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THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE FOR THE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE THOROUGHBRED
Evening Attire
The old war horse gets the perfect send-off
High-speed Treadmills On the way out?
The Oaklawn success story
How the family-run racetrack continues to buck the trend
JONATHAN SHEPPARD The all-time great Steeplechase trainer making a name on the Flat
THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE
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Introduction Giles Anderson
Just as this issue of Nor th American Trainer magazine was going to press, the news reached us that four of the major US sales companies had reached agreement, not only with each other, but also with a cross section of industry representatives, on the introduction of uniform sales policies for medication, prohibited practices, riding
crops and horseshoes. The move should be judged as both positive and progressive. It’s happened because individuals and organizations have realized that the industry needs to move forward and give the end buyer reassurance for his or her purchases. But let’s hope that this is just the starting point. Let’s hope that for 2009 horse racing in general can spread more uniform policies for both sales and racing across the country. The biggest threat to racing in 2009 doesn’t necessarily come from racing itself – we’ll still be racing horses – but more from the perception of racing in general. Let’s hope that when someone considers going racing or entering into racehorse ownership they do so on the basis that racing is tackling some of the integrity issues which haunted the sport in 2007 and 2008. In this issue of the magazine we bring you a thoughtful question and answer interview with Jonathan Sheppard, who has been a household name for many years; as a trainer of notable steeplechasers – such as Flatterer and Highland Bud – and of flat Stakes winners, most notably Storm Cat. In 2008 Sheppard notched another first, when Forever Together captured the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. We also feature JJ Crupi who turned his back on training in the 1990’s to concentrate on developing Crupi’s New Castle Farm into one of North America’s leading two-year-old consignors. 2008 was also a good year for Crupi: his most prominent graduate was Vineyard Haven who is now wintering in Dubai, ahead of a possible tilt at the Kentucky Derby. This issue also contains timely advice for trainers on tax issues – ahead of the forthcoming tax return deadlines, as well as how we should be using heart rate monitors in conjunction with lactate tests, the role of high speed treadmill tests and a very interesting article on the importance of amino acid content in the racehorse’s diet. All in all, plenty of reading between now and Mid-April when our next issue will be published! Enjoy the read. ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 01
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08 California Thoroughbred Trainers
While the state of the economy has had a dire effect on the health of the racing industry there are solutions available
15 Jonathan Sheppard
The all-time great Steeplechase trainer in America shows he's just as adept on the Flat. By Sean Clancy
20 Heart and Lactate analysis
Swale died shortly after winning the Belmont Stakes of a heart attack. Did this great champion push himself too far? By James Tate BVMS MRCVS
26 J.J. Crupi
Crupi developed his training establishment, Crupi’s New Castle Farm, to become one of racing’s most successful consignors. By Ben Baugh
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CONTENTS ISSUE 11 32 Evening Attire
A look back at the career of one of racing’s equine heroes. By Bill Heller
38 Taxes
Key points to consider on maintaining business records. By Chris E. Wittstruck
42 Tendon Treatments
Tendon damage is the most common injury to a racehorse. Kimberly French takes a closer look at the problem
48 Oaklawn Park
The introduction of the Instant Racing game has helped the racetrack continue to increase purses, handle and attendance. By Bill Heller
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52 Amino Acid Supplements
Thoroughbreds are traditionally fed a highprotein diet but it is the amino acid content that is the most important ingredient. By Dr Catherine Dunnett
56 High-speed Treadmills
The treadmill is under threat from alternative methods of testing a horses’s performance. By James Tate BVMS MRCVS
62 Stress and the Thoroughbred
Too much mental stress can effect a horse’s fitness. By Dr Mark Kennedy
66 Stakes Schedules
Indexes of forthcoming major stakes races
79 Arnold Kirkpatrick column
Why supply and demand is key to the health of the racing industry
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CONTRIBUTORS Sean Clancy writes and rides from his home-base in Pennsylvania. A former champion steeplechase jockey, Sean began his writing and publishing odyssey when he and his brother, Joe, launched Steeplechase Times in 1994. Since that initial leap, they've added The Saratoga Special, a daily racing paper at Saratoga, The Special at Keeneland, a weekly paper at Keeneland's spring meet, and the Thoroughbred Racing Calendar. Sean has written three books, the selfpublished Saratoga Days and The Best of the Saratoga Special, as well as Barbaro, the Horse who Captured America's Heart.
Publisher & Editorial Director Giles Anderson Sub Editors Frances Karon, Sophie Hull Design/Production Neil Randon Website Gary Pinkett Advertising Sales Giles Anderson Executive Assistant Penny Farrow Circulation Pippa Anderson Photo Credits Tod Marks, Meadowlands, Horsephotos, Cindy Mikell, James Tate, Joe Geiser, Shutterstock, Fiona Boyd, Oaklawn, RacingFotos Cover Photograph Tod Marks Correction: In Issue 10 the cover photographer was Alex Evers and Maggie Kimmit took the photographs of Better Talk Now. Trainer Magazine, PO Box 13248, Lexington, KY 40583-3248 Tel: 1 888 218 4430 Fax: 1 888 218 4206
James Tate BVMS MRCVS qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Glasgow University and his career started with mixed practice in Cumbria. He is from a family steeped in horseracing. His father, Tom Tate, is a dual purpose trainer, his father-in-law, Len Lungo, is a National Hunt trainer, and his Uncle, the legendary Michael Dickinson, has just retired from the training ranks. James is currently the resident senior vet for leading flat trainer Mark Johnston, a position which he has held since the start of 2006. Kimberly French, a resident of Williamsport, PA and a graduate of Northern Kentucky University, is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Thoroughbred Standardbred and Quarter Horse publications. Kim is also a freelance production assistant for ESPN’s horseracing broadcasts and decided to pursue a career in the industry after working several years as a paralegal. Bill Heller, Eclipse Awardwinner Bill Heller is the author of 19 books, including “After The Finish Line, The Race to End Horse Slaughter in America.” In 2006, he received a first place award from the American Horse Publications for a column he wrote for Thoroughbred Times and was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame Writers’ Corner. Heller, 55, lives in Albany, N.Y., just 30 miles south of Saratoga Race Course, with his wife, Anna, their son Benjamin and their dog Belle Mont. Chris E. Wittstruck, an attorney and Thoroughbred owner, is the founder and coordinator of the Racehorse Ownership Institute at Hofstra University, New York and a charter member of the Albany Law School Racing and Gaming Law Network. Dr Catherine Dunnett BSc, PhD, R.Nutr. is an independent nutritionist registered with the British Nutrition Society. She has a background in equine research, in the field of nutrition and exercise physiology with many years spent at The Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. Prior to setting up her own consultancy business, she worked in the equine feed industry on product development and technical marketing.
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Ben Baugh is a lifelong racing enthusiast. He interned at Thoroughbred Racing Communications in New York, N.Y. and has worked for Adena Springs South in Ocala, Fla. His work has been published in a number of Thoroughbred racing publications including Thoroughbred Times, The Blood-Horse, Daily Racing Form, The Backstretch, The Florida Horse, California Thoroughbred, Steeplechase and Eventing TImes and El Caballista. He received the 2003 Raleigh Burroughs Award from Florida Equine Publications as the turf writer that made the most impact on Florida’s Thoroughbred industry. In 2006, he was recognized by the South Carolina Press Association for beat writing (equestrian beat). Baugh covers the equine industry for the Aiken Standard in Aiken, S.C. Dr Mark Kennedy BSc, PhD, started his career by leaving school to train as a riding instructor. Having gained equestrian skills he continues to use, Mark decided to embark on a path of academic study of the horse, culminating in his Doctorate from the University of Cambridge. Mark’s first love and professional interest conti nues to be the horse. Now based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, his research focuses on the effect of accepted and novel management practices on equine behaviour, welfare and reproduction. As Chief Executive Officer of Anglia Equine Consultancy he has recently launched an Equine R eproductive Behaviour Consultancy. Arnold Kirkpatrick in more than 45 years of involvement in the thoroughbred industry, Arnold Kirkpatrick has accumulated a vast experience in most aspects of the business – from being executive vice president of a major breeding farm to president of a race track. He has won major industry awards both as a writer and as a breeder.
North American Trainer is the official magazine of the California Thoroughbred Trainers. It is distributed to all ‘Trainer’ members of the Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and all members of the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association
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CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS
Facing a decline like no other By Edward I. Halpern, CTT Executive Director & General Counsel
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E enter a new year, and somehow it is different from any January that I have ever known. My store of personal experiences fails me in so many ways. The state of the economy is creating a fog that engulfs almost every facet of my psyche. Like most of us, I am on ground that has turned a bit less steady. Suddenly and without precedent, 500,000 people are losing jobs each month. New automobiles are advertised for sale at forty percent below sticker. Restaurants that were crowded just four months ago are now near empty at both lunch time and dinner time. One month it costs me $45 to fill my car with gas. A few months later it costs me
“The racing industry is at a turning point in ways well beyond the economy”
$75, and a couple of months later it costs me less than $30. As Executive Director of the CTT, I am quite often required to fly. Most of the time I fly on Southwest Air and, until just a couple of months ago, I had been impressed by the fact that most Southwest flights, day and night, were filled or almost filled to capacity. In December ’08 and January ’09, many of those same flights are only half filled. If this goes on much longer, the airlines will be asking for a bailout. Racing, too, is suffering from decreases in handle and attendance such as we have never seen before. This is an industry that has learned to live with declines because decreases in handle and attendance have been the usual course of events for us. But our declines have never been of this magnitude. We are not talking about five percent; we are now talking about twenty percent. Declines in the past have caused us
to make adjustments. Declines now may cause us to reevaluate the entire business model under which we function. My mother and yours I’m sure, liked to say, “When it rains it pours.” Well it’s pouring now. The racing industry is at a turning point in ways well beyond the economy. We need to find a way to replace a racing and training facility in Northern California. We will soon need to replace a racing and training center in Southern California. Both of these efforts will take money and money is hard to come by. Each of these new facilities will require an investment by the industry of at least $20 million in Northern California and possibly upwards of $40 million in Southern California. Those figures represent just barn and racing surface improvements. They don’t include any upgrades to the front side. Methods of funding these investments include the possibility of running a bond issue and/or raising the takeout. Neither seems attractive, but one or both will be necessary. Finally, here is the good news. An industry-wide group continues to work on a solution, and there are options. Just as never before have we faced a possible crisis of this magnitude, never before has the industry worked so closely and cooperatively to try and come up with answers. The fog will clear, the economy will turn. Unemployment will decrease, diners will return to the restaurants, passengers will, once again, fill the airplanes, and race goers and horse players will return. I
Synthetic strip under close scrutiny NORTHERN CALIFORNIA REPORT
By Charles E. Dougherty, Jr, CTT Deputy Director AS the year 2009 rolled in, the racing action at Golden Gate Fields has already been in full swing. We have been racing at the “Gate” since Bay Meadows ran its last live race in the summer of 2008. The California Horse Racing Board has allocated 157 days 08 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
of live racing at Golden Gate. In addition, another 24 days will be raced at the Gate that will be to generate funds for the benefit of Fairs. This means that the money generated at Golden Gate during these days will be used for facility upgrades at sites like Pleasanton. As we have seen with all the synthetic surfaces in California thus far, the Golden Gate Fields racing strip has had some good and bad days. It seems that the racing surface really has to be watched very closely in order to avoid the problem of the track
setting up hard underneath with a loose top. This condition led to a rash of injuries during November and December. The Tapeta synthetic track at Golden Gate Fields just recently underwent a maintenance upgrade of adding fibers and wax to the surface. All the trainers were most anxious to see how the material adhered to the original surface. The initial reaction from horsemen has been positive so far. The transition of off-site stabling from Bay Meadows to Pleasanton was started in October. The gates to the barn area at Bay
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AN EVENING HONOURING MIKE PEGRAM Hosted by California Thoroughbred Trainers Benefiting the Edwin J. Gregson Foundation Monday April 13, 2009 For more Information, contact Angie Carmona at (626) 447-2339
at Golden Gate Fields Meadows closed for good in early October. Like any move, we have had to address many little issues that have arisen. The biggest adjustment for the folks at Pleasanton is having to deal with a barn area full of 700 horses instead of housing just 250. Our main problem right now is dealing with the golf course operation in the middle of the infield. We at the California Thoroughbred Trainers have had numerous meetings with the Pleasanton management and the golf course operator in an effort to minimize and/or eliminate any potential
safety issues that may result from errant golf balls around the racetrack. The Northern California racing calendar in 2009 will have almost no overlap racing days. The only time this will occur is when Ferndale will be running in mid August and the horses will also be running at Golden Gate Fields. During January and February, we will be running 4 day race weeks at Golden Gate. This experiment is being done to see if field sizes increase as well as maintain the purse structure. Hopefully, it works! I ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 09
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CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS
On board with California Thoroughbred Trainers By Steve Schuelin
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RAINER Jerry Fanning sat in his mezzanine box overlooking the finish line at Santa Anita Park earlier this year and reviewed a career that has spanned more than a half century. Fanning, a youthful 76, has been known for a wit as sharp as his eye for horses. A summa cum laude graduate of the old school of training, Fanning does not talk much but says a lot. “It used to be one guy owned 10 or 15 horses; now 10 or 15 guys own one horse,” said Fanning. “That’s the biggest change I’ve seen. Guys used to just train for one stable.” Fanning, who currently trains 18 horses at Santa Anita, was asked about the ideal size of a stable. “I’ve always had enough horses,” he replied. “One is enough if you’ve got the right horse.” Asked about his formula for training success, Fanning said, “You’ve got to have a little horse sense. There are some people who have never been around a horse who would be okay.” Fanning has observed the vicissitudes of the sport during a lifetime in it. “I’ve seen the good days, and I’ve seen the bad days, and it’s hard for me to see where we’re going.” The good days have outnumbered the bad for Fanning, who has saddled winners on the Southern California circuit every year since he began training on it regularly in 1967. “From 1970 to 1995, I had a real good run,” understated Fanning of a period when he averaged seven figures in purses earned each year and five times went over the $2 million mark as a perennial power. Stakes victories have not come as frequently during the past decade, but Fanning proved he can still be dangerous when he sent out Booyah to an upset in the $125,000 Ralph Hinds Invitational Handicap at Fairplex Park in September, almost 50 years to the day he saddled his first winner. Booyah, who paid $39.60 for a $2 win ticket, showed speed from the start under Joseph Talamo and battled back gamely to win by a head after being headed by Freesgood. Fanning won the race, previously called
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the Pomona Handicap, for the seventh time but first in 23 years. He dominated during a decade when he won with Our First Delight in 1976, Mr. Dan in 1977, Stiff Diamond in 1981, Drouilly in 1982 and 1983 and Artichoke in 1985. Second in career wins at the track, he was inducted into the Fairplex Park Hall of Fame in 2007. Booyah, a 5-year-old horse, is owned by automobile dealer Lathrop Hoffman, a client for more than a decade. Hoffman is a relative short-timer among Fanning’s owners, who tend to stick. Fanning stepped back in time as he traced owner Blake Barregar to the late 1970’s. The trainer is already second generation with Dan Agnew, whose late father Jay began with him in the late 1960’s and was instrumental in his early success; and Jan Harrison and her children Dickie and Tami, the widow and children, respectively of John Harrison, who met Fanning during the late 1950’s and began breeding and racing horses with him in 1960. Fanning, born in Colorado Springs in 1932, took a circuitous route to California.
“My dad worked in the gold mines in Colorado,” said Fanning of his late father, Lev. “When the war (World War II) started, the government closed the gold mines and we moved to Hurst, Texas. “My dad trained there for H.P. Bonner, and when Bonner moved to California, we went with him in 1947,” recalled Fanning. “I started galloping horses when I started going to Whittier High School. I was 4-11 and 98 pounds as a freshman and thought about becoming a jockey, but I grew out of it.” Fanning credited his father and brother, Lev Jr., for teaching him most of the basics. His father trained for Bonner and Harry Warner before his death in 1969. His brother became one of the most respected farm managers in the state—working at Hemacinto Stables, Cardiff Stud, and Rancho Paseana—before his death in September at age 78. Fanning obtained a trainer’s license in 1958 while primarily working as an assistant and recalled his first winner that year on Sept. 29: “Grand Lodge at Bay Meadows with Roy Yaka.” Fanning shortly thereafter accepted an offer to manage a ranch in Riverside County. “I went to Lolo Belle Farm,” said Fanning of a stint from 1959-67 at the facility near Perris owned by W.N. Modglin before it was purchased and developed by Del Webb. It was there that Fanning met Harrison, who owned a nearby ranch and feed company. The pair and their families became lifelong friends, as well as owners and breeders.
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ANNING and Harrison campaigned several homebred stakes winners, but none more memorable than Little Reb, who left Triple Crown winner Affirmed in his wake en route to a 2 ¼length victory in the 1979 Malibu Stakes. “I thought he was a cinch,” said Fanning of the 5.90-to-1 upset winner. Fanning had previously campaigned Little Reb’s sire, Reb’s Policy. “I thought he was the best sprinter in the country in the early 1970’s,” said Fanning of the California- bred colt who set or equaled four track records. Fanning had already risen to prominence on the circuit by then on the strength of
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Booyah was a surprise winner of the Ralph Hinds Invitational Handicap at Fairplex Park
several 2-year-old stakes horses and Terlago, who gave Fanning his first major stakes victory in the 1970 Santa Anita Derby. “(Bill) Shoemaker rode Terlago to give me my first win in a $100,000 stake,” said Fanning, only too happy to return the favor with another milestone. “And Shoemaker won his last hundred-grander on Present Value for me in the 1989 Goodwood.” Terlago, owned by Agnew, gave Fanning his first Kentucky Derby starter, but was never a factor. “He couldn’t stand up in the mud, and it rained that day,” said Fanning of an 11th-place finish behind winner Dust Commander. “Terlago was a nice little horse and if we had Lasix back then could have been a real nice horse,” said Fanning of the colt who had a bleeding problem. Fanning was better equipped for a return in the 1983 Kentucky Derby with Desert Wine, who finished second behind Sunny’s Halo. Fanning has enjoyed many good days, but none better than March 5, 1983. That day he watched Croeso win the Florida Derby on television for a $172 win payoff before sending out Desert Wine to win the San Rafael Stakes at Santa Anita. “I was supposed to go to Florida but got a stomach flu and couldn’t go,” recalled Fanning of the dream day on the 3-year-old trail. “They wouldn’t give me a license over the phone, so Steve DiMauro saddled him. “I don’t know why he was so long,” continued Fanning. “(Fred) Hooper’s horse, Copelan, was out here that winter, and I knew we could outrun him. Croeso had more speed.” Fanning never found out how Croeso would have fared in the Kentucky Derby. “I sent him to Turfway Park and he chipped a knee training there,” said Fanning of an injury that would sideline him until that autumn. Desert Wine continued to flow as smoothly as his name, adding a second-place finish in the Preakness to his resume. Fanning thought he might have done even better. “He had a hitch in his hind leg the whole time and busted an abscess out of that foot two days after the Preakness,” said Fanning. Desert Wine, co-owned by Dan Agnew and Cardiff, returned in 1984 and won the Strub, Californian, and Hollywood Gold
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“He was really good at seeing potential problems before they came up in horses” Jerry Hollendorfer Cup before retiring with $1,618,043, the most of any Fanning trainee. Fanning would go on to train three more millionaires: the mare Top Corsage, who won the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes at Keeneland in 1986; Present Value, who won seven stakes in 1989 while criss-crossing the nation from Portland Meadows to Chicago to Detroit to Minnesota to Santa Anita; and Pleasant Variety, an $80,000 claim who won the Grade 1 San Luis Rey Stakes in 1991. Fanning produced plenty of other highlights. Who could forget A Kiss For Luck, the California-bred mare who won the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap in 1983? Or Akinemod, the Jack Klugman-owned filly who won the 1990 El Encino Stakes by 18 lengths? Or Star Recruit, the 59-to-1 longshot who missed winning the 1995 Santa Anita Handicap by a nose to Sir Beaufort? Greatness was predicted for Bag when he broke his maiden at second asking in 1991 by 16 lengths in a six-furlong race for 2-yearolds at Del Mar. “Bag might have been as good a horse as I’ve had, but I couldn’t keep him sound,” said Fanning.
Fanning said that Hyperborean, winner of the 1983 Swaps Stakes, might have accomplished more had he been gelded. “He had his teeth on the gate, broke crooked and hurt himself,” said Fanning of a career-ending injury the following year. Fanning-trained Kings Island led all the way and upset 2-to-5 favorite Greinton by a head in the 1985 Sunset Handicap, costing the runner-up a $1 million bonus. “He looked like a quarter horse, but could run a mile and five-eighths,” said Fanning of the English import. Fanning also provided a fountain of knowledge to former assistants Jerry Hollendorfer and Jack Carava. Hollendorfer, who went on become the fourth trainer in North America to win 5,000 career races, credited Fanning for much of his success. “Jerry Fanning was a guy who never said much, but I learned a lot from him by observing,” said Hollendorfer. “He was really good at seeing potential problems before they came up in horses and taking preventative measures.” Carava, who assisted Fanning eight years before going on his own in 1992 to become a solid fixture on the circuit, also learned greatly from his former boss. “He took care of each horse as an individual,” said Carava. “Pleasant Variety was a claiming horse who had been lugging out, and he got him out of that bad habit. He placed Present Value in the right spots and won stakes around the country with him. Akinemod was brilliant, and he tried to ration her speed so she could go long.” Fanning the flames of optimism for another productive year, the septuagenarian trainer has also learned how to ration his speed and go long. I
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SHEPPARD’S MAGIC TOUCH
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ONATHAN Sheppard could be on the cusp of history. The 68-year-old trainer navigated a stellar season with Augustin Stable’s Forever Together. In March, the four-year-old filly refused to train. By November, she had won the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf and a possible Eclipse Award as the leading turf filly or mare. With her Eclipse Award, Sheppard would join fellow Hall of Famer Sidney Watters Jr. as the only men to train a champion over jumps and on the flat. Born in Ashwell, England, Sheppard tried a stint in the Army and another stint in the family’s investment firm before coming to the United States in 1961 to pursue an amateur riding career, landing a job with Hall of Fame trainer Burley Cocks. It didn’t take long for him to realize he wasn’t going to be anything close to his boyhood idol Lester Piggott. No, Sheppard decided early that training was his gig. He met George Strawbridge Jr. of Augustin Stable at a dinner party and things began to snowball from there. Sheppard changed American steeplechasing, joining the Hall of Fame in 1990. He’s the all-time leading steeplechase trainer in the United States: most career wins, most purse money earned, most championships, most Eclipse Award winners. If it can be done, he’s done it. But he’s not a one-trick pony. In his homeland, they call it dualpurpose. Sheppard has excelled at steeplechasing and flat racing. He trained stakes winners Storm Cat, With Anticipation, Crowd Pleaser, Annie
Edge, Forever Together and others, many – including Forever Together – for Strawbridge. Sheppard and his wife, Cathy, reside in Hollywood, Florida and at the farm in Unionville, Pennsylvania.
Why did you come to America? My parents didn’t seem to have a plan for me. Neither did I. After I left school, I sat around for a year and didn’t do anything but ride a few horses. I didn’t really like the Army very much. It was good for me, though. Then I was in the
All-time leading steeplechase trainer and Eclipse Award winner Jonathan Sheppard conquered the Flat scene last year with Forever Together in the Breeders’ Cup. By Sean Clancy
Sheppard with jockey Danielle Hodsdon
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Storm Cat (above) wins the Young America Stakes at Meadowlands with Chris McCarron in the saddle Forever Together (left) being led back by Sheppard’s long-time owner George Strawbridge after winning the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita in November
stock exchange for about two years; I didn’t like that very much. I got them to give me a year off, and I came over here when I wasn’t quite 21 and worked for Mr. Cocks. What was your first day at Mr. Cocks’ like? The first one [I rode] was some crazy French stallion. They had a big double bridle and he reared coming out of the barn, and I fell back on his mouth with this big thick bridle and pulled it over backwards. The second one, I had heard how the jockeys in America rode with extremely short stirrups so I thought I’d impress them and rode with the stirrups under my chin. We went to this little line of logs in the woods and the horse started slowing down and stopped altogether and I went over his head. I found out later, it wasn’t a racehorse at all; it was a hunter – pretty embarrassing. We went back in the house and Mr. Cocks got out a bottle of sherry, started telling stories, and the next thing I was hired. You went back to England af ter your first visit to America? I got a small promotion [at the family’s company] but I just couldn’t get back into it. Going back and forth every day, on a train? I was 22, there were all these old guys with their bowler hats, rolled umbrellas, and Financial Times. I thought, “If this is all I have to look forward to for the next 40 years…” My mother kept saying “If you stay there, you can own your own horses instead of training other people’s
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Even at the age of 68, Sheppard shows no sign of slowing down
horses.” I didn’t have much interest in just owning horses and having somebody else train them. How did you meet George Strawbridge? Mr. and Mrs. Cocks had a dinner party and the next day, I said to Mr. Cocks, “That was a very nice party, very nice people. How about that young couple, the Strawbridges. Who are they?” Mr. Cocks said, “They say he’s a really nice guy and he’s supposed to be coming into a lot of money. He’s got one or two amateur horses and people think he could come into the game as an owner. You never know, it doesn’t hurt to meet these people.” How quickly did your trainer career take off? I was lucky to do fairly well almost from the start. It was extremely lucky that my very first owner was George Strawbridge. He started with one horse and then he decided he wanted a few flat horses, and he’s always been my biggest owner. Most of my owners were young amateurs. I think the fact was that I was their equal but had
actually ridden against [champion jockeys] Joe Aitcheson and Paddy Smithwick; I was doing something they would have liked to be doing. When I started training, they thought it would be neat to have a horse with me, just one or two horses. That’s how I started. We had a lot of fun, they used to come out and ride out, we’d school them together and we had a lot of luck. How did you wind up with Stor m Cat? Overbrook Farm was just getting started, and I had never heard of Mr. [William] Young. They called and asked me to take this horse if he couldn’t go to England because he had tested positive for EVA. I didn’t know exactly what EVA was. I looked into it and talked to five different vets, and they gave me five different answers. I agreed to do it, kind of got talked into it by Dr. [Bob] Copelan. What did you think of him? He was just small – short thick neck – and, it turned out, really nasty. He had just about everybody off. After we started breezing him, I started to realize he was pretty speedy. The last time we breezed him, this little bugger opened
up five in a matter of strides. I said, “I think we’ve got a runner.” Gradually he started to look the part, too. He got sleeker-looking. His front end caught up to his hind end, and he was a finelooking horse. Was he sound? He had these bad knees. Copelan wasn’t particularly worried, but the better he got, the more people worried. We had these board meetings it seemed like once a week, about six of them – pedigree man, money man, Mr. Young… How did you get the lifetime breeding right? They decided to take the horse away from me. This was the best horse I ever trained, but in a roundabout way, it turned out well. Cathy and Mr. Young got to be pretty good friends. When all this was going on, she said, “If you insist on this, I want it known that this horse will never make it back to the races. The only reason he made it to the races was because Jonathan is a good horseman and knows how to keep him sound. On top of that, the least you can do is make sure Jonathan has a breeding right
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Stakes winner With Anticipation, one of Sheppard’s best horses in recent years
Steeplechasing Association], how can you tell other people to run when you’re not running yourself? You feel like you have to make a little extra effort and I’ve enjoyed that, I was probably getting a little jaded, maybe, trying to do both over the years. I’ve had about 2,600 total wins. I think it would be nice to get to 3,000, but that could take a bit longer than I’m prepared to give it. You go at a mad pace, do you ever wonder if it’s worth it? It’s kind of ridiculous; my blood pressure is a little high, things like that. I’m 68 years old. I’ve done quite well. But I’d like to get to 1,000 jumping wins.
because I know this horse is going to be a great stallion.” When he took the horse away and sent him to Leroy Jolley, he sent me a signed letter saying I would have a breeding right. Why did you never get another Storm Cat? It used to bother me at one point, but now, realistically, I’m in the twilight of my career and I don’t go to New York and I don’t run a Wal-Mart – even though I have a lot of horses, I’m not a production-line type of trainer. It’s a changing world out there. I’ve adapted to it to some extent, but not as much as I would if I was trying to . . . now I enjoy it. Being completely cutthroat and getting rid of horses that aren’t realistically that good, I don’t enjoy that. I’d rather keep them around for two or three years making sure I got the best out of them. In those big stables, you have
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to keep turning them over. Why did you not open a big stable on the flat and give up the far m? I don’t even like the racetrack, it’s so cut and dry, you can’t be very creative with your training. It makes you wonder how people do it. It’s robotic: gallop around. I like to take horses in the chute at Gulfstream. It’s very quiet. You can gallop, make figure eights, you try to be a little innovative, but you can only do what you can do. I guess that’s why Palm Meadows has become so popular. Did you ever think about slowing down the steeplechasing side of your stable? I’m glad of the choice I made to be faithful to steeplechasing, which is where I got my start. I probably lost focus a little bit with it, but when I was made president [of the National
Is it hard to see you retiring from training? I’m not sure; I think I could retire. I’d read my Thoroughbred Daily News every morning, sit in the sun, read books and stuff, mess around with Cathy, travel a bit. I’m sure I’d be on a couple of little committees, give me a reason to travel. We’ll see. But how can I stop training? I’ve got 15 broodmares out there with 12 foals. I can’t afford anybody else to train them, and I don’t want to get rid of them. There’s something to like about all of them. What would you change? I’m proud of my loyalty to the farm. I could have gone off and lived in a hotel, trained at Belmont Park or something. I might change my personal life, but it’s part of my nature to live on the edge a little bit anyway. If I hadn’t done that, I probably wouldn’t have been happy either. Live and let live. Play the cards you’re dealt. I guess, in part, that’s my philosophy. How confident were you going into the Breeders’ Cup last year with Forever Together? A couple of weeks before I wasn’t even
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enthusiastic about going. I thought, rock-hard California track, short stretch, best not to be greedy, she’s done awfully well and I was kind of pissed off at the Breeders’ Cup because they’re so money grubbing, greedy, they wouldn’t give us our little piece of change for the steeplechase. It’s $50,000 to enter a horse, they gave away $63,000 last year; that’s one horse’s entry fee. But even with all that, you couldn’t say not to go. We were going to be one of the favorites, she’s in line for an Eclipse Award and George really wanted to go. Where does winning the Breeders’ Cup fit in your career? Having accomplished the things I’ve accomplished, this is the biggest. Winning my first Colonial Cup was very important, winning my first training title was important, winning my first Breeders’ Cup Steeplechase was important but this is bigger than all of those, I think. World
Championships is a bit of a misnomer but it’s a pretty big event, it’s a bigger World Championship than the World Series of baseball. I’m very, very happy about it. Do you feel like you fit in at the Hall of Fame? I do take pride of being in the Hall of Fame. I know that I got in the Hall of Fame because of steeplechasing, but somehow when we all stand there each year for the induction, I like to think I’m one of them and not some guy from another planet that snuck in the back door. Respect amongst your peers means something to you; if you’re going to do something all your life, work hard at it, obviously you want to be looked on by your peers as an equal or at least as having done well. I’m not bragging about it, I’m not being egotistical about it, I think it’s natural, it’s human interest, I’m proud of it. I’m in the same barn with Steve Asmussen, Bill
Mott, Curlin and all those fancy horses; I felt like we belonged there, it’s not like I’m some weirdo who can only train mile and a half turf horses. Most of them are but we win our odd race going short . . . I was proud of winning that seven-furlong stake at Keeneland [the 2008 Lexus Raven Run Stakes [G2] with Informed Decision], it shows that we’re not onedimensional. What’s left for you to achieve in your career? We’ve pretty much accomplished most things, but it would be nice to have a 2-year-old and point for the Triple Crown one day. I guess that’s the biggest omission from my resume, I’ve never even been close to it. We had Crowd Pleaser and With Anticipation nominated and went to Florida, but they ran into problems. Maybe I can get another shot. I
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HEART MONITORS AND LACTIC ACID ANALYSIS By James Tate BVMS MRCVS
Swale winning the 1984 Kentucky Derby
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Eight days after winning the longest and most grueling of the Triple Crown races, the Belmont Stakes, Swale died of a heart attack. Was this great champion pushing himself so far to the limit that his heart could not cope?
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QUINE exercise physiology has been subject to major scientific advances over the last three decades. The advent of the equine high-speed treadmill created the opportunity to use more advanced recording techniques and the knowledge obtained from this, combined with that from human athletes, leaves us in a much more informed position as to what exactly goes on inside the racehorse at exercise. With the introduction of new technology such as horse-walkers and synthetic surfaces, training methods have become more advanced than they were 30 years ago. Nevertheless, this article will question whether trainers should be taking a more scientific approach and using tools such as heart monitors and lactic acid analysis to aid in the daily training of the racehorse. The racing fraternity considers great horses to have great hearts. However, there seems to be a lack of conviction behind this view as only a few individuals scan the hearts of young-stock and only a small number monitor cardiac function. The average 1100lb racehorse has nearly 50 liters of blood, which the heart pumps throughout the body. The main function of this cardiovascular system is to release carbon dioxide and pick up oxygen in the lungs and spread it throughout the body where it can be released and used. The heart is the centre of this system with its right side pumping blood with low oxygen from the body to the lungs and the left side pumping highly oxygenated blood from the lungs to the body. It stands to reason that a great racehorse needs a good-sized, efficient heart and it should be easy to monitor how much training is stressing the heart, and therefore the horse, by simply recording the heart rate – yet this is rarely done. The equine heart is a large structure of approximately the same size as a football, which beats quite slowly at rest but which is capable of increasing its resting heart rate by as much as six to ten times when at peak exercise. The horse is the only mammal
capable of such an increase (a human is doing well to achieve an increase of three fold) and this perhaps explains why it is such a talented athlete. The heart is situated in the horse’s chest just behind the elbow, almost completely surrounded by the lungs – only a small part of the heart is left uncovered, which is called the cardiac notch. This is the area where the heart makes contact with the left chest wall and so it is the best place to listen to it and to perform cardiac ultrasound. Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiography) enables veterinarians to visualize what is going on in this most central organ. There are several veterinary surgeons who believe that the best racehorses have the most efficient hearts and travel from sale to sale examining yearlings using ultrasound to advise potential purchasers of the ‘best’ hearts on offer. Unfortunately, as anyone who has followed their advice will know, having a heart that looks great on ultrasound examination does not seem to guarantee that the racehorse in question is a champion. The reader can come to their own conclusions as to why, but surely having the ‘best’ heart is only one part in th e selection of a future champion. Veterinarians routinely listen to horses’ hearts in an attempt to detect abnormalities such as murmurs. However, should trainers be routinely monitoring heart rate in response to exercise? Not only might they find abnormalities like the atrial fibrillation recently found in Britain’s best jump racing horse, 2008 Gold Cup winner Denman, but much more commonly and more importantly, they might get an idea as to whether they have just asked a particular horse to do a little more work than they had intended and so could alter its training regime appropriately. There are several heart monitors available on the market but nearly all trainers make the decision that it is a piece of information that they can do without. Heart Monitors Measuring a horse’s heart rate is straightforward. Simply attach the heart-belt to the horse, turn on the transmitter and monitor the horse’s heart rate on a watch whilst it exercises. The obvious benefit of such a system is that heart rate reflects cardiac output and hence we learn how hard the horse is working. On a daily basis, we watch horses blowing after exercise, we ask the riders how fit they think they are and we weigh horses. Measuring and recording heart rates in response to exercise can provide another useful tool in the training of the racehorse. However, science is rarely so simple and a horse’s heart rate also increases in response to external stress, which is one way that misleading results can occur. For example, a horse may return a higher heart rate during a particular piece of work than truly reflects its fitness if it ‘shied’ at something. In the same way that trainers ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 21
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making more important observations – something they have trained themselves to do by watching horses all of their lives. Indeed this is what the argument comes down to – there is no doubt that the information obtained from a heart monitor is interesting, but is it worth the time, effort and money or does it yield very little useful information and just serve to confuse matters? At present, the horseracing industry generally believes that it is not worth the effort, but many successful human athletes do not agree. Photographs showing the gross appearance of the equine heart and its position in the chest, just behind the elbow, from where it can be easily monitored
take into account variables such as rider, opposition and track condition when analyzing a breeze, it is also important to take variables into account when analyzing a particular horse’s heart rate during a faster piece of work. Heart rate recovery after a piece of work is also important. Trainers are used to seeing roughly how hard and for approximately how long a horse blows after a breeze but heart monitors give an exact recording of
how quickly a particular horse’s heart recovered. If a horse records an aboveaverage heart rate during work and a slowerthan-average recovery rate, then the piece of work was harder than the trainer intended it to be – something that could simply reflect the horse’s lack of fitness or could signify an underlying problem. Nevertheless, many horsemen do point out with some justification that measuring equine heart rates only distracts their attention from
GLYCOGEN (stored in muscles)
GLUCOSE Glycolysis PYRUVIC ACID
ENERGY Krebs Cycle
Oxygen NAD+ and LACTIC ACID
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Acetyl CoA
Oxygen
Lactate Analysis With every stride that the racehorse takes, many muscles are contracting and relaxing. Everyone knows that the horse requires energy in order to do this, but what will be considered now is how exactly the energy in the muscle fuels a muscle contraction and the relevance of this to daily training regimes. There are three main muscle types in the horse’s body – skeletal muscle, which is attached to bones; smooth muscle, which is found covering internal organs such as intestines; and cardiac muscle, which is found in the heart. Cardiac muscle never tires until death, smooth muscle is also extremely fatigue-resistant, but skeletal muscle is regularly pushed so far that it all but gives up, especially during a race. There are two main types of skeletal muscle fiber. Slow-twitch fibers are bright red in color, use oxygen in their aerobic energy production and fatigue only slowly when the fuel runs out. Fast-twitch fibers are pale and use much less oxygen than the slow-twitch fibers and fatigue quickly as a result when they become bathed in a solution of the acidic byproducts of their anaerobic energy production. Muscles store energy in the form of carbohydrates within a compound called glycogen. This energy storage compound can nearly instantaneously be turned into glucose, which in turn can rapidly produce energy for the muscle by a process known as glycolysis. This sounds straightforward, but the problem comes with what to do with the product of glycolysis – pyruvic acid. There are two main possible fates for pyruvic acid. Firstly, if there is sufficient oxygen present then it will be converted to a compound called acetyl CoA, which will then be oxidized through the Krebs cycle to produce energy. However, if the energy demand exceeds the available oxygen supply, pyruvic acid will be converted into two compounds. One of these, NAD+, will aid continued anaerobic glycolysis but the other is the not so useful, well-discussed ‘byproduct,’ lactic acid. Lactic acid is not a compound that is only produced when a horse is pushed too far. Any horse has a number of very fast-twitch skeletal muscle fibers, which whenever they are called upon for an effort, produce a
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You only need a drop of blood and the easiest way is a simple draw from the jugular vein
A lactate level of 1.9 which was the result of the first phase of the field test
“Equine lactate measurement is already being carried out successfully by a handful of Thoroughbred trainers around the world. ” certain amount of lactic acid. As a result, there is a ‘normal’ resting blood level of lactic acid found in every racehorse. However, during strenuous exercise the body struggles to deal with the amount of lactic acid being produced and so a build up occurs due to the lack of oxygen available. When the horse ceases the strenuous exercise, it stops producing more lactic acid and the lactic acid already in the blood is picked up by the liver, which uses the available oxygen to convert it back into pyruvic acid that can now be used for energy via the Krebs cycle. Following long-duration, low-intensity activity, such as a slow two mile canter, muscle fatigue is theoretically only brought about by the depletion of energy – i.e. a lack of glycogen. However, following shortduration, high-intensity activity – a three furlong breeze, for example – muscle fatigue is caused by increased acidity in the muscle due to lactic acid production. As lactic acid is transported away in the blood, this produces an opportunity to measure blood levels of lactic acid immediately after exercise and before it is converted back into pyruvic acid, therefore giving us a window to view what is happening in the skeletal muscles of our equine athletes and to inform us of when we are pushing them out of their comfort zone. Lactic acid is measured in the blood as ‘lactate.’ Lactate monitoring has been carried out in human athletes for some time by the likes of Juerg Feldmann, who successfully
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uses a device called the Lactate Pro Analyzer® which measures blood lactate level by means of a simple needle prick. Feldmann has coached several successful athletes including Olympic runners, cyclists and skiers. However, there is no good scientific reason why lactate analysis must be restricted to human athletes and proponents such as Standardbred trainer Joe Geiser are attempting to encourage its use in the equine world. Equine lactate measurement is already being carried out successfully by a handful of Thoroughbred trainers around the world. Such trainers use the tool after a piece of work to measure exactly how hard a particular horse has been pushed. For example, if a horse returns a high blood lactate level despite working apparently ‘well’ then the trainer is immediately being informed that despite appearances, it was hard work for the horse in question. Conversely, if a horse works badly but returns a low blood lactate analysis, then the trainer might begin to question how hard the individual was trying. Add to this the information supplied by the heart monitor, the time of the breeze, the opinions of the trainer and rider then we suddenly have much more information about the piece of work. Conclusion Racehorse training has advanced considerably from the days of exercising
A heart monitor is essential in determining a Lactate Balance point – one of the resulting benefits of the test
horses around dirt tracks and relying on the horseman’s eye to know when the horse was ready to go to the races. Automatic horsewalkers and synthetic surfaces have revolutionized the way in which we train horses; computerized work records, sectional timing and weighing machines have changed how we deem them to have reached full fitness; and routine blood sampling, endoscopy and ‘maintenance’ injections claim to ensure that they compete at the maximal level of performance. Training methods will not stand still, they never have and they never will – the only question is what will turn out to be the next major advance. In order for the equine athlete to perform at its best, its cardiovascular and musculoskeletal system must be trained to perfection. This is something that varies depending on the race at which the horse is being targeted. Fivefurlong sprinters must be bulging with finely-tuned fast-twitch skeletal muscle fibers, whereas distance horses must be packed full of efficient slow-twitch fibers with both animals possessing cardiovascular systems trained to keep them running from the start to the finish. Monitoring heart rates and lactic acid levels are theoretically very useful tools with which to ensure that that the racehorse arrives at the start in peak condition. Perhaps we should take them more seriously. I
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J.J Crupi had the racetrack at Crupi’s New Castle Farm refurbished
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The man who walks the walk J.J. Crupi turned his back on the racetrack to become a leading consignor after transforming Crupi’s New Castle Farm into a leading training facility By Ben Baugh
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T WAS a seamless transition for J.J. Crupi as he successfully made the change from conditioning horses at the racetrack to being one of North America’s leading two-year-old consignors. Crupi owns the 150-acre Crupi’s New Castle Farm in Ocala, Florida with his son Robert. The horseman, who enjoyed great success on the New Jersey circuit as a trainer, winning the trainer’s title on four occasions at Monmouth Park (in 1978, 1980, 1992 and 1993), and who shared the training title at the Meadowlands in 1977, has turned out a steady number of stakes winners in his time away from the racetrack. Crupi cut his teeth initially in the horse business as the part owner of a Standardbred with some friends, including harness racing trainer and driver Tom Luchento. It was at the suggestion of Sunrise Stable South’s Ed Coletti, Sr. that Crupi purchased what was formerly Louis and Patrice Wolfson’s Happy Valley Farm in 1995. The racetrack at Crupi’s New Castle Farm was built by Joe King. “We did some refurbishing to the racetrack. As a matter of fact, we put up all new rail this summer,” said Crupi. “The base of the racetrack is done right, it’s a clay base. It’s irrigated; there’s a full sprinkling system. The track is 60 feet wide and one mile long. The racetrack adds to the soundness of the horses. It’s like our saying, ‘A strong foundation lasts forever.’ We have the same harrows, floats, rollers and equipment as they do at Aqueduct. ” The facility has produced a number of stakes winners over the last decade. There are signs along the fence line with the names of stakes winners who’ve trained at the facility. The racetrack is graded four or five times a year, said Crupi. The track also features a new clocker’s stand. The facility is recognized as a racetrack by the Daily Racing Form and the State of Florida, and Crupi tells me that New Castle Farm calls in all of their workouts. “We keep the track in good order,” he said. “We check it right down to the base.” It’s a never-ending challenge to maintain a training facility, and Crupi directs much of his energies toward making sure his operation is in good order at all times. “There’s a lot of work that goes into maintaining a facility like this,” said Crupi. “The maintenance never stops. It’s steady all the time. There’s a lot of work that goes into a horse farm. There’s fence repair; paddock repair; we refurbish the barns every year: we power wash them, disinfect them and repaint them; we replace any pieces of wood that are bad. We redo every barn each year.” The peak season at Crupi’s New Castle Farm is from September through May. Ocala’s climate is not too hot in the summer and has the ideal climate to train a horse, he
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J.J. Crupi’s facility has the ideal climate for training and his 200 stalls are always full
said. The facility’s relaxing and tranquil environment is conducive to training racehorses. Ocala and the training center’s idyllic setting are perfect for Crupi who possesses a Type A personality. His enthusiasm and passion for the Thoroughbred industry and Thoroughbred racing are palpable. “We don’t have any mares at the facility, we only have weanlings, yearlings and sell two year-olds,” said Crupi. “We’ll sometimes raise the horses as weanlings as we did with Toccet; we also had Galloping Grocer as a weanling. We’ll raise the horses as weanlings and yearlings to two year-olds.“
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HE transition from racetrack life to overseeing and managing the training facility agrees with the horseman who conditioned horses at the track for 30 years. He retired in 1997, and the last horse he saddled was Loyal Groom who won the 1997 Bob Harding Stakes. “I enjoy what I’m doing, I would never go back to the racetrack,” said Crupi. “It’s as if I’m at the racetrack because I’m following the horses and the trainers. I follow Bruce Levine, Mary Hartmann and Billy Badgett, or anyone who has bought a horse from me; and I follow those horses. I’ve been very fortunate the horses I’ve sold are getting in good hands – it makes a big difference. Lael Stables bought a horse from me at the
February Fasig-Tipton Calder Sale for $900,000 and the horse went to Barclay Tagg. I was so happy that he got the horse because I knew the horse would be in good hands. Bill Mott bought a horse from me at the Fasig-Tipton Calder Sale for $700,000 for Zayat Stables. I was so glad he bought another one from me for $350,000.” There are nine barns at the training facility: seven training barns, a lay-up barn and a quarantine barn. “We have over 200 stalls, but they fill every year, and you have to get in early,” said Crupi. “We have a waiting list to get into the facility. Allen (Iwinski) sends me 30 to 35 horses a year. We have all of Mary George’s (who owns the Indianapolis Motor Speedway) horses in Barn 7, which has 36 stalls. Barns number 4 and 5 are mostly Bruce Levine’s horses. I have a horse for Tim Ritchey that we’re partners on.” Crupi’s New Castle Farm has a very strong and committed staff that plays an integral role in the facility’s operation. “The staff is very important, every barn has a trainer, and I oversee every barn,” said Crupi. “We do a lot of layups here. We give the layups to the trainers who are good with layups, or who we feel are good with addressing problems. I think it’s important to foresee a problem before it starts. So, that’s why I put a man in every barn. He’s the key man in that barn, and the only thing he does is look at the horses in that barn. He
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Toccet (above), Ten Most Wanted (above, right) and Vineyard Haven, one of the top two-year-olds of 2008, are three of the top horses to come out of Cr upi’s New Castle Farm
doesn’t catch [muck] any stall all he does is look at the horses.” The training center is operated in a similar way to the racetrack, he said. Each horse is treated as an individual, and most of the horses are hotwalked by hand. “The horses aren’t turned out in a field, they have a stall,” said Crupi. “The horses train every day, they really get their money’s worth. The clients get what they’re paying for. The training facility is run like a racetrack. When a horse comes in here, he has a stall, a trainer, and the horse trains, and if he can and if there aren’t any problems, he’ll train every day. The horses are trained the way the trainer wants the horses to be trained. If they want the horse to be gate ready, they’ll be gate ready, if they want the horse to work a half mile or 5/8’s of a mile that’s what we’ll do. We want to make horses the way the trainer wants the horses to be made. Some people want the horses ready to run, and other trainers want to finish the horses. Everyone is different. It’s like the Burger King saying, ‘We do it your way.’ Our percentage with two year-old winners is very high. The horses who can run don’t know the amount they were purchased for.” The list of clients who have their horses broken and trained at Crupi’s is as impressive as the stakes winners who have passed through their program. 30 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
“We break horses for Mary George; Bruce Levine; Billy Badgett; Alex Trebek of ‘Jeopardy!’ fame; Mike Repole who’s Vitamin Water; Roddy Valente, who’s a big stone contractor in New York; Adam Wachtel, who puts many partnerships together; My Meadowview Farms, who Bruce Levine and Nick Zito train for; Pete Salmen (trainer of Grade 3-winning grad Bourbon Belle); Bruno Hoffman; Preferred Pals,” said Crupi. “We have good clients that make it happen, who buy good horses. Jimmy DiVito has a good eye for horses, and buys his own – that makes it a whole lot easier.” The stakes winners who’ve come out of the program are a testimony to the team’s strong commitment to producing horses to achieve optimal results. “We start our day at about 5:00 or 5:30 a.m. and go to about 12 p.m.,” said Crupi. “We have 15 to 18 riders. It starts to slow down at the end of May.”
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HE 2008 Preakness will be a race that Crupi will always remember, as the horses that finished second and third came out of his program. Macho Again, who placed second to Big Brown, had won the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs and would later win the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga, while Federico Tesio Stakes winner Icabad Crane ran third. Last year’s top 2-year-old colt Vineyard Haven, who won the Grade 1 Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga on Sept. 1 and the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park by 5¾ lengths, is another Crupi’s New Castle Farm graduate. Grade 2 winner and millionaire Awesome Gem, who placed third in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, is campaigned by West Point Thoroughbreds and received his early lessons at Crupi’s farm.
“I’m a believer that the proof is in the pudding,” said Terry Finley of West Point Thoroughbreds. “A lot of people talk the talk, but few people have the stats to back it up. Crupi talks the talk and walks the walk. I’ve bought four horses from him, and two of them are top horses, Macho Again and Awesome Gem.” “He does a really good job, the horses are well-mannered, and come up just where you want them,” said Levine, who was the leading trainer at Monmouth Park in 2008. “I’ve known J.J. for 30 years, he’s a friendly guy. I met him when I was rubbing horses for Johnny Campo. I followed his career on the Jersey circuit. It was hard not to know him.” Other horses that have come out of the program include 2003 Grade 1 Travers Stakes winner Ten Most Wanted, who earned $1,718, 460. There was Bourbon Belle, who won stakes races at ages two through five including the Grade 3 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes and the Grade 3 Honorable Miss Handicap. The daughter of Storm Boot retired with 16 wins and earnings of $1,152,523 and is the dam of the 2008 Queens Plate Stakes winner Not Bourbon. Crupi’s New Castle Farm has also enjoyed success in the sales ring. They’ve distinguished themselves as being among the nation’s top two-year-old consignors and had another strong showing in 2008. They had the top selling filly at the 2008 Fasig-Tipton Select Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale at Calder in February. The Medaglia D’Oro/Irish Cherry filly brought $900,000. An Unbridled’s Song/Joke colt sold for $700,000 and a Congaree/Lady Siphonica colt for $350,000. Crupi attends all of the juvenile sales and consigned the sales topper to the Fasig-Tipton MidAtlantic sale in May, a Lion Heart/Bye the Bye colt for $575,000. “It’s very good,” said J.J. Crupi. “You always like to have the sales topper. I think the horses that are broken, trained and sold by Crupi’s New Castle Farm are just going to get better and better. Bruce Levine has clients that buy the right horses. We’ve had
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“We’ve had horses go to the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes and to the Breeders’ Cup races, and you’re going to see even more come out of our program” horses that we break go to the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes and to the Breeders’ Cup races, and you’re going to see even more come out of our program.”
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ELLA Bellucci was purchased at the Fasig-Tipton New York Saratoga 2000 Select Yearling Sale for $100,000; the gray daughter of French Deputy was broken and trained by Crupi. The filly, sold to Michael Tabor for $925,000 as a twoyear-old, was only off the board once in 11 career starts, with victories in the Grade 2 Astarita, the Grade 3 Comely Stakes and Santa Paula Stakes. She would place third in four Grade 1 stakes, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, Acorn Stakes, and the Gazelle and Santa Margarita Invitational Handicaps. Robert Crupi, like his father, trained at the racetrack and had a stable of horses at Remington Park and Ak-Sar-Ben in the late 1980s and the early part of the 1990s. He made his initial foray into the Thoroughbred business at Monmouth Park, and in addition to getting his trainer’s license in New Jersey, Nebraska and Oklahoma he’s also been licensed in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania. “When we first bought the farm, there was only one barn,” said Robert. “My father is hands on; he’s on top of every situation. My father is a workaholic. We have dorms at the ends of the barns, so the grooms can live here, and are able to check on the horses at night. The great thing is the staff is here in the morning. The farm is always being upgraded. My father does it right. There’s a barn in back, where there’s someone who does the blister work, and the rehabs, and the long-term lay-up work. My father is a perfectionist.” I ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 31
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Evening Attire is walked in the paddock before his retirement ceremony at Belmont Park
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How an old warrior rocked a nation By Bill Heller
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N old-school trainer’s old gray gelding became a rock star at the age of 10 before retiring last fall. Last summer his final race, a dazzling, 8 ¼-length track-record victory in the $250,000 mile-and-a-half Greenwood Cup at Philadelphia Park July 19th, was featured on YouTube. Earlier last summer, one fan put together a five-minute YouTube video tribute to the late-running gelding who gave trainer Pat Kelly and his family thrills for nine years, winning 15 of 69 starts and earning just under $3 million. In December 2007, Evening Attire captured the Grade 3 Queens County Handicap by a head at the age of nine. Then, last summer at 10, he finished second in the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap. When the horses returned to be unsaddled, the Belmont crowd clapped for Evening Attire, ignoring the winner, Delosvientos. Evening Attire’s subsequent tour de force in the Greenwood Cup made him an automatic qualifier for the first Breeders’ Cup Marathon last October at Santa Anita, but he never made it. He would have been a popular participant - the fans at Philadelphia Park went wild after he captured the Greenwood. “Everybody was jumping up and screaming, ‘Go Evening Attire!’” his jockey, Jose Espinoza, said. “Everybody was screaming about the horse. He’s famous. He’s very special for me and I feel so excited for him.” Evening Attire’s success at nine and 10 was achieved despite his penchant for staying in the gate an extra second or two at the start, almost as if spotting his opponents years of wear and tear wasn’t enough of a handicap. So he gave them a head start. “If you ever watch him walk, he’s got stilt legs,” Kelly said. “We call him a giraffe. He’s not a fluid walking horse, so his first move is always kind of a hop to get going. I think it has to do with his long legs, but he’s always broke a step slow. Believe it or not, he would break slow as a youngster.” Halfway through his nine-year-old season, Evening Attire took his gate hesitation to a new level. Kelly found a way to gauge it, probably from playing touch football as a youngster when defenders have to count before they cross the line of scrimmage. “I count one-Mississippi, twoMississippi, three-Mississippi,” Kelly said. “One-Mississippi is not too bad; twoMississippi is okay, and three-Mississippi is trouble.” Yet in his final victory, he broke well from the outside post in a field of six. “He was great,” Kelly said. “He might have been a no-Mississippi. He actually broke pretty sharp. He was the outside post and when he’s the outside post, and he walks into the ISSUE 24 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 33
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gate, if they spring it quick, he’s kind of ready to come out of there. He was unlucky in both his [two previous] races at Belmont when he had the No. 1. There was a delay in the start of one of the races, like a minuteand-a-half delay loading somebody.” Evening Attire still finished second in both races, an un-graded stakes and the Grade 2 Brooklyn. Then he unleashed one of the most powerful performances of his entire career in Philadelphia.
A warrior prospering at such an advanced age is a testament not only to him, but also the people who guided his life. “He was in very good hands,” said retired jockey Robbie Davis, who rode Evening Attire in his first seven career starts. “Pat Kelly is the best hands-on horseman there is out there. And he had a very good owner, Mr. T.J. ‘Hall of Fame’ Kelly. You can’t get in better hands than that.” But it wasn’t their hands that made the Evening Attire with his long-term exercise rider Danny Vogt
difference, rather their ears and eyes and their hearts. They listen to their horses; they watch them and their behavior, and, most important of all, they do what is best for their horses. “They give the horse time off when he needs it,” Davis said. So when Evening Attire came up with a filling in his ankle just before his prep for the Breeders’ Cup Marathon, the $100,000 Point Given Stakes at Monmouth Park, September 20th, Pat Kelly had a no-brainer. “Considering his age and all he has done, it was in everyone’s best interests to retire Evening Attire and find a good home for him,” Kelly said. They found a great home for Evening Attire: the late John Hettinger’s Akindale Farm in Pawling, New York. Hettinger, the driving force in the racing industry to end horse slaughter in the United States, established a retirement community for former racehorses at his farm.
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AT Kelly, now 60, has been treating and training horses the right way his entire career, an approach he learned from his dad, Tommy, a member of the Hall of Fame. “I’m old school, sure,” Pat Kelly said. “Patience. Give them time to come around. Let them develop. We don’t have much two-year-old action, but we can keep them around once we get them to the races. “Pop told me about patience a long time ago when I first started out. I had a pretty good teacher. He said, ‘You just have to give them a chance.’ He’s a good owner and he sort of lets me do my own thing with him. He knows what we’re doing. We talk all the time.” He saw Evening Attire’s continuing success as “the racing gods’ payback for all the good stuff Pop’s done over the years.” The Kellys’ approach would seem to violate one of the oldest adages in the game: don’t get emotionally attached to a horse. “We’re attached to them all,” Pat said. “Training horses for generations like I have for Fox Ridge, I trained the grandmothers, the mothers and the daughters. We love them. I don’t think there’s any other reason I get up at five o’clock every morning.” How could they not adore Evening Attire? The son of Black Tie Affair, out of Concolour, by Our Native, was foaled on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 1998. Evening Attire was bred and owned by Tommy Kelly and his long-time clients Joseph and Mary Grant. Initially, Evening Attire was trained by Pat’s brother, Timmy, before he retired to become a racing official. He is now the New York Racing Association’s Clerk of Scales. When Tommy Kelly watched Evening Attire breeze for the first time, he said, “That’s a special horse. He’ll be a stakes winner.” After watching him win many stakes, Kelly said, “I can’t put into words what
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Evening Attire’s greatest moment came when winning the 2001 Jockey Club Gold Cup with Shaun Bridgmohan
“I can’t put into words what it’s been like owning and breeding a horse like Evening Attire. After some of his races, I went home and cried. How lucky can one person get?” Tommy Kelly it’s been like owning and breeding a horse like Evening Attire. After some of his races, I went home and cried. How lucky can one person get?” Evening Attire raced at 12 tracks and was ridden by 13 different jockeys. Shaun Bridgmohan (17), Espinoza (11), Cornelio Velasquez (10), Davis (7), Jose Santos (6) and Edgar Prado (6) have ridden him the most. Evening Attire didn’t begin his career like a superstar, winning just one of his first eight starts – a maiden race – by a nose at Saratoga in 2000. His following start was in the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes in the middle of a frightening electrical storm so bad that the New York Racing Association pushed post time up several minutes even though it was being televised live. Amid bolts of lightning, torrential rain and booming thunder, Evening Attire finished seventh in the 2000 Hopeful behind dead-heat winners Yonaguska and City Zip. Macho Uno, who would be named Champion Two-Year-Old
Colt, was just a neck back in third. Evening Attire finished his two-year-old season with a pair of seconds in allowance company, his final starts for Tim Kelly before Pat took over. “He actually had a small chip in his knee coming out of his two-year-old year, and he went to Ocala for minor surgery,” Pat Kelly said. “And they also gelded him because he was a ridgling and it turned out he had an undescended testicle. When they got in there, it was sort of twisted and it was probably pinching him when he raced. Robbie Davis always said that he acted like a horse that was a little funny. Sometimes, the jockey can pick up on those horses that travel funny when they have something pinching them back there.” At three, Evening Attire finished third and fourth in allowance company on dirt, then sixth with blinkers added in a turf debut. Regardless, Kelly placed Evening Attire in the Grade 3 Discovery Handicap, October 31st 2001, at Aqueduct. That’s when the fun began. “He lit up the board,” Kelly said.
Indeed he did, winning by one length under Bridgmohan at 65-1, paying $133 for a $2 win ticket. Evening Attire kept his momentum, adding the Grade 3 Queens County Handicap and the Grade 3 Aqueduct Handicap. After finishing fourth in the Grade 3 Excelsior Handicap, he won an allowance race by 10 lengths on a sloppy track. In the Grade 2 Mass Cap, Evening Attire was in tight and finished second by a length to Macho Uno. Evening Attire was then fourth in the Grade 2 Suburban, before winning the Grade 2 Saratoga Breeders’ Cup by a length and a half and, in the most impressive performance of his career, rolled to a 2 ¾-length triumph in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup. “His most thrilling race was the Jockey Club Gold Cup, because he had actually been turned out,” Kelly said. “Belmont was his favorite track, so everything kind of came together. He was really good that fall. We had a wet track (officially rated ‘good’). It ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 35
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was cold. We had a great pace set-up. He just dragged Shaun up there. He just blew them away. I mean I’m always proud of him when he wins, but that was a special day.” More would follow. Evening Attire finished a solid fourth to Volponi in the 2002 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Arlington Park, and in 2003 won the Grade 3 Red Smith Handicap when it was switched from turf to dirt. In 2004, he ruined 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Funny Cide’s Saratoga debut, defeating him by five lengths in the Grade 2 Saratoga Breeders’ Cup Handicap. In 2005 he captured the Grade 3 Stuyvesant, but, in the following year at the age of eight, he mustered just one second from five starts. After finishing sixth by 10 ½ lengths in an allowance race, May 12th 2006, Kelly faced the most difficult decision of his entire career: whether or not to retire his favorite horse. “We thought about it,” Kelly said. “We weren’t sure what was going on. He had tweaked his knee at Belmont and we gave him a couple months off. He didn’t seem to appreciate being turned out at the farm. So we shipped him up to Saratoga. We’d go out and see him every week (during the Saratoga meet) and we took him back to Belmont with us and got him going and he won the Stymie Handicap at nine and won again late in the fall, the Queen’s County.”
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ELLY was asked what made Evening Attire such an amazing equine athlete. “He’s got a great heart, got a great attitude,” Kelly replied. “He knows he’s the big boss out there, the big cheese. He loves the adulation. He loves the carrots and the apples, loves the peppermints, and he takes good care of himself. He lets us know when he’s ready to run, and in races wh ere he doesn’t care for the surface or it’s too hot, he’ll take care of himself and he’ll not really fire an ‘A’ shot. He’ll fire a ‘B’ or a ‘B-plus’ and get back to it and we’ll try again at another time. And I’ve had the same guy galloping him all these years, Danny Vogt. He knows him as well as anyone.” Danny Vogt, a 50-year-old grandfather of five, has worked in the admissions department as a whitecap for the New York Racing Association the past 21 years besides being an exercise rider for Roger Laurin, Tommy Kelly and now Pat. He loves talking about Evening Attire. “I’ve been on him since he was a two-year-old,” Vogt said. “He’s been nice since he was a baby. He’s sound. He’s as sound as a dollar bill. Pat doesn’t rush him. He doesn’t abuse him. He knows what he’s doing.” So does Vogt. Evening Attire is strongwilled and quirky. “He’s a horse that when you gallop him, he starts slow,” Vogt said. “But then he’ll kick it right in. He’ll give you 36 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
“He’s a horse that when you gallop him, he starts slow. But then he’ll kick it right in. He’ll give you all he’s got. That’s how he trains and that’s how he runs in the afternoon. He’ll come get you. When he feels right, he’s still got it.” Danny Vogt all he’s got. That’s how he trains and that’s how he runs in the afternoon. He’ll come get you. When he feels right, he’s still got it.” That was apparent in last year’s Greenwood, when Evening Attire was trying to win his very first race outside New York. He had finished first in the Grade 2 Clark Handicap at Churchill Downs by a nose on a sloppy track under Velasquez in 2003, but was disqualified and placed second in a controversial decision by the stewards. Espinoza had a good feeling about the Greenwood before the race started. “He felt very good in the post parade,” Espinoza said. “And I know he’s going to break sharp because of the post outside.” Evening Attire did indeed break with the field. “I know when he breaks good he wants to do it,” Espinoza said. “He’s in the game. Every step of the way, he’s dragging me. I tested him a little on the backside to see how much horse I have and I have a ton of horse. When I ask a little bit at the 3/8ths pole, he’s flying by everybody.” Evening Attire shot through the inside of front-running Barcola
as if he was standing still and rolled to an 8 ¼-length victory, breaking Philadelphia Park’s 16-year-old 2:31.00 track record for a mile and a half, winning in 2:29.90. “He felt like a three-year-old,” Espinoza said. Watching the race on TV, Davis said, “I was so proud of him. I’m his biggest fan. I love watching him run.” Kelly said, “I’m glad he finally won a race out of town.” Vogt was working when the race was run and did not get to watch it on TV. “My friend called me,” Vogt said. “He said, ‘Congratulations!” I said, ‘About what?’ He said, ‘You won by 10.’” Vogt did eventually watch the replay. “He’s still got it,” he said. “He just took off.” Unfortunately, he wouldn’t take off again. But he did receive a great sendoff to retirement. The New York Racing Association held “Evening Attire Day” at Belmont Park, Saturday October 25th. “Not many horses go out a winner, and certainly not many horses his age go out a winner,” Kelly said. “I don’t know if we’ll ever see another one like him.” I
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SIMPLIFY TAXES?
KEEP A RECORD OF IT! Some practical tips for the Thoroughbred trainer By Chris E. Wittstruck
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N racehorse operations, tax treatment is a critical topic. Can an owner continue to maintain a viable stable while sustaining massive losses? The ability to apply the stable operation’s losses to offset tax liability emanating from income derived through the owner’s work, labor, services and other investments is often a determinative factor. Besides showing that he or she is a material participant in the racing enterprise, the owner must also exhibit to the satisfaction of the Internal Revenue Service that the campaigning of Thoroughbreds is a business, and not simply a hobby. The latter is no easy trick when the amounts written against the owner’s checking account far outweigh the amounts written on deposit slips. Luckily, Thoroughbred trainers don’t have to do much to prove that they’re in the game for profit, even if profit is often illusive. Unless the stable is comprised mainly of the conditioner’s own horses, it’s highly unlikely that the I.R.S. can successfully invoke a claim of hobby loss. Unlike their clients, trainers stabled on the backstretch of a racetrack also have no trouble showing that they are material participants in their respective operations. Whether profitable or not, Thoroughbred racehorse training is a business. From a tax standpoint, there is little difference between the conduct of a Thoroughbred training operation and that of the corner delicatessen, florist or dry cleaner. While the Internal Revenue Code and Internal Revenue Service Regulations are replete with references reflecting the nuances of agricultural activity, the basic provisions apply uniformly to the mom and pop sandwich shop and the conditioner. Far 38 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
and away, the most important tax task facing trainers is the maintenance of organized, legible, sufficient and sustainable business records. Here are some highlights to consider. Cash payments: Traditionally, cash has been the prevalent tender in the small business environment. The problem with cash is the clear lack of a verifiable paper trail. Consider the trainer with just a few horses. He charges a $90.00 day rate to his owners. He doesn’t have a stable size sufficient to meet the expense of a full time exercise rider, and thus is dependent upon a variety of freelancers. Peeling off $20.00 bills every morning gets the job done, but at the end of year, the conditioner has no backup documentation for this significant cumulative expenditure. What he does have is gross income of $90.00 per horse, per day, without an offset for daily exercise costs. An ensuing tax audit will undoubtedly result in disaster. As they are not salaried W-2 employees, all independent contractors who are paid in excess of $600.00 annually are to be issued, by the trainer, an information return known as I.R.S. Form 1099-MISC as a record of their non-employee income. The form is also to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Copies of the Form 1099-MISC and instructions are found online at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irspdf/f1099msc.pdf. By issuing and filing these returns (and maintaining the records upon which they are based), the trainer establishes documentation as to the name, address, social security number and amount paid to each such non-employee service provider. In this way, these expenses are
memorialized and the resulting business deductions taken are easily authenticated. It is unlikely that all the grooms and hotwalkers paid in cash will show up at a tax audit years after their services were utilized to “bail out” the trainer, especially when they likely didn’t report the cash they received as income. Travel Log: 21st Century trainers are constantly on the move. Many shuttle between different tracks, and trips to auction sales and turnout facilities are frequent. The cost of getting to and from different locations can add up to a substantial sum. The I.R.S. permits deductions for local transportation or overnight travel by car or truck. Local trips don’t include the daily trip from home to the barn, but certainly would include trips to vet facilities, private farms and other short treks necessary for proper operation of the stable. Here, the Service offers the taxpaying trainer an option. Deductions can be taken based upon a
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standard mileage rate or actual expenses. For tax year 2009, the standard mileage rate is 55 cents per business mile traveled. Actual expenses include gas, insurance, lease payments, repairs, etc. There are stringent rules regarding how the options may be selected based upon the year the vehicle was placed into service or if it is leased. Irrespective of which option is selected, maintenance of a travel log and records of auto-related expenditures is a must. The log can be nothing more than a small notebook placed in the glove compartment that records the date, place, purpose and mileage for each business jaunt. Even if the actual expenses alternative is used, the log becomes useful, as the Service will require the trainer to divide the expenses between business and personal use of the vehicle, with only the business portion being deductible. Spending several days at the sales or elsewhere can be quite expensive. In addition to deducting the cost of airline tickets and lodging, the trainer can also
normally take a deduction for 50% of meal costs. Again, if record keeping is poor or nonexistent, it will be difficult to reconstruct the records necessary to verify these expenses months after they were incurred. For this purpose, a slightly more expansive ledger than the daily travel log may be used to record the various outlays made in connection with all business trips. Entertainment: While many conditioners meet their clients almost exclusively either on the backstretch in the morning or the paddock in the afternoon, others see the value in entertaining owners and potential owners “off premises” with a morning on the golf course or a night on the town. Within reason and limits, the expenses related to these outings could prove to be a fertile area for business deductions. The rules, however, are very specific and must be adhered to quite carefully. There are two types of deductible entertainment expenses, the criteria for
which mimic the general business expense standard. An ordinary expense is one that is common and accepted in the applicable field of business. A necessary expense is one that is helpful or appropriate to your business, but does not have to be considered indispensable. In simple terms, assuming the other criteria are met, a dinner at a fine restaurant a few miles from the track would appear to fall into one of the categories. Conversely, taking the owner and his family to Bermuda for a week would on the face of it appear far from ordinary. Further, the entertaining had to have taken place in a clear business setting or the excursion had to have had as its main focus the actual conduct of business, wherein business discussions were actually had, and the trainer had a more than general expectation of getting or maintaining business. A lunch trackside with a prospect thinking about buying horses would certainly qualify under the first test. At a restaurant, hockey game or the theater, however, the regulations require something along the lines of an active business solicitation coupled with the objective likelihood that an owner might come on board, or a current owner will either stay on board or even increase the amount of horses entrusted to the trainer. Assuming that the above tests are met, and further that the Service doesn’t view the entertaining as particularly lavish or extravagant, the trainer can generally deduct up to 50% of the cost of entertaining. Of course, the same caveat applies: If the trainer cannot produce receipts, invoices and memo notations sufficient to substantiate the amount spent and the purpose of each such event, the Service will have ample grounds to disallow the deductions. Bad Debt: The business of training Thoroughbreds is fundamentally a service industry predicated on credit. The trainer’s bill is prepared based upon charges incurred over the previous weeks or months. Moreover, the conditioner has possession and full responsibility for the care and maintenance of the owner’s asset: a living, breathing, roughly half-ton animal. Unfortunately, it is ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 39
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equipment which is being depreciated over several years. In such a circumstance, it would be prudent to hold on to the papers that reflect the original transaction by which the item was attained for at least the period during which the item is receiving depreciation treatment. Other exceptions include records regarding a bad debt deduction, which should be maintained for seven years, and the suggested four years for all employment tax records. Avoid the Shoebox Method: If the method of record keeping involves tossing invoices, receipts, deposit slips and other items into a work bin on the trainer’s desk at the end of the day, that’s perfectly alright so long as these items are periodically sorted, properly catalogued and all necessary ledger entries are made. Still, it’s important for the trainer to resist using a large receptacle as the final repository for documentation. The efficacy of such a method aside, the time needed to rummage through the container and hunt for wanted materials during the year, and especially at tax time, simply doesn’t justify the avoidance of the few minutes a day required to properly organize these important items into a readily ascertainable form. Attempting to reconstruct documentation in response to an audit letter never meets with favorable results. The proper occasion to arrange evidence of transactions and events is contemporaneous with their occurrence.
Exercise riders are often paid cash
not uncommon for owners to fail to pay bills in a timely manner. In some circumstances, the owner simply walks away from the venture, leaving the trainer with a horde of unpaid invoices in one hand, and the halter attached to a hungry horse for which he or she has no title in the other. Aside from the filing of an agisters lien and resorting to other legal recourse, the uncollected sums could be determined to constitute a bad debt. This is important depending upon which accounting method the trainer’s tax professional utilizes. Since, by definition, the cash method of accounting reports income as payment is received, bad debt scenarios are of little consequence if this method is employed. If, however, income is reported as it is earned, known as the accrual method, bad debt can be taken as a deduction provided the uncollected sums were included as income. Needless to say, copious records regarding every item of expense incurred in 40 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
maintaining the horse is necessary for the trainer to validate the proper deduction. How long? The question of how long records, receipts and business logs should be maintained has several answers. The basic answer offered by the I.R.S. is to keep records until the period of limitations runs out. That period is defined as the time within which a return can be amended to claim a refund or the Service can assess additional tax. The general rule of thumb is to keep all records and items of evidence substantiating a tax return for at least three (3) years from the date of filing. One of the more glaring exceptions would be when a big-ticket item is purchased for the business and the cost of acquisition is being written off over the period of that item’s useful life. This is known in tax terms as depreciation. Consider that the trainer has purchased
Conclusion: None of the foregoing is difficult to understand. Keeping as tenacious and vigilant about record keeping as he is about the care and training of his horses is where the true difficulty presents for the conditioner. We all have better things to do than constantly keep records. Whether we delegate the task to employees or not, as taxpayers we are all ultimately responsible for the numbers appearing above our signature on a 1040 Form. Proof is required to sustain the validity of any number. Having that proof in easily presentable form before the taxman cometh provides a level of comfort every trainer should enjoy. Sleeping soundly at night is important; especially when your career involves a persistent 4:00 a.m. wake-up call! I The contents of this column do not constitute legal advice. Readers are urged to consult an attorney for answers to specific legal questions.
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Tendon Treatments
By Kimberly French
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ENDON damage is one of the most common and perplexing soft tissue injuries in racing jurisdictions throughout the world. Roughly eight to thirty percent of racehorses in the United States, eleven percent in Japan, five to fifty percent in the United Kingdom (including jump horses) and at least five percent in Australia sustain tendon injuries during their careers. Even with the recent explosion of medical technology, only twenty to thirty percent ever regain their prior form and usually only after six to twelve months of rehabilitation. Nearly eighty percent re-injure the same tendon in short order. 42 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
“Tendon injuries are incredibly frustrating because despite high levels of patience and the best treatment available, they do not always heal and can recur,� said James Tate, BVMS, MRCVS of Mark Johnston Racing in Middleham, England, and a regular contributor to Trainer on veterinary topics. Tendons attach muscle to bone and are composed mainly of sturdy, elastic collagen fibers packed tightly together. Normally, they can stretch up to three to five times their original length, but if the tendons elongate beyond eight to twelve percent, the fibers tear or become strained instead of snapping back into place.
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The majority of equine tendon injuries are sustained in the front superficial digital flexor tendon (SDFT), which runs along the back of the cannon bone from the knee or hock to the coffin bone. The SDFT covers a very small area behind the midcannon bone, leaving that area susceptible to injury, but a rupture or strain can appear anywhere along the body of a tendon. If the lesion is less than fifteen percent of the tendon it is considered mild. Fifteen to twenty-five percent is moderate and anything over twenty-five percent is severe. A horse could have a slight bow or filling in the ankle and with a bit of rest never have any problems, but anything over a thirty percent tear has a bleak prognosis. Tendon injuries are diagnosed by assessing a horse’s clinical signs and history in conjunction with an ultrasound scan. Unfortunately, tendon scans can often yield normal results when microscopic tears are already present. Scans might have to be conducted periodically in order to determine what truly is happening within the tendon. “Bowed tendons are commonly a maladaptive process that involves the entire tendon, much of the early or micro-injury peripheral to the lesion cannot be seen ultrasonographically,” said Dr. Wesley Sutter, DVM, DACVS, of Ocala Equine Hospital in Ocala, Florida.
“The majority of equine tendon injuries are sustained in the front superficial digital flexor tendon, which runs along the back of the cannon bone from the knee or hock to the coffin bone” Any horse can suffer from a tendon injury but some are in greater jeopardy than others. Risk factors include age, level of fitness, poor conformation, gender, and race distance. A study published by the New Zealand Veterinary Journal in 2005 showed males were more likely than females to sustain tendon injuries and older horses (ages 4 and 5) injured their tendons more frequently than two-year-olds. The study did not conclude the length of races played a role. A study published by the Hong Kong Jockey Club in 2004, however, did find tendon injuries increased as the races became longer. “Tendon injuries can be caused by a single overload or trauma,” Dr. Tate said. “But they are much more commonly
fatigue-related and usually seen in horses running over longer distances, for example, a mile and a half and upwards flat races or any National Hunt race. Also, there is a school of thought that high temperatures within the tendon can play a part in the injury and thus bandaging horses for racing could actually make a horse more likely to suffer a tendon injury.” Evidence that early training increases a horse’s chance of injuring a tendon is conflicting. A study published by the University of Sidney in 2007 concluded that young thoroughbreds sustain musculoskeletal injuries that affect their careers from training too quickly, too soon. On the other hand, a study recently published by the Global Equine Research Alliance concluded that conditioning
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Above: Ultrasound view of the tendon. The needle is visible on the top left corner Left: Performing an ultrasound while injecting PRP into a tendon at the injur y site
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exercises at a young age do not adversely impact a young horse’s future health. Ruptured tendons are notoriously tricky to repair because a horse lacks musculature below the knee and there is not enough blood flow to promote quality healing. Also, the torn tissue is replaced instead of regenerating new collagen fibers. “The tendon’s natural way of healing is slow and generally scar tissue or inferior collagen predominates so they lose elasticity,” said Dr. Sutter. “That’s why horses that heal naturally usually don’t reinjure at the exact injury site but just above it or below it. This scarring creates mismatch of elasticity modulus, so you get a weak spot right at the junction of the normal and scarred tendon.” Equine Therapy Cells Ltd., a company based in Auckland, New Zealand, may have discovered a technique that repairs ruptured tendons. While non-differentiated stem cells have enjoyed success, until they can be directed to transition into tenocytes, which are the cells that create new tendon, tendon repair could continue to elude veterinarians. About eight years ago, Dr. Patrick Casey, BVSc, PhD, MRCVS, and several colleagues began working on a method to develop new tendon cells and conducted their first trial in 2006. They removed tendon cells from a ligament in the horse’s neck, subjected them to environmental stress, cultured them for two weeks, and then injected the new cells into tendon lesion. The procedure was approved for safety by the Australian veterinary surgeon council that same year. As of September 2008, Equine Therapy Cells Ltd. had treated 14 horses, 10 of which were in training and seven had returned to the starting gate. The company hopes this process could eventually be introduced for human tendon repair. Although several new techniques to treat tendon injuries have been recently
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introduced, some veterinarians still stick to the basics. “I think giving the horses non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication and then placing them in tubs full of ice in the initial stages works very well,” Dr. Tate said. “I work for a trainer with 300 horses and we swim them for a month after a tendon injury. They go into the ice-cold pool everyday, then are bandaged up and placed back in their boxes. We take them out at night and put them in buckets full of ice.” Pin-firing, also known as bar-firing, blistering or counter-irritation therapy, is cauterizing tissue near the affected area to induce an inflammatory response. Used for nearly a century on several types of injuries, this practice is illegal in Australia, but many veterinarians feel it still has merit. “I hate to admit it, but barbaric pin-firing definitely does have some effect,” Tate said. “Once the inflammation in the tendon has settled down, you are causing severe trauma to the area without damaging the tendon fibers. Therefore, you are increasing the blood supply, so it does a better job of healing itself. There is some basis behind that.” Over the last ten years, tenoscopy, an arthroscopic procedure once used only as a diagnostic method, has been introduced as a means to visualize, diagnose and treat problems with the tendon sheath. The main tendon sheaths, which are fluidfilled sacs that act as shock absorbers for the tendon, are the carpal sheath (behind the knee), the digital sheath (behind the fetlock/pastern/windpuff area) and the tarsal sheath (behind the hock/thoroughpin
“I hate to admit it, but barbaric pin-firing definitely does have some effect” James Tate
Calder Sensation Shortly after his promising fourth place finish in the December 2006 Inter Dominion Trotting Series, five-year-old trotter Calder Sensation or “Ricky” was diagnosed with such a severe suspensory injury, one veterinarian recommended putting the son of S Js Photo down. “All three tendon branches below the fetlock had significant tears,” remembered Dr. Patrick Casey, BVSc, PhD, MRCVS of Auckland, New Zealand. “It was a very serious situation.” Four months later Rick Burchell, the gelding’s owner, discovered an experimental treatment at the Geelong Veterinary Hospital with Dr. James Vanner. He decided to try it. The procedure, developed by Casey and his company Therapy Cells Ltd., involved removing about 100 tendon cells from Ricky’s neck, culturing those cells or tenocytes back to an embryonic state so
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area). Since they are located in high motion areas, tendon sheaths are prone to a myriad of problems such as: infection from puncture wounds or sudden trauma, tendon tears, adhesions or abnormal scar tissue from chronic injury to the tendon, benign bone tumors that form lumps, and constriction of the tendon by the sheath from swelling. So what are the benefits of this surgery? “This is definitely a huge advancement for us,” said Dr. Gary Baxter, VMD, MS, professor of Large Animal Surgery at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. “The horses that have just swelling and a constriction of a ligament versus a tendon do really well. If a horse has a true tendon injury, it’s going to take them several months longer to recover versus infections or other problems. With that kind of stuff (infections, etc.), they can be back to work in six to eight weeks.” Another new method of treating tendon injuries is platelet rich plasma (PRP). Originally used in human dentistry to regenerate tissue and bone, PRP was first used on horses around 2001 or 2002 at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, by Dr. Andris Kaneps, DVM, PhD, who is now at New England Equine Clinic, and Dr. Sutter. Blood is drawn from the horse, processed to collect a concentration of platelets and then, roughly 30 minutes later, is injected directly into the injury site. “In normal healing when platelets in the blood clot are activated they release granules which are rich in growth factors. This drives the normal healing process,” Dr. Sutter said.
A case study – tendon growth via cell culture
they would produce new tendon growth, and then injecting hem directly into the tendon lesion. “Calder Sensation was the first horse we treated,” explained Casey. “It wasn’t an ideal situation because normally scar tissue has already formed that long after an injury. We scanned him and saw the lesions had not filled in, so we gave it a shot.” After the tenocytes were injected, Ricky was stall rested for nine months and then walked. When the gelding was returned to his trainer, John Caldow, he was walking about six miles daily. “They need at least a month of stall rest and then a gradual return to full exercise,” Casey said. “The recovery period is the same for any tendon injury.” On May 25, 2007, nearly 17 months after his initial injury, Ricky captured a 2,575 meter race at Moonee Valley in Australia. The gelding trotted in last place
for most of the contest, before flying home fastest of all. “The owner was over the moon,” said Casey, who flew in to watch Ricky’s return. “To date, we have treated 20 horses, including polo ponies, Thoroughbreds, jump horses and Standardbreds. So far, our results have been very good.” Ricky is still racing and just finished second in last month’s Wedderburn Trotting Cup at Maryborough. If all goes as planned, he will compete in this year’s Inter Dominion series which commences in March. “This treatment could definitely revolutionize how tendon injuries are treated, and in Calder Sensation’s case, it worked beautifully; but it is not a miracle cure,” Casey cautioned. “There will always be some tendon injuries that simply cannot be repaired but I think this method could have a very brilliant future.”
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“This is what stimulates the body to repair tissue. With PRP, we are taking advantage of this normal process and basically making a superclot which has more growth factors in it than you would normally have. This appears to be useful for tissues that are slow or have difficulty healing.” Sutter acknowledges there are still many things that need to be examined and proven with PRP but he’s encouraged by his success rate. Also, he cautions this treatment might not work on every patient because each horse and injury is unique. “Generally speaking from the data we have collected thus far, in mild to moderate tendon injuries treated within thirty days of injury, sixty to seventy percent appear to return to previous athletic level without reinjury,” he said. “For horses with severe tears (25% or greater) or chronic injuries (scar tissue has already formed), it’s less. If you look at what the success rate is in racehorses that bow tendons and are managed conservatively, you are probably in the twenty-five to thirty percent rate and I think for mild-to-moderate injuries treated within thirty days we are doubling that. “PRP is definitely not a panacea,” he continued. “For one thing, each horse has a different amount of platelets. There’s no question in my mind it improves healing, but that does not mean the horse will return to previous form. There is still a lot we don’t know about it, yet I think in the future we are going to be able to figure out what exactly in PRP is yielding results and use those components.” An additional tendon treatment is stem cell therapy. Adult cells possess a limited capacity for replicating normal cells, while a stem cell, which is still immature, has the potential to become another type of cell such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, or a brain cell and recreate stable tissue without scarring. Stem cells can be harvested from the umbilical cord blood during birth or extracted from bone marrow or fat. When removed from the umbilical cord, they are frozen and kept ‘on file’ for later use. When bone marrow or fat is used, the cells are pulled from the sternum or above the tail, sent off to a lab where they are cultured and
Mr. Wolverine
A case study – resting tendon injuries After 16 months in the barn, Mr. Wolverine, a California-bred son of Last Lion and April Mom, galloped to victory in a $69,000 turf allowance contest at Santa Anita Park on January 12, 2008. The seven-year-old dark bay gelding, trained by Jorge Gutierrez and owned by Begue, Dreyfuss and Venneri Racing, Inc., sustained a tendon injury in his left front limb in the fall of 2007. “When we scanned him, he had a very, very small tear in the mid-branch of his tendon,” Gutierrez remembered. “I think it [the tear] was only about two percent, so our vet, Edwin Simpson, told us to turn him out ten months and then see where we were at. We didn’t blister him or really do much of anything to it.” When the gelding was brought back to the track, his ultrasound showed the tendon had fully healed. He began walking under tack and jogging, until he had another setback about a month and a half later. then returned to the veterinarian to immediately inject into the injury site. A study published in the July 2008 edition of the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine concluded the cells do aid in the healing process. Vet-Stem, located in Poway, California, and founded in 2002 by Dr. Robert Harman, a veterinarian and biotech entrepreneur, is the only company in the United States that provides stem cell treatment. “The whole object is to get more normal tendon growth and less scar tissue,” Dr. Harman said. “These cells produce little chemicals called cytokines that block crosslinking and fibrous scar tissue formation. They are already used to block scarring after you have a heart attack.”
“PRP is definitely not a panacea. There’s no question in my mind it improves healing, but that does not mean the horse will return to previous form. ” Dr Wesley Sutter
“The tendon was really warm so we re-scanned him,” Gutierrez said. “There wasn’t a tear but there was inflammation in the tendon sheath, not the tendon. So we turned him out for another six months. We brought him back and he’s been great ever since.” Since his return, Mr. Wolverine has captured an allowance race, finished second in the Crystal Water Handicap, upset Lava Man in the Khaled Stakes, which was his first black-type triumph, and most recently finished fourth, beaten three-quarters of a length, in the Grade I Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap on June 7 and in the California Dreamin’ Stakes at Del Mar on August 2. The gelding, who was bred by Elmer Ramos and has only 13 career starts, was a $1,700 yearling purchase from the Barretts Sale. Over $180,000 of his $300,000 bankroll has been earned since his return from injury and he has already posted his first official work in the new year to prep for his 2009 debut. Entrepreneur Greg McGarrell, veterinarian David Mountford and Dr. Roger Smith, professor of equine orthopedics at the Royal Veterinary College, founded VetCell Bioscience just outside of Newmarket, Great Britain, in 2001. The company uses a cell-culture system patented by Dr. Smith to multiply stem cells derived from an adult horse's bone marrow or from cryogenically stored umbilical cord blood. Dr. Sutter began mixing stem cells in with his PRP in January of this year. “I’m doing twenty-five percent just PRP and the other seventy-five percent is stem cells,” he explained. “It’s worked out really nice because one, you have two levels of investment and some people come in and they read articles, the newspaper, whatever and they want stem cells regardless.” As for the future, Dr. Harman feels once people realize how powerful stem cells can be, they will use them to help prevent injuries instead of merely treating them. “If you were to provide these stem cells in joint or tendon or in blood, we could repair tiny stress fractures and tiny tears in the tendon before they get worse and come apart in a major catastrophe,” he said. “It’s not truly preventive like a vaccine, but I’m hoping some day we as an industry will work on preventative treatment and not wait until we have a bowed tendon.” I ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 47
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AST fall, ownership of the New York Yankees was passed from George Steinbrenner to his son Hank, ensuring the Steinbrenner stewardship of professional sports’ most prestigious franchise will continue after George’s 35 years. That’s a little more than a third as long as the Cella family's astute leadership of Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Oaklawn’s 2009 opening January 16th marked the Cella family’s 95th season and 41st under Charles J. Cella. “Clearly, we are proud,” Cella’s son, Louis, Oaklawn’s 43year-old vice-president, said. “It is interesting, the generational changes from when my great-grandfather first started to when his son John took over, and my father took over. The changes in racing have been so dramatic, unless you’re able to change, you're not going to make it.” Oaklawn has made it, thanks to the Cella family, which hasn’t allowed traditions – as rich as the annual Festival of the South, an orgy of 12 graded stakes – to interfere with new ideas. And one specific idea, an Instant Racing game approved in 1999 and started in 2000, has been so successful that Oaklawn Park has been able to increase its purses, handle and attendance despite the woeful state of the American economy. In fact, in 2005, the Cella family was presented an Eclipse Award of Merit in recognition of five consecutive years of increased attendance and handle. That made Oaklawn the first racetrack honored with an Eclipse Award. The racing at Oaklawn, capped by the $1 million Arkansas Derby on closing day, has been phenomenal in recent years, only adding to the track’s appeal to horsemen. Four consecutive winners of the Arkansas Derby, from 2004 to 2007, went on to further spectacular success. Smarty Jones (2004) and Afleet Alex (2005) each won two-thirds of the Triple Crown. Lawyer Ron, the 2006 winner, didn't win a Triple Crown race, but at the age of four posted dominating victories in two Grade 1 stakes at Saratoga, the Whitney and Woodward Handicaps. Curlin (2007) won the Preakness, Jockey Club Gold Cup and Breeders’ Cup Classic on the way to being named Horse of the Year in 2007. “We were very fortunate; that's hard to duplicate every year,” Lawyer Ron’s trainer Bob Holthus said in December. The 74-year-old Holthus has been training horses at Oaklawn since 1953. Gayego didn’t make an impact in the Triple Crown after winning last year’s Arkansas Derby, but undefeated filly sensation Zenyatta chose the Grade 1 Apple Blossom at Oaklawn for her only career start on dirt last spring. Oaklawn has never been more popular. “Arkansas is in a very unique situation,” trainer Lynn Whiting said in December. “We have no pro sports teams. Racing has
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Slot machines and Instant Racing (far right) have helped Oaklawn Park to thrive
THE OAKLAWN SUCCESS STORY Despite the current economic climate, writes Bill Heller, Oaklawn Park continues to buck the trend with increased purses, handle and attendance. The track’s $1 million Arkansas Derby has boasted recent big-name race winners, including Smarty Jones, Afleet Alex and Curlin. So what is the secret of its success? One specific idea helped – an electronic game called Instant Racing
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Oaklawn Park, seen here in 1935, has always been popular with racegoers
always been popular. They’ll get close to 30,000 people on opening day.” Fans have been coming to Oaklawn for more than a century. Actually, before the Civil War, the pasture Oaklawn Park sits on was used for impromptu pony races by farm boys. Thoroughbred racing was held at Sportsman's Park, on the southeastern edge of Hot Springs, and at Essex Park before Charles Dugan, Dan Stuart and John
Condon formed the Oaklawn Jockey Club in 1904 and began construction of a new racetrack. Oaklawn opened on February 15th, 1905, and included innovations such as a glassenclosed grandstand and steam heat. The official opening was February 24th, 1905, and more than 3,000 people attended the races thanks to a holiday being declared in the city of Hot Springs. Anti-gambling legislation closed Oaklawn
at the end of the 1907 season for nearly a decade, though the infield was the site of the Arkansas State Fair from 1906 through 1914, when the Cella family took over: Louis A. Cella and his brother Charles, both from St. Louis. In 1916, the Hot Springs Men’s Business League, operating as a non-profit, civic enterprise, staged a short, 30-day season beginning March 11th. That led to the reopening of both Essex Park and Oaklawn Park, which were approved to split a full season of racing in 1917. But the day after Essex Park’s gala re-opening, the track burned to the ground, never to open again, and Essex’s dates were given to Oaklawn, which has sculpted a niche in the national racing calendar with a meet which begins in mid-January and runs through the second week of April. “People have found it's a good place to winter their horses, and horses do well here,” Holthus said. “It’s like a family track, a little bit different than most tracks.” The biggest difference these days is that Oaklawn continues to thrive, continuing to buck a national trend of decreased attendance and handle at other racetracks. A smooth transition of ownership within the Cella family has been a steadying influence. When Louis A. Cella died in 1918, Charles took over sole ownership of the track. When Charles passed away, his ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 49
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son John took over, and supervised Oaklawn’s emergence as a major, modern racetrack. Following his death in 1968, Charles J. took over and Oaklawn has never been doing better. A major reason is the Instant Racing electronic game. “The Instant Racing machines kept us in the game,” Holthus said. The game was born of necessity in the late 1990s. “Arkansas was no different,” Louis Cella said. “Casinos were popping up. Our handle was declining. Our purses were declining. Just like other tracks we had that brilliant idea: let’s get slots.” Realistically, Cella and other track officials realized legislative approval of slot machines in Arkansas wasn't going to happen. “It was too much of a burden to overcome,” Cella said. Then, instead of continuing to pursue the legalization of slots in Arkansas, Oaklawn decided to try to create a different option for a potential additional audience: a new slot-like game rooted in pari-mutuel wagering on Thoroughbred racing. “At Oaklawn, we said: what can we do to modernize?” Cella said. “What are we allowed to do which is pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing?”
“Every track had these old races collecting dust. We asked if we could buy them and then simulcast them and pay them money for using them.” Charles Cella
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HE first step was a tote-board. The question posed to AmTote was: could they immediately process new wagers? They could. The second step was to collect a vast number of past races. “We went to every racetrack in North America,” Cella said. “Every track had these old races collecting dust. We asked if we could buy them and then simulcast them and pay them money for using them.” There had to be parameters: the races had to have a 10-horse field with no entries or coupling, as well as no disqualifications which changed the original order of finish. All the results had to be official. Forty tracks jumped on board. Oaklawn then went through the tapes and created a video library. “Then we went to the Daily Racing Form to get data and re-formulate them into pie charts, in effect making each race generic,” Cella said. “There is a very important reason we did that. We were trying to break the mold of intimidation which goes on at the racetrack today. If you take a casual fan to the racetrack, it’s intimidating. It’s hard to beat other handicappers. We gave the ability for the casual fan to handicap.” That’s accomplished by presenting as many as 80 elements of handicapping as pie charts, so they are easy to understand. “We show five different elements at a time,” Cella said. “If they want to use all the elements, they can go to live racing or simulcasting. We’re creating a new niche. The five
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elements vary, so if the same race pops up, you may see five different elements.” Bettors are asked to pick three horses out of the 10 in the field and then are presented a variety of wagers and a variety of denominations of wagers. Wagers include having: the three horses in exact order; the top two in exact order; the top two picks in the money; two of the three picks finishing first and second or finishing first and third; the top pick winning the race, the Pick Four and the Pick Four consolation. Both the Pick Four and the Pick Four consolation require wagering a second unit. The minimum wager is 25 cents. Payoffs correspond with the difficulty of the wager. “We wanted the player to win as frequently betting $2 to show on the favorite with a low payout or as infrequently as a Pick Four with
a higher payoff,” Cella said in early December. “We have carryovers. One of them paid $26,000 two weeks ago. We've had multiple $1,000 winners.” Of course, the implementation of the new game was dependent on approval by the Arkansas regulators and legislators. “Clearly, Arkansas regulators have it right,” Cella said. “They said we want to help racing, period. They took away the politics. They said, what can we do to help racing survive? We’ve been very blessed in Arkansas. They love racing. They understand racing. In Arkansas, that’s paramount.” Would it work? “We started in January, 2000, the first day of our live season,” Cella said. “Frankly, we didn't know what to expect. We were holding our breath.” Instant Racing was an instant success. Oaklawn started with 50 terminals. That grew into 350. Two hundred and fifty more will be installed this year. Here's the kicker. Arkansas authorized electronic games of skill such as video poker a year ago. “We were concerned that they would rake over Instant Racing,” Cella said. “Just the opposite. It increased wagering on Instant Racing.” Cella is amazed other racetracks haven't decided to try the game. “From a racetrack perspective, it's very frustrating,” Cella said. “We know it works. We couldn't say that nine years ago. We can today. We started nine years ago to save Oaklawn. It wasn't until our live season in 2003 that we started getting national attention, because horsemen from New York, Florida and California came to Arkansas and said, ‘Why are purses going up?’ “I started getting calls. I made presentations. I have gone to 30 states. They all say, ‘Gosh, that’s great, but we’re going to get slots. This will be a back-up.’ Every state is convinced slots are the Holy Grail. Finally, when they realize they are never going to get slots, they come to us.” Oaklawn handled $225 million in 2007 from its 350 Instant Racing terminals. “We generated over $3.5 million to our purse structure,” Cella said. “Every single racetrack gets checks on a monthly basis. It adds up. They were getting zero.” By any measure, it seems Oaklawn has been getting it right for a long, long time. “The purse structure continues to progress because of the Instant Racing,” Whiting said. “I'm from Hot Springs. My father was a jockey and then a trainer. We always raced at Hot Springs. A lot of my clients like Oaklawn.” They're not alone. “We make it fun for the fans to come back to the racetrack,” Cella said. “Our attendance has increased every single year since we started Instant Racing. Our purses have gone up. What we’re seeing is fans, the younger fans, saying, ‘It’s cool to go to Oaklawn.’” I
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Amino Acid Supplements By Dr Catherine Dunnett
THE BACKGROUND Horses in training are traditionally fed a diet that is high in protein, but it is the amino acid content of the protein-rich ingredients that is the important component, as horses have a requirement for amino acids and not intact protein per se. Amino acids are the basic unit or building blocks for protein that is needed for the growth and repair of all tissues in the body, from skeletal muscle to hoof horn. Amino acids are also needed for the synthesis of enzymes, some hormones and neurotransmitters that are involved in numerous metabolic pathways essential to effective exercise performance. The source of protein in the diet is as important as the quantity, because the constituent amino acids will vary from source to source. Some protein sources are also more beneficial than others because not only are they more easily digested, but they may have a more appropriate balance of amino acids relative to a horse’s requirements. Horses can only utilize amino acids when the parent protein is digested in the small intestine, not the hindgut, and so high digestibility in the former location is important. For example, the protein contained in cereals such as oats, which remain the mainstay of most racing diets, is digested easily in the small intestine, compared with the protein content of forage from hay or haylage. Feeding small meals on a little and often basis will promote good protein digestion. Large meals, however, can increase the speed of throughput through the upper region of the digestive tract and so reduce the opportunity for protein to be digested here. 52 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
Are amino acids essential? As far as the amino acids themselves are concerned there are basically two groups or families. Non-essential amino acids such as alanine and glutamine can be synthesized by the horse from other constituent amino acids and are therefore generally not required in the diet, although as we will see later there are certain circumstances where supplementation of non-essential amino acids such as glutamine could be beneficial to horses in training, or those recuperating from injury or disease. Essential amino acids as the name suggests refers to those that cannot be made in the body and thus must be provided in sufficient amounts in the diet. While we do not know enough about the amino acid requirements of horses in training, as for other horses lysine and threonine are believed to be the two amino acids which are limited in the diet and certainly the former if not the latter would be routinely added to racing feeds by manufacturers. While there is no data in horses, in man, histidine and arginine are regarded as conditionally essential during times of rapid cell division associated with growth, or recovery from injury or disease. The majority of the amino acids found within the racing diet would be supplied by normal ingredients in coarse mixes, cubes or straights accompanied by forage. There is also, however, an established practice of providing amino acids above and beyond the basic diet through top dressed supplements. This trend has probably been transferred from practices in human
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Some studies suggest that tr yptophan can attenuate excitable behaviour
athletics and other sports where amino acidrich drinks and powdered supplements are often used. Why use amino acid supplements? Human athletes incorporate protein and amino acid supplements into their diet for a variety of reasons including to increase muscle mass, to reduce muscle damage during exercise, to reduce the incidence of exercise-related anemia and to promote glycogen resynthesis when taken with readily available carbohydrate post-exercise. While the general consensus appears to be that protein supplementation per se is perhaps not warranted, supplementing with amino acids either individually or in combination may have ergogenic effects that go beyond the role of total protein within the diet. Amino acids that have been discussed in this respect in human sports nutrition include tryptophan, branch chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, valine), glutamine, aspartate, arginine, tyrosine and taurine. Overall there is very little evidence for the beneficial effect of most of these amino acids in horses although some, like glutamine for example, have been looked at, so again we are left to draw inadequate conclusions from work that has been carried out in other species.
Potentially beneficial amino acids to look out for Glutamine Glutamine is a non-essential amino acid and is also one of the most abundant amino acids in the tissues of the body. Glutamine plays a major role in supporting immunity, as it provides an important energy source for cells of the gastro-intestinal tract and the immune system, such as lymphocytes and macrophages. Glutamine is also required for the synthesis of glutathione, which is an important antioxidant throughout the body but particularly within muscles and the lungs. Glutamine has also been suggested to promote muscle glycogen synthesis and muscle strength. Glutamine supplementation in horses has recently attracted some attention, as it is believed that a reduced supply of glutamine to the immune system, such as may occur during overtraining, could compromise future immune response. In humans, when plasma glutamine concentration is reduced this can be associated with a reduced immune response in terms of the proliferation of lymphocytes. It has also been suggested in human athletes that reduced availability of glutamine can contribute to an increased incidence of viral infections, although results in this area are equivocal.
Essential amino acids
Non-essential amino acids
Valine Leucine Isoleucine Lysine Methionine Threonine Phenylalanine Tryptophan Histidine
Tyrosine Glycine Alanine Cysteine Serine Aspartamine Asparagine Glutamate Glutamine Arginine Proline
Viral challenge in horses is associated with a major depletion in plasma glutamine concentration (>30%), but glutamine status can be restored through supplementation with either L-glutamine or ingredients such as hydrolyzed wheat gluten, which are a naturally rich source of natural glutamine. In humans, therapeutic benefits from glutamine supplementation have been reported in situations of stress, e.g. from athletic activity, or clinical disease. A similar effect would clearly benefit horses in intense and sustained training, or those under clinical stress due to infection, however as yet the true effectiveness of dietary glutamine supplementation in horses in training has not been fully evaluated. Branched chain amino acids The so-called branch chain amino acids (BCAA) refer collectively to leucine, isoleucine, and valine. These have been researched extensively in human athletes for their hypothesized beneficial effects on exercise performance in terms of delaying the onset or perception of fatigue – otherwise known as central fatigue – improving concentration, and reducing protein and muscle breakdown during intense exercise. The rationale for their effect on central fatigue is that they help maintain a high ratio of BCAA/tryptophan in the circulation. Tryptophan is a precursor for serotonin which depresses the central nervous system and contributes to the perception of fatigue. Exercise normally increases the exposure of the brain to increased levels of serotonin through an increase in the free tryptophan concentration in the blood. The role of branch chain amino acids is to compete with tryptophan for movement across the blood brain barrier hence reducing the exposure of the brain to serotonin, thus delaying fatigue. Results in human studies have been mixed and many of the trials have investigated endurance rather than short term highintensity exercise. In the horse, endurance exercise studies have confirmed a decrease in the BCAA/tryptophan ratio. Of the two BCAA ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 53
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supplementation studies carried out in Standardbred trotters undergoing high intensity exercise, neither reported any significant benefit of the addition of BCAA to the diet. However, as one of the main effects of BCAA is reputed to be delaying central fatigue, one has to question the use of standardized exercise tests to fully evaluate the potential benefit of BCAA.
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Tryptophan Tryptophan is an aromatic amino acid and as we have already discussed is the precursor for the neurotransmitter serotonin. Serotonin metabolism is complex, but it is believed to play a role in sedation and suppression of aggression, fear and stress. Tryptophan is a commonly found ingredient in calming supplements for horses. While there is research to support the effect of tryptophan supplementation in reducing aggression and fearfulness in a variety of species, the effect on hyperexcitability, which is more characteristic of badly behaved horses, is less clear. A recent review on the use of tryptophan in horses highlighted studies which suggest
that at a low dose tryptophan can actually attenuate excitable behaviour but may have a detrimental effect on endurance performance with a higher daily intake. The authors in this review suggest that work should be carried out promptly in horses to establish the true effect of tryptophan on behavior given its continued use in calming supplements. Sources of amino acids There are a variety of forms in which amino acids are offered for horses within supplements currently. Ingredients such as soybean meal, whey protein and milk derivatives are commonplace. Others such as spirulina or ingredients derived from blood fractions are less common. The position of any blood-based products with respect to the feeding stuffs legislation is questionable in this post-BSE era. Milk pellets on the other hand have been a traditionally used ingredient for many years and are a popular and effective method for improving condition in horses.
Soybean meal, while having a good profile of amino acids, is found commonly within racing feeds and so the benefit of further addition may not be significant. Whey protein is isolated from liquid whey, which is a derivative of the cheesemaking process or casein manufacture. Whey protein or hydrolyzed whey protein, where the material has been pre-digested to improve its availability, are very popular with human athletes in both the competitive and leisure sectors. The work on whey protein in man suggests consumption following exercise results in an increase in muscle protein synthesis, which potentially could aid muscle recovery. To date, however, there is no published research on the use of whey for performance horses. Sprirulina is an interesting ingredient that has recently emerged in the equine arena. This blue-green algae that has been consumed by the Mexican, African and Asian population for thousands of years is considered to be a complete or superior protein due to its very high amino acid content (62%). It also contains other beneficial nutrients such as antioxidants, vitamins and trace minerals. Spirulina is reputed to enhance immunity, promote the formation and development of red blood cells and protect against allergic reactions. However, despite the availability of spirulina-based products for horses, its potential benefit has not been investigated scientifically. An exercise-related study in athletes suggests an improvement in exercise performance in terms of time to fatigue and a beneficial effect on ameliorating muscle damage. In summary, the popularity of amino acid supplements in human athletics has not significantly transferred to the equine market as judged by the volume of products available. In addition, while there are some interesting individual amino acids and some novel ingredients that show potential in horses, the scant research available does not dictate them to be an essential supplement for the horse in training. I
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A high-speed equine treadmill in use at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky.
High-speed treadmill testing under threat
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IGH-speed treadmills have been used for performance testing horses for the past two decades and as a result can be found around the world in many of the major equine hospitals. The introduction of the equine high-speed treadmill brought about the possibility of using traditional veterinary tools, such as the flexible endoscope and the electrocardiograph (ECG), to examine horses whilst exercising at near-racing speed. This, combined with the control and repeatability of the treadmill test, made the equine high-speed treadmill an excellent research and diagnostic tool and resulted in incredible advances in veterinary medicine. However, technology does not stand still and the introduction of the portable ECG machine nearly five years ago has recently been followed up with the advent of the over -ground endoscope. These advances are now challenging the high-speed treadmill and its position as the gold standard for the dynamic diagnosis of equine respiratory and cardiovascular problems. Could this mark the end of high-speed treadmill testing?
“Reports of horse and operator injury during treadmill testing have simply served to make owners and trainers more cautious to use them”
Horses are introduced to a treadmill gradually and the time taken for a horse to become comfortable enough with the treadmill to exercise freely at high speeds varies between individuals. Testing is often carried out on the third day after the introduction of a horse to a treadmill for the first time. Perhaps one of the main advantages of high-speed treadmill exercise is that it provides a controlled and repeatable test. Veterinarians are able to accurately measure how hard a particular horse is being pushed. The speed and incline of the treadmill is both recordable and repeatable and unlike turf, dirt or synthetic tracks, the surface on which the horse exercises does not vary at all either with the weather or different sections of the track. As horses are going ‘nowhere fast’ on the treadmill, it is possible to assemble a wide range of recording equipment close by and this produces the opportunity to record a variety of data simultaneously in order to achieve a comprehensive assessment of a horse’s athletic ability and identify any abnormalities. The control and repeatability of treadmill testing combined with the ease with which equipment can be gathered around a fastmoving horse has made it an excellent tool with which to conduct research. During the last two decades, research has been carried out on high-speed treadmills into several body systems of the horse. For example,
Gleadhill et al. analyzed kidney function during exercise back in 2000 and found that the Thoroughbred is able to dramatically reduce its kidney function to allow itself to exercise to a high level. In 2001 Geor et al. used a treadmill to study the effects of Lasix® and nasal strips on bleeding and in 2002 Nyman et al. used a treadmill to study water intake and fluid shifts in horses at exercise. The equine gait has also been studied in detail on high-speed treadmills and work has been carried out into the effects of variables such as lameness and shoeing/trimming. Butcher et al. used a treadmill in 2007 to study digital flexor tendons in motion and they produced a theory as to why such injuries might occur – essentially that the deep digital flexor tendon becomes fatigued first leading to overloading of the superficial flexor tendon and the potential for injury. The controlled environment in which treadmill testing takes place has made them excellent for many ‘fair’ tests and one excellent example is ‘head-shaking.’ This condition can be investigated whilst lunging or exercising outside, but several veterinary centers have used treadmills for the testing of ‘head-shakers’ to see what stimulates each individual. As the external environment remains completely consistent (the treadmill room remains the same), various stimuli, for example, light or noise, can be tested to see their effect on the individual horse. However, although the treadmill has been used as a tool ISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 57
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for gathering information about several body systems of the equine athlete, by far the most common uses of the treadmill are for the investigation of a horse with either cardiovascular or respiratory disease leading to poor performance. It is a common scenario – a horse that breezes spectacularly well in the mornings, but come race day, turns into the stretch and stops like it has been shot. The jockey struggles to explain it; the trainer asks whether the horse made a noise to which the jockey replies “a little.” The racetrack veterinarian is then sent to examine the animal but comes back some while later with no explanation because its heart, lungs and larynx all seem fine one hour after the race. If only we could know what is going on inside that horse during the last two furlongs of the race. This is exactly where high-speed treadmills revolutionized diagnostic veterinary medicine back in the early 1990s. It stands to reason that some cardiovascular abnormalities are not apparent until the horse is pushed hard as the equine heart rate will increase anywhere from six to ten times during maximum exercise. Perhaps the classic example of such a problem is atrial fibrillation. This is a rhythm disorder of the heart where it beats far too fast at a random and irregular rate. The result of this is that the chambers of the heart are emptied before they have filled completely, leading to poor blood flow and a lack of oxygen. Whilst some severely affected horses can be diagnosed by listening to their heart at rest, others only fibrillate when put under the pressure of a race. The diagnosis of such a condition became straightforward with the introduction of the equine treadmill. However, in the last five years the emergence of the digital ambulatory ECG recorder (portable ECG machine) has enabled the diagnosis of this condition with a horse exercising on its home track. In hindsight, this may have marked the beginning of the threat to the existence of the equine high-speed treadmill. Ever since its introduction, the number On the left is an endoscopic photograph of a normal larynx. On the right is a endoscopic image of a horse with dynamic airway collapse – something that cannot be diagnosed at rest. Its left arytenoid (right as we view it) and both vocal folds are collapsing therefore dramatically reducing the amount of oxygen it receives
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Horses do not seem to mind the new technology and it can be fitted with their regular tack. The horse in the photograph is wearing a cross-noseband and a spoon-bit
one use for high-speed treadmills has been in the dynamic diagnosis of equine wind problems. Since the 1970s, veterinarians have been using flexible endoscopes to diagnose problems associated with the equine larynx. However, as it is not possible to scope a horse in the final two furlongs of a race, veterinarians were using a combination of the findings of a resting endoscopic examination and trainer/rider reports to ‘guess’ at the most likely wind problem. With the introduction of the equine high-speed treadmill, for the first time we were able to view the equine larynx whilst the horse was exercising at near-racing speed. As was so eloquently described by Franklin and Lane at the recent 2008
Cheltenham Thoroughbred Racing and Breeding Seminar, oxygen is the essential fuel for the muscular propulsion of the equine athlete. The horse has a massive, powerful cardio-respiratory system, but unfortunately air is inhaled and exhaled through a small unreliable larynx and a rather narrow complex nasal system, especially considering that the horse is an obligate nasal breather and thus does not receive any air through its mouth. It is for this reason that any abnormality in the upper respiratory tract of the horse causes a reduction in the amount of oxygen it receives. The result is that horses with wind problems tend to have reduced stamina through an inability to sustain oxygen-
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Over-ground endoscopy in use at a training facility in North Yorkshire, England
driven muscle function and the associated audible respiratory noises are caused by increased turbulence within the respiratory tract, usually originating in the throat area (pharynx and larynx). The volume of air that is moved in and out of the lungs every minute increases dramatically from a mere 80 liters in a resting horse to as much as 2,500 liters in a racehorse during fast exercise. Unsurprisingly, this puts huge pressure on the walls of the airway and they have to withstand large ‘collapsing forces’ especially when breathing in, not to mention the importance of maintaining an open airway when breathing out. The majority of the nasal passageways and the windpipe can withstand these pressures but certain sections of the respiratory tract such as the nostrils, pharynx and larynx only have soft muscular walls and as a result, are most vulnerable to dynamic collapse during exercise. Endoscopy performed during highspeed treadmill exercise has been the gold standard for the diagnosis of such problems for the last two decades. In 2006 Lane et al. reported on the findings of 600 Thoroughbred racehorses that were scoped on a high-speed treadmill at Bristol University, England. Perhaps the single most important finding of their work was the conclusion that resting endoscopy is unreliable in the diagnosis of wind problems and should not be used in isolation in surgical decision-making or in the
assessment of horses at the time of sale. Diagnosis of soft palate displacement from a resting scope was unsurprisingly poor but also notable was that nineteen percent of horses with a severe paralysis at rest were actually ‘normal’ at exercise and seven percent of horses with acceptable scopes at rest were obviously paralyzed at exercise. It is findings like these that convinced veterinarians around the globe that dynamic endoscopy was far more accurate than resting endoscopy; however, equine highspeed treadmills did not conquer the globe for a few reasons.
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has a flexible endoscope yet there are only a few equine high-speed treadmills scattered around the world. It is possible to conclude from this that one of the main reasons why treadmill testing has not become more widespread is its lack of availability, but there are other reasons. The procedure is labor intensive, time-consuming and relatively expensive but the multi-million dollar industry that is horseracing would have embraced treadmills nevertheless if the idea of a horse breezing and becoming exhausted whilst exercising on an artificial rotating mat had sat more easily with horsemen. The basic fact is that horsemen have not been satisfied that exercising a Thoroughbred on a treadmill until it is
exhausted is either a comparable test to a race or a safe thing to do. The lack of a jockey, lack of other horses and difference in racing surface and environment means that treadmill endoscopy may not result in the same wind problems that would be seen whilst exercising or racing on the track. When horses race on the track they are capable of reaching speeds in excess of 40mph. However, an equine treadmill cannot operate as fast (many struggle to exceed 30mph) so instead operators make horses fatigued by increasing the incline of the treadmill and simply exercising the horse until it is exhausted – some argue that this is a different type of fatigue to a race. Indeed, research into the comparison between exercising on a treadmill and ‘normal’ exercise has highlighted differences in heart rate, blood lactate and stride analysis and so it is not unreasonable to think that there may also be a difference in wind disorders. In addition, reports of horse and operator injury during treadmill testing have simply served to make owners and trainers more cautious to use them. The result of this is that veterinarians have been searching for an alternative and they now appear to have found one – the over-ground endoscope. Over-ground endoscopy A prototype of the over-ground endoscope was fine-tuned using Standardbreds in France in 2007 and the first equine overISSUE 11 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com 59
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ground scope was purchased jointly by a large racehorse trainer in North Yorkshire, England and Glasgow University Veterinary School, Scotland. The traditional flexible endoscope is made up of fiber-optics, which are essentially a system of multiple mirrors. However, the over-ground endoscope is actually a camera, which is inserted up the horse’s nostril and stabilized by attachments on the bridle. This, along with a pack on the rider’s back, transmits a signal to a monitor, which can be viewed as the horse does any work that the trainer wishes. Hence, it is possible to watch the horse working and visualize exactly what the larynx is doing when a horse is put under pressure and an abnormal noise is being made. Every small detail has been considered in its conception right down to automatic water flushes to clean the camera every few seconds with a further option to flush at the push of a button should the view be less than perfect for even a second. Just in case the findings are not straightforward, the video is also recorded and so can be analyzed, assessed in great detail and sent to as many specialist wind surgeons for opinions as required. In addition, if the rider is equipped with a GPS wristwatch, the exact location and speed of the horse can be correlated to any endoscopic abnormality seen.
A horse undergoing treadmill testing at Rood and Riddle. As can be seen from the monitor above the treadmill, the severity of the test (e.g. speed), cardiovascular parameters (e.g. heart rate) and endoscopic image of its larynx are all easily visible at any time
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HE initial impressions of this over-ground endoscope have been excellent and although the equipment is still evolving, a number of studies are underway to assess the value of this new test. At the time of writing, a scientific paper has been accepted for publication in the internationally recognized Equine Veterinary Journal outlining the findings of the dynamic scopes of the first 67 horses. Trainers all over the United Kingdom have been requesting for horses to be analyzed using the tool and more and more veterinary centers are purchasing over-ground endoscopes. This equipment looks set to transform the veterinary approach to equine wind problems, as for the first time, it is actually possible to visualize what is going on in a horse’s larynx whilst it is exercising on its home track. This may not only allow us to make completely accurate wind diagnoses for the first time, but just as exciting is the fact that it will also allow us to assess the effect of various interventions, for example, nosebands, bits, tongue-ties, the Cornell Collar and even wind surgery. Conclusion New technology such as the over-ground endoscope is incredibly exciting, however, the reader must remember that not every piece of new equipment stands the test of time and hence we should now consider the potential pitfalls of this tool. As horsemen
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seem to be fairly ‘happy’ with endoscopy in general, it seems that there is little doubt that more horses will be over-ground scoped in the next few years than would have been subjected to high-speed treadmill endoscopy. Whilst it is exciting that the wind operations which our horses receive are likely to be the right ones, it is possible that we may start to ‘over-diagnose’ problems and horses which are racing well but making audible respiratory noises may end up receiving wind surgery that could do more harm than good. In addition to this, although over-ground endoscopy will represent an equivalent test to a morning breeze, unless trainers are going to run ‘trial races’ especially for the diagnosis of a particular horse, then yet again it is not an equivalent test to a race. As a result, there are some who believe that in five years’ time over-ground endoscopy will be in use all over the world, but that high-speed treadmills will still be used for the cases
which over-ground endoscopy cannot solve. When a horse is on a treadmill, the veterinarian is able to watch both the horse and its larynx very closely and hence can keep the horse going for as long as necessary to obtain a diagnosis. However, when a horse is over-ground scoped, it is the rider that determines how hard the horse is pushed and the veterinarian is powerless to influence the test. In summary, high-speed treadmills have revolutionized equine veterinary medicine over the past two decades. Research performed using them has been groundbreaking and diagnoses have been made, particularly with regard to cardiovascular and respiratory systems, that otherwise would not have been possible. However, technology waits for no man and the advent of the portable ECG machine and most recently the over-ground endoscope is now challenging the existence of treadmill testing. We are set for fascinating times ahead. I
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HERE can be few terms used as loosely by both practical horse people and animal scientists as the term ‘stress.’ It can be used to mean the physical force an object is subjected to, for example the stress applied to the pasterns of a Thoroughbred on the gallops. It can be used to mean the feeling we experience waiting at the finish line for our horse to romp home. The damp coat and nervous demeanor of a bad traveller unloaded from the van is sometimes said to indicate it has ‘wound itself up’ and ‘become stressed-out’ on the journey. The most useful definition, and that to be used in this article, is that stress is ‘an environmental effect on an animal which overtaxes its control systems and reduces its fitness or appears likely to do so’ (Broom and Johnson, 1993). The crucial point here is that stress is a factor external to the animal, but within its environment, which challenges its ability to cope with it. If the challenge exceeds the animal’s ability to cope with it (it is overtaxing), the animal’s fitness will be reduced. Here fitness is not just physical strength, but the ability to survive and function properly. This definition makes it clear that stress is a negative entity. Some authors, such as Seyle (1976), have attempted to subdivide stress into damaging ‘distress’ and potentially positive ‘eustress.’ Suggesting that some stress may be beneficial permits scope for confusion. The outcome of the experience of stress may be positive; e.g. responding to the stress of pursuing predators by flight results in survival, and the stress of fighting between stallions results in mating opportunities for the victor, but the stress itself is not positive. The notion that stress itself can be beneficial and the extent to which it is sought out for its own sake by non-human animals is open to debate. Having defined stress as a ‘bad thing,’ our next task should be to identify means by which it can be detected when it impinges upon our horses. Remember, it is an environmental effect acting upon our horses, not their response to something. Yet it is by the horse’s response to stress that we identify its presence. Physiological responses animals use in attempting to cope with stress include elevated heart rate and increased activity of the adrenal glands, resulting in elevation of
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By Dr Mark Kennedy of the Equine Reproductive Behaviour Consultancy, Department of Life Sciences at Anglia Ruskin University
circulating levels of the hormone cortisol (Fraser and Broom, 1990). ‘Sweating up’ is another physiological sign of stress, particularly easy to observe in horses. Longer duration (‘chronic’) stress can result in clearly negative consequences we can observe in horses, such as immunosupression resulting in increased susceptibility to disease, growth checks in youngsters, and poor reproductive performance in breeding stock (Fraser and Broom, 1990). Gastric ulceration and lesions may also be an indication of stress, as Murray and Eichorn (1996) report that after seven days of confinement to stalls with ad libitum hay, six of seven horses developed gastric ulceration, the remaining individual developing a gastric lesion of a different type. Behavioral responses to stress include attempted avoidance of the source of the stress, aggression directed either at the source of the stress (human or equine) or at some third party, stereotypies such as crib-biting, weaving or box-walking, or a general withdrawal from stimuli, sometimes referred to as ‘depression’ (Fraser and Broom, 1990). Extreme and chronic stress can result in an extreme response such as self-mutilation.
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HE relationship between stress and aggression has received investigation in a number of species. Increased aggression as a result of thwarting of motivation to feed has been reported in hens (Duncan and Wood-Gush, 1971) and in pigs (Bure, 1991). Space restriction increases aggression in cattle and pigs (Houpt, 1998). Houpt and Keiper (1982) report much more aggression in domestic ponies kept in groups in relatively confined conditions (large stalls/corrals) than in groups of free-ranging feral ponies (47
Behavioral responses to stress include agression which is often directed at the source of the stress
aggressive acts per hour versus 1.3 aggressive acts per hour respectively). This was probably due to the fact that the domestic ponies had to compete for limited resources such as food and water, unlike the grazing, free-ranging feral ponies. Stress arising from competition for limited resources and space may therefore elevate aggression in horses. Anyone who has spent time amongst Thoroughbreds will know that individuals aggressive towards humans as well as towards other horses are not uncommon. We should ask ourselves if this is due to general stress arising from our management. Certainly, Goodwin (1999) states that we get a distorted view of the importance and
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frequency of aggression in equine society because of the effects of resource restriction. Horses are not, by nature, aggressive animals. It is our management that results in the exaggerated aggression we see in many individuals. A change in routine is commonly said to result in horses showing signs of exposure to stress. For this reason, it is often said that horses are ‘creatures of habit’ that ‘thrive on routine.’ This notion is debatable. Horses do indeed appear to react badly when established routine is changed, for reasons I shall discuss shortly. However, it is important to note that horses are not inherently predisposed to a life organized around routine.
Let us consider the horse in its natural environment, that for which it evolved. The horse’s time budget, the amount of time allocated to different activities, varies with features of the environment it finds itself in, the time of year, and age and gender of the individual (Boyd and Keiper, 2005). As an example of the flexibility of the division of the horse’s time, we find considerable variation in the proportion of the time budget spent grazing, primarily related to the availability of forage. Horses living in areas with sparse vegetation such as deserts or alpine forests spend about 18 hours per day grazing; those living in more lush areas such as marshes can spend as little as 13 hours per day grazing (Boyd and Keiper, 2005).
There is a certain degree of rhythm to the organization of these activities; bouts of intense grazing alternate with resting, with particularly heavy grazing just after sunrise and around sunset. In the summer a major resting period coincides with the hottest part of the day, with horses often moving to areas of minimum exposure to insect nuisance. Another major resting period occurs between midnight and four in the morning (Boyd and Keiper, 2005). There is, however, no strict routine such as we find in the majority of stables. In reality, horses are not ‘creatures of habit’ by nature, but we impose a routine upon them for our convenience. It suits us to feed horses at set mealtimes, to exercise them at particular
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times of day, and if they are permitted turnout, to organize this at particular times. We are the creatures of habit, not the horses! Yet upset to routine is undeniably a common source of stress for horses. It is probable that the horse adapts to the routine we impose, learning the predictability of the domestic environment. He learns to anticipate feeding, grooming, being ridden out, and other significant events throughout the day. It is likely this occurs through a combination of associating events with actual times of day (e.g. morning feed occurs shortly after dawn) and associating events with other events which predict these (e.g. a stallion becoming excited on observing a trailer being driven towards the unloading area for the covering shed). These associations increase the predictability of the environment, helping the animal cope with it (Broom and Fraser, 2007).
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NCE these associations have become established, instances where events do not occur as predicted (departures from routine, such as a horse not being fed at the usual time, or not being ridden out while the rest of the string go out) result in the animal perceiving the environment as suddenly less predictable than anticipated. Such unpredictability increases anxiety (Broom and Johnson, 1993) and represents a source of stress. In summary, horses are not creatures of habit by nature, but they can become so due to our management. Thus if a routine is imposed, we must try to adhere to it, as departure from routine may result in stress. A feature of equine social behavior which may result in stress when it conflicts with our management is social facilitation of behaviour. The motivations of individual horses within a group are influenced by the behavior of others. This
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Toys are a simple way of providing an outlet for aggression caused by stress
“Upset to routine is undeniably a common source of stress for horses” results in most members of the group performing similar behaviors at the same time. It may be an important means by which the herd’s activity is organized in time (Mills and Nankervis, 1999). Thus when a few horses start foraging, most are motivated to forage, when a few start dozing, most start to doze. The problem occurs when we want to do something Animal Production, Berlin. Duncan, I.J.H and Wood-Gush, D.G.M. (1971) Frustration and aggression in the domestic fowl. Animal Behaviour 19: 500-504. Fraser, A. F. (1992) The Behaviour of the Horse. CAB International, Wallingford. Fraser, A. F. and Broom, D. M. (1990) Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare (3rd edition). Bailliere Tindall, London. Goodwin, D. (1999) The importance of ethology in understanding the behaviour of the horse. Equine Veterinary Journal (Supplement) 28: 15-19. Houpt, K.A. (1998) Domestic Animal Behaviour for Veterinarians and Animal Scientists (3rd edition). Iowa State Press, Iowa. Houpt, K.A. and Keiper, R. (1982) The position of the stallion in the equine dominance hierar chy
different with an individual, such as withhold feed at feeding time, or not taking a horse out to exercise with his familiar group. This thwarting of social facilitation may represent a source of stress, and horses can exhibit significant signs of stress in such situations. Another feature of equine social behavior which may result in stress when in conflict with management is the phenomenon of pair-bonding. Within a group of horses, individuals will usually pair up with another to form a potentially long-lasting pair bond. Pair-mates will tolerate closer proximity with each other than with other members of the herd (Fraser, 1992). These individuals are preferred social companions, and often engage in mutual grooming. Separation of these individuals, for example for exercise purposes, may result in significant stress, demonstrated through agitation and repeated vocalization by one or both parties. To conclude, we have defined the concept of stress, identified signs of exposure to it, and examined some common causes of stress in the Thoroughbred. The reader may now be inclined to ask how we deal with the problem of stress in Thoroughbreds. As is usually the case with a complex problem, there is no quick and easy fix. There is no feed additive we can use that has been scientifically demonstrated to reduce the horse’s exposure to stress, no device we can buy, nor is there a universal training technique we can adopt which will overcome the problem. The root cause is a fundamental tension between our management of the horse in the pursuit of our own goals, and the horse’s natural behavioral inclinations and psychological pre-dispositions. What we can do is be sympathetic to the horse’s nature, by understanding the causes and effects of stress, and by being prepared to change our management to reduce stress when we recognize signs of exposure to it. I of feral and domestic ponies. Journal of Animal Science 54 (5): 945-950. Mills, D. and Nankervis, K. (1999) Equine Behaviour: Principles and Practice. Blackwell Science, Oxford. Murray, M.J. and Eichorn, E.S. (1996) Effects of intermittent feed deprivation, intermittent feed deprivation with ranitidine administration, and stall confinement with ad libitum access to hay on gastric ulceration in horses. American Journal of Veterinary Research 57 (11): 1599-1603. Seyle, H. (1976) The Stress of Life. McGraw-Hill, New York.
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STAKES SCHEDULES
RACES
BREEDERS’ CUP RACES
Races are divided by distance and the relevant surface is indicated as follows: AWT - All Weather Track D - Dirt T - Turf The indexes cover all graded races in North America where information was available at the time of publication. Additionally, all European Group One races have been included as well as major races from Japan and the UAE.
Prize money is indicated by Breeders’ Cup and racetrack contributions.
COPYRIGHT Under Copyright law, no part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means. This includes but not limited to; photocopying for commercial redistribution and or facsimile recording without the prior permission of the copyright holder, application for which should be addressed to the publisher. Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA
Lost in the Fog Stakes Triple Crown Nutrition Breeders Classic
Golden Gate Fields Charles Town
Class
S
DISCLAIMER Whilst every effort has been made to publish correct information, the publishers will not be held liable for any omission, mistake or change to the races listed in all published indexes.
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Less than 5.5f (1100m) AWT Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
13-Jun-09 18-Oct-08
$75,000 $125,000
2 2F
AWT D
Distance Metres 1000 0900
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
5 4 1/16
6-Jun-09 8-Oct-08
Less than 5.5f (1100m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Budweiser H Louisiana Premier Night Ragin Cajun Starter Louisiana Premier Night Sprint Louisiana Premier Night Bon Temps Starter Louisiana Premier Night Matron Spring Fever Invitational H John E. Jackson Jr Memorial S Hallowed Dreams Webb Snyder Kentucky Juvenile S Need for Speed Stakes Panhandle Handicap ATBA Spring Sales S Hancock County Handicap TTA Sales Futurity - Colts & Geldings Division
Sunland Park Delta Downs Delta Downs Delta Downs Delta Downs Oaklawn Park Portland Meadows Fair Grounds Evangeline Downs Charles Town Churchill Downs Evangeline Downs Mountaineer Turf Paradise Mountaineer Lone Star
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Class
R S R S
Gr 3
R R
Race Date
Value
Age
7-Feb-09 $50,000 3+ 7-Feb-09 $45,000 4+ 7-Feb-09 $100,000 4+ 7-Feb-09 $45,000 4+ F&M 7-Feb-09 $100,000 4+ F&M 21-Feb-09 $50,000 4+ F&M 23-Mar-09 $10,000 4+ 28-Mar-09 $60,000 4+LA Bred 11-Apr-09 $50,000 3F 18-Apr-09 $100,000 3+ 30-Apr-09 $100,000 2 1-May-09 $50,000 3+ 2-May-09 $75,000 3+ 3-May-09$50,000 (+$25,000 for AZ bred) 2 12-May-09 $75,000 3+ FM 6-Jun-09 $100,000 2 CG
Surface D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1100 1000 1100 1100 0900 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
5 5 5 5 5 5 1/16 5 5 1/16 5 1/16 4 1/16 5 5 5 5 5 5
30-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 13-Feb-09 14-Mar-09 27-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 22-Apr-09 20-Apr-09 28-Apr-09 1-May-09
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Less than 5.5f (1100m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
TTA Sales Futurity - Fillies Division Lady Charles Town S Charles Town Invitational Dash DS Shine Young Memorial Futurity (C & G) DS Shine Young Memorial Futurity (F) Pierre LeBlanc Memorial Ladies Sprint Stakes Dale Baird Memorial S Junius Delahoussaye Memorial Stakes Texas Stallion Stakes - Staunch Avenger Division Texas Stallion Stakes - Pan Zareta Division Prairie Gold Lassie Prairie Gold Juvenile John Franks Memorial Sales Stakes (F) John Franks Memorial Sales Stakes (C & G) Barenscheer Juvenile Stakes West Virginia Sprint Derby
Lone Star Charles Town Charles Town Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Mountaineer Evangeline Downs Lone Star Lone Star Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Canterbury Charles Town
Class
Race Date
Value
R
6-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 31-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 9-Aug-09 15-Aug-09
$100,000 $100,000 $250,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $125,000 $125,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000
S S S S R R
R R
Age
Surface
2F 3F 3+ 2 CG 2F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2 CG 2F 2F 2 2F 2 CG 2 3
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1000 0900 0900 1000 1000 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1000 1000 1100 1100 1100 0900
Distance Furlongs 5 4 1/16 4 1/16 5 5 5 1/16 5 1/16 5 1/16 5 1/16 5 1/16 5 5 5 1/16 5 1/16 5 1/16 4 1/16
Closing Date 1-May-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 15-Apr-09 15-Apr-09 13-Jun-09 22-Jun-09 13-Jun-09
10-Jul-09 10-Jul-09 20-May-09 20-May-09 30-Jul-09 1-Aug-09
Less than 5.5f (1100m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA GB USA USA USA JPN USA
Colonel Power S Mardi Gras S Bienville S Turf Dash Shakertown Stakes Aegon Turf Sprint Stakes Tellike Stakes Honor the Hero Stakes King’s Stand St Nevill/Kyocera Stakes Lone Star Park Turf Sprint Arlington Sprint Ibis Summer Dash Troy Stakes
Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Tampa Bay Downs Keeneland Churchill Downs Evangeline Downs Canterbury Ascot Lone Star Lone Star Arlington Park Niigata Saratoga
Class
Gr 3 Gr 3
Gp 1
Gr 3
Race Date
Value
7-Feb-09 24-Feb-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 11-Apr-09 1-May-09 2-May-09 25-May-09 16-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 4-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 19-Jul-09 17-Aug-09
$75,000 $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $35,000 £300,000 $50,000 $50,000 $200,000 $960,000 $80,000
Age
Surface
4+ 3F 4+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 4+
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 1100 1100 1100 1000 1100 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1100 1000 1100
Distance Furlongs 5 1/16 5 1/16 5 1/16 5 5 1/16 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 1/16 5 5 1/16
Closing Date 24-Jan-09 7-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 1-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 22-Apr-09 14-May-09 21-Apr-09 11-Jun-09 25-Jun-09 1-Jul-09 9-Jun-09 1-Aug-09
6f-6.5f (1200m-1300m) AWT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Honest Lady S St. Patrick’s Day H Golden Gate Fields Sprint Hansel S Queen S San Miguel S Santa Paula S Potrero Grande B/C H Las Flores H Raise Your Skirts White Oak Handicap Isaac Murphy Handicap Weekend Delight S Kentucky Cup Sprint Marfa S BC Sprint Holiday Inaugural Stakes Gowell S Holiday Cheer Stakes
Santa Anita Turfway Park Golden Gate Fields Turfway Park Turfway Park Santa Anita Santa Anita Santa Anita Santa Anita Golden Gate Fields Arlington Park Arlington Park Turfway Park Turfway Park Turfway Park Oak Tree at Santa Anita Turfway Park Turfway Park Turfway Park
Class
Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S Gr 3 Gr 1 S S
Race Date
Value
7-Mar-09 15-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 5-Apr-09 9-May-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 19-Sep-09 26-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 7-Nov-09 29-Nov-09 19-Dec-09 26-Dec-09
$100,000 $50,000 $75,000 $50,000 $50,000 $70,000 $100,000 $150,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $2,000,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000
Age
Surface
4+ F&M 4+ 4+ 3 4+ F&M 3 3F 4+ 4+ F&M 4+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 2F 3+
AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT
Distance Metres 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1300 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200
Distance Furlongs 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6
Closing Date 26-Feb-09 5-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 11-Mar-09 11-Mar-09 19-Mar-09 19-Mar-09 26-Mar-09 26-Mar-09 2-May-09 10-Jun-09 10-Jun-09 9-Sep-09 16-Sep-09 23-Sep-09 26-Oct-09 19-Nov-09 9-Dec-09 6-Dec-09
6f-6.5f (1200m-1300m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA
Pan Zareta S Marshua Governor’s Speed H Santa Teresa H Dearly Precious Stakes Phoenix Gold Cup Hurricane Bertie H Fred Cappy Capossela Stakes Hollie Hughes Mountain Valley S Broadway Handicap Mahab Al Shimaal Toboggan Handicap Duncan F Kenner S
Fair Grounds Laurel Park Portland Meadows Sunland Park Aqueduct Turf Paradise Gulfstream Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Oaklawn Park Aqueduct Nad Al Sheba Aqueduct Fair Grounds
Class
S
Gr 3 S S Gr 3 Gr 3
Race Date
Value
7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 11-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 15-Feb-09 15-Feb-09 16-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 1-Mar-09 5-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 14-Mar-09
$75,000 $50,000 $18,000 $50,000 $65,000 $100,000 $125,000 $65,000 $65,000 $50,000 $65,000 $200,000 $100,000 $125,000
Age
Surface
4+ F&M 3F 4+ 3+ F&M 3F 4+ 4+ F&M 3 3+ (NY bred) 3 3+ FM (NY bred) NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ 3+ 4+
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
24-Jan-09 29-Jan-09 2-Feb-09 6-Feb-09 31-Jan-09 6-Feb-09 31-Jan-09 31-Jan-09 31-Jan-09 20-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 2-Mar-09 21-Feb-09 28-Feb-09
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6f-6.5f (1200m-1300m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Bill Thomas Memorial H Mesa H Cicada Stakes Coyote H Hot Springs S Distaff Handicap Prima Donna S Natural State Breeders Dubai Golden Shaheen Carousel H Rainbow Miss S Happy Ticket S Rainbow S New York Stallion Series - Park Avenue Division New York Stallion Series - Times Square Division Hilton Garden Inn Sprint Primonetta Stakes Princess of Palms H Count Fleet Sprint H Inaugural S Czaria H Fonner Park Special Stakes Inaugural Handicap Fonner Park Special Stakes JEH Stallion Station Stakes Daylight Sprint Ann Owens Distaff H Land of Lincoln Stakes Robert S Molaro Handicap Governor’s Lady Handicap Richland Hills Stakes Pretty Jenny Stakes Russell and Helen Foutz Distaff Handicap Sandra Hall Grand Canyon H Joanne Dye S Route 66 Stakes Goldfinch Wilma Mankiller Stakes Golden Circle Mamie Eisenhower Ford Express Stakes Lady Slipper Stakes 10,000 Lakes Stakes John Wayne Waterford Park Handicap Ritto Stakes Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs Classics Stakes OTA Classic Stakes Vagrancy Handicap Bob Bryant Valid Expectations Stakes Winning Colors Stakes Gray’s Lake Ohio Valley Handicap Aristides Stakes Prairie Express Prairie Rose Hoist Her Flag Stakes True North Handicap Carter McGregor Jr. Memorial Stakes Aztec Oaks Shot of Gold Stakes Saylorville Iowa Sprint H Debutante Stakes Dine Stakes Frontier Trophy Buckles Allowance Stake Bashford Manor Stakes Prioress Stakes Victor Myers Stakes Frances Genter Stakes Valor Farm Stakes Harold V Goodman Memorial Claiming Crown Glass Slipper Silver Spur Breeders’ Cup Stakes Claiming Crown Express Claiming Crown Rapid Transit Middleground Breeders’ Cup Stakes
Sunland Park Turf Paradise Aqueduct Turf Paradise Oaklawn Park Aqueduct Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Nad Al Sheba Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Fair Grounds Oaklawn Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Tampa Bay Downs Laurel Park Turf Paradise Oaklawn Park Evangeline Downs Sunland Park Fonner Park SunRay Park Fonner Park Lone Star Sunland Park Turf Paradise Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne Lone Star Hawthorne SunRay Park Turf Paradise Turf Paradise Will Rogers Downs Prairie Meadows Will Rogers Downs Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Lone Star Canterbury Canterbury Prairie Meadows Mountaineer Kyoto Will Rogers Downs Will Rogers Downs Belmont Park Prairie Meadows Lone Star Churchill Downs Prairie Meadows Mountaineer Churchill Downs Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Canterbury Belmont Park Lone Star SunRay Park Canterbury Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Churchill Downs SunRay Park SunRay Park Churchill Downs Belmont Park Canterbury Canterbury Lone Star Lone Star Canterbury Lone Star Canterbury Canterbury Lone Star
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Class
Gr 3 R Gr 2
Gr 1 S S S R R
R Gr 3
S S R S R R
S S S
S S S S
S S Gr 2 S Gr 3 S Gr 3
Gr 2 R S
Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 1 S S R R
Race Date
Value
14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 16-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 22-Mar-09 27-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 5-Apr-09 10-Apr-09 10-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 21-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 15-May-09 16-May-09 16-May-09 16-May-09 16-May-09 16-May-09 17-May-09 23-May-09 23-May-09 24-May-09 25-May-09 25-May-09 25-May-09 25-May-09 26-May-09 30-May-09 30-May-09 30-May-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 21-Jun-09 26-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 28-Jun-09 3-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 26-Jul-09
$50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $2,000,000 $50,000 $50,000 $60,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $85,000 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $25,000 $40,000 $25,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $75,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $65,000 $50,000 $35,000 $35,000 $65,000 $75,000 $510,000 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $55,000 $100,000 $100,000 $55,000 $75,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $250,000 $50,000 $75,000 $35,000 $100,000 $125,000 $100,000 $75,000 $50,000 $100,000 $300,000 $35,000 $35,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75K/$25K (BC) $50,000 $75,000 $75K/$25K (BC)
Age
Surface
3+ 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 4+ 3+ FM 3F 3 F (ARK Bred) NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ 4+ F&M 3 F (Ark Bred) 4+ F&M LA Bred 3 C&G (Ark Bred) 3F 3 4+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3 CG 3+ FM (TX bred) 3 3+ F&M (AZ bred) 3 (IL bred) 4+ (IL bred) 4+ FM (IL bred) 3F 3 F (IL bred) 3+ FM 3+ (AZ bred) 3 F (AZ bred) 3+ CG 3F 3+ FM 3 4+ F&M (IA bred) 3+ 3+ FM 3+ CG 4+ C/G/H (IA bred) 3+ 4+ 3+ FM 3+ CG 3+ FM 3 F (IA bred) 3+ FM 3+ FM 3 C&G (IA bred) 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ 3+ (TX bred) 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 3 CG 3F 2 3F 3 CG 3F 3 F (TX bred) 3 (TX bred) 3+ FM 2F 3+ 3+ 2 CG
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1300 1300 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200
Distance Furlongs 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6
Closing Date 6-Mar-09 6-Mar-09 28-Feb-09 6-Mar-09 13-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 13-Mar-09 29-Jan-09 7-Jan-09 20-Mar-09 1-Oct-08 14-Mar-09 1-Oct-08
21-Mar-09 26-Mar-09 27-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 27-Mar-09 3-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 12-Apr-08 9-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 17-Apr-09 13-Apr-09 13-Apr-09 13-Apr-09 16-Apr-09 13-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 17-Apr-09 17-Apr-09 21-Apr-09 17-Apr-09 21-Apr-09 24-Apr-09 8-May-09 7-May-09 11-May-09 11-May-09 8-May-09 4-May-09 31-Mar-09 12-May-09 12-May-09 9-May-09 1-Mar-09 14-May-09 9-May-09 1-Mar-09 12-May-09 16-May-09 22-May-09 22-May-09 28-May-09 23-May-09 4-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 11-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 2-Jul-09 2-Jul-09 2-Jul-09 2-Jul-09 17-Apr-09 16-Jul-09 17-Apr-09 17-Apr-09 16-Jul-09
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6f-6.5f (1200m-1300m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA
Schuylerville Stakes Sanford Stakes Mountaineer Juvenile Stakes Harvey Arneault Memorial Stakes West Virginia Secretary of State Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies Stakes Amsterdam Stakes John Morrissey Stakes Honorable Miss Handicap Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap Kenny Schoepf Stakes Adirondack Stakes Saratoga Special Stakes Union Avenue Stakes Victory Ride Stakes MN Distaff Sprint Championship Northern Lights Futurity Stakes MN Sprint Championship Northern Lights Debutante Stakes Opelousas Stakes Coca-Cola Bassinet Stakes Lafayette Stakes Gallant Bloom Handicap Vosburgh Stakes Hudson Handicap Powerless Handicap Showtime Deb Stakes Sun Power Stakes Lightning Jet Handicap New York Stallion Series - Fif th Avenue Division New York Stallion Series - Great White Way Division Sophomore Sprint Championship Stakes Fall Highweight Handicap Garland of Roses Handicap Gravesend Handicap Capella Stakes Christmas Stakes New Year’s Eve Stakes
Saratoga Saratoga Mountaineer Mountaineer Mountaineer Mountaineer Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Canterbury Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Evangeline Downs River Downs Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne Aqueduct Aqueduct Mountaineer Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct Nakayama Mountaineer Mountaineer
Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 3 Gr 2
29-Jul-09 30-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 3-Aug-09 6-Aug-09 9-Aug-09 9-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 19-Aug-09 20-Aug-09 24-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 5-Sep-09 5-Sep-09 7-Sep-09 26-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 15-Nov-09 15-Nov-09 17-Nov-09 26-Nov-09 5-Dec-09 12-Dec-09 13-Dec-09 26-Dec-09 29-Dec-09
$100,000 $150,000 $85,000 $85,000 $85,000 $85,000 $150,000 $80,000 $150,000 $250,000 $25,000 $150,000 $150,000 $80,000 $100,000 $50,000 $60,000 $50,000 $60,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $150,000 $400,000 $125,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $65,000 $65,000 $925,000 $75,000 $75,000
Gr 2 S Gr 2 Gr 2 S Gr 2 Gr 2 S Gr 3 S S S S
Gr 2 Gr 1 S S S S S R R Gr 3
Gr 3
Age
Surface
2F 2 2 3+ 3+ FM 2F 3 3+ (NY bred) 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2F 2 3+ FM (NY bred) 3F 3+ FM 2 CG 3+ 2F 2F 2F 2 3+ FM 3+ 3+ (NY bred) 3+ FM (IL bred) 2 F (IL bred) 2 CG (IL bred) 3+ (IL bred) 2F 2 3 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1300 1200 1200 1300 1300 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200
Distance Furlongs 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 6 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
Closing Date 18-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 20-Jul-09 20-Jul-09 20-Jul-09 20-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 30-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 6-Aug-09 8-Aug-09 8-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 20-Aug-09 1-Apr-09 20-Aug-09 1-Apr-09 22-Aug-09 12-Jun-09 22-Aug-09 12-Sep-09 19-Sep-09 10-Oct-09
3-Nov-09 14-Nov-09 21-Nov-09 12-Dec-09 27-Oct-09 14-Dec-09 14-Dec-09
6f-6.5f (1200m-1300m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
Class
Race Date
Value
USA AUS UAE USA AUS USA JPN JPN USA USA JPN USA JPN JPN GB JPN USA JPN JPN JPN JPN JPN
Daytona Handicap Blue Diamond Stakes Al Quoz Sprint Baldwin S VRC Newmarket Hcp Irish O’Brien S Chunichi Sports Sho Falcon Stakes Tamakatsunomiya Kinen Sensational Star H Las Cienegas H Syunrai Stakes San Simeon H TV Aichi Open CBC Sho Golden Jubilee St Hakodate Sprint Stakes Jaipur Stakes TV Nishinippon Corp Sho Kitakyushu Kinen Keeneland Cup Centaur Stakes Sprinters Stakes Keihan Hai
Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 1 S Gr 3 Gr 1
15-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 26-Feb-09 1-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 15-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 12-Apr-09 12-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 23-May-09 14-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 5-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 16-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 13-Sep-09 4-Oct-09 28-Nov-09
$100,000 AUS$1,000,000 $200,000 $100,000 AUS$1,000,000 $125,000 $940,000 $2,240,000 $125,000 $100,000 $510,000 $100,000 $510,000 $1,000,000 £450,000 $960,000 $150,000 $960,000 $960,000 $1,420,000 $2,240,000 $960,000
Santa Anita Caulfield Nad Al Sheba Santa Anita Caulfield Santa Anita Chukyo Chukyo Santa Anita Santa Anita Nakayama Santa Anita Chukyo Chukyo Ascot Sapporo Belmont Park Kokura Sapporo Hanshin Nakayama Kyoto
Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3
Age
Surface
4+ 2 NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ 3 3+ 4+ F&M (CA bred) 3 4+ 4+ (CA bred) 4+ F&M 4+ 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 1300 1200 1200 1300 1200 1300 1200 1200 1300 1300 1200 1300 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
6 1/16 6 6 6 1/16 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 1/16 6 1/16 6 6 1/16 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
5-Feb-09 23-Feb-09 19-Feb-09 5-Mar-09 3-Feb-09 17-Feb-09 19-Mar-09 2-Apr-09 3-Mar-09 9-Apr-09 14-Apr-09 28-Apr-09 21-Apr-09 26-May-09 4-Jul-09 7-Jul-09 21-Jul-09 4-Aug-09 18-Aug-09 13-Oct-09
7f-7.5f (1400m-1500m) AWT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
San Vicente S San Carlos H Beaumont Stakes Vinery Madison Commonwealth BC Stakes Chicaco BC Handicap BC Filly & Mare Sprint
Santa Anita Santa Anita Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Arlington Park Oak Tree at Santa Anita
Class Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1
Race Date
Value
16-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 8-Apr-09 9-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 4-Jul-09 6-Nov-09
$150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $300,000 $250,000 $100K/$50K $1,000,000
Age
Surface
3 4+ 3F 4+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M
AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT
Distance Metres 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400
Distance Furlongs 7 7 abt 7 7 7 7 7
Closing Date 5-Feb-09 12-Feb-09 1-Apr-09 1-Apr-09 1-Apr-09 24-Jun-09 26-Oct-09
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7f-7.5f (1400m-1500m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Louisiana Premier Night Prince Super S Louisiana Premier Night Starlet Barbara Fritchie Handicap Richter Scale General George Handicap Miracle Wood Stakes Magnolia Gold Cup Wide Country Stakes Sunshine State Conniver Stakes Inside Information Swale S Carter Handicap Coral Stakes Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies Bay Shore Stakes Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore Sugar Maple Stakes Blue & Gold Bed O’ Roses Handicap Derby Trial Churchill Downs Stakes Humana Distaff Stakes Nassau County Stakes Eight Belles Bouwerie Stakes Matt Winn Stakes Cinemine Stakes Keyaki Stakes Woody Stephens Stakes Salute Stakes Acclaim S Red Legend S Wild and Wonderful S Dr OG Fischer Memorial Handicap Mike Lee Stakes First Flight Handicap Mervin Muniz Memorial Star ter Stakes Tom Fool Handicap Procyon Stakes Oak Hall Stakes Test Charles Town Juvenile Charles Town Oaks NetJets King’s Bishop Stakes Ballerina Stakes Forego Handicap Spinaway Stakes Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes Futurity Stakes Matron Stakes Joseph A Gimma Stakes Bertram F Bongard Stakes Iroquois Handicap Bold Ruler New York Stallion Series - Staten Island Division New York Stallion Series - Thunder Rumble Division
Delta Downs Tampa Bay Downs Delta Downs Laurel Park Gulfstream Park Laurel Park Laurel Park Delta Downs Delta Downs Laurel Park Gulfstream Park Laurel Park Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Aqueduct Hanshin Tampa Bay Downs Aqueduct Tampa Bay Downs Charles Town Charles Town Aqueduct Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Belmont Park Churchill Downs Belmont Park Churchill Downs Lone Star Tokyo Belmont Park Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Charles Town Charles Town SunRay Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Hanshin Evangeline Downs Saratoga Charles Town Charles Town Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct
Class
Race Date
Value
S
7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 16-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 6-Mar-09 6-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 15-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 3-May-09 16-May-09 25-May-09 30-May-09 6-Jun-09 12-Jun-09 12-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 21-Jun-09 21-Jun-09 28-Jun-09 4-Jul-09 5-Jul-09 12-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 8-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 5-Sep-09 6-Sep-09 7-Sep-09 19-Sep-09 19-Sep-09 27-Sep-09 27-Sep-09 24-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 15-Nov-09 15-Nov-09
$125,000 $75,000 $125,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $75,000 $50,000 $150,000 $150,000 $300,000 $510,000 $85,000 $200,000 $85,000 $250,000 $100,000 $150,000 $100,000 $250,000 $300,000 $200,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $510,000 $250,000 $50,000 $50,000 $250,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 $200,000 $920,000 $50,000 $300,000 $100,000 $250,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $250,000 $250,000 $100,000 $100,000 $125,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000
S Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1
Gr 3
Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 S
Gr 2 S R S S Gr 2 R Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1
Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 S S S Gr 3 R R
Age
Surface
3 4+ 3F 3+ FM 4+ 3+ 3 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 4+ Fla-bred 3+ FM 4+ F&M 3 3+ 4+ 3F 3 3 4+ F&M 3 3+ FM 3 4+ 4+ FM 3F 3F 3 F (NY bred) 3 3F 3+ 3 3F 3 3 3+ 3+ FM 3 (NY bred) 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 2 3F 3 3+ FM 3+ 2F 2 2 2F 2 F (NY bred) 2 (NY bred) 3+ FM (NY bred) 3+ 3+ FM 3+
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1500 1400 1400 1400 1500 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1500 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400
Distance Furlongs 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 1/16 7 7 7 7 1/16 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 1/16 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
Closing Date 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 5-Feb-09 31-Jan-09 5-Feb-09 19-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 26-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 5-Mar-09 28-Feb-09 14-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 17-Feb-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 6-May-09 14-May-09 14-Apr-09 23-May-09 3-Jun-09 3-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 26-May-09 9-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 22-Aug-09 22-Aug-09 22-Aug-09 5-Sep-09 5-Sep-09 12-Sep-09 12-Sep-09 10-Oct-09 17-Oct-09
7f-7.5f (1400m-1500m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA JPN USA USA JPN JPN USA USA USA JPN JPN
Appleton H Arizona Stallion S Sankei Sports Hai Hanshin Himba Stakes South Beach S Irving Distaff Tanigawadake Stakes Keio Hai Spring Cup New York Stallion Series - Spectacular Bid Division New York Stallion Series - Cupecoy’s Joy Division Brooks Fields Stakes Mainichi Broadcasting System Sho Swan Stakes Hanshin Cup
Gulfstream Park Turf Paradise Hanshin Gulfstream Park Lone Star Niigata Tokyo Belmont Park Belmont Park Canterbury Kyoto Hanshin
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Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 3 S Gr 2
28-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 3-May-09 16-May-09 31-May-09 31-May-09 6-Jun-09 31-Oct-09 20-Dec-09
$100,000 $50,000 $1,300,000 $50,000 $50,000 $510,000 $1,420,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $1,420,000 $1,660,000
Gr 2 R R Gr 2 Gr 2
Age
Surface
4+ 3 4+ FM 4+ F&M 3+ FM 4+ 4+ 3 3F 3+ 3+ 3+
T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 1500 1500 1400 1500 1500 1400 1400 1400 1400 1500 1400 1400
Distance Furlongs 7 1/16 7 1/16 7 7 1/16 7 1/16 7 7 7 7 7 1/16 7 7
Closing Date 14-Mar-09 3-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 16-Apr-09 17-Mar-09 31-Mar-09
28-May-09 15-Sep-09 10-Nov-09
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8f-8.5f (1600m-1700m) AWT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Robert B Lewis S Campanile Las Virgenes S Likely Exchange Stakes Dust Commander Stakes Santa Maria H Valdale Stakes Santa Anita Oaks Wintergreen S San Felipe S Word the Crowd Stakes Bourbonette Oaks Fairway Fun S Ashland Stakes Santana Mile S Santa Lucia H Doubledogdare Stakes Coolmore Lexington Stakes Hanshin Cup Berkeley Stakes Purple Violet Stakes Springfield Stakes Arlington-Washington BC Lassie Arlington-Washington Futurity Kentucky Cup Distaff BC Juvenile Fillies BC Dirt Mile BC Juvenile My Charmer Stakes
Santa Anita Golden Gate Fields Santa Anita Turfway Park Turfway Park Santa Anita Turfway Park Santa Anita Turfway Park Santa Anita Golden Gate Fields Turfway Park Turfway Park Keeneland Santa Anita Santa Anita Keeneland Keeneland Arlington Park Golden Gate Fields Arlington Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Turfway Park Oak Tree at Santa Anita Oak Tree at Santa Anita Oak Tree at Santa Anita Turfway Park
Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 2
7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 17-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 23-May-09 25-May-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 5-Sep-09 5-Sep-09 26-Sep-09 6-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 5-Dec-09
$200,000 $75,000 $300,000 $50,000 $50,000 $300,000 $50,000 $300,000 $50,000 $200,000 $75,000 $150,000 $50,000 $400,000 $70,000 $70,000 $100,000 $300,000 $100,000 $150,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100K/$50K $150,000 $100,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000 $2,000,000 $50,000
Gr 1
Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 R Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 S S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 S
Age
Surface
3 4+ FM 3F 4+ F&M 4+ 4+ F&M 3F 3F 4+ F&M 3 4+ FM CA Bred 3F 4+ F&M 3F 4+ 4+ F&M 4+ FM 3 3+ 4+ 3F 3 2F 2 3+ F&M 2F 3+ 2 C&G 3+ F&M
AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT
Distance Metres 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1700 1600 1700 1700 1600 1700 1700 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1600 1700 1700
Distance Furlongs 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16
Closing Date 29-Jan-09 31-Jan-09 29-Jan-09 28-Jan-09 4-Feb-09 5-Feb-09 11-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 25-Feb-09 5-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 11-Mar-09 18-Mar-09 18-Feb-09 26-Mar-09 2-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 13-May-09 16-May-09 10-Jun-09 10-Jun-09 26-Aug-09 26-Aug-09 16-Sep-09 26-Oct-09 26-Oct-09 26-Oct-09 25-Nov-09
8f-8.5f (1600m-1700m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Invitational H Louisiana Premier Night Gentlemen Star ter Silverbulletday S Risen Star S Mineschaft H Louisiana Premier Night Ladies Star ter Louisiana Premier Night Distaff Louisiana Premier Night Championship Whirlaway Essex H UAE 2000 Guineas Suncoast S Chou Croute H Sam F Davis S Pippin S Curribot H Martha Washington S Southwest S Invitiational H Sabin Turf Paradise Derby Arizona Oaks New Mexico State University S Busher Stakes Invitational H Goddess Fountain Of Youth Stakes Gulf Coast Classic Wayward Lass S Borderland Derby Davona Dale Stakes Island Fashion S Invitational H Invitational H Burj Nahaar Gotham Stakes Challenger S Razorback BC H Azeri BC S Ocala Oregon Oaks Fair Grounds Oaks Rebel S Gulfstream Park H
Portland Meadows Delta Downs Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Delta Downs Delta Downs Delta Downs Aqueduct Oaklawn Park Nad Al Sheba Tampa Bay Downs Fair Grounds Tampa Bay Downs Oaklawn Park Sunland Park Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Portland Meadows Gulfstream Park Turf Paradise Turf Paradise Sunland Park Aqueduct Portland Meadows Delta Downs Gulfstream Park Delta Downs Tampa Bay Downs Sunland Park Gulfstream Park Sunland Park Portland Meadows Portland Meadows Nad Al Sheba Aqueduct Tampa Bay Downs Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Gulfstream Park Portland Meadows Fair Grounds Oaklawn Park Gulfstream Park
Class
R Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 R S S Gr 3 Gr 3
Gr 3
S
Gr 2
Gr 2
Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3
Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2
Race Date
Value
4-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 12-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 15-Feb-09 15-Feb-09 16-Feb-09 18-Feb-09 20-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 22-Feb-09 25-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 1-Mar-09 1-Mar-09 2-Mar-09 3-Mar-09 5-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 8-Mar-09 8-Mar-09 9-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09
$10,000 $55,000 $150,000 $200,000 $125,000 $55,000 $150,000 $200,000 $100,000 $100,000 $250,000 $75,000 $60,000 $225,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $250,000 $10,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $125,000 $65,000 $10,000 $75,000 $250,000 $75,000 $65,000 $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 $10,000 $10,000 $200,000 $250,000 $65,000 ÂŁ150,000 $175,000 $75,000 $18,000 $400,000 $300,000 $300,000
Age
Surface
3 4+ 3F 3 4+ 4+ F&M 4+F&M 4+ 3 4+ NH 3yo SH 3yo 3F 4+ F&M 3 4+ F&M 3+ 3F 3 3F 4+ F&M 3 3F 4+ (Reg NM bred) 3F 3 4+ F&M 3 4+ 4+ F&M 3 3F 3F 4+ 4+ F&M NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 3 4+ 4+ 4+ F&M 4+ F&M Fla-bred 3F 3F 3 4+
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1664 1600 1700 1600 1600 1700 1664 1700 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600
Distance Furlongs 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8.32 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8.32 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8
Closing Date 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 30-Jan-09 9-Feb-09 31-Jan-09 31-Jan-09 31-Jan-09 6-Feb-09 6-Feb-09 6-Feb-09 6-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 13-Feb-09 13-Feb-09 13-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 20-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 21-Feb-09
2-Mar-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 27-Feb-09 27-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 2-Mar-09 28-Feb-09 6-Mar-09 28-Feb-09
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8f-8.5f (1600m-1700m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Florida Oaks Tampa Bay Derby Louisiana Derby Honeybee S Sportsman’s Paradise Green Oaks Private Terms Stakes Sydney Valentini H Portland Mile Donna Jensen H Godolphin Mile B-Connected Lookout Cresent City Oaks Cresent City Derby Harry W Henson BC H New Mexico Breeders’ Derby Nodouble Breeders Sunland Park Oaks New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks Dowd Mile Apple Blossom H Manor Downs Distance Cup Fantasy S Bayakoa S Premiere Stakes Fifth Season S Instant Racing BC Northern Spur BC Comely Stakes John Henry Stakes Withers Stakes Bosselman/Gus Fonner Stakes Milwaukee Avenue Handicap Peach of It Handicap Arizona Breeders’ Derby Tony Sanchez Memorial Mile Texas Mile Westchester Handicap Alysheba Stakes Louisville Distaff Jack Cole Handicap Texas Stallion Stakes - Got Koko Division Lone Star Derby Texas Stallion Stakes - Stymie Division Oasis Stakes Shuvee Handicap Jim Rasmussen Mem Wild Rose Lone Star Park Handicap Shadwell Metropolitan Handicap Dogwood Stakes Slipton Fell Handicap Acorn Stakes Unicorn Stakes Prairie Mile Panthers SunRay Park & Casino Handicap Hawkeyes H Ogden Phipps Handicap Northern Dancer Stakes Cyclones H Golden Sylvia Handicap Iowa Derby Iowa Oaks Alysheba Iowa Distaff J Archie Sebastien Memorial Stakes Attaway Darbonne Memorial S Dwyer Stakes Frank A Buddy Abadie Memorial Stakes Pola Benoit Memorial Stakes BB Sixty Rayburn Stakes Assault Stakes Allen Bogan Memorial Stakes Matron Stakes
Tampa Bay Downs Tampa Bay Downs Fair Grounds Oaklawn Park Delta Downs Delta Downs Laurel Park Sunland Park Portland Meadows Portland Meadows Nad Al Sheba Delta Downs Delta Downs Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Sunland Park Sunland Park Oaklawn Park Sunland Park Sunland Park Fonner Park Oaklawn Park Manor Downs Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Lone Star Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Aqueduct Evangeline Downs Aqueduct Fonner Park Hawthorne Hawthorne Turf Paradise Manor Downs Lone Star Belmont Park Churchill Downs Churchill Downs SunRay Park Lone Star Lone Star Lone Star Tokyo Belmont Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Lone Star Belmont Park Churchill Downs Mountaineer Belmont Park Tokyo Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows SunRay Park Prairie Meadows Belmont Park Churchill Downs Prairie Meadows Mountaineer Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Lone Star Prairie Meadows Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Lone Star Lone Star Evangeline Downs
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Class
Race Date
Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2
14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 15-Mar-09 20-Mar-09 20-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 22-Mar-09 23-Mar-09 23-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 5-Apr-09 5-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 9-Apr-09 9-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 29-Apr-09 1-May-09 1-May-09 2-May-09 9-May-09 9-May-09 9-May-09 10-May-09 16-May-09 23-May-09 23-May-09 25-May-09 25-May-09 30-May-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 7-Jun-09 12-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 26-Jun-09 26-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 25-Jul-09
S
Gr 2 R R S S S
S Gr 1 S Gr 2
Gr 2 Gr 3 R R S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 S R Gr 3 R Gr 2
Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 3
S Gr 1 Gr 3 S
Gr 3
S R Gr 2 S S S R R S
Value
Age
Surface
$200,000 3F $300,000 3 $600,000 3 $100,000 3F $75,000 3 $75,000 3F $50,000 3 $100,000 34 F&M (Reg NM bred) $30,000 3+ $18,000 3+ F&M $1,000,000 NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ $50,000 3+ $50,000 3+ F&M $75,000 3 F L Bred $75,000 3 LA Bred $50K(BC)/$100K 3+ F&M $100,000 3 (Reg NM Bred) $50,000 4+ (Ark Bred) $200,000 3F $100,000 3 F (Reg NM Bred) $20,000 3+ $500,000 4+ F&M $50,000 3+ $250,000 3F $100,000 4+ F&M $50,000 3+ (TX bred) $100,000 4+ $75K 3F $75K 3 $150,000 3F $50,000 3+ $150,000 3 $75,000 3+ $100,000 3+ (IL bred) $100,000 3+ FM (IL bred) $40,000 3 (AZ bred) $50,000 3+ $300,000 3+ $100,000 3+ $150,000 3+ $200,000 3+ FM $100,000 3+ $125,000 3F $400,000 3 $125,000 3 CG $510,000 4+ $150,000 3+ FM $50,000 3+ $50,000 3+ F&M $400,000 3+ $600,000 3+ $100,000 3F $75,000 3+ $300,000 3F $895,000 3 $50,000 3 $50,000 3F $50,000 3 $70,000 3+ F&M (IA bred) $300,000 3+ FM $150,000 3 $70,000 3+ C/G/H (IA bred) $75,000 3+ FM $250,000 3 $200,000 3F $75,000 3 $125,000 3+ F&M $100,000 4+ FM $100,000 3+ $200,000 3 $75,000 3F $100,000 4+ $75,000 3 $100,000 3+ (TX bred) $50,000 3+ FM (TX bred) $50,000 3+ FM
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1625 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1700 1700 1600 1700 1625 1700 1700 1600 1700 1600 1700 1600 1600
Distance Furlongs 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8.32 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8.32 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8
Closing Date 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 6-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 12-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 16-Mar-09 16-Mar-09 7-Jan-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 29-Jan-09 14-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 26-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 2-Apr-09 28-Mar-09 3-Apr-09 3-Apr-09 28-Mar-09 10-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 15-Apr-09 13-Apr-09 13-Apr-09 15-Apr-09 16-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 30-Apr-09 31-Mar-09 2-May-09 15-May-09 15-May-09 14-May-09 9-May-09 16-May-09 25-May-09 23-May-09 28-Apr-09 29-May-09 29-May-09 30-May-09 5-Jun-09 30-May-09 30-May-09 5-Jun-09 2-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 18-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 2-Jul-09 2-Jul-09 16-Jul-09
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8f-8.5f (1600m-1700m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Claiming Crown Iron Horse Minnesota Derby West Virginia Governor’s Stakes Minnesota Oaks Evangeline Mile MN Distaff Classic Championship MN Classic Championship Ruffian Handicap Frizette Stakes Champagne Stakes Jerome Handicap Autumn Leaves Stakes Sleepy Hollow Stakes Maid of the Mist Stakes Illini Princess Handicap Buck’s Boy Handicap Mountaineer Mile Handicap Nashua Stakes Tempted Stakes Tokyo Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino Stakes Top Flight Handicap Hill ‘n’ Dale Cigar Mile Handicap Pat Whitworth Illinois Debutante Stakes East View Stakes Damon Runyon Stakes Jim Edgar Illinois Futurity Alex M Robb Handicap
Canterbury Canterbury Mountaineer Canterbury Evangeline Downs Canterbury Canterbury Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Mountaineer Belmont Park Belmont Park Hawthorne Hawthorne Mountaineer Aqueduct Aqueduct Tokyo Aqueduct Aqueduct Hawthorne Aqueduct Aqueduct Hawthorne Aqueduct
Class
S S S S Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 S S S S Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 S S S S S
Race Date
Value
25-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 12-Sep-09 10-Oct-09 10-Oct-09 11-Oct-09 20-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 7-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 27-Nov-09 28-Nov-09 5-Dec-09 6-Dec-09 6-Dec-09 12-Dec-09 27-Dec-09
$50,000 $60,000 $125,000 $60,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $300,000 $400,000 $400,000 $150,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $125,000 $150,000 $100,000 $925,000 $150,000 $300,000 $100,000 $65,000 $65,000 $100,000 $65,000
Age
Surface
3+ 3 CG 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 2F 2 3 3+ FM 2 (NY bred) 2 F (NY bred) 3+ FM (IL bred) 3+ (IL bred) 3+ 2 2F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 2 F (IL bred) 2 F (NY bred) 2 2 CG (IL bred) 3+
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1700 1625 1700 1625 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700
Distance Furlongs 8 1/16 8 & 70y 8 1/16 8 & 70y 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16
Closing Date 17-Apr-09 1-Apr-09 20-Jul-09 1-Apr-09 6-Aug-09 20-Aug-09 20-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 26-Sep-09 26-Sep-09 26-Sep-09 6-Oct-09 10-Oct-09 10-Oct-09
26-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 29-Sep-09 14-Nov-09 14-Nov-09 21-Nov-09 21-Nov-09 12-Dec-09
8f-8.5f (1600m-1700m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
UAE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE UAE USA USA UAE AUS USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA JPN AUS
Cape Verdi Tallahassee Thunder Road H Marion County Hallandale Beach S Endeavour BC Stakes Turf Paradise H Sun City H Coconut Grove Buena Vista Hcp Al Fahidi Fort Balanchine Filly & Mare Valentine Dancer Handicap Tampa Bay BC Stakes Zabeel Mile Power Pays Futurity Stakes Sarah Lane’s Oates S Canadian Turf H Crystal Water H Gentilly S Jebel Hatta Frank E Kilroe Mile Honey Fox H Allen Lacombe Memorial H China Doll Kochi Stakes Scottsdale H Tempe H Pasadena S Fortin H Dubai Duty Free Red Camelia S Central Bank Transylvania Stakes Dayton Andrews Dodge Sophomore Turf L&D Farm Turf Distaff Providencia S Arcadia H Lord Derby Challenge Trophy Maker’s Mark Mile La Puente S Jenny Wiley Stakes Dahlia Stakes New Zealand Trophy Doncaster Hcp
Nad Al Sheba Gulfstream Park Santa Anita Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Tampa Bay Downs Turf Paradise Turf Paradise Gulfstream Park Santa Anita Nad Al Sheba Nad Al Sheba Santa Anita Tampa Bay Downs Nad Al Sheba Caulfield Fair Grounds Gulfstream Park Santa Anita Fair Grounds Nad Al Sheba Santa Anita Gulfstream Park Fair Grounds Santa Anita Nakayama Turf Paradise Turf Paradise Santa Anita Fair Grounds Nad Al Sheba Fair Grounds Keeneland Tampa Bay Downs Tampa Bay Downs Santa Anita Santa Anita Nakayama Keeneland Santa Anita Keeneland Laurel Park Nakayama Randwick
Class
Race Date
Gr 3
5-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 8-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 15-Feb-09 16-Feb-09 19-Feb-09 20-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 26-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 5-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 8-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 15-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 3-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 5-Apr-09 10-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09
Gr 3
Gr 3
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3
Gr 3 Gp 1 S Gr 3 S S Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 S
Gr 1 Gr 3
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gp 1
Value
Age
Surface
$200,000 NH F&M 4yo+ SH F&M 3yo+ T $75,000 4+ Fla-bred T $100,000 4+ T $75,000 4+ F&M Fla-bred T $125,000 3 T $50K(BC)/$100K 4+ F&M T $50,000 4+ T $50,000 4+ F&M T $125,000 3F T $150,000 4+ F&M T $250,000 NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ T $200,000 NH F&M 4yo+ SH F&M 3yo+ T $100,000 4+ F&M (CA bred) T $50K(BC)/$100K 4+ T $200,000 NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ T AUS$500,000 3+ T $60,000 3 F LA Bred T $150,000 4+ T $100,000 4+ (CA bred) T $60,000 3 LA Bred T $250,000 NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ T $300,000 4+ T $100,000 4+ F&M T $60,000 4+ T $70,000 3F T $500,000 4+ T $50,000 3F T $50,000 3 T $70,000 3 T $60,000 4+ F&M T $5,000,000 NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ T $60,000 4+ F&M LA Bred T $150,000 3 T $85,000 3 T $85,000 4+ F&M T $150,000 3F T $150,000 4+ T $960,000 4+ T $300,000 4+ T $100,000 3 T $200,000 4+ FM T $50,000 3+ FM T $1,285,000 3 No G T AUS$2,000,000 3+ T
Distance Metres 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1700 1600 1600 1777 1600 1700 1600 1600 1700 1600 1600 1700 1777 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1777 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600
Distance Furlongs 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 8.9 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8.9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8.9 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 8
Closing Date 2-Feb-09 24-Jan-09 29-Jan-09 24-Jan-09 31-Jan-09 31-Jan-09 6-Feb-09 6-Feb-09 31-Jan-09 5-Feb-09 16-Feb-09 16-Feb-09 12-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 23-Feb-09 23-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 19-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 2-Mar-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 26-Feb-09 3-Feb-09 6-Mar-09 6-Mar-09 5-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Jan-09 14-Mar-09 25-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 26-Mar-09 26-Mar-09 17-Feb-09 1-Apr-09 2-Apr-09 1-Apr-09 2-Apr-09 3-Mar-09
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8f-8.5f (1600m-1700m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA HK USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN JPN GB JPN USA USA USA IRE USA IRE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA GB GB GB USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA
Appalachian Stakes Boynton Beach Golden Poppy Stakes Yomiuri Milers Cup San Francisco Mile Graind Prairie Turf Challenge Dwight D Patterson H Champions Mile Edgewood Stakes Crown Royal American Turf Stakes Fort Marcy Illinois Owners Stakes Desert Sky H Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes Beaugay Silky Sullivan Kingston Handicap NHK Mile Cup Miyakooji Stakes Lockinge St (Juddmonte) Victoria Mile Mount Vernon Handicap Arlington Classic Alcatraz Stakes Irish 2000 Guineas (Boylespor ts) American 1000 Guineas Irish 1000 Guineas (Boylespor ts) Decoration Day Handicap Memorial Day Handicap Ouija Board Distaff USA Stakes Hill Prince Stakes Early Times Mint Julep Handicap Just a Game Stakes Yasuda Kinen Poker Handicap Queen Anne St St James’s Palace St Coronation St Lincoln Heritage Handicap Black Tie Affair Handicap Lone Star Oaks HBPA Mile Stakes Blair’s Cove Stakes Dean Kutz Stakes Northbound Pride Stakes Independence Day Stakes Firecracker Stakes Firecracker Handicap Locust Grove Handicap Princess Elaine Stakes Bob Johnson Memorial Claiming Crown Tiara Lady Canterbury Breeders’ Cup Stakes Lake George Stakes West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker ’s Cup West Virginia Senate President’s S Fourstardave Handicap De La Rose Stakes Sekiya Kinen John Bullit Stakes New York Stallion Series - Cab Calloway Division New York Stallion Series - Statue of Liber ty Division Ballston Spa Handicap MN Turf Championship P.G. Johnson Stakes With Anticipation Stakes Sea O’Erin Miller Lite Cradle Stakes Labor Day Stakes Summer Finale Stakes Keisei Hai Autumn Handicap Noble Damsel Handicap Illinois Owners Stakes Indian Maid Handicap Robert F Carey Memorial Handicap Miss Grillo Stakes Pilgrim Stakes
Keeneland Gulfstream Park Golden Gate Fields Hanshin Golden Gate Fields Lone Star Turf Paradise Sha Tin Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Belmont Park Arlington Park Turf Paradise Churchill Downs Belmont Park Golden Gate Fields Belmont Park Tokyo Kyoto Newbury Tokyo Belmont Park Arlington Park Golden Gate Fields Curragh Arlington Park Curragh Mountaineer Mountaineer Lone Star Lone Star Belmont Park Churchill Downs Belmont Park Tokyo Belmont Park Ascot Ascot Ascot Arlington Park Arlington Park Lone Star Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Mountaineer Mountaineer Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Canterbury Lone Star Canterbury Canterbury Saratoga Mountaineer Mountaineer Saratoga Saratoga Niigata Canterbury Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Canterbury Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park River Downs Mountaineer Mountaineer Nakayama Belmont Park Arlington Park Hawthorne Hawthorne Belmont Park Belmont Park
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Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 3
15-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 26-Apr-09 1-May-09 1-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 10-May-09 10-May-09 10-May-09 16-May-09 17-May-09 17-May-09 23-May-09 23-May-09 23-May-09 23-May-09 24-May-09 25-May-09 25-May-09 25-May-09 25-May-09 5-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 6-Jun-09 7-Jun-09 14-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 19-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 3-Jul-09 3-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 4-Jul-09 5-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 31-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 2-Aug-09 5-Aug-09 9-Aug-09 9-Aug-09 12-Aug-09 13-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 2-Sep-09 4-Sep-09 7-Sep-09 7-Sep-09 7-Sep-09 7-Sep-09 13-Sep-09 19-Sep-09 27-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 3-Oct-09 4-Oct-09 4-Oct-09
$100,000 $50,000 $75,000 $1,400,000 $300,000 $50,000 $50,000 HK$12,000,000 $100,000 $150,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $200,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $2,180,000 $510,000 £200,000 $2,140,000 $100,000 $150,000 $75,000 €400,000 $200,000 €400,000 $75,000 $75,000 $200,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $400,000 $2,360,000 $100,000 £300,000 £300,000 £300,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75,000 $175,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $50K (BC)/$50K $150,000 $85,000 $85,000 $150,000 $80,000 $960,000 $50,000 $150,000 $150,000 $200,000 $35,000 $80,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $75,000 $75,000 $960,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000
Gr 2 Gr 2 S Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 R R Gr 2 Gr 3 S Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 1 S
Gp 1 Gp 1
Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 S S
S
Gr 2 Gr 3 S
Gr 2
Gr 2 Gr 3 R R Gr 2 S Gr 3
Gr 3 Gr 3 R Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3
Age
Surface
3F 3F 3F 4+ 4+ 3 3+ (AZ bred) 3+ 3F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ FM 3 CA Bred 3+ 3 No G 4+ 4+ 4+ FM 3+ FM 3 3 3 CF 3F 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3 3 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 4+ 3C 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ FM 3+ CG 3 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 4+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 3F 3+ FM 3+ 2F 2 3+ 2 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 2F 2
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 1600 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1600 1700 1600 1700 1625 1625 1700 1600 1600 1700 1700 1700 1700 1600 1600 1600 1600 1700 1625 1625 1600 1600 1700 1700 1600 1700 1700
Distance Furlongs 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8.32 8.32 8 1/16 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 8 1/16 8.32 8.32 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8 1/16 8 1/16
Closing Date 8-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 3-Mar-09 18-Apr-09 16-Apr-09 17-Apr-09 6-Mar-09 8-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 22-Apr-09 24-Apr-09 8-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 31-Mar-09 31-Mar-09 26-Mar-09 31-Mar-09 2-May-09 27-Mar-09 16-May-09 3-Sep-08 13-May-09 3-Sep-08 11-May-09 11-May-09 14-May-09 14-May-09 23-May-09 23-May-09 23-May-09 28-Apr-09 30-May-09 21-Apr-09 21-Apr-09 21-Apr-09 10-Jun-09 10-Jun-09 18-Jun-09 18-Jun-09 25-Jun-09 25-Jun-09 25-Jun-09 22-Jun-09 22-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 9-Jul-09 9-Jul-09 17-Apr-09 11-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 20-Jul-09 20-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 30-Jul-09 23-Jun-09 30-Jul-09
15-Aug-09 20-Aug-09 26-Aug-09 22-Aug-09 26-Aug-09 12-Jun-09 24-Aug-09 24-Aug-09 4-Aug-09 5-Sep-09 16-Sep-09
19-Sep-09 19-Sep-09
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8f-8.5f (1600m-1700m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA JPN USA
Kelso Handicap Athenia Handicap Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji Stakes BC Mile BC Juvenile Turf New York Stallion Series - Perfect Arc Division New York Stallion Series - Cormorant Division Mile Championship Pebbles Stakes
Belmont Park Belmont Park Tokyo Oak Tree at Santa Anita Oak Tree at Santa Anita Aqueduct Aqueduct Kyoto Belmont Park
Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 R R Gr 1
4-Oct-09 17-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 7-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 15-Nov-09 15-Nov-09 22-Nov-09 12-Dec-09
$250,000 $100,000 $960,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000 $75,000 $75,000 $2,360,000 $100,000
Age
Surface
3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3F
T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 1600 1700 1600 1600 1600 1700 1700 1600 1600
Distance Furlongs 8 8 1/16 8 8 8 8 1/16 8 1/16 8 8
Closing Date 19-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 15-Sep-09 26-Oct-09 26-Oct-09
13-Oct-09 26-Sep-09
9f-9.5f (1800m-1900m) AWT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
Class
Race Date
Value
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Strub S San Antonio H El Camino Real Derby La Canada S Sham S Tejano Run Santa Margarita Invitational H Lane’s End S Santa Anita Derby Toyota Blue Grass Stakes Ben Ali Stakes Arlington Matron Arlington BC Oaks Washington Park H Kentucky Cup Classic BC Ladies Classic Prairie Bayou Stakes
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3
7-Feb-09 8-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 15-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 19-Apr-09 23-May-09 18-Jul-09 5-Sep-09 26-Sep-09 6-Nov-09 12-Dec-09
$250,000 $200,000 $200,000 $200,000 $200,000 $50,000 $300,000 $500,000 $750,000 $750,000 $150,000 $150,000 $100K/$50K $300,000 $350,000 $2,000,000 $50,000
Santa Anita Santa Anita Golden Gate Fields Santa Anita Santa Anita Turfway Park Santa Anita Turfway Park Santa Anita Keeneland Keeneland Arlington Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Turfway Park Oak Tree at Santa Anita Turfway Park
Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 S
Age
Surface
4 4+ 3 4F 3 4+ 4+ F&M 3 3 3 4+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+
AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT
Distance Metres 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1900 1800 1800 1800
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1/16 9 9 9
29-Jan-09 29-Jan-09 7-Feb-09 5-Feb-09 19-Feb-09 4-Mar-09 18-Feb-09 21-Mar-09 18-Feb-09 8-Apr-09 13-May-09 8-Jul-09 26-Aug-09 16-Sep-09 26-Oct-09 2-Dec-09
9f-9.5f (1800m-1900m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
UAE USA USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN
Al Maktoum Challenge Rd 2 John B. Campbell Handicap Rare Treat Maryland Racing Media Handicap Stymie Handicap New Orleans H Oregon Derby Bonnie Miss S UAE Derby Harrison E Johnson Memorial Handicap Next Move Handicap Florida Derby Sunland Derby The Rampart S March Stakes Wood Memorial Stakes Excelsior Handicap The Skip Away S Illinois Derby Oaklawn H Arkansas Derby Sixty Sails Handicap Charles Town Classic Sunland Park H Antares Stakes Kings Point Handicap Kentucky Oaks Coors Starter Peter Pan Stakes Fleur de Lis Handicap Stephen Foster Handicap Mother Goose Stakes Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H San Juan County Commissioners Handicap Claiming Crown Jewel West Virginia Derby Jim Dandy Stakes Go For Wand Handicap Whitney Handicap Leopard Stakes
Nad Al Sheba Laurel Park Aqueduct Laurel Park Aqueduct Fair Grounds Portland Meadows Gulfstream Park Nad Al Sheba Laurel Park Aqueduct Gulfstream Park Sunland Park Gulfstream Park Nakayama Aqueduct Aqueduct Gulfstream Park Hawthorne Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Hawthorne Charles Town Sunland Park Kyoto Aqueduct Churchill Downs Fonner Park Belmont Park Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Belmont Park Prairie Meadows SunRay Park Canterbury Mountaineer Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Niigata
Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 3
5-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 14-Mar-09 16-Mar-09 27-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 29-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 19-Apr-09 26-Apr-09 26-Apr-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 9-May-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 27-Jun-09 28-Jun-09 25-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 1-Aug-09 2-Aug-09 8-Aug-09 23-Aug-09
$200,000 $50,000 $65,000 $50,000 $65,000 $500,000 $25,000 $200,000 $2,000,000 $50,000 $100,000 $750,000 $800,000 $150,000 $925,000 $750,000 $200,000 $100,000 $500,000 $500,000 $1,000,000 $200,000 $1,000,000 $100,000 $920,000 $65,000 $500,000 $10,000 $200,000 $300,000 $750,000 $300,000 $300,000 $100,000 $150,000 $750,000 $500,000 $300,000 $750,000 $1,060,000
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3
Gr 3 S Gr 1 R Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1
Age
Surface
NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 4+ 3 3F NH 3 SH 3 3+ 3+ FM 3 3 4+ F&M 4+ 3 3+ 3+ 3 4+ 3 3+ FM 4+ 3+ 4+ 3+ 3F 4+ 3 3+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1900 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800
Distance Furlongs 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1/16 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Closing Date 2-Feb-09 5-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 12-Feb-09 14-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 9-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 7-Jan-09 19-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 2-Feb-09 14-Mar-09 17-Feb-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 6-Feb-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 6-Apr-09 4-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 17-Mar-09 11-Apr-09 14-Feb-09 25-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 30-May-09 30-May-09 13-Jun-09 16-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 17-Apr-09 20-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 25-Jul-09 7-Jul-09
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9f-9.5f (1800m-1900m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA
Albany Stakes Saratoga Dew Stakes Woodward Stakes Elm Stakes Beldame Stakes Fall Stakes Empire Classic Handicap Turnback the Alarm Stuyvesant Handicap Discovery Handicap Bill Hartack Memorial Handicap Demoiselle Stakes Gazelle Remsen Stakes Japan Cup Dirt Queens County Handicap
Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Niigata Belmont Park Mountaineer Belmont Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct Hawthorne Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct Hanshin Aqueduct
Class
Race Date
Value
S S Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1
26-Aug-09 31-Aug-09 5-Sep-09 21-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 6-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 14-Nov-09 21-Nov-09 21-Nov-09 28-Nov-09 28-Nov-09 28-Nov-09 6-Dec-09 12-Dec-09
$150,000 $80,000 $500,000 $925,000 $600,000 $75,000 $250,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $200,000 $300,000 $200,000 $3,080,000 $100,000
S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3
Age
Surface
3 (NY bred) 3+ FM (NY bred) 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ (NY bred) 3+ FM 3+ 3 3+ 2F 3F 2 3+ 3+
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1900
Distance Furlongs 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1/16
Closing Date 15-Aug-09 22-Aug-09 22-Aug-09 4-Aug-09 22-Sep-09 10-Oct-09 17-Oct-09 31-Oct-09 7-Nov-09 14-Nov-09 14-Nov-09 14-Nov-09 13-Oct-09 28-Nov-09
9f-9.5f (1800m-1900m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN JPN USA JPN USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA JPN USA JPN USA USA JPN
Fair Grounds H Bayou H Hillsborough S The Palm Beach S Mervin H Muniz Jr Memorial The Herecomesthebride S Laurel Racecourse Sho Nakayama Himba Stakes Flower Cup Santa Ana H Mainichi Hai Kinsman Farm Turf Classic Australia Trophy Chris Thomas Turf Classic Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Dallas Turf Cup Sands Point Stakes Regret Stakes Jefferson Cup Epsom Cup Colonial Turf Cup All Along Breeders’ Cup Radio Nikkei Sho American Derby Modesty Handicap Virginia Oaks Diana Stakes Beverly D. National Museum Racing Hall of Fame Stakes West Point Handicap Hokkaido Shimbun Hai Queen Stakes Lake Placid Stakes Yaddo Handicap Bernard Baruch Handicap Saranac Stakes Pucker Up Stakes Garden City Stakes Ashley T Cole Handicap John Hettinger Kansai Telecasting Corp Sho Rose Stakes Jamaica Handicap Hawthorne Derby Mainichi Okan Knickerbocker Handicap Fuchu Himba Stakes Ticonderoga Handicap Mohawk Stakes Naruo Kinen
Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Tampa Bay Downs Gulfstream Park Fair Grounds Gulfstream Park Nakayama Nakayama Santa Anita Hanshin Tampa Bay Downs Kyoto Tampa Bay Downs Churchill Downs Lone Star Belmont Park Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Tokyo Colonial Downs Colonial Downs Fukushima Arlington Park Arlington Park Colonial Downs Saratoga Arlington Park Saratoga Saratoga Sapporo Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Hanshin Belmont Park Hawthorne Tokyo Belmont Park Tokyo Belmont Park Belmont Park Hanshin
Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 3
7-Feb-09 21-Feb-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 15-Mar-09 15-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 22-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 2-May-09 2-May-09 25-May-09 30-May-09 13-Jun-09 13-Jun-09 14-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 5-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 11-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 8-Aug-09 14-Aug-09 16-Aug-09 16-Aug-09 21-Aug-09 23-Aug-09 28-Aug-09 6-Sep-09 7-Sep-09 12-Sep-09 13-Sep-09 20-Sep-09 20-Sep-09 10-Oct-09 10-Oct-09 11-Oct-09 18-Oct-09 18-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 5-Dec-09
$125,000 $125,000 $175,000 $150,000 $500,000 $150,000 $920,000 $895,000 $150,000 $940,000 $85,000 $510,000 $75,000 $500,000 $200,000 $150,000 $150,000 $200,000 $960,000 $600,000 $50K (BC)/$150K $940,000 $300,000 $200,000 $200,000 $500,000 $750,000 $150,000 $100,000 $920,000 $150,000 $100,000 $200,000 $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $100,000 $100,000 $1,230,000 $300,000 $250,000 $1,530,000 $100,000 $925,000 $150,000 $150,000 $960,000
Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3
Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 S Gr 3 Gr 2 S Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 S Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 S S Gr 3
Age
Surface
4+ 4+ F&M 4+ F&M 3 4+ 3F 4+ FM 3F 4+ F&M 3 4+ 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3F 3 3+ 3 3+ FM 3 3 3+ FM 3F 3+ FM 3+ FM 3 3+ (NY bred) 3+ FM 3F 3+ FM (NY bred) 3+ 3 3F 3F 3+ (NY bred) 3+ FM 3F 3 3 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM (NY bred) 3+ (NY bred) 3+
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1900 1800 1800 1900 1900 1800 1800 1900 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1900 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800
Distance Furlongs 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1/16 9 9 9 1/16 9 1/16 9 9 9 1/16 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1/16 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9
Closing Date 24-Jan-09 7-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 28-Feb-09 3-Feb-09 3-Feb-09 12-Mar-09 17-Feb-09 21-Mar-09 17-Mar-09 18-Apr-09 14-Feb-09 14-May-09 16-May-09 30-May-09 30-May-09 28-Apr-09 27-May-09 27-May-09 26-May-09 27-Mar-09 1-Jul-09 27-May-09 18-Jul-09 17-Apr-09 30-Jul-09 1-Aug-09 7-Jul-09 8-Aug-09 8-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 22-Aug-09 26-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 5-Sep-09 4-Aug-09 26-Sep-09 1-Oct-08 1-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 1-Sep-09 10-Oct-09 10-Oct-09 27-Oct-09
10f-10.5f (2000m-2100m) AWT Country Track Code Name USA USA
Race Name & (Sponsor)
Santa Anita Santa Anita H Oak Tree at Santa Anita BC Classic
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Class Gr 1 Gr 1
Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
7-Mar-09 7-Nov-09
$1,000,000 $5,000,000
4+ 3+
AWT AWT
Distance Metres 2000 2000
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
10 10
21-Feb-09 26-Oct-09
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10f-10.5f (2000m-2100m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
UAE UAE USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA
Al Maktoum Challenge Rd 3 Dubai World Cup Suburban Handicap Kentucky Derby Brilliant Stakes Coaching Club American Oaks Alabama Stakes Shadwell Travers Stakes Personal Ensign Stakes Sirius Stakes Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational Stakes Hawthorne Gold Cup Handicap
Nad Al Sheba Nad Al Sheba Belmont Park Churchill Downs Tokyo Belmont Park Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Hanshin Belmont Park Hawthorne
Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1
5-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 2-May-09 13-Jun-09 25-Jul-09 22-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 3-Oct-09 3-Oct-09 3-Oct-09
$300,000 $6,000,000 $400,000 $2,000,000 $510,000 $300,000 $600,000 $1,000,000 $400,000 $925,000 $750,000 $500,000
Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2
Age
Surface
NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 3+ 3 3+ 3F 3F 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+
D D D D D D D D D D D D
Distance Metres 2000 2000 2000 2000 2100 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000
Distance Furlongs 10 10 10 10 10 1/16 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Closing Date 2-Mar-09 7-Jan-09 20-Jun-09 28-Apr-09 11-Jul-09 8-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 18-Aug-09
10f-10.5f (2000m-2100m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
Class
Race Date
Value
AUS JPN JPN JPN USA HK JPN JPN USA GB USA JPN USA JPN USA JPN JPN USA USA JPN JPN JPN USA JPN JPN JPN JPN JPN
Australian Cup Toyota Sho Chukyo Kinen Sankei Osaka Hai Fukushima Mimpo Hai Santa Barbara H Audemars Piguet QE II Cup Niigata Daishoten Kinko Sho Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap Prince of Wales’s St New York Stakes Mermaid Stakes Arlington Handicap Tanabata Sho Virginia Derby Hakodate Kinen Kokura Kinen Arlington Million XXVII Secretariat Stakes Sapporo Kinen Niigata Kinen Asahi Challenge Cup Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes Shuka Sho Tenno Sho (Autumn) Fukushima Kinen Chunichi Shimbun Hai Aichi Hai
Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 2
7-Mar-09 14-Mar-09 5-Apr-09 12-Apr-09 18-Apr-09 26-Apr-09 9-May-09 30-May-09 6-Jun-09 17-Jun-09 20-Jun-09 21-Jun-09 11-Jul-09 12-Jul-09 18-Jul-09 26-Jul-09 2-Aug-09 8-Aug-09 8-Aug-09 23-Aug-09 30-Aug-09 12-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 18-Oct-09 1-Nov-09 21-Nov-09 12-Dec-09 19-Dec-09
AUS$1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,500,000 $510,000 $200,000 HK$14,000,000 $960,000 $1,510,000 $400,000 £450,000 $250,000 $920,000 $200,000 $1,000,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $400,000 $1,660,000 $1,000,000 $960,000 $600,000 $2,100,000 $3,120,000 $960,000 $960,000 $925,000
Caulfield Chukyo Hanshin Fukushima Santa Anita Sha Tin Niigata Chukyo Belmont Park Ascot Belmont Park Hanshin Arlington Park Fukushima Colonial Downs Sapporo Kokura Arlington Park Arlington Park Sapporo Niigata Hanshin Belmont Park Kyoto Tokyo Fukushima Chukyo Chukyo
Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3
Age
Surface
3+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ F&M 3+ 4+ 3+ 3+ 4+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000
Distance Furlongs 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
Closing Date 3-Feb-09 17-Feb-09 3-Mar-09 9-Apr-09 6-Mar-09 31-Mar-09 14-Apr-09 23-May-09 21-Apr-09 6-Jun-09 12-May-09 1-Jul-09 26-May-09 27-May-09 9-Jun-09 23-Jun-09 17-Apr-09 27-Mar-09 7-Jul-09 21-Jul-09 4-Aug-09 1-Sep-09 15-Sep-09 13-Oct-09 27-Oct-09 10-Nov-09
11f-11.5f (2200m-2300m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
JPN
Tokai TV Hai Tokai Stakes
Chukyo
Class
Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
Gr 2
24-May-09
$1,300,000
3+
D
Class
Race Date
Value
Gr 2 Gr 3
21-Feb-09 22-Feb-09 4-Apr-09 5-Apr-09 9-May-09 23-May-09 30-May-09 28-Jun-09 11-Jul-09 7-Sep-09 11-Sep-09 27-Sep-09 6-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 15-Nov-09
$150,000 $100,000 $75,000 $50,000 $1,285,000 $150,000 $100,000 $3,120,000 $500,000 $100,000 $150,000 $1,500,000 $2,000,000 $150,000 $2,140,000
Distance Metres 2300
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
11 1/16
14-Apr-09
11f-11.5f (2200m-2300m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA JPN USA USA USA JPN USA USA JPN
Mac Diarmida H The Very One H Yerba Buena Stakes Wildcat H Kyoto Shimbun Hai Sheepshead Bay Handicap Golden Gate Fields Turf Takarazuka Kinen Man o’ War Stakes Glens Falls Handicap Bowling Green H’cap Sankei Sho All Comers BC Filly & Mare Turf Red Smith Handicap Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup
Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Golden Gate Fields Turf Paradise Kyoto Belmont Park Golden Gate Fields Hanshin Belmont Park Saratoga Belmont Park Nakayama Oak Tree at Santa Anita Aqueduct Kyoto
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1
Age
Surface
4+ 4+ F&M 4+ FM 3+ 3 3+ FM 4+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ FM
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200
Distance Furlongs 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
Closing Date 7-Feb-09 7-Feb-09 28-Mar-09 27-Mar-09 31-Mar-09 9-May-09 23-May-09 12-May-09 27-Jun-09 22-Aug-09 29-Aug-09 18-Aug-09 26-Oct-09 24-Oct-09 13-Oct-09
12f-12.5f (2400m-2500m) AWT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA
Tokyo City Cup Turfway Park Fall Championship
Santa Anita Turfway Park
Class
Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
Gr 3 Gr 3
28-Mar-09 12-Sep-09
$100,000 $100,000
4+ 3+
AWT AWT
Distance Metres 2400 2400
Distance Furlongs 12 12
Closing Date 19-Mar-09 2-Sep-09
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12f-12.5f (2400m-2500m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA
Brooklyn Handicap Belmont Stakes
Belmont Park Belmont Park
Class Gr 2 Gr 1
Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
5-Jun-09 6-Jun-09
$200,000 $1,000,000
3+ 3
D D
Distance Metres 2400 2400
Distance Furlongs 12 12
Closing Date 23-May-09 24-Jan-09
12f-12.5f (2400m-2500m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA USA UAE USA USA USA UAE JPN AUS AUS JPN USA USA JPN USA JPN IRE IRE USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA JPN JPN JPN
La Zanzara H San Luis Obispo H City of Gold San Luis Rey H Pan American H Orchid H Dubai Sheema Classic Nikkei Sho HE Tancred S AJC Australian Derby Osaka-Hamburg Cup Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes Fifth Third Elkhorn Stakes Tokyo Grand Open (Metropolitan Stakes) Louisville Handicap Meguro Kinen Irish Derby Irish Oaks (Darley) Waya Stakes Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes Stars & Stripes Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes Kyoto Daishoten Long Island Handicap BC Turf Copa Republica Argentina Japan Cup Arima Kinen
Santa Anita Santa Anita Nad Al Sheba Santa Anita Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Nad Al Sheba Nakayama Rosehill Randwick Hanshin Keeneland Keeneland Tokyo Churchill Downs Tokyo Curragh Curragh Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park Belmont Park Kyoto Aqueduct Oak Tree at Santa Anita Tokyo Tokyo Nakayama
Class
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1
Race Date
Value
11-Feb-09 22-Feb-09 5-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 21-Mar-09 22-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 28-Mar-09 4-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 11-Apr-09 23-Apr-09 24-Apr-09 25-Apr-09 23-May-09 31-May-09 28-Jun-09 12-Jul-09 10-Aug-09 15-Aug-09 7-Sep-09 3-Oct-09 11-Oct-09 1-Nov-09 7-Nov-09 8-Nov-09 29-Nov-09 27-Dec-09
$70,000 $150,000 $250,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $5,000,000 $1,500,000 AUS$2,250,000 AUS$1,800,000 $510,000 $150,000 $200,000 $510,000 $100,000 $1,370,000 €1,500,000 €500,000 $80,000 $500,000 $125,000 $600,000 $1,530,000 $150,000 $3,000,000 $1,370,000 $5,920,000 $4,260,000
Age
Surface
4+ F&M 4+ NH 4yo+ SH 4yo+ 4+ 4+ 4+ F&M NH 4yo+ SH 4yo+ 4+ 3+ 3 4+ 4+ FM 4+ 4+ 3+ 3+ 3 CF 3F 4+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+
T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T
Distance Metres 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2500 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2500 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2500 2400 2500
Distance Furlongs 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 1/16 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 1/16 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 1/16 12 12 1/16
Closing Date 4-Feb-09 12-Feb-09 2-Mar-09 12-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Mar-09 7-Jan-09 17-Feb-09
3-Mar-09 15-Apr-09 15-Apr-09 17-Mar-09 9-May-09 14-Apr-09 3-Sep-08 3-Sep-08 30-Jul-09 26-Aug-09 1-Sep-09 17-Oct-09 26-Oct-09 29-Sep-09 13-Oct-09 10-Nov-09
13f-13.5f (2600m-2700m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA
Gallant Fox Handicap
Aqueduct
Class
Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
31-Dec-09
$65,000
3+
D
Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
7-Aug-09
$80,000
4+
T
Race Date
Value
Distance Metres 2600
Distance Furlongs 13
Closing Date 12-Dec-09
13f-13.5f (2600m-2700m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA
John’s Call Stakes
Saratoga
Class
Distance Metres 2600
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
13
25-Jul-09
14f-14.5f (2800m-2900m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
USA
San Juan Capistrano Inv. H
Santa Anita
Class Gr 2
19-Apr-09
Age
Surface
4+
T
Distance Metres 2800
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
14
15f-15.5f (3000m-3100m) TURF Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
JPN
Hanshin
Hanshin Daishoten
USA
Turf Paradise
Hasta La Vista H
Class
Race Date
Value
Age
Surface
Distance Metres
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
Gr 2
22-Mar-09
$1,500,000
4+
T
3000
15
3-Feb-09
3-May-09
$50,000
3+
T
3000
15
24-Apr-09
Race Date
Value
Age
16f-20f (3200m-4000m) DIRT Country Track Code Name
Race Name & (Sponsor)
Class
Surface
Distance Metres
Distance Furlongs
Closing Date
JPN
Kyoto
Tenno Sho (Spring)
Gr 1
3-May-09
$3,120,000
4+
T
3200
16
GB
Ascot
Gold Cup
Gp 1
18-Jun-09
£300,000
4+
T
4000
20
21-Apr-09
JPN
Nakayama
Sports Nippon Sho Stayers Stakes
Gr 2
5-Dec-09
$1,500,000
3+
T
3600
18
27-Oct-09
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THE ARNOLD KIRKPATRICK COLUMN I from page 80 too many foals, and, worse, way too many of them are bred and raised for the sales arena rather than the racetrack. Meanwhile, according to a recent article in The Thoroughbred Times TODAY by the appropriately-named senior writer Frank Angst, the number of racing dates and races in North America is declining – but also not nearly enough – and parimutuel handle was down more than $1 billion, or 7.2%, in 2008. I’ve got some sad news for a lot of people in racing, from breeders, to trainers, to race track administrators, to state taxation authorities. The factor that determines the number of races run every year should not be to provide some form of income for an overproduction of foals nor should it the generating of state tax revenues. What it should be is demand for our sport from racing fans, and we’re destroying that every day with an oversupply of races filled with an oversupply of bad horses, not to mention the fact that we’re contributing to the further erosion of the handle by embracing
slots, etc. at our tracks. Along with all the other things our industry needs to do, we have to reduce foal production by about 40-50%, rather than continuing to increase it, particularly by breeding every mare that happens to have ovaries to every stallion that is fertile enough to impregnate them.
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NUMBER of years ago I made a modest proposal that, like other breeds of horses and livestock, a Thoroughbred should have to earn its way into the breeding pool. In today’s world of computerization, it would be very simple to develop a system where, for example, a Thoroughbred must have accumulated a minimum of 100 points for its foals to be registered as Thoroughbreds. Since conformation is subjective, points could only be accumulated through pedigree and race record, and a foal born with an outstanding pedigree (for example the top 20%-25% of foals each year) wouldn’t ever have to set foot on a racetrack to earn the required number of points, whereas a foal with a pedigree like mine would have to be a pretty damned good racehorse to earn enough points to make it into the breeding ranks.
We could even work towards the nowdefunct objective of “improving the breed” by offering a few bonus points to horses who raced without the benefit of medication. When I originally made this proposal some 20 years ago, the primary result was that I helped editorial staff of The Thoroughbred Times by filling the “Letters to the Editor” column for 6-8 weeks with people writing diatribes, screeds, tirades, vituperations, rants and invectives about what a terrible person I was – calling me everything from a “communist” to an “elitist” and a “Republican.” Apparently, not a single person thought that a plan to improve the breed made sense. After calling me everything in the book, they all resorted to the same response, “let the free market handle it.” Well, as best I can see, the free market of late hasn’t been doing such a special job in the Thoroughbred business or the world economy. It sort of reminds me of one of my favorite writers, the ultra-conservative P. J. O’Rourke in his recent book All The Trouble in the World, wherein he basically conceded that we can attempt to let the free markets sort things out without any controls – or we can change human nature. Which, he asked, do you think is easier? I
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APPY New Year. 2008 is gone and thank God for that! Last fall, we were ravaged by a perfect storm of a justifiable collapse of confidence in the US economy, accompanied by atrocious results at our major sales, compounded by the anticipation of sales in 2009, where breeders will be selling yearlings and weanlings conceived and born at 2007 and 2008 prices. Few of these things should come as a real surprise to those of us who make our living in the Thoroughbred business – the signs have been around for a number of years – but a certain ability to block out reality seems to be a necessary component of the horseman’s psyche. However, let me remind you of George Santayana’s axiom, “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.” As for myself, as I totter towards the ripe old age of 68, I find myself repeatedly suffering these horrifying experiences where I now agree with decisions which were made by The Jockey Club decades ago – positions with which I disagreed vehemently at the time, but which, over time, have turned out to have been prescient when viewed in the context of today’s Thoroughbred industry. For instance, back in the ’80s, when we were facing the crisis of Contagious Equine Metritis, breeders and veterinarians urged The Jockey Club to remove the ban on artificial insemination, reasoning that AI would permit mares to be bred to stallions without transmission of the highlycontagious venereal disease. The Jockey Club refused, essentially based on the rationale that a foot in the door for AI would result in the door being completely blown off its hinges and, if AI became allowed, despite the fact that it is controlled in other breeds of horses and types of livestock, there would be no way in hell they could control the number of mares to whom a popular Thoroughbred stallion could be bred. Were they right? Today, under the euphemism of “reinforcement,” AI is alive 80 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 11
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THE ARNOLD KIRKPATRICK COLUMN A Point In Time and well, not to mention very popular, in Thoroughbred breeding. My veterinarian friends say that reinforcement is not AI – and, just as former President Bush insisted that the nation was technically not in a recession last fall, I guess it can be argued that reinforcement technically isn’t AI. However, just as it turns out we actually were in a recession, you can call it reinforcement or insemination or whatever you like, but, if you take a dismount sample, put semen extender in it, put it in a pipette and insert it in a mare’s cervix, to me that’s AI. Unfortunately, it seems to be coming as a surprise to quite a number of people in our industry that the Laws of Supply and Demand apply to the horse business, too. In 2001 a recent Kentucky Derby winner covered 216 mares in a single Northern Hemisphere breeding season, ultimately winding up with 133 registered foals. The rest of the story, however, is that 82 of them, nearly 62%, were offered at auction the next year and 65% of those didn’t even sell for their stud fees (assuming, of course, that the full fee had been charged). Supply and demand. Quite aside from the fact that the North American Thoroughbred is already demonstrably showing the illeffects of excessive inbreeding, the numbers cited above are, in fact, reasonably typical for stallions who are bred to 100+ mares a year. They may seem like a pretty good deal
at booking time, but, when you go to a sale and there are 70-80 other yearlings by the same sire competing with yours – in fact for the last few Keeneland September Sales, there have been a number of sires with more than 80 catalogued – your yearling had damned well better be perfect or you’re going to be in the racing business and, trust me, very few of the people standing out back of the sales ring really want that.
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TOTAL of 5,555 yearlings were catalogued for the 2008 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, 86% of which actually went through the ring, with 65% reported as sold after 15 days. That disaster was followed in November a catastrophe when a record 5,709 lots were catalogued and 73% went through the ring, with 53% reported as sold, with declines of 46% in gross receipts, 40% in average and 43% in median. Even considering the problems with the economy, it was too damned many horses over too damned many days. Supply and Demand. The good news from all of this is that stud fees have come down – but not nearly enough – and actually I’ve heard rumors of a few mares being taken out of production – but also not nearly enough. We’re still producing way I Continued on page 79
“We have to reduce foal production by about 40-50%, rather than continuing to increase it, particularly by breeding every mare that happens to have ovaries to every stallion that is fertile”
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