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BIG STEPS
CATCHING UP WITH SILVERBULLETDAY PAGE 2
SPARKMAN ON VERRAZANO AND THE HALO MALE LINE PAGE 4 BIG EXPECTATIONS FOR FASIG-TIPTON FLORIDA SALE PAGE 11 HOT SIRE: HAT TRICK PAGE 13
PAYNTER’S RECOVERY POINTS TO PROGRESS IN HOOF CARE, PAGE 8
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DRF BREEDING
Catching up with SILVERBULLETDAY
CHAMPION’S DAUGHTERS PRODUCING WINNERS By Nicole Russo In July 1997, a bay daughter of Silver Deputy was a $155,000 purchase by Mike Pegram via his Morning Wood Stables at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected yearling sale. Well more than a decade later, that sixfigure price tag looks like a bargain as Silverbulletday has been the gift that keeps on giving. The Hall of Fame racemare, who owns two Eclipse Awards and earned more than $3 million for Pegram and trainer Bob Baffert, is now in her second career as a broodmare at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Lexington, Ky., joined by three daughters who are already stakes producers. Joseph Ramsey, farm manager at Hill ‘n’ Dale, said the independent-minded mare still displays the spirit of a champion. “She’s always been the boss and knows who she is,” Ramsey said. “She may have mellowed a little bit in her ongoing years, but she’s happy to be by herself, happy to be in her paddock. She doesn’t necessarily have buddies.” Silverbulletday won five graded stakes races as a 2-year-old, capped by the 1998 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs, to earn her first championship. The following spring, the daughter of Silver Deputy won the Fair Grounds Oaks and Ashland Stakes en route to a dominant victory in the Kentucky Oaks. She continued through a summer and fall campaign in which she captured two additional Grade 1 events in New York, the Alabama Stakes and the Gazelle Handicap, sealing her second divisional Eclipse Award. A stakes winner as a 4-year-old, Silverbulletday eventually retired with 15 wins, including 13 graded stakes, from 23 career starts for earnings of $3,093,207. She was inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 2009, along with Baffert. Now 17, Silverbulletday is boarded at Hill ‘n’ Dale and is adept at her second career. “She’s a great mother,” Ramsey said. “She’s strong, but she’s willing to let us do what we need to do so she can do the job she’s doing now. She’s a really neat mare.” Despite her own sparkling race record, Silverbulletday, like many other great racemares, has thus far failed to replicate that ability among her offspring, pro-
HILL ‘N’ DALE FARMS
Silverbulletday, who is in foal to Misremembered, at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms last week. She is due in April. ducing one winner from just three starters to date. That was her fi rst foal, the stakes-placed A.P. Indy gelding Tice, who won 5 of 42 starts and earned $177,405 over six seasons of racing. Silverbulletday is currently represented on the track by Elusive Jackpot, a 4-year-old Elusive Quality fi lly who has placed twice in five starts; and Illicit Affair, a 3-year-old Midnight Lute fi lly who was fourth in her career debut March 16. However, the mare’s talent might have skipped a generation as three of her unraced daughters – Silverbulletway, Silver Bullet Moon, and Silverbulletfolly – are now stakes producers. “One of those things I’ve heard about from breeders in the past, is that” talent skips a generation, Ramsey said. “Her daughters have shown the potential to put out stakes winners sort of no matter who they’re bred to. It shows that quality and class carry through.” Silver Bullet Moon, an 8-year-old daughter of Vindication, is the dam of two winners from as many starters, including Shakin It Up, who won the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes in February after finishing third in the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue Stakes last summer. Silverbulletway, a 10-year-old by Storm Cat, is the dam of stakes winner Crisis of Spirit. The lone foal to race by Silverbulletfolly, a 7-year-old daughter of Vindication, is stakes-placed Mile High Magic. Further keeping the success in the family, Shakin It Up is by Midnight Lute, an Eclipse Award-winning sprinter owned by
Pegram and trained by Baffert. Mile High Magic is a son of Grade 1 winner Roman Ruler, who, like the late champion Vindication, also was trained by Baffert. Midnight Lute and Roman Ruler are Hill ‘n’ Dale stallions. Silverbulletday is currently in foal to Hill ‘n’ Dale’s Misremembered, yet another Grade 1 winner trained by Baffert. She is due in April. “It’s a thrill to have those daughters and to see the family’s turned on again,” Ramsey said. “It’s a wonderful family. The fi llies are beautiful. She’s blessed Mike with daughters.” Perhaps further boding well for her daughters’ broodmare careers, Silverbulletday hails from a family of producers. Her dam, the Grade 2-winning Tom Rolfe mare Rokeby Rose, is the dam of Garden Secrets, who produced three stakes horses, including Grade 1 winner and stakes producer Forest Secrets. Out of the winning Quadrangle mare Rokeby Venus — a half-sister to champion Arts and Letters — Rokeby Rose is a halfsister to two stakes winners and to four other stakes producers, including I Mean It and Venus Bound. Several of I Mean It’s daughters and granddaughters went on to productive broodmare careers; her current representatives on the track include great-grandson Pataky Kid, winner of last year’s Grade 3 Arlington-Washington Futurity. Venus Bound’s daughter Cindazanno is the dam of Grade 1 winners Fourty Niners Son and Cindy’s Hero, the latter a stakes producer herself.
SILVERBULLETDAY, 1996, BAY MARE, SILVER DEPUTY – ROKEBY ROSE, BY TOM ROLFE OWNER: Michael Pegram BREEDERS: Highclere Inc. and Clear Creek (Ky.) TRAINER: Bob Baffert YEAR AGE STARTS FIRST SECOND THIRD
1998 1999 2000 TOTALS
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6 8 1
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◗ At 2: Champion 2-year-old filly. Won: Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), Alcibiades S. (G2), Sorrento S. (G2), Golden Rod S. (G3), Debutante S. (G3). ◗ At 3: Champion 3-year-old filly. Won: Kentucky Oaks (G1), Ashland S. (G1), Alabama S. (G1), Gazelle H. (G1), Monmouth Breeders’ Cup Oaks (G2), Black-Eyed Susan S. (G2), Fair Grounds Oaks (G3), Davona Dale S. (G3). Second: Beldame Stakes (G1). ◗ At 4: Won: Doubledogdare S. Second: Molly Pitcher Breeders’ Cup H. (G2), Fleur de Lis H. (G3). Third: Delaware H. (G3). ◗ Silverbulletday, notable runners produced: Tice (2002 A.P. Indy g.); stakes-placed winner ◗ Notable runners produced by Silverbulletday’s daughters: Grade 2 winner Shakin It Up (2010 Midnight Lute c. out of Silver Bullet Moon); stakes winner Crisis of Spirit (2007 Vindication f. out of Silverbulletway); stakes-placed Mile High Magic (2009 Roman Ruler g. out of Silverbulletfolly)
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Melair Stakes
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3-Year-Olds, Cal-Bred or Cal-Sired Nomination fee $450 due April 5, to be run Saturday, April 27 Purse distribution to top 8 finishers
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Fillies & Mares, 4-Year-Olds & Upward, Cal-Bred or Cal-Sired Nomination fee $175 due April 5, to be run Saturday, April 27 Purse distribution to top 6 finishers
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FOR THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, BRED IN CALIFORNIA OR CALIFORNIA SIRED, WHICH HAVE NOT WON $10,000 OTHER THAN MAIDEN, CLAIMING OR STARTER OR HAVE NEVER WON TWO RACES. By subscription of $50 each, on or before April 5, or by supplementary nomination of $1,400 each by closing time of entries. $250 to start. Weights: Three year olds 118 lbs.; older 124 lbs. Non-winners of a race other than maiden, claiming or starter allowed 2 lbs.; non-winners of a race other than claiming or starter, 4 lbs. (Winners that have started for a claiming price of $25,000 or less in their last 3 starts and maidens that are non-starters for a claiming price have second preference).
FOR FILLIES AND MARES, THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD, BRED IN CALIFORNIA OR CALIFORNIA SIRED, WHICH HAVE NOT WON $10,000 OTHER THAN MAIDEN, CLAIMING OR STARTER OR HAVE NEVER WON TWO RACES. By subscription of $50 each, on or before April 5, or by supplementary nomination of $1,400 each by closing time of entries. $250 to start. Weights: Three year olds 118 lbs.; older 124 lbs. Non-winners of a race other than maiden, claiming or starter allowed 2 lbs.; non-winners of a race other than claiming or starter, 4 lbs. Winners that have started for a claiming price of $25,000 or less in their last 3 starts and maidens that are non-starters for a claiming price have second preference).
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FOR MAIDEN COLTS AND GELDINGS THREE YEARS OLD AND UPWARD (BRED IN CALIFORNIA OR CALIFORNIA SIRED). By subscription of $50 each, on or before April 5, or by supplementary nomination of $1,200 each by closing time of entries. $150 to start. Weights: Three year olds 118 lbs.; older 124 lbs. Horses which have finished 2nd or 3rd in a non-claiming race in at least one of their last 3 starts preferred. Second preference will be given to non-starters for a claiming price. Third preference will be given to horses which have finished 2nd or 3rd for a claiming price in one of their last 2 starts.
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DRF BREEDING
The Halo line proves more than persistent
BARBARA D. LIVINGSTON
Early Kentucky Derby favorite Verrazano, a son of More Than Ready, will try to give his sire his first major victory at a distance longer than 1 1/8 miles.
Halo Southern Halo Northern Sea
Hail to Reason Cosmah Northern Dancer Sea Saga
More Than Ready Woodman
Mr. Prospector Playmate
Woodman’s Girl Becky Be Good
Naskra Good Landing
Verrazano 2010, b.c Storm Cat
Storm Bird Terlingua
Giant’s Causeway Mariah’s Storm
Rahy Immense
Enchanted Rock Mr. Prospector
Raise a Native Gold Digger
Chic Shirine Too Chic
Derby favorite Verrazano latest success of male line
Blushing Groom Remedia
By John P. Sparkman Twenty years ago, the long-term prospects for the male line of dual champion sire Halo did not look all that bright. His best son, 1989 Horse of the Year Sunday Silence, had been exported to Japan, widely viewed at the time as the dumping ground for failures and rejects. His other Kentucky Derby-winning son, Sunny’s Halo, was a failure as a stallion, and, although his champion son Devil’s Bag was a pretty good stallion, he showed no signs of siring the precocious, classic horse that excites commercial breeders.
The Halo male line in America suffered another serious blow seven years ago when 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam, the best son of Halo’s leading sire son Saint Ballado, died after only one season at stud without leaving an obvious male heir. Today, the late Sunday Silence is immortalized as the greatest sire and sire of sires in Japanese history, a horse so good that even less-accomplished sons like Silent Name and Hat Trick are making a positive contribution in the land of their father’s birth. Another unheralded son of Halo,
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the beautifully bred Southern Halo, became one of the greatest sires in Argentine history, and his best American son, More Than Ready, is the sire of current Kentucky Derby favorite Verrazano, who is exactly the type of horse that will make breeders salivate. Halo himself survived a very unusual start to his stud career. The late Charles Engelhard purchased the Hail to Reason half-brother to Racing Hall of Fame member Tosmah for $100,000 at the 1970 Keeneland July selected yearling sale, despite the fact that the tempestuous colt flipped in the walking ring outside the pavilion. Halo developed into a good grass horse at 3, winning the Lawrence Realization, which attracted a bid from English breeder Irving Allen. When Allen’s representatives discovered that Halo was a cribber (a horse that clings to objects with his teeth and sucks air into his stomach) – then considered a disqualifying flaw by old-fashioned English breeders – the sale was rescinded and Halo returned to the barn of trainer MacKenzie Miller. Halo improved further as a 5-year-old, winning the Grade 1 United Nations Handicap and Grade 2 Tidal Handicap, earning a place at Windfields Farm alongside his “cousin” Northern Dancer, a son of a half-sister to Halo’s dam. Halo was no Northern Dancer as a stallion, but he developed into a terrific sire, with six champions and seven Grade 1 winners among his 63 stakes winners from 749 foals (8.4 percent). Halo’s close relationship to Northern Dancer offered breeders many opportunities to inbreed to their shared grandam, Almahmoud, a combination that has resulted in innumerable top horses, including champions Serena’s Song, Fantastic Light, Ashado, Daiwa Major, and Singspiel, but one of the best racehorses to emerge from the direct cross of Halo and a Northern Dancer mare was Southern Halo. Bred by Northern Dancer’s breeder, E.P. Taylor, out of 1977 Grade 3 Test Stakes winner Northern Sea from the great family of Lea Lark, Southern Halo clearly possessed plenty of racing ability. Purchased for $600,000 at the 1984 Keeneland July sale by Stavros Niarchos, he failed to place at 2 in Ireland but won 5 of 22 starts for trainer D. Wayne Lukas over the next two years in America. Southern Halo was beaten only a head by Clear Choice in the 1986 Grade 1 Swaps Stakes and finished second in the Grade 1 Super Derby to Wise Times, but he never managed to win a stakes race. That résumé omission, combined with the fact that he was markedly back at the knee and upright in his pasterns, made him a marginal stud prospect in Kentucky, so Southern Halo was sold to Haras La Quebrada near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Southern Halo quickly proved himself the most successful sire of the modern era in Argentina, winning seven sire championships and siring 18 Argentine champions among his career total of 175 stakes winners from 1,828 foals (9.6 percent). That overwhelming success led to Ashford Stud reimporting him as a shuttle sire in 1996, but he did not meet the same success in the land of his birth. Southern Halo sired Canadian champion Edenwold, but by far his most important North American-conceived offspring was More Than Ready. Out of the Woodman mare Woodman’s Girl, More Than Ready was bred by Woodlynn Farm and sold for $187,000 to Edward Rosen as agent for James Scatuorchio. Exceptionally precocious for a contemporary racehorse, More Than Ready won his first five starts at 2, commencing with a 4 1/2-furlong maiden romp at Keeneland in April and ending with an equally easy
triumph in the Grade 2 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga in July. His natural front-running exuberance played against him in longer juvenile events, and he disappointed in his last two starts. More Than Ready won the Hutcheson Stakes with the same style early at 3, finished second in the Louisiana Derby and Blue Grass Stakes, and hung on grimly for fourth in the Kentucky Derby. Trainer Todd Pletcher then transformed him into a come-from-behind sprinter-miler, finally getting that elusive Grade 1 victory in the seven-furlong King’s Bishop Stakes. More Than Ready retired to Vinery Stud in 2001 and began shuttling to Vinery’s Australian division that same autumn. He has been successful in North America from the beginning, but his record in Australia is actually far superior to his achievements here. More Than Ready’s 51 Australian-conceived stakes winners include nine Group 1 winners, led by the great fi lly More Joyous, winner of 21 of 30 starts and earner of more than $4.4 million. More Than Ready is a great sire in Australia and is certainly a very good one here. His 65 stakes winners from 951 North American foals age 3 and up (6.8 percent) include Grade 1 winners Regally Ready (out of Kivi, by King of Kings) and Buster’s Ready (Beatem Buster, by Honour and Glory), as well as Breeders’ Cup winners Regally Ready, Pluck (Secret Heart, by Fort Wood), and More Than Real (Miss Seffens, by Dehere). Verrazano certainly looked like a horse who will develop into a Grade 1 winner in his Tampa Bay Derby victory March 9. More Than Ready gets winners on all surfaces, but has yet to sire a major winner at a distance longer than 1 1/8 miles. Those opportunities are very thin on the ground in the United States these days, and his female line certainly will not hurt Verrazano’s chances of going 1 1/4 miles or beyond. His dam, Enchanted Rock, by Giant’s Causeway, had little chance to prove her stamina, running 10th in her only start, but she comes from a very high-class family that has consistently produced high-class middle-distance horses by stallions with far more speed than stamina for the past 50 years. The late Robert Kleberg, owner of King Ranch, imported Verrazano’s fi fth dam, Monade, by the miler Klairon, in 1964 after a championship career in Europe that saw her win Group 1-level events at distances from a mile to 1 1/2 miles and run second to Soltikoff in the 1962 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe. Monade produced Grade 1-placed stakes winner Pressing Date, by Never Bend, but her daughters and their descendants have established one of the best families in the contemporary international stud book. Her descendants include champion Queena (by Mr. Prospector), and Grade 1 or Group 1 winners Sadeem (by Forli), Chic Shirine (by Mr. Prospector), Too Chic (by Blushing Groom), and Brahms (by Danzig). Verrazano is the second foal and second graded stakes winner produced by Enchanted Rock, whose first, El Padrino, by the recently deceased Pulpit, captured the 2012 Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes. She has since foaled current juvenile fi lly La Madrina, by Tapit, and an unnamed yearling fi lly by Pulpit and is back in foal to the same sire. Kleberg’s granddaughter Emory Hamilton bred Verrazano and sold him at the 2011 Keeneland September yearling sale through her sister Helen Alexander’s Middlebrook Farm for $250,000 to Let’s Go Stable. Hamilton retained La Madrina for racing, and it will be interesting to see whether El Padrino’s full sister appears at Keeneland this fall. If she does, buyers will be more than ready.
HALO’S MALE LINE SHOWING SELECTED SONS, GRANDSONS, GREAT GRANDSONS WHO HAVE RUNNERS Devil’s Bag Abaginone Devil His Due Roses in May Diablo Taiki Shuttle Twilight Agenda Don’t Say Halo (in Australia) Halo Sunshine (in Argentina) Halo’s Image Jolie’s Halo Lively One Oregon (in Australia) Parfaitement Saint Ballado Captain Bodgit Ocean Terrace (in Chile) Saint Liam Sunriver Sweetsouthernsaint Yankee Victor Southern Halo El Compinche (in Argentina) Handsome Halo (in Argentina) More Than Ready Sebring (in Australia) Ready’s Image Sebi Halo (in Argentina) Spring Halo (in Argentina) Sunday Silence Agnes Tachyon Bubble Gum Fellow Daiwa Major Dance in the Dark Deep Impact Durandal Fuji Kiseki Hat Trick Heart’s Cry Manhattan Cafe Marvelous Sunday Neo Universe Silent Name Special Week
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DRF BREEDING
New hoof research and treatment help to gain ground on laminitis By Glenye Cain Oakford
SHIGEKI KIKKAWA
Paynter is back in training after recovering from colitis-related laminitis.
When laminitis contributed to Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro’s death at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center in 2007, the dreaded disease – an often-fatal complication of catastrophic limb injury – commanded enormous public attention. So did the fundraising efforts to cure this age-old veterinary problem. Six years later, clinicians and researchers say, the veterinary profession is gaining ground in the battle, thanks to research and improvements in areas from digital radiography to glue-on horseshoes to cryotherapy, also known as cold therapy. Some of that promising research is taking place at the New Bolton Center, which treated the two horses whose highly publicized bouts with the painful hoof disease in recent years have had very different outcomes: Barbaro, who was euthanized after developing laminitis secondary to his breakdown, and Haskell winner Paynter, who recovered from colitis-related laminitis last year and is back in training. “We understand the disease much better now than we did even five or 10 years ago,” said Dr. James Orsini, director of Penn’s Laminitis Institute. “A ‘shock organ’ is an organ that fails related to some sort of systemic disease. In people, the lung is one of those organs. What we’re finding is that the lamellar tissue in the horse’s foot is a similar target organ for the horse. So, we know that if we can treat these other diseases more effectively — like colitis, or a mare with a retained placenta, or a horse with pleural pneumonia — we can better protect the foot from becoming the shock organ that ultimately fails and results in a crippling disease. “If I could identify one or two gamechangers,” Orsini added, “I’d say one is our ability to look at the molecular level of the tissue, to actually look at the cells and better understand what’s occurring on a molecular level relative to the tissue inflammation and the derangement of the tissue. The other thing that’s helped is we now understand that a technique that’s been around for hundreds of years — using cold therapy — is one of the best techniques available to us. We can identify the at-risk horse better, and our goal is to prevent the disease rather than have to treat it.” Veterinarians don’t just look to the foot when tackling laminitis. They carefully consider the underlying cause and then try to stabilize that cause, Orsini said. And today, they are applying therapies aggressively to at-risk horses, not just to those showing acute signs of laminitis, said Dr. Bryan Fraley, a farrier and veterinarian whose Fraley Equine Podiatry is affiliated with Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Kentucky.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
Dr. Dean Richardson grazing Barbaro in the summer of 2006 when the horse was being treated after fracturing his right hind leg in the Preakness Stakes. The original fracture healed, but Barbaro was was euthanized Jan. 29, 2007, after developing laminitis in his other limbs. SABINA LOUISE PIERCE / UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Fraley was one of the vets who treated Paynter. That colt underwent cryotherapy well before he showed any distress from the disease. “It’s been proven that if we ice these horses before they ever show clinical signs, and sometimes even in the early acute stages that are initially painful, we can actually help minimize the changes,” Fraley said. “We can try to prevent those horses from going from acute to chronic.” Paynter did develop early signs of the disease, Fraley said, prompting the team to apply casts to prevent his coffin bone from sinking if the laminitis progressed. “In my experience, if we apply foot casts with impression material like dental impression material to the bottom of the foot, we give those horses very good support to the center of the bony column,” Fraley said. “We try to unload the wall and the laminae. In Paynter’s case, it worked.
“In the past, we were often waiting for horses to show clinical signs,” Fraley said. “Now, we’re trying to identify horses that are at risk before they ever show the first symptom.” Dr. Hannah Galantino-Homer at Penn’s Laminitis Institute hopes her research into “serum biomarkers” — molecular changes in the blood that can signal laminitis-induced tissue changes — someday will help clinicians identify signs of laminitis even faster. “Our overall goal is to find diagnostic markers, like serum tests, that would allow us to detect [laminitis signs] early and to give us some sense of how they’re going to do — a prognosis,” GalantinoHomer said. “One marker we’re looking at, we have a horse who was euthanized for supporting-limb laminitis with complete detachment of the hoof capsule, and it looks like that marker went up pretty early. So, if we have a large-enough study with a lot of horses, collecting from the clinic and following
through to see what happens, we might be able to correlate that marker with how much damage they have. “Because that damage doesn’t always show up until much later,” she added. “People talk about taking X-rays and looking at whether the coffin bone has moved relative to the hoof capsule. But that happens after the damage occurs. If we can detect the damage earlier, that would be helpful in those intensively managed hospital cases.” Galantino-Homer’s lab also is helping to develop a database of naturally occurring laminitis cases and a tissue bank showing changes at various stages of the disease. Her team is working to develop a laboratory in-vitro system so they can study the lamellae cells more closely and easily. They are discovering some interesting angles on this ancient disease. “The pathologist I work with, Julie Engiles, has been looking at the bone changes and how that’s not just a con-
sequence of laminitis,” she said. “That’s happening very early and could be propagating the disease and be a big source of the pain.” Another key is to prevent or quickly resolve the issues that lead to laminitis, including catastrophic breakdowns. As in Barbaro’s case, a horse who undergoes surgery to repair one leg is at risk of developing support-limb laminitis, caused by overloading a sound limb as the horse shifts weight from an injured one. “It’s important to think about any pre-existing bone disease, too, and to ask if we can make bone heal faster,” said Dr. Kurt Hankenson, who holds the Dean W. Richardson Chair for Equine Disease Research at Penn. Among the practical laminitis-prevention developments to help the postsurgical horse, according to Hankenson: “Mats in stalls, which are being
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HOOF CARE used with greater frequency to provide some cushion.” Hankenson noted that improvements in shoeing technologies, such as glue-on shoes, can aid support for injured horses and potentially reduce the laminitis risk. Laminitis research has benefited from high-profi le cases like Barbaro and Paynter. After Barbaro’s death in 2007, Gretchen and Roy Jackson, Barbaro’s owners and breeders, donated $3 million to endow the Dean W. Richardson Chair that Hankenson now holds. Later that year, philanthropists Marianne and John Castle gave Penn’s vet school $1 million for laminitis research. This month, the Grayson-Jockey Club Equine Research Foundation included a pair of laminitis-related projects in its 2013 funding grants. And the American Association of Equine Practitioners Foundation also has laminitis studies underway and planned for the future. But researchers note that the overall funding for laminitis study remains relatively small. More funding would enhance research, but in the meantime, the small community of laminitis researchers has come up with some useful collaborations, Orsini and GalantinoHomer said. Clinicians also are collaborating.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE
An in-shoe force measuring system developed at the University of Pennsylvania helps assess the level of support for a laminitic hoof. Paynter was a case in point. Veterinarians from New York’s Upstate Equine Medical Center, Penn’s New Bolton Center, and Kentucky’s Hagyard clinic were sought out by owner Ahmed Zayat for advice in solving both colitis and
secondary laminitis. Even on a smaller scale, horsemen can expect a team approach when it comes to laminitis treatments, including the veterinarian or surgeon treating the initial injury or sickness, as well as the farrier.
“We have a lot better technologies in terms of the types of glue-ons and shoes that are out there,” Fraley said. “We have options, from new polyurethane shoes to better support materials. I think farriers are critically important in the treatment of a laminitic horse. Farriers are usually first on the scene and first to recognize the problem. They often recognize subtle changes, and in acute cases, they can get shoes off quickly, with minimal trauma, and help veterinarians get that horse better foot support.” Fraley and others caution that the difference in Paynter’s outcome versus Barbaro’s is due to a number of factors, including the different causes that led to each horse’s laminitis. That’s an important distinction for veterinarians because different causes might call for slightly different treatments. “And I think we’re better today at deciphering the different causes,” Orsini said. Orsini noted improvements in equine medications for some of the specific conditions that can lead to laminitis, like Cushing’s disease, and there is ongoing research into the safest and most effective pain medications. “The older nonsteroidals like ibuprofen that we take as two-legged patients, there are now drugs that are very specifically formulated for the horse that are even better anti-inflammatories with fewer side effects,” Orsini said. Dr. David Hood of the Hoof Project Foundation in Texas is working with researchers at the University of California-Davis to study the effectiveness of pain medications. And while clinicians often are focused on preventing or halting very early-stage laminitis, Hood also is looking at laminitis from the other end of the timescale, seeking solutions on how to best rehabilitate horses who have chronic laminitis. One of the advances in that area is Hood’s own development, a force-plate system similar to an electronic scale that allows him to measure more precisely how much weight a laminitic horse is putting on each limb at any given time. “We can see exactly how lame the horse is, which foot is worse,” Hood said. “We’ll usually then do a diagnostic nerve-blocking workup on them using the force-plate to see where the pain is coming from. “We’re also doing some laminar biopsies now, looking at the type of healing that’s going on inside the foot,” he added. “We’ll go in through the dorsal wall and take a little piece of tissue and work on it, look at it with a microscope.” More research at the molecular level should mean that more knowledge and better treatments – possibly including stem-cell therapy – are on the way, clinicians and research vets said. “We haven’t eliminated all cases of kidney, lung, or heart failure in people,” Penn’s Galantino-Homer pointed out, noting that laminitis will likely always be with horses. “But we’re going to make it less common, we hope, and more treatable.”
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Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale arrives on wave of momentum By Glenye Cain Oakford Fasig-Tipton’s Florida select juvenile sale, on Monday at the Palm Meadows Training Center, will test the upper limits of the 2-year-old marketplace at a time when expectations for juvenile auction prices are running high. The Florida sale, now in its third year at Palm Meadows in Boynton Beach, Fla., cataloged just 136 horses this year. That is down 19 percent from last season’s 167-horse catalog and reflects further slippage in national foal crop numbers, which plummeted after the global economic crisis and bloodstock market crash in 2008. That cut in the number of young Thoroughbreds has helped boost prices, sales officials have said, as supply shrinks in the face of what appears to be reasonably stable demand at recent select 2-year-olds in training sales. Last year, the Florida auction produced three millionaire juveniles, led by the season’s highest-priced 2-year-old at auction. That was the $1.3 million Big Brown colt Darwin, now a winner, that Amy and Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree agency sold to Coolmore agent Demi O’Byrne. The 2012 auction ended its session with 60 horses sold for $19,215,000, a 7 percent dip compared with the previous year, but average and median both increased. Average climbed 35 percent to $320,250, and median improved 14 percent to $227,500. A cautionary note came, as it often does in the juvenile market, in the number of withdrawals and buybacks. From last year’s initial catalog of 167 horses, 84 went through the ring. Twenty-four of those failed to reach their sellers’ reserves, but the resulting 29 percent buyback rate immediately after the auction was well below the 2011 figure of 39 percent. The message was a familiar one to 2-year-old sellers and one that almost certainly will be repeated throughout the juvenile auction calendar in 2013: There is plenty of money at the top of the market, but bidders at the select sales remain very stringent in their requirements. Though Fasig-Tipton had posted 23 outs as of Thursday, additional withdrawals traditionally follow the undertack shows at the select juvenile sales. Fasig-Tipton’s under-tack preview was to be held Friday at the Palm Meadows Training Center’s oval. Fasig-Tipton’s Florida sale is the third on the select sale circuit and follows bullish upper-market spending at the two earlier events: the Barretts March auction in Pomona, Calif., on March 4 and the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s sale that took place in Ocala, Fla., on March 12-13. Both saw sizable gains, justifying auction officials’ pre-season optimism about their bottom lines. After selling 61 horses for a combined $8,751,000, the Barretts March sale posted an average of $143,459 and a $100,000 median; those figures rose 31 percent and
Fasig-Tipton Florida sale: Standout catalog pages By Joe Nevills Hip No. 19, dark bay or brown filly, by Smart Strike – Music Room, by Unbridled’s Song, consigned by Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, agent. The third foal out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Music Room, who is a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Music Note and to Musical Chimes, a Group 1 winner in France and Grade 1 winner in the United States. Her notable family members include champion It’s in the Air, Grade/ Group 1 winner Storming Home, and Grade/ Group 2 winners Bitooh and Porte Bonheur. The consignor picked her up for $250,000 at last year’s Keeneland September yearling sale.
Hip No. 28, chestnut colt, by Malibu Moon – Partyship, by Premiership, consigned by Eddie Woods, agent. By a very fashionable sire and out of the Premiership mare Partyship, who has produced eight winners from 11 to race, including Grade 3-placed stakes winner Barrier Reef. He comes from the family of Grade 1 winner and sire Yes It’s True, Canadian champion Kiss a Native, Grade 2 winner Silver Max, and Grade 3 winner Prince of the Mt. After being sold as a weanling for $290,000, the colt finished under his reserve at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga selected yearling sale with a final bid of $370,000.
Hip No. 72, dark bay or brown colt, by Arch – Tell It, by Storm Cat, consigned by Hartley/ DeRenzo Thoroughbreds, agent. A product of the storied Claiborne breeding program, this colt is out of the Storm Cat mare Tell It, who is the dam of five winners from as many to race, including stakes winner Dream Nettie. Tell It is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner and the late flagship Claiborne sire Pulpit, and the colt also lists graded/group stakes winners and sires Tale of the Cat, Johannesburg, and Minardi on his page. Hartley/DeRenzo Thoroughbreds bought the colt for $100,000 at last year’s Keeneland September sale.
18 percent, respectively. The sale-topping colt, a son of Malibu Moon from the family of multiple Grade 1 winner Peace Rules, sold to Demi O’Byrne for $675,000. James Chapman’s Breaking Point Farm consigned the colt, who is out of Fashion Cat, by Forest Wildcat, and was one of three juveniles to bring $500,000 or more at the sale. O’Byrne was the Barretts March sale’s leading buyer by gross expenditures after picking up three horses for $1,425,000,
Hip No. 86, bay colt, by Unbridled’s Song – Winning Bet, by Dixie Union, consigned by de Meric Sales, agent. The second foal out of the Dixie Union mare Winning Bet, who is a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner Finder’s Fee and Grade 2-placed winner Treasure Island. Other successful horses on his page include Chilean champions Weekend Trip and We Can Seek, as well as Grade 1 winners Fantastic Find, Dancing Spree, The Liberal Member, and Furlough, along with Grade 2 winners Blitey and T.D. Vance, and Grade 3 winner Optimizer. De Meric picked up the colt as agent for $250,000 last year at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga sale.
Hip No. 105, bay colt, by Street Cry – Candlelight, by Kingmambo, consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, agent. The third foal out of the winning Kingmambo mare Candlelight, whose first runner is a winner in France. Candlelight is a half-sister to multiple Grade 1 winner and leading sire Grand Slam and to stakes winner and sire Leestown. Also in the colt’s family is Christmas Kid, a Grade 1-winning mare who later sold for $4.2 million at the 2011 Keeneland November breeding stock sale. This colt failed to meet his reserve at the 2012 Keeneland September sale, with a final bid of $385,000.
Hip No. 125, gray or roan filly, by Tapit – General Jeanne, by Honour and Glory, consigned by Niall Brennan Stables, agent. This filly has the ideal combination of a hot sire in the sales ring and on the racetrack as well as a multiple graded stakes-producing mare. She is out of the winning Honour and Glory mare General Jeanne, whose six foals to race have all been winners, including Grade 2 winners Justwhistledixie and Chace City. Also on her page are Grade 2 winners Pok Ta Pok, Penny’s Reshoot, Smooth Air, and Overdriven. Her reserve was not met at last year’s Keeneland September sale, with a top bid of $325,000.
a welcome signal to upper-market sellers that Coolmore could be a consistent and active presence this season. When the final hammer fell, from a catalog of 138 horses there had been 46 scratches at Barretts. Thirty-one juveniles had failed to reach their sellers’ reserve prices, resulting in a 34 percent buyback rate, but that was down from 36 percent at the auction’s 2012 edition. The two-day OBS sale also rang up gains in average and median, and it fi red
THE FASIG-TIPTON FLORIDA SALE When: March 25, 2013, at noon Under-tack preview: March 22, 2013, at 9 a.m. Where: Palm Meadows Training Center, 8898 Lyons Road, Boynton Beach, Fla. 33472 Phone: (859) 255-1555 Catalog: 136 horses, down from 167 in 2011 Recent history: Last year, the auction sold three seven-figure horses, including the season’s highestpriced juvenile auction graduate: $1.3 million Darwin, by Big Brown. Amy and Ciaran Dunne’s Wavertree agency sold that colt to Coolmore agent Demi O’Byrne. The 2012 auction sold 60 horses sold for $19,215,000, down seven percent from 2011’s total, but average and median both increased sharply. Average rose 35 percent to $320,250, while median climbed 14 percent to $227,500. Buybacks were 29 percent, down from 39 percent in 2011. Internet: Live streaming at www.fasigtipton.com
off a $1.8 million sale topper, equal to the sale’s record high price set by Garifine in 2006. The sale topper was a Smart Strike colt out of Grade 2 winner Mini Sermon, by the late sire Pulpit; he is from the immediate family of graded stakes winners Minidar, Colonial Minstrel, and A Little Warm. Stonestreet Stables snapped the colt up from the King’s Equine consignment. The Smart Strike colt helped boost the average at OBS March to $156,572, a 14 percent gain compared with last year’s figure, and median jumped 25 percent to hit $125,000. As at Barretts, the buyback rate at OBS slimmed down from 2012’s figure, falling 4 points from 25 percent to 21 percent, with 187 horses bringing an aggregate $29,279,000. There were 109 outs, or about 32 percent of the catalog, from an initial catalog of 345 juveniles. Fasig-Tipton’s Florida auction has gotten a lift from its graduates’ performance so far this racing season. Graydar, a $260,000 purchase at the 2011 auction, took the Grade 1 Donn Handicap. Kauai Katie, a 2012 graduate who cost $490,000, brought her graded stakes tally to four with a pair of wins in 2013. Another 2012 graduate, $100,000 Honorable Dillon, captured the Grade 2 Hutcheson in February, and the 2011 sale’s More Chocolate, who sold for $310,000, has won the Grade 2 La Canada and finished second in the Grade 1 Santa Margarita so far this year. Among older runners, 7-year-old Reynaldothewizard, who sold for $775,000 in 2008, won Meydan’s Mahab al Shimaal, a Group 3, earlier this month. The Fasig-Tipton Florida sale will take place Monday, March 25, at Palm Meadows, starting at noon Eastern.
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HOT SIRE: HAT TRICK
BRIGHT THOUGHT IS LATEST SHARP TURF RUNNER FROM SON OF SUNDAY SILENCE By Patrick Reed Japanese champion miler Hat Trick entered stud in 2008 at Walmac Farm in Lexington, Ky., with no small amount of interest, as he represented the fi rst Group 1-winning son of Japan’s breed-shaping sire, Sunday Silence, to stand in central Kentucky. His fi rst crop to race has so far produced both a Grade 1 winner and a Group 1 winner, and this month Hat Trick is represented by another breakthrough performer from that cohort. Bright Thought established a world record for 1 1/2 miles on turf in winning the San Luis Rey Stakes on March 16 at Santa Anita, soundly defeating an accomplished field and emerging as an up-and-coming contender in the long-distance grass division. Bright Thought, a 4-year-old colt owned by co-breeder Alex Venneri and Marjorie Dye, covered 1 1/2 miles in 2:22.72, good for a 104 Beyer Speed Figure. That time, accomplished in a race where the fi rst three furlongs were contested on Santa Anita’s downhill slope, eclipsed Hawkster’s world record of 2:22.80 set over the Santa Anita turf course in 1989. Hat Trick moved to Antony Beck’s Gainesway in Lexington for the 2012 breeding season, and his syndication was reorganized, with Gainesway purchasing a significant interest and Walmac Farm retaining an equity stake (the stallion also has shuttled to Australia and South America). The move was announced just as Hat Trick was putting the finishing touches on a season in which he ranked as the fi fth-leading freshman sire in North America in 2011, with more than $800,000 in progeny earnings. During that summer, juvenile colt Dabirsim put Hat Trick on the map in Europe by winning three consecutive group stakes in France – including back-to-back Group 1 races in the Prix Morny and the Grand Criterium – and earning the Cartier Award as Europe’s top 2-year-old male. Last year, two more strong turf runners surfaced from Hat Trick’s fi rst crop. Team Valor’s Howe Great captured three stakes, including the Grade 3 Palm Beach, where he defeated Dullahan, and placed in three others. King David, who did not hit the board in four starts as a juvenile and began 2012 in the claiming ranks, suddenly elevated his game in the autumn to score a Grade 1 win in the Jamaica Handicap. He has since finished second in two more graded events, including the Grade 3 John B. Connally Turf Cup in January. This trend of late development from Hat Trick’s first-crop runners continues with Bright Thought. The stallion’s second crop is represented by French stakes winner Zenji, who captured a listed race as a juvenile last year. All five of Hat Trick’s stakes winners to date have come on turf – he has three stakes-placed dirt runners so far, led by the Grade 3-placed Emona — so it
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Bright Thought, ridden by Victor Espinoza, sets a world record of 2:22.72 for a mile and a half on turf in the San Luis Rey Stakes on March 16 at Santa Anita. comes as no surprise that he has developed a growing reputation among European breeders. Michael Hernon, director of sales at Gainesway, said Hat Trick likely would be bred to 125 to 130 mares in 2013 after breeding to 134 last year, and that Bright Thought’s performance will only enhance the stallion’s appeal, particularly at his current fee of $15,000. “Bright Thought is an exciting horse for the stallion going forward, and Hat Trick’s already shown significant ability as a young sire,” Hernon said. “He did breed to a good quality of mares last year, and plenty of them. He gets good internal support from the syndicate...it’s a good cross section of breeders, including European interests. “I think being a son of Sunday Silence, Sunday Silence was such a brilliant racehorse, and it’s the Hail to Reason line, so it gives a lot of breeders an opportunity to get some different blood in their mares,” he added. “Hat Trick was a champion himself, and I think his commercial appeal will appreciate.” Hat Trick possesses no inbreeding through his first five crosses. His dam, the Lost Code mare Tricky Code, won nine races in four seasons and earned more than $600,000, highlighted by a win in the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Santa Anita. His second dam, the Damascus mare Dam Clever, is a half-sister
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to Arkansas Derby and Louisiana Derby winner Clev Er Tell and to Smart Queen, who is the dam of Grade 3 winner and Saratoga course record-setter Phi Beta Doc and the second dam of 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner Dayatthespa. Bred in Japan by Oiwake Farm, Hat Trick was campaigned by U Carrot Farm from ages 3 to 6 and produced his best season by far as a 4-year-old in 2005, when he
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won four group stakes at a mile, including the Grade 1 Mile Championship at Kyoto and the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin, to earn champion miler honors in his home country. Hat Trick did not show much interest in racing during eight subsequent starts and never won at distances longer than a mile,
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All five of Hat Trick’s stakes winners have come on turf.
but both Howe Great and King David have already won stakes beyond that distance, and Bright Thought took a 1 1/4-mile optional claimer by 5 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita before his 3 1/4-length route in the 1 1/2-mile San Luis Rey. Bright Thought’s pedigree on his dam’s side unfolds nicely to reveal a female family stocked with high achievers. His dam, the winning Smart Strike mare Smart Thought, has produced three winners in addition to Bright Thought; she is a half-sister to stakes winner Rage Till Dawn. Relations get really interesting with Bright Thought’s third dam, Right Word, by Verbatim. She placed only once in six starts during the mid-1980s but produced 10 winners from 11 starters, including Grade 3 winner Ascutney and multiple stakes winner Words of War. Ascutney, by Lord At War, won the Miesque Stakes on turf at Hollywood and is the dam of 2008 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner, English Group 1 winner, and promising Darley sire Raven’s Pass as well as Grade 3 winner and sire Gigawatt. Ascutney’s full sister, Words of War, produced E Dubai, the sire of 2012 Breeders’ Cup winner Fort Larned; and Del Mar Oaks winner No Matter What, who has in turn produced Grade 3 turf winners Just as Well and Winter View, along with the sensational multiple Group 1-winning Rainbow View, who earned the Cartier Award as European champion 2-year-old fi lly in 2008. Right Word also is the dam of multiple stakes winner Word o’ Ransom, who has produced three stakes winners. It is an understatement to point out that Sunday Silence transformed the Japanese bloodstock industry during the late 20th and
early 21st centuries, but his potency as a sire has remained confined largely to Japan, until recently. His best son, the brilliant Deep Impact, made inroads in Europe during 2011-12 with three stakes winners in France, led by last year’s French 1000 Guineas winner, Beauty Parlour. Hat Trick’s success in the U.S. and abroad will only boost Sunday Silence’s influence, and Gainesway’s Hernon noted that Dabirsim, now back in training, is scheduled to make his first start of 2013 in April in a Group 3 stakes at SaintCloud. Stateside, Bright Thought will shoot for his first Grade 1 win in his next scheduled start, as trainer Jorge Gutierrez told Daily Racing Form’s Jay Privman he will point the colt to the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at 1 1/8 miles on the May 4 Kentucky Derby undercard. Three under-the-radar turf horses by Hat Trick to watch are training in Florida and California. Tricky Hat, bred and initially raced in Chile, was acquired by an ownership group including Gainesway and shipped to the United States last fall. The 4-year-old easily won in his second Northern Hemisphere start at Gulfstream in December but has underperformed as the favorite in two subsequent turf starts in southern Florida. Le Fascinator, a Kentucky-bred, 3-year-old filly owned by Bret Jones and Gatewood Bell, picked up her second career win at Tampa Bay Downs in February and was entered in Saturday’s Grade 3 Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway. Lastly, Waitwaitdonttellme, a 4-year-old, California-bred Milt Policzer homebred with name appeal to National Public Radio listeners, notched his maiden win with a late rally March 15 at Santa Anita.
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