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JANUARY • 2015 • VOL 58/ISSUE 1

DEPARTMENT & COLUMNS 6 THE BROCK TALK 8 FLORIDA FOCUS 26 FLORIDA NEWS

Lonny Powell elected to two posts

48 FLORIDA NEWS

Tom Ventura honored

54 FTBOA MEMBERSHIP UPDATES 72 LEADING SIRES 73 LEADING 2-YEAR-OLD SIRES 74 AROUND THE COUNTRY

Country-wide Florida-bred statistics

79 PRACTICALLY SPEAKING —By Mark Shuffitt

80 FARM MANAGEMENT —By Jamie Cohen

90 GENE’S JARGON

—By Gene Kershner

FEATURES

18 CLAIMING CROWN Maker, Ramsey extend claiming crown records; Florida-breds take two crown stakes —By Brock Sheridan

28 RACECALLS

Bobby Neuman: a longtime presence in the OBS announcer booth —By Reg Lansberry

36 HAVE HORSE SENSE, WILL TRAVEL

Alexandra and Brandon Rice spread the word about the Florida thoroughbred industry. —By JoAnn Guidry

46 FLORIDA SIRES STAKES INCREASE PURSES

FSS to now offer stakes for 3-year-olds.—By Brock Sheridan

50 PREPARING FOR BREEDING SEASON 60 EQUINE CARE: SHOCK WAVE TECHNOLOGY

Shock wave therapy eases pain and helps horses heal

66 STALLION SHOWCASE

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COVER PHOTO OF CATHOLIC COWBOY: COGLIANESE CONTENTS PHOTO OF DARING KATHY: FAWKES

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the Brock talk

Brock Sheridan

Editor-in-Chief Florida Equine Publications

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New Blood A

s we head into the 2015 breeding season and many of you are putting together your last bits of research trying to determine which stallions will have dates with your broodmares, I think it’s a good idea to note some of the new stallions available to you here in Florida this year.

Journeyman Stud welcomes Cyber Secret to their roster of stallions in 2015. By Broken Vow and out of the Dixieland Band mare Stomping, Cyber Secret comes to Florida with bloodlines reminiscent of Florida generations past as Broken Vow represents the sire line of Unbridled, Fappiano and Mr. Prospector. He will stand for $2,500.

Woodford Thoroughbreds continues to bring to Florida new stallions as they will offer He’s Had Enough, Magna Graduate and Mark Valeski in 2015.

He’s Had Enough is by the popular stallion Tapit and out of the Dixieland Band mare Amelia and will stand the 2015 season for a stud fee of $5,000.

By Honor Grades and out of Peacock Alley, by Fast Play, Magna Graduate won more than $2.5 million on the track and already has a resume as a stallion having pro-

Whether you choose one of these stallions “ who are new to Florida breeders this year, or one of our other notable Florida stallions, we wish you much success, luck and enjoyment.

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duced graded-stakes winner Jessica Star and four other stakes winners from his first three crops of racing age. He will stand his first season in Florida for a $3,000 fee.

Mark Valeski is by Proud Citizen and out of the Fortunate Prospect mare Dream Girl and earned some $658,452 on the track. A multiple graded-stakes winner, Mark Valeski will stand the 2015 season for $2,500.

Just down the street from Woodford Thoroughbreds is Get Away Farm, who will add Drill to their stallion roster. By Lawyer Ron and out of Cat Dancer, by

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Storm Cat, Drill is a graded-stakes winner who tallied $557,022 on the track. Drill will stand for $4,500.

Pleasant Acres presented their stallion show in late December and surprised everyone with Handsome Mike, who had stepped off the van from California just moments before the show began.

A multiple graded-stakes winner, Handsome Mike earned $1,005,413 from 30 career races. By Scat Daddy and out of Classic Strike, by Smart Strike, Handsome Mike will stand for $4,000.

Adena Springs South, who themselves are returning stallions to Florida for the first time since 2009, will bring to the Sunshine State new stallions Capo Bastone and Fort Larned.

The winner of the 2013 King’s Bishop Stakes (G1), Capo Bastone is by Street Boss and out of Fight to Love,

by Fit to Fight. He will stand for a fee of $4,000.

Fort Larned won the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) and is an earner of more than $4.4 million. By E Dubai and out of Arlucea, by Broad Brush, Fort Larned will stand for a fee of $7,500.

Bridlewood Farm adds Aikenite, Corfu and Fort Loudon.

Graded-stakes winner Aikenite is by Yes It’s True and out of Silverado, by Saint Ballado. A Grade 2 stakes winner, Aikenite will stand for $5,000.

Standing for $3,500 at Bridlewood is Corfu, a graded stakes winner by Malibu Moon and out of the Forest Wildcat mare Fashion Cat. Fort Loudon, who swept the male division of the Florida Stallion Stakes in 2012, will stand his first season at stud at Bridlewood after finishing a racing career with $931,973 and as a multiple graded-stakes winner.

By Awesome of Course and out of the Talc mare Lottsa Talc, Fort Loudon will command a fee of $4,000.

So whether you choose one of these stallions who are new to Florida breeders this year, or one of our other notable Florida stallions, we wish you much success, luck and enjoyment. ■

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Florida FOCUS Compiled by Brock Sheridan & Mike Mullaney Daring Kathy Takes My Charmer With Front-Running Win Asked to go a sixteenth farther than she ever had before, and asked to take on her elders for the first time, the Florida-bred, 3-yearold Daring Kathy was far from a sure thing when she went into the gate for the Grade 3, $100,000 My Charmer Handicap at Gulfstream Park West on Nov. 22.

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Florida-bred Daring Kathy

But John Eaton and Steve Laymon’s homebred performed just as she had in all of her previous South Florida turf races, running on or near the lead and daring all others to challenge once she got there.

That challenge never came in the My Charmer, which she won by 1¼ comfortable lengths over the British-bred Cushion, who had a nose in front of the Irish-bred Lilbourne Eliza, who was 1¼ lengths in front of the French-bred Magic of Reality.

The favored Angelica Zapata was fifth.

Daring Kathy, a daughter of Journeyman Stud stallion Wildcat Heir out of Dare to Mambo, by Kingmambo, is four-for-six since trainer David Fawkes put her on the turf last March. She had won the Honey Ryder, Starfish Bay and Cellars Shiraz since then, her only hiccups coming in out-of-town graded stakes, finishing third in the Lake George (G2) and the Ontario Colleen (G3).

“Getting a graded win is really important to the clients. I’m sure they’ll breed her at some point,” Fawkes said.

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pokey quarter in :24.96 and half in :51.80.

Jaen’s ability to throttle down Daring Kathy’s speed earned him high marks from Fawkes.

“Everything was perfect,” Fawkes said.

“When I saw the :51 and change I was like, ‘Wow, look at that.’ That was crazy. He did a really good job of backing up the speed. To me, he rode the smartest race.”

Daring Kathy opened her lead coming off the turn and had plenty left to hold safe Cushion’s late rune.

Daring Kathy finished with fractions of 1:16.24 and 1:40.31 on her way to a 1:52.70 final for the nine furlongs over a course labeled “good.” She paid $11.80.

“I always knew the ability to rate was there, but she’s never gone that slow,” Fawkes said. “It’s really nice to know that maybe some days she doesn’t have to be on the lead. It opens more doors. That was definitely the toughest field she’s hooked, and she did it pretty confidently.”

He added that the $100,000 Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 17 might be next.

“We’re going to let her tell us,” he said. “She’s a pretty easy filly to read and we’ll let her decide.

If we can get another one in, we’ll look at it.”

It was the sixth win in nine career starts for Daring Kathy, who has earned $356,366.

Fla.-bred El Kabeir Takes Kentucky Jockey Club Sure, it’s a long way off, but on Nov. 29 the Florida-bred El Kabeir served notice that he may have something to contribute when the spotlight returns to Churchill Downs the first Saturday of next May. With three-time Kentucky Derby winning rider Calvin Borel aboard for the first time, El Kabeir – bred in Ocala by George Russell’s Rustlewood Farm – made every post a winning one in taking the $233,000, Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club by a head over Imperia.

It was Borel’s fourth victory in the 1 1/16mile test for 2-year-olds. His second victory in this race came with eventual Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver in 2010.

“At the finish I knew it was getting tight because he had never been this far and the track’s a little heavy,” Borel said. “It was a matter of who could outgrind the other. Truly, after this race, it’ll tighten him up real good.”

While the Bob Baffert-trained favorite Lord Nelson came away tardily, El Kabeir broke

Florida’s Silver Charm retires to Old Friends Bob and Beverly Lewis’s champion and dual Classic hero Silver Charm arrived at Old Friends Thoroughbred Retirement Center in late November and will spend the rest of his days at the Kentucky farm.

Bred in Florida by Mary Lou Wootton, the Bob Baffert charge garnered Eclipse Award honors as champion 3-year-old colt in 1997 after wins in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness S. (G1) , added the Dubai World Cup (G1) as a 4-year-old and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2007. Retired with $6,944,369 in purse money and a dozen wins from a 24-race Florida-bred career, the grey son of Silver Buck and the Poker mare Bonnie’s Silver Charm Poker began his stallion career at Three Chimneys Farm before relocating to Japan.

Silver Charm’s progeny have earned in excess of $16 million to date. In October, it was announced that Silver Charm would retire from breeding and return to the United States, spending the rest of his days at Old Friends.

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Jordan Airs Daring the competition to a game of “catch me if you can,” the talented Florida-bred Mr. Jordan carried the game Juan and Bina along for a ride, then broke that challenger’s heart in the stretch to win the $94,250 Smooth Air Nov. 29 at Gulfstream Park West by 4½ lengths.

It was another sterling performance by the glistening gray ghost, bred in Ocala by Phil Florida-bred Mr. Jordan

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well, grabbed the rail and opened a daylight advantage through fractions of :23.62, :47.50 and 1:12.48. Sky Hero was his closest pursuer early, laying back a couple lengths before launching a challenge at the three-quarter mark that El Kabeir promptly rebuffed.

As Sky Hero was dismissed and sent reeling back, Imperia and Eagle made their moves from the rear of the pack. Imperia had first jump and was gaining quickly but El Kabeir had just enough left to hold him safe.

Trainer John Terranova said El Kabeir’s runner-up performance in the Nashua, run over a muddy track at Aqueduct Nov. 2, took a lot out of his colt, forcing him to miss a workout in his lead-in to the KJC. “He ran on a real deep and tiring track that day, ran into a real strong head wind up the backstretch and got a little keen up the backstretch with the blinkers on first time, so I pulled those right off [for this race],” he said.

“I went easy for the first couple of weeks [since the Nashua]. He shipped in great and we wanted to get over this surface and we wanted to get the two turns.

“He’s a real talented colt. He’s just trying to find his balance.

Justin Zayat, son of owner Ahmed Zayat, said, “We were pretty confident the whole way. We talked to John all week, debating back and forth, and we said, ‘Why not take a shot?’ We knew he was a little short but he had the talent to do it.

“It was more fitness-wise than it was distance. He was a work short. Calvin came off and said he was kind of looking around at the shadows and everything, so he’s kind of a little green still. He’s just a baby and is still learning.”

Eagle was third in the field of 11, three quarters of a length behind Imperia, who was making his first start on dirt. The 7-5 favorite Lord Nelson bobbled at the break and finished fifth.

Sent off at 7-1, he paid $16.60 after winning his second race from five starts. He earned $135,792, doubling his career earnings to $268,892.

The victory in the KJC gave El Kabeir 10 points toward a berth in the $2 million Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (G1) May 2 at Churchill Downs.

A gray/roan Florida-bred son of 2007 Florida Derby (G1) winner Scat Daddy out of Great Venue, daughter of the 1996 Florida Derby winner Unbridled’s Song.

and Karen Matthews.

The one-mile Smooth Air, one of six stakes on Gulfstream Park West’s Juvenile Showcase Day, was Mr. Jordan’s first try around two turns and his second attempt against open company.

After breaking his maiden at Monmouth Park, he won the Juvenile Sprint Preview against statebreds Nov. 8 at Gulfstream Park.

Mr. Jordan led from start to finish, setting fractions of :24.71, :48.60 and 1:13.13 before finishing the distance in 1:39.54 eased up through the stretch, when it became clear that Juan and Bina wanted no more, and no more challenges were forthcoming. Mr. Jordan even seemed to high step a few strides into the stretch, as if he were on his way to the end zone instead of the finish line.

Trainer Ed Plesa, who opted to stay in Florida rather than to saddle the barn’s Grade

1 winner, Itsmyluckyday, in the Cigar Mile at Aqueduct, said, “It was impressive. He ran a big, big race. He answered a question about distance. No question about it.”

Gabriel Saez was in the saddle for the Smooth Air, replacing Paco Lopez, the colt’s regular rider who was aboard the Plesa stable’s Itsmyluckyday for the Cigar Mile at Aqueduct. “[Mr. Jordan] just got into a gear and cruised around there,” Saez said. “It was just keeping him together and making sure he switched leads in the stretch.”

Plesa acknowledged that the disappointment of Itsmyluckyday’s last-place finish in the Cigar Mile (G1) was tempered by the performance if the stable’s new star.

“The way he did it … Gabe never touched him with the stick,” he said. “He did it all on his own.”

Sent off at 3-5, Mr. Jordan paid $3.20. The son of Ocala Stud stallion Kantharos-Miss Skeetd, by Cloud Hopping, was a $155,000 purchase at last April’s OBS auction. He is owned

by David Melin, Leon Ellman and Laurie Plesa.

Courageous in defeat, Juan and Bina had 6½ lengths on the third-place Hubba Shake.

“I have to be happy with everything [Mr. Jordan’s] done and achieved thus far, but there are going to be a lot better horses for him to run at in the future,” Plesa said. “Right now it bodes well for everything he’s done. It’s exciting.”

Plesa said the Mucho Macho Man on Jan. 3 at Gulfstream Park is a possible next start for Mr. Jordan.

Leap Year Luck Jumps to Victory Heading into the Nov. 29 $75,000 House Party, trainer Stanley Gold knew where Leap Year Luck was going to be early in the sixfurlong sprint and was cautiously optimistic about where she would end up.

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Florida-bred El Kabeir (right)

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Cyber Secret to Stand at Journeyman Stud Cyber Secret, a multiple-graded stakes winner by leading sire Broken Vow, will stand the 2015 breeding season at Brent and Crys-

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In what has become her calling card, the 2-year-old bay filly came flying on the far outside with a dramatic flourish to catch Ekati’s Phaeton approaching the wire and win the House Party by 1½ lengths.

The House Party was the second of three stakes for fillies on the Juvenile Showcase program at Gulfstream Park West, along with the $75,000 Hut Hut on the main track and the $75,000 Wait a While on the turf, both contested at one mile.

Favored over her nine rivals at 2-1, Leap Year Luck ($6.40) won her second straight and third from seven starts this year, all her victories coming in stakes. It came in a near replay of her last race, a 2¼-length victory in the 6½furlong Juvenile Filly Sprint on Nov. 8.

“The lesser distance didn’t matter, but she had me worried,” Gold said. “I wasn’t sure she was going to get there in time, and she did. You have that concern because it’s shorter, so you hope you’re not as far back.

You have to start sooner and you have to get there quicker, but she took to it.

Under jockey Jesus Rios, Leap Year Luck was reserved near the back of the pack in the early going while Ekati’s Phaeton led through a quarter-mile in :22.22 and a half in :45.53 with Concealedwithakiss at her right flank.

Winner of the six-furlong Sorority Stakes in August at Monmouth Park, Concealedwithakiss took over the top spot approaching the stretch and opened up on the field as Leap Year Luck swung into action on the outside.

Leap Year Luck came with a determined finish down the middle of the track and hit the wire in 1:12.27.

Ekati’s Phaeton came on to pass a tiring Concealedwithakiss for second.

“The way I thought it was going to be, I would just sit and wait and make one move,” Rios said. “At the quarter pole, I thought I had it. It’s a good, good feeling.”

Winner of the Desert Vixen in August at Gulfstream Park, Leap Year Luck has earned $221,009 for owner-breeder Jacks or Better Farm. She is 2-for-3 at six furlongs, her lone loss coming by a neck in her second start, and a win-

ner of both her starts at Gulfstream Park West.

“She likes this track, and she ran good,” Gold said. “She’s just stayed consistent.

Leap Year Luck is by the Journeyman Stud stallion Hear No Evil, out of Lucky of Course

by Awesome of Course, who also stands at Journeyman.

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Cyber Secret

tal Fernung’s Ocala-based Journeyman Stud.

Raced by Oaklawn Park owner and President Charles J. Cella, Cyber Secret rolled to a trio of stakes wins in 2013, including setting a track record. Cyber Secret’s victories included the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap, Razorback Handicap (G3) and Prairie Bayou Stakes. He finished the 2013 season as his sire Broken Vow’s leading earner with $498,329. Trained by Lynn Whiting, Cyber Secret was also second in the $100,000 Fifth Season Stakes in 2014 before retiring with career earnings of $652,993.

In winning the $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap, Cyber Secret defeated 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Fort Larned, who finished fifth. He won by 5¾ lengths in 1:49.67 for 1 1/8 miles. He closed out the season with a 4½-length victory in the $50,000 Prairie Bayou, setting a Turfway Park track record of 1:42.26 for 1 1/16 miles.

“Cyber Secret did everything you could ask a horse to do as a racehorse,” Brent Fernung said. “He won his first start at age two, sprinting at Belmont Park. He then went on to become a multiple graded-stakes winner,

running a route of ground in record-setting time. And after four seasons of racing, he retired sound.”

Cyber Secret is by Broken Vow out of the winning Dixieland Band mare Stomping.

Consigned by his breeder Paragon Farms, Cyber Secret sold for $110,000 at the 2009 Keeneland Novembr mixed sale and was his sire’s highest-priced weanling that year.

“Cyber Secret is a very good-looking horse and is a great fit for Florida,” Fernung said. “He is by Broken Vow, who is from the prolific Florida sire line of Unbridled, Fappiano and Mr. Prospector.”

Cyber Secret’s sire, Broken Vow is a multiple graded-stakes winner by Unbridled out of the Nijinsky II mare Wedding Vow, and who has to date sired 11 stakes winner in 2014. Included in that number are Rosalind, winner of the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes, as well as graded-stakes winners Rainha Da Bateria and Divine Oath.

Broken Vow has sire 64 stakes winners, including 24 graded-stakes winners. His leading lifetime earner is multiple Grade 1 stakes winner Unbridled Belle ($1,909,823).

Cyber Secret will stand the 2015 season for $2,500 as property of Cella.

It’s Not Me Continues His Winning Ways His previous connections could not have realize it at the time, but when they put It’s Not Me into a $16,000 claimer at Gulfstream Park West on Oct. 20, they were about to say goodbye to a horse who would string together three victories and earn nearly $85,000 there in less than six weeks.

The most recent victory came in the Nov. Florida-bred It’s Not Me

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29 Buffalo Man, a $97,250 event for 2-yearolds at six furlongs.

This string of successes came after three dismal performances at Gulfstream Park.

Clearly the change of scenery helped the son of D’wildcat – Jovetta, by Exclusive Quality, who was bred in Florida by Karen Silva.

“He loves this track. That was an advantage he’s had,” trainer Jorge Navarro said.

It’s Not Me led the Buffalo Man from start to finish, outdueling XY Jet early and holding off Brother Bobo by a neck late under a heady ride from apprentice Arny Fontanez.

White Wabbit Wacing claimed the gelding from his previous owners, Champion Equine LLC of Champion, Pa. It’s Not Me had failed to hit the board in three previous tries, all at Gulfstream Park, losing by a combined 35 lengths before finding his

stride at the former Calder Race Course.

“He’s been training great since we got him,” Navarro said.

It’s Not Me tripped the timer in :21.72, :44.51 and:57.50 before hitting the wire in 1:11.88. The winner paid $16.60.

“He was running comfortable all the way,” Fontanez said after winning his first stakes race.

Brother Bobo, 17-1, rallied from seventh in the 10-horse field, five wide, but ran out of ground and could not get past It’s Not Me. Bluegrass Singer, who took up the chase when XY Jet faded, was third.

It’s Not Me’s three wins from six starts have netted his owners $83,835. He was a $50,000 purchase at OBS earlier this year.

“They (previous connections) paid good money for the horse. They thought he probably was a nice horse,” Navarro said. “I thought we’d take a chance on him for $16,000. He’s a good-looking animal.”

Obituary:

Suzanne Sharra-Maxwell November 30, 1947 - November 28, 2014 Reddick- Suzanne Mary Sharra-Maxwell, 66, of Reddick, Fla., passed away on November 28, 2014 at the Legacy Home in Ocala, Fla., after a courageous battle with cancer. She was an amazing, well known thoroughbred race horse trainer and breeder.

She is preceded in death by her father George Sharra. She is survived by the mother Mary (Cieklinski) Sharra of Winchester, NH, her brother Scott Sharra & his wife Margaret and their children Brooke, Jordan and Chris of Winchester, NH, a brother John and his wife and daughter of WV, many cousins and her beloved dog Zeke. She was born in Dothan, AL on Nov.30, 1947, and often moving as a child of a military man she finished her childhood in Danbury Ct. graduating from Danbury High School in 1964. She began her lifelong passion with horses by attending an equestrian academy in NY, and in her younger years jumping, exercising and training horses for many stables in the Northeast and Marion County. She permanently moved to Marion County in 1978. Shortly thereafter she started her own business Pyrite Farm, and most recently 24Carrots, LLC Farm.

She was well known as a very smart business woman for producing durable races horses that stood the test of time. Her dedicated diligent manner proved she knew how to maximize the potential of any horse as naturally as possible, and her greatest talent was her “sixth sense” when foaling. She was affiliated with a number of stakes winners. She was a member of the FTBOA and past member of the Florida Farm Managers. Her other passions were fishing, roller blading, antiquing, traveling, and spending time with her brother Scott and his family. She will be sadly missed by her many loving friends with whom she shared many great memories with and who were so wonderful in helping her during these last few months. At her request there will not be a funeral service. In lieu of flowers donation may be made to Hospice of Marion County or the Farm Chaplaincy.

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Classic Point Wins ‘Wand’ Joseph Shields’ homebred, Florida-bred Classic Point made it two stakes successes in a row Friday when she took the $300,000, Grade 3 Go for Wand by a nose over Princess Violet.

Florida-bred Classic Point

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Moment of Dixie was third, 2¼ lengths farther back.

The 5-year-old Classic Point, a chestnut daughter of the A.P. Indy stallion Flatter out of Discerning, by Langfuhr, has won seven of her 30 career starts and has earned $548,034.

She is two-for-three since she left the barn of Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens and went into the barn of Jerkens’ son, Jimmy, and is two-for–two with blinkers on.

“I don’t know if it was just the blinkers,” Jerkens said. “I think it’s usually a combination of things that makes them win. Her last race was great and she got some confidence back.”

She came into the Go for Wand off a 6½length victory in the restricted Punkin Pie at Belmont on Oct. 13. The graded Go for Wand figured to be tougher, but Classic Point, although misbehaving in the starting gate, was up to the challenge under Angel Arroyo.

Dismissed at 8-1, she was a bit slower from the gate than usual but she picked it up quickly and stalked Sweet Whiskey and fellow Florida-bred Tapit’s World through the first quarter in :23.84 and :47.42.

Sweet Whiskey shook loose of Tapit’s World leaving the half-mile pole but Classic Point took up the chase and was only a head behind after three-quarters in 1:12.65. Sweet Whiskey was weary and Classic Point eased in front, opening a length, but she was all out

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Florida’s D’cajun Cat Wins in Cajun Country The Florida-bred D’cajun Cat posted an 11-1 upset of the Sam’s Town Stakes at Delta Downs on Nov. 22.

The seven-furlong Sam’s Town was on the undercard of a huge day of racing at Delta Downs that featured the $1 million Jackpot and $400,000 Princess Stakes.

D’cajun Cat, bred by Eico Stable of Williston, came into the Sam’s Town off an impressive 4½-length victory against allowance company at Delta Downs, his only previous start there.

He had broken his maiden first time out of the box at Churchill Downs before his thentrainer Steve Asmussen put him straight into stakes company, registering a fifth in the Bashford Manor (G3) at Churchill, a third in the Super Bowl at the Fair Grounds and a ninth in the Smarty Jones at Oaklawn.

A couple more losses came in claiming races at Oaklawn, at which point he was transferred to Steve Flint’s barn. The gelded son of D’wildcat and Rabiadella, by Dynaformer, slowly regained his form but it wasn’t noticed by the crowd, who dismissed D’cajun Cat and made General Ike the 7-10 favorite.

D’cajun Cat was away alertly under Gerald Melancon and made the lead at the first call (:23.04) but dropped back as General Ike and Kody With a K began a duel that carried the field through a half in :47.69. D’cajun Cat made his move approaching the final turn and easily went past the tiring leaders, opening his margin and hitting the wire 2¼ lengths ahead of National Defence. Kody With a K out14 THE FLORIDA HORSE • JANUARY 2015

Mahoning Sprint to Star Harbour

since running second in the Honorable Miss and Gallant Bloom, a pair of Grade 2 stakes at Saratoga and Belmont, during the summer of 2013.

While she has spent most of her career on the New York Racing Association circuit, the Go for Wand was her first start at Aqueduct.

Red Oak Florida-bred Takes Gold Rush

The gritty Florida-bred Star Harbour closed in on $500,000 in career earnings Nov. 29 with a typically stylish, wire-to-wire victory in the $50,000 Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Sprint.

Ridden by Deshawn Parker, the 6-year-old horse – bred by Peter and Anne Vegso – grappled with longshot Sir Lowry’s Pass early through a quarter in :23.12, and a half in :46.22.

Sir Lowry’s Pass lost interest as the field came home in the six-furlong event and Star Harbour lengthened his advantage on the field, hitting the line 2¼ lengths ahead of Jasizzle. Sir Lowry’s Pass was a half-length farther back in third.

Star Harbour, a son of Indian CharlieSnug Harbour, by Boston Harbor, tripped the timer in 1:12.89.

The veteran, trained by Joe Woodard, is owned by Billy, Donna and Justin Hays. He has won nine of 28 career starts and has earned $465,824.

The Sprint was run at Mahoning Valley Racecourse, a new facility located in Youngstown, Ohio.

Sweet Whiskey held fourth.

Classic Point paid $18.40 and ran the mile Go for Wand in 1:37.78.

It was her best showing in a graded event

In the aftermath of the Dec. 6, $75,000 Gold Rush Stakes at Golden Gate, Jerry Hollendorfer, who enjoyed another great campaign with the 3-year-old Shared Belief in 2014, was indicating he believes the 2-yearold Florida-bred Stand and Salute might develop into a special horse for 2015.

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to withstand the onrushing favorite, Princess Violet, who was traveling eight wide.

“After I saw the first quarter-mile … that she was laying where she was … that’s just galloping for her,” Jerkens said. “She’s a big, rangy mare and it was like a gallop for her to go that slow the first part. That was the whole ticket.

lasted General Ike for third by a half-length.

D’cajun Cat ran the seven furlongs in 1:26.04.

He earned $45,000 to bring his career record to three wins from 13 starts with earnings of $117,445.

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With the Hall of Famer Hollendorfer conditioning, and Hall of Famer Russell Baze riding, the Red Oak Stable homebred made a bold move to split horses en route to winning the one-mile Gold Rush by a half-length from Broughton Kitty.

Sandor the Hound, the other Florida-bred in the seven-horse field, finished third, a length farther back.

Second-choice Great Lou, Rye Patch and favored Unblunted raced three across through the first quarter in a manageable :24.15. It was the 32-1 Rye Patch who emerged as the leader down the backstretch, getting the halfmile in :48.68 and the six furlongs in 1:13.76 over a fast track. Unblunted found more and closed in on Rye Patch, but Stand and Salute, the beneficiary of a ground-saving ride from Baze, was also coming and he found room between the two leaders.

Both Unblunted and Rye Patch fell back

when Stand and Salute split them. Broughton Kitten and Sandor the Hound closed well, but not fast enough, and Stand and Salute hit the wire with a mile in 1:39.26.

“He split horses and made a good move coming into the lane,” Baze said. “It wasn’t a very big hole but he fired right through it.

Stand and Salute is a growthy dark bay or brown son of Saint Anddan – Gotham City Girl, by Freud, who was winning his second start in four tries.

“As big as he is, he shouldn’t be scared of nothing,” Baze said. “He acts like he’s got even more talent than he showed [in the Gold Rush]. I think he’s going to develop into a pretty darn nice colt.”

Baze was aboard Stand and Salute when the colt was bumped and checked in his first race, which resulted in a second-place finish in the $64,000 Cavonnier Juvenile at Santa Rosa on Aug. 10. Elvis Trujillo took over for his next start, Oct. 11, when fifth to Ocho Ocho Ocho in a maiden at Santa Anita. Ocho Ocho Ocho would go on to win the $1 million Delta Jackpot Nov. 22.

Stand and Salute came into the Gold Rush off a winning effort under Rocardo Gonzalez in an off-the-turf maiden at Golden Gate on Oct. 25.

“He’s been asked a lot of questions already and responded pretty well,” said Hollendorfer. “He definitely could have won the stakes at Santa Rosa and probably should have had his number put up.”

Stand and Salute’s victory gave Hollendorfer his fourth victory in the Gold Rush. He and Baze have combined to win the race three times.

Stand and Salute paid $13. He has earned $71,770.

Florida-breds Sweep Juvenile Tests Catalina Red and R Sassy Lass, a pair of Florida-breds with bright futures and strong Ocala ties, came from off the pace and tallied in the Inaugural and the Sandpiper, respectively, at Tampa Bay Downs Dec. 6.

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The two stakes for 2-year-olds, each at six furlongs, highlighted Cotillion Festival Day, presented by Lambholm South. It was a big day at Tampa and a big day at Brent and Crystal Fernung’s Journeyman Stud: That Ocala farm concluded its stallion show a couple of hours before R Sassy Lass, who was bred by Journeyman, crossed the line a half-length the best in the Sandpiper.

The field for the fillies-only Sandpiper included the Darley-bred Innovative Idea, the 2-1 favorite. Coming out of a poor showing in the Grade 1 Alcibiades, which was won by Florida-bred Peace and War, Innovative Idea

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Florida FOCUS was squeezed at the break in the Sandpiper, breaking 10th and spotting the leaders as many as nine lengths.

R Sassy Lass was away alertly under the hot-riding Antonio Gallardo – who rode four other winners on the program – and was in close attendance as Cheers for Sidney led the field through a quick half-mile, setting fractions of :22.21 and :45.30. Coco’s Wildcat, in closest pursuit of the leader, took over at the furlong marker, opening a 1½-length lead, but R Sassy Lass was in high gear under Gallardo and they went by with little opposition.

Coco’s Wildcat, also a Florida-bred, was unable to withstand R Sassy Lass but ran a

courageous race and was easily best of the rest. Innovative Idea rallied for third, 5¼ lengths behind the runner-up.

R Sassy Lass, by Exclusive Quality, ran the six furlongs in 1:10.48. She has won two of her four career starts and her latest victory more than tripled her earnings to $86,455.

“I was impressed with her,” Gallardo said.

“I am sure she will be able to go on.”

R Sassy Lass, who paid $8.60, and Coco’s Wildcat (by Wildcat Heir) are both daughters of Journeyman Stud sires. R Sassy Lass is out of the Cherokee Run mare Sassy Bear, while Coco’s Wildcat, who was bred by Gilbert Campbell, is out of the Sword Dance mare Coco’s for Real.

A $40,000 OBS-April purchase, R Sassy Lass is owned by Averill Racing, LLC, Silver

House Passes Tax Extender Bill for 2014 On Dec. 3, the House of Representatives passed the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 (H.R. 5771).

The bill would extend several tax provisions favorable to the horse industry, including three-year depreciation for all race horses, which expired or were reduced at the end of 2013. The bill extends these provisions retroactively for assets placed in service at any time in 2014.

Since many of the provisions in the Housepassed bill are also in the Senate tax extender bill, it is expected to pass the Senate shortly and be sent to the President before the lame-duck session of this Congress ends.

During 2013 and before, horse owners, breeders, and equine businesses enjoyed a number of favorable tax provisions that reverted to lower levels or expired at the end of 2013. Over sixty tax provisions expired. The bill would extend many of the provisions at 2013 levels through 2014. A description of these provisions follows.

179 Expense Deduction. For the last few years, the so-called Section 179 business expense deduction was set at $500,000. This meant that anyone in the horse business could immediately depreciate up to $500,000 of the cost of any investment in business assets, including horses. The deduction was reduced dollar-for-dollar once investment in all one’s business activities hit $2 million.

This provision was not extended by Congress and had reverted to $25,000 for 2014.

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$2 million, for assets, including horses, placed in service in 2014.

Bonus Depreciation. Anyone in the horse business could also write-off up to 50% of new property purchased and placed in service in 2013, including horses and other equipment. This was known as “bonus depreciation.” It was restricted to new assets, which meant that the first use of the horse or other property had to begin with the taxpayer.

This provision was not extended by Congress and had expired for 2014.

The House bill would extend bonus depreciation at 50% for new assets purchased and placed in service in 2014.

Depreciation of Race Horses. From 2009 through 2013 all race horses were depreciated over three years, regardless of their age when they were placed in service. This provision was passed in 2008 through the efforts of Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

This change, which eliminated the 7-year depreciation period for race horses, expired at the end of 2013.

The House bill would extend the three-year recovery period for all race horses placed in service in 2014.

Conservation Easements. Favorable rules for contributions by farmers and ranchers of capital gain real property for conservation easements, allowing a deduction of up to 100% of the donor’s contribution base, expired for 2013.

The House bill would extend through 2014 the enhanced deduction involving conservation easements.

The House bill must now be passed by the Senate and sent to the President for signing.

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Oak Stable and Gregory Kaufman. She is trained by Kirk Ziadie.

Co-owner Rich Averill said, “He (Gallardo) was definitely asking her on the turn, and at that point I thought she probably would just hit the board. But she kept grinding away.

She showed a lot of heart.”

Catalina Red was much the best in the Inaugural, galloping home by 7¼ lengths under Daniel Centeno and getting the six furlongs in stakes-record time of 1:09.32.

Reid the News and Charlie’s Brother held early leads through a quarter in :22.33 and a half in :45.71 before Catalina Red asserted his dominance at the quarter pole.

Though he performed well in his previous three starts – with a second- and two thirdplace finishes – the Inaugural was the chestnut’s first victory in four career starts. Even so, he was among the favorite for the Inaugural and returned $7.40. He has earned $44,680 for his owner, Anthony Lenci.

Bred in Florida by France and Irwin Weiner, the son of Munnings out of the Freud mare Lovey Dream was purchased, upon the recommendation of Ocala-based trainer Chad Stewart, by Lenci from the OBS-April sale for $71,000.

“I really liked the way he looked and worked at the sale,” Stewart said, “and I thought he ought to be able to get a little farther. I wasn’t too worried about running a maiden [in the Inaugural]. A lot of these 2year-olds make drastic improvements from race to race.”

Centeno said, “Mr. Stewart told me this guy was ready to run a big one. We were in a bit tight leaving the gate and I dropped him in behind the leaders, and after that we had a perfect trip. We went around the leaders easily and we were on our own through the stretch.”

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Adena Springs’ Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner and multiple Grade 1 winner Fort Larned will stand stud at its newly reopened Adena Springs South facility for the 2015 breeding season.

Fort Larned is a 6-year-old son of the Mr. Prospector stallion E Dubai out of Arlucea, a winning daughter of multiple champion Bayakoa, by Broad Brush. Fort Larned was bred and campaigned by Janis Whitham. Fort Larned won 10 of his 25 lifetime starts and earned more than $4.4 million.

Jack Brothers, Kentucky sales manager for Adena Springs, said of Fort Larned: “He was a brilliant racehorse, consistently showed

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Fort Larned to Stand in Florida

Fort Larned

great speed and stamina on dirt, and has outcross value as well. Florida has a long and successful history with Fort Larned’s sire line – Mr. Prospector himself, Fappiano and Crafty Prospector all launched brilliant stud careers in the Sunshine State. We look forward to continuing that tradition of success with Fort Larned.”

In addition to the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Classic, he accounted for Grade 1 victories in the Whitney Handicap (G1) at Saratoga and the Stephen Foster (G1) at Churchill Downs.

Fort Larned stood his first season in 2014 at Adena Springs Kentucky, where he bred 78 mares. His first foals arrive next year.

Fort Larned, the only Breeders’ Cup Classic winner standing in Florida in 2015, will stand for a fee of $12,500 per live foal.

With the new Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Incentive Program, Florida breeders will receive $5,000 toward that fee, making the final stud fee to a Florida breeder $7,500 per live foal.

For additional information please contact Jack Brothers at 859-509-0879 or Declan Doyle at 352-362-6624 or ddoyle@adenastallions.com. ■

Big Drama to stand at Bridlewood also the sire of a yearling colt out of the stakes winning mare Kickapoo Princess that dropped the gavel at $185,000, the second highest price generated at the August sale.

Bridlewood Farm general manager George Isaacs expressed how excited he was to feature Big Drama as part of their 2015 roster.

“We are pleased to welcome Champion Big

Drama to the Bridlewood Stallion Roster for 2015,” Isaacs said. “His yearlings looked the part at the sales this year and my scouting reports indicates they should come out running”.

Big Drama will stand for a fee of $10,000 stands and nurses in 2015. Inquires can be made to Bridlewood Farm general manager George Isaacs at 352.622.5319.

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Big Drama, the Eclipse Award winning champion sprinter in 2010, will stand the 2015 breeding season at Bridlewood Farm, located in Ocala, Fla. Marc Haisfield of Hallmarc Stallions said: “Hallmarc Stallions is excited to announce that Big Drama will stand the 2015 season at Bridlewood’s beautiful facilities. Big Drama is the top sire by yearling average in Florida and Hallmarc Stallions looks forward to continued success as his 2-yearolds start to race in 2015.”

A son of noted Florida stallion Montbrook and out of the Notebook mare, Riveting Drama, Big Drama was a multiple graded stakes winner on the track having taken the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) at Churchill Downs and the Smile Handicap (G2) at age four and the Mr. Prospector Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park a year later.

As a juvenile, Big Drama was also quite accomplished having swept all three legs of the Florida Stallion Stakes at Calder and winning the Boyd’s Gaming Delta Jackpot (G3) at Delta Downs.

Big Drama first entered stallion duty at Hallmarc Stallions in Ocala in 2012 and was immediately popular with Florida breeders. His yearlings went through the sales rings for the first time in 2014 and again, proved the popularity of their sire as his son out of the stakes winning mare Doc’s Doll, by Out of Place topped the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company selected yearling sale, bringing $230,000. In that same auction, Big Drama was

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Records Keep Maker, Ramsey extend Claiming Crown Records; Florida-breds take two Crown stakes

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rainer Michael Maker and owners Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey extended their records as the Claiming Crown all-time leading trainer and owner, trainer Martin Wolfson won a filly and mare stakes and Hall of Fame conditioner Nick Zito concluded the afternoon with a victory in the $200,000 Jewel Stakes for the second consecutive year.

Those were the story lines for the 16th running of the

Claiming Crown at Gulfstream Park on Dec. 6, highlighting an opening day card for the Hallandale Beach oval’s Championship Meet. This year the Claiming Crown, which is orchestrated each year by the national office of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association in partnership with the host track, was made up of eight races worth $1 million for horses that are either in or have graduated from the claiming ranks in the last two years.

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Comin’ But Catholic Cowboy would be good enough to win his first stakes race in the Jewel in his next start, taking the 1 1/8-mile race by a length and one-half over Page McKinney in second while the Irish-bred Cerro was another neck back in third.

With Luis Saez aboard, Catholic Cowboy stalked early leaders He’s So Fine and Cerro through fractions of :23.61 for the first quarter-mile and :47 for the half before making his move around the far turn and getting the lead in the stretch on his way to winning in a time of 1:49.70 over the fast main track.

It was the third career win in 17 starts for Catholic Cowboy, who was bred in Florida by Luis de

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Last year at Gulfstream Park, Zito took the Jewel with Nevada Kid during the Claiming Crown and repeated that feat with Florida-bred Catholic Cowboy this year.

After breaking his maiden for a claiming price of $50,000 in January at Gulfstream, Catholic Cowboy immediately graduated to the allowance ranks. But the son of Heatseeker (IRE) and the Meadowlake mare Kimbat Lake needed five races before he made the winners’ circle again, winning a $5,000 starter allowance at Sartoga in August. He then won an entry level allowance race at Saratoga in his next start before two off-the-board efforts against allowance foes at Keeneland in October.

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Hechavarria of Ocala. The 4-year-old gelding now has career earnings of $255,438.

Maker and Ramsey picked up their first victory in the 2015 Claiming Crown and 15th in Claiming Crown history when St. Borealis won the $125,000 Tiara Stakes with jockey Rafael Hernandez aboard.

Claimed by Maker for $16,000 in August while winning at Ellis Park, the 4-year-old filly came back in October to win against $40,000 claimers at Churchill Downs before making the trek to Gulfstream for the Claiming Crown.

Breaking from the far outside post 14 in the 1 1/16mile Tiara on turf, St. Borealis was quickly taken back to near last by Hernandez as the field made their way around the clubhouse turn. As Very Few Details set the pace in :24.05 for the first quarter-mile and :48.30 for the half, St. Borealis began to steadily improve her position down the backstretch, hitting the half-mile in ninth and was sixth after six furlongs. They continued to pass horses in the stretch until they were a length and one-half in front at the wire in a time of 1:43.80 on the firm course. Rock On Baby was second while Wild Swava was third.

It was the fifth victory from 14 starts for the daughter of War Chant and Saintly Bride, by Saint Ballado and she picked up $68,750 for the win, increasing her bankroll to $141,583.

Four races later, Maker and the Ramseys earned their 16th Claiming Crown victory as Saffron Hall won the $125,000 Emerald Stakes, also at 1 1/16 miles on the grass.

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Having won four of his previous five starts while racing in the optional claiming and allowance ranks at Churchill, Keeneland and Saratoga, Safforn Hall was looking to go one race over the .500 mark as the 7year-old gelding had won 9 of 18 career starts.

With Irad Ortiz Jr. in the saddle, Saffron Hall broke from post 12 in the 14-horse field but was unable to get into his comfort zone, running on or near the lead. Instead, Ortiz had him placed ninth through the first six furlongs as Cement Clement led the field for most of the way through fractions of :23.26 and :46.80.

Saffron Hill began to make a move around the far turn while racing five-wide and had plenty of work left as he turned for home with five horses still to catch.

However, he had little difficulty as he finished threequarters of a length in front of Rose Brier in second and Longhunter, another 1 ¼ lengths further back in third. The final time was 1:42.9.

He paid $13 to win and now has earned $268,611 in 19 career starts.

When it comes to stakes for fillies and mares in South Florida, for years, Wolfson and his stable have been a force with which to be reckoned in the distaff ranks. That was no different in the $110,000 Glass Slipper Stakes for fillies and mares going a mile on the main track.

The Wolfson-trained Best Behavior was bet down to co-favoritism with Rebecca’s Surprise, both going off at just under 3-1 among the 13 starters in the Glass Slipper.

Best Behavior and jockey Edgard Zayas broke well

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from post three and went straight to the lead in the Glass Slipper, taking the field to the first two furlongs in an honest :23.35 while racing just to the inside of 38-1 longshot Annelle. Nearing the half-mile marker in

:46.08, Annelle took the lead by a half-length but that would be short-lived as Best Behavior regained the lead around the turn and never looked back, eventually finishing in 1:37.80 and two and one-quarter lengths ahead of Dontcallmecharley in second with Pebble Beach Baby, who was a neck further back in third. Annelle faded to finish 12th.

It was the third victory in the last four races for Best Behavior, who had previously won two races in the optional claiming ranks at Gulfstream in July and August.

It was also the seventh career win from 19 starts for the 4-year-old filly by Into Mischief, who paid $7.80 to win in the Glass Slipper. She has now won $193,278 in her career while racing for Miller Racing LLC. Trainer Jorge Navarro started the day off with a bang, winning the first two Claiming Crown races on the afternoon with J B’s Unc taking the $110,000 Iron Horse Stakes and Loverbil winning the Express Stakes, which also offered a $110,000 purse.

Racing in the colors of High Point Thoroughbred Partners, J B’s Unc was the 3-1 favorite in the field of ten 3-year-olds and older horses going 1 1/16 miles on the main track.

The 6-year-old gelding started the race mid-pack after breaking from post six and was content to stalk

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led by 15-1 shot Quiz Whiz through fractions of :22.52 and 45.23.

Loverbil and jockey Jose Lezcano began to pick up the pace and started passing horses while racing fivewide around the turn as Quiz Whiz was on the lead.

Loverbil continued to pursue Quiz Whiz down the stretch and got up just in time for a neck victory over that foe who had drifted out in the final furlong but held on for second over a 98-1 Lungs. Loverbil stopped the clock in a final time of 1:10.07 and paid $16.80 to win.

Loverbil picked up $60,500 for White Wabbit Wacing LLC, pushing his earnings to $214,746. It was his eighth win from 31 career starts.

Florida-breds struck again in the $110,000 Rapid Transit Stakes as Grande Shores was best in the field of 14 3-year-olds and older going seven furlongs, giving jockey Edgard Zayas his second win on the afternoon.

Bred in Florida by Fred Brei’s Jacks or Better Farms, who also own the 6-year-old gelding, Grande Shores, broke best of all from post 12 but was quickly taken back to seventh for the run down the backstretch as Stallwalkin’ Due, Bear Behind and Monty Haul

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early leader Double Judge through the first quarter in :23 and the first half in :46.83. Racing in fifth just behind favored Francois down the backstretch, J B’s Unc followed that one around the far turn as those two began to inch closer to the front. Turning for home, those two got to the front and battled down the stretch with J B’s Unc crossing the finish just a neck in front of Francois in second and Feisty Albert third, who was almost three lengths further back. The final time for the Iron Horse was 1:43.66.

It was a welcomed performance by J B’s Unc, who had been second in his two previous starts against optional claimers at Gulfstream Park West on Nov. 14 and against an $8,000 starter allowance group at Parx in August.

Paying $8.40 to win, J B’s Unc picked up his 14th lifetime victory from 33 starts and pushed his bankroll to $254,327.

The next race produced a mild upset victory for Navarro and Loverbil, who defeated 9-5 favorite and Florida-bred Ribo Bobo and 5-2 second choice Frontier Warrior. Let go at 7-1, Loverbil cruised down the backstretch of the six furlong Express Stakes, running ahead of only two horses in the ten horse field

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ued to lead but drifted into Monty Haul in the final furlong, who subsequently hit Grande Shores. However, Grande Shores kept to his task and hit the finish threequarters of a length in front of Goodtimehadbyall in second and Stallwalkin’ Dude in third. However Stall-

Loverbil (above) and Florida-bred Grande Shores (below)

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raced in tandem on the front end. After an opening quarter in :22.69, Grande Shores began to move on the front trio as Bear Behind and Monty Haul could not keep pace as they made their way around the turn.

At the top of the stretch Stallwalkin’ Dude contin-

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their way around the bend. Also looking to start his rally from last was Thomas Hill, but he needed running room as he remained patient on the rail.

Mongolian Saturday continued to show the way as they straightened out for the run for home with Mr. Online and Buster Rose also right there on the outside.

Into the final furlong, Amelia’s Wild Ride, Pirates Vow and Quality Lass could not keep up as Buster Rose, Mr. Online and Mongolian Saturday took up the battle on the outside and Thomas Hill finally found running room on the rail.

At the wire, Buster Rose was a half-length in front of Mr. Online in second as Thomas Hill edged Mongolian Saturday for the third spot. The final time for the five furlongs was :55.96 as Buster Rose earned a $7 win pay-off for his supporters.

Trained by Stephen Dunn for Michael Ball, Buster Rose increased his career earnings to $364,168 while picking up his 10th victory from 29 career starts. Jeremy Rose was the winning rider.■

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walkin’ Dude was disqualified and placed fourth for the bumping incidents, giving the show position to Monty Hall.

Grande Shores, a son of Black Mambo and Sexy Stockings, by Tabasco Cat, finished in 1:23.19 and paid $11 to win. It was victory number 11 for Grande Shores from 39 career races. His earnings are now $332,061.

In the $110,000 Canterbury Stakes another full field went postward as 14 3-year-olds and older went five furlongs on the grass.

Florida-bred Amelia’s Wild Ride broke best of all from post five but the 3-year-old colt found himself in a furious speed dual with Pirate’s Vow and Quality Lass as those three went the first two furlongs in a rapid :21.10. Mongolian Saturday made a big move approaching the half-mile pole and led those three around the far turn. However, Mr. Online, Buster Rose and Determinato were also on the move from the back of the pack but were forced to circle the leaders as they made

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FTBOA’s CEO chosen to serve as Horse Park chair, Chamber director

Powell Elected to Two Leadership Posts

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onny T. Powell, Chief Executive Officer of the Ocala- are exciting, opportunistic and hardworking times for our Park.

“The Ocala/Marion CEP was formed to create a one-stop apbased Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association, has been elected to board-of-director leadership proach to business retention, attraction and creation efforts. Movpositions with two of the most recogniz- ing forward, it is charged and reflects the desire to be a unified able organizations within the Marion voice and catalyst for the business community. By working toCounty equine and business communi- gether with our partners and community investors, it will conties: chairman of the Florida Horse Park tinue to improve the quality of life and build a strong base for board of directors and board member for economic development in Marion County.

“The CEP recognizes and embraces its mission as the Chamthe Chamber and Economic Partnership ber and Economic Partnership for all of Marion County.” of Ocala and Marion County.

Ocala/Marion County CEP president Kevin Sheilly said PowThe Florida Agriculture Center and Horse Park was created by the Florida ell will be a welcome addition to his board.

“We are very excited to have Lonny join the CEP’s board of diLegislature in 1996 in recognition of the fact that the horse inrectors,” Sheilly said. “The nominating committee has been fodustry is so much a part of Marion County’s identity.

Located in the center of the state in an ideal setting comprised cused on adding executives who represent key industry segments. of 500 acres on the Cross Florida Greenway and near I-75, the I personally cannot think of anyone better to represent our comFlorida Horse Park is situated in one of the most ideal locations munity’s incredible equine industry.”

Powell said, “From the very first time I arrived in Ocala, I have in the United States for an equestrian facility. With $4 million in recent legislative funding over the past two years, the Park is near been approached by members of both the local business and completion of a massive covered arena with approximately 200 equine communities asking if I could work with them in bringing permanent stalls and 40 recreational vehicle Lonny Powell has the experience and dedication to help lead pads to be constructed in 2015.

Also with strong thoroughbred and FTBOA the Florida Agricultural Center and Horse Park board of directors as it faces an exciting future. Florida’s equine industry conties is new officer Joe O'Farrell, treasurer.

Dept of Agriculture & Consumer Affairs tributes $5 billion to our state’s economy, and the Horse Park’s Commissioner Adam Putman said: “Lonny expansion will help Central Florida continue to be known as the Powell has the experience and dedication to Horse Capital of the World. —Adam Putnam help lead the Florida Agricultural Center and together these critical components of our comHorse Park board of directors as it faces an exmunity. Not so coincidentally, CEP was morphciting future. Florida’s equine industry coning from what used to be our traditional Chamber. tributes $5 billion to our state’s economy, and I have watched CEP and their new dynamic CEO, the Horse Park’s expansion will help Central Kevin Sheilley, step up and try to make some Florida continue to be known as the ‘Horse good things happen business- and policy-wise in Capital of the World.’”

Marion County. We have been impressed with Powell said, “I would like to thank my felthese early efforts and are strong supporters of low Horse Park board of directors for the faith CEP. Being the first full-time equine person on and confidence they have shown in electing this board should benefit not just FTBOA but the me as their chairman. The Horse Park is very near and dear to the hearts of many of us. This is such a pivotal entire horse industry in Marion County.”

In addition to his seats on the Horse Park and CEP Boards, time for the Park now that we have opened up our new and wonderful covered arena. Now, thanks to the continued support we Powell also was recently elected to the board as well as a comreceive from the Legislature, our governor and Commissioner mittee chairmanship for the Florida Society for Association ExPutnam, we are able to think big with core, top-flight facilities ecutives. He continues to serve as the state equine advisor for either in place or underway, and to begin putting some time and Commissioner Putnam’s Animal Industry Technical Council and energy in ramping up from an operational perspective. These as an equine technical advisor for the Florida Farm Bureau. ■

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Bobby Neuman: a longtime presence in the OBS announcer booth

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hen the latch is sprung for the first of five races on Tuesday, Jan. 27 in Ocala for the 26th Ocala Breeders’ Sales Day of Champions, racing fans will be treated once again to the crisp yet emotive racecalls of Bobby Neuman, a longtime presence on the Florida scene who has been a fixture in the OBS announcer’s stand since 2005.

Featuring four restricted stakes races for thoroughbreds who have passed through an OBS auction ring, plus a quarter horse allowance race, the single-day conclave was the brainchild of the late Bob Gulick, director of sales.

His vision was to have a day of racing for OBS graduates only, whose focus would be to celebrate the horses the company had sold in conjunction with a sale to follow. That concept remains intact as OBS will conduct its Winter Mixed Sale which will include Horses of Racing Age from January 28-29.

Among the list of prominent reinsmen who have competed in Ocala are Racing Hall of Famers Pat Day, Chris McCarron, Edgar Prado, and John Velazquez.

“Bobby is obviously a very talented announcer who is experienced and gives the general public the ‘feel’ of being at the races,” Tom Ventura, OBS president, said. “He brings more legitimacy to the day and we’ve enjoyed having him here all these years.”

Neuman’s career in racing, which eventually led him to the broadcast booth at Calder Race Course and Casino [now known as Gulfstream Park West] as its full-time majordomo beginning in 2005 upon Phil Saltzman’s retirement, was not on his radar screen growing up. A star pitcher in his youth, talented enough to draw college scholarship offers, he never pursued a post-high school baseball career.

Neuman’s racetrack baptism occurred

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a very talented announcer who is experienced and gives the general public the ‘feel’ of being at the races. He brings more legitimacy to the day and we’ve enjoyed having him here all these years.

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COURTESY BOBBY NUEMAN

Bobby Neuman

At age 14, he and a friend hopped not one, but two public buses to make their way to Hollywood Park. Little did they suspect a whole new world lay in wait. Asking grownups to place their bets, Neuman realized a tidy profit of $20. Returning a fortnight later, this time he brought home the magnificent sum of $75, hardly an insignificant amount in those days for any teenager.

“I said to myself, this is the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life. And that was after still knowing nothing about racing,” Neuman said. “I bought a track program, not the [Daily] Racing Form. We didn’t know anything. All we knew was who the program listed as the top ten jockeys and trainers.”

Neuman then recited one of racing’s Ten Commandments. “The more I learned the less I won,” he said. “But at that point I was pretty well hooked.”

The early-to-mid 1980s was a fertile period in California racing. Riders Laffit Pincay Jr., Eddie Delahoussaye, Bill Shoemaker, and McCarron held sway along with a plethora of equine stars who commanded headlines on the order of legendary gelding John Henry and sterling colts Snow Chief and 1986 Kentucky Derby (G1) winner Ferdinand. There was also an undefeated filly terror prowling the West Coast who remains the fastest and best horse Neuman has ever seen. His recitation of Melair’s 1986 Silver Screen Handicap against the

Biography

Birthdate: March 1, 1969 Birthplace: Los Angeles, California Residence: Weston, Florida Racetracks Worked: Arizona fair circuit, Atlantic City Race Course, Beulah Park, Calder Race Course, Churchill Downs, Detroit Race Course, Downs at Albuquerque, Downs at Santa Fe, Fort Erie, Gulfstream Park, Ocala Breeders’ Sales, Sandy Downs, Tampa Bay Downs, Thistledown; Pompano Park, The Red Mile (standardbreds) Education: University of California at Santa Barbara, 1986-1987; University of Arizona, 1988-1992 Family: Wife, Rebecca; Daughter, Julie boys at Hollywood Park is letter-perfect.

“She won the Silver Screen Handicap in 1:32 4/5 for the mile, going 1:08 flat for six furlongs and 1:19 4/5 for seven furlongs,” Neuman said. “I had never seen any horse run seven furlongs like that. She missed the world record by three-fifths of a second with Snow Chief [the Preakness Stakes (G1) winner and 1986 champion 3year-old male] finishing third, 11 lengths behind.”

Determined to figure out an entrée into racing, Neuman’s insouciance in front of a crowd, his ability as a communicator, and a sparkling memory led to his decision to forge a path as an announcer.

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and backside—had him punching tickets as a member of the pari-mutuel workers union in California. Once ten to fifteen days worth of pay stubs had been accumulated, the next step was to go to the track in order to be “on call” for either Saturdays or Big Race days and hope to be hired for $56/day. “They only took applications to join the union like twice a year, and once you got in you were pretty well down at the bottom of the totem pole,” Neuman said. “An advantage was that you could work weekends for about $80/day. If you had seniority it would be about $105/day.”

Neuman’s uniform for punching tickets – easier duty back then because it meant punching for one track only– consisted of a white shirt and tie. Putting in time behind the betting windows in the Santa Anita infield, Neuman also performed mutuel clerk’s chores at the 1987 Breeders’ Cup at Hollywood Park. That renewal is remembered for a spine-tingling stretch duel in the Classic (G1) between Kentucky Derby winners Ferdinand, age four, and his 3-year-old rival, 1987 Derby and Preakness victor Alysheba. A notoriously difficult horse to ride who only responded to the whip depending upon his mood on any given day, when Ferdinand, piloted by Shoemaker, won by the shortest of noses over Alysheba and McCarron, it proved to be the only Breeders’ Cup triumph in The Shoe’s legendary career. Ferdinand would garner Eclipse Awards as 1987 champion older male and Horse of the Year.

After a brief stint at UC-Santa Barbara, Neuman was aware that the University of Arizona offered a renowned curriculum with the acronym RTIP – the Race Track Industry Program. He matriculated there beginning in January 1988, determined to learn more about the racing industry and take a step forward. “I had worked on the backstretch in southern California for a few trainers, but this seemed like a way to broaden my knowledge about the sport and maybe advance.”

RTIP classmates included Brant Allen of Twinspires.com, trainer Chuck Simon, Jim Kostas, DRF president; Paul Porter, Del Mar’s director of simulcasting; Eric Halstrom, VP/racing operations at Canterbury Park; and Tammy Gantt, Contributing Editor for The Florida Horse and Industry & Community Affairs for the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association. The RTIP’s director was Lonny Powell, current FTBOA CEO and executive vice president.

Working the phones led to an offer to call races on the Arizona fair circuit. Driving three hours from Tucson to Duncan, Ariz., home of a half-mile track that used “house colors.” History records that as the venue where Neuman called his first-ever race. It remains all too vivid.

“Well, the first race I called I screwed up,” he said. “I thought the No. 1 horse wore red and the No. 7 horse wore

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As he relates the story, Neuman’s rejoinder was, orange. The No. 1 won the race and I was calling the No. 7 all the way around. But management didn’t seem to care!” “Where is Thistledown? I mean, I don’t think I had ever he chuckled. “I came out and did it again the next week in seen a race from there. I might have seen something like the Budweiser Breeders’ Cup and the Ohio Derby Safford, Ariz., and that was it.”

When the gentleman who had originally extended the on one of the ESPN ‘Down the Stretch’ weekly highinvitation to come to Arizona – the circuit’s actual race- light shows, but other than that I had never been to caller, as fate would have it –passed away, Neuman, now Cleveland. Or to Ohio, for that matter.”

A phone call to the late Mike Mackey, another ac(1989) calling races on weekends at various locations complished and well-liked racing exaround Arizona while still in college, suddenly became No. 1 on the depth chart.

I went, two days ecutive and the track’s general manager, informed Neuman his audiAsked whether he would be interested in earlier, from not even tion tape and resume had to be on becoming the circuit’s main man behind the microphone, his reply was simple and knowing what Thistle- Mackey’s desk in the morning. Simply direct: “Of course I want to do it.” down was . . . to now put, it absolutely, positively had to be When a job offer was extended in I’m the guy they are there overnight. “We need to make a decision immediately,” Mackey said.

March 1992 to call races at The Red looking to hire “And we’re close to doing it already.”

Mile (standardbreds) in Lexington, —Bobby Neuman Scrambling to get the tape made and Ky., his answer was identical.

Neuman’s career liftoff came while he was calling his materials mailed, Neuman followed up with a phone races in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. His big break was call the following day to confirm his package had indeed arprecipitated by a call from Luke Kruytbosch, who was rived. He was greeted with astonishing news: Yes, it arrived. the racecaller at Churchill Downs upon his sudden pass- And he was now their Number One choice! Thistledown ing in July 2008. A “godfather” of sorts to many in the would call him in a day or so with their decision.

“I went, two days earlier, from not even knowing racing industry, so widespread was his wealth of contacts, Kruytbosch tipped him to a job opening at Thistledown, what Thistledown was. . . to now I’m the guy they are located just outside of Cleveland in North Randall, Ohio. looking to hire,” Neuman said. “I wouldn’t say it was

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“I turned to my

They would wind up being sold or go to California.”

A memorable race that is part of Neuman’s personal pantheon was the Tropical Park Derby on Jan. 1, 2006.

Contested on grass, the first Derby of the year, it was won by an undefeated (three-for-three, all on turf), if ill-fated son of Dynaformer named Barbaro. Three races later, all of those coming on dirt, trainer Michael Matz’s blazing colt had proven his versatility—in spades—by posting the largest winning margin in the Kentucky Derby in 60 years as he upped his career record to a perfect 6-for-6.

“Gretchen Jackson (Barbaro’s co-owner with husband, Roy) gave me a nice compliment after the Tropical Park Derby. She said I was the first announcer to pronounce his name correctly. I probably didn’t even know that I was saying his name correctly. I was just lucky I guess,” Neuman said.

When Saltzman bowed out at Calder, he executed a simultaneous retirement exacta by departing his OBS announcing chores, too. Adding OBS’s signature day to his repertoire, Neuman continues to marvel at the lively atmosphere and enthusiasm that pervades OBS’s Day of Champions.

“It just amazes me how many people show up on what is a really nice, fun day,” Neuman said. “Everybody is having a really good time, it’s a family-type atmosphere, and there are some pretty good horses in there, some of whom have run in graded stakes. The entire event is very well run and everyone is just super nice,” he added. wife and said, ‘You want to move to Florida?’. . . and she Of the many fine runners who was all for it. Let’s move to Florida! —Bobby Neuman have strutted their stuff in Ocala over the years, OBS’s Ventura was Florida?’ ... and she was all for it. Let’s move to Florida!” quick to cite the colt Traitor, a son of Cryptoclearance, by Neuman assumed his new role without missing a Fappiano, the latter a sire of the first-rank bred in Florida beat, handling the paddock host-television chores with by John Nerud, who is still going strong at age 101.

Sporting the famous silks of cerise and white diaaplomb from 1999-2004. He was thus well-positioned when longtime Calder racecaller Saltzman decided to monds with cerise and white sleeves of legendary owner-breeder-racing executive Alfred Gwynne Vanretire in 2005.

During his 15 years at the Miami oval, Neuman be- derbilt, whose greatest gift to racing was his immortal came part of the fabric of the track’s many signature homebred Native Dancer, at age two, Traitor finished events including the Summit of Speed, the Festival of the second in the 1996 Champagne Stakes (G1) at Belmont Sun, and the former Florida Stallion Stakes series. He Park after winning his prep race there, the Futurity delighted in calling races with such notable runners as Stakes (G1). On Mar. 24, 1997, the 3-year-old registered Lost in the Fog and Big Drama, to name just two of many. a smart victory in the OBS Championship Stakes Gulfstream Park West’s (nee Calder) bevy of races for thereby joining the track’s roster of winners.

The OBS Day of Champions merits close attention 2-year-olds has long been a track staple. Neuman found those frequently contentious juvenile contests to be a par- this year in case one or more of its entrants decides ticular delight because, “You just never knew what you Ocala is the perfect time and place for an impromptu were going to get,” he said. “Unfortunately, because of “coming out” party. Should that indeed come to pass, the economics of racing, a lot of the impressive 2-year- Neuman will be ready to call them across the winning olds you would see at Calder, you would never see again. line in his own winning way. ■ ‘advice’ that Luke gave me, but he definitely pushed me to something I didn’t even know was there.” Kruytbosch’s magic wand had struck again.

Succeeding John Dooley, now the racecaller at Arlington Park in Arlington Heights, Ill., and Fair Grounds in New Orleans (“he went on to higher ground”), Neuman had finally arrived on a major league stage. In addition to hosting the track’s in-house television show, a gig clearly in his “sweet spot,” he was now calling races at a venue which offered graded stakes races and did not use house colors.

“I really enjoyed my three years at Thistledown,” Neuman said. “It was fun, I was working with a lot of great people, and I was also able to master the challenge, after a few days, of calling races that used owner’s silks.

I think it is easier, actually, because you don’t confuse the ‘track colors’ with whoever wore them the race or two races before. Once you have memorized the owners’ silks, you’ve got it.”

By happy circumstance, it was Neuman’s willingness to fill in and do a variety of chores in Calder’s publicity department years earlier that ultimately paid off in spades. When paddock host Todd Schrupp decided to leave Calder in 1999 for a brand-new television venture the racing industry would come to know as TVG, Neuman applied for and got the job. It proved especially welcome news for his wife, Rebecca, who had grown up in Cleveland.

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16 and already an accomplished horsewoman, Alexandra de Meric had an epiphany.

If she homeschooled herself, she could spend more time working with thoroughbreds. So with her parents Nick and Jaqui de Meric’s blessing, she ditched the classroom for more shedrow time.

At 17, another realization struck. People were not only willing to pay her to work with thoroughbreds, they were willing to pay her to travel the world to do what she loved. A dozen years and a very worn passport later, Ali, as she’s known by family and friends, has indeed shown horsemen and horsewomen around the world how it’s done in Florida. You could call it spreading the sunshine to places such as England, France, Ireland, Japan and South Korea.

“Of course, I had the great advantage of growing up in the Ocala thoroughbred business,” Ali, 29, said. “My younger brother Tristan and I couldn’t have had a better hands-on equine education than we did. Our parents are successful and respected in the thoroughbred industry, so being able to homeschool myself allowed me to continue my education on both fronts.”

In between galloping horses in the mornings at the de Meric family farm and working sales, both in Florida and Kentucky, Ali did her schoolwork.

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me,” Ali recalled. “In between galloping sets or showing bond no matter the country. Once she was on the sales a horse at the sales, I’d be studying in the tack room. I grounds, Ali discovered that she had “an instant social group of like-minded people.” As for the 10-day sale, was very motivated.”

While working at the 2002 Keeneland September year- she described it as “an amazing experience that couldling sales, Ali got her first oversees traveling opportunity. n’t have gone any better than it did.” It was also a twoway learning experience.

Her school books would soon be taking a trip abroad.

“I was introduced to Ted Voute, a well-known British My goal every day, besides doing a good job of showing agent and consignor,” Ali, the horses, was to loosen things up a little. If I got a word who was 17 at the time, said. “He said he really or a smile out of just one buyer a day, that was a good day. liked how I showed horses I’d like to think that I let them see that you can show horses and he asked me to go to well and be friendly at the same time. —Alexandra Rice England. He wanted me to “The English have a very formal way of presenting work for him at the Tattersalls sale at Newmarket in October. My parents gave their permission and off I went.” horses at a sale,” Ali said. “Prospective buyers are all She traveled alone to London, but once there Ali business and don’t chat with the person showing the was delighted to find that horse people share a common horse. Handlers there are just considered the working

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staff. They don’t consider them someone who might have some insight into the horse.”

For knowledgeable and outgoing Ali, that was a bit of a challenge.

“My goal every day, besides doing a good job of showing the horses, was to loosen things up a little,” she said. “If I got a word or a smile out of just one buyer a day, that was a good day. I’d like to think that I let them see that you can show horses well and be friendly at the same time.”

After the 10-day sale stint was over, Ali had definitely gotten the travel bug. She extended her stay, going to Greece for a few days before coming home to Ocala. But soon she was packing her bags and her books again.

“I went back to England for the Tattersalls December sale and from there to Ireland for that sale,” Ali said.

“Then I came home, drove to the Toronto sales with a friend. It was all brilliant fun.”

In 2003, and now 18, Ali was on the move again. This time she had the opportunity to work the Deauville yearling sale in France.

“The Deauville sale reminded me a lot of Saratoga,”

she said. “[It was] a very much more relaxed atmosphere than England. We’d start the morning with a big baguette and that strong French coffee. It kept you going through the day. It was another amazing experience.”

Those early travels to England, Ireland and France, where the thoroughbred industry had its beginnings, added to Ali’s ever-impressive resume. And she liked to believe that perhaps she shared the Florida way of doing things with those in the thoroughbred business where she visited.

“Wherever I went I was asked about Ocala,” Ali said.

“Of course, all I had to say was good things. I bragged about the facilities, the support services and our great weather. Looking back now, I realized I was kind of an ambassador.”

And Ali’s ambassadorship soon expanded into countries a little more off the beaten path.

After all their travels, Ali & Brandon were ready to settle down and start their own business.

LAND OF THE RISING SUN

Having graduated from high school, a 19-year-old Ali was free of school books while working for Paramount Sales at the 2004 Keeneland September sale.

Good thing too since she wouldn’t have to be packing books for her most adventurous horse-related trip yet.

“Dr. Masataki Iida of Chiyoda Farm in Tokyo approached me at the Keeneland sale,” Ali said. “He asked

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me if I would come to Tokyo to teach his staff how to show horses at the sales. I was so honored.”

For the next five years, Ali would spend several weeks in Japan every July. Her time would be split between Tokyo, Hokkaido Island, where the Japanese breeding industry is based, and at the sales. There were some challenges, including one involving ketchup.

“Of course, I always had a translator with me,” Ali said. “But there were still a lot of hand signals involved.

It was a little difficult at first for the handlers to take instruction from a woman since it is a male-dominant society. But that improved with time and with each trip back.”

Another Japanese society issue with which Ali had to deal was teaching people who There is no way to put a price are taught to be followers from childhood to be leaders. on the thoroughbred education I “Probably the most difficult got through the Darley Flying thing to teach the Japanese hanStart program. While broadening dlers was that a horse needs a my experiences, it enhanced what leader,” Ali recounted. “They I had learned from my family and had to learn that by being a leader they established trust working for many outstanding with the horse. And once a American trainers. The program horse trusts you, it will do whatmade me just a better all-around ever you ask it to do.”

All the morning training seshorseman. —Brandon Rice sions would be videotaped for later viewing once Ali left. Afternoons would include classroom-type work like hoof care, grooming tips and tricks and how to care for equipment. In the latter category, Ali took note that the brass chains on the lead shanks were dingy and dull, as were the show chifney bits.

“I kept trying to tell them we needed Brasso,” Ali said with a chuckle. “But apparently there was no Japanese word for Brasso. Then I remembered someone had told me that you could use ketchup to brighten up brass.

There was a Japanese word for ketchup.”

Soon Ali had buckets of ketchup at the barns.

“We’d dip the shank chains and chifney bits in the buckets,” she said. “And it worked liked a charm. After a while the buckets of ketchup smelled a little rancid, but we had nice shiny brass.”

In between her trips to Japan, Ali was convinced to go to college by her father Nick.

“Actually, my father kind of bribed me to go to college with a house,” Ali said. “The subject of college had come up several times, but I was too busy having fun traveling. So one day my father tells me he bought a house in Tampa. His proposition was that if I went to the University of Tampa, I could stay in the house. And when I graduated, the house would be mine.”

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Taking up her father on his offer, Aly enrolled at UT in January 2006. She graduated in December 2009 with a degree in business management. As for the bribe house, Ali rented to a friend for a few years before selling it.

MAKING A RECONNECTION

On her last trip to Japan in 2009, Ali took along her then fiance and now husband Brandon Rice. Like Ali, Brandon had grown up with deep roots in the Florida thoroughbred industry. His grandparents are Clyde and Jean Rice (Indian Prairie Ranch) and his parents are Bryan and Holley Rice (Woodside Ranch). Not surprisingly, Ali and Brandon met at an OBS sale while still teenagers. They dated briefly before Ali began traveling aboard and Brandon went off to Florida State University.

“We were just going off in different directions,” Brandon, 30, said. “We kept track of each other mainly through our families. So we kind of knew what the other one was doing that way.”

After graduating in 2006 from FSU with a degree in finance, Brandon too began traveling extensively aboard to other thoroughbred industry regions. Accepted into the two-year Darley Flying Start Thoroughbred Management Program, Brandon spent time in some of the very places Ali visited as well. His passport included stamps from Ireland, England, Australia, New Zealand and Dubai.

“There is no way to put a price on the thoroughbred education I got through the Darley Flying Start program,” Brandon said. “While broadening my experiences, it enhanced what I had learned from my family and working for many outstanding American trainers. The program made me just a better all-around horseman.”

A little bit of serendipity brought Ali and Brandon back together.

“After graduating from the Flying Start program in 2008, I went to Saratoga and saw Ali at a Darley cocktail party,” Brandon said. “We visited a little bit and it was like we had never been apart. By the time we were both back in Ocala for the OBS August sale, we were back together and have been ever since.”

By 2009, they were engaged and off they went to Japan.

“I hadn’t visited Japan, so thanks to Ali, it was a great opportunity for me,” Brandon said. “Of course, by then Ali had made her mark there and it was her show. But I wanted to contribute in some way.”

With an extensive background in farrier work, Brandon did just that. He talked to the Japanese about hoof care, even shod a horse.

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great to brag about Ocala and show them how we do things. They were very receptive. I would love to go back.”

But after all their travels, the duo was ready to settle down and start their own business.

“During our travels, Ali and I had told people aboard how special Ocala was as a thoroughbred industry center,” Brandon said. “So there was no doubt on our part that Ocala was where we wanted to start the next phase of our lives.”

A GREAT START

Ali and Brandon met at an OBS sale while still teenagers. They dated briefly before Ali began traveling aboard and Brandon went off to Florida State University.

Initially, Ali and Brandon operated their pinhooking/training operation under their separate names. With last names as recognizable as theirs were in the thoroughbred industry, it was a good business move. They leased a portion of the Rice family’s Woodside Ranch as a home base. Early yearling purchases that sold well and went on to do well at the racetrack kick-started their venture.

The duo paid $7,000 for a colt by Limehouse out of the Langfuhr mare Cukee at the 2009 Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale. Consigned under de Meric and Rice at the 2010 OBS April juvenile sale, the colt brought $200,000 from Sagamore Farm. Named Humble and

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During our travels, Ali and I had “ told people aboard how special Ocala was as a thoroughbred industry center,.

So there was no doubt on our part that Ocala was where we wanted to start the next phase of our lives. —Brandon Rice

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Hungry, he won the 2011 Commonwealth Turf Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs. Also stakes placed four times, including two graded, Humble and Hungry has to date earned $269,967.

“It was a great start for us and we were very grateful,” Ali said. “But having grown up in the business, we also knew it wasn’t as easy as it looked.”

At the 2011 OBS April juvenile sale, Ali and Brandon got a good taste of the ups and downs of the business. They sold a colt by Lion Heart out of Sugarloaf, by Regal Intention, for $26,000 to Alex and JoAnn Lieblong. That made for a slim profit margin on a yearling that they had bought for $8,000 at the 2010 Keeneland September sale. But named King and Crusader, the colt won the 2012 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct and

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banked $106,900 in his career. At the same 2011 OBS “Ali came up with our new name,” Brandon said; he April sale, they also sold as agents for a client Milestone and Ali were married in June, 2012. “She was just dooMiss, a 2009 War Front out of Tappin for Gold, by Pleas- dling possible names one day and came up with a play ant Tap, filly for $275,000. on racehorse. We like to say Another training/sales if you want a racehorse, All our travels have made us ap- buy a RiceHorse.” graduate is graded stakespreciate how special Ocala and the placed Morning Fix, sold for $85,000 at the 2013 Florida thoroughbred industry are. ON THE ROAD AGAIN OBS April juvenile sale.

While busy with their Brandon and I wouldn’t want to live The 3-year-old First Samufull-service RiceHorse Staand have our business anywhere rai filly was third in the bles, which specializes in else. Alexandra de Meric 2014 Senorita Stakes (G3) training young horses for at Santa Anita. At the 2014 the juvenile sales and raceOBS April sale, the duo sold a colt by Scat Daddy out track, Ali got another travel opportunity. This one was of Robbie’s Gal, by Straight Man, for $150,000. The via her mother Jaqui. latter two sales were made in the name of their newly“At the last OBS April sale, my mother was approached minted RiceHorse Stables. by a representative of the Korean Racing Association,” Ali

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As much as Ali and Brandon enjoy traveling and plan to do more of it, they both always enjoy coming home.

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said. “They wanted her to come to South Korea and teach their horse people how to start young horses using wellknown horseman Martin Black’s technique. He was impressed how her horses showed and performed at the sale.”

Jaqui agreed to the offer, only if she could bring along Ali. So in September, Jaqui and Ali packed up their training equipment, as well as a PowerPoint presentation of the duo starting young horses at the farm,

and off they went. At least this time, Ali didn’t have to pack any school books.

“We spent our time in Seoul and on Jeju Island, where the thoroughbred stud farms and an amazing pony racetrack are,” Ali said. “The Jeju Native Pony is a descendant of the Mongol ponies and they have official South Korean National Monument status. Jeju Race Park is one of the most elaborate racetracks I have ever

been around. It was quite an amazing experience.”

The mother-daughter team named their program Mindful Horsemanship, which is based on Black’s method of starting young horses. The clinic included lectures and Q&A sessions. In covered round pens, Jaqui and Ali worked with yearlings provided by the KRA. Over a 10-day span, they started 20 yearlings and made their clinic presentations to more than 1,000 people.

“The South Koreans were very receptive and very inquisitive,” Ali said. “They were very hungry for information. Many spoke English, but we always had a translator. Many of the KRA officials have been to Ocala many times to buy horses, so those in attendance understood where we were from too. They are aware of Ocala’s status as a major thoroughbred center.”

As much as Ali and Brandon enjoy traveling and plan to do more of it, they both always enjoy coming home.

“All our travels have made us appreciate how special Ocala and the Florida thoroughbred industry are,” Ali said.

“Brandon and I wouldn’t want to live and have our business anywhere else.”

That being said, their passports are always up to date and at the ready. ■

Alexandria Rice teaching her training methods to an Asian horseman

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Florida Sire Stakes Increases Purses “Already, the FSS has had a major impact FSS to now offer stakes for 3-year-olds. on Gulfstream business and racing. Our OctoBy Brock Sheridan

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he Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association, Gulfstream Park and the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association have agreed to significant changes in the Florida Sire Stakes Program to be run at Gulfstream Park in 2015. There will be $600,000 in purse increases to the FSS races run for 2-year-olds, plus the addition of two divisions of three races for each sex in the 3-year-old ranks with purses totaling $900,000.

The 2015 FSS for juveniles will be made up of the $200,000 Desert Vixen and the $200,000 Dr. Fager Stakes, the $300,000 Susan’s Girl and $300,000 Affirmed Stakes while the My Dear Girl and the In Reality Stakes will offer purses of $500,000 each. The distances for each of the juvenile races will remain the same as will the time of year for each race.

The sophomores will be running in the yet to be named first, second and third legs with all six races offering $150,000 purses. The first legs will be run at seven furlongs on the main track, the second legs at a mile on turf and the third legs at 1 1/16 miles on dirt.

The Florida Sire Stakes has in the past been six races run in two divisions; three races in each division for 2-year-old fillies and for 2-year-old colts and geldings.

Last year, the juvenile filly division was made up of the $100,000 Desert Vixen Stakes run at six furlongs in August, the $250,000 Susan’s Girl Stakes run at seven furlongs in September and the $350,000 My Dear Girl Stakes run at 1 1/16-miles in October. The juvenile colt and gelding division was made up of the $100,000 Dr. Fager Stakes run at six furlongs in August, the $250,000 Affirmed Stakes at seven furlongs in September and the $350,000 In Reality Stakes at 1 1/16 miles in October. These purse levels were the highest they had been in several years.

There will be $5,000 FSS supplements for 30 select maiden special weight races (15 for 46 THE FLORIDA HORSE • JANUARY 2015

fillies and 15 for colts and geldings) to be available for FSS eligible horses who win one of those 30 races to be run at Gulfstream before the FSS stakes begin in August, 2015.

FTBOA president George Russell expressed his satisfaction with the enhancements to the series.

“This is a very good thing,” Russell said.

“The FSS for Florida-breds is an important program administered by the FTBOA. The recent running of our modified FSS program this past season at Gulfstream clearly showed that there is a growing enthusiasm for it. It can only have a positive impact for our members, stallions, sales and Florida-bred racing in our Sunshine State.”

Lonny Powell, the CEO and executive vice president of the FTBOA is also excited about 2015.

ber 2014 FSS finals rewarded all involved with the single largest handle day of the Gulfstream meet as well as for the 32 years the series was run at Calder prior to 2014. Our two final contests will have purses increased to $500,000, giving the FTBOA, Gulfstream and the marketplace a major racing day with $1 million on the line for the top Florida-bred/Florida-sired, juvenile thoroughbreds. This will be a great platform for the FTBOA and Gulfstream to build interest, awareness, participation and wagering on the series and day.

“While the core FSS program will always be based heavily on bringing our best 2-yearolds to the track, we will be undertaking initial expansion plans into some select races for 3-year-olds. Gulfstream and our FHBPA partners share our enthusiasm for expanding the FSS into the 3-year-old calendar with even

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to $3 million in 2015 “The rejuvenated and re-energized FSS, the possibility for expanding to older horses ued. “Now that we have relocated the series to in the years ahead, provided we can keep the Gulfstream with the FTBOA now in charge of resulting from the recent stakes modificathe program and the single largest contributor to tions, is now poised for significant purse and program growing and supported.”

Fred Brei, who is chairman of the FTBOA its purses, much of that hard work has paid off wagering growth as well as expansion beyond racing and stakes committee, commends the to the benefit of Florida-breds, Florida breeders, our lucrative program for 2-year-olds.”

FTBOA and Gulfstream Park also aneffort to further FSS enhancements and ex- their breeding programs and our members.”

FHBPA president Phil Combest said horse- nounced that the Sunshine Millions, previpansion to include 3-year-olds. ously restricted to Florida-breds, will be open “It is exciting to see the FSS growing and men are very happy about the new format.

“I’ve talked to a lot of Florida horsemen to horses bred in New York, Maryland and getting back to what it used to be with national recognition like it had during the height of its about the new format for the Florida Sire Pennsylvania. The Sunshine Millions will be popularity,” Brei said. “We have an extraordi- Stakes,” Combest said. “Obviously, we’re ex- contested Saturday, Jan. 17.

“We support Gulfstream’s desire to add nary stakes program for 2-year-olds that con- tremely pleased about the higher purses in the tinues to improve and the beginning of a great 2-year-old series. But the horsemen are also select states in addition to Florida, as the program for 3-year-olds. Now those horses really excited about the new 3-year-old series more wide-open competition should add to that may not have been ready for stakes action format. It’s a great idea. We’ve all nominated field size, competition and multi-state awareas 2-year-olds will have a chance to compete 2-year-olds who bucked shins or had some ness on this specific day of Gulfstream racother minor injury and missed the entire 2- ing. Florida-breds take on open company at for this money as sophomores.

“In recent years, our stallion owners sacri- year-old series. Or maybe the horse just ma- the highest levels around the world with a ficed much in order to It’s a great idea. We’ve all nominated 2-year-olds who bucked shins or had some other keep the old FSS in place at Calder,” Brei contin- minor injury and missed the entire 2-year-old series. Or maybe the horse just matured late

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or turned out to be a grass horse. This new series gives those horses a shot at Sire Stakes purses. I think it will encourage more breeders to nominate to the Sire Stakes, as well. All in all, there’s a lot of positive buzz about the new series format. —FHBPA president Phil Combest

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tured late or turned out to be a grass horse.

This new series gives those horses a shot at Sire Stakes purses. I think it will encourage more breeders to nominate to the Sire Stakes, as well. All in all, there’s a lot of positive buzz about the new series format.”

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The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association and Gulfstream Park will reallocate $350,000 from the Sunshine Millions to other Florida-bred stakes races during the remainder of the year.

Those stakes will include the Florida Sire Stakes, formerly the Florida Stallion Stakes, which were run for the first time in its 32-year history earlier this year at Gulfstream Park.

Lonny Powell, FTBOA CEO, said, “By working things out, we are able to focus on growing quality racing programs, which benefit our breeding industry and Gulfstream’s racing program.

recognizable degree of success. We look forward to taking on all comers from New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland on our Sunshine State home turf.”

The Florida breeding program fund does not allow the FTBOA to sponsor when out of state horses are included, thus the money was shifted to enhance the FSS 2-year old program and generate the FSS 3-year old program.

The Sunshine Millions will feature the $250,000 Classic, $150,000 Distaff, $100,000 Sprint, $100,000 Turf and $100,000 Filly & Mare Turf.

Gulfstream Park’s Vice President of Racing and General Manager P.J. Campo said, “We will look forward to working with these states to bring the Sunshine Millions purses back up to $1 million.”

Powell added, “We look forward to continuing to collaborate with Gulfstream to build our entire thoroughbred industry here in Florida.” ■ THE FLORIDA HORSE • JANUARY 2015 47

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FLORIDA NEWS Long-time OBS general manager honored

Tom Ventura Named 2014 University of Arizona John K. Goodman Award Winner

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om Ventura, the president and general manager of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company located in Ocala, Fla., has been honored with the 2014 John K. Goodman Alumni Award by the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program.

This honor is bestowed upon one of the RTIP's many distinguished alumni who have made an outstanding contribution to the racing industry in the spirit of their alma matre. Named in honor of the Programs founding father, John K. “Jack” Goodman of Tucson, Ariz., the award has previously honored trainers Bob Baffert in 1997 and Todd Pletcher in 2002 as well as Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association Chief Executive Office and Vice President Lonny Powell (‘99), NYRA Vice President of Racing Martin Panza (‘13) and the late track announcer, Luke Kruytbosch (‘01).

“I would like to thank the RTIP for giving me the opportunity to work in an industry that was difficult to break into for someone who did not have family or some other avenue to get Tom Ventura into the game,” Ventura said.

“The RTIP program has given me wonderful opportunities and experience that have been invaluable throughout my career.”

Ventura, a native of Haywood, N.J., graduated from the University of Arizona in 1980 with a degree in Animal Science and the Race Track Industry Program. During his time in undergraduate school, he served an internship with the Jockey Club and the New York Racing Association in New York. After graduating, Ventura returned to NYRA to work in the racing department before he went to work for the Steinbrenner family at their offices in Tampa, Fla., assisting with their racing and breeding operation. After working for the Steinbrenner family for a few years, Ventura returned to Tucson, to work on his Masters in Business Administration degree from the University and was an assistant to then RTIP Director Powell.

Ventura later returned to Florida to work for the Steinbrenner

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family, this time at their Kinsman Farm in Ocala. Ventura continued to work there until 1994 when he joined OBS where he continues to work in his current capacity.

The Jack K. Goodman Award is given at the Global Symposium on Racing and Gaming each December in Tucson. The Race Track Industry Program has gained worldwide recognition for its annual Global Symposium on Racing & Gaming which the program has conducted since 1974. The Symposium attracts attendees representing thoroughbred, standardbred, quarter horse, greyhound and racino interests from across the United States and internationally. Topics presented during the

I would like to thank the RTIP for giving “ me the opportunity work in an industry that was difficult to break into for someone who did not have family or some other avenue to get into the game. The RTIP program has given me wonderful opportunities and experience that have been invaluable throughout my career.

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—OBS president & general manager, Tom Ventura conference include cutting-edge issues and trends of importance to the pari-mutuel industry including simulcasting, account wagering, marketing, track surfaces, casino gaming, human and health issues, animal and health issues, track operations, new technologies and regulation.

The Race Track Industry Program is the only program of its kind, offering two paths based on student interest. The Business Path prepares students for employment in the areas of race track management, regulation and pari-mutuel racing organizations.

The Equine Management Path prepares students for employment in areas dealing with racing and breeding animals.

The mission of the RTIP is to offer students a broad-based university education with emphasis on the pari-mutuel racing industry and provide support for the industry through a variety of outreach programs.■

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family descended from Calumet foundation mare Blue Delight is one example; staminaoriented itself, her family has historically gotten its best runners from stallions that had at least a dash of brilliance in their makeups. If certain traits run strongly in a family, then obviously extra attention needs to be paid to selecting a stallion from bloodlines that have been successful in working with that family and its dominant characteristics within the venue for which the foal is destined.

For breeders desiring professional assistance in planning a mare’s mating, plenty of options exist. These range from nicking reports (often provided by stallion managers as a free service to mare owners) through computer programs designed to assist with research to pedigree analysts who will make individual recommendations based on their own studies and experience and with any parameters specified by the mare owner taken into account.

The key in making the best use of these resources is to know their limitations and to do one’s homework as far as one is able, as no means of analyzing data are any better than the quality of data given it to work with and the competence and integrity of the provider. ■ Some families throw the same traits generation after generation. The family descended from Calumet foundation mare Blue Delight (pictured) is one example.

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By AVALYN HUNTER individual is an important consideration. That rom November through January, thou- means making the effort to see as many of the sands of broodmares and broodmare stallions being considered for the mare as prospects exchange hands. Their new possible, as well as being as objective as posowners now face a common problem: how to sible about the mare’s faults. It also means make choices that yield the greatest likelihood studying pedigrees and learning about the individuals in back of the names to know what of getting profitable foals from their mares.

Preparation for the breeding season always physical traits they tended to transmit. The ideal mate for a sickle-hocked begins with an honest assessment of the mare—not just The key in making mare not only should have correctly conformed hind her pedigree, conformation, the best use of relimbs but should not have a and race record, but her status sources is to know as an individual. Is she in their limitations and to sickle-hocked individual good reproductive health? Is do one’s homework as close up in his family tree, especially one that tended to be she at a desirable weight? Does far as one is able. dominant in transmitting the she have dental or orthopedic issues that need addressing? As much as pos- trait. On the other side of the coin, a stallion sible, physical issues need to be dealt with be- that is imperfect in an area in which the mare fore the mare goes to the breeding shed, and is very strong may still be worthy of considthat means going over any available veteri- eration if he suits the mare well in other renary records as well as scheduling needed gards and does not have a history of being dominant for stamping his fault on his foals. work-ups and treatment.

Taking time to become familiar with the In most cases the money spent getting a mare into prime reproductive shape is far less dominant traits of the mare’s family is also than the cost of a year’s barrenness or produc- important. Some families are quite flexible to tion of a foal that is not vigorous and healthy. their mates; others consistently throw the That taken care of, the next area to consider same traits generation after generation. The is how the mare and any prospective foal will fit into a breeder’s program. Is she intended to produce runners for a homebred stable? Will her foals run in a state-bred program, or are they part of a breeding program with national ambitions? If the foals will be sold, where and when will they be marketed?

The answers to these questions will help define the type of stallion that should be sought to increase the odds of getting a foal that meets the breeder’s goals. It usually does little good to breed a mare to a fine breed-to-race stallion if the horse consistently throws a type that is not attractive in the sale ring and the intent is to sell the foal as a yearling, but this might be a perfectly logical mating if the breeder’s intent is to supply her own racing stable.

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Equine Care

By HEATHER SMITH THOMAS

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hock wave therapy for horses has been used in the United States for 15 years and veterinarians are still learning about this technology. The technique itself is called lithotripsy, which means to hammer stones. This type of therapy has been utilized in human medicine since 1980, to break up kidney and bladder stones without surgery.

It was first used on animals in 1986 in Europe to treat tendon, ligament and bone problems. The first machine for horses was brought to the U.S. in 1998 and installed at Interstate Equine Services (Goldsby, Oklahoma) where Dr. David McCarroll began trials on various types of clinical cases. The second one was installed at Purdue University, under the direction of Dr. Scott McClure.

McClure (now at Iowa State University, where he is Associate Professor of Equine Surgery) still uses shock wave therapy in treating horses with various types of lameness issues. “Shock wave today has evolved to where it is accepted and expected in equine practice. There are a number of things it is consistently used for, such as suspensory desmitis and tendonitis. It is also used for some cervical osteoarthropathy issues in the neck, and also some of

the problems associated with back pain,” he says.

“At this point, these are the major things that shock wave therapy is routinely used for, and accepted as effective treatment. In the past few years, shock wave research has evolved more into finding the best ways to use it along with other biologic therapies. We are looking at where it fits best, regarding timing, using it in conjunction with other treatment protocols like stem cells or platelet rich plasma (PRP), etc. and blend these therapies together,” says McClure.

“Using several therapies together is now routinely done, because we see some additive benefits.

If we can get the growth factors from something like PRP, we can not only stimulate the injured area with the growth factors but also with neovascularization from the shock wave,” he explains.

In the early years of shock wave use in horses, it was tried primarily on bony injuries and joints—such as hock problems. “Today we use it more commonly for soft tissue injuries such as tendons and ligaments. There are some benefits using shock wave with some of the bony issues, but the cost-benefit ratio is more questionable,” says McClure.

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apy—to get these wounds to heal two or three weeks quicker,” he says.

“On the human side, the use of shock wave to help heal diabetic ulcers, burn wounds, etc. is rapidly increasing and great benefits are seen. There’s been a lot of use and research in trauma centers, for instance. When it comes to horses, however, the cost-benefit ratio may not be quite as beneficial, but we do use shock wave on some of the more challenging wounds,” he says.

The first paper published on shock wave use in horses was from a study done by Dr. McCarroll in Oklahoma, looking at treatment of 90 lameness cases which included 47 hock problems involving the tarsal joints—in which 79 sites were treated with shock wave. “In these lower hock issues (bone spavin) we definitely saw improvement. But over the Probably the number one use (of years we’ve transitioned into using other shock wave thereapy) is still treating MANY BENEFITS OF SHOCK WAVE methods to treat these hock conditions such suspensory ligament injuries, but it’s Dr. Jenny Johnson (Oak Hill Shock Wave, as facilitated fusing with alcohol, lasers, etc.” also used on all sorts of other liga- in Calabasas, Ca.,--near Los Angeles) has Navicular syndrome is another problem ment injuries including collateral been an equine veterinarian for 27 years. For where shock wave has been tried, and ligaments, ligaments within the hoof, the past seven years she has narrowed her showed some response. “But navicular is a practice to specialize in shockwave therapy and some tendon injuries. I am chronic degenerative condition. Even if you using it more and more on joints; and chiropractic care. “At first, common use make it a little better, it’s still a chronic dehorse owners are beginning to use for shock wave was treating suspensory liggenerative condition,” he says. The shock shockwave therapy before going to ament injuries, particularly those that had wave therapy might relieve the pain for avulsion fractures—where a piece of bone is intra-articular injections. awhile and make the horse more comfortpulled away from the cannon bone. Shock —Dr. Jenny Johnson able but it’s not a cure. wave therapy is very useful for stimulating “There have also been some studies on treating wounds with shock healing of fractures,” she says. wave. These studies have shown that shock wave can stimulate wounds “It stimulates osteoblast formation. These are the precursor cells to heal faster. Again, there is the question of cost to benefits ratio. Dr. for new bone. When there’s a fracture you need osteoblasts to form, Johnson in California had a case report on a burn wound horse that shock and bridge that gap and heal the bone,” Johnson explains. wave helped heal. We did a controlled study here and there was another Since those first machines came into use, veterinarians have study done at Guelph. We can definitely stimulate faster wound healing, tried shockwave therapy for a huge array of problems. “Probably but is it worth the additional financial input—for the shock wave ther- the number one use is still treating suspensory ligament injuries, but it’s also used on all sorts of other ligament injuries including collateral ligaments, ligaments within the hoof, and some tendon injuries. I am using it more and more on joints; horse owners are beginning to use shockwave therapy before going to intra-articular “The term ‘shock wave’ is often misunderstood; people generally think of it in terms of electricity, but these are pressure waves,” injections. Early on, we used shockwave on arthritic joints when McClure says. They pass through water and living tissue. When the injections were no longer as effective or long-lasting, but a study they hit something of a different density, the pressure/energy is rein Italy a few years ago showed that shockwave can down-regulate leased and has a stimulating effect on that tissue. two of the most important inflammatory mediators,” she says.

“It’s important to understand that this is a specific type of therapy, “When there’s arthritis in a joint, there is cartilage breakdown, and and not the same as laser therapy or therapeutic ultrasound therapy. a number of mediators released into the joint. These are molecules Shock wave therapy is much different technology,” he says. that send signals—and the signals they are sending into the joint are The skin surface of the area to be treated is coated with a spetelling it to break down more cartilage. It becomes a vicious cycle cial water-soluble gel to help facilitate movement of the shock wave into the body. “Depending on the type of machine, the pressure with continual breakdown of cartilage. The shockwave can interrupt wave is produced by discharge of a high voltage spark under water this and down-regulate the activity of two of the most important and or by electromagnetic force—which is like a stereo speaker under active mediators (interleukin-10 and TNF-alpha),” she explains. water. Currently there are no piezoelectric systems being marketed Shockwave appears to slow down the progression of arthritis. “I have in the U.S. yet, as far as I know,” says McClure. started using it earlier, in younger horses, to treat joint pain and arthritic The pressure waves/pulses are channeled and focused to pass joints. I don’t think it replaces intra-articular injections but I think it’s a through the body toward a target area, and when they hit that spot very important adjunct. In many cases you can reduce the frequency of (such as where a tendon attaches to a bone) the power of the presinjections and have a better long-term outcome. Any time you can avoid sure wave is released—like ocean waves hitting a beach.

“With the portable, hand-held equipment in use today, we have going into the joint, this is better. There is always some risk when doing been able to streamline the treatment. We no longer have to anesinjections. By contrast, shockwave is not invasive,” she explains. thetize the horses to treat them. We can do repeated treatments as “Shockwave therapy gives a short period of analgesic effect—for quick outpatients. We often do a series of treatments that now cost about 48 hours—but after that it continues to stimulate healing on about what one treatment cost 10 years ago.” a number of levels. It increases circulation in the area that was

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Shockwave therapy gives a short period of anal“gesic effect—for about 48 hours—but after that it continues to stimulate healing on a number of levels.

It increases circulation in the area that was treated, and stimulates migration of stem cells (from the horse’s own body) into that area. On a cellular level it stimulates a host of growth factors that are also important in the healing process. You enhance the on-going healing that’s happening in the body,

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—Dr. Jenny Johnson

treated, and stimulates migration of stem cells (from the horse’s own body) into that area. On a cellular level, it stimulates a host of growth factors that are also important in the healing process. You enhance the on-going healing that’s happening in the body,” she says.

In any athlete, tissues are constantly being broken down and repaired. “There is always remodeling of bone, and of soft tissue. You are training the muscles and providing different stresses on various systems of the body (muscles, bones, etc.) to make them stronger.

Shockwave therapy enhances this and helps the remodeling process.

Whenever there is destruction of tissue the shockwave stimulates quicker rebuilding and repair,” Johnson explains.

“Shockwave therapy is commonly used in horses that have acute injuries or recent suspensory injuries or ligament/tendon/muscle sprains/strains, inflammation or degeneration in joints. It’s also useful for more chronic problems like an old suspensory injury. The horse may have gone through the first 6 or 7 months of healing and the injury has reached a static phase; the healing process has reached a plateau and is not continuing to heal. Shockwave therapy can be very useful to jump-start the healing process and get things going again,” she says.

THE PROCEDURE

Today shockwave therapy is a simple procedure that doesn’t take long and is easy on the horse. With the original shock wave machines that were used in veterinary medicine, the horses were usually anesthetized. Today that’s unnecessary.

“About 95% of the horses are simply sedated for this procedure.

The exception would be horses having their backs shockwaved. I prefer to not sedate these horses because I like to be able to evaluate their response to the shockwave therapy during the procedure. Many times they’ll give a hint about where they are most uncomfortable. I often use two different probes, for two different depths on the back. The horse

EQUIPMENT The original machines were large and cumbersome, but soon evolved into smaller, more user-friendly models. “The first 3 machines—that Dave McCarroll, Van Snow and I had—were the size of washing machines and they cost half a million dollars apiece,” McClure says. Since then the shock wave machines have become more compact and portable, and also more affordable; a good shock wave machine can now be purchased for less than $40,000.

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of what methods you are using. In many of those cases I will do four to six shock wave treatments. With some I do the initial three treatments then monitor the horse for a few months and then I may come back and may be painful at different areas or depths,” she says.

Most horses readily tolerate the shockwave on their backs, with do another two or three, depending on what is going on with the horse.”

On most horses that have an injury amenable to shockwave therno sedation. “I have many patients who seem to enjoy it.” These apy, Johnson comes out to the barn—after a diagnosis has been horses are probably experiencing some pain relief. made by ultrasound, MRI, scintigraphy or On the legs, however, she generally sedates the horse, for safety and so the horse is not The typical protocol, for most things x-rays. “I then have a clear idea of where moving around. “We don’t want it to be a bad I treat, would be a series of three treat- the injury is, and will sedate the horse, experience for the horse, because when you ments. I usually space them about standing. The shockwave therapy only takes get right over an injured area it can be un- three weeks apart. It depends on each about 10 to 15 minutes at most. I usually comfortable,” she explains. individual case and to some extent on allow an hour for each appointment, mainly “These focused shockwave machines are the practitioner who is using it. Some just to get to know the horse, get the equipdifferent from the cumbersome original ma- like to do it closer together and some ment set up, etc. The actual therapy is relatively quick,” she says. chines; these new ones are heavy but portable prefer the treatments farther apart, —Dr. Jenny Johnson Post-treatment, the horse wakes up and and can be taken to the horse. I provide a service for other veterinarians in my area. They do the diagnostics and we goes back to his stall. “For injured horses that are being handwork together; I go out to the barns and do the shockwave therapy as walked, there is no change in their daily protocol; they just continue needed, and keep the clients’ regular veterinarians informed,” she says. this mild exercise. If it’s a horse that’s in work or in light work—in “The typical protocol, for most things I treat, would be a series the recovery phase of the injury and starting back into work—I’ll of three treatments. I usually space them about three weeks apart. recommend two days of just hand-walking or tack walking before It depends on each individual case and to some extent on the prac- they go back to work. This is because of the 48-hour period of analtitioner who is using it. Some like to do it closer together and some gesic effect. We don’t want the horse doing too much just because the pain is relieved and he feels better,” Johnson says. ■ prefer the treatments farther apart,” she says.

“Hind limb suspensory injuries seem to benefit from more treatments because these are some of the hardest injuries to heal, regardless

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“Shockwave has a potent anti-inflammatory effect, stimulates circulation, stimulates stem cell migration, stimulates fibroblast and osteoblast formation, stimulates and enhances growth factor activation—all of which are important in healing,” says Johnson. “It also has a significant anti-bacterial affect as well. Shockwave therapy is now being used in human medicine in treating burns and wounds, partly because of its anti-bacterial capacity,” she says.

“We don’t understand why it has this capacity, but there may be several reasons. When there’s a large bacterial population in a certain area, the bacteria form what’s called a biofilm. They bind together, making a shield of bacteria around the infected area, and are harder to kill. Shockwave might physically disrupt the biofilm and make the bacteria less viable,” she says. This disruption might enable the body’s own immune defenses or antibacterial drugs to get to the infection more readily. Breaking up the biofilm may make bacteria more susceptible to antibiotic therapy. It’s also thought that shockwaves might disrupt the metabolism of bacteria at the cellular level, by affecting the intra-cellular structure of the bacteria.

Johnson published a paper a few years ago in a veterinary journal, describing the use of shockwave therapy to treat a burn injury in a horse. “This was the first published case report of using shockwave therapy to treat burns in horses. This horse had a poor prognosis because more than 25% of his body area was burned. I shockwaved him for the first time 11 days after the burn. Within 24 hours of the shockwave treatment there were new blood vessels growing into the burned area, the bad smell was gone, the pus was resolving, and the horse was dramatically more comfortable. He healed very well.”

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stands for $2,500

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stands for $3,500

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Leading Florida Sires The following list includes currently active, deceased and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through Nov. 30, 2014. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

WILDCAT HEIR

GRAEME HALL

WITH DISTINCTION NA Stk Gr Earnings Strtrs Wnrs SW's Wins SW's

Earnings

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg 2yo Avg Sold

2yo Avg

Name

Sire Name

Farm Name

Wildcat Heir

Forest Wildcat

Journeyman Stud

$5,829,371

219

132

8

12

2

$5,923,404

Daring Kathy

$356,366

12

$45,208

30

$67,867

With Distinction

Storm Cat

Hartley/DeRenzo

$4,178,266

186

111

3

3

0

$4,312,849

Decisive Moment

$170,727

10

$15,750

11

$35,136

Graeme Hall

Dehere

Winding Oaks

$3,298,518

130

75

2

4

1

$3,311,180

East Hall

$642,935

9

$20,889

9

$32,633

Pollard's Vision

Carson City

Pleasant Acres

$2,114,505

150

65

3

5

0

$2,315,505

Mister Pollard

$246,603

2

$7,500

9

$27,167

Exclusive Quality

Elusive Quality

Journeyman Stud

$2,214,742

102

48

2

4

0

$2,219,624

Holywell

$415,025

5

$6,600

21

$27,357

Harlington

Unbridled

Winding Oaks

$1,739,446

64

47

2

3

0

$1,749,097

Uzziel

$133,698

2

$6,250

3

$18,333

A. P. Warrior

A.P. Indy

HallMarc Stallions

$1,604,073

70

35

2

2

0

$1,608,460

Moment of Delight

$174,850

22

$8,295

7

$32,929

Value Plus

Unbridled's Song

HallMarc Stallions

$1,550,761

90

48

1

2

1

$1,589,443

Long On Value

$333,088

4

$8,000

3

$36,167

Two Step Salsa

Petionville

Get Away Farm

$1,472,334

46

27

1

1

1

$1,498,550

Dance With Fate

$524,800

10

$21,500

9

$41,667

Montbrook

Buckaroo

Deceased

$1,375,051

84

38

0

0

0

$1,413,072

Schivarelli

$156,900

5

$18,800

20

$37,625

Bring the Heat

In Excess (IRE)

Ward Ranch

$1,298,642

60

32

1

1

0

$1,298,642

Sydneyrella

$175,949

1

$10,000

Strong Contender

Maria's Mon

HallMarc Stallions

$1,232,936

46

23

4

8

1

$1,234,791

Grand Contender

$372,250

High Cotton

Dixie Union

Ocala Stud

$1,181,614

77

39

0

0

0

$1,201,734

Tarpy's Goal

$97,430

40

$17,148

20

$40,810

Hear No Evil

Carson City

Journeyman Stud

$1,125,641

38

19

3

7

0

$1,125,641

Sing Praises

$408,370

1

$10,000

3

$10,000

In Summation

Put It Back

Ocala Stud

$1,085,689

62

29

1

1

0

$1,099,065

Puntrooskie

$134,400

20

$11,270

28

$32,625

Concerto

Chief's Crown

Deceased

$962,796

68

42

0

0

0

$966,963

Cu Soonerthanlater

8

$40,375

It's No Joke

Distorted Humor

HallMarc Stallions

$799,668

29

18

1

1

0

$799,668

Amulay

$141,700

3

$1,567

2

$4,750

Kantharos

Lion Heart

Ocala Stud

$795,448

25

15

1

2

0

$795,448

Mr. Jordan

$139,215

14

$22,214

25

$58,480

Concorde's Tune

Concorde Bound

Deceased

$763,965

46

28

1

1

0

$784,281

Wicked Tune

$94,350

Act of Duty

Mr. Prospector

Deceased

$742,459

51

29

1

1

0

$742,577

Act of Madness

$74,010

2

$11,500

Sweet Return (GB)

Elmaamul

$47,881

Ocala Stud

$664,891

41

16

0

0

0

$664,891

Sweet Abandon

$150,380

5

$1,920

Awesome of Course Awesome Again

Journeyman Stud

$662,060

25

11

1

1

0

$662,060

Twotwentyfive A

$203,038

8

$15,750

6

$19,500

Benny the Bull

Lucky Lionel

Bridlewood Farm

$612,302

34

21

1

1

0

$622,284

Joe Pike

$48,741

7

$4,286

5

$31,900

Three Wonders

Storm Cat

Deceased

$569,897

32

16

0

0

0

$569,897

Two Wonders

$116,180

Leading the Parade

A.P. Indy

Lamholm South

$550,511

36

18

0

0

0

$555,497

Clever Royal

$53,846

1

$8,000

Halo's Image

Halo

Deceased

$540,530

32

18

0

0

0

$540,530

Blonde On Blonde

$63,297

Indy Wind

A.P. Indy

Journeyman Stud

$476,560

27

15

0

0

0

$526,045

Perfect Wind

$57,445

West Acre

Forty Niner

Stonehedge Farm

$496,654

33

18

1

1

0

$496,654

Fifty Acres

$50,300

The Green Monkey

Forestry

Hartley/DeRenzo

$493,283

19

13

2

2

0

$493,283

Green Doctor

$171,024

Yesbyjimminy

Yes It's True

Bridlewood Farm

$470,211

34

18

1

1

0

$480,951

Yes That's Me

$42,589

Wagon Limit

Conquistador Cielo Bridlewood Farm

$432,004

15

9

1

1

0

$432,004

Delta Bluesman

$62,892

Proud Accolade

Yes It's True

Deceased

$380,622

25

13

0

0

0

$388,883

Brezno

$61,460

Unbridled Time

Unbridled's Song

Signature Stallions

$322,132

18

12

0

0

0

$322,132

Valley King

$60,955

Scorpion

Seattle Slew

Pinecrest Stallions

$306,483

28

9

0

0

0

$309,943

Tryer

$81,999

Hal's Image

Halo's Image

Get Away Farm

$300,725

19

8

0

0

0

$300,725

Jamie's Dancer

$99,365

Straight Man

Saint Ballado

Signature Stallions

$298,213

25

14

0

0

0

$298,815

Hengist

$35,193

Cool Coal Man

Mineshaft

Journeyman Stud

$241,284

25

5

1

1

0

$241,284

Scindia

$60,232

Hello Broadway

Broken Vow

Ups and Downs Farm $219,105

12

6

0

0

0

$219,105

Tiz Showbiz

$55,402

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5

$4,000

2

$6,250

4

$19,250

1

$5,000

3

$2,067

6

$44,333

10

$13,150

19

$36,053

1

$14,000

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Leading Florida Juvenile Sires The following list includes currently active, deceased and pensioned stallions, with racing results updated through Nov. 30, 2014. Statistics provided by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc.

WILDCAT HEIR

HEAR NO EVIL

KANTHAROS

Sire Name

Farm Name

NA Stk Gr EarningsStrtrsWnrs SW's Wins SW's

Wildcat Heir

Forest Wildcat

Journeyman Stud

$775,421 43

15

1

1

0

$821,446

Coco's Wildcat

$95,745

12

$45,208

30

$67,867

Kantharos

Lion Heart

Ocala Stud

$795,448 25

15

1

2

0

$795,448

Mr. Jordan

$139,215

14

$22,214

25

$58,480

Hear No Evil

Carson City

Journeyman Stud

$715,589 5

5

2

6

0

$715,589

Sing Praises

$408,370

1

$10,000

3

$10,000

Exclusive Quality

Elusive Quality

Journeyman Stud

$600,822 24

8

1

2

0

$600,822

Holywell

$415,025

5

$6,600

21

$27,357

Awesome of Course Awesome Again

Journeyman Stud

$529,810 14

8

1

1

0

$529,810

Twotwentyfive A

$203,038

8

$15,750

6

$19,500

In Summation

Put It Back

Ocala Stud

$338,171 19

8

0

0

0

$339,671

Calculator

$133,500

20

$11,270

28

$32,625

Pollard's Vision

Carson City

Pleastant Acres

$320,297 21

5

1

1

0

$320,297

Vision Perfect

$153,300

2

$7,500

9

$27,167

$52,283

10

$15,750

11

$35,136

$174,850

22

$8,295

7

$32,929

Name

Earnings

Leading Earner

Leading Earnings

Yrlg Sold

Yrlg 2yo Avg Sold

2yo Avg

With Distinction

Storm Cat

Hartley/DeRenzo

$314,353 26

10

0

0

0

$314,353

Big Distinction

A. P. Warrior

A.P. Indy

HallMarc Stallions

$300,419 13

4

1

1

0

$300,419

Moment of Delight

West Acre

Forty Niner

Stonehedge Farm

$262,010 12

7

0

0

0

$262,010

Wicked Rascal

$42,550

4

$19,250

Bring the Heat

In Excess (IRE)

Ward Ranch

$244,997 15

6

1

1

0

$244,997

Lost Bus

$70,600

1

$10,000

Cool Coal Man

Mineshaft

Jouneyman Stud

$241,284 25

5

1

1

0

$241,284

Scindia

$60,232

10

$13,150

19

$36,053

Graeme Hall

Dehere

Winding Oaks

$207,229 14

3

0

0

0

$207,229

Honor Earned

$58,059

9

$20,889

9

$32,633

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■FLORIDA-BREDS AROUND THE COUNTRY ————By Race Type/Grade ————

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—STAKES RACES Win/Place/Show Horse Name

Sex Age Sire

Date

Track Off ID Pos Race Name

Dam

Breeder

Dowager Lady

Marilyn Fazo Seltzer

11/1/14

MNR

1

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Mountaineer Mile S.

$130,000

$78,260

G

7

Greatness

Swinger’s Party

F

4

Medaglia d'Oro Franscat

Farnsworth Stables LLC

11/8/14

GPW

1

Millions Distaff Preview S.

$100,000

$60,140

Bad Debt

G

7

Grand Reward

Pleasant Ring

Pennston Farms Inc.

11/8/14

GPW

1

Millions Turf Preview S.

$100,000

$60,760

Hangover Saturday F

2

Pomeroy

Margarita Friday

John Eaton & Steve Laymon

11/8/14

GPW

1

Juvenile Filly Turf S.

$100,000

$60,140

Mr. Jordan

C

2

Kantharos

Miss Skeetd

Philip Matthews & Karen Matthews

11/8/14

GPW

1

Juvenile Sprint S.

$100,000

$59,520

East Hall

G

3

Graeme Hall

East Long Lake

Mary K. Haire

11/8/14

GPW

1

Millions Classic Preview S.

$100,000

$60,760

Firespike

C

2

Flower Alley

Fairy Valley

Carlos Rafael Michael Bossio & Cherie Abner

11/8/14

GPW

1

Juvenile Turf S.

$100,000

$58,280

Leap Year Luck

F

2

Hear No Evil

Lucky of Course

Jacks or Better Farm Inc.

11/8/14

GPW

1

Juvenile Filly Sprint S.

$100,000

$58,280

Daring Kathy

F

3

Wildcat Heir

Dare to Mambo

John Eaton & Steve Laymon

11/22/14 GPW

1

My Charmer H.

3/$115,000

$73,900

D’cajun Cat

G

3

D'wildcat

Rabiadella

Eico Stable

11/22/14 DED

1

Sam's Town S.

$75,000

$45,000

Awesome Warrior

F

2

A. P. Warrior

Awesome Medicine R. C. Van Voorhees & Liz Steinbach

11/27/14 CMR

1

Clasico Accion de Gracias S. 2/$27,300

$15,834

Classic Point

M

5

Flatter

Discerning

J. V. Shields Jr.

11/28/14 AQU

1

Go for Wand H.

3/$300,000

$180,000

El Kabeir

C

2

Scat Daddy

Great Venue

Rustlewood Farm Inc.

11/29/14 CD

1

Kentucky Jockey Club S.

2/$233,000

$135,792

Jewel of a Cat

F

4

Wildcat Heir

Marbleous Routine Mr. & Mrs. Marty Hershe

11/1/14

GPW

2

Sparkler S.

$75,000

$14,250

Peacenluvpeacenluv C

2

Artie Schiller

No Serenading

Eico Stable

11/1/14

SA

2

Juvenile Turf Sprint S.

$100,500

$20,000

El Kabeir

C

2

Scat Daddy

Great Venue

Rustlewood Farm Inc.

11/2/14

AQU

2

Nashua S.

2/$250,000

$50,000

Warrior Quality

C

2

A. P. Warrior

Eminent Code

Bridle Oaks Farm Inc. & Ryan Reid

11/2/14

CMR

2

Clasico Angel T Cordero S.

2/$27,300

$5,460

Flutterby

F

3

Congrats

Zoobie

The Jerome G. Bozzo Trust

11/8/14

GPW

2

Millions Distaff Preview S.

$100,000

$19,400

Tryer

G

4

Scorpion

Straya

Santa Cruz Ranch Inc.

11/8/14

GPW

2

Millions Turf Preview S.

$100,000

$19,600

Miss Margaret

F

2

Bwana Charlie

Danielle's Affair

Helen Marie Napolitano

11/8/14

GPW

2

Juvenile Filly Turf S.

$100,000

$19,400

Morgans Harbour

C

2

Graeme Hall

Pyrite Final

Suzanne Sharra-Maxwell

11/8/14

GPW

2

Juvenile Sprint S.

$100,000

$19,200

Wildcat Red

C

3

D'wildcat

Racene

Moreau Bloodstock International Inc. & Winter Racing Enterprise

11/8/14

GPW

2

Millions Classic Preview S.

$100,000

$19,600

I’m Venezuelan

G

2

War Chant

Attico

Orlyana Farm

11/8/14

GPW

2

Juvenile Turf S.

$100,000

$18,800

Savingtime

F

2

Kantharos

Daylight Time

Vaughan Heard

11/8/14

GPW

2

Juvenile Filly Sprint S.

$100,000

$18,800

Unfettered

C

4

Rockport Harbor New York Jessica

Sally J. Andersen

11/11/14 ZIA

2

Lea County Sprint S.

$55,000

$12,100

Cutty Shark

G

3

Old Fashioned

A Sea Trippi

Bridlewood Farm

11/15/14 LRL

2

City of Laurel S.

$100,000

$20,000

Happy My Way

G

4

Wilko

Holy Queen

Mayo West Farm & Liam Benson

11/15/14

2

Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash S.$350,000

$70,000

Grande Shores

H

6

Black Mambo

Sexy Stockings

Jacks or Better Farm Inc.

11/16/14 GPW

2

Kenny Noe Jr. S.

$75,000

$14,550

Reporting Star

G

4

Circular Quay

Classic Beauty

Gilbert G. Campbell

11/22/14 GPW

2

Tropical Turf H.

3/$100,000

$19,200

Mewannarose

G

4

Bwana Charlie

Darby Rose

Heiligbrodt Racing Stable

11/27/14 AQU

2

Fall Highweight H.

3/$300,000

$60,000

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COGLIANESE PHOTO

Classic Point/Go For Wand H. (G3)

PALMER PHOTO

El Kabeir (right)/Kentucky Jockey Club S. (G2)

LRL

FAEKES PHOTO

Good Lord

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—STAKES RACES Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name Concerto by Two

Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos Race Name

Grade/ Value

Earngs

C

2

Concerto

Pyrite Or Bust

Tom McCrocklin

11/2/14

CMR

3

Clasico Angel T Cordero S.

2/$27,300

$2,730

Don’tcallmecharley F

4

Bwana Charlie

Ree Ensign

Jodi Anderson

11/8/14

GPW

3

Millions Distaff Preview S.

$100,000

$9,700

Breitling Flyer

C

3

Ghostzapper

Starbuster

Bathen Thoroughbreds LLC & Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdin 11/8/14

GPW

3

Millions Turf Preview S.

$100,000

$9,800

Catfight Cowgirl

F

2

Cowtown Cat

Deposit Only

Tracy Pinchin

GPW

3

Juvenile Filly Turf S.

$100,000

$9,700

11/8/14

Sing Praises

C

2

Hear No Evil

Sacred Psalm

Jacks or Better Farm Inc.

11/8/14

GPW

3

Juvenile Sprint S.

$100,000

$9,600

Schivarelli

C

3

Montbrook

Alotofappeal

Ocala Stud Ebert Vans Inc. & Edward Wiest

11/8/14

GPW

3

Millions Classic Preview S.

$100,000

$9,800

Less Than Perfect

C

2

Pleasantly Perfect Special Date

Aureliano Noguez - Morales

11/8/14

GPW

3

Juvenile Turf S.

$100,000

$9,400

Moment of Delight

F

2

A. P. Warrior

Sweetness

Jimmy Randolph

11/8/14

GPW

3

Juvenile Filly Sprint S.

$100,000

$9,400

Watch Me Go

H

6

West Acre

Sabbath Song

Gilbert G. Campbell

11/11/14

ZIA

3

Lea County Sprint S.

$55,000

$5,500

St. Joe Bay

C

2

Saint Anddan

Dream Ride

Bonnie Heath Farm LLC

11/15/14

DMR

3

Bob Hope S.

3/$100,750

$12,000

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show Horse Name

Sex Age

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Quick and Silver

G

3

Dunkirk

Royal Confection

Elizabeth P. Whelan David J. Whelan Teresa Murphy & Steve Mu 11/1/14

GG

1

$32,625

$18,000

Tall Hammer

G

3

Montbrook

Atlantic Sky

Sergio Centeno

11/2/14

MNR

1

$20,000

$11,800

Awesome Warrior

F

2

A. P. Warrior

Awesome Medicine

R. C. Van Voorhees & Liz Steinbach

11/5/14

CMR

1

$10,059

$6,207

Doublethestyle

H

6

Suave

Double Road

Stanley M. Ersoff

11/5/14

PEN

1

$29,500

$17,700

Paltarrevenge

G

4

Milwaukee Brew

Bang Up Play

Harold J. Plumley

11/5/14

TDN

1

$24,000

$14,400

Lets Get It Going

G

3

Distorted Humor

Spring Meadow

Live Oak Stud

11/6/14

CT

1

$27,000

$16,140

Miss My Rosie

F

4

D'wildcat

Rainbow Smile

Hardacre Farm LLC

11/6/14

LRL

1

$42,000

$23,940

McQ

C

3

Wildcat Heir

Ashlee's Lady

Brambly Lane Farm & Steve Dwoskin

11/7/14

CD

1

$39,880

$22,680

Draxhall Woods

G

4

Graeme Hall

Josey Hill

Eugene Melnyk

11/9/14

PRX

1

$47,480

$27,000

Moonshine Martini

G

4

Full Mandate

Cherry Grove

Jim Vanhandel

11/9/14

WO

1

$63,612

$35,160

Wait No More

F

3

Medaglia d'Oro

Wait a While

Arindel Farm LLC

11/11/14

GPW

1

$36,800

$22,400

Libby’sluckycharm

F

3

Benny the Bull

Look Closely

Greg James

11/11/14

GPW

1

$35,000

$21,000

Miss Darla

F

4

Montbrook

Tricky Faces

Erwin Janet

11/12/14

HAW

1

$22,680

$12,600

Galadriel Lady

F

4

Aragorn (IRE)

Cozie Advantage

Red Oak Stable

11/14/14

PEN

1

$30,149

$17,700

Summation Time

C

3

In Summation

Load Up

Oakleaf Farm

11/15/14

LRL

1

$42,000

$23,940

Warrior Quality

C

2

A. P. Warrior

Eminent Code

Bridle Oaks Farm Inc. & Ryan Reid

11/16/14

CMR

1

$7,123

$4,215

True Marco

H

6

Marco Bay

True Laugh

Joseph C. Powers Jr. DVM

11/16/14

TDN

1

$24,000

$14,400

Cecileabration

F

4

Graeme Hall

Divine Rockette

Susy Cant & Andy Cant

11/19/14

CT

1

$27,000

$16,080

Square Dancer

G

4

Circular Quay

Dance Special

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

11/19/14

TUP

1

$13,800

$8,385

Vuelve Ruben M.

G

6

Concerto

Candlelightdinner

Ocala Stud

11/21/14

CMR

1

$10,122

$5,990

Rick the Bartender

G

6

With Distinction

Yira

Jorge Tabraue

11/21/14

CT

1

$27,000

$16,020

Tiger Distinction

G

4

With Distinction

Wha'pa

Carlos Victor Mompellier

11/22/14

CT

1

$27,000

$16,140

My Secret Affair

G

3

Broken Vow

Mille Feville

Haras Santa Maria de Araras S.A.

11/25/14

TUP

1

$13,800

$8,299

By My Side

F

4

The Kaiser

Shaye Alone

Frank Bertolino

11/26/14

CMR

1

$6,472

$3,993

Prague

G

3

Chapel Royal

Dante's Mary

William C. Schettine

11/26/14

FL

1

$18,200

$10,920

What a Party

M

5

Congrats

Christmas Lights

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

11/28/14

GPW

1

$41,200

$25,600

Lacey the Spartan

F

3

Benny the Bull

Interesting

Greg James

11/29/14

MNR

1

$20,000

$11,800

Xtra Luck

G

3

Exchange Rate

Miu Miu

Haras Santa Maria de Araras S.A.

11/1/14

CD

2

$41,934

$7,560

Tiger Distinction

G

4

With Distinction

Wha'pa

Carlos Victor Mompellier

11/1/14

CT

2

$27,000

$5,360

Gem City Gal

F

3

Mr. Sekiguchi

Indian Life

Jesse G. Valiente

11/1/14

PEN

2

$29,500

$5,900

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The Country und

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—ALLOWANCE Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name

Sex Age

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Love My Katy

F

2

Circular Quay

Lydia's Love

Woodsfield Farm

11/5/14

CMR

2

$10,059

$2,140

Thinking of Girls

G

6

Speightstown

Flashy Frolic

Robert A Murphy & Dr. Sandy L. Price-Murphy

11/5/14

PEN

2

$29,500

$5,900

Takeitdowntheroad

G

2

Strut the Stage

Sutherland

Calypso Stables Inc.

11/5/14

WO

2

$47,900

$9,500

Workerbee

F

4

Purim

Workeworkebusybee

Charles R Patton

11/11/14

GPW

2

$36,800

$7,050

You Never Learn

F

3

Keyed Entry

Baby Be Good

Murray Stroud

11/11/14

GPW

2

$35,000

$7,350

Getaway Keys

F

3

Keyed Entry

A Special Toast

Circle S Ranch

11/13/14

CT

2

$27,000

$5,400

Gem City Gal

F

3

Mr. Sekiguchi

Indian Life

Jesse G. Valiente

11/14/14

PEN

2

$30,149

$5,900

Choral Society

G

5

Holy Bull

Star Singer

Mayo West Farm & Liam Benson

11/15/14

CAM

2

$22,795

$4,230

Love My Katy

F

2

Circular Quay

Lydia's Love

Woodsfield Farm

11/16/14

CMR

2

$7,123

$1,454

Dash of Dazzle

G

4

Sardegna

Sparkle Us Plenty

Bruno Schickedanz

11/16/14

WO

2

$63,038

$11,720

Negrito

G

3

Wildcat Heir

White Ruffle

Jacarie Farm

11/20/14

LRL

2

$42,000

$8,820

Your Move

F

4

Mass Media

Metro Girl

Gary West & Mary West Stables Inc.

11/22/14

PEN

2

$33,040

$5,900

Lets Get It Going

G

3

Distorted Humor

Spring Meadow

Live Oak Stud

11/28/14

CT

2

$29,000

$5,800

E Z Entry

G

4

Keyed Entry

Buttonhook

Freddie Hyatt

6/22/14

CPW

3

$2,400

$288

J’s Two Step Halo

F

3

Two Step Salsa

J's Happy Halo

Janis Maitlen

8/21/14

IND

3

$35,280

$3,600

Road Agent

G

4

Rock Hard Ten

Prairie Township

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

11/1/14

CT

3

$27,000

$2,680

Rock Show

F

4

Rock Hard Ten

Amicus

Farnsworth Stables LLC

11/2/14

AQU

3

$65,660

$6,700

Prague

G

3

Chapel Royal

Dante's Mary

William C. Schettine

11/3/14

FL

3

$16,900

$1,690

Spanish Concert

F

4

Concerto

Spanish Slew

Carlos Giraldo

11/11/14

GPW

3

$35,000

$3,500

Brazilian Court

C

4

Harlan's Holiday

Devotedness

Donald R. Dizney

11/11/14

ZIA

3

$29,000

$2,900

Jconstanza

C

4

The Daddy

Charm Hopping

Bella Inizio Farm LLC

11/12/14

MNR

3

$20,000

$2,000

Abbie’s Guy

G

5

Graeme Hall

Lovers Claim

Aliice Hauff

11/15/14

PEN

3

$34,220

$3,245

Hawks Nest

G

3

Wildcat Heir

Let It Roar

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

11/15/14

RP

3

$30,000

$3,253

Dave the Usher

C

3

Cowtown Cat

Forest Mystery

Brenda Jones

11/20/14

LRL

3

$42,000

$4,620

El Suri

H

7

Spanish Steps

Victoria's Wedding

Martin Stables Inc.

11/21/14

CMR

3

$10,122

$1,033

Course I’ll Wynn

M

6

Awesome of Course

How Ya Doing

Wynn Jolley & Mary Jolley

11/22/14

PEN

3

$33,040

$3,245

Red Minx

F

3

Wildcat Heir

Gold Minx

Alan Braun & Ken English

11/28/14

GPW

3

$41,200

$4,580

Gottcha Bob

C

2

Gottcha Gold

Rose Bay

Ocala Stud

11/29/14

CT

3

$26,000

$2,600

Diana’s Daisy

F

4

Langfuhr

Oglala Sue

Anthony Lenci

11/29/14

TAM

3

$20,300

$2,300

■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show Horse Name Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Ollie’s Payday

In Summation

Heaven's Notebook

Ocala Stud

11/1/14

CT

F

2

Grade/ Value

Earngs

1

$25,000

$14,820

Stirling Castle

G

4

Imperialism

Starship Elaine

James Webb

11/5/14

GPW

1

$36,100

$22,500

Concorde’s Cat

C

3

Discreet Cat

Silk Concorde

E. Paul Robsham Stable LLC

11/5/14

GPW

1

$36,100

$22,500

Comet Sixty Two

F

3

Stroll

Romance Dance

Ken Meeker & Phillip Cooper

11/5/14

HAW

1

$20,000

$12,000

Smokeshow City

G

3

Bachelor Blues

Peakaboo Irish

Joseph Arboritanza

11/7/14

GG

1

$27,509

$15,600

Be Nice Coach

C

2

Put It Back

Solemn

Bridlewood Farm

11/7/14

HAW

1

$20,000

$12,000

Toasting Master

C

2

Congrats

Broadway Gold

Ocala Stud

11/8/14

CD

1

$38,344

$21,600

X Y Jet

C

2

Kantharos

Soldiersingsblues

Didier Plasencia

11/8/14

GPW

1

$34,000

$20,400

Two Step Temper

C

2

Two Step Salsa

Sue's Temper

Garth Bodkin & Kerry Reynells

11/8/14

GPW

1

$39,200

$24,400

Truly Mizzed

F

3

Mizzen Mast

Sacred Charm

Castletop Stable & Shadybrook Farm Inc

11/14/14

LRL

1

$40,000

$22,800

American Sun

F

2

Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Astrid

Joseph Barbazon & Helen Barbazon

11/15/14

DMR

1

$56,750

$33,600

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Sex Age Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Big Yum

C

2

Kantharos

Hi Avie

Melissa Lynn Anthony Mr. & Mrs. David Nowicki & The Boys

11/15/14

GPW

1

$36,000

$21,600

He’s a Slam Dunk

G

3

First Samurai

Dancing Fool

Red Oak Stable

11/15/14

PRX

1

$46,936

$26,400

Bonita’s Gift

C

3

Two Step Salsa

Que Bonita

Beth Bayer

11/16/14

TDN

1

$21,000

$12,600

Pioneerof the West

C

2

Pioneerof the Nile

Del Mar Cat

Faraway Farm

11/20/14

DMR

1

$56,250

$33,600

Takethedoeandrun

F

3

Arch

Winning Doe

Live Oak Stud

11/20/14

GPW

1

$36,100

$22,500

Sayes So

F

3

Congrats

Sayes Court

Bill Rasco

11/22/14

DMR

1

$56,750

$33,600

Lastingfriendships

F

2

With Distinction

Golden Legacy

Bettina Gates Stevens

11/22/14

GPW

1

$39,600

$24,400

Abbaa

C

3

Songandaprayer

Uninhibited (IRE)

Marablue Farm LLC

11/25/14

MNR

1

$17,500

$10,850

Decisive Force

C

2

With Distinction

Lady Samira

Just For Fun Stables

11/28/14

GPW

1

$34,000

$20,400

Tasunke Witco

C

2

High Cotton

Saint Gertrude

Ocala Stud

11/28/14

PRX

1

$46,000

$26,400

General Bellamy

C

2

Bellamy Road

Sweet Again

Kinsman Farm

11/29/14

AQU

1

$84,000

$50,400

Red Rei Rei

F

2

With Distinction

Cowgirl Affair

Cherie M. Abner Mike A. Bossio & Joan Tennant DVM

11/29/14

GPW

1

$34,000

$20,400

Wild About You

C

4

Milwaukee Brew

Seductive Look

Becky Boyd

11/2/14

CD

2

$39,925

$7,200

Honor Earned

C

2

Graeme Hall

Lady Secretary

Sunshine Thoroughbred Corp.

11/2/14

GPW

2

$37,200

$8,000

Midnight Citra

F

2

Midnight Lute

Citronella

Carolyn Wilson

11/7/14

AQU

2

$60,000

$12,000

Smuggler Union

G

2

Kantharos

Kickapoo Princess

A Francis Vanlangendonck & Barbara Vanlangendonck

11/7/14

DMR

2

$57,500

$11,200

Slider

G

3

Spellbinder

Perfect Pitch

Lonnie Stokes

11/7/14

FL

2

$22,120

$3,800

Catalina Red

C

2

Munnings

Lovely Dream

France Weiner & Irwin J. Weiner

11/8/14

GPW

2

$34,000

$6,800

Media Star

F

2

Mass Media

She's the Cutest

William Fritz

11/8/14

HAW

2

$20,000

$4,000

Saratoga Wildcat

C

2

D'wildcat

Perfect Empire

Hardacre Farm LLC

11/10/14

AQU

2

$60,000

$12,000

Media Darling

F

3

Imperialism

Lady in Red

Nancy Harris & John G. Allen

11/12/14

MNR

2

$17,500

$3,500

Erdenet

G

6

Pomeroy

Going Away Blues

David Wylie Perkins

11/14/14

CT

2

$25,000

$4,940

Prince Vincenzo

C

2

Exclusive Quality

Christmas Lights

Brent Fernung & Crystal Fernung

11/15/14

GPW

2

$36,000

$7,200

Movie Night

G

3

Congrats

Feature Film

Stan Boileau

11/15/14

PRX

2

$46,936

$8,800

My Pisano

C

3

Yesbyjimminy

Diplomatic Angel

Bridlewood Farm

11/16/14

TDN

2

$21,000

$4,200

Slider

G

3

Spellbinder

Perfect Pitch

Lonnie Stokes

11/19/14

FL

2

$22,000

$3,800

Doukas

F

2

Kantharos

Marquet Niche

Lucy Edwards & Randell Edwards

11/20/14

AQU

2

$72,000

$14,400

Hy Quality Prince

C

3

Exclusive Quality

Jacqueline Gail

Steve Tortora & Richard Tortora

11/21/14

GPW

2

$34,600

$7,740

Mom’z Laugh

F

2

Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Cajun Dawn

Curtis Mikkelson & Patricia Horth

11/22/14

GPW

2

$39,600

$8,360

Boom Boys

G

3

Strong Contender

Kathie Haines & Carol Hershe

11/24/14

ZIA

2

$25,000

$5,500

La Luna Rouge

F

2

Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Tori's Portia

George De Benedicty

11/28/14

FG

2

$37,120

$7,400

Abounding Legacy

C

2

Flashstorm

Northwest Stud

11/28/14

GPW

2

$34,000

$7,140

North of Oswego

C

2

Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Pure Adrenalin

Andy Cant Susy Cant & Charles H. Deters

11/29/14

DMR

2

$57,750

$11,200

Another Cougar

F

2

With Distinction

East Long Lake

Mary K. Haire

11/29/14

GPW

2

$34,000

$6,800

Miss Margaret

F

2

Bwana Charlie

Danielle's Affair

Helen Marie Napolitano

11/29/14

GPW

2

$36,800

$7,640

Gold Dust Diva

F

2

Gottcha Gold

Anyways Wynn

Martin Cherry

11/29/14

HAW

2

$27,200

$4,000

Polo Art

C

2

Northern Afleet

Nacho Polo

Donald R. Dizney

11/1/14

CD

3

$40,200

$3,600

Suite One

F

2

Circular Quay

Broad Issue

Nicholas J. Downes

11/2/14

GG

3

$27,875

$3,120

Saraguaro

C

2

Express Tour

Return of Mom

Karen Silva

11/2/14

GPW

3

$37,200

$4,000

Sylver Magic

F

2

Exclusive Quality

Rosekris

Pete Gonzalez

11/2/14

GPW

3

$36,400

$4,360

Coalminer

C

2

Cool Coal Man

A Special Toast

Mari George

11/8/14

GPW

3

$34,000

$3,400

Replay

C

2

Flatter

Andrea Gail

Craig L. Wheeler

11/8/14

GPW

3

$39,200

$3,640

She’s Coal Hearted

F

2

Cool Coal Man

Silver Spook

Tim James Mawhinney & Karen Faye Mawhinney

11/8/14

HAW

3

$20,000

$2,000

Gritsie Girl

Abounding Truth

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■FLORIDA-BRED FINISHERS—MAIDEN SPECIAL WEIGHT Win/Place/Show continued Horse Name Sex Age

Sire

Dam

Breeder

Date

Track ID

Off Pos

Grade/ Value

Earngs

Starship Cosmo

F

2

Graeme Hall

Ms Isadorable

Richard Shultz

11/11/14

GPW

3

$36,400

$3,640

Tiznow R J

C

2

Tiznow

Ruban Bleu

Haras Santa Maria de Araras S.A.

11/13/14

CD

3

$40,170

$3,600

Luvuryan

F

2

Artie Schiller

Pure and Simple

Stuart Tsujimoto

11/13/14

DMR

3

$57,250

$6,720

Love My Empire

F

3

Empire Maker

Lovely Rafaela

Live Oak Stud

11/13/14

GPW

3

$34,300

$3,700

Gasupthejet

C

2

Mr. Sekiguchi

Onaccountofyou

Molly Lightner & Joclyn Helmbrecht

11/13/14

RP

3

$28,000

$3,014

Overseer

C

2

Rock Hard Ten

Mystical Woman

Vegso Racing Stable

11/15/14

GPW

3

$36,000

$3,240

Nopalito

C

2

Two Step Salsa

Haut Monde

Get Away Farm

11/15/14

WO

3

$58,508

$6,149

Lost in D Shuffle

C

2

Kantharos

Courtly Choice

Versatile Thoroughbreds LLC Michael Crowe & Judy Crowe

11/16/14

DMR

3

$56,500

$6,720

Diamond Appeal

G

6

Diplomatic Jet

Native Appeal

George T. Gurrola

11/16/14

TDN

3

$21,000

$2,100

Celebrategoodtimes

F

3

Harlan's Holiday

Habiboo

Hardacre Farm LLC

11/22/14

CD

3

$40,320

$3,600

Drain Them Dry

G

5

Grand Reward

Suave and Pretty

Dr. R. D. Daniels Jr. Dr. C. B. Daniels Robert Brown & Nancy Bro

11/25/14

MNR

3

$17,500

$1,750

World Approval

G

2

Northern Afleet

Win Approval

Live Oak Stud

11/26/14

AQU

3

$60,000

$6,000

Colormepompom

C

2

Pomeroy

Colormein

Wanda Polisseni

11/28/14

GPW

3

$34,000

$3,400

Live Forever

F

2

Pioneerof the Nile

Smokin Again

Woodford Thoroughbreds

11/29/14

CD

3

$39,168

$3,600

Second Summer

C

2

Summer Bird

Greenstreet

Richard Shultz

11/29/14

DMR

3

$57,750

$6,720

Stuffed Animal

C

2

Leroidesanimaux (BRZ) Sacred Charm

Frank Bertolino

11/29/14

DMR

3

$57,750

$6,720

Untrue

F

2

Concerto

Shadow Belle

Stephen Screnci

11/29/14

GPW

3

$34,000

$3,060

Media Star

F

2

Mass Media

She's the Cutest

William Fritz

11/29/14

HAW

3

$27,200

$2,000

Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’s Association •Lonny Powell – CEO, Executive Vice President •Brock Sheridan – Editor-in-Chief •Tammy Gantt – Membership Services, Events Director, Contributing Editor, Industry and Community Affairs

Gulfstream Park •Michael Costanzo – Claims Clerk Hialeah Park •R. Peter Aiello IV – Director of Simulcasting, Track Announcer

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Adena Springs South •Declan Doyle – Director of Stallion Seasons & Sales

Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park •Heather Belmonte – Executive Assistant

Trainer •Todd Pletcher

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PRACTICALLY SPEAKING

Toxic Plants T

oxic plants can cause health problems for twice as many mares as usual in that pasture. His incigrazing animals. However, animals that are fed dence of colic returned to normal nearly as soon as he high quality feed, forage and hay will not usu- removed the mares from that pasture.

The point here is, overstocking or any conditions ally eat toxic plants.

One or more of the following conditions are usually such as drought that decrease available forage will cause horses to eat plants they would not normally eat. associated with plant poisoning.

Waste and Trash – Horses should not have access Starvation – Animals which are not receiving adequate nutrition through a properly balanced diet will to burn or trash piles, especially those containing toxic scavenge for plants they would not normally eat. Dur- plants. For example, most horses will not eat cherry ing the cool-season, when pasture is in short supply, it leaves off a standing tree particularly if it has been may be advantageous to plant cool-season forages to limbed up. However, if cherry limbs are discarded in a burn pile, horses have been known to consume them. supplement pasture.

Newly Plowed Ground – Soil has many weed seeds, Deficient Rations – When their diet is “missing” something, either improperly balanced or deficient in most of which do not grow because they are being out required ingredients, grazing animals will eat undesir- competed by a strong dense sod cover. When pastures are able plants in an effort to obtain what is “missing”. plowed or disced for renovation, weed seed that have Make sure grazing animals are receiving adequate been dormant have a chance to grow. It is necessary to inspect the renovated area for toxic plants prior to grazing. amounts of proper mineral supplementation.

Dry or Partially Dry Water Holes – Similar to Overgrazing and Drought – Several years ago, a local horseman was having problems with an escalat- newly plowed ground, dormant toxic plant and weed ing incidence of colic in his broodmare band. He asked seed may germinate when the water recedes and the if I would come to his place and see if I could help him ground dries. Additionally, the roots of some water plants are toxic and the remaining water may contain figure out why.

We took a golf cart and drove through the mares’ pas- toxic products from disintegrating plants.

Incidental and Curiosity – Always inspect hay as it ture to see if there were any obvious signs of toxic plants.

The mare pasture was fairly grow at different times of the large, about 50 acres. We covered the interior of the year and in various parts of the country. It is imporpasture and looked at all the tant to know which plants grow in each season. normal “hot spots” for toxic plants and weeds. Weeds grow where they don’t have is fed. Incidental consumption may occur if horses are competition: around gates, water troughs, creep feeders, fed hay containing toxic plants. Some horses, particuheavily shaded areas and tree boxes. We didn’t see any larly foals are curious eaters and want to taste everything they encounter. Toxic plants are not usually very toxic plants until we drove by the back fence-line.

In that fence-line, between the mare pasture and the palatable, but occasionally, for some unknown reason a farm next door was an abundance of cherry trees and it horse may develop an affinity for a certain plant.

Various toxic plants grow at different times of the was obvious they had been eaten on quite a bit. The branches had been chewed back about as far as a horse year and in various parts of the country. It is important could reach. When I showed the manager, he said those to know which plants grow in each season. One of the trees had been there for years and he had never noticed resources I like best is: A Guide to Plant Poisoning of them being eaten on previously. When I asked him if Animals In North America by Anthony P. Knight and anything had changed, he told me he did have about Richard G. Walter ISBN 1-893441-11-3 ■

by UF/IFAS Marion CountyLivestock Agent Mark Shuffitt

Various toxic plants

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FARM MANAGEMENT

by Jamie Cohen, Farm Outreach Coordinator

Improve Your Farm’s Water Usage H

ters on the roof, instead of just letting it drip to the ground, potentially creating puddles and excess run-off in those bad Florida summer storms. That collected water can also be used for a variety of things, helping to cut down on your groundwater use. This water is perfect for watering your plants and flowers on the farm, or it can also be used to water your track and riding rings. You could get really “green” and cover the barn roof with vegetation, helping to soak up the rain (avoiding puddles) and treating any rainwater runoff naturally to help eliminate excess sediments and nutrients.

Look to see if you get any excessive rainwater runoff from big storms. Not that we get any real mud in Florida, but heavy rainwater drainage and erosion can definitely create a gulley or ditch on the farm. Vegetation is a great natural soaker of rain water and can also help slow water’s speed of travel. Planting shrubs, bushes and grass in areas that normally are a path for rain flow will help break up the “river” that can be caused in a storm. Additionally, you can also use this new vegetation in a “pretty” way to help spruce up your barn area. Lastly, gravel in exof the Earth is water, but only a little more than 2% of cessive travel areas can work water and almost two-thirds of that 2% is locked up in the ice caps nicely as a sort of “permeable pavement” for soaking up a bit and glaciers. That certainly doesn’t leave much for us all to drink! more water.

Consider this fact: Seventy-five percent of the Earth is used water from buckets), but I’m old-school and will always prefer filling buckets so I know how much my horses water, but only a little more than 2% of that is fresh water and are drinking. If you are like me and refuse to switch, then almost two-thirds of that 2% is locked up in the ice caps and try using the unused bucket water by adding it to your stall glaciers. That certainly doesn’t leave much for us all to drink! waste if you compost, which will cut down on adding ad- You can always contact me or your local Extension agent if ditional potable water, or use it on your landscaped areas you need any help improving your water use. As always, instead of having to water them from a hose. A big barrel keep up the good management practices!

As always, keep up the good management practices! ■ can be used to hold all of the water that is dumped out of the buckets. This barrel will hold the water until it’s needed for things on the farm.

Jamie A. Cohen Rain barrels placed at the end of the barns can addi- 352-671-8792 • Farm Outreach Coordinator tionally collect the water that normally drains from the gut- UF/IFAS Extension, Marion County • jamiecohen@ufl.edu appy New Year! Hopefully, the year has started out nicely and everyone is getting used to some cooler temperatures. Preserving water quality to help protect our beautiful springs and aquifer is a topic routinely mentioned, but I rarely discuss how to USE LESS water on the farms (or even in your homes, for that matter).

Start with basics. Check all faucets, hose sprayers and nozzles, automatic waterers, toilets and pipes for leaks. Do you want to find out how much water comes from that leaky equipment? To find out, go to: ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sc4.html. This is the USGS- Science for a Changing World web site. This interesting and very informative link takes you to a page that calculates how much water is lost from your home (which can be easily made to work for barns). It also has lots of other very interesting facts about water and water use. There is even a good quiz about water knowledge. I’m depressed to say that I didn’t score too well, so I guess I still need more education, too!

Regarding automatic waterers, they can be a good choice to help save water (as opposed to throwing out un-

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What Can We

by Gene Kershner

Early season racing at Gulfstream Park.

When the sport’s best riders, trainers and horses show up at Gulfstream Park in January, it’s hard not to get excited for the start of the Derby trail culminating in the Florida Derby.

Look Forward to in 2015?

A new year in racing means renewed hope, new equine heroes to capture the racing fan’s heart in addition to the start of the countdown to America’s biggest race, the Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (G1). While most racing pundits will have their eyes peeled for the next sophomore superstar, 2015 could prove to be the year we see 2014’s big names roar into their 4-year-old season instead of the breeding shed.

So what are some of the things I’ll be looking forward to in 2015?

California Chrome 2.0. Heading the list is dualClassic winner California Chrome who won his final race of 2014 on the grass of Del Mar winning the Hollywood Derby (G1) over Queen’s Plate (G1) winner Lexie Lou. The colt that came less than four cumulative lengths from claiming both the Triple Crown and the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) in the same year will run again this year under the guise of “America’s Horse,” as proclaimed by co-owner Steve Coburn.

The Blue Grass Stakes (G1) becomes relevant again. By moving back a week to the first week in April and four weeks prior to the Run for the Roses, the Blue Grass looms as a huge prep race on the road to Louisville. With the switchover to dirt last fall at Keeneland, this race will no longer feature turf specialists trying to get it done on the Polytrack, but a legitimate prep just four weeks from the big day. Add to the equation, it will be run just down Route 64 in Lexington; it may be the logical destination for some of the big-name trainers with Derby fever.

The emergence of Chad Brown and Graham Motion in the training ranks. Both of these trainers showed late-season flashes of brilliance. Brown nearly stole the Saratoga training title from the ever-present Todd Pletcher falling five wins short after making a late push. He followed the good showing at Saratoga with a brilliant Breeders’ Cup weekend, winning three turf races over the two-day extravaganza. Motion

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shared Keeneland meet honors with Pletcher for the first time and is proving that his Derby victory with Animal Kingdom in 2011 was no fluke.

A healthy Shared Belief and a budding rivalry with Chrome. When the gelding, co-owned by Jim Rome’s Jungle Racing, was sidelined during the Triple Crown run by California Chrome, the racing world lost a chance at seeing the two best 3-year-olds in the land clash until November. The rivalry sparked up all week leading up to the Classic, and after being wiped out at the start by the eventual winner, the matchup between the sport’s two biggest stars was put on hold until 2015. Here’s hoping that the two hook up again on the left coast and a rivalry ala some of the great racing rivalries evolves.

The changing voices from on high. Never will a new year produce so many changes in the racecaller boxes across so many tracks. Larry Collmus takes over at NYRA, Travis Stone at Churchill Downs, Jason Beem at Louisiana Downs and there will be new racecallers at Monmouth and Woodbine during 2015. One gentleman I will miss the most will be Dan Loiselle, the classy racecaller at Woodbine who will call his final race at May 31. He has been the voice of Canadian racing since 1986, having called the last 28 editions of the Queen’s Plate.

Early season racing at Gulfstream Park. When the sport’s best riders, trainers and horses show up at Gulfstream Park in January, it’s hard not to get excited for the start of the Derby trail culminating in the Florida Derby (G1).

It’s going to be a super year. ■

Gene Kershner is the turf writer for The Buffalo News. He has been published at Blood-Horse.com, QueensPlate.com, Florida Horse Magazine and the NTRA blog. He is a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, and tweets @EquiSpace.

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