¬
ferent. He was different.

“He was horrified by the whole thing,”
Neilson said. “This year, he was much
more matter-of-fact, it didn’t have nearly
the effect on him, he handled it mentally
really well this year.”

After a few weeks, Neilson pulled the
shoes from the 11 -year-old and kicked him
out for the summer. By winter, she had
her Hunt Cup horse back in work, hunting
with Cheshire Foxhounds in UnionviUe.

“He’s a lady’s hunter. He goes in a
snaffle. He Hkes to get a run at his fences.

not stupid, he just Hkes to gallop on in
there, so I have to make sure I’m behind
someone who also Hkes to gaUop on in
there,” Neilson said.

Neilson’s step-brother Stewart Straw-
bridge purchased Guts For Garters at
England’s Doncaster Bloodstock Sales in
2011. They set one goal—win the Maryland
Hunt Cup.

“We accompHshed our goal, which is
amaAng, because usuaUy you set a goal Hke
that and it never works,” Neilson said. “I
don’t feel Hke there is any more pressure,
particularly in that race, because it’s such
a fluke race. The only tinge of pressure
is that Stewart has now won it twice as an
owner. If he wins it three times, he retires
the trophy which would be cool to do, but
he’s young, he’U have more opportunities
to win it.”

Or wiH he? There are term Hmits on the
race’s chaUenge cup. Each chaUenge cup is
retired individuaUy. Meaning it’s the first
one to win the new trophy three times,
not collectively over a Hfetime. Cancottage
(GB) retired a trophy in 1983, and the new¬
est trophy has been up for grabs ever since.
But there are fingerprints. Strawbridge is
tied with Arcadia Stable, Move Up Stable,
Northwoods Stable, Irv Naylor and Lucy
Goelet.

But, that’s a story for April.

- Sean Clang

Handsup Moneydown

January to September campaign yields 11 victories for Parx Racing-based campaigner.

Owner/trainer Ramon Preciado
thought Handsup Moneydown would get
to go to South Florida and the ClaHning
Crown.

What better place to showcase the tal¬
ents and highhght the 2014 campaign of
the now 6-year-old Sharp Humor geld¬
ing than the event that puts the focus on
North America’s blue-collar runners?

Handsup Moneydown won 11 races
in 2014-the most of any horse midway
through December-and was on the board
in all 15 starts at Parx, PimHco, Penn
National and Charles Town from January

to September. He didn’t run after finishing
third in the $100,000 Wild and Wonderful
Stakes Sept. 20 at Charles Town, missing
out on the Claiming Crown and any chance
to add to his win total.

“I laid him off because he had run a
lot,” said Preciado. “He has screws in one
ankle-that happened before I even got
him-and they started getting a Httle bit of
pressure so I decided to lay him off for the
winter. I expect to bring him back when
the weather starts getting better.”

Handsup Moneydown did some of his
best work last winter, starting with a win in

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Hardest Core

Pennsylvania-based horse shocked the world with a Grade 1 win in the Arlington Million,
after taking a stakes at Delaware Park. Trainer Eddie Graham aims at a return trip in 2015.

$25,000 claiming company at Parx Jan. 5.
He didn’t run for a tag again, finishing third
in a 6 y 2 -furlong starter allowance three
weeks later and then winning a 6 -furlong
starter Feb. 2. That victory was the first of
seven straight, a streak that lasted until a
second in mid-June at Parx.

Handsup Moneydown bounced back
with three wins in his final five starts of
2014.

^^He’s OK, there’s nothing wrong and
he’s not in bad shape, but he ran a lot and
he was getting to the point where it felt like
I was pushing him a little bit,” Preciado
said. ^‘He’s a nice horse and winter was
coming. I took him to Charles Town and
I think that might have been a mistake.
I shouldn’t have done that. That track is
small, he’s a big horse and he’s got screws
in his ankle. But he still ran good.”

Handsup Moneydown was beaten a
little less than 3 lengths in the $ 100,000
stakes, finishing behind multiple graded
stakes winner Pants On Fire and graded
stakes-placed Good Lord.

The 11 wins were one more than
Courmey Ryan, a Florida-bred mare who
did compete in the Dec. 6 Claiming Crown
at Gulfstream Park (finishing 11th in
the Glass Shpper). The Delaware-based
Singing My Way and Kentucky-based
Gettem Up Girl each won nine races.

Bred in Kentucky by Doug Arnold’s
Buck Pond Farm, Handsup Moneydown
is out of the Grade 1-winning Fit to
Fight mare Fit to Scout. He’s the 12th and
last living foal produced by Fit to Scout,
winner of the Grade 1 John A. Morris
Handicap in 1991 at Saratoga for Hall of
Famer Jack Van Berg.

Preciado claimed Handsup Moneydown
for $7,500 out of a 5V 2 -furlong race at Parx
in October 2013, when he was l-for-12
after starting his career at Woodbine before
racing in the Mid-Atlantic late in his 2-year-
old season.

- Tom Taw

Though trainer Eddie Graham likes
to joke about how good his horse would
look steaming up the stretch at Far Hills
in October, the steeplechase plans are offi¬
cially on hold for Hardest Core.

That’s what winning the Grade 1
Arlington Million will do for a horse, even
one purchased with jump racing on the
radar screen.

Competing for Andrew Bentley Racing
Stable off a farm near Coatesville, Hardest
Core started small in 2014-winning a
Parx optional claimer and then the Cape
Henlopen Stakes at Delaware Park.
The next step was anything but small
as the horse stormed Chicago, upsetting
European star Magician (Ire) and earning a
trip to the Breeders’ Cup.

Eighth in the Turf behind fellow Mid-
Atlantic runner Main Sequence, Hardest
Core got strong early and faltered late
while losing by less than 5 lengths. Graham
was frustrated, but realistic, afterward and
also stuck to his plan. Hardest Core spent

November and December getting turned
out in a paddock with retired timber horse
Rainbows for Luck. Come spring, the mrf
season beckons and Graham (whose horses
won eight of 15 starts in 2014) would love
another swing at some Grade 1 stakes.

‘‘He’ll start earher [this year] and be run¬
ning in the spring, but we’ll pick our spots,”
said Graham, whose horse got started late
in 2014 due to complications from gelding
surgery. “He’U be 5 and he’s a big horse. It
will be nice to let him grow into himself a
htde bit more. He could be an even better
horse.”

The farm life seems to agree with the
son of Hard Spun.

“He’s out all day and he comes in at
night,” said Graham of the winter turnout
schedule. “He adapted to it easily, most
horses do. He gets to chiU out, be a horse
and m have fresh horse by the time we get
back to the races.”

Flat races.

- Joe Clancy

Lucy’s Bob Boy

Part of a growing list of Charles Town legends won half his 10 starts in 2014,
his third consecutive campaign with at least five wins and $200,000 earned.
He gets a winter break and takes aim at the $1 million mark in 2015.

He owns a track record, 10 stakes wins
and $875,305 in career earning.

There’s no question Lucy’s Bob Boy has
enjoyed quite a career. Yet trainer Sandra
Dono can’t help but wonder what would
be if her horse were completely healthy the
past few years.

Pestered by a foot abscess, he didn’t
get off to the greatest of starts in 2014.

He finished worse than third in three of
his first four races, including the Grade 2
Charles Town Classic. That was forgivable,
but Dono expected more than she got in
back-to-back fourths in ensuing allowance
races.

Just when it seemed that he was slowing
down, the now 6 -year-old West Virginia-
bred son of Flatter turned it around.

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He rattled off three consecutive victories
from August to September-including his
second consecutive Frank Gall Memorial
Stakes-and entered the $500,000 West
Virginia Breeders Classic (which he’d won
in 2012 ) as the 1-2 favorite.

Lucy’s Bob Boy showed his usual gate
speed and set reasonable splits with long¬
time rival RusseU Road at his neck. On the
turn for home, Lucy’s Bob Boy opened
dayhght and it looked like he’d puU away
for an easy victory.

But after Arnaldo Bocachica dropped
his right rein in deep stretch, Lucy’s Bob
Boy slowed and was passed by a resurgent
RusseU Road. Dono wasn’t about to sulk.

^‘[Lucy’s Bob Boy] might’ve thought the
race was over but, you know, it’s nobody’s

fault,” Dono said. ‘‘Things happen. It’s
horse racing. But he did run a good race.”

Dono was grateful for the effort, as weU
as how quickly Lucy’s Bob Boy bounced
back to win next out in the $50,000 A
Huevo for the second year in a row. He
closed the year with a strong second in a
rare appearance at Laurel Park.

Lucy’s Bob Boy won five times in 2014
and earned $240,575.

“A lot of these races he ran, he wasn’t
100 percent with his feet,” Dono said.
“Where, now, I think [this] year his form
wiU be more true to him than it was [this
past] year. The last six months, he’s been a
lot better than he’d been in a whUe.”

The foot issues date to Dec. 12, 2012,
or, more ominously, 12-12-12. Just a day

earUer, Lucy’s Bob Boy set a 6 y 2 -furlong
Charles Town record in 1:16.44.

“When he broke the track record, he
must’ve had that in his foot because the
next morning, it blew,” Dono said. “He
lost almost a third of his foot. It took us
basically two years to get it straightened
out. We reaUy haven’t had a lot of hard
training into him because of this foot
issue. That’s why I’m looking forward to
this year. I think [it] will be a better year
for him.”

Linda Sours’ gelding will likely return in
early spring. He’s expected to bid for three-
peats in the A Huevo and Frank GaU. The
team also hopes for a shot at redemption in
the Breeders Classic.

- Dan Tordjman

Main Sequence

The Horse of the Year candidate was born in Kentucky and started his career in England,
but he’s a regional guy after spending 2014 at Fair Hill Training Center. He won four
Grade 1 turf stakes in as many tries, and has plenty on his agenda for 2015.

Trainer Graham Motion laughed about
how easy it sounded, when he went over
the plans for his turf star Main Sequence.

“He’U ship to Florida after Christmas,
probably December 27, and train at Palm
Meadows,” said the trainer. “He’U run in
the Mac Diarmida [a Grade 2 turf stakes
at Gulfstream Park Feb. 21] and then go
to Dubai.”

In the desert awaits the $6 million
Dubai Sheema Classic-Gl, and a rematch
with the world’s best turf horses. Main
Sequence, owned and bred by Flaxman
Holdings, beat them in the Breeders’ Cup
Turf-Gl to close his four-race/four-win
2014 and will get another chance March
28.

It all sounds straightforward, but
it started out anything but as Main
Sequence arrived in the United States
with pneumonia and survived a winter
full of fevers and veterinary clinics and
harsh antibiotics to become the country’s
top distance turf horse. Main Sequence
made four starts in 2014, aU Grade 1,
and won them all—sweeping the United
Nations, Sword Dancer, Joe Hirsch Turf
Classic and Breeders’ Cup Turf. The sweep
put the son of Aldebaran in the conversa¬
tion for Horse of the Year with top 3-year-
olds Bayern and California Chrome, and aU

but assured an Echpse Award as champion
turf horse.

And, as Motion put it, championships
matter-even if Main Sequence is a geld¬
ing and there’s no stallion advertisement
waiting on a Horse of the Year declaration.
Main Sequence had an easy month at Fair
Hill after the Breeders’ Cup and was back
training in the cold of mid-December.
Next stop Florida, then Dubai, then back
to Fair Hill.

“The timing of [Dubai] is good,” said
Motion, who won the 2013 Dubai World
Cup-Gl with Animal Kingdom. “He could
pretty much have the same campaign [in
2015] here, even if he went to Dubai.
I think that race in Dubai will be really
competitive because those horses went in
the World Cup the last few years. Now, the
turf horses will run in the Turf race. It’s a
$6 million race. You’ve got to think about
it. I think it fits well for him.”

- Joe Clang

Manchurian High

The would-be steeplechaser won the Laurel Turf Cup in 2014, and also placed in a stakes at
Saratoga for owner/trainer Lilli Kurtinecz. The new year brings another ambitious schedule.

Manchurian High could win at Pimhco,
doing so in 2012 and opening 2014 with
a mid-May mrf score. The problem was
he hadn’t won any of his 11 other starts
between the two scores at Pimhco.

Despite the form, owner/trainer Lilh
Kurtinec 2 took a stand. Whatever she saw
in the now 7-year-old Florida-bred son

of The Daddy, it prompted her to invest
aU the money she had, and then some, to
buy him.

“I hterally took every penny I had, for
my half, and [my parents] gave me the
other half,” Kurtinecz said last year about
buying the gelding from No PaUa Stables
and trainer J.B. Secor.

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She planned on running Manchurian
High over hurdles. That changed after
the Pimlico win and she tested her horse
in the Grade 1 United Nations Stakes in
July at Monmouth Park. Manchurian High
finished last but Kurtinec 2 had issues ship¬
ping the horse, which left him unsettled at
race time.

Kurtinec 2 decided to give Manchurian
High another shot in the $100,000 John’s
Call at Saratoga. He finished third, beaten
a neck and a nose by proven stakes run¬
ners Tricky Hat (Chi) and Holiday Star.
Kurtinec 2 was pleased and, after a second
in a starter allowance next out at Saratoga
and another third at Laurel, Manchurian
High tackled the $100,000 Laurel Turf
Cup.

A good year got even better when he
rallied from way off the pace to win the
Sept. 27 stakes. Simultaneously, the geld¬
ing and his young trainer’s faith in him had
been validated.

“It was just a reminder that I can do
this,” Kurtinec 2 said. “It was huge and it
helps get me out there. It was awesome.
That was the highlight.”

Manchurian High went south for the
winter and—with an eye toward one more
2014 start-worked on the mrf at Palm
Meadows in December. His 2015 will
look similar to his 2014, with a return
to his favorite stop Pimlico and perhaps
another Grade 1 try on the docket, though
Kurtinec 2 won’t rule out a jump career.

“If he keeps this form-and I think he
would only get better if I can keep him this
happy, healthy and strong,” Kurtinec 2 said.

- Dan Tordjman

Russell Road

The West Virginia-bred started in his
sixth Breeders Classic, and won the
$500,000 race for the third time, to
reach the brink of $2 million in earnings.

And at age 9, he’s not finished.

Hyperbole wouldn’t do justice to the
race, nor would flattering cliches come
close to capturing the ght shown by the
horse who won it. Simply put, Russell Road
looked hke he was done. Any hope of
capturing his third West Virginia Breeders
Classic at Charles Town seemed dim. Then,
the unexpected happened.

With a furlong to go, Russell Road
dropped about 3 lengths off Lucy’s Bob
Boy when, in the final moments of the IVs-
mile race, Lucy’s Bob Boy’s rider dropped
the right rein while switching sticks. His

Miss Behaviour

The Pennsylvania-bred, Laurel Park-based filly won two stakes and placed in four
others in 2014 to continue her surging career. By December, she was in the midst of
a break on a farm, with Preakness Weekend tentatively slated for a comeback.

Phil Schoenthal is finished telling Cal
MacWilHam and Neil Teitelbaum to sell
Miss Behaviour, which is just fine for the
trainer after the now 4-year-old fiUy turned
in a strong 2014 that included a Grade 3
win and a Grade 1 placing.

“The vast majority, and I might say
aU, the chents in my life can’t afford to
turn down the kind of money they were
offered,” said Schoenthal. “It’s pleasant to
have chents feel hke they want to own a
horse of that cahber and I was thrihed to
see it turn out for them.”

After a strong 2-year-old season in
2013, the homebred daughter of Jump
Start took her connections on another
ride in 2014. She won the Miss Preakness
at Pimhco, placed in three consecutive
graded stakes (including the Grade 1 Test
at Saratoga) and won the Charles Town
Oaks-G3 in September.

Miss Behaviour didn’t finish worse than
third in her first six starts, aU against top
company.

“Every time we led her over there she
fired her shot,” Schoenthal said. “All those
big races, I felt like she fired her shot. She
just got beat a few times. The chips fall
where they fall sometimes.”

In October, she finished sixth in
Keeneland’s Raven Run-G2 and missed
the rest of the year-a break Schoenthal
was coming anyway but was made nec¬
essary by some filling in a pastern. She
did not require surgery and in December

horse slowed just enough for Russell Road
to go by for a half-length victory.

Did Russell Road get lucky? Not
according to his owner, Mark Russell, who
called his horse resilient. Russell has seen

was enjoying some turnout time at Dr.
Carol Swandby’s GraySwan Farm in New
Market, Md.

Schoenthal said the next step will be
some winter legging up and then a return
to his barn at Laurel. She won’t run until
spring, with an eye toward Preakness week¬
end.

“All being fine, she’ll come back in
February or March,” Schoenthal said.
“We’ve got plenty of time and the goal is
to have a fresh horse in the faU.”

The team would love to take their
filly-a five-time winner and earner of
$790,834—to the Breeders’ Cup, but will
be happy just to have her back in the barn.

“It’s definitely not the same [without
her],” said Schoenthal. “It’s a lot easier to
get out of bed in the morning when you’ve
got her down there in Stall 5.”

- Joe Clancy

his horse rack up $1,903,234 in lifetime
earnings.

“We were able to put the pressure on
and let Russell do his thing,” Russell said.
“I think that kind of wore on Lucy a bit. . .
and, sure enough, the last 40 yards we were
able to get by. To win it in the fashion that
he did was just unbelievable. It was just so
inspiring to me. I use that word a lot when
Russell runs some of those races. It’s just
phenomenal to watch this horse year after
year.”

The $225,000 winner’s check accounted
for the majority of Russell Road’s 2014
earnings. Prior to the Classic, the son of
Wheaton had only won a single allowance
from five starts in his 8-year-old season.
But his owner was convinced that results
were only part of the story, and was
rewarded in the race that mattered most.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 35

COADY PHOTOGRAPHY

ADAM C0GLIANE8E

Bred by Bobby Lloyd, Russell Road
is out of the Verification mare Roberta
Grump. She had produced multiple stakes
winners Sweet Annuity, Shesanothergrump
and Shesagrumptoo. Russell owned the lat¬
ter when he purchased Russell Road as a
weanling from Lloyd.

“I went to the farm to see this Wheaton
colt and he was a good looking colt,’’
Russell said. ‘‘He was just tremendous
looking. He looked like an athlete from
Day 1. I was really excited about him on
looks alone.”

Russell Road, named for the road his
breeder lives on, immediately proved to be
more than looks.

After breaking his maiden in his sec¬
ond start, he won the Dr. Ernest Benner
Stakes. He won four in a row after that and
through 2014 had 28 wins from 53 starts,
including 21 stakes victories.

“He’s just been a tremendous horse to
even be running at the age of 8,” Russell
said. “He’s been such an ultra-consistent
horse over the past six or seven years. It’s
been phenomenal. It’s unbehevable.”

Much like he did in 2014, RusseU Road
will return to the races in late spring. He
needs less than $100,000 to become just
the second West Virginia-bred (after Soul
of the Matter) to reach $2 million in career
earnings.

- Dan Tordjman

The Big Beast

Maryland-bred roared from maiden to Grade 1 winner with King’s Bishop score in August
for trainer Tony Dutrow. He heads to Arkansas to start his 4-year-old campaign.

Crossing the wire near the end of a
routine gallop at Fair HiU Training Center
in December, The Big Beast matched
strides with another Thoroughbred to the
outside. The only Maryland-bred to win a
Grade 1 in 2014 glanced to his right, low¬
ered his head and pulled at the reins for a
few strides.

Warm and out of the wind in the dock¬
ers’ stand, Tony Dutrow smiled.

“That’s the first time he’s done that
since he’s been back,” the trainer said. “He
got competitive there for a bit, didn’t he?

It was hke he wanted that
other horse to know he
was there.”

Everybody knew The
Big Beast was there in
2014 as he went from
maiden to Grade 1 winner
in three consecutive races
capped by the Grade 1
King’s Bishop at Saratoga.
As quickly as he leapt
to racing’s highest level,
however, he left. The son
of Yes It’s True missed
the rest of the year after
minor surgery to remove a
chip in his left ankle.

The Big Beast got back
to work in the fall at Fair HiU and was
scheduled to leave for Oaklawn Park in
Arkansas, home state of owners Alex and
JoAnn Lieblong, early in January. Dutrow
targeted March for the 4-year-old colt’s
first race. The Big Beast handled the sur¬
gery, and ensuing layoff—and may even
have added a httle more height to his
already 17-hand frame.

“Very routine,” Dutrow said of the
recovery. “The horse has always been very
good. When he won the Grade 1, anything
he was going to run in was going to have
to be against older horses, anything worth

pursuing anyway. We did not want to go
to CaUfornia for the Breeders’ Cup, so we
thought we’d give him plenty of time and
hopefully have as good a 4-year-old year as
he’s got in him. Had we had an agenda, we
could have continued forward.”

Dutrow is all about not having an
agenda. He Ustened to his horse, took care
of the ankle and stayed patient. Bred by
Green Widow Farms, The Big Beast sold
at Keeneland as a yearhng and at the Ocala
Breeders’ Sales as a 2-year-old. Unraced as
a juvenile, he didn’t find his best efforts
until halfway through his 3-year-old sea¬
son. At his sUe, he was bound to be late
and might be in hne for another step
forward.

Dutrow recalled his first impression.

“Let’s see what happens here, this could
be OK, this looks Uke this could be OK,”
the trainer told himself last year. Then The
Big Beast finished a so-so third in a maiden
race at Belmont Park in May.

“I was a Uttle disappointed, not in the
horse just that I thought there was going
to be more there,” Dutrow said. “I was
expecting more. It just took him a whUe to
come around. When we ran him the first
time at Saratoga [July 26], he was reaUy
brilUant. I was not expecting to see that
type of a performance. Looking back on
it aU, you have to pay attention to some of
these horses that just take a whUe to puU it
aU together.”

- Joe Clancy

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One last
memory

Maryland breeder Ridgely’s dispersal plays
big role in Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December sale

By Joe Clancy

B ill Reightler didn’t really feel it until he got home, but the
impact of his friend and client Brice Ridgely was there all
day at Fasig-Tipton Midiantic’s December Mixed Sale in
Timonium, Md. It bu2zed when the horses walked for potential
buyers. It increased when announcer Terence Collier introduced
the next hip number. It came to life when Delaneys Star, her
dam Vee Vee Star and aU the others stood in the ring.

Ridgely died in August, leaving behind
scores of memories, a family, a farm and
some horses. The Dec. 8 sale dispersed
Ridgely's Thoroughbreds, many connected
to 2004 champion juvenile Declan’s Moon.
Bred by Ridgely, the son of Malibu Moon
sold at Timonium in 2003, raced exclu¬
sively in California and at 13 now lives in
retirement at Country Life Farm but his
impact-his example-still matters.

^‘Brice was a wonderful, loyal, down-
to-earth guy,” said Reightler. “1 miss him
terribly. He started selling with me in 1999
when 1 had my first consignment and he
sold with me every year after that until this
sale. It’s really sad. He did something a lot
of Maryland breeders want to do, breed a
champion. He really left his mark.”

Ridgely’s one final mark came at
Timonium in December, with a dispersal
on behalf of his estate. Seven horses sold
for $133,200 through Reightier’s consign¬
ment. In foal to Kentucky stallion Majestic

Warrior, 4-year-old filly Delaneys Star
topped the sale at $60,000-helping add
some light to a day with lower numbers
across the board including 110 sold, less
than $1 million in gross receipts, an average
price of $8,680 and a median of $4,000.

Like everybody else, Reightler saw the
remrns (due in part to a smaller catalogue
than in 2013) but preferred to focus his
attention elsewhere.

‘As a sales agent, 1 have a tendency to
look at the positives, but if 1 don’t believe
it nobody else will,” he said. “Sales are a
make-up of what’s in the sale and if we had
more horses and more horses by Kentucky
sires we would have drawn a better crowd
of buyers. There were some bright spots.”

Delaneys Star fit that description. The
daughter of Latent Heat will get every
chance to extend the legacy of her family
and her breeder for new owner Wolver HiU
Farm in Middleburg, Va. A Reightler chent,
Wolver HiU is owned by C. OUver IseUn

111 and has been upgrading its broodmare
band over the last several years. Wolver
Hill campaigns horses on the flat and in
steeplechases, but also produces Virginia-
breds and seUs commerciaUy.

“She wasn’t much of a racehorse, but
she’s a good-looking filly, very correct
and beautifuUy balanced, a half-sister to a
champion and in foal to a nice sire,” said
Reightler. “Any time you can get a filly Uke
this, that’s going to go a long way. It leaves
a lot of the options open. If they want to,
they can spin the foal and recoup part of
their investment in the mare.”

Country Life Farm, another Maryland
operation with deep ties to Ridgely, bought
a weanling half-sister to Delaneys Star
for $31,000 and also spent $3,700 to buy
her now 19-year-old dam Vee Vee Star.
The daughter of Norquestor produced
Declan’s Moon in 2002 and three other
winners in a produce record dotted with
gaps. Country Life plans to breed her to
its freshman sire Super Ninety Nine, and
hope for the best.

“Brice was a fabulous caretaker of
horses, but some of the mare’s bad-luck
produce record we think we can improve,”
said Country Life’s Josh Pons. “I think
we can get lucky with her and get more
good foals out of her. To take the dam of
a champion to a freshman sire is a good
thing.”

The weanling is by Country Life sire
Friesan Fire (a son of A.P. Indy, Uke

38 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

Sales topper Delaneys Star, a half-sister to champion Declan’s Moon, checks out the bidders In the TImonlum sales pavilion In December
C. Oliver Iselln’s Wolver Hill Farm of Virginia spent $60,000 to buy the daughter of Latent Heat, In foal to Majestic Warrior

De dan's Moon's sire Malibu Moon) and
will be part of a future radng partnership.
Pons was thrilled to get her. The bay fiUy
was fitting in with the other weanlings at
Merryland Farm a few days after the sale
and making Pons think of his friend Ridgely.

“She was sort of the trophy foal in the
whole sale," Pons said. “She's a late foal
and already as big or bigger than everybody
else at Merryland, which is great. Brice was
more than a breeder or a client to us, he
was a mentor to us so you can't help but
feel the connection to these horses."

Kenmcky pinhooker Carrie Brogden
bought the highest-priced weanling, going
to $48,000 to get a Shackleford colt from
the consignment of Takaro Farm. The
West Virginia-bred, technically gray/roan
but flashing his sire's chesmut color and
white markings, stopped plenty of traffic at
Timonium and had Brogden at hello.

As a “big fan" of Shackleford, she spot¬
ted the weanling in the catalogue and then
recognized his dam Pier Sixty Six too from
a 2006 consignment with Bluewater Sales
in Kentucky. The daughter of Cozzene has
produced three foals to race, all winners,
including $309,446-earner and multiple
Charles Town stakes winner Paco Smart.

“The only reason I came to the sale was
to look at him," she said. “Before I got on
the plane, I made sure he wasn't scratched
and when he came out of the stall he was
exactly what I was hoping he would be hke.
He was worth the trip."

Brogden and her husband Craig oper¬
ate Machmer Hall, a Paris, Ky, farm, and
she is a parmer in Select Sales Agency.
The Shackleford colt will be aimed at a
2015 yearhng sale, most likely Keeneland
September.

Brogden attended the Timonium sale
because of her buying power. In Kentucky,
she said, Machmer HaU would be a smaller
player and have a difficult time buying a
Shackleford weanling. She was the under¬
bidder on a few others on her list at
Timonium and bought a Sidney's Candy
colt for $4,000.

“I was thrilled, and I felt like a big buyer,"
she said. “[At Keeneland November], I'm
like ‘oh no so-and-so is here. I'm not going
to be able to buy anything.' In the end, if
he wasn't in the catalogue I wouldn't have
come. Even if I don't think whoever buys
him will think that way at first, I like the
West Virginia program. It's a good fall¬
back position. That $500,000 race [the

Breeders Classic] for colts is there for
horses like him."

Takaro Farm owner Mark Sell would
have hked a more robust market, but
was happy to sell the Shackleford colt
and another by Afleet Alex for $28,000.
Sell and chent Hector Alcalde have four
mares on the Charles Town, W.Va., farm
and mainly breed to sell as yearhngs or
weanlings. With four colts born in 2014,
logistics helped push a December weanling
consignment.

“We're a small operation and only have
so much paddock space for colts," Sell said.
“We needed to sell a couple colts, but these
were nice weanlings by good sires and they
fit. AH things considered, I thought my
horses were worth a little more money,
maybe, but that's my decision, and the way
the market worked this time."

Alcalde paid $100,000 for Pier Sixty Six
at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's winter mixed
sale in 2006. The founder and chairman of
an Arlington, Va.-based lobbying firm keeps
the odd horse to race but mainly breeds to
sell. Pier Sixty Six is carrying a First Samurai
foal and is booked to Tizway for 2015. Sell
has high hopes for the Shackleford wean-
hng, but will miss him too.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 39

LYDIA A. WILLIAMS

TOP SALES HORSES

$ 60,000 Delaneys Star, dk.b./br.m.,
2010, Latent Heat—Vee Vee Star,
by Norquestor (in foal to Majestic
Warrior); Estate of A. Brice Ridgely,
Bill Reighder, agent; Wolver Hill Farm.

$ 48 , 000 , ^./ro.c., 2014, Shackleford—
Pier Sixty Six, by Cozzene (WVa.);
Takaro Farm; Machmer Hall.

$ 40,000 Dicey D J, b.m., 2005, Milwaukee
Brew—Dr. Nunn, by Mt. Livermore
(in foal to Sky Mesa); Sagamore Farm;
Thornmar Farm LLC.

$ 37,000 dk.b./br.c., 2014, Yes Ids True-
First Class Fever, by Stormin Fever
(Pa.); Charlton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick
Abbott), agent; Charles J. Zacney.

$ 31,000 b.f, 2014, Friesan Fire—Vee Vee
Star, by Norquestor (Md.); Estate of
A. Brice Ridgely, Bill Reighder, agent;
Country Life Farm, agent.

$ 30,000 Waves On the Sea, b.f, 2012,
StroU—Lonesome Sound, by Dancing
Count (Va.); Estate of Kenneth Y
Tomlinson, Old Chapel Farm (Andrew
Motion), agent; Craig Nicholson.

$ 30,000 ch.c., 2014, Cal Nation—Star
Magic, by VaUey Crossing (Md.); Bill
Reighder, agent; Preston Stables LLC.

$ 28,000 gr./ro.c., 2014, Afleet Alex—
Golden Gal Al, by Monarchos (WVa.);
Takaro Farm; Three Diamond Farm.

$ 27,000 dk.b./br.f, 2014, Jump Start—
Lunar's Legend, by Polish Numbers
(Md.); Northview Stallion Station
(David Wade), agent; Jean Mahoney.

$ 26,000 dk.b./br.c., 2014, Rule—Wish It
Were, by Is It True (Ky); Old Chapel
Farm (Andrew Motion), agent; Terry
Gabriel.

‘‘We do get attached to the horses,"
he said. “I have to make myself try not
do that. You can't keep them aU. My wife
[Mary] used to come to the sales, but she
can't do that anymore."

Other bright spots included the $40,000
purchase by Thornmar of broodmare
Dicey D J from Sagamore Farm. Bred and
originally sold as a yearling by Thornmar,
the daughter of Milwaukee Brew won and
placed in stakes and was carrying her fifth
foal, by Sky Mesa.

Preston Stables went to $30,000 to
buy a weanling colt from the first crop of
Maryland sire Cal Nation.

John Stuartis Bluegrass Thoroughbred
Services spent $22,000 to buy Final
Humor, in foal to Freedom Child, from
the Ridgely dispersal. The mare is the dam
of three winners including stakes-placed
Hot Fun and E Dubai's Humor, the latter a
two-time winner and stakes-placed in three
starts as a 2-year-old in 2014.

YEAR-BY-YEAR FIGURES FOR FASIG-TIPTON
DECEMBER MIXED SALE SINCE ITS INAUGURAL IN 1984

Year

No. sold

Average

Gross

RNAs

Top Price

2014

110

$ 8,680

$ 954,800

33%

$60,000

2013

133

11,404

1,516,700

28%

$100,000

2012

140

8,216

1,150,200

28%

$100,000

2011

260

14,382

3,739,350

23%

$260,000

2010

158

6,127

968,100

43%

$130,000

2009

169

4,593

776,300

37%

$95,000

2008

186

6,287

1,169,400

37%

$65,000

2007

287

7,166

2,056,500

39%

$62,000

2006

338

7,924

2,678,300

34%

$95,000

2005

375

9,328

3,497,900

32%

$140,000

2004

363

10,640

3,862,300

21%

$160,000

2003

360

7,506

2,702,300

22%

$150,000

2002

378

6,557

2,478,600

30%

$103,000

2001

448

7,881

3,530,500

23%

$100,000

2000

566

7,625

4,315,700

20%

$142,000

1999

483

11,198

5,408,700

16%

$240,000

1998

437

8,423

3,680,700

15%

$120,000

1997

428

6,273

2,685,000

18%

$75,000

1996

391

5,831

2,280,100

14%

$65,000

1995

364

4,266

1,552,900

17%

$29,000

1994

346

4,688

1,621,900

14%

$33,000

1993

403

5,181

2,088,100

$55,000

1992

418

3,392

1,417,800

16%

$40,000

1991

285

3,467

988,200

17%

$75,000

1990

226

4,075

921,100

22%

$31,000

1989

255

4,012

1,023,000

32%

$40,000

1988

242

2,432

588,600

11%

$52,000

1987

363

2,580

936,400

15%

$40,000

1986

333

2,744

913,800

25%

$25,000

1985

228

2,892

659,400

24%

$31,000

1984

154

4,920

757,700

30%

$50,000

Prices and statistics for 1995 are exclusive of Cohen dispersal

brm. Delaneys Star (by Latent Heat), ia foal to Majestic Warrior
3-y-o.f Mystic Love (by Not For Love)
wlg.f by Read the Footnotes

brm. Salty Romance (by Salt Lake), in foal to Cosmonaut

Baltimore Belle, 07 f, by Bowman's Band

brm. Crystal Bull (by Holy Bull), in foal to Pollard's Vision

brm. Colonial Ball (by Pleasant Colony), in foal to Henny Hughes

wlg.c. by Golden Missile

wlg.c. by Tapit

wlg.c. by Two Punch

brm. Your Out (by Allen's Prospect), in foal to Lion Hearted

wlg.c. by MaHbu Moon

wlg.f by Malibu Moon

wlg.f by Silver Charm

wlg.f by Citidancer

brm. Poised to Pounce (by Smarten), in foal to Polish Numbers
wlg.c. by Boston Harbor

brm. Final Deputy (by Deputy Minister), ia foal to Two Punch
brm. Truth and Beauty (by Private Terms), in foal to Two Punch
brm. Lady Bering (by Lord Gaylord), in foal to Not For Love
wlg.f by Caveat
wlg.f by Star de Naskra

brm. House of Love (by Deputy Minister), in foal to Carson City
brm. Habar (by Track Barron), in foal to Carnivalay
wlg.c. by Pleasant Colony
wlg.f by Relaunch

brm. Stachys (by Northern Jove), in foal to Waquoit

brm. Spring Social (by Spring Double), in foal to Golden Act

brm. Wonder Mar (by Fire Dancer), in foal to El Baba

(2) brm. Tweal (by In Reality), in foal to Gregorian; ylgf by Gregorian

brm. Chris' Venture (by ^Hawaii), in foal to It's Freezing

3-y-o.f Little Fuzzy (by Turn and Count)

40 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

Larry Johnson was busy at the sale, supporting offspring of
his sire Street Magician, including two purchases for $39,000 total.

Reightler put three horses in the top six, while smaller con¬
signors Takaro and Old Chapel Farm each had two in the top 10.

A Critical Eye

As most people agreed, the catalogue did not have much
depth, with just 165 horses going through the ring compared to
185 in 2013 and 195 in 2012. The catalogue was impacted by a fall
sale held by Fasig-Tipton at Saratoga in October, but also by the
general Thoroughbred climate in the region.

Owner, breeder and stallion incentives are taking root in
Maryland, but will have more effect on the foals born in 2015
and beyond.

“Ifs important for Maryland to have a strong sales presence
and if we have the horses in the sale, buyers are going to show
up,” said Reightler. ‘‘If the catalogue’s too hght, people aren’t
going to attend. It’s important for people breeding and owning
here to seU here. That’s what it’s going to take.”

Reightler called the demand for horses purchased privately
after the sale healthy and expects to see more than a few of the
20 horses to bring the upset price of $1,000 turn out to be good
purchases.

“From the pure economics of it, people lost money selling
horses for $1,000, but a number of them found new homes and
the Maryland people have a chance to get money back with the
breeder bonuses,” he said. “People in the business are profes¬
sionals and they’re opportunists. If somebody thinks there’s an
oppormnity, they’ll find a way to get here. If there isn’t a critical
mass of them, they don’t come.

Pons, president of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association,
agreed. Country Life bred the $30,000 Cal Nation weankng in
parmership with Duck and Glennie Martin. If the colt succeeds
on the track, that sale price can increase considerably with breeder
and sire bonuses.

The highest-priced weaniing, a West Virginia-bred coit by Shackieford,
brought $48,000 from Kentucky buyer Machmer Hail

“The game obviously rewards quality, so you have to step
up your quality,” Pons said. “The stallion ranks had become so
depleted that all you have to choose from are unproven stallions.
That can change and it is changing.”

Fasig-Tipton’s Boyd Browning would have appreciated better
numbers, but knows that’s part of the nature of mixed sales and
also said quality horses sold well as they always do. Timonium’s
December version (started in 1984) rides the tides of state
breeding and racing programs, dispersals and the preferences of
regional breeders and buyers.

“We’ve been doing that sale for 40 years I think and there’s
always an ebb and flow,” he said. “It’s an element of serving the
marketplace. It takes awhile to get better mares in the pipeline and
the optimistic view is we’U see some of the fruits of that in the
future. A sale is going to be reflective of the overall horses that get
presented. Certain years, there’s a meaningful dispersal and it will
be a bigger sale. Other times, it’s more workmanhke like it was this
year. It’ll be on the schedule for 2015.” ^

LEADING CONSIGNORS
BY. AVERAGE JHREE .OR MORE SOLD

Charlton (Mr. and Mrs. Rick Abbott), agt. . $13,200

Northview Stallion Station (David Wade), agt. (15). 8,213

Bill Reightler, agt. (44). 7,598

Harry L. Landry Bloodstock LLC, agt. (8).4,588

Becky Davis Inc., agt. (13). 3,438

Abundant Life Stable (Ernest Baisden) (3). 3,167

LEADING SIRES OF WEANLINGS BY GROSS

$69,700 '

Jump ..

Shackleford (1). 48,000

AfleetAlex (2).43,000

Street Magician (4).41,000

Cal Nation (6).37,700

Rule (1).26,000

Successful Appeal (1).22,000

Mission Impazible (1).17,000

Orientate (2).17,000

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LYDIA A. WILLIAMS

M akin g

the Turn

After success at home in Maryland,
Retired Racehorse Project aims higher for 2015

By Teresa Genaro

I n case anyone forgets that Thoroughbred horses make up a talented
group away from the racetrack, Marylander Steuart Pittman and his
Retired Racehorse Project offer a reminder.

Just four years old, the renamed RRP (ne Retired Racehorse Training
Project) has become a formidable force in the lives of Thoroughbreds and
the people who love them. While many organizations would, at this early
stage of development, still be finding their ways, the RRP has forged an
identity and a purpose, with a recognizable brand poised to move beyond
its Mid-Atlantic roots.

And the Thoroughbred industry can
thank itself for embracing the concept
hatched by event rider Pittman.

The organi 2 ation hosted its second
Thoroughbred Makeover at Pimlico in
October, having tweaked the format a bit
from the inaugural event in 2013. A two-
day program of seminars, education and
exhibitions, the Makeover is highlighted
by Thoroughbreds who have undergone a
specified amount of training in a discipline
other than racing on the flat. While pri 2 e
money and bragging rights are on the line,
the goal is for the equine participants to be
purchased, a fundamental element of the
RRP model.

“To me,’’ said Pittman, “it’s stunning
that racing hasn’t looked at the aftercare
issue as a marketing issue. Racing sees it as

more of a problem that needs to be solved
instead of an opportunity, instead of say¬
ing We have this product; let’s sell it.’ ”

And when he says “sell,” he means it kt-
eraUy: retired Thoroughbreds have a finan¬
cial value to sport equestrians, and instead
of encouraging owners to give their horses
away to retirement facilities, Pittman thinks
sound retirees can be sold to people inter¬
ested in riding them in second careers.

“Over time, I feel hke the racing indus¬
try is starting to Hke the approach that our
organi 2 ation takes,” Pittman continued. “It
gives racing owners more options if you
can work with the industry that transitions
the horses into the private market.”

To spread that word, Pittman requires
participants in the Thoroughbred Make¬
over to write regular blogs, posting photos

and videos to document the horses’ train¬
ing. That requirement and the hope that
fans will follow along through the process
is one of the reasons that the number of
horses in the Makeover was reduced from
26 in 2013 to 10 in 2014.

“We felt Hke 26 people and horses were
too many for people to foUow onHne,” he
said. “Our goal is to educate people in
the riding world so that they can learn by
watching onHne. It’s really important that
the contestants do a good job of telHng the
story of what they’re doing.”

Makeover participants spanned a vari¬
ety of discipHnes (eventing, showing, stee¬
plechasing, polo, barrel racing, dressage,
even a four-horse trick-riding team).
Beyond the 10 horses in the Makeover, 48
Thoroughbreds were on display for adop¬
tion or purchase. Pittman said more than
10,000 people participated in an onHne poU
about their favorite Makeover horses.

A $10,000 first pri 2 e for America’s Most
Wanted Thoroughbred, sponsored by the
Equus Foundation, added a competitive
edge that spurred regular blogging. The
event’s profile was further raised by the
participation of multiple stakes winner
Icabad Crane, third in the 2008 Preakness.
When his racing career ended, owner Earle
Mack sold the son of Jump Start to trainer
Graham Motion and his wife Anita for $1.
The Motions enHsted Pennsylvania-based
Olympic eventer PhilHp Dutton to steer

42 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

a second career for the earner of nearly
$600,000. Dutton was impressed from the
start.

Icabad Crane started working on his
new career a little more than a year ago and
has steadily progressed through the ranks.
Now 10, Icabad Crane showed an affinity
for Pimlico during his racing career in the
Preakness and also with a win in the 2008
Federico Tesio, but he put on a different
show in the Baltimore track's stretch this
time. With Dutton aboard, Icabad Crane
jumped a five-stride line of jumps in four,
five, six, seven and eight strides to show
off his responsiveness and adaptability.
Then Dutton's 13-year-old daughter Ohvia
got on board for some flat work, which
helped push the voting. Icabad Crane won
by 120 votes over western dressage horse
Pookie's Princess and rider Patrick King.

The Motions donated the pri 2 e money to
organizations that support Thoroughbreds
in second careers. While he didn't quite
reach the lofty racing heights of Icabad
Crane, the New York-bred D' Sauvage
could be on his way to stardom too thanks
to his post-retirement trainer Bev Strauss
of MidAtlantic Horse Rescue in Warwick,
Md.

D' Sauvage compiled a modest record
of three wins from 44 starts, earning a little
more than $140,000 in a nearly four-year
career. He made his last start at Laurel Park
in March for trainer Hugh McMahon.

^‘Maryland horsemen are reaUy great
about getting their horses good homes,"
said Strauss. ‘‘Hugh had claimed D' Sauvage
and run him once, and when the horse
bled badly, Hugh decided to retire him
rather than run him through the miU. He
sent him to us around the same time that
Steuart called and asked if we wanted to
participate in the Makeover.

“I thought D' Sauvage would be perfect
because of his Maryland connection. He
looked hke he wanted to be a show hunter,
and the more we did with them, it was
obvious that that would be his calling."

Part of the fun of the re-training, said
Strauss, was sharing it through the RRP
website.

“We blogged religiously," said Strauss.
“When the Makeover was done, we put
together a book with the posts and pictures
from beginning to end, and we got a copy
for everyone involved."

And whatever she did worked, because
when the Makeover was done, D' Sauvage
had a new owner.

“The girl who adopted him had heard
about him through friends," Strauss said.
“Then she read our blog and followed his

Steuart Pittman will take the Retired Racehorse Project to a more national stage in 2015.

progress. She couldn't ride him, but she
came to see him at Pimlico."

And when the event was over, another
Thoroughbred skeptic had been converted.

“Her mom said, ‘I never dreamed
that we could have a Thoroughbred, let
alone a young one,'" Strauss recalled. “But
the Makeover really highhghted Thor¬
oughbreds' ability and temperament, and
they were just tickled with him.

“D' Sauvage didn't win the challenge,
but he was the big winner."

Strauss is also grateful for the added
exposure for her own work as an OTTB
trainer at a horse rescue.

“The RRP is great for Thoroughbreds,
but it's also great for horse rescue," she
said. “Sometimes you hear, ‘Oh, well that's
a rescue horse,' like they're some second-
class citizen. This event creates demand for
Thoroughbreds and gets everyone excited
about the breed."

With two successful Pimhco-based
Makeovers in the books, it might have been
tempting to stay put and build on the Mid-
Atlantic's enthusiasm for the RRP. But with
the Breeders' Cup heading east for the first
time since 2011, Pittman saw-and couldn't
resist-the chance to raise the organiza¬
tion's national profile.

“It was an opportunity we couldn't
ignore," he said.

So in 2015, the Makeover will move
from Baltimore to Lexington's Kentucky
Horse Park. It will take place Oct. 23-25,
the weekend before the Breeders' Cup at
nearby Keeneland in Lexington.

On the grounds of the Kentucky
Horse Park is the Makers' Mark Secretariat
Center, which for 10 years has been a
re-schooHng and showcase facility for
adoptable Thoroughbreds. Its director,
Susanna Thomas, recently hosted a meet¬
ing in Lexington to discuss the event, and

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LYDIA A. WILLIAMS

Former Preakness starter Icabad Crane, America’s "Most Wanted Thoroughbred, ” puts on a Jumping dispiay
at Pimiico for Oiympic event rider Phiiiip Dutton during the Retired Racehorse Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover

Pittman was taken aback by the level of
enthusiasm.

“More than 30 people showed up/’ he
said. ^We had to take out a conference
table to make room for them.”

Among the attendees were local media
and representatives from Kentucky breed¬
ing farms, veterinary clinics, aftercare orga¬
nizations, and The Jockey Club.

The Makeover was scaled down in
2014 to make it more manageable, but
in keeping with the scope of a Breeders’
Cup in Kentucky, Pittman is opening it
up in 2015 to more than 100 horses rep¬
resenting numerous equestrian disciplines.
Apphcations to participate are due in
January.

The event wiU be open to junior, ama¬
teur and professional trainers, along with
racing owners and nonprofit aftercare
organizations.

“Horse owners and non-professionals
can enter a horse and then a find a trainer,”
Pittman explained, “or they can enter as a
trainer and then find a horse.”

The event is open only to horses that
have raced but have not yet begun re¬
training. Trainers wiU have nine months to
work with their horses before the event.

‘We’re going to run it a little more like
a horse show,” Pittman continued. “Horses
can enter in more than one discipline.”

As has been the case with the last two
Makeovers, participants will also have the
opportunity to market and sell the horses
they’re working with.

With logistical planning well underway,
Pittman is working on raising what he
hopes win be “a lot” of prize money for
the participants; he also hopes to attract
local racing fans with well-known retired
racehorses and a jockey challenge.

But even as the RRP’s sights are being
set further afield, Pittman continues to
focus on the Mid-Atlantic, with two region¬
al expos on the calendar for early 2015.

A contest for “Maryland’s Most Wanted
Thoroughbred” will take place at the
Maryland Horse World Expo in Timon-
ium Jan. 17. Limited to horses that were
bred or that raced in Maryland, the win¬
ner wUl be “the horse that inspires the
judges and best exemplifies the trainabikty,
athleticism, heart and loyalty that make
off-track Thoroughbreds America’s best
riding horse.”

A simUar event wUl be held at the expo’s
Pennsylvania version in March.

A year of successes and transitions,
2014 saw the RRP honored by Thor¬
oughbred Charities for America with its
Industry Service Award in January. In
AprU, Thoroughbred owner and breeder
Paul Buknahn hosted a fundraiser at his
GoldMark Farm in Florida. Both have
helped the organization expand its reach
beyond its Maryland roots.

The RRP Facebookpage has more than
77,000 Hkes, up, says Pittman, from 12,000
in 2013. That following then draws people
to the RRP website, which contains horse
hstings, educational articles, and an expan¬
sive directory that will be updated in early
2015. The directory contains a variety of
equine resources, including horses avaU-
able for adoption, farms and training facili¬
ties, consignors and agents, educational
information and racing resources.

Pittman’s background in teaching and
community leadership stamp the RRP’s
multifarious initiatives; he’s as committed
to behind-the-scenes education as he is to
the public exhibitions of Thoroughbred
aptitude and versatihty. He recognizes that
creating a market for off-track Thor¬
oughbreds is about a lot more than show¬
ing what the horses can do physically.

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MAGGIE KIMMin

MidAtlantic Horse Rescue entrant D’ Sauvage, who raced in Maryland
with trainer Hugh McMahon, was adopted out of the Thoroughbred Makeover

offer seminars for dealing with
the IRS for non-profits ” he said. ‘‘We talk
about marketing horses. Ifs ama 2 ing how
far people flew in from for the seminars
at the Makeovers, and they are exactly the
people we want: people trying to make a
living with horses.’’

While Pittman acknowledges that high-
level riders and trainers aren’t yet seeking
reasonably priced off-track Thorough¬
breds, he is unstinting in his praise of what
the horses can do, suggesting that they
are more valuable than the current market
indicates.

“They’re versatile and trainable, and
people have forgotten that,” he said.
“They’re great athletes, and they can do
almost any sport. They can do endurance
riding, they can jump big jumps, they can
move fancy for dressage, they can get
around barrels fast. They come off the
track after being ridden a thousand times,
and they can adapt. They’re used to people
and they get good basic training at the
track.”

Pittman wants to see those attributes
rewarded, with a goal of putting more
Thoroughbreds in the hands of profes¬
sional trainers post-racing, another part

of the system that Pittman would like to
see change.

Butin order for that to happen, in order
for people to make a living with horses - as
Pittman has done-the OTTB business
model has to change from the non-profit

system that dominates the retired race¬
horse industry.

“Professionals are going where the
money is, and there’s less money in Thor¬
oughbreds off the track,” he said. “And
we’re trying to change that.” ^

With feats like this, former cheap ciaimer Rookie’s Princess, with trainer Patrick King, finished second in the competition.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 45

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Around the Ovals Parx Racing

Operational Expansion

Love Rules a success story for veteran
trainer Gorham’s dabbling as a breeder

BY LINDA DOUGHERW, PHOTOGRAPHS BY EQUI-PHOTO, INC.

Michael Gorham’s homebred Love Rules scores easy juvenile win in November.

M ichael Gorham is a respected train¬
er and owner in the Mid-Atlantic,
having made the move to Delaware
Park in the late 1980s from his native New
England when revenue from slot machines
began enriching Delaware's purses.

A former assistant to leading New
England conditioner Bruce Smith, Gorham
has been training since 1985. The native of
Canton, Mass., won his first race that sea¬
son with Unerring at Suffolk Downs.

Gorham has saddled his share of top
performers through the years, including
millionaire Mandy's Gold, winner of the
Grade 1 Ruffian Handicap in 2002 who
won or placed in 21 of 24 lifetime starts.
He trained Mandy's Gold for his brother

John Gorham's Steeplechase Farm. Trickle
of Gold, winner of the Grade 3 Safely
Kept Breeders' Cup at Laurel Park in 2005,
and Adore the Gold, who captured the
2007 Grade 2 Swale at Gulfstream Park,
were also conditioned by Gorham. Both
were bred and owned by John Murphy.

Thus, with more than 1,100 wins and
$25 million in purse earnings, it was some¬
what unusual to see Gorham's name show
up not only as the trainer and owner
(through his Old Coach Farm) of Love
Rules at Parx Racing Nov. 9, but as the
breeder, too.

A son of leading Maryland stallion Not
For Love, Love Rules made his fourth
career start a winning one, taking a $29,400

maiden special weight, for 2-year-olds
going 5 V 2 furlongs, by 5 lengths. Bred in
Pennsylvania, Love Rules is out of the
Peace Rules mare Rules R Rules, who was
owned and trained for her entire career by
Gorham.

‘T bought Rules R Rules as a 2-year-
old in training at the [Fasig-Tipton] May
sale at Timonium [for $7,500]," Gorham
said. ‘‘She was really fast, and won the
Finger Lakes Juvenile Fillies Stakes for me.
After her career ended, I was going to sell
her, but with the money available in the
Pennsylvania breeding program, I decided
to make her a broodmare."

After sending Rules R Rules to North-
view Stallion Station, she produced Love
Rules and then a fiUy by Fairbanks in 2013.

“I really hked Not For Love, and so Love
Rules is Maryland-sired, Pennsylvania-
bred, and I got him Delaware Certified,"
said Gorham, president of the Delaware
Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association.
“He is a really nice colt to be around, just
hke his dam was."

After producing her Fairbanks filly.
Rules R Rules was bred to another
Northview stallion. Great Notion, and
Gorham entered her into the Fasig-Tipton
December mixed sale, where she drew a
$13,000 bid from Tom Curtis. She foaled a
fiUy in Maryland this year, for a partnership
that includes Mr. and Mrs David Williams,
Mr. and Mrs Brett Shine and Dr. Chris
Lesbines.

Of his future plans as a breeder, Gorham
said, “Having Rules R Rules was kind of a
one-off thing, because I hked her so much
as a racehorse. I've had a few mares over
the years, and in the right situation, I would
do it again."

Classic Giacnroll breaks through

Joseph Besecker and Lisa Guerrero's
Classic Giacnroll recorded his first win
of 2014 and in the process went over the
$200,000 mark in purse earnings for the
year when he captured a Nov. 11 allowance
going 1 mile and 70 yards on the main
track.

It was the first victory for the Giacomo
gelding since winning an allowance at Parx
in September 2013, although he had come
close to the winner's circle a few times,
mostly in stakes races.

Classic Giacnroll began his 3-year-old
season with a second in the Grade 2
Jerome Stakes in January at Aqueduct; was
third in the Grover Buddy Delp Memorial
Stakes in May at Delaware Park; was nar¬
rowly defeated when second in the Grade

46 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

3 Smariy Jones Stakes in early September
at Parx, and finally got his picture taken in
November.

^We were very happy to see him win
after a tough bunch of races [in 2014]/’
said Guerrero, who also trains Classic
GiacnroU. ‘‘He came back great and is
really doing well, so we’ll go at the next
allowance race and hope to continue into
early 2015 against 4-year-olds. He is a spe¬
cial horse and has an amazing personality.
We put a lot of time and care into him in
between aU his races, and hopefully he’ll
get back to his better numbers in the New
Year. Unless he gives us a reason, we are
not planning on taking the winter off”

Guerrero was in the midst of her
second full year of training in 2014 and
through Dec. 2 won 57 races from 255
starts and $1,459,738 in purses.

Bred in Kentucky by Dermot Joyce,
Classic GiacnroU is out of the stakes-win-
ning Storm Bird mare Classic Woman and
was purchased by Besecker at the Fasig-
Tipton Midlantic May sale of 2-year-olds
in training for $27,000. Giacomo, winner
of the 2005 Kentucky Derby-Gl, stands at
Heritage StalUons in Chesapeake City, Md.

The Nov. 11 win was Classic Giacnroll’s
third from 14 career starts and boosted his
earnings to $280,400.

Bucchero returns with win

Ironhorse Racing’s Bucchero made the
most of the experience he gained finishing
second in his debut, the $85,000 HUlsdale
Stakes at Indiana Grand Race Course
in October, as he returned to Parx Nov.
10 and handled eight foes-aU first-time
starters-with ease, breaking his 2-year-old
maiden by 5^Y lengths.

Trevor McCarthy rode the winner, an
Indiana-bred son of Kantharos, for trainer
Michael Trombetta.

“The owners purchased him at OBS
[for $43,000] and he trained very weU once
he came to my barn,” Trombetta said.
“We took him out to the stakes at Indiana
Grand because we couldn’t find the right
race, and because of the fact that he was
an Indiana-bred.”

Bucchero is out of the General Meeting
mare Meetmeontime. His second dam is
graded stakes winner Parlay, by Mt. Liver¬
more. From two starts, Bucchero has earn¬
ings of $43,844.

Call Tiger gets 14th victory

CaU Tiger made his 95th career start
a winning one Nov. 10 when he circled a
field of $7,500 claimers and cruised to a

3-length victory as the favorite for Team
Tudor Stable and trainer Phil Aristone. It
was the gelding’s 14th career win.

A now 10-year-old son of Tiger Ridge
out of Whistle CaU, by Phone Trick, CaU
Tiger began his career in September 2007
at Calder Race Course, and broke his maid¬

en for trainer Scott Lake at Gulfstream
Park the foUowing year in his first start at 3.
While he has never run in stakes, CaU Tiger
has been a hard-knocking competitor rac¬
ing almost exclusively in claiming company
at tracks up and down the East Coast. W

November stakes results for Parx Racing

11/16 Christopher Elser Memorial ($75K). m F. 2Y0 C&G Norn, with SCTOBA.

Winner: DUFF (b.c., Candy Ride-Arg—^To the Brim, by Ascot Knight), B:Two Sisters Farm (Pa,),
0:The Eikstone Group LLC,T: Ron G, Potts, J: Daniel Centeno,Time: 1:19,25, Margin: head,
2nd: Stonebriar, 3rd: Nasa,

11/16 Donna Freyer ($75K). m F. 2Y0 F Norn, with SCTOBA.

Winner: MISS BULLISTIC (dk,b,/br,f,, Bullsbay—Miss Lombardi, by Unbridled Jet),
B: H, Graham Motion (Md,), 0: Kathleen WillienT: Hamilton A, Smith, J: Jevian Toledo,
Time: 1:20,26, Margin: nose, 2nd: Mondor, 3rd: Pattitude,

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 47

LYDUA A, WILLIAMS

Around the Ovals Penn National

Three Strikes for Ben

Maryland-bred star continues mastery
of season-ending dirt sprint stakes

BY LINDA DOUGHERTY

Master of all he surveys: Ben’s Cat takes a turn around the paddock before
his decisive third victory in the Fabuious Strike Handicap.

P enn National presented a trio of
rich added-money events Nov 29,
a program that had originally been
scheduled for Thanksgiving Eve but was
postponed due to snow.

The evening’s highlight, the $200,000
Fabulous Strike Handicap, turned out to
be a tour de force for the grand old man
of Mid-Atlantic racing, Ben’s Cat, who at
age 8 won the 6-furlong event for the third
consecutive year.

Ben’s Cat, a Maryland-bred son of
Parker’s Storm Cat who runs in the name of
his breeder/trainer King T. Leatherbury’s

The Jim Stable, was sent off as the 3-1
second choice in the Fabulous Strike, with
New York invader River Rocks installed as
the favorite in the field of nine. Ben’s Cat
and regular rider Julian Pimental sat behind
four horses vying for the early lead through
the opening stages, after a quarter in :21.77
and the half in :44.61.

Pimentel guided him to the three-path
on the turn as early frontrunner King
Henry clung to a slim lead. When Pimentel
asked, Ben’s Cat accelerated spectacularly,
flying down the stretch, passing horses
with ease, and drawing off to win by 3V4

lengths over late-running Bern Identity,
with 70-1 Barracuda Wayne third. The final
time was 1:09.46.

The 2014 Fabulous Strike was the 28th
victory for Ben’s Cat from 45 lifetime
starts, and boosted his career bankroll to
$2,320,990.

‘‘The way he was training, I thought
he’d run his race and he did,” Leatherbury
said. “He exploded.”

Leatherbury said there was an excellent
chance that Ben’s Cat could be back at
Penn National in 2015 to try for a fourth
consecutive win in the Fabulous Strike.

“The rascal’s never been better,”
Leatherbury said. “He loves to race. He
takes care of himself He’s now running
as well as ever at age 8.1 can definitely see
him running at 9 or even 10.”

Michael Cox’s Rockin Jojo, a daughter
of Maryland leading freshman sire Street
Magician, won the $75,000 Blue Mountain
Juvenile Fillies for Pennsylvania-breds
to kick off the evening’s stakes action.
Trained by Bernie Houghton and ridden
by Trevor McCarthy, favored Rockin Jojo
took the lead in midstretch and won by 1 Vi
lengths over Ka 2 uri.

“I’ve Hked this fiUy since the day I start¬
ed training her,” Houghton said. “She ran
a great race in the Maryland Million Lassie
last time out [finishing third]. Trevor came
back and said she should’ve won. She does
everything tight.”

Cox, who owns Cox Equine Transport
in Texas, also campaigned 2014 Maryland
Million Distaff winner Classy Coco before
seUing her at Keeneland November for
$220,000 to Larry Johnson. Rockin Jojo
was an RNA for $42,000 at the 2014 OBS
April 2-year-old sale before Cox purchased
privately. The chestnut fiUy boosted her
earnings to $101,050 after two wins, a sec¬
ond and a third in five starts.

Multiple stakes winner Stormin
Monarcho shipped in from New York
to win the $100,000 Swatara Stakes for
co-owners Lawrence Roman and trainer
David Jacobson. The Monarchos gelding
shook clear late to win by a length over
Adirondack King in the 1 !/i6-mile event.

Bred in Kentucky by John Oxley,
Stormin Monarcho won the DTHA
Governors Day Stakes at Delaware Park
and the Richard W Small Stakes at Laurel
Park in 2014 prior to the Swatara.

Powerful Sun continues
family tradition for Courtney

James Courmey has gotten one talented
runner after another from the modestly

48 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

bred broodmare Snunner, proving you
don't always need a fashionable pedigree to
succeed in racing.

Courtney, 84, a resident of Monkton,
Md., and founder of the chemical com¬
pany Courtney Industries in Curtis Bay,
Md., bred and raced Snunner, a daughter
of former Maryland sire Yarrow Brae.

In 2009, Snunner produced the stakes-
winning and $191,678-earning Dance With
Ravens filly Spring Dance. In 2010, she
produced the stakes-placed and $178,410-
earning Power by Far filly Power of Snun¬
ner. And in 2011, again after being mated
to Power by Far, Snunner produced Power¬
ful Sun, who is signaling that he may be as
good as the other two with an impressive
early November allowance victory that was
his second win from his first three starts.

Trained by Tim Kreiser, who has trained
all of Snunner's progeny. Powerful Sun was
unveiled Sept. 6 in a maiden special at
Penn National and won against eight foes.
He followed that with a fourth in allow¬
ance company Oct. 11, in which he was
dispatched as the favorite but was roughed
up at the start and lost aU chance. Powerful
Sun returned Nov. 8 with a game victory
over Bright Skies in a 6-furlong allowance.

“He's kind of a quiet colt, average-sHed
with a big stride and he's nice and easy to
train," Kreiser said. “All of the horses out
of that mare [Snunner] have been like that.
They're not crazy—they're the kind you like
to have."

Kreiser said Powerful Sun got his early
schoohng in South Carolina but developed
a few small problems, which delayed his
arrival at Penn National.

“He's really come around quickly,"
Kreiser said. ‘We think he has a pretty
bright future."

Powerful Sun followed up his victory
20 days later with a fifth in allowance
company.

Barracuda Wayne scores

R J G Racing Management's Barracuda
Wayne won his second race of the year
Nov. 7 when he rocketed from last to first
in an allowance under Kayha Albright.

The Pennsylvania-bred son of WeigeHa
lagged near the back of the field through
the first half mile, commenced a wide rally
and drew off to win by 2^4 lengths over
Flying Zealous. The $21,888 winner's share
put Barracuda Wayne's lifetime earnings to
just shy of $100,000 from 12 starts.

Trained by Murray Rojas, Barracuda
Wayne passed the six-figure mark when he
finished third behind Ben's Cat and Bern
Identity at more than 74-1 in the $200,000
Fabulous Strike.

The gelding was bred by WynOaks
Farm and St. Omer's Farm. His sire stands
at WynOaks in Delta, Pa., owned by Chip
and Barbara Wheeler.

Barracuda Wayne has had three train¬
ers in his short career. He made his first
two starts for Don Roberson and owner
Richard Hessee at Delaware Park in 2013,
breaking his maiden in early July. He then
won the $50,000 Strike Your Colors Stakes
at the Stanton oval after a trainer switch to
Randy AUen.

Barracuda Wayne was purchased pri¬
vately after the Strike Your Colors by R J G,
headed by Ronald “Jeff" Greener, and
turned over to Rojas. R J G offers low-cost
partnership shares and posted a successful
2014 season with 31 victories and purse
earnings of $539,543 through Dec. 2.

Perennially among the GrantviUe track's
leading conditioners, Rojas was fourth in

the standings with 41 victories through
early December. Overall he had 66 wins,
and his runners had earned $1,284,841.

“He is a very handsome horse with tons
of ability," Greener said after Barracuda
Wayne's most recent score. “He's stiU a
bit immature. We tried him in two stakes
races at Laurel Park as a 2-year-old. The
first time [in the James F. Lewis III] he
stumbled at the start and put in a good
effort, even though he was not happy with
aU the dirt in his face. The second time [the
Marylander], I made a bad caU and asked
to put him in the race a little early and he
didn't like being rushed.

“As he mamres, he seems to be put¬
ting it together—he just loves to swing out
from behind horses and run them down.
He has been lightly raced, so I think as he
gets more seasoning he will get involved a
little more."

Greener said more big tasks could be
ahead for Barracuda Wayne, who is out of
the Wayne County (Ire) mare Madelaine.

“His pedigree indicates he should like
a little more ground and he should enjoy
the grass as well," Greener said. “We'U wait
until spring to stretch him out, and then
try the turf"

Keiser finds success

Chelsey Keiser has made a successful
transition to Penn National from Suffolk
Downs, winning a pair of races during the
Nov. 5 program.

The 22-year-old won the seventh race
aboard Brum Brum Boy for Outta Control
Racing Stables and trainer Gina Perri and
then prevailed in the eighth race aboard
Our Tigress for trainer Kimberly Graci
and owner Anthony Fontana.

Keiser hails from North Star, Ohio,
where she grew up in a racing family, as
her mother. Deb, was a trainer and her
father, Mike, was a farrier. She galloped
horses on their farm and then gained
experience at the 2-year-old sales in Ocala,
Fla. While there, she met Eddie Warner,
assistant trainer to Hugh McMahon, and
with his help, started riding professionally
in March 2013. She started at Laurel Park
and Pimlico Race Course before shifting
to Colonial Downs, and earlier this year
to Suffolk.

Keiser won 64 races and more than $1.4
million in purses in 2013, and through Dec.
1 had added 59 races and $1,022,986 in
purses in 2014. ^

November stakes results for Penn National

11/29 Fabulous Strike ($20010.6 F. 3&up.

Winner: BEN’S CAT (dk.b./br.g,, 8, Parker’s Storm Cat—Twofox, by Thirty Eight Paces).

B-K,T, Leatherbury Assoc, inc (Md,). 0:The Jim Stable.!: King T, Leatherbury. J: Juiian Pimentei,
Time: 1:09.46. Margin: 374,2nd: Bern Identity. 3rd: Barracuda Wayne.

11/29 Swatara ($1OOK). 1 Vw mi. 3&up.

Winner: STORMIN MONARCHO (b.g., 4 , Monarches—Her Own Terms, by Storm Cat),

B: John Oxley (Ky.). 0: Lawrence P, Roman and David Jacobson, T: David Jacobson.

J:Jevian Toledo. Time: 1:44,40, Margin: 1 . 2nd: Adirondack King. 3rd: Yougotthatgoinforu.

11/29 Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies ($75K). 6 F. Reg. PA-Bred 2Y0 F.

Winner: ROCKIN JOJO (ch.f,, Street Magician—Chiqueada, by Paimister). B-David P, Miiier and
Skymarc Farm (Pa.). 0: Michaei R, Cox. T: T. Bernard Houghton, J: Trevor McCarthy. Time: 1:11,44,
Margin: 1V^. 2nd: Kazuri. 3rd: Miss Rockport.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 49

Around the Ovals haurel Park

Change of Scenery

Move to Lukas pays off with upset
for Zee Bros, Zayat in De Francis Dash

BY DAN TORDJMAN, PHOTOGRAPHS BY JIM McCUE

Back to his winning ways, Zayat Stables’ Zee Bros streaks toward
the finish of the De Francis Dash for trainer D. Wayne Lukas.

W hen Zayat Stables sent Zee Bros to
D. Wayne Lukas in September, the
horse looked tired. Were his best
days behind him, following a seventh in
the Grade 1 Forego Stakes in August and
having not won a race in 16 months? It
appeared that way But then Lukas pulled
a Lukas.

Zee Bros didn’t win his first two races
under the Hall of Fame trainer. In fact,
he finished last in the Grade 1 Vosburgh
and last again a week later in the Grade 3
Phoenix. But Lukas tried him again-this
time two weeks later-in a 5y2-furlong
allowance on Keeneland’s turf course, and
Zee Bros won.

Justin Zayat of Zayat Stables was hope¬
ful.

No, he was confident.

For months, he had Nov. 15 and the
$350,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial
Dash circled on his calendar.

‘Hhis was kind of our goal from the
time we brought him to Wayne Lukas,”
Zayat said. ^‘If you know Lukas, he gets
them fit through racing them. That really
turned the corner for him, fimess wise and
mental wise. Got him back to that winning
mentality.”

Zayat’s continued faith in Zee Bros
and Lukas paid off in a big way in the
De Francis Dash, the headlining event on
Laurel’s FaU Festival of Racing program.
The now 5-year-old son of Brother Derek
not only won, but cruised to a 2%-length
victory as the longest shot on the board
at 29-1.

Initially drawn as a field of 10, the gates
opened with eight horses following the

scratches of local legend Ben’s Cat and the
speedy filly La Verdad. On paper, the De
Francis stiU figured to feature plenty of
pace, which wouldn’t have bene fitted Zee
Bros. He had made a habit of burning out
after showing speed early in races over the
past year.

Then something unexpected happened.
Usual speedsters Happy My Way and Bern
Identity didn’t go with the early pace, and
the race started to fall into Zee Bros’ lap.
Under the patient handling of Jose Ortiz
Jr.-initially named on La Verdad-Zee
Bros rated just off of pacesetter Favorite
Tale through an opening quarter mile in
:22.01. By the time they reached the half
in :44.87, Zee Bros pulled himself to a
1%-length lead and he hadn’t yet been
asked.

‘T loved the position,” Zayat said.
‘‘Turning for home, I knew it was over.”

Zee Bros’ pilot was also extremely
confident, having realized that his main
threats, who included Happy My Way and
Bern Identity, would be hard-pressed to
catch his horse after being taken out of
their element.

“[Speed] is their weapon,” Ortiz said.
“If they’re not on the lead, they’re not
going to close. When they didn’t break, I
said, ‘I can win.’”

Ortiz and Zee Bros pulled away in the
stretch. As they crossed the wire after 6
furlongs in a sharp 1:08.77, Ortiz repeat¬
edly pumped his fist with his whip flap¬
ping. Happy My Way rallied late to grab the
runner-up spot and Bern Identity finished
third.

Sure, Ortiz enjoyed winning a $350,000
race, but he couldn’t help but reflect on
the unlikely circumstances that led to it.
He hadn’t even planned on riding in the De
Francis after the scratch of La Verdad. But
then, on the day before the race. Laurel-
based Alex Cintron, originally named on
Zee Bros, was hurt in a spill. That opened
the door for Ortiz’s agent Jimmy Riccio.

“He called and he finds the mount. So,
he tells me to caU D. Wayne and we talked
about it and he told me ‘this is a nice horse’
and ‘I’ve had this horse and he’s been
improving.’ I believed him. How would I
not believe a trainer Like that?” Ortiz said
with a laugh.

Also pleased in the winner’s circle fol¬
lowing the race was Tim Austin, assistant
trainer to Lukas. Austin made the trip up
from Kentucky and talked about the turn¬
around in Zee Bros’ form.

“It took Wayne just a little bit to figure
him out and figure where we wanted to

50 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

be with him but, after that, you can see
what he’s done in his last couple of starts,”
Austin said. ‘Wayne’s the best about this
sort of stuff, showing up on the big days.
He does a great job with it.”

Lukas won the De Francis with Yes It’s
True in 1999, when the race was a Grade 1.

The victory was Zee Bros’ first stakes
win since taking the $100,000 Chick Lang
at Pimlico in May 2013, and pushed his
career earnings to $437,730 from 15 starts.

“I’m glad it worked out,” Zayat said. “I
was so happy to get him back on his win¬
ning ways and hopefully this will propel
him forward for a big 2015.”

Griff overcomes post

Jockey and trainer cringed. Of all the
post positions Griff could have drawn for
the $100,000 City of Laurel Stakes, the
one hole was just about the last spot Abel
Castellano and Tim HiUs wanted.

“I was really concerned with the one
and how he was going to pick through 12
other horses to get to the outside where he
can really fire,” HiUs said. “But somehow
he did it.”

Bet down from 15-1 on the morning
line to 4-1 at post time for the 3-year-old
stakes. Griff was the first to load and last
of the 13 horses after the break. That’s
where he remained through most of the
first half-mile. Castellano gave the son of
Rockport Harbor his cue with 3 furlongs
to run.

The gray gelding went around horses,
in between them and, finally, past his final
obstacle, longshot Cutty Shark, who had
emerged with the lead in midstretch. In the
end. Griff won going away by lengths
in 1:21.92 for 7 furlongs. Cutty Shark held
on for second by a neck over Bump Start.

StiU winded after a rally that might
have taken more out of him than his
horse, Castellano marveled at Griff’s per¬
formance.

“Oh man, let me teU you something,
that mission was an impossible mission,”
Castellano said. “I was in the stretch and
tried to find a spot to clear and I did find
myself a good spot and I put him to the
outside, everybody moved to the inside,
everybody split, so I went through horses
and my horse he kept running. I’m glad it
worked out because it was impossible.”

Almost.

The victory was Griff’s first stakes
score and fourth overall for owner and
breeder Sea GuU Associates. He had previ¬
ously won in his only other start at Laurel,

Proving the impossible really wasn’t, Sea Gull Associates’ homebred Griff completes
a last-to-first charge to win the City of Laurel Stakes, his first stakes victory.

November stakes results for Laurel Park

11/15 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash ($350K). 6 F. 3&ui

Winner: ZEE BROS (b.c., 4, Brother Derek—Nyanza, by Montbrook), B: Eico Stable (Ky.).
0: Zayat Stables LLC.T: D. Wayne Lukas, J: Jose L. Ortiz. Time: 1:08,77. Margin: 2%.
2nd: Happy My Way. 3rd: Bern Identity.

11/15 City of Laurel ($1OOK). 7 F. 3Y0.

Winner: GRIFF (gr./ro.g., Rockport Harbor—Got a Glow, by Dehere), B/0: Sea Gull Associates LLC
{Ky,),T: Timothy A. Hills. J: Abel Castellano Jr. Time: 1:21.92. Margin: 2^/4, 2nd: Cutty Shark.

3rd: Bump Start.

11/15 James F. Lewis III (SIOOK). 6 F. 2Y0.

Winner: CINCO CHARLIE (b.c,, Indian Charlie—Ten Halos, by Marquetry). B: CandyLand Farm
(Ky.), 0: L. William and Corinne Heiligbrodt.T: Steven M. Asmussen. J: Ricardo Santana Jr.
Time: 1:09,74. Margin: 2nd: Majestic Affair. 3rd: Senor Grits,

11/15 Richard W. Small ($100K). IYb mi. 3&up.

Winner: STORMIN MONARCHO (b.g,, 4, Monarches—Her Own Terms, by Storm Cat).

B: John Oxley (Ky.). 0: Lawrence P, Roman, T: David Jacobson. J: Jevian Toledo. Time: 1:49.32,
Margin: 2^4. 2nd: Page McKenney. 3rd: Beautyinthepulpit.

11/15 Safely Kept ($1 OOK). 7 F. 3Y0 F.

Winner: WHO’S IN TOWN (b.f., Speightstown—Who’s Cozy, by Cozzene). B: Sycamore Hall Farm
LLC (Md,), 0: Richard L. Golden,T: Michael R, Matz. J: Julian Pimentel.Time: 1:23.68. Margin: ^4,
2nd: Shayjolie. 3rd: True Romance.

11/15 Smart Halo ($100K). 6 F. 2Y0 F.

Winner: LAKE SEBAGO (b.f., Munnings—^Aviva’s Pride, by Borrego), B: Machmer Hall, Carrie
Brogden and Craig Brogden (Ky,), 0:Tim E, O’Donohue Racing Stables LLC.T: John J. Robb,

J:Trevor McCarthy. Time: 1:10,85, Margin: Vi. 2nd: E Dubai’s Humor. 3rd: Overprepared.

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 51

Around the Ovals haurel Park

in his wheelhouse/’ said Hills, who planned
to ship the $149,240-earner to Florida for
the winter. ^ When they go two turns, he's a
long-legged horse but a little light framed.
I don't think he really, even though it looks
like he wants to go further, I don't think he
wants to go a lot further."

On familiar ground

The $100,000 James F. Lewis III Stakes
for 2-year-olds marked a happy home¬
coming for jockey Ricardo Santana Jr.
and served as a statement race for Cinco
Charlie.

As the even-money favorite, the son of
Indian Charhe cruised to an easy victory.
After the race, Santana didn't hold back in
his praise for the promising colt.

‘‘He's such a nice horse," he said. “Let's
go see if he can be in Kenmcky in the
Breeders' Cup next year."

There are many miles, days and obsta¬
cles between Maryland and Lexington but
Cinco Charlie earned a high-five for the
way in which he dispatched nine over¬
matched rivals in the Lewis.

Under Santana-now based in Ken¬
tucky but a regular in Maryland and the
Mid-Atlantic in 2009 after arriving from
Panama-Cinco Charlie showed his usual
early foot, pressing and battling with
longshot Machination early. As quickly
as Machination began getting passed by
horses in midstretch, Cinco Charlie was
opening up a lead. Cinco Charlie won by
7?A lengths over Majestic Affair, complet¬
ing 6 furlongs in 1:09.74.

“He's just such a great horse," Santana
said. “He always tries."

Owned by William and Corinne
Heihgbrodt and trained by Steve Asmussen,
Cinco Charlie likely appreciated the class
relief that came after a challenging sum¬
mer campaign. The Kentucky-bred colt
captured the Grade 3 Bashford Manor in
June at Churchill Downs and followed up
by finishing third and fifth, respectively, in
the Grade 3 Sanford and Grade 2 Saratoga
Special at Saratoga.

Following the graded stakes tests, he
shipped to Delaware Park in September for
the $75,000 First State Dash Stakes. Sent
off at 1-20, he rolled by Wi lengths. After
finishing third in the Grade 2 Futurity
Stakes in October at Belmont, he was
pointed toward the Lewis.

“He ran really good at Belmont and the
boss picked the spot," said Asmussen assis¬
tant Toby Sheets. “He ran the way he had
prepped, so we are very pleased with him."

an allowance race going 1 mile on the dirt
in September. That win was sandwiched
between a fourth in the 6-furlong Grade
3 Jersey Shore Stakes at Monmouth and a

fifth in an allowance at Belmont going F/i6
miles in October.

“Right now, I think he's a one-turn
horse-seven-eighths to a mile, I think, is

William and Corinne Heiligbrodt’s Cinco Charlie rolls toward the finish line in the James F. Lewis III
for 2-year-olds with former Mid-Atlantic-based rider Ricardo Santana Jr. aboard.

Maryland-bred Who’s in Town collects her first stakes win (she was disqualified from
a Grade 2 score at Saratoga as a 2-year-old) in the Safely Kept Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

52 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

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IDOLO PORTENO takes
one of Argentina's greatest
races, the Gran Premio
Carlos Pellegrini-GI, and
launches himself squarely
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American country.

With back-to-back Gr. 1 wins in Argentina
this fall, IDOLO PORTENO has become the
talk of South America, and leaps up as a
major contender for Argentinean Horse of
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the second Gr. 1 winner for JUMP START
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IDOLO PORTENO won the famed Gran
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Isidro by an impressive four lengths over last
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his previous start he captured his first Gr. 1
race, the Gran Premio Dardo Rocha, at La
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half miles. The Thoroughbred Daily News
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NotForLove:
A December to

The 25th career stakes
winner for Smarty Jones, NASA
blazes to victory in the
Pennsylvania Nursery.

The Pennsylvania Nursery showcased
the extraordinary talents of SMARTY JONES
in 2003, and 11 years later his son NASA
added his own exclamation point, leading
throughout to take the $100,000 stakes at
Parx Racing on Dec. 6.

The team of Pat Chapman's Someday
Farm and trainer John Servis are also
responsible for NASA, the 25th career
stakes winner for SMARTY JONES. The bay
colt out of Shootforthestars (by Seattle
Slew) has now won or placed in all four of
his juvenile starts for earnings of $99,050.

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remains one of most expensive yearlings
by his sire to sell at auction, bringing $1.2
million at Saratoga

3* BUFFUM is a member of one of racing's
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to champion sprinter GOLD BEAUTY. The
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The win was Cinco Charlie’s fourth in
seven starts and bumped his lifetime earn¬
ings to $239,422.

As for Santana, he’s come a long way
since his first few years as a rider. After
winning 18 races in 2009, 27 in 2010 and
46 in 2011, he has won at least 100 in each
of the past three years.

He has high hopes for where Cinco
Charhe might take him next but for one
day at least, it was nice to be back where
it aU started.

“I’m happy to see aU my friends [from]
when I was riding as a bug boy,” Santana
said. “It’s great.”

Long time coming

In a day dominated by Kentucky-breds,
Who’s in Town scored one for the locals
with a victory in the $100,000 Safely Kept
Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

Bred in Maryland by owner Richard
Golden’s Sycamore HaU Farm, the daugh¬

ter of Speightstown stalked early and
pounced late to draw away to a three-quar-
ter-length victory over favorite Shayjohe.
She completed 7 furlongs in 1:23.68.

Trained by Michael Mat 2 , Who’s in
Town finally notched her first stakes vic¬
tory, 15 months after she crossed the wire
first in the Grade 2 Adirondack Stakes at
Saratoga only to be disquahfied for inter¬
ference and placed fourth. She had won
two allowance races since, including one
at Laurel in September, but failed to break
through in stakes company.

“She’s always close and she always tried
really hard,” Mat 2 said.

In August, Who’s in Town finished fifth
in the Grade 2 Prioress Stakes at Saratoga
but it was an important race, in that jockey
Alex Cintron made an observation that
Mat 2 cited as a contributing factor in the
filly’s strong showing in the Safely Kept.

“[Cintron] said she was a httle hesi¬
tant, not going through a hole there, and

thought he should have been second,”
Mat 2 said. “We put the blinkers on and so
far it seems to help a bit.”

Cintron was injured in a spiU the day
before the Safely Kept and he was unable
to ride. Who’s in Town was one of three
stakes winners on the FaU Festival of
Racing card that Cintron was originally
named on-the others were Stormin Mon-
archo, who gave jockey Jevian Toledo his
first Laurel Park stakes win in the inaugural
$100,000 Richard W Small Stakes, and
Zee Bros in the De Francis Dash. Juhan
Pimentel picked up the mount on Who’s
in Town.

“It was very unfortunate. . . you never
want that to happen to any of your fellow
riders,” Pimentel said. “But I was hoping I
would have the chance, and it worked out
good for me.” ^

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Around the Ovals Charles Town

A Milestone Mare

Down Town Allen becomes fifth WV-bred
to surpass $1 million in career earnings

BY JEFF NATIONS. PHOTOGRAPHS BY COADY PHOTOGRAPHY

Down Town Allen runs her career victory total to 25, and her career
earnings past $1 million, in the My Sister Pearl Stakes.

A s jockey Mathew McGowan prepared
for another potentially historic ride
aboard the West Virginia champion
mare Down Town Allen, ids a safe bet he
felt a bit more pressure than usual.

In terms of money, the $50,000 My
Sister Pearl Stakes at Charles Town Nov. 15
wasn’t a make-or-break payday for trainer
John A. Casey’s homebred. The daughter
of Windsor Castle has more than earned
her keep over the years. But a win did
promise to put Down Town Allen in select
company, making her just the fifth West
Virginia-bred to eclipse $1 million in career
earnings-and the first female. To do that
though, McGowan knew he’d have to best
one of Charles Town’s finest distance run¬
ners, Red Hot Diva, at her preferred IVs
miles.

That’s tough enough, perhaps, but the
situation was even stickier for McGowan.
His mother-in-law, Naomi Long, bred and
owns Red Hot Diva, leaving McGowan
with the prospect of a rather frosty recep¬
tion at the next family gathering should he
win-a scenario Travis Dunkelberger, Red
Hot Diva’s jockey, made sure to illustrate
shordy before post time.

‘‘Travis said to me in the [jockeys’]
room, ‘If it comes down to it, and it’s just
me and you... remember, this is Christmas
money on the hne,’” McGowan said. “And
I said, ‘Yeah, for my family or hers?’”

Whatever heat McGowan might have
been feeling on race night, rest assured
Down Town Allen was in no mood to fin¬
ish second to anyone. Seeking to remain
unbeaten during her 7-year-old campaign.

she went to the lead early by reeling in
pacesetter Autumn Affair, then awaited the
inevitable challenge from Red Hot Diva.

“Coming by the first time, she was just
asleep,” McGowan said. “She just put her
ears up and I literally just dropped rein and
she was just coasting. And I rattled off in
my head and I was hke, ‘Uh oh, if we went
that slow they’re going to have to be flying
down the backside.’ Then she just picked
it up at the three-eighths pole and I felt
Travis come. She did that on her own. She
picked it up, then she relaxed right back
and I thought ‘well, they must have backed
off’ And I set her down midway in the
turn, and she was gone.”

Down Town Allen foiled Red Hot
Diva’s bid by 1^ lengths in 1:53.61. The
time wasn’t amazing but consider-just a
few months prior back in June—Down
Town AUen had scored one of her six
victories on the season in the 4y2-furlong
Fancy Buckles Stakes.

“She’s been a good horse, she’s just
unbelievable,” Casey said. “I mean, how
many horses can go 4^2 to 9 and it not make
any difference? That’s one in a lifetime.”

Casey admits that he figured he’d seen
the last of Down Town Allen’s racing days
after she won the West Virginia Jefferson
Security Bank “Cavada” on Breeders
Classics night Oct. 18. Casey was so sure,
in fact, that he had no qualms in granting
his 6-year-old son Allen’s request to ride
the horse named after him in a show at the
county fairgrounds.

“She’s tame-my Httle boy can ride on
her,” Casey said. “He can put mud on her.
He feeds her carrots and donuts and candy;
she follows him around. I wasn’t going to
run her anymore, so we took her to the
horse show. Then we turned around and
were galloping her for a Httle while, and we
said ‘Man, she’s training better than ever.
She’s training better now than she ever did
before the Classics.’”

The latest victory pushed Down Town
Allen’s career winnings over that celebrated
seven-figure mark, as she joined Soul of
the Matter, Afternoon DeeHtes and fellow
Charles Town stalwarts Russell Road and
Confucius Say as the only West Virginia-
breds to accompHsh the feat.

Knowing Down Town Allen’s qual¬
ity first-hand through long experience,
McGowan tried to soften what he figured
was the inevitable blow in a conversation
with his mother-in-law.

“I told Naomi a couple days ago, it’s
almost a non-lose situation,” McGowan
said. “If I get beat by you, I get beat by

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Hear the Chatter put a firm grip on the West Virginia-bred 2-year-old championship with two
stakes wins three weeks apart in November-the Tri-State and West Virginia Futurities.

one of the best distance horses that’s come
along with Diva because she really is good
at that distance. But I told her the same
thing — ‘if you get beat, you just got beat by
the queen of Charles Town. I mean, how
could you be upset?’ How could you be
upset when you lose to Down Town Allen?
I mean, she’s not the first.”

McGowan has long made a point of
thanking Casey and his wife, Kristy Petty,
after each of his wins aboard Down Town
AUen. For the veteran jockey, the experi¬
ence has been nothing less than a privilege.

“To have gotten to ride an animal like
that in my career is just an amazing feel¬
ing,” McGowan said. “I mean. I’m a good
hder here at Charles Town but I’m not one
of the Derby contenders. I don’t plan on
riding in the Derby next year, but yet I get
to sit on a horse hke her. It’s just an amaz¬
ing feeling.”

Futurity winners

Down Town AUen provided plenty of
reasons for thanks in November, but she
wasn’t the only horse brightening up the
holiday season for Casey and Petty.

Hear the Chatter, a homebred gelding
by Mass Media, scored an impressive 6^4-
length victory in the 46th running of the
Tri-State Futurity for 2-year-olds Nov. 8.

If there were any doubts about the
upcoming end-of-season awards. Hear the
Chatter put them to rest by firmly staking
his claim as the state’s top 2-year-old of
2014 with another November victory—in
the 7-furlong West Virginia Futurity Nov.
29. It was Hear the Chatter’s fifth score in
six tries on the year, aU the wins coming at
Charles Town.

“It’s been a great month, it’s been a
great year,” Casey said.

In the Tri-State Futurity fiUy division,
another heavy favorite came through for
an easy score.

Maryland-bred Sara Rocks survived a
wide trip to win by 414 lengths for trainer
Robbie Bailes and owner Karen Benshoff.
It was the second victory in six hfetime
starts for the daughter of Rock Shde.

Sara Rocks ran back three weeks later
in a claiming race at Laurel Park, finished
second for a $25,000 tag, and was taken
by trainer Thomas lannotti IV for The
Elks tone Group.

‘Boy’ bounces back

As Hear the Chatter continued to
emerge as a force at Charles Town, estab¬
lished champion Lucy’s Bob Boy regrouped

from a stunning loss to Russell Road in
October’s West Virginia Breeders Classic.
Lucy’s Bob Boy, trained by Sandra Dono
for owner Linda Sours, didn’t get a chance
for a rematch with his longtime nemesis
Russell Road in the $50,000 A Huevo, but
the Nov. 22 stakes stiU provided a show¬
case for the son of Flatter.

Jockey Arnaldo Bocachica made the
best use of that opportunity, taking Lucy’s
Bob Boy to the front and leading through¬
out for a 3y4-length win in 1:5L03.

The victory was the fifth in nine 2014
starts for Lucy’s Bob Boy, and increased
his lifetime mark to 21 victories in 31 starts
while racing from 2 to 5. ^

November stakes results for Charles Town

11/8 Tri-State Futurity ($50K). 1 st div. 7 F. 2Y0 foaled in MD, VA or WV.

Winner: SARA ROCKS (b.f., Rock Slide—^Waltz, by Pleasant Tap), B-RobertT. Manfuso (Md,),
0-Karen M, Benshoff.T:W. Robert Bailes. J: Jevian Toledo.Time: 1:29,40. Margin: 414.

2nd: Mint to Fly. 3rd: Just a Real Cat

11/8 Tri-State Futurity ($50K). 2nd div. 7 F. 2Y0 foaled in MD, VA or WV.

Winner: HEAR THE CHATTER (dk.b./br.g,, Mass Media—^Stefani’s Surprise, by Stephen Got
Even), B/0: Kristy Petty {W.Va,).T: John A. Casey. J: Gerald Almodovar, Time: 1:25.85. Margin: 614,
2nd: One More Time. 3rd: Sir A. J. Mannings.

11/15 My Sister Pearl ($50K). VA mi. Reg. WV-Bred, 3&up, F&M.

Winner: DOWN TOWN ALLEN (b.m,, 7, Windsor Castle—Like Down Town, by Roy).
B/O/T: John A, Casey (W.Va.), J: Mathew Carroll McGowan. Time: 1:53,61, Margin: 1%.
2nd: Red Hot Diva. 3rd: Flirting Song.

11/22 A Huevo ($50K). 1% mi. Reg. WV-Bred, 3&up.

Winner: LUCY’S BOB BOY (ch.g,, 5, Flatter—Love for Lucy, by Not For Love). B: Robert W, Furr
Sr. (W.Va,). 0: Linda Sours. T: Sandra A, Dono. J: Arnaldo Bocachica, Time: 1:51.03. Margin: 374,
2nd: Allegheny Jack. 3rd: Fred High.

11/29 West Virginia Futurity ($5010.7 F. Reg. WV-Bred 2Y0.

Winner: HEAR THE CHATTER (dk.b./br.g,. Mass Media—^Stefani’s Surprise, by Stephen Got
Even), B/0: Kristy Petty (W.Va,), T: John A, Casey. J: Gerald Almodovar, Time: 1:27.26. Margin: 3,
2nd: One More Time. 3rd: Too Much to Do.

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One more time

Grade 1 veteran Divine Fortune cioses
year with Coioniai Cup score for Sheppard

BY JOE CLANCY

Y OU could almost see the brainwaves
between Divine Fortune and Darren
Nagle at the beginning of the Colonial
Cup. The starter’s flag had dropped. The
recall flag was on its way down.

And Divine Fortune and Nagle were
gone.

With bounding strides and soft hands,
they took a 5-length lead and put five rivals
on the defensive in the 2y4-mile, Grade 1
steeplechase stakes at Springdale Race
Course in Camden, S.C., Nov. 15. The
Pennsylvania-bred made the lead stand up,
handling all 17 fences with aplomb, to add

the $100,000 Cup to a season-opening win
in the Iroquois-Gl and stopping hkely
steeplechase champion Demonstrative’s
Grade 1 winning streak at three. Divine
Fortune won by 9 lengths for co-owners/
breeders Bill Pape and Jonathan Sheppard.
Barnstorming wound up second, a nose in
front of Demonstrative after 5:13.40.

But those are just the numbers. The
performance was about so much more.

Divine Fortune, the 2013 champion,
had Yo-Yoed from brilliant to bruised
and back again in 2014. He won the
Iroquois-Gl in May, pulled up in the
A.P Smithwick-Gl at Saratoga in July
and fell at the last fence of the Lonesome
Glory-Gl at Belmont Park in September.
He righted himself with a gallant, but
fruitless, second to Demonstrative in the
Grand National-Gl in October and looked
destined to be merely a groomsman again

Pennsylvania-bred Divine Fortune flies the last fence in the season-ending Grade 1 Coioniai Cup in Camden, S.C.

56 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

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Pennsylvania-bred Handsome Hoyt (left) leads over the last fence
of the Raymond Woolfe Memorial 3-year-old stakes.

in the Colonial Cup. Only he didn’t hold
his peace.

Pre-race discussion centered on
Demonstrative and an expected corona¬
tion to his standout campaign, plus the
upstart novice stakes winner Top Striker.
The latter was expected to press the pace-
loving Divine Fortune early, which would
only help Demonstrative’s cause. Nagle
took that tactic out of the equation with
the early move and Divine Fortune’s gallop
(long and relentless) and jumping (longer
and more relentless) did the rest.

The sprawling course features 17 fences
-each jumped once. The backstretch |
might be the longest in racing, with six |
fences in a nearly straight hne for well more
than a half-mile, and it plays to Divine
Formne’s strengths.

He flew each fence, stepping into the
wings and extending an already long stride
to the takeoff spot. As his horse closed on
a fence, Nagle crouched a bit in the stir¬
rups-providing a cue, confidence, a little
rein. Each time. Divine Fortune responded.

“I just rode him, to best suit him and
didn’t worry about everybody else,” said
Nagle. ‘T said Fd go from the start, go
quick over the first couple, let him ease up
the straight and catch his breath. There are
plenty of fences down the backside and
jumping is the name of the game for him.

I let him roll down there and gunned him
at everything. If there’s something good
enough to go with him over a hne of six at
that speed, then fair play to them.”

The others tried to keep pace, but it
all began to unravel at the 14th. Divine
Formne rose up and flew it. Demonstrative
knifed it, keeping up but working to do so
as the others drew alongside. The 15th was
more of the same, and then came the two-
fence, quarter-mile stretch. Nagle asked for
two more and Divine Fortune dehvered,
ending Demonstrative’s chances and quiet¬
ing a rally by Barnstorming.

let him go a gaUop that was quick
enough for him without emptying the
tank,” said Nagle. ‘Tf something was
upsides him coming to the second-last I’d
have been a bit worried, but I knew once
he got over that he was going to stay on
and see it through.”

The winner galloped out as he raced,
bounding down the long stretch toward
the turn and the fading sun. Walking back.
Barnstorming’s jockey Willie McCarthy
reached over and gave Divine Fortune a

pat and a tug on the ear. Nagle, who missed
most of the year with a broken leg, soaked
it in and thought about the horse’s abihty
to simply keep going despite the setbacks.

‘‘He’s unreal, special, real special to
me,” said the jockey. “He’s a very profes¬
sional horse, a smart horse. He just fives
fife every day like it’s normal. If he was
a human, he’d probably be a World War
veteran with a couple of bullet holes or
something. But happy with fife. He’s ama 2 -
ing. He’s young at heart I suppose. He still
has enthusiasm.”

Sheppard, who has seen plenty in a
career filled with milestones, accepted con¬
gratulations while checking on his other
runners. He’s trained better horses than
Divine Fortune, but none like him.

“He doesn’t seem to get depressed, or
down on himself or anything when he
falls or has a bad race,” said the HaU of
Famer. “If he was like me, he’d have been
retired years ago. He’s a remarkable horse,
he really is.”

Divine Fortune won for the 11th time
in 40 lifetime jump starts and increased his
career steeplechase earnings to $801,390.
Divine Fortune won once on the flat, way
back in 2007 at Colonial Downs. He won
three times over jumps that year, then
spent two years away from the races with
a tendon injury. After finishing second in
five Grade 1 stakes, including the Colonial
Cups of 2011 and 2012, he finally broke
through with a top-level win late in 2013
en route to the Eclipse Award as champion
steeplechaser.

He will most likely settle for an Eclipse
nomination for the 2014 work, two wins
and $195,000 in five starts, but will be back
again for another go as a 12-year-old this
year.

Final Day Finishes

The season finale included a double by
champion trainer Jack Fisher, who picked
up a $25,000 maiden hurdle win with
Woodslane Farm’s Overwhelming and a
$20,000 open timber win with Straight to
It for Sheila Williams and Andre Brewster.
Sean McDermott, who teamed up with
Fisher for six winners late in the season,
rode both victors.

Nancy Reed’s Handsome Hoyt won
the $25,000 Raymond Woolfe Memorial
hurdle stakes for 3-year-olds for trainer
Kathy Neilson and jockey Jacob Roberts.

Bred in Pennsylvania by his owner, the
winner improved on a fourth and a puU-up
in two starts over jumps in 2014. The son
of Great Notion and the Valley Crossing
mare River Kwai made eight starts on
the flat, including a second for a $13,000
claiming price at Parx Racing in September,
before switching to jumps.

Owner George Mahoney’s Rosbrian
Farm and trainer Ricky Hendriks teamed
up for two wins on the Colonial Cup card,
taking a $20,000 starter allowance hurdle
with Wantan (Arg) and a $20,000 allowance
hurdle with Long House Saint (Ire). David
Byrne rode both winners. ■

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Horses for history

Big names Demonstrative, Divine Fortune
prove worthy heroes of 2014 jump season

BY JOE CLANCY

Demonstrative leads Divine Fortune over the last in the 2014 Grand National at Far Hills.

T hey aren’t quite Affirmed and Alydar
or War Admiral and Seabiscuit, but
Demonstrative and Divine Fortune
will someday be the topic of steeplechase
history conversations.

The two stars of 2014 are that good,
and they ruled any conversation summari 2 -
ing the year in American jump racing.

They accounted for five of the six
Grade 1 jump races on the National Stee¬
plechase Association circuit, and came
within a nose of sweeping aU six. Divine
Fortune won the first, the Iroquois in May.
Demonstrative lost the second, Saratoga’s
A.P. Smithwick, by a nose. Then he won
the next three. Just when it looked like
his rival was unbeatable. Divine Fortune
closed the year with a Colonial Cup win.

They met five times on the year. Divine
Fortune won twice, finished second
once, feU once and was puUed up once.
Demonstrative won twice and added a
second and a third. He also won the Turf

Writers, which Divine Fortune skipped.
Over the past three seasons, they’ve
appeared in the same race 13 times-aU
in Grade 1 company-to prove that good
Thoroughbreds do indeed stick around.
Demonstrative owns five wins. Divine
Fortune three. Just one other steeplechaser
has won more than one Grade 1 stakes in
the past three seasons and that was Pierrot
Lunaire’s double in 2012.

Demonstrative won the 2014 earnings
crown by piling up $362,500 on the season
and win probably take the Eclipse Award
as champion steeplechaser. Champion of
2013, Divine Fortune’s $195,000 bankroll
was good enough for second. Cementing
their places in history, each passed $800,000
in career earnings-a feat achieved by just
three other American-based steeplechas¬
ers (Hall of Famers Lonesome Glory
and McDynamo, and two-time champion
Good Night Shirt).

History’s newcomers will get a chance
to add to their reputations in 2015.

Owned by Virginian Jacquehne Ohr-
strom. Demonstrative was resting on the
farm in mid-December while his con¬
nections contemplated an English cam¬
paign in the spring. Loosely, April’s Aintree
Hurdle would be a target, though the goal
won’t change much about the now 8-year-
old gelding’s training. His American target
would be the Iroquois in May, so Valentine
will put the son of Elusive Quahty back in
work this month and aim for a flat prep or
two early in the season with the details to
be determined.

Pennsylvania-bred Divine Fortune was
enjoying some turnout time in a field in the
infield of the training track on Sheppard’s
farm as fall turned to winter. At an age
when many Thoroughbreds are retired,
he’s as good as ever on his day. He weath¬
ered some bad days too, and Sheppard
will try to minimize those. Look for the
long-legged chesmut in the Iroquois in
the spring and the two big races-Grand
National and Colonial Cup-in the faU,
with an outside chance of another start
somewhere along the way.

Looking back, ahead

Decreasing participation numbers tem¬
pered some progress in terms of NSA
purses on the year as owners, trainers
and horses all decreased shghtly around
the circuit. Purses were more than $5.2
million, up 9 percent from 2013 and the
highest since 2008. Individual increases at
the International Gold, Virginia FaU Races,
Far HiUs and the Dogwood Classic fueled
the purse numbers, as did the return of the
High Hope Races after a one-year absence.

Saratoga’s purses for a dozen races rose
more than $183,000 to just shy of $1 mU-
hon, whUe racing remrned to Belmont Park
and Monmouth Park in 2014.

With a look toward 2015, an NSA
growth and development committee was
working to address the participation num¬
bers. Plans in the works included a steeple¬
chase sale in the spring, an owners’ seminar
and advertising/marketing efforts toward
potential owners.

NSA officials expected further increas¬
es to the opportunities in 2015 with inter¬
est from potential racetracks and enhanced
purses at some Virginia venues.

The 2015 season starts in its traditional
spot of Aiken, S.C., March 21. ■

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Old and new

Haynes follows family roots to produce timber champion Hot RIze

BY SEAN CLANCY

R ussell Haynes tucked his chin to a
scarf tied tightly around his neck,
braced against the December wind
and watched two horses stroll to the crest
of the hill on a rented farm outside The
Plains, Va. Haynes smiled, shook his head,
laughed. His whole career in steeplechasing
stood right there in front of him.

Retiree Shady Valley, now 16, provided
Haynes with his first win as a jockey, at
Callaway Gardens, back in 2006. Timber
horse Hot Ri 2 e, now 11, provided Haynes
with his first win as a trainer, in the 2014
Virginia Gold Cup. By the end of last
year. Hot Ri 2 e was Haynes' first cham¬
pion, securing the National Steeplechase
Association timber title. Based on money
won. Hot Ri 2 e won two races and earned
$79,400, nearly $30,000 more than runner-
up Cornhusker (GB).

Two horses. One circle.

^Vou look at these two horses, my first
sanctioned win, the first horse I really ever
galloped. And my first champion," Haynes
said. ^^Now, they're both hanging out in a
paddock covered in mud."

Winter is for regrouping. Hot Ri 2 e
hadn't had a saddle on his back since fin¬
ishing third in the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup
in early November. That'll change. Haynes
planned to clip him, leg him up and get him
fox hunting again, with eyes on another
Virginia Gold Cup in the spring and anoth¬
er New Jersey Hunt Cup or International
Gold Cup in the fall.

“I think he'll be better," Haynes said.
“[Last] year was a learning curve and a
confidence booster. With him, if I can get
him right and pick our spots, I think we can
win a few more big ones."

Bred by Haynes' mother Anne in
Kentucky and originally trained by his
father Bruce, the son of Sultry Song made
his debut as a 3-year-old in 2007. He was
beaten 30 lengths. Bruce died two months
later at 46.

Russell left Virginia Tech and moved
home, trying to keep the train on the
tracks-there were 31 horses on the fam¬
ily farm in Tennessee. With help from
Russell's brother Will, their mother, fam¬
ily friend Mike Berryman and others, the
Haynes family pushed forward, but with
heavy hearts.

‘We're trying to scale back with some
of the mares and babies but that was
the plan anyway," Russell Haynes said in
the spring of 2008. “Not a whole lot has
changed as far as what we were planning
on doing. It's tough, but staying busy has
been good, that's the best thing to do.
Going to the races was good, it was hard to
do but to be expected. We're just keeping
on kicking. It's the only thing you can do."

And that's what they did.

Over time. Hot Ri 2 e moved through a
collection of trainers as Berryman, Karen
Gray and Teddy Mulligan procured decent
races from the bay gelding.

Gray won a maiden claimer with him at
Aiken in 2011 and followed it with a timber
score at Camden three weeks later. Hot

Ri 2 e went winless in three starts in 2012
before relocating to Mulligan's barn for the
2013 season. Hot Rixe won at Middleburg,
just missed at Radnor and finished third in
the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup.

Along the way, Russell rallied Ryan
Broyles, Rob Banner, Bobby Kirk, Charlie
Nulsen and Brian Ferrell to form Hols ton
Hall in conjunction with him and his
mother. It was a big move for Haynes to
raise the money and form the partnership
and an even bigger one to take out his
trainer's hcense this season.

“I've always wanted to do the parmer-
ships but I want to do it right and I wanted
to do the right horse. He was the horse
who finally made me believe in myself
enough to do it. I don't want to sell any¬
thing I don't beheve in, so that makes it
even more special. He made me take that
leap of faith," Haynes said. “A lot of peo¬
ple were skeptical about the partnership,
a lot of people were skeptical about me
training, I guess that's why he went off the
longest shot on the board in the Virginia
Gold Cup."

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Under champion Willie McCarthy, Hot Ri 2 e rallied from last to upset
the Virginia Gold Cup. Haynes resisted running again in the spring and
put his horse away for the fall. He won the New Jersey Hunt Cup and
finished third in the Pennsylvania Hunt Cup to complete a stellar season.

For Haynes, the horse represents his past and his fumre.

“I had never done it on my own, I trained with my brother, I had
trained with Mike Berryman, I had trained with my dad. I knew I could
do it, I just needed to make myself do it,’’ Haynes said, look at this
horse and see a lot of big decisions I’ve made in my Hfe. He was my last
best shot, I didn’t have capital to go out and buy horses to syndicate.
It was one of those things, df you’re going to do it, you need to do it
now.’”

Haynes walked back into his narrow center-aisle barn, nestled on
a farm between Virginia steeplechase stalwarts Richard Valentine and
Doug Fout. Hot Ri 2 e is one of three racehorses among a few foxhunt-
ers. Haynes has an order for another one, is supposed to be getting a
new horse from a new owner and is looking squarely ahead.

“It’s good to still be in the game,” Haynes said. “It’s a confidence
thing, hke anything in hfe. Horses give you hope, they give you some¬
thing to look forward to.”

At 27, Haynes talks hke a veteran. And in a way, he is the most vet¬
eran of aU. ■

Timber champion Hot Rize surges dear in the Virginia Goid Cup.

Steeplechase Champions

National Steeplechase Association award winners for 2014

Leading Horse: Demonstrative. B.g. 2007, Elusive QuaUty

—^Loving Pride, by Quiet American. Breeder: Gainsborough
Farm (Ky). Owner: Jacquehne Ohrstrom. Trainer: Richard
Valentine. Jockey: Robbie Walsh. 6-3-1-1. $362,500. Started in
every Grade 1 jump race of year. Swept three in a row—New York
Turf Writers Cup in August, Lonesome Glory in September,
Grand National in October. Official steeplechase champion is Eclipse
Award winner announcedJan. 17.

Champion Novice: All the Way Jose. B.g. 2010, Senor

Swinger—Maternity Leave, by Northern Baby. Breeder:
Jonathan Sheppard (Pa.). Owner: Rodman Moorhead III.
Trainer: Jonathan Sheppard. Jockey: WiUie McCarthy. 6-3-3-0.
$149,700. Broke maiden at Parx Racing in July. Added Saratoga
allowance and $100,000 Foxbrook at Far HiUs.

Champion Filly/Mare: Bittersweetheart (GB). B.m.

2007, Storming Home (GB)—Cru 2 Santa, by Lord Bud (Ire).
Breeder: Silvano Scanu (Great Britain). Owner: Irv Naylor.
Trainer: Leshe Young. Jockey: Paddy Young. 4-2-0-1. $84,000.
Won two stakes including Peapack at Far Hills via disquahfica-
tion over Kisser N Run to chnch crown.

Champion 3-year-old: Perfect Union. Dk.b./br.g. 2011,

Purim—Blue Northern, by Top Account. Breeder: Nelson
Clemmens (Ky). Owner: Peggy Steinman. Trainer: Doug Fout.
Jockey: Gerard GaUigan. 3-1-1-1. $21,500. Won Gladstone

Stakes at Far Hills and added two placings to take division over
fellow stakes winner Handsome Hoyt.

Champion Timber Horse: Hot Rize. Dk.b./br.g. 2004,

Sultry Song—Donesia, by Desert Wine. Breeder: Anne Haynes
(Ky). Owner: Holston Hall. Trainer: Russell Haynes. Jockey:
WiUie McCarthy. 4-2-0-1. $79,400. Won Virginia Gold Cup and
New Jersey Hunt Cup stakes to take division.

Leading Owner: Irv Naylor. 9217-20-8. $531,840.

Powerful stable claimed fourth title in five years. Stakes winners
Bittersweetheart (GB), Decoy Daddy (Ire), Address Unknown
(GB) and Able Deputy (GB) led the way for York, Pa., resident.

Leading Trainer: Jack Fisher. 135-23-27-24. $757,550.

Marylander won his sixth championship by races won thanks to
deep stable led by Syros, Schoodic, AU Together and Selection
Sunday.

Leading Jockey: Willie McCarthy. 91-23-15-13. $735,400.

Irishman built a quick early lead with back-to-back doubles to
start season, then made it last. Partnered with Divine Fortune,
AU the Way Jose, Hot Ri 2 e and others for key wins. First cham¬
pionship.

Other Award Winners: Timber owner, Armata Stable; timber
trainer, Fisher; timber jockey, Mark Beecher; amateur and
apprentice jockey, Carol Ann Sloan.

60 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

DOUGLAS LEES

TOD MARKS

No crying uncle

Irishman McCarthy rides to first championship
to honor memory of fallen relative Lombard

BY SEAN CLANCY

fish jump fidef Jim Lombard’s been dead
since 1986. But he stiU rides.

The amateur jockey, who died three
weeks after being brought down in a race
at Punchestown Racecourse, hdes every
weekend in America. Willie McCarthy,
Lombard’s nephew, took the man on 91
hdes, 23 victories and a championship in
2014.

McCarthy is a routine guy. He teUs you
that himself He has his chair, his corner in
each jocks’ room from the cement square
in Camden to the dark, cramped tent at
Far Hills. The 31-year-old Irishman places

his tack bag in the same place, organizes
his gear like a doctor, he Hkes-needs-it
tidy. Saddles here. Girths there. Helmet
here. Whip there. McCarthy’s routine never
changes.

Lombard is part of that routine.

After pulling on his breeches, boots,
rubber bands around his wrists, McCarthy
pulls out his holy rehcs. Rosary beads, mass
cards, holy water. They offer protection,
the metaphysical version of a flak jacket
and helmet.

‘Any of the other guys who need holy
water, they get it too,” McCarthy said in

December. “There are a certain bunch
of people who are in my thoughts at
the beginning of my day. Just memories,
thoughts, prayers. I’m not going out to hde
a race thinking about my uncle but any day
I’m facing, he comes across my mind and
sets me for the day. I have a lot of faith, I
feel hke I have some people looking over
me. It’s not all me.”

They say never ask God—or an uncle —
for victory, just safety. And McCarthy
found safety in 2014, and victory too.

He won 23 races to secure his first
National Steeplechase Association champi¬
onship, nine wins ahead of former cham¬
pions Paddy Young and Ross Geraghty.
McCarthy leapt to a big lead in the spring,
watched it dwindle through a 2-fof-36
slump through the summer, before
rebounding with a lucrative fall season.
McCarthy won the Grade 1 Iroquois on
Eclipse Award contender Divine Formne,
the Virginia Gold Cup and New Jersey
Hunt Cup on 2014 timber champion Hot
Rize and three races on 2014 novice cham¬
pion AH the Way Jose. AH-time leading
trainer Jonathan Sheppard provided the
most ammunition for McCarthy but he
won faces for nine other trainers. In a small
sport, that’s playing the field.

McCarthy was a kid when his uncle
died. He’s become a jockey because of
Lombard’s legacy.

“From a young age, I used to hear a lot
about him, about how good he was, I saw
how it affected my uncles, my mother...
it used to upset them to think about him,”
McCarthy said. “People lose their lives in
different situations, and he’s not the only
one, but it’s close to the heart with me. He
didn’t get a chance to fulfill his potential
and I got something in my head when I
was a kid, that I was going to do it for him.
It was very rewarding to finally become
champion jockey.”

At the National Steeplechase Awards’
Dinner in Camden, S.C., in November,
McCarthy dedicated his tide to his uncle.
McCarthy’s father was there, his brother
was there, a cousin was there. His mother
was not there.

“She supports me in doing it, but she
worries about me. She doesn’t follow it,”
McCarthy said. “Jockeys die and families
carry on. It would be too much for her to
come to the races and watch it, still.”

Champion jockeys are made in differ¬
ent ways but McCarthy followed what has

Mid-Atiantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 61

become a well-worn path in American
steeplechasing. He’s the fourth jockey to
venmre from Europe to win the tide since
2007, following Xavier Ai 2 puru (two),
Young (four) and Geraghty.

McCarthy rode pony races in Ireland
before going to work for Irish trainer
Jessica Harrington and moving to trainers
Tom George and Ian Williams in England.
McCarthy won 10 races from 78 rides in
the 2005-06 season, posted another 10
wins from 155 rides the following season,
increased that to 12 from 133 in 2007-08,
then suffered through a 6-for-lll stand in
2008-09. It was time to think about chang¬
ing the routine.

“I was good friends with Tony McCoy,
we would travel to the races a lot, he was
pushing me not to leave so soon. I gave it
a year after my claim was done, as a jour¬
neyman, but I got disheartened, it wasn’t
working,” McCarthy said. “I was already
at a crossroads in England, I wasn’t riding
quality horses, I was looking for a different
direction. Somebody asked me if I wanted
to come to America, I said. Why not?’ I
didn’t have anything holding me back.”

In 2009, McCarthy replaced injured
Liam Me Vicar for trainer Jimmy Day.
McCarthy won a maiden claimer and fin¬
ished second in the Noel Laing Stakes

from nine rides that fall. It doesn’t sound
like much, but it was enough.

‘‘Coming from getting horses handi¬
capped in England, finishing out the back,
riding horses who were 100-1, this was like
being a 10-pound claimer again, getting on
decent horses again. I hked it,” McCarthy
said.

He went back to Ireland to sort out
his visa. He won two races from 45 rides
in 2009-10 in Europe before remrning to
the U.S. for the 2011 season. McCarthy
galloped for Michael Mat 2 at Fair Hill
Training Center, hooked up with Arch
Kingsley who started supplying him with
competitive rides and made friends where
he could. He’s never looked back, winning
one race in 2011,10 in 2012, another 10 in
2013 before his breakout season this year.

“I had hopes at maybe one day having
a shot at a championship, I didn’t think it
would be within the first four years I was
here,” McCarthy said. “Since I was a kid,
probably every jockey does, but I never
lost faith in one day becoming a cham¬
pion, even when I was riding bad horses in
England. I was hoping it was going to be in
England or Ireland but different paths lead
to different roads, coming here was the
best thing I ever did for my career.”

Prestige-wise, perhaps, it’s a different
world. Money-wise, definitely. McCarthy’s

horses earned about 300,000 pounds-
about $500,000-in six seasons in Ireland
and England. In four full seasons in
America, his horses have earned $1.3 mil¬
lion.

In Europe, jockeys pay their own travel
expenses and basically ride every day, year
round. Here, owners pay jockeys’ travel
expenses and the races mainly happen on
weekends.

With his first championship in the
books, McCarthy will base himself in
Camden, S.C., for the winter like he did
last year, galloping horses in the morning
for Mickey Preger Jr. and schooling horses
for Kingsley, Sheppard and anybody who
calls. The 2015 season-the defense of the
crown-starts in March.

“I was in a position (in 2014) that I had
never been in before, you’re leading some¬
thing and trying to keep the accelerator
going. It was a new situation, something
I had never dealt with before. I’d tike to
think I’d work with it better in seasons to
come,” McCarthy said. “Four years is not a
long time. I feel tike I’m very far from the
finished product, I don’t know if anybody
is the finished product when you’re riding
races but I see different places where I can
improve and I will, that’s what keeps you
moving forward.”

That and an uncle’s presence. ■

The heart and soul of the
Thoroughbred here in the region.

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RIMROD

Danzig—Annie Edge (Ire), byNebbiOlo

P 1 ^

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* U*

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$57,257 A.E./starter

Sire of LENAPE RIM (10 wins, 5 stakes, 8 additional stakes placings
in 35 starts to 6,2014, earning $506,106) and VIANELLO ($235,981),
Neos Grand Finale ($309,160), Majestic Michelle ($184,531),
Clare Castle ($162,690), Lemon Zing ($136,078), etc.

Stakes-winning son of DANZIG, out of multiple
graded stakes winner ANNIE EDGE (Ire)

Half-brother to champion and leading sire SELKIRK
and G3 RORY CREEK. Full brother to G3 SEEBE (graded
stakes producer), SYNCLINE and SKILLINGTON.

$1,500 LFSN

Registered PA stallion; Property of George Strawbridge Jr.

Castle Rock Farm

Payable when foal stands and nurses. Registered Pennsylvania stallion.

P.O. Box 567, Unionville, PA 19375 ♦ Peter Giangiulio • (610) 793-9887 • Fax (610) 793-0438 ♦ e-mail: crfFarm@aol.com
www.castierock'farm.com ♦ Also standing: PARTNER’S HERO, POWER BY FAR

STALLION RANKINGS

Mid-Atlantic region leading sires in 2014

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 The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. (TJCIS). Exact date is at the discretion of TJCIS. fDenotes freshman sire.

The following statistics, compiled on December 2, reflect 2014 earnings for ail countries in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere reported to TJCIS.

Foals

Runners

Starts

Winners

Races

Won

Leading Earner

Earnings

%Wnrs/

Runners

Avg/ Stakes
Runner Winners

Jump Start (Pa)

915

226

1,129

106

170

Miss Behaviour ($548,834)

$5,501,873

$24,345

Rockport Harbor (deceased)

419

198

1,351

114

182

Majestic Harbor ($460,250)

5,286,735

26,701

Smarty Jones (Pa)

486

101

617

Bersagliere ($389,937)

3,177,037

31,456

Corinthian (Pa)

432

211

1,123

130

Cohn Blesse ($95,144)

3,037,728

14,397

Not For Love (Md)

888

112

683

Steady N Love ($163,150)

2,951,160

26,350

Silver Train (deceased)

339

151

1,074

161

Balance of Power ($181,330)

2,688,812

17,807

Limehouse (WV)

336

112

798

124

Alsono ($165,057)

2,648,137

23,644

Orientate (Md)

735

140

897

125

Declassify ($192,500)

2,459,935

17,571

Wiseman’s Ferry (Pa)

273

455

Wise Dan ($1,259,310)

2,260,430

35,880

10.

Fairbanks (Pa)

150

551

Vielsalm ($103,204)

2,013,095

25,164

11.

Giacomo (Md)

259

114

775

Classic Giacnroll ($202,300)

1,748,108

15,334

12.

Dance With Ravens (Md)

303

662

Dancing Roy ($89,180)

1,637,827

17,998

13.

Windsor Castle (WV)

213

487

Down Town Allen ($236,760)

1,602,433

20,811

14.

Brother Derek (WV)

390

Zee Bros ($318,666)

1,602,323

25,844

15.

Petionville (Md)

661

530

Caribbean Cowboy ($141,356)

1,458,165

19,705

16.

Lion Hearted (Md)

577

522

Wild Kay ($78,401)

1,454,534

15,984

17.

Albert the Great (Pa)

356

374

Moonshine Mullin ($641,627)

1,441,692

28,268

18.

Great Notion (Md)

162

248

Talk Show Man ($162,211)

1,377,036

28,103

19.

Louis Quatorze (Md)

945

362

Ribo Bobo ($232,667)

1,285,896

22,171

20.

Medallist (Pa)

175

373

Monkey’s Medal ($131,545)

1,240,113

21,381

21.

Outflanker (Md)

506

339

Joint Custody ($91,425)

1,203,867

21,498

22.

Real Quiet (deceased)

624

418

Where’s Rosie B ($144,420)

1,158,203

17,287

23.

Scipion (Md)

353

Speed Is Life ($117,670)

1,034,254

19,890

24.

Bop (deceased)

185

355

Pepper Bay ($72,016)

979,199

17,179

25.

Defrere (NJ)

575

316

Maybe Tonight ($118,190)

954,611

20,752

26.

Weigelia (Pa)

255

Isabella Swift ($146,865)

907,663

26,696

27.

Rock Slide (Md)

251

311

Rockinonthewater ($89,095)

890,295

16,798

28.

Love of Money (deceased)

107

311

Avaritia ($86,720)

867,686

18,863

29.

Trajectory (Pa)

361

343

Marten Lake ($59,290)

831,397

17,321

30.

Luftikus (WV)

273

295

Joanne Elizabeth ($88,445)

810,878

14,226

31.

Two Punch (deceased)

1,102

342

Coco Punch ($109,557)

801,455

14,572

32.

Rimrod (Pa)

225

Lenape Rim ($93,300)

793,577

27,365

33.

Gators N Bears (deceased)

150

257

Bear Access ($102,960)

729,311

18,700

34.

Partner’s Hero (Pa)

436

311

Nasty Noozie ($82,778)

701,575

15,252

35.

Cherokee’s Boy (Md)

260

Imanindianoutlaw ($81,068)

676,231

21,814

36.

Fiber Sonde (WV)

124

Cat Thats Grey ($103,108)

653,634

28,419

37.

Activist (Pa)

174

278

Graced ($97,670)

627,137

15,296

38.

Talent Search (Pa)

151

He’s Got Talent ($85,158)

623,685

19,490

39.

Don Six (NJ)

253

Saucy Don ($87,305)

613,562

20,452

40.

Gimmeawink (Pa)

199

402

Gimmeadrink ($85,030)

599,802

12,496

41.

Rebellion (GB) (Va)

121

Rebellion On Tap ($101,838)

549,684

28,931

42.

Delaware Township (Pa)

278

251

Hasty Miss ($78,560)

544,875

15,568

43.

Lite the Fuse (Pa)

533

224

Well Lit ($61,230)

528,943

16,529

44.

Sir Shackleton (Pa)

263

Patty’s Key ($73,620)

519,504

15,280

45.

Showing Up (pensioned)

283

Hey Bud ($56,628)

484,434

10,765

46.

Formal Dinner (pensioned)

639

221

Caviar N Champagne ($184,640)

476,692

16,438

47.

Reparations (W^

126

225

Allegheny Jack ($80,667)

461,718

12,150

48.

Forest Grove (WV)

100

194

Miss Layla ($63,579)

456,455

16,302

49.

Got the Last Laugh (Pa)

150

Infinity of Humor ($93,551)

455,295

23,963

50.

More Smoke (Pa)

154

Raging Smoke ($99,480)

453,854

23,887

51.

Hey Chub (NJ)

Chubbianna ($116,300)

450,880

45,088

52.

Senor Swinger (Pa)

185

All the Way Jose ($149,700)

419,161

13,972

53.

Aisle (Pa)

151

Kohl ($75,420)

414,483

18,021

54.

Mo Mon (deceased)

122

227

Mo Didn’t Know ($49,691)

368,639

11,520

55.

Medford (pensioned)

143

Perfect Cross ($73,151)

364,999

20,278

56.

Greek Sun (Md)

103

Exclusively Greek ($71,298)

355,724

23,715

57.

Yarrow Brae (WV)

286

122

Margaret High ($66,900)

342,974

14,912

58.

Unbridled Jet (deceased)

257

151

0 K Lefty ($93,576)

342,721

20,160

59.

Wheaton (deceased)

329

Russell Road ($268,716)

340,937

56,823

60.

Barbican (deceased)

Tastefully Simple ($127,406)

337,678

28,140

61.

Prized (deceased)

752

172

Barcelona Baby ($43,545)

324,741

12,990

62.

Pure Precision (Pa)

159

120

Tightend Touchdown ($155,500)

317,055

13,211

63.

Peak Dancer (WV)

166

Nagatamen ($35,792)

306,065

11,772

64.

Southern Success (Pa)

126

Golden Success ($54,636)

297,993

18,625

65.

fBullsbay (Pa)

Miss Bullistic ($136,620)

284,365

35,546

64 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

Kearneysville,WV 25430

-JrCyndy O’Bannon 304-671-0339 or John McKee 304-671-0405^Li

Fiber Sonde

Unbridled’s Song-Silken Cat, by Storm Cat

On Eagles Wings

Gone West-Soaring Softly, by Kris S.

100% allowance winners

Son of GONE WEST, out of champion SOARING SOFTLY
($1,270,433). Second dam G3 WINGS OF GRACE. Family
of G1 PLENTY OF GRACE ($744,499), millionaires
DIABOLICAL and SUPER COOL, along with champion
WAVERING GIRL and the good sire MEHMET,

Master Rick

Master Command-Whata Gem, by Maria’s Mon

NINE stakes horses

83% winners/starters • A.Eystarter $54,141

2014 stakes horses include FLIRTING SONG, HIDDEN
CANYON, CAT THATS GREY, Mr. Ripken, Just a Real Cat. Half-
brother to champion sprinter and leading sire SPEIGHTSTOWN.
Out of champion 2YO filly SILKEN CAT. Half-sister sold
for $1.75 million as a 2013 Keeneland September yearling.

Multiple G3 winner of $547,113

In back-to-back wins, ran a 106 Beyer in the Grade 3 Lone
Star Park H and ran a 105 Beyer in the Grade 3 Texas Mile.
Won the Northern Spur S and was twice stakes-placed.
By A.P. INDYs Gl-winning millionaire son and sire of
G1 Hollywood Derby winner UNBRIDLED COMMAND.

Footnotes

storm Cat-Key Phrase, by Flying Paster

11 starters, EIGHT winners,
TWO stakes horses

Sire of juvenile stakes horses My Jordan ($159,088) and
Just a Trick ($97,534). Full brother to YANKEE GENTLEMAN
and to the dam of G2 HALF OURS; half-brother to G3-placed
Key Deputy. By leading sire STORM CAT out of a G1 winner;
from the family of 2YO champion SHARED BELIEF.

All Beau Ridge stallions stand for $1,000 LFSN and are registered WV stallions and nominated to WV Breeders Classics.

Mid-Atlantic-bred stakes winners

MD-bred: BEN’S CAT, DELAUNAY, EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH, MISS BULLISTIC, SARA ROCKS, WHO’S IN TOWN.
NJ-bred: LOVERBIL. PA-bred: DIVINE FORTUNE, DUFF, NASA, ROCKIN JOJO. WV-bred: DOWN TOWN ALLEN,
GOLDEN YEARS, HEAR THE CHATTER, LUCY’S BOB BOY.

Maryland-bred

BEN’S CAT

Fabulous Strike Handicap

$200,000-guaranteed, 6 fur., 3 & up. Penn National, Nov. 29.

Storm Cat
Parker’s Storm Cat

Macoumba

Ben’s Cat,dk.b./br.g., 2006

Thirty Eight Paces

Twofox

Dronette

Storm Bird
Terlingua
Mr. Prospector
Maximova (Fr)
Nodoubie
Thirty Paces
Drone

Stacey d’Ette

Northern Dancer
South Ocean
Secretariat
Crimson Saint
Raise a Native
Goid Digger
Green Dancer
Baracaia
*Nohoime ii
Abia-Jay
Dancing Count
Bank Book Sadye
Sir Gayiord
Cap and Bells
*Pago Pago
Roger Ann

starts

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

08-09

un raced

10 (sw)

8( 3)

1 (1)

$ 211,980

11 (sw)

6( 6)

1 (1)

588,250

12 (sw)

5( 5)

1 (1)

557,060

13 (sw)

5( 5)

1 (1)

2 (2)

505,350

14 (sw)

_4( 4)

^ (2)

J (1)

458,350

28 (23)

6 (6)

4 (4)

$2,320,990 (through Nov. 29)

2010; 1st $50,000 Mister Diz S, 6 fur., turf, registered Md.-breds, 3 & up. Laurel, Aug. 21;
$100,000 Maryland Million Turf Sprint H, BVa fur., turf, 3 & up, sired by eligible Md. stallions.
Laurel, Oct. 2; $50,000 Find H, V/s mi., turf, registered Md.-breds, 3 & up. Laurel, Oct. 30; 2nd
Forty Miner S. 2011; 1st $75,000 Mister Diz S, 5 fur. (off turf), registered Md.-breds, 3 & up,
April 9; $75,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint S (includes $25,000 Md.-bred Fund), 5 fur., turf, 3 & up,
Pimlico, May 20; $200,000 Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup H, 5 fur., turf, 3 & up, Penn National,
July 30; $350,000 Turf Monster H-G3, 5 fur., turf, 3 & up, Parx, Sept. 5; $100,000 Maryland
Million Turf Sprint H, SVa fur., turf, 3 & up, sired by eligible Md. stallions. Laurel, Oct. 1; $75,000
Laurel Dash S (includes $25,000 Md.-bred Fund), 6 fur. (off turf), 3 & up. Laurel, Oct. 29; 2nd
Parx Dash H; 3rd Six Bits H. 2012; 1st $75,000 Mister Diz S, 5 fur., turf, registered Md.-breds,
3 & up, Pimlico, April 7; $150,000 Parx Dash H, 5 fur., turf (ncr—:54.96), 3 & up, Parx, June 17;
$350,000 Turf Monster H-G3, 5 fur., turf, 3 & up, Parx, Sept. 3; $100,000 Maryland Million Turf
Sprint H, 5% fur., turf, 3 & up, sired by eligible Md. stallions. Laurel, Oct. 6; $200,000 Fabulous
Strike H, 6 fur., 3 & up, Penn National, Nov. 21; 2nd Laurel Dash S. 2013; 1st $75,000 Mister
Diz S, 5 fur., turf, registered Md.-breds, 3 & up, Pimlico, April 6; $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint
S, 5 fur., turf, 3 & up, Pimlico, May 17; $200,000 Parx Dash H-G3, 5 fur., turf, 3 & up, Parx, July
5; $100,000 Laurel Dash S, 6 fur., turf, 3 & up. Laurel, Sept. 21; $250,000 Fabulous Strike H, 6
fur., 3 & up, Penn National, Nov. 27; 2nd Maryland Million Turf S; 3rd Turf Monster H-G3, Penn¬
sylvania Governor’s Cup H. 2014; 1st $75,000 Mister Diz S, 5 fur., turf, registered Md.-breds,
3 & up, Pimlico, April 5; $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint S, 5 fur. (off turf), 3 & up, Pimlico, May
16; $200,000 Parx Dash H-G3, 5 fur., turf, 3 & up, Parx, July 12; $200,000 Fabulous Strike H,
6 fur., 3 & up, Penn National, Nov. 29; 2nd Turf Monster H-G3, Maryland Million Turf S; 3rd
Laurel Dash S.

Bred by K.T. Leatherbury Assoc. Inc. (Md.); owned by The Jim Stable; trained by King T.
Leatherbury.

Sire: PARKER’S STORM CAT, dk.b./br., 00, stands at Gibson Thoroughbred Farm, Thorp, Wash.
Dam: Twofox, dk.b./br., 93, bred by K.T. Leatherbury Assoc. Inc. (Md.). Raced 3 years, 23 starts, 3
wins at 3 and 4, $76,753,2nd Pearl Necklace S, 3rd Maryland Million Ladies S.

00 My Nin, dk.b./br.f. by Citidancer. Raced 3 years, 15 starts, 6 wins, 2 to 4, $90,610. Producer.
01 Two T’s, b.g. by Rinka Das. Raced 6 years, 52 starts, 5 wins, 2 to 4, $67,665.

02 Too Sly, b.g. by Tamayaz. Raced 3 years, 15 starts, 1 win at 3, $11,435.

03 Barren.

04 Best, dk.b./br.f. by Lion Hearted. Unraced.

05 Hound, dk.b./br.g. by Crowd Pleaser. Raced 6 years, 52 starts, 8 wins, 3 to 8, $118,398.

06 BEN’S CAT, dk.b./br.g. by Parker’s Storm Cat.

07 Pair, dk.b./br.g. by Lion Hearted. Raced 3 years, 18 starts, 2 wins at 4, $16,819.

08 Tanka, dk.b./br.f. by Dance With Ravens. Raced 4 years, 14 starts, 1 win at 5, $64,074.

10 Bens Kin, b.f. by Dance With Ravens. Raced 2 years, 4 starts at 3 and 4,0 wins, $2,020.
12-13 Barren.

DELAUNAY

Thanksgiving Handicap

$60,000-guaranteed, 6 fur., 3 & up. Fair Grounds, Nov. 27.

Two Punch
Smoke Slacken

Majesty’s Crown
Delaunay, b.g., 2007

Coronado’s Quest
Perilous Night

Broad Smile

Mr. Prospector
Heavenly Cause
Magesterial
Queen’s Crown
Forty Niner
Laughing Look
Broad Brush
Wings of Jove

Raise a Native
Gold Digger
*Grey Dawn II
Lady Dulcinea
Northern Dancer
Courting Days
King Emperor
Turn Capp
Mr. Prospector
File

Damascus
Laughter
AckAck
Hay Pate her
Northern Jove
Regatela

starts

1st

2nd

12(sw)

7( 4)

13(sw)

3( 3)

1 (1)

14 (sw)

_3( 3)

^ (2)

17(10)

11 (3)

3rd earnings

0 $ 37,380

0 56,160

2 63,860

1 (1) 247,055

0 444,031

J (1) 208,005

4 (2) $1,056,491 (through Nov. 27)

2012; 1st $60,000 Kelly’s Landing S, 7 fur., 3 & up, Churchill, June 23; $50,000 Temperance
Hill S, 6 fur., 3 & up, Louisiana, Sept. 8; $55,000 Bet On Sunshine S, 6 fur., 3 & up, Churchill,
Nov. 3; $100,000 Thanksgiving H,6 fur., 3 & up. Fair Grounds, Nov. 22; 3rd Mister Diz S. 2013;
1st $75,000 F.W. Gaudin Memorial S, 6 fur., 4 & up. Fair Grounds, Jan. 26; $150,000 Duncan
F. Kenner S, 6 fur., 3 & up. Fair Grounds, March 9; $400,000 Churchill Downs S-G2, 7 fur., 4 &
up, Churchill, May 4; 2nd Iowa Sprint H. 2014; 1st $60,000 F.W. Gaudin Memoriai S, 6 fur., 4
& up. Fair Grounds, Jan. 25; $100,000 Aristides S-G3, 6 fur., 3 & up, Churchill, May 31, $60,000
Thanksgiving H, 6 fur., 3 & up. Fair Grounds, Nov. 27; 2nd iowa Sprint H, Duncan F. Kenner S;
3rd Senator Robert C. Byrd Memorial S.

Bred by Fitzhugh LLC (Md.); owned by Maggi Moss; trained by Thomas M. Amoss.

Sire: SMOKE SLACKEN, gr./ro., 94 (pensioned).

Dam: PERILOUS NIGHT, gr./ro., 01, bred by Robert E. Meyerhoff (Md.). Raced 3 years, 20 starts, 4
Wins at 2 and 3, $129,880, Squan Song S, 2nd Beautiful Day S.

06 Exciting Night, dk.b./br.f. by Grand Slam. In France, raced 2 years, 7 starts, 2 wins at 2,
$31,472. (Kee Sept 07—$200,000)

07 DELAUNAY, b.g. by Smoke Slacken.

08 NIGHT OFFICER, b.c. by Officer. Raced 5 years, 36 starts, 6 wins, 3 to 5, $294,508, Around
the Cape S, 2nd Mister Diz S, 3rd Laurel Dash S twice, John MeSorley S, My Frenchman S.
Set ncr at Laurel—SVz fur. in 1:00.53.

09 Spanish Officer, gr./ro.g. by Officer. Raced 2 years, 16 starts, 4 wins at 3, $90,830.

10 Perilous Indian, gr./ro.g. by Indian Charlie. Raced 3 years, 26 starts, 4 wins at 3 and 4,
$169,735.

EIGHHOFASnOCATCH

Jennings Handicap

$125,000-guaranteed, 1 mi., registered Maryland-breds, 3 & up.
Laurel Park, Dec. 6.

Mr. Prospector
Not For Love

Dance Number

Eighttofasttocatch, ch.g., 2006
Nice Catch
Too Fast to Catch

Fast Chop

Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Northern Dancer
Numbered Account
Pass Catcher
Gay Behavior
Hatchet Man
Step On It

Native Dancer
Raise You
Nashua
Sequence
Nearctic
Natal m a
Buckpasser
Intriguing
All Hands
La Grue
Chateaugay
Behavior
The Axe II
Bebopper
Bold Lad
Clear Road

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Stakes winners

starts

1st

2nd

11 (sw)

5( 4)

1 (1)

12 (sw)

2( 2)

1 (1)

13 (sw)

4( 4)

2 (2)

14 (sw)

_2( 2)

17(12)

7 (4)

3rd earnings

1 $ 10,200

1 51,600

2 (1) 63,190

0 266,200

0 169,240

0 354,155

0 1 58,385

4 (1) $1,072,970 (through Dec. 6)

2010; 3rd Maryland Million Turf S. 2011; 1st $75,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memoriai S (includes
$25,000 Md.-bred Fund), IV® mi., 3 & up. Laurel, March 26; $75,000 Japan Racing Association
S (includes $25,000 Md.-bred Fund), 1 mi., 3 & up. Laurel, Sept 10; $150,000 Maryiand Miiiion
Ciassic S, IVb mi., 3 & up, sired by eligible Md. stallions. Laurel, Oct 1; $75,000 Jennings H,
1 mi., registered Md.-breds, 3 & up. Laurel, Dec. 3; 2nd Joseph French Memoriai S. 2012; 1st
$100,000 Harrison E. Johnson Memoriai Stakes (includes $25,000 Md.-bred Fund), IVi mi., 3 &
up. Laurel, March 24; $100,000 Jennings H, 1 mi., registered Md.-breds, 3 & up. Laurel, Dec. 1;
2nd Broad Brush S. 2013; 1st$100.000 Henry S.CiarkS (includes $25,000 Md.-bred Fund), IVi®
mi. (off turf), 3 & up, Pimlico, April 20; $150,000 Maryiand Million Ciassic S, IH mi., 3 & up, sired
by eligible Md. stallions. Laurel, Oct. 19; $100,000 Jennings H, 1 mi., registered Md.-breds, 3 &
up. Laurel, Nov. 16; $100,000 Broad Brush S, IV® mi., 3 & up. Laurel, Dec. 7; 2nd Pimiico Special
S-G3, Harrison E. Johnson Memoriai S. 2014; 1st $150,000 Maryiand Miiiion Ciassic S, IVs
mi., 3 & up, sired by eligible Md. stallions. Laurel, Oct 18; $125,000 Jennings H, 1 mi., registered
Md.-breds, 3 & up. Laurel, Dec. 6.

Bred by Dark Hollow Farm and Herringswell Stable (Md.); owned by Sylvia E. Heft; trained by
Timothy L. Keefe.

Sire: NOT FOR LOVE, b., 90, stands at Northview Stallion Station, Chesapeake City, Md.

Dam: Too Fast to Catch, ro., 88, bred by Ann M. Riley (Fla.). Raced 3 years, 47 starts, 8 wins, 2 to
4, $109,180,3rd Buddleia S. (OBS April 90—$21,000)

94 Valay, ch.t by Carnivalay. Raced 2 years, 11 starts at 4 and 5,0 wins, $516.

95 STORM PUNCH, gr./ro.g. by Two Punch. Raced 7 years, 36 starts, 10 wins, 2 to 8, $310,619,
Primer S, 2nd Stanton S, 3rd Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash S-G1, Chesapeake S, Mary¬
land Million Sprint H. (FTM Sept 96—$32,000)

96 Catch as Catch Can, b.c. by Allen’s Prospect. Raced 2 years, 10 starts, 1 win at 2, $24,560.
(FTM Sept 97—$60,000)

98 Not for Me, ch.c. by Not For Love. Raced 5 years, 50 starts, 7 wins, 2 to 6, $172,647. (FTM Dec 98
—$50,000)

99 Fireballer,gr./ro.g. by West by West. Raced 4 years, 7 starts, 2 wins at 3, $46,794. (FTM Oct 00—
$47,000)

00 Barren.

01 Toofastforyou, gr./ro.g. by Smoke Slacken. Raced 2 years, 19 starts, 2 wins at 3, $57,400. Died
2004. (Kee Nov 01—$20,000)

02 Three Deuces, gr./ro.f. by Two Punch. In U.S. and England, raced 3 years, 18 starts, 3 wins at
3 and 4, $78,759. (Kee Sept 03—$110,000; FTF Feb 04—$210,000; Kee Jan 07—$30,000).
Producer.

03 Matty My Boy, gr./ro.c. by Broken Vow. Unraced. Died 2005. (FTK July 04—$75,000; Kee April
05—$180,000)

04 Southern Man, gr./ro.g. by Two Punch. Raced 4 years, 35 starts, 5 wins at 4 and 5, $94,515,
3rd Big Ed Starter S. (Kee Sept 05—$90,000; OBS March 06—$210,000) Died 2009.

05 Fast Punch N Judy, gr./ro.f. by Two Punch. Raced 1 year, 5 starts, 1 win at 3, $15,391. (Kee
Sept 06—$50,000; OBS March 07—$160,000) Producer.

06 EIGHTTOFASTTOCATCH, ch.g. by Not For Love. (FTM Oct 07—$47,000)

07 McKenzie Friend, ch.g. by Domestic Dispute. Raced 1 year, 5 starts, 1 win at 2, $9,575.

08 BAYONNE, b.f. by Dance With Ravens. Raced 4 years, 23 starts, 8 wins, 3 to 5, $201,783, Pink
Ribbon S, 3rd Sugar Maple S, HBPA Municipalities Mayors H.

09 McNair and Adger, gr./ro.g. by Bob and John. Raced 2 years, 12 starts, 1 win at 2, $39,700.

(FTM Oct 10—$30,000; FTM May 11—$80,000)

10 Barren.

2014; 1st $100,000 Selima S, SYz fur., turf, 2-year-old fillies. Laurel, Sept. 27; $75,000 Donna
Freyer S, 6^ fur., 2-year-old fillies nominated with the SCTOBA, Parx, Nov. 16.

Bred by H. Graham Motion (Md.); owned by Kathleen Willier; trained by Hamilton A. Smith.
Sire: BULLSBAY, b., 03, stands at Northview PA, Peach Bottom, Pa.

Dam: MISS LOMBARDI, dk.b./br., 02, bred by Linda D. Newton (Md.). Raced 5 years, 27 starts, 8
wins at 3, 5, 6 and 7, $301,670, Maryland Million Ladies S, 3rd All Brandy S. (FTM Oct 03—
$40,000)

11 Mount Coronet, b.g. by Cowboy Cal. Raced 2 years, 13 starts, 1 win at 3, $54,490. FTM Sept
12—$37,000)

12 MISS BULLISTIC, dk.b./br.f. by Bullsbay. (FTM Sept 13—$30,000)

13 b.f. by Warrior’s Reward. (Kee Nov 13—$62,000)

SARA ROCKS

Tri-State Futurity

$50,000-added (1st division), 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled in Maryland,
Virginia or West Virginia. Charles Town, Nov. 8.

A.P. Indy

Rock Slide

Prospectors Delite
Sara Rocks, b.f., 2012

Pleasant Tap

Waltz

Mythical Dancer

Seattle Slew
Weekend Surprise
Mr. Prospector
Up the Flagpole
Pleasant Colony
Never Knock
Sovereign Dancer
Mythographer

Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Secretariat
Lassie Dear
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Hoist the Flag
The Garden Club
His Majesty
Sun Colony
Stage Door Johnny
Never Hula
Northern Dancer
Bold Princess
Secretariat
Arachne

starts 1st

14 (sw) 7 2 (1)

2nd

3rd

earnings

$77,315 (through Nov. 29)

2014; 1st $50,000 Tri-State Futurity (1st div.), 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled in Md., Va. or W.Va.,
Charles Town, Nov. 8.

Bred by Robert T. Manfuso (Md.); owned by Karen M. Benshoff; trained by W. Robert Bailes.
Sire: ROCK SLIDE, b., 98, stands at Shamrock Farm, Woodbine, Md.

Dam: Waltz, ch., 96, bred by Runnymede Farm Inc. and Peter J. Callahan (Ky.). Raced 1 year, 8
starts, 3 wins at 3, $78,981,3rd Cotillion H-G2, Dowery S. (Kee Sept 97—$40,000)

02 Tanca, ch.f. by Polish Numbers. Raced 2 years, 10 starts, 1 win at 4, $20,770. Producer.
03-04 Barren.

05 Robey’s Choice, b.g. by Not For Love. Raced 3 years, 24 starts, 4 wins at 3 and 4, $75,320.
06 Swift Punch, gr./ro.f. by Two Punch. In Puerto Rico and U.S., raced 3 years, 27 starts, 4 wins
at 3, $46,409. (FTM Sept 07— $15,000)

07 Barren.

08 Corneille, b.f. by Dance With Ravens. Raced 4 years, 17 starts, 1 win at 3, $15,600.

09 Lotosbiume, ch.f. by Mr. Sekiguchi. Raced 1 year, 4 starts, 3 wins at 4, $67,950.

10 Purple Friday, b.f. by Dance With Ravens. Raced 2 years, 5 starts, 1 win at 4, $17,275.

12 SARA ROCKS, b.f. by Rock Slide. (FTM Sept 13—$18,000)

13 Barren.

14 c. by Friesan Fire.

MISS BULLISTIC

Donna Freyer Stakes

$75,000-guaranteed, GVs fur., 2-year-old fillies nominated
with the SCTOBA. Parx Racing, Nov. 16.

Tiznow

Bullsbay

The Hess Express
Miss Bullistic,dk.b./br.f.,2012
Unbridled Jet
Miss Lombardi

Chemise

starts 1st

14(sw) 6 3 (2)

Cee’s Tizzy
Cee’s Song
Lord Carson
Turcomedy
Unbridled
Easy Summer
Secret Hello
Cotton Too

2nd 3rd

0 0

Relaunch

Tiziy

Seattle Song
Lonely Dancer
Carson City
Bedgay’s Lady
Turkoman
Grecian Comedy
Fappiano
Gana Facil
Easy Goer
Summer Mood
Private Account
Ciao

Relaunch

Our Lady Christian
earnings

$136,620 (through Nov. 16)

WHO’S IN TOWN

Safely Kept Stakes

$100,000-guaranteed, 7 fur., 3-year-old fillies. Laurel Park, Nov. 15.

Gone West
Speightstown

Silken Cat

Who’s in Town, b.f., 2011
Cozzene

Who’s Cozy

Who Did It and Run

Mr. Prospector
Secrettame
Storm Cat
Silken Doll
Caro (Ire)

Ride the Trails
Polish Numbers
I’m Harriet

Raise a Native

Gold Digger

Secretariat

Tamerett

Storm Bird

Terlingua

Chieftain

Insilca

Fortino II

Chambord

Prince John

Wildwook

Danzig

Numbered Account
Diesis (GB)

I’m Well Bred

starts

1st

2nd

3rd earnings

1 (1) $ 62,800

14 (sw)

3 (1)

2 (1)

1 148,097

4 (1) 2 (1)

2 (1) $210,897 (through Nov. 15)

68 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

2013; 3rd Smart Halo S. 2014; 1st $100,000 Safely Kept S, 7 fur., 3-year-old fillies. Laurel, Nov.

15; 2nd Miss Woodford S.

Bred by Sycamore Hall Farm LLC (Md.); owned by Richard L. Golden; trained by Michael R.
Matz.

Sire: SPEIGHTSTOWN, ch., 98, stands at WinStar Farm, Versailles, Ky.

Dam: Who’s Co 2 y, b., 02, bred by Richard L. Golden and Debra Sones (Md.). Raced 3 years, 8
starts, 2 wins at 3, $84,492, 2nd Little Silver S, 3rd Lake George S-G3, Tenski S.

08 Campaign Vows, b.f. by Broken Vow. Raced 2 years, 9 starts, 2 wins at 3, $47,340,3rd Squan
Song S.

10 Who’s in Love, b.f. by Not For Love. Unraced. (FTM Oct 11—$50,000)

11 WHO’S IN TOWN, b.f. by Speightstown.

12 Magnum Opus, b.c. by More Than Ready. Raced 1 year, 3 starts at 2,0 wins, $4,900. (Kee Sept
13—$57,000; FTM May 14—$180,000)

14 c. by Scat Daddy.

New Jersey-bred

LOVERBIL

Claiming

$110,000-guaranteed, 6 fur.,
of $7,500 or less since

Mr. Prospector
Not For Love

Dance Number
Loverbil,dk.b./br.g., 2009

Polish Numbers
Go Nicholas Go

Crown Express Stakes

3 & up who had started for a claiming price
Jan. 1,2013. Gulfstream Park, Dec. 6.

Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Northern Dancer
Numbered Account
Danzig

Numbered Account
Island Whirl

Native Dancer

Raise You

Nashua

Sequence

Nearctic

Natalma

Buckpasser

Intriguing

Northern Dancer

Pas de Norn

Buckpasser

Intriguing

*Pago Pago

Whirlwind Affair

Unchain My Heart

MMIWHI

Decimator
Set Me Free

starts
un raced

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

$ 39,094

38,144

14 (sw)

J (1)

137,508

8 (1)

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Bred by Golden Dome Stable (N.J.); owned by White Wabbit Wacing LLC; trained by Jorge

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Sire: NOT FOR LOVE, b., 90, stands at Northview Stallion Station, Chesapeake City, Md.

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.g. by Accelerator. Raced 6 years, 41 starts, 5 wins, 3 to 7, $245,334,
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) Producer.

04 Go Crypto, b.f. by Cryptoclearance. Raced 7 years, 69 starts, 4 wins at 4,5 and 7, $90,211.

05 LOVE FOR NOT, b.f. by Not For Love. Raced 4 years, 20 starts, 3 wins at 2, $218,805, Maryland
Million Lassie S, New Jersey Futurity, 2nd Eleven North H, Open Mind H, 3rd Maryland Million
Oaks. (FTM Oct 06—$60,000)

06 Clear Faith, b.g. by Cryptoclearance. Raced 4 years, 30 starts, 9 wins, 3 to 5, $304,873,3rd
Bernie Dowd H. (FTM May 08—$60,000)

07 Lady Mutadda, ch.f. by Mutakddim. Raced 2 years, 14 starts, 2 wins at 2 and 3, $61,600.

08 Barren.

09 LOVERBIL, dk.b./br.g. by Not For Love. (FTK Oct 10—$37,000)

11 Slipped.

12 Cantinflas, b.c. by Mizzen Mast. Raced 1 year, 2 starts at 2,0 wins, $5,960. (Kee Sept 13—
$20,000; OBS April 1^ $50,000)

13 b.c. by Wilburn. (Kee Sept 14—$42,000)

14 Barren.

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Stakes winners

Theatrical (Ire)
Royal Anthem

In Neon

Divine Fortune, ch.g., 2003

Northern Fling

My Tombola

Better to Be Lucky

Nureyev

Tree of Knowledge (Ire)

AckAck

Shamara

Northern Dancer
Impetuous Lady
Roberto
Jenny Dancer

Northern Dancer
Special
Sassafras (Fr)
Sensibility
Battle Joined
Fast Turn
Dewan
Palsy Walsy
Nearctic
Natalma
Hasty Road
*Escocesa II
Hail to Reason
Bramalea
Northern Dancer
Helen Jennings

starts

1st

2nd

unraced

07 (sw)

(1)

unraced

10 (sw)

(1)

11 (sw)

(1)

(3)

13 (sw)

(1)

14 (sw)

(2)

(1)

*44

(6)

(7)

3rd earnings

1 (1) $ 7,550

0 142,645

0 1,600

1 ( 1 ) 86,000

0 64,000

0 113,500

1 (1) 207,000

_0 195,000

3 (3) $817,295 (through Nov. 15)

*lnciudes NSA sanctioned starts

2006; 3rd Gladstone Hurdie S. 2007; 1st $75,000 Somerset Medical Center Novice Hurdle
S-G2, 214 mi. over National fences, 4 & up who had not won over hurdles prior to June 1, 2006,
Meadowiands, Sept. 21. 2010; 1st $75,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial Hurdle S-G2, 2Vi$ mi.
over National fences, 4 & up, Saratoga, Aug. 5; 2nd Carolina Cup Hurdle S-G2; 3rd Marcellus
Frost Hurdle S-G3. 2011; 1st $75,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial Hurdle S-G2, 2yi6 mi. over
National fences, 4 & up, Saratoga, Aug. 4; 2nd Colonial Cup Hurdle S-G1. 2012; 2nd Grand
National Hurdle S-G1, Calvin Houghland Iroquois Hurdle S-G1, Colonial Cup Hurdle S-G1.
2013; Champion steeplechaser; 1st $250,000 Grand National Hurdle S-G1, 2% mi. over
National fences, 4 & up. Far Hills, Oct. 19; 2nd Calvin Houghland Iroquois Hurdle S-G1; 3rd A.P.
Smithwick Memorial Hurdle S-G1. 2014; 1st $150,000 Calvin Houghland Iroquois Hurdle
S-G1 ,3 mi. over National fences, 4 & up, Percy Warner, May 10; $100,000 Colonial Cup S-G1, Th
mi. over National fences, 4 & up. Camden, Nov. 15; 2nd Grand National Hurdle S-G1.

Bred and owned by William L. Pape and Jonathan E. Sheppard (Pa.); trained by Jonathan E.
Sheppard.

Sire: ROYAL ANTHEM, b., 95, stands atTuiiogher House Stud, Kilkenny, Ireland.

Dam: My Tombola, b., 89, bred by Jonathan Sheppard (Pa.). Raced 4 years, 26 starts, 6 wins, 3 to
5, $100,741,2nd Rosenna S, 3rd Montciair State College S.

96 Be a Blast, gr./ro.f. by Two Punch. Raced 2 years, 4 starts at 3 and 5,0 wins, $2,820.

97 Poiish Payola, dk.b./br.c. by Polish Numbers. Raced 2 years, 8 starts at 2 and 3, 0 wins,
$12,990. (FTM Oct 98—$20,000; FTM May 99—$41,000)

98 Barren.

99 Free Admission, b.c. by Press Card. Raced 8 years, 25 starts, 3 wins, 4 to 6, $92,256.

00 Push My Luck, dk.b./br.f. by Press Card. Raced 5 years, 29 starts, 2 wins at 4 and 6, $56,480,
2nd Crown Royal Hurdle S-G3. Producer.

01 Lucky Memento, dk.b./br.g. by Souvenir Copy. Raced 8 years, 72 starts, 14 wins, 4 to 10,
$370,807.

03 DIVINE FORTUNE, ch.g. by Royai Anthem.

04 La Marseillaise, dk.b./br.c. by Royai Anthem. Unraced.

07 Beating the Odds, b.f. by Victory Gaiiop. Raced 3 years, 8 starts, 3 to 5,0 wins, $6,990.

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DUFF

Christopher Elser Memorial Stakes

$75,000-guaranteed, 614 fur., 2-year-old colts and geldings nominated
with the SCTOBA. Parx Racing, Nov. 16.

Ride the Rails
Candy Ride (Arg)

Candy Girl

Duff, b.c., 2012

Ascot Knight

To the Brim

Capacity

Cryptociea ranee
Herbalesian
Candy Stripes
City Girl
Danzig
Bam bee T.T
Capote

Rare Opportunity

Fappiano
Naval Orange
*Herbager
Alanesian

Blushing Groom (Fr)
Bubble Company (Fr)
Farnesio (Arg)
Cithara

Northern Dancer
Pas de Norn
Better Bee
Golden Beach
Seattle Slew
Too Bald

Danzig Connection
Andora

starts 1st 2nd

14(sw) 6 3 (2) 1

3rd earnings

1 (1) $133,220 (through Nov. 16)

2014; 1st $75,000 Mark McDermott S, 6 fur., registered Pa.-bred 2-year-olds, Presque Isle, Sept.
7; $75,000 Christopher Elser Memorial S, fur., 2-year-old colts and geldings nominated
with the SCTOBA, Parx, Nov. 16; 3rd Mountaineer Juvenile S.

Bred by Two Sisters’ Farm Inc. (Pa.); owned by The Elkstone Group LLC; trained by Ron G.
Potts.

Sire: CANDY RIDE (Arg), b., 99, stands at Lane’s End, Versaiiies, Ky.

Dam: To the Brim, b., 03, bred by Anderson Farms (Ontario) Inc. and Rod Ferguson (Ontario). Raced
3 years, 29 starts, 1 win at 3, $182,745,2nd Nandi S. (CBS Sept 04—$19,255; Kee Jan 08—
$39,000; Kee Nov 09—$125,000 in foal to Curlin)

10 BOLD CURLIN, b.g., by Curlin. Raced 2 years, 14 starts, 4 wins at 3 and 4, $161,895, Native
Dancer S. (Kee Sept 11—$130,000)

11 Courageous Rock, b.c. by Rock Hard Ten. In England, raced 2 years, 5 starts at 2 and 3,0 wins,
$2,017. (Kee Nov 11—$75,000; TAT Oct 12— $96,150)

12 DUFF, b.c. by Candy Ride (Arg).

13 b.c. by Gio Ponti. (Kee Jan 14—$200,000; FTK Oct 14—$90,000)

NASA

Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes

$100,000-guaranteed, 7 fur., registered Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old
colts and geldings. Parx Racing, Dec. 6.

Elusive Quality
Smarty Jones

I’ll Get Along

Nasa, b.c., 2012

Seattle Slew
Shootforthestars

Lotta Dancing

starts 1st

14 (sw) 4 2 (1)

Gone West
Touch of Greatness
Smile

Dont Worry Bout Me
Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Alydar
Lotka

2nd 3rd

1 1 ( 1 )

Mr. Prospector
Secrettame
Hero’s Honor
Ivory Wand
In Reality
Sunny Smile
Foolish Pleasure
Stolen Base
Boldnesian
Reason to Earn
Poker

Fair Charmer
Raise a Native
Sweet Tooth
Danzig
Kennelot

earnings

$99,050 (through Dec. 6)

2014; 1st $100,000 Pennsylvania Nursery S, 7 fur., registered Pa.-bred 2-year-oid coits and

geldings, Parx, Dec. 6; 3rd Christopher Elser Memorial S.

Bred by Patricia L. Chapman (Pa.); owned by Someday Farm; trained by John C. Servis.

Sire: SMARTY JONES, ch., 01, stands at Northview PA, Peach Bottom, Pa.

Dam: Shootforthestars, b., 98, bred by Heidi L. Doubieday (Ky.). Unraced. (Kee Nov 06—$450,000
in foai to Eiusive Quality)

02 Golden Rainbow, dk.b./br.g. by Seeking the Goid. Raced 7 years, 44 starts, 8 wins, 2 to 7,
$299,090,3rd Okiahoma Derby. (Kee Sept 03—$40,000)

03 Basiiiko, ch.c. by Fusaichi Pegasus. In England, raced 5 years, 9 starts, 2 to 7,0 wins, $793.

04 Gaiaxy Dancer, dk.b./br.f. by Kingmambo. Raced 2 years, 4 starts, 1 win at 3, $11,616. (Kee
Sept 05—$400,000)

05 General Consensus, b.f. by Giant’s Causeway. Raced 5 years, 20 starts, 4 wins, 3 to 5,
$255,444, 2nd Santa Barbara H-G2, Swingtime S, 3rd Santa Ana H-G2. (Kee Sept 06—
$400,000)

06 Keefer, ch.c. by Smarty Jones. Raced 4 years, 16 starts, 3 wins at 2, 4 and 5, $54,642. (Kee
Sept 07—$60,000)

07 My Elusive Star, b.g. by Elusive Quality. Raced 3 years, 29 starts, 4 wins, 3 to 5, $153,764,
3rd Capitai City S.

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08 CENTRALINTELIGENCE, ch.g. by Smarty Jones. Raced 3 years, 14 starts, 4 wins, 3 to 5,
$309,171, Triple Bend H-G1,2nd Los Angeles H-G3 twice. (Kee Sept 09—$90,000)

09 Cash Finance, b.f. by Smarty Jones. In Italy, raced 3 years, 15 starts, 4 wins at 2 and 3,
$72,108. (Kee Sept 10—$11,000)

10 Champion Color, b.c. by Smarty Jones. In Korea, raced 2 years, 8 starts, 2 wins at 3. (Kee Sept
11—$25,000; FTK Jan 12—$8,500)

11 Sky Wise, ch.f. by Smarty Jones. Raced 1 year, 6 starts, 1 win at 3, $24,480. (FTM Oct 12—

$ 20 , 000 )

12 NASA, b.c. by Smarty Jones.

13 b.c. by Smarty Jones.

ROCKIN JOJO

Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies Stakes

$75,000-guaranteed, 6 fur., registered Pennsylvania-bred 2-year-old fillies.
Penn National, Nov. 29.

Street Cry (Ire)
Street Magician

Magical Meadow
Rockin Jojo,ch.f., 2012

Palmister

Chiqueada

I’m an Issue

Machiavellian
Helen Street (GB)
Meadowlake
Special Kell
Nijinsky II
Palmistry
Cox’s Ridge
Answers n’ Issues

Mr. Prospector
Coup de Folie
Troy

Waterway
Hold Your Peace
Suspicious Native
Parfaitement
Ran’s Chick
Northern Dancer
Flaming Page
*Forli
Foreseer
Best Turn
Our Martha
Jacinto
Bourbon Mist

starts 1st 2nd

14 (sw) 5 2 (1) 1

3rd earnings

1 (1) $101,050 (through Nov. 29)

2014: 1st $75,000 Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies S, 6 fur., registered Pa.-bred 2-year-old fillies,
Penn National, Nov. 29; 3rd Maryland Million Lassie S.

Bred by David P. Miller and Skymarc Farm (Pa.); owned by Michael R. Cox; trained by T.
Bernard Houghton.

Sire: STREET MAGICIAN, b., 04, stands at Heritage Stallions, Chesapeake City, Md.

Dam: CHIQUEADA, b., 98, bred by Iron County Farms Inc. (Mont.). Raced 2 years, 3 starts at3 and
4, 0 wins, $638.

03 Make the Grade, b.g. by Honor Grades. Raced 7 years, 75 starts, 11 wins, 2 to 8, $61,845.
(Kee Sept 04—$4,700)

04 Not for Money, ch.g. by Not For Love. Raced 5 years, 45 starts, 9 wins, 3 to 8, $257,545,3rd
Private Terms S. (FTM Oct 05—$110,000)

06 Slipped.

07 Mister Warbucks, b.g. by Not For Love. Raced 2 years, 18 starts, 4 wins at 3 and 4, $63,106.

(FTM Oct 08—$50,000)

08 Barren.

09 Legendofsparticus, b.c. by Not For Love. 2Raced 2 years, 6 starts, 1 win at 2, $32,575. (FTM
Oct 10—$30,000)

11 b.f. by Medallist.

12 ROCKIN JOJO, ch.f. by Street Magician. (FTM Sept 13—$23,000)

13 Little Louella, b.f. by Dance With Ravens.

West Virginia-bred

DOWN TOWN ALLEN

My Sister Pearl Stakes

$50,000-guaranteed, V/s mi., registered accredited West Virginia-bred
fillies and mares, 3 & up. Charles Town, Nov. 15.

Lord Carson
Windsor Castle

Frigidette

Down Town Allen, b.m., 2007
Roy

Like Down Town

Turkamar

Carson City
Bedgay’s Lady
It’s Freezing
Princess Met
Fappiano
Ad libber
Turkoman
Camarina

Mr. Prospector
Blushing Promise
Lord Gaylord
Lady Beddard
T.V. Commercial
Articana
Mehmet
Cloud Ho
Mr. Prospector
Klllaloe
Never Bend
Ivy Hackett
Alydar
Taba (Arg)
*Vaguely Noble
Lullaby Song

starts

1st

2nd

3rd

earnings

09 (sw)

4( 3)

3 (2)

1 (1)

$ 176,547

10 (sw)

5( 4)

209,110

11 (sw)

2( 2)

78,380

12(sw)

4( 4)

214,730

13(sw)

4( 4)

113,860

14 (sw)

_6( 5)

236,760

25 (22)

^ (2)

4 (1)

$1,029,387

2009: 1st $50,000 Rachel’s Turn S, 4^2 fur., 2-year-old fillies, Charles Town, Aug. 29; $50,000
TrI-State Futurity, 1st div., 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled In Md., Va. or WVa., Charles Town, Nov. 7;
$50,000 West Virginia Futurity, 1st dIv., 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired 2-year-
olds, Charles Town, Nov. 28; 2nd Golden Gull “Chris Brown’’ Memorial S, Miss Shenandoah S;
3rd Eleanor M. Casey Memorial S. 2010: 1st $50,000 Its BInn Too Long S, 4y2 fur., registered
accredited W.Va.-bred 3-year-old fillies, Charles Town, May 29; $100,000 Lady Charles Town S,
4y2 fur., 3-year-old fillies, Charles Town, June 19; $85,000 West Virginia Secretary of State S, 6
fur., fillies and mares, 3 & up. Mountaineer, Aug. 7; $50,000 Sylvia Bishop Memorial S, 7 fur., reg¬
istered accredited W.Va.-bred 3-year-old fillies, Charles Town, Aug. 28. 2011: 1st $50,000 Fancy
Buckles S, 4y2 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fiiiies and mares, 3 & up, Charies Town, June
18; $50,000 Sadie Hawkins S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up,
Charles Town, Aug. 13. 2012: 1st $50.000 Fancy Buckles S, 4y2fur., registered accredited W.Va.-
bred fillies and mares, 3 & up, Charles Town, June 30; $50,000 Sadie Hawkins S, 7 fur., registered
accredited W.Va.-bred fiiiies and mares, 3 & up, Charies Town, Aug. 11; $250,000 W.Va. Jefferson
Security Bank “Cavada’’ Breeders Classic S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired
fillies and mares, 3 & up, Charles Town, Oct. 20; $50,000 My Sister Pearl S, VA mi., registered
accredited W.Va.-bred fiiiies and mares, 3 & up, Charies Town, Nov. 10. 2013: 1st $50,000 Original
Gold S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up, Charles Town, April 20;
$50,000 Fancy Buckles S, 4y2 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up,
Charles Town, May 25; $50,000 Sadie Hawkins S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fiiiies
and mares, 3 & up, Charles Town, Aug. 10; $35,000 Ann Hilton H, &/2 fur., registered accredited
W.Va.-bred fiiiies and mares, 3 & up, Charles Town, Sept. 21. 2014: 1st $50,000 Original Gold S,
7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fillies and mares, 3 & up, Charles Town, April 19; $50,000
Fancy Buckles S, 4y2 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fiiiies and mares, 3 & up, Charies
Town, June 14; $50,000 Sadie Hawkins S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fiiiies and
mares, 3 & up, Charies Town, Aug. 16; $200,000 W.Va. Jefferson Security Bank “Cavada’’
Breeders Classic S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired fillies and mares, 3 & up,
Charles Town, Oct. 18; $50,000 My Sister Pearl S, VA mi., registered accredited W.Va.-bred fiiiies
and mares, 3 & up, Charies Town, Nov. 15.

Bred, owned and trained by John A. Casey (W.Va.).

Sire: WINDSOR CASTLE, b., 98, stands at Taylor Mountain Farm LLC, Charles Town, W.Va.

Dam: LIKE DOWN TOWN, ch., 01, bred by Dennis Necierio (Ky.). Raced 1 year, 1 start at 3, 0 wins,
$0. (FTK Oct 02—$4,000)

06 Cricket, dk.b./br.f. by My Boy Adam. Raced 1 year, 4 starts, 1 win at 4, $7,480.

07 DOWN TOWN ALLEN, b.f. by Windsor Castle.

08 I’m Hefe, dk.b./br.f. by My Boy Adam. Raced 3 years, 22 starts, 1 win at 3, $18,260.

09 c. by Windsor Castie. Died 2009.

10 I Got to Do it Aii, ch.g. by Luftikus. Raced 2 years, 10 starts, 1 win at 4, $26,530.

11 I Knew That, ch.f. by Windsor Castle. Raced 2 years, 18 starts, 2 wins at 3, $36,990.

12 Job of My Own, dk.b./br.g. by Denis of Cork. Raced 1 year, 5 starts at 2,0 wins, $9,788.

13 b.f. by Charitable Man.

14 dk.b./br.f. by Denis of Cork.

GOLDEN YEARS

Marylander Stakes

$100,000-guaranteed, 7 fur., 2-year-olds. Laurel Park, Dec. 6.

Mr. Prospector
Not For Love

Dance Number
Golden Years, b.c., 2012
Oh Say

Sweet Annuity

Roberta Grump

Raise a Native
Goid Digger
Northern Dancer
Numbered Account
Hoist the Fiag
Light Hearted
Verification
Blue Spring

Native Dancer
Raise You
Nashua
Sequence
Nearctic
Natal m a
Buckpasser
Intriguing
Tom Rolfe
Wavy Navy
Cyane
Ho Ho
Exceller
The Cuddler
Am behaving
Blue Waters

starts 1st 2nd 3rd

14(sw) 4 3 (2) 0 0

earnings

$146,760 (through Dec. 6)

2014: 1st $100,000 Maryland Million Nursery S, 6 fur., 2-year-olds sired by eligible Md. stallions.
Laurel, Oct. 18; $100,000 Marylander S, 7 fur., 2-year-olds, Laurel, Dec. 6.

Bred by O’Sullivan Farms LLC (W.Va.); owned by Hiliwood Stable LLC; trained by Rodney
Jenkins.

Sire: NOT FOR LOVE, b., 90, stands at Northview Staiiion Station, Chesapeake City, Md.

Dam: SWEET ANNUITY, b., 97, bred by Robert H. Lioyd (W.Va.). Raced 5 years, 37 starts, 9 wins, 3
to 6, $260,052, BB&T “Cavada” W.Va. Breeders Ciassic S, Sadie Hawkins H, Roger Van Hoozer

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Stakes winners

Memorial S twice, Ruth C. Funkhouser S, 2nd W.Va. Division of Tourism Breeders Classic S,
Cacapon H, HBPA Lady Di S, Roger Van Hoozer Memorial S, 3rd Almost Heaven S, Cacapon H.
06 Slipped.

07 gr./ro.f. by Black Tie Affair (Ire). Died 2007.

08 R. J. Says, gr./ro.g. by Black Tie Affair (Ire). Raced 4 years, 32 starts, 3 wins at 4 and 5, $71,851.
09 Prized Annuity, dk.b./br.f. by Prized. Raced 1 year, 3 starts at 4,0 wins, $4,000.

11 Duke Eddington, ch.g. by Eddington. Raced 2 years, 11 starts, 1 win at 2, $34,010.

12 GOLDEN YEARS, b.c. by Not For Love. (FTM Sept 13—$120,000)

13 b.f. by Belong to Me.

HEAR THE CHATTER

Tri-State Futurity

$50,000-added (2nd division), 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled in Maryland,
Virginia or West Virginia. Charles Town, Nov. 8.

West Virginia Futurity

$50,000-added, 7 fur., registered accredited West Virginia-bred 2-year-olds.
Charles Town, Nov. 29.

LUCY’S BOB BOY

A Huevo Stakes

$50,000-added, VA mi., registered accredited West Virginia-breds, 3 & up.
Charles Town, Nov. 22.

A.P. Indy

Flatter

Praise

Lucy’s Bob Boy, ch.g., 2009
Not For Love
Love for Lucy

North Saratoga

Seattle Slew
Weekend Surprise
Mr. Prospector
Wild Applause
Mr. Prospector
Dance Number
Northern Baby
Saratoga Days

Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Secretariat
Lassie Dear
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Northern Dancer
Glowing Tribute
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Northern Dancer
Numbered Account
Northern Dancer
Two Rings
Alydar

Rather Special

Deputy Minister

Touch Gold

Passing Mood

Mass Media

Forty Niner

Sultry Allure

Sultry Sun

Hear the Chatter, dk.b./br.g., 2012

A.P. Indy

Stephen Got Even

Immerse

Stefan i’s Surprise

Polish Numbers

Happy NumbersIB

Happenchance

Vice Regent
Mint Copy
Buckpasser
Cool Mood
Mr. Prospector
File

Buckfinder
Sunny Dame
Seattle Slew
Weekend Surprise
Cox’s Ridge
Baroness Direct
Danzig

Numbered Account
Alydar

Fate’s Reward

starts 1 st 2 nd

14(sw) 7 5 (4) 1

3rd earnings

1 (1) $185,776 (through Dec. 6 )

2014; 1st $50,000 Henry Mercer Memorial S, 4V2 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred 2-year-
olds, Charles Town, Sept. 20; $80,000 W.Va. Vincent Moscarelli Memorial Breeders Classic S,
&/2 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired 2-year-olds, Charles Town, Oct. 18; $50,000
Tri-State Futurity (2nd div.), 7 fur., 2-year-olds foaled in Md., Va. or W.Va., Charles Town, Nov.
8 ; $50,000 West Virginia Futurity, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred 2-year-olds, Charles
Town, Nov. 29; 3rd Marylander S.

Bred and owned by Kristy Petty (W.Va.); trained by John A. Casey.

Sire: MASS MEDIA, dk.b./br., 01, stands at Red River Farms, Coushatta, La.

Dam: STEFANI’S SURPRISE, b., 07, bred by Marathon Farms Inc. (Ky.). Raced 2 years, 5 starts,
2 wins at 2, $44,160. (FTM Oct 08—$2,000; FTM Dec 11—$5,000 in foal to Mass Media)

12 HEAR THE CHATTER, dk.b./br.g. by Mass Media.

starts

1 st

2 nd

3rd

earnings

11 (sw)

2 ( 1 )

$ 46,170

12 (sw)

7( 3)

3 (1)

376,900

13(sw)

7( 4)

211,660

14 (sw)

^( 2 )

^ ( 1 )

240,575

21 ( 10 )

5 (2)

$875,305

2011; 1st $50,000 Henry Mercer Memorial S, AVz fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred 2-year-
old colts and geldings, Charles Town, Sept. 17. 2012; 1st $50,000 Coin Collector S, fur.,
registered accredited W.Va.-bred 3-year-olds, Charles Town, June 30; $50,000 Robert G. Leavitt
S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-bred 3-year-olds, Charles Town, Aug. 4; $500,000 West
Virginia Breeders Classic S, iVs mi., registered accredited W.Va.-bred or sired, 3 & up, Charles
Town, Oct. 20; 2nd A Huevo S. Set ntr at Charles Town— 6 V 2 fur. in 1:16.44. 2013; 1st $50,000
Confucius Say S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-breds, 3 & up, Charles Town, April 20;
$50,000 Frank Gall Memorial S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-breds, 3 & up, Charles Town,
Aug. 17; $85,000 Wild and Wonderful S, 7 fur., 3 & up, Charles Town, Sept. 21; $50,000 A Huevo
S, iVa mi., registered accredited W.Va.-breds, 3 & up, Charles Town, Nov. 16. 2014; 1st $50,000
Frank Gall Memorial S, 7 fur., registered accredited W.Va.-breds, 3 & up, Charles Town, Aug. 23;
$50,000 A Huevo S, V/s mi., registered accredited W.Va.-breds, 3 & up, Charles Town, Nov. 22;
2nd West Virginia Breeders Classic S.

Bred by Robert W. Furr Sr. (W.Va.); owned by Linda Sours; trained by Sandra A. Dono.

Sire: FLATTER, b., 99, stands at Claiborne Farm, Paris, Ky.

Dam: Love for Lucy, b., 00, bred by Robert W. Furr Sr. (W.Va.). Raced 3 years, 20 starts, 3 wins
at 3, $80,401,2nd Ruth C. Funkhouser S, 3rd W.Va. Division of Tourism Breeders Classic S.
08 Mr. Clarance Furr, ch.c. by Race On Green. Raced 1 year, 2 starts at 2,0 wins, $200.

09 LUCY’S BOB BOY, ch.g. by Flatter.

11 ch.f. by Flatter. Died 2011.

12 Slipped.

13 c. by Parading. Died 2013.

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Joseph R Pons Jr.

President
Donald H. Barr
Vice-president
John C. Davison
Secretary-treasurer
Cricket Goodall
Executive director

Richard F. Blue Jr., John W.

Boniface Jr., R. Thomas
Bowman'*’, Rebecca B. Davis,
David DiPietro, Michael J.
Harrison, R. Larry Johnson,
Edwin W. Merryman, Wayne
L. Morris*, Suzanne
Moscarelli, Tom MulHkin,
Lawrence Murray, WilHam S.
Reightler Jr., Robert B. White
^president appointed

Directors Emeritus
(served 18 years)

J. WiUiam Boniface,

R. Thomas Bowman, King
T. Leatherbury, Donald P.
Litz Jr., Robert T. Manfuso,
Ann Merryman, Michael
Pons, Katharine M. Voss

Advisory Council
(past MHBA presidents)

J. WiUiam Boniface, WiUiam K.

Boniface, Frank A. Bonsai,

R. Thomas Bowman, WUliam
G. Christmas, Hal C.B. Clagett
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Leonard, J.W.Y. Martin Jr.,
Michael Pons, James B. Steele
Jr., Katharine M. Voss

Stakes three-peats are rare feats

By Cindy Deubler

Ben's Cat has won five consecutive Mister Diz Stakes.

It's a rare individual who
can rack up multiple wins in the
same stakes. To compete at that
level takes talent. To come back
the next year requires consisten¬
cy. Make it back three years, or
more? You need longevity.

The 2014 racing season
showcased the special talents of
Maryland-breds Ben's Cat and
Eighttofasttocatch, who added
thirds, and sometimes more, to
their list of stakes accomplish¬
ments. Those feats prompted a
search to find other state-breds
who did the same (limited to
stakes on the flat). The task was
not easy, and the list is not guar¬
anteed to be complete (we'd
love to hear about any we may
have missed).

But the results of the search revealed a short
list of three-pea ter s. And the names didn't in¬
clude those expected, such as Maryland-bred
greats Gallorette or Challedon, Twixt or Jamee-
la, Dave's Friend or Cigar. The search also
proved that four or more wins is indeed a
unique achievement. And an interesting side
note: all the horses on this list were sired by
Maryland stallions.

Ben's Cat

Dk.b./br.g., 2006, Parker's Storm Cat — Twofox, by
Thirty Eight Paces.

No Maryland-bred runner has compiled as
comprehensive a record as King T. Leather¬
bury's homebred. Ben's Cat has followed a
similar schedule for the past four years, but
launched his five-race win streak in the Mister
Diz Stakes in 2010, his first year of competition.

For three years he was a dominant force
in the Maryland Million Turf Sprint, winning
from 2010-12, until the race was dropped from

the card. In 2014, he recorded his third wins
in Penn National's Fabulous Strike Handicap,
Parx Racing's Parx Dash, and Pimlico's Jim
McKay Turf Sprint. Added up, those five stakes
account for 17 of his 23 stakes wins.

Safely Kept

B.m., 1986, Horatius—Safely Home, by VSHnning Hit.

The Hall of Famer is the only other Mary-
land-bred to have won a multitude of stakes at
least three times. From 3 to 5 (1989-1991), Safe¬
ly Kept captured three runnings of the Grade 2
Genuine Risk Stakes at Belmont Park, Garden
State Breeders' Cup Handicap-G3 at Garden
State, and Maryland Million Distaff Handicap
at Pimlico, accounting for nine of her 22 career
stakes wins.

Eighttofasttocatch

Ch.g., 2006, Not For Love—Too Fast to Catch, by
Nice Catch.

It took him awhile to get going, not winning
his first stakes until his 5-year-old season, but

Little Bold John after his first of three Jennings wins.

he made his races count-as only the second horse on this list to
win as many as four runnings of one stakes, accomplishing the
rarity in the Jennings Handicap, which he won from 2011-14. He
also became the first horse in Maryland Million history to win
the Classic three times.

Little Bold John

B.g., 1982, John Alden—Little Bold Sphinx, by Bold Ambition.

It's somewhat surprising that the winningest Maryland-bred
stakes winner in history (25 total) recorded only one hat trick-in
the Jennings Handicap from 1987-89. The dark bay gelding who
started 105 times and won 38 races had captured three oth¬
er stakes (Riggs-G3, Native Dancer and Chieftain Handicaps)
twice during his nine-year career.

Castelets

Ro.g., 1979, King's Bishop—Miss Buffum, by Misty Right.

The durable gelding raced seven years, through age 10, and
recorded 10 stakes wins, including three editions of Pimlico's
Crusader Handicap, the final time when he was 9.

His early career had taken twists and turns: unraced at 2,
Castelets went to the sidelines for a year recovering from sore
shins after winning at 3-when he returned at 5, he started out

Safely Kept won the Grade 2 Genuine Risk at Belmont Park
three times, one of three stakes she won as many times.

Castelets won his third Crusader Handicap at age 9. Eighttofasttocatch's fourth Jennings win came in December.

Mz. Zill Bear's third Maryland Million Ladies win
came over a muddy Laurel main track in 1995.

in steeplechase races, but after
disappointing over jumps, he
was moved back on the flat.
He won the Grade 3 Pennsyl¬
vania Governor's Cup Handi¬
cap that fall.

Although he didn't win it
multiple times, Castelets did
score a stakes win at age 10
when taking Garden State's
Viburnum Stakes.

Thirty Eight Go Go

Gr.fro.m., 1985, Thirty Eight
Paces — Dronette, by Drone.

Leatherbury bred and
trained two on the list, with
two-time Maryland-bred
champion mare Thirty Eight
Go Go being the first to three-
peat, making her mark in the
Geisha Handicap from 1988-
90. And in an added connec¬
tion to Ben's Cat-Thirty Eight
Go Go was a full-sister to
Ben's Cat's dam Twofox.

^A/^hiteout conditions at
Laurel.

Snow blows sideways as
track announcer Dave Rod¬
man's voice calls out like some
Old Testament God over his
people. Only he, in the clouds
at press-box height, can see
into the chute at the farthest
corner of the track, where the
starting gate is positioned for
one-turn mile races. To Rod¬
man's disciples huddled on
the grandstand apron below,
the track is a sea of white, like
a glass snow-globe, shaken by
an unseen hand, encasing rac-
ing.

Rodman's cadenced call is
poetry on the wind, a halting
sequence of words at play on
the name of the race favorite.
Winter's Child:

Sailingon

Dk.b./br.m., 1971, Sail On-Sail
On—Towson Town Gal, by
Gornwall.

The oldest name on the
list captured back-to-back-to-
back runnings of Timonium's
All Maryland Handicap from
1975-77. Described as "honest
as they come, carries weight
and loves a distance," Sail¬
ingon was one of the best
handicap mares in the state
in the mid-1970s. Her biggest
year came in 1975 when she
won five stakes from 20 starts,
along the way defeating that
year's Maryland-bred cham¬
pion older mare Twixt.

Mz. Zill Bear

B.m., 1989, Salutely —

Silver Mink, by Vice Regent.

A graded stakes winner on
the turf, Mz. Zill Bear won her

"And very slow
to go,

was Winter's Child,
who is up against it,
now, in the snow."

Rodman's thoughtful call
lands on bundled fans braced
against "it"-his pronoun
standing for any number of
elements: the wild weather,
the favorite's slow break, the
instant devaluation of mutuel
tickets, the limitless, endless
obstacles to success in a game
that not so much you choose
as it chooses you. Under¬
stand this: At whatever age it
strikes-this romantic notion
that the outside of a horse is
good for the inside of you-it
leaves a lasting impression.

first two Maryland Million La¬
dies Stakes on the grass, but
in seeking her third straight in
1995, the 6 -year-old mare was
forced to face a muddy main
track. It proved a non-factor as
she swept home a 6 V 2 -length
winner on the 10 th anniver¬

"It" is life inside the globe
of the horse world. It is the
string of unbroken moments
at a racetrack, on a farm, just
about anywhere horses are,
how they form the personality
of the setting. It is the experi¬
ence of a day spent following
the ponies.

A lawyer slides his cell
phone to Off, smiles wryly:
"I told them I was in court."
He was bitten by it as a child,
watching his father play it.

Outriders wrap scarves
around their faces like horse
thieves and ride into the pad-
dock to lead away the field for
the next race, while partners
play hooky, play a few races,
slide back up to Baltimore
or down to D.C. before their
co-workers' spirit of conspira¬
cy is strained.

A female TV reporter
wheels on her heels and heads
back to the station to report
on road conditions, a stack of
mutuel tickets on her table in a
new restaurant called "Tips,"
where cozy seating presses
against windows that lean out
over the track.

Tips is designed to attract
and hold Generation X, the en¬
trepreneurial latch-key kids of
the '70s, and Generation Y, the

sary card of Jim McKay's cre¬
ation.

Mz. Zill Bear contested the
Maryland Million four times-
in her debut at 3 she was sec¬
ond to the year-older Rich¬
ard's Lass in the 1992 running
of the Ladies. ^

millennials, neither known for
long attention spans. Sports-
bar TVs rim the crown mold¬
ing; quick food listed on the
Sprint Menu; digital touch¬
screen betting machines mere
feet away, all day, 70 horses
through nine races give their
all for the sport, blowing past
in a whirl of silks whose col¬
ors seem neon in the swirling
snow. Prototype Tips is the
modem clubhouse model.

The hands on the globe of
Maryland horse racing belong
to The Stronach Group. Shak¬
ing up Maryland, finally. What
took so long? Gulfstream and
Santa Anita have the weather.
We have snow, but it passes
before Pimlico. We will have
summer racing at Laurel this
year. Time to shake.

Enter Tim Ritvo, chief op¬
erating officer of Stronach's
Racing Division. Ritvo holds
a Master's in Business Admin¬
istration. Earnings before in¬
terest, taxes and amortization
are woeful at Maryland tracks,
but to improve EBITA, Ritvo
faces ennui.

He slips in and out of
meetings below the grand¬
stand, surfaces in Tips on a
cell phone to push an unseen
issue. He greets patrons at
their tables. He envisions The

— Notes from the President —

Better weather ahead
for the ‘It’ state

By Josh Pons

Stronach Group as managers
of racetracks the way Marriott
manages hotels: economies of
scale, uniform brand, empha¬
sis on entertainment. Televi¬
sion is a central issue: TVG vs.
HRTV. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, the Stronach
tracks are being placed in
rent-generating trusts by
lawyers for an octogenarian
owner. Racing in perpetuity

Breeder bonuses

Includes the additional Maryland-sired bonus,
Initiated In the Timonium meet That bonus Is
reflected In the second figure earned for the race.
Colin Atkins—BABY SITUATION: Nov. 1, 3rd
race, $1,122.

David Baxter—MISS EDMUND: Nov. 20,9th race,
$945/$315. ($1,260)

Bender and Bender EEC-ALPHA DARLIN: Nov.
20, 4th race, $759. CLASSIC WILDCAT: Nov.
5, 3rd race, $2,565. CRUISE MORE: Nov. 13,
5th race, $759. SOUP D’COUPE: Nov. 12, 7th
race, $5,301. STRONG SHAFT: Nov. 8,9th race,
$882. ($10,266)

Howard M. Bender—GHOST BAY: Nov. 20, 3rd
race, $1,320.

Black Fox Farm—LIONHEARTED LADY: Nov. 21,
7th race, $7,182/$2,394. SAM’S SONIC: Oct.
31,7th race, $5,814. ($15,390)

Blue Seas Music Inc.—VERY FEW DETAILS: Nov.

1,3rd race, $5,81441,938. ($7,752)

Richard F. Blue, Sr.—LARRY EE ROI: Oct. 30,
9th race, $2,6464882; Nov. 15, 9th race,
$7,18242,394. ($13,104)

Bonita Farm—DOCTOR S: Oct. 29, 3rd race,
$5,13041,710. MO BAGELS: Oct. 31, 2nd
race, $5,47241,824. ($14,136)

Bonita Farm and Hellfire Stables EEC-MORAL
HIGH GROUND: Oct. 31, 5th race, $7594253.
($ 1 , 012 )

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman—SO HELP ME
HANNAH: Oct. 29, 10th race, $8914297.
($1,188)

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman, DutrowThorough-
bred Ent Inc. and Rebecca Davis—KOHANYA:
Oct. 31,3rd race, $1,320.

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman and Javier En¬
riquez Monroy—IRISH LION: Nov. 6,2nd race,
$9454315. ($1,260)

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Bowman and Milton P. Hig¬
gins III—IF NOT FOR HER: Nov. 19, 8th race,
$1,4854495. ($1,980)

Deborah Butts—SPICER CUB: Nov. 20,7th race,
$2,8354945. ($3,780)

Michael P. Cataneo—EDDY GOURMET: Nov. 7,
7th race, $7,182.

Henry S. Clark III—MISS GLENGAR: Nov. 19, 5th
race, $2,565.

by the Stronach Trust, instead
of a gaming company selling
off the racetracks, keeping the
casinos.

Ritvo carries an aerial
map of Laurel, long roofs of
two white buildings photo-
shopped onto the brown
backstretch topography: two
150-stall barns, adding 300
new stalls, ground-breaking
immediately, costs matched

Classic Thoroughbred XII—STOLEN LOVE: Nov.

5,2nd race, $3,762/$1,254. ($5,016)

Rosalee C. Davison Revocable Trust—EXPERI¬
ENCE COUNTS: Nov. 7,4th race, $3,420.

David DiPietro—STAR MANEUVER: Nov. 14, 9th
race, $1,449/$483. ($1,932)

David DiPietro and Herbert A. May III—Q’S JACK:

Nov. 5,2nd race, $1,386/$462. ($1,848)
Marilyn Doetsch—LAGI LAGI: Nov. 13, 3rd race,
$4954165. ($660)

Hassan Elamri—NOUR lAYOUN: Nov. 13, 6th
race, $1,449/$483. ($1,932)

Annette Eubanks and Daniel Eubanks—SPUNKY
CAT: Nov. 12,4th race, $2,3944798. ($3,192)
W. Dale and Joan Everett—ANY COURT INAS-
TORM: Nov. 8,6th race, $1,320.

WS. Farish and Gasparilla Stable EEC-IN THE
JUICE: Nov. 22,9th race, $945/$315. ($1,260)
Mrs. Janon Fisher IN-STOCK QUOTE: Oct. 31,
4th race, $561/$187. ($748)

Fitzhugh EEC-CANDIDA H.: Nov. 19, 9th race,
$2,520.

John Foster—BUCK N’ HAM U\NE: Oct. 30,
1st race, $2,565/$855: Nov. 14, 2nd race,
$945/$315. ($4,680)

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Friedman—CROSS MOUN¬
TAIN: Nov. 13,1st race, $2,565/$855. ($3,420)
Robert Gerczak—EINSTEIN’S THEORY: Nov. 21,
3rd race, $891.

Barbara C. Graham and Joseph Keelty—CONNE¬
MARA COAST: Oct. 31,8th race, $1,485.

Fred A. Greene Jr. Revocable Trust—COACH
FRIDGE: Oct. 30, 9th race, $1,386/$462; Nov.
15,9th race, $2,646/$882. ($5,376)

Green Willow Farms—KOH I NOOR: Nov. 1, 6th
race, $1,650.

Michael J. Harrison DVM—GIN FUZZ: Oct. 30,
8th race, $2,520.

Estate of William R. Harris—BREEZY GIRL: Oct.
29, 2nd race, $2,565/$855. VIM: Nov. 22, 2nd
race, $2,394/$798. ($6,612)

Hillwood Stables EEC-GREAT START: Nov. 6,
8th race, $1,386; Nov. 21, 8th race, $1,386.
($2,772)

Holly House Farm—HERO’S NOTION: Oct.
29, 3rd race, $990/$330; Nov. 13, 7th race,
$9904330. ($2,640)

by Maryland horsemen and
the track's RFRA funds as per
the 10-Year Deal.

Ritvo was a jockey based at
Suffolk Downs. He became a
racing official, trained horses
in Florida, served as vice pres¬
ident of the Florida horse¬
men's group. His wife is the
first woman to train a Breed¬
ers' Cup Classic winner. She
had heart-transplant surgery.

Michael and Deborah Horning—CLEM GEM: Oct.
29,4th race, $2,520.

Edwin C. Jenkins—PRiNTASTICAT: Nov. 7, 8th
race, $2,6464882. ($3,528)

John Franzone Jr. Racing Inc.—NO BRAKES:

Nov. 5,6th race, $7264242. ($968)

Carol A. Kaye—HYPATIA’S SKY: Oct. 29,6th race,
$4,10441,368. ($5,472)

Carol A. Kaye and Robert Gerczak—PEPPER¬
MINT PRINCE: Nov. 8,4th race, $495.

Robert T. Manfusc^ESTATE PLAN: Nov. 21,1st
race, $1,008/$336. FOREIGN REVIEW: Nov. 19,
3rd race, $945. SARA ROCKS: Oct. 31, 2nd
race, $1,056/$352. ($3,697)

Robert T. Manfuso and Katharine M. Voss—
DANCING TIGRESSE: Oct. 30, 10th race,
$4,617/$1,539. ($6,156)

Sharon Manzari—PIPPI HOT SOX: Nov. 12, 4th
race, $882/$294. ($1,176)

Marathon Farms Inc.—CURLIN’S KID: Oct. 30,
7th race, $7,182. ELUSIVE HEART: Nov. 21,6th
race, $2,079. GRECIAN STAR: Oct. 29,5th race,
$1,320/$440. TRU GREEK: Nov. 20, 7th race,
$1,485/$495. ($13,001)

Mezza Luna Farm EEC-LUNAR ROCK: Nov. 22,
5th race, $3,933/$1,311. ($5,244)

Gretchen B. Mobberley—SMOOTH APPROACH:
Nov. 7,1st race, $2,565.

Mojallali Stables Inc.—AVIE: Nov. 7, 7th race,
$2,646.

Wayne and Juanita Morris—REGAL WARRIOR:

Nov. 6,2nd race, $2,565/$855. ($3,420)
Audrey Murray—SCIP’S SONATA: Nov. 8, 3rd
race, $1,071/$357. SIPPY CUP: Nov. 21, 6th
race, $1,089/$363. ($2,880)

Nancy Lee Farms—CITIZEN CHRIS: Nov. 5, 4th
race, $792.

Steven Newby—BRET’S AT CADDIES: Nov. 6,5th
race, $1,701/$567. ($2,268)

Non Stop Stable—FINAL PROSPECT: Nov. 22,
3rd race, $5,643.

Northview Stallion Station, Inc.—ALWAYS SMIL¬
ING: Nov. 1, 6th race, $3,15041,050; Nov. 22,
8th race, $3,150/$1,050. ($8,400)

Thomas Oliff—GLICH: Nov. 20, 2nd race,
$792/$264. ($1,056)

A. John Price and David Wade—MANDY’S
PUNCH: Nov. 19,1st race, $891/$297. ($1,188)
Vivian E Raii—CALLiOPE: Nov. 8, 5th race,
$1,449/$483. ($1,932)

Cynthia K. Rickman—A AND OUT: Nov. 6, 6th
race, $5,81441,938. ($7,752)

Estate of A. Brice Ridgeiy—E DUBAI’S HUMOR:
Nov. 6, 8th race, $7,182; Nov. 15, 1st race,
$6,000. ($13,182)

Roland Farm—JONESIN FOR JERRY: Nov. 19,
8th race, $2,835/$945. ($3,780)

Roland Farm, Timothy Keefe and Rumsey Keefe—
PONY ROMO: Nov. 7, 9th race, $1,386/$462.
($1,848)

Timothy J. Rooney—SUNRISE SUNSET: Oct. 30,
8th race, $6,840.

Sagamore Farm, EEC-GOING TO MARKET: Oct.
31,8th race, $7,695. TIZGALE: Nov. 5,8th race,
$7,695. ($15,390)

Shamrock Farms—QUEEN TATALINA: Oct. 30,
3rd race, $5284176. ($704)

Dr. Stephen Sinatra—ADMIRALS WAR CHEST:
Nov. 22,7th race, $1,320/$440. ($1,760)

Ritvo asks what if he hadn't
known prominent horse own¬
ers who called in the right
doctors for his wife? Their son
Michael is a jockey who rode
five races on the day's Laurel
card. If not for horse racing...

For the moment, Maryland
racing may be Winter's Child,
but the snow won't last. Shake
the globe come spring. Picture
clearing. ^

Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds EEC-ALLUSEE-
ISMYTALE: Oct. 30,4th race, $2,565. CONSIS¬
TENCY: Oct. 30, 7th race, $2,646. WHO’S IN
TOWN: Nov. 15,5th race, $18,000. ($23,211)
Thornmar Farm EEC-CORPORATE MEASURE:
Nov. 21,2nd race, $1,071. NEXT BEST THING:
Nov. 12,1st race, $1,701. SONNY INSPIRED:
Nov. 1, 7th race, $7,182. SPOTTED HEART:
Nov. 20,5th race, $6,840/$2,280. ($19,074)
Thornmar Farm and C. Torsney—JUSTLOOKAT-
MENOW: Oct. 29,5th race, $6,840.

Two Legends, Kevin Creek and Stonestreet TB
Hold.—SHIRLEYS CURLS: Nov. 19, 7th race,
$2,520.

Linda M. Walls—ROYALTY SEA: Nov. 7,9th race,
$3,762.

Robert M. Watkins Jr. EEC-JAZZY’S QUATTRO:

Nov. 15,9th race, $1,386/$462. ($1,848)

Lydia A. Wiiiiams—PLAY LIKE A RAVEN: Nov. 1,
2nd race, $4954165. ($660)

Wirth Brothers—QUOTE: Nov. 22, 6th race,
$1,512/$504. ($2,016)

Carol Woehrle and Larry, Michael and Debbie
Horning—START SWINGING: Oct. 30, 2nd
race, $2,907.

Owner bonuses

Colin Atkins—BABY SITUATION: Nov, 1, 3rd
race, $654.50.

Howard M. Bender—CRUISE MORE: Nov. 13,5th
race, $442.75. GHOST BAY: Nov. 20, 3rd race,
$770. ($1,212.75)

Karen M. Benshoff—SARA ROCKS: Oct. 31, 2nd
race, $616.

Big Monster Racing EEC-GLICH: Nov. 20, 2nd
race, $462.

Richard F. Blue Sr.—LARRY EE ROI: Oct. 30, 9th
race, $1,543.50; Nov. 15, 9th race, $4,189.50.
($5,733)

Bonita Farm and K.E.S. Farms—DOCTOR S: Oct.
29,3rd race, $2,992.50.

David H. Butts—SPICER CUB: Nov. 20, 7th race,
$1,653.75.

Vince Campanella—JAZZY’S QUATTRO: Nov. 15,
9th race, $808.50.

Pramote Changsila—MORAL HIGH GROUND:

Oct. 31,5th race, $442.75.

Copper Penny Stables—SPOTTED HEART: Nov.
20,5th race, $3,990.

Country Life Farm—IF NOT FOR HER: Nov. 19,
8th race, $866.25.

Rosalee C. Davison—EXPERIENCE COUNTS:
Nov. 7,4th race, $1,995.

D. Hatman Thoroughbreds—SONNY INSPIRED:

Nov. 1,7th race, $4,189.50.

Dumbarton Farm—CONNEMARA COAST: Oct.
31,8th race, $866.25.

Hassan Elamri—NOUR lAYOUN: Nov. 13, 6th
race, $845.25.

Joan P Everett—ANY COURT INASTORM: Nov.
8,6th race, $770.

Stephen R. Ferguson—MANDY’S PUNCH: Nov.
19,1st race, $519.75.

Ferron Farms—SIPPY CUP: Nov. 21, 6th race,
$635.25.

Fitzhugh EEC-CANDIDA H.: Nov. 19, 9th race,
$1,470.

Brad Gould Jr.—PONY ROMO: Nov. 7, 9th race,
$808.50.

Maryland Fund Report

Bonuses paid for races at Maryland tracks
October 27 to November 23,2014.

So Long,
Champ.

Maryland-bred star
Eighttofasttocatch
and his buddy
Gigi the Goat head
back to the bam
after a retirement
ceremony at Laurel
Park Dec. 13.

Robin Graham and M.E. Jones—TRU GREEK:
Nov. 20,7th race, $866.25.

Ered A. Greene Jr. and Deborah S. Greene—
COACH ERIDGE: Oct. 30, 9th race, $808.50;
Nov. 15,9th race, $1,543.50. ($2,352)

Hidden Hill Earm and Brad Gould Jr.—JON ESIN
EOR JERRY: Nov. 19,8th race, $1,653.75.

Hillwood Stable EEC—GREAT START: Nov. 6,
8th race, $808.50; Nov. 21, 8th race, $808.50.
($1,617)

Holly House Earm—HERO’S NOTION: Oct. 29,
3rd race, $577.50; Nov. 13, 7th race, $577.50.
($1,155)

Hot Silks Racing Stable EEC and Carolyn Green—
KOHI NOOR: Nov. 1,6th race, $962.50.

Gail T. Jansen—EINSTEIN’S THEORY: Nov. 21,
3rd race, $519.75.

Charles B. Johnston et al—SAM’S SONIC: Oct.
31,7th race, $3,391.50.

Carol A. Kaye—HYPATIA’S SKY: Oct. 29, 6th
race, $2,394.

Kingdom Bloodstock and D. Hatman Thorough¬
breds—ROYAETY SEA: Nov. 7, 9th race,
$2,194.50.

Kirwan Equine Group Inc.—CONSISTENCY: Oct.
30,7th race, $1,543.50.

M and D Stable—CEEM GEM: Oct. 29, 4th race,
$1,470.

Robert T. Manfuso—ESTATE PEAN: Nov. 21,1st
race, $588.

Robert T. Manfuso and Katharine M. Voss—
DANCING TIGRESSE: Oct. 30, 10th race,
$2,693.25.

Marathon Earms Inc.—EEUSIVE HEART: Nov. 21,
6th race, $1,212.75. GRECIAN STAR: Oct. 29,
5th race, $770. ($1,982.75)

Helen Marshall—CUREIN’S KID: Oct. 30, 7th
race, $4,189.50.

Nancy Lee Earms—SHIRLEYS CURLS: Nov. 19,
7th race, $1,470.

Steven Newby—BRET’S AT CADDIES: Nov. 6,5th
race, $992.25.

Tom Nguyen—GOING TO MARKET: Oct. 31, 8th
race, $4,488.75.

Non Stop Stable—EINAL PROSPECT: Nov. 22,
3rd race, $3,291.75.

NRS Stable, Matthew Brown and Timothy Keefe—
LUNAR ROCK: Nov. 22,5th race, $2,294.25.

Patricia Dresher Racing Stable—KOHANYA: Oct.
31,3rd race, $770.

Elena A. Pradenas—ALPHA DARLIN: Nov. 20,4th
race, $442.75.

PTK EEC-MO BAGELS: Oct. 31, 2nd race,
$3,192. VERY LEW DETAILS: Nov. 1,3rd race,
$3,391.50. ($6,583.50)

Larry E. Rabold—ALWAYS SMILING: Nov. 1,6th
race, $1,837.50; Nov. 22, 8th race, $1,837.50.
($3,675)

Vivian E. Rail—CALLIOPE: Nov. 8, 5th race,
$845.25.

Rickman Racing EEC-A AND OUT: Nov. 6, 6th
race, $3,391.50.

Toby Roth—EDDY GOURMET: Nov. 7, 7th race,
$4,189.50.

Sagamore Earm—TIZGALE: Nov. 5, 8th race,
$4,488.75.

Shamrock Earm—SUNRISE SUNSET: Oct. 30,
8th race, $3,990.

Sinatra Thoroughbreds Racing EEC-ADMIRALS
WAR CHEST: Nov. 22,7th race, $770.

Somraj Singh and MCA Racing Stable EEC-
PRINTASTICAT: Nov. 7, 8th race, $1,543.50.
STAR MANEUVER: Nov. 14,9th race, $845.25.
($2,388.75)

Joann Smith—LIONHEARTED LADY: Nov. 21,
7th race, $4,189.50.

Sovereign Stable—JUSTLOOKATMENOW: Oct.
29,5th race, $3,990.

Adam Staple—AVIE: Nov. 7,7th race, $1,543.50.
Taking Risks Stables EEC-SOUP D’COUPE:

Nov. 12,7th race, $3,092.25.

Walter Vieser II—E DUBAI’S HUMOR: Nov. 6,8th
race, $4,189.50.

Waiwick Stable—QUEEN TATALINA: Oct. 30,3rd
race, $308.

Willowdale Earm Racing No. One Racing EEC-
GINEUZZ: Oct. 30,8th race, $1,470.

Eric J. Wirth—QUOTE: Nov. 22,6th race, $882.
James C. Wolf—CITIZEN CHRIS: Nov. 5, 4th
race, $462.

Gregory J. Wood—SO HELP ME HANNAH: Oct.
29,10th race, $519.75.

Stallion bonuses

CHEROKEE’S BOY (Lunar Rock: Nov. 22,5th race,
$1,311): ZWP Stable.

DANCE WITH RAVENS (Dancing Tigresse: Oct.
30,10th race, $1,539. Play Like a Raven: Nov.
1, 2nd race, $165. Quote: Nov. 22, 6th race,
$504): Dance With Ravens Syndicate—$2,208.
DOMESTIC DISPUTE (So Help Me Hannah: Oct.
29,10th race, $297. Vim: Nov. 22, 2nd race,
$798): Domestic Dispute Syndicate—$1,095.
ELUSIVE CHARLIE (Admirals War Chest: Nov.
22,7th race, $440): Sinatra Thor Breeding and
Racing EEC.

EANTASTICAT (Hypatia’s Sky: Oct. 29, 6th race,
$1,368. Lagi Lagi: Nov. 13, 3rd race, $165.
Pippi Hot Sox: Nov. 12, 4th race, $294. Prin-
tasticat: Nov. 7, 8th race, $882. Spunky Cat:

Nov. 12, 4th race, $798): Eantasticat Syndi¬
cate—$3,507.

GATORS N BEARS (Doctor S: Oct. 29, 3rd race,
$1,710): Gators N Bears Syndicate.

GO EOR GIN (Moral High Ground: Oct. 31, 5th
race, $253): Bonita Farm and Joe Cornacchia.

GREAT NOTION (Always Smiling: Nov. 1, 6th
race, $1,050; Nov. 22, 8th race, $1,050. He¬
ro’s Notion: Oct. 29, 3rd race, $330; Nov. 13,
7th race, $330. Jonesin for Jerry: Nov. 19, 8th
race, $945. Very Few Details: Nov. 1,3rd race,
$1,938): Great Notion Syndicate—$5,643.

GREEK SUN (Grecian Star: Oct. 29, 5th race,
$440. Tru Greek: Nov. 20,7th race, $495): Mar¬
athon Farm—$935.

LION HEARTED (Irish Lion: Nov. 6, 2nd race,
$315. Lionhearted Lady: Nov. 21, 7th race,
$2,394. Pony Romo: Nov. 7, 9th race, $462.
Spotted Heart: Nov. 20,5th race, $2,280): Lion
Hearted Syndicate—$5,451.

LOUIS QUATORZE (Jazzy’s Quattro: Nov. 15, 9th
race, $462. Larry Le Roi: Oct. 30, 9th race,
$882; Nov. 15,9th race, $2,394. Regal Warrior:
Nov. 6, 2nd race, $855. Spicer Cub: Nov. 20,
7th race, $945): Louis Quatorze Syndicate-
$5,538.

LOVE OF MONEY (Coach Fridge: Oct. 30, 9th
race, $462; Nov. 15, 9th race, $882. Stock
Quote: Oct. 31,4th race, $187): Love of Money
Syndicate—$1,531.

The 7-length score pushed
his earnings to $1,056,491
from 48 starts, with 17 wins,
11 seconds and four thirds.

Bred by Robert Meyer-
hoff's Fitzhugh LLC out
of stakes-winning Mary-
land-bred Perilous Night,
Delaunay accounted for the
Grade 3 Aristides and RW.
Gaudin Memorial Stakes ear¬
lier in the year.

It was Delaunay's fifth win
from six career outings at Fair
Grounds. Ridden by James
Graham, the gelding covered
6 furlongs in 1:09.05 after set¬
ting fractions of :21.79, :45.15
and :56.38.

After the race, Amoss not¬
ed: 'Tt is kind of lost on people
that he's 7 and turning 8 and
runs this well. He's easy to

MOJAVE MOON (Mo Bagels: Oct. 31, 2nd race,
$1,824): Mojave Moon Syndicate.

NOT FOR LOVE (Bret’s At Caddies: Nov. 6, 5th
race, $567. Estate Plan: Nov. 21,1st race, $336.
If Not For Her: Nov. 19, 8th race, $495. Stolen
Love: Nov. 5, 2nd race, $1,254): Not For Love
Syndicate—$2,652.

ORATORY (Nour layoun: Nov. 13,6th race, $483):

Country Life Farm and Darley.

OUTFLANKER (A and Out: Nov. 6, 6th race,
$1,938. Buck n’ Ham Lane: Oct. 30,1st race,
$855; Nov. 14, 2nd race, $315. Calliope: Nov.
8, 5th race, $483. Q’s Jack: Nov. 5, 2nd race,
$462. Star Maneuver: Nov. 14,9th race, $483):
Outflanker Syndicate—$4,536.

PARKER’S STORM CAT (No Brakes: Nov. 5, 6th
race, $242): Country Life Farm and B. Wayne
Hughes.

ROCK SLIDE (Cross Mountain: Nov. 13,1st race,
$855. In the Juice: Nov. 22, 9th race, $315.
Queen Tatalina: Oct. 30, 3rd race, $176. Sara
Rocks: Oct. 31, 2nd race, $352): Shamrock
Farms—$1,698.

SCIPION (Breezy Girl: Oct. 29, 2nd race, $855.
Glich: Nov. 20,2nd race, $264. Miss Edmund:
Nov. 20, 9th race, $315. Scip’s Sonata: Nov. 8,
3rd race, $357. Sippy Cup: Nov. 21, 6th race,
$363): Scipion Syndicate—$2,154.

TWO PUNCH (Mandy’s Punch: Nov. 19,1st race,
$297): Two Punch Syndicate.

train and I can't take credit for
his talent. He may not be as
good as he once was, but he's
a great horse."

Amoss and Moss claimed
Delaunay for $40,000 at Chur¬
chill Downs in May 2012. He
has since won 10 stakes, in¬
cluding the Grade 2 Churchill
Downs in 2013.

Moss was emotional after
the win.

"I kept saying I wasn't ner¬
vous and that he owes me
nothing. Then he went in the
gate and it was so exciting . . .
You never know when you
give them time off if they will
return to form, but I know him
so well that I can watch his
face and tell when he's on his
game - and today he was." ^

Maryland-bred Stakes Winners

Delaunay goes for seconds
in Thanksgiving Handicap at Fair Grounds

]N4illionaire Delaunay
returned after a nearly four-
month layoff to capture Fair
Grounds' 89th Thanksgiving
Handicap on the holiday card,
Nov. 27, his third stakes win of

his 7-year-old season. Owned
by Maggi Moss and trained by
Tom Amoss, the son of Smoke
Glacken previously captured
the Thanksgiving Handicap
in 2012.

Maryland’s top earners in 2014

(through December 2)

1. Ben's Cat.

. .$458,350

11. Who's in Town ...

..$148,097

2. The Big Beast.

.. .415,500

12. Always SmiHng ..

...147,479

3. Kiss to Remember

.. .264,086

13. Madame Giry_

...141,715

4. Seseri.

.. .238,375

14. Miss BulHstic.

...136,620

5. Delaunay.

.. .208,005

15. Turbin.

...127,400

6. Daring Dancer ...

...188,500

16. Rockinn On Bye ..

.. .121,004

7. Awesome Flower.

...170,665

17. Hamp.

... 115,265

8. Steady N Love ...

...163,150

18. Coco Punch.

...109,557

9. Talk Show Man...

... 162,211

19. Qualify.

...106,288

10. D C Dancer.

...150,364

20. Vielsalm.

...103,204

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Maryland’s leading sires

Supplied by The Jockey Club Information Services,
these statistics were compiled on December 2. Lifetime earnings
for stallions with at least one starter in 2014. f denotes freshman sire.

Earnings in 2014

Strs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

Not For Love.

. 112

683

$2,951,160

Orientate.

. 140

897

125

2,459,935

Giacomo.

. 114

775

1,748,108

Dance With Ravens.

662

1,637,827

PetionviUe.

530

1,458,165

Lion Hearted.

522

1,454,534

Great Notion.

248

1,377,036

Louis Quatorze.

362

1,285,896

Outflanker.

339

1,203,867

Scipion.

353

1,034,254

Rock Slide.

311

890,295

Two Punch.

342

801,455

Gators N Bears.

257

729,311

Cherokee's Boy.

260

676,231

2-year-old earnings in 2014

Sirs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

tStreet Magician.

$273,547

Not For Love.

203,684

Rock Slide.

177,767

Lion Hearted.

160,898

PetionviUe.

149,892

Scipion.

88,511

Outflanker.

72,424

Mojave Moon.

67,764

Greek Sun.

65,792

Orientate.

49,679

Two Punch.

45,530

Giacomo.

36,861

Earnings lifetime

Strs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

Not For Love.

. 743

16,133

591

2,444

$67,835,674

Allen's Prospect....

. 928

23,306

769

3,379

54,695,809

Two Punch.

. 928

17,643

712

2,618

53,729,815

PetionviUe.

. 580

12,461

463

1,717

40,339,264

Orientate.

. 592

11,059

449

1,647

40,029,126

Louis Quatorze.

. 733

13,503

540

1,798

33,992,696

Polish Numbers....

. 442

9,349

365

1,370

33,375,658

Waquoit.

. 484

11,407

368

1,519

26,882,080

Outflanker.

. 388

8,279

294

1,202

26,048,529

Lion Hearted.

. 449

7,860

334

1,098

24,491,937

Eastern Echo.

. 417

8,676

292

1,129

22,690,713

Go for Gin.

. 319

5,898

210

703

18,369,938

Dance With Ravens.

. 239

4,108

165

486

12,340,239

Giacomo.

. 194

2,995

126

382

8,495,351

Great Notion.

. 120

1,699

290

8,471,127

2-year-old earnings lifetime

Strs

Starts

Wnrs

Wins

Earnings

Not For Love.

. 339

1,068

129

173

$6,357,738

Two Punch.

. 447

1,439

164

207

5,670,238

Allen's Prospect....

. 458

1,555

175

240

5,624,197

Orientate.

. 335

1,044

126

167

4,705,468

PetionviUe.

. 349

1,092

114

141

4,473,760

Polish Numbers....

. 229

700

122

3,673,216

Louis Quatorze.

. 323

999

100

126

3,363,233

Outflanker.

. 208

853

120

3,218,393

Eastern Echo.

. 220

814

101

3,059,366

Lion Hearted.

. 208

676

106

2,856,434

Waquoit.

. 204

694

2,000,531

Giacomo.

. 110

411

1,497,293

Dance With Ravens.

. 125

447

1,286,390

Great Notion.

131

1,001,736

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Phone

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President

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Vice President

Mildred Fleming
Treasurer

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Secretary

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Peter Freundlich

Todd Wilkinson

Mike Campbell
Executive Director

TBANJ announces stallion season
auction for 2015 breeding season

T he Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association of
New Jersey will be holding an online stallion
season auction for the 2015 breeding season
from Jan. 17-20 using the Starquine.com bidding
platform.

All funds generated go to support vitally
important programs and legislative efforts to

increase the influence, security and prosperity of
Thoroughbred breeders, owners and racing interests
in the Garden State.

Please check the TBA website, www.njbreds.com,
for more information and a list of available stallions.

2015 Racing Dates

T he New Jersey Racing Commission approved
the 2015 Thoroughbred racing schedule at
their Nov. 20 meeting. The racing season will
begin at Atlantic City Race Course as part of its six-
day turf only meet. The meet will run April 23-26 and
April 28 and 29.

Monmouth Park was approved for 49 racing days
from May 9 through Sept. 7, with racing Saturdays
and Sundays through June, and Fridays through
Sundays for the remainder of the meet. Closing day is
set for Labor Day Monday.

The New Jersey Racing Commission opted to
table the request for a 22-day Thoroughbred meet
at Meadowlands until its January meeting in order
to give more time to the New Jersey Thoroughbred
Horsemen’s Association to provide an alternative to
running all races on the turf The Thoroughbred meet
at the Meadowlands lost six full programs due to
weather and course conditions in 2014.

Horse Management Seminar
scheduled for February

R utgers Equine Science Center will conduct
its annual horse management seminar
on Sunday, Feb. 8. "Grazing Rewards and
Concerns: How and Why to Manage Your Pastures,”
will be held from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Cook
Campus Center.

Among the topics to be covered are:

- Nutritional benefits of pasture and when pasture
is not enough

- Pasture Problems: safe grazing tips for managing
equine metabolic disorders
- The latest grazing research you can use! Panel on
Rotational vs. Continuous Grazing

- "The Fences Are Up - Now What Do I Do?” basic
pasture management

- Got Weeds? Understanding and managing weeds
in your pastures

- Danger in the Grass - Plants that are toxic to
horses

The registration form can be found by visiting
the Rutgers Equine Science Center website, www.esc.
rutgers.edu or by contacting one of the following
committee members: Carey Williams (848) 932-5529,
cwilliams@aesop.rutgers.edu; or Laura Kenny (848)
932-3229, kenny@aesop.rutgers.edu

Rutgers study calls for partnership
between racing and gaming industries

R utgers Equine Science Center released

"2014 State of the New Jersey Horse Racing
Industry,” a follow-up to the 2009 white
paper which reported the impact of slot machines
and video lottery terminals on the horse racing and
breeding industry, agriculture, and open space.

The authors of the current report. Dr. Karyn
Malinowski, director of the Rutgers Equine Science
Center, and Dr. Paul Gottlieb, chair of the Rutgers
Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource
Economics, utilized indicators of horse racing
industry health in comparison to two neighboring
states where alternative gaming revenue supports
horse racing. These indicators included: purse
monies awarded, number of race days, races
restricted to state-bred horses only, mares bred, and
foals registered.

Data was also collected to assess the number of
horse farms entering the Farmland Preservation
Program and the number of preserved horse farms
sold during 2010-2014, the number of horse farms
currently on the market, and any changes in hay,
grain, or straw production by New Jersey animal
feed producers. Malinowski and Gottlieb believe
that these parameters serve as indicators of the
confidence race horse owners and breeders have in
the future of the industry as demonstrated by their
willingness to invest in it.

The year 2010 was chosen because it was during
this year that the Report of the Governor’s Advisory
Commission on New Jersey Gaming, Sports and
Entertainment was released and the process began
for privatization of the two racetracks operated at
that time by the state. Since 2010 it is evident that
indicators of the health of the horse racing industry
demonstrate that New Jersey race horse owners,
trainers, and breeders have been hit hard by the
cessation of the purse enhancement awards in 2010
and by competition
from the purse and
breeder incentive
structures that exist in
neighboring states where
racing is supported by
alternative gaming.

"While the horse
racing industry and
state government are
to be commended for
actions taken since 2010
to ensure sustainability
of horse racing in New
Jersey, indicators of the

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Simply click the Online Forms tab. Individual
Membership is only $50 per year. Spouses may
join for an additional $25.

For additional information, call us at (732)
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health and well-being of the horse racing industry
suggest that the industry is struggling in spite of
efforts by racetrack management and organizations
representing horse owners and breeders,” says
Malinowski.

Also reported is the fact that equine operations
represent a small and declining share of New
Jersey’s preserved farms, which means that their
acres cannot be protected by deed restriction alone.

In addition, racehorse breeding operations in the
state’s preservation program are being sold at a
disproportionately high rate. These operations are
now transitioning to other uses, including sport,
competition, and recreational segments of the equine
industry.

This comes at a time when New Jersey voters
on Nov. 4,2014, overwhelmingly supported Ballot
Question Two, which would reallocate money from
the corporate business tax to specifically designate
funds for the preservation of open space and
farmland.

"There should exist a partnership, in New Jersey,
between the casino and horse racing industries to
enable both to remain sustainable, as competition
for gambling dollars continues to escalate. Slot
machines and table games in New York and
Pennsylvania are impacting Atlantic City casinos
now, and will continue to do so with increasing force
as more gaming is put into place until the regional
market is saturated. The installation of casino
gaming and sports betting at New Jersey racetracks
would be a relatively quick and easy way to slow
down these trends, much to New Jersey’s advantage,”
says Malinowski.

Any increase in gambling revenue would enhance
the state budget significantly (depending on state
tax revenues) and provide capital for use by the
casino and horse racing industries to keep them
competitive. Casino gaming outside Atlantic City
would also add jobs to the state, during construction
and renovations of the racetracks as well as during
operation.

The 2007 Equine Science Center economic
impact study of the New Jersey horse industry found
the industry to be valued at $4 billion (including
racing and non-racing interests) and generated $1.1
billion annually in positive impact on the New Jersey
economy.

Please go to www.esc.rutgers.edu/
downloads/2014_Health_Of_Horse_Racing.pdf to
read the report.

Top-10 earning Newjersey-breds
at Monmouth Park

Name

Starts

1st

2nd

3rd

Total Earnings

Rainbow Heir

$141,750

Gadget Man

112,403

Geeky Gorgeous

104,280

Love That Kelly

93,803

Posse Dreamin

91,000

Chublicious

82,576

Padre Graz

82,081

Disco Rhythm

81,924

Saucy Don

79,660

More Than a Party

75,640

Rainbow Heir winning the $100,000 Teddy Drone Stakes on Haskell Day.

Leading Incentive Award Earners in 2014

(Atlantic City, Monmouth Park and Meadowlands)

Name

Breeder

Owner

Stallion

Total Earnings

Joe-Dan Farm Inc.

$98,628

$616

$28,932

$128,176

Patricia Generazio

53,722

12,619

21,337

87,678

Spring Run Farm LLC

49,583

Colonial Farms

28,298

18,988

47,286

John Petrini

38,067

5,582

43,649

John Bowers Jr.

39,667

Edwin T. Broome

29,429

9,681

39,110

Bright View Farm Inc.

37,382

NJ Defrere Syndicate

35,821

Dianne Boyken

20,722

15,082

35,804

Red Oak Stable

32,235

3,549

35,784

Mildred Fleming

32,451

Hidden Acres 4-D Farm LLC

21,797

2,178

7,178

31,153

Quiet Winter Farm

24,586

4,798

29,384

Holly Crest Farm

28,862

403

29,265

Lawrence Getto

24,325

4,364

28,689

New Farm

21,862

6,687

28,549

Joseph Birnbaum

27,704

Tee N Jay Farm

25,266

1,473

26,739

J.H. Pierce Jr. & A.J. Bardaro

20,550

5,889

26,439

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January 2015

Racing Updates

President’s

message

R eminder: the NCTA Awards Banquet
will be held Jan. 24 at Bennett-Bunn
Plantation in Zebulon starting at 5 p.m.
There will be speakers, food, good com¬
pany and a celebration of our Horse of
the Year, Dayatthespa, with her owner
Steve Laymon. For those unaware, Day¬
atthespa won the $2 million Breeders’
Cup Filly and Mare Turf-Gl at Santa Ani¬
ta this past November.

It is not often that an association as
small as ours gets to celebrate such a
wonderful win, so be sure and plan on at¬
tending.

Bennett-Bunn Plantation is an his¬
torical site always worth the drive to see
the original plantation house, grounds,
old wagons, pond with a gazebo and a
menagerie of animals that include pea¬
cocks, horses and miniature donkeys. It
is a wonderful place to have dinner, with
open fire pits, sitting areas, and so much

Continued on next page

North Carolina
Thoroughbred Association

(910) 352-5649
www.ncthoroughbreds.com
E-mail: ncthoroughbred@gmail.com

Joanne Dew, president
Bill Thompson, vice-president
Mike Yoder, secretary-treasurer
Directors:

Tom Hendrickson, Bob Sanford,
Hubert Vester
Chairmen:

James Anderson, Stephanie Autry,
Frank Bullock

F or a small association we have big rac¬
ing news for the month of November.
One horse won a Breeders’ Cup race, and
two more added stakes wins. We have one
member with so many great horses this
year it is hard to believe, another owner
that has horses running and winning ev¬
ery week off a breeding program that in¬
cludes his stallion Misbah, and another
owner who stands a stallion in North Car¬
olina and had 2-year-old runners from his
breeding program. We are proud of all our
owners and breeders who are consistently
in the money and realize what great
horsemen we have in our association.

STEVE LAYMON

Congratulations to Steve Laymon! Fol¬
lowing are the great accomplishments of
Steve and his partners during the month
of November:

DAYATTHESPA (2009, City Zip—
M’Lady Doc, by Doc’s Leader) won the
16th running of the Grade 1 Breeders’
Cup Filly and Mare Turf-Gl with a purse
of $2,000,000 at Santa Anita Park. I do not
think anything else needs to be said ex¬
cept that she led the field from start to fin¬
ish winning by 114 lengths in a time of
2:00.12 going 114 miles. Among the rivals
she defeated were Stephanie’s Kitten and
the previous year’s winner Dank (GB).
Dayatthespa is owned by the partnership
of Steve Laymon, Jerry Frankel, Ronald
Frankel and Bradley Thoroughbreds, and
is trained by Chad Brown. The partners
sold their mare two days later at Fasig-
Tipton Kentucky’s marquee November
sale for $2.1 million.

HANGOVER SATURDAY (2012, Pome¬
roy—Margarita Friday, by Johannesburg)
won the $100,000 Juvenile Filly Turf
Stakes for 2-year old fillies Nov. 8 at Gulf-
stream Park West. Breaking on top and
leading the field at every call of the 1-mile
trip, she won by 214 lengths. She was bred

by Steve Laymon and John Eaton and
owned by the partners and Mark Say eg.

DARING KATHY (2011, Wildcat Heir
—Dare to Mambo, by Kingmambo) won
the 32nd running of the H/s-mile My
Charmer Handicap-G3 on the turf at Gulf-
stream Park West Nov. 22. The filly owned
and bred by Steve Laymon and John Ea¬
ton led at every call against older runners
to win the $100,000 stakes by 114 lengths.
It was her sixth win in nine lifetime starts.

GEORGE AND STEPHANIE AUTRY

LITERATA (2011, Read the Footnotes
—Personal Wealth, by Personal Flag) was
a 314-length winner at Aqueduct Nov. 1
going 7 furlongs in a maiden claiming
race. She returned a winner at the same
track and distance Nov. 21, scoring by 114
lengths, and was promptly claimed by
owner/trainer Roy Sedlacek for $12,500.
Sent out nine days later she finished sec¬
ond in allowance company at the New
York track.

SALUDA ran second at Aqueduct Nov.
5 in a maiden claiming race for 2-year-old
fillies at 6 furlongs, losing by a mere nose.

DOGWOOD PLANTATION
(JOANNE AND SANDY DEW)

RED MOON RISING ran second at
Churchill Downs Nov. 27 going 6 furlongs
in a claimer. The gelded son of Bob and
John is owned and bred by Dogwood Plan¬
tation.

JIM CHANDLEY

Several horses from Jim’s strong
breeding program are running and doing
well. He bred each of the following:

DIXIE JACKPOT, owned by Jim and
former member Tammy Freeman, was sec¬
ond in a Mountaineer allowance Nov. 29.

MUY MAN finished second at Finger
Lakes Nov. 28 in a 514-furlong claiming
race after battling on the front end the en¬
tire trip.

Continued on next page

nacing continued

MICHAEL’S TRIBUTE raced four
times from Oct. 30 to Nov. 29, with two
seconds and a third. In 6-furlong outings
at Penn National he finished third Oct.
30 and second Nov. 5. He was second at
Charles Town Nov. 29 going 7 furlongs,

CHOSEN ran third at Parx Nov. 9 go¬
ing 5 furlongs for a $7,500 tag, and was
claimed out of the race by trainer Mi¬
chael V. Pino for Rase Stables.

DANNY SHEA

RICKASHEA (2010, Elusive Quality—
Rachel’s Star, by Seeking the Gold) was a
winner for Shea at Gulfstream Park West
Nov. 6. In for a $30,000 tag, he stalked the
pace and prevailed by a half length in the
7]^-furlong turf claimer.

ROBERT CALABRESE

MYSTERYINTHEPARK, bred in North
Carolina by Robert Calabrese and sired by
the breeder’s own North Carolina stallion
Justawalkinthepark, ran second in a maid¬

en claimer for 2-year-olds at Charles Town
Nov. 20 going furlongs. It is always so
nice to see a breeding program in our
state have horses racing and finishing in
the money.

HUBERT VESTER

BET U CANT FIND ME was a second-
place runner at Finger Lakes twice during
the month, on Nov. 10 and Nov. 20. Both
contests were 6-furlong claiming races.
Bred by Hubert, she was claimed out of
the latter race by Ralph D’Alessandro.

President’s Message continued

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a great one. Looking forward to this year,
and we will try and make the association
bigger and better.

-Joanne Dew

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Vice President

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Favorite Tale rewards
breeder/owner Conaway

By Barbara Luna

Paul E, Conaway Jr, has loved horses since
his childhood, learning about breeding and
raising Morgan horses from his father, An astute
businessman, he turned that knowledge toward
Thoroughbred breeding, his research In pedigrees
rewarding him with the success of his graded
stakes-winning homebred Favorite Tale in 2014,

“I consider myself an owner and a horseman,"
said Conaway, “I try to stay out of my trainer’s
way and let him make the decisions, but I pay a
lot of attention to what is going on. Through my
experience with my father and our Morgan horses,

I learned to breed out some of the bad qualities
and work instead producing sound bone structure,
and just as important, both mental and physical
soundness,”

The Chairman and CEO of Wanamaker
Entertainment Group in Philadelphia, Conaway lives
in Radnor, Pa, He is joined at Wanamaker by his two
sons-Jacob, who works in the sales department,
and Jeremi, who sees to the day-to-day operations
of the still-growing company, Conaway’s newest
venue, 2300 Arena in South Philadelphia, is a
multipurpose indoor arena used primarily for
professional wrestling, boxing and mixed martial
arts events and is billed as the “Future of Sports
and Entertainment,”

Conaway’s initial involvement with
Thoroughbred racing in 2008 was disappointing.
Unhappy with the management of his horses,
he consulted with Pennsylvania Thoroughbred
Horsemen’s Association president Salvatore
DeBunda who has horses at Parx with trainer Ed
Lehman,

Conaway was a client of DeBunda, who is
a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Archer &
Greiner,

“I knew Paul loved horses but wanted a
change,” said DeBunda, “I put him in touch with Ed
[Lehman] and got him involved with my partnership
of Dun Roamin Farm, He had bred a wonderful
weanling by Tale of the Cat and I advised him to
bring him to the Houghtons’ Sylmar Farm where I
have kept my horses,”

The colt was Favorite Tale, a 2011 foal out of
Tricky Elaine, His dam is a graded stakes-placed
half-sister to 1997 Horse of the Year and champion
2-year-old colt Favorite Trick,

Conaway and DeBunda travelled regularly to
Betsy and Ronnie Houghton’s farm in Christiana to
watch Favorite Tale grow up. According to DeBunda
the colt looked like a sprinter,

“He had the large hindquarters that you think
of when you think ‘speed’,” said DeBunda, “But I
don’t think any of us knew he’d turn out as talented
as he has,”

Broken at Sylmar, Favorite Tale was hard on
himself in training, Conaway didn’t want to geld
him, his pedigree being strong on both sides,

“I could see he was pounding the track hard
in training,” said Conaway, “I finally agreed to have
him castrated, I had to decide whether I wanted a
stud or a racehorse. With that decision I watched
him change from an elephant to a deer in his
movements. It was the smartest decision I ever
made,”

Conaway sent Favorite Tale to trainer
Guadalupe Preciado, and the gelding made his
debut as a 3-year-old in January 2014, He reeled
off three consecutive wins at Parx including a
14-length victory in a 6-furlong first-level allowance
March 24,

He met stakes company in his next eight
starts at Aqueduct, Belmont (where he won the Gold
Fever Stakes), Delaware, Saratoga, Monmouth, Parx

FdVOritC TbIG continued

and Laurel, An attempt to rate the speedy gelding
in Monmouth’s Grade 3 Jersey Shore Stakes in
August resulted in a second-place finish,

On Pennsylvania Derby Day, Sept, 20, at
Parx, Favorite Tale returned to his home track and
back to his front-running ways for the Grade 3
$300,000 Gallant Bob Stakes, Through fractions
of :21,33, :43,38 and :55,35, he scored by more
than 2 lengths over heavy favorite Fast Anna, and
earned his first graded stakes win in 1:08,16,

The well-travelled gelding races under the
name of PJG Stable, which is Conaway, his girlfriend
Judi, and her 17-year-old daughter Gabrielle,

“This horse is such a joy for everyone,” said
Conaway, “Judi has put a lot of time into creating
this unique relationship with him and she brings
him carrots and mints whenever we visit him.

Both Judi and Gabrielle love horses and it shows
with our horses in Lupe’s barn where Favorite Tale
actually vies for all the attention from stablemate
Judi’s Joy,”

Calls with purchase inquiries began shortly
after Favorite Tale began racing and prompted
Conaway to make yet another difficult decision.

“Offers kept coming in from a particular
buyer, Judi and Gabrielle were crying as this
horse is a part of our family,” said Conaway, “I
am so appreciative of Keith Jones and especially
Dick Jerardi, both so great interviewing me about
Favorite Tale after the Gallant Bob, We talked
about the offers and Dick’s advice was that selling
this horse would not change my life. Fie advised to
just keep him and enjoy him and the benefits his
status as a Pennsylvania-bred would offer,

“So I decided to keep him,” said Conaway,
“There are people who have been in racing for
years that don’t get horses like this. We had 45
people with us at Belmont when he ran up there
and 80 people at Parx on Derby Day for the Gallant
Bob, Fie has been so much fun for all of us,"

With his year-end record of five wins from 11
starts and earnings of $380,326, the future plans
for Favorite Tale as of December call for some
well-earned time off with the Breeders’ Cup a
possibility for 2015,

“Fie has had a nearly year-long campaign so
will go to Florida for three months before coming
back to Parx to prepare for his 4-year-old season,”

said Conaway, “We had come close to pointing
him for the Breeders’ Cup in 2014 but he missed
qualifying for it by just a couple of 'noses’ so we
would have had to supplement him. We may look
towards next year for that,”

Meanwhile, Conaway continues to study
pedigrees and conformation and stays up-to-date
on the horses he owns with Dun Roamin Farm,

In particular is just turned 3-year-old Don Lupe,
whom he owns in partnership with Preciado,

Don Lupe showed enough precocity in his first
three starts (a win and two seconds) against
maiden special weight company at Parx to make
his stakes debut in November at Laurel, but he
encountered traffic trouble and finished off the
board.

Tricky Elaine is back in foal to Tale of the Cat,
Conaway says her promising son by Corinthian
is at Sylmar Farm with the Floughtons preparing
for this year at the track, Conaway’s other mare,
Poquita Senorita, an 8-year-old daughter of Macho
Lino, is carrying a foal by Smarty Jones, a full
sibling to Judi’s Joy, the 2011 gelding currently in
training with Preciado,

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2014 PA-Bred Stakes Schedule

ALL BREEDING FUND STAKES INCLUDED A 25% PA-SIRED BONUS FOR 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD,

Sat., May 3
Parx

Fri., May 30
Penn

Sat., June 14
Penn

Sun., July 13,
PID

Sat., July 26,
Parx

Sun., Aug. 10,
PID

Sat., Aug. 23,
Penn

Sat., Sept. 6
Parx

$75,000 Lyman H, 3 & up, 7 fur.

Ist-Officer Alex, 2nd-Zipped Code, 3rd-Rustler Hustler
$75,000 Foxy J. G. S, 3 & up, fillies & mares, 7 fur.

Ist-Where's Rosie B, 2nd-Vlllette, 3rd-Zlpplty Goomba
$75,000 Lyphard S, 3 & up, fillies & mares, 1 1/16 ml., turf
Ist-Lenape Rim, 2nd-Ferry Music, 3rd-Nellie Cashman
$50,000 Danzig S, 3Y0, 6 fur.

Ist-Bump Start, 2nd-Johnny Jump Up, 3rd-Change of Seasons
$50,000 New Start S, 3Y0 fillies, 6 fur.

1 St-Raging Smoke, 2nd-Queen to Be, 3rd-Pixie Dust
$75,000 Leematt S, 3 & up, 1 mi.

1st-Edge of Reality, 2nd-Roadhog, 3rd-Pitch N Roll
$75,000 Northern Fling S, 3 & up, fillies & mares, 1 mi.

Ist-Star Pearl, 2nd-Cat’s Holiday, 3rd-Angel Terrace
$75,000 Crowd Pleaser H, 3Y0, lYfe mi., turf
Ist-Beyond Smart, 2nd-Athelstane, 3rd-Starry Moon
$75,000 Power by Far H, 3 & up, fillies & mares, 5 fur., turf
Ist-Miss d'Oro, 2nd-Rockinonthewater, 3rd-Previous Honor
$75,000 Malvern Rose S, 3Y0 fillies, VAe mi.

Ist-Dame Dorothy, 2nd-Bound, 3rd-Je Suis Enchantee
$75,000 Robellino S, 3 & up, VAe mi., turf
Ist-Page McKenney, 2nd-Van Persie, 3rd-Starry Moon
$75,000 Banjo Picker Sprint S, 3 & up, 6 fur.

1st-Rustler Hustler, 2nd-Res Judicata, 3rd-0fficer Alex
$75,000 Roanoke S, 3 & up, V/^6 mi.

1 St-Traffic Light, 2nd-Keepmeinstitches, 3rd-Sailor's Revenge
$75,000 Marshall Jenney H, 3 & up, 5 fur., turf
Ist-Merry's Honor, 2nd-Oklahoma Crude, 3rd-Atlantic Seaboard
$75,000 Dr. Teresa Garofalo Memorial S, 3Y0 fillies, 6 fur.

1st-Aunt Ellipsis, 2nd-Pixie Dust, 3rd-Disco Chick
$100,000 Mrs. Penny S, 3 & up, fillies & mares, V/\e mi., turf
1 St-Appealing Cat, 2nd-Lenape Rim, 3rd-Previous Honor

Sun., Sept. 7, $75,000 Mark McDermott S, 2Y0,6 fur.

PID Ist-Duff, 2nd-Adventurous Fox, 3rd-l Say I Will

Sat., Sept. 20, $100,000 Alphabet Soup H, 3 & up, 1 Vfe mi., turf
Parx 1 st-Edge of Reality, 2nd-Roadhog, 3rd-Page McKenney

Thun, Sept. 25, $75,000 Mrs. Henry D. Paxson S, 2Y0 fillies, 6 fur.

PID

Sat., Oct. 11
Parx

Sat., Nov. 29,

Penn

Sat., Dec. 6,

Parx

1 St-Happy to Go, 2nd-Chilly Start, 3rd-Brennan
$75,000 Plum Pretty S, 3 & up, fillies & mares, IVie mi.

1 St-Bound, 2nd-Primo Via, 3rd-Maybe Tonight

$75,000 Blue Mountain Juvenile Fillies S, 2Y0 fillies, 6 fur.

Ist-Rockin Jojo, 2nd-Kazuri, 3rd-Miss Rockport
$100,000 Pennsylvania Nursery S, 2Y0,7 fur.

1st-Nasa, 2nd-lnstructor Kunu, 3rd-Blitzensmajikreign

Total: $1,675,000

PA-Bred Fund Statistics: Top Earners

(January 1,2014 through October 31,2014, rounded to dollars)

LEADiNG EARNERS - TOTAL AWARDS

Breeder Name

Breeder

Stallion Owner Total

Breeder Name

Breeder

Stallion Owner Total

Michael W, Jester

160,520

132,241

0 292,761

Charlton Bloodstock Agency Inc.

91,290

0 91,290

George Strawbridge Jr.

200,113

47,417

0 247,530

Equivine Farm Inc.

86,774

0 86,774

Northview Stallion Station Inc.

7,000

190,673

0 197,673

Bettina L. Jenney

79,442

0 79,442

William J. Soiomon VMD

63,427

133,456

0 196,883

Jon A. Marshall

77,832

0 77,832

Xanthus Farms Inc.

137,763

4,945

0 142,708

Triton Farms LLC

59,333

10,369

0 69,702

Charles A. CuprIII

106,668

33,793

0 140,460

St. Omer’s Farm

68,800

0 68,800

Wyn Oaks Farm LLC

83,148

50,109

0 133,257

Flint W. Stites

44,463

23,457

0 67,920

Thomas G. McClay

122,443

0 122,443

Sienna Farms LLC

67,662

0 67,662

Arrowwood Farm Inc.

114,221

0 114,221

Judith M. Barrett

32,263

34,744

0 67,007

Sylmar Farm Inc.

112,470

0 112,470

Joseph Imbesi

63,398

0 63,398

Yaroslaw Kolybabluk MD

112,271

0 112,271

James E. Bryant

61,740

0 61,740

Pewter Stable

74,973

35,452

0 110,425

Tea Party Stable Inc.

33,975

26,493

0 60,468

The Elkstone Group LLC

108,009

0 108,009

William E. Riddle Jr.

60,235

0 60,235

LEADiNG STALLIONS

Fund Money Includes Stallion Awards only

Stallion Name

Stallion Owner / Manager No. of Races

Award Total

Stallion Name

Stallion Owner / Manager No. of Races

Award Total

Jump Start

Northview Staiiion Station Inc.

148

95,922

Changeintheweather

Pin Oak Stud LLC

31,028

Fairbanks

Northview Stallion Station Inc.

240

90,795

Talent Search

Kenneth L. Ramsey

27,335

Real Quiet

Michael W. Jester

173

61,228

Siphon (Brz)

William J. Solomon VMD

25,884

Cat Thief

Michael W. Jester

145

55,321

Love of Money

Northview Stallion Station Inc.

25,829

Ecclesiastic

Walmac Farm LLC

199

54,443

Southern Success

Barbara A. RIckllne

24,805

Weigeiia

Wyn Qaks Farm LLC

140

50,109

Barbican

Tea Party Stable Inc.

24,584

Rim rod

George Strawbridge Jr.

137

47,417

Partner’s Fiero

Peter Glanglullo

100

24,562

Medaiiist

Northview Staiiion Station Inc.

36,983

Aisle

Flint W. Stites

23,457

Lite the Fuse

William J. Solomon VMD

156

36,327

Wiseman’s Ferry

Lalney Bug Stables LLC

22,592

Congressionaihonor

Pewter Stable

108

35,452

Albert the Great

William J. Solomon VMD

122

21,545

Activist

Judith M. Barrett

153

34,744

Eavesdropper

Walmac Farm LLC

20,580

More Smoke

William J. Solomon VMD

33,022

Power by Far

Barbara J. Geraghty

18,503

LEADING HORSES

Fund Money includes: PA-Bred Races, Breeder, Stallion and Owner Awards and PA-Bred Owner-Bonus Payments

Horse

Pedigree

Breeder

Races

PA-Bred

Restricted

Purse

PA-Bred

Stakes

Purse

Total

Breeder

Award

Total

Stallion

Award

Total

Owner

Award

Total

Owner

Bonus

Total

Fund

Amount

Edge of Reality

Lawyer Ron - Our Nancy Lee

The Elkstone Group LLC

109,500

21,000

130,500

Where’s Rosie B*

Real Quiet - Lucky Nita

Michael W Jester

45,000

44,740

14,913

20,024

124,678

Bound *

Jump Start - China Sky

Barlar LLC

60,000

33,378

11,126

6,660

111,164

PrimoVia

Candy Ride (Arg) - Breezy Street

Cedar Meadow Inc

15,000

50,122

45,260

110,382

Lenape Rim *

Rimrod - Mai Debeau

Margaret FI Brigham

65,000

32,295

10,765

108,060

Disco Chick*

Jump Start - Disco Fiirt

Yaroslaw Kolybabluk MD

8,250

44,986

14,995

21,840

90,071

Aunt Eiiipsis

Successfui Appeai - Aunt Dot Dot

Truxton Stables

45,000

28,766

4,500

6,980

85,246

Raging Smoke *

More Smoke - Marquee Kelly

Thomas G McClay

30,000

31,194

10,398

11,980

83,572

Rustier Flustier

Ecton Park - Cozzy Temper

Mark FI Stanley

53,250

20,016

3,760

77,026

Favorite Taie

Tale of the Cat - Tricky Elaine

Paul E Conaway Jr

47,880

18,000

10,800

76,680

Appealing Cat

Successfui Appeai - Dynamic Cat

George Strawbridge Jr

64,500

12,000

76,500

Merry’s Fionor *

Congressionaihonor - Merry Princess

Pewter Stabie

45,000

20,739

6,913

3,680

76,332

Pixie Dust *

Ecclesiastic - Seagrapes

Lawrence Stabies Inc

20,500

32,366

10,789

10,800

74,454

Star Peari

Tapit - Lexi Star

Stephen E Quick

45,000

21,212

6,660

72,872

Duff

Candy Ride (Arg) - To the Brim

Two Sisters’ Farm Inc

45,000

15,344

7,320

67,664

Isabeiia Swift *

Weigeiia - Poiar Miss

Wyn Oaks Farm LLC

39,671

13,224

14,400

67,294

Monkey’s Medai *

Medallist - My Littie Monkey

Thomas LTeal

31,814

10,605

23,252

65,670

Fat Kat *

Weigeiia - Katarica Disco

St. Omer’s Farm

32,946

10,982

21,120

65,048

Zipped Code

City Zip - Controi Premium

Jon A Marshall

15,000

25,406

24,472

64,878

Officer Aiex

Officer - Ms. C D Piayer

The Elkstone Group LLC

53,250

10,650

63,900

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Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association

OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2015

Elloree Training Center
graduates run 1-2-3 in
Donna Freyer Stakes

T he 10th running of the $75,000
Donna Freyer Stakes Nov. 16 at
Parx Racing produced arguably
the most exciting finish in the race’s
history with four juvenile fillies hitting
the wire together. Miss Bullistic got up
to edge out Mondor by a short nose,
who was a nose better than Pattitude,
with 70"! longshot Lust for Diamonds
a head back in fourth. The top three
finishers all were prepared at Franklin
Smith’s Elloree Training Center; Lust
for Diamonds propped at Webb Carroll
Training Center.

Completing the order of finish
(along with the South Carolina
training centers where residency
requirements were met) were Pinkout
(Wes Carter Training Center); Saluda
(Webb Carroll Training Center); 3''2
favorite Kawfee Fa Marfa (Custom
Care Equine); Matty’s Wondergirl
(Webb Carroll Training Center);
Kalamity Jane (Aiken Training
Track-Cary Frommer); and Riverwalk
Weekend (Glenview Farm). The first
eight finishers were separated by a
total of 314 lengths.

The Elkstone Group’s Duff
captures Elser Memorial Stakes

C ustom Care Equine graduate Duff
dug in and held off Stonebriar
(Aiken Training Track) to win
the Christopher Elser Memorial Stakes
by a head at Parx Racing Nov. 16.

Nasa (Keller Stables), the ZG favorite
for the $75,000 stakes for Z-yeanold
colts and geldings, was 114 lengths
back in third.

The others in the seven^horse field,
in order of finish (with South Carolina
training centers where residency
requirements were met), were: Mini
Cosmo (Webb Carroll Training
Center); Savvy Street (Elloree
Training Center); Kensington Kid
(Webb Carroll Training Center), and

Days trike (Aiken Training Track'Cary
Frommer).

Duff is trained by Ron Potts and was
ridden by Daniel Centeno. The son of
Candy Ride (Arg) is owned by Stuart
Grant’s The Elkstone Group LLC.

Miss Bullistic is trained by
Hamilton Smith for owner Kathleen
Wilber and was ridden to victory by
Jevian Toledo. The filly was bred in
Maryland by Graham Motion. Special
congratulations from SCTOBA
to Graham and Anita Motion
for receiving the Allaire duPont
Leadership Award from Thoroughbred
Charities of America.

Goldencents
takes second
Breeders’ Cup
Dirt Mile-GI

S outh Carolina training centers
were well represented in the
2014 Breeders’ Cup, highlighted
by Webb Carroll Training Center
graduate Goldencents winning his
second consecutive Breeders’ Cup
Dirt Mile'Gl. Goldencents zipped to
the front, posted quick fractions, and
had plenty left in the tank to hold
off Tapiture. The multiple Grade 1
winner was also a successful pinhook
by Webb Carroll.

Goldencents is now standing his first
season alongside his sire Into Mischief
at Spendthrift Farm in Kentucky.

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South Carolina-trained winners

Horse

Training Center

Date

Track

Type of Race

DUFF

Custom Care Equine

11/16/14

Parx Racing

Christopher Elser Mem. S

MISS BULLISTIC

Elloree Training Center

11/16/14

Parx Racing

Donna Freyer S

REGAL MINISTER

Elloree Training Center

11/16/14

Aqueduct

Notebook S

Rififi

Elloree Training Center

11/16/14

Thistledown

Allowance

Perfect Measure

Elloree Training Center

11/15/14

Laurel Park

Allowance

Temper Too

Elloree Training Center

11/15/14

Thistledown

Maiden special weight

Poseidon’s Way

Holly Hill Training Center

11/13/14

Remington Park

Maiden special weight

Wicked Temper

Elloree Training Center

11/12/14

Churchill Downs

Allowance

Ami’s Flatter

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/9/14

Woodbine

Maiden special weight

I’m Extraordinary

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/9/14

Churchill Downs

Maiden special weight

Moonshine Martini

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/9/14

Woodbine

Allowance

None Like Nolan

Aiken Training Track

11/9/14

Gulfstream Park West Allowance

Copper Kitten

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/8/14

Woodbine

Maiden special weight

Morning Cigar

Kirkwood Stables

11/8/14

Parx Racing

Starter allowance

Olde Bay

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/8/14

Charles Town

Allowance

Powerful Sun

Shuler Stables

11/8/14

Penn National

Allowance

VILLANDRY

Aiken Training Track

11/8/14

Churchill Downs

River City H''G3

Now We Are Free

Aiken Training Track

11/7/14

Laurel Park

Allowance

Rock Shandy

Elloree Training Center

11/7/14

Del Mar

Maiden special weight

Run Hide My Girl

Elloree Training Center

11/7/14

Delta Downs

Allowance

Schifty’s Stardust

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/7/14

Finger Lakes

Maiden special weight

Broome Street

Aiken Training Track

11/6/14

Hawthorne Park

Allowance

House Rules

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/6/14

Aqueduct

Allowance

Stephen’s Fate

Shuler Stables

11/4/14

Mountaineer Park

Allowance

In Spite of Mama

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/2/14

Aqueduct

Maiden special weight

Mini Cosmo

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/1/14

Laurel Park

Maiden special weight

SHARP SENSATION

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/1/14

Churchill Downs

Bet on Sunshine S

Smart Spree

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/1/14

Woodbine

Maiden special weight

Sonny Inspired

McCutchen Training Center

11/1/14

Laurel Park

Allowance

STRUT THE COURSE

Webb Carroll Training Center

11/1/14

Woodbine

Maple Leaf S''G3

Tempers Flair

Elloree Training Center

11/1/14

Churchill Downs

Allowance

G Five

Aiken Training Track

10/31/14

Gulfstream Park West Claiming

GOLDENCENTS

Webb Carroll Training Center

10/31/14

Santa Anita

Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile-Gl

Kitten’s Approach

Webb Carroll Training Center

10/31/14

Churchill Downs

Allowance

Martz

Elloree Training Center

10/31/14

Churchill Downs

Maiden special weight

Curl in’s Kid

Webb Carroll Training Center

10/30/14

Laurel Park

Allowance

In My Time

Elloree Training Center

10/29/14

Churchill Downs

Allowance

Bronze Star

Webb Carroll Training Center

10/26/14

Santa Anita

Maiden special weight

Aunt Els

Aiken Training Track

10/25/14

Woodbine

Claiming

PICK OF THE LITTER

Elloree Training Center

10/25/14

Keeneland

Fayette S^GZ

Proud Maxx

Kirkwood Stables

10/25/14

Keeneland

Maiden special weight

Vicky Ticky Tavie

Elloree Training Center

10/25/14

Laurel Park

Allowance

While in the Woods

McCutchen Training Center

10/25/14

Charles Town

Maiden special weight

Spring Quality

Webb Carroll Training Center

10/24/14

Keeneland

Maiden special weight

Bossy Saratoga

Webb Carroll Training Center

10/22/14

Belmont Park

Starter allowance

Jack Tripp

Elloree Training Center

10/22/14

Keeneland

Maiden special weight

Sense of Reality

Custom Care Equine

10/22/14

Laurel Park

Starter allowance

Magnificent Shirl

Custom Care Equine

10/19/14

Golden Gate Fields

Allowance

Moonlight Run

Shuler Stables

10/16/14

Charles Town

Allowance

Tell All

Holly Hill Training Center

10/16/14

Remington Park

Maiden special weight

Introducing Job Hannum

Article courtesy of the Virginia Thoroughbred Association

The VTA caught up with the new executive director of the
Virginia Equine Alliance to discuss the future of racing in
the Old Dominion.

Tell us about your previous
experience in the industry?

I grew up in Unionville, PA and
was lucky to be surrounded by
great horsemen from an early age.
Burley Cocks, Betty Bird, Bruce
Davidson and many others were In
the community when I was learning
to ride. When I was 14,1 went to
work for Jonathan Sheppard, and
would spend a number of summers
working for him. It was a great
time to be there. Flatterer, Storm
Cat and many other greats were
in training at the time. Along with
the top flight horses, Jonathan had
great assistants and I learned a
lot from them as well. Betsy Wells
and Graham Motion were there at
the time and they were wonderful
teachers.

When I was 15 I spent the summer
in England working for English
Derby-winning trainer Peter Walwyn.
Mr. Walwyn took me under his
wing and 1 was lucky to spend a
lot of time with him traveling to all
the different flat courses. Before
college I spent some time at Mikey
Smithwick’s farm in Monkton,

MD and I would later go back to
England to work for Henrietta Knight
who would go on to win three
Cheltenham Gold Cups.

In 2007,1 was nominated to the
Pennsylvania Racing Commission
and served for three years. I was
later hired to run the Pennsylvania
Horse Breeders Association. The
PA Breeders program is one of the
biggest in the country and as the

Executive Director I was responsible
for the administration and promotion
of the $20 million fund. I worked
closely with the Horsemen, track
operators and the Commission,
as well as meeting with legislators
to make the case that a vibrant
racing industry benefits the state’s
agricultural economy.

1 have a lot of experience in both
flat and steeplechase racing and
understand the pressures facing the
industry. My political experience will
be important here as much of the
future of racing in Virginia (and in
the region) is in the hands of elected
officials. We need to make our case
that racing matters and show that
the economy in mral communities
benefits when racing is expanding.

What are the VEA’s goals?

The Virginia Thoroughbred
Association, the Virginia HBPA, the
Virginia Harness Horse Association
and the Virginia Gold Cup have
formed the Virginia Equine Alliance,
Inc. (“VEA”), a non-profit 501 (c)(6)
Virginia corporation.

The VEA includes all Virginia
horsemen. Its goal is to promote
and expand Virginia’s racing and
breeding industry by creating a
diverse non-profit program that
benefits Virginia horsemen and the
Commonwealth. It seeks to do so
by establishing and supporting new
and multiple venues for racing.

The VEA plans to associate with
various charities that will have the
opportunity to raise funds through

“MY POLITICAL EXPERIENCE WILL BE
IMPORTANT HERE AS MUCH OF THE FUTURE
OF RACING IN VIRGINIA (AND IN THE REGION)
IS IN THE HANDS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS.”

their participation on race days.

All net revenue of the VEA will be
directed back into the industry and
the community.

What steps will the organization
be taking to achieve these goals,
both in the short and the long
term?

Short term we’re looking for racing
venues in 2015. We hope to have
more flat racing at the Virginia
Gold Cup and possibly Montpelier.
We’re also exploring the possibility
of reinstituting harness racing
at Oak Ridge along with flat and
steeplechase races. Long term the
VEA is interested in leasing Colonial
Downs.

What is your vision of the future
of Virginia racing without Colonial
Downs?

The VEA hopes there is racing -
both flat, harness and jump racing
- at Colonial next year and going
forward. Having said that, the track
has handed in its license so no one

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really knows what will happen.

The VEA Board knows that Virginia
racing can’t wait for Coioniai and
that plans need to be made to move
things forward - with or without
Colonial Downs.

What are the benefits to
horsemen of spreading out the
racing calendar amongst muitipie
“country” venues?

There are a number benefits which
include offering opportunities in
different parts of the state. The
country venues are enormousiy
popular for steeplechase meets
and this model can be emulated for
flat racing as weii. Racing has iost
a lot of support because tracks are
not geared to creating a positive
customer experience.

Race meets in the country provide
an opportunity to aiiow peopie to
experience racing in an aestheticaily
pleasing environment. The VA Goid
Cup attracts over 100,000 peopie
to its two days of racing because
the races are competitive, the
setting is beautifui and the races are
professionally run. I believe peopie
will return to racing as spectators
if the venues are attractive. But
it is unrealistic to think peopie,
especially people in their 20s and
30s, will come out to a racetrack -
Virginia or elsewhere - if the track
is dreary and the experience faiis
to compares to other professionai
sports. If our legislative proposals
are adopted, we will have the funds
to invest in new sites that will make
the racing experience first rate.

There’s been a lot of talk of
legislative changes to the Racing
Act. What changes is the VEA
proposing, and how wiii they
impact horsemen?

The changes come down to a
few key items: 1) eliminate the
monopoly that Colonial Downs has
had and open racing to new owners
and operators; 2) provide a revenue
stream from on-line wagering for
the VEA to develop and promote
new venues; and 3) enable flat and
harness racing with pari-mutuel
wagering to take place under the
current ‘14 days or less provision’
that exists for steeplechase racing.
We have kept the Commission
informed at every stage of the
process. We hope they will be our
partners in the revitalization of VA
racing.

What is the timeline for these
changes and how iikeiy are they
to pass?

The Virginia legislative 45-day
session starts in January so we
will be very active starting now! We
have already met with a number
of legislators and are gearing up
for some busy weeks ahead in
Richmond.

Have you conducted any site
visits to possible alternate venues
to run pari-mutuel racing? When
can Virginia horsemen expect
new racing opportunities?

The VEA knows there is a great
urgency to the situation - horsemen
and breeders need to know that
racing will continue so investment
will remain in the state.

During the months of November and
December, the VEA made numerous
site visits and saw some promising
facilities. We are in discussion with
existing race meets including the
VA Gold Cup to expand their racing
program to include flat racing.

We also will be speaking to other
steeplechase sites - including
Montpelier - to hold flat races with
pari-mutuel wagering. In addition.
Oak Ridge in Nelson County could
be a potential harness site next year
as well as the Shenandoah County
Fair and there are a number of sites
we have visited in Spotsylvania
County for flat and harness racing

What can Virginia horsemen do to
be invoived?

Great question. The horsemen
and breeders will be instrumental
in determining if we achieve our
legislative goals. The horsemen will
be asked to contact their delegates,
senators, and the Governor’s
office to solicit their support for
the VEA’s proposed changes. This
type of outreach does not take
much time. It can be a phone call,
email, or a letter. Horsemen and
breeders, where possible, should
invite legislators to their farms to
see firsthand how much investment
takes place. As we all know, this
money is often circulated through
the local economy many times over,
through the feed store, hay, tack
supplies, machinery, etc. When a
legislator visits a farm it becomes
clear how racing supports the
agricultural economy. #

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West Virginia

THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS ASSOCIATION

Newsletter

January 2015

Tis the Season!

A s one gets older you
ore supposed to be
able to look bock on
defining moments in your life
with absoiute lucidity. Benjamin
Frankiin once said: "Either write
something worth reading or do
something worth writing."

With this being the season of
thanksgiving I put pen to paper
as i recaii my initial venture to a
small town located in the Eastern
Panhandle of West Virginia and
acknowledge a few people that
inspired me to stay the course.

Fourteen years ago I was at
a vital crossroads in my career
trying to decide which direction
my life was intended to take.
Being an avid sports enthusiast I
deferred to one of my baseball
idols (Yogi Berra) famous quotes,
"If you come to a fork in the road

by Jeff Gilleas

take it." Well, I did just that: sold
my home, packed-up my faithful
dog, emptied my paltry bank
account and cruised into my
future!

Charles Town was on the
verge of a renaissance of sorts
(late 1990s) infused by the video
lottery terminal association with
horse racing. The term "Racino"
was coined to help explain the
sudden resurgence in an industry
that only years previously had
flirted with oblivion.

It wasn't like I had moved
from across the United States to
my new digs, but by the stares/
glares I received it could only be
described as an uncomfortable
feeling when I ambled through
town. I guess any stranger's
appearance is met with
apprehension until a period of

normalcy is established. Mark
Twain said, "The secret of getting
ahead is getting started," so I put
on my best face and headed to
the track.

I was definitely no intruder or
alien to this "Brave New World"
since I was introduced to its ways
by the age of 6. Many names
were somewhat familiar to me
since I had trained racehorses a
stones throw down the highway
from here (Maryland) and had
spent numerous afternoons in
intense analysis of the local past
performances.

One man who had strong
localized ties and I remembered
from an excursion to old Liberty
Bell Park was John McKee. Even
from a distance you could easily
discern this was a gentleman
not to be messed with. Tall and

West Virginia Thoroughbred Breeders Association

Mailing address: PO. Box 626, Charles Town, WV 25414
Phone: (304) 728-6868 • Fax: (304) 724-7870 • Web site: www.wvtba.net
Office location: 207 S. Fairfax Blvd., Ranson, WVa. 25438. Hours: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.,Tuesday through Saturday

Douglas Allara, DVM, President Martin Blaylock, Vice-President

Kate Painter, DVM, Secretary Betty Stehr, Treasurer

Directors: Ronney Brown, John Casey, Randall Conrad, Francis (Chip) Daniel III DVM,

Michael di Cola, John C. Funkhouser, Robin Grams, Rene Moore,

Susan Schramm, Mark Sell, Nancy Staples

stately I chose my words lightly
when conversing with Mr. McKee.

I tried to be a straight shooter
with the proprietor of Beau Ridge
Farm and conditioner of over 40
horses in training as i expiained
my path to Charies Town and
current status as jockey agent.
Much to the chagrin of fellow
competitors'Big John'took an
immediate liking to me, even
to go as far as offering sage
advice on how to survive in the
monopoly-laden profession I was
involved in.

In a matter of months I had
gained the trust of John whereby
he insisted on my working for
a young fledgiing apprentice
named Jesus Sanchez. Raiph
Waldo Emerson is credited with
saying, "To map out a course of
action and foiiow it to an end
requires courage." it didn't take
much of that, all you had to do
was glance at the size of Mr.
McKee's enormous hands and
the decision for Jesus and myself
was quite simple.

During that year (2000) Jesus
enjoyed the title of leading
rider. To this day we both still
reminiscence about days gone
by, the money we made and the
everlasting friendship we built
thanks to John McKee.

Not long after my affiliation
and success with Jesus I was
offered a job at the track. It was

an inside position working for
management helping to start
up the Racing Player's Club.

My boss was a young, gung ho
entrepreneur named Bill Bork.
Wise beyond his years, it was
Bill's father who was instrumental
in early negotiations with Penn
Gaming to acquire Charles Town
Races and place slot machines
in its historical installation.

Over the next few years due
to increasing job requirements I
was forced to abandon my role
as on agent. As racing matured
so did my overwhelming love of
the gome and the town I now
coll home.

Robert Frost is famous for
stating, "Home is the place
where, when you have to go
there, they have to take you in."
He might be wrong in my case,
because this town didn't have
to accept or embrace me. It was
graceful people that held me
close to their hearts, individuals
like Dick and Janene Watson
(imparted in me a reason to see
live racing survive and prosper),
Doug Allora (president of the
WVTBA who allowed me to
pursue my passion for writing),
Gigi Baker and Debbie McClure
(taught me the meaning of
family values in a small town)
and for too many others to
acknowledge and thank.

Satchel Paige was quoted,
"Don't look bock. Something
might be gaining on you." It was...
Timel

I left the comfortable
surroundings of my desk job after
10 years of dedicated service
to return to my roots... the
backstretch folks... the reason
that horseracing exists... the
faithful and genuine caretakers
of the sport.

I am home tending to
another jockey. Journeyman
Matt McGowan (loyal pilot of
millionaire Down Town Allen) is
my present project. In the four
years we hove been together a
powerful bond has been formed,
secured by our love of racing,
family and Creator.

Winter weather conditions
exacerbate the aches and
pains one carries with him, but
the allure of chasing the next
'Big Horse' is ever-present for
both of us.

Once bitten by the
Thoroughbred horseracing bug
you are hooked. There is no curel

At the end of the day I can
still look in the mirror and recite
my motto: "My house isn't fancy,
my pockets aren't deep, I've
struggled for material things I
keep, but I am grateful for family
and friends I know, they keep me
motivated to never let go I"

Notes to members

♦ The 10-10-10 program is now
called the Supplemental Purse
Award Claim, for which there
are new forms. All claims must
be submitted to the WV Racing
Commission within 15 days from
the date the purse is awarded.
Claim forms are available on
the WV Racing Commission
website, www.racing.wv.gov.

♦ If you are selling or planning to
sell your accredited WV-bred and/

or sired horse, please contact the
WVTBA. The WVTBA has started
supplying sellers of accredited
WV-bred and/or sired horses
with hip stickers and stall-card
stickers to make it easier for
buyers to identify these horses.
Contact the WVTBA office at
(304) 728-6868 or by e-mail at
wvbreeders@gmail .com.

♦ WV Certificates will be issued
seven to 10 days after the WVTBA

receives the original registration
form application, all required
paperwork and payment.

^ Fall and winter hours:

The WVTBA office is located at
207 South Fairfax Blvd. in Ranson.
It is between 5th Avenue and
the Ranson Circle. Hours from
Oct. 1 to March 31: 9 a.m. to
3 p.m.Tuesday through Saturday.

JANUARY2015

Demonstrative crowned as champion

at Awards Dinner and Jockeys’ Baii

Jacqueline Ohrstrom’s Demonstrative^

Demonstrative reigned as 2014’s Lonesome Giory Champions Award winner, and receiving
the award were, from left, jockey Robbie Walsh, trainer Richard Valentine, owner Jacqueline
Ohrstrom, and assistant trainer Laird George.

CATHERINE FRENCH PHOTO

winner of three Grade 1 races in 2014, was
crowned Nov. 15 as the National Steeplechase
Association’s Lonesome Glory Champions
Award winner as the year’s leading earner.

The award was presented at the annual
Awards Dinner and Jockeys’ Ball, sponsored
by the NSA and the Steeplechase Owners and
Trainers Association, at the National Steeple¬
chase Museum in Camden, S.C.

A few hours earlier, the seven-year-old
Elusive Quality gelding had finished third in
the $100,000 Marion duPont Scott Colonial
Cup (Gr. 1) at the Springdale Course a few
hundred yards from the museum.

Trained by Richard Valentine and ridden
by Robbie Walsh, the striking Gainsborough
Farm-bred gelding put together an impressive
streak of victories through the summer and fall.
Second by a nose in Saratoga Race Course’s A.
P. Smithwick Memorial (Gr. 1) on July 31, he
won Saratoga’s $ 150,000 New York Turf Writ¬
ers Cup (Gr. 1) by a half-length on Aug. 25.

Demonstrative scored a commanding one-
length victory in Belmont Park’s $150,000
Lonesome Glory Handicap (Gr. 1) on Sept.
18, and a month later was equally impressive
in taking the $250,000 Grand National (Gr. 1)
at Far Hills, N.J., by 3 3/4 lengths.

That string of victories assured him the
Lonesome Glory Champions Award as the
year’s leading earner even before the Colo¬
nial Cup, the year’s final Grade 1 race. His
$362,500 in 2014 purses also has moved
him into fourth place by all-time earnings in
NSA races.

Second in the overall standings was Bill
Pape’s Divine Fortune, the 2013 Eclipse
Award winner who capped his 11-year-old
season with a front-running victory in the Co¬
lonial Cup. Trained by Hall of Fame member
Jonathan Sheppard, Divine Fortune also won
the $150,000 Calvin Houghland Iroquois
(Gr. 1) on May 10. Divine Fortune moved up
on the all-time earnings list to sixth position

with $741,390. Ahead of him on the list is
Bill Fickle’s Victorian Hill, who had career
earnings of $748,370.

Rodman W. Moorhead Ill’s All the Way Jose
won Far Hills’ Foxbrook Champion Hurdle
and assured himself the year’s novice title with
$149,700 in purse earnings. Bred and trained
by Sheppard, the four-year-old Senor Swinger
gelding was his owner’s only starter and never
finished worse than second in six 2014 starts.

Irvin S. Naylor’s Bittersweetheart claimed
the year’s Life’s Illusion Filly and Mare
championship after winning the Iroquois
Steeplechase’s Margaret Currey Henley Stakes
and being placed first in the Peapack Stakes
at Far Hills.

The British-bred mare, trained by Leslie

Young, also finished third in Saratoga Race
Course’s Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords Stakes and
fourth in the Georgia Cup. From four starts,
she earned $84,000.

Naylor also raced ageless Decoy’s Daddy,
who was perfect in three starts and duplicated
2013 wins in the Temple Gwathmey (Gr. 3),
National Hunt Cup (Gr. 3), and Noel Laing.

Beverly Steinman’s Perfect Union won Far
Hills’ Gladstone and finished second in the Co¬
lonial Cup’s Raymond G. Woolfe Memorial to
claim the year’s three-year-old championship.
Nancy A. Reed’s Handsome Hoyt, pacesetting
winner of the Woolfe, finished second in the
standings.

The Far Hills meet ranked as the year’s
richest with $580,00 in purses.

Page 2

NSA Leader Board

Irv Naylor takes

Owners

Irvin S. Naylor

Starts

Final 2014 Standings
Wins 2nd

17 20

3rd

Money Won

$531,840

top spot in 2014

Jacqueline Ohrstrom 14

William L. Pape 36

Mrs. S. K. Johnston Jr. 31

381,175

278,250

247,600

owner standings

Magalen O. Bryant

182,600

With a powerful, well-balanced stable.

Jonathan Sheppard

158,750

Irvin S. Naylor returned to the top of the

Armata Stables

151,050

owner standings in 2014 with $531,840 in

Rodman W. Moorhead III 6

149,700

purse earnings. The York, Pa., sportsman and

Sheila J. Williams

142,300

philanthropist took down his fourth earnings
title and now ranks third on the National

Horses

Starts

Wins

2nd

3rd

Purses

Steeplechase Association list of owners by

Demonstrative

$362,500

all-time purse winnings.

Divine Fortune

195,000

His Bittersweetheart won the Life’s Illusion

All the Way Jose

149,700

Filly and Mare championship with a win in Iro¬

Pleasant Woodman

98,000

quois Steeplechase’s Margaret Currey Henley

Address Unknown (GB) 4

91,500

Stakes and a victory by disqualification in Far

Syros

90,600

Hills’ Peapack Stakes. His leading earner was

Decoy Daddy (Ire)

87,000

novice Address Unknown, winner of Belmont

Bittersweetheart (GB) 4

84,000

Park’s William Entenmann Novice Stakes, and

Hot Rize

79,400

his ageless Decoy Daddy won his three 2014
starts, all in stakes races. Cyril Murphy trains

Trainers (Wins) Starts

Wins

2nd

3rd

Money Won

Address Unknown and Decoy Daddy.

Jack Fisher

136

$757,500

Jacqueline Ohrstrom took second place

Jonathan Sheppard

714,500

in the owner standings on the strength of

Richard L. Valentine

743,425

Demonstrative’s championship season. Bill

Cyril Murphy

410,170

Pape, who interrupted Naylor’s string of owner

Todd J. Wyatt

172,325

championships in 2013, ranked third. His

Katherine Neilson

122,850

best was 2013 Eclipse Award winner Divine

Leslie F. Young

190,100

Fortune, who won two Grade 1 races in 2014.

Ricky Hendriks

112,600

Jack Fisher handily won his third straight

Arch Kingsley, Jr.

156,900

title as leading trainer by wins, and he closed
hard at the year’s final meet, the Colonial Cup,

Riders (Wins)

Starts

Wins

2nd

3rd

Money Won

to seize the title by earnings as well. He ranks

Willie McCarthy

$735,400

second on the NSA’s all-time list with more

Paddy Young

476,200

than $ 11-million in career earnings.

Ross Geraghty

446,155

Willie McCarthy seized the jockey champi¬

Kieran Norris

304,240

onship with a break-out season. He concluded

Robert Walsh

544,075

the season with 23 wins, nine more than 2013

Bernard Dalton

220,000

champion jockey Paddy Young and Ross Ger¬

Carol-Ann Sloan

158,575

aghty, the 2011 champion. McCarthy also was

Sean McDermott

153,350

the year’s leading jockey by earnings.

Jacob Roberts

124,150

Carol-Ann Sloan, who rides regularly for

Jeff Murphy

182,800

Naylor, was the year’s champion apprentice
and amateur j ockey.

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Elkton, Md. 21921

Officers

Beverly R. Steinman, Chairman
Guy J. Torsilieri, President
P. Douglas Pout, Vice President
Patrick Butterfield, Secretary
Dwight Hall, Treasurer

National Steeplechase Association

Phone: (410) 392-0700 Website: www.nationalsteeplechase.com

Fax: (410) 392-0706 E-mail: info@nationalsteeplechase.com

Directors
Patrick Butterfield
R. Reynolds Cowles
M. Nixon Ellis
Alfred C. Griffin Jr.
Dwight Hall

Virginia Lazenby
George Mahoney Jr.
Neil R. Morris
Charles Noell
William L. Pape

Sharon E. Sheppard
Laura T. Shull
Beverly R. Steinman
Charles Strittmatter
Donald Yovanovich

Staff

William Gallo Jr., Director of Racing
Peter D. McGivney, General Manager
Mary T. Guessford, Racing Operations
Nancy Dougherty, Executive Secretary
Don C. Clippinger, Communications

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Looking Back

75years ago

B The leading sire in the nation was
^Challenger II, the first Maryland
stallion to achieve the honor. The son of
Swynford stood at William Brann’s Glade
VaUey Farm in WalkersviUe.

B With breeding season fast approaching,
stallion advertisements were in abundance.
Do 2 ens of Maryland stallions were being
promoted, but mare owners were also
being beckoned to New Jersey to breed to
the tikes of Jack High and Caruso (Hop
Creek Farm) and Case Ace (Harmony
Hollow Stud).

The three New Jersey stallions left their
marks. Case Ace was the most succesjul- among
his 20 stakes winners were Belmont Stakes-
winning champion Pavot, and Raise You, the
dam of Raise a Native.

Jack High sired 15 stakes winners, led by the
high-class gelding Rudy Draw, a foal of 1941
who won 13 stakes. Jack High is found in pedi¬
grees today primarily through his grandson Sailor
(out of the Jack High mare Flota). Among
descendants of Sailor are Distorted Humor.

Caruso sired 79 foals, four stakes winners.
His indelible imprint was stakes-winning daugh¬
ter Imperatrice. When bred to *Princequillo, she
produced Somethingroyal, dam of Secretariat

B Alfred Vanderbilt, who campaigned
the nation’s top juvenile filly of 1939,

Now What, added a couple of well-bred
yearlings by Epsom Derby winners to his
stable. Two-year-olds of 1940 were a colt
by ^Mahmoud and a filly by *Bahram,
believed to be the first foals by their sires
imported to the U.S.

Ma^uflcvfult

THE OFFlCIAIi PUBLICATION OF THE
MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS’ ASSOCIATION

Vol. 5, No-. / 19^0

*Challenger II became the first stallion standing
in Maryland to lead the national sires list.

B Humphrey Finney’s Editor’s
Saddle Bag, a diary of his life in the
Thoroughbred industry, included the
following:

Dec. 2. . . had to get busy arrang¬

ing for a mare, purchased for a California
breeder from a Virginia breeder who had
bought her from another Virginia breeder
at the Timonium sale, that we have to ship
to the Coast tomorrow. She will spend the
night in Guy BedweU’s barn at Bowie.

Dec. 3. At Bowie by noon today to
load our mare Chosa in one of the three
cars that will go to Chicago tonight and
thence, via The Chief, to Los Angeles.

The mare arrived from Virginia in good
order and was given a good big stall with
plenty of bedding for her long trip West.

Chosa, a winning daughter of Stimulus, was
in foal to High Quest, who had stood in Virginia
at the time. Although she became sick on her
trip west, she foaled a colt Feb. 22 for her new
owner, Ethel Hill A writer in Hollywood, Hill
named her colt War Knight, and six years later
watched him defeat 22 others in the Santa Anita
Handicap in a four-horse photo finish. War
Knight captured 11 races, seven stakes, from 34
starts and earned $174,580.

B Finney’s travels took him back to one
of his favorite farms, William Woodward’s
Belair in Prince George’s County, Md.
‘Arrived at Belair we found the Master
and another horseman-guest in Abram S.
Hewitt awaiting us, and tittle time was lost
piling into the open Ford Mr. Woodward
loves to drive about the place when at
Belair.”

Finney saw aU the horses in residence,
including 25 weanlings. Among those
was a band of six fillies “that would look
good in anyone’s stud. Fast and quick to
come to hand should be the bay by *Sir
GaUahad III—Valkyr.”

The Vallyrfilly was Vagrancy, a three-time
winner at 2, and the champion 3-year-oldfilly
and handicap mare at 3 when she won nine
stakes, including the Coaching Club American,
Pimlico and Delaware Oaks, Alabama, Test
and Gat^elle Stakes and Beldame Handicap.

stallion Register

Form Map Issue

Vol. 31, No. 1

January, 1965

50years ago

B Marking a major departure from its
typical format. The Maryland Horse unveiled
its first issue created exclusively as a stallion
register. The magazine featured statistical
pages for 84 stallions in the state, among the
most notable Native Dancer (Sagamore, call
301-Tennyson 3-3737), Saggy (Country Life),
*Djeddah (Long Green Training Center) and
Double Brandy (Halcyon). Young stallions
with offspring yet to get to the races included
Cyane (Bowling Brook), Rambunctious
(Glade Valley), Restless Native (Sagamore)
and Yes You Will (Worthington). The editor

noted, “It is hoped that every Thoroughbred
stallion standing in Maryland is included in
this issue.”

Found in the magazine’s 120 pages were
maps with locations of Maryland farms
and stallions-Baltimore County was home
to 43 stallions, nearly a quarter of aU in the
state. Also included was a brief history of
the industry, the Maryland Horse Breeders
Association and the magazine. It was noted:

The Maryland Horse has been printed once
a month since September 1936, and, during
that 29-year period, has grown steadily in size
as the state’s Thoroughbred breeders switch
from horse breeding as a hobby to horse
breeding as big business.”

98 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

Go for Wand, 1989 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies-GI winner, represented
decades of breeding and racing by Delaware-based Christiana Stables.

25years ago

B Go for Wand’s victory in
the $1 million Breeders’ Cup
Juvenile Fillies-Gl was one of
the greatest achievements after
decades of breeding and
racing for Wilmington, DeL-
based Christiana Stables. The
filly, a daughter of former
Windfields Farm stallion
Deputy Minister, was the latest
of 35 stakes winners produced
by the stable founded in
1937 - the year Delaware Park
opened—by the late Harry
Lunger and his wife Jane
duPont Lunger.

The names of Christiana
greats were woven in the
pedigrees of the more recent
runners. Go for Wand’s dam
Obeah was a daughter of
Christiana’s major runner
Cyane, and his first offspring
to be sold at public auction.
The Lungers purchased Obeah
as a yearling at Saratoga, and
she went on to win five major
stakes, including the Delaware
Handicap twice, and produce
three graded stakes winners.
Obeah was 22 when Go for

Wand, her next-to-last foal,
was born at Russell Jones’
Walnut Green Farm in West
Grove, Pa.

Obeah’s son Carnivalay
(by Northern Dancer) stood
at Country Life Farm in Bel
Air and ranked as the region’s
leading freshman sire.

B Of the 80 horses to
compete in the Breeders’ Cup,
nine were foaled in the Mid-
Atlantic region. Four finished
third or better. In addition to
winner Go for Wand ,
Maryland-bred 3-year-old

Safely Kept was second after
leading aU but the final yards
when facing older males in the
Sprint; Virginia-bred Sweet
Roberta was second in the
Juvenile Fillies; and New
Jersey-bred Open Mind
finished third in the Distaff.
Two days later. Open Mind
sold for $4.6 million at the
Eugene Klein dispersal at
Keeneland. The pricetag was
the highest ever at that auction
house for a horse in training.

B On consecutive days at
Aqueduct in November,

Virginia-bred fillies recorded
Grade 1 wins. Longshot
Rootentootenwooten, bred by
Burdette Associates, took the
Demoiselle, the longest graded
stakes on the dirt in the U.S.
for 2-year-old fillies. Dance
Teacher, a 4-year-old daughter
of Maryland sire Smarten out
of the Tentam mare
I Intentional Move, was a handy
I winner of the Ladies
I Handicap. She was bred and
I owned by Edward P. Evans.

Also winning at the high¬
est level that month was
Alwuhush, bred in Virginia
by Keswick Stable. He got his
first U.S. Grade 1 score in the
Carleton F. Burke Handicap
at Santa Anita, to go with two
Group 1 wins in Italy earlier in
the year.

B On the last day of
November, Maryland-based
jockey Kent Desormeaux
broke the record for most
wins in a year, getting his
547th aboard the Charhe
Hadry-trained 2-year-old
maiden claiming fiUy Gil ten.
The previous mark was set in
1974 by Chris McCarron, then
also based in Maryland.

10years ago

B In his first foray to the Breeders’ Cup,
Maryland-based trainer Graham Motion
took three horses to Lone Star Park and
did the region proud—Better Talk Now
won the Grade 1 Turf, Film Maker was
second behind Ouija Board (GB) in the
FiUy and Mare Turf-Gl, and Dance Away
Capote placed fifth in the Juvenile FiUies-
Gl.

Better Talk Now had nearly been left
home after a poor final work at Fair Hill.
But the longest shot on the board at 28-1
overcame a stewards’ inquiry to get the
victory for Brent Johnson, Karl Barth and
Chris Dwyer’s Bushwood Stable.

B Wildcat Heir, owned and bred by Eb
Novak’s New Farm and trained by Ben
Perkins Jr., captured the 15th renewal of
the Grade 1 Frank J. De Francis Memorial
Dash. Overlooked while facing the likes
of A Huevo, Shake You Down, Gators N
Bears, Champali and favorite Midas Eyes,
the Florida-bred defeated Midas Eyes by
a neck, clocking 6 furlongs in 1:09.45,
two-fifths off Pimlico’s track record. His¬

tory was on the winner’s side: Perkins and
Novak teamed up to win the 2001 edition
with Delaware Township, and Novak bred
2002 winner D’wildcat.

B For the second year in a row, a Malibu
Moon weanling topped the Fasig-Tipton

Midlantic December Mixed sale, as John
and Aileen Ferguson’s colt out of their
stakes winner Aileen’s Countess brought
$160,000. The price was the second
highest for a weanling in the sale’s 21 -year
history. Mahbu Moon, who stood at
Country Life Farm before moving to
Kentucky for the 2004 season, was the
sale’s leading sire of weanlings by gross,
with four bringing $314,000.

B The 15 th annual Thoroughbred Chari¬
ties of America auction raised more than
$1.8 million on a gala evening at Herb and
EUen MoeHs’ CandyLand Farm in Mddle-
town, Del. Approximately 550 people
I were in attendance, and another 200 were
J bidding by phone. Two no-guarantee stal-
I hon seasons brought the biggest prices:
$87,000 for Unbridled’s Song and $75,000
for first-year sire Smarty Jones.

TCA president Herb MoeHs was
pleased with the results: ‘‘With support¬
ers Hke Betty Moran, Eugene and Laura
Melnyk, Richard and Audrey Haisfield and
Roy and Pat Chapman and the TOBA aUi-
ance, TCA will continue to be a winner.”

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 99

CALENDAR

MID-ATLANTIC TRACKS

Atlantic City

4501 Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing, N.J, 08330,
(609) 641-2190; fax (609) 645-8309, Racing dates:
April 23 to April 29,

Charles Town

RO, Box 551, Charles Town, WVa, 25414,

(304) 725-7001; (800) 795-7001, Racing
Secretary: Charles McIntosh, Racing dates:

Jan, 2 to Dec, 30; www,ctownraces,conn.

Laurel Park

RO, Box 130, Laurel, Md, 20725, (301) 725-0400,
(410) 792-7775; (800) 638-1859, Racing Secretary:
Georganne Hale, Racing dates: Jan, 1 to March 28;
www,map/landracing,com,

Monmouth Park

175 Oceanport Avenue, Oceanport, N,J, 07757, (732)
222-5100; tax (732) 571-8658, Racing Secretap/:
Michael Dempsey, Racing dates: May 9 to
Sept, 7; www,monmouthpark,com,

Parx Racing

RO, Box 1000, Bensalem, Pa, 19020-2096, (215)
639-9000; (800) 523-6886, Racing dates: Jan, 1 to
Dec, 31; www,parxracing,com,

Penn National

RO, Box 32, Grantville, Pa, 17028, (717) 469-2211;
(800) 233-8238, Racing Secretary: David Bailey,
Racing dates: Jan, 2 to Dec, 27;
www,pennnational,com.

Pimlico Race Course

5201 Park Heights Avenue,

Baltimore, Md, 21215,

(410) 542-9400; (800) 638-1859, Racing
Secretary: Georganne Hale,

Racing dates: April 2 to June 6;
www,marylandracing,com,

OTHER TRACKS

Aqueduct —Jan, 1 to March 22
Delta Downs— Oct, 15 to March 14
Fair Grounds— Nov, 21 to March 29

Golden Gate Fields —Dec, 26 to June 14
Gulfstream Park— Dec, 6 to June 30
Hawthorne Race Course —Feb, 20 to April 26
Keeneland —^April 3 to April 24
Mahoning Valley— Jan, 5 to April 25
Mountaineer— March 1 to Dec, 21
Oaklawn Park— Jan, 9 to April 11
Sam Houston— Jan, 16 to March 10
Santa Anita— Dec, 26 to June 28
Sunland Park— Dec, 5 to April 13
Tampa Bay Downs— Nov, 29 to May 3
Turf Paradise— Oct, 18 to May 5
Turfway Park— Jan, 1 to March 29
Woodbine— April 11 to Dec, 6

MID-ATLANTIC

AUCTIONS

Two-Year Olds in Training, Fasig-Tipton Midlantic,
Timonium Sales Pavilion, Timonium, Md,

(410) 392-5555 or 252-5860, May 18,19,

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OUT-OF-STATE

AUCTIONS

January Horses of All Ages, Keeneland,

Lexington, Ky, (800) 456-3412, Jan, 12-16,
Winter Mixed, Ocala Breeders' Sales Co,, Ocala, Fla,
(352) 237-2154, Jan, 28, 29,

Kentucky Winter Mixed, Fasig-Tipton Kentucky,
Lexington, Ky, (859) 255-1555, Feb, 9,

The Florida Sale, Selected Two-Year Olds in
Training, Fasig-Tipton Florida, Gulfstream Park,
Hallandale, Fla, (859) 255-1555, March 4,
Two-Year-Olds in Training, Ocala Breeders' Sales
Co„ Ocala, Fla, (352) 237-2154, March 17-19,
Texas Two-Year-Olds in Training,

Fasig-Tipton Texas, Lone Star Park, Grand Prairie,

Tex, (972) 262-0000, March 31,

April Two-Year-Olds in Training, Keeneland,
Lexington, Ky, (800) 456-3412, April 6,

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

ASSOCIATION EVENTS

North Carolina Thoroughbred Association
Awards dinner, Bennett Bunn Plantation, Zebulon,
N,C, (910) 352-5649, Jan, 24,

SEMINARS

Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center,

"Tuesday Talks," Leesburg, Va, (703) 771-6842;
www,vetmed,vt,edu/emc/news/events,asp; e-mail:
speart@vt,edu. Managing Pastures to Optimize
Horse and Environmental Health, Jan, 13; Perinatal
Foal Care, Feb, 10; Eguine Behaviour, March 10;
Tools to Diagnose Eguine Cardiac Diseases, April 7,
Pre-registration required,

Penn Vet First Tuesdays Lecture Series, New

Bolton Center, Kennett Square, Pa, Admission tree,
(610) 925-6500; beltb@vet,upenn,edu; www,vet,
upenn,edu/about/news-and-events/penn-vet-events-
calendar, Eoals: Tales from the NICE March 3; New
Points in Equine Acupuncture, April 7; Eixing Broken
Horses, May 5; Treating Cancer in Horses, June 2,

EVENTS

The Coming Home Series: Edward Troye,

National Sporting Library & Museum, Middleburg, Va,
www,nsl,org, (540) 6Q7-6b42/Edward Troye and
His Biographers,"Oct. 1-Feb, 22; "Eaithfulness to
Nature: Paintings by Edward Troye," Oct, 26-March 29,

“The Racehorse, the Royals, and the Writer:

The Legacy of Herman B. Duryea,”

Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College,
Bel Air, Md, www,harford,edu; (443) 412-2439,
Tuesdays, 1 p,m, to 3 p,m,; Fridays, 10 a,m, to
noon; First Saturdays, 10 a,m, to noon,

Oct, 14-Jan, 15,

Horse World Expo, (301) 916-0852,
e-mail: info@horseworldexpo,com;
www,horseworldexpo,com,

Timonium Fairgrounds,

Timonium, Md, Jan, 16-18, 2015;

Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex,

Harrisburg, Pa, March 5-8, 2015,

100 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

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HORSES FOR SALE

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Index to Advertisers

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Winchell.27

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102 Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015

ACROSTIC

By Vinnie Perrone

W aiting for the blacksmith, the vet, post time for your horse’s race? Maybe you just have a little time on your hands. Regardless,
try this acrostic pu 22 le, created by writer (and word pu 22 ler) Vinnie Perrone. Not quite a crossword pu 22 le, a little more than
Sudoku, an acrostic tests your knowledge of racing and other trivia. When you’re done, the pu 22 le reveals a quote from the
Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred archives and the speaker’s name/topic. Solution provided next month.

HOW TO SOLVE: Define clues in Words column. Transfer
letters to diagram. Quotation reads across; first letters of
Words column, vertically, form acrostic of speaker’s name
and topic. NOTE: The puzzle contains no punctuation.

CLUES WORDS

A. Sunny Jim-trained HOFer_

won 1939 Derby/Belmont 64 142 45 121 16 108 86 153 35

B. Had a stake in

C. Risky horse to race in
summer: hyph.

D. Cry of discovery

E. Late East Boston, MA,
racetrack: 2 wds.

F. Mel Stute trainee took
’86 Preakness: 2 wds.

G. And so forth: 2 wds.

H. Black magic

I. His nom de course is
New Farm: 2 wds.

J. Connecticut school
shooting town

K. 1981 Met Mile winner;
fathered Unbridled

L. Stable Michael lavarone
founded; raced Big Brown 113 145 20 92

M. Assistant starters: 2 wds._

24137 57 124 68 157 93 149

N. Didn’t pledge enough _

at auction 107 15 128 79 66 40 120 96

O. Paris’s ‘Grande’ Ferris _

wheel, or a womanizer 125 10 110 29

P. Ability to share another’s__

feelings 135 62 112 34 104 89 17

Q. Finished third _

60 151 73 2 13 39

R. Pond angler’s bait _

122 90 111 75 101 58 42 131 11

S. Rest from racing _

18 37 126 80 98 53

25 43 144158 6

84 152 14 67 129 32 102 54118 95

71 138 47 156 4 23

7 116 72 50 105 33 146 91 65 155 21 139

119 31 143 76 136 55 22 100 8

148 44114 83 26 130 70 56

123 48 97 36 3 77

46 134 87 109 19 63 28

141 88 150 1 69 99 38

52 132 78 106 5 94147 27

T. Native American tribe _

of NJ and DE 41 30 133 61 81 154

U. Irish-bred sired Medaglia_

d’Oro:2wds. 140 82 12 117 59 103 49

V. Millionaire sired MD-bred__

SW Mary’s Buckaroo: 2 wds. 9 85 51 127 74115

JOSEPH B. KELLY: DOUBLE TAKE. ALTHOUGH I, JOE KELLY, HAVE NEVER MET THE
BUGLER JOE KELLY, I ONCE RECEIVED HIS TEN NINETY-NINE TAX FORM. OF COURSE I
DID NOT PAY HIS TAXES, BUT IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT BUGLERS DO RATHER WELL
FINANCIALLY.

A. Joe Hirsch

B. Olive Oyl

C. Storming inti

D. Extra

E. Punter

F. Havre de Grace

G. Buii Lea

H. Kevin Joy

I. Easily

J. Len

K. Loafed

L. Yule

M. December Mixed

N. Oaths

O. Unity

P. Biowout

Q. Lint

R. Endette

S. The Curragh

T. Aitcheson

U. Kitchen

V. Effort

Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred JANUARY 2015 103

PAST TIME

A, Aubrey Bodine

Farming in the snow. The 1950s don’t seem like all that long ago, but this
image, taken in 1955, feels more like the 1800s as a Maryland farmer uses
mules - or a mule and a horse (that one on the left could be either) - and a
sleigh to finish some chores in an icy field.

Photojoutnalist A. Aubrey Bodine, who worked at the Baltimore Sun for 50 years —from 1920 until his death
in 1970-captured many scenes of Maryland horses, farms and racing. He was regarded worldwide as one of
the finest pictoriaHsts of the 20th century Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred features his work in Past Time.

Image #09-225 www.aaubreybodine.com

For the entire collection of equine-related photos, visit www.aaubreybodine.com/page/default.asp?tag=Horses

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1st or 2nd
SEVEN Stakes

1st Debut MSW on the turf at Laurel at 2

Charles Town Juvenile S. by 91/2 lengths at 2
Belmont's Sleepy Hollow S. at 2
Private Terms S. at 3

General George H.-G3 102 Beyer
2nd Miracle Wood S. by a neck
Maryland Sprint H.-G3
Wild and Wonderful S. 101 Beyer

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