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GRADED GLORY ACCLIMATE AND PRINCE EARL WIN GRADED STAKES AT DEL MAR

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GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN SEPTEMBER FROM HARRIS FARMS LEADING CONSIGNOR OF 2019 STAKES WINNERS

BIG RETURNS 2018 August Select Yearling 2019 Graduation Stakes

PRINCE EARL 2016 August Select Yearling 2019 Del Mar Mile Handicap-G2

LYNNE’S LEGACY

OUR SILVER OAK

2014 October Sale Yearling 2019 Solana Beach Stakes

2017 August Select Yearling 2019 Snow Chief Stakes

CALIFORNIA FALL SALE YEARLINGS CONSIGNED BY HARRIS FARMS Hip 128. Smiling Tiger – Lofty Ambition filly

Hip 151. Clubhouse Ride – Miss Rhythmic filly

CONSIGNED BY HARRIS FARMS, AGENT Hip 17. Mr. Big – Baby Zito filly Hip 103. Mr. Big – Irish Exchange colt Hip 134. First Samurai – Lula Talullah colt Hip 140. Acclamation – Mamacoolmamacool colt Hip 150. Mr. Big – Graziella colt Hip 174. Mr. Big – Patsy G and Me filly Hip 187. Mr. Big – Propero colt Hip 227. Mr. Big – Somethin’ Unusual colt Hip 244. Mr. Big – Stunning Drama filly Hip 263. Mr. Big – Twin Spirit filly

Hip 21. Mr. Big – Belloma filly Hip 133. Grazen – Lucky S. J. filly Hip 137. Cairo Prince – Magnetic filly Hip 145. Mr. Big – Memorette colt Hip 155. Goldencents – Money Plays colt Hip 181. Mr. Big – Preshow filly Hip 191. Mr. Big – Quick Chick filly Hip 240. Mr. Big – Steamy Novel colt Hip 255. Mr. Big – Temeeku filly Hip 264. Mr. Big – Two Faced Moon filly

BLACKTYPE UPDATES Hip 191. Full sister to Del Mar Stakes winner BIG RETURNS (at 2) Hip 264. Half-sister to G3-placed Stakes Winner HOLLYWOOD HILLS Selling September 26 at Fairplex • Barn 3

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SEPTEMBER 2019 VOLUME 145

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626.445.7800 or 1.800.573.CTBA (California residents only) www.CTBA.com The official magazine of California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, a non-profit 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 reflect policies of the CTBA or this magazine. Publication of any material originating herein is expressly forbidden without first 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. OFFICERS CHAIRPERSON PETE PARRELLA PRESIDENT DOUG BURGE

Contents

FEATURES

26 BIG WEEKEND

14 NorCal Sale Review

FOR CAL-BREDS Acclimate and Prince Earl, both trained by Phil D’Amato, respectively captured the Aug. 17 Del Mar Handicap Presented by the Japan Racing Association (G2T) and the Aug. 18 Del Mar Mile Handicap (G2T).

VICE CHAIRPERSON TERRY C. LOVINGIER

18 Sir Prancealot Comes to California 20 Golden State Stakes at Del Mar

TREASURER GEORGE F. SCHMITT SECRETARY SUE GREENE

30 Fasig-Tipton Yearling Sale Preview

DIRECTORS John C. Harris, Leigh Ann Howard, John H. Barr, Gloria Haley, Pete Parrella, Sue Greene, Donald J. Valpredo, Terry C. Lovingier, George F. Schmitt, Edward Freeman, Clay Murdock, Ty Green

32 Focus on the Future: Jessica Pyfer

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CONTROLLER THOMAS R. RETCHLESS SALES LORETTA VEIGA CHRISTY CHAPMAN REGISTRAR/INCENTIVE PROGRAM MANAGER MARY ELLEN LOCKE

34 CTBA Member Profile: Ty Green 40 Health: DMSO

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10 CTBA Calendar 12 California Thoroughbred Foundation

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36 Winners September 2019

44 Leading Breeders in California 46 Lists of Leading Sires in California 52 Stakes/Sales Calendar 54 Classified Advertising

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BREEDING • FOALING • BOARDING • LAYUP • SALES PREPARATION STANFORD | Fee: $5,000 LF

BOISTEROUS | Fee: $5,000 LF

Malibu Moon – Rosy Humor

Distorted Humor – Emanating

MINISTERS WILD CAT | Fee: $4,000 LF

KAFWAIN | Fee: $2,500 LF

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Cherokee Run – Swazi’s Moment © Lisa Allen

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CURRENT CALIFORNIA

SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS FOALS OF RACING AGE

STALLION

California-bred Bella Luma won the $62,950 Luther Burbank Handicap for fillies and mares at Santa Rosa Aug. 3. Silvio Amador piloted the 5-year-old mare to a half-length victory at 11⁄16 miles on turf in 1:43.51. Tom Bachman’s Fairview owns Bella Luma with Linda Brown, and Bachman bred her. Ed Moger Jr. trains Bella Luma, who won the 2018 Golden Poppy Stakes and has earned $239,824. Bella Luma is a daughter of Ministers Wild Cat out of Cal-bred multiple stakes winner Bold Roberta, by Bold Badgett. Fairview has consigned Bella Luma’s Cal-bred yearling half brother, by Goldencents, to the Fasig-Tipton September yearling sale in Pomona.

Changes to California Racing Dates Schedule At its August meeting the California Horse Racing Board unanimously approved 2020 racing dates for Southern California that differs from previous years. Santa Anita, Del Mar, and the Thoroughbred Owners of California jointly presented the calendar to the board. The four blocks of racing dates and simulcast-only dates begin at Santa Anita Dec. 26, 2019, running through June 23, 2020. That is followed by Del Mar (July 5-Sept. 8), back to Santa Anita (Sept. 9-Oct. 27), and then Del Mar (Oct. 28-Dec. 1). The Santa Anita winter-spring dates include 12 days that must be taken off during that six-month stretch. Those dates are not specifically listed, as the CHRB said it intends to give Santa Anita flexibility to cancel racing due to severe weather, insufficient entries, or other circumstances. Santa Anita must receive approval from the CHRB chairman or executive director before any cancellations. Representatives from Los Alamitos, which has been racing the former Fairplex Park dates in September along with dates in July and December, and the California Thoroughbred Trainers voiced concerns during the meeting that they were not included in talks to develop the new calendar. Alan Balch of CTT and Dr. Ed Allred and Jack Liebau of Los Alamitos asked the CHRB to table the dates proposal for more discussion, but the CHRB approved the dates. The remainder of the Southern California calendar, which will include Los Alamitos, was to be discussed at a public meeting of the CHRB dates committee along with schedules for Northern California, harness racing, and Quarter Horse racing.

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UNUSUAL HEAT (1990) †

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BLUEGRASS CAT (2003) •

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STORMIN FEVER (1994) †

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SWISS YODELER (1994) •

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MINISTERS WILD CAT (2000)

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OLD TOPPER (1995) †

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ROCKY BAR (1998) •

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SEA OF SECRETS (1995) †

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KAFWAIN (2000)

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DECARCHY (1997) †

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ATTICUS (1992) †

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COMIC STRIP (1995) †

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LUCKY PULPIT †

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SQUARE EDDIE

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SOUTHERN IMAGE

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STAY THIRSTY

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† 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 their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old.

QUALIFYING CLAIMING LEVELS The following claiming levels for California owners premiums and stallion awards are currently in effect: DEL MAR/$40,000 GOLDEN GATE FIELDS/$20,000 LOS ALAMITOS/$40,000 SANTA ANITA/$40,000

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NEW NUMBER FOR MADERA Madera Thoroughbreds has a new telephone number, which is 559-660-6182. Cal and Jill Fischer own and operate Madera Thoroughbreds, a longtime California full-service farm in Madera. Elusive Warning and Market Forecast stand at Madera.

Californians Gary Barber and Chuck Winner and Terry Finley of West Point Thoroughbreds were among six newly elected members to The Jockey Club. The other three elected were Shannon Bishop Barber Arvin, Pope McLean Jr., and Jaime Roth. A native of South Africa, Barber is the chairman and chief executive officer of Spyglass Media Group and a longtime Thoroughbred owner. Horses he has owned or co-owned over the years include California-bred champion Cost of Freedom and his homebred multiple stakes-winning Cal-bred Mr. Hinx. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. and co-foundFinley er of Spyglass Entertainment. Terry Finley is the president and chief executive officer of West Point Thoroughbreds. Many West Point stakes winners have regularly raced in California, including Awesome Gem, Ring Weekend, and 2019 Sham Stakes (G3) winner Gunmetal Gray. Chuck Winner has served on the California Horse Racing Board since 2012 and as its chairman since 2013. He has campaigned numerous graded stakes Winner winners, many in partnership, including Cal-bred Liberian Freighter, an earner of $759,090. Winner is the founder of Winner & Associates, Winner & Mandabach Campaigns Political, and Winner Consulting Inc. ANNE M. EBERHARDT

Twenty-one yearlings foaled in California have been cataloged for this year’s Keeneland September yearling sale. The 13 colts and eight fillies are by such sires as Animal Kingdom, Distorted Humor, Ghostzapper, Lookin At Lucky, Mucho Macho Man, Quality Road, Runhappy, and Street Sense. Taylor Made Sales Agency has a son of Ghostzapper out of the Smoke Glacken mare One Smokin’ Lady. The yearling is a half brother to California-bred Smokem, a son of Union Rags who placed in four stakes. Taylor Made also has a daughter of Quality Road out of the stakes-winning Danehill Dancer mare Maxxi Arte. Select Sales has a filly by Mshawish—Abba Gold, by Devil’s Bag. The mare has already produced two stakes winners by Bluegrass Cat. A California-foaled filly by Mucho Macho Man is out of multiple stakes winner More Than Even, by Stephen Got Even, and is consigned by Shawhan Place.

BARBER, WINNER NAMED THE JOCKEY CLUB MEMBERS

COURTESY CHUCK WINNER

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Hall of Fame jockey Julie Krone, whose 20 years as a rider were marked with record-setting performances, received the Laffit Pincay Jr. Award at Del Mar Aug. 17. Hall of Fame former rider Pincay presented the award to Krone in the winner’s circle. Krone was the 16th winner of the prestigious award, which goes to those who have served the sport “with integrity, extraordinary dedication, determination, and distinction.” Julie Krone “Julie Krone fits the criteria for this award perfectly,” said Pincay. “She broke barriers in our game by showing again and again that skill and determination are the real keys to being a success when it comes to riding horses.” Krone, who won 3,704 races during her career, led riders at such major meets as Belmont Park, Gulfstream Park, Monmouth Park, and The Meadowlands. She became the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race and a Breeders’ Cup race, with Colonial Affair in the 1993 Belmont Stakes (G1) and Halfbridled in the 2003 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), the latter at Santa Anita. She also rode Candy Ride to victory in the 2003 Pacific Classic (G1) at Del Mar. Krone lives in Carlsbad with her husband, Jay Hovdey, an award-winning turf writer, and their 14-year-old daughter Lorelei. Hovdey has written the book One Sweet Ride about Krone’s riding career.

Memoriam

Former jockey Senon Trevino died in Helena, Mont., early this year at age 77. A leading rider at Tanforan in Northern California, Trevino was the leading apprentice jockey nationally in 1964 by purse earnings. His total purse earnings that season were $1,057,903. Born in Kemp, Texas, Trevino grew up in Colorado. Following his riding career, he trained horses for a time. He is survived by his wife, Marilyn; his sons, Senon Jr. and Steve, his daughters, Helena and Sara; and his brother, Frank.

Gold Fleece Gold Fleece, the dam of California-bred graded stakes winner Stoney Fleece, died at Oak Creek Farm in Valley Center. She was 31. A daughter of Deputed Testamony—Go Solo, by Riverman, Gold Fleece won the 1992 Buena Vista Handicap (G3T) at Santa Anita and earned $289,875. She produced Stoney Fleece, by Decarchy, in 2009. Bred by Joseph T. Alvarez III, Stoney Fleece won the 2011 Generous Stakes (G3T) and 2012 Alcatraz Stakes and earned a total of $600,028. Gold Fleece’s earlier foals included Kentucky-bred Golden Rahy, a grade 3 winner. She produced nine starters, all winners.

CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED

NEWS

Boat Trip

■ Boat Trip’s First Starter a Winner The first starter for Special T Thoroughbreds’ freshman sire Boat Trip became his first winner when Bettor Trip Nick won a maiden claiming race at Golden Gate Fields Aug. 23. William Delia trains the 2-yearold gelding for himself, Gary Oetman, and Ray Pagano. Catalino Martinez piloted Bettor Trip Nick, who won the five-furlong race by a nose in :58.80. Running Horse Equine Training Center, which stood Boat Trip for his first two years at stud, bred Bettor Trip Nick from the In Excess mare Bettor Knot. The stallion stands at Special T in Temecula for $2,500. A 10-year-old son of Harlan’s Holiday—Turning Wheel, by Seeking the Gold, Boat Trip won the 2012 Tsunami Slew Stakes and 2013 Hollywood Turf Express Handicap. He earned $268,410.

■ First Winner for Unusual Heatwave

Senon Trevino

STALLION

Krone Receives Pincay Award

Always in Vegas, in winning a maiden claiming race at Golden Gate Fields Aug. 15, became the first winner for her sire, Unusual Heatwave. Always in Vegas was making her racing debut, and she triumphed by three-quarters of a length. Kyle Frey piloted the 2-year-old filly, who stopped the timer in 1:00.73 for five furlongs. Andy Mathis trains Always in Vegas, and he co-owns her with Paul Begley, Len Panian, and Anthony Porreca. Mathis purchased Always in Vegas from Mary Knight for $4,500 at the 2018 Barretts January mixed sale. Alexis Barba bred Always in Vegas in California from her homebred Tiznow mare Tizalwaysomething. Unusual Heatwave, a 10-yearold son of Unusual Heat—Miss Alphie, by Candi’s Gold, stands at

■ Curlin to Mischief Gets First Winner Monstrodamous became the first winner for California stallion Curlin to Mischief when he won a maiden claiming race at Golden Gate Fields Aug. 16. Second in his debut at Sacramento, Monstrodamous scored by three lengths under jockey Francisco Monroy as the 4-5 favorite. The 2-year-old colt completed five furlongs in :59.71. Ari Herbertson trains Monstrodamous for his father, Scott, who owns the colt. Barbara Corey and Tony Citarella bred Monstrodamous in California from the Rock Hard Ten mare Monstro Ness. Curlin to Mischief stands at Rancho San Miguel in San Miguel for $3,500. He is an 8-year-old unraced son of Curlin—Leslie’s Lady, by Tricky Creek, and a half brother to champion Beholder and grade 1 winners Mendelssohn and Into Mischief.

■ Govenor Charlie Gets First Winner Side Street Dave became the first winner for the California stallion Govenor Charlie when he won a maiden claiming race at Del Mar Aug. 25. Well back early, Side Street Dave and jockey Geovanni Franco moved up steadily to win by 11⁄4 lengths in 1:07.73 for 51⁄2 furlongs in the race for California-bred and California-sired maidens. Gary Sherlock trains Side Street Dave for owners Tom London, Terry Lovingier, and Eugene Zondlo. Lovingier bred Side Street Dave in California from the Street Cry mare Jolly Days. Govenor Charlie stands at Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch in Warner Springs for $3,000. Mike Pegram bred the son of champion Midnight Lute out of the Storm Cat mare Sillverbulletway. The second dam is two-time champion Silversulletday. Govenor Charlie won the 2013 Sunland Derby (G3) and earned $506,650.

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HISTORY STAR NICHOLAS turned around a five-race losing streak to capture the $104,330 Windy Sands Handicap at Del Mar Sept. 5, 2009. The California-bred’s most recent win had come in the previous year’s On Trust Handicap. In the one-mile Windy Sands, named for the prominent California sire, Star Nicholas and jockey Michael Baze raced in fourth for most of the race, putting on a huge run in the stretch to eke out a neck victory over Monzante, with Tamborim third. Star Nicholas stopped the timer in 1:37.53 on Polytrack. Pete Cristofi and Bob Nugent bred 6-year-old Star Nicholas (Poteen—Viznaga, by Royal Roberto). Peter Eurton trained him for a partnership headed by King Max Farms that included Nugent.

WRONA NAMED LOS ALAMITOS ANNOUNCER Michael Wrona has been named the full-time track announcer at Los Alamitos for both Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse meetings. He will begin his Thoroughbred duties with the winter December meeting and then assume the full-time duties beginning with the night Quarter Horse meeting that starts Dec. 27. Longtime Los Alamitos announcer Ed Burgart is retiring from the announcer’s booth. Australian native Wrona is no stranger to California announcing as he has called at Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, Golden Gate Fields, Bay Meadows, and several fair meetings. “It’s a great honor to be selected as Ed Burgart’s successor at Los Alamitos,” Wrona said. “However, it’s also a somewhat daunting task because Ed personifies Los Al and is truly irreplaceable.”

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10 YEARS AGO

Michael Wrona

25 YEARS AGO HAVE YOU

Richard J. Stephen’s JOURNALISM won his third consecutive race in the $100,000 San Francisco Handicap (G3T) at Bay Meadows Sept. 5, 1994. He had previously taken the Khaled Stakes at Hollywood Park and an allowance race at Del Mar. With Russell Baze aboard and trained by Wally Dollase, Journalism stalked the pace of Firm Pledge through most of the 11⁄16 miles, getting up to beat that rival by a nose in 1:40.94. Old English Rancho bred the 6-year-old gelded son of Publicity—Knowledgeable Lady, by Tree of Knowledge. Dollase had trained Knowledgeable Lady and had followed Journalism’s racing career, buying him privately from Old English in 1993.

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50 YEARS AGO GEORGE LEWIS impressed at Del Mar during the summer of 1969. The California-bred 2-yearold colt broke his maiden by 10 lengths Aug. 16 and won again at the track nine days later by two lengths. For the Sept. 11 Del Mar Futurity, he was coupled in the wagering as the stronger half with King Khaled, the entry going off favored at 9-10. Bill Hartack rode George Lewis, tracking Sand Canyon’s pace early, with Bill Shoemaker and Atomic Wings close by. George Lewis got to the front after a half-mile in a blistering :434⁄5 and had a four-length lead when clocking five furlongs in :554⁄5, only two-fifths off the world record. He scored by six lengths over Swarming Bee, completing six furlongs in 1:081⁄5. M.E. (Buster) Millerick trained George Lewis for owner Alan Magerman, who named the colt for a friend. Dr. W. D. Lucas bred the son of Envoy—Bell’s Lark, by Unbelievable.

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SPOTLIGHT YOUR FARM The October issue of California Thoroughbred will feature the annual farm spotlight section. Each farm will have one page devoted to the facility, including an article (500 to 600 words) and photo. Cost of a full-color page is $800 or $850 if you need the editorial prepared for you. For space reservations, contact Loretta Veiga at 626-445-7800, ext. 227 or loretta@ ctba.com.

CTBA to Conduct January Mixed Sale As it did this past January, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association will again conduct a mixed sale, slated for Jan. 7, 2020, at the Hinds Pavilion at Fairplex Park. The catalog will consist of breeding stock, 2-year-olds, yearlings, and horses of racing age. Entries close Nov. 1. For further information, contact Loretta Veiga at 626-445-7800 ext. 227 or Christy Chapman at 626-4457800 ext. 247, or email loretta@ctba.com or christy@ctba.com.

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CTFMA and CTBA to Sponsor Autumn Equine Fair

Joe and Stacia Navarro Austin, TX

The California Thoroughbred Farm Managers Association and California Thoroughbred Breeders Association will sponsor an Autumn Equine Fair at Linda Madsen’s Milky Way Farm in Temecula Oct. 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is free and will include educational seminars and speakers, stallion showcase tables, and equine-related vendors. Subjects to be covered include a conformation clinic, imprinting foals and weanling training, broodmare care, racing partnerships, starting young horses, feeding options, handicapping tips, racehorse retirement and retraining, and horse safety. Morning coffee and lunch will be provided. The fair will include morning and afternoon raffles of equine-related items.

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CTFoundation OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES PRESIDENT

Mrs. Ada Gates Patton VICE-PRESIDENT

Gail Gregson TREASURER

James Murphy SECRETARY

Jane Goldstein Mrs. Jeanne L. Canty Ex Officio President Alan F. Balch Jeff Blea, DVM Tracy Gantz Thomas S. Robbins John W. Sadler Noreen Sullivan Peter W. Tunney

Dr. Alina Vale, who received a scholarship from the California Thoroughbred Foundation in 2008, and Dr. Laurie Bohannon, the CTF Louis R. Rowan Fellowship recipient of 2012, are putting their veterinary experiences to good use at Del Mar. Drs. Vale and Bohannon were named as the two monitoring veterinarians during the Dr. Alina Vale, left, and Dr. Laurie Bohannon summer meeting. They are part of a seven-vet team that oversees the safety of the horses stabled and competing at the racetrack. In the mornings, Drs. Vale and Bohannon pay close attention to the horses on the track from perches on towers just past the finish line and on the backstretch near the five-eighths pole. “We’re trying to identify horses that aren’t traveling well,” said Dr. Vale. “Horses constantly adapt their skeletons to the pressures put on them in training, and if we can detect minor injuries before they become major ones, then that will make things much safer for the horses and riders.” Dr. Vale rode retired racehorses as a youngster and is a former Ride and Tie champion. She graduated from the University of California, Davis with a master’s degree in veterinary forensics. She has worked at veterinary hospitals in Kentucky and spent three years working in Dubai. Dr. Bohannon is a Colorado State University graduate with an advanced degree in veterinary surgery from U.C. Davis. She has competed in Ride and Tie and endurance events, totaling more than 7,000 miles on horseback.

CTF Recipients Helping at Del Mar

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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.

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JAMES STREET

I’M LOCK N LOAD

WOLFCAMP

El Prado (Ire) – Alleynedale, by Unbridled, Fee: $10,000 LF

War Front – Mistical Bel, by Bel Bolide, Fee: $2,500 LF

El Prado (Ire) – Bauhauser (Arg), by Numerous, Fee: $3,000 LF

Earned Triple Digit Speed Figures 10-times while racing. By the Sire of Leading Sires MEDAGLIA D’ORO (Sire of champions Songbird, Rachel Alexandra, etc.) and Kitten’s Joy (2018’s Leading Sire, over $18,000,000 in earnings). JAMES STREET is out of a 4-time winning daughter of 7-time stakes winner IN MY CAP ($443,404).

The Only Son of Top International Sire WAR FRONT to Stand in California. Out of MISTICAL BEL dam of multiple graded stakes winner MISTICAL PLAN ($816,790) including: • G1 Princess Rooney H., and stakes winner ELEGANT BEL • WAR FRONT has 21 lifetime G1 winners, including: 2019 Preakness winner WAR OF WILL 2018 yearlings sold up to $2.4 million

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. 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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OSIRIS OF THE NILE

Orientate – Fast ‘n Fleet, by Mr. Greeley, Fee: $1,500 LFG

Pioneerof The Nile – Here We Be, by AP Indy, Fee: $3,450

By champion sprinter ORIENTATE ($1,716,950). Out of Graded stakes-placed producer FAST ‘N FLEET. A halfbrother 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.

By the sire of Champion Triple Crown Winner and Horse of the Year AMERICAN PHAROAH. Other successful sons of PIONEEROF THE NILE include CAIRO PRINCE and CLASSIC EMPIRE. PIONEEROF THE NILE is the sire of 22 BLACK TYPE WINNERS and the winners of OVER $33-Million. PIONEEROF THE NILE is the LEADING WEANLING SIRE OF 2018 by sales average. DAM BY HORSE OF THE YEAR A.P. INDY. Two time Leading Sire and Leading Broodmare Sire of 2015, top five broodmare sire 2011-2018. Daughters of A.P. INDY have produced 194 BLACK TYPE WINNERS of OVER $225-Million.

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Northern Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale

RON MESAROS PHOTOS

NORTHERN LIGHTS

Big Fish, a yearling colt by Mr. Big out of an Into Mischief mare, topped the sale

CTBA’S NORCAL YEARLING SALE SOURCE FOR SOME WELL-CONNECTED FINDS

ess than two weeks after Mr. Big’s Cali-

fornia-bred son Big Returns captured the Graduation Stakes at Del Mar, another son of the stallion topped the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Northern California sale of yearlings and horses of racing age. Named Big Fish and consigned by John Harris’ Harris Farms, the Cal-bred sold for $45,000.

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The arrow points the way to potential racing stars

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The sale’s yearling average Big Flame is out of the rose by nearly 24%, jumping unraced Unusual Heat to $6,073 from $4,898 in mare Renegade Heat. The 2018. A total of 92 yearlings mare is a full sister to stakes grossed $558,000. Overall, winner The Hunted and 105 horses sold for $603,500, to grade 2 stakes-placed with 55 not sold for a buyHuntsville. Deceased Unback rate of 34.4%. usual Heat, the leading Mr. Big, who stands at HarCalifornia sire who stood ris Farms, sired two of the top the latter part of his cafive sellers at the Northern reer at Harris, appears all California sale: Big Fish and through Big Flame’s botBig Flame, the latter a Caltom line. Big Flame’s third bred colt selling for $30,000. dam, stakes winner Lethal George Krikorian, who owns Leta, produced Cal-bred Mr. Big, bred Big Fish and Big From left, trainer Craig Lewis with consignor John Harris and Lawchampion Lethal Heat, also Flame. A son of Dynaformer, rence Lewis, who purchased the Harris-offered Tamarando colt, the by Unusual Heat. sale’s second-highest-priced lot Mr. Big is getting runners with Harris Farms consigned his first California crops. four of the top five to sell. Pete and Evelyn Parrella’s The other two are Cal-breds [Big Fish] just Legacy Ranch purchased Big by Tamarando, another Fish on the advice of Legacy stallion who stands at Harcaught my eye. He’s farm manager Terry Knight, ris. Tamarando, whose first a nice, racy-looking who picked him out. foals are yearlings, sired individual. Horses “He just caught my eye,” the second-highest-priced said Knight. “He’s a nice, rayearling as well as the sale’s by [Mr. Big] are cy-looking individual. Horses co-top-priced filly. running quite well.” by that sire are running quite A son of Tamarando out well. Most look like typical — Terry Knight of the multiple stakes-wintwo-turn horses that would ning Talkin Man mare Ascome on a little later. This pen Gal sold for $44,000 horse had a real presence and athletic look to him. He’d probably show up a little earlier than most of the others. He had a real good walk and seemed to have a real good mind.” Krikorian bred the sale-topper out of the Into Mischief mare Perched, who finished third in the 2013 Barretts Debutante Stakes. “Everybody likes Into Mischief,” said Knight. “We broke her first foal up here, and she looked like a decent filly.” Now named Traffic Stopper, the 2-year-old Cal-bred filly out of Perched is by Cross Traffic. Traffic Stopper finished second in her first start at Los Alamitos. Donato Lanni, who often buys horses for trainer Bob Baffert, purchased Big Flame, also from the Harris consignment and bred by Krikorian. Lanni paid $30,000 for Big Flame, who was There were plenty of active shoppers for the yearlings on offer one of three to bring that amount. www.ctba.com

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Northern Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale

Sue Greene’s Woodbridge Farm consigned one of the two sale-topping fillies; her filly by Dialed In out of the winning Mutakddim mare Nuffsaid Nuffsaid, pictured at right

to Lawrence Lewis. Harris Farms bred the colt. David McGlothlin, who recently retired as the longtime manager of the Harris horse division, bred one of the cotop-priced fillies. Also by Tamarando and consigned by Harris, the filly is out of Chi Chi Nette, a winning daughter of Ole. She sold for $30,000 to Reina Gonzalez and Mark Hanna. The yearling filly is a half sister to 2017 Bayakoa Stakes (G2) winner Majestic Heat, multiple stakes winner Mensa Heat, and stakes-placed Real Heat. All three of those runners are by Unusual Heat. Sue Greene’s Woodbridge Farms sold the other top-priced yearling filly, and Harris Farms purchased the youngster. Bred in California by Premier Thoroughbreds, the filly is

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out of the winning Mutakddim mare Nuffsaid Nuffsaid. Both the second and third dams are stakes winners. Grazen sired a Cal-bred colt consigned by Harris that sold for $23,000 to Gary Oetman. The youngster is out of the Tizbud mare Tiz a Classy Lass from the family of Hollywood Starlet (G1) and Las Virgenes Stakes (G1) winner Magical Maiden. Linda Madsen’s Milky Way Farms sold a Cal-bred daughter of Smart Bid for $26,000 to Robert Jones. Smart Bid stands at Milky Way in Temecula. The filly is out of the unraced Fullbridled mare Dancing With Dixie. The third dam is multiple graded winner Graceful Darby. Jones also purchased a Cal-bred son of Curlin California breeder Dave McGlothto Mischief for $24,000. lin, left, with CTBA director Clay Elena Crim’s H & E Murdock of Rancho San Miguel Ranch consigned the colt, who is out of the Stormy Atlantic mare Sacred Alibi. The second dam, stakes winner Abounding Truth, has produced stakes-winning Abounding Legacy. Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres brought a large consignment of yearlings, including a colt by Empire Way out of the stakes-winning Indian Charlie mare Silver Time. William Peeples purchased the colt for $25,000. Peeples races several good Cal-breds, including Big Returns and multiple stakesplaced Oliver, a son of Papa Clem and a Northern California sale graduate.

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Foal Registration

GOING DIGITAL A NEW ERA DAWNS FOR FOAL REGISTRATION

ith the yearling sales rapidly approaching, breeders should be aware that foals of 2018 are the first ones whose registration certificates from The Jockey Club will be digital, rather than paper copies. The Jockey Club notes that breeders, as well as those who act as agents for breeders, who do not already have an Interactive Registration account should sign up for one at registry.jockeyclub.com. The Jockey Club has also posted the following frequently asked questions regarding digital certificates. 1. How will I receive my Digital Certificate(s)? When you log on to your Jockey Club Interactive Registration account, you will see an option under DIGITAL CERTIFICATES labeled CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT that will display the certificates currently assigned to your Interactive Registration account.

2. Who is assigned the Digital Certificate? Digital Certificates are assigned to a Certificate Manager, a person or entity authorized to control the disposition of a Digital Certificate. The Certificate Manager may or may not be the owner of the horse. 3. How will I forward my Digital Certificate to a sales company, racetrack, or other entity that requires the Certificate of Foal Registration? The Certificate Manager will be able to assign the certificate to another party by selecting the appropriate entity or person, clicking the button that says “Assign Certificate,” and then following the prompts to complete the assignment. 4. How will I know when a Digital Certificate has been assigned to my account? An email notification will be sent shortly after a digital certificate(s) has been assigned to your Interactive Registration account. 5. Will all of my horses be issued a Digital Certificate? Foals of 2018 and after will be issued Digital Certificates.

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6. What if a mistake was made when assigning a Digital Certificate? If a mistake was made when assigning a Digital Certificate, the assignor should contact The Jockey Club for assistance at inquiries@jockeyclub.com. 7. How can I determine the current Digital Certificate Manager of a Thoroughbred? When you log on to your Jockey Club Interactive Registration account, you will see an option under REGISTRATION labeled CHECK REGISTRATION STATUS that will display the current Digital Certificate Manager for foals of 2018 and later. 8. Does the ownership data recorded with the assignment of a Digital Certificate prove title to the horse? No. The Jockey Club is a pedigree registry for Thoroughbred horses, not an ownership or title registry. Accordingly, any information presented by The Jockey Club concerning the “owner” of a horse is based solely upon information provided by others and is in no way warranted or otherwise offered by The Jockey Club as being a representation of who the actual owner or title holder of a particular Thoroughbred is.

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COURTESY OF CORNERSTONE STUD

Stallions

Rancho San Miguel has purchased the Northern Hemisphere breeding rights for promising young sire Sir Prancealot

CALIFORNIA GETS

SIR PRANCEALOT RISING FOREIGN STAR LIGHTS UP CAL BREEDING SCENE BY TRACY GANTZ

erendipity played a major role in California’s getting the proven stallion Sir Prancealot, but Adrian Gonzalez and Clay Murdock helped it along.

Foaled in Ireland, Sir Prancealot (Tamayuz—Mona Em, by Catrail) raced in England and France for one season, at 2 in 2012. He won three of six starts, includ18

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ing the Doncaster Flying Childers Stakes (G2) in England. In France, he finished second in the Prix Robert Papin (G2) and fourth in the Darley Prix Morny (G1). Retired to stud in Ireland, Sir Prancealot was a leading first-season sire in Great Britain in 2016. He moved to Australia in 2017, standing at Cornerstone Stud. Then an odd thing happened: Several of Sir Prancealot’s runners turned up in California, and they started winning stakes. “Nick Cosato of Slam Dunk Racing and David Meah jumped on Sir Prancealot right away,” said Gonzalez. Meah and Lillingston Bloodstock had purchased a 2-year-old group 3-winning filly by Sir Prancealot named Madam

Dancealot at the 2016 Goffs Champions Sale in Ireland for €260,000. Meah noted at the time that Sir Prancealot was a “very, very hot first-season sire.” Richard Baltas trained Madam Dancealot in California for Slam Dunk Racing. She won the 2018 Santa Ana Stakes (G2T) at Santa Anita and the 2017 San Clemente Handicap (G2T) at Del Mar, eventually earning $552,775. Also in 2016, Slam Dunk privately purchased Beau Recall, another daughter of Sir Prancealot, after her second start in Ireland. Cosato campaigns her in partnership with Medallion Racing. Simon Callaghan trained Beau Recall in California, where she won the 2018 Royal Heroine

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Stakes (G2T) and placed in several stakes. Now 5, Beau Recall is currently in training on the East Coast with Brad Cox. She won the May 4 Longines Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes (G2T), and she swooped in at Del Mar to snag the Aug. 3 Yellow Ribbon Handicap (G2T). Beau Recall is closing in on $1 million in earnings. In the meantime, Meah bought Magic Garden, a half sister to Madam Beau Recall Dancealot, for $35,000 at the 2017 Keeneland fall mixed sale in foal to Sir Prancealot. Cosato and Meah own her and board the mare at Gonzalez’ Checkmate Thoroughbreds in Paso Robles, where she foaled a Sir Prancealot filly. “That foal is now a yearling,” said Gonzalez. “So for the last couple of years, we’ve had this Cal-bred Irish filly running around here. That was unique and got me to following Sir Prancealot.” Lady Prancealot Hannah Mathiesen, another Gonzalez client, traveled to Australia to work for a trainer. “At a sale there, she met the guys who had Sir Prancealot,” said Gonzalez. “She told them that she knew somebody with a Sir Prancealot in California.” Cornerstone Stud was interested in shuttling Sir Prancealot to the Northern Hemisphere, so that conversation sparked what ultimately became a deal to bring the stallion to California. “Sam Pritchard-Gordon from Cornerstone Stud reached out to me to see if we’d be interested in putting something together,” said Gonzalez. Gonzalez and Murdock of Rancho San Miguel had already worked together to syndicate Danzing Candy and stand him at Rancho San Miguel. That graded stakes-winning son of Twirling Candy Madam Dancealot proved very popular. Murdock said that the stallion covered 129 mares his first season and 115 his second. Danzing Candy’s “He liked the farm, and we hashed out first foals arrived this year. the deal right there,” said Murdock. Sam Hayes, managing director of CorGonzalez, Murdock, Clark, and Adams nerstone Stud, visited Rancho San Mi- bought the Northern Hemisphere rights guel around the time of the Fasig-Tipton to Sir Prancealot, with Cornerstone re2-year-old sale at Santa Anita in June. He taining the Southern Hemisphere rights. met with Murdock, Gonzalez, and farm Murdock said the stallion will travel to owners Tom Clark and Michael Adams. California in late December after he www.ctba.com

finishes the Southern Hemisphere breeding season. “The shares that we wanted to sell off sold in about two days,” said Murdock. “It just exploded. People from Kentucky, Florida, all over were calling wanting to know about him.” Murdock said that several leading California breeders have purchased shares in Sir Prancealot. “I’ve also got breeders who don’t breed in California who are now going to move mares from Kentucky out here to breed to him,” said Murdock. Shareholders can breed two mares per share for the first three seasons and one each year thereafter. Sir Prancealot will also be available for breeders who don’t own shares, his California stud fee still to be determined. “I think for California breeding, this news is huge,” said Murdock. “Adrian and I really believe that the future of California is in getting these types of stallions.” Sir Prancealot has continued to do well as a sire with European imports to the U.S. For a large partnership, Baltas trains 3-year-old Lady Prancealot, winner of this year’s Honeymoon Stakes (G3T). The filly finished third to Cambier Parc and Hidden Message in the Aug. 17 Del Mar Oaks Presented by The Jockey Club (G1T) and has earned $255,341. John Sadler trains another 3-year-old daughter of Sir Prancealot named Ginger Nut for Hronis Racing. Ginger Nut won this year’s Limestone Turf Sprint Stakes at Keeneland. Michael House owns the 3-year-old Sir Prancealot filly Mischiffie, who broke her maiden at Del Mar Aug. 15. Most stallions that shuttle stand in Kentucky or Europe during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season. But Sir Prancealot’s runners seem to be thriving on the firmer turf courses in California. “California’s my home, and this is where we wanted to keep him,” said Gonzalez. “Having these good stallions could be like a magnet, pulling some nice mares here. The Cal-bred money is good and the racing is good, so it’s a good opportunity.”

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Lynne’s Legacy, outside, ekes out a neck victory in the Solana Beach Stakes for Cal-bred/sired older fillies and mares at Del Mar

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ariety spiced up the Golden State Series stakes during the first half of the Del Mar meeting. The five stakes went to five different owners, trainers, and jockeys. Two of the winning horses are homebreds, one was claimed, one graduated from public auction, and one was a private sale.

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The only duplication came in the sire line. Deceased Unusual Heat continues to influence California breeding and is the sire of Lynne’s Legacy and Grecian Fire. The other sires with Del Mar state-bred stakes winners were Mr. Big, Idiot Proof, and Grazen. LYNNE’S LEGACY’S SOLANA BEACH STAKES

Doug O’Neill entered two, Lynne’s Legacy and Don’t Sell, in the $150,351 Solana Beach Stakes for California-bred and California-sired older fillies and mares. The

GOLDEN STATE SERIES DEL MAR STYLE ON TARGET trainer ended up with the Exacta after the disqualification of Pulpit Rider, the second-place finisher. In the days leading up to the Aug. 9 Solana Beach, O’Neill’s assistant, Leandro Mora, assessed their chances, saying, “One has speed, and the other closes. Don’t Sell usually runs short, which is why I think she’ll be the speed of the race, and Lynne’s Legacy is more of a router.” Don’t Sell raced in third when Mo See Cal sprinted to the lead and turned in a first quarter-mile of :22.80. Lynne’s Legacy did exactly as Mora predicted, racing in last

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Smiles all around for the throng of joyful connections celebrating Lynne’s Legacy’s Solana Beach Stakes victory

early under jockey Rafael Bejarano. for $35,000 on behalf of a slightly different Harris bred and raced Cal-bred Top of Our “I was glad to see the speed early,” said partnership configuration in May 2018 at Game, who won the Solana Beach in 2001, Bejarano. “She wants to run from the Santa Anita. Since then she has won four as well as the 2000 California Sire Stakes. back.” races and placed in several others, includThat’s exactly what Lynne’s Legacy ing three graded stakes. Lynne’s Legacy has BIG RETURNS’ GRADUATION STAKES did. She rallied in the stretch, four wide. now earned a total of $437,611. A disqualification affected the Aug. 2 A neck, a head, and a nose separated the John Harris’ Harris Farms bred Lynne’s first four across the wire: Lynne’s Legacy, Legacy, a 6-year-old daughter of Unusu- Graduation Stakes as well, this time for Pulpit Rider, Don’t Sell, and Mo See Cal. al Heat—Top of Our Game, by Steinlen. first-place finisher Square Deal, who was Lynne’s Legacy stopped the timer in 1:33.92 for a mile on the turf. Pulpit Rider had to angle out for room in the stretch. The stewards ruled that when she did, she interfered with Fiery Lady, who finished sixth, a nose away from fifth money. The stewards disqualified Pulpit Rider, placing her behind Fiery Lady. That moved Don’t Sell into second and Mo See Cal into third. O’Neill trains Lynne’s Legacy for owners Maureen Richardson, Ritchie Robershaw, and Terri Tucker. “This filly is such an honest filly, and she’ll run two miles if you asked her,” the trainer said. “The trouble with the mile and a quarter and longer races is that there’s no pace to run at. So we thought in this mile race we’d get a good pace to run at, which we did.” O’Neill claimed Lynne’s Legacy Big Returns, left, gains Graduation Stakes win on the interference disqualification of Square Deal www.ctba.com

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disqualified to third, moving Big Returns into first. Big Returns made a major splash during the first half of the Del Mar meeting. He broke his maiden there in his racing debut by an impressive 71⁄4 lengths July 20. Two weeks later, he lined up with six other 2-year-old Cal-breds and California-sired runners for the $100,351 Graduation and won again, though this time the colt encountered more challenges. Bettors backed Big Returns, sending him off as the 6-5 favorite under jockey Ruben Fuentes. Big Returns bobbled a little right after the start, but he settled nicely for Fuentes on the rail in fourth. As the leaders vied for the lead on the turn and into the stretch, Fuentes looked for room for Big Returns, who was full of run. Just as Fuentes spied a hole, Square Deal on the outside began coming in. Square Deal crowded Pas de Panique, causing him to close the hole. Fuentes had to switch Big Returns to the outside, and Pas de Panique had to steady off of Square Deal. Square Deal finished first, 13⁄4 lengths ahead of Big Returns, in 1:06.34 for 51⁄2 furlongs. Pas de Panique finished third, 11⁄2 lengths behind Big Returns. The stewards posted the inquiry sign and disqualified Square Deal to third, moving Big Returns into first and Pas de Panique into second. Abel Cedillo on Pas de Panique said that the incident cost him second. “My horse was running perfect,” said the rider, “and then he came over and I had to check.” Luis Mendez trains Big Returns for owner William Peeples. “The rider had to bring him up, big time, and that caused him to lose momentum,” said Mendez. “He had space to go through, but had to pull up. They did the right thing.” Added Fuentes, “I had to shift out and lose ground.” 22

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Trainer Luis Mendez, center left, and jockey Ruben Fuentes head the celebration for Big Returns’ Graduation Stakes success

George Krikorian bred Big Returns, a son of Krikorian’s stallion Mr. Big out of the Orientate mare Quick Chick, in California. The mare started just once, and after producing one foal by Proud Citizen for Krikorian, she has been bred every year to Mr. Big. Big Returns is the first of her Mr. Big foals. Quick Chick has a yearling Mr. Big filly named Big Chick and a suckling Mr. Big colt named Big Gun. Peeples purchased Big Returns for $70,000 at the 2018 Barretts select yearling sale at Del Mar. Harris Farms consigned the colt to the sale.

BULLETPROOF ONE’S CTBA STAKES

Shortly after Bulletproof One had captured the July 6 Everett Nevin Stakes at Pleasanton for Ellen Jackson’s Victory Rose Thoroughbreds, Gary and Cecil Barber bought the filly privately from Jackson. It was a good deal for everybody, as Bulletproof One proceeded to score in the July 31 CTBA Stakes for her new ownership group, which has expanded to include Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Wachtel Stable. Peter Miller took over the training of Bulletproof One from Jackson, who bred the filly in California with Kevin

Bulletproof One fires a runaway 61⁄4-length bull’s-eye in the CTBA Stakes for Cal-bred juveniles

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earlier runners include Calbred multiple stakes-placed I Came to Party. Jackson bought out her partners on Bulletproof One after the filly broke her maiden in her racing debut at Golden Gate Fields May 11. Bulletproof One won that 41⁄2-furlong open maiden race by eight lengths, and she took the Peter Miller, second right, the trainer of CTBA Stakes victor Bulletproof One, is a familiar presence in the Nevin, for state-breds, by 91⁄4 Del Mar winner’s circle lengths. In three starts, Bulletproof and Kim Nish’s KMN Racing. on the lead twice already. It’s all on the One remains undefeated, winning by “We’ve only had her for a few weeks, break, and we had a good break.” an amazing total of 231⁄2 lengths for an took it easy with her and just galloped Jackson and the Nishes got Bullet- average of almost eight lengths. She has into the race,” said Miller. “She came to proof One by breeding the Decarchy earned $137,400. me in great shape. Ellen did a great job mare Onefunsonofagun to Califorwith her, and I’m just thankful for the nia-bred millionaire Idiot Proof, who LIEUTENANT DAN’S REAL GOOD owners that bought this filly and gave stands at Victory Rose and was voted DEAL STAKES Owner/breeder Nick Alexander was her to me.” champion Cal-bred 3-year-old male and Bulletproof One’s new connections sprinter of 2007. Onefunsonofagun’s surprised that only five of the 14 3-yearentered her in two Del Mar stakes for 2-year-old Calbreds, the CTBA and the Graduation against males. They eventually decided to keep her with her own sex, a decision that allowed for an astounding tour de force. Favored at 1-2, Bulletproof One jetted away from the gate to take the lead quickly for jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. After she got to the front, she never relinquished the lead, instead building upon it throughout the 51⁄2 furlongs. Bulletproof One coasted home by 61⁄4 lengths in 1:04.70. Unchain Her Heart finished second, a half-length in front of Wise Rachel in third. “I followed the instructions—break and go,” said Arroyo. “We’re not going to change her style; she won The Real Good Deal Stakes proved just that for Nick Alexander’s homebred Lieutenant Dan www.ctba.com

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lengths in 1:23.67. Oliver, a graduate of the Northern California yearling sale, came on to nip Cruel Intention for second by a neck. “The cutback (in distance) meant that I didn’t have to train him as hard,” said Miyadi. “We trained him lightly, had one good workout eight or nine days ago, and here we are.” Lieutenant Dan is by Alexander’s stallion Grazen out of the Indian Charlie mare Excusabull.

Nick Alexander, center, picks up his seventh stakes of the year with Lieutenant Dan’s Real Good Deal Stakes

olds nominated to the $147,000 Real Good Deal Stakes July 27 lined up to face the starter. It was likely a testament to the quality of Cruel Intention, the 7-10 favorite from the powerful Bob Baffert stable. Cruel Intention won both of his starts at 2 in 2018 to be voted the champion Cal-bred 2-year-old male. “Second is a lot of money and pays a lot of bills,” Alexander said. Lieutenant Dan, Alexander’s entry, didn’t have to settle for second money of $28,500. He vanquished the field to win, earning $85,500. Cruel Intention was making his second start of 2019 in the seven-furlong Real Good Deal, while Lieutenant Dan had started seven times this year following just one race as a 2-year-old. Trained by Steve Miyadi, Lieutenant Dan broke his maiden by eight lengths and became a stakes winner in the April 6 Echo Eddie Stakes at 6 1⁄2 furlongs on the dirt at Santa Anita. “We tried the turf, and he ran pretty well,” said Alexander. “He got beat a nose and a nose in the Silky Sullivan, and without a little traffic he could have been the nose in front. And then 24

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in the mile and an eighth race (the June 22 Snow Chief Stakes), he really didn’t quit.” In the Snow Chief, Lieutenant Dan finished third behind Our Silver Oak and Irish Heatwave. Drayden Van Dyke rode Lieutenant Dan for the first time in the Real Good Deal. “The key with him is to get him to switch leads properly,” said Van Dyke. “I was on him for his most recent work, and we were working on that.” Cruel Intention dashed to the lead in the Real Good Deal, and Lieutenant Dan, from the rail, stuck with him. Cruel Intention recorded fractions of :21.91 for the first quarter-mile and :44.62 for a half-mile. “We were going a little fast in the beginning,” said Van Dyke, “but he was comfortable.” On the turn, it looked as if Cruel Intention had put away Lieutenant Dan, but Alexander’s horse came back on. “He’s done that before,” said Alexander. “He’s won from the rail and got the heat the whole way. He just changed leads and pulled off.” Lieutenant Dan scored by three

Grecian Fire improved upon his 2018 California Dreamin’ Stakes performance, when he finished second. This time around, despite a rough trip, he triumphed for the Nishes, who bred and race him in the name of KMN Racing. Now 5, Grecian Fire is having his best year ever. The Cal-bred first became a stakes winner at 3 in 2017, when he captured the Alcatraz Stakes at Golden Gate Fields. While he usually picks up a check, he didn’t add a second stakes win until this year, in the All American Stakes (G3) at Golden Gate Fields when trained by Jerry Hollendorfer. Keith Desormeaux took over Grecian Fire’s training for the $151,755 California Dreamin’ July 26. Facing 10 rivals, Grecian Fire went off as the 3-1 favorite with Mike Smith aboard. Racing well back early, Grecian Fire was beginning to make up ground when he had to steady sharply near the quarter pole. “My goodness, I got hit hard on the turn there,” said Smith. “The six horse (The Hunted) came over and hit me hard. I was lucky we didn’t go down.” Not only did Grecian Fire remain upright, he continued to close to take the

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Proving older is better, 5-year-old Cal-bred Grecian Fire lights up the Del Mar turf in the California Dreamin’ Stakes

lead in deep stretch and win by a length in 1:39.85. The Street Fighter finished second, a half-length in front of What a View. The Hunted finished seventh, and after an inquiry the stewards determined that The Hunted bothered Grecian Fire and sixth-place Ashleyluvssugar. Since those two outfinished The Hunted, there was no disqualification. “I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Keith Desormeaux. “In a stake, how do you recover from something like that and close the way he did?” Desormeaux also trains Apache Princess for the Nishes. Earlier this year, that Cal-bred 3-year-old filly won the Sweet Life Stakes (G3). A week before the California Dreamin’, Apache Princess finished second to fellow Cal-bred Mucho Unusual in the San Clemente Stakes (G2T). The Nishes bred Grecian Fire, a son of Unusual Heat, from the Kitten’s Joy mare Maddie’s Odyssey, who has also produced Sneaking Out for them. Sneaking Out won this year’s Evening Jewel Stakes and has finished second in three subsequent stakes.

Bloodstock agents Alex Solis II and Jason Litt purchased Maddie’s Odyssey for the Nishes for $14,500 at the 2012 Keeneland fall mixed sale. The mare was in foal to Drosselmeyer at the time.

Grecian Fire finished third in the Aug. 18 Del Mar Mile (G2T) to raise his lifetime record to six wins in 26 starts, with two seconds and six thirds, for earnings of $408,202.

Kevin and Kim Nish, left, along with jockey Mike Smith, enjoy the fruits of their homebred Grecian Fire’s labor

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alifornia-breds victorious at the highest level of competition are always cause for celebration. But Pacific Classic weekend saw a spectacular sweep, with Cal-breds winning a pair of grade 2 events at Del Mar. Acclimate took the $200,000 Del Mar Handicap Presented by The Japan Racing Association (G2T) Aug. 17. Twenty-four hours later Prince Earl won the $201,755 Del Mar Mile Handicap (G2T) off a ninemonth layoff. Both horses are trained by Phil D’Amato, and both have ties to the late California stallion Unusual Heat.

Cal-bred Acclimate wins the grade 2 Del Mar Handicap for Ellwood Johnston Trust and Timmy Time Racing

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Acclimate is a 5-year-old gelded son of Acclamation—Knows No Bounds, by Boundary, and is the fourth winner from five starters for his dam. Acclamation, the Eclipse Award champion older male and a grade 1 winner on two surfaces at Del Mar in 2011, is a son of Unusual Heat. The late E.W. (Buddy) Johnston and his wife, Judy, campaigned Acclamation with daughter Mary and son-in-law Peter Hilvers. Now Acclimate runs for the Ellwood Johnston Trust and Tim Henry’s Timmy Time Racing.

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“I would love to tell you I thought we could win, but I did not,” Henry admitted after the race. “Those were some very good horses we beat.” Acclimate went to the lead early in the 13⁄8-mile race, holding the likes of Ritzy A. P. and seven-time grade 2 winner Itsinthepost at bay before opening up in the stretch under jockey Florent Geroux. They scored by a length, with Oscar Dominguez finishing second and Ritzy A. P. third, in 2:12.71. D’Amato was winning the race for the third consecutive year and the fifth time in the last six editions. The horse to break his streak was popular Cal-bred millionaire Ashleyluvssugar, who scored in 2016 while D’Amato-trained Metaboss finished second. Henry, on hand with a host of family and friends despite not being confident about the horse’s chances, went to $30,000 to acquire Acclimate, bred by Old English Rancho and Sal and Patsy Berumen, out of the 2015 Barretts October yearling sale. “The Johnstons came back in after I bought him,” Henry said. Acclimate broke his maiden at the $20,000 level, but he has steadily improved throughout his career, winning six of 16 starts. He took the $100,702 San Juan Capistrano (G3T) in June, but a surprisingly poor effort in the $151,755 California Dreamin’ Stakes against state-breds left him as the 7-1 fourth choice in the Del Mar Handicap.

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Cal-bred Prince Earl rules the grade 2 Del Mar Mile Handicap by 31⁄4 lengths

“He really did run awesome,” Henry said. “I’m still smiling. He’s definitely the best I’ve owned.” Henry has only owned two horses. The other is the winning Cal-bred son of Acclamation Kings River King. That runner earned $61,426 in seven starts, while Acclimate is at $325,872 and is eyeing a start in the John Henry Turf Championship (G2T) at Santa Anita Sept. 28. PRINCE EARL’S DEL MAR MILE

Old Bones Racing Stable and Todd Marshall’s Prince Earl is by the late Paddy O’Prado and out of the Unusual Heat mare Soo Steamy. He was a sharp 3-year-old, breaking his maiden first out and adding an allowance win at Del Mar before finishing fourth, beaten just 31⁄4 lengths, in the $302,760 Hollywood Derby (G1T) to end his 2018 season. Prince Earl hadn’t run since but was working very well for a return. “When I saw him on the nomination list for this race, I thought Phil must have been really impressed with the way he was working,” said Harris Auerbach, whose mother, Madeline, co-bred Prince Earl with Harris Farms. The Auerbachs were worried they might face Prince Earl with their runner The Hunted, another son of Unusual Heat, in the California Dreamin’, but D’Amato rerouted Prince Earl to the grade 2 event rather than the stakes for Cal-breds. 28

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“He’s one of the best horses we ever bred,” Auerbach said. “Phil has always thought highly of him and has been telling us that all along.” But Prince Earl had a rough start in life when his dam, Soo Steamy, died of strangles while Prince Earl was still nursing. “He was raised partially on a nursemare,” Auerbach explained. The loss hit hard as Soo Steamy’s only other foal, a Coil gelding named Slim, was also a winner. The mare had been sent from California to Kentucky solely to fulfill a Share the Upside contract with Spendthrift Farm stallion Paddy O’Prado, who later was sent to Turkey for stallion duty and ultimately died early as well. Soo Steamy was well regarded as a racehorse,

but Auerbach noted she was perpetually 250 pounds overweight and couldn’t stay sound. “Madeline and I were always very high on her as a broodmare prospect,” Auerbach said. “We thought she was a good physical for Paddy O’Prado.” Despite the setback of losing his dam early in his life, Prince Earl has come through with three wins in five starts for earnings of $224,778. In the Del Mar Mile he sat sixth in a 10-horse field under jockey Geovanni Franco, then rallied between horses to get up by three-quarters of a length over Sharp Samurai and Grecian Fire, with grade 1 winners Ohio fourth and Bowies Hero, who was favored, fifth. Grade 1 winners What a View (seventh) and Bolo (eighth) were also part of the star-studded field. The final time for the one-mile distance was 1:33.13. It was the first Cal-bred win in the Del Mar Mile since Caracortado took the race in 2011, capping a back-to-back streak as Enriched had won it in 2010. Although he died in 2017, the impact of leading California stallion Unusual Heat is still felt on a virtually daily basis. The Auerbachs played crucial roles in the development of the stallion. “For a grandson of Unusual Heat to win the Del Mar Handicap on Saturday with Acclimate and another grandson from the dam side to win the Del Mar Mile on Sunday with Prince Earl was really gratifying to both Madeline and me,” said Harris.

The connections of Prince Earl have plenty to celebrate after the 4-year-old gelding makes his first start following a nine-month layoff a graded stakes victory

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BUILDING ON SUCCESS PLENTY OF WELL-BRED CAL-BREDS ON OFFER BY TRACY GANTZ

alifornia breeders and consignors are stepping up in a big way to support the inaugural Fasig-Tipton fall yearling sale. A total of 285 yearlings have been entered in the sale, which will be held Sept. 26, beginning at noon, at Fairplex in Pomona. “Fasig-Tipton is excited to conduct our first yearling sale since we have returned to the California marketplace,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning Jr. “Our inaugural 2-year-old sale at Santa Anita this past June was an excellent launching point, and we look forward to building on that success in the yearling market.” The catalog will feature a plethora of California-breds, both by California sires and by outside stallions. In addition, it contains a complimentary group of horses bred outside of the state, giving buyers a variety to choose from. With the lucrative California incentive program, trainers and agents will likely be looking for good Calbred prospects. Six consignors are bringing 20 or more to the sale: Checkmate Thoroughbreds, Harris Farms, Havens Bloodstock Agency Inc., Lovacres Ranch, McCarthy Bloodstock, and Woodbridge Farm. Andy Havens leads in numbers with 56. Those include 12 for Liberty Road Stables, all but one of those by the leading California sire U S Ranger. The Havens group also in-

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cludes yearlings by leading California sires Smiling Tiger and Grazen. Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch has entered 25 yearlings, all Cal-breds. The group includes hip #130, a Cal-bred son of Will Take Charge out of Lovingier’s Cal-bred champion Lost Bus. The mare is a graded stakes winner and earner of $412,818. Hip #9 is a daughter of Bodemeister out of a half sister to the dam of Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra. John Harris’ Harris Farms has 22 cataloged, many by Mr. Big, who stands at the Coalinga farm. One of those is hip #145, a colt out of the good Cal-bred mare Memorette, a graded stakes winner and earner of $896,753. Adrian Gonzalez’ Checkmate Thor-

oughbreds has a group that includes hip #68, a Cal-bred daughter of Animal Kingdom out of multiple grade 1 winner Elloluv. Woodbridge’s consignment features several by Smiling Tiger. Kim McCarthy’s McCarthy Bloodstock has plenty of sire power, from California’s Smiling Tiger, Square Eddie, Grazen, and Acclamation to such Kentucky stallions as Awesome Again and Hard Spun. Tom Bachman’s Fairview has 11 in the catalog by such California sires as Smiling Tiger and Square Eddie as well as by Kentucky stallions. Hip #25 is a Cal-bred son of Goldencents out of the Cal-bred multiple stakes winner Bold Roberta. The mare earned $449,704 and has produced Cal-bred multiple stakes winner Bella Luma. Hip #166 is a Cal-bred son of Into Mischief and a half brother to Cal-bred champion Take the One O One. Stormy Hull, breeder of Calbred champion California Diamond, has a half sister to that runner in the sale. Consigned as hip #35 and named She’s Blue Diamond, the filly is by Bluegrass Cat out of Carrie’s a Jewel, by Slewdledo. Shane Easterbrook brings 16 for several clients in the name of her Easterbrook Livestock Management. They include hip #163, a son of Smart Bid—Nashoba’s Candy, by Candy Ride. The mare is a half sister to Cal-bred Horse of the Year Nashoba’s Key. Barton Thoroughbreds has consigned 19 yearlings to the sale, most of them Cal-breds. The group includes hip #225, a daughter of Acclamation out of a half sister to Cal-bred Horse of the Year Free House.

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Focus on the Future

Jessica Pyfer

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Mother Sherri, an exercise rider since the age of 18, had been galloping for Mark Glatt before going to work for the late trainer Mike Mitchell. About the same time, Mitchell hired a new assistant, Philip D’Amato. The newcomers fell in love and were wed shortly thereafter. Pyfer, 7 at the time, considers D’Amato the predominant father figure in her life. “He’s always been there for me, and I’m definitely a daddy’s girl,” she said. “He has done so much for me in regard to schooling, which in our family is very important.” Pyfer is entering her senior year at Azusa Pacific University, where she is studying political science and pre-law. She will be taking the LSAT this fall in hopes of attending law school in 2020 to pursue her second dream, a career in politics. “I’m really blessed to have another passion and the ability to pursue another career,” Pyfer said, though for now she can’t stand to take even one day off from the track. “I don’t want anyone getting on ‘my’ horses. I don’t ever want to stop doing it. Even in law school I would probably gallop on the weekends and in the summer. I would love to be a jockey; riding never gets boring.” Pyfer began exercising horses virtually the moment she turned 16. “At first I was galloping for my dad in the summers, then trying to do school and still compete in jumping at the same time,” she said. “I got a little burnt out; I had been jumping nearly every day of my life.” A serendipitous meeting with another rider resulted in Pyfer’s selling her Grand Prix horse to concentrate on school and the racetrack full time. Pyfer, 21, has been around some special horses, including Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) winner Obviously, D’Amato’s first Breeders’ Cup winner and a horse Pyfer’s mother regularly 32

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While many horse-crazy girls can say that riding is among one of their earliest memories, Jessica Pyfer was already jumping cross rails at 4 years old. At age 10, she traveled all the way to Kentucky to win the USEF Pony Finals, becoming the youngest rider to win–a record that stands today. Now, Pyfer can most often be found on the back of a racehorse, thanks to the union of her race-loving parents.

Top, Jessica Pyfer galloping grade 2 stakes winner Air Strike for trainer Phil D’Amato; above, Pyfer and D’Amato at a familiar family meeting place, the track

galloped. But Pyfer’s all-time favorite to ride is California-bred Just Grazed Me, a homebred daughter of Grazen for Nick Alexander. Just Grazed Me won the $150,345 Fleet Treat Stakes at Del Mar last year in just her second start. The gray filly has three wins and three seconds in six starts and is graded stakes-placed. “I have galloped her almost every day since she came to the track,” said Pyfer, who admitted she cried tears of joy when her favorite filly won the stakes. “She’s just really special.” Pyfer might not gallop horses forever, but she wants to continue as long as she can. “I’m so lucky that my dad is a big trainer,” she said. “I’ve had other people ask me how to get started exercising horses, but I honestly say I don’t really know. I never had to struggle; the job was waiting for me. I had the riding experience, and our barn is our family: my little brother, my mom, my dad, and me.”

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CTBA Member

PROFILE

TY GREEN BY EMILY SHIELDS

running them to the track. “It was the golden age of racing in California,” Green said. “I saw Affirmed run, saw Laffit Pincay and Bill Shoemaker. But I fell in love through Vigors.” Green was at Santa Anita the day popular, near-white Vigors won the grade 1 San Antonio by dropping well back, then circling the field to win. “From then on I saw all of his races, including the Santa Anita Handicap,” Green recalled. John Henry was another big name that Green remembers seeing before he moved north, away from Santa Anita and horse racing in general. “I lost track,” he said of the sport. “At the time you could

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y Green has a good sense of humor, a trait that can carry him through lean times in the racing industry. He owns and operates SLO Racing Stable and explains, “I thought it would be funny to have something called ‘slow.’ It would confuse people.” The name is really derived from Green’s job as a lawyer in San Luis Obispo. Since Green got into the breeding game just a decade ago, his horses have been far from slow. And while his breeding and racing stable improves each year, Green has turned his attention to the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association, where

he now serves on the board. But Green didn’t start with horses. He started with pigs. “I grew up in the Santa Ynez Valley, where I had every animal except horses,” he said. “I had a pig operation with 200 pigs when I was 16.” Green made the leap from pigs to law via the University of Southern California, graduating with a degree in English literature before moving to the law school there. “I did law in Los Angeles for 11 years and in college discovered both Santa Anita and Hollywood Park were right there,” he said. “So I spent way too much of my college years at the track.” Green helped his local postmen out by collecting their wagers for the day and

Integral parts of the CTBA program, Ty (holding the late Bella Viaggia) and Debbie (holding Pleasing Sunrise) Green want to make a difference in California’s breeding industry

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Speightstown

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watch the Triple Crown, but trainer Mike Puype into the that’s not a way to stay in $100,000 John Deere Calconnection with it. I missed ifornia Cup Distaff Stakes, a lot, but I was busy making which she won by two a career and you just go on.” lengths at 9-1. In 2005 Green was flipBella Viaggia joined ping channels when he ran Green’s broodmare band across TVG. on retirement after earning “I didn’t know it existed,” $261,360. Her first foal, he said. “I started watching 3-year-old Bella Chica, by racing again and got really City Zip, was second on into it.” debut in January and is on That was just one of two her way back to the races factors that catapulted Green now. Bella Viaggia has an into the sport. The other is unraced Decarchy juvenile that at age 46, Green had a filly named Bella D, an heart attack. English Channel yearling “I came out of that thinkcolt named Bishop’s Peak, I’d like to bring racing back in California and died giving birth to a ing I didn’t want to wait until I’m 80 before doing Richard’s Kid colt named like it was.” this; I wanted to do it now,” Bella’s Kid this year. — Ty Green he said. “So I bought 2% of With Hudson and parta horse from a syndicate.” ner Tony Narducci, SLO Owning with a group Racing also owned Neverawasn’t for Green, who doubt, winner of the 2015 race are winners; the first, Potente Alba wanted his own. He and a friend met Snow Chief Stakes at Santa Anita. The (by Eskendereya) earned $83,303 while up with former Magali Farms manager Decarchy colt pulled off a 41-1 upset Sunrise Journey (by Good Journey) Tom Hudson and bought a yearling for when he scored in that $200,000 turf earned $53,688. The mare has a 3-year$10,000 out of the Barretts October race. old Oxbow filly named Seven Sisters sale. All of this growing success gave currently on her way back to the track, “She was a Speightstown, and it was Green another goal: to make a differand a 2-year-old Einstein filly named right before he took off. She was on the ence to the breeding industry in the Midnight Sunrise that looks promising. smaller side. I actually picked her out north by getting on the CTBA board. “She’s just getting ready to start,” myself.” “I’ve always been impressed by the Green said. The filly, Pleasing Sunrise, went on CTBA, their staff, and board members, Pleasing Sunrise foaled a Shanghai Bobto break her maiden second out at with their dedication and knowledge,” he by filly in 2018, then had a Grazen filly Del Mar in 2010, rolling to win by said. “I’m just a small breeder in a place this year. She is in foal to Goldencents. 23⁄4 lengths under Joel Rosario. On where people don’t know racing well. I’d that occasion she defeated subsequent “In the interim Tom told me to look like to get the message out to those people, California champion 2-year-old filly at a yearling,” Green said. “I thought and take them to the farms and track with California Nectar. one horse was enough, but he kept me. If you get people involved in it and “At the time, Speightstown was after me so I went to look at her. They in the right environment, they’ll really catching on,” Green said. “The phone wanted $2,500; I gave $1,500. I told understand it.” started ringing and we had a $350,000 Tom to get her ready for the sale, but Memories of his introduction to offer. We said no.” one day I went to see her and said, ‘We California racing still linger. Pleasing Sunrise never won again, but aren’t selling this filly!’ ” “I love the game, love the horses, and she has become one of the cornerstone The filly was Bella Viaggia, by Good have met the most amazing people,” pieces in Green’s broodmare band. Journey—Miss Del Mar, by American Green said. “I’d like to bring racing “I decided we could make the Chance, who became a stakes winback in California like it was. I want to breeding business work, but it could ner for Green. She broke her maiden see the quality come back, and see the only work if you had good mares, so I second out at Del Mar in 2012, then best mares stay here rather than leave. decided to keep her.” added an allowance optional claimer. And I bring a different perspective as a Both of Pleasing Sunrise’s foals to It was Hudson who talked Green and really small breeder.” www.ctba.com

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Winners

The accompanying list includes runners that are both California-foaled and Californiasired winners in 2019 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.

JULY 22, 2019 – AUGUST 25, 2019 3-YEAR-OLDS & UP Acclamation—Knows No Bounds: Acclimate (46-18), g, 5 yo, Del Mar, STK, Del Mar H. Presented by The Japan Racing Association (gr. IIT ), 8/17, 1 3/8mi (T), 2:12.71, $150,000. Bedford Falls—Tangled Lace: Three Red Sevens (8-3), g, 7 yo, Great Falls, SOC, 7/28, 5 1/4f, 1:5.40, $2,145. Bedford Falls—Penuche Royale: Regal Lady (8-3), m, 7 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/22, 5f (T), 56.72, $10,800. Benchmark—Mark Set Go: Herculean (14-8), g, 9 yo, Grande Prairie, STR, 7/27, 6f, 1:11.24, $2,332. Benchmark—Everything Good: Giant Mark (14-8), g, 7 yo, Santa Rosa, STR, 8/1, 1mi, 1:38.17, $6,600. Big Bad Leroybrown—Craftyasafox: D's Lovely Sophia (15-9), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, STR, 8/7, 6f, 1:10.58, $25,920. Calimonco—Rare Beauty: General Interest (16-6), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/26, 5f (T), 56.18, $38,400. Champ Pegasus—Quick Approval: Whoop It Up (65-25), f, 3 yo, Century Mile, AOC, 8/3, 6 1/2f, 1:16.76, $10,200. Coil—Bellsblade: Wound Tight (40-13), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/28, 1mi (T), 1:34.74, $38,400. Creative Cause—Dover Crossing: Creative Crossing (139-70), g, 5 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 8/16, 6f, 1:12.66, $2,604. Cyclotron—Hi Ho Yodeler: Dr Wysong (39-22), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/4, 6f, 1:11.76, $38,400. Desert Code—Unchanged Melody: Songofthedesert (41-26), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/22, 6f, 1:12.28, $13,680. Dixie Chatter—Eleanor Rose: Son of Eleanor (27-15), g, 7 yo, Arizona Downs, STR, 7/27, 6f, 1:10.42, $4,200. Dixie Chatter—Eleanor Rose: Son of Eleanor (27-15), g, 7 yo, Arizona Downs, STR, 8/10, 5f, 57.18, $4,200. Dixie Chatter—Eleanor Rose: Son of Eleanor (27-15), g, 7 yo, Arizona Downs, STR, 8/25, 4 1/2f, 50.62, $4,200. Eddington—Russian River: Opus Won (38-17), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/25, 1mi (T), 1:34.51, $38,400. Forest Command—Brahms Tudor: Brahms Forest (9-4), g, 5 yo, Emerald Downs, SOC, 8/23, 1mi, 1:37.77, $5,115. Forest Command—Saturday Premium: Premium Forest (9-4), c, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/25, 1 1/8mi (T), 1:51.59, $10,800. Golden Balls (IRE)—Mindy's Birthday (IRE): Golden Birthday (13-2), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/24, 1mi (T), 1:34.66, $38,400. Gotham City—Look to the Sky: Gotham Sky (11-10), g, 7 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 7/26, 6f, 1:14.32, $2,560. Grace Upon Grace—Passionate Kip: London Legacy (8-7), g, 7 yo, Canterbury Park, AOC, 8/18, 5 1/2f, 1:3.42, $18,000. Grazen—Excusabull: Lieutenant Dan (41-15), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, STK, Real Good Deal S., 7/27, 7f, 1:23.67, $85,500. Grazen—Fairway Road: Just Grazed Me (41-15), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/14, 5f (T), 55.90, $52,260. Heat Shield—Gorgeous Goomah: Hot Rodin (13-7), g, 6 yo, Assiniboia Downs, AOC, 8/23, 6f, 1:11.80, $9,300. Kafwain—Unbridled Prayer: Pray Hard (42-15), g, 8 yo, Thistledown, AOC, 7/27, 6f, 1:10.98, $14,400. Limehouse—Gorgeous Trieste: Lymebyrd (71-31), g, 6 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 8/16, 1mi, 1:37.94, $24,180. Lucky Pulpit—Fall Fashion: Fashionably Fast (132-51), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/27, 6f, 1:10.82, $38,400. Lucky Pulpit—Marks Mine: My Lucky Mark (132-51), g, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, STR, 8/10, 5 1/2f, 1:4.07, $12,240. Lucky Pulpit—Fairway Road: Fairly Lucky (132-51), f, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, STR, 8/11, 5 1/2f, 1:4.98, $12,240. Lucky Pulpit—Jetinwith Kennedy: Plane Lucky (132-51), m, 6 yo, Hastings Racecourse, WCL, 8/11, 6 1/2f, 1:19.01, $6,050. Lucky Pulpit—Fall Fashion: Fashionably Fast (132-51), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/24, 6 1/2f, 1:17.06, $49,920. Many Rivers—Lightly Go Lightly: Many Lights (16-7), m, 5 yo, Ferndale, ALW, 8/17, 5f, 1:1.06, $4,950. Ministers Wild Cat—Sensitive Soul: Minister of Soul (87-47), g, 5 yo, Albuquerque, AOC, 7/28, 6f, 1:10.31, $12,900.

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Ministers Wild Cat—Bold Roberta: Bella Luma (87-47), m, 5 yo, Santa Rosa, STK, Luther Burbank H., 8/3, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:43.51, $41,450. Ministers Wild Cat—Testify to Love: Cupid's Beau (87-47), g, 5 yo, White Pine Racing, ALW, 8/17, 5 1/2f, 1:8.20, $3,575. Olympio—Tera Kitty: Olimpio's Scat Cat (1-1), g, 7 yo, Wyoming Downs, STK, Au Revoir H., 8/18, 1mi, 1:37.10, $6,030. Paddy O'Prado—Soo Steamy: Prince Earl (150-69), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, STK, Del Mar Mile H. (gr. IIT ), 8/18, 1mi (T), 1:33.13, $120,000. Papa Clem—Smooch Me: Tesla (71-31), m, 5 yo, Emerald Downs, SOC, 7/27, 1mi, 1:38.62, $7,480. Papa Clem—Pop Quality: Kaleidoscope Kid (71-31), g, 4 yo, Arizona Downs, AOC, 7/28, 1mi, 1:40.17, $5,520. Papa Clem—Fantasy Rocks: Mariana Grace (71-31), m, 5 yo, Tillamook County Fair, ALW, 8/8, about 5f, 1:5.60, $1,485. Papa Clem—No Rules Tonight: Fandarel Dancer (71-31), g, 5 yo, Los Alamitos, WCL, 8/9, 4 1/2f, 51.94, $5,235. Papa Clem—Snobby Princess: Oliver (71-31), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/17, 6 1/2f, 1:17.19, $38,400. Peppered Cat—Sweet Bimbo: Cowlick Hero (36-25), g, 4 yo, White Pine Racing, ALW, 8/16, 5 1/2f, 1:9.20, $3,025. Richard's Kid—Win Allison Win: Sedamar (22-11), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/15, 1mi (T), 1:34.46, $38,400. Run Brother Ron—Stormy Pleasure: Wassup Bro (13-9), g, 3 yo, White Pine Racing, ALW, 8/16, 5 1/2f, 1:9.40, $3,025. Sapphire Cat—Sav Blanc: Lindante (6-2), g, 8 yo, Retama Park, AOC, 7/30, 6f, 1:11.16, $11,280. Sea of Secrets—Sugar Island: Karys Secret (15-5), f, 4 yo, Arizona Downs, STR, 8/25, 6f, 1:10.37, $4,200. Sierra Sunset—Early Arriver: Wasatch Wonder (34-12), f, 4 yo, Great Falls, ALW, 7/27, 1mi 70yd, 1:52.80, $2,420. Smiling Tiger—Lilly Fa Pootz: Little Lilly (70-38), f, 3 yo, Wyoming Downs, STK, Wyoming Downs Thoroughbred Derby, 8/10, 6f, 1:11.59, $6,669. Smiling Tiger—Q T Shae: Tiger Dad (70-38), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/16, 5f (T), 56.36, $38,400. Sought After—Woodford Princess: Autumn Day (22-14), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/23, 6f, 1:11.37, $13,680. Southern Image—Forest Sprite: Sierrastorm (23-9), m, 6 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 8/16, 6f, 1:13.12, $2,400. Southern Image—Magic Yodeler: Southern Echo (23-9), m, 7 yo, Grande Prairie, STR, 8/24, 7f, 1:24.84, $2,146. Square Eddie—Teresa Ann: Eddie Haskell (74-31), g, 6 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/24, 5f (T), 56.44, $54,600. Square Eddie—Gallantin Gal: Speedin With Eddie (74-31), g, 6 yo, Wyoming Downs, SOC, 8/4, 6f, 1:11.84, $3,000. Square Eddie—Smoove: Smoovie (74-31), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/10, 5f (T), 56.12, $49,920. Square Eddie—Charred Rare: Carnivorous (74-31), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/11, 1mi (T), 1:34.56, $49,920. Square Eddie—Sarah Jade: Tatar (74-31), g, 6 yo, Albuquerque, SOC, 8/23, 7f, 1:22.34, $6,960. Storm Wolf—Oakley's Song: Where's My Voucher (15-11), g, 7 yo, Tillamook County Fair, STR, 8/9, about 5f, 1:3.20, $1,485. Suances (GB)—Unusual Beauty: Hold My Hoops (10-5), f, 4 yo, Ferndale, ALW, 8/24, 7f, 1:28.11, $8,400. Thoreau—Buzznalawng: Buzzcut (7-4), g, 4 yo, Marquis Downs, ALW, 8/3, 6f, 1:12.93, $2,183. Thoreau—Babe Included: Music Babe (7-4), m, 5 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 8/15, 1mi, 1:39.34, $24,180. Time to Get Even—Guise Cliff: Show Me Bofum (13-8), f, 4 yo, Grande Prairie, STR, 8/3, 7f, 1:25.23, $2,279. Tizbud—Classy Jo: Tiz Buff (32-12), g, 5 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 7/27, 6f, 1:13.05, $2,301. Twice the Appeal—Citizen Bernstein: Oh Be One (9-5), g, 3 yo, Wyoming Downs, SOC, 7/28, 7 1/2f, 1:30.09, $3,120. Twice the Appeal—Citizen Bernstein: Oh Be One (9-5), g, 3 yo, White Pine Racing, STK, EUREKA! Derby, 8/18, 6f, 1:13.80, $3,575. Ultimate Eagle—Wilma S: No Name Fred (17-6), c, 3 yo, Sacramento, AOC, 7/28, 1mi, 1:39.43, $21,060. Unbridled Man—Going Quackers: Going for the Win (1-1), g, 7 yo, Sacramento, ALW, 7/28, 1 1/16mi, 1:45.82, $21,060.

Unusual Heat—Maddie's Odyssey: Grecian Fire (69-32), g, 5 yo, Del Mar, STK, California Dreamin' S., 7/26, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:39.85, $85,500. Unusual Heat—Strut Your Stuff: Ready Say Go (69-32), g, 5 yo, Santa Rosa, STR, 8/1, 1mi (T), 1:37.75, $12,240. Unusual Heat—Ballistic Lady: Heat Flash (69-32), g, 9 yo, Retama Park, AOC, 8/7, 7 1/2f (T), 1:28.71, $11,760. Unusual Heat—Assure: Fantasy Heat (69-32), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/9, 5f (T), 56.13, $38,400. Unusual Heat—Top of Our Game: Lynne's Legacy (69-32), m, 6 yo, Del Mar, STK, Solana Beach S., 8/9, 1mi (T), 1:33.92, $85,500. Unusual Heat—Knows No Bounds: Jonny's Choice (69-32), g, 10 yo, Canterbury Park, STR, 8/15, 1mi, 1:37.20, $7,500. Unusual Heat—Patriot C H: Super Patriot (69-32), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/17, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:41.53, $49,920. Unusual Heat—Crazy Ensign (ARG): Aigle (69-32), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, STR, 8/18, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:43.50, $13,680. Vronsky—Sister Sally: Sir Vronski (66-33), g, 8 yo, Ferndale, STR, 8/23, 7f, 1:27.42, $4,675. Vronsky—Rebellious: Insubordination (66-33), g, 6 yo, Columbus, STR, 8/24, 6 1/2f, 1:20.20, $3,300.

2-YEAR-OLDS Idiot Proof—Onefunsonofagun: Bulletproof One (16-7), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, STK, California Thoroughbred Breeders' Association S., 7/31, 5 1/2f, 1:4.70, $57,000. Mr. Big—Quick Chick: Big Returns (6-5), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, STK, Graduation S., 8/2, 5 1/2f, 1:6.34, $57,000. Run Brother Ron—Darncat: Darnquick (13-9), g, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, AOC, 8/17, 5 1/2f, 1:5.66, $24,180. Vronsky—Always Fashionable: Drippin Sauce (66-33), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, SOC, 8/10, 5 1/2f, 1:5.66, $32,400.

MAIDENS ACCLAMATION Harris Farms (800) 311 6211 www.harrisfarms.com Acclamation—Favorite Funtime: Funtasia (46-18), f, 3 yo, Delaware Park, MSW, 8/3, 6f, 1:12.61, $20,400. Acclamation—Honey Bee Lucky: Going Away Party (46-18), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/18, 5 1/2f, 1:6.05, $6,300. Acclamation—Mesquite: Native Mesquite (46-18), f, 3 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/24, 5f, 1:1.53, $3,300.

AFFIRMATIVE BG Thoroughbred Farm (951) 654-9100 www.bgthoroughbreds.com Affirmative—Unusual Jane: Affirmative Jane (14-8), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 8/17, 4 1/2f, 53.46, $4,040. Atticus—Madeline's Ladybug: Attitude Included (14-6), g, 3 yo, Hastings Racecourse, MCL, 8/2, 1 1/16mi, 1:48.87, $4,125. Atticus—Blunderstone: Swifty Morgan (14-6), g, 3 yo, Belterra Park, MCL, 8/11, 5 1/2f, 1:7.32, $4,620. Awesome Gambler—Sophie's Trophy: Mr. Stix (26-11), g, 3 yo, Grande Prairie, MSW, 8/10, 6 1/2f, 1:20.58, $2,120. Bluegrass Cat—Concettina: Our Maneki Cat (112-47), g, 3 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/25, 5f, 1:1.90, $3,300. Boat Trip—Bettor Knot: Bettor Trip Nick (2-1), g, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/23, 5f, 58.80, $8,400. Bodemeister—North Freeway: Takethediamondlane (186-71), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/8, 6f, 1:12.24, $36,600. Boisterous—Sky Diver: Flying to the Line (39-14), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 7/26, 1mi (T), 1:34.74, $36,600. Boisterous—Creole Delights: Mila Delights (39-14), f, 2 yo, Emerald Downs, MCL, 8/24, 5f, 1:0.29, $4,290.

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Leading California-Bred Winners JULY 22, 2019 – AUGUST 25, 2019 CHAMP PEGASUS Barton Thoroughbreds (805) 693 1777 • info@bartonthoroughbreds.com www.bartonthoroughbreds.com Champ Pegasus—Spacecoast: Gimme Space (65-25), g, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/1, 1mi, 1:40.37, $4,675. Champ Pegasus—Jeanne Marini: Pretalk (65-25), g, 3 yo, Grande Prairie, MSW, 8/4, 6 1/2f, 1:19.83, $2,120. Champ Pegasus—Cee's a Dream: Wanderluster (65-25), f, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/8, 1mi, 1:40.80, $4,675. Champ Pegasus—Tribalicious: Adulting (65-25), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/14, 6f, 1:11.74, $12,600. Champ Pegasus—Remise (AUS): Style Daddy (65-25), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/25, 5f, 58.94, $5,500. Clubhouse Ride—Aspen Gal: Club Aspen (21-12), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/2, 6f, 1:12.90, $36,600. Clubhouse Ride—Pirate's Legacy: Seeking Revenge (21-12), f, 3 yo, Monmouth Park, MCL, 8/3, 1mi (T), 1:36.62, $16,800. Clubhouse Ride—Valley Storm: Warm Summer (21-12), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 8/17, 5 1/2f, 1:5.68, $23,400. Clubhouse Ride—Warren's Veneda: Warren's Showtime (21-12), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/21, 1mi (T), 1:38.30, $36,600. Clubhouse Ride—Oscillator: Avalon Ride (21-12), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/23, 1mi, 1:40.20, $12,600. Coil—Soo Steamy: Slim (40-13), g, 5 yo, Delaware Park, MCL, 7/22, 6f, 1:14.24, $6,000. Coil—Jen's New Chapter: Jen Go Unchained (40-13), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 7/24, 5 1/2f, 1:4.56, $19,200. Coil—Solo Landing: Why Are U So Sweet (40-13), f, 3 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/28, 1mi, 1:42.73, $4,675. Coil—Flawless Jewel: One Perky Marge (40-13), f, 3 yo, Arizona Downs, MCL, 8/11, 6f, 1:15.68, $3,300. Comic Strip—Fanny Chenal: Trump Um (24-13), c, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/2, 5 1/2f, 1:5.29, $20,400. Comic Strip—She's Outta There: Little John (24-13), g, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/3, 5 1/2f, 1:5.21, $8,400. Comic Strip—Cottonwood Babe: Doc Tommy (24-13), c, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MSW, 8/18, 5 1/2f, 1:4.45, $23,400. Creative Cause—Swiss Perfection: I Want One (139-70), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/15, 5 1/2f, 1:6.11, $36,600. Curlin to Mischief—Monstro Ness: Monstrodamous (2-1), c, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/16, 5f, 59.71, $6,600. Decarchy—Stormin Cee's: Tiz Toussaud (41-15), g, 3 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/26, 6f, 1:13.00, $4,675. Decarchy—Aerial Hawk: Hawk's Rising (41-15), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/17, 1mi, 1:41.07, $6,300.

DESERT CODE Harris Farms (800) 311 6211 www.harrisfarms.com Desert Code—Scary Fast: Ruxin (41-26), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/16, 5f, 58.66, $5,500. Dixie Chatter—Ferne's Love: Dixie Rebel (27-15), g, 5 yo, White Pine Racing, MSW, 8/16, 5f, 1:2.80, $3,025. Drosselmeyer—Spout Run: Pippin (97-50), g, 3 yo, Monmouth Park, MCL, 8/2, 1mi 70yd, 1:45.40, $14,100. Eddington—Golden Reflection: Golden Image (38-17), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/9, 5 1/2f, 1:5.23, $12,600. Eddington—Lucera (IRE): La Purissima (38-17), f, 3 yo, Penn National, MCL, 8/15, 5f (T), 56.07, $10,200. Einstein (BRZ)—Kiss of Fire: My Fol (26-14), f, 2 yo, Emerald Downs, MSW, 7/28, 5 1/2f, 1:4.26, $10,175. Einstein (BRZ)—Tap Tap Ur It: Tap Back (26-14), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/16, 5 1/2f, 1:4.97, $36,600.

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Elusive Warning—Ms Jackdau: Satanta (28-8), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 7/25, 6f, 1:11.55, $36,600. Empire Way—Just Details: Just Classy (64-23), f, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/2, 5 1/2f, 1:5.51, $18,720. Empire Way—Bluegrass Girls: Cat Blue (64-23), c, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/8, 5 1/2f, 1:6.50, $5,225. Empire Way—Joeysburg: Willinlilvillian (64-23), f, 3 yo, Arizona Downs, MCL, 8/25, 5 1/2f, 1:5.94, $3,300.

Salute the Sarge—Crystal Kris: Dunbow Road (33-15), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/3, 5 1/2f, 1:5.82, $19,200. Shackleford—Fly Down Too: Sunny Holly (177-91), f, 3 yo, Penn National, MCL, 7/27, 6f, 1:12.32, $10,860. Shackleford—Back in Time: Bounty Hunter (177-91), g, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/3, 5 1/2f, 1:4.98, $4,675. Slew's Tiznow—Grand Advice: Concise Advice (41-18), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/22, 5f (T), 57.34, $36,600.

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Fullbridled—Phantom Ali: Fullbridledphantom (8-4), g, 3 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/18, 5f, 1:1.74, $3,300. Gotham City—Dancer Ivonne: Thisonesfordan (11-10), g, 2 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/26, 5 1/2f, 1:7.09, $5,500. Govenor Charlie—Jolly Days: Side Street Dave (10-1), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/25, 5 1/2f, 1:7.73, $19,200. Haynesfield—Prospecting Peg: Derby Royalty (109-70), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 7/28, 4 1/2f, 53.39, $4,040. Heat Shield—Purrfectly Fitting: It's Fitting (13-7), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/18, 5 1/2f, 1:5.19, $36,600. Into Mischief—Unzip Me: Zipper Mischief (300-157), c, 4 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/8, 5f (T), 56.39, $36,600. James Street—Perfect Rhyme: Queen Del Prado (8-2), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/24, 6f, 1:13.41, $6,600. Kafwain—Open Mic: No Cover Charge (42-15), f, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/2, 5 1/2f, 1:6.01, $8,400. Kitten's Joy—Beside Still Water: Lemon King (261-104), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/22, 1mi (T), 1:37.05, $36,600. Lookin At Lucky—Unbridled Brew: Lucky Sun (157-65), g, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/16, 5f, 59.37, $5,500. Lucky Pulpit—Advantage Player: Etterbay Ucklay (132-51), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/14, 6f, 1:10.73, $19,200. Lucky Pulpit—Domasco Cat: Lucky Feline (132-51), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/22, 5f, 1:0.36, $7,800. Mast Track—Shimmery: Shims Shadow (15-6), g, 2 yo, Century Mile, MCL, 8/4, 5f, 59.77, $6,900.

Smiling Tiger—My Cinsation: Don'tteasethetiger (70-38), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 7/27, 6 1/2f, 1:18.92, $12,600. Smiling Tiger—She's So Vain: Eye On Tiger (70-38), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/9, 5f, 1:0.18, $19,200. Smiling Tiger—Double Velvet: Delux Premier (70-38), g, 4 yo, White Pine Racing, MSW, 8/16, 5f, 1:2.60, $3,025. Sought After—Paprika Red: Prorika (22-14), f, 4 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/16, 5f, 59.23, $5,500. Sought After—Paprika Red: Full of Pepper (22-14), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/22, 5 1/2f, 1:6.03, $8,400. Space Invader—Tribal Brat: Space Princess (2-1), f, 2 yo, Albuquerque, MCL, 8/25, 5f, 58.60, $5,280. Square Eddie—Charred Rare: Vegan (74-31), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 7/31, 5 1/2f, 1:6.26, $36,600. Street Boss—Supermodel: Asaro (131-53), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/7, 1mi (T), 1:35.77, $36,600. Super Saver—Malibu Beach Bunny: Super Bunny (174-80), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/2, 1mi (T), 1:35.98, $36,600.

TANNERSMYMAN Woodbridge Farm (209) 576 0692 www.woodbridgethoroughbreds.com Tannersmyman—My Sis Liz: Leedslimit (17-9), c, 3 yo, White Pine Racing, MSW, 8/18, 6f, 1:15.60, $3,025.

MERIT MAN BG Thoroughbred Farm (951) 654-9100 www.bgthoroughbreds.com Merit Man—Elusive Thought: Merittris (7-2), f, 3 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/17, 5f, 1:2.30, $3,300. Mineshaft—Sweet Nellie Brown: Mister G. Q. (157-78), g, 3 yo, Tillamook County Fair, MCL, 8/7, about 5f, 1:3.40, $1,485. Ministers Wild Cat—Slamthedoor: Grand Minister (87-47), g, 4 yo, Emerald Downs, MCL, 8/11, 5 1/2f, 1:5.03, $3,520. Ministers Wild Cat—Main Street: Main Cool Cat (87-47), c, 3 yo, Penn National, MCL, 8/22, 1mi, 1:41.48, $7,080. Northern Causeway—Consent: Ballycastle (20-7), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 8/10, 4 1/2f, 53.12, $3,980. Northern Causeway—Rose S.: Northern Rose (20-7), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/15, 1mi, 1:41.43, $6,300. Northern Causeway—Hollywood Affair: Irish Affair (20-7), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/16, 1mi (T), 1:39.06, $5,200. Oh Tanner—Miss Allie Gator: Hawthorne Lane (6-2), g, 5 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/1, 5 1/2f, 1:6.02, $5,225. Paddy O'Prado—Mauk Dirty to Me: Mamanuca (150-69), f, 2 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/25, 5 1/2f, 1:8.00, $5,500. Papa Clem—Aninata: Noumea (71-31), f, 3 yo, Emerald Downs, MCL, 7/26, 1mi, 1:39.82, $3,520. Papa Clem—Glamour Cat: Sparcat (71-31), g, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/10, 6f, 1:11.43, $18,720. Peppered Cat—Calimagic: Call Me Peppy (36-25), c, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/11, 1mi, 1:41.03, $18,720.

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TIZBUD Harris Farms (800) 311 6211 www.harrisfarms.com Tizbud—Flying Gwen: Buddy P. (32-12), g, 4 yo, Albuquerque, MCL, 7/24, 5 1/2f, 1:4.95, $5,160. Trapper—Shewin: Bettors Inquiry (8-3), g, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/23, 5 1/2f, 1:5.80, $7,800. Treasure Ride—Pearl's Rule: Black Storm (4-2), g, 5 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/24, 6f, 1:11.82, $12,600. Unionize—Loyal Bounty: Bounty of Gold (12-8), f, 3 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/25, 5 1/2f, 1:5.87, $6,600. Unionize—Midnite Mama: Union Leader (12-8), g, 4 yo, Sacramento, MSW, 7/28, 1 1/16mi, 1:47.04, $20,280. Unusual Heat—Veela: Nothing But Heat (69-32), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/23, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:43.66, $36,600. Unusual Heatwave—Tizalwaysomething: Always in Vegas (3-1), f, 2 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/15, 5f, 1:0.73, $6,600. U S Ranger—Southfield Fog: Rouge Bouquet (74-32), f, 3 yo, Golden Gate Fields, MCL, 8/16, 1mi (T), 1:39.06, $5,200.

VRONSKY Harris Farms (909) 947 3911 www.harrisfarms.com Vronsky—Belloma: Riding With Dino (66-33), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/3, 5 1/2f, 1:5.65, $19,200.

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rainers and horse owners rely on various types of medications for treating leg injuries and soreness in equine athletes. One favorite “all purpose” product is DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide). DMSO has dozens of uses, and many horsemen swear by it because it has a high margin of safety and very few side effects. Some veterinarians have used it for nearly every medical condition. By itself, it reduces pain, swelling, and inflammation. DMSO is often used in combination with other medications because it readily penetrates body tissues and can take another medication with it.

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About this article The author, a longtime horsewoman, compiled the information in this article from several interviews she has conducted over the years with the following: Dr. John Metcalf of Auburn, Wash., who used DMSO extensively when it first came into experimental use; Dr. Marlin C. Baker, an equine vet who practiced for many years in Weatherford, Texas; Dr. Barney Fleming of Custer, S.D., who vetted hundreds of endurance rides; and Dr. David McCarroll with Interstate Equine Services in Goldsby, Okla., who was on the cutting edge of sports-medicine therapies.

DMSO is a colorless liquid (also available in gel form), with an odor somewhat like rotten onions after it is applied to the body and an aftertaste like oysters or garlic. If you touch it, you can immediately taste it. Sometimes just breathing the air where DMSO has been used can produce this taste in your mouth. When metabolized by the body, DMSO is broken down by oxidation into MSM (methylsulfonyl-methane) or reduced to DMS (dimethyl sulfide) and excreted in urine and feces. DMS is also eliminated through the skin and lungs (and can be smelled on the breath) and is responsible for the characteristic odor. This odor may persist up to 72 hours after a single dose of DMSO in a human or animal patient.

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DMSO is hydroscopic, which means it attracts water, and can draw fluid out of body tissues. It freezes at a higher temperature than water, becoming solid at about 50 degrees. If you work with DMSO on a cool day, you must keep it warm. It produces heat (temporarily) when mixed with water and then has a lower freezing point. It came into use in veterinary medicine in the early 1960s. The DMSO used medically and as a commercial solvent is a by-product of the paper-pulp industry. During the paper-manufacturing process, in which certain chemicals are used to break down the wood fibers, the initial waste liquid is DMS. That is then mixed with a combination of methanol and hydrogen or methanol and carbon disulfide, with DMSO as the end product. Today there are two grades of DMSO— medical and industrial. Most veterinarians use medical-grade DMSO, which is 99% pure.

drugs across cell membranes than others. DMSO readily carries steroids, morphine, or penicillin, for instance. What it will carry depends on the molecular weight, shape, and electrochemistry of the drug’s molecules. It will not carry bacteria or viruses because they are too “large.” DMSO is a very effective antioxidant—a free-oxide radical scavenger. It reduces inflammation, gathering up toxic free radicals (groups of atoms that go in and out of chemical combination without changing themselves). These toxic groups of atoms are cell particles that are

“[DMSO] is one of the safest, most benign medications we can use. I’ve never found a drug or medication that has as few side effects as DMSO.”

HOW IT WORKS

DMSO dissolves many things that won’t dissolve in water and has the ability to break them down to where they can be carried through cell walls. One of the reasons DMSO is so effective for medical purposes is that it has the ability to go through body membranes. It rapidly penetrates the skin when applied topically. Early studies showed that the ability to do this varies with the percentage of DMSO in the solution used. It has the most ability to penetrate skin at 7090% solution (and this ability drops when concentrations higher than 90% are used). Lower concentrations, such as 10-20% solution, can readily cross other membranes, as when used intravenously. DMSO can speed the movement of drugs through body tissues or take drugs into tissues they would not otherwise penetrate. It can act as a carrier for medications, enhancing the action of many drugs, such as topical anesthetics, antibiotics, or corticosteroids. Within the body (as when administered intravenously), it can take medications from the bloodstream directly into other tissues, such as the lungs or muscles, to get them where they need to go for maximum benefit. It is more successful in ferrying some

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released during the inflammatory process as the body attempts to deal with injuries, bacteria, or other attacking pathogens. Free-oxide radicals kill harmful cells, but also damage and destroy some of the healthy tissues (which in turn release more free radicals), resulting in a vicious cycle that produces swelling and inflammation. By gathering up free radicals, DMSO reduces tissue damage and thus minimizes swelling and inflammation and speeds healing. Studies have shown that DMSO is one of the most powerful free-radical scavengers in biology. DMSO is also a bacteriostatic agent, which means it inhibits growth of bacteria. In a 20% concentration, it is effective against several types of pathogenic bacteria, including E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, and Pseudomonas. It also has an analgesic effect. In laboratory experiments it has been shown to block conduction in isolated nerves. Conduction returns when the DMSO is washed away from the nerve. Laboratory tests suggest that it alleviates pain by blocking certain peripheral nerve fibers. In clinical trials DMSO was found to www.ctba.com

give almost immediate relief (lasting up to six hours) when applied to burns, cuts, and sprains. COMMON USES OF DMSO

Originally used in human patients by Dr. Stanley Jacob, a surgeon at University of Oregon Medical School, DMSO was soon being used by veterinarians and animal owners to treat a variety of ailments. Today it can be purchased in gel form for topical use, and as a liquid for intravenous use. Extensive studies of the anti-inflammatory effects of DMSO have shown that when it is painted onto horses’ injured legs, the area becomes less painful, swelling is reduced, and the affected leg returns to normal more quickly. The horse’s lower legs are very susceptible to swelling and fluid retention, so DMSO is useful in treating leg injuries, and also bursitis and synovitis (inflammatory conditions in tendons, ligaments, and joints). It makes a great sweat for swollen legs because it reduces edema. When applying DMSO to the skin, however, veterinarians often recommend it be mixed with furacin or nitrofurazone ointment (a topical antibiotic) to buffer it and keep it from burning the skin. Unbuffered, it can produce temporary sensations of prickling and burning. Prolonged use of straight DMSO might cause scaling and peeling of skin. Furacin is not used as much today because it has been suspected to be carcinogenic to humans though it is still used in veterinary medicine. Bill Casner, a Texas horseman who was at one time co-owner of WinStar Farms in Kentucky, says DMSO and furacin have been traditionally mixed together to reduce swelling in a leg. “You put the DMSO and furacin on a sheet bandage, put it on the leg, wrap it with plastic wrap, and add another layer of bandage,” said Casner. “DMSO is the absolute best medication for reducing inflammation. It blocks the inflammatory cytokines that come with inflammation. Some inflammation is beneficial to the healing process, but too much inflammation (and swelling) restricts blood flow and impedes healing.” Steroids like dexamethasone are also good anti-inflammatories, but they hin-

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Dr. John Metcalf, a veterinarian who practiced for many years in Auburn, Wash., was probably the first to give DMSO intravenously, not long after it was first used experimentally in the early 1960s. Metcalf had been treating a foal that would not nurse and was losing ground. Metcalf felt the problem was lack of blood circulation to the brain. He had some DMSO that Dr. Stanley Jacob had given him for experimental purposes and decided to try it on the foal. He told the foal’s owner that this treatment might kill it, but the foal was going to die anyway. Metcalf mixed 10 cc of a 90% solution of DMSO with 100 cc. of Ringers solution and dripped it into the jugular vein. By the next day the foal was perfectly normal. DMSO is very beneficial in acute central nervous system problems, especially with head injuries, such as when a horse flips over backward or runs into a fence or appears to be uncoordinated and disoriented. It can be used in conjunction with other drugs in horses with high fevers, such as encephalitis, equine encephalomyelitis, West Nile, etc. You have to control the fever itself with other drugs, but the DMSO helps reduce the inflammation. DMSO is often used to treat edema in the brain/spinal cord in conditions like encephalitis or equine protozoal myelitis (EPM). It is also used as an adjunctive therapy in intestinal surgeries and for analgesia post-operatively—such as with colic surgery. Many surgeons use DMSO in post-operative colic cases for treatment of endotoxemia and to improve circulation around the bowel. This promotes better healing and also gives pain relief. Veterinarians use it for pain in severe colic or to reduce swelling of the udder in mares after weaning. To treat muscles tying up, a 10% solution of DMSO can be given intravenously. It is also used for acute laminitis and for cantharadin poisoning (blister beetle toxicity), to lessen the effect of that toxin on the kidneys and GI tract. Many veterinarians use DMSO almost daily in their practices. For competition horses with sore muscles, it makes a draBILL CASNER PHOTOS

der the immune system. DMSO can be used on almost any in“DMSO does not,” said Casner. “It is jury, bruise, or strain that produces swellone of the safest, most benign medica- ing and inflammation, including bucked tions we can use. You will find virtually no shins, sore muscles, strained tendons, rope side effects with DMSO. I’ve never found burns, etc. Any soft-tissue bruising that a drug or medication that has as few side leaves a bump/swelling will reduce and effects as DMSO. The only adverse effect heal faster with application of DMSO. is bad breath.” Reduction of inflammation allows the Casner has used DMSO on his horses body to heal faster, with less permanent and himself for many years and continu- damage or long-term effects. Unlike othally researches this versatile product. er inflammation-reducing drugs, DMSO “When you mix it with water, it doesn’t doesn’t lower the horse’s body temperahave much taste and there is no burn,” he ture (like non-steroidal anti-inflammatosaid. “If you use it straight and undiluted ry drugs such as phenylbutazone) or supon your skin (or on the horse’s skin), it may press the immune system (like steroids). tingle and cause flaking. The exothermic Instead of inhibiting immune response, reaction is what causes burning, reacting DMSO seems to help it. with the moisture in your skin. If you mix it with water first, it has already gone through that chemical reaction and you don’t get the hot sensation on the skin.” Since DMSO is a solvent and a carrier, this can BEFORE AFTER help when you want to apNote how treating with DMSO resulted in a lack of scarring ply dexamethasone to a leg wound. Veterinarians use DMSO as a carrier for “But you must be a little careful what antibiotics and other medications, to get you mix with it and also have the skin them into areas of the body that are diffisurface clean,” said Casner. “Never mix it cult to reach by traditional methods, such with something like iodine that is toxic if as when treating navel ill or joint ill. It can taken internally.” also help in treating ringworm, scratches, It’s one of the cheapest products and or persistent fungal or bacterial skin infecalso the most effective for dealing with a tions, when mixed with an antimicrobistrain or sprain. al that is safe to be carried internally by For treating sore muscles, you can add DMSO. A chronic or complicated case DMSO to dexamethasone or predniso- of rain rot, for instance, can be helped by lone or any other drug you want to get using DMSO as an anti-inflammatory/ inside the tissues as an anti-inflammatory. antibiotic, either alone or with another When you rub those drugs over the skin, antibiotic. they only work topically. But if you add DMSO, they go into the tissues and work INTRAVENOUS USE Because of its anti-inflammatory and better. DMSO stimulates healing in areas dif- diuretic actions (drawing excess fluid from ficult to reach with drugs. If treated early tissues), DMSO is used intravenously in with DMSO, a newly bowed tendon will horses to treat brain or nerve damage and be less painful and swollen, minimizing pulmonary edema (fluid in the lungs). It tissue damage. The DMSO can be inject- can reduce inflammation in the brain and ed into several spots in the injured tendon. spinal cord due to illness or injury. If a Continued treatment with DMSO as the horse strikes its head, DMSO can be givbow heals will minimize development of en intravenously to prevent swelling that scar tissue, facilitating more complete re- would otherwise cause severe or fatal brain covery than if the leg is allowed to develop damage. The DMSO must be given imheavy scar tissue that inhibits strength and mediately after the injury (preferably within the first hour) for best results. flexibility of the tendon.

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matic improvement in their comfort level. In these situations 60 ml of a 90% solution of DMSO, diluted to 300 ml, can be given intravenously. DMSO can be helpful in treating heaves or other respiratory problems in horses by scavenging the toxic products of these conditions and reducing the inflammation that tends to swell the airway linings and block the passages. It is beneficial in treating pneumonia because it helps dry out lung tissue. Fluid buildup in the lungs is reduced, restoring lung capacity and enabling the horse to breathe easier. Along with DMSO, some veterinarians use Banamine or a corticosteroid (to reduce swelling and inflammation). Sometimes it’s hard to tell which one is doing the most good, but they seem to work well together. If a horse is acutely tied up with muscle cramps, DMSO intravenously not only helps reduce the inflammation and edema, but also stimulates urination. This helps flush out and excrete breakdown products from the muscles because blood circulation to the muscles has also been increased. Used in the earliest stages of laminitis, DMSO can often help reverse the toxic processes that damage hooves. The toxic effects in the feet can be relieved by administering a 10% solution of DMSO, added to IV fluids. It is also used in some cases of chronic founder to help combat the drying out and inflammation of the foot as the horse is recovering. The heat and fever caused by laminitis can make the hoof horn curl and tighten (toes curving upward), and DMSO can help prevent this. DMSO can be beneficial for newborn foals deprived of oxygen during a difficult birth. If given soon after birth, the endangered foal might not suffer brain damage. Dummy foals treated with intravenous injections of DMSO (usually mixed with

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saline solution) often make a spectacular recovery and return to normal. Veterinarians also use DMSO in other situations in which a foal might be hypoxic (short on oxygen), such as red-bag foals (the placenta detaching and coming through the birth canal ahead of the foal) or any foal that has been short on oxygen at birth. Some of these respond well to treatment with DMSO, but if the brain has been deprived of oxygen too long, over the next several days you might see nervous system signs even though the response was good at first. WOUND TREATMENT

DMSO can be put directly into an open wound, in many cases, with good results. Not only does it reduce swelling and inflammation, but it is also bacteriostatic, inhibiting growth or multiplication of bacteria. It is also a mild painkiller as it can block nerve stimulation. DMSO will dissolve collagen (the main supportive protein of skin) and thus reduce the size of the final scar in a healing wound. Care must be taken, however, to apply the DMSO in low concentrations, or it might cause pain/burning or a tingling sensation when applied to raw tissue. DMSO produces heat when applied with other solutions and can cause thermal injury if a person is not careful with it. Mix it with water or saline first, then wait a moment to apply it after the initial heat-producing reaction subsides. Wound repair can be enhanced with DMSO. If a cut results in a large area of skin hanging loose, the veterinarian must decide whether to suture the skin flap back into place or cut it off. If the flap is too large, it cannot be successfully sutured. A general rule of thumb is that the length of the skin flap should not exwww.ctba.com

ceed the width by more than 11⁄2 times. In other words, if the hanging flap is three inches wide, it can be 41⁄2 inches long without endangering the circulation at the ends of the flap. But if the flap is painted with DMSO, the length can be almost twice that long with the same rate of success. Casner mixes DMSO and water to use as a spray, mixing about 80% DMSO and 20% water, for wounds. “The DMSO acts as an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and a carrier, to take some other medication into the tissues in certain situations where you need more medication,” he said. “If I have a horse with any type of wound, DMSO is the first thing I use. A few years ago I had a young horse that peeled a big flap of skin away from his forehead. The vet didn’t think it would heal after stitching it back on, but I suggested tubing the horse with DMSO for three days in a row. “Tubing involves mixing a pint of DMSO with a few gallons of water, inserting a tube into the stomach, and pumping it in. This was a Colonel John colt (from that stallion’s first crop), and I was six weeks away from putting him in the Saratoga sale. He wasn’t going to sell with a swollen head and scars, so we used the DMSO. “It was absolutely amazing. We took the stitches out in 10 days, and it looked beautiful. It never swelled or oozed. It healed perfectly, and in six weeks we took him to the sale and you couldn’t even tell where that area had been injured and repaired. Plastic surgeons use DMSO on their stitches, etc. after they do plastic surgery on their patients because there is no scarring. It’s an amazing drug.”

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2019 LEADING BREEDERS IN CALIFORNIA BY EARNINGS (THRU AUG. 25, 2019)

Breeder

Starts

Wins

Stakes Wins

Reddam Racing, LLC Nick Alexander Terry C. Lovingier Richard Barton Enterprises Harris Farms Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC Old English Rancho, Patsy Berumen & Sal Berumen KMN Racing George Krikorian Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams Legacy Ranch Inc Old English Rancho Dr. & Mrs. William T. Gray Premier Thoroughbreds LLC George Schmitt & Mary Clare Schmitt Thomas W Bachman Liberty Road Stables Frank Mermenstein & Tom McCrocklin Madera Thoroughbreds LLC Gary Barber M Auerbach, LLC BG Stables Dahlberg Farms LLC Daehling Ranch LLC Francis O’Leary Bar C Racing Stables, Inc. Rozamund Barclay Victory Rose Thoroughbreds & KMN Racing Milt A. Policzer Red Baron’s Barn & Vaya Con Suerte Pamela C. Ziebarth Thomas W. Bachman Dunns Down LLC Moger Inc. & Neary Racing Inc. DP Racing Heinz H. Steinmann Donald Valpredo C-Punch Ranch Jim Robinson Curt & Lila Lanning Eagle Ridge Racing H & E Ranch Bruce Headley Alex Paszkeicz Kristin Mulhall Old English Rancho & Bruce Headley Todd Marshall & Andrew Molasky Donald R. Dizney, LLC The Revocable Trust of Mikel C. & Patricia O. Harrington M. A. Douzos B & B Zietz Stables Four Quarters Corp William L. Hedrick Bruce Headley & Andrew Molasky Dr. Ed Allred Martin Bach

240 243 496 609 330 350 168 41 31 186 144 167 132 82 238 81 168 9 137 66 37 135 49 145 66 9 111 15 66 22 40 47 16 22 41 84 122 73 82 67 18 14 52 75 35 55 21 22 82 13 31 48 14 15 33 38

42 40 73 78 38 53 39 10 10 25 24 24 16 12 22 14 22 4 16 7 3 13 13 22 12 3 9 8 6 3 7 6 4 5 3 9 9 10 16 9 5 2 10 14 13 9 5 3 8 3 8 12 4 5 1 8

5 7 2 1 3 4 4 4 4 0 3 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0

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Leading Earner

Eddie Haskell ($278,104) S Y Sky ($349,620) Show It N Moe It ($147,003) Principe Carlo ($122,633) Lynne’s Legacy ($131,831) Queen Bee to You ($165,703) Acclimate ($289,182) Sneaking Out ($223,331) Mucho Unusual ($286,031) Royal Trump ($85,331) Gypsy Blu ($152,703) Drippin Sauce ($52,200) Oh My Oh ($71,523) Spiced Perfection ($254,500) Tip Top Gal ($78,014) Oliver ($107,371) Psycho Dar ($75,583) Marckie’s Water ($252,422) Solid Wager ($130,439) Flying to the Line ($63,760) Our Silver Oak ($150,654) Feeling Strong ($88,553) Minister of Soul ($113,421) Gotham Desire ($34,684) On Raglan Road ($60,516) Galilean ($215,000) Mo See Cal ($52,294) Bulletproof One ($137,400) Chasin Lucas ($64,053) Edwards Going Left ($95,420) Kitty Boom Boom ($111,000) Bella Luma ($62,249) California Journey ($105,115) Irish Heatwave ($164,084) Golden Birthday ($109,396) Swiss Minister ($37,491) Unbridled Ethos ($45,060) Lucky Stepper ($32,262) Bombay All Day ($33,965) True Regards ($46,296) Castle ($62,397) Rye ($112,574) Ground Attack ($62,169) Peppers Ace ($37,420) Hot Rodin ($42,700) Surfing Star ($29,940) Dr Wysong ($127,343) Starr of Quality ($120,151) I Want One ($45,311) El Huerfano ($139,465) Getoffmyback ($54,775) Premium Forest ($70,920) Summersimage ($120,880) The Street Fighter ($86,471) Cordiality ($73,555) El Tigre Terrible ($25,900)

$2,217,574 $1,786,769 $1,575,696 $1,448,540 $1,109,427 $959,703 $815,408 $712,913 $625,622 $625,036 $502,032 $446,647 $445,893 $435,881 $421,959 $413,423 $343,337 $343,222 $332,628 $300,449 $295,637 $290,813 $265,263 $258,968 $242,630 $234,136 $229,406 $223,280 $217,615 $200,471 $198,845 $197,042 $195,789 $192,506 $190,253 $178,795 $176,121 $174,125 $173,872 $170,736 $169,406 $158,165 $156,538 $154,784 $151,368 $150,289 $148,480 $144,740 $144,534 $144,319 $140,852 $138,325 $137,436 $133,731 $133,508 $133,016

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Leading California Sires Lists 2019 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER RUNNER

2019 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MONEY WON

(MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS) Races Rnrs Won

Sire

Earnings/ Runner

Earned

Sire

Rnrs

Strts

Races Won

Earned

1 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

161

875

128

$4,811,557

1 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

24 $1,608,901

$39,241

2 I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley

189

1129

123

$3,087,390

2 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

54 $2,448,943

$32,653

3 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

115

569

$2,884,216

161 128 $4,811,557

$29,885

4 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

357

$2,448,943

$29,508

5 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

115

572

$2,073,300

$29,103

6 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

347

$2,008,113

$25,080

7 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

172

$1,608,901

$24,351

8 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

134

601

$1,561,089

280

$1,328,340

10 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 87

465

$1,285,898

11 Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown

376

$1,182,048

12 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

346

$1,050,813

13 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

196

$839,420

14 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

341

$733,723

15 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) 44

253

$725,918

3 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini 4 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie 5 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 6 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

15 69 115

7 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even 13

$442,625

46 $2,008,113 82 $2,884,216 15

$316,569

9 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

8 † Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time

$438,559

$23,082

9 Passion for Gold, 2007, by Medaglia d’Oro

$222,360

$22,236

$355,096

$20,888

11 Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) 21

$436,739

$20,797

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

$448,672

$20,394

13 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$465,024

$19,376

14 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$286,617

$19,108

16 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

176

$713,941

10 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

15 Golden Balls (IRE), 2004, by Danehill Dancer (IRE) 13

$245,302

$18,869

17 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

406

$700,223

16 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

56 $1,328,340

$18,709

18 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

159

$640,226

17 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$839,420

$18,248

19 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

204

$585,492

18 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

115

74 $2,073,300

$18,029

20 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

230

$575,216

19 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

$304,595

$17,917

21 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

152

$573,589

20 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$713,941

$17,413

22 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

207

$501,300

23 Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

203

$469,792

24 Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

325

$465,324

25 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

141

$465,024

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

120

$448,672

26 $1,585,916

27 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie

$442,625

23 $1,386,317

28 † Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time

$438,559

29 Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) 21

$436,739

30 † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 45

247

$424,001

31 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

238

$370,181

32 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

220

$366,400

33 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

101

$355,096

34 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat

116

$344,859

$316,569

2019 LEADING TURF SIRES IN CALIFORNIA (MINIMUM 50 STARTS) Sire

Rnrs Strts Wnrs Wins

1 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike 2 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

42 133 50 161

17 19

Earned

3 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

$451,697

4 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$421,463

5 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$366,731

6 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

$360,832

7 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

$243,015

8 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$235,669

35 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even 13

9 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$234,854

36 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

142

$315,821

10 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$229,711

37 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

$304,595

11 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

$221,492

38 Informed, 2004, by Tiznow

166

$291,607

12 Golden Balls (IRE), 2004, by Danehill Dancer (IRE) 5

$213,894

39 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$286,617

13 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$209,083

40 Sierra Sunset, 2005, by Bertrando

203

$286,262

14 Anthony’s Cross, 2008, by Indian Charlie

$175,291

41 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

195

$283,132

$173,006

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

146

$280,191

$168,004

43 Smart Bid, 2006, by Smart Strike

$275,984

$151,300

44 Anthony’s Cross, 2008, by Indian Charlie

$267,797

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

120

$264,986

46 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

116

$260,386

47 Storm Wolf, 2002, by Stormin Fever

$253,458

15 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

16 Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) 17 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

8 12

64 20 21

8 4 3

10 5 3

18 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

$149,805

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

$146,218

$143,758

20 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

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. Earnings are from Northern Hemisphere racing and include adjusted money from Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Adjusted earnings are put on par with average North American earnings from the previous year. The average North American purse in 2018 was $23,755 or 50% of the average purse in Japan. To put earnings on par, Japanese earnings are multiplied by 50% before being applied to the total earnings above. Hong Kong earnings are adjusted by 15%, and Singapore adjusted by 66%. Stakes winners and wins follow TJCIS stakes rules. Racing statistics through August 25, 2019.

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2019 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MEDIAN EARNINGS PER RUNNER (MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS)

Sire

Races Rnrs Won

Sire

Earned

Median

Rnrs

Wnrs

Races Won

Earned

1 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

161

128 $4,811,557

1 Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG)

$436,739 $19,761

2 I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley

189

123 $3,087,390

2 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$286,617 $18,145

3 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

115

82 $2,884,216

3 Passion for Gold, 2007, by Medaglia d’Oro

$222,360 $15,595

4 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

134

77 $1,561,089

4 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

54 $2,448,943 $13,680

5 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

115

74 $2,073,300

5 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

66 $1,285,898

7 Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown

64 $1,182,048

8 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

56 $1,328,340

9 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

56 $1,050,813

54 $2,448,943

46 $2,008,113

6 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$465,024 $13,027

161 128 $4,811,557 $12,699 24 $1,608,901 $12,636

Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

7 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

8 Gig Harbor, 2008, by City Zip

9 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

46 $2,008,113 $12,100

10 † Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time

$438,559 $12,091

11 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

$575,216 $11,102

12 Storm Wolf, 2002, by Stormin Fever

$253,458 $11,092

13 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

$575,216

13 Roi Charmant, 2001, by Evansville Slew

$218,015 $10,521

14 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$733,723

14 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

$725,918 $10,255

Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$469,792

15 Lakerville, 2008, by Unusual Heat

$247,512 $10,120

Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

$465,324

16 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie

$442,625

$9,400

17 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) 44

$725,918

17 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

$640,226

$9,252

Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

$585,492

18 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even 13

$316,569

$8,802

19 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$839,420

19 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

56 $1,050,813

$8,588

Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$713,941

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

$448,672

$8,580

Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

$501,300

21 Unionize, 2006, by Dixie Union

$154,790

$8,553

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

$424,001

24 $1,608,901

$144,425 $12,530

U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig 11 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

23 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

2019 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER START

2019 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF RACES WON

(MINIMUM 100 STARTS) Sire

1 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

Rnrs

Earned

172 $1,608,901 357 $2,448,943

2 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

3 Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie

4 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

5 Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) 21 6 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

161

7 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

8 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

Srts

115

9 Golden Balls (IRE), 2004, by Danehill Dancer (IRE) 13

$700,223

Earnings Start

Sire

Rnrs

Srts

Races Won

Earned

$9,354

1 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

161

875

128

$4,811,557

$6,860

2 I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley

189 1129

123

$3,087,390

$442,625

$6,810

3 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

115

569

$2,884,216

347 $2,008,113

$5,787

4 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

134

601

$1,561,089

$5,672

5 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

115

572

$2,073,300

65 77

$436,739

875 $4,811,557

$5,499

6 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

465

$1,285,898

$304,595

$5,077

7 Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown

376

$1,182,048

569 $2,884,216

$5,069

8 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

280

$1,328,340

346

$1,050,813

60 51

$245,302

280 $1,328,340

$4,810

Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

10 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$4,744

10 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

357

$2,448,943

11 † Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time

$438,559

$4,430

11 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

347

$2,008,113

12 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

196

$839,420

$4,283

12 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

406

$700,223

13 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

176

$713,941

$4,056

13 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

204

$585,492

14 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

230

$575,216

325

$465,324

14 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

159

$640,226

$4,027

15 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

152

$573,589

$3,774

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

$316,569

$3,769

16 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

341

$733,723

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

120

$448,672

$3,739

17 † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 45

247

$424,001

Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

18 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

115

572 $2,073,300

$3,625

18 Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

203

$469,792

19 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

101

$355,096

$3,516

19 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

253

$725,918

20 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$286,617

$3,412

176

$713,941

Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

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Races Won

2019 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF WINNERS

Strts

1 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$207,339

1 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$207,339

2 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$199,984

2 I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley

$190,004

3 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$191,488

Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$185,105

4 I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley

$190,004

Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG)

$185,085

5 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$185,105

5 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$199,984

6 Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) 10

$185,085

6 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$191,488

$140,350

Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$82,088

8 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) 5

$108,726

† Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$63,776

9 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown

$53,552

$108,726

7 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

Earned

Sire

Wnrs

Earned

$108,270

10 Mr. Big, 2003, by Dynaformer

$98,280

11 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$82,088

Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

$108,270

12 Run Brother Ron, 2005, by Perfect Mandate

$79,220

Run Brother Ron, 2005, by Perfect Mandate

$79,220

13 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

$78,255

Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$54,536

14 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

$65,728

Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$51,870

15 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$63,776

Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

$48,737

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

$60,000

Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$34,722

17 Govenor Charlie, 2010, by Midnight Lute

$56,414

18 Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$54,536

19 Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown

$53,552

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

$51,870

21 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

$48,737

22 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$34,722

23 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 4

$32,573

10 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

2019 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF RACES WON

2019 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER RUNNER

Sire

(MINIMUM 5 RUNNERS) Races Rnrs Won

Sire

Earned

Rnrs

Srts

Races Won

Earned

Earnings/ Runner

1 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$207,339

2 I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley

$190,004

3 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$185,105

$185,085

$199,984

$82,088

1 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) 5

$108,726

$21,745

2 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$191,488

$19,149

3 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$185,105

$18,511

4 Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) 10

$185,085

$18,509

Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) 5 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

5 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$82,088

$13,681

7 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$191,488

6 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$63,776

$12,755

Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

$140,350

7 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$199,984

$11,110

Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

$108,726

8 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$207,339

$10,913

Run Brother Ron, 2005, by Perfect Mandate

$79,220 $63,776

9 Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song

$78,255

$9,782

† Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

10 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

$108,270

$9,023

Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown

$53,552

11 I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley

$190,004

$8,261

$108,270

$65,728

$7,303

Mr. Big, 2003, by Dynaformer

$98,280

12 • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 13 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

Rnrs

Races Won

Rnrs

13 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

$34,722

$6,944

Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$54,536

14 Govenor Charlie, 2010, by Midnight Lute

$56,414

$5,641

Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

$51,870

15 Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown

$53,552

$4,868

Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

$48,737

16 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$26,594

$4,432

Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$34,722

17 Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

$8,592

$1,718

Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

$32,573

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2019 LEADING LIFETIME SIRES IN CALIFORNIA (50 OR MORE NAMED FOALS)

Stallion (Foreign Foaled), Year, Sire

1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 16 17 18 19 20 21

24 26

29 30

33 34 35 36 37

41 43 45 47 48

† Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark • Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE) One Man Army, 1994, by Roman Diplomat † Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat † Indian Evening, 2009, by Indian Charlie Jersey Town, 2006, by Speightstown Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam Affirmative, 1999, by Unbridled Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister † Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow Trapper, 2000, by Iron Cat Graydar, 2009, by Unbridled’s Song † Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time Richard’s Kid, 2005, by Lemon Drop Kid I’ll Have Another, 2009, by Flower Alley Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat Lightnin N Thunder, 2001, by Storm Cat Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle Clubhouse Ride, 2008, by Candy Ride (ARG) † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom Iron Cat, 1995, by Storm Cat Passion for Gold, 2007, by Medaglia d’Oro Sea of Secrets, 1995, by Storm Cat Grace Upon Grace, 2007, by Rio Verde Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat Thisnearlywasmine, 1994, by Capote Unbridled Native, 2001, by Unbridled Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

Crops

19 7 7 10 12 4 7 10 11 7 9 17 3 4 3 4 11 10 10 12 13 8 13 7 11 19 5 5 11 3 16 3 4 7 8 13 5 2 17 14 1 17 6 12 11 4 7 12

Avg Named Size Foals

44 16 29 48 22 103 12 94 41 37 9 46 54 31 17 40 47 15 12 18 33 29 50 7 43 26 21 25 5 81 35 18 67 22 15 16 14 29 21 11 152 29 8 9 7 13 11 32

828 113 204 476 261 411 85 942 455 262 84 787 161 122 51 160 520 147 122 217 426 230 648 51 476 497 106 123 56 244 558 53 269 157 119 210 72 57 359 150 152 489 50 110 80 53 74 386

Runners

Winners

2YO Winners

628-76% 80-71% 162-79% 376-79% 175-67% 214-52% 46-54% 572-61% 344-76% 139-53% 57-68% 582-74% 87-54% 71-58% 20-39% 105-66% 250-48% 87-59% 75-61% 149-69% 292-69% 176-77% 461-71% 38-75% 366-77% 368-74% 84-79% 71-58% 44-79% 156-64% 443-79% 25-47% 267-99% 114-73% 76-64% 140-67% 43-60% 22-39% 272-76% 117-78% 14-9% 411-84% 33-66% 81-74% 56-70% 36-68% 55-74% 291-75%

455-55% 57-50% 127-62% 252-53% 120-46% 149-36% 27-32% 418-44% 250-55% 100-38% 40-48% 400-51% 56-35% 42-34% 15-29% 71-44% 183-35% 67-46% 49-40% 89-41% 209-49% 111-48% 338-52% 24-47% 275-58% 230-46% 54-51% 48-39% 32-57% 101-41% 343-61% 15-28% 164-61% 79-50% 54-45% 95-45% 33-46% 12-21% 202-56% 98-65% 12-8% 295-60% 18-36% 63-57% 41-51% 18-34% 35-47% 217-56%

61-7% 11-10% 45-22% 73-15% 22-8% 51-12% 12-14% 118-13% 59-13% 20-8% 3-4% 116-15% 19-12% 8-7% 7-14% 20-13% 47-9% 0-0% 6-5% 14-6% 46-11% 29-13% 99-15% 4-8% 69-14% 45-9% 12-11% 15-12% 12-21% 37-15% 113-20% 4-8% 42-16% 18-11% 6-5% 27-13% 6-8% 5-9% 54-15% 8-5% 3-2% 81-17% 9-18% 13-12% 5-6% 1-2% 14-19% 41-11%

Stakes Winners

Graded Stakes Winners

Progeny Earnings

AEI

Comp Index

49-6% 10-9% 14-7% 10-2% 10-4% 7-2% 2-2% 33-4% 11-2% 6-2% 2-2% 26-3% 5-3% 3-2% 3-6% 3-2% 7-1% 2-1% 2-2% 7-3% 13-3% 8-3% 18-3% 1-2% 19-4% 11-2% 6-6% 5-4% 1-2% 5-2% 20-4% 0-0% 1-0% 4-3% 2-2% 6-3% 1-1% 0-0% 12-3% 3-2% 0-0% 16-3% 1-2% 1-1% 1-1% 0-0% 1-1% 4-1%

16-2% 2-2% 3-1% 1-0% 3-1% 2-0% 0-0% 6-1% 3-1% 3-1% 1-1% 9-1% 1-1% 1-1% 0-0% 2-1% 1-0% 1-1% 1-1% 2-1% 1-0% 1-0% 6-1% 0-0% 2-0% 4-1% 0-0% 1-1% 0-0% 1-0% 1-0% 0-0% 1-0% 0-0% 2-2% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 2-0% 0-0% 1-1% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0%

$60,625,887 $7,453,799 $14,367,312 $31,300,107 $13,232,819 $13,540,833 $2,445,948 $43,276,423 $21,634,679 $8,313,771 $3,065,829 $31,630,855 $4,093,523 $2,775,024 $880,723 $4,661,644 $14,913,767 $4,839,815 $4,309,654 $7,558,571 $16,489,724 $8,072,278 $21,771,956 $2,352,315 $20,262,217 $15,404,894 $4,134,574 $3,236,423 $2,159,203 $6,161,102 $22,344,961 $977,550 $18,296,521 $5,454,372 $3,760,164 $5,703,181 $1,937,660 $463,116 $11,448,757 $4,616,683 $678,628 $19,537,513 $1,314,089 $4,095,336 $2,553,331 $1,370,385 $2,485,230 $12,608,064

1.88 1.73 1.54 1.31 1.31 1.29 1.25 1.20 1.16 1.13 1.11 1.11 1.09 1.06 1.06 1.04 1.03 1.02 1.01 1.00 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.98 0.98 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.96 0.93 0.93 0.93 0.90 0.88 0.85 0.84 0.83 0.83 0.83 0.83 0.82 0.82 0.81 0.81 0.80 0.80 0.78 0.76

1.18 1.10 1.06 1.06 1.09 1.46 0.97 1.59 1.38 0.99 0.89 1.30 1.00 1.24 1.06 1.16 1.13 1.19 0.78 0.86 0.95 1.22 1.18 0.87 0.91 1.35 1.35 1.06 0.76 1.46 0.83 1.03 1.07 1.02 1.18 1.05 0.92 0.90 1.09 0.88 1.00 1.03 0.90 0.62 0.67 0.85 0.73 0.93

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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