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IT PAYS TO SELL A CAL-BRED

he current demand for quality California-bred yearlings continues to remain strong at the commercial sales both in state as well as back East. As depicted in the graph below, numerous Cal-breds are yielding prices ranging from $50,000 to nearly $400,000. In fact, the $300,000 Cal-bred sales-topping flly in August was the highest-priced yearling ever sold at Barretts. Breeders/consignors are seeing the rewards for investments made with upgrading their stock. California-breds/ sired by top national and regional sires are leading the way. Te lucrative restricted racing and

incentives continue triggering this increased marketability for well-bred and well-conformed Cal-breds. Te in-state opportunities and potential fnancial purse and incentive awards for Cal-breds give a signifcant advantage to owners. If you are racing in California, you should defnitely have some Cal-breds in your barn, both for the restricted purse benefts as well as the diverse racing opportunities. Currently, in Southern California, a Cal-bred can earn well over six fgures just going through its frst conditions (Cal-bred maiden allowance, Cal-bred frst-condition allowance, open frst-con-

dition allowance), in addition to the maiden bonus and owner awards in open company. And then there is the $5 million Golden State Series, with restricted stakes purses ranging from $100,000-$250,000 throughout the state. With such a high dependence on horses bred locally to provide the needed feld sizes, this program and opportunities need to not only remain in place, but continue to grow. We are now experiencing the positive results with a stable annual foal crop and a strong commercial and private sales market. As breeders continue to focus on quality, we should be able to build on these results.

TOP YEARLING PRICES FOR CALIFORNIA-BREDS IN 2017 Sale Name

Hip

Sex

Sire Name

Dam Name

Purchaser Name

Keeneland September (Book 2)

Price

963

Uncle Mo

About

Mr. and Mrs. J.S. Moss

$390,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Bodemeister

North Freeway

Jay Em Ess Stable

$300,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Unusual Heat

Dancing Jo

McMahon and Hill/Radley Equine

$200,000

Fasig-Tipton July Selected Yearlings

171

Violence

Yolanda B. Too

Alistair Roden Bloodstock

$125,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Mucho Macho Man

Longing

Blinkers On Racing Stable

$120,000

2542

Super Saver

Malibu Beach Bunny

Kirk & Judy Robison

$80,000

Keeneland September (Book 4) Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Unusual Heat

Assure

Mark Glatt, Agent

$77,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Goldencents

Totally Worth It

Dan Hendricks, Agent for Super Horse

$70,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Smiling Tiger

Finish Rich in Nyc

Blinkers On Racing Stable

$70,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Unusual Heat

Fly Borboleta

Gayle Van Leer, Agent for Norm Tavares

$70,000

Northern California Yearling Sale

Smiling Tiger

Mulberry Lane

Del Secco DCS

$70,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Shanghai Bobby

Sacharissa

Shawn Dugan, Agent

$60,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

U S Ranger

Stormin Mon

Brian Koriner, Agent

$60,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Uncle Mo

Fresia

Quarter Pole Enterprises, LLC

$60,000

1672

Ghostzapper

Holy Academy

Jeffrey Bloom, Agent

$55,000

147

Mineshaft

Sweet Nellie Brown

John Maryanski

$53,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Unusual Heat

Chi Chi Nette

Howard Zucker, Agent for Starship Stables

$52,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Creative Cause

Teacher Teacher

Redwings

$50,000

Barretts August Select Yearling Sale

Bluegrass Cat

Fair Bianca

J. Eric Kruljac, Agent

$50,000

115

Lucky Pulpit

Aspen Gal

Del Secco DCS

$50,000

Keeneland September (Book 3) Washington Yearling Sale

Northern California Yearling Sale

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FEATURES

20 CALIFORNIA-BRED

16 A Blast From the Past: Charm a Gendarme

BRINGS RECORD PRICE

22 Pedigrees of Cal-bred Older Male Champions

At $300,000, a Cal-bred flly by Bodemeister bred by Tom Bachman brought the highest price ever for a yearling at Barretts during the August select yearling sale.

26 Golden State Races at Del Mar

TREASURER TIM COHEN SECRETARY KATE BARTON

28 Barretts Fall Sale Preview

DIRECTORS John C. Harris, Leigh Ann Howard, John H. Barr, Kate Barton, Gloria Haley, Pete Parrella, Sue Greene, Donald J. Valpredo, Terry C. Lovingier, Tim Cohen, George F. Schmitt, Edward Freeman

31 Special Advertising Section: California Farms

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52 Health: Keeping Horses Relaxed

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Contents

ON THE COVER

The offcial magazine of California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, a non-proft corporation dedicated to the production of better Thoroughbred horses for better Thoroughbred racing, published by Blood-Horse, LLC. Opinions expressed in signed articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily refect policies of the CTBA or this magazine. Publication of any material originating herein is expressly forbidden without frst obtaining written permission from California Thoroughbred. All advertising copy is submitted subject to approval. We reserve the right to reject any copy that is misleading or that does not meet with the standards set by the publication. Acknowledgment: Statistics in this publication relating to results of races in North America are compiled by the Daily Racing Form. Charts by special arrangement with Daily Racing Form Inc., the copyright owners of said charts. Reproduction forbidden.

BREEDING • FOALING • BOARDING • LAYUP • SALES PREPARATION BOISTEROUS

KAFWAIN

OLD TOPPER

MINISTERS WILD CAT

Distorted Humor – Emanating

Cherokee Run – Swazi’s Moment

Gilded Time – Shy Trick

Deputy Minister – Hollywood Wildcat

A new addition to the roster for 2018 is Multiple Graded Stakes Winner, Stanford, by Malibu Moon – Rosy Humor, by Distorted Humor. He is the second leading earner of all time by Malibu Moon.

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NewsBits CURRENT CALIFORNIA

SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS FOALS OF RACING AGE

STALLION

Soi Phet defeats He Will in the E.B. Johnston Stakes at Los Alamitos

SOI PHET AGAIN WINS JOHNSTON California-bred Soi Phet captured the $75,0000 E.B. Johnston Stakes at Los Alamitos Sept. 9 for the second year in a row. Te onemile dirt race is for Cal-bred 3-year-olds and up but is not part of the Golden State Series. Kent Desormeaux piloted Soi Phet in this year’s Johnston against fve others. Recent Longacres Mile Handicap (G3) winner Gold Rush Dancer went of as the favorite, with Soi Phet the third choice. Start a Runnin took the early lead, with Soi Phet prompting the pace in second, three wide into the frst turn. Soi Phet battled gamely throughout the race, getting the lead at the half-mile pole and then again in the stretch. He held of closer He Will to win by a half-length in 1:35.71, with El Huerfano third. Soi Phet ran the distance in 1:35.71, well of his own track record of 1:33.95, set when winning the 2014 Los Alamitos Mile. “He’s something else, a real trooper,” said Desormeaux. “I just want to give him a big hug.” Trainer Leonard Powell claimed Soi Phet in May 2013 for $16,000 from his breeder, ARCHA Racing Inc. Powell trains the gelding for his wife, Mathilde, the Benowitz Family Trust, and Paul Viskovich. “Tis horse means nearly everything to me,” said Powell. “It’s going to be sad when he’s not with me anymore. He loves the long stretch here. He’s a bit of a grinder and he keeps on coming, and the stretch here helps him.’’ Soi Phet also won the inaugural Bertrando Stakes at Los Alamitos in 2014. Te son of Tizbud—Summer Jersey, by Siberian Summer, has won 13 of 55 races for earnings of $876,170.

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SWs

UNUSUAL HEAT (1990) †

790

TRIBAL RULE (1996) †

780

BENCHMARK (1991) †

757

BLUEGRASS CAT (2003)

890

STORMIN FEVER (1994) †

810

SWISS YODELER (1994) ¥

797

GAME PLAN (1993) †

455

OLD TOPPER (1995)

561

SEA OF SECRETS (1995) †

505

KAFWAIN (2000)

650

MINISTERS WILD CAT (2000)

418

ROCKY BAR (1998)

175

DECARCHY (1997) †

384

WESTERN FAME (1992) †

315

ATTICUS (1992)

497

COMIC STRIP (1995)

348

BIRDONTHEWIRE (1989) †

294

Indicates stallions who have died or have been retired from stud. ● Indicates stallions who have moved out of state but have California-bred 2-year-olds of this year.

All sires will remain on the list until the year after their last foals are 2-year-olds.

QUALIFYING CLAIMING LEVELS The following claiming levels for California owners premiums and stallion awards are currently in effect: SANTA ANITA/$40,000 PLEASANTON/$20,000 FRESNO COUNTY FAIR/$20,000 GOLDEN GATE FIELDS/$20,000

NewsBits STALLION

NEWS

Patriots Rule, ridden by Andrew Ramgeet, returns after winning the Brooks Field Stakes

PATRIOTS RULE WINS AT CANTERBURY Patriots Rule, a multiple stakes-winning California-bred in his home state, successfully took his show on the road to Minnesota. He captured the $50,000 Brooks Field Stakes at Canterbury Park Aug. 26. The third choice at 5-1 in the six-horse feld, Patriots Rule raced in last during the frst half of the one-mile event. Circling fve wide on the second turn under jockey Andrew Ramgeet, the 6-year-old gelding caught second-choice Way Striking in the stretch and won by a half-length. He completed the distance on a track labeled good in 1:36.17. The weather had forced the race off the turf. Bred by Dahlberg Farms, Patriots Rule is by Tribal Rule—Candy Factory, by Seattle Bound. Robertino Diodoro trains him for owner Charles Garvey. Patriots Rule has won eight of 31 races, with four seconds and three thirds, for earnings of $496,773.

Twisted Rosie became the frst winner for California stallion Twice the Appeal when she won the sixth race at Del Mar Aug. 24. Despite stumbling after the start of the 51⁄2-furlong maiden claiming event for California-breds and California-sired runners, the 2-year-old flly won by 13⁄4 lengths in 1:05.48 for jockey Kent Desormeaux. Jeff Bonde trains Twisted Rosie for owner Edward J. Brown Jr. The flly, bred by Brown, is out of the Distinctive Cat mare Hurricane Rose. Twice the Appeal stands at Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch near Warner Springs, Calif. The 9-year-old son of Successful Appeal—Double Boarded, by Cormorant, won the 2011 Sunland Derby (G3) and earned $476,060.

■ Smiling Tiger Colt tops Washington Sale

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■ Twice the Appeal Gets First Winner

A colt by California stallion Smiling Tiger topped the Aug. 22 Washington Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association summer yearling and mixed sale for $67,000. John and Janene Maryanski bought the colt, who was consigned by Halvorson Bloodstock Services. John Roche bred the Smiling Tiger youngster in Washington from stakes-winning Premo Copy, by Supremo. The Smiling Tiger mare has produced seven winners, including Washington champion Castinette Dancer and stakes winner Seattles Best Copy.

■ Stanford to Stand at Tommy Town Thoroughbreds for 2018 A new addition to the Tommy Town Thoroughbreds roster for 2018 is Multiple Graded Stakes Winner, Stanford, by Malibu Moon—Rosy Humor, by Distorted Humor. He is the second leading earner of all time by Malibu Moon.

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NewsBits MISS SUNSET VICTORIOUS AGAIN

HISTORY

Alan Klein and Phil Lebherz’s Miss Sunset captured her fourth stakes of the year in the $99,485 CERF Stakes at Del Mar Sept. 4. The California-bred flly earlier this year won the Sweet Life Stakes at Santa Anita, Campanile Stakes at Golden Gate Fields, and Fleet Treat Stakes at Del Mar. Mike Smith on Miss Sunset Miss Sunset prompted the early pace in the six-furlong CERF Stakes under jockey Mike Smith. She took the lead nearing the quarter pole and drew off to defeat Cal-bred Bad Ju Ju by 13⁄4 lengths in 1:09.82. Kentucky-bred Classy Tune fnished third. Jeff Bonde trains Miss Sunset for Klein and Lebherz, who bred her in the names of Premier Thoroughbreds LLC and Klein. Miss Sunset is a 3-year-old daughter of Into Mischief—Tuscan Sunset, by Trippi. Last year at Del Mar, she won the Generous Portion Stakes. With the CERF victory, she brought her record to six wins in 10 starts for earnings of $450,390.

THIS MONTH IN

Idiot Proof

10 YEARS AGO

California-bred IDIOT PROOF set a track record in winning the $300,000 Ancient Title Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Oct. 7, 2007. His six-furlong time of 1:07.57 came over the newly installed Cushion Track, but it also eclipsed the stakes record of 1:07.67, set in 2001 on dirt. With David Flores in the irons, Idiot Proof sat behind Bordonaro, who sped the frst quarter-mile in :21.69 and the half-mile in :43.87. Idiot Proof got to the lead in midstretch and defeated fellow Cal-bred Greg’s Gold by three-quarters of a length. Clifford Sise trained Idiot Proof for owner/breeders Martin and Pam Wygod. Idiot Proof, a son of Benchmark— Perfectly Pretty, by Bertrando, went on to win fve of 17 races for earnings of $1,294,484. He now stands at Victory Rose Thoroughbreds in Vacaville.

25 YEARS AGO Selling for just $3,500 as a 2-year-old, California-bred PROSPECT FOR FOUR became an amazing bargain. One of his fnest performances came in the $100,000 Pomona Derby Oct 3, 1992. Prospect for Four went into the 11⁄8-mile race sporting a perfect three-for-three record at Fairplex Park, all three races in stakes. He went off as the 7-10 favorite and won by a half-length under jockey David Flores, stopping the timer in 1:513⁄5. Selvin/Siegel Thoroughbreds bred the son of Native Prospector—Tynourfa, by Tyrant, and trainer Caesar Dominguez bought him at the 1991 Barretts April 2-year-old sale. Prospect for Four received his name because Dominguez bought him as a prospect for himself, Henry Cox, Rick Evans, and Tony Ostoich. Prospect for Four ended up earning $361,267, with eight wins in 31 starts.

50 YEARS AGO

KISSIN’ GEORGE was one of the fnest California-bred sprinters half a century ago. When Del Mar hosted a rare fall meeting in 1967, Kissin’ George captured the appropriately named October Handicap, held Oct. 4. Carrying top weight of 127 pounds, he defeated Vale of Tears by a neck under jockey Bill Mahorney. Buster Millerick, also trainer of the amazing Cal-bred Native Diver, conditioned Kissin’ George, and he bred the horse in partnership with Jim Sinnott. DeCourcy Graham had purchased Kissin’ George for $50,000 just before the horse won that year’s Lakes and Flowers Handicap at Hollywood Park. Kissin’ George ultimately won 26 of 62 races, with 15 seconds and three thirds, and earned $271,400.

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Ismelucky, a daughter of 2011 California-bred champion 2-year-old female Ismene, scored in the $100,000 Barretts Debutante Stakes at Los Alamitos Sept. 16. A $90,000 graduate of the 2016 Barretts October mixed sale, Ismelucky defeated Shaken Memories as the 6-5 favorite. Winner of a maiden event at Santa Anita May 18, Ismelucky was making her third start in the 6 1⁄2-furlong Debutante. Kent Desormeaux rode her for trainer Jeff Bonde, who owns the 2-year-old daughter of Lucky Pulpit with Jerome Russell. After a bumpy start, Ismelucky got to the lead in midstretch and completed the distance in 1:17.84. “It was eventful trip to say the least,” said Desormeaux. “We got slammed at the start and then had to wait for room.” Bonde paid tribute to Desormeaux, saying, “Kent, the magician that he is, pulled it off.” Stephen Ferraro bred Ismelucky in California, and Harris Farms consigned her to the Barretts sale. Ferraro also bred and raced Ismene, winner of the 2011 California Breeders Champion Stakes and Anoakia Stakes.

MAAS APPOINTED TO CHRB Fredric Maas of San Diego has been appointed as a commissioner to the California Horse Racing Board. The executive chairman at MRV Systems since 2014, Maas was founder and chief executive offcer at Pacifc EcoCompanies LLC from 2009-14, president and chief executive offcer at Black Mountain Ranch LLC from 2003-09, and chairman and chief executive offcer at Centre City Development Corporation from 2005-10.

NewsBits OWNER CONFERENCE AT DEL MAR BloodHorse and OwnerView will again co-host the Thoroughbred Owner Conference as part of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, to be held at Del Mar Nov. 3-4. The conference, at the Del Mar Hilton, is scheduled for Oct. 30-Nov. 1. Attendees will learn about such subjects as racehorse ownership partnerships and planning matings, as well as getting the opportunity to hear from successful owners, trainers, and jockeys. Jeff Fager, a Thoroughbred owner and executive producer of “60 Minutes,” will deliver the keynote address. Social events at Del Mar for the conference will include the Oct. 30 Breeders’ Cup post-position draw and reception, an Oct. 31 conference dinner featuring Seabiscuit author Laura Hillenbrand as the special guest speaker, and reserved seats for both days of the Breeders’ Cup. Registration for the full conference costs $950 per person, with options for the social events and Breeders’ Cup tickets for $850 per person, conference without Breeders’ Cup tickets for $750, and social events without Breeders’ Cup tickets $650. Further information is available at ownerview.com.

MANUEL OCHOA RETIRES Manuel Ochoa, longtime farm manager of Ballena Vista Farm, is retiring, effective Oct. 1, after 50 years in the Thoroughbred industry. He has served as the Ballena Vista farm manager for 27 years. During his tenure, the farm has added such amenities as a covered round pen, Claydon exerciser, mare motel, new breeding shed, laboratory, and a state-of-the-art stallion Manuel Ochoa with complex that includes eight stalls, a turnout round pen, and Ballena Vista’s pensioned individual grass paddocks. Ochoa has managed all or part stallion Benchmark of the careers of many top stallions, including Fighting Fit, Surachai, Beau Genius, Benchmark, Tribal Rule, and Bluegrass Cat. Miguel Jimenez, who has been the assistant farm manager for the past 10 years, will succeed Ochoa. Ballena Vista, in a press release announcing Ochoa’s retirement, said: “While he will be greatly missed by the farm and its clients, we all wish him a long and happy retirement.” LORETTA VEIGA

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Memoriam

Sally Lundy © BENOIT PHOTO

Bob Free

Trainer Sally Lundy, who became the frst woman to saddle a starter in the Belmont Stakes (G1), died Aug. 26 in California after a long battle with cancer. She had most recently worked for trainer Carla Gaines as her stable secretary. Lundy was 63. In 1984 Lundy trained Minstrel Star and saddled him in the Belmont. Though Minstrel Star fnished unplaced, Lundy also trained Kate’s Valentine, who won back-to-back runnings of the Ashley T. Cole Handicap at Aqueduct in 1990-91. As a trainer, Lundy won 85 races from 690 starts. Her other stakes winners included Marco Bay, Audio Cassette, and Talc’s Coventry. Early in her career Lundy galloped horses for such trainers as Willard Proctor, David Whiteley, and Burley Cocks. When she was married to trainer Richard J. Lundy, she and her husband were private trainers for Virginia Kraft Payson. Lundy also worked as an assistant to Bobby Frankel until his death in 2009. Lundy is survived by two brothers, Steve and John Caldwell.

Former trainer Robert N. (Bob) Free died Aug. 28 in Pasadena at age 77 after a long illness. During his time as a trainer, Free won throughout the West Coast. Not only did he saddle winners at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, Del Mar, Los Alamitos, Golden Gate Fields, and Bay Meadows, he also won at Portland Meadows in Oregon and at Playfair in Washington. Free was a familiar face at the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association offces. He often researched horses in the Carleton F. Burke Library. His trainees included such California-breds as Tajo, a son of Pirate’s Bounty; Muskogee, a son of Nantequos; and Socrates, a son of Native Host. A memorial was held at Santa Anita in September. Free’s survivors include a son, James; two grandchildren; three brothers; and two sisters. A nephew, Brad Free, is a longtime turf writer.

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Penny Chenery, owner of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat and champion Riva Ridge and long a major ambassador of horse racing, died Sept. 16 in her Colorado home following complications from a stroke. She was 95. A daughter of Christopher and Helen Chenery, Penny Chenery managed her father’s racing stable in the 1970s, when he fell ill, with the help of her siblings, Margaret Carmichael and Hollis Chenery, and her father’s business secretary, Elizabeth Ham. Riva Ridge and Secretariat came along in back-to-back years for the stable, with the latter featured in the 2010 Disney Studios flm Secretariat. Diane Lane portrayed Chenery in the movie. Riva Ridge was cut out of the movie because, Chenery once said, “They could only accommodate so many stories in the movie.” But she had a special place in her heart for Riva Ridge, the champion 2-year-old male of 1971 and champion 3-year-old male of 1972 and winner of the 1972 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Belmont Stakes (G1). “Riva Ridge always welcomed you,” Chenery said. “He was laid back and very easy around the barn.” As good as Riva Ridge was, Secretariat was even better. A bright chestnut, Secretariat was so brilliant at 2 in 1972 that he was named champion 2-year-old male and Horse of the Year. The following year he became the frst Triple Crown winner since Citation in 1948 and won another Horse of the Year title, along with champion 3-year-old male and champion grass horse. As Secretariat’s popularity soared, Chenery graciously took the time to answer fan mail and sit for countless interviews. She helped establish the Secretariat Vox Populi Award in 2010, when it went to Zenyatta, and Chenery traveled to California to present the award. California-bred California Chrome won the award in 2014 and again in 2016. Chenery served as the frst female president of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and president of the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. She was one of the frst women admitted to The Jockey Club and helped found the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. “We are deeply proud of our mother, her accomplishments, and her courage,” said daughter Kate Tweedy. “As we mourn her loss, the example of her strength, her intelligence, and her enduring spirit continue to inspire us.” Chenery is survived by children Sarah Manning, Chris Tweedy, and John Tweedy in addition to Kate Tweedy, along with seven grandchildren.

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Standing for the 2018 Breeding Season

James Street El Prado (Ire) – Alleynedale, by Unbridled, Fee: $10,000-LF Graded Stakes winner three years running. By El PRADO, a proven Sire of Sires including leading sire, KITTENS JOY and MEDAGLIA D’ORO (Sire of Preakness Stakes winner & Eclipse Horse of the year RACHEL ALEXANDRA and 2015/2016 Eclipse Award winner, SONG BIRD ($4,562,000)). First foals are two-year-olds of 2017.

Lightnin N Thunder Storm Cat-Things Change, by Stalwart, Fee: $3,000-LFG Colts Sold at Barretts March 2YO Sale for $400,000 & $120,000 He is the sire of 8 stakes winners and fve stakes-placed runners, including group I winner and two-time Korean champion BULPAE GISANG ($426,523), and Graded stakes-placed Criola Bonita ($116, 820). Former #1 Stallion from both Massachusetts and Ohio regions. Progeny have earned more than $5.4 million with average earning per starter $39,737 Look for yearlings at the Barretts Fall Sale Hidden Blessing of Yearlings and Orientate-Fast ‘n Fleet, by Mr. Greeley, Horses of All Fee: $1,500 -LFG Ages By champion sprinter ORIENTATE ($1,716,950). Out of Graded stakes-placed producer FAST ‘N FLEET. A half-brother to multiple graded stakes-placed Remand and Graded stakes winner KARA’S ORIENTATION. Retired from racing with a career of 7-4-10 and earnings of $178,030. First foals two-year-olds of 2017.

Wolfcamp El Prado (Ire)–Bauhauser (Arg), by Numerous, Fee: $3,000-LF Wolfcamp was on-the-board in 18 of 24 career starts with 7 victories and placed in Laurel’s $100,000 Dave’s Friend stakes beating Grade 2 Swale SW THIS ONES FOR PHIL and $400,000 Oklahoma Derby winner FIDDLERS AFLEET. Wolfcamp is by Champion 2YO EL PRADO out of Grade 3/Group 3 Stakes Winner BAUHAUSER (9 wins in 16 starts) and from the foundation sireproducing family of DAME FRITCHIE!

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Northern California Stallion Tour on Tap Te California Toroughbred Farm Managers Association and Northern California ranches have scheduled a Northern California Stallion Tour Oct. 7. Tis is an excellent chance to see 19 stallions before the breeding season begins. Te tour will begin at 8 a.m. in Elk Grove, where attendees will board a bus and be served a continental breakfast and lunch during the tour. You will visit Daehling Ranch, Woodbridge Farm, Paradise Road Ranch, and Victory Rose Toroughbreds. Te day will also include season drawings at each ranch. Cost is only $40 per person, including bus transportation and meals. To reserve your spot, please RSVP to Doreen Spinney at 916-803-5851 or paradiseroadranch@gmail.com.

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Noor Part of Foundation Collection Had C.S. Howard not owned Seabiscuit, the owner’s legacy as one of California’s most infuential horsemen still would have been secured through Noor. Seabiscuit’s place in history might always overshadow that of Noor’s, but the importance of the English-bred runner shouldn’t be overlooked. Te power and grace of Noor were captured and are on display at the CTBA ofces though a bronze sculpture by Hughlette “Tex” Wheeler. Part of the California TorTex Wheeler’s bronze of Noor oughbred Foundation’s extensive collection of equine art and sculpted in 1951, just after the horse’s retirement, the Noor bronze measures 151⁄2” x 19” and memorializes the horse in a walking stance, with his forelegs resting on an oval, integrated, short bronze plateau. Wheeler is one of racing’s best well-known bronze equine artists, as his life-sized statue of Seabiscuit adorns Santa Anita’s walking ring and his statue of George Woolf stands in that track’s paddock gardens. Noor was the second horse in a two-horse package deal that Howard purchased from the Aga Khan. A son of Nasrullah, Noor did moderately well in Europe, including a third-place fnish in the 1948 Epsom Derby. Howard sought to buy the colt’s half brother, Nathoo, but the Aga Khan mandated that Howard buy Noor as well. Noor returned to the races in late 1949 with trainer Burley Parke. He defeated Triple Crown winner Citation in the 1950 Santa Anita Handicap. Afterward, Howard was asked how Noor compared to Seabiscuit. Te owner dropped his head and demurred, “Well, I’ve known Seabiscuit longer.” In all, Noor faced Citation fve times over their careers, with Noor victorious four times. Noor became the frst horse ever to defeat two Triple Crown winners when he won the 1950 Hollywood Gold Cup over 1946 Triple Crown winner Assault. He ended the year being named America’s champion handicap horse. Originally retired to stud in California, Noor stood in Kentucky from 1952-54 before being returned to his adopted homeland. He died in California at the age of 29 and was buried at Loma Rica Ranch in Grass Valley. More than three decades after his passing, there were plans to develop the Loma Rica Ranch property. Charlotte Farmer, a great admirer of Noor, began to lobby various planning commissions to protect Noor’s grave. After four years she fnally received permission to remove the remains. Farmer and a friend drove them to Old Friends Farm in Lexington, Ky., where Noor was reinterred in the Old Friends cemetery.

memorial donations The CTF accepts donations in memory of relatives and friends, with all such donations allocated to Scholarship Funds of the Foundation and to the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library. Please remember members of our industry with a donation to the CTF memorial fund. Donations may be sent to: CTF, P.O. Box 60018, Arcadia, CA 91066-6018. The CTF joins in honoring the memory of those whose names appear in bold type. We also thank and acknowledge the donors for their generous contributions.

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2017

OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES

SHIGEKI KIKKAWA

A Blast from the Past

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CHARM A GENDARME THIRD GENERATION STILL THE CHARM

BY EMILY SHIELDS

he best broodmares are able to produce multiple stakes winners, but only the most fantastic see their names pop up in future generations. Charm a Gendarme, the 1992 California champion 3-year-old female, is one such mare, whose infuence continues to be felt in graded stakes as recently as 2016. From her grade 1-winning daughter Tout Charmant to the four recent stakes runners that list her as their third dam, Charm a Gendarme is a California broodmare standout. Longtime California breeder Robert Walter campaigned Charm a Gendarme’s dam, Fagers Charm, mostly in Northern California during the 1980s. Te stakes-winning daughter of Sham—

Fagers Carisma, by Dr. Fager, retired to join the broodmare band being cultivated by Walter and his wife, Barbara. Teir Vine Hill Ranch was still a relatively young operation at the time, having

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opened in 1983. Fagers Charm would prove a boon for the Walters, as she produced three stakes horses from three foals to race. Te frst was Charmonnier, a gelded son of the Walters’ Batonnier. Charmonnier eventually stunned Best Pal by a head in the 1991 Wells Fargo Bank California Cup Classic Handicap. He regularly outran his expectations, earning $566,793 while racing as far away as Sha Tin in Hong Kong and Arlington Park in Illinois. Charm a Gendarme was Charmonnier’s full sister, born one year later in

Tout Charmant, a Slewvescent daughter of Charm a Gendarme, won the grade 1 Del Mar Oaks in the familiar silks of her owner/breeder

in the $100,000 California Cup Juvenile Fillies, merely warming up for her championship campaign. A sharp allowance victory at Golden Gate Fields set Charm a Gendarme up for the Senorita Breeders’ Cup Stakes (G3T) on the grass. Te flly, then under the tutelage of trainer Noble Hay III, was dismissed at 29-1 in her frst graded stakes try. She led every step of the way and rolled to win the one-mile contest in 1:33.66, a stakes record. After fnishing second in the Lakes and Flowers Breeders’ Cup Handicap at

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1989. Although Fagers Charm produced one more daughter, the stakes-placed Cost Conscious mare Charmalotta, it was Charm a Gendarme who carried on her dam’s legacy. Charm a Gendarme debuted for the Walters and trainer Donald Eikleberry, breaking her maiden frst out by two lengths at Santa Rosa at 12-1. She immediately came back to win her frst stakes race, the Curragh Stakes at Bay Meadows. She was moved to the Southern California barn of young trainer Bob Bafert shortly thereafter and fnished second by a length

Golden Gate and third in the Luther Burbank Handicap on the dirt at Santa Rosa, Charm a Gendarme got back to her winning ways in the $47,925 San Jose Breeders’ Cup Handicap. Tat victory, along with her graded stakes score, cemented her place as California’s champion 3-yearold female, even though she had fnished a disappointing ffth in the $100,000 California Cup Distaf Handicap to round out the season. Charm a Gendarme did not win again, retiring at 4 with a record of fve wins, fve seconds, and two thirds from 19 starts with earnings of $224,305. Te starlet of the Walter broodmare band quickly showed her prowess with her frst two foals. Court Costs, a 1995 Cal-bred colt by Cost Conscious, came frst. He earned $141,567 over eight seasons, eventually winning six of his 44 starts and fnishing in the top three spots 16 times. Tout Charmant, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Slewvescent, was born a year later. Tis standout debuted in 1998 and would go on to earn $1,781,879. Tout Charmant took three tries to break her maiden, but just two starts later she was grade 1-placed after fnishing second in the $200,000 Las Virgenes Stakes (G1). She also ran second by a neck in the $250,000 Santa Anita Oaks (G1) before eventually fnding a long-term home on turf. Tout Charmant won the $250,000 Del Mar Oaks (G1T) and fnished second to eventual Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1T) winner Perfect Sting in the

Dancing House, a Tapit granddaughter of Charm a Gendarme, is a grade 2 winner for Godolphin

Third-generation descendant I’m Mom’s Favorite (inside) took the Miss Preakness Stakes in 2013

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A Blast from the Past

$500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge City Girl, stakes-placed at Monmouth Cup Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland. Park in 2014. A third daughter, Toutsie Having been purchased privately by Rules, fnished third in the 2015 Charles Stonerside Stable from the Walter Family Town Oaks (G3). Charming Toutsie has Trust, Tout Charmant had a banner year progeny earnings of more than half a milin 2000. She won the $500,000 Matriarch lion dollars. Stakes (G1T), $554,000 WinStar Galaxy As for High Style, the winning Giant’s Stakes (G3T), and $107,900 Wilshire Causeway flly has two winners from Handicap (G3T). She ran second behind Perfect Sting in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf that year, then returned in 2001 to add a pair of grade 2 events before retiring with nine wins and nine seconds in 29 starts. Tout Charmant has impressed as a broodmare. She produced six winners from seven starters, including Dancing Forest Grove was a grade 3 winner and sire for Charm a Gendarme and his owner/breeder Aaron and Marie Jones House, who won the $300,000 Barbara Fritchie Stakes (G2) three starters, including All Star Bub. Te at Laurel Park in 2016. Te daughter of Midshipman daughter was stakes-placed Tapit won fve of her 12 starts for earn- at both Santa Anita and Emerald Downs ings of $450,825. Tout Charmant’s other in 2016. daughters include Charming Toutsie and After Tout Charmant, Charm a GenHigh Style. darme foaled a winning Alleged flly, AlCharming Toutsie has had all seven of locute, and Charm a Song, a winner by her runners win, including stakes win- Unbridled’s Song. Between them, they ner I’m Mom’s Favorite, victorious in the produced four winners from six starters, 2013 Miss Preakness Stakes, and Charm and Charm a Song’s unraced daughter 18

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Warhol, Charm a Gendarme’s son by Saint Ballado, brought $4 million as a Keeneland yearling

Ferne’s Love had one starter and winner. Charm a Gendarme’s Saint Ballado colt, Warhol, brought $4 million at the 2001 Keeneland July select yearling sale. Although he ran only four times, he did reach the winner’s enclosure in Ireland before his career ended. Charm a Gendarme’s next colt, Forest Grove, became her second stakes winner. Aaron and Marie Jones, who had purchased Charm a Gendarme for $290,000 at the 1998 Keeneland November mixed sale, bred the chestnut son of Forestry. Although they eventually sold Charm a Gendarme for $375,000 at the 2003 Keeneland November sale, they retained Forest Grove throughout his racing career and during his early years as a sire. Forest Grove broke his maiden as a sophomore in 2004, then quickly got good, adding an allowance score and two New Jersey stakes to his resume, the $100,000 Ocean Place Resort Stakes and the $60,000 Paterson Stakes. In 2005 he fnished second in the $150,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn Park before winning the $150,000 Los Angeles Times Handicap (G3) at Hollywood Park. Forest Grove entered stud at Taylor Made Farm in Kentucky with fve wins in 16 starts and earnings of $281,130. From his starters, 72% have won, and his progeny have earned more than $3.5 million combined. His best runners are stakes winners Overvalued and Lay Line Force. Forest Grove is now a regional sire standing at Naylee Farm in West Virginia. An unraced full sister to Forest Grove is responsible for yet another stakes horse from the Charm a Gendarme line. Charmant Forest has thrown three winners from fve starters, including Lord of the Stars. A son of Speightstown, Lord of the Stars began his career with a win in England, ran at Meydan in Dubai as a sophomore, and fnished his career racing exclusively in Hong Kong. He was stakesplaced at 2 and 3 for earnings of $97,707. In all, Charm a Gendarme produced 11 winners from 12 starters for progeny earnings over $2.6 million. She died in 2011, but the Walters’ exemplary Calbred mare created a lasting dynasty, with her presence still felt on the racetrack even now.

The Legacy of Multiple G1 Winning Millionaire, HARLAN’S HOLIDAY Continues in California, With his Multiple Stakes Winning Son ...

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In 2012, HARLAN’S HOLIDAY ($3,632,664) set a new all-time juvenile earnings mark for North American sires at $2,954,556, eclipsing the previous record of $2,811,337 set by TAPIT. Since then, HARLAN’S HOLIDAY has established himself as not only a sire of great race horses, but as a sire of sires. With the emergence of North American leading sire, INTO MISCHIEF (Fee: $100,000), leading freshman sire SHANGHAI BOBBY (Fee: $25,000) and MAJESTICPERFECTION (Fee: $15,000) sire of millionaire Gl KY Oaks winner LOVELY MARIA, BOAT TRIP is set to continue his sire’s success in the breeding shed. A Breeders Cup performer, BOAT TRIP sped 5f on the turf in 55.2, won stakes races at 6f in 108.2 and at 1 mile winning the TSUNAMI SLEW STAKES in 1:34:3. BOAT TRIP fnished 2nd by a nose in the G3 EDDIE D STAKES, defeating multiple graded stakes winners CARACORTADO and MAJESTIC ClTY. Out of the G3 winning, SEEKING THE GOLD mare, TURNING WHEEL, a halfsister to G3 winner SPACE CRUISER and Gl placed winner AJFAN, BOAT TRIP is a half-brother to four other Stakes performers. BOAT TRIP’s 2nd dam, MISINSKIE by NIJINSKI II, is a half-sister to successful sire CLEVER TRICK. Resulting in the same breeding pattern as leading sire INTO MISCHIEF

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RECORD CAL-BRED TOPS SALE CAL-BREDS COST MORE THAN THEY USED TO BY TRACY GANTZ

Te Barretts select sale is in its third year. In each of the editions, nine of the top 10 prices have been Cal-breds. “We’re trying to establish a market for high-end Cal-breds,” said Kim Lloyd, general manager of Barretts. “It gives the breeders confdence that they can buy good mares and ofer the ofspring at market.” Te buyers have taken note. Trainer Brian Koriner aided in the purchase of two of the sale’s three six-fgure horses, and he commented on the robust Cal-bred prices. “Cal-breds cost a lot more than they used to,” said Koriner. “Last October we didn’t buy a thing. To get horses, you’ve got to be aggressive.” Koriner bought the sale-topper for Samantha Siegel’s Jay Em Ess Stable. At 20

BARRETTS SALES AT DEL MAR PHOTOS

California-bred set a Barretts record yearling price when she sold for $300,000 at the Barretts select yearling sale Aug. 29 at Del Mar. Te Bodemeister flly led a Cal-bred charge in what is becoming an annual onslaught of state-breds.

A Cal-bred Bodemeister—North Freeway flly brings sale record $300,000

$300,000, the daughter of the Jump Start mare North Freeway set an all-time Barretts record for a yearling, beating the previous record of $290,000. Te flly’s 2-year-old half brother by Acclamation provided the key to the purchase. Named Take the One O One, he had recently broken his maiden impressively for Siegel and Koriner. Take the One O One had topped the 2016 California Toroughbred Breeders Association Northern California yearling sale at $47,000. John Harris’ Harris Farms consigned

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the sale-topper for breeder Tom Bachman’s Fairview. “She’s like a family member,” said Bachman. “She’s been good from the beginning. I don’t keep horses, but if I were ever going to, she’d have been it. I really thank Dave McGlothlin and the Harris Farms crew.” Bachman also bred Take the One O One. He chose Bodemeister because “I like horses who can carry their speed two turns.” He said the mare has a Square Eddie weanling and is in foal to Into Mischief.

An Unusual Heat—Dancing Jo flly is Barretts second-highest-priced offering

Del Mar provides the perfect setting for yearling shopping at the Barretts sale

“I got lucky,” Bachman said. “North Sunny Outcome, by Cee’s Tizzy, out of Freeway is a young mare. I bought her this sale from Harris Farms. She is now right of the racetrack.” named Lucky Outcome. Harris Farms consigned the secBlacker was particularly pleased with ond-highest-priced horse, a $200,000 the Unusual Heat flly. “She was really athdaughter of Unusual Heat—Dancing Jo, letic from an excellent consignment,” he by Johannesburg, for Madeline Auerbach. said. “Harris Farms does a really excellent Several ofspring by Unjob of raising a horse.” usual Heat, who died earAuerbach said that lier this year, were in the she and John Harris catalog, including a flly might buy back into the out of the Broken Vow $200,000 flly. mare Assure consigned by “It’s a real marriage Sue Greene’s Woodbridge between California and Farm. Kentucky,” said Auerbach. “Tis is the second“We need to see more of to-last crop (of Unusual that.” Heat), and the last crop Trainer Mark Glatt is teeny-tiny, so we’re bought Woodbridge not going to see many of Farm’s Unusual Heat flly these,” said Madeline Aufor $77,000. erbach, who shepherded “Unusual Heats are the stallion’s very success- Mike McMahon, of McMahon runners, and you’ve got Hill, purchased the sale’s ful career. “It’s wonderful and to get one because there second highest-priced yearfor other people to un- ling with Radley Equine are no more coming,” said derstand the value of what Glatt. “I liked the bottom we’re doing.” side too.” Te $200,000 flly went to McMahon Harris Farms also sold a son of Unusuand Hill/Radley Equine. Kentucky blood- al Heat—Fly Borboleta, by Pulpit, for stock agent Mike McMahon did the bid- $70,000. Gayle Van Leer bought the colt ding, with California trainer Dan Blacker for Norm Tavares. alongside. Te third six-fgure horse and the high“We’ve been backing Dan for a couple est-priced colt went for $120,000 to Scott of years now and bringing some of our Sherwood of Blinkers On Racing Stable. customers into his stable,” said McMahon. Kim McCarthy’s McCarthy Bloodstock Te previous year McMahon’s group consigned the son of Mucho Macho purchased a daughter of Lucky Pulpit— Man—Longing, by City Zip.

“Brian Koriner does my bloodstock work for me, and Brian really liked the horse,” said Sherwood. “We knew a little bit about the horse because Legacy Ranch had the horse. He was correct and looks fast, and it’s a City Zip mare with Mucho Macho Man and a Cal-bred.” A total of 53 horses averaged $41,075 on a gross of $2,177,000, with a median of $32,000. Te buy-back rate was 34% (27 of the 80 horses through the ring). “I was very pleased all the way through,” said Lloyd, “from when we started our selections through showing—it was busy and we had trafc every day. We had people show up from many diferent places.”

Barretts’ top-priced colt is a Cal-bred Mucho Macho Man purchased for $120,000

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Shown winning the Pacifc Classic, Best Pal was Cal-bred champion older horse twice

CAL-BRED CHAMPION OLDER MALES A GENEALOGICAL HERITAGE

BY ELLEN PARKER

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere efort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives.”

ÑWILLIAM A. FOSTER

hen one is looking at a list of California’s champion older males, the names are instantly recognizable. Time after time one cannot help but think, “What an amazing group of horses.” Te list has real depth: Eclipse Award winners, Hall of Fame members, multiple grade 1 winners, and good sires. Tey are truly outstanding by any measurement and can hold their own against horses from anywhere in the world. Perhaps most of all, they are a monument to the dedication and care with which California-breds have evolved throughout the decades in which state-bred champions have been named. Tey are—truly and absolutely—the very best. DOING THEIR JOB WELL

If it is racing’s major job to bring fans to the track, the latest of these champions, California Chrome, certainly knew how. He won two-thirds of a Triple Crown and 22

traveled abroad to win twice in the UAE, including the Dubai World Cup (G1), gaining a legion of followers known as “Chromies” along the way. A shiny chestnut with a spring in his step, California Chrome made fans wherever he went. And if he could not quite get his nose in front in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1), that task had been nicely handled by a fellow Californian named Tiznow, who remains the only horse ever to win that race twice. TOUGH GUYS

Twice champions, Chrome and Tiznow lead a list of multiple champions, including Ancient Title, Lava Man, and Best Pal (three-time older horse champions). Tis trio were, of course, geldings, but multiple champions Bertrando, California Chrome, Snow Chief, Tiznow, and Acclamation— Eclipse winners all—are entires, as was Acclamation’s broodmare sire Silveyville, another double champion. Te sheer toughness of these horses

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gave them ample opportunities to make fans and leave indelible impressions on the sport. Of the 35 older male champions, nine ran more than 50 times: Ancient Title (57), Awesome Daze (62), Bruho (58), Budroyale (52), Flying Continental (51), Grey Memo (54), Nostalgia’s Star (59), Silveyville (56), and Stylish Winner (54). Another 10 ran at least 30-49 times. Tey are Acclamation (30), Bad ’n Big (48), Best Pal (47), Cost of Freedom (47), Jumping Hill (36), Lava Man (47), McCann’s Mojave (35), Megan’s Interco (36), Royal Owl (37), and Super Diamond (37). SIRE LINES

Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew has put a stamp on the California bred. Joey Franco (Avenue of Flags), General Challenge (General Meeting), California Chrome (Lucky Pulpit), and Slew City Slew (Lava Man) are from his tail-male line. Bold Ruler’s descendants, apart from Seattle Slew, are Prince Spellbound (Bold Hitter) and Big Macher (Bold Ruckus). Never Bend, like Bold Ruler a son of Nasrullah, is the head of Free House’s male line. Chilean-born Memo hails from the Nasrullah line via Nashua and is responsible for Grey Memo and McCann’s Mojave, while Northern Dancer accounted for Dancing in Silks (Black Minnaloushe) as well as Un-

ANNE M. EBERHARDT

Pedigrees

BROODMARE SIRES

Te broodmare sire lines of this group are particularly diverse. Tey also illustrate how older champions contributed to successive generations: Older champion Nostalgia’s Star was the broodmare sire of Lava Man; older champion Snow Chief was the broodmare sire of Grey Memo; and older champion Free House was the broodmare sire of Points Ofthebench. As to the broodmare sires’ male lines, there are six Native Dancer-line broodmare sires: Gaelic Dancer (Super Diamond), Princely Native (Awesome Daze), and three Raise a Native/Mr. Prospector-line stallions. Te latter are Not For Love (California Chrome), Western Fame (Te Usual Q. T.), and Native Prospector (Joey Franco). Multiple Nasrullah-line horses are found here as well. Bold Ruler is represented through Seattle Song (Tiznow and Budroyale) and Successor (Silveyville). Ten there are two T. V. Lark presences: T. V. Lark himself (Crystal Water) and Bufalo Lark (Bertrando). Fleet Nasrullah also has two descen-

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usual Heat’s (Nureyev) ofspring Acclamation and Te Usual Q. T. Gummo’s branch of Fleet Nasrullah gave us Flying Continental (Flying Paster) and Ancient Title. Relaunch-line Cee’s Tizzy and Skywalker represent Man o’ War and are responsible respectively for the full brothers Tiznow and Budroyale, along with Cost of Freedom and Bertrando. Handsome dark bay Windy Sands from the Alibhai branch of Hyperion sired the gifted Crystal Water and the tough and talented Eleven Stitches. Other Hyperion-line horses include Jumping Hill (Khaled), Megan’s Interco (Forli) and Beau’s Eagle (Owen Tudor). Raise a Native’s sire line is represented by Alydar (Points Ofthebench) and Mr. Prospector (Bruho). Prince Rose gave us Silveyville and Nostalgia’s Star. Tom Fool appears via Buckpasser (Super Diamond) and Snow Chief (Refected Glory). Ribot is responsible for Stylish Winner, by His Majesty. Turn-to’s line got Best Pal (Habitony) and Awesome Daze (Halo). Te rare Nearco line of Krakatao (Royal Owl) and Tourbillion via My Babu (Bad ’n Big) complete the picture.

Hollywood Gold Cup winner Ancient Title was a three-time Cal-bred champion older horse

dants in this column –Don B. (Megan’s Interco) and Fleet Discovery (Stylish Winner). Free House represents Never Bend, and Nantallah/Bolinas Boy appears via Barberstown. Prince Rose appears thrice via Princequillo and twice via Prince Chevalier. Te Princequillo-line broodmare sires are Nostalgia’s Star (Lava Man), King Pellinore (Best Pal), and Transworld (Flying Continental). Prince Chevalier appears via Arctic Prince (Prince Spellbound) and Arctic Prince’s son Snow Sporting (Snow Chief). Hyperion has three Alibhai kin—My Host (Eleven Stitches), Bar Le Duc (Ancient Title), and Decidedly (Jumping Hill)—as well as the Vaguely Noble son Royal and Regal (Dancing in Silks). SonIn-Law also makes three appearances, two via Herbager (Vigors in Free House’s pedigree and Big Spruce in Nostalgia’s Star) plus Beau Pere/Duplicator (Royal Owl). Tere is one older male champion each from Roberto/Kris S. (Big Macher), Man o’ War/Tentam (Bruho), Northern Dancer/Moscow Ballet (Cost of Freedom), Cyane/Smarten (General Challenge), Ribot/ Maribeau (Beau’s Eagle), Nordic Prince/ Nearctic (McCann’s Mojave), and Guerrero/Sir Gallahad III (Bad ’n Big). FAMILY LINES

As to family relationships, as previously stated, Budroyale and Tiznow are full brothers as well as full brothers to California sire Tizbud and to the dams of Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Oxbow (Tizamazing) and classic-placed Paynter (Tizso). Acclamation and Stylish Winner are from the same immediate family. California Chrome’s dam is inbred to Swaps and from the same tail-female line (Family A-4). Points Ofthebench is a full brother to Cal-bred champion juvenile Bench Points. Lava Man is a half brother to Del Mar Mile

Handicap (G2T) winner Enriched. INBREEDING

Te most common inbreeding in this group of older males is to major breedshapers Nasrullah (nine or 10 if you count Silveyville, who adds Nasrullah’s full sister Malindi). Te nine are Awesome Daze, Barberstown, Bertrando, Grey Memo, Nostalgia’s Star, Prince Spellbound, Stylish Winner, Bruho, and Megan’s Interco. Nine occasions of inbreeding to the “little giant” Northern Dancer can be found. His descendants are Big Macher, Budroyale, California Chrome, Cost of Freedom, Dancing in Silks, General Challenge, Te Usual Q. T., Tiznow, and Points Ofthebench. Nasrullah’s close relations Mahmoud and Royal Charger contributed greatly to these champions: Mahmoud via Ancient Title, Flying Continental, and Silveyville and Royal Charger via Awesome Daze and Megan’s Interco. Other lines represented by at least three horses are Alibhai (Ancient Title, Crystal Water, Eleven Stitches, and Stylish Winner); Bull Dog (Ancient Title, Barberstown, and Best Pal); and Princequillo (Best Pal, Free House, McCann’s Mojave, and Megan’s Interco) Te most infrequently found inbreeding is to Black Ray and to Serenissima (Jumping Hill), Embrujo (Snow Chief), Two Lea (Bruho), Victoria Regina (Big Macher), full siblings Your Host and My Host (Eleven Stitches), and Numbered Account (California Chrome). Inbreeding to Numbered Account is akin to inbreeding to the great broodmare La Troienne, also found in Super Diamond. Finally, three of these important horses have no inbreeding within the frst fve generations: Acclamation, Bad ’n Big, and Royal Owl.

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Cal-Bred Champion Older Males

CHAMPION OLDER HORSE INBREEDING Name

Mr. Prospector 4x3 (Northern Dancer in dam 4x5) Female: (Numbered Account 4 [Dance Number)]x 4 [Polish Numbers] in dam)

Big Macher

Raise a Native 4x5; Northern Dancer 4x5 Female: Victoria Regina 4 (Viceregal) x 5 (Vice Regent)

Points Offthebench

Northern Dancer 4x5x5

Acclamation

none

The Usual Q. T.

Northern Dancer 3x5 (Secretariat in dam 5x5 )

Dancing in Silks

none (Northern Dancer in sire 4x5)

WINNING AT THE TOP

Cost of Freedom

Northern Dancer 4x4

Several of these horses won or placed in classic races. California Chrome, of course, won the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness. Snow Chief won the Preakness. Best Pal ran second in the Kentucky Derby, and Barberstown fnished third in the Belmont Stakes (G1). Free House placed in all three Triple Crown events. Other grade 1 winners include Acclamation, Ancient Title, Beau’s Eagle, Bertrando, Big Macher, California Chrome, Cost of Freedom, Crystal Water, Dancing in Silks, Eleven Stitches, Flying Continental, Free House, General Challenge, Joey Franco, Jumping Hill, Lava Man, Nostalgia’s Star, Points Ofthebench, Royal Owl, Silveyville, Snow Chief, Super Diamond, Te Usual Q. T., and Tiznow. Horses who won grade 2 races are Bad ’n Big, Barberstown, Budroyale, Grey Memo, McCann’s Mojave, Megan’s Interco, and Prince Spellbound. Of the remainder, Awesome Daze was a listed stakes winner, and Bruho and Stylish Winner were grade 3 stakes winners. A number of horses who did not win grade 1 races placed in them, including Barberstown, Bruho, Budroyale, Grey Memo, McCann’s Mojave, Prince Spellbound, and Stylish Winner. Quality is the key, and it is woven throughout the race records of this group with a persistent excellence that cannot be denied. Among this group are winners of six Hollywood Gold Cups (G1): Ancient Title, Best Pal, Eleven Stitches, Lava Man (three times), Crystal Water, and Super Diamond. Santa Anita Handicap (G1) winners Best Pal, Free House, General Challenge, Tiznow, Crystal Water, and Lava Man (twice) are part of this group of champions, while Pacifc Classic (G1) winners Best Pal, Bertrando, Free House, General Challenge, Lava Man, Acclamation, and California Chrome complete the “Big Tree” grade 1 races for older runners in California. Other major races won by members of this elite group are Charles H. Strub Stakes winners Nostalgia’s Star, Ancient Title, Royal Owl, Flying Continental, Snow Chief, Best Pal, and General Challenge; Eddie Read Stakes winners Te Usual Q. T. Prince Spellbound, and Acclamation; Widener Handicap winner Jumping Hill; Woodward Stakes winner Bertrando; and Oak Tree Invitational winner Crystal Water (Acclamation won this event as the Clement L. Hirsch Stakes in 2011). Tiznow quite naturally leads the older males in Breeders’ Cup impact with two Classic wins. Dancing in Silks surprised in the

Lava Man

Prince John 5x5 (Herbager in dam 5x5)

McCann’s Mojave

none (Hyperion in dam 5x5 & Princequillo in dam 5x5)

Joey Franco

none (Bold Ruler in sire 5x5 & Nearctic in dam 5x5)

Grey Memo

Nasrullah 5x5; Tom Fool 5x5

Tiznow

Northern Dancer 4x4

General Challenge

Bold Ruler 5x4; Native Dancer 5x5; Northern Dancer 5x3

Budroyale

Northern Dancer 4x4

Free House

Nearco 5x5 (Princequillo in sire 5x5)

Awesome Daze

Royal Charger 5x5; Nasrullah 5x5

Megan’s Interco

Nasrullah 5x4 (Royal Charger in sire 5x5 & Princequillo in dam 5x4)

Bertrando

Nasrullah 5x5; Count Fleet 5x5 (Polynesian in sire 5x5)

Best Pal

Princequillo 5x4 (Bull Dog in sire 5x5 )

Bruho

Tom Fool 4x5; Nasrullah 5x5x4 (Discovery in dam 5x5) Female: (Two Lea 5 [Tim Tam] x 4 [On-and-On] in dam)

Flying Continental

Count Fleet 5x5 (Hyperion in dam 5x5 & Mahmoud in dam 5x5)

Stylish Winner

Alibhai 4x4; Nasrullah 4x4

Nostalgia’s Star

Prince John 3x4; Herbager 3x3; Nasrullah 5x5

Snow Chief

none (Embrujo in dam 5x5)

Super Diamond

Blue Larkspur 5x5 (Precipitation in sire 5x5) Female: La Troienne 5 (Businesslike) x 5 (Belle of Troy)

Barberstown

Nasrullah 3x4 (Bull Dog in sire 5x5)

Silveyville

Prince Rose 4x5; Nearco 4x5 (Mahmoud in dam 5x5) Female: Mumtaz Begum 4 (Malindi) x 5 (Nasrullah)

Prince Spellbound

Nearco 5x5x4; War Admiral 5x5 (Nasrullah in sire 4x4)

Eleven Stitches

Alibhai 3x3 Female: Boudoir II 3 (Your Host) x 3 (My Host)

Beau’s Eagle

Hyperion 4x5

Jumping Hill

Hyperion3x5 Female: (Black Ray 4 (Ecliar) x 5 (Jacopo) & Serenissima 5 (Selene) x 5 (Bosworth) in dam)

Bad ‘n Big

none

Crystal Water

Alibhai 3x3

Ancient Title

Alibhai 4x3; Blenheim II 5x5; Mahmoud 5x4 (Bull Dog in sire 5x5)

Royal Owl

none

California Chrome

Beloved Cal-bred Lava Man, a three-time champion older horse

Inbreeding

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CAL-BRED OLDER MALE CHAMPIONS 2009 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1), and California Chrome was second in the Classic in 2016 and third in the 2014 Classic. Tiznow’s brother, Budroyale, ran second in the Breeders’ Cup Classic (to Cat Tief). Bertrando was second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (to Arazi) and the Breeders’ Cup Classic (to Arcangues). Nostalgia’s Star ran fourth behind Bertrando’s sire Skywalker in the 1986 Breeders’ Cup Classic. BIG BANKROLLS

Millionaires are common these days. It is unlikely that many horses are going to come close to the $14.7 million accrued by California Chrome, but this group won’t be visiting the poor house any time soon. Tiznow won $6.4 million. Best Pal and Lava Man earned more than $5 million. Snow Chief, Bertrando, and Free House won more than $3 million while General Challenge, Budroyale, and Nostalgia’s Star banked more than $2 million. Acclamation fell short of $2 million with $1.9; Flying Continental earned $1.8 million. Te remaining millionaires are McCann’s Mojave, Dancing in Silks, Super Diamond, Silveyville, Te Usual Q. T., Ancient Title, Megan’s Interco, and Cost of Freedom. OTHER HONORS

California Horses of the Year from this outstanding group are California Chrome (2014, 2016), Points Ofthebench (2013), Dancing in Silks (2009 with California Flag), Acclamation (2011-12), Tiznow (2000-01), Joey Franco (2003), Lava Man (2005-06), Budroyale (1999), Free House (1997-98), Best Pal (1990-92), Bertrando (1993), Snow Chief (1985-87), Silveyville (1984), Prince Spellbound (1982), Eleven Stitches (1981), Crystal Water (1976-77), and Ancient Title (1974-75). Eclipse Award winners in this group include Horse of the Year (2014, 2016) California Chrome, also champion of his age and sex at 3 and 5. Acclamation won for champion older horse at age 5 in 2011. Tiznow was named champion 3-year-old male and champion older horse in 2000-01. Snow Chief was national champion 3-year-old in 1986, and Bertrando won his Eclipse as an older horse in 1993. California Chrome is a certain future

Name

Sire

Dam

Year

California Chrome California Chrome Big Macher Points Offthebench Acclamation Acclamation The Usual Q.T. Dancing in Silks Cost of Freedom Lava Man Lava Man Lava Man McCann’s Mojave Joey Franco Grey Memo Tiznow General Challenge Budroyal Free House Awesome Daze Megan’s Interco Best Pal Best Pal Bertrando Best Pal Bruho Flying Continental Stylish Winner Nostalgia’s Star Snow Chief Super Diamond Barberstown Silveyville Prince Spellbound Silveyville Eleven Stitches Beau’s Eagle Jumping Hill Bad ‘n Big Crystal Water Ancient Title Ancient Title Ancient Title Royal Owl

Lucky Pulpit Lucky Pulpit Beau Genius Benchmark Unusual Heat Unusual Heat Unusual Heat Black Minnaloushe Cee’s Tizzy Slew City Slew Slew City Slew Slew City Slew Memo Avenue of Flags Memo Cee’s Tizzy General Meeting Cee’s Tizzy Smokester Lil Tyler Iinterco Habitony Habitony Skywalker Habitony Naevus Flying Paster Obraztsovy Nostalgia Refected Glory Pass the Glass Gummo Petrone Dimaggio Petrone Windy Sands Golden Eagle II Hillary Inverness Drive Windy Sands Gummo Gummo Gummo Crazy Kid

Love the Chase Love the Chase Insight Mo Chuisle Winning in Style Winning in Style Lunge Lemhi Love Freedom Dance Li’l Ms. Leonard Li’l Ms. Leonard Li’l Ms. Leonard Joni U. Bar Susan Powter B. Mozelle Cee’s Song Excellent Lady Cee’s Song Fountain Lake Lil Bit Awesome Don’s Quillo Ubetshedid Ubetshedid Gentle Hands Ubetshedid Mahdees Continental Gal Lady With Style Aunt Carol Miss Snowfake One Chicken Inn Available Miss Zurina Artic Spell Zurina O’L Clementine Beaufeld Frequently Dance Hall Girl Soft Snow Hi Little Gal Hi Little Gal Hi Little Gal Mama Mouse

2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973

Hall of Fame inductee. He will be joining Tiznow, Lava Man, Best Pal, and Ancient Title, all older Cal-bred champions. CARRYING ON

In addition to the wonderful contributions these horses have made to the memory books of racing fans, not just in California but nationwide, many have bred on. Tus, just as Flying Paster’s name in American Pharoah’s pedigree was no surprise, it is little wonder that the frst three dams of Always Dreaming, winner of the 2017 Kentucky Derby, all were foaled in California. Tiznow has Informed and Slew’s Tiznow at stud in California, along with his full

brother Tizbud. Eclipse winner Acclamation assures us that the late Unusual Heat has a strong representative, and Bertrando’s sons Stormy Jack and Tamarando give one hope that “he is still running,” as the old saying goes. Another racetrack adage tells us that “blood never sleeps.” It is not difcult to imagine, for example, that California Chrome will bump into Tiznow’s bloodlines, since both stand in Kentucky. Imagining the combined strength of those two coming home to race or breed in California is truly something to be always dreaming about. Of such history are legends made and from such bloodlines come only the very best.

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Golden State Series

Tey are also responsible for the bottom side of Bookies Luck’s pedigree. Te Williamses bred his dam, the Johannesburg mare Book’em Babe. She started only four times, winning once. Te Williamses have Bookies Luck’s year-older half sister Only You Babe as well. Tat 3-year-old Torn Song flly won last year’s Juan Gonzalez Memorial Stakes at Pleasanton and Wine Country Debutante Stakes at Santa Rosa. Steve Specht trains Only You Babe, who has earned $128,379. Bookies Luck was foaled March 25, 2015, in California. Jef Bonde trains the colt, who fnished third twice at Santa Anita before breaking his maiden there June 18 of this year. Of slowly in the Aug. 6 Graduation Stakes, his frst start at Del Mar, Bookies Luck fnished eighth. “Te horses have to get used to it,” Bonde said of the Del Mar surface. “It afected us early, but we’re slowly but surely digging our way out here.” Larry and Marianne Williams’ Bookies Luck carries the Lucky Pulpit mantle in the I’m Smokin Stakes Bookies Luck is one who improved tremendously in his second Del Mar start. But that Graduation efort didn’t impress bettors, who sent him of at 14-1 against a tough feld of Cal-breds. Favoritism quite naturally went to Graduation winner Continental Divide, with Graduation THE GOLDEN KIDS COME OUT TO PLAY second Smokem the second choice and BY TRACY GANTZ Graduation third Drizzy the third choice. Bonde switched to jockey Kent Defspring of stallions representing the old guard and the new put the sormeaux, who hustled Bookies Luck sires in the spotlight as the Del Mar summer meeting wound down. away from the gate swiftly, behind only Te $100,345 I’m Smokin Stakes Sept. 1 featured 2-year-old Califor- Sir Valentine. “He was away from there quick, and I nia-breds while 2-year-old state-bred fllies squared of the day before in the had lots of horse all the way around,” said $98,000 Generous Portion Stakes, both races at six furlongs.

SPICED LUCK O

California might have lost Lucky Pulpit earlier this year, but the deceased stallion still has a few crops coming. His son Bookies Luck surprised the feld in the I’m Smokin. Newcomer Smiling Tiger, whose frst foals are 2-year-olds, is the sire of Spiced Perfection, who captured the Generous Portion. BOOKIES LUCK’S I’M SMOKIN STAKES

Larry and Marianne Williams have been associated with Lucky Pulpit from the beginning, so it is only ftting that one of their homebred Lucky Pulpits succeeded in the I’m Smokin. Te Williamses bred Lucky Pulpit, raced him throughout his career, and then stood him at stud in California. 26

Trainer Jeff Bonde, right, and jockey Kent Desormeaux pick up the I’m Smokin hardware

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Desormeaux. “I was loaded and it was just a matter of when I wanted to go to the front.” Desormeaux made the decision leaving the turn, and Bookies Luck responded. He coasted home to a 31⁄4-length victory, stopping the timer in 1:10.62 for six furlongs. “I like to throw crosses to get them involved, but this guy doesn’t want that,” Desormeaux said. “He wants you to pull on him, take a hold and pull to get him on the bit. We cruised in. From the eighth pole home, I just watched it on the TV.” Smokem closed to fnish second, another 31⁄4 lengths in front of third-place Drizzy. Continental Divide fnished fourth of seven. SPICED PERFECTION’S GENEROUS PORTION STAKES

Only fve fllies met in the Generous Portion after fve scratched out of the race. Because Show It N Moe It was coming of a victory in the Aug. 2 California Toroughbred Breeders Association Stakes, she went of as the 1-2 favorite. Spiced Perfection began her career at

Trainer Brian Koriner, right, next to Dare To Dream owners Michael and Allen Faber

Santa Anita. She ran third in her racing debut, but only lost by two noses. She fnished second at Santa Anita before breaking her maiden at Del Mar by a halflength. Del Mar appeared to agree with Spiced Perfection, according to her trainer, Brian Koriner, and jockey, Joe Talamo. “Te way she’s been getting over this track in the morning is just amazing, as good as any horse here,” said Talamo. Koriner agreed, saying, “She’s been doing really well since we brought her down here. Every time Joe worked her, he gave

Dare To Dream Stable’s Spiced Perfection translates her love for Del Mar’s main surface into a victory in the Generous Portion Stakes

me a thumbs up and said she was getting better and better.” Koriner elected to skip the CTBA Stakes with the flly to keep her fresh. Tat strategy paid of in the six-furlong Generous Portion. Little Doe sped to the front from the rail, with Show It N Moe It in second and Spiced Perfection in third outside of those two. Te three raced together down the backstretch. Little Doe cracked frst, leaving Show It N Moe It and Spiced Perfection to tussle in the turn. Spiced Perfection came out of the turn on top, and then Family Girl tried to rally. But Spiced Perfection had plenty left and won by two lengths in 1:11.38. Show It N Moe It held on for third behind Family Girl. “From the half-mile pole home, I was smiling,” said Talamo. “She ran today like she’s been working—relaxed, then fnishing with a fourish.” Philip Lebherz and Alan Klein raced Smiling Tiger, and their Premier Toroughbreds team, which includes manager Dennis Yokum, bought several mares to breed to Smiling Tiger. Premier purchased the Pleasantly Perfect mare Perfect Feat for $7,500 at the 2014 Barretts January mixed sale and then bred her to Smiling Tiger to get Spiced Perfection. Te flly went through two sales. Woodbridge Farm consigned her to the 2016 Barretts October sale, where John Brocklebank bought her for $6,500. Spiced Perfection then sold for $50,000 at the 2017 Barretts March sale as part of the Checkmate Toroughbreds consignment to Michael Faber’s Dare To Dream Stable. Dare To Dream races the flly.

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Barretts October Sale Preview

BRINGING THE HEAT PENULTIMATE YEARLINGS BY LATE, GREAT LEADING SIRE UNUSUAL HEAT

ith California-bred yearlings by Unusual Heat and Mucho Macho Man selling for six fgures at the Barretts select yearling sale (see page 20), those stallions could again be in demand this fall. Barretts will conduct its fall sale of yearlings and horses of racing age in Pomona Oct. 17, and the catalog includes youngsters by both of those sires. Many Barretts fall sale graduates have acquitted themselves well on the racetrack. Recent stakes winners to come from that sale include El Camino Real Derby (G3) winner Zakarof, Graduation Stakes winner Continental Divide, Generous Portion Stakes winner Spiced Perfection, and Barretts Debutante Stakes winner Ismelucky. Continental Divide, Spiced Perfection, and Ismelucky are Cal-breds. A half sister to Ismelucky will be ofered this year by Harris Farms, agent for Stephen Ferraro. Tis will be one of the last opportunities to get youngsters by Unusual Heat, the longtime leading California sire who died earlier this year. Two yearling colts and two yearling fllies by the stallion have been consigned to the sale. Harris Farms, agent for Madeline Auerbach, has consigned an Unusual Heat yearling colt out of Style of the Year. Tat consignment also will ofer Sun Belt, a 7-year-old mare by Unusual Heat out of Laguna Sunrise and in foal to Mr. Big. Andy Havens’ Havens Bloodstock Agency has two of the Unusual Heat yearlings, including a flly out of Strut Your Stuf. For Liberty Road Stables,

Havens is ofering a colt out of Meredith Bee. Adrian Gonzalez’ Checkmate Toroughbreds has a yearling daughter of Unusual Heat out of Bussell Up. Te complete dispersal of J & M Toroughbreds (Greg Fanning as agent) has a weanling flly by Unusual Heat out of Veiled Treat, as well as Veiled Treat herself, a 17-year-old mare in foal to the good California stallion Grazen. Kim McCarthy’s McCarthy Bloodstock has both of the Mucho Macho Man yearlings as part of a large consignment. Te colt is out of Just Heavenly while the flly is out of Carmelita. McCarthy’s group includes several yearlings by California stallions Champ Pegasus, Coil, Gervinho, and Ultimate Eagle. McCarthy is one of several with year-

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lings by California’s current leading sire, Bluegrass Cat. Ballena Vista Farm, where Bluegrass Cat stands, has two by the stallion. Paradise Road Ranch also has two Bluegrass Cat yearlings while Fleming Toroughbred Farm and Sue Greene’s Woodbridge Farm have one apiece. Lucky Pulpit, the sire of California Chrome, has two yearlings in the Barretts fall catalog. Harris Farms, where the stallion stood prior to his death earlier this year, has a Lucky Pulpit flly out of Little Miss Zip. Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch has a daughter of Lucky Pulpit out of Solar Eclipse. Te Lovacres consignment ofers a wide variety of bloodlines. Te other Lovacres yearlings are by Awesome Gambler, Empire Way, Grace Upon Grace, and Smiling Tiger. Te consignment also includes fve broodmares or broodmare prospects. Smiling Tiger is a young California sire whose frst foals are doing well on the track. Seven colts and two fllies by Smiling Tiger are among the yearlings on ofer, as is one weanling by the stallion. Woodbridge has two mares in foal to Smiling Tiger as part of its consignment. Mike Tippett’s Blue Diamond Horseshoe LLC will have its frst consignment in the fall sale. Te seven yearlings are by graded stakes winner James Street, stakesplaced Lightnin N Tunder, and stakesplaced Wolfcamp, three stallions who stand at the Aguanga farm. Other stallions with yearlings in the catalog include Acclamation, Animal Kingdom, Creative Cause, Decarchy, Drosselmeyer, Ghostzapper, Goldencents, Heatseeker, Idiot Proof, Midnight Lute, Midshipman, Mineshaft, Ministers Wild Cat, Munnings, Richard’s Kid, Slew’s Tiznow, Square Eddie, Te Factor, Twirling Candy, and U S Ranger.

Te following pages spotlight 13 Toroughbred farms on the West Coast, each of which’s purpose is to produce healthy, strong and talented horses who can successfully represent the local breeding and racing industry in the future. Te farms are diverse in size and scope and are situated throughout the Golden State—south from San Diego to north of San Francisco and from the coastal areas over to the desert regions. Te services they ofer also difer, ofering the choice of small boarding and lay-up farms to major facilities with complete training centers

Ballena Vista Farm .................................... 32 Barton Toroughbreds ...............................33 BG Toroughbred Farm ............................ 34 Brazeau Toroughbred Farms LP ............. 35 E.A.Ranches ...............................................36 Flag is Up Farms ........................................ 37 Harris Farms .............................................. 38 Legacy Ranch ............................................ 39 Lovacres Ranch ......................................... 40 Milky Way Farm ...................................... 41 Rancho San Miguel ................................... 42 Tommy Town Toroughbreds LLC ........... 43 Victory Rose Toroughbreds ..................... 44

Ballena Vista Farm Now and the Future Are Exciting Times at Ballena Vista Farm

Ballena Vista Farm boasts a world-class facility and showcases a stallion roster highlighted by California’s leading sire Bluegrass Cat, a G1 winner of $1,761,280. Also standing at the sprawling Ramona farm is Eddington, a G1 winner and G1 sire of twotime Breeders’ Cup champion Secret Circle. Te stallion roster is rounded out by G1 winner Dixie Chatter, the royally bred, multiple stakes winner Calimonco and G1 winner Finnegans Wake who entered stud in 2017. Bluegrass Cat ($7,500) won the Remsen Stakes (GII) and Nashua Stakes (GIII) as a juvenile before winning the Haskell Invitational (GI) at three. He also fnished second in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) and the Belmont Stakes (G1). Bluegrass Cat’s runners have earned more than $38 million, with three 2017 stakes winners including Bonita and Bluegrass Flag. Eddington ($3,500) joined Ballena Vista Farm in 2014. A G1 winning son of Unbridled, his runners include $3,670,790-earner Secret Circle, who won the Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint in 2011 and completed a rare double when taking the Xpressbet Breeders’ Cup Sprint in 2013. Secret Circle went on to win the 2015 $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1) in his fnal start. His frst California crop are now at the track. Dixie Chatter ($2,500), a G1 winner by Dixie Union, earned $484,606 in three stakes-winning seasons. He was the leading California Freshman sire in 2013 by number of wins, stakes winners and number of winners. Current runners are led by multiple stakes winner Yo Y Me. Calimonco ($1,500), by Storm Cat, is a multiple stakes winner at a mile and he also placed twice in grade II company. Out of Sweet Life, the 2009 Broodmare of the Year, he is a full brother to Breeders’ Cup (G1) winners Life is Sweet and Sweet Catomine.

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Calimonco is represented by current winners General Interest (MSW ), American Rhiannon and Flying Dagger. New in 2017 is Finnegans Wake ($3,500), by Powerscourt (GB) owned by Rockingham Ranch, a G1 multiple stakes winner of $1,594,665. He won at distances on the turf from 1 1/8 to 1 ½ miles. Ballena Vista Farm encompasses more than 220 acres consisting of pastures irrigated by fresh-water wells and individual paddocks (grass or dry) of varying sizes, all with wood four-rail fencing and V-mesh wire for safety. Tere is also a quarter-mile training track with a starting gate, a covered round pen and a six-horse Claydon indoor exerciser. Tese facilities meet all your training needs regardless of the weather. Te stallion complex includes an eight stall stallion barn, adjoining grass turn-outs, additional pastures, a covered round pen, laboratory, and a breeding shed to accommodate a high standard of excellence. Ballena Vista Farms staf is now led by Miguel Jimenez (Farm Manager) with experienced staf including Manuel Piedra (Assistant Manager) and Martin Chavez (Trainer). Together the team has more than 100 years of hands-on Toroughbred experience. Veterinary services are provided by Dr. Gary Cranney and Dr. William Talbot, both long term San Diego County equine practitioners. Ballena Vista Farm prides itself on providing the best possible care for mares and foals, breaking and training of young horses, sales preparation and rehabilitation of injured horses. Tere are personnel available around the clock for constant supervision of the equine athletes in residence. In-depth and meticulous attention is given to every detail of the farm’s equine residents and Ballena Vista Farm stands by its motto of, “Integrity, Commitment, Compassion… It’s All Here.” Please visit the www.ballenavistafarm.com website for more information and photos.

Barton Toroughbreds Te Start of a New Era

Pr e v i o u s l y known as Magali Farms, Barton Thoroughbreds opened its gates for business in August 2017. Te farm is situated in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, just thirty minutes from Santa Barbara and two and a half hours from Santa Anita Park. Te near two hundred acres in a moderate climate provide the ideal space for boarding and raising thoroughbreds in California. Te new management of Barton Toroughbreds is led by Kate Barton, CTBA Director, and the newly appointed farm manager, Kevin Dickson. Kevin was the manager of Vessels Stallion Farm for twenty-one years until assuming the role of farm manager for Ocean Breeze Ranch for two years. Kevin’s experience, along with education from Colorado State University studying Equine Science with an emphasis in reproduction, will prove to be an asset in the development of Barton Toroughbreds as a premier farm in California. Barton Toroughbreds will be ofering boarding, breeding, foaling, sales prep, and lay-up care. Te staf of the farm includes the best of the retained employees from Magali Farms, along with new additions on the lay-up side with experienced horsemen from Santa Anita Park. Te farm has a forty-fve stall barn equipped with an EquiVibe plate used for rehabilitating horses and is investing in a six-horse equiciser as well as sand paddocks.

Lastly, multiple grass paddocks allow for true rest and relaxation for these thoroughbreds from the track. When it comes to stallions, the Bartons are more than thrilled to stand their own Champ Pegasus. Te Grade I Winner and Million Dollar Earner is a son of Fusaichi Pegasus out of the Graded Stakes Winner Salt Champ (ARG) by Salt Lake. With a frst crop of two-year olds in 2017, Champ Pegasus is of to a promising start. He sired two Maiden Special Weight winners (fve winners altogether) with Utah Ute and Schulace, who went on to be stakes-placed after fnishing second in the Everett Nevin in Pleasanton. Barton Toroughbreds will also stand the Grade I Winner Coil by Point Given, who entered stud in 2013, in addition to the multiple graded stakes winner Atticus, who holds the world record for a mile on the turf. Barton Toroughbreds anticipates new additions to the stallion roster for the 2018 season which will be announced accordingly. Te Bartons are seeking to make this alreadybeautiful farm even more desirable for California breeders, owners, and trainers with increased service oferings and facility improvement. Visitors are more than welcome to meet new management, see the stallions, and tour the grounds. Feel free to email info@bartonthoroughbreds.com, call the ofce at (805) 693-1777, or visit the website at www.bartonthoroughbreds.com.

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BG Toroughbred Farm

Everything Needed to Keep Racehorses Happy George Yager of BG Stable and trainer Hector Palma have expanded their racetrack partnership to establish BG Toroughbred Farm, a high-class operation located in Hemet. Te 51-acre spread boasts an exceptional staf and fne accommodations for its Toroughbred athletes. Hector Palma not only has over ffty years of experience in the industry, but he also owned and operated Central Farms for nearly thirty years. Palma now oversees all aspects of BG Toroughbred Farm, from the breeding and foaling to the training of young horses. Palma’s right-hand man is Marcos Menjivar, who adds another 20 years of experience to the staf and manages day to day operations. Te farm, which opened its doors under its current moniker in 2014, ofers 28 pastures with year-round grass, two 20-stall barns, a layup barn with run-out pens, and sand pens for turnout. A specially trained 24-hour foaling crew observes the farm’s broodmares, while cameras are mounted in each stall for an extra layer of observation. Te property also includes a fveeighths of a mile training track. Te stallion roster for 2018 is made up of eight horses: Afrmative, Misremembered, Capital Account, Daddy Nose Best, Fighting Hussar, King of Jazz (Arg), Tiz a Minister, and Unusual Heatwave. Afrmative, by Unbridled – Tom’s A La Mode, by Alleged, is the sire of grade 1 winner and $931,612-earner Warren’s Veneda. In 2015, Warren’s Veneda went on a tear, taking the Santa Maria Stakes (gr. II) and Santa Margarita Stakes (gr. I). She went favored in the Vanity Stakes (gr. I), but a threerace streak end when she fnished third. Afrmative has also sired stakes winner and grade 1-placed Warren’s Jitterbug. His progeny have earned more than $3.9 million with 65% winners from starters. Misremembered moved to BG Toroughbreds for the 2017 season. Te grade 1-winner and track record setter earned $1.3 million, and has since gone on to produce 75% starters from foals, and 59% winners from starters. His best runners have been Turf Paradise Derby winner Nightly News and $321,990 earner Dazzling Gem, and he had multiple winners during the recent Del Mar meeting.

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Speedy Capital Account, by Closing Argument – Accountess, by Private Account, broke his maiden frst out by seven and three-quarters lengths, posting a 104 Beyer Speed Figure. He went on to win the Pat O’Brien Stakes (gr. II) at Del Mar over Haskell Invitational (gr. I) winner Coil. Capital Account fnished in the top three places in 12 of his 14 career starts, earning $445,080. His frst foals are yearlings of 2017. Daddy Nose Best, a son of leading sire Scat Daddy – Follow Your Bliss, by Tunder Gulch, won three grade 3 events at ages three and fve, and won six stakes total in his 25-race career. He earned $957,303 while winning nine times, including at least once a year between 2011 and 2014. Daddy Nose Best’s frst foals are juveniles of 2017. Te multiple stakes placed winner Fighting Hussar is a son of Rockport Harbor – Lightning Pace, by Regal Classic, and earned $236,128. Lightning Pace was grade 3-placed and a six-time winner in Canada. Fighting Hussar’s frst foals will race in 2018. Dual winner King of Jazz (Arg) is a son of Giant’s Causeway and out of the group 1 winning mare Kiss Me Sweet (Arg), making him a half-brother to six winners, including two stakes horses. King of Jazz ran 10 times at Santa Anita and Del Mar, never fnishing worse than ffth. He won from eight to 10 furlongs on the grass. Te graded stakes winning Tiz a Minister is by the royally-bred stallion Minister’s Wild Cat and out of the Cee’s Tizzy mare Tiz a Mistress. Tiz a Minister won three starts and $481,530, thanks in part to his victory in the Afrmed Stakes (gr. III). He also won the California Breeders’ Champion Stakes as a juvenile. California Champion Unusual Heatwave earned that honor in 2012 as the state’s top Tree-Year-Old Male. He won four races and $488,752, including the Snow Chief Stakes at three and the Crystal Water Handicap at fve. Te son of Unusual Heat – Miss Alphie, by Candi’s Gold, is a half-brother to graded stakes winner Alphie’s Bet. His frst foals are juveniles of 2017. BG Toroughbred Farm has established itself as a convenient central location to the Southern California racetracks, and looks to answer all your needs as a breeding, layup, rehabilitation and training facility. For information please call (951) 654-9100 or visit www.bgthoroughbreds.com.

Brazeau Toroughbred Farms

Success in Rehabilitation, From Lay-Up to the Winners Circle! Success can be measured in many ways. At Brazeau Toroughbred Farms we set the standard very high and work diligently and without compromise to achieve our goals. One of the most successful and rewarding divisions at our farm is in rehabilitation. We have equine athletes that come to us from many trainers and race tracks, we care for horses after surgery and also after severe injury and breakdown. Our program has a very high rate of recovery and almost all of the horses go back to the track and run competitively. At BTF, the horses can be healed with many various therapeutic devices including CYTOWAVE, VIBRATING FLOOR, LASER, COLD WATER THERAPY and MAGNETS. We have developed a specialized feed program that enhances the nutritional needs of horses that are healing, it combines vitamins, minerals and nutrients to increase blood fow and replenish the bodies depleted reserves and is paired with antioxidants to support and boost the immune system. Ongoing research and cutting edge science are added to the everyday care of each equine quest to achieve the best results. A few recent winners who graduated from the BTF spa back to racing are : MY ITALIAN BABBO, a Stakes Winner at the 2017 Del Mar summer meet, LOVELY ANZI, breaking his maiden in a Maiden Special Weight by open lengths, ICE KAT, also a Maiden Special Weight winner, KNK’S DOLCE VITA, breaking her maiden in a Maiden Special and winning her a superb race at Del Mar in her frst Allowance Condition. Home Bred LUCKY PATRICK won at the Maiden Special level as well and other winners include : WILDFIRE KID, SECRETO PRIMERO, IBON, BRIARTIC GAL, TOMASINO, BUCKY GOLDSTEIN, LA BARESINA, ASK ME I MIGHT and GET LIKE ME to name a few. We are proud of the team here at BTF and of the many success stories we have had and will have in the future. New projects are always ongoing and one of the biggest developments in 2017 has been the addition of new permanent pastures totaling over 50 acres. New fencing is going up all over the farm and we are fnally utilizing all of

the land for grazing. Another project that goes along with the new pastures will be the development of a European gallop, it will have some pretty good long uphill stretches and will really help with the overall ftness of the training horses. With unlimited and excellent water the irrigation is also going and the green felds are really looking good. Broodmares and foals can now enjoy many acres of lush pasture to run and play in the sun and it’s great to see the horses with their heads down just grazing and happy. Another division at BTF that we are very, very proud of is our breaking program. All of the yearlings and two year olds we start under saddle go to the track ft and have no issues going to big venues like Santa Anita or Del Mar. We also have had great success with two year old in training sale horses, getting them ft and ready to work with top times at the previews. Our training track has inside and outside rail and banked turns exactly like a professional racetrack. Te surface is a natural sandy loam that gives the horses some bounce without concussion, the track is watered and harrowed every day and even with the terrible rain storms that hit So Cal we hardly ever miss a day of training due to track condition. BTF stallions are doing well with ofspring winning at the track and we are very excited about the two freshman sires MAKE MUSIC FOR ME and WORLD RENOWNED, both stallions have two year olds in training and MAKE MUSIC FOR ME has a flly that started in a Maiden Special Weight and ran a very competitive fourth. WORLD RENOWNED has some very nice youngsters breezing with above average workout times that indicate real talent. A few of those will be making their frst starts soon, we can hardly wait to see them run. Recent purchases include a two year old son of MEDAGLIA d’ ORO out of a Champion daughter of TIZNOW and a colt by ASTROLOGY who is a half brother to DA STOOPS, both colts will be racing by the end of 2017 and we are very excited about their futures! For information please call (951) 925-8957 or visit www.brazeauthoroughbredfarms.com. www.ctba.com ❙ October 2017 ❙ CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED

E.A. Ranches Providing Optimal Conditions During the Early Development of Horses is Fundamental to Racing Success

E.A. Ranches, the expansive 1,000 acre state-of the-art Toroughbred farm in the fertile hills above Ramona, was built and managed around founder Ernest Auerbach’s belief that “optimal conditions during the early development of horses are fundamental to racing success.” Following this vision of her late father, daughter Heidi Farkash and husband John are now leading E.A. Ranches into the next decades. Teir new focus is centered around ofering the very best mare and foal care, weanling and yearling boarding, expert sales prep, lay-ups and rehab, as well as dignifed equine retirement. Mare & Foal Care, Weanlings & Yearlings E.A. Ranches ofers lush, green pastures for mares and foals, weanlings and yearlings. Te spacious, rolling felds lined with dark wooden fences remind visitors immediately of Kentucky, and provide broodmares and growing foals of all ages with lots of nutritious grass and plenty of room to run and play. E.A. Ranches adopted the practice of the world’s best Toroughbred farms to integrate “chaperones” into the dedicated weanling and yearling pastures. Tese gentle, retired broodmares and geldings serve as peace keepers and teach their respective group of age-matched fllies or colts the essential horse manners. In addition, the team at E.A. Ranches prides itself that daily handling of the youngsters is a priority and continues through their entire weanling and yearling years. Sales Preparation Sales prep is a fne art that the team at E.A. Ranches has cultivated to perfection. Whether weanling, yearling, racing prospect or broodmare, the main elements of nutrition, grooming, farrier work, exercise

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and show training are skillfully matched to prepare the horses for their best during the sale. Close cooperation with the most reputable consignors for each respective sales venue ensured that over the past 40 years many horses sales-prepped by E.A. Ranches have successfully graduated from all major sales nationwide. Lay-ups & Rehab Many prominent trainers and owners regularly send horses to E.A. Ranches for lay-ups and appreciate the choice of generous individual pastures, smaller grass paddocks, or runs with special footing in various sizes. Often they also rely on the highly skilled staf to care for post-surgical horses that require not only fulltime stall rest but also the meticulous administration of medications and treatments. E.A. Ranches ofers the full range of conservative techniques as well as cutting edge rehab methods, adjustments and diagnostics by an experienced vet. Retirement Racehorse retirement is a long-standing tradition at E.A. Ranches, started by its late founder, Ernest Auerbach, and continuing in the present. For owners who “want to do the right thing” by giving their old broodmare or injured racer a dignifed retirement, a couple of spacious pastures are set aside. Te retirees are checked upon twice daily during feeding time, and can live out their lives in a natural environment of stunning beauty while being well cared for. Contact General Manager Sherrie Tellam email: earanches@aol.com or (760) 789-1498. www.earanches.com.

Flag Is Up Farms A Starting Point for Success Flag Is Up Farms is the internationally renowned starting point for some of the world’s most successful racehorses. Monty and Pat Roberts, with their team of exceptional trainers, have used violence-free, Join -Up® training methods to start horses on their way to happy, healthy and successful careers for 52 years. Te trainers, riders and employees give the horses the foundation for a competitive edge. Experienced exercise riders train the horses to become focused athletes from the outset of their professional careers. Successful Toroughbreds trained at Flag Is Up Farms include the twice Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner Alleged, Santa Anita Derby winner, An Act, back to back champion fllies of the US, Cathy Honey and Aladancer, Lomitas, Germany’s champion threeyear-old as well as older Horse of the Year, Gr. I stakes winner Sabiango as well as champion sprinter, miler and Horse of the Year, Sharivari, who did his winning in New Zealand. Te wall of fame in the training barn includes over 70 stakes winners trained of Flag Is Up Farms grass and racetrack. Monty Roberts frst spotted the fertile valley near Solvang in 1947. At Cal Poly he studied the soil, the water and the weather of this enchanted location. In the early 1960’s he was encouraged by noted trainers such as Farrell W. Jones and Charles Whittingham to get this property and cause it to be a world-class center for the production of top class racehorses. He and Pat moved their family onto the property in 1966 and both Farrell Jones and Charles Whittingham would be ultraproud of the results that followed the encouragement they gave the Roberts to create Flag Is Up. Te name, Flag Is Up Farms was chosen to honor the moment when all the horses are in the gate and ready for the race. Monty states, “At this time we lose all control. Our student is taking the test. Tis is the

moment for which Flag Is Up Farms is preparing our equine athletes.” Monty and Pat led the world of producing two-year-olds for the racing industry through the early days of the two-year-old in training sales. For 18 years champion after champion was produced by Flag Is Up Farms. Next year Flag is proud to stand the stallion, Niagara Falls, by Giant’s Causeway. Monty has taken his non-violent training methods to the world where he has presented over 11,000 horses to public audiences. Te training of horses has been altered globally through the eforts of Flag Is Up Farms and its chosen team. Te 5/8’s racetrack is tended to by one of Monty’s heroes, Richard Tadesco. Monty states that Tadesco is responsible for better racing surfaces for over 50 years. We pride ourselves in caring for the health of our horses with the best possible training surfaces. Pat Roberts is still competing in the saddle and recently won a major championship. Monty is still working in the round pen and at the starting gate on Flag Is Up just to prove that they are still as close to the horses as they have ever been. Daughter, Laurel is the farm manager and actively on the scene daily. Laurel is on the track every morning on a pony and watching the young Toroughbreds with a trained eye. Daughter Debbie is active in seeing to the corporate matters which are necessary in every operation. Owners of aspiring young Toroughbreds could not fnd a better place or a better team to see to the nutritional needs, the medical needs or the training needs of young Toroughbreds looking to make their mark in the racing industry. It would be hard to fnd another operation that can account for 52 years of responsibly serving the Toroughbred industry or a farm that has consistently met the task of producing sound, welltrained horses prepared for the track to maximize their potential. Please contact our ofces at (805) 688-4382.

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Harris Farms Classic Production From Harris Farms Programs An outstanding stallion roster highlights Harris Farms’ commitment to California’s breeding industry. Each year, over 300 broodmares pass through our breeding shed, the frst step in a comprehensive program, which has produced numerous worldclass champions. Smiling Tiger the 2017 Leading California First-Crop sire highlighted our 2017 season. Harris Farms also stands G-1 sire Tizbud, Desert Code and promising young sires Clubhouse Ride, Jeranimo, Lakerville, Tamarando and Metaboss. Tis high level of success on the racetrack and from our breeding shed continues to be the goal at Harris Farms, which has accounted for 46 California divisional champions, and seven California Horse of the Year honors for the farm and its clients. Stakes-class runners and $250,000-plus winners raised and/or trained at Harris Farms have amassed earnings exceeding $50 million. Toroughbred stars who trace their roots to Harris Farms include: North America’s All-Time Money Earner, 2014 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner and Horse of the Year California Chrome, Horse of the Year Tiznow, the only two-time winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G.1), Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G. 1) winner Tor’s Echo and Breeders’ Cup Sprint runner-up Soviet Problem, Eleven Grade 1 winners including Alphabet Kisses, Healthy Addiction, Greg’s Gold, Cost of Freedom, Nashoba’s Key and Tiz Flirtatious, and Grade II winners Unzip Me, Ceeband, Compari, Continental Red and Moscow Burning. Te Harris Farms Horse Division dates back nearly 50 years to the vision of John Harris and his father Jack, both cattle ranchers, farmers and horsemen who wanted to devote part of their operation to the breeding, raising and training of Toroughbred racehorses. Te horse division represents just one area of the larger Harris Ranch operation, which also operates the acclaimed Harris Ranch Restaurant and Inn; Harris Feeding Co., California’s largest cattle feed yard; and Harris Farms Farming Div. with thousands of acres planted in almonds, pistachios, vegetables and citrus. Currently, Harris Farms’ horse division includes the 320–acre main farm located north of Coalinga, just east of the I-5, as well as the 200-acrepart of the Harris River Ranch 38

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devoted to horses. Te main farm boasts a full commercial facility, ofering a wide range of services from breeding and foaling to breaking and training, for both Harris Farms and its many loyal clients. Te pastoral Harris River Ranch, where John and Carole Harris make their home, is located 65 miles northeast of the main farm. Te rich, sandy loam soil and underlying limestone work with ideal water conditions to nourish 200-acres of large, expansive pasture conducive to the proper growth and development of weanlings and yearlings. Cared for by River Ranch manager Laurie Brown and the River Ranch staf, young horses are well prepared for the rigors of the racetrack or the sales ring. Both the main farm and the River Ranch cater especially well to young horses, together totaling 520 acres of lush, irrigated pasture that provide the ideal environments for future stars to grow and develop into sound and healthy racehorses. Farm trainer Per Antonsen has been responsible for the early development and the rehabilitation of several hundred quality runners including: Champions California Chrome, Soviet Problem, Work Te Crowd, Super High, Tiz Flirtatious and dual Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Tiznow among many others. President and owner John Harris entrusts his horse division to a loyal and committed group of hard-working employees. Te Harris team is led by General Manager David McGlothlin and farm trainer Per Antonsen, both of whom have been with the farm since 1981. Dr.Jeanne Bowers serves as the farm’s resident veterinarian. Other key members include Raul Rosas, assistant farm manager and stallion manager, and assistant trainer Lisa Torres-Antonsen, Dr. Virginia Castillo Hernandez and Dr. Courtney Doddman assist with the veterinary team and Patty Lagden leads the foaling crew. Te courteous administrative staf consists of ofce manager and accountant Brooke Jackson; Debbie Correia, administrative assistant to John Harris; Debbie Winick, administrative assistant to Dave McGlothlin. All are ready to feld any questions or requests you may have about our operation. Please feel free to call and schedule an appointment to tour the facilities, or visit the Harris Farms web site at www.harrisfarms.com.

Legacy Ranch

Te Jewel of the Foothills

Legacy Ranch celebrated 30 years in the business in 2017. 12 of those years have come in the town of Clements, in beautiful Northern California. Just 45 minutes southeast of the Sacramento airport, owners Pete and Evelyn Parrella are fortunate to have some of California’s most notable owners and trainers as clients. With 145 acres of lush green pastures, spacious barns and an expansive 5/8-mile training track, its clients and residents couldn’t be happier. Services ofered are breaking, training, lay-ups, breeding, foaling, and sales preparation. Alongside the existing training barn, a brand new 26-stall training barn was started in the summer and construction should be completed mid-October. Te additional stalls will accommodate and make even more opportunities possible for our clients. Legacy Ranch stands three young sires. Straight Fire is new to the farm for 2018; the son of Dominus is out of the A.P. Indy mare Tricky Indy, a two-time winner in three starts. Dominus, by Smart Strike, was a two-time grade 2 winner. Straight Fire broke his maiden by 10 1/2 lengths, then fnished second in the Del Mar Futurity (G1) and third in the FrontRunner Stakes (G1). He earned $146,400. Gervinho is owned by Keith Brackpool. Sired by the late Unusual Heat, Gervinho earned over $420,000. His frst crop will be two-year-olds of 2018. He is of to a great start.

Phantom Wildcat, owned by Legacy Ranch, is a beautiful son of Forest Wildcat and is out of the black type winner, Valarone. With only fve to race, four are winners, including Mo Soul, winner of the $150,000 I’m Smokin Stakes at Del Mar. Pete Parrella is currently the Chairperson of the CTBA and if that doesn’t keep him busy enough, he also oversees Parr Lumber Company – his international wholesale lumber and plywood distributor center of 40 years, located in Chino, California. Ev Parrella oversees everything from marketing, to aptly naming the horses, to having staf relations run smoothly, while she also manages the operation of Legacy Ranch’s vineyard, “Legends and Vines.” Terry Knight is the onsite trainer and ranch manager. Knight, a longtime trainer with 40 years of experience and over 900 wins, joined the team in early summer when he and his wife Dru moved to the farm. Alongside is onsite assistant trainer Mike Larson and his wife Jeanette, they are joined by a competent team of 32 .Andrea Hayles is the ofce manager, with Cheryl Weldy the assistant ofce manager. For more information regarding Legacy Ranch and its services, please contact Terry Knight at 510-928-4980, or the ofce manager Andrea Hayles at 209-759-3315. Please visit Legacy Ranch’s website at www.legacyranchinc.com. Everyone there looks forward to hearing from you.

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Lovacres Ranch A Farm With an “Altitude”

Lovacres Ranch has been at its current Warner Springs location for only ten years, but it is growing in prominence with each passing season. Put into service late in the summer of 2007, the 520-acre layout includes the old Folgner Ranch and remains a work in progress. “Te six-furlong training track is in full use, full time,” said owner Terry Lovingier. “We grow our own alfalfa and have large pastures.” Lovingier is enchanted by the beauty of the setting. “I don’t like to brag,” he said, “but I think this is one of the prettier farms in California. We have all new fencing and the lay of the land is beautiful, set in rolling hills and full of beautiful old oak trees. We’re at 3,500 feet elevation and the horses love it. I’ve never seen happier horses. And training at an altitude is good for them, too.” Lovacres is a full-service facility, ofering breeding, foaling, boarding, breaking, training and sales preparation, and will stand six stallions for the 2018 season. Govenor Charlie is their newest acquisition; the son of Eclipse Champion Sprinter Midnight Lute is out of Silverbulletway, a Storm Cat daughter of Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) and Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) heroine Silverbulletday. Silverbulletway has produced three stakes winners from fve foals, with Govenor Charlie taking the rich Sunland Derby (gr. III) in 2013. He was retired with $506,650 in earnings to stand his frst season in 2016. Stakes winner Awesome Gambler, who is the only son of Coronado’s Quest standing in California, was the state’s leading freshman sire of 2011. Among his earners of over $4 million is the 2011 California Champion Two Year Old Female, Willa B Awesome. She won the grade 1, $300,000 Santa Anita Oaks, the grade 3, $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes, and the 40

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$288,000 Melair Stakes. Awesome Gambler has also sired stakesplaced winners River Kiss, Awesome Annie, Awe Golly Molly, Awe’ Some Kitten, Willie Be Awesome, and L J’s Awesome Girl. Empire Way hails from the strongest female family in California. Te son of Belmont Stakes (gr. I) hero Empire Maker is out of the graded stakes winning A.P. Indy mare Delta Princess, making him a full brother to two-time Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic and three-time Eclipse Award winner Royal Delta. He is also a half-brother to grade 1 winner Crown Queen and the grade 1-placed winner Carnival Court. Stakesplaced Empire Way already has eight winners, with progeny earnings already over $480,000. Te brilliantly quick Merit Man won a stakes race every year at two, three, and four. After fnishing second by a nose in the $500,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint at Santa Anita Park, Merit Man won the Spectacular Bid Stakes at Gulfstream Park, proving his mettle on both coasts. He has four wins in nine starts for earnings of $462,030. Te son of With Distinction will have frst-crop juveniles in 2018. Grace Upon Grace is a winning, stakes-placed son of Rio Verde and a half-brother to four other winners, including stakes winners Rgirldoesn’tbluf, Chasing the Prize and Greeting Card. He won on both grass and synthetic surfaces. Grace Upon Grace has exactly 50% winners from starters, including stakes winner Show It N Moe It, stakes placed Sweet Bea, and $197,552 earner London Legacy. Time to Get Even, a grade-3 winner of $150,084 by Stephen Got Even, has had 26 winners from 47 starters to date, and has already sired stakes winner Time for a Memory, as well as multiple stakes placed winners Time for Angie and Xingontothebone. For information please call (951) 852-0731 or visit www.lovacres.com.

Milky Way 100-Acre Facility In Temecula Since 1967 Now Specializing In Toroughbred Horses Tis year, more than ever, as a California Farm, we are seeing the benefts resulting from the eforts of all who are working so hard to make California an outstanding place to breed and race Toroughbred horses. Te interest in California bred horses created an amazing year for our farm as demonstrated by the increases in stallion interest and on farm marketing of the yearlings and weanlings. Temecula Valley is located between the major racing centers of Southern California as well as a short distance from both San Luis Rey Downs and Galway Downs. Milky Way Farm is a 100 acres full service facility with a farm philosophy of providing the best possible care to both the horse and their owners. We strive to keep in close contact with each owner, welcoming their input into the horse’s wellbeing and encourage them to visit the farm as often as possible. Te farm consists of 3-4-acre pastures with are planted each year for seasonal grass. Tis past year we have certainly been afected by the major drought in California and, as with most areas; have been asked to be very conservation conscious. We are very excited to add another wonderful stallion to farm for 2018. Heaven’s Glory ( JPN) brings a spectacular pedigree to California. He is a son of Tapit out of European Champion Tree-Year-Old Filly Peeping Fawn, by Danehill. Peeping Fawn earned $1,387,279 winning Irish Oaks (GR1), Pretty Polly (GR1). Heaven’s Glory is a half-brother to 2017 outstanding Two-Year-Old Filly SEPTEMBER (Deep Impact) winner in her second start of the Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot with a feld of 18 colts. Te second dam, Maryinski (Saddler’s Wells) is a daughter of Blush with Pride, a halfsister to Broodmare of the year, Better Tan Honor, the dam of Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Rags to Riches and Jazil (GR 1). Te stallion breeding season was more than we ever could have dreamed for. Our reproductive program is handled by Dr. Celeste Spini and Dr. Jef Moss, and we thank them every day for the wonderful program they have established for our farm. 2017 started extremely busy and never slowed down, with the stallions covering almost 200 mares. Smart Bid (Smart Strike x Recording) winner of $1,008,309 had several winners in New York from his frst crop and is currently California Top Five Second Crop Sire and Circumference (IRE) (Galileo x Circle of Life) had an incredible frst group of foals, Sundarban (A.P Indy x Desert Tigress) winner of $103,340 is having a wonderful stallion career with earnings now over $600,000. HoorayforHollywood, George Krikorian’s Stakes placed winner of $212,819 by Storm Cat x Hollywood Story, multiple G1 winner of $1,717,105 and Derby winner all covered wonderful book of mares. Box Score, a full brother to

Temple City covered a very nice book of mares, his frst foals to be born 2018 Te resident broodmares are having a spectacular 2017. Because of California incentive programs, several of the mares produced Cal bred foals by some of the best young sires in Kentucky. We had foals by Cairo Prince, Street Sense, Soldat, and have some very special yearlings by Te Factor, Fed Biz, Stay Tirsty, Algorithms, Munnings, Overanalyze, Twirling Candy and Magician (IRE) Some of the farms mare’s pedigrees were enhanced by important winners including ½ siblings -Dancing Rags -Alcibides (GR 1) A.P. Indian (G1) Roy H. (GR1) placed. New mares include Exotic Behavior (Giant’s Causeway), a halfsister to leading New York Sire Bustin Stones and La Lodola, ( Giant’s Causeway) a half-sister to Canadian Horse of the Year ARRAVALE and Antrim Colleen (Giant’s Causeway) out a half-sister to Unbridled Song and West Court (Gone West) half-sister to multiple Graded winner Coup De Grace. With the great patience and knowledge of Gayle Van Leer, the broodmare band is growing into one of the most important groups in California. Te resident farm population is growing and we are constantly trying to improve the farm facility and this year have added an additional 10 more foaling enclosures designed to give the mares more freedom to maneuver during the time just before delivery and additional layup paddocks. Te foaling area is monitored by cameras as well as night staf. We have added 40 individual paddocks for mare care during the breeding season as it is our goal to keep visiting mares individually cared for. Te mares and foals enjoy three to fve acres large pastures during the spring. During this time, the foals are given basic training routine. After weaning, they are returned to large pastures in small groups to run, play and grow. As yearlings, they are either prepped for the fall sales or sent to Jose Murillo, at Galway Downs for their basic saddle work and to be introduced to the race track world. Te farm ofers a rehabilitation and layup program, with several options to better meet the needs of each individual horse. In addition to stall care, we ofer 24 x 24 paddocks, as well as 100 x 100 paddocks for some time of to rest or to recover from injuries, Our greatest goal is for the horses to return to useful and fulflling lives. Each year is a new beginning in the world of livestock. Each foaling season brings new hopes and dreams for the future. We are totally committed to the horse industry and plan to be here for a long time. For information please call (909) 241-6600.

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Rancho San Miguel Quality Stallions Highlight Tis Breeding and Sales Prep Operation Rancho San Miguel is one of the leading stallion stations in California. 250-acres nestled in the coastal foothills northwest of Paso Robles where warm days are cooled by evening breezes of the Pacifc Ocean. Tis central location allows the farm to serve clients from both the northern and southern regions of the state. Rancho San Miguel is led by its General Manager of 30 years, Clay Murdock. Jorge Cruz, Hannah Twichell, and Lindsay Boutwell round out the outstanding management team that ensures quality care is provided to all horses. Dr. Stacy Potter, our resident veterinarian since 2013, is a graduate of the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and has extensive experience in equine reproduction and equine husbandry. Te expanded Rancho San Miguel stallion roster consists of: Curlin to Mischief, Haynesfeld, Marino Marini, Northern Causeway, Rousing Sermon, Slew’s Tiznow, Southern Image, Te Pamplemousse, Tom’s Tribute, Typhoon Slew, and U S Ranger. Curlin to Mischief is sired by two-time Horse of the Year/leading sire Curlin and is a half-brother to Grade 1 winners Beholder and Into Mischief; the latter will stand for $100,000 in 2018. Curlin to Mischief ’s frst foals are yearlings next year. Marino Marini, a son of Storm Cat out of the grade I winner and $1,460,992-earner Halo America, was graded or group-placed on both dirt and turf, in the United States and Europe. His progeny have lifetime earnings over $11.4 million, and he has reached the 200 winners benchmark. Northern Causeway is a graded stakes winner and son of sire-of-sires Giant’s Causeway, out of Getaway Girl, a half-sister to leading sires City Zip and Ghostzapper. Rousing Sermon, California’s champion twoyear-old of 2011, is sired by the recently deceased Lucky Pulpit, in turn sire of California Chrome. Rousing Sermon ranked among the top nine colts of his crop.

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He won or placed in 13 stakes including the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby with career earnings of $821,571. S l e w ’ s Tiznow, by Tiznow out of Hepatica, is a record setting, grade I-performing dual stakes winner. Slew’s Tiznow, California’s leading freshman sire of 2015, is a full brother to record setter and multiple graded stakes winner Slew’s Tizzy. 71% of his starters win, for progeny earnings of $1.3 million to date. Southern Image, by Halo’s Image, won six of eight starts, three of which were grade I wins. Southern Image’s progeny have lifetime earnings over $20 million. He is the sire of Cal-bred Smokey Image, who went unbeaten in his frst six starts for earnings of $488,601. Te Pamplemousse, by Kafwain, won three of fve starts, including Santa Anita’s Sham and San Rafael Stakes, both grade III events. Te Pamplemousse has 50% winners from starters with progeny earnings closing in on $1 million. Typhoon Slew, also out of Hepatica, is by Stormy Atlantic, 2014’s leading sire of juvenile stakes winners. Typhoon Slew was graded stakes placed at two and also broke his maiden going wire-to-wire by over 10 lengths. U S Ranger, by Danzig, was undefeated at two and a champion sprinter as a three- and four-yearold. U S Ranger’s progeny have lifetime earnings over $7 million, led by graded stakes winner Solitary Ranger. New stallions are grade I-winners Haynesfeld and Tom’s Tribute. Haynesfeld, who earned $1.3 million while racing in New York, has sired the earners of $4.5 million, including fve stakes winners. Tom’s Tribute, by Lion Heart and out of an El Prado (IRE) mare, stood his frst season in 2016, with frst crop yearlings coming next year. Rancho San Miguel’s goal is to attract the highest quality stallions and broodmares and provide them with the best care possible. We are dedicated to outstanding quality service and look forward to serving you. For information please call (805) 467-3847 or visit www.ranchosanmiguel.net.

Tommy Town Toroughbreds A Leading California Farm Achieving Success Trough Dedication to Excellence Tommy Town Toroughbreds is continuing to pursue their goal of becoming one of California’s premier breeding farms, as well as a top training facility. Tommy Town was named leading breeder in California for 2015, 2013 and 2009, and leading owner by California races won for 2014. Te stallions standing in 2018 are Kafwain, Ministers Wild Cat, Boisterous, Old Topper, and Stanford, all multiple stakes winners. Tommy Town was established in 2000 by Tom and Debi Stull with the purchase of a 165-acre ranch, formerly known as the Westerly Training Center, in the lush Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County. To accommodate growth, the Stulls acquired an additional 200 adjoining acres. Te training side of the farm has 100 stalls, a custom equicruiser, and a seven-furlong track that is maintained by two full-time workers. On the breeding side, there is a 35-stall foaling barn. With over 350 acres of land, the farm ofers pasture boarding for mares, foals and yearlings year-round. Tommy Town has been successful in assembling and retaining an outstanding team. Te Ranch Manager, Mike Allen, joined Tommy Town in 2001. Esteban Melchor, assistant stallion manager since 2001, was promoted to stallion manager in 2008. To ensure efective rehabilitation of injured horses, the farm works closely with Alamo Pintado Equine Clinic, in addition to the breeding veterinarian, Dr. Bill Stevenson, who specializes and is expert in the care of broodmares and foals. Te farm has 30 employees who live on site. Although Tommy Towns’ focus has been breeding, racing and sales have become of equal importance in the last few years. Te breeding program includes a select number of mares boarded and bred in Kentucky to supplement our California breeding program. Te training program at the farm, excellent pedigrees and exceptional facilities are utilized to prepare horses to race mainly in California, but also in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Kentucky and other states. Tis program has resulted in a successful racing program at Tommy Town. In addition to training, Tommy Town also ofers sales preparation, lay-up and rehabilitation for a return to racing. Tommy Town has bred and trained many successful racehorses, including Grade 1 winner Let Faith Arise ($488,240), multiple graded stakes winner

Doinghardtimeagain ($734,304), in addition to stakes winners Ain’t No Other ($683,550), She’s Ordained ($469,650), and Top Kisser ($407,100). Kafwain, by Cherokee Run, was purchased by Tommy Town in 2008, and stood in Kentucky for the 2009 season. Kafwain came to California to stand at Tommy Town in 2010, and was a leading California sire during 2011. He has eleven racing crops, with progeny earnings over $20.4 million and 24 stake winners. His leading earners are Grade I winner Daisy Devine ($1,095,892), Grade 1 winner, homebred Let Faith Arise ($488,240) and multiple stakes winner, Tird Chance ($481,464). Boisterous ($1,458,792), the only G1 winning millionaire son of Distorted Humor standing on the West Coast, began standing as a stallion in 2015 and had three successful years of breeding, we are looking forward to his frst foals to race in. Ministers Wild Cat, out of Hollywood Wild Cat, by Deputy Minister, began his stallion career in 2006. Ministers Wild Cat was the leading freshman sire of California-breds in 2009. He currently has nine crops racing, progeny earnings over $16.2 million and 16 stakes winners. Tommy Town owned and bred, Doinghardtimeagain ($734,304) is his leading earner, followed by Tiz a Minister ($481,530), Toledo Eddie (471,891) and She’s Ordained ($469,650), a Tommy Town homebred flly. Old Topper, California’s leading freshman sire in 2004, leading second-crop sire in 2005 and leading third-crop sire for 2006 has fourteen crops racing with progeny earnings over $21 million. Old Topper has an impressive 77 percent winners to starters ratio. Old Topper’s top earner, Ain’t No Other ($683,550) a homebred, is still racing. His other top earners, are Top Tis and Tat ($422,262) and Top Kisser ($407,100) another homebred. A new addition to the roster for 2018 is Multiple Graded Stakes Winner, Stanford, by Malibu Moon – Rosy Humor, by Distorted Humor. He is the second leading earner of all time by Malibu Moon. For more information, please contact Mike Allen at (805) 686-4337, or visit Tommy Town Toroughbreds online at www.tommytownfarms.com.

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Victory Rose Toroughbreds A Combination Of Choice And Convenience In California Ellen Lee Jackson owns and manages Victory Rose Toroughbreds in Vacaville, California. Tis 63-acre training and breeding facility is now in its 27th year of operation at this location. Te farm is centrally located, 55 miles east of Golden Gate Fields and 15 miles West of the U.C. Davis Veterinary Hospital and ofers easy highway access of Interstate 80 or Highway 505. Farm amenities include a well banked, half-mile track, large indoor arena for all weather training, sixhorse freestyle Equi-Ciser, 100-plus stalls, 60 individual covered pens and more than 50 acres of lush, irrigated pastures with safe, galvanized pipe fencing. Victory Rose is a full-service breeding facility with conscientious care, all-night camera surveillance and the Foal Alert system for foaling mares. Victory Rose will stand fve stallions in 2018. Bold Chieftain is a grade II-winning California champion that earned $1,653,171 before retiring to stud in 2012. By Chief Seattle, a dual grade I-placed son of Seattle Slew, Bold Chieftain stands for $3,000, live foal guarantee, with a Genetic Stallion Marker of 64.4. He has sired the stakes winner Moonless Sky, as well as stakes placed I Came to Party, amongst his 63% winners. His average earnings per starter are $27,347. Eclipse Award fnalist and two-time California champion Idiot Proof entered stud in 2010 and stands for $3,000 live foal guarantee. His Genetic Stallion Marker is an impressive 99.8. Te son of Benchmark earned $1,294,484 while posting a 113 Beyer Speed Figure as a sophomore and reeling of 1:07.47 and 1:07.57 new track record for six furlongs. Te grade 1 winner has progeny earnings over $1.6 million with 61% winners from starters and average earnings per starter of $58,502. Many Rivers retired from racing in 2010. He is a stakes-placed son of Storm Cat out of the multiple stakes producing Afrmed mare Christmas in Aiken. Many Rivers is a three-quarter-brother to the prominent national sire Harlan’s Holiday and stands for $2,000, live

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foal guarantee, with a Genetic Stallion Marker of 77.5. He has 60% winners from starters, including the G3 Stakesplaced Many Roses. Gig Harbor entered stud in 2014. Te only son of grade 1 winner City Zip standing in California earned $143,300 while winning fve of nine starts and two stakes races. He is from the family of graded stakes winners Mayoumbe (Fr) and Good to Beat (Fr) with a Genetic Stallion Marker of 76.0. Gig Harbor, whose frst foals are juveniles, stands for $1,500 live foal guarantee. New stallion Unionize rounds out the roster. Te son of Dixie Union is out of the grade 1-winning Benchmark mares Silent Sighs. He won fve times to earn $114,228. Seven of his nine starters have won for average earnings of $17,065. He has a Genetic Stallion Marker of 77.5. Victory Rose has established a unique niche in the breeding industry by specializing in sub-fertile stallions and problem mares. While not all of the breeding stock at Victory Rose have had prior fertility problems, many breeding shed disappointments have been returned to top conception producers over the years. We fnd barren mares a challenge rather than a disappointment or problem! From birth to retirement, Victory Rose handles all phases of your horse’s care. Foaling out, halterbreaking, sales preparation, ground-breaking, saddle breaking, legging up, race training, mare care, lay-ups and rehabilitation are all services available at Victory Rose. Te Maryland Shin Program is utilized to prepare all of the young stock. Victory Rose’s intimate relationship with U. C. Davis provides it with the best in surgical options and cutting edge veterinary care. Victory Rose keeps a large sampling of weanlings, yearlings and horses of racing age on hand to represent their stallions. An excellent place to privately purchase race or breeding stock, visitors are always welcome. Day care, training prices, stallion nicks, stud fees, farm photos, etc., can be found online at www.victoryrose.com.

Standout Employee

Luis Valerdi

BY EMILY SHIELDS

“He showed us that he had an afnity with the horses,” said Jill Fischer, who owns and manages Madera Toroughbreds with her husband, Cal. “We started teaching him things and giving him more responsibility. He’s come right up the ranks to showing horses at the sales, doing all the deworming and vaccinations, and helping in the breeding season. You could say he’s our head horseman.” Valerdi originally hails from Mexico City, but he has long lived in California with his family. His job at Madera was his frst crack in the horse industry. “He literally does anything and everything that pops up in his path, which is one of the great things about him,” Fischer said. “He doesn’t limit himself with, ‘Tis isn’t part of my job.’ He does everything that needs to be done, surprises us all the time, and has a range of capabilities that is just amazing.” Valerdi’s talents were displayed last winter when the farm fooded. “Te Fresno River runs right through the middle of the ranch, and it fooded,” Fischer explained. “We’ve been trying to recover from that, and it’s been a struggle since then with all that the food caused. We expect it to continue to be an issue for us through this winter. Tere’s usually only water in it from about March until the fall, but it’s been full since November.” With the help of Valerdi, the situation has been manageable. “Luis has been amazing in building up the banks of the river, working on the pumps, and getting the irrigation systems going,” said Fischer, “on top of doing the normal things that are

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Luis Valerdi arrived at Madera Toroughbreds a decade ago, simply seeking work as a farmhand. Very quickly he proved that he was capable of much more than just cleaning stalls.

Luis Valerdi is the number one go-to guy for Jill and Cal Fischer’s Madera Thoroughbreds

part of his job. But that’s Luis.” During the breeding season Valerdi helps handle Madera Toroughbreds’ stallion Elusive Warning, a two-time stakes-winning son of Elusive Quality—Valid Warning, by Valid Appeal. Elusive Warning ran on the East Coast for Darley Stable and trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, and he won a group 3 event at Nad Al Sheba in Dubai. He earned $487,332 and has sired 68% winners from starters to date, including Panama champion Atavismo and stakes-placed sophomores Sure Sweet and Sorceress Warning. “When we’re in breeding season, Luis helps with a little bit of everything,” Fischer said. “He doesn’t just handle the stallion, but he helps out with the teasing. He’s multi-purpose.” Madera Toroughbreds has 30 broodmares in its band, with a similar number of foals and weanlings each year, as well as yearlings. Valerdi has become instrumental in helping run the farm and manage the numbers beyond his job description. “It’s hard to quantify him,” Fischer said. “He’s such a jack of all trades. He could do everything for us; he drives the tractor, he hauls horses, he just does everything. He’s our number one.”

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TOM BACHMAN BY EMILY SHIELDS

COURTESY NICOLE NUMAINVILLE

Tom Bachman and his wife Nicole operate Fairview

multiple stakes winner Both Ways, and stakes-placed Wavy Lass. Both Unusual Way and Wavy Lass are out of the multiple stakes-placed Great Above mare Way Up. “I had retired that mare,” Bachman said of 24-year-old Way Up. “But I pulled her out of retirement because she

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THE FRUITS OF HIS LABORS

ive years ago Tom Bachman saw an opportunity to focus his business and chased that dream. He went from a 300-acre facility to 60 and continues to raise crops of pinot noir grapes. Once he reduced the size of his horse operation, Bachman began to enjoy a more pointed breeding enterprise, with success coming quickly in the form of a $300,000 Barretts select yearling sale-topper. “I’ve been doing this a long time, but she’s probably the best I’ve come forward with,” Bachman said, which is a testament to the dark bay flly by Bodemeister—North Freeway, by Jump Start. Bachman has already bred the likes of graded stakes-placed stakes winner Unusual Way, California Cup Sprint Handicap winner Red,

Tom Bachman’s Cal-bred Bodemeister flly set a Barretts select yealing sale record of $300,000

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looked so good. Ten she got in foal to Grazen on a single cover. I had hoped for a flly, but she had a really nice colt that I will sell next year.” Way Up, who has produced nine winners from 11 starters, is back in permanent retirement now. Her daughter Unusual Way ultimately earned $716,115 with fve wins and seven seconds in 20 starts, and sold for $250,000 to Dixiana Farm at the 2014 Keeneland November mixed sale. Wavy Lass retired from racing with 13 wins in 47 starts for $254,773 in earnings. She produced a Tapizar colt this year named Igota Tangled Mind. North Freeway may be Way Up’s replacement in Bachman’s broodmare band. Her frst foal, Eighty to Davis, managed to win despite a difcult beginning. “North Freeway has produced very nice foals time and again,” said Bachman. “Eighty to Davis was born a month early and ended up going to U.C. Davis three diferent times before she went into training. She is named for the freeway.” Under the tutelage of trainer Steve Specht, a longtime friend of Bachman’s, Eighty to Davis not only made it to the races for Bachman, but won her debut by a head despite rider Abel Cedillo losing his whip. “Steve said only pure determination got her to win frst out,” Bachman explained. “She had everything going against her but was able to get above all that.” North Freeway’s next foal is Take the One O One, a

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as the highest-priced Barretts yearling in the Aug. 29 sale, was special. “She was an outstanding flly from day one,” he said. “(Te new connections) don’t know it yet, but she’s a gorgeous moving individual. She’s pleasant to be around, a willing learner, born square and pretty. She’s a no-brainer.” Bachman also credited North Freeway’s contribution. “Te mother is very attractive,” he said. “She was a genuine racehorse from a good family, and with Jump Start being by A.P. Indy, I expected him to be a good broodmare sire. I’ve been working on replacing my band with younger mares, then giving them a good shot to get of the ground by breeding to very good sires.” Bachman’s theory is to buy exceptional young mares either straight of the racetrack or in Kentucky while in foal to sires with two-turn speed. “I just bought three young stakes winners,” he said. “Tey’re in foal to stallions like Goldencents and Palace Malice.” After they are in foal, Bachman brings the In addition to mares back to California to foal and be bred raising horses,Tom back, making the ofspring California-breds. Bachman grows He lamented the loss of state super-sire Unusual pinot noir grapes Heat, but said, “I’m a big fan of Nick Alexander’s Grazen. Smiling Tiger is an awfully nice horse, so I have a few mares in foal to him. It’s nice to have a horse like Square Eddie in CaliforIf you can produce a Cal-bred that people think nia, and I have sent three mares to him. Somecould win in open company, well that’s the best times you are going from a $25,000 stud fee in of both worlds.” Kentucky to a $3,500 stud fee in California, but if the horse is producing good-looking individu— Tom Bachman als that the public wants, then I’m okay.” Te business of raising and selling Cal-breds has become more lucrative. “If you can produce a Cal-bred that people dark bay colt by Acclamation currently in his frst year on the think could win in open company, well that’s the best of both track. Te 2-year-old colt brought $47,000 at the 2016 CTBA worlds,” Bachman said, referencing the bonus money eligible Northern California Yearling Sale, and after missing by a length to state-bred runners. in his debut, he won a maiden special weight event at Del Mar Bachman is happy with his smaller, condensed ranch run Aug. 6 in impressive fashion. After he fnished seventh of 14, under the moniker Fairview. beaten 23⁄4 lengths, in the $103,105 Del Mar Juvenile Turf “It’s a real pretty site,” he said. “My wife, Nicole, is a vet Stakes, Take the One O One’s record stands at one win in three tech and works for a veterinary outft, and other than her and starts for earnings of $45,345. I there’s just two other men. One has worked for me for 30 Brian Koriner trains Take the One O One for Jay Em Ess years. It’s just the four of us—a small, tight operation. Stable, headed by Samantha Siegel. Te team of Siegel and “Tey are all my horses with very few boarders. I basically Koriner went to $300,000 for North Freeway’s third foal. have left the commercial business as far as boarding, although “She’s a beautiful flly,” Siegel said. “We have her half brother I do keep a couple of horses for CARMA. I get to raise and that we like a lot.” break my own. I do the best I can, and I hope that the public Bachman always knew that his sale-topper, who set a record likes what I raise and sell.” www.ctba.com ❙ October 2017 ❙ CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED

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3-YEAR-OLDS & UP Adios Charlie—Cali Cali: Adios Cali (65-42), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, AOC, 9/8, 5 1/2f, 1:3.90, $27,600. Aragorn (IRE)—Violin Case: Touching Rainbows (42-24), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 9/4, 7f, 1:22.10, $48,360. Benchmark—Common Truth: Major Truth (38-19), g, 7 yo, Elko County Fair, STR, 8/27, 5 1/2f, 1:7.40, $1,740. Benchmark—Common Truth: Major Truth (38-19), g, 7 yo, Elko County Fair, AOC, 9/2, 6f, 1:13.00, $1,800. Benchmark—Everything Good: Giant Mark (38-19), g, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, WCL, 9/4, 1mi, 1:36.43, $7,200. Bluegrass Cat—Weatheringthestorm: Blue Ridge Storm (178-89), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 9/1, 6f, 1:11.14, $11,220. Bushwacker—Sheila's Prospect: P Club (22-9), g, 5 yo, Canterbury Park, AOC, 9/2, about 5f, 56.08, $19,200. Cindago—Salty Steph: Haywired (17-10), g, 7 yo, Delaware Park, STR, 8/31, 6f, 1:10.82, $10,800. City Zip—Moscow Rising: Eleven Zip (243-128), g, 6 yo, Albuquerque, AOC, 8/26, 1mi, 1:36.88, $12,300. Coil—Casino Gold: Coils Gold (29-11), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, ALW, 9/2, 6 1/2f, 1:16.12, $37,200. Desert Code—Secret Oath: Bishops of Compton (46-20), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 9/9, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:44.94, $12,240. Forestry—Lula Talullah: Ready to Hula Lula (103-51), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, ALW, 8/23, 5f (T), 57.15, $37,200. Hard Spun—River Kiss: Spin Me a Kiss (159-81), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 9/2, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:43.57, $48,360. Heatseeker (IRE)—Caroline Elena: Isa Firecracker (60-26), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 8/26, 5 1/2f, 1:3.62, $22,620. Heatseeker (IRE)—Sang: She Sang (60-26), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/31, 6f, 1:11.78, $12,240. Into Mischief—Tuscan Sunset: Miss Sunset (219-124), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, STK, C.E.R.F. S., 9/4, 6f, 1:9.82, $60,960. Marino Marini—Grey Lassie: Breakaway Dixie (73-38), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, ALW, 9/3, 1mi (T), 1:38.61, $21,060. Marino Marini—Just Another Fib: Aikman Joe (73-38), g, 9 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 9/8, 6f, 1:12.38, $2,360. Ministers Wild Cat—Magic Yodeler: Sorcerer's Wildcat (91-51), g, 4 yo, Assiniboia Downs, WCL, 8/25, 6f, 1:13.00, $5,220. Ministers Wild Cat—Home Runner: One I'm Running To (91-51), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, WCL, 9/7, 5 1/2f, 1:4.25, $10,200. Monsajem—Cichetari Miss: Monsajem Accrete (11-2), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/27, 1mi (T), 1:38.95, $6,300. Northern Indy—Halekou Girl: Radiant Rockstar (3-2), g, 3 yo, Sweetwater Downs, STK, Sweetwater Downs Thoroughbred Derby, 8/26, 6 1/2f, 1:21.20, $3,000.

Olympio—Tera Kitty: Olimpio's Scat Cat (6-3), g, 5 yo, Black Foot, STK, Bill Wallace Memorial S., 9/4, about 6 1/2f, 1:26.30, $2,090. The Pamplemousse—Farallon: Miekallon (35-10), c, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, WCL, 8/31, 5 1/2f, 1:4.54, $5,500. Papa Clem—Midnight Mango: Papaclem'smidnight (98-55), m, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, ALW, 8/26, 6f, 1:10.56, $21,060. Papa Clem—Tribal Feathers: Tribal Storm (98-55), r, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, ALW, 8/27, 6f, 1:9.59, $21,060. Papa Clem—Warmth: Cordiality (98-55), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/30, 1mi (T), 1:35.26, $48,360. Prime Timber—Holiday Joy: Donut Talk to Me (9-3), f, 4 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 8/26, 6f, 1:13.20, $2,400. Rocky Bar—Iza Bon Bon: Boston Charley (46-23), g, 6 yo, Canterbury Park, AOC, 9/8, 5f (T), 56.16, $18,000. Rocky Bar—Just Hoping: Fork and Dagger (46-23), g, 4 yo, Albuquerque, SOC, 9/11, 5 1/2f, 1:4.40, $7,020. Salt Lake—Chasseur Dame: Salty Le Mousee (8-6), g, 10 yo, Sweetwater Downs, SOC, 8/27, 5 1/2f, 1:6.34, $2,300. Salt Lake—Special Smoke: Northern Smoke (8-6), g, 7 yo, Harney County Fair, HCP, OHBPA H., 9/10, 5f, 1:0.00, $1,980. Siberian Summer—Foreverinasong: Foreverinsummer (6-4), m, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/27, 1mi (T), 1:39.95, $6,300. Slew's Tiznow—Defant Thought: Defant One (27-17), g, 4 yo, Assiniboia Downs, WCL, 9/4, 7 1/2f, 1:35.40, $5,220. Slew's Tiznow—Money Lover: Powder (27-17), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, STR, 9/14, 5 1/2f, 1:4.34, $20,160. Southern Africa—Hot Summer Breeze: Hot Summer Nights (5-4), g, 4 yo, Lethbridge, ALW, 9/2, about 6f, 1:10.81, $2,147. Southern Image—Magic Yodeler: Southern Echo (58-24), m, 5 yo, Black Foot, ALW, 9/9, about 6 1/2f, 1:27.20, $1,073. Spensive—Golden Nip: Tough Emblem (4-2), g, 4 yo, Assiniboia Downs, WCL, 8/26, 1mi, 1:42.80, $5,100. Square Eddie—Farnham: Frensham (68-26), h, 6 yo, Belterra Park, STR, 9/2, 1mi, 1:38.55, $6,634. Square Eddie—Teresa Ann: Plate Side (68-26), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, AOC, 9/14, 5 1/2f, 1:4.07, $27,600. Stormy Jack—Golden Monty: Sand Hill Jill (19-6), m, 8 yo, Black Foot, STK, Lively Ladies H., 9/3, 6f, 1:15.40, $2,090. Tannersmyman—Smoke Over Water: Candy Pink (25-14), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 9/4, 5f (T), 58.04, $6,300. Terrell—Fort Silver: Gurnick (24-10), g, 8 yo, Golden Gate Fields, WCL, 8/27, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:46.20, $6,600. Thisnearlywasmine—Dee Dee's Princess: Anita Marie (6-3), m, 7 yo, Presque Isle Downs, STR, 9/10, 6 1/2f, 1:17.08, $10,200. Thorn Song—Lots of Sunshine: Continental Song (66-27), g, 5 yo, Elko County Fair, STR, 9/2, 7f, 1:25.80, $1,800.

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Tizbud—Summer Jersey: Soi Phet (22-8), g, 9 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, STK, E.B. Johnston S., 9/9, 1mi, 1:35.71, $42,000. Tough Game—Abbeys Runner: Tough Runner (10-4), m, 6 yo, Ferndale, ALW, 9/3, 7f, 1:28.85, $4,400. Tough Game—Fox On a Ridge: Foxy Lover (10-4), m, 5 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, STR, 9/8, 5 1/2f, 1:3.95, $10,800. Tribal Rule—Candy Factory: Patriots Rule (117-72), g, 6 yo, Canterbury Park, STK, Brooks Fields S., 8/26, 1mi, 1:36.17, $30,000. Unusual Heat—Miss Boomtown: Central Heat (101-45), m, 8 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 9/1, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:44.31, $22,620. Unusual Heat—Diversifed: Brimstoned (101-45), g, 6 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 9/2, 1 1/8mi (T), 1:49.76, $48,360. Unusual Heat—Anatolian Queen: Anatolian Heat (101-45), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, ALW, 9/3, 5f (T), 56.52, $37,200. Unusual Heat—Silver Lining: Saint Mamie (101-45), m, 5 yo, Laurel Park, STR, 9/9, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:45.97, $14,250. Vronsky—Just Hoping: Hopesky (61-32), g, 6 yo, Assiniboia Downs, WCL, 8/30, 5 1/2f, 1:7.80, $5,220.

2-YEAR-OLDS Lucky Pulpit—Gn. Group Meeting: Generally Lucky (142-74), g, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 9/1, 5 1/2f, 1:4.85, $12,240. Lucky Pulpit—Book'em Babe: Bookies Luck (142-74), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, STK, I'm Smokin S., 9/1, 6f, 1:10.62, $57,000. Lucky Pulpit—Lady Evergreen: Blessed Lady (142-74), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 9/9, 6f, 1:11.28, $21,060. Richard's Kid—Mama's Con: Mama's Kid (6-1), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, SOC, 9/1, 6f, 1:13.64, $34,560. Smiling Tiger—Perfect Feat: Spiced Perfection (24-5), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, STK, Generous Portion S., 8/30, 6f, 1:11.38, $57,000.

MAIDENS AFFIRMATIVE BG Thoroughbred Farm (951) 654-9100 www.bgthoroughbreds.com Affrmative—Entabeni: Grass Runner (16-9), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 9/2, 4 1/2f, 51.89, $3,480. Allaboutdreams—Trickey Diva: Trickonomics (1-1), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/7, 5 1/2f, 1:4.10, $13,800. Anziyan Royalty—Golden Harmony: La Baresina (6-4), m, 6 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/25, 5f, 1:2.39, $2,750. Anziyan Royalty—Lovely Aspen: Lovely Anzi (6-4), g, 6 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/26, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:41.97, $36,000.

The accompanying list includes runners that are both California-foaled and Californiasired winners in 2016 of all recent North American races, except straight claiming races. Abbreviations used for the class of race are similar to those used by Equibase: Alw– allowance; Hcp–overnight handicap; names of stakes race are spelled out, with the grade of the race, when applicable, in parentheses.

Atticus—Endangered Forest: Out At Eight (18-9), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 8/26, 5 1/2f, 1:4.18, $20,280. Benchmark—Heirloom Rose: Benchmark Rose (38-19), m, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/24, 1mi (T), 1:41.37, $7,800.

Heatseeker (IRE)—Hazen: Reuben James (60-26), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:5.28, $3,850. Indian Evening—Talented: Night At the Opera (6-2), g, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 8/27, 5 1/2f, 1:5.18, $18,600.

BOLD CHIEFTAIN Victory Rose Thoroughbreds (707) 678 6580 www.victoryrose.com

INFORMED Ridgeley Farm (951) 654 7728 ridgeleyfarmhemet@gmail.com

Bold Chieftain—Mistical Dream: C J's Dream (27-14), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 8/25, 5 1/2f, 1:5.81, $20,280. Bold Chieftain—Golden Lover: La Javier (27-14), f, 3 yo, Emerald Downs, MCL, 8/26, 6 1/2f, 1:19.93, $3,520. Bold Chieftain—Onefunsonofagun: One Son of a Chief (27-14), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 9/9, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:47.23, $20,280. Bushwacker—A Vision in Gray: Shared Vision (22-9), g, 4 yo, Canterbury Park, MCL, 9/1, 5 1/2f, 1:6.39, $6,300. Calimonco—Rare Beauty: General Interest (23-8), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 9/4, 6f, 1:11.92, $36,000. Calimonco—All American Flyer: American Rhiannon (23-8), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/8, 1mi, 1:42.29, $3,850. Council Member—Across the Creek: My Last Shot (18-10), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/14, 1mi, 1:40.90, $4,400. Creative Cause—Short Sentence: Hydrostatic (89-39), c, 2 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/9, 5 1/2f, 1:5.48, $11,400. Decarchy—Moonlight Tizzy: Moonlight Mystique (46-23), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/24, 5f, 59.68, $4,950. Decarchy—Neon Princess: Reno Johnny (46-23), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/25, 1mi (T), 1:39.29, $7,800. Don'tsellmeshort—Ez Money Honey: Short of Ez (33-18), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:3.56, $10,200. Ez Dreamer—Miss Dow Jones: E Z Miss (13-7), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 9/3, 4 1/2f, 52.78, $3,480.

Informed—Lady Elizabeth: Kelly and Cola (17-9), f, 4 yo, Columbus, MCL, 8/25, 6f, 1:16.40, $2,040. Into Mischief—Perfect Find: Scavenger Hunt (219-124), f, 3 yo, Albuquerque, MCL, 8/23, 6f, 1:11.51, $5,220. Kafwain—Heart Six: My Heart Is Yours (59-34), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/10, 5f, 59.85, $3,850. Lucky Pulpit—Demo Memo: Lucky Romano (142-74), r, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/26, 5 1/2f, 1:4.26, $18,000. Lucky Pulpit—Lady Railrider: Pulpit Rider (142-74), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/31, 6f, 1:11.37, $36,000. Lucky Pulpit—Caitie's Secret: Privy (142-74), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/8, 5 1/2f, 1:5.59, $13,800.

GOLDEN BALLS Paradise Road Ranch (916) 803 5851 paradiseroadranch@gmail.com Golden Balls (IRE)—Ochoa (IRE): Golden Mission (14-6), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/24, 5f, 59.69, $3,850. Good Journey—Old Habits: Bulkan (51-26), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/25, 1mi, 1:41.93, $4,400. Good Journey—Like My Dad: Get Like Me (51-26), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/9, 1mi, 1:40.43, $3,850. Grazen—Cherry Gold: Li'l Grazen (25-13), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/27, 6f, 1:10.76, $18,000.

MANY RIVERS Victory Rose Thoroughbreds (707) 678 6580 www.victoryrose.com Many Rivers—Church Avenue: River House (15-6), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:4.68, $5,500. McCann's Mojave—Thequietstorm: The Real McCann (32-16), c, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/8, 5f, 59.31, $3,850. Ministers Wild Cat—Proud Nicole: C C the Bartender (91-51), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:5.57, $5,500. The Pamplemousse—Expense: Expendy (35-10), f, 2 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:6.40, $11,400. Papa Clem—Westline: Wondering Ways (98-55), g, 4 yo, Timonium, MCL, 8/26, about 6 1/2f, 1:18.53, $7,980. Papa Clem—Fortunee: Icy Interlude (98-55), g, 3 yo, Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort, MSW, 9/3, 6f, 1:14.44, $8,178. Papa Clem—Kind Lady: Lady Clem (98-55), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/3, 6f, 1:11.76, $4,950. Peppered Cat—Native Cara: Wisc Miss (34-15), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 9/14, 5f, 59.42, $4,950. Sea of Secrets—Smooth Quest: Seaquet (25-12), m, 5 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/14, 6f, 1:12.53, $10,200.

Shackleford—Miss Nicolie: Southern Warlord (96-50), c, 2 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/14, 5 1/2f, 1:4.15, $13,800.

SIERRA SUNSET Daehling Ranch (916) 685 4965 www.daehlingranch.com Sierra Sunset—Sharoana: Sharona Sunset (20-7), f, 2 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MSW, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:4.70, $27,000. Slew's Tiznow—Hurricane Alert: Flash Henry (27-17), c, 3 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:3.73, $10,200. Spring At Last—Seekitana: Steven Decatur (137-67), g, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/25, 5f, 59.45, $4,950. Stormin Fever—Lottawampum: Sugaratsundown (38-20), f, 2 yo, Los Alamitos Race Course, MCL, 9/10, 5 1/2f, 1:5.53, $11,400.

SURF CAT Old English Rancho (909) 947 3911 Surf Cat—Smooth Customer: Manila Customer (31-14), g, 5 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/26, 5f, 1:0.93, $2,750. Swiss Yodeler—Holy Script: Bonmont (44-23), c, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/25, 5f, 59.87, $3,850. Swiss Yodeler—Fleurallee: Hubel Heights (44-23), c, 3 yo, Lethbridge, MCL, 9/10, about 6f, 1:14.16, $2,120. Thorn Song—Brilliant Response: Bobby Magic (66-27), g, 3 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/27, 7f, 1:27.72, $2,750. Thorn Song—Ready for Crowds: Song for the Crowd (66-27), g, 4 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 9/4, 5f, 1:2.71, $2,750. Tribal Rule—Windover: Amba (117-72), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 8/26, 5 1/2f, 1:5.76, $18,600. Twice the Appeal—Hurricane Rose: Twisted Rosie (1-1), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/24, 5 1/2f, 1:5.48, $18,000. Unusual Heat—Wallis of Windsor: Speakers (101-45), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 9/1, 1mi (T), 1:35.92, $36,000. Unusual Heat—Lethal Hunter: Adler (101-45), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 9/8, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:48.00, $20,280.

VRONSKY Old English Rancho (909) 947 3911 Vronsky—Perfect Hostess: Intimidate (61-32), c, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 9/10, 6f, 1:11.54, $20,280.

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ervousness, fear, or high spirits make it difcult for some horses to relax in various situations. When a horse won’t stand still for the farrier or for a veterinary procedure, breeding exam, etc.—or becomes a danger to handlers due to fightiness or anxiety—many people reach for a tranquilizer. Yet there are many ways to help a horse remain calm without resorting to chemicals. When used properly, twitches, lip chains, Stableizers, and other devices that take advantage of certain pressure points to stimulate endorphin release in the horse can create calming efects.

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Tey can also be counterproductive if used improperly, creating pain or irritation rather than relaxation. Dr. Tia Nelson, a veterinarian and farrier in Helena, Mont., says one of the most basic principles of keeping a horse calm is proper handling and training. Trust and respect are the foundation of human/horse relationships, and this is what separates the calm, relaxed attitude of a well-trained domestic horse from the fighty fear response of a wild one. TRAINING AND DESENSITIZATION

Dr. Jenny Johnson of the Oakhill Shock Wave and Veterinary Chiropractic in Calabasas, Calif., has several suggestions for keeping horses calm and relaxed. “If a horse is fighty, nervous, and won’t stand still for the

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A horse’s body has numerous pressure points, including behind the ears and beneath the top lip next to the gum. When pressure is properly applied in these areas, it tends to relax a horse and minimize pain sensations. Pressure stimulates release of endorphins, the natural narcotic-like substances produced by the body. Endorphins block pain and make the animal feel calm and relaxed—making him feel good. Tis is why a properly applied “war bridle,” Stableizer, twitch, or lip cord/chain can relax a nervous horse. Sometimes the same efect can be had

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erinarian or farrier, it pays to work with the horse in advance, to prepare and desensitize him to what is going to happen, especially if it’s a young horse,” Johnson said. “Te more you can do to expose him to a variety of circumstances, the better.” Calmness and relaxation stem from trust and confdence, plus familiarity with the surroundings. Te horse is at ease, rather than suspicious or fearful. “In my chiropractic work I spend a lot more time with each horse than I did when doing routine veterinary work,” said Johnson. “I’ve found that most horses are trusting, but some are immediately defensive. Some may have had rough handling and don’t trust people, but a few are just naturally suspicious or cautious. “Tose horses take a little longer, but once they become acclimated to a specific procedure or event, they don’t panic. Understanding the personality of the individual horse is important. Some are calm about almost everything, especially if handled with basic horsemanship and you don’t do anything to make them afraid.” “Keeping a horse relaxed comes from training and consistent, calm handling, and confdence in yourself and in the horse,” said Nelson. “Te horse in a herd is continually aware of what herd members are doing. If one of them becomes alert or afraid, the others get this signal. Tey all prepare to leap away and run. Te horse considers you part of the herd. If you can breathe deeply and relax while working with a horse, you are not tense or afraid. If you are afraid, your horse will be afraid.”

Patiently working with horses in advance to prepare them for what they will experience can be most benefcial to horses and handlers

without much pressure, just by stroking certain areas. “If I run my fngers inside the horse’s upper lip and rock my fngers back and forth gently, without any pressure at all— stroking inside the corner of the lip where the gums and lip meet—this works,” said Nelson. Gently rubbing seems to calm and relax the horse. Tis is similar to having someone rub or tickle your back, if you enjoy a gentle back rub. If the horse is relaxed and enjoying this sensation, it takes his mind of worrisome or fearful things. RESTRAINT METHODS

It’s important to know when to use any restraint technique for a certain horse. Getting the horse used to various restraint methods can be part of a young horse’s early training, rather than waiting until a do-or-die situation when the horse is in a panic about a treatment procedure.

Diferent horses have diferent levels of tolerance for uncomfortable/threatening situations, and thus they might require diferent types of restraint. Proper restraint can keep the horse calm, make an otherwise difcult or impossible task feasible, and enable you to get it accomplished quickly without fghting the horse or needing a tranquilizer. Chain over nose: “Te frst level of restraint for a horse that won’t stand still could be a chain over the nose,” said Johnson. “Tis gives you an advantage if the horse wants to leave when you are doing something to him. A chain gives a little more control than just a lead rope snapped to the halter.” A chain on the end of a lead can be passed through the left ring on the noseband, over the nose, through the right ring, and then passed through the ring under the noseband. Or it can be passed up to the halter ring near the eye on the

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under the noseband. Or it can be passed up to the halter ring near the eye on the right side of the horse. Either way it puts pressure on the bridge of the nose when the shank is pulled, giving the handler more control over a headstrong horse. Lip chain: “Te next step would be a lip chain,” said Johnson. If a chain over the nose is inadequate, the chain can be slipped down under the lip onto the upper gum surface. Te pressure of the chain against the gum works to restrain many unruly horses. “Used correctly, it can be very helpful in managing a horse that is a little scared (since it creates endorphin An old-fashioned twitch can be used to achieve control and cause minimal distress release),” Johnson said. Used too roughly, however, it will cause pain. A lip chain can cut into (one holding the handle, to twist, and tion of pain. He appears sedated and his the gum or lip. one holding the horse’s nose) can make heart rate slows. Te chain should pass under the up- the task quicker and easier.” Newer versions of the twitch clamp per lip in a way that you don’t need any Your goal is to achieve maximum con- onto the upper lip and also to the halpressure on the shank to keep it in place. trol of the horse while causing minimal ter, so you can have both hands free to After lifting the lip and putting the chain distress, so turn the twitch just enough to work on the horse. Tese are easy to use, against the gums, you can then apply make him stand quietly, and no more. If but safest if held by someone rather than whatever pressure is needed to hold him the horse starts to move or react to what- afxed to the halter. Te metal clamp is still. ever is being done to him, the twitch can easy to apply, with less chance for the “Learn how to put it on and use it horse to learn evasive tactics. properly (not yanking), applying steady Hand twitch: You can also calm a Keeping a horse relaxed horse pressure,” Johnson said. Te lip chain by hand-twitching, simply squeezcomes from training and must have the proper amount of pressure ing (and slightly twisting) the top porfor endorphin release. tion of the muzzle/upper lip. Tis proconsistent, calm handling, Twitch: “Te same with a nose twitch,” vides the same type of pressure that and confdence in yourself said Johnson. “Be very careful when you causes endorphin release with a twitch. and in the horse. ” put it on, and know how to properly do Grasping the horse’s nose with your it.” hand and twisting or pinching the upper — Dr. Tia Nelson Te traditional twitch is a wooden hanlip works well on some horses, and it is dle with a loop of rope or chain attached be tightened a bit more. easier than trying to put a twitch on an to one end. To apply a twitch, stand to Once it’s on, the procedure to be done evasive nose. one side of the horse’s head, put your should be accomplished quickly and the Usually, once you get hold of the nose, hand through the loop and take hold of twitch removed as soon as possible. To re- the horse stands there as if twitched. the horse’s upper lip. Ten slide the chain move it, put your hand on the upper lip, Tis restraint is humane because you or thong over your hand and around the and as you untwist the chain or thong, cannot put enough pressure on the nose lip. While putting the loop over the nose, massage the area that was twisted. Con- with your hand to hurt him. Te disadyou can tuck the handle under your arm tinue rubbing for a few moments, leav- vantage is that the horse can pull away. to hold it. ing the horse with a good attitude about Skin twitch: “A skin twitch or shoul“Te handle is then twisted until the the experience. When properly applied, a der twitch usually requires some strength loop tightens around the lip,” said John- twitch immobilizes the horse due to re- to be efective on an adult horse,” said son. “Having two people apply the twitch lease of endorphins, decreasing the sensa- Johnson. “It’s easier to do this on a foal.” 54

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THE STABLEIZER For horses that are hard to twitch or diffcult to restrain with a lip chain for medical treatment or some other task, a Stableizer usually works. This is a modern version of the old slip-twitch. The slip-twitch was a loop of small-diameter rope over the horse’s poll and under the top lip, against the gum (like a lip chain) with a loop knot in one end so it could be tightened to put more pressure on the gum and poll. The pressure over the top of the head and under the lip affects pressure points, which activate endorphins to create a sedating effect. Used roughly, however, the cord can cut into the gum or lip. The commercial version (the Stableizer) is more humane and easier to use and adjust. This restraint/calming tool was developed 20 years ago by Buck Wheeler, who grew up breaking horses on the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. The Stableizer works better than a twitch because horses don’t resent it. It’s easy to put on and it stays on. One person can put it on and leave it on while working on the animal alone. The Stableizer relaxes a horse, yet unlike a twitch, the animal can still move with it on. So you can lead him, load him in a trailer, or give training lessons. The device slips over the head, behind the ears, and under the top lip next to the gum. It is then tightened, using the cord handle. It is

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Tis method involves grasping a large quantity of loose skin on the neck, just in front of the shoulder, and squeezing the skin as hard as you can, with twisting action. Tis tends to immobilize a horse, perhaps because of release of endorphins that help calm him. Grasping a handful of skin at the juncture of neck and shoulder, and rolling your knuckles forward so a fold of skin is pulled over your fngers, can help keep a horse from moving forward or striking out. You can use both hands for more control. Ear twitch: “Earing down” was often used by old-time horsemen, and that can be humane or inhumane, depending on how it is done. Tere are also mechanical devices called ear twitches or ear tongs. “I generally don’t use those,” said Johnson. “On rare occasions, they can be useful. But you have to be careful to not end up with a horse that doesn’t want his ears touched.” Mechanical ear twitches are inhumane if used improperly because cartilage in the ear is very sensitive and can be permanently damaged. If done properly by hand—just cupping the hand around the base of the ear and gently squeezing with a mild twisting action—this can be efective for shortterm restraint. If done correctly, it won’t make a horse ear shy. Line up your fngers a fraction of an inch back from the edge of the ear, resting them on a ridge of cartilage at the top of the ear. Your thumb under the ear will be applying the pressure. You don’t need to twist the ear much or pull on it. Simply squeezing with your thumb, putting pressure on the ear cartilage (bending the ear’s edge inward toward your palm), tends to have a restraining efect. Keep your elbow bent when grasping the ear, so the horse won’t hurt your shoulder if he suddenly raises his head. Some horses can be efectively restrained by an ear hold, while others react strongly and may strike or sling the head. Just stroking the ears or providing some other mild massage will relax some horses, without the risk of making them ear shy.

The Stableizer is a more humane and user-friendly version of a slip-twitch

designed to put pressure behind the ears and under the lip. “This stimulate release of endorphins, which block pain and make the animal feel calm and relaxed— making him feel good,” said Wheeler. The portion of the cord that goes under the lip is covered with plastic tubing so it won’t cut into the gum or lip. The horse remembers the foot trimming, clipping, etc. as a good experience rather than something to fear and is more cooperative next time. Many horses resent reapplication of a twitch, but don’t seem to mind having the Stableizer put on again. Many horses get to where they tolerate the activity they are restrained for so much better that after a few sessions that they no longer need the Stableizer. A few years ago Wheeler moved to Kentucky to breed racehorses. He uses the Stableizer on all his foals when he starts handling them. Wheeler also handles many mares at breeding time, and he uses the Stableizer routinely for every mare that’s palpated, Using pressure points to stimulate endorphin release, bred, or undergoing Stableizers can calm a horse for necessary procedures ultrasound.

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2017 LEADING BREEDERS IN CALIFORNIA BY EARNINGS (THRU SEPT. 14, 2017)

Breeder

Starts

Wins

Stakes Wins

Nick Alexander Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC Reddam Racing, LLC Terry C. Lovingier Harris Farms Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams Old English Rancho, Patsy Berumen & Sal Berumen Richard Barton Enterprises Joe Turner Old English Rancho Gary Barber Liberty Road Stables Harold Tillema & Pamela Tillema Dizney Double Diamond, LLC Nick Cafarchia Estate of Alesia, BranJam Stables & Ciaglia Racing, LLC Premier Thoroughbreds LLC & Alan Klein Dr. & Mrs. William T. Gray Madera Thoroughbreds LLC Daehling Ranch LLC Perry Martin & Steve Coburn Madeline Auerbach & Barry Abrams Heinz H. Steinmann Donald Valpredo KMN Racing Ballena Vista Farm Carol A. Lingenfelter Benjamin C. Warren Premier Thoroughbreds LLC George Schmitt & Mary Clare Schmitt Pamela C. Ziebarth Old English Rancho & Bruce Headley Willow Tree Farm Inc Rod Rodriguez & Lorraine Rodriguez Madera Thoroughbreds Legacy Ranch Lou Neve Rancho San Miguel Frank Mermenstein & Tom McCrocklin Dahlberg Farms LLC William L. Hedrick & Judy Hedrick Thomas W. Bachman Milt A. Policzer Triple AAA Ranch Red Baron’s Barn & Vaya Con Suerte Brett Mason Dr. Edward C. Allred Andy Stronach Jonny Hilvers Old English Rancho & Riggio M. A. Douzos Eagle Oak Ranch, LLC Alex Paszkeicz Running Luck Ranch LLC John Parker ARCHA Racing Inc.

181 525 189 530 470 240 152 226 53 168 34 162 20 6 73 5 8 98 107 124 4 35 123 161 24 44 27 106 50 91 18 68 23 77 80 98 29 91 12 67 64 46 63 44 11 24 31 10 10 9 16 7 64 90 4 15

36 87 32 62 59 36 21 34 13 22 13 22 7 5 14 2 4 15 13 17 1 5 18 19 5 14 5 21 9 12 4 11 5 15 18 13 4 16 2 14 10 7 9 8 4 3 5 1 4 3 2 2 9 8 1 2

6 0 2 1 3 2 1 2 5 0 2 0 3 3 1 2 4 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1

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Leading Earner

S Y Sky ($278,240) Queen Bee to You ($109,925) Ann Arbor Eddie ($225,214) Spin Me a Kiss ($140,305) Desert Steel ($87,485) Bookies Luck ($104,649) What a View ($228,845) Roaring Rule ($61,585) Sircat Sally ($464,660) Shehastheritestuff ($128,745) Mr. Hinx ($338,548) More Stormyweather ($56,250) Richard’s Boy ($325,960) Skye Diamonds ($348,920) My Italian Babbo ($208,181) Ashleyluvssugar ($331,845) Miss Sunset ($327,090) Little Doe ($71,990) Got Even ($72,829) Fast and Foxy ($117,833) California Chrome ($250,000) Majestic Heat ($85,500) Alpenhorn ($33,600) Giro Candito ($26,150) Grecian Fire ($107,315) Big Macher ($60,000) Cuddle Alert ($184,869) Warrens Goldnugget ($43,525) Spiced Perfection ($110,280) Senator Robert ($59,065) Ambitious Brew ($170,200) K Thirty Eight ($93,641) Moonless Sky ($195,820) Popular Kid ($59,611) Happy Issue ($32,140) Gemini Journey ($42,865) Avanti Bello ($109,156) Powder ($60,705) Marckie’s Water ($157,301) Patriots Rule ($74,353) Private Terrace ($55,985) Take the One O One ($45,345) Husband’s Folly ($40,442) Ticaboo ($62,070) Edwards Going Left ($132,705) More Power to Him ($134,310) Cordiality ($98,080) Bodhisattva ($148,700) Algorhythmic ($144,465) Starlite Style ($142,450) El Huerfano ($132,650) G. G. Ryder ($136,268) Pepper Crown ($40,621) Pequena Maty ($31,805) Gold Rush Dancer ($125,500) Soi Phet ($119,354)

Earnings

$1,415,142 $1,343,741 $1,254,962 $1,254,930 $1,169,899 $1,032,113 $940,541 $669,596 $588,083 $563,846 $460,698 $408,016 $353,790 $348,920 $341,200 $331,845 $327,090 $321,777 $319,852 $319,737 $293,680 $279,620 $266,861 $262,753 $256,430 $241,267 $236,313 $232,369 $232,293 $229,091 $215,466 $214,638 $213,895 $210,166 $209,739 $206,196 $204,451 $200,145 $196,141 $185,280 $183,694 $180,979 $168,560 $162,044 $160,140 $159,267 $156,341 $148,700 $147,225 $142,795 $139,421 $136,268 $131,670 $130,873 $125,500 $125,109

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2017 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MONEY WON

(MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS) Sire

Races Rnrs Won

Earnings/ Runner

Earned

Rnrs

Strts

Races Won

1 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

191

1147

168

$3,560,269

Sire

Earned

1 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

$991,362

$39,654

2 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

101

500

$2,541,835

2 † Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado

$328,026

$32,803

3 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

142

657

$2,467,852

3 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$760,741

$28,176

4 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

118

623

106

$2,376,812

4 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

51 $1,627,401

$26,679

5 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

114

594

$2,134,925

5 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat

$796,318

$25,688

6 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

585

$1,643,195

6 † Game Plan, 1993, by Danzig

$405,113

$25,320

7 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

342

$1,627,401

73 $2,541,835

$25,167

8 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

294

$1,574,359

9 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

514

$1,571,146

10 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

129

698

$1,472,777

11 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

107

$991,362

12 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE)

332

$920,082

13 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat

159

$796,318

14 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

121

$760,741

15 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

256

$736,850 $705,816

7 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 8 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry

101 17

$394,811

$23,224

9 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

46 $1,574,359

$23,152

10 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

$546,218

$21,849

11 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$350,267

$20,604

118 106 $2,376,812

$20,142

12 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat 13 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

$424,969

$19,317

14 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

114

78 $2,134,925

$18,727

16 † Thorn Song, 2003, by Unbridled’s Song

343

15 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

191 168 $3,560,269

$18,640

17 † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 60

286

$702,514

$685,788

$18,535

18 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

460

$694,702

142

97 $2,467,852

$17,379

19 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

182

$685,788

86 $1,571,146

$17,265

20 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

225

$670,905

294

$663,300

16 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam 17 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit 18 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

19 Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$355,490

$16,928

21 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

20 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

78 $1,643,195

$16,767

22 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

216

$649,566

23 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image

340

$604,165

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24 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

279

$574,025

(MINIMUM 50 STARTS)

25 Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE)

237

$559,750

26 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

158

$546,218

27 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

245

$501,552

Sire

Rnrs Strts Wnrs Wins

Earned

1 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

73 247

44 $1,853,521

28 † Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar

224

$469,125

2 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

32 104

$968,462

29 Dixie Chatter, 2005, by Dixie Union

269

$466,694 $441,666

3 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

48 130

$958,061

30 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

4 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

$543,512

31 † Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat

194

$432,897

5 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

68 198

$528,139

32 Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time

153

$431,374

$508,869

33 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

$424,969

$493,303

34 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

120

$422,245

$426,812

35 † Game Plan, 1993, by Danzig

$405,113

102

$394,811 $376,480

6 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat 7 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 8 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

7 33

15 85

63 171

5 15

5 17

9 † Game Plan, 1993, by Danzig

$336,945

36 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry

10 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$315,219

37 Mr. Big, 2003, by Dynaformer

11 Mr. Big, 2003, by Dynaformer 12 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

$301,085

38 Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

128

$355,490

39 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$350,267

40 † McCann’s Mojave, 2000, by Memo (CHI)

195

$336,131

41 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

112

$333,853

42 Elusive Warning, 2004, by Elusive Quality

138

$331,436

43 † Lucky J. H., 2002, by Cee’s Tizzy

171

$328,903

$297,930

13 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

$279,627

14 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$268,152

$250,285

16 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE)

$233,142

44 † Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado

$328,026

17 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

$225,690

45 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$307,965

18 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

$219,782

46 Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

183

$305,257

19 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$214,873

47 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even

127

$301,733

20 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

$214,448

48 Don’tsellmeshort, 2001, by Benchmark

198

$265,130

15 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

The statistics shown here are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their complete and total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicates a stallion that has been pensioned or has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere (sires no longer standing in California remain on these lists until their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old). Freshman sires are highlighted in bold text. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) only. Stakes winners and wins follow TJCIS stakes rules. Racing statistics through Sept. 14, 2017.

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2017 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MEDIAN EARNINGS PER RUNNER (MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS) Sire

Sire

Races Rnrs Won

Earned

Median

Rnrs

Wnrs

Races Won

Earned

1 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

191

168

$3,560,269

1 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

$991,362 $17,520

2 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

142

$2,467,852

2 † Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado

$328,026 $14,100

3 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

118

106

$2,376,812

3 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$350,267 $13,560

4 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

129

$1,472,777

$1,643,195

114

$2,134,925

4 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

101

73 $2,541,835 $13,205

5 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

5 Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$355,490 $12,330

6 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

6 Elusive Warning, 2004, by Elusive Quality

$331,436 $11,338

$1,571,146

7 † Cindago, 2003, by Indian Charlie

$229,887 $11,050

8 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

101

$2,541,835

8 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

51 $1,627,401 $10,500

9 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

$694,702

$663,300

9 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 10 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

191 168 $3,560,269

$9,945

118 106 $2,376,812

$9,914

Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

10 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run 11 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$1,627,401

11 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

78 $1,643,195

$9,888

12 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE)

$920,082

12 Skimming, 1996, by Nureyev

$213,749

$9,837

13 † Thorn Song, 2003, by Unbridled’s Song

$705,816

13 Roi Charmant, 2001, by Evansville Slew

$220,118

$9,746

14 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$1,574,359

† Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 60

14 Trapper, 2000, by Iron Cat 15 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

142

$116,353

$9,564

$702,514

97 $2,467,852

$9,534

16 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$574,025

16 Tough Game, 1999, by Mr. Greeley

$127,690

$8,943

17 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image

$604,165

17 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$760,741

$8,850

Dixie Chatter, 2005, by Dixie Union

$466,694

18 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

$685,788

$8,798

19 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

$670,905

19 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$663,300

$8,674

Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE)

$559,750

78 $2,134,925

$8,494

20 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

114

2017 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF RACES WON

2017 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER START (MINIMUM 100 STARTS)

Sire

Rnrs

Srts

Races Won

Earned

Rnrs

Srts

Earned

Earnings Start

1 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

191 1147

168

$3,560,269

1 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

107

$991,362

$9,265

2 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

118

623

106

$2,376,812

2 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

121

$760,741

$6,287

3 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

142

657

$2,467,852

3 † Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado

$328,026

$5,755

4 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

129

698

$1,472,777

$405,113

$5,627

5 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

514

$1,571,146

294 $1,574,359

$5,355

6 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

114

594

$2,134,925

$307,965

$5,133

Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

585

$1,643,195

500 $2,541,835

$5,084

8 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

101

500

$2,541,835

9 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

Sire

4 † Game Plan, 1993, by Danzig

5 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

6 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

7 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

101

8 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat

159

$796,318

$5,008

460

$694,702

9 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

342 $1,627,401

$4,758

10 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

342

$1,627,401

10 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

$424,969

$4,722

11 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image

340

$604,165

11 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$350,267

$4,491

12 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

294

$663,300

102

12 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry

13 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

118

14 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

15 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

142

16 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

114

$394,811

$3,871

13 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

294

$1,574,359

623 $2,376,812

$3,815

14 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE)

332

$920,082

182

$685,788

$3,768

15 † Thorn Song, 2003, by Unbridled’s Song

343

$705,816

657 $2,467,852

$3,756

286

$702,514

† Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway

594 $2,134,925

$3,594

Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

245

$501,552

17 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

120

$422,245

$3,519

18 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

225

$670,905

18 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

158

$546,218

$3,457

19 † Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar

224

$469,125

191 1147 $3,560,269

$3,104

Dixie Chatter, 2005, by Dixie Union

269

$466,694

$3,057

21 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

279

$574,025

19 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 20 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

514 $1,571,146

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2017 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF WINNERS

Rnrs

Strts

Races Won

Earned

1 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$555,151

1 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

2 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$307,965

2 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

3 Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus 12

$128,647

$125,010

Sire

4 Grace Upon Grace, 2007, by Rio Verde

5 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie

Races Won

$555,151

$307,965

Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

$128,647

4 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

$118,575

$119,328

† Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

6 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 15

$118,575

Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

7 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

Earned

$106,064

$93,969

$73,652

$119,328

$106,064

$95,527

9 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

$95,213

Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

$95,213

10 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

$93,969

Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$65,635

11 Richard’s Kid, 2005, by Lemon Drop Kid

$84,606

† Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

$63,680

12 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

$73,652

Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$61,464

13 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$65,635

Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$50,222

14 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

$63,680

Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$35,540

15 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$61,464

Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$18,325

16 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$55,290

17 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$50,222

18 Calimonco, 2006, by Storm Cat

$50,115

19 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

$49,588

20 Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE)

$43,055

Sire

(MINIMUM 5 RUNNERS)

1 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

8 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie

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2017 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER RUNNER Sire

U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

Rnrs

8 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

Races Rnrs Won

Earned

Earnings/ Runner

Srts

Races Won

Earned

1 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$555,151

$307,965

$128,647

$119,328

$118,575

$106,064

$555,151

$22,206

3 Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

2 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie

$119,328

$19,888

4 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie

3 Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

$95,213

$19,043

Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

4 Richard’s Kid, 2005, by Lemon Drop Kid

$84,606

$14,101

† Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

5 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$307,965

$12,319

Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike

6 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$61,464

$12,293

Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

7 † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat

$106,064

$11,785

U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

$128,647

$10,721

9 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

Rnrs

2 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

8 Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

10 Grace Upon Grace, 2007, by Rio Verde

$95,213

$93,969

$73,652

$125,010

$73,652

$10,522

Richard’s Kid, 2005, by Lemon Drop Kid

$84,606

10 Calimonco, 2006, by Storm Cat

$50,115

$10,023

Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$65,635

11 Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE)

$43,055

$8,611

Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

$63,680

$118,575

$7,905

Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$61,464

$65,635

$7,293

Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$50,222

14 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$95,527

$6,368

Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$35,540

15 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$50,222

$6,278

Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$18,325

16 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

$29,772

$4,962

12 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 13 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

17 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even

$33,339

$4,763

$93,969

$4,086

19 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

$13,427

$2,685

20 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

$12,693

$2,539

18 Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown

Wnrs

Sire

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Stallion (Foreign Foaled), Year, Sire

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 29 30 32 34 35 36 38 40 41 42 44

† Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark † Bertrando, 1989, by Skywalker † Birdonthewire, 1989, by Proud Birdie † Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat Memo (CHI), 1987, by Mocito Guapo (ARG) Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat † Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow One Man Army, 1994, by Roman Diplomat Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE) † Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image Hold for Gold, 1995, by Red Ransom Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run † Cindago, 2003, by Indian Charlie Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat † Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev • Redattore (BRZ), 1995, by Roi Normand Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai Slewvescent, 1988, by Seattle Slew Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry Haynesfeld, 2006, by Speightstown Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time Silic (FR), 1995, by Sillery † Western Fame, 1992, by Gone West Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat † Game Plan, 1993, by Danzig Crafty C. T., 1998, by Crafty Prospector Papa Clem, 2006, by Smart Strike Iron Cat, 1995, by Storm Cat † Lucky J. H., 2002, by Cee’s Tizzy Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (IRE) Sea of Secrets, 1995, by Storm Cat † Sought After, 2000, by Seeking the Gold Suances (GB), 1997, by Most Welcome (GB) Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

Crops

17 5 8 5 10 5 18 18 12 15 9 8 8 15 6 3 9 6 15 10 9 12 11 6 9 11 2 10 3 17 5 5 22 10 6 3 14 12 14 6 18 5 5 14 5 10 15 12 10 15 10

Avg Named Size Foals

46 13 49 27 19 10 59 15 61 34 47 14 106 48 33 25 9 36 51 19 56 11 55 16 45 34 33 10 24 28 149 26 13 8 8 67 39 16 21 18 25 46 46 11 16 17 32 11 14 23 36

780 66 390 136 191 52 1067 271 737 506 419 110 845 721 200 76 84 218 769 189 500 135 606 94 404 374 65 99 73 480 747 128 286 82 50 200 542 190 298 110 447 229 232 150 81 167 483 134 139 339 362

Runners

587-75% 51-77% 268-69% 109-80% 129-68% 28-54% 822-77% 200-74% 523-71% 301-59% 319-76% 58-53% 537-64% 563-78% 145-73% 34-45% 57-68% 135-62% 578-75% 118-62% 243-49% 105-78% 440-73% 70-74% 300-74% 272-73% 20-31% 73-74% 56-77% 353-74% 156-21% 81-63% 217-76% 57-70% 35-70% 138-69% 433-80% 141-74% 203-68% 63-57% 330-74% 52-23% 166-72% 118-79% 63-78% 124-74% 405-84% 84-63% 77-55% 255-75% 273-75%

2YO Winners

Stakes Winners

Graded Stakes Winners

Progeny Earnings

AEI

Comp Index

419-54% 55-7% 39-59% 9-14% 177-45% 59-15% 79-58% 25-18% 89-47% 15-8% 17-33% 10-19% 583-55% 124-12% 145-54% 40-15% 390-53% 126-17% 210-42% 34-7% 235-56% 59-14% 44-40% 0-0% 393-47% 120-14% 437-61% 107-15% 89-45% 27-14% 24-32% 11-14% 39-46% 3-4% 89-41% 21-10% 401-52% 118-15% 74-39% 10-5% 176-35% 48-10% 75-56% 16-12% 321-53% 98-16% 57-61% 11-12% 215-53% 57-14% 190-51% 45-12% 9-14% 4-6% 54-55% 20-20% 33-45% 7-10% 220-46% 42-9% 105-14% 10-1% 50-39% 14-11% 96-34% 19-7% 41-50% 6-7% 21-42% 3-6% 75-38% 26-13% 333-61% 114-21% 88-46% 13-7% 150-50% 46-15% 43-39% 6-5% 260-58% 57-13% 41-18% 9-4% 111-48% 29-13% 98-65% 8-5% 40-49% 14-17% 101-60% 28-17% 290-60% 80-17% 57-43% 13-10% 45-32% 4-3% 188-55% 46-14% 200-55% 40-11%

43-6% 4-6% 6-2% 11-8% 9-5% 1-2% 52-5% 12-4% 35-5% 12-2% 10-2% 1-1% 32-4% 28-4% 8-4% 3-4% 2-2% 5-2% 26-3% 6-3% 7-1% 4-3% 18-3% 3-3% 15-4% 12-3% 0-0% 2-2% 1-1% 11-2% 3-0% 3-2% 5-2% 1-1% 1-2% 5-3% 19-4% 3-2% 12-4% 2-2% 17-4% 2-1% 5-2% 3-2% 1-1% 9-5% 16-3% 2-1% 1-1% 11-3% 4-1%

12-2% 1-2% 1-0% 1-1% 3-2% 0-0% 15-1% 2-1% 7-1% 4-1% 3-1% 1-1% 6-1% 9-1% 1-1% 1-1% 1-1% 2-1% 9-1% 2-1% 1-0% 0-0% 6-1% 0-0% 2-0% 1-0% 0-0% 1-1% 0-0% 4-1% 1-0% 0-0% 3-1% 1-1% 0-0% 1-1% 1-0% 1-1% 0-0% 2-2% 3-1% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 1-1% 2-0% 1-1% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0%

$55,379,608 $4,138,818 $25,972,806 $8,165,247 $10,330,330 $1,643,803 $50,225,333 $13,332,685 $34,537,499 $18,056,554 $20,329,217 $3,373,117 $36,301,430 $35,248,868 $6,673,753 $1,416,299 $2,965,766 $6,898,175 $31,045,195 $6,585,993 $13,774,163 $5,570,920 $20,368,629 $3,887,849 $16,218,300 $14,988,902 $485,087 $3,608,354 $1,870,461 $15,005,293 $7,633,367 $3,576,016 $7,607,045 $2,933,713 $1,803,498 $4,523,857 $21,461,629 $8,474,722 $8,960,867 $2,804,138 $15,327,483 $2,933,449 $6,011,104 $4,519,609 $2,688,833 $5,987,069 $19,177,166 $3,292,426 $2,949,045 $10,232,014 $11,457,947

1.95 1.77 1.66 1.61 1.52 1.48 1.31 1.31 1.27 1.26 1.23 1.22 1.20 1.19 1.16 1.16 1.14 1.14 1.13 1.10 1.06 1.05 1.04 1.03 1.03 1.02 1.01 1.01 1.00 0.99 0.99 0.97 0.97 0.96 0.95 0.94 0.94 0.92 0.92 0.89 0.87 0.85 0.85 0.83 0.83 0.83 0.83 0.83 0.83 0.82 0.82

1.22 1.27 1.14 0.95 1.11 1.12 1.46 1.31 1.06 1.06 1.45 1.28 1.70 1.09 1.26 1.16 0.93 0.98 1.33 0.89 1.16 1.11 1.21 1.32 0.91 0.98 1.32 0.93 1.57 1.39 1.19 1.12 0.80 0.63 0.91 1.48 0.83 0.90 0.81 1.21 0.79 1.04 1.12 0.90 1.18 0.83 1.05 0.79 1.02 1.10 0.97

Winners

These statistics are for active California-based sires with a minimum of 50 foals of racing age, ranked here by their lifetime Average Earnings Index (AEI.) The statistics shown here are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their complete and total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicates a stallion that has been pensioned or has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere (sires no longer standing in California remain on these lists until their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old). Freshman sires are highlighted in bold text.. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) only. Stakes winners and wins follow TJCIS stakes rules. Percentages are based upon number of named foals of racing age.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50

California Chrome, 11 h by Lucky Pulpit Tiznow, 97 h by Cee’s Tizzy Best Pal, 88 g by Habitony (IRE) Lava Man, 01 g by Slew City Slew Snow Chief, 83 h by Refected Glory Bertrando, 89 h by Skywalker Free House, 94 h by Smokester General Challenge, 96 g by General Meeting Budroyale, 93 g by Cee’s Tizzy Thor’s Echo, 02 g by Swiss Yodeler Nostalgia’s Star, 82 h by Nostalgia Acclamation, 06 h by Unusual Heat Amazombie, 06 g by Northern Afeet Native Desert, 93 g by Desert Classic Flying Continental, 86 h by Flying Paster Big Jag, 93 g by Kleven Grey Memo, 97 h by Memo (CHI) Proud Tower Too, 02 h by Proud Irish Bold Chieftain, 03 h by Chief Seattle Brother Derek, 03 h by Benchmark The Usual Q. T., 06 g by Unusual Heat McCann’s Mojave, 00 h by Memo (CHI) Dancing in Silks, 05 g by Black Minnaloushe Super Diamond, 80 h by Pass the Glass Men’s Exclusive, 93 g by Exclusive Ribot Moscow Burning, 00 m by Moscow Ballet Continental Red, 96 g by Flying Continental Fran’s Valentine, 82 m by Saros (GB) Unusual Suspect, 04 h by Unusual Heat Ashleyluvssugar, 11 g by Game Plan Brown Bess, 82 m by *Petrone Idiot Proof, 04 h by Benchmark California Flag, 04 g by Avenue of Flags Silveyville, 78 h by *Petrone Full Moon Madness, 95 g by Half a Year Gourmet Girl, 95 m by Cee’s Tizzy Cavonnier, 93 g by Batonnier Ancient Title, 70 h by Gummo Alert Bay, 11 g by City Zip Nashoba’s Key, 03 m by Silver Hawk Juno Pentagon, 93 h by Red Ransom Texcess, 02 g by In Excess (IRE) Evening Jewel, 07 m by Northern Afeet Dream of Summer, 99 m by Siberian Summer King Glorious, 86 h by Naevus Cacoethes, 86 h by Alydar Luthier Fever, 91 h by Mt. Livermore Lazy Slusan, 95 m by Slewvescent Valentine Dancer, 00 m by In Excess (IRE) Richter Scale, 94 h by Habitony (IRE)

Starts

Wins

2nds

3rds

Earnings (US$)

27 15 47 47 24 24 22 21 52 28 59 30 29 74 51 30 54 22 47 17 23 35 25 37 48 33 74 34 72 24 36 17 27 56 71 33 23 57 33 10 33 22 19 20 9 14 25 47 29 25

16 8 18 17 13 9 9 9 17 5 9 11 12 21 12 13 8 7 18 6 8 12 7 16 11 11 8 13 10 10 16 5 11 19 19 9 8 24 14 8 4 4 7 10 8 4 6 12 8 12

4 4 11 8 3 6 5 3 12 4 17 2 5 13 15 5 4 5 14 2 6 4 2 5 16 8 15 4 8 4 8 5 0 11 18 7 3 11 7 1 6 5 6 4 1 3 5 7 7 2

1 2 4 5 5 2 3 1 2 6 13 6 6 17 10 3 10 2 4 3 5 0 4 5 4 4 16 5 7 4 6 2 2 8 15 10 2 9 4 0 2 3 2 3 0 3 6 10 5 0

$14,752,650 $6,427,830 $5,668,245 $5,268,706 $3,383,210 $3,185,610 $3,178,971 $2,877,178 $2,840,810 $2,461,490 $2,154,827 $1,958,048 $1,920,378 $1,828,177 $1,815,938 $1,800,329 $1,736,683 $1,735,572 $1,683,181 $1,611,138 $1,531,240 $1,513,565 $1,500,401 $1,469,233 $1,451,126 $1,417,800 $1,383,788 $1,375,465 $1,361,522 $1,339,349 $1,300,920 $1,294,484 $1,288,825 $1,282,880 $1,256,098 $1,255,373 $1,254,165 $1,252,791 $1,252,555 $1,252,090 $1,239,897 $1,235,335 $1,221,399 $1,191,150 $1,175,650 $1,169,064 $1,160,852 $1,150,410 $1,144,126 $1,139,958

Bold face indicates active runners

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Stakes & Sales Dates 2017

2017

REGIONAL RACE MEETINGS Oak Tree at Pleasanton, Pleasanton

REGIONAL SALE DATES

Sept. 21-Oct. 1

Santa Anita Park, Arcadia

Sept. 29-Oct. 29

Fresno County Fair, Fresno

OCTOBER 17 BARRETTS FALL SALE OF YEARLINGS AND HORSES OF ALL AGES Pomona, Calif.

Oct. 5-15

Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley

Oct. 19-Dec. 19

Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos

Nov. 1-26

(EARLY ENTRIES CLOSED AUG. 25, ENTRIES CLOSED SEPT. 1, SUPPLEMENTAL ENTRIES

Nov. 29-Dec. 19

CLOSE OCT. 3)

California-Bred/California-Sired STAKES RACES OCTOBER-NOVEMBER DEL MAR

FRESNO SATURDAY, OCT. 7

FRIDAY, NOV. 3

$100,000 Harris Farms Stakes

$200,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies

$100,000 Betty Grable Stakes

3-Year-Olds & Up 6 furlongs

Two-Year-Old Fillies 7 furlongs

3-Year-Olds & Up, Fillies and Mares 7 furlongs

SANTA ANITA

SATURDAY NOV. 4

SUNDAY, NOV. 19

$200,000 Golden State Juvenile

$100,000 Cary Grant Stakes

Two-Year-Olds 7 furlongs

3-Year-Olds & Up 7 furlongs

SATURDAY, OCT. 14

$100,000 California Distaf 3-Year-Olds & Up, Fillies and Mares abt. 61⁄2 furlongs (Turf) SATURDAY, OCT. 21

$100,000 California Flag Handicap 3-Year-Olds & Up abt. 61⁄2 furlongs (Turf)

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SA SA SA SA Fno SA SA SA SA SA Fno SA SA SA SA GGF SA Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr Dmr GGF Dmr Dmr GGF Dmr Dmr Dmr GGF Dmr Dmr Dmr GGF Dmr Dmr Dmr

Stakes (Grade)

Conditions

Distance

John Henry Turf Championship (Gr. II) Santa Anita Sprint Championship (Gr. I) Obviously Mile Swingtime Stakes Harris Farms Stakes L.A. Woman Stakes (Gr. III) Surfer Girl Stakes Zuma Beach Stakes California Distaff Handicap Speakeasy Stakes The Bulldog Handicap California Flag Handicap Anoakia Stakes Twilight Derby (Gr. II) Comma to the Top Stakes Pike Place Dancer Stakes Autumn Miss Stakes (Gr. III) Let It Ride Stakes Lure Stakes Las Vegas Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (Gr. I) Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (Gr. I) Breeders’ Jup Juvenile Fillies Turf (Gr. I) Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (Gr. I) Damascus Stakes Golden State Juvenile Fillies Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes (Gr. III) Marathon (Gr. II) Breeders’ Cup Classic (Gr. I) Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (Gr. I) Breeders’ Cup Mile (Gr. I) Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (Gr. I) Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (Gr. I) 14 Hands Winery Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (Gr. I) TwinSpires Breeders’ Cup Sprint (Gr. I) Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (Gr. I) Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (Gr. I) Golden State Juvenile Stakes QREC Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes Goldikova Stakes (Gr. II) Fast Parade Stakes Bob Hope Stakes (Gr. III) Golden Nugget Stakes Betty Grable Stakes Dezi Arnaz Stakes Oakland Stakes Cary Grant Stakes Red Carpet Stakes (Gr. III) Hollywood Turf Cup (Gr. II) Golden Gate Debutante Jimmy Durante Stakes (Gr. III) Hollywood Derby (Gr. I) Native Diver Stakes (Gr. III) Berkeley Handicap (Gr. III) Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (Gr. III) Seabiscuit Handicap (Gr. II) Matriarch Stakes (Gr. I)

3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 3-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 2-y-o f. 2-y-o 3-y-o & up, f. & m. Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 2-y-o 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 2-y-o f. 3-y-o 3-y-o & up 2-y-o f. 3-y-o f. 3-y-o 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 2-y-o f. 2-y-o 3-y-o & up 2-y-o f, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 2-y-o 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 2-y-o f. 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 2-y-o, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 2-y-o 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 3-y-o & up 2-y-o 2-y-o 3-y-o & up, f. & m. Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 2-y-o f. 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 3-y-o & up, f. & m. 3-y-o & up 2-y-o f. 2-y-o f. 3-y-o 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up 2-y-o 3-y-o & up 3-y-o & up, f. & m.

11⁄4 m. (T) 6 f. 1 m. (T) 1 m. (T) 6 f. 61⁄2 f. 1 m. (T) 1 m. (T) abt. 61⁄2 f. (T) 6 f. 11⁄8 m. abt. 61⁄2 f. (T) 6 f. 11⁄8 m. (T) 1 m. 1 m. (T) 1 m. (T) 1 m. (T) 1 m. (T) 1 m. 11⁄8 m. 1 m. (T) 1 m. (T) 7 f. 7 f. 5 f. (T) 13⁄4 m. 11⁄4 m. 11⁄2 m. (T) 1 m. (T) 11⁄16 m. 11⁄8 m. (T) 11⁄16 m. 6 f. 5 f. (T) 7 f. 7 f. 5 f. (T) 1 m. (T) 5 f. (T) 7 f. 6 f. 7 f. 7 f. 6 f. 7 f. 13⁄8 m. (T) 11⁄2 m. (T) 6 f. 1 m. (T) 11⁄8 m. (T) 11⁄8 m. 11⁄16 m. 1 m. (T) 11⁄16 m. (T) 1 m. (T)

Added Value $200,000 $300,000 $75,000 $70,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $70,000 $50,000 $100,000 $70,000 $200,000 $70,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $1,000,000 $2,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $200,000 $200,000 $150,000 $200,000 $6,000,000 $4,000,000 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $1,500,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $200,000 $200,000 $200,000 $75,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $50,000 $100,000 $300,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $300,000

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ADVERTISERS Arizona Thoroughbred Breeders Assoc. ...............................6

Farmers Insurance-Sue Hubbard..........................................66

Auburn Laboratories Inc. ........................................................5

Flag Is Up Farms ....................................................................37

Backyard Race Horse.............................................................67

Gayle Van Leer Thoroughbred Services ..............................67

Ballena Vista Farm ...................................................... OBC, 32

Golden States Stakes Series.................................................15

Barretts ...................................................................................29

Harris Farms .................................................................. IFC, 38

Barton Thoroughbreds....................................................13, 33

Laurel Fowler Insurance Broker Inc ......................................67

BG Thoroughbred Farm..................................................11, 34

Legacy Ranch .........................................................................39

Blue Diamond Horseshoe, LLC ..............................................9

Lillian Nichols/Halters............................................................67

Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms, LP.......................................35

Lovacres Ranch ......................................................................40

Cardiff, Suzanne, Pedigree Research ...................................67

Milky Way Farm..............................................................IBC, 41

Classic Silks USA ....................................................................66

Northern California Stallion Tour............................................8

Cole Ranch .........................................................................7, 66

NTRA /John Deere ................................................................57

CTBA 2018 Stallion Directory ...............................................63

Rancho San Miguel................................................................42

CTBA Membership................................................................30

Special T.Thoroughbreds Inc. ...............................................19

Daehling Ranch......................................................................66

Tommy Town Thoroughbreds LLC ...................................3, 43

Dickson Podley Realtors (Jeannie Garr Roddy)...................67

Victory Rose Thoroughbreds ................................................44

E.A. Ranches ..........................................................................36

West Coast Racing Colors/June Gee ..................................66

Equineline.com ......................................................................47

www.horselawyers.com .........................................................67

STALLIONS Affrmative ..............................................................................11

Kafwain .....................................................................................3

Bluegrass Cat........................................................... OBC

King of Jazz ............................................................................11

Boat Trip ......................................................................19

Lightnin N Thunder .................................................................9

Boisterous.................................................................................3

Ministers Wild Cat ...................................................................3

Capital Account .....................................................................11 Champ Pegasus.....................................................................13 Daddy Nose Best...................................................................11 Fighting Hussar......................................................................11

Misremembered ....................................................................11 Old Topper...............................................................................3 Smiling Tiger.............................................................. IFC

Heaven’s Glory (JPN) ................................................. IBC

Tiz A Minister .........................................................................11

Hidden Blessing.......................................................................9

Unusual Heatwave .................................................................11

James Street ............................................................................9

Wolfcamp .................................................................................9

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HEAVEN’S GLORY (JPN)

TAPIT X PEEPING FAWN BY DANEHILL By TAPIT - One of the World’s Greatest Stallions

Out of PEEPING FAWN - EUROPEAN CHAMPION and HIGHWEIGHT FILLY $1,387.274 Irish Oaks (GR 1) Pretty Polly (GR 1) Yorkshire Oaks (GR I) Dam of: SEPTEMBER (DEEP IMPACT) Outstanding European Two Year Old Filly of 2017 winner of Chelsham Stakes during Royal Ascot Week against colts in the field of 18 in second start. 2nd Dam MARYINSKY (IRE) (SADDLER’S WELLS) (GR1) stakes placed and also dam of THEWAYYOUARE (KINGMAMBO) (GR 1) Criterium Stakes and sire in Europe. 3rd Dam BLUSH WITH PRIDE (GR 1) (BLUSHING GROOM) $536,807 Kentucky Oaks Dam of BETTER THAN HONOUR (DEPUTY MINISTER) BROODMARE OF YEAR Dam of: RAGS TO RICHES CHAMPION (GR 1) THREE YEAR OLD - $1,342,528 Belmont Stakes JAZIL (GR1) Belmont Stakes Dom of SMOLENSK (DANZIG) (GR I placed) dam of CAN THE MAN and MARTHA’S MOON Heaven’s Glory was unraced due to training Injury

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BONITA wins the $75,000 Wasted Tears S at GP

BONITA wins the $50,000 Panama City H at GP

THE DOMINANT ACTIVE STALLION IN CALIFORNIA No. 1 Stallion in California in 2017 by Earnings, Wins, Repeat Winners and Blacktype Stakes Wins. Over $3,500,000 in North American Progeny Earnings in 2017. Global Progeny Lifetime Earnings of $38,542,719. Versatility: Progeny are winning on both Turf and Dirt. Multiple Stakes Winner BONITA recently won the Wasted Tears S. at GP on the Turf over 1 mile. BLUEGRASS FLAG has earnings of $173,500 in 2017 (3 for 5, incl. 2 Stakes wins) on the Dirt. 2018 Stud Fee: $7,500 Live Foal Storm Cat - She’s a Winner, by A.P. Indy Property of Ballena Vista Farm and Wellspring Stables LLC l Nominated to the Breeders’ Cup l Racing Statistics as of 9/17/17