Breeders` Cup Dirt Mile

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breeders’ cup dirt mile
Breeders’ Cup dirt Mile (Gr. i)
7th Running
Santa Anita Park
$1,000,000 Guaranteed
FOr tHree-YeAr-Olds And upWArd
One Mile
Northern Hemisphere Three-Year-Olds, 123 lbs.; Older, 126 lbs. Southern Hemisphere Three-Year-Olds, 120 lbs.; Older, 126 lbs. All Fillies and Mares
allowed 3 lbs. Guaranteed $1 million purse including travel awards, of which 55% of all monies to the owner of the winner, 18% to second, 10% to third,
6% to fourth and 3% to fifth; plus travel awards to starters not based in California.
The maximum number of starters for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile will be limited to twelve (12). If more than twelve (12) horses pre-enter, selection
will be determined by a combination of Breeders’ Cup Challenge Winners, Graded Stakes Dirt points and the Breeders’ Cup Racing Secretaries
and Directors panel. Please refer to the 2013 Breeders’ Cup World Championships Horsemen’s Information Guide (available upon request) for more
information.
nominated Horses
Pre-Entry Fee:
Entry Fee:
1% of purse
1% of purse
To Be Run Friday, November 1, 2013
Pre-Entries Close Monday, October 21, 2013
Breeders’ Cup racing Office
Santa Anita Park
285 W. Huntington Dr.
Arcadia, CA 91007
Phone: (859) 514-9422
Fax: (859) 514-9432
E-mail: [email protected]
Horse
Alpha
Pre-entries for the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1)
Owner
Godolphin Racing, LLC Lessee
B.c.4 Bernardini - Munnaya by Nijinsky II - Bred in Kentucky by Darley
Broadway Empire
Randy Howg, Bob Butz, Fouad El Kardy & Rick Running Rabbit
B.g.3 Empire Maker - Broadway Hoofer by Belong to Me - Bred in Kentucky by Mercedes Stables LLC
Brujo de Olleros (BRZ)
Team Valor International & Richard Santulli
Ch.h.5 Wild Event - Hit Oil (BRZ) by Roy - Bred in Brazil by Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima
Centralinteligence
Amerman Racing Stables, LLC, Bongo Racing Stable & Gary Finder, et al
Ch.g.5 Smarty Jones - Shootforthestars by Seattle Slew - Bred in Kentucky by Patricia L. Chapman
Easter Gift
Robert V. LaPenta
B.c.4 Hard Spun - Angel Gift by Allen's Prospect - Bred in Kentucky by Ward Williford
Fed Biz
Kaleem Shah
B.c.4 Giant's Causeway - Spunoutacontrol by Wild Again - Bred in Kentucky by Colts Neck Stables LLC
Goldencents
W. C. Racing, Dave Kenney & RAP Racing
B.c.3 Into Mischief - Golden Works by Banker's Gold - Bred in Kentucky by Rosecrest Farm & Karyn Pirrello
Golden Ticket
Magic City Thoroughbred Partners
Dk B/ Br.c.4 Speightstown - Business Plan by Deputy Minister - Bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm LLC
Graydar
Twin Creeks Racing Stables, LLC
Gr/ro.c.4 Unbridled's Song - Sweetest Smile by Dehere - Bred in Kentucky by W. S. Farish
Holy Lute
Class Racing Stable
Gr/ro.c.3 Midnight Lute - Holy Christmas by Holy Bull - Bred in Kentucky by Lynn B. Schiff
Hymn Book
Stuart S. Janney, III
Dk B/ Br.g.7 Arch - Vespers by Known Fact - Bred in Kentucky by Stuart S. Janney, III LLC.
Laugh Track
Gary Barber & WinStar Farm, LLC
B.c.4 Distorted Humor - Flaming Heart by Touch Gold - Bred in Kentucky by WinStar Farm, LLC
Trainer
Kiaran P. McLaughlin
Robertino Diodoro
Richard C. Mettee
Ronald W. Ellis
Chad C. Brown
Bob Baffert
Doug O'Neill
Kenneth G. McPeek
Todd A. Pletcher
James M. Cassidy
Claude R. McGaughey III
Mark E. Casse
Pants On Fire
George & Lori Hall
Dk B/ Br.h.5 Jump Start - Cabo de Noche by Cape Town - Bred in Kentucky by K & G Stables
Taptowne
Clovertowne Farm
Gr/ro.g.5 Tapit - Holly's Wager by Valid Wager - Bred in Kentucky by Clover Towne Farm
Verrazano
Let's Go Stable, Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor & Derrick Smith
B.c.3 More Than Ready - Enchanted Rock by Giant's Causeway - Bred in Kentucky by Emory A. Hamilton
Kelly J. Breen
Tim Glyshaw
Todd A. Pletcher
HistOrY OF tHe Breeders’ Cup dirt Mile
date
track
Winner
Jockey
Odds
to $1
Margin
Oct. 26, 2007
Oct. 25, 2008
Nov. 7, 2009
Nov. 6, 2010
Nov. 5, 2011
Nov. 3, 2012
Monmouth Park
Santa Anita Park
Santa Anita Park
Churchill Downs
Churchill Downs
Santa Anita
Corinthian
Albertus Maximus
Furthest land
dakota phone
Caleb’s posse
tapizar
Kent Desormeaux
Garrett Gomez
Julien Leparoux
Joel Rosario
Rajiv Maraugh
Corey Nakatani
3.70
6.30
21.30
37.70
6.80
15.30
6 1/2 lengths
1 1/4 lengths
3/4 length
head
4 lengths
2 1/4 lengths
1/4
FrACtiOns (1 Mile)
1/2
3/4
2007 (sloppy-sealed)
:22 2/5
:45 4/5
1:10 1/5
2008 (track fast)
2009 (track fast)
2010 (track fast)
2011 (track fast)
2012 (track fast)
:22.24
:23 4/5
:22.41
:22.49
:22.77
:45.02
:47 2/5
:44.94
:45.36
:46.58
1:08.57
1:11
1:09.44
1:09.52
1:10.72
Year
performance of Favorites
Finish
Year
Horse
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Discreet Cat
Well Armed
Master Craftman (Ire)
Here Comes Ben
Wilburn
Emcee
3rd
9th
4th
11th
7th
6th
Odds to $1
1.50
1.20
1.40
2.70
2.60
2.60
Year
Winner
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Corinthian
Albertus Maximus
Furthest Land
Dakota Phone
Caleb’s Posse
Tapizar
Winner’s
post position
no. of
starters
7
7
2
1
8
8
8
12
10
12
9
9
1 Mile
(track record)
1:39.06
(run at 1m 70yds)
1:33.41
1:35 2/5
1:35.29
1.34.59
1:22.95
(1:38 3/5)
status of Winners
status
Stud, Gainesway Farm, Ky.
Retired
Retired
Retired
Stud, Three Chimneys Farm
Stud, Gainesway
(1:33 2/5)
(1:33 2/5)
(1:33.57)
(1:33.57)
(1:33.40)
Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile
ALPHA
126
Trainer: KIARAN P. MCLAUGHLIN
B.c.4 Bernardini - Munnaya by Nijinsky II
Bred in Kentucky by DARLEY (Mar 11, 2009)
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31Aug13 Sar10 sys
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03Aug13 Sar10 ft
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06Jul13 Bel8
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30Mar13 eMey(UAE) st o1m
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07Feb13 eMey(UAE) st o1C
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03Nov12 SA12 ft
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22Sep12 Prx11 ft
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25Aug12 Sar12 ft
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28Jul12 Sar10 sys
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Workout(s):
17 Oct 13 Sar tr 4F ft :49.1b 4/23
Owner: GODOLPHIN RACING, LLC LESSEE
Stk - JkyClbGCG1 - 1000k 120-105
Stk - WoodwardG1 - 750k 106-123
Stk - WhtnyInHG1 - 750k 74-112
Stk - SuburbnHG2 - 350k 111-113
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7.70
6 6¿ 6¶¶ 6¿¡ 6½ 6½ Rosario J 117 L
7.80
1 3¹¡ 3¹¡ 3¶¡ 5¹¡ 4½¢ Ortiz, Jr. I 118 L
6.80
Stk - Etisalat Godolphin Mile G2 - 1000k T-111 1 5º De Sousa S A 126 b
Stk - Al Maktoum Challenge R2 G2 - 250kT-100 3 12¶¶£ Buick W T 125
Stk - BCClasicG1 - 5000k 115-62 3 4¸ 7¼¡ 12¶½ 12¸¾ 12ºº£ Dominguez R A 122 L
23.50
Stk - PaDerbyG2 - 1000k 122-105 4 1«¬ 2¶ 1«¬ 4¶¡ 6º¢ Dominguez R A 124 L
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Stk - TraversG1 - 1000k 100-106 6 3¸ 3¸ 2«¬ 2¶ 1¨µ Dominguez R A 126 L
*2.40
Stk - JimDandyG2 - 600k 77-107 1 1¶ 1¶ 1¡ 1¡ 1¸ Dominguez R A 119 L
*1.80
20 Sep 13 Sar tr 5F ft 1:02.4b 1/1
23 Aug 13 Sar 4F ft :47.2b 3/57
2013:
2012:
Life:
Turf:
Course:
Off Dirt:
6
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0
1
2
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4
6
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$509,167
$1,180,000
$1,779,167
$0
$0
$810,000
RontheGreek126¼£ PalaceMalice122¶£ FlatOut126¶
rated 2p to 1/4,tired
Alpha126«¬ FlatOut126¼£ SuccessfulDan126¡
rate 2-3w to 1/4,game
CrossTraffic117£ SuccessfulDan118¶¡ MuchoMachoMan 119¸ 3w both turns,outrun
FlatOut119¸¡ LastGunfighter 118¨© FastFalcon116º£
broke open gate,2p
SoftFallingRain121£ Haatheq126¶ MoonwalkinParis126¶
one pace fnl 200m
Hunter'sLight 126¹¢ Surfer125¡ PrinceBishop126¶£
mid-division at best
FortLarned126¡ MuchoMachoMan126¼¡ FlatOut126£
rail,stopped,eased
HandsomeMike114¸ MachoMacho122¨µ GoldenTicket124¡
rated,led,weakened
nGoldenTicket126¨µ nAlpha126¨µ FastFalcon126¶
3-4w turns,determined
Alpha 119¸ Neck'nNeck119¸ Liaison119¶¢
easy lead,repelled bid
16 Aug 13 Sar 4F ft :50.4b 34/44
8
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BERNARDINI,
dkb/br, 2003
ALPHA
b, c
March 11, 2009
MUNNAYA,
ch, 1991
Seattle Slew, 1974
17s, SW, $1,208,726
1,050 f, 114 SW, 3.66 AEI
Weekend Surprise, 1980
31s, SW, $402,892
14 f, 12 r, 9 w, 4 SW
Quiet American, 1986
12s, SW, $754,650
Cara Rafaela, 1993
921 f, 57 SW, 1.67 AEI
24s, SW, $884,452
Oil Fable, 1986
11 f, 8 r, 4 w, 1 SW
14s, wnr, $37,790
13 f, 11 r, 9 w, 2 SW
Northern Dancer, 1961
18s, SW, $580,647
Nijinsky II, 1967
636 f, 147 SW, 5.10 AEI
13s, SW, $667,220
851 f, 155 SW, 4.71 AEI Flaming Page, 1959
16s, SW, $108,836
3 f, 3 r, 3 w, 2 SW
Alydar, 1975
26s, SW, $957,195
Hiaam, 1984
689 f, 77 SW, 5.07 AEI
9s, SW, $48,081
Kamar, 1976
11 f, 10 r, 9 w, 3 SW
11s, SW, $140,747
9 f, 8 r, 7 w, 4 SW
A.P. Indy, 1989
11s, SW, $2,979,815
1,181 f, 151 SW, 2.87
AEI
Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Secretariat
Lassie Dear
Fappiano
Demure
Spectacular Bid
Northern Fable
Nearctic
Natalma
Bull Page
Flaring Top
Raise a Native
Sweet Tooth
Key to the Mint
Square Angel
ALPHA'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2
3
1
1(1)
0
$90,000
at 3
8
4(4)
1(1)
0
$1,180,000
at 4 in NA, UAE
6
1(1)
0
0
$509,167
Lifetime
17
6(5)
2(2)
0
$1,779,167
Sire: BERNARDINI, dkb/br, 2003. Raced 1 yr, 8 sts, 6 wins, $3,060,480. Champion 3yo colt. Won
Preakness S (gr. I), Travers S (gr. I), Jockey Club Gold Cup (gr. I), Jim Dandy S (gr. II), Withers S (gr.
III); 2nd Breeders' Cup Classic Powered by Dodge (gr. I).
Lifetime: 4 crops, 605 foals, 397 rnrs (66%), 196 wnrs (32%), 41 2yo wnrs (7%), 24 sw (4%), 1.77
AEI, 3.16 CI, 338 sale yrlgs, avg $206,273, 5.9 TNA.
In 2013: 8 sw, 114 2yos, 31 2yo rnrs, 3 2yo wnrs, 22 sale yrlgs, avg $263,955.
1st dam: MUNNAYA, ch, 1991. Bred by Gainsborough Farm (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs in Eng, 4 sts, 1 win,
$25,124. Won Champagne Ruinart Oaks Trial S; 3rd Madagans Pretty Polly S. Dam of 13 named
foals, 12 rnrs, 10 wnrs, 2 sw.
1996: Tethkar (GB), b f, by Machiavellian. Raced 2 yrs in Eng, 6 sts, 0 wins, $1,264. Dam of 7
foals, 7 rnrs, 7 wnrs, including Classical World ($66,801 in Eng, Den, Swe, Ger, and Nor),
Coffs Harbour ($27,042 in Eng, Hol, and Ger).
1997: Beseiged, ch c, by Cadeaux Genereux. Raced 6 yrs in Eng, 23 sts, 6 wins, $46,216.
1998: Yaya, ch f, by Rahy. Raced 1 yr in Fr, 9 sts, 2 wins, $37,704. 2nd Prix Madame Jean Couturie.
Dam of 3 foals, 2 rnrs, 1 wnr.
1999: Two Marks, ch f, by Woodman. Raced 2 yrs in Eng, 10 sts, 2 wins, $16,748. Dam of 5
foals, 3 rnrs, 2 wnrs.
2000: MYSTIC MELODY, b f, by Seattle Slew. Raced 3 yrs in Fr, 11 sts, 2 wins, $78,832. Won
Prix Coronation; 2nd Prix Vanteaux (Fr-III), Prix Saraca; 3rd Prix des Reservoirs (Fr-III). Dam
of 4 foals, 2 rnrs, 1 wnr.
2001: Moments I Treasure, ch f, by Mt. Livermore. Raced 2 yrs in Eng, 4 sts, 0 wins. Dam of 3
foals, 3 rnrs, 1 wnr.
2002: Slipped. 2011: Barren.
2003: Samarinda, ch c, by Rahy. Raced 6 yrs in Eng, 62 sts, 9 wins, $137,882. Sent to UAE 2004.
2004: Lavender Sky, ch f, by Mt. Livermore. Raced 5 yrs, 19 sts, 2 wins, $195,852. 2nd San
Gorgonio H (gr. IIT), Audrey Skirball-Kenis S (T); 3rd Dahlia H (gr. IIT), Santa Ana H (gr. IIT).
2005: Numaany, ch c, by A.P. Indy. Raced 5 yrs in NA and UAE, 34 sts, 9 wins, $227,300. 3rd
Mujahid Al Bastakiya.
2006: Dreamalong, ch f, by Rahy. Raced 3 yrs, 15 sts, 2 wins, $110,754. Sent to KSA 2010.
($130,000 keesep yrlg).
2008: Taxonomist, ch c, by Seeking the Gold. Raced 4 yrs in Fr and UAE, 12 sts, 1 win, $25,211.
2009: ALPHA, b c, by Bernardini.
At 2: 2nd Champagne S (gr. I).
At 3: Won Travers S (gr. I), Jim Dandy S (gr. II), Withers S (gr. III), Count Fleet S; 2nd Resorts
World Casino New York City Wood Memorial S (gr. I).
At 4: Won Woodward S (gr. I).
2010: Watch It, b c, by Bernardini. Died 2012.
2012: B c, by Desert Party.
2013: B c, by Bernardini.
Inbreeding: 5SX3D Northern Dancer.
Nicking: BERNARDINI w/NIJINSKY II mares: 3 foals, 1 str, 1 wnr (33%), 1 2yo wnr (33%),
1 SW (33%), 1 GSW (33%)
Broodmare sire: NIJINSKY II, b, 1967-1992. Sire of 395 dams of 3,344 foals, 2,638 rnrs (79%),
1,798 wnrs (54%), 417 2yo wnrs (12%), 1.97 AEI, 1.51 CI; 263 sw.
2nd dam: HIAAM, ch, 1984. Bred by Albert and Robert Clay and Warner L. Jones Jr. (Ky.). Raced 2
yrs in Eng and Fr, 9 sts, 3 wins, $48,081. Won Princess Margaret S (Eng-III), Bet With the Tote S,
Wallis S. Dam of SHEER REASON (f, Danzig; $105,077. Won Criterium d'Evry; 2nd Criterium des
Deux Ans, Fr-II; 3rd Prix Robert Papin, Fr-II, Prix de la Calonne; producer), MALL QUEEN (f, Sheikh
Albadou (GB); $29,326. Won Prix Yacowlef; 3rd Prix d'Arenberg, Fr-III; producer).
Breeder
Darley Stud ... Owner(s): His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
al Maktoum ... Born: July 22, 1949 ... Residence: Dubai, United Arab
Emirates ... Family: married Sheikha Hind bint Juma al Maktoum 1979 ...
Princess Haya of Jordan in April 2004 ... Four of his sons, Sheikhs
Rashid, Hamdan (owner of Eastern Anthem before he went to
Godolphin), Mansoor (owner of Gladiatorus before he went to
Godolphin), Ahmed, and Majid have been racing their own horses in
Dubai each winter, while Sheikh Rashid races under the name of Zabeel
Stable. Sheikh Rashid owned Grade 1 winner Henny Hughes. ... Sheikh
Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum is now the Crown Prince
of Dubai, while his namesake uncle Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al
Maktoum remains the Finance Minister of Dubai and head of Shadwell
Stable. ... Princess Haya also has her own stable, led in 2008 by Epsom
Derby winner New Approach and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (G1) winner
Ravenʼs Pass, who ended 2008 with a victory in the Breedersʼ Cup
Classic, the first under the Darley banner. Her Highness had her first
child, Al Jalila, in Dec. 2007. Sheik Mohammed has 19 children. ...
Education: Attended Bell School of Languages (Cambridge, UK), Mons
Officer Cadet School (Aldershot, UK). ... Web site: www.darley.co.uk
Quick facts about Darley Stud:
• Darley is the breeding arm of Sheikh Mohammedʼs global operation,
with stallions standing at Dalham Hall Stud in England (the original
property which remains the flagship farm), Kildangan Stud in Ireland,
Darley America in Lexington, and properties in Australia, and Japan.
• In recent years, the cream of the Maktoum family racehorses have
been concentrated under the Godolphin banner, which emerged in
1994 and soon established the policy of wintering the horses in Dubai,
returning to England or the United States in April.
• Breedersʼ Cup 2013 could have four Darley-bred contenders, with
Alpha, Dancing House, Sweet Reason, and homebred Sky Painter all
possible runners. ... Dancing House, third in the Spinaway Stakes
(G1), is by Tapit out of Tout Charmant, who was second in the 2000
Filly & Mare Turf when owned by Stonerside. ... Sweet Reason, by
Darley sire Street Sense – Livermore Leslie, won the 2013 Spinaway,
giving Darley-breds the first and third in the prestigious 2-year-old filly
stakes. Sweet Reason went on to also finish second in the Frizette
(G1). Her dam, Livermore Leslie, also has produced Grade 3 winner
Donʼt Forget Gil for Darley and has a yearling by Darley sire Rockport
Harbor, a weanling by Darley sire Midshipman, and is in foal to
Shackleford ... Homebred juvenile Sky Painter, by Darley stallion
Street Cry (Ire) – Skylighter finished only a nose away from winning
the 2013 Miss Grillo Stakes (G3). Sky Painter is the first foal out of
multiple graded stakes winner Skylighter, a former Stonerside mare,
and has a yearling filly by Darley sire Medaglia dʼOro and is in foal to
Darley sire Elusive Quality for 2014.
• In Sept. 2013, Darley stallions sired the first three home in the
prestigious Fillies Mile (G1). Iffraaj sired the first two finishers –
Chriselliam and Rizeena – and Shamardal sired Intinal, who was third.
• After one year as Stallion Seasons Director at WinStar Farm in
Kentucky, Gerry Duffy, who had previously spent five years at Darley
America, left in May 2013 to take the position of General Manager at
Darleyʼs Kildangan Stud in Ireland.
• Darley will have the services of Animal Kingdom, Kentucky Derby and
Dubai World Cup winner, at Darley America in 2014.
• Darley stallion New Approach was represented in 2013 by Godolphinʼs
Dawn Approach, trained by his breeder, Jim Bolger, who also trained
New Approach. Dawn Approach won the 2,000 Guineas and the St.
Jamesʼs Palace Stakes (G1) in 2013.
• Multiple Grade 1 winner Itʼs Tricky, bred by Stonerside and trained by
Kiaran McLaughlin, raced for Darley through the summer of 2011, but
then was transferred to Godolphin. She finished second in the 2011
Ladiesʼ Classic.
• Bred 2012 Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) and Alabama Stakes
(G1) winner Questing (GB), who raced for Princess Haya during a
two-year-old campaign that saw her place in two Group 3 events in
England and finish fifth in the 2011 Juvenile Fillies ... The Hard Spun
filly raced for Darley at age three, including a fast allowance win by
3-3/4 lengths at Belmont Park on June 24, earning her promotion to
Godolphin. Questing finished 14th in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup Ladies
Classic (now Distaff).
• Bred 2012 Travers Stakes (G1) dead-heat winner Alpha. The
Bernardini colt debuted with a six-length win at Saratoga on Sept. 3,
2011, in Darley colors, then was transferred to Godolphin. Alpha
finished 11th in the 2011 Juvenile, and 12th in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup
Classic. He wintered in Dubai, running twice unplaced at Meydan,
before returning to the United States. Alphaʼs only win in 2013 was the
Woodward Stakes (G1), but he will make another Breedersʼ Cup
attempt, this time in the Dirt Mile.
• Darley as breeder was represented by six entries in the 2011
Breedersʼ Cup, including Alpha and Questing (GB). Two others raced
in Europe for Sheikh Mohammedʼs brother Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid
al Maktoum: Group 1 winner Nahrain (GB), and Farraj (GB). Two
others had been sold and raced in America: My Gi Gi owned by
Richard Lynn and Grace Hall owned by Michael Dubb, et al.
• Other top horses representing Darley as breeder in 2011 included
Group 1 winner Lyric of Light (GB) and Rakasa (GB), both trained by
Mahmood al Zarooni and owned by Godolphin, and Darley homebred
Higher Court, trained by Tom Albertrani in America.
• Among the top runners bred by Darley in 2010 included Arlington
Million (G1) winner Debussy (Ire) raced by Princess Haya (and under
the Godolphin banner in 2011), Sword Dancer Invitational (G1) hero
Telling, and multiple G3 winner Etched, raced by Godolphin.
Overseas, the breeding operation has been represented by Group 1
winners Cutless Bay, Dream Ahead (who continued to shine in 2011),
and Danon Chantilly as well as Group 3 winners Anna Salai and
Simon de Montfort.
• Acquired Bob and Janice McNairʼs Stonerside Stable in Aug. 2008,
including subsequent Juvenile winner Midshipman.
• The 2008 Breedersʼ Cup was huge for Darley. Ravenʼs Pass, racing
for Darley and Princess Haya, won the Breedersʼ Cup Classic.
Donativum and Coronet of a Baron finished one-two in the Juvenile
Turf, and Midshipman won the Juvenile.
Mohammed has raced in his own name are Breedersʼ Cup Turf
winners Pebbles and In the Wings, and Breedersʼ Cup Mile winner
Barathea.
• Sheikh Mohammed augments his breeding operation with purchases
at auction. The 2008 purchase of Fasig-Tipton by a Dubai-based
group of the Sheikhʼs business associates received his great support
as a supplier of international racehorses, as did Darley stallions.
• Darley stands more than 50 stallions in five countries including the
United States, where they are based at the former Jonabell Farm, in
Lexington. Sheik Mohammed purchased it in 2001, where it has been
called Darley since 2007. Among the stallions are homebred 2006
Preakness winner Bernardini, the 1-2 finishers in the 2007 Kentucky
Derby, Street Sense and Hard Spun, and Medaglia dʼOro. A July 2009
purchase, Medaglia dʼOro allowed for 20 percent ownership to remain
with Barry Weisbord and Richard Santulli.
• Darley expanded in Australia in March 2008 with the purchase of
Woodlands Stud and the Crown Lodge racing operation from Robert
Ingham.
• Purchased the former Whitney Familyʼs Greentree estate in Saratoga
Springs, New York, from Robert McNair in Jan. 2007 to train at the
120-acre (Polytrack) training oval adjacent to Saratoga Race Course.
• While Sheik Mohammed has pushed to win an American classic with
his Godolphin string, it was Bernardini who provided him with his first
victory in a U.S. Triple Crown race, racing in his maroon and white
silks. The colt went on to win the Travers (G1) and was runner-up to
Invasor (Arg) in the 2006 Breedersʼ Cup Classic. Graded winners
Dubai Escapade and Songster helped Darley lead North America in
earnings that year and shared an Eclipse Award with Lael Stables, as
the 2006 outstanding owner.
• Balletto, a Darley homebred, was the first UAE-bred to compete in the
Breedersʼ Cup; she finished third in the 2004 Juvenile Fillies and third
(via disqualification) in the 2006 Distaff. … Among horses Sheikh
• Has aggressively pursued top quality mares at auction in recent years,
particularly for Darley America stallions, including champion Ashado
(record $9 million), Breedersʼ Cup Distaff winner Round Pond ($5.75
million), multiple G1 winner Octave ($4 million), and Playful Act, for a
world record $10.5 million while in foal to Darley stallion Street Cry
(Ire), with a Street Cry weanling at her side.
• Sheikh Mohammed paid $10.2 million, the second-highest price in
Thoroughbred auction history at the time, for a Northern Dancer colt at
Keeneland in July 1983. Named Snaafi Dancer, he never raced and
proved infertile at stud. That remains the highest price the Sheikh has
paid at auction for a yearling, but he approached it when spending
$9.7 million for Jalil, a Storm Cat colt at Keeneland in Sept. 2006. He
also was the underbidder for The Green Monkey, the world-record
setting $16 million 2-year-old sold to rivals Coolmore in 2006.
• Sheikh Mohammed was the driving force behind the creation of the
Dubai World Cup (G1), first run in 1996, and the Dubai Racing
Carnival.
• The Sheikh saw his first horse race on May 5, 1967; watched Royal
Palace win the 2,000 Guineas. ... Purchased his first racehorse (Hatta,
winner of four stakes including Molecomb Stakes) in 1976.
• Bought Dalham Hall Stud near Newmarket, England, in 1981 as the
headquarters of the Darley operation, which includes 10 satellite studs
in the area.
• Leading owner in Britain every year from 1985 to 1999, with the
exception of 1990 and 1995.
• According to Equibase, Darley consistently ranks among the top fifteen
owners in North America.
• He is the prime minister and Vice President of the United Arab
Emirates and the ruler of Dubai. He was appointed Minister of Defense
of Dubai and awarded rank of General in Dec. 1971. ... Appointed
Crown Prince of Dubai Jan. 1995 and installed as ruler in Jan. 2006
following the death of his brother Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum. ...
Created Emirates Airline and is responsible for many of the projects
which have made Dubai a center for business and tourism, including
the new horse racing city, Meydan, which opened in early 2010.
• In Europe, horses racing in Sheikh Mohammedʼs maroon and white
Darley silks have been concentrated with Mark Johnston, Michael
Jarvis, Mick Channon, Barry Hills and Ed Dunlop in England; John Oxx
and Jim Bolger in Ireland; Andre Fabre and Alex Pantall in France;
Peter Snowden and Lee Freedman in Australia; and Kiaran
McLaughlin and Tom Albertrani in the United States. The best will
move to Sheikh Mohammedʼs Godolphin racing operation.
• For more information, also see the bio for Godolphin.
Owner
Godolphin Racing LLC, Lessee ... Owner(s): Maktoum family of Dubai.
... Web site: www.godolphin.com
Breedersʼ Cup Record
Starts 1st
2nd
71
4
5
1994
1995
1996
1998
1999
2000
3rd
10
Classic
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Classic
Classic
Mile
Mile
Turf
Classic
Mile
Mile
Classic
Mile
Turf
Juvenile
Juvenile
Mile
Turf
2001
Earnings
$10,550,700
Cezanne (GB)
Belle Genius
Meritocrat
Halling
Tamayaz
Charnwood Forest (Ire)
Mark of Esteem (Ire)
Wall Street
Swain (Ire)
Cape Cross (Ire)
Fly to the Stars (GB)
Almutawakel (GB)
Lend a Hand (GB)
Daylami (Ire)
Noverre
Street Cry (Ire)
Muhtathir (GB)
Fantastic Light
9th
4th
10th
11th
6th
9th
7th
8th
3rd
9th
5th
5th
4th
1st
11th
3rd
5th
5th
2002
2003
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Classic
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Mile
Mile
Turf
Classic
Distaff
Filly & Mare Turf
Filly & Mare Turf
Turf
Distaff
Filly & Mare Turf
Mile
Mile
Dirt Mile
Filly & Mare Turf
Ladies' Classic
Ladies' Classic
Turf Sprint
Classic
Classic
Sakhee
Essence of Dubai
Ibn Al Haitham (GB)
Imperial Gesture
Tempera
Express Tour
Noverre
Fantastic Light
E Dubai
Imperial Gesture
Kazzia (Ger)
Mezzo Soprano
Sulami (Ire)
Stellar Jayne
Sundrop (Jpn)
Echo of Light (GB)
Librettist
Discreet Cat
Folk Opera (Ire)
Cocoa Beach (Chi)
Music Note
Diabolical
Girolamo
Regal Ransom
2nd
12th
9th
2nd
1st
10th
7th
1st
11th
3rd
6th
10th
5th
4th
14th
14th
10th
3rd
9th
2nd
3rd
2nd
12th
8th
2010
2011
2012
Dirt Mile
Dirt Mile
Filly & Mare Sprint
Filly & Mare Sprint
Juvenile
Juvenile Turf
Ladies' Classic
Ladies' Classic
Marathon
Mile
Mile
Mile
Sprint
Classic
Dirt Mile
Dirt Mile
Filly & Mare Sprint
Filly & Mare Turf
Juvenile
Mile
Sprint
Juvenile
Ladies' Classic
Classic
Midshipman
Pyro
Sara Louise
Seventh Street
Vale of York (Ire)
Buzzword (GB)
Cocoa Beach (Chi)
Music Note
Mastery (GB)
Delegator (GB)
Gladiatorus
Justenuffhumor
Gayego
Etched
Gayego
Vineyard Haven
Sara Louise
Hibaayeb (GB)
Biondetti
Delegator (GB)
Girolamo
Alpha
Itʼs Tricky
Alpha
3rd
10th
4th
8th
1st
5th
6th
3rd
3rd
5th
9th
3rd
4th
6th
3rd
6th
6th
8th
4th
8th
11th
11th
2nd
12th
Dirt Mile
Juvenile
Juvenile Turf
Ladies' Classic
Marathon
Emcee
Fortify
Artigiano
Questing
Balladry
6th
4th
6th
dnf
6th
Quick facts about Godolphin Racing LLC, Lessee:
• Led by H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Godolphin
was formed to give the Maktoum family members a central umbrella to
campaign their best horses under. Godolphin only races – for breeding
information, see bio on Darley.
• Daylami (Ire), formerly owned by H.H. The Aga Khan, provided
Godolphin with its first Breedersʼ Cup success when he rallied to win
the 1999 Turf. Since then, Godolphinʼs other Breedersʼ Cup wins were:
Tempera in the 2001 Juvenile Fillies (with Imperial Gesture second for
a 1-2 Godolphin finish), Fantastic Light in the 2001 Turf, and Vale of
York in the 2009 Juvenile.
• After 18 years, Godolphin parted ways with retained jockey Lanfranco
(Frankie) Dettori at the end of 2012. Dettori rode as a freelancer in
2013, and Godolphin retained Mickael Barzalona and Silvestre de
Sousa. Godolphinʼs racing manager Simon Crisford left open the
possibility that Dettori would still ride Godolphin horses, just not as the
retained jockey given first call.
• The shakeup of Godolphinʼs team that began with the departure of
jockey Frankie Dettori continued with the abrupt dismissal of Mahmood
Al Zarooni from the stableʼs Moulton Paddocks in Newmarket in May
2013. Al Zarooni was banned for eight years for administering anabolic
steroids to 22 horses, which themselves were banned for six months
from racing. The British Horse Racing Authority determined that Al
Zarooni was acting alone and not on any directive from within
Godolphin.
• As of Oct. 2013, the team consists of Simon Crisford as racing
manager and Saeed bin Suroor as lead trainer, with Charlie Appleby
(as of July 25, 2013) coming aboard in England, Jim Bolger in Ireland,
Andre Fabre in France, and Eoin Harty, Tom Albertrani, and Kiaran
McLaughlin in North America. Jockeys are Mickael Barzalona as
retained jockey as of March 2012, Silvestre De Sousa as of Feb. 2012,
and Ahmed Ajtebi.
• Godolphin faced a further blow when non-racing illegal veterinary
drugs and paraphernalia were seized from a plane coming from Dubai
at Stanstead Airport intended for their stables at Newmarket. The
British Horseracing Authority is still investigating, with further internal
investigation being conducted by a furious Princess Haya, Sheikh
Mohammedʼs wife and FEI President, who announced in September
2013 that she will not seek a third term.
• Godolphin also found itself at the center of a visa controversy in 2013,
which started when the British Horseracing Authority in cooperation
with immigration minister Mark Harper discovered that thousands of
immigrants were being granted visas to work at jobs in horse racing
that UK nationals could have filled. Godolphin, ranked 13th nationally
among all companies in the UK that use “tier five” temporary visas,
employed 2,425 non-European Economic Area immigrants between
2010 and 2012, increasing more each year. Sheikh Mohammed is the
biggest employer in Newmarket, and vital to its economy.
• Despite all the unsettling distractions the stable dealt with in 2013,
Godolphin still registered more than 200 victories for the year, with
Dawn Approach their biggest star in Europe after winning the 2,000
Guineas and the St. Jamesʼs Palace Stakes (G1). ... Farhh won the
Champion Stakes (G1) in October under Silvestre De Sousa. ... In
North America, Alpha won the Woodward (G1), Dancing House
finished third in the Spinaway Stakes (G1), and Dance Card finished
third in the Gallant Bloom (G2) on their way to the Breedersʼ Cup.
• Godolphin was the leading owner in Britain in 2013 for the ninth time in
17 years, the other years being – 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2006,
2007, 2012. ... North American champion owner in 2009 and 2012. ....
Eclipse Award champion horses have been Questing (3-year-old filly
2012), Midshipman (2-year-old male 2008), Tempera (2-year-old
female 2001), Fantastic Light (turf male 2001), Daylami (turf male
1999), Singspiel (turf male 1996), and Pebbles (turf female 1985).
• Godolphin won six Grade 1 races in America in 2012, led all owners by
graded stakes winners in North America and was eighth in earnings in
2012. ... Itʼs Tricky won the Ogden Phipps Handicap (G1), Emcee won
the Forego Stakes (G1), Alpha dead-heated for the win in the Travers
(G1), Dance Card won the Gazelle (G1), and Questing (GB) won the
Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) and the Alabama (G1).
• Godolphin won its sixth Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1) in 2012 with
Monterosso (GB). The five previous winner were: Almutawakel (1999),
Dubai Millennium (2000), Street Cry (Ire) (2002), Moon Ballad (2003),
and Electrocutionist (2006).
• Godolphin was champion owner at the Dubai winter Carnival for six
consecutive years running, from 2008-2013. Had 29 winners at the
2013 Dubai Carnival. Have won 19 races at Dubai World Cup
meetings through 2013.
• Godolphin covets the Melbourne Cup (G1) and has finished second
with Central Park (1999), Give The Slip (2001), and Crime Scene
(2009). For 2013, the stableʼs major hope is Royal Empire.
• Top owner at Royal Ascot in 2011, led by Rewildingʼs victory in the
Prince of Walesʼs Stakes (G1).
Buzzword became the first foreign-trained winner of the German Derby
(G1).
• In 2009, Godolphin earned its first Eclipse Award as champion owner
with American runners Seventh Street, Music Note, Flashing, Gayego,
and Pyro winning nine Grade 1 races... Pyroʼs win in the G1 Forego
gave Godolphin its 150th victory at the highest level.
• Godolphin has won more than 200 Group/Grade 1 races in 12
countries through 2013.
• Schiaparelliʼs triumph in the Prix Kergorlay (G2) at Deauville in 2009
saw Godolphin reach a notable landmark of 500 stakes wins since the
stableʼs inception.
• Godolphin has won four races at the Hong Kong International Races:
Fantastic Light in the 2000 Cup, Firebreak (GB) in the 2004 Mile,
Ramonti in the 2007 Cup, and Mastery (GB) in the 2010 Vase.
• Additional major international wins include the Prix de lʼArc de
Triomphe (Lammtarra, 1995), Sakhee (2001), and Marienbard (2002);
Yasuda Kinen (Heart Lake, 1995); Singapore International Airlines
International Cup (Grandera, 2002); and Cox Plate (All The Good,
2008).
• Godolphin hired a new trainer in 2010 in Mahmoud al Zarooni, an
Emirati assistant to Mubarak bin Shafya whose very first runner,
Calming Influence, won the Godolphin Mile (G2) at Meydan. A few
hours later he almost added the worldʼs richest race when he saddled
Allybar to finish third, beaten in a very tight three-way photo, in the
Dubai World Cup. His success on Dubai World Cup night led him to be
named second trainer to Saeed bin Suroor at Newmarket during the
summer ... A notable triumph during his rookie season came when
• Godolphin pioneered the large-scale wintering of horses in the warmer
Dubai climate, before returning them to their bases in England and the
United States, from where they target the major races worldwide ...
During 1994, Godolphinʼs first year in business, Hilal Ibrahim was
employed as the trainer in Dubai, based at the Al Quoz Stables just
outside the city of Dubai. Within a year, Simon Crisford was hired as
racing manager and Jeremy Noseda was brought on to help Ibrahim
train the new imports and prepare them for their return to Newmarket
… Dubai-born Saeed bin Suroor replaced Ibrahim in 1995.
• The Godolphin operation has its European base at Newmarket, with
Saeed bin Suroor training at Godolphin Stables and Charlie Appleby at
Moulton Paddocks, with satellite operations in France with Andre
Fabre at Chantilly, and in America in New York and Florida supervised
by Tom Albertrani and Kiaran McLaughlin, and in California by Eoin
Harty, the American trainers officially termed “assistants” to Saeed bin
Suroor. Dubai base is at Al Quoz, and Marmoon Stables.
• Other major horses have included Discreet Cat, Halling, Swain, Mark
of Esteem (Ire), Kazzia, Shamardal, Biondetti, and many others.
Trainer
Kiaran P. McLaughlin ... Born: Nov. 15, 1960, Lexington, Ky. ...
Residence: Garden City, N.Y. ... Family: wife Letty (daughter of trainer
John Hennig and sister of trainer Marc Hennig), daughter Erin and son
Ryan ... McLaughlinʼs brother, Neal, is one of his assistant trainers and
shares the duties with Art Magnuson ... Education: Left the University of
Kentucky after one year to pursue a career in racing. ... Professional
Background: ... Web site: www.kiaranmclaughlinracing.com
Starts 1st
2nd
25
2
3
1996
1997
1999
2000
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
3rd
1
2011
2012
Earnings
$5,206,200
Mile
Dumaani
Mile
Soviet Line (Ire)
Turf
Fahris (Ire)
Mile
Altibr
Filly & Mare Turf Super Brand (Ire)
Turf
Mustanfar
Juvenile
Henny Hughes
Classic
Invasor (Arg)
Sprint
Henny Hughes
Distaff
Learʼs Princess
Filly & Mare Turf Lahudood (GB)
Mile
Shakis (Ire)
Juvenile Fillies Turf Hatheer
Mile
Justenuffhumor
2010
12th
7th
10th
6th
9th
5th
2nd
1st
14th
10th
1st
11th
4th
3rd
Classic
Juvenile Turf
Classic
Dirt Mile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Ladies' Classic
Classic
Dirt Mile
Juvenile
Ladies' Classic
Etched
Soldat
Rattlesnake Bridge
Trappe Shot
Alpha
Miss Netta
Itʼs Tricky
Alpha
Emcee
Fortify
Questing
6th
2nd
9th
4th
11th
6th
2nd
12th
6th
4th
dnf
Quick facts about Kiaran P. McLaughlin:
• McLaughlin has two wins in 25 Breedersʼ Cup starts. He notched his
first Breedersʼ Cup win in 2006 when Invasor captured the Classic en
route to Horse of the Year honors; Invasor also won the Whitney (G1),
Suburban (G1), and Pimlico Special (G1) that year. McLaughlinʼs other
Breedersʼ Cup win came the following year, in the 2007 Breedersʼ Cup
Filly and Mare Turf with Lahudood.
• Lexington native McLaughlin ran four horses in the 2012 Breedersʼ
Cup: Alpha in the Classic (12th); Emcee in the Dirt Mile (6th); Fortify in
the Juvenile (4th); and Questing in the Ladies Classic (DNF).
• McLaughlin ranks 18th among trainers in Breedersʼ Cup earnings with
$5,206,200.
• Following wins in the Jim Dandy (G2) and Travers (G1) at Saratoga in
2012, McLaughlinʼs Alpha returned to the Spa in 2013 to win the
Woodward (G1).
• The highlight of a spectacular 2012 Saratoga season for McLaughlin
came when Alpha emerged with a dead-heat victory in the Travers
(G1). Alpha, owned by Darley Stable, and 33-1 longshot Golden Ticket
hit the finish line together for the second dead-heat in Travers history;
the first time came in 1874 and was resolved by a run-off. “Itʼs a
dead-heat, but it goes in the ʻWʼ column,” said McLaughlin, who
shared the win with fellow Kentucky native Ken McPeek, trainer of
Golden Ticket. “It doesnʼt happen very often in a Grade 1, $1 million
race, but weʼre all happy it happened today for two guys from
Lexington. Weʼre happy to win a Grade 1 with this horse.”
• The Travers was one of five graded stakes wins for McLaughlin at the
2012 Saratoga meet. Four of them were Grade 1 stakes; in addition to
Alphaʼs Travers win, Questing won the Alabama and Coaching Club
American Oaks, and Emcee won the Forego. McLaughlinʼs other
stakes win at Saratoga in 2012 came in the Jim Dandy (G2) with
Alpha.
• McLaughlin won both of the major 3-year-old stakes at Saratoga in
2012, taking the Travers (G1) in a dead-heat with Alpha and the
Alabama (G1) with Questing. Alpha also won the Jim Dandy (G2) at
Saratoga and the Withers (G3) and Count Fleet earlier in the year at
Aqueduct. Questing overpowered her rivals in the Alabama by nine
lengths following a 4-1/4-length win in the Coaching Club American
Oaks (G1) on opening weekend at the Spa. “Sheʼs a special filly,” said
McLaughlin about Questing. “Iʼm glad we have her on dirt here in
North America and that we tried her on it.” Bred in Great Britain,
Questing was fifth in the 2011 Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile Fillies while still
trained by John Gosden. Following a spectacular summer, Questing
ran a perplexing race in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup Ladies Classic; she
failed to finish and was subsequently retired.
• Other 2012 stakes winners include Itʼs Tricky in the Ogden Phipps
(G1), Distaff (G2), and Top Flight (G2); Dance Card in the Gazelle
(G1); Here to Win in the The Very One (G3); and Le Bernardin in the
Pegasus (G3).
• On Belmont Stakes Day in 2011, McLaughlin won graded stakes with
both Itʼs Tricky and Trappe Shot. Itʼs Tricky took the Acorn (G1) and
Trappe Shot romped by 8 1/2 lengths in the True North (G2). “Wow,”
the trainer said after the True North. “To win by that much and that
fast…wow. You donʼt get many wows in a year, and now I get two in a
day.”
• Itʼs Tricky, a temperamental filly, also won the G1 Coaching Club
American Oaks in 2011 and was second in the Breedersʼ Cup Ladiesʼ
Classic and the Alabama.
• Stabled primarily in New York, McLaughlin currently has about 75
horses in training. His primary owners are Darley Stable, Godolphin
Racing and Shadwell Stables; other major clients are Mill House and
Everett Dobsonʼs Cheyenne Stables.
• Other McLaughlin-trained stakes winners include Soldat (2011 G2
Fountain of Youth); Redding Collier (2010 G3 Lone Star Park
Handicap and G2 Hawthorne Gold Cup); Seventh Street (2009 G1
Apple Blossom Handicap); Flashy Bull (2007 G1 Stephen Foster
winner), Learʼs Princess (G1 Gazelle, upsetting champion Rags to
Riches); Daaher (2007 G1 Cigar Mile and G2 Jerome), and Shakis
(2007 and 2008 G2 Bernard Baruch).
• One of McLaughlinʼs standout trainees was Henny Hughes, winner of
the Vosburgh (G1), Kingʼs Bishop (G1), and Jersey Shore Breedersʼ
Cup Stakes (G3) in 2006 and the Saratoga Special (G2) in 2005.
• During the summer of 2008, McLaughlin won the first North American
training title of his career, earning the Saratoga crown with 17
victories, two more than his friend Todd Pletcher.
• In early 2007, Invasor won the Donn Handicap (G1) and $6 million
Dubai World Cup (G1) before he was retired to stud with an injury.
• McLaughlin has trained three Eclipse Award champions: Invasor, the
2006 Horse of the Year and Older Male; Questing, 2012 Champion
Three-Year-Old Filly; and Lahudood, 2007 Champion Turf Female.
• Jazil gave McLaughlin and Sheikh Hamdan their first American classic
win with a victory in the 2006 Belmont Stakes.
• McLaughlin began to make his presence felt in the Triple Crown series
in 2005 when Holy Bull Stakes (G3) winner Closing Argument finished
second in the Kentucky Derby at odds of 71-1. The trainer sent out
Uptowncharlybrown to finish fifth in the 2010 Belmont Stakes, but the
3-year-old was disqualified for losing an eight-pound weight pad during
the race.
• McLaughlin won his first U.S. Grade 1 stakes in 2003 when Lunar
Sovereign took the Man oʼ War at Belmont Park. He got his 1,000th
victory in March 2012 when Que Posse won an allowance race at
Aqueduct.
• Introduced to racing through his friendship with trainer James
Burchellʼs son Greg, McLaughlin worked for Burchell, John Hennig,
Mark Casse, Dave Kassen and Tim Muckler before joining the D.
Wayne Lukas stable in Jan. 1985 at age 24. Another of Lukasʼs
employees at that time was Mark Hennig, who would become
McLaughlinʼs brother-in-law.
• McLaughlin left the Lukas operation in Feb. 1992 to become the agent
for jockey Chris Antley.
• He represented Antley until Nov. 1993 when he became the trainer for
Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum in Dubai. He split his year between
Dubai and New York through 2003 when he returned to the United
States full-time. While training in Dubai, McLaughlin trained for Sheikh
Mohammed and his brother, Sheikh Hamdan. He led the trainer
standings in wins four times at Nad Al Sheba Race Course in Dubai:
1994-95, 1995-96, 2001-02, and 2002-03.
• Upon his return to the United States, McLaughlin opened a public
stable in New York with 18 horses. Sheikh Hamdanʼs Shadwell Farm
and Sheikh Mohammedʼs Darley Stud have remained his two biggest
clients.
• McLaughlin was one of the featured trainers in the 2008
award-winning documentary “The First Saturday in May,” by Brad and
John Hennegan, which covered the road to the 2006 Kentucky Derby,
in which McLaughlinʼs Jazil dead-heated for fourth place.
• His large stable doesnʼt leave McLaughlin with much time for hobbies,
but he does manage to get some poker playing in now and then.
McLaughlin nearly made it through Day 2 of the main event of the
2007 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
• He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998 and takes daily
injections to combat it.
123
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B.g.3 Empire Maker - Broadway Hoofer by Belong to Me
Bred in Kentucky by MERCEDES STABLES LLC (Apr 26, 2010)
29Sep13 RP9
17Aug13 NP12
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02Jun13 Bhp8
11May13 Bhp3
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8
12
6
8
5
7
Fappiano, 1977
17s, SW, $370,213
Unbridled, 1987
410 f, 48 SW, 4.40 AEI
24s, SW, $4,489,475
Gana Facil, 1981
EMPIRE MAKER, 566 f, 49 SW, 2.65 AEI
19s, wnr, $85,100
dkb/br, 2000
7 f, 6 r, 5 w, 2 SW
El Gran Senor, 1981
8s, SW, $502,819
Toussaud, 1989
399 f, 55 SW, 2.69 AEI
15s, SW, $551,536
Image of Reality, 1976
10 f, 7 r, 6 w, 5 SW
26s, SW, $211,290
BROADWAY EMPIRE
8 f, 8 r, 8 w, 3 SW
b, g
Danzig, 1977
April 26, 2010
3s, wnr, $32,400
Belong to Me, 1989
1,074 f, 202 SW, 3.97 AEI
16s, SW, $261,166
1,371 f, 77 SW, 1.60 AEI Belonging, 1979
37s, SW, $148,490
14 f, 13 r, 8 w, 1 SW
BROADWAY
Broadway Forli, 1974
HOOFER,
11s, SW, $167,926
Broadway Star, 1980
ch, 1999
282 f, 11 SW, 1.10 AEI
10s, wnr, $37,260
Perceptive Lady, 1973
11 f, 8 r, 7 w, 2 SW
Unraced
15 f, 15 r, 14 w
Mr. Prospector
Killaloe
Le Fabuleux
Charedi
Northern Dancer
Sex Appeal
In Reality
Edee's Image
Northern Dancer
Pas de Nom
Exclusive Native
Straight Deal
Forli
Broadway Melody
Damascus
Aesthetic
BROADWAY EMPIRE'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 3
6
4(3)
1(1)
0
$405,745
Lifetime
6
4(3)
1(1)
0
$405,745
Sire: EMPIRE MAKER, dkb/br, 2000. Raced 2 yrs, 8 sts, 4 wins, $1,985,800. Won Belmont S (gr. I),
Florida Derby (gr. I), Wood Memorial S (gr. I); 2nd Kentucky Derby (gr. I), Jim Dandy S (gr. II), Sham
S (R); 3rd Remsen S (gr. II).
In 2013: 8 sw, 90 2yos, 18 2yo rnrs, 6 2yo wnrs.
1st dam: Broadway Hoofer, ch, 1999. Bred by Charles Nuckols Jr. and Sons (Ky.). Unraced. Dam of
6 named foals, 5 rnrs, 4 wnrs, 2 sw. ($20,000, 2004 keejan, Judge T C; $400,000, 2006 keenov,
Rock Hard Ten; $3,000, 2012 keenov, Rock Hard Ten).
2003: CINDERELLA'S DREAM, b f, by Prime Timber. Raced 1 yr, 4 sts, 2 wins, $133,600. Won Maid
of the Mist S (R); 2nd Demoiselle S (gr. II). ($190,000 obsapr 2yo). Died 2006.
2004: Wait 'til Midnight, dkb/br f, by Judge T C. Unraced. Dam of 3 foals, 2 rnrs, 1 wnr.
2006: Broadway Promise, ch g, by Broken Vow. Raced 1 yr, 6 sts, 0 wins, $10,220. ($100,000
keesep yrlg).
2007: C, by Rock Hard Ten. Died 2007.
2008: Orbach, b g, by Rock Hard Ten. Raced 3 yrs, 26 sts, 5 wins, $76,368.
2009: Give My Regards, ch f, by Smart Strike. Raced 1 yr, 2 sts, 1 win, $42,400.
2010: BROADWAY EMPIRE, b g, by Empire Maker.
At 3: Won Oklahoma Derby (gr. III), Canadian Derby (Can-III), Ky Alta H; 2nd Came Home S.
2011: Barren.
2012: B f, by Quality Road.
Inbreeding: 4SX4D Northern Dancer; 5SX5D Raise a Native.
Nicking: EMPIRE MAKER w/BELONG TO ME mares: 5 foals, 3 strs, 3 wnrs (60%), 0 2yo
wnrs (0%), 1 SW (20%), 1 GSW (20%).
Broodmare sire: BELONG TO ME, dkb/br, 1989. Sire of 363 dams of 1,086 foals, 727 rnrs (67%),
506 wnrs (47%), 111 2yo wnrs (10%), 1.41 AEI, 1.37 CI; 43 sw.
2nd dam: Broadway Star, ch, 1980. Bred by Donald F. Moran and Michael J. Radigan (N.Y.). Raced
2 yrs, 10 sts, 2 wins, $37,260. Dam of BROADWAY'S TOP GUN (c, Full Pocket; $243,158. Won
Ladbroke Futurity, Phoenix Futurity, E.R.A. Express H, Bolsa Chica S, R; 2nd Baldwin S, Speed H;
3rd Lafayette S, gr. III; sire), BROADWAY CHIEF (c, Tunerup; $193,354. Won Forego H, Turfway
Sprint S; 2nd Cicero S, Jack R. Johnston Memorial S, Dust Commander S, Forego S; 3rd Churchill
Downs H), Celtic Warrior (g, Fast Play; $137,357. 2nd Brown and Williamson Kentucky Jockey
Club S, gr. III, Shawnee S, R).
Breeder
Mercedes Stable ... Owner(s): Ernest Moody ... Born: July 25, 1948,
Elizabeth, N.J. ... Residence: Las Vegas, Nev. ... Family: Son, Austin
and daughter, Amber.
Starts 1st
2nd
3
0
1
2005
2011
2012
Turf
Classic
Classic
3rd
0
Earnings
$900,000
Lauraʼs Lucky Boy
Game on Dude
Game on Dude
11th
2nd
7th
Quick facts about Mercedes Stable:
• Moody is back in 2013 for a third shot at the Breedersʼ Cup Classic
with multiple G1 winner Game on Dude, in which he is a partner with
tthe Lanni Family Trust, Bernard Schiappa and baseballʼs Joe Torreʼs
Diamond Pride Stable ... Game on Dude was run down by
Drosselmeyer in the final eighth of a mile in the 2011 Classic, finishing
second, then was off the board in last yearʼs race ... Game On Dude
has won all five of his starts in 2013, earning $2,470,000, dominating
in pretigious events such as the Pacific Classic (G1), Hollywood Gold
Cup (G1), and Santa Anita Handicap (G1).
• Bought a 25 percent interest in Game on Dude in a private purchase
engineered by Schiappa prior to the 2010 Florida Derby. The horse
remained with trainer Michael Mareina through the Florida Derby, but
was moved then to Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert. He finished fourth
in the 2010 Belmont Stakes.
• Races as Mercedes Stable, LLC, named for his longtime partner,
Mercedes Vila. His only previous Breedersʼ Cup starter, Lauraʼs Lucky
Boy, finished 11th in the 2005 Breedersʼ Cup Turf, won by Shirocco
(Ger). Has approximately 150 Thoroughbreds, including racehorses,
broodmares, yearlings, etc. Schiappa manages Moodyʼs racing
interests. Moody has mares in Kentucky and California. He keeps his
California mares at his Running Luck Ranch, near Fresno. Has most of
his horses in training with Bob Baffert, Tim Yakteen and Julio Canani.
• Became involved in Thoroughbred racing in 2000 when he entered
into an agreement with Madeleine Paulson to lease a 50-percent
interest in horses that were in her name or that she retained in the
estate dispersal of her late husband, Allen Paulson. (Paulson, a
prominent Thoroughbred owner and breeder, died in July 2000. Mrs.
Paulson since has married T. Boone Pickens.) Moody also bought
Brookside West, the Paulsonsʼ 480-acre ranch in Bonsall, Calif., and
renamed it Moody Creek.
• One of the partnership horses, Rock Hard Ten, a Paulson homebred,
gave Moody early success in racing. Rock Hard Ten earned
$1,870,380 racing for Mrs. Paulson and Moodyʼs Mercedes Stable
LLC. His victories at three included the Malibu Stakes (G1) and the
Swaps Breedersʼ Cup Stakes (G2). Rock Hard Ten finished second in
the Preakness Stakes. At four, he won the G1 Santa Anita Handicap,
the Goodwood Breedersʼ Cup Handicap (G2) and the Strub Stakes
(G2). Rock Hard Ten stands at Laneʼs End near Versailles, Ky.
• Previous stakes winners for Mercedes Stable include Seattle Smooth,
who won five stakes races in 2008-2009, including the 2009 G1 Ogden
Phipps at Belmont Park. She won 7 races from 14 starts and was
retired in 2010 with earnings of $1,001,160. Other stakes winners
include Sheʼs a Jewel, Lauraʼs Lucky Boy, Indian Ocean, Twice as
Bad, Storm Wolf, Try To Fly, Spacy Tracy, Bank the Eight, Run It and
stakes winner and track record holder Indian Way.
• Moody is president of VideoPoker.com. He is the inventor of
multi-hand poker and holds patents on numerous video poker
machines. Founded in 1997, the company is strictly involved in
invention and not manufacture. Though his Triple Play poker invention
was initially received coolly by gaming manufacturers, Moody
persevered and International Game Technology (IGT) licensed his
Triple Play Draw Poker. It was introduced in casinos in 1997 and was
a runaway success. Since then, VideoPoker.com has created dozens
of video poker games, playing from three to 100 hands, and sent them
into the marketplace. Moody formerly was a restaurateur, stockbroker
and casino investor.
Owner
Randy Howg ... Born: in Calgary, Alberta, Canada ... Residence: Splits
time between Alberta, Canada and Phoenix, Ariz. ... Family: Wife Virginia
and three children.
Quick facts about Randy Howg:
• Broadway Empire, on his way to the Breedersʼ Cup Dirt Mile, made
Howgʼs dream of owning a Canadian Derby (G3) winner come true in
2013 when he charged to a three-length win in the race under Rico
Walcott. The 3-year-old gelded son of Empire Maker later won the
Oklahoma Derby (G3) to set himself up as the first Breedersʼ Cup
starter for his owner and trainer.
• Since his rise to graded stakes company, Howg said many race fans,
family and friends, have rallied behind Broadway Empire and think of
him as their own due to his Alberta connections.
• “I never had anything like this happen to me before,” said Howg of
Broadway Empireʼs season and subsequent refusal of sales offers.
“When I got into horse racing, it wasnʼt for the money, it was for the
sport, trying to find that needle in the haystack. What do I do when I
see the tip – dig it out or bury it deeper?”
• Howg was finished buying horses for the year when his trainer,
Robertino Diodoro, called him to say a group of horses had come up
for sale for $25,000 each. Howg, in partnership with Rick Running
Rabbit, Bob Butz, and Fouad El Kardy, bought Broadway Empire. After
the horse broke his maiden by 16-1/2 lengths, the partnership received
offers to buy Broadway Empire at an enormous profit. Howg was the
only one who didnʼt want to sell.
• Howg gave Diodoro his first horses when he went out on his own, and
has kept his horses in Diodoroʼs care ever since. “I think about him like
a son. I think an awful lot of him,” said Howg of his trainer.
• He reports that wife Virginia does not entirely approve of his hobby,
but has enjoyed the journey Broadway Empire has taken the couple
on. She, along with much of his immediate and extended family, will be
making the trip to California to cheer the horse on in this yearʼs
Breedersʼ Cup.
• In 1987, a neighbor asked him to go to the track one Sunday
afternoon; Howg was hesitant, remembering how much he loves the
sport. He went, and two days later owned his first horse.
• Howg has kept a small number of horses ever since, starting off with
claimers and moving on to buying yearlings with the goal of owning a
Canadian Derby winner.
• Howg worked on the track in Canada in high school in the late 1960s
and then stepped away from racing until the 1980s.
• He grew up around his uncleʼs horses. Recalled playing “horse race”
with his brothers and sisters as a child, running foot races in which he
pretended to be a Thoroughbred.
• Has farmed sugar beets, wheat, and barley in Enchant, southern
Alberta since 1971.
Trainer
Robertino Diodoro ... Born: in Calgary, Alberta, Canada ... Residence:
Splits his time between Alberta, Canada and California.
Quick facts about Robertino Diodoro:
• Broadway Empire will be Diodoroʼs first Breedersʼ Cup starter. The
3-year-old gelded son of Empire Maker won the 2013 Canadian Derby
(G3) and Oklahoma Derby (G3) in the fall and is headed to the Dirt
Mile.
• Broadway Empire was a private purchase for owners Rick Running
Rabbit, Randy Howg, Bob Butz, and Fouad El Kardy. Part of the
condition of sale was that the horse had to make a start at Turf
Paradise, which is why he ran in a maiden optional claiming race and
won by 16-1/2 lengths in his first start.
• His best runners have included stakes winners Test Boy,
Shakenwithanolive, Derive, and Double Shuffle.
• Diodoro won the training title at Northlands Park twice, where he is
consistently one of the top trainers.
• Keeps about 75 horses in Alberta and in southern California; he also
sent horses to Canterbury Park for the first time in 2013.
• Diodoro began training in 1995 and comes from a racing stable. His
grandfather trained and Diodoro took over the one-horse operation in
his early twenties.
3 1
2013:
3 1
2012:
10 5
Life:
Turf:
1 0
Trainer: RICHARD C. METTEE
Ch.h.5 Wild Event - Hit Oil (BRZ) by Roy
Course:
0 0
Bred in Brazil by LUIZ FERNANDO CIRNE LIMA (Aug 05, 2008)
Off Dirt:
0 0
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BRUJO DE OLLEROS (BRZ)
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Owner: TEAM VALOR INTERNATIONAL &
RICHARD SANTULLI
2
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
$130,000
$44,124
$202,623
$10,000
$0
$0
chased 3 wide,willing 7
fractious,going away 8
rallied,outfinished 10
outside,tired 5
btwn foes,needed bid 7
much the best 13
much the best 7
good position 9
much the best 9
much the best 11
WILD EVENT,
b, 1993
BRUJO DE
OLLEROS(Brz)
ch, h
August 5, 2008
HIT OIL,
b, 1997
Icecapade, 1969
32s, SW, $256,468
Wild Again, 1980
565 f, 73 SW, 2.36 AEI
28s, SW, $2,204,829
Bushel-n-Peck, 1958
943 f, 88 SW, 2.22 AEI
23s, SW, $98,550
12 f, 9 r, 8 w, 1 SW
Northfields, 1968
30s, SW, $195,071
North Of Eden, 1983
674 f, 50 SW, 1.94 AEI
7s, pl, $1,954
Tree of Knowledge, 1977
14 f, 12 r, 10 w, 4 SW
7s, wnr, $3,070
9 f, 7 r, 5 w, 2 SW
Fappiano, 1977
17s, SW, $370,213
Roy, 1983
410 f, 48 SW, 4.40 AEI
17s, wnr, $91,567
1,081 f, 136 SW, 1.78 AEI Adlibber, 1977
22s, SW, $279,192
9 f, 9 r, 7 w, 1 SW
Logical, 1972
22s, SW, $155,365
Ashley, 1987
295 f, 33 SW, 3.75 AEI
Unraced
Arkansas, 1979
6 f, 3 r, 2 w
Unraced
11 f, 3 r, 2 w
Nearctic
Shenanigans
Khaled
Dama II
Northern Dancer
Little Hut
Sassafras
Sensibility
Mr. Prospector
Killaloe
Never Bend
Ivy Hackett
Buckpasser
Smart Deb
Etienne Gerard
Alabama
BRUJO DE OLLEROS (BRZ)'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2010-’11
2011-’12
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2 in URU
1
1
0
0
$6,435
at 3 in URU
4
3(2)
1(1)
0
$51,188
at 4 in NA
2
0
0
0
$15,000
at 5 in NA
3
1(1)
2(2)
0
$130,000
Lifetime
10
5(3)
3(3)
0
$202,623
Sire: WILD EVENT, b, 1993. Raced 5 yrs, 22 sts, 10 wins, $937,274. Won Early Times Turf Classic S
(gr. IT), Arlington H (gr. IIT), W.L. McKnight H (gr. IIT), Keeneland Breeders' Cup Mile S (gr. IIIT), River
City H (gr. IIIT), Fourstardave H (gr. IIIT); 2nd Gulfstream Park Breeders' Cup H (gr. IT), Appleton H (gr.
II), Fort Lauderdale H (gr. IIIT); 3rd Keeneland Breeders' Cup Mile S (gr. IIT), Firecracker Breeders'
Cup H (gr. IIIT), Robert F. Carey Memorial H (gr. IIIT).
In 2013: 3 sw, 4 2yos.
1st dam: Hit Oil, b, 1997. Bred by Haras Doce Vale (Brz.). Raced 2 yrs in Brz, 12 sts, 5 wins, $9,161.
Dam of 6 named foals, 6 rnrs, 5 wnrs, 2 sw.
2003: Capitano Corelli, b c, by Wild Event. Raced 2 yrs in Uru, 7 sts, 4 wins, $12,526.
2004: ALCORANO, b c, by Public Purse. Raced 4 yrs in Uru, 22 sts, 6 wins, $84,207. Won Gran
Premio Pedro Pineyrua (Uru-I), Clasico Criadores Nacionales (Uru-III), Clasico Manuel Quintela
(Uru-III); 2nd Clasico Argentina; 3rd Gran Premio Pedro Pineyrua (Uru-I), Gran Premio General
Artigas (Uru-II), Gran Premio Municipal (Uru-II), Clasico Las Piedras.
2005: Chico Einstein, ch c, by Ghadeer. Raced 4 yrs in Uru, 28 sts, 3 wins, $16,299.
2006: Olympic Esteem, c, by Mark of Esteem (Ire). Raced 4 yrs in Brz, 15 sts, 2 wins, $14,785.
2008: BRUJO DE OLLEROS (Brz), ch c, by Wild Event.
At 3: Won Gran Premio Pedro Pineyrua (Uru-I), Clasico Argentina; 2nd Clasico Ensayo (Uru-III).
At 4: 2nd Donald LeVine Memorial H.
At 5: Won Carl Hanford Memorial S; 2nd Kelso H (gr. II).
2009: Lady Pippa, b f, by Public Purse. Raced 1 yr in Uru, 3 sts, 0 wins, $3,819.
Broodmare sire: Roy, b, 1983-2005. Sire of 505 dams of 2,157 foals, 784 rnrs (36%), 526 wnrs
(24%), 139 2yo wnrs (6%), 1.38 AEI, 1.43 CI; 94 sw.
2nd dam: Ashley, dk b, 1987. Bred by Haras La Quebrada (Arg.). Unraced.
Breeder
Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima ... Born: 1933, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Quick facts about Luiz Fernando Cirne Lima :
• Was Minister of Agriculture in the government Garrastazu Emilio
Medici from 1969 to 1973.
• Is credited with helping to improve Thoroughbred breeding in Brazil by
introducing new laws controlling the importation of stallions. Stallions
imported to Brazil are now required to be graded stakes winners.
• Bred and raced Kelso Handicap (G2) and Dirt Mile contender Brujo de
Olleros (BRZ) before the horse was purchased privately by Team
Valor ... In his last start in Brazil, he won the Gran Premio Pedro
Pineyrua (G1).
Owner
Team Valor International ... Owner(s): Syndicate group under the
leadership of Barry Irwin. ... Born: April 21, 1943, Los Angeles ...
Residence: Versailles, Ky. ... Family: wife Kathleen; daughters Chloe
and Katherine. ... Web site: www.teamvalor.com
Starts 1st
2nd
17
2
0
1989
1991
1993
1995
1996
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
3rd
1
Earnings
$1,782,000
Turf
Prized
Mile
Star of Cozzene
Sprint
Demaloot Demashoot
Mile
Mighty Forum (GB)
Mile
Mighty Forum (GB)
Juvenile
Tiger Hunt
Filly & Mare Turf Super Brand (SAf)
Juvenile
King of the Roxy
Distaff
Unbridled Belle
Filly & Mare Sprint Jazzy (Arg)
Classic
Fairbanks
Filly & Mare Sprint Jazzy (Arg)
Juvenile Fillies Turf Junia Tepezia (Ire)
Juvenile Turf
Pluck
Juvenile Turf
Lucky Chappy
Juvenile Turf
State of Play
1st
3rd
5th
8th
13th
4th
9th
8th
5th
10th
10th
8th
12th
1st
4th
12th
Marathon
Brigantin
8th
Quick facts about Team Valor International:
• Three months after finishing second in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup Mile,
Animal Kingdom returned for his 5-year-old season by running second
in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1) on Feb. 19. Eight weeks
later, on March 30, the chestnut son of Leroidesanimaux traveled
halfway across the globe to win the worldʼs richest race, the $10
million Dubai World Cup at Meydan Racecourse over a Tapeta
surface.
• Team Valor sold controlling interest in Animal Kingdom prior to his
5-year-old season to Arrowfield Stud in Australia. He was retired
following an 11th-place finish in the Queene Anne Stakes (G1) at
Royal Ascot in England on June 18. Plans call for Animal Kingdom to
shuttle to Darley in Kentucky for the Northern Hemisphere breeding
season, having retired with a record of 12-5-5-0 and earnings of $8.4
million.
• In just his third start of 2013 and second career start in a graded
stakes, Team Valorʼs Brazilian-bred Brujo de Olleros rallied to finish
second in the Kelso Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park on Sept. 28 for
trainer Rick Mettee. The 5-year-old son of Wild Event won the Gran
Premio Pedro Pineyrua G1) at Maronas in the fall of 2012.
• In 2013, Rick Mettee, a former assistant in the global Godolphin
operation, became Team Valorʼs primary U.S.-based trainer. He is
based at the Fair Hill barn from April through October and at Palm
Meadows Training Center in South Florida from November through
March.
• Team Valor Internationalʼs Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom
returned from an eight-month layoff to run second in the Breedersʼ Cup
Mile in 2012. It was the championʼs first start since he scored an easy
allowance win on Feb. 18 on the turf at Gulfstream Park. Three weeks
after that race, Animal Kingdom was found to have developed a stress
fracture of the illium and was taken out of training. The injury forced
him to miss his early-season goal, the Dubai World Cup (G1). Animal
Kingdom returned to training in June and began a breeze program on
Aug. 21. A few hours after Animal Kingdom completed his seventh
breeze for trainer Graham Motion in Elkton, Md., Team Valor
announced that the colt was headed to the Breedersʼ Cup.
• Howe Great and Went the Day Well were Team Valor Internationalʼs
top North American runners in 2012. Went the Day Well followed the
path set by Animal Kingdom in 2011 and won the Spiral Stakes (G3) at
Turfway Park to earn a trip to the Kentucky Derby. The New York-bred
colt, purchased in England late in 2011, finished a closing fourth in the
Derby. He finished 10th in the Preakness and was being prepared for
a summer campaign, but was given the rest of the year off when bone
bruising was discovered in his front ankles in July. In his lone 2013
start, he was sixth in an optional claiming allowance in March at
Aqueduct. ... Howe Great, a homebred son of Irwinʼs stallion Hat Trick,
won the Kittenʼs Joy Stakes in January 2012 and the Palm Beach
Stakes (G3) in March to extended a winning streak to four races. After
a fifth in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G1), he returned to turf racing.
He won the ungraded Jersey Derby at Monmouth, was second in the
Del Mar Derby (G2), second in the Hill Prince (G3) and third in the
American Turf Stakes (G2) for 2012. He showed an allowance win
from six 2013 starts that included runner-up finishes in the Poker (G3)
and Oceanport (G3).
• In Sept. 2012, Team Valor International received a quick return on
investment when the newly purchased First Cornerstone won the
Futurity (G2) at the Curragh in Ireland. Trained by Andy Oliver, is
winless in three 2013 starts, including an eighth in the Secretariat (G1)
at Arlington Park in August.
• In 2011, Team Valor International won 10 North American stakes with
six different horses: Animal Kingdom (Vinery Racing Spiral Stakes
(G3), Kentucky Derby); Daveron (Beaugay (G3), Dr. James Penny
Memorial, Ballston Spa (G2)); Crimson China (Lamplighter); Summer
Soiree (Boiling Springs (G3), Del Mar Oaks (G1)); State of Play (With
Anticipation (G2)); Hasay (Omnibus). ... Team Valor finished 2011
ranked 10th on Equibaseʼs North American earnings list withh
$3,206,885 ... The companyʼs world-wide stats showed 50 victories
and purse earnings of $3.9 million.
• Homebred Animal Kingdom carried Team Valor to the pinnacle of
American racing in 2011 by winning the $2 million Kentucky Derby in
his first start on dirt. Animal Kingdom was second in the Preakness,
but came out of a sixth-place finish in the Belmont Stakes with a
hairline slab fracture of the left hock. He underwent successful surgery
on June 30, returned to Motionʼs barn a week later, started training
under tack in October, and was expected to be ready to compete in
Dubai in late March. The stress fracture of the illium scuttled that plan.
• A few days after the 2010 Breedersʼ Cup, Irwin announced that Motion
was training all of Team Valorʼs horses in North America and that the
stable has purchased a 40-stall barn at the Fair Hill Training Center in
Maryland ...
• In 2010, the syndicate had a very good year, winning 56 races and
over $3.1 million. Team Valor Internationalʼs stakes winners in North
America in 2010 were Miss Singhsix, Fantastico Roberto, Pluck,
Causewayʼs Kin and Daveron. Pluck followed his victory in the
Summer Stakes at Woodbine with a win in the Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile
Turf. It was the second Breedersʼ Cup win for an Irwin horse: Prized
won Breedersʼ Cup Turf in 1989 in his first start on grass.
• Gitano Hernando (GB) epitomizes Irwinʼs program of scouting horses
worldwide. Gitano Hernando had a single victory to his credit when
Team Valor purchased him in England and the horse won two more
races in England before winning the Goodwood Stakes (G1) at Santa
Anita on Oct. 10, 2009 in his North American debut . … One of Team
Valorʼs key domestic purchases was Captain Bodgit, who was
acquired privately as a 2-year-old in Maryland and went on to win the
Florida Derby (G1) and Wood Memorial Stakes (G2) before finishing
second in the Kentucky Derby and third in the Preakness Stakes.
• Irwin was formerly a racing journalist, who left fiction writing in 1969 to
become a staff writer for The Blood-Horse. He returned to his home
state to write for and later edit the Thoroughbred of California and write
the Southern California column syndicated in Daily Racing Form. He
also hosted radio and television programs on racing ... During that
period, he became an owner and won with his first two starters. Irwin
left the Form at the close of the 1978 Del Mar meet to become a
bloodstock agent on a full-time basis. His company, formed in 1979,
was Pacifica Thoroughbreds.
• In the decade after leaving journalism, Irwin bred, raced, syndicated,
bought and sold several hundred horses, including Itʼs the One,
African Sky, Moscow Ballet and Torsion ... In 1987, he made another
career change, forming a partnership with longtime friend Jeff Siegel
and two other shareholders in Clover Racing Stables. Irwin and Siegel
went out on their own in 1992 with Team Valor. They operated the
business together until 2007 when Irwin bought out Siegel and
renamed the stable Team Valor International. Siegel wanted to devote
his energies to his position as an on-air host and analyst for Horse
Racing Television. In their 21-year partnership, they won 170 stakes
races and 21 Grade 1 races. ... The stable has about 65 horses in
training at any given time …Team Valor syndicates horses to multiple
owners for a share in the expenses and profits. Each horse is a
separate limited liability company (LLC), with its own federal tax
number and bank account.
• The first horse raced by an Irwin-formed partnership was Political
Ambition, who won the Hollywood Derby (G1) in 1987 for Clover
Racing Stable ... The first horse purchased by the new Team Valor
was a little-known English turf runner named My Memoirs (GB), who
debuted in the red and green silks when second in the 1992 Belmont
Stakes (G1) behind A.P. Indy … Co-owned 1989 Breedersʼ Cup Turf
winner Prized (in partnership with Barbara LaCroix when the group
raced as Clover Racing Stable) … Grade/Group 1 stakes winners in
Irwinʼs syndicates have included Unbridled Belle, Visionaire,
Irridescence (SAf), Ipi Tombe (Zim), Captain Bodgit, Prized, The
Deputy, Star of Cozzene, Golden Ballet, Political Ambition, and
Cashierʼs Dream.
• Team Valor International partnerships annually donate one percent of
their racetrack earnings worldwide and Team Valor itself matches that
figure for The Race For Education, a charity offering college
scholarships to the offspring of backstretch and farm workers … Irwin,
a member of the board of The Race For Education, was honored by
the organization in 2006 with its inaugural “Valedictorian Award.”
• Team Valor in recent years has focused more on breeding its own
horses than in the past when it was regularly a major buyer at yearling
sales. The stable has implemented its widespread racing roster for a
diverse and fairly unique mix of broodmares.
• Another 15 broodmares reside in South Africa. The band there
includes key producer Sunshine Lover, whose first two foals, Captainʼs
Lover and Ebony Flyer, captured South Africaʼs most prestigious race
for 3-year-old fillies, the Cape Fillies Guineas, in the Team Valor
colors. Captainʼs Lover went on to win a Group 3 race in France and a
listed stakes in the United States. She was bred on Southern
Hemisphere time to Giantʼs Causeway and produced a filly in
September 2012 named Song of Happiness (SAF) after returning to
South Africa.
Trainer
Rick Mettee ... Born: 1958 in Maryland.
Starts 1st
2nd
1
0
0
1996
3rd
0
Mile
Cup Mile. Gosden recommended Mettee for the job with Godolphin.
• In five years, Mettee oversaw the U.S. roster that won several Grade 1
races, such as the Forego, Cigar Mile, Vosburgh, Coaching Club
American Oaks and Beldame.
Earnings
$0
Smooth Runner
11th
Quick facts about Rick Mettee:
• On April 5, Team Valor International announced Mettee would train all
of the syndicateʼs North American-based horses, effective May 1,
replacing Graham Motion, who had conditioned Team Valorʼs horses
since 2010, including Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Dubai World
Cup winner Animal Kingdom.
• In the 1990s, Mettee trained horses for Barry Irwinʼs partnerships,
winning the Jaipur Stakes with French import Kanatiyr. His most recent
job was as an assistant trainer to Saeed bin Suroor, running
Godolphinʼs U.S. division for the Dubai royal family. With horses
trained mainly by Mettee, Godolphin won the 2009 Eclipse Award as
outstanding owner.
• Mettee operates primarily out of Team Valorʼs barn at the Fair Hill
Training Center in Elkton, Md. He is a native of Maryland, who first
rose to prominence as an assistant to trainer John Gosden in southern
California in the 1980s when Gosden trained champions Bates Motel
and Royal Heroine, who defeated males in the inaugural Breederʼs
• Through Oct. 1, Mettee had won six of 36 starts in 2013 for purses of
$597,588, and ran second with Brazilian-bred Brujo de Olleros in the
Kelso Handicap (G2) at Belmont Park on September 28. He also was
one victory away from the 100th of his career.
• Worked two years for the late Richard Dutrow Sr. in their native
Maryland. The Dutrow connection led to Mettee moving to California to
work for English trainer John Gosden. Started working for Gosden at
Santa Anita and Hollywood Park in 1981, when Gosden himself was
an unestablished trainer with a small string of 15 largely
undistinguished horses. Mettee progressed through the ranks under
Gosden – groom, stable foreman and then assistant trainer for almost
three years. He traveled East with Bates Motel, one of Gosdenʼs first
important horses and the national champion handicap horse of 1983.
Royal Heroine also was in the barn at that time. Mettee stayed with
Gosden until 1990 when he went out on his own.
• While on his own, Mettee won 93 races and his most accomplished
runners were Annoconnor, winner of the 1990 Santa Ana Handicap
(G1) and three other stakes, Smooth Runner, winner of the Poker
Handicap (G3) and Flick (GB), a two-time stakes winner. ... Smooth
Runner was Metteeʼs first Breedersʼ Cup starter in his own name,
finishing 11th in the 1996 Mile.
• Mettee credits his grandmother, whom he described as a $2 bettor, for
getting him interested in racing. He said as a youngster he would tag
along with her when she would take the bus to Pimlico Race Course in
Baltimore. He has said his parents were not crazy about their son
wanting to work on the racetrack. He began hotwalking after leaving
high school.
CENTRALINTELIGENCE e
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Ch.g.5 Smarty Jones - Shootforthestars by Seattle Slew
Bred in Kentucky by PATRICIA L. CHAPMAN (Mar 05, 2008)
05Oct13 SA9
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RACING STABLE & GARY FINDER, ET AL 2012:
Trainer: RONALD W. ELLIS
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Gone West, 1984
17s, SW, $682,251
Elusive Quality, 1993
1,263 f, 101 SW, 1.81 AEI
20s, SW, $413,284
Touch of Greatness, 1986
SMARTY JONES, 1,647 f, 100 SW, 1.74 AEI
Unraced
ch, 2001
14 f, 11 r, 7 w, 2 SW
Smile, 1982
27s, SW, $1,664,027
I'll Get Along, 1992
269 f, 12 SW, 1.10 AEI
39s, SW, $276,969
Dont Worry Bout Me, 1983
10 f, 6 r, 4 w, 2 SW
22s, SW, $95,562
CENTRAL
8 f, 8 r, 7 w, 2 SW
INTELIGENCE
ch, g
Bold Reasoning, 1968
March 5, 2008
12s, SW, $189,564
Seattle Slew, 1974
61 f, 10 SW, 3.75 AEI
17s, SW, $1,208,726
1,050 f, 114 SW, 3.66 AEI My Charmer, 1969
32s, SW, $34,133
12 f, 8 r, 6 w, 4 SW
SHOOTFOR
Alydar, 1975
THESTARS,
26s, SW, $957,195
Lotta
Dancing,
1991
b, 1998
689 f, 77 SW, 5.07 AEI
25s, SW, $358,201
Lotka, 1983
12 f, 8 r, 8 w, 1 SW
20s, SW, $721,804
14 f, 11 r, 9 w, 3 SW
Mr. Prospector
Secrettame
Hero's Honor
Ivory Wand
In Reality
Sunny Smile
Foolish Pleasure
Stolen Base
Boldnesian
Reason to Earn
Poker
Fair Charmer
Raise a Native
Sweet Tooth
Danzig
Kennelot
CENTRALINTELIGENCE'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 3
6
2
1
1
$78,550
at 4
3
1
1(1)
0
$56,000
at 5
4
1(1)
1(1)
0
$174,621
Lifetime
13
4(1)
3(2)
1
$309,171
Sire: SMARTY JONES, ch, 2001. Raced 2 yrs, 9 sts, 8 wins, $7,613,155. Champion 3yo colt. Won
Kentucky Derby (gr. I), Preakness S (gr. I), Arkansas Derby (gr. II), Rebel S, Southwest S, Count
Fleet S, Pennsylvania Nursery S (R); 2nd Belmont S (gr. I).
In 2013: 6 sw, 26 2yos, 5 2yo rnrs, 1 2yo wnr, 7 sale yrlgs, avg $12,571.
1st dam: Shootforthestars, b, 1998. Bred by Heidi L. Doubleday (Ky.). Unraced. Dam of 10 named
foals, 9 rnrs, 8 wnrs, 1 sw. ($450,000, 2006 keenov, Elusive Quality).
2002: Golden Rainbow, dkb/br g, by Seeking the Gold. Raced 7 yrs, 44 sts, 8 wins, $299,090.
3rd Oklahoma Derby. ($40,000 keesep yrlg).
2003: Basiliko, ch c, by Fusaichi Pegasus. Raced 5 yrs in Eng, 9 sts, 0 wins, $793.
2004: Galaxy Dancer, dkb/br f, by Kingmambo. Raced 2 yrs, 4 sts, 1 win, $11,616. Sent to Ire
2012. ($400,000 keesep yrlg).
2005: General Consensus, b f, by Giant's Causeway. Raced 5 yrs, 20 sts, 4 wins, $255,444. 2nd
Santa Barbara H (gr. IIT), Swingtime S (RT); 3rd Santa Ana H (gr. IIT). ($400,000 keesep yrlg).
2006: Keefer, ch c, by Smarty Jones. Raced 4 yrs, 16 sts, 3 wins, $54,642. ($60,000 keesep yrlg).
2007: My Elusive Star, b g, by Elusive Quality. Raced 3 yrs, 29 sts, 4 wins, $153,764. 3rd Capital
City S (T).
2008: CENTRALINTELIGENCE, ch g, by Smarty Jones. ($90,000 keesep yrlg).
At 4: 2nd Los Angeles H (gr. III).
At 5: Won Triple Bend H (gr. I); 2nd Los Angeles H (gr. III).
2009: Cash Finance, b f, by Smarty Jones. Raced 3 yrs in Italy, 15 sts, 4 wins, $72,108. ($11,000
keesep yrlg).
2010: Champion Color, b c, by Smarty Jones. Raced 2 yrs in Korea, 8 sts, 2 wins. ($25,000 keesep
yrlg; $8,500 ftkfeb 2yo).
2011: Sky Wise, ch f, by Smarty Jones. Unraced. ($20,000 eassep yrlg).
2012: B c, by Smarty Jones.
2013: C, by Smarty Jones.
Inbreeding: 5SX4D Boldnesian; 5SX5D Northern Dancer; 5SX4D Raise a Native.
Nicking: SMARTY JONES w/SEATTLE SLEW mares: 14 foals, 13 strs, 10 wnrs (71%), 3
2yo wnrs (21%), 3 SW (21%), 2 GSW (14%).
Broodmare sire: SEATTLE SLEW, dkb/br, 1974-2002. Sire of 538 dams of 3,385 foals, 2,609 rnrs
(77%), 1,820 wnrs (54%), 499 2yo wnrs (15%), 1.68 AEI, 1.48 CI; 229 sw.
2nd dam: LOTTA DANCING, b, 1991. Bred by Kennelot Stables (Ky.). Raced 3 yrs, 25 sts, 7 wins,
$358,201. Won Affectionately H (gr. III); 2nd Ladies H (gr. II), Beaumont S (gr. II), Turnback the
Alarm H; 3rd Top Flight H (gr. I), Sixty Sails H (gr. III), Snow Goose H (gr. III), Next Move H (gr. III),
Woodhaven H. Dam of FANTASTICAT (c, Storm Cat; $447,984. Won Super Derby, gr. II; 2nd Round
Table S, Prelude S; sire in Phi).
Breeder
Patricia Chapman ... Residence: Chester County, Pa. ... Family: Five
children, seven grandchildren.
• Roy Chapman died in 2006, and Patricia carried on the coupleʼs
breeding and racing stables.
Quick facts about Patricia Chapman:
• Smarty Jones retired to Three Chimneys Farm after the Belmont and
now stands at Northview, Pa.
• Centralinteligence, who is aiming for this yearʼs Breedersʼ Cup, is
appropriately enough, a son of Smarty Jones bred by Patricia
Chapman, who campaigned the popular dual classic winner. The
5-year-old gelding started the year with a fourth-place finish in the Cool
Frenchy, a runner-up effort in the Los Angeles stakes (G3) and a win
in the Triple Bend (G1). He is conditioned by Ron Ellis for a syndicate
that includes Amerman Racing, Bongo Racing, and Gary Finder.
• The Chapmans owned Someday Farm until 1999 when they sold the
100-acre property due to Royʼs declining health. They made the
decision to keep homebred Smarty Jones because they knew he was
their best horse.
• Patricia and late husband Roy Chapman owned Kentucky Derby and
Preakness winner Smarty Jones. Trainer John Servis said Roy
Chapman, who suffered from emphysema, told him “ ʻI donʼt know how
much longer Iʼve got on this earth, but Iʼd like to get to the Derby.ʼ ”
Smarty went undefeated until his second-place finish in the Belmont
Stakes. He received a $5 million bonus for winning the Rebel, the
Arkansas Derby, and the Kentucky Derby.
• The couple began breeding and racing in the late 1980s and won the
1989 Maryland Hunt Cup with Uncle Merlin, who went on to the 1990
Grand National.
• Roy and Patricia often rode and were members of several local hunt
clubs.
• Roy Chapman grew up in Germantown, Pa. and inherited his interest
in horses from his father. Roy built up a network of successful car
dealerships in Pennsylvania.
Co-Owner
Amerman Racing LLC ... Owner(s): John and Jerome (Jerry) Amerman
... Born: John, Jan. 24, 1932, Newark, N.J.; Jerry, Sept. 11, 1937,
Gadsden, Ala. ... Residence: Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., and Jumby
Bay, Antigua ... Family: children Anne and Garrett.
Quick facts about Amerman Racing LLC:
• The Amermans won the 2003 Breedersʼ Cup Distaff with Adoration,
whose other stakes wins include the 2004 Santa Margarita Invitational
H. (G1). They finished third in the 2001 Juvenile with Siphonic, winner
of the Hollywood Futurity (G1) in his next start. They finished sixth in
the 2007 Distaff with Balance, a half-sister to two-time Breedersʼ Cup
winner and Horse of the Year Zenyatta. Balanceʼs stakes wins
included the 2006 Santa Anita Oaks (G1) and Las Virgenes S. (G1)
and 2007 Santa Margarita (G1).
• Own Centralinteligence with Bongo Racing Stable, Gary Finder, and
Elias Sabo. Centralinteligence earned a Win and Youʼre In berth to the
Breedersʼ Cup Dirt Mile with his victory in the 2013 Triple Bend H.
(G1), though trainer Ron Ellis said the gelding will likely point for the
Breedersʼ Cup Sprint. In 2009, on the advice of Bob Feld (Bongo
Racing) and trainer Ron Ellis, the Amermans purchased
Centralinteligence at Keeneland, in partnership with Bongo.
• Other grade 1 winners they have owned solely or in partnership
include Lido Palace, Spoken Fur, Star of Cozzene, Happyanunoit,
Printemps and Mash One. Lido Palace, Chileʼs 2000 Horse of the Year
and winner of the Chilean Triple Crown before his American success,
initially stood in Florida, and the Amermans bred some of their mares
to him. Lido Palace moved to Peru in 2012. The Amermans also
campaigned Printemps, who won Chileʼs filly Triple Crown and then
won three stakes in Southern California, including the 2001 Hawthorne
H. (G2).
• Own about 70 horses, including about 20 mares and 25 horses in
training. They have horses with several conditioners, including Ron
Ellis, David Hofmans, Chad Brown, Brian Lynch, Bill Mott, Paul
McGee, Gary Mandella and Jeff Bonde.
• Own 63-acre Peacefield Farm in Temecula, Calif., which serves as a
rehabilitation facility for both race and show horses and is managed by
their daughter, Anne.
• Decided to own a racehorse after many visits to Monmouth Park. They
became involved in racing in 1987 after answering an ad placed by the
Team Valor syndicate.
• Started Amerman Racing LLC in 1995 and have since won 66 stakes,
including 23 grade 1 races, through mid-September.
• John was a member of the California Horse Racing Board from
2006-08 and was elected to the Board of Stewards of The Jockey Club
in mid-2007. He is a trustee of Breedersʼ Cup Ltd. and the
Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. He has served on
the board of directors of the National Thoroughbred Racing
Association, Thoroughbred Owners of California, the American Graded
Stakes Committee, Tranquility Farm and The Winners Foundation.
• Jerry served on the advisory board for the Center for Equine Health at
the University of California, Davis, and the University of Kentucky
Gluck Equine Research Foundation.
• John joined toy maker Mattel Inc. in 1980; served as Chairman and
CEO from 1987-98. Prior to Mattel, he was president of the American
Chicle Group, a subsidiary of the Warner-Lambert Company.
Warner-Lambert was a worldwide company devoted to developing,
manufacturing and marketing pharmaceutical, consumer healthcare
and confectionery products. He began his business career in
marketing for Colgate-Palmolive.
• John received a bachelorʼs degree from Dartmouth and an M.B.A.
from the universityʼs Amos Tuck School of Business Administration.
• Jerry graduated from Drew University and did graduate work at
Vanderbilt University from 1980-82. She also studied at Auburn
University.
Co-Owner
Bongo Racing Stable Inc. ... Owner(s): Bob Feld, President and
Managing Partner. ... Born: May 11, 1962 ... Residence: Monrovia, Calif.
... Family: Son Sean, 26, a graduate of the University of Kentucky, a
bloodstock agent and manager of the stallion career of group winner
Bullet Train; and daughter Madalyn, 24, who helps her dad with Bongo
Racing Stable business ... Brother, Jude Feld, is a former trainer, who is
also heavily involved in racing, mainly through the Horse Racing Radio
Network. ... Breeding/Racing Operation: Bongo currently has 17 horses
in training. In addition to Mike Mitchell, trainer of Sun Boat, Bongoʼs
trainers include Doug OʼNeill, Jeff Mullins, Dave Hofmans, Mike
Machowsky, Gary Mandella, Matt Chew, Peter Miller, and Lynn
Chleborad . . . Bongo owns the California stallion Cat Dreams, a son of
Storm Cat, in partnership with B. Wayne Hughes. The stallion stands at
Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in Santa Ynez, Calif. . . . Feld named one
of the Bongo horses, a 3-year-old filly by Delaware Township, Debie
Ginsburg in memory of deceased turf writer Debra Ginsburg, a longtime
writer for the California Thoroughbred magazine.
Quick facts about Bongo Racing Stable Inc.:
• Founded in 2004, by Bob Feld, Bongo Racing Stable puts together
various partnerships and has involved more than 70 people in racing.
• Bongo Racing is a partner with Amerman Racing Stable in
Centralintelligence, winner of the Triple Bend Handicap (G1) at Betfair
Hollywood Park in June. The 5-year-old gelded son of Smarty Jones,
trained by Ron Ellis, is being aimed toward the Breedersʼ Cup Dirt
Mile.
• Feld prides himself and his son, Sean, as having been connected with
six Breedersʼ Cup champions. The father bought Adoration, winner of
2003 Ladiesʼ Classic; Action This Day, 2003 Juvenile winner; Reraise,
1998 Sprint champion, and Shared Account, winner of 2010 Filly &
Mare Turf. The son was connected with Beholder, 2012 Juvenile Fillies
champ, and Court Vision, winner of the 2011 Mile.
• Bongo Racing has been a partnership business for many years,
sometimes having as many as 20 horses in training. These days, the
elder Feld generally buys only one yearling each year and sends them
eventually to the racetrack. Among Bongoʼs trainers: Jeff Mullins,
David Hofmans, Jorge Periban and Ellis.
• Among Bob Feldʼs bloodstock clients are Amerman Racing Stable and
Sagamore Farms.
• Bob Feld has been a student of the game from a young age. His early
memories include discussing the weekendʼs races every Monday
morning with his fourth grade teacher. He bought his first racehorse
before he had his driverʼs license and has been directly involved with
horse racing for more than 25 years.
• Bobʼs vast experience in the industry includes stints as an assistant
trainer, jockey agent and public newspaper handicapper and as the
liaison-director of California Thoroughbred Trainers.
• Bongoʼs management team also includes Chris Closson, vice
president, of Temecula, Calif. Closson formerly worked for bloodstock
agent Albert Yank and put together partnerships on his own before
joining Bongo.
Trainer
Ron Ellis ... Born: March 10, 1960, in Glendale, Calif. ... Residence:
Arcadia, Calif. ... Family: wife Amy, sister of Churchill Downs-based
trainer Paul McGee, and Daily Racing Form correspondent Marty McGee;
daughters Elizabeth, Laura and Christine ... Elizabeth is a graduate of
Chapman University, has worked as the in-house simulcast hostess at
Golden Gate Fields, and now heads up a news and feature show each
morning for the NBC television affiliate in Rapid City, N.D. Her show
leads into the national Morning Show on network TV. Elizabeth is
longtime girlfriend of jockey Joe Talamo.
Starts 1st
2nd
4
0
1
1997
2012
3rd
1
Sprint
Dirt Mile
Filly & Mare Sprint
Ladies' Classic
Earnings
$444,080
Exotic Wood
Rail Trip
Teddyʼs Promise
Include Me Out
4th
2nd
8th
3rd
Quick facts about Ron Ellis:
• While not as good as last year when he had three automatic qualifiers,
Ellis will start Centralinteligence, who took the “Win and Youʼre In”
Triple Bend Handicap (G1), in the Breedersʼ Cup Dirt Mile and Teddyʼs
Promise in the Breedersʼ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint for the second
straight year ... Following her eighth-place finish in the Breedersʼ Cup
last year, Teddyʼs Promise has emerged as the stable star in 2013 by
winning three stakes.
• Was king of the Breedersʼ Cup Challenge program during the 2012 Del
Mar racing season by winning three “Win and Your In” races – the San
Diego Handicap with Rail Trip, the Clement Hirsch Stakes with Include
Me Out and the Del Mar Handicap with Casino Host. The victories
made them eligible for the Dirt Mile, Ladiesʼ Classic (now Distaff) and
Turf, respectively. Include Me Out finished third in Ladiesʼ Classic and
Rail Trip finished second in the Dirt Mile, while Casino Host did not
start.
• Success with Rail Trip was particularly gratifying to the trainer since
the horse was returned to him by Jay Em Ess Stableʼs Samantha
Siegel after he was taken from Ellisʼ barn in 2010 and sent to trainer
Rick Dutrow by Siegelʼs late father, Mace, after Rail Trip was beaten
as the odds-on favorite in the Hollywood Gold Cup, a race he won in
2009 to give Ellis his biggest career victory.
• Jay Em Ess remains Ellisʼ chief client with approximately 12 horses in
training with him. Mary and Gary West have seven with him.
• Serves as Southern California Vice-President of California
Thoroughbred Trainers (CTT), elected to the post in July 2012 after
being elected to the Board of Directors in July 2011.
• Active at sales and advised Hughes on purchase of 2003 Breedersʼ
Cup Juvenile winner and champion Action This Day, trained by
Richard Mandella.
• Ellis trained Buzzards Bay to wins in the G2 Oaklawn Handicap in
2006 and Californian in 2007 …Other graded stakes winners include
Blue Moon, Lexa, Benchmark, Timeless Answer, Malabar Gold and
Shake The Yoke ...Trains 40 horses in Southern California, based
mostly at Hollywood Park. Joe Sacco is his chief assistant ... Ellis is a
member of the board of the California Thoroughbred Trainers (CTT)
and a former board member of the Thoroughbred Owners of California
(TOC).
races outside California ... Twice the Vice was a winner of four Grade
1 races in 1996, including the Apple Blossom at Oaklawn Park. Exotic
Wood, fourth in the 1997 Breedersʼ Cup Sprint, had grade 1 wins in
the Santa Maria and Santa Monica Handicaps at Santa Anita and the
Go For Wand at Saratoga. She has been Ellisʼ only Breedersʼ Cup
starter to date ... In the same race, his brother-in-law, Paul McGee,
saddled Bet On Sunshine, who ran third.
• Trained 2004 2-year-old champion male Declanʼs Moon, undefeated in
his first five starts including the G1 Hollywood Futurity before being
injured while on the Kentucky Derby trail ... Has had two Kentucky
Derby starters, both owned by B. Wayne Hughes: Atswhatimtalknbout
(fourth to Funny Cide in 2003) and Donʼt Get Mad (fourth to Giacomo
in 2005) … Minority owners in Atswhatimtalkinabout included
filmmakers Steven Spielberg and Gary Ross, principals in filming
“Seabiscuit.”
• In 1980, at age 20, Ellis saddled his first winner, To B. Or Not, in the
Carlsbad Stakes. To B. Or Not went on to win seven added-money
races and set two track records in a three-year span for Ellis. “Larry
first had him at 3 and won some races with him, but his owner, Carole
Bohm, moved him to another trainer at 4,” recalled Ellis. “He wouldnʼt
run for the other trainer and Larry wouldnʼt take him back when she
asked him, so I asked her if I could train him while still assisting Larry.”
• Has saddled Grade 1 winners Pirateʼs Revenge, I Ainʼt Bluffing,
Pharma and Key Phrase, but the two mares that put him on the map
were Twice the Vice and Exotic Wood when they won grade 1 stakes
• Was introduced to racing at age 16 when he went to the races with a
neighbor and some friends who owned horses ... On-track experience
came from working for trainer Larry Sterling when Sterling had Vigors
as a 2-year-old and developed him into a top older handicap horse.
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EASTER GIFT
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Owner: ROBERT V. LAPENTA
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$256,270
$301,896
$558,166
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HARD SPUN,
b, 2004
EASTER GIFT
b, c
April 13, 2009
ANGEL GIFT,
b, 1998
Northern Dancer, 1961
18s, SW, $580,647
Danzig, 1977
636 f, 147 SW, 5.10 AEI
3s, wnr, $32,400
1,074 f, 202 SW, 3.97 AEI Pas de Nom, 1968
42s, SW, $121,741
11 f, 8 r, 4 w
Turkoman, 1982
22s, SW, $2,146,924
Turkish Tryst, 1991
683 f, 34 SW, 1.21 AEI
15s, SW, $84,362
Darbyvail, 1984
7 f, 5 r, 5 w, 2 SW
13s, wnr, $38,700
4 f, 4 r, 3 w, 1 SW
Mr. Prospector, 1970
14s, SW, $112,171
Allen's Prospect, 1982
1,178 f, 181 SW, 3.98 AEI
7s, wnr, $56,100
1,049 f, 69 SW, 1.29 AEI Change Water, 1969
12s, wnr, $3,490
12 f, 10 r, 9 w, 1 SW
Whiskey Road, 1972
4s, wnr, $2,154
Whiskey's Gift, 1985
497 f, 24 SW, 2.91 AEI
8s, wnr, $20,514
Giftisa, 1974
7 f, 6 r, 6 w, 3 SW
2s, wnr
6 f, 3 r, 3 w, 1 SW
Nearctic
Natalma
Admiral's Voyage
Petitioner
Alydar
Taba
Roberto
Luiana
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Swaps
Portage
Nijinsky II
Bowl of Flowers
Rich Gift
Wahkeena
EASTER GIFT'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 3
7
3(1)
1(1)
1
$301,896
at 4
6
3(1)
2(1)
0
$256,270
Lifetime
13
6(2)
3(2)
1
$558,166
Sire: HARD SPUN, b, 2004. Raced 2 yrs, 13 sts, 7 wins, $2,673,470. Won King's Bishop S (gr. I), Lane's
End S (gr. II), Kentucky Cup Classic S (gr. II), LeComte S (gr. III), Port Penn S, Pennsylvania Nursery
S (R); 2nd Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), Breeders' Cup Classic Powered by
Dodge (gr. I), Haskell Invitational S (gr. I); 3rd Preakness S (gr. I).
1st dam: ANGEL GIFT, b, 1998. Bred by Allen E. Paulson (Ky.). Raced 4 yrs, 25 sts, 5 wins, $364,524.
Won Golden Poppy H, twice; 2nd Clement L. Hirsch H (gr. II), Royal Heroine S (gr. IIIT), Paseana H;
3rd Bayakoa H (gr. II), Paseana H, Piedra Foundation H (R). Dam of 7 named foals, 6 rnrs, 4 wnrs,
1 sw. ($70,000, 1999 keesep yrlg).
2005: Wings of an Angel, dkb/br f, by Cherokee Run. Raced 3 yrs, 19 sts, 2 wins, $99,815.
2nd Prairie Rose S.
2006: Delahoosee, dkb/br g, by Touch Gold. Raced 3 yrs, 8 sts, 1 win, $62,780. Died 2010.
2007: Groovitude, dkb/br f, by Dixie Union. Raced 2 yrs, 12 sts, 4 wins, $91,019. ($240,000
keesep yrlg).
2008: Judge Fox, dkb/br c, by Forest Wildcat. ($80,000 keesep yrlg). Died 2010.
2009: EASTER GIFT, b c, by Hard Spun. ($90,000 keesep yrlg).
At 3: Won Smarty Jones S (gr. III); 2nd Pegasus S (gr. III).
At 4: Won Mountainview H; 2nd Alydar S.
2010: Raider Power, b g, by Indian Charlie. Raced 1 yr, 1 st, 0 wins, $4,500. ($130,000 keesep yrlg).
2011: Gift Exchange, ch c, by Exchange Rate. Raced 1 yr, 2 sts, 0 wins, $11,880.
2012: Dkb/br f, by More Than Ready.
Inbreeding: 5SX5D Native Dancer; 3SX5D Northern Dancer; 5SX4D Raise a Native.
Nicking: HARD SPUN w/ALLEN'S PROSPECT mares: 1 foal, 1 str, 1 wnr (100%), 0 2yo wnrs
(0%), 1 SW (100%), 1 GSW (100%)
Broodmare sire: Allen's Prospect, b, 1982-2003. Sire of 343 dams of 1,318 foals, 981 rnrs (74%),
2nd dam: Whiskey's Gift (Aus), b, 1985. Bred by Georgopoulos (Aus.). Raced 2 yrs in Aus and NA, 8
sts, 1 win, $20,514. Dam of JARF (g, Mt. Livermore; $521,705. Won Kelso S; 2nd R.R.M. Carpenter
Jr. Memorial S; 3rd Red Dog S), EASY MILLION (c, Jade Hunter; $323,253. Won Bull Dog S; 2nd
Berkeley H, gr. III; 3rd Alamedan H).
Breeder
Ward Williford ... Born: Dec. 22, 1942 in Houston, Texas ... Residence:
Dallas, Texas ... Family: Wife Ro (Roberta), who is the co-breeder with
him; daughter, Anne; sons James and Bo; eight grandchildren, one
great-grandchild ... Education: Received his bachelorʼs degree in
business administration from Texas Tech University and his Juris Doctor
from the University of Texas law school.
Quick facts about Ward Williford:
• 2013 Dirt Mile contender Easter Gift, whom Williford bred with his wife
Ro, will be their first Breedersʼ Cup entrant as either an owner or
breeder. “Itʼs very exciting and weʼd love to be there, but we didnʼt
think he would be running so we wrote it off. We have a granddaughter
getting married right before then so our focus has been on the
wedding and we decided not to go,” he said. “Then we heard that
Chad Brown said the horse is going, and now weʼre trying to decide.
We love Santa Anita, where we have our horses in training, and weʼll
see what we can do.”
• The Willifords have been in the racing game for 34 years after claiming
their first mare. They started breeding 30 years ago when they decided
not to sell Grey Reliance after her racing career ended and kept her as
a broodmare. Now they always try to keep a mare or two rather than
sell them after their racing shoes come off for the last time. “We
always boarded them with the Bell family, with whom we are close, at
Jonabell Farm in Kentucky, but since the farm was sold we now send
them to Cobra Farm,” he said. Easter Giftʼs dam Angel Gift, is currently
in foal to Candy Ride. He is the best foal and only graded stakes
winner she has produced.
• The Willifords keep most of the horses they breed, but economics
dictate that some are destined for the sales ring. “Wouldnʼt you know
that Easter Gift was one of the ones we sold? He was a nice looking
colt so we decided it was time to get some cash flow. Weʼre hoping for
the best that we get some more like him,” Williford said. The son of
2007 Breedersʼ Cup Classic runner-up Hard Spun was purchased for
$90,000 at the 2010 Kentucky September Yearling sale.
• The Willifords, who are multiple graded stakes winning owners,
currently have four horses with trainer Tom Proctor at his Southern
California base and they now race one horse in partnership with trainer
Simon OʼCallaghan.
• After practicing real estate law in Texas, Williford went into the title
company business and he is the vice chairman of Republic Title, which
is a wholly owned subsidiary of First American Title Insurance
Company. It is the largest title company in Texas and the top national
commercial escrow title operation in the country. Republic Title
employs 450 people at its offices throughout the Dallas-Ft. Worth
metroplex ... He also has served on the board of directors for the
Texas Tech Foundation since 2007 and both of his sons also are
alumni of the university.
Owner
Robert V. LaPenta ... Born: Aug. 20, 1945, Yonkers, N.Y. ... Residence:
Westport, Conn. ... Family: wife Laurie Winters and son Robert LaPenta
Jr.
Starts 1st
2nd
6
1
0
2005
2006
2007
2010
2011
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Dirt Mile
Classic
Sprint
3rd
1
Earnings
$1,335,700
Superfly
CP West
War Pass
Cool Coal Man
Ice Box
Jackson Bend
5th
6th
1st
4th
8th
3rd
Quick facts about Robert V. LaPenta:
• LaPenta has owned six Breedersʼ Cup starters and won the 2007
Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile with War Pass. His most recent starters came
in 2011 when Jackson Bend ran third in the Sprint and Ice Box finished
eighth in the Classic at Churchill Downs.
• LaPenta made his Breedersʼ Cup debut at Belmont Park in 2005,
when Superfly was fifth in the Juvenile. His other Breedersʼ Cup
starters came with C P West, who was sixth in the 2006 Juvenile, and
Cool Coal Man, fourth in the 2010 Dirt Mile, both at Churchill Downs.
• After retiring Jackson Bend to stud duty following his last place finish in
the 2012 Forego at Saratoga, LaPenta and co-owner and breeder
Fred Brei brought the multiple Grade 1 winner back to the races in
2013. Third in the Smile Sprint Handicap (G3) as well as the
Housebuster Stakes in Florida, he rallied to finish a strong second in
the Forego (G1).
• In the summer of 2013, LaPenta purchased a 50 percent interest in
Lunarwarfare, who ran third in the Hopeful (G1) at Saratoga Race
Course, from Michael Yates, who also is the trainer. Lunarwarfare is a
juvenile son of War Pass, out of the Silver Ghost mare Lunar Star.
• Earlier in 2013, LaPenta bought into multiple graded stakes winning
millionaire Jeranimo, who is based on the West Coast with trainer Mike
Pender. A 7-year-old son of Congaree, Jeranimo won the Eddie Read
(G1) in July and the San Gabriel (G2) in January, and also won the
Shoemaker Mile (G1) in June 2012.
• LaPentaʼs 2012 graded stakes wins included Jackson Bendʼs victory in
the Carter Handicap (G1), where he defeated Calebʼs Posse and
Shackleford, and Easter Gift in the Smarty Jones Stakes (G3) at Parx
Racing.
• His 2011 stable was headed by Dialed In, who won the Holy Bull
Stakes (G3) and Florida Derby (G1) and was sent off as the betting
favorite in the Kentucky Derby. Dialed In was eighth in the Kentucky
Derby and then fourth in the Preakness. Had Dialed In won the
Preakness he would have netted LaPenta and trainer Nick Zito a $5.5
million bonus from MI Developments, which owns Gulfstream Park and
Pimlico. He also won the Forego (G1) with Jackson Bend.
• In 2010, LaPenta won the Florida Derby (G1) with Ice Box, who then
finished second in the Kentucky Derby but was ninth as the betting
favorite in the Belmont Stakes. Jackson Bend was third in the
Preakness and second in the Wood Memorial (G1), Fountain of Youth
(G2) and Holy Bull (G3).
• War Pass was named the champion 2-year-old of 2007. Winner of the
2007 Champagne Stakes (G1), War Pass failed to regain his
championship form at three. Following a second-place finish in the
Wood Memorial, a fractured sesamoid was detected in his left front leg
that eventually ended his racing career. A $180,000 yearling buy, War
Pass was retired to stud at Laneʼs End in Kentucky with career
earnings of more than $1.5 million. War Pass died in Dec. 2010 of
unknown causes as a necropsy was inconclusive.
• Despite losing what he thought was his best shot for a Triple Crown
victory in War Pass, LaPenta found himself in the winnerʼs circle after
the unheralded Daʼ Tara captured the 2008 Belmont Stakes at 38-1
odds. That same year he won the Fountain of Youth with Cool Coal
Man and finished second in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational with Coal
Play.
• Andromedaʼs Hero was second for LaPenta in the 2005 Belmont
Stakes.
• The Cliffʼs Edge won the Blue Grass Stakes (G1) for LaPenta in 2004
and then was the morning-line favorite for the Kentucky Derby where
he finished fifth. The Cliffʼs Edge, who was second in the 2004
Travers, is now a stallion at Margaux Farm in Kentucky. In 2010,
LaPenta became the sponsor for the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs,
with the race becoming The Cliffʼs Edge Derby Trial in honor of one of
LaPentaʼs best horses.
• Was introduced to racing as a youth by his mother, and first became
an owner in 1998 as a partner with University of Louisville basketball
coach Rick Pitino. He started his own stable in 2001, purchasing eight
yearlings for $895,000 in the name of Whitehorse Stables.
• Active as both a buyer and seller at sales, he purchased a Fusaichi
Pegasus colt (later named Fusaichi Samurai) for $270,000 at the 2003
Saratoga yearling sale and then sold him for $4.5 million at the
Fasig-Tipton Calder sale in Feb. 2004, a record price for a 2-year-old
in training. Also bought a Dixie Union colt for $160,000 as a weanling
and sold him for $1.3 million at the 2004 Keeneland September
yearling sale.
• Also sold many successful horses at 2-year-old in training sales,
including Zavata, Pomeroy, Court Vision and Stay Thirsty, winner of
the 2011 Travers.
• A member of Iona Collegeʼs Board of Trustees, LaPenta donated $7
million toward the construction of the collegeʼs LaPenta Student Union
Building. LaPentaʼs silks are maroon and gold, in honor of his alma
mater.
• He enjoys skiing and golf. LaPenta owns a residence in Deer Valley,
Utah, and is a member of Winged Foot Golf Club in Westchester
County, N.Y. He also golfs frequently in Naples, Fla., during the winter
months.
assets until he sold L-1 Indentity Solutions in July 2011. Formerly,
LaPenta had worked as a vice president of Lockheed Martin
Corporation.
• Founding General Partner of Aston Capital, LLC. LaPenta was
chairman of the board, president and CEO of L-1 Identity Solutions, a
provider of solutions and services that protect personal identities and
• LaPenta earned a B.A. in accounting from Iona College, and later
received a Doctor of Humane Letters Degree, honoris causa, from
Iona in 2000.
Trainer
Chad Brown ... Born: Dec. 18, 1978 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ...
Residence: Saratoga Springs, N.Y. ... Family: Wife Terrill, daughters
Ava and Andi ... Education: Degree in animal science, Cornell
University, 2001.
Starts 1st
2nd
13
2
2
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
3rd
1
Earnings
$2,622,400
Juvenile Fillies Turf Maram
Filly & Mare Turf Maram
Turf Sprint
Silver Timber
Turf Sprint
Silver Timber
Filly & Mare Turf Stacelia
Juvenile Fillies Turf Dayatthespa
Juvenile Turf
Fantastic Song
Distaff
Awesome Feather
Filly & Mare Turf Zagora
Juvenile Fillies Turf Whatsdachances (IRE)
Juvenile Turf
Balance the Books
Juvenile Turf
Noble Tune
Turf Sprint
Corporate Jungle
Quick facts about Chad Brown:
1st
6th
6th
5th
10th
9th
10th
6th
1st
2nd
3rd
2nd
6th
• On Aug. 17, 2013, Brown accomplished an impressive Grade 1 turf
double, winning the Sword Dancer Invitational Handicap at Saratoga
with Big Blue Kitten and the Arlington Million at Arlington Park with
Real Solution. The Arlington Million victory came on the disqualification
of The Apache for bumping in the stretch. “It was an incredible day for
our stable. One of those days that youʼll never forget,” Brown says.
“Hopefully we can do it again at some point in time.” The Sword
Dancer and the Arlington Million were “Win and Youʼre In” races and
both horses qualified for the Breedersʼ Cup Turf.
• Real Solution and Big Blue Kitten head a lineup of nearly a dozen
horses that Brown could have at the 30th Breedersʼ Cup in 2013.
Candidates for that group include Bobbyʼs Kitten and Shadow Banking
for the Juvenile Turf; Testa Rossi. Ready to Act, Granny Mcʼs Kitten
and Kitten Kaboodle in the Juvenile Fillies Turf; and Easter Gift in the
Dirt. Last Gunfigther is being considered for the Dirt Mile and the
Marathon and Summer Applause is a possibility for the Distaff.
Bobbyʼs Kitten won the Pilgrim (G3) and Testa Rossi won the Miss
Grillo (G3) at Belmont Park and Kitten Kaboodle won the Jessamine
(G3) at Keeneland, all “Win and Youʼre In” races, giving Brown five
automatic qualifiers.
• Brown won with the first Breedersʼ Cup horse he started, Maram in the
2008 Juvenile Fillies Turf. She died in Sept. 2012 at age six of what
was called “an acute illness.” In 2009, Maram finished sixth in the Filly
and Mare Turf and Silver Timber finished sixth in the Turf Sprint. Silver
Timber was back the following year, finishing fifth in the same race. In
2011, Brown had three Breedersʼ Cup starters: Dayatthespa in the
Juvenile Fillies Turf (G2, 9th), Stacelita in the Filly and Mare Turf (G1,
10th), and Fantastic Song in the Juvenile Turf (G1, 10th).
• Brown is from Mechanicville, a small city with a population of 5,196 in
2010 on the banks of the Hudson River about 17 miles southeast of
Saratoga Springs. He grew up going to historic Saratoga Race Course
with his family and became interested in horses and the sport. To this
day, Brownʼs father heads to the same picnic table in the backyard
every time he goes to the track; Brown occasionally joins him there to
handicap his horsesʼ races, taking advantage of the more relaxed
atmosphere.
• While in high school, Brown began working with harness horses at
Saratoga Raceway. He took the next step toward what has become
his career by spending his college summers and the year following his
graduation from Cornell working for Hall of Fame trainer Shug
McGaughey. “I grew up breaking and training Standardbreds,” he
says, “but always wanted to be with the Thoroughbreds. I liked the way
Shug won big races, and he had so many good, quality horses; I was
lucky enough that he took me in when I approached him. I started out
hot-walking, then grooming and worked my way up to a foreman.”
• Brown then spent five years working for another Hall of Famer, the late
Bobby Frankel, splitting his time between southern California and
Saratoga. He went on to oversee Frankelʼs divisions in Kentucky,
Monmouth Park and Gulfstream Park and got hands-on experience
working with Frankel-trained luminaries such as Ghostzapper,
Intercontinental, Empire Maker, Ginger Punch, and Medaglia dʼOro. “I
was at the point where I needed to grow into an assistant, and Shugʼs
operation was smaller and there was no room for that,” he said. “Going
to work for Bobby was the best thing that ever happened to me. I got
to deal with so many good horses and so many good owners. He sent
me everywhere – Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, Monmouth Park, and
Churchill Downs. I learned so much from him, it was like the graduate
school of racing. It was really hard to leave. I talked to him about it and
told him the only way I would go was if he was willing to help me. Itʼs
fitting that one of the last things I did was to saddle Ginger Punch to
win the Breedersʼ Cup Distaff [at Monmouth in 2007, when Frankel
stayed in California with his terminally ill dog]. Iʼd been there all
summer, and I was really close to that mare. Iʼm honored that Bobby
trusted me with her.”
• Brown went out on his own in Nov. 2007, shortly after the Breedersʼ
Cup. His first winner came later that month at Churchill Downs: Dual
Jewels, in a $10,000 claimer. Dual Jewels was claimed from Brownʼs
small stable in that race. Brown made the move after getting married,
when he decided it was time to return to New York on a more
permanent basis. His wife, Terrill, also is from New York; sheʼs the
granddaughter of trainer William “Red” Terrill.
• In 2008, his first full year of training, Brownʼs initial application for stalls
at Saratoga was turned down. He did land a few stalls before the meet
started and won with his first starter at his home track – with Star
Player in the first race on opening day. That year he picked up his first
stakes winners, all in listed stakes. Brown got his first graded stakes
win in July 2009 when Silver Timber won the Jaipur (G3) at Belmont
Park. Silver Timber also won the Woodford Stakes (G3) in Oct. 2009.
• Silver Timber continued to be the big horse in Brownʼs barn through
2010, winning four stakes races, including a repeat in the Woodford.
• The 2011 season was Brownʼs breakthrough year: his stable reached
the $5 million plateau in purse earnings and he won his first Grade 1 in
July. Fittingly, that milestone came at Saratoga when Zagora captured
the Diana, a race won by Bobby Frankel in 2001 and 2002. Brown said
at the time that the win was especially meaningful for that reason. He
won three other Grade 1 races that year: the Beverly D. and Flower
Bowl with Stacelita and the Gazelle with Awesome Feather.
• In 2012, Brown got off to a hot start at Saratoga, holding the lead in
the trainer standings in the early part of the meet. He would eventually
finish second with 29 wins to Todd Pletcherʼs 36. This year also saw
Brown start his first horse in a Triple Crown race when Street Life
finished fourth in the Belmont Stakes. Street Life went on to win the
Curlin at Saratoga; he was injured in the Travers Stakes and
subsequently retired.
• Brown enjoyed a very successful Breedersʼ Cup weekend in 2012. He
saddled Zagora to win the Fillies and Mare Turf; had a pair of seconds
with Whatsdachanches in the Juvenile Fillies Turf and Noble Tune in
the Juvenile Turf; and Balance the Books was third in the Juvenile
Turf. Zagoraʼs victory capped a championship season for which she
received the Eclipse Award for outstanding Female Turf Horse. The
Brown-trained Stacelita won the 2011 Eclipse as the champion female
turf horse.
• The victories in the Arlington Million and the Sword Dancer have been
high points in a dynamic 2013 season in which Brown had won graded
stakes with 12 different horses by Oct. 9 ... One of Brownʼs
best-known runners in 2013 is Fox Hill Farmʼs Normandy Invasion, his
first Kentucky Derby starter. Normandy Invasion was second in the
Wood Memorial (G1) and was fourth in the Derby. Injuries have kept
the colt out the races since the Derby, but he is scheduled to return to
Brownʼs stable in November.
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FED BIZ e
B.c.4 Giant's Causeway - Spunoutacontrol by Wild Again
Bred in Kentucky by COLTS NECK STABLES LLC (Feb 25, 2009)
25Aug13 Dmr7
20Jul13 Dmr8
27May13 Bel10
06Apr13 SA6
02Mar13 SA9
02Feb13 SA8
12Jan13 SA7
26Dec12 SA8
03Nov12 SA6
06Oct12 Hoo12
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Trainer: BOB BAFFERT
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2012:
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2 Oct 13 SA 4F ft :47.4h 6/39
1
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1
1
0
0
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1
3
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1
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$356,040
$148,156
$540,496
$69,540
$182,650
$53,106
4wd into str,up late
inside,wkened late
overland,folded
fought back rail lane
came out str,willingly
tight early,3w bid str
fought back rail,game
off bit slow,no rally
btw early,no response
duel 2w,gamely,hung
12
9
9
9
8
6
9
9
9
11
GIANT'S
CAUSEWAY,
ch, 1997
FED BIZ
b, c
February 25,
2009
SPUNOUTA
CONTROL,
dkb/br, 1996
Storm Bird, 1978
6s, SW, $162,869
Storm Cat, 1983
681 f, 63 SW, 2.27 AEI
8s, SW, $570,610
1,414 f, 180 SW, 2.97 AEI Terlingua, 1976
17s, SW, $423,896
11 f, 9 r, 6 w, 2 SW
Rahy, 1985
13s, SW, $343,386
Mariah's Storm, 1991
1,129 f, 95 SW, 2.24 AEI
16s, SW, $724,895
Immense, 1979
10 f, 9 r, 7 w, 2 SW
28s, SW, $123,324
6 f, 6 r, 5 w, 3 SW
Icecapade, 1969
32s, SW, $256,468
Wild Again, 1980
565 f, 73 SW, 2.36 AEI
28s, SW, $2,204,829
Bushel-n-Peck, 1958
943 f, 88 SW, 2.22 AEI
23s, SW, $98,550
12 f, 9 r, 8 w, 1 SW
14s, SW, $112,171
Yarn, 1987
1,178 f, 181 SW, 3.98 AEI
6s, wnr, $19,108
Narrate, 1980
6 f, 5 r, 5 w, 3 SW
27s, SW, $188,856
11 f, 7 r, 7 w, 1 SW
Northern Dancer
South Ocean
Secretariat
Crimson Saint
Blushing Groom
Glorious Song
Roberto
Imsodear
Nearctic
Shenanigans
Khaled
Dama II
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Honest Pleasure
State
FED BIZ'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2
2
1
0
0
$36,300
at 3
5
2(1)
0
1(1)
$148,156
at 4
7
2(2)
1(1)
2(2)
$356,040
Lifetime
14
5(3)
1(1)
3(3)
$540,496
Sire: GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, ch, 1997. Raced 2 yrs in Eng, Fr, Ire, and NA, 13 sts, 9 wins, $3,078,989.
Horse of the Year in Eur, Champion 3yo colt in Eng, Ire. Won Esat Digifone Irish Champion S
(Ire-I), Juddmonte International S (Eng-I), Coral-Eclipse S (Eng-I), Champagne Lanson Sussex S
(Eng-I), St. James's Palace S (Eng-I), Prix de la Salamandre (Fr-I), King of Kings E.B.F. Futurity
S (Ire-III), Castlemartin and La Louviere Studs Gladness S (Ire-III); 2nd Sagitta Two Thousand
Guineas (Eng-I), Entenmanns Irish Two Thousand Guineas (Ire-I), Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I),
Queen Elizabeth II S (Eng-I).
Lifetime: 10 crops, 1,882 foals, 1,310 rnrs (70%), 806 wnrs (43%), 162 2yo wnrs (9%), 146 sw (8%),
1.86 AEI, 2.73 CI, 829 sale yrlgs, avg $221,909, 4.6 TNA.
1st dam: SPUNOUTACONTROL, dkb/br, 1996. Bred by Indian Creek Farm (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs, 5 sts, 4
wins, $86,405. Won Singing Beauty S (R). Dam of 7 named foals, 4 rnrs, 4 wnrs, 2 sw.
2002: SPUN SILK, dkb/br f, by A.P. Indy. Raced 2 yrs, 7 sts, 2 wins, $65,750. Won Ride Sally S (R).
Dam of 4 foals, 3 rnrs, 1 wnr. Sent to Eng 2004.
2003: Whichwaydidshego, dkb/br f, by Storm Cat. Raced 1 yr, 4 sts, 1 win, $32,420. Dam of 3
foals, 3 rnrs, 1 wnr.
2004: Dkb/br c, by Storm Cat. Died 2005.
2005: Barren.
2006: Rally Cat, dkb/br c, by Storm Cat. ($1,200,000 keesep yrlg). Died 2009.
2007: Dkb/br c, by Storm Cat. Died 2007.
2008: Weave It to Me, b c, by Bernardini. Raced 3 yrs, 17 sts, 3 wins, $72,990.
2009: FED BIZ, b c, by Giant's Causeway. ($950,000 keesep yrlg).
At 3: Won El Cajon S; 3rd Indiana Derby (gr. II).
At 4: Won Pat O'Brien S (gr. II, NTR, Dmr, 7 furlongs in 1:21.12); San Fernando S (gr. II); 2nd
Thunder Road S (T); 3rd Frank E. Kilroe Mile S (gr. IT), Strub S (gr. II).
2010: Always Trouble, b f, by Bernardini. Unraced.
2011: Spunderful, dkb/br f, by Medaglia d'Oro. Unraced.
2012: Barren.
2013: Barren.
Inbreeding: 5SX4D Nearctic.
Nicking: GIANT'S CAUSEWAY w/WILD AGAIN mares: 3 foals, 3 strs, 3 wnrs (100%), 1 2yo
wnr (33%), 2 SW (67%), 1 GSW (33%).
Broodmare sire: WILD AGAIN, dkb/br, 1980-2008. Sire of 425 dams of 2,309 foals, 1,687 rnrs (73%),
1,161 wnrs (50%), 305 2yo wnrs (13%), 1.25 AEI, 1.37 CI; 105 sw.
2nd dam: Yarn, dkb/br, 1987. Bred by Claiborne Farm (Ky.). Raced 1 yr, 6 sts, 1 win, $19,108. Dam
of MINARDI (c, Boundary; $291,017, Champion 2yo colt in Ire, Eng. Won Independent Heinz 57
Phoenix S, Ire-I, Middle Park S, Eng-I; 3rd Entenmanns Irish Two Thousand Guineas, Ire-I; sire in
Aus), TALE OF THE CAT (c, Storm Cat; $360,900. Won King's Bishop S, gr. II; 2nd Whitney H, gr. I;
3rd Vosburgh S, gr. I twice; sire). Granddam of JOHANNESBURG, Grand Admiral.
Breeder
Richard Santulli ... Born: Brooklyn, N.Y. ... Residence: Red Bank, N.J.
... Family: Married with four children.
Quick facts about Richard Santulli:
• Santulli was involved in several Breedersʼ Cup starters under the
banner of Jayeff B Stable, which raced through 2010... Santulliʼs
horses now race under his own name ... Santulliʼs best horse was
Safely Kept, who won the 1990 Breedersʼ Cup Sprint … Inducted into
Racingʼs Hall of Fame in 2010, Safely Kept was second in the 1989
Breedersʼ Cup Sprint and won 12 graded stakes in her career and
earned $2,194,206 for Jayeff B, Barry Weisbord and Robert
Masterson.
• Jayeff B also owned a share of Breedersʼ Cup starters Banshee
Breeze, who was runner-up in the 1998 and 1999 Breedersʼ Cup
Distaff; Wonder Again, who was fourth in the 2005 Breedersʼ Cup Filly
and Mare Turf; and Navesink, who was fifth in the 2001 Breedersʼ Cup
Mile ... In partnership with Wayne Lyster III, Jayeff B also bred
Johannesburg, winner of the 2001 Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile and that
yearʼs champion 2-year-old male.
• Santulliʼs 2013 stable features Breedersʼ Cup Filly and Mare Turf
candidates Laughing, winner of the 2013 Diana (G1), Ballston Spa
(G2)and Eatontown (G3), and Sheepshead Bay (G2) winner Tannery
... Other 2013 stakes winners include Sensible Lady, who captured the
Buckland and The Very One.
• Santulli owns Colts Neck Stable in Colts Neck, N.J., which bred 2013
Preakness winner Oxbow ... Colts Neck also was the breeder of In
Lingerie, who became a Grade 1 winner with her win in the 2012
Spinster, and also captured the Black-Eyed Susan (G2).
• Santulliʼs list of stakes winners also includes Jules, Straight Story, Cat
Chat, Ciro, Danish, and Strike a Deal.
• He is currently president and CEO of Milestone Aviaition ... From 1969
to 1980, Santulli was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs &
Co., where he held various managerial positions, including vice
president of Investment Banking and President of Goldman Sachs
Leasing Corporation … Purchased Executive Jet in 1984 ... Created
the NetJets program, the concept of fractional jet ownership that has
revolutionized the private and corporate business jet marketplace.
Sold the company in 1998 to Berkshire Hathaway for $750 million ...
Santulli resigned as the CEO of NetJets Inc. in Aug. 2009, but stayed
on as a consultant for 12 months.
• In June 2009, Santulli was among those elected to the Breedersʼ
Cupʼs 48-seat board of members and trustees ... He was one of seven
incumbents re-elected and received the highest number of votes. He
was later elected to the Breedersʼ Cupʼs 13-member board of directors
and still serves in that capacity ... Santulli is a former member of the
Board of Trustees of the New York Racing Association ... He became
a member of The Jockey Club in 2002 and served as a steward of the
organization from 2009 until 2013.
• He is chairman of the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which aids
members of the armed forces, veterans and their families, and a
former co-chairman of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
• Santulli, George Prussin and David Orlinsky joined Jules Fink when
the latter founded Jayeff B Stable in the early 1980s. The stableʼs
name came from the phonetic spelling of Finkʼs initials, with a “B”
added to differentiate it from Finkʼs other racing stable.
Owner
Kaleem Shah ... Born: July 6, 1962, in Bellary, India. ... Residence:
Vienna, Va. ... Family: Family: Wife, Lubi, and daughter Sophie and son
Arman. ... Education: BS in electrical engineering from Bangalore
University, India; MS in computer engineering from Clemson University;
MBA in international finance from George Washington University.
Starts 1st
2nd
1
0
0
2011
Dirt Mile
3rd
0
Earnings
$0
Irrefutable
9th
Quick facts about Kaleem Shah:
• Owns Fed Biz, who earned a berth to the Breedersʼ Cup Dirt Mile with
his victory in the Pat OʼBrien S. (G2) at Del Mar. Though eighth in the
2012 Dirt Mile, Fed Biz could improve this year, according to trainer
Bob Baffert, who said, “Heʼs a miler. He was too immature and didnʼt
run well last year. Heʼs more mature now.” Fed Biz cost $950,000 at
the 2010 Keeneland yearling sale. Fed Biz won the 2013 San
Fernando S. (G2) and placed in three other stakes at the Santa Anita
meeting.
• Other 2013 runners include Sweet Marini, who won the Fleet Treat S.
and finished third in the Rancho Bernardo H. (G3) at Del Mar and
second in the Melair S. at Betfair Hollywood Park; Brigand, winner of
the Turnofthecentury S. at Aqueduct; and Manando, third in the
Affirmed H. (G3) at Hollywood.
• Won his first Grade 1 race in 2012 – the Las Virgenes S. at Santa
Anita with Edenʼs Moon. She also won the 2012 San Clemente H. (G2)
at Del Mar, finished second in the Hollywood Oaks (G2) and finished
third in the Santa Anita Oaks (G1) and Indiana Oaks (G2). Trainer Bob
Baffert bought Edenʼs Moon for $390,000 at the 2011 Midlantic
2-year-old sale from breeder Bridlewood Farm. She was the
highest-priced filly in the sale.
• Purchased Take Control, a son of Horses of the Year A.P. Indy and
Azeri, for $1.9 million at the 2009 Keeneland April 2-year-old sale. The
colt was impressive breaking his maiden in early 2010, but developed
shin problems. He returned to the races in 2012, winning an allowance
race and finishing fourth in the San Diego H. (G2). The horse was
preparing for Breedersʼ Cup Marathon when he suffered an injury and
had to be euthanized.
• Irrefutable was Shahʼs first Breedersʼ Cup starter, finishing ninth in the
2011 Dirt Mile. Irrefutable also finished second in the 2011 Ancient
Title S. (G1), Vernon O. Underwood S. (G2) and Smile Sprint H. (G2).
• Has silks in U.S. red, white and blue colors and often uses “American”
and “Patriot” in his horsesʼ names.
• Bought May Day Rose for $220,000 at the 2010 Ocala Breedersʼ
Sales Co. June sale of 2-year-olds and horses of racing age. She won
the 2011 Santa Ysabel S. (G3) and Railbird S. (G3). Also raced
Smash, who finished second in the 2011 Carry Back S. (G2), and
American Story, who finished second in the 2011 Milady H. (G2).
• Purchased Concord Point after he broke his maiden in late 2009.
Concord Point won the 2010 West Virginia Derby (G2) and Iowa Derby
(G3), setting a track record in the latter.
• Met Baffert at the sales, where Baffert began buying horses for him.
Has about 30 horses in training with Baffert.
• Owns about 10 broodmares, which he keeps at Hill ʻNʼ Dale Farms in
Kentucky. Breeds several of his mares to Concord Point, who is now
at stud at Hill ʻNʼ Dale. Has several weanlings by Concord Point out of
such mares as American Story, Star Presence, Blazing Along, and
Musical Rhythm.
• Shah was able to enter the ownership ranks on a small scale in 1996.
He raced horses in Maryland with trainer Jimmy Murphy, elsewhere on
the East Coast with Dale Capuano and a few horses in California with
trainer Doug OʼNeill, including stakes-placed Go On Baby.
• Loved horses and racing since he was a child, when his father,
Majeed, a major trainer in India, won many group 1 and classic races
there, including the Indian Triple Crown with both Bright Hanovar and
Our Select. His uncle, Saeed, won two Indian Derbies. His father kept
him away from the races in India, preferring his children to concentrate
on their education.
• After developing software for the Telenet company, he founded CalNet
in 1989 and is its president. CalNet handles intelligence analysis,
telecommuncations, financial and information technology for its clients,
which include the federal government, the armed forces and state
governments. It is based in Reston, Va., with a branch office in San
Diego.
Trainer
Bob Baffert ... Born: Jan. 13, 1953, Nogales, Ariz. ... Residence:
Arcadia and Del Mar, Calif. ... Family: wife Jill, sons Bode, Taylor,
Canyon and Forest and daughter Savannah. ... Web site:
www.bobbaffert.com
Starts 1st
2nd
76
8
10
1991
1992
1993
1996
1997
1998
1999
3rd
3
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Sprint
Juvenile
Sprint
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Classic
Distaff
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Classic
Classic
Juvenile
2000
Earnings
$12,370,000
Soviet Sojourn
Thirty Slews
Thirty Slews
Zippersup
Criollito (Arg)
Johnbill
Souvenir Copy
Marie J
Vivid Angel
Silver Charm
Silverbulletday
Excellent Meeting
Silverbulletday
General Challenge
River Keen (Ire)
Captain Steve
11th
1st
4th
7th
12th
5th
7th
4th
6th
2nd
6th
2nd
1st
10th
11th
11th
2001
2002
2003
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Mile
Sprint
Classic
Filly & Mare Turf
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Classic
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Classic
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Forest Camp
Chilukki
Tuzla (Fr)
Forestry
Captain Steve
Caffe Latte (Ire)
Arabian Light
Flame Thrower
Point Given
Notable Career
Officer
Habibti
El Corredor
War Emblem
Bull Market
Kafwain
Vindication
Atlantic Ocean
Composure
Santa Catarina
Congaree
Consecrate
Class Above
Victory U. S. A.
6th
2nd
2nd
4th
3rd
9th
5th
8th
2nd
5th
5th
7th
12th
8th
4th
2nd
1st
9th
2nd
3rd
4th
5th
7th
3rd
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile
Sprint
Distaff
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Filly & Mare Sprint
Juvenile
Sprint
Classic
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Classic
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Classic
Dirt Mile
Dirt Mile
Filly & Mare Sprint
Juvenile
Ladies' Classic
Sprint
Roman Ruler
Diamond Omi
Malt Magic
Too Much Bling
Tough Tizʼs Sis
Indian Blessing
Midnight Lute
Indian Blessing
Midshipman
Midnight Lute
Richardʼs Kid
Lookin at Lucky
Always a Princess
Zensational
Lookin at Lucky
AZ Warrior
Gabbyʼs Golden Girl
Game On Dude
Irrefutable
The Factor
Irish Gypsy
Drill
Plum Pretty
Euroears
5th
10th
12th
6th
7th
1st
1st
2nd
1st
1st
6th
2nd
5th
5th
4th
12th
10th
2nd
9th
8th
8th
10th
5th
9th
2012
Classic
Dirt Mile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Marathon
Sprint
Sprint
Sprint
Game on Dude
Fed Biz
Power Broker
Title Contender
Executiveprivilege
Jaycito
Capital Account
Coil
Fast Bullet
7th
8th
5th
8th
2nd
11th
12th
7th
6th
Quick facts about Bob Baffert:
• Baffert is fifth in Breedersʼ Cup earnings with $12,370,000 and a
record of 8-11-3 … He has won the Sprint three times, twice with
champion Midnight Lute (2007-08) and once with Thirty Slews (1992),
the Juvenile Fillies twice with eventual champions Indian Blessing
(2007) and Silverbulletday (1998), the Juvenile twice with Vindication
in 2002 and Midshipman (2008), and the inaugural Juvenile Sprint with
Secret Circle (2011) ... He experienced one of his most disappointing
Breedersʼ Cups in 2012 when out of his 10 starters, the best
performance was a second by Executiveprivilege in the Juvenile
Fillies.
• Four times Baffert has won two legs of the Triple Crown: with Hall of
Fame member Silver Charm (1997 Kentucky Derby and Preakness),
Real Quiet (1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness), Hall of Fame
member Point Given (2001 Preakness and Belmont) and War Emblem
(2002 Kentucky Derby and Preakness) … He won a fifth Preakness
with champion Lookin At Lucky in 2010, tying him for third with T.J.
Healey, one behind D. Wayne Lukas and two behind leader R.W.
Walden.
• In 2012, he ran second in all three legs, with Bodemeister in the Derby
and Preakness and with Paynter in the Belmont.
• With Paynter in 2012, Baffert won his sixth Haskell Invitational (G1) at
Monmouth to break his own record. Paynter returned to victory in 2013
after a life-threatening illness. Baffertʼs earlier Haskell winners were
Coil in 2011, Lookin At Lucky in 2010, Roman Ruler in 2005, War
Emblem in 2002 and Point Given in 2001.
• In 2013, Game On Dude became the second horse to win the Santa
Anita Handicap (G1), Hollywood Gold Cup (G1), and Pacific Classic
(G1) in the same year, joining Lava Man, who did it in 2006. Game On
Dude earned a “Win and Youʼre In” berth to the Breedersʼ Cup Classic
with his Pacific Classic victory.
• In addition to Game On Dudeʼs win in the Pacific Classic, Baffert has
had two other horses earn Breedersʼ Cup berths by taking a “Win and
Your In” race. Fed Biz earned a trip to the Dirt Mile with a victory in the
Pat OʼBrien Stakes (G1) and Book Review reserved a spot in the Filly
& Mare Sprint by winning the A Gleam Handicap (G2) ... Baffert has
also won graded stakes in 2013 with Midnight Lucky,
Fiftyshadesofhay, Fast Bullet, Liaison, Shakin It Up, Flashback, Guilt
Trip, Coil, Govenor Charlie, Sky Kingdom, Code West, and Super
Ninety Nine.
• Game on Dudeʼs Gold Cup victory was Baffertʼs third consecutive win
in the race, following Game On Dude in 2012 and the trainerʼs one-two
finish in 2011 with First Dude and Game On Dude. Baffert earlier won
the Gold Cup in 2002 with Congaree and in 1999 with Real Quiet.
Game On Dude also won the Santa Anita Handicap in 2011, and
Baffert earlier won the race with Misremembered in 2010 and General
Challenge in 2000. Baffert has won three other Pacific Classics (two
with Richardʼs Kid and one with General Challenge).
• Has won a record 11 runnings of the Del Mar Futurity (G1), the most
recent in 2012 with Rolling Fog. That victory also gave Baffert 102
stakes wins at Del Mar, the most of any trainer. He extended that
record to 105 in 2013 by adding the Pacific Classic, Pat OʼBrien S (G2)
with Fed Biz, and Fleet Treat S. with Sweet Marini.
• At Oaklawn Park in 2013, Baffert continued to dominate the trackʼs
3-year-old races with his second straight victory in the Southwest
Stakes with Super Ninety Nine. In 2012, he won the Arkansas Derby
(G1) with Bodemeister, Rebel S. (G2) with Secret Circle and both
divisions of the Southwest S. (G3) with Castaway and Secret Circle.
• In 2012, Baffert suffered a heart attack in Dubai after traveling there to
run Game On Dude in the Dubai World Cup (G1). He had three stents
inserted during a procedure in Dubai after doctors discovered that two
arteries were blocked. Baffert sent a 13-second video of himself from
his hospital bed in Dubai to Daily Racing Form. He returned to the
United States several days later and quickly recovered.
• Won 2011 Kentucky Oaks (G1) with Plum Pretty, his second win in the
race following Hall of Fame member Silverbulletdayʼs victory in 1999.
• Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2009 in just his second year of
eligibility.
• Eclipse Awards as Outstanding Trainer: 1999, 1998, and 1997 … Led
in national earnings four straight years, from 1998-2001. Was second
only to Todd Pletcher in 2012. Through early Sept. 2013, he also was
ranked second to Pletcher in earnings.
• Eclipse Award Champions (11 horses winning 14 titles): Lookin At
Lucky, Midshipman, Indian Blessing, Midnight Lute, Chilukki, Point
Given, Real Quiet, Silverbulletday, Silver Charm, Vindication and War
Emblem … Point Given was named Horse of the Year in 2001.
• Won the 2011 Santa Anita Derby (G1) with Midnight Interlude,
becoming the first trainer in more than half a century to win both the
Santa Anita Derby and Santa Anita Handicap in one year … Also won
the Santa Anita Derby in 2009 with Pioneerof the Nile, 2001 with Point
Given, 1999 with General Challenge, 1998 with Indian Charlie and
1996 with Cavonnier.
• At the 2012-13 Santa Anita winter meeting, Baffert won a record 11th
training title, having also led trainers at the 2012 Santa Anita autumn
meeting … Won his third Hollywood fall title in 2013 following titles in
2001 and 1999 and his second consecutive Hollywood spring/summer
title in 2012 … Leading trainer at the Oak Tree Racing Association
meeting in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2009 and 2010 (the first four at Santa
Anita and the fifth at Hollywood) … Won seven consecutive titles at
Del Mar, from 1997-2003.
• Received the 1997 Mr. Fitz Award from the National Turf Writers
Association and the 1997 Big Sport of Turfdom Award from the Turf
Publicists of America.
• Won the Dubai World Cup (G1) twice: in 1998 with Silver Charm and
in 2001 with Captain Steve.
• Trained four Quarter Horse champions, including 1986 world
champion Gold Coast Express, after beginning his Quarter Horse
training career at Rillito Downs in Tucson and then moving to Los
Alamitos in 1983 ... Won the Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos
in 1986 with Gold Coast Express and in 1988 with Shawneeʼs Favorite
… Made transition to Thoroughbreds during the late 1980s, mostly due
to the encouragement of owners Mike Pegram and Hal Earnhardt. He
gave up his Quarter Horse division in 1991 after recording a stakes
triple in the California Cup during the Oak Tree meet at Santa Anita.
• The fourth of seven children, Baffert grew up on an Arizona cattle
ranch near the Mexican border and got started in the horse business
grooming and galloping Quarter Horses owned by his father … After
graduating from high school in 1971, took a year to pursue his dream
of becoming a jockey. He won 30 races, but grew tired of trying to
maintain jockey weight, so he enrolled in the University of Arizonaʼs
Racetrack Industry Program.
GOLDENCENTS
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Bred in Kentucky by ROSECREST FARM & KARYN PIRRELLO (Mar 07, 2010)
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INTO MISCHIEF,
b, 2005
Harlan's Holiday, 1999
22s, SW, $3,632,664
668 f, 46 SW, 1.63 AEI
Leslie's Lady, 1996
28s, SW, $187,014
9 f, 6 r, 5 w, 2 SW
GOLDENCENTS
b, c
March 7, 2010
Banker's Gold, 1994
15s, SW, $461,420
384 f, 11 SW, 0.96 AEI
GOLDEN
WORKS,
b, 2000
Body Works, 1989
45s, SW, $252,755
6 f, 5 r, 4 w
Harlan, 1989
30s, SW, $403,174
99 f, 6 SW, 2.78 AEI
Christmas in Aiken, 1992
6s, wnr, $31,628
12 f, 11 r, 9 w, 1 SW
Tricky Creek, 1986
37s, SW, $873,288
407 f, 19 SW, 0.96 AEI
Crystal Lady, 1990
6s, wnr, $13,491
12 f, 12 r, 9 w, 1 SW
Forty Niner, 1985
19s, SW, $2,726,000
920 f, 57 SW, 1.97 AEI
Banker's Lady, 1985
10s, SW, $594,297
7 f, 6 r, 4 w, 1 SW
Bold Ruckus, 1976
24s, SW, $201,913
629 f, 65 SW, 2.38 AEI
Kinto, 1980
46s, wnr, $100,220
12 f, 10 r, 9 w, 2 SW
Storm Cat
Country Romance
Affirmed
Dowager
Clever Trick
Battle Creek Girl
Stop the Music
One Last Bird
Mr. Prospector
File
Nijinsky II
Impetuous Gal
Boldnesian
Raise a Ruckus
Kinsman Hope
Where To
GOLDENCENTS' RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2
3
2(1)
1(1)
0
$722,000
at 3
8
2(2)
3(3)
0
$718,000
Lifetime
11
4(3)
4(4)
0
$1,440,000
Sire: INTO MISCHIEF, b, 2005. Raced 2 yrs, 6 sts, 3 wins, $597,080. Won CashCall Futurity (gr. I),
Damascus S; 2nd Malibu S (gr. I), San Vicente S (gr. II), Hollywood Prevue S (gr. III).
Lifetime: 3 crops, 65 foals, 48 rnrs (74%), 25 wnrs (38%), 11 2yo wnrs (17%), 6 sw (9%), 3.08 AEI,
1.06 CI, 67 sale yrlgs, avg $34,472, 0.6 TNA.
1st dam: Golden Works, b, 2000. Bred by K 5 Stables (Man.). Raced 2 yrs, 8 sts, 2 wins, $14,520.
Dam of 2 named foals, 2 rnrs, 2 wnrs, 1 sw. ($7,000, 2007 keejan, Officer).
2006: Thunder Command, ch g, by Hold That Tiger. Raced 3 yrs, 15 sts, 2 wins, $16,351.
2007: Barren.
2008: B c, by Posse.
2009: B f, by Action This Day. ($3,200 ftkoct yrlg).
2010: GOLDENCENTS, b c, by Into Mischief. ($5,500 ftkoct yrlg; $62,000 obsopn 2yo).
At 2: Won Delta Downs Jackpot S (gr. III); 2nd Foxwoods Champagne S (gr. I).
At 3: Won Santa Anita Derby (gr. I), Sham S (gr. III); 2nd Bing Crosby S (gr. I), Santa Anita Sprint
Championship S (gr. I), Pat O'Brien S (gr. II).
2011: Not bred.
2012: Ch c, by Will He Shine.
Nicking: INTO MISCHIEF w/BANKER'S GOLD mares: 1 foal, 1 str, 1 wnr (100%), 1 2yo wnr (100%),
1 SW (100%), 1 GSW (100%).
Broodmare sire: BANKER'S GOLD, ch, 1994-2008. Sire of 59 dams of 140 foals, 91 rnrs (65%), 59
wnrs (42%), 23 2yo wnrs (16%), 1.29 AEI, 1.29 CI; 3 sw.
2nd dam: BODY WORKS, b, 1989. Bred by Philip Kives (Man.). Raced 5 yrs, 45 sts, 18 wins, $252,755.
Won Lady Mannequin H, Queen Alexandra S, Victoria Day S, Winnipeg Sun H, Manitoba Matron S,
Assiniboia Oaks, Canada Day H, Duchess S, Buffalo S (R), Hugh Jackson Memorial H (R) twice, La
Verendrye S (R), R.C. Anderson H (R); 2nd Winnipeg Futurity, Classic S, Manitoba Matron H, Astral
Moon H twice, Duchess S, Canada Day H, Osiris Plate S, Hugh Jackson Memorial H, Pattina S (R);
3rd Manitoba Matron H twice, Winnipeg Sun H, Duchess S, Debutante S, Countess of Dufferin S.
Breeder
Rosecrest Farm and Karyn Pirrello ... Residence: Chuck and Lyra
Miller of Rosecrest: Paris, Ky.
• The Millers follow Goldencentsʼ career closely, but did not travel to his
Derby run, since they didnʼt want his current owners to feel awkwardly.
Quick facts about Rosecrest Farm and Karyn Pirrello:
• Goldencents, who is by Into Mischief, sold for $5,500 as a yearling and
was later a $62,000 2-year-old to a partnership that includes University
of Louisville menʼs basketball coach Rick Pitino; the Millers have been
asked about his sale many times since, and point out that he is from
the first crop of Into Mischief and didnʼt seem especially remarkable at
that age. They say they never thought he would be competing at the
level he has.
• Rosecrest Farm is a retirement venture for owners Chuck and Lyra
Miller and is also a bed and breakfast with a small broodmare band of
about ten horses. They opened 150-acre Rosecrest Farm in 2005 in
Paris, Ky.
• Goldencents will be the first Breedersʼ Cup runner for the Millers or
Pirrello.
• Goldencents won the Delta Downs Jackpot (G3), the Sham (G3), and
the Santa Anita Derby (G1) before a disappointing effort in the 2013
Kentucky Derby for trainer Doug OʼNeill. He has since finished second
in his last three outings in the Bing Crosby (G1), the Pat OʼBrien (G2),
and the Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes (G1).
• Goldencents is the trioʼs first stakes winner.
• The Millers purchased a half-interest in Karyn Pirrelloʼs $7,000 mare
Golden Works, who produced the partnershipʼs star runner,
Goldencents. He was one of five foals on the farm that year, as they
began reducing their herd to keep up with the economic downturn.
• The Millers had followed racing for years, but became involved in
breeding just before the economic recession.
Co-Owner
Dave Kenney ... Born: Feb. 13, 1964 ... Residence: Yorba Linda, Calif.
... Family: Wife Jill; four children ... Education: Bachelorʼs degree from
St. Maryʼs University in Moraga, Calif.
Starts 1st
2nd
1
0
0
2012
Classic
3rd
0
Earnings
$150,000
Richardʼs Kid
5th
Quick facts about Dave Kenney:
• Figures to be cheering on a pair of prospects when the gates open on
the 2013 Breedersʼ Cup Dirt Mile and Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Goldencents, who took him and his partners to the Kentucky Derby
and Preakness earlier this year, is a prospect for the Dirt Mile and
two-time stakes winner Clenor (Ire) is a possible race-time favorite for
the Juvenile Fillies Turf.
• Has 14 horses individually and as a partner in Great Friends Stable
with trainer Doug OʼNeill. Got into the business as an owner in 2001.
• Has become a frequent racing partner with Hall of Fame and two-time
national champion basketball coach Rick Pitino. Recently joined Pitino
in the purchase of a couple of 2-year-olds who have been sent to
trainer Nick Zito in New York. One is named Three Point Luke,
honoring the University of Louisvilleʼs Luke Hancock, whose many
three-point shots during the 2013 NCAA basketball championships,
helped lead his team to the title.
• OʼNeill was the ownerʼs first trainer and remains his major conditioner.
He has also sent a few horses to young Dan Blacker, also in Southern
California.
• Has two broodmares in California and two more in Kentucky as he
begins a breeding program.
• Among other good horses: Trifecta King, a filly that Kenney jokingly
called “gender confused;” Willy Conker and Richardʼs Kid, who
finished fifth in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup Classic for Kenney and
partners.
• As a youngster living in the San Francisco area, attended the races at
Golden Gate Fields and claimed his first horse in the early 1980s.
• Kenney owns a holding company that oversees companies dealing
with auto parts, trucking and commercial real estate.
Co-Owner
RAP Racing ... Owner(s): Rick Pitino ... Born: Sept. 18, 1952 ...
Residence: Louisville, Ky. ... Family: wife Joanne, six children – Michael,
Christopher, Richard (now the head coach at Minnesota), Ryan and
Jacqueline.
Starts 1st
2nd
3
0
0
1998
2000
3rd
0
Juvenile
Juvenile
Sprint
Earnings
$0
The Groom Is Red
A P Valentine
Valiant Halory
6th
14th
12th
Quick facts about RAP Racing:
• Hall of Fame basketball coach Pitino is making his first foray into the
Breedersʼ Cup World Championships since 2000 with 3-year-old
Goldencents in the Dirt Mile ... Goldencents made news earlier this
year by winning Santa Anitaʼs Sham Stakes and the Santa Anita Derby
prior to finishing 17th in the Kentucky Derby.
• RAP Racing is the third racing stable of the two-time NCAA basketball
champion as coach of the University of Kentucky in 1996 and the
University of Louisville in 2013. Previously, his horses raced under
Celtic Pride Stable and Olʼ Memorial Stable.
• Has run three horses in the Breedersʼ Cup World Championships –
two for Celtic Pride: The Groom Is Red, sixth in the 1998 Juvenile, and
Valiant Halory, 12th in the 2000 Sprint, as well as one for Celtic Pride
and Michael Tabor, A P Valentine, 14th in the 2000 Juvenile.
• Also has had two horses on the Triple Crown trail prior to Goldencents
– Halory Hunter, who finished fourth in the 1998 Kentucky Derby and
A P Valentine, who was seventh in the Derby before finishing second
to Point Given in both the Preakness and Belmont Stakes.
• Has been involved in racing since the 1990s, mostly with trainer Nick
Zito, though in more recent times he has cast his lot with West Coast
trainer Doug OʼNeill, who trains Breedersʼ Cup-bound Goldencents for
Pitinoʼs RAP Racing and his partners Dave Kenney and WC Racing.
• Pitino holds the distinction of being the only menʼs coach in NCAA
history to lead three different schools (Providence, Kentucky, and
Louisville) to a Final Four.
• Since 2001, he has been the head coach at the University of
Louisville. He also has served as head coach at Boston University,
Providence College and the University of Kentucky, where he led that
program to the NCAA championship in 1996. He also has coached in
the NBA for the New York Knicks and Boston Celtics.
Co-Owner
WC Racing ... Owner(s): Glenn Sorgenstein ... Born: Sept. 14, 1956 in
Bayside, N.Y. ... Residence: Santa Monica, Calif.; Malibu, Calif. ...
Family: Three children.
Quick facts about WC Racing:
• Getting ready for his first run at the Breedersʼ Cup World
Championships in 2013 at Santa Anita as a partner with Dave Kenney
and Hall of Fame basketball coach and two-time national champion
Rick Pitino in Kentucky Derby and Preakness runner Goldencents.
• Has been involved as an owner 2004 when he bought his first horse.
That ran against what his father had always told him: Donʼt own
horses; owners are the ones who keep the sport going; they pay and
lose money.
• Since coming into the sport has owned about 100 horses by his
estimate. Has been active in the claiming ranks. First trainer and still
his trainer in California is Doug OʼNeill. His friend Doug Verge urged
him to get into the business and use OʼNeill as trainer.
• Now has 12 to 14 horses on the track, all with OʼNeill. Also has two
broodmares each in Kentucky and California. Expects to expand his
breeding operation.
• Among his top horses are Informed, Enriched and Blazing Sunset,
who was claimed from trainer Cash Asmussen at OʼNeillʼs suggestion.
He won a small stakes and then appeared to be on the way to victory
in the Iowa Derby before being headed in the last few yards and
finishing second.
• Moved to Southern California with his parents at age 5 and lived
across the street from Santa Anita Park racetrack. He got his first
exposure by visiting the barn of his fatherʼs friend, famed trainer Lefty
Nickerson, who had moved from New York to California. “I used to go
to the barn all the time and Lefty would put me on one of his calm
horses and one of his hands would walk me around. That was a great
way to get to know racing people.”
• At that time, Nickersonʼs “big horse” was Big Spruce. Earlier, he had
sent John Henry to Ron McAnally, believing the warmer weather would
be helpful to him. The rest is history. “Since Ronʼs barn at Santa Anita
is right behind Doug OʼNeillʼs, I often stop by Ronʼs and talk about old
times.
• WC Racing is named for Sorgensteinʼs business, Wilshire Coin. By
profession, he is a numismatist and his business is based on pressure
metals and rare coins.
Trainer
Doug F. OʼNeill ... Born: May 24, 1968, Dearborn, Mich. ... Residence:
Santa Monica, Calif. ... Family: wife Linette, children Daniel and Kaylin
Dixie. Credits brother Dennis, his chief assistant, with getting him started
in training. ... Web site: www.dougoneillracing.com
Starts 1st
2nd
25
3
1
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
3rd
1
Mile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile
Juvenile
Classic
Distaff
Juvenile
Sprint
Sprint
Filly & Mare Sprint
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Dirt Mile
Dirt Mile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Earnings
$3,720,500
Decarchy
Sharp Lisa
Jealous Profit
Stevie Wonderboy
Lava Man
Sharp Lisa
Great Hunter
Areyoutalkintome
Thorʼs Echo
Maryfield
Overextended
Grace Anatomy
Slewʼs Tiznow
Slewʼs Tizzy
Azul Leon
Square Eddie
12th
6th
10th
1st
7th
6th
3rd
13th
1st
1st
7th
7th
10th
11th
9th
2nd
2009
2010
2012
Juvenile Fillies
Turf Sprint
Turf Sprint
Classic
Classic
Juvenile
Sprint
Turf
Black Magic Mama
Square Eddie
Quick Enough
Handsome Mike
Richardʼs Kid
Heʼs Had Enough
Boxeur des Rues
Cogito
8th
10th
10th
9th
5th
2nd
13th
7th
Quick facts about Doug F. O'Neill:
• Has saddled 25 Breedersʼ Cup starters previously, with three winners:
Stevie Wonderboy in the 2005 Juvenile, Thorʼs Echo in the ʼ06 Sprint
and Maryfield in the inaugural Filly & Mare Sprint in ʼ07. All three won
Eclipse Awards in their divisions. Finished second in the Juvenile
twice, with Heʼs Had Enough in 2012 and with Square Eddie in 2008.
• Won back-to-back runnings of the Santa Anita Derby (G1) with
Goldencents in 2013 and Iʼll Have Another in 2012. Goldencents in
2013 also has won the Sham S. (G3) and competed in the Kentucky
Derby and Preakness.
• Was on the wildest ride of his career in the spring of 2012 when he
saddled Iʼll Have Another to win the Kentucky Derby and Preakness
Stakes. However, as often happens, despair followed as the 3-year-old
colt suffered tendinitis and was pulled from the Belmont Stakes,
ending his quest for the Triple Crown. Later, owner J. Paul Reddam
sold the dual classic winner to Japanese interests for $10 million.
• During Iʼll Have Anotherʼs Triple Crown season, OʼNeill befriended
Hope Hudson, a 12-year-old from Missouri who is battling a rare
disease, after meeting her on the backstretch of Churchill Downs
Derby week and brought her into the winnerʼs circle for both the Derby
and Preakness. She and her family were at Churchill for her first
up-close look at the Thoroughbreds she loves, thanks to the
Make-A-Wish Foundation. Hope was with OʼNeill at Santa Anita in
2013 to see Goldencentsʼ victory.
• In addition to Goldencents, OʼNeill has saddled 2013 graded stakes
winners Concave (Sorrento S. G2), Reneeʼs Titan (Santa Ynez S. G2),
Handsome Mike (Commonwealth S. G3), and Richardʼs Kid (Cougar II
H (G3). Several of OʼNeillʼs clients purchased Richardʼs Kid in the
middle of 2012, and Richardʼs Kid ran fifth in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup
Classic.
• A perennial leading trainer in Southern California in recent years, he
has won 25 titles on the circuit since 2002, including the
spring/summer Hollywood Park and Del Mar titles in 2010. The
Hollywood Park title was his fifth for the spring/summer meet. In 2007,
he tied with Jeff Mullins, each saddling 26 winners, a record number
for a Hollywood Park spring meet ... Most recently he was leading
trainer at the 2011 Fairplex meet.
• Associated with one of the greatest claim stories in racing history with
Lava Man. Claimed for $50,000 at Del Mar in Aug. 2004, the gelding
was retired in Aug. 2008 with earnings of $5,268,706, more than
$5-million since the claim by S T D Racing and Jason Wood. In 2006,
Lava Man swept Southern Californiaʼs top three races for older horses
– the Santa Anita Handicap, Hollywood Gold Cup and Del Marʼs
Pacific Classic – the first time any horse won all three races in the
same year. (Game On Dude became the second horse to accomplish
the feat in 2013.) Lava Manʼs third successive Hollywood Gold Cup in
2007 put him in the record books with the legendary Native Diver as
the only other horse to accomplish the feat. With the Gold Cup win
over Hollywood Parkʼs Cushion Track, Lava Man became the first
horse in history to win a G1 race over three different surfaces ... Lava
Man now serves as a stable pony for OʼNeill, and foreman Sabas
Rivera most often rides him. Lava Man likes to stroll through the
shedrow after his work is done and help himself to the grain bin, as
c a p t u r e d
o n
Y o u T u b e :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GESVqzDQEuM.
• Won his 1,000th North American race when No Means Maybe
captured the Bustles and Bows at Fairplex Park Sept. 13, 2007 …
OʼNeillʼs first stakes win was Tanks Forthemusic in the 1996 CTBA
Marian Stakes at Fairplex Park. OʼNeill is approaching 2,000 wins and
has total purse earnings of more than $86 million, putting him 20th on
the all-time trainer list.
• First major stakes winner was Classy Cara, winner of the 2000
Fantasy Stakes and Honeymoon Handicap … Won his first Grade 1
race when Sky Jack scored in the 2002 Hollywood Gold Cup (G1) ...
Won the 2003 Japan Cup Dirt with 48-1 longshot Fleetstreet Dancer, a
$40,000 claim by OʼNeill in 2002.
• Named California Thoroughbred Breedersʼ Association Trainer of the
Year in 2002 and 2006.
• Other stakes winners trained include Enriched (a half-brother to Lava
Man), Informed, Necessary Evil, Acting Lady, Sharp Lisa, Supah Blitz,
Cobalt Blue, Notional, Great Hunter, Shamdinan, Excessivepleasure
and Super Freaky.
• Considers his operation a team effort, his stable often called Team
OʼNeill. In addition to his brother, Dennis, who is not only his major
assistant but buys most of the horses at sales, Leandro Moro and Jack
Sisterson also are assistant trainers. Other key people in Team OʼNeill
are Steve Rothblum, Sharla Sanders, and Nancy Rodriguez. OʼNeill
has four foremen: Fausto Cepedes, Carlos Pena, Benjamin Perez, and
Sabas Rivera.
• Began working at the track in 1986, right out of high school, and
learned under Jude Feld, Hector Palma and Doug Peterson before
taking out his license in 1994.
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GOLDEN TICKET
Dk B/ Br.c.4 Speightstown - Business Plan by Deputy Minister
Bred in Kentucky by WINSTAR FARM LLC (May 23, 2009)
28Sep13 SA10
27Jul13 Prm8
15Jun13 CD8
02May13 CD8
30Mar13 GP10
23Feb13 FG8
26Jan13 GP4
25Nov12 Bhp9
22Sep12 Prx11
25Aug12 Sar12
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Trainer: KENNETH G. MCPEEK
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$262,988
$631,355
$911,323
$7,695
$15,000
$35,360
3wd into str,lost 3rd
handily
4w,finished willingly
3 wide run,clear
tired
3w turns,led,outfinshd
bid,led 1/4,clear
vied,stalked,wkened
between,outfinished
inside,cut corner,held
10
5
6
9
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7
7
14
7
11
14s, SW, $112,171
Gone West, 1984
1,178 f, 181 SW, 3.98 AEI
17s, SW, $682,251
Secrettame, 1978
SPEIGHTSTOWN, 1,263 f, 101 SW, 1.81 AEI
10s, SW, $101,598
ch, 1998
15 f, 12 r, 10 w, 2 SW
Storm Cat, 1983
8s, SW, $570,610
Silken Cat, 1993
1,414 f, 180 SW, 2.97 AEI
4s, SW, $102,120
Silken Doll, 1980
8 f, 5 r, 1 w, 1 SW
7s, SW, $68,550
GOLDEN TICKET
11 f, 7 r, 7 w, 3 SW
dkb/br, c
Vice Regent, 1967
May 23, 2009
5s, wnr, $6,215
Deputy Minister, 1979
673 f, 105 SW, 2.89 AEI
22s, SW, $696,964
1,141 f, 90 SW, 2.53 AEI Mint Copy, 1970
76s, wnr, $53,945
7 f, 7 r, 4 w, 1 SW
Devil's Bag, 1981
BUSINESS PLAN,
9s, SW, $445,860
b, 1999
Good Mood, 1989
956 f, 46 SW, 1.75 AEI
5s, SW, $95,760
Mine Only, 1981
12 f, 8 r, 7 w, 1 SW
8s, wnr, $11,200
12 f, 11 r, 8 w, 3 SW
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Secretariat
Tamerett
Storm Bird
Terlingua
Chieftain
Insilca
Northern Dancer
Victoria Regina
Bunty's Flight
Shakney
Halo
Ballade
Mr. Prospector
Mono
GOLDEN TICKET'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2
4
0
1
1
$16,980
at 3
8
2(1)
3(1)
1(1)
$631,355
at 4
7
3(1)
1(1)
1(1)
$262,988
Lifetime
19
5(2)
5(2)
3(2)
$911,323
Sire: SPEIGHTSTOWN, ch, 1998. Raced 4 yrs, 16 sts, 10 wins, $1,258,256. Champion sprinter. Won
Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), Churchill Downs H (gr. II), True North Breeders' Cup H (gr. II), Alfred G.
Vanderbilt H (gr. II), Artax H; 2nd Amsterdam S (gr. II), Jaipur H; 3rd Vosburgh S (gr. I).
1st dam: Business Plan, b, 1999. Bred by Peter E. Blum (Ky.). Raced 1 yr, 4 sts, $2,148. Dam of 6
named foals, 6 rnrs, 3 wnrs, 1 sw. ($800,000, 2000 keejul yrlg).
2004: Atlanta City, dkb/br g, by Our Emblem. Raced 2 yrs, 9 sts, 0 wins, $367.
2005: F, by Distorted Humor. Died 2005.
2006: Ashley M., ch f, by Mr. Greeley. Raced 1 yr, 1 st, 0 wins, $945. ($160,000 keesep yrlg).
2007: Gray Hart's Girl, gr/ro f, by Buddha. Raced 3 yrs, 13 sts, 4 wins, $84,969. ($5,500 keenov
wnlg).
2008: Trillionaire, b g, by Speightstown. Raced 4 yrs, 25 sts, 4 wins, $27,981.
2009: GOLDEN TICKET, dkb/br c, by Speightstown. ($100,000 keeapr 2yo).
At 3: Won Travers S (gr. I); 2nd Tampa Bay Derby (gr. II); 3rd Pennsylvania Derby (gr. II).
At 4: Won Prairie Meadows H; 2nd Stephen Foster H Presented by Abu Dhabi (gr. I); 3rd
Mineshaft H (gr. III).
2010: Barren.
2011: Increase My Income, ch c, by Any Given Saturday. Raced 1 yr in PR, 1 st, 0 wins, $1,400.
($25,000 ftkoct yrlg; $31,000 obsapr 2yo).
2012: B c, by Any Given Saturday. ($17,000 keesep yrlg).
2013: Dead foal.
Inbreeding: 3SX4D Mr. Prospector; 5SX4D Northern Dancer.
Nicking: SPEIGHTSTOWN w/DEPUTY MINISTER mares: 32 foals, 24 strs, 18 wnrs (56%),
4 2yo wnrs (12%), 1 SW (3%), 1 GSW (3%).
Broodmare sire: DEPUTY MINISTER, dkb/br, 1979-2004. Sire of 561 dams of 3,122 foals, 2,385
rnrs (76%), 1,730 wnrs (55%), 457 2yo wnrs (15%), 1.69 AEI, 1.46 CI; 220 sw.
2nd dam: GOOD MOOD, ch, 1989. Bred by Peter E. Blum (Ky.). Raced 1 yr, 5 sts, 2 wins, $95,760.
Won Miss Grillo S gr. IIIT. Dam of GRAND ROYALE (c, Danzig; $62,784. Won Continental Mile S, T;
3rd Precisionist S, RT; sire in Aus), Dubai World (c, Deputy Minister; $132,626. 2nd Jebel Ali S,
Nayef Jebel Ali S; sire). Granddam of MAGICAL FEELING, STERLING OUTLOOK.
Breeder
WinStar Farm ... Owner(s): Kenny Troutt ... Born: born Jan. 8, 1948, in
Mount Vernon, Ill. ... Residence: The Troutts live in Dallas, Texas ...
Family: wife, Lisa, three children ... Professional Background: Troutt
founded Excel Communications, a long-distance telephone service and
communications company. ... Web site: www.winstarfarm.com
Quick facts about WinStar Farm:
• The past few years ushered in several changes within the WinStar
organization. In Oct. 2010, it was announced that Kenny Troutt had
bought Bill Casner out of his portion of WinStar and was now the sole
owner of the operation with Casner staying on as the farmʼs largest
client. Casner and Troutt both stated the dissolution of their
partnership was a “business strategy” and that their longtime
friendship remained intact. Weeks later, WinStar president Doug
Cauthen announced he was leaving the farm to create his own
independent consulting service. Former trainer Elliott Walden, who
conditioned 1998 Belmont Stakes winner Victory Gallop, took over as
president and CEO of WinStar.
• In 2013, WinStar, both alone and in partnership, has been represented
by graded stakes winners Take Charge Indy, Revolutionary, General
Election, and Laugh Track. Take Charge Indy, a Grade 1-winning son
of A.P. Indy out the Grade 1 winner Take Charge Lady, was retired to
WinStar after suffering a left-front condylar fracture during the
Monmouth Cup Stakes (G2) and will stand the 2014 breeding season
at the farm. He is a half-brother to leading 3-year-old colt Will Take
Charge.
• This year, as a breeder WinStar has also been represented by graded
stakes winners Fiftyshadesofhay, Mr. Hot Stuff and Go Blue or Go
Home. Originally campaigned by WinStar, Mr. Hot Stuff finished third
in the Santa Anita Derby (G1) in 2009 and competed in both the
Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. He was later sold and gelded
and is now a new star on the steeplechase circuit, winning the A. P.
Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase Stakes (G1) at Saratoga in August.
• WinStar Farm expanded its facilities in 2013 by building a
state-of-the-art stallion barn to house its top sires like Distorted Humor,
Tiznow, Speightstown, and More Than Ready as well as new
prospects Bodemeister and Gemologist. The new stallion barn
features 18 stalls, two breeding sheds, three viewing areas to inspect
the stallions, and 22 paddocks that are three acres each.
• Major sires More Than Ready and Congrats made up part of a group
of five stallions who relocated to WinStar at the beginning of 2013. The
group also included Kodiak Kowboy, Pure Prize, and Street Hero.
They were the remainder of the stallions that formerly stood at Vinery
Ltd. At the end of 2012, former Vinery stallions Pioneerof the Nile and
Maimonides were also moved to WinStar.
• In 2011, WinStar earned its first Breedersʼ Cup victory in stunning
fashion, when Drosselmeyer won the Breedersʼ Cup Classic at odds of
14-1.
• In a banner 2010 season, WinStar captured both the Kentucky Derby
and Belmont Stakes with Super Saver and Drosselmeyer, respectively,
and earned its first Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner. WinStar first
gained national fame as the breeder of 2003 Kentucky Derby and
Preakness Stakes winner Funny Cide, but Super Saver, a homebred,
marked the first classic winner owned by Casner and Troutt.
• WinStar captured the 2009 $6 million Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1) with
its homebred Well Armed, whom Casner personally rehabilitated on
his farm in Texas after the gelding suffered a broken pelvis that kept
him sidelined for more than a year following the 2006 United Arab
Emirates Derby (UAE-G2).
• Sold first foal out of Grade 1 winner Awesome Humor, a colt by Storm
Cat, for $8.2 million at the 2006 Keeneland September yearling sale.
• Other horses bred by WinStar (singly and partnerships) include One
Cool Cat (Europeʼs champion 2-year-old of 2003), Grade 1 winners
Golden Ticket and Sharp Lisa, graded stakes winners Doubles
Partner, Rule and Itʼs No Joke, English group winner Lucky Story,
Pompeii and Ministerʼs Bid.
• Today, WinStar Farm is comprised of approximately 1,864 acres,
including an original 450-acre tract of land, once known as Silver Pond
Farm. Settled in the 1700s by the Williams of Tidewater Virginia, the
Silver Pond property remained in the family for over 150 years. Today
the original farmhouse, smokehouse, pond, bank barn and Osage
orange allee on Pisgah Pike are listed on the National Register of
Historic Places. Casner and Troutt initially purchased the 1,450-acre
Prestonwood Farm property near Versailles, Ky., from brothers Art,
Jack and J.R. Preston, also natives of Texas, and renamed it WinStar
Farm in early 2000.
• The farm offers WinStar Stablemates to fans of the sport. It is an
online, exclusive membership club that delivers a unique insiderʼs view
of the thoroughbred racing industry. Benefits include VIP,
private-guided, behind-the-scenes tour of WinStar Farm, including
picnic lunch at Farm; access to cams throughout the farm; photo
opportunities with WinStarʼs stallions; access to the Handicapperʼs
Edge; and free contests and entry into four random drawings annually
to name a WinStar yearling.
• Troutt formerly owned Landview Farm, a Thoroughbred operation in
Nebraska, which he sold in 1982. Troutt met former trainer Casner in
the late 1970s when they attempted to claim the same horse at
Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha, Neb., and later campaigned a claiming stable
together. Both Troutt and Casner withdrew from active participation in
racing during the 1980s and 1990s while pursuing other business
interests.
• With the Race Track Chaplaincy of America, Troutt created the White
Horse Award, presented annually to a farm or racetrack worker who
performs an unselfish heroic act for a horse or a human.
• Troutt currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Thoroughbred
Owners and Breeders Association as well as on the Board of Directors
for the Breedersʼ Cup.
Owner
Magic City Thoroughbred Partners ... Owner(s): Carter Stewart and
Ken Schlenker ... Born: Stewart: Oct. 14, 1957; Schlenker, May 17,
1952. ... Residence: Stewart: Billings, Mont.; Schlenker: Billings, Mont. ...
Education: Stewart: University of Montana, Geology, 1981; Schlenker:
Eastern Montana College, Finance, 1979.
Quick facts about Magic City Thoroughbred Partners:
• The Magic City partners are heading to their first Breedersʼ Cup with
Golden Ticket, one of the first two horses they purchased at the 2011
Keeneland 2-year-old sale. The Speightstown colt, a late May foal,
was acquired for $100,000. ... In 2012, Golden Ticket stepped into the
spotlight and became part of the history at Saratoga Race Course
when he finished in a dead heat with favored Alpha in the $1 million
Travers (G1) ... It was only the second dead heat in the Travers. The
first was in 1874, but the outcome was decided in a runoff.
• In 2013, Golden Ticket won the Prairie Meadows Handicap and was
second to defending Breedersʼ Cup Classic winner Fort Larned in the
Stephen Foster Handicap (G1). He tuned up for the Classic with a
fourth-place effort in the Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita, the
Breedersʼ Cup host site.
• Also in 2013, the partnership campaigned Triple Crown contender
Frac Daddy, who ran in the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. Frac
Daddy ran second to Canadian Horse of the Year Uncaptured in the
Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G2) and second to Overanalyze in the
Arkansas Derby (G1) on his way to the Kentucky Derby. Frac Daddy
was the partnershipʼs first Kentucky Derby entrant.
• The roots of the partnership are in White Hat Racing, which was
formed by lifelong friends Dan Fuchs and Carter Stewart. Fuchs, a
business development and political consultant, has been involved with
racing since 1988 and has done some training. In March 2011, Ken
Schlenker, an associate of Stewartʼs in the oil business, came aboard
and Magic City Thoroughbred Partners was born. ... Stewart is the
majority partner. Fuchs sold his share in Golden Ticket prior to his
victory in the Travers.
• Magic City is the nickname for Billings, Mont. home of the partners.
• What started as a two-horse stable has grown into a much bigger
venture. ... Through Oct. 1, 2013, Magic City had a 9-11-3 record from
43 lifetime starts and earnings of $1,338,552.
Trainer
Ken McPeek ... Born: Aug. 2, 1962, in Fort Chaffee, Ark. ... Residence:
Lexington, Ky. ... Family: daughter Jennifer Lynne ... Education:
Bachelor of Arts in business from the University of Kentucky in 1984. ...
Web site: www.mcpeekracing.com
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Tejano Run
Juvenile Fillies
Grand Deed
Juvenile Fillies
Sheʼs a Devil Due
Juvenile
Repent
Juvenile Fillies
Take Charge Lady
Distaff
Take Charge Lady
Distaff
Take Charge Lady
Juvenile
Old Man Buck
Juvenile Fillies
A to the Croft
Juvenile Fillies
Dream Empress
Juvenile
Nobleʼs Promise
Juvenile Fillies
Beautician
Juvenile Fillies
Connie and Michael
Juvenile Fillies Turf House of Grace
Juvenile Turf
Bridgetown
Juvenile
Rogue Romance
2011
2012
Juvenile Fillies
Harlanʼs Ruby
Juvenile Fillies Turf Kathmanblu
Turf Sprint
Bridgetown
Juvenile Fillies
Putthebabiesdown
Marathon
Atigun
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3rd
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3rd
Quick facts about Ken McPeek:
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• Ken McPeek intended to enter Golden Ticket in the 2012 Breedersʼ
Cup after his dead-heat win in that yearʼs Travers Stakes (G1), but the
colt was sidelined by a lung infection. This year Golden Ticket is back
again, expected for the Breedersʼ Cup Dirt Mile. McPeek also expects
to send Darley Alcibiades (G1) runner-up Rosalind, twice graded
stakes-placed in three starts, to the Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile Fillies.
• Going into the 2013 Breedersʼ Cup, McPeek has saddled 21 Breedersʼ
Cup starters and has placed with 10, but still seeks his first win. He
has four seconds (Repent, 2001 Juvenile; Dream Empress, 2008
Juvenile Fillies; Bridgetown, 2009 Juvenile Turf; and Beautician, 2009
Juvenile Fillies) and six thirds, including his first Breedersʼ Cup starter,
Tejano Run in the 1994 Juvenile, and his most recent, Atigun in the
2012 Marathon.
• As of Oct. 16, 2013, McPeek has 1,339 wins from 8,661 starters for
purse earnings of nearly $59 million. He races primarily at Keeneland
and Churchill Downs in mild weather and moves his operation to
Gulfstream Park and Oaklawn Park in the winter. His assistants are
Alan Shell, Matt Shirer, and Mike Kleier. Among his major clients are
John Ed Anthonyʼs Shortleaf Stable and Magic City Thoroughbred
Partners.
• The son of horse owner Ron McPeek, McPeek grew up in Lexington
and played football at Tates Creek High School. After graduating from
the University of Kentucky in 1984, he went to New York to interview
for a position as a stockbroker, but soon decided on a career in the
horse business ... McPeek took out his trainerʼs license in 1985. In
July 2005, he began a yearʼs sabbatical to concentrate on work for
clients as a bloodstock agent, transferring his 160-horse stable to
assistants. He returned to training in March 2006.
• By then already successful in the Midwest, McPeek shot onto the
national scene with Saravaʼs 70-1 upset in the 2002 Belmont Stakes
(G1). Other top horses have included Harlanʼs Holiday; Take Charge
Lady, Repent, Sheʼs a Devil Due, Birdbirdistheword, Brazilian-bred
Hard Buck., and Prince Arch. More recent stars are Flashy American,
Golden Ticket, Salty Strike, and Bizzy Caroline, among others.
• In 2006, McPeek and his then-wife, equine photographer Susan
McPeek, bought the 115-acre Pillar Stud property in Lexington and
renamed it Magdalena, the name of the woman believed to be the
landʼs original matriarch. The idea of training on the farm was sparked
by training options in England away from the racetrack. The facility
offers breaking, racing, layup, rehabilitation, sales prep, breeding, and
foaling and boasts a 1-1/2 mile turf gallop. The farm houses about a
dozen broodmares.
• Through Magdalena, McPeek arranges and manages racing
partnerships, retaining 10 to 20 percent and offering the rest to various
partners. He is known for bringing new clients into the business and
keeping them through astute purchases. He has said, “I believe when
you get someone new into the game, you teach them. When you
invest someoneʼs money in this sport, it is important that you do it
wisely.” At the sales, McPeek begins with an inspection team that
includes bloodstock agent Rory Callis, who previews prospects and
creates a short list for McPeek to evaluate. Another member of the
team, Dominic Brennan, has been developing McPeekʼs young horses
at his Ocala, Fla., base since 1993. McPeek also maintains breeding
shares in Curlin, Repent, Einstein, Sarava, and Tejano Run.
• McPeek is skilled at selecting viable runners at modest prices and
training youngsters. Notable in both aspects is Nobleʼs Promise,
purchased for $10,000 as a weanling at the 2007 Keeneland
November sale on behalf of Chasing Dreams Partnership. The colt
won the 2009 Breedersʼ Futurity (G1) and was third in the 2009
Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile and fifth in the 2010 Kentucky Derby. Also of
note is Tejano Run, a $20,000 Keeneland sales purchase that earned
more than $1 million for owner Roy Monroe. McPeek advised Select
Stable to buy Take Charge Lady and Repent as yearlings; both
became millionaires. For $30,000 McPeek selected Sheʼs A Devil Due
for first-time owners Brian Griggs and Mike Goetz; the filly earned
$533,820, including a third in the Breederʼs Cup Juvenile Fillies Stakes
(G1). A recent success is Dark Cove, claimed for $16,000 in 2010 and
a multiple graded stakes winner in 2013.
• A major player bought by McPeek for $57,000 as a yearling was the
one that eventually got away: Curlin. After being sold early in his
career, Curlin counted the 2007 Breedersʼ Cup Classic and the 2008
Dubai World Cup among his seven G1 wins, was twice Horse of the
Year, and retired as North Americaʼs all-time earnings leader with
more than $10.5 million.
• McPeek also regularly travels to South America to purchase
bloodstock. One notable find was future multiple G1 winner Einstein,
purchased in Brazil for Midnight Cry Stables. Einstein, trained by
former McPeek assistant Helen Pitts-Blasi, went on to earn more than
$2.9 million.
• An advocate for new technology, McPeek launched the Horse Races
NOW app in April 2012. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Android
platforms, the app provides racing information and videos and alerts
users when their selected horses and connections are entered to race.
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Trainer: TODD A. PLETCHER
Gr/ro.c.4 Unbridled's Song - Sweetest Smile by Dehere
Bred in Kentucky by W. S. FARISH (May 16, 2009)
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UNBRIDLED'S
SONG,
gr/ro, 1993
GRAYDAR
gr/ro, c
May 16, 2009
SWEETEST
SMILE,
dkb/br, 1998
Fappiano, 1977
17s, SW, $370,213
Unbridled, 1987
410 f, 48 SW, 4.40 AEI
24s, SW, $4,489,475
566 f, 49 SW, 2.65 AEI Gana Facil, 1981
19s, wnr, $85,100
7 f, 6 r, 5 w, 2 SW
Caro, 1967
12s, SW, $17,959
Trolley Song, 1983
599 f, 78 SW, 3.26 AEI
7s, wnr, $25,914
Lucky Spell, 1971
12 f, 9 r, 5 w, 1 SW
69s, SW, $253,655
14 f, 12 r, 8 w, 3 SW
22s, SW, $696,964
Dehere, 1991
1,141 f, 90 SW, 2.53 AEI
9s, SW, $723,712
1,544 f, 77 SW, 1.65 AEI Sister Dot, 1985
35s, wnr, $101,406
14 f, 11 r, 7 w, 1 SW
Conquistador Cielo, 1979
13s, SW, $474,328
Cielo Otono, 1993
895 f, 72 SW, 2.03 AEI
6s, SW, $75,106
Moment's Prayer, 1979
8 f, 5 r, 5 w, 1 SW
22s, wnr, $39,564
9 f, 8 r, 7 w, 2 SW
Mr. Prospector
Killaloe
Le Fabuleux
Charedi
Fortino II
Chambord
Lucky Mel
Incantation
Vice Regent
Mint Copy
Secretariat
Sword Game
Mr. Prospector
K D Princess
For The Moment
Prayer Cap
GRAYDAR'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 3
3
2
0
1
$61,560
at 4
3
3(3)
0
0
$780,000
Lifetime
6
5(3)
0
1
$841,560
Sire: UNBRIDLED'S SONG, gr/ro, 1993-2013. Raced 3 yrs, 12 sts, 5 wins, $1,311,800. Won Breeders'
Cup Juvenile (gr. I), Florida Derby (gr. I), Wood Memorial S (gr. II), Olympic H; 2nd Fountain of Youth
S (gr. II), Peter Pan S (gr. II), Hutcheson S (gr. II).
Lifetime: 14 crops, 1,394 foals, 1,047 rnrs (75%), 724 wnrs (52%), 135 2yo wnrs (10%), 102 sw
(7%), 2.05 AEI, 2.38 CI, 708 sale yrlgs, avg $293,403, 5.6 TNA.
1st dam: Sweetest Smile, dkb/br, 1998. Bred by Gerald and Gail Schneider (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs, 4
sts, 1 win, $13,370. Dam of 10 named foals, 8 rnrs, 6 wnrs, 1 sw. ($80,000, 1999 keesep yrlg;
$200,000, 2006 keejan, Bernstein; $85,000, 2012 keejan, Curlin).
2002: Charlie's Special, ch f, by Out of Place. Died 2005.
2003: Union Course, b g, by Dixie Union. Raced 3 yrs, 27 sts, 3 wins, $124,314. 2nd Flash S (gr.
III); 3rd Saratoga Special S (gr. II). ($100,000 keesep yrlg).
2004: Shandilyn, b f, by Aptitude. Raced 3 yrs, 25 sts, 3 wins, $34,359.
2005: Irvan, dkb/br c, by Doneraile Court. Raced 1 yr in Pan, 2 sts, 1 win. ($5,500 keesep yrlg).
2006: Star of David, b c, by Bernstein. Raced 5 yrs, 26 sts, 3 wins, $110,468. 3rd Iroquois S (gr.
III), Summer S (Can-IIIT). ($220,000 keesep yrlg).
2007: Alys, dkb/br f, by Dixie Union. Raced 2 yrs, 2 sts, 0 wins, $4,650. ($275,000 ftsaug yrlg).
2008: Runawayeightyfour, dkb/br g, by Mineshaft. Raced 4 yrs, 12 sts, 2 wins, $48,239. ($17,000
keesep yrlg).
2009: GRAYDAR, gr/ro c, by Unbridled's Song. ($260,000 ftffeb 2yo).
At 4: Won Donn H (gr. I), Kelso H (gr. II), New Orleans H (gr. II).
2010: Life At Sea, b c, by Henrythenavigator. Raced 1 yr, 1 st, 0 wins, $570.
2011: Ch f, by Curlin. Died 2011.
2012: Sweet Destiny, dkb/br f, by Curlin. ($140,000 keesep yrlg).
Inbreeding: 4SX4D Mr. Prospector.
Nicking: UNBRIDLED'S SONG w/DEHERE mares: 7 foals, 7 strs, 7 wnrs (100%), 1 2yo wnr
(14%), 3 SW (43%), 3 GSW (43%)
Broodmare sire: DEHERE, b, 1991. Sire of 392 dams of 1,545 foals, 1,103 rnrs (71%), 800 wnrs
(52%), 178 2yo wnrs (12%), 1.62 AEI, 1.37 CI; 70 sw.
2nd dam: CIELO OTONO, dkb/br, 1993. Bred by Gerald Robins (Ky.). Raced 1 yr, 6 sts, 3 wins, $75,106.
Won Debutante Breeders' Cup S, Mt. Rainier S; 2nd Burlingame S; 3rd Joan Alhadeff Lassies S.
Dam of CIELATOR (f, Delineator; $82,369. Won Belle Roberts S, R; 2nd Pegasus Training Center
S, R). Granddam of SWEET SAGA.
Breeder
William S. Farish ... Born: March 17, 1939, Houston, Texas ...
Residence: Laneʼs End Farm, Versailles, Ky.; Wellington, Fla. ... Family:
wife Sarah; children William S. “Bill” Farish Jr., Mary Farish Johnston,
Laura Farish Chadwick and Hillary Farish Stratton ... Education:
Attended the University of Virginia. ... Web site: www.lanesend.com
Quick facts about William S. Farish:
• Farish has again been well represented as both a breeder and owner
in 2013. Palace Malice, a son of Laneʼs End stallion and 2007
Breedersʼ Cup Classic winner Curlin, became the fourth Belmont
Stakes winner bred solely or in partnership by Farish when he won the
final leg of the Triple Crown in June. Laneʼs End consigned Palace
Malice as agent at the 2011 Keeneland September yearling sale,
where he sold for $25,000 to bloodstock agent Colin Brennan.
• Out of the Royal Anthem mare Palace Rumor, Palace Malice followed
up his Belmont triumph with a victory in the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) at
Saratoga. The bay colt rallied to finish fourth in the Travers Stakes
(G1) after missing the break and stamped himself as a Breedersʼ Cup
Classic contender with a runner-up finish against older horses in the
Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) in late September.
• Laneʼs End Racing also bought into Honor Code, runner up in the
Champagne Stakes (G1) and Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile candidate, as a
yearling from his breeder, Dell Ridge Farm. Honor Code is from the
final the final crop of champion A.P. Indy, the flagship sire of Laneʼs
End Farm.
• Farish has a history of success in the Breedersʼ Cup series. In
partnership with Kilroy Thoroughbred Partnership, Farish bred Court
Vision, winner of the 2011 Breedersʼ Cup Mile. With William Kilroy,
Farish bred eventual Horse of the Year A.P. Indy, winner of the 1992
Breedersʼ Cup Classic. With Ogden Mills Phipps, he bred Storm Song,
winner of the 1996 Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile Fillies. With G. Watts
Humphrey, he bred Sacahuista, who won the 1987 Breedersʼ Cup
Distaff.
• Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year and winner of the 2008
Breedersʼ Cup Distaff and 2009 Breedersʼ Cup Classic, is boarded at
Laneʼs End Farm. She produced her first foal, a Bernardini colt, in
2012, a colt by Tapit on April 1, 2013 and is currently in foal to top
Claiborne Farm sire War Front.
• Laneʼs End is currently home to 17 stallions, including leading sire
Smart Strike, two-time Horse of the Year Curlin, fellow Classic winner
Pleasantly Perfect, and Breedersʼ Cup Turf winner English Channel.
Upon his retirement G1 winner and millionaire Morning Line will join
the Laneʼs End stallion roster.
• In 2011, leading sire A.P. Indy was pensioned at Laneʼs End Farm.
The 1992 Horse of the Year is a son of Broodmare of the Year
Weekend Surprise, who was also bred by Farish and Kilroy. They also
bred her other famous son, Summer Squall, winner of the 1990
Preakness Stakes.
• Gulch, another standout Laneʼs End stallion, was pensioned in late
2009 and transferred to Old Friends.
• In 2011, Laneʼs End was the leading consignor at both the Keeneland
September and November Sales, setting a record for a consignor at
Keeneland. Laneʼs End has sold more than 355 stakes winners and
have been the leading consignor by number of Grade 1 winners sold.
Among them champions and/or Grade 1 winners A.P. Indy, Saint
Liam, Wait a While, Jazil, Rags to Riches, Summer Squall, Lemon
Drop Kid, Quality Road, Stevie Wonderboy, and Thunder Gulch.
• Farish was honored with the 2009 Eclipse Award of Merit for a lifetime
of outstanding achievement in Thoroughbred racing. He earned the
Eclipse Award as outstanding breeder in both 1992 and 1999.
• Farish is Keenelandʼs all-time leading owner, often in partnerships,
and is only the third owner to receive a gold pitcher, earned after 25
graded stakes wins at the Lexington oval.
• Farish has hosted Queen Elizabeth II on her visits to Kentucky, most
recently to attend the 2007 Kentucky Derby, as well as President
George H.W. Bush and President George W. Bush, longtime family
friends.
• In 1999, Farish was the first breeder since A. J. Alexander in 1880 to
breed or co-breed two horses (Charismatic and Lemon Drop Kid) who
combined to win the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont
in the same year.
• Farish began his own stallion division in 1985 by syndicating handicap
standouts Fit to Fight, Heroʼs Honor and Dixieland Band; the last, who
died in 2010 at age 30, was bred by Sarahʼs father, Bayard Sharp, and
campaigned by her mother.
• Entered the national spotlight as owner of 1972 Preakness Stakes
winner Bee Bee Bee. Singly or in partnership, Farish has raced more
than 150 stakes winners, including 2003 Horse of the Year Mineshaft
(who stands at Laneʼs End), 2000 Kentucky Oaks winner Secret
Status and 2003 Epsom Oaks winner Casual Look, the latter during
his stint as ambassador.
• One of the worldʼs most well-known and influential horsemen, Farish
has served the industry in a number of high-profile positions: member
of The Jockey Club since 1970; vice chair from 1983 to 2010, and a
long-time member of the Board of Stewards; director and former chair
of the Executive Committee of the Breedersʼ Cup; member of the
Board of Directors of the Keeneland Association and a Keeneland
trustee; chairman of the board of Churchill Downs from 1992 to 2001;
former chair of the American Horse Council.
• Will and Sarah Farish founded Laneʼs End in Versailles, Ky., in 1979.
A portion of the property was formerly Bosque Bonita Farm (“Beautiful
Woods”), a Thoroughbred farm owned by Abe Buford, who was a
general for the Confederacy. Leamington, sire of the first Kentucky
Derby winner Aristides, stood at stud there. The farm now
encompasses 3,000 owned or leased acres and is one of the worldʼs
leading comprehensive Thoroughbred operations and sales
consignors. Farish also owns a second farm, Laneʼs End Texas near
Hempstead.
• The first horse Will Farish raced was a filly named Cream Pie,
purchased at Keenelandʼs 1963 September yearling sale for $12,500
in partnership with his father-in-law, breeder/owner Bayard Sharp, an
original director of Delaware Park. Farishʼs first stakes winner was
$9,700 purchase Kaskaskia, winner of the 1967 Youthful and Juvenile
stakes.
• Farish is heavily involved in politics as an influential Republican
fundraiser and advisor. He was part of the campaign for future
president George H.W. Bush, who celebrated his victory with a game
of horseshoes at Farishʼs Laneʼs End Farm. From 2001 to 2004, he
served as United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James for
President George W. Bush.
• His holdings include the William Stamps Farish Fund, which provides
millions for charitable causes, including a $1 million donation to the
Permanently Disabled Jockey Fund in 2010 to jump-start a $10 million
to $12 million endowment fund. Farish also is a major supporter of
equine research through the Grayson-Jockey Club Research
Foundation and the Maxwell H. Gluck Center.
• Will Farish was a stockbroker in Houston and later president of
Fluorex, an international mining and exploration company, and
Navarro Exploration Company. He was a founding director of the New
York holding company Eurus, and of Capital National Bank of
Houston. He owns W. S. Farish Co., a Houston trust company founded
by his grandfather in 1929 to manage the family assets.
Owner
Twin Creeks Farm ... Owner(s): Steve Davison ... Born: July 19, 1967
in Ruston, La. ... Residence: Resident: Choudrant, La. (at the Squire
Creek country club community he and his family developed and own). ...
Family: wife, Sara, and twins Joe and Kate. He has two other children
from a previous marriage. ... Education: Davison earned his
undergraduate degree at Louisiana Tech University and also holds a J.D
... He remains close to his alma mater and is part of the radio broadcast
team for Bulldogs football games. ... Web site:
www.twincreeksracing.com
Quick facts about Twin Creeks Farm:
• Twin Creeks Farm and Twin Creeks Racing are owned by Steve
Davison who has been involved in the Thoroughbred industry for over
20 years as a racehorse owner, farm owner, and breeder.
• Davison and team manager Randy Gullatt have been best friends
since kindergarten and when Randy began his career as a trainer,
Steve bought a couple of horses in 1985 and put them in Randyʼs
care. Those runners included stakes winner La Paz, who they
eventually sold as a broodmare for $1.6-million at the 2000 Keeneland
November breeding stock sale. In 2008, Twin Creeks purchased La
Pazʼs colt for $200,000 at the Keeneland September yearling sale. The
colt, named Mission Impazible, went on to win the Louisiana Derby
(G2) and New Orleans Handicap (G2) for Twin Creeks, and placed in
seven other graded stakes events. He now stands at stud in New
York.
• In 2013, Twin Creeks Racing is campaigning Graydar, who is likely to
be cross-entered in the Breedersʼ Cup Classic and Breedersʼ Cup Dirt
Mile. The lightly-raced son of Unbridledʼs Song has won five of six
career starts, including all three starts this year: the Donn Handicap
(G1), New Orleans Handicap (G2), and Kelso Handicap (G2).
• Twin Creeks Farm is the co-breeder of To Honor and Serve, who
stamped himself as a leader in the 2012 older horse division when he
won the Woodward Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. To Honor
and Serve was sold as a weanling for $250,000 at the Keeneland
November breeding stock sale and resold to current owner Live Oak
Plantation for $575,000 at Keenelandʼs September yearling sale. “To
Honor and Serve was a long, leggy colt, the kind you would think could
run the classic distance,” Gullatt said in the Oct. 4, 2011 issue of The
Blood-Horse. “We hoped he would develop into what he has turned
out to be, which is awesome.” Twin Creeks sold Pilfer, the dam of To
Honor and Serve, for $650,000 at the 2008 Keeneland November
breeding stock sale.
• An attorney from Ruston, La., Davison is a principal owner in Genesis
Energy, LP, a publicly traded energy and transportation company. He
also is the developer of Squire Creek Country Club, the top-rated
residential golf course community in Choudrant, La. He recently
purchased “The Sheets,” the popular handicapping tool used by
trainers, handicappers, and industry professionals.
• Gullatt, a trainer for eight years in Louisiana, Arkansas, California and
Kentucky, is responsible for selecting the horses purchased for Twin
Creeks Racing and managing the racing career of the stable, while
Davison is primarily responsible for the organization of the partnership
and the evaluation and purchase of yearlings. Gullattʼs wife Kim, a
former jockey, handles marketing and client relations for Twin Creeks.
Todd Pletcher, Mike Maker, Dale Romans and Steve Asmussen train
for the Twin Creeks Racing partnerships.
• Twin Creeks Farm was established in 1992 and is nestled on nearly
180 rolling acres in picturesque Nonesuch, Ky., on the fringe of Central
Kentuckyʼs famed Bluegrass region. The farm is home to about 25
broodmares. The farm breeds for the commercial market typically
consigning horses under their own banner or with Taylor Made Sales
Agency. Horses that are not expected to sell well are retained for the
racing division.
Trainer
Todd A. Pletcher ... Born: June 26, 1967, Dallas, Texas ... Residence:
Garden City, N.Y. ... Family: wife Tracy, children Payton, Kyle and
Hannah ... Education: Graduated from the University of Arizona in 1989
with a bachelorʼs degree in Animal Science. ... Web site:
www.toddpletcherracing.com
Starts 1st
2nd
95
7
10
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
3rd
12
Sprint
Juvenile
Filly & Mare Turf
Sprint
Sprint
Mile
Sprint
Classic
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Turf
Classic
Distaff
Juvenile
2005
Earnings
$13,209,650
Rare Rock
Graeme Hall
Pico Teneriffe
More Than Ready
Trippi
Balto Star
Left Bank
Harlanʼs Holiday
Appleby Gardens
Chapel Royal
Ashado
Balto Star
Newfoundland
Ashado
Proud Accolade
9th
12th
12th
5th
9th
12th
5th
9th
5th
3rd
2nd
9th
12th
1st
6th
2006
Sprint
Classic
Distaff
Distaff
Juvenile Fillies
Mile
Mile
Sprint
Turf
Classic
Classic
Distaff
Distaff
Distaff
Filly & Mare Turf
Filly & Mare Turf
Filly & Mare Turf
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Turf
Speightstown
Flower Alley
Ashado
Capeside Lady
Adieu
Host (Chi)
Limehouse
Lion Tamer
English Channel
Flower Alley
Lawyer Ron
Fleet Indian
Pool Land
Spun Sugar
Honey Ryder
Quiet Royal
Wait a While
Circular Quay
King of the Roxy
Scat Daddy
Cotton Blossom
Octave
Friendly Island
English Channel
1st
2nd
3rd
6th
7th
7th
6th
3rd
5th
11th
9th
dnf
9th
8th
3rd
9th
4th
2nd
8th
4th
3rd
2nd
2nd
3rd
2007
2008
2009
Turf
Go Deputy
Turf
Icy Atlantic
Classic
Any Given Saturday
Classic
Lawyer Ron
Distaff
Indian Vale
Distaff
Octave
Distaff
Unbridled Belle
Filly & Mare Turf Honey Ryder
Juvenile Turf
The Leopard
Mile
Host (Chi)
Mile
Icy Atlantic
Turf
English Channel
Classic
Fairbanks
Filly & Mare Turf Wait a While
Juvenile
Munnings
Juvenile
Silent Valor
Juvenile Turf
Bittel Road
Dirt Mile
Readyʼs Echo
Filly & Mare Sprint Game Face
Juvenile
Aikenite
Juvenile
Eskendereya
Juvenile Fillies
Devil May Care
Juvenile Fillies Turf Rose Catherine
Juvenile Turf
Interactif
7th
11th
6th
7th
9th
3rd
5th
2nd
7th
5th
9th
1st
10th
3rd
10th
8th
8th
2nd
9th
5th
9th
11th
2nd
3rd
2010
2011
2012
Marathon
Nite Light
Mile
Cowboy Cal
Sprint
Join in the Dance
Classic
Quality Road
Dirt Mile
Aikenite
Juvenile
Stay Thirsty
Juvenile
Uncle Mo
Juvenile Fillies
R Heat Lightning
Juvenile Turf
Allure dʼAmour
Juvenile Turf
More Than Real
Juvenile Turf
Pluck
Ladies' Classic
Life At Ten
Ladies' Classic
Malibu Prayer
Turf Sprint
Rose Catherine
Classic
Stay Thirsty
Classic
Uncle Mo
Filly & Mare Sprint Her Smile
Juvenile Fillies Turf Stopshoppingmaria
Juvenile Fillies Turf Sweet Cat
Juvenile Turf
Finale
Ladies' Classic
Super Espresso
Mile
Sidneyʼs Candy
Sprint
Aikenite
Distaff
Love and Pride
8th
10th
9th
12th
8th
5th
1st
2nd
13th
1st
1st
11th
10th
7th
11th
10th
3rd
2nd
3rd
7th
7th
6th
4th
5th
Filly & Mare Sprint Turbulent Descent
Filly & Mare Turf In Lingerie
Juvenile
Shanghai Bobby
Juvenile Fillies
Dreaming of Julia
Juvenile Fillies
Kauai Kate
Juvenile Fillies Turf Tara from the Cape
Turf
Turbo Compressor
Turf Sprint
Bridgetown
7th
9th
1st
3rd
4th
4th
12th
14th
Malice also won the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) ... Pletcherʼs other Triple
Crown wins came from Rags to Riches in the 2007 Belmont Stakes
and Super Saver in the 2010 Kentucky Derby.
• Pletcherʼs 2013 stable also features 3-year-old filly sensation Princess
of Sylmar, winner of four Grade 1 stakes: the Beldame, Alabama,
Coaching Club American Oaks and Kentucky Oaks ... His other Grade
1 winners in 2013 include Verrazano in the Haskell and Wood
Memorial; Cross Traffic in the Whitney; Capo Bastone in the Kingʼs
Bishop; Graydar in the Donn; and Overanalyze in the Arkansas Derby.
Quick facts about Todd A. Pletcher:
• Pletcher collected the 3,000 win of his career on Feb. 11, 2012 when
Spring Hill Farm won the third race at Gulfstream Park.
• Pletcher added to his impressive Breedersʼ Cup totals in 2012 when
2-year-old champion Shanghai Bobby won the Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile
... It was his seventh Breedersʼ Cup victory ... His best year at the
Breedersʼ Cup came in 2010 when he won three Breedersʼ Cup races:
the Juvenile with eventual champion Uncle Mo, the Juvenile Turf with
Pluck, and the Juvenile Fillies Turf with More Than Real.
• Pletcher has led the nation in earnings seven times, including the last
three years ... He is well on his way to a fourth straight earnings crown
in 2013 ... Pletcher is currently second in all-time earnings with
$253,112,790 through Sept. 30, 2013 ... He trails only his mentor, D.
Wayne Lukas. ...
• Pletcherʼs other Breedersʼ Cup winners are English Channel (2007
Turf), Ashado (2004 Distaff), and Speightstown (2004 Sprint).
• His Breedersʼ Cup totals through 2012 stand at 95 starts, with 7 wins,
10 seconds and 12 thirds and earnings of $13,209,650 ... He ranks
fourth in earnings and fifth in wins.
• Pletcherʼs 2013 campaign was highlighted by his third Triple Crown
victory when Palace Malice captured the Belmont Stakes ... Palace
• His 10 Eclipse Award champions through 2012 are Shanghai Bobby,
Uncle Mo, Rags to Riches, Lawyer Ron, English Channel, Wait a
While, Fleet Indian, Speightstown, Ashado and Left Bank.
• His list of stakes winners in 2012 included Shanghai Bobby, Stay
Thirsty, Awesome Maria, Caixa Eletronica, Calibrachoa, Violence,
Overanalyze, Dreaming of Julia, Kauai Katie, Unlimited Budget, Love
and Pride, Gemologist, Dominus and Turbulent Descent
• In 2011, Pletcher had to withdraw two-year-old champion and early
favorite Uncle Mo with an unknown illness the day before the Kentucky
Derby. The colt was later found to have cholangiohepatitis, a liver
disorder, and was sent to WinStar Farm for several months of
recovery. He returned to run a very game second in the 2011 Kingʼs
Bishop at Saratoga, getting beaten by just a nose by Calebʼs Posse.
He won the Kelso (G2) at Belmont before running 10th in the
Breedersʼ Cup Classic, the final race of his career.
• Despite having to scratch Uncle Mo from the Kentucky Derby, Pletcher
did play a part in that yearʼs race as Uncle Moʼs defection left his
jockey, John Velazquez, available; Velazquez picked up the mount on
Derby winner Animal Kingdom.
• Stay Thirsty stepped up during his stablemateʼs recovery. After a 12th
place finish in the Kentucky Derby, Stay Thirsty finished second in the
Belmont Stakes and won the Jim Dandy (G2) and Travers Stakes
(G1). He also finished third in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1).
• 2011 was the second consecutive year in which Pletcher had to
scratch a Kentucky Derby favorite; in 2010, Eskendereya, winner of
the Fountain of Youth (G1), Florida Derby (G1) and Wood Memorial
(G1) was injured the week of the race. Pletcher had won eight different
Kentucky Derby preps with six different horses, and it was Super
Saver who finally got him his elusive first Derby win. The WinStar
Farm color-bearer rebounded from a second-place finish in the
Arkansas Derby (G2) to capture the Kentucky Derby under a patented
rail-skimming ride from jockey Calvin Borel.
• 2010 saw Pletcher win 14 Grade 1 races. In addition to the Kentucky
Derby with Super Saver and Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile and Champagne
with Uncle Mo, his wins included: Life At Ten (Beldame, Ogden
Phipps); Quality Road (Donn, Metropolitan Handicap, Woodward);
Devil May Care (Mother Goose, Coaching Club American Oaks); R
Heat Lightning (Spinaway); Discreetly Mine (Kingʼs Bishop); the Malibu
Prayer (Ruffian); Eskendereya (Wood Memorial).
• Pletcher won Eclipse Awards as Outstanding Trainer in 2010, 2007,
2006, 2005, and 2004 and was the leader in earnings 2010-12 and
2004-07.
• Pletcher had a relatively slow 2009, winning only three Grade 1 races.
Among other ʼ09 highlights were Dunkirkʼs second-place finish in the
Belmont and the transfer of Quality Road to his stable.
• Pletcher started 2008 by collecting his 2,000th career win on January
13 with On the Virg and finished the year as the second-leading
trainer, behind Steve Asmussen, with 208 wins from 1090 starts and
$13,571,546 in earnings. Among his best horses in 2008 were
Fairbanks, Game Face, Cowboy Cal, Unbridled Belle, and Wait a
While.
• Pletcher earned his fourth consecutive Eclipse Award as Outstanding
Trainer in 2007, the third trainer to accomplish that feat, joining Bobby
Frankel (2000-2003) and Laz Barrera (1976-79). He won his third
Breedersʼ Cup race with English Channel in the Turf, trained three
Eclipse Award Champions – Rags to Riches (Three-Year-Old Filly),
English Channel (Turf Horse) and Lawyer Ron (Older Male) – and won
Grade 1 races with six other horses.
• Pletcher won his first Triple Crown race in 2007 when Rags to Riches
became the first filly since Tanya in 1905 to win the Belmont. The
Preakness is the only Triple Crown race Pletcher hasnʼt won.
• In 2007, Pletcher trainee Lawyer Ron broke the track record set by
Pletcherʼs first Eclipse Award winner, Left Bank, when he captured the
Whitney in a final time of 1:46.64. Previously, also in the Whitney, Left
Bank had equaled the Saratoga track record of 1:47 set by Tri Jet in
1974.
• Pletcher shattered his own record from 2006 when he ended the year
with $28,576,097 in earnings. In 2006, his stable earned $26,820,243.
He surpassed D. Wayne Lukasʼ record of 92 stakes victories in a year
on Oct. 15, 2006, when Scat Daddy won the Champagne, and he
finished that year with 100 stakes wins out 416 starters. He also broke
Lukasʼ record of 53 graded stakes victories in a year with 57 victories.
Two of his horses won Eclipse Awards in 2006: Fleet Indian (Older
Female) and Wait a While (Three-Year-Old Filly).
• With 47 individual stakes winners in 2005, Pletcher became the first
trainer to crack $20 million in purse earnings with $20,867,842.
• In 2004, Pletcher won his first two Breedersʼ Cup races with Ashado
(Distaff (now the Ladies Classic)) and Speightstown (Sprint), which
helped him lead the nation in earnings with $17,511,923 and win his
first Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer. Ashado and Speightstown
were both voted the champions of their divisions.
• A perennial leader in New York, Pletcher won five consecutive
Saratoga training titles from 2002-2006. After three consecutive years
in second place, he regained the title in 2010 and won his fourth
straight crown in 2013 ... In 2011, he broke his own record for wins
during the meet with 38 ... A 10-time champion at Saratoga, Pletcher
won his first title at the Spa in 1998 ... He also holds training titles at
Belmont Park, Aqueduct, Gulfstream Park and Keeneland.
• While in college, Pletcher spent his summers working with trainers
Henry Moreno, D. Wayne Lukas and Charlie Whittingham; he went to
work as an assistant for Lukas two weeks after his college graduation.
• After seven years with Lukas, Pletcher opened his own public stable
with seven horses in Dec. 1995 at Hialeah and won his first race in
Feb. 1996 at Gulfstream Park with Majestic Number. Among his early
success stories was Jersey Girl, who won seven consecutive races
before being injured, including three Grade 1 stakes: the Acorn, the
Mother Goose and the Test.
• Pletcher grew up in the racing business, helping his father, Jake (J.J.)
Pletcher, who trained Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses throughout
the Midwest and California. Jake Pletcher continues to work with
Thoroughbreds at a training center in Ocala, Fla.
• Pletcher has reduced his stable in recent years to around 100 horses
and employs four assistant trainers. Tristan Barry works with Pletcher
at Saratoga and Palm Meadows; Michael McCarthy oversees
Pletcherʼs Belmont stable; Ginny DePasquale works at Saratoga and
Palm Meadows and often travels with Pletcher horses; and Anthony
Sciametta works with Pletcher at Monmouth and Gulfstream ... Former
Pletcher assistants who have gone on to train on their own include
George Weaver, Michelle Nihei, Seth Benzel and Michael Dilger.
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HOLY LUTE
Trainer: JAMES M. CASSIDY
Gr/ro.c.3 Midnight Lute - Holy Christmas by Holy Bull
Bred in Kentucky by LYNN B. SCHIFF (Mar 01, 2010)
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12
7
9
9
Quiet American, 1986
12s, SW, $754,650
Real Quiet, 1995
921 f, 57 SW, 1.67 AEI
20s, SW, $3,271,802
Really Blue, 1983
MIDNIGHT LUTE, 624 f, 19 SW, 1.20 AEI
21s, wnr, $31,920
dkb/br, 2003
8 f, 5 r, 3 w, 1 SW
Dehere, 1991
9s, SW, $723,712
Candytuft, 1996
1,544 f, 77 SW, 1.65 AEI
Unraced
Bolt From the Blue, 1980
10 f, 8 r, 8 w, 1 SW
11s, SW, $125,834
HOLY LUTE
11 f, 9 r, 6 w
gr/ro, c
Great Above, 1972
March 1, 2010
63s, SW, $331,377
Holy Bull, 1991
605 f, 39 SW, 1.61 AEI
16s, SW, $2,481,760
1,109 f, 51 SW, 1.39 AEI Sharon Brown, 1980
32s, wnr, $45,860
14 f, 12 r, 10 w, 2 SW
HOLY CHRISTSmart Strike, 1992
MAS,
8s, SW, $337,376
Christmas Strike, 1998 1,163 f, 98 SW, 2.35 AEI
gr/ro, 2004
3s, unpl, $825
Christmas Gift, 1992
8 f, 7 r, 6 w, 1 SW
22s, SW, $387,176
12 f, 10 r, 8 w, 2 SW
Fappiano
Demure
Believe It
Meadow Blue
Deputy Minister
Sister Dot
Blue Times
Berkut
Minnesota Mac
Ta Wee
Al Hattab
Agathea's Dawn
Mr. Prospector
Classy 'n Smart
Green Desert
Christmas Bonus
HOLY LUTE'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 3
4
2(1)
0
2(1)
$163,822
Lifetime
4
2(1)
0
2(1)
$163,822
Sire: MIDNIGHT LUTE, dkb/br, 2003. Raced 4 yrs, 13 sts, 6 wins, $2,690,600. Champion sprinter.
Won Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) twice, Forego S (gr. I), Perryville S (gr. III); 2nd Hill 'n' Dale Cigar
Mile H (gr. I), San Fernando Breeders' Cup S (gr. II); 3rd Malibu S (gr. I).
Lifetime: 2 crops, 169 foals, 96 rnrs (57%), 46 wnrs (27%), 13 2yo wnrs (8%), 7 sw (4%), 1.92 AEI,
1.64 CI, 135 sale yrlgs, avg $61,063, 1.1 TNA.
1st dam: Holy Christmas, gr/ro, 2004. Bred by Rick Abbott and D. J. Stable, (Pa.). Raced 2 yrs, 5
sts, 1 win, $32,230. 2nd Foxy J. G. S (R). Dam of 2 named foals, 2 rnrs, 1 wnr, 1 sw. ($100,000,
2005 eassep yrlg; $37,000, 2007 keejan; $95,000, 2008 keejan).
2009: Ducky McLean, b f, by Stormy Atlantic. Raced 1 yr, 3 sts, 0 wins, $2,491. ($35,000 ftkoct yrlg).
2010: HOLY LUTE, gr/ro c, by Midnight Lute. ($65,000 keenov wnlg).
At 3: Won El Cajon S; 3rd Indiana Derby (gr. II).
Inbreeding: 5SX4D Mr. Prospector; 5SX5D Raise a Native.
Nicking: MIDNIGHT LUTE w/HOLY BULL mares: 2 foals, 1 str, 1 wnr (50%), 0 2yo wnrs
(0%), 1 SW (50%), 0 GSW (0%).
Broodmare sire: HOLY BULL, gr, 1991. Sire of 272 dams of 990 foals, 725 rnrs (73%), 495 wnrs
(50%), 155 2yo wnrs (16%), 1.14 AEI, 1.44 CI; 39 sw.
2nd dam: Christmas Strike, b, 1998. Bred by Edward P. Evans (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs, 3 sts, 0 wins, $825.
Dam of DOUBLE DOWN VINMAN (g, Out of Place; $540,204. Won Lil E. Tee H, R; 2nd Danzig S,
R; 3rd Spicy Award S, Pennsylvania Nursery S, R, Peppy Addy S, R), No Passing Zone (g, Pleasant
Tap; $185,526. 2nd Danzig S, R; 3rd Pennsylvania Nursery S, R).
Breeder
Lynn B. Schiff ... Born: June 29, 1943 in Joplin, Mo.
... Residence: Cincinnati, Ohio ... Family: husband Jack, chairman of
Cincinnati Financial Corporation; sons John and Charlie; daughter
Maggie Gieseke; 10 grandchildren.
Quick facts about Lynn B. Schiff:
• After 20 years of breeding Thoroughbreds, Lynn Schiff will be
represented in her first Breedersʼ Cup in 2013 by two horses she bred:
Ria Antonia in the Juvenile Fillies and Holy Lute in the Dirt Mile. .... In
2013, Schiff also bred Romansh in partnership with Darley, a
Bernardini colt who finished 5th in the Travers (G1) and 6th in the
Pennsylvania Derby (G2).
• The Rockport Harbor filly Ria Antonia, 5th in the 2013 Frizette Stakes
(G1), is the best foal yet out of the Mr. Greeley mare Beer Baroness,
who has produced three winners, a yearling colt by Line of David, a
weanling colt by Indygo Shiner, and is in foal to Trappe Shot for 2014.
She was to be sold as a weanling for Schiffʼs Clover Hill by Mike
Akersʼ Dapple Bloodstock but was withdrawn and sold as a yearling for
$9,000 at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton October yearling sale.
• Holy Lute, by Midnight Lute, is the second foal produced by Shiffʼs
Holy Christmas, who was not bred again. Holy Lute, winner of the El
Cajon Stakes in 2013, was sold for $65,000 as a weanling at the 2010
Keeneland November mixed sale.
• Schiff thought she might get her first Breedersʼ Cup starter in 2006
when Cohiba Miss won the Kentucky Cup Juvenile Fillies but the filly
didnʼt go on to the Breedersʼ Cup.
• Viking Stud, as agent, sold Cohiba Miss for $87,000 at the Keeneland
September yearling sale.
• Schiff was in the sales pavilion at the Keeneland November breeding
stock sale in 2002 when Penny Arcade, dam of Cohiba Miss, was
slated to sell. When Penny Arcade refused to enter the sales ring,
handlers backed her in and Schiff was impressed with her strong hind
quarters which came into view before her front end and she bought her
for $350,000 in foal to Thunder Gulch.
• Mares are sent to Kentucky to foal and then returned when they are
back in foal. Offspring are raised in Ohio until they are shipped to Pam
Littrellʼs Viking Stud in Lexington to be prepared for the weanling or
yearling sales.
• Her friend Helen Andrews and Lexington bloodstock agent Mike Akers
serve as her advisers.
• Said it is difficult when her foals leave Clover Hill but she visits them at
Viking before they are sold.
• “All our foals are pets. I have to pat noses,” she said.
• Clover Hill Farm in Lebanon, Ohio, located about 30 miles from
Cincinnati, is used for corn, wheat, and other crops. Farm was used for
raising cattle before being converted to a commercial breeding
operation in the late 1990s. Schiff ventured to the Lexington area to
look at farms and copied the design of the late Allen Paulsonʼs
Brookside Farm barns. A 70-acre parcel is used for a band of eight
broodmares. Another property is used for pleasure horses and ponies
for the grandchildren
Owner
Class Racing Stable ... Owner(s): Joe Masino and Tom Arndt ... Born:
Joe: Dec. 21, 1947; Tom: May 14, 1959 ... Residence: Joe: Escondido,
Calif.; Tom: Scottsdale, Ariz., and La Jolla, Calif. ... Family: Joe: Wife
Ann Marie; four children (blended family); five grandchildren. Tom: Two
sons. ... Education: Graduate of Northern Arizona University. Retired
from the oil-distribution business in 2009 and became majority partner
with Joe Masino in Class Racing at that time.
Starts 1st
2nd
2
1
0
1998
2009
3rd
0
Earnings
$520,000
Sprint
Reraise
Juvenile Fillies Turf La Nez
1st
6th
Quick facts about Class Racing Stable:
• Partnership is making its third foray into the Breedersʼ Cup World
Championships, hopeful that Holy Lute will come home a winner in the
Dirt Mile.
• Son of two-time Sprint victor Midnight Lute comes to the race from a
victory at Del Mar in the El Cajon Stakes and a third-place finish in the
Indiana Derby over a sloppy track.
• Masino founded Class Racing Stable about 18 years ago after taking a
buyout when the Fortune 500 company he was working for began
down-sizing. He had always been interested in the sport, so it seemed
only natural to him to go into the business.
• He has created numerous partnerships over the years. Tom Arndt
joined the group about eight years ago as a member of some
partnerships. Over time, he became involved to the point where he
joined Masino as a majority partner.
• Class Racing was a partner in Reraise when the horse won the 1998
Sprint, making trainer Craig Dollase the youngest trainer to win a
Breedersʼ Cup Championship race. The groupʼs only other Breedersʼ
Cup prior to Holy Lute was La Nez, who was sixth in the 2009 Juvenile
Fillies Turf. Other top horses: Monterey Jazz and 2009 New Mexico
Horse of the Year Black Hills.
• Class Racing generally has 30 to 40 horses in training with these
conditioners: Dollase, Eric Kruljac, Jim Cassidy and Jack Carava.
• Arndt says the partnership buys and syndicateʼs racehorses much the
same as other partnerships. There are about 40 partners, so that
makes the syndication a smooth operation. “It gives each partner an
opportunity to be in the game with a minimum of risk.”
• As for going to the Breedersʼ Cup World Championships again, Arndt
says, “Weʼre having some fun in the ownership business and weʼre
excited about going to the Breedersʼ Cup.”
• By Masinoʼs reckoning, the partnership over the past nine years has
averaged close to $1 million in earnings each year.
• Heavy in the claiming business in its early days, Class Racing has
turned up the competitive heat by purchasing young horses privately
or at racetrack auctions such as Keenelandʼs yearling sales.
Trainer
James Cassidy ... Born: Aug. 21, 1945, New York City ... Residence:
Monrovia, Calif. ... Family: Wife Melanie; sons Jonathan and Christopher
... Education: Attended City College of New York for one semester
before turning to horses full time ... Racing Career: Has enjoyed banner
2010, headed by The Usual Q.T., winner of the Eddie Read Stakes (G1);
and Evening Jewel, winner of the Ashland Stakes (G1) and Del Mar Oaks
(G1). Both are California-bred. The Usual Q.T. won five straight races in
2009, including the Hollywood Derby (G1). Evening Jewel also won the
2010 Honeymoon Handicap (G2) and San Clemente Handicap (G2) and
finished a nose behind nemesis Blind Luck in two Grade 1 stakes,
including the Kentucky Oaks ... Has had two starters in the Kentucky
Derby, Jamaican Rum (seventh in 2001) and Ocean Sound (17th in
2002) … Won his first Grade 1 race in 2004 when Ticker Tape surprised
a stellar field in Hollywood Parkʼs American Oaks at odds of 12-1. Ticker
Tape won four other stakes during the year, including a second Grade 1
in the Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Keeneland ...Won two other
Grade 1 stakes with Singhalese in the 2005 Del Mar Oaks and Milk It
Mick in the 2006 Kilroe Mile ... Has sent out three previous Breedersʼ Cup
starters: Moscow Burning and Katdogawn, fourth and tenth, respectively,
in the 2004 Filly & Mare Turf; and April Pride, 11th in the 2008 Juvenile
Fillies Turf... Moscow Burning joined the Cassidy stable in August of 2003
after being claimed from her fourth career start in Northern California for
$25,000 by a partnership headed by Don Van Kempen of Vista, Calif.
She became the all-time money leader for California-bred females,
overtaking previous leading distaff runner Franʼs Valentine in 2006 at age
six. Moscow Burning ended her career with $1,411,800 in earnings.
Owner chose to sell her at 2006 November Breeding stock sale for $1
million to Shadai Farm ... In 2008, won three stakes with Diamond Diva,
including CashCall Mile (G2). Other leading horses have included
Passified, Star Vega, Moth Ball, Pasar Silbano, Heʼs the Rage, Cable
Ready, Made for Music, Steelaninch, Bahama Mama, Unrivalled, Royal
Torrent, Wrekin Pilot and Golden Balls ... Racing Operation: Trains 30
horses in Southern California, about 60 per cent of which are English
imports ... Began emphasis on English auction stock about eight years
ago ... Says he can get better bargains in England than he can claiming
horses in the United States ... Katdogawn was a $16,000 bargain, while
Ticker Tape was the most expensive buy at $183,000... Rudy Mora
serves as his foreman.
Starts 1st
2nd
5
0
0
2004
2008
2010
3rd
2
Earnings
$377,370
Filly & Mare Turf Katdogawn (GB)
Filly & Mare Turf Moscow Burning
Juvenile Fillies Turf April Pride
Filly & Mare Sprint Evening Jewel
Mile
The Usual QT
10th
4th
11th
3rd
3rd
Quick facts about James Cassidy:
• After a two-year hiatus, trainer is back in the Breedersʼ Cup
Championships with Holy Lute for the Mile. The son of Midnight Lute
comes to the race off a third-place finish in the Indiana Derby Oct. 5.
Prior to that he won the El Cajon Stakes at Del Mar at a mile on
Polytrack.
• Cassidy racked up two thirds with his two 2010 Breedersʼ Cup entrants
– The Usual QT in the Mile and Evening Jewel in the Filly & Mare
Sprint. Both runners were multiple graded stakes winners for the
trainer. Other Breedersʼ Cup entrants: Moscow Burning and
Katdogawn, fourth and 10th, respectively, in the 2004 Filly & Mare Turf
and April Pride, 11th in the 2008 in the Juvenile Fillies Turf.
• Evening Jewel was 2010 California-bred Horse of the Year when she
scored victories in Keenelandʼs Ashland Stakes, Hollywood Parkʼs
Honeymoon Stakes and Del Marʼs San Clemente Stakes and Del Mar
Oaks. For all her success, Evening Jewel may be best known for
having the 2010 Kentucky Oaks snatched away from her in a torrid
finish by Blind Luck that netted a victory by the tiniest of noses. Blind
Luck, of course, went on to be second in that yearʼs Ladiesʼ Classic
and 3-year-old filly Eclipse champion.
• Likes to buy horses at auctions in England and has reaped much
success through a number of those purchases.
• Has had two starters in the Kentucky Derby, Jamaican Rum (seventh
in 2001) and Ocean Sound (17th in 2002).
• Won his first Grade 1 race in 2004 when Ticker Tape surprised a
stellar field in Hollywood Parkʼs American Oaks at odds of 12-1. Ticker
Tape won four other stakes during the year, including a second Grade
1 in the Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Keeneland ... Other stakes
winners include Singhalese, Milk It Mick, Phone Alex and Inca Tern.
• Began working with horses after high school at a Long Island riding
academy, specializing in hunters and jumpers .... Gave riding lessons
and he and his students competed in shows across Long Island and in
Connecticut ... First became involved with Thoroughbreds through
layups ... First job on the racetrack was with Joe Cantey, then with
Frank Whiteley ... Worked with Whiteley during the time he
campaigned champion filly Ruffian ... Left Whiteley to work with
Charlie Sanborn on the New Jersey-Florida circuit.
• Moved to California in 1981 at the encouragement of trainer Gerry
Moerman and later assisted trainers Sid Martin, Darrell Vienna and
Brian Mayberry ... Following his time as an assistant trainer, worked as
an assistant to three veterinarians for nine years before taking out his
trainerʼs license in the mid-1990s to train for John Elardiʼs Southern
Nevada Racing Stable.
• Born six blocks from Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, Cassidy remains a
fervent Yankee baseball fan and is easy to find donned in his
ever-present Yankee baseball cap.
4 0 3 1
$163,261
2013:
8 2 1 0
$502,000
2012:
25 8 8 2
$966,448
Life:
Turf:
7 3 2 0
$103,487
Trainer:
CLAUDE
R.
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Owner: STUART S. JANNEY, III
ARCH,
dkb/br, 1995
Kris S., 1977
5s, SW, $53,350
839 f, 93 SW, 2.48 AEI
Aurora, 1988
15s, SW, $285,236
12 f, 7 r, 6 w, 4 SW
HYMN BOOK
dkb/br, g
May 5, 2006
Known Fact, 1977
11s, SW, $294,828
747 f, 54 SW, 1.66 AEI
VESPERS,
dkb/br, 1998
Sunset Service, 1993
4s, pl, $5,080
11 f, 7 r, 5 w, 2 SW
Roberto, 1969
14s, SW, $332,272
500 f, 85 SW, 3.37 AEI
Sharp Queen, 1965
14s, wnr, $11,775
8 f, 7 r, 6 w, 1 SW
Danzig, 1977
3s, wnr, $32,400
1,074 f, 202 SW, 3.97 AEI
Althea, 1981
15s, SW, $1,275,255
5 f, 4 r, 4 w, 4 SW
In Reality, 1964
27s, SW, $795,824
555 f, 81 SW, 3.18 AEI
Tamerett, 1962
35s, wnr, $25,415
8 f, 6 r, 6 w, 5 SW
22s, SW, $696,964
1,141 f, 90 SW, 2.53 AEI
Songlines, 1986
19s, SW, $207,548
10 f, 10 r, 4 w, 1 SW
Hail to Reason
Bramalea
Princequillo
Bridgework
Northern Dancer
Pas de Nom
Alydar
Courtly Dee
Intentionally
My Dear Girl
Tim Tam
Mixed Marriage
Vice Regent
Mint Copy
Diesis
Begum
HYMN BOOK'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 3
4
3
0
0
$64,487
at 4
3
1
1
1
$41,300
at 5
6
2(2)
3(2)
0
$195,400
at 6
8
2(2)
1(1)
0
$502,000
at 7
4
0
3(3)
1(1)
$163,261
Lifetime
25
8(4)
8(6)
2(1)
$966,448
Sire: ARCH, dkb/br, 1995. Raced 2 yrs, 7 sts, 5 wins, $480,969. Won Super Derby (gr. I), Fayette
S (gr. III).
1st dam: VESPERS, dkb/br, 1998. Bred by Stuart S. Janney III (Ky.). Raced 5 yrs, 33 sts, 6 wins,
$261,494. Won Memories of Silver S (R), Flying Concert S (R); 3rd Marshua's River S (T), De La
Rose S (RT), Gaviola S (RT). Dam of 4 named foals, 1 rnr, 1 wnr, 1 sw.
2006: HYMN BOOK, dkb/br g, by Arch.
At 5: Won Firethorn S, Three Coins Up S; 2nd Cigar Mile H (gr. I), Suburban H (gr. II).
At 6: Won Donn H (gr. I), Frank "Pancho" Martin S; 2nd Suburban H (gr. II).
At 7: 2nd Alysheba S (gr. II), Monmouth Cup S (gr. II), Criminal Type S; 3rd Kelso H (gr. II).
2007: Not bred.
2008: Barren.
2009: Temako, ch c, by Eddington. Unraced. Sent to Pan 2010. ($9,000 keesep yrlg).
2010: Surging, b c, by War Front. Unraced.
2011: Lunar Evening, dkb/br f, by Malibu Moon. Unraced.
2012: F, by Harlan's Holiday. Died 2012.
2013: Barren.
Inbreeding: 4SX5D Alydar; 4SX5D Northern Dancer.
Nicking: ARCH w/KNOWN FACT mares: 11 foals, 7 strs, 5 wnrs (45%), 1 2yo wnr (9%), 3
SW (27%), 3 GSW (27%).
Broodmare sire: KNOWN FACT, dkb/br, 1977-2000. Sire of 300 dams of 1,625 foals, 1,216 rnrs
(75%), 773 wnrs (48%), 201 2yo wnrs (12%), 1.19 AEI, 1.37 CI; 67 sw.
2nd dam: Sunset Service, b, 1993. Bred by Brushwood Stable (Pa.). Raced 1 yr, 4 sts, 0 wins, $5,080.
Dam of DATABASE (f, Known Fact; $232,140. Won Beautiful Day S; 3rd Maryland Racing Media H;
dam of DATA LINK, Wiki). Granddam of STRIKE THE BELL, CITIZEN ADVOCATE.
Breeder/Owner
Stuart S. Janney III ... Born: Aug. 31, 1948 in Baltimore. ... Residence:
Butler, Md. ... Family: wife Lynn; children Emily and Matthew. ...
Education: Graduated from the University of North Carolina ... Received
a law degree from the University of Maryland.
Starts 1st
2nd
3
0
0
1998
2008
2010
3rd
0
Classic
Ladies' Classic
Juvenile Turf
Earnings
$204,400
Coronadoʼs Quest
Carriage Trail
Air Support
5th
4th
9th
Quick facts about Stuart S. Janney III:
• Janney is a member of the Phipps family, which has been prominent in
American racing since his grandmother, Gladys Mills Phipps, formed
Wheatley Stable in 1926. In partnership with his cousin Ogden Mills
“Dinny” Phipps, Janney won the 2013 Kentucky Derby with Orb, the
familyʼs first victory in Americaʼs most famous race.Through the years,
Derby horses owned by members of the Phipps family had finished
second twice (Easy Goer in 1989, and Dapper Dan in 1965), and third
(Awe Inspiring in 1989).”Itʼs really the culmination of horse racing and I
am thrilled to be here today,” Dinny Phipps said after the
Derby.Janney said: “I just couldnʼt be more delighted that weʼre doing
this together.”
• Introduced to racing through his parents, Stuart and Barbara, who
owned the champion filly Ruffian. One of the most beloved fillies of her
generation, Ruffian won her first 10 starts before she tragically broke
down during a 1975 match race with Kentucky Derby winner Foolish
Pleasure and was euthanized. She is a member of the Hall of Fame.
The Janneys also owned Icecapade and Private Terms.
• Janney is the chairman of the family owned Bessemer Trust Company
and Bessemer Securities Corp. and is a first cousin of Ogden Mills
“Dinny” Phipps. Their great grandfather, Henry Phipps, was a partner
of Andrew Carnegie and was the founder of Bessemer Trust. Janney
and Phipps sometimes are partners in horses. Janney is the chairman
of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and a trustee of Johns
Hopkins Medicine and Johns Hopkins University.
• Homebred Data Link was retired to stud at Claiborne Farm in Oct.
2013 after leading Janneyʼs stable the past two seasons. He won four
graded turf stakes, including the 2012 Makerʼs 46 Mile Stakes (G1).
He finished his career with eight wins in 18 starts and purse earnings
of $831,335. Air Support, a multiple graded stakes winner who is
winless in three starts in 2013, is in training in New York.
• Another one of Janneyʼs successful runners was Coronadoʼs Quest,
who won two Grade 1s, the Haskell and Travers, as a 3-year-old in
1998. Coronadoʼs Quest also captured the Dwyer (G2) and Riva Ridge
(G2) at three and the Remsen (G2) and Cowdin Stakes (G2), and
Nashua (G3) at two ... Coronadoʼs Quest accounted for Janneyʼs first
Breedersʼ Cup start, finishing fifth in the 1998 Breedersʼ Cup Classic.
His other Breedersʼ Cup starters were Carriage Trail, who was fourth
in the 2008 Ladiesʼ Classic, and Air Support, who was ninth in the
2010 Juvenile Turf. Carriage Trail was run in partnership with the
Phipps Stable.
• Also owned Hunting, winner of the Stuyvesant (G3) in 2007, and
Criminologist, who captured the Noble Damsel and Beaugay in 2008
and the Athenia in 2007
• Owns approximately 80 horses, some in partnership with Phipps
Stable. Keeps 20 broodmares at Claiborne Farm, in Paris, Ky.
• Janney is a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Racing
Association and of Keeneland. He is vice-chairman of The Jockey
Club and serves as chairman of The Jockey Clubʼs Thoroughbred
Safety Committee. A past chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and
Breeders Association (TOBA), he remains active with the organization
as vice-chairman.
Trainer
Claude R. McGaughey III (goes by Shug) ... Born: Jan. 6, 1951,
Lexington, Ky. ... Residence: Old Westbury, N.Y. and North Miami
Beach, Fla. ... Family: wife, Alison; sons Claude IV and John Reeve.
Starts 1st
2nd
56
9
10
1985
1986
1988
1989
1990
1991
3rd
2
Classic
Distaff
Juvenile
Turf
Classic
Classic
Distaff
Juvenile
Sprint
Classic
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Classic
Sprint
Distaff
Earnings
$9,685,560
Vanlandingham
Classy Cathy
Polish Navy
Duty Dance
Personal Flag
Seeking the Gold
Personal Ensign
Easy Goer
Mining
Easy Goer
Adjudicating
Rhythm
In Full Cry
Dancing Spree
Rhythm
Dancing Spree
Queena
1992
7th
4th
7th
7th
6th
2nd
1st
2nd
10th
2nd
11th
1st
10th
1st
8th
6th
5th
1993
1994
1995
1996
1998
Distaff
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Distaff
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Mile
Sprint
Classic
Distaff
Juvenile Fillies
Mile
Distaff
Mile
Distaff
Distaff
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Distaff
Juvenile Fillies
Classic
Juvenile Fillies
Versailles Treaty
Offbeat
Preach
Polish Numbers
Versailles Treaty
Living Vicariously
Strolling Along
Educated Risk
Lure
Furiously
Minerʼs Mark
Dispute
Heavenly Prize
Lure
Heavenly Prize
Lure
Heavenly Prize
Inside Information
My Flag
Our Emblem
My Flag
Hidden Reserve
Coronadoʼs Quest
Emanating
2nd
4th
7th
8th
2nd
4th
8th
2nd
1st
10th
12th
4th
3rd
1st
2nd
9th
2nd
1st
1st
6th
4th
7th
5th
5th
1999
2001
2002
2004
2005
2006
2008
2010
2012
Sprint
Furlough
Sprint
Furlough
Distaff
Atelier
Juvenile
Saarland
Juvenile Fillies
Storm Flag Flying
Distaff
Storm Flag Flying
Distaff
Pleasant Home
Distaff
Pine Island
Juvenile Fillies
Persistently
Juvenile Fillies Turf Consequence
Ladies' Classic
Carriage Trail
Turf
Dancing Forever
Juvenile Turf
Air Support
Ladies' Classic
Persistently
Turf
Point of Entry
10th
10th
4th
8th
1st
2nd
1st
dnf
5th
6th
4th
3rd
9th
7th
2nd
Quick facts about Claude R. McGaughey III (goes by Shug):
• In total, has won nine Breedersʼ Cup races, tied for second with Bill
Mott behind D. Wayne Lukasʼ 19. With $9,685,560 he is seventh in
purse money won going into the 2013 Breedersʼ Cup. His 56 starters
are seventh. ... Twice, McGaughey has won two Breedersʼ Cup races
in one day – in 1989, Dancing Spree won the Sprint and Rhythm
captured the Juvenile. At Belmont Park in 1995, My Flag won the
Juvenile Fillies and Inside Information the Distaff. Also, Heavenly
Prize, finished second in the Distaff. Won consecutive Breedersʼ Cup
Miles with Lure in 1992 and 1993. Won 2002 Juvenile Fillies with
Storm Flag Flying, who went on to be named champion 2-year-old filly.
Storm Flag Flying is out of My Flag, whom McGaughey trained to win
the 1995 Juvenile Fillies. Since My Flag is a daughter of Personal
Ensign, McGaughey trained a Breedersʼ Cup winner from three
generations of the same female family.
• In 2005, McGaughey pulled off a stunning upset in the Distaff, with
Pleasant Home, who won by 9-1/4 lengths at odds of 30-1.
McGaughey decided to enter Pleasant Home after his star, Smuggler,
was sidelined with a lung infection.
• McGaughey realized a personal goal in 2013 when he was able to add
a Kentucky Derby victory to his already impressive resume. Orb, bred
and owned by his longtime clients, Stuart Janney and the Phipps
Stable, prevailed in the 139th running of Americaʼs most famous race.
The Malibu Moon colt won by 2-1/2 lengths over a sloppy track at
Churchill Downs. It was his fifth consecutive victory and followed a
triumph in the Florida Derby (G1) at Gulfstream Park. Orbʼs streak
ended in the Derby: he was fourth in the Preakness and third in the
Belmont Stakes. After a lengthy stay at the Fair Hill Equine Center in
Elkton, Md. where he recovered from the Triple Crown and resume
training, Orb was third in the Travers (G1) at Saratoga. After the colt
finished last of eight in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) on Sept. 28,
McGaughey said it was unlikely that he would run in the 2013
Breedersʼ Cup Classic.Orb was just the seventh Derby runner and first
since 2002 for McGaughey, a native Kentuckian, who grew up in
Lexington. Though he had won many of Americaʼs important races
during his career, McGaughey had longed for a Derby win. “It means
everything to me. Iʼve always dreamed of this day and it finally came,”
he says. “Iʼm thrilled for the people who put in so much time on this
horse and, of course, Iʼm thrilled for me.”
• Multiple Grade 1 winner Point of Entry, a stable standout the past two
seasons, finished second by a half-length to Little Mike in a thrilling
finish of the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup Turf. Point of Entry is headed back to
the Turf after a far different campaign in 2013. The 5-year-old son of
Dynaformer won his first starts of the season, the Gulfstream Park Turf
Handicap (G1) and the Manhattan Handicap (G1) on June 8, but was
found to have a condylar fracture of the cannon bone in his left hind
following the Manhattan. Point of Entry underwent surgery and after a
rehab stint returned to training in late summer. After a timed workout
on Oct. 5, McGaughey said he was optimisitic that the horse would be
able to compete in the Breedersʼ Cup.While he is best known for his
success with dirt horses during his career, McGaughey has hit the
majority of his high notes in 2012 and 2013 with turf runners Point of
Entry, Air Support, Data Link, Hit It Rich, Boisterous and Hungry
Island. In 2013, five of McGaugheyʼs eight graded-stakes wins through
Oct. 9 came on turf. The other three were earned by Orb. With Point of
Entry on the disabled list during the summer, Boisterous picked up a
Grade 1 win in the Man oʼ War.McGaughey finished 2012 with 49
victories and earnings of $6,275,649. By Oct. 9, he was on his way to
eclipsing the 2012 purse earnings with $6,053,294.
• Point of Entry is a Phipps Stable homebred, a son of Dynaformer out
of Matlacha Pass, a Pleasant Colony mare. The colt showed promise
as a 3-year-old in 2011 and blossomed in 2012 with a five-race win
streak prior to the Breedersʼ Cup.
• Through Oct. 2013, McGaughey had won more than 1,770 races in his
career for earnings topping $120 million. He stands 10th on the career
earnings list.
• McGaughey was inducted into the National Museum of Racingʼs Hall
of Fame on Aug, 9, 2004.
• Has trained a total of nine champions: Easy Goer, Heavenly Prize,
Inside Information, Personal Ensign, Queena, Rhythm, Smuggler,
Storm Flag Flying and Vanlandingham. Inside Information was
inducted into the Hall of Fame on Aug. 4, 2008, joining two other
members trained by McGaughey: Easy Goer and Personal Ensign.
• McGaughey won the Eclipse Award as Outstanding Trainer in 1988, a
year in which his starters earned more than $8 million and won 15
Grade 1 races. He was the leading trainer by winning percentage in
New York in 1987, 1988 and 1989. Honored by the New York Turf
Writers Association with the Outstanding Trainer Award for both 1988
and 1993. He also was honored with the New York Thoroughbred
Horsemen Associationʼs C.V. Whitney Achievement Award for 1993.
• One of his career highlights was his handling of Personal Ensign, who
went 13-for-13. She was the first major horse in 80 years to go
undefeated and dramatically capped her career with a victory in the
1988 Breedersʼ Cup Distaff, edging Kentucky Derby winner Winning
Colors in one of the most thrilling finishes in Breedersʼ Cup history.
Personal Ensign also was an outstanding broodmare and her foals
included graded stakes winners Minerʼs Mark, Our Emblem, My Flag
and Traditionally. She was pensioned in 2006 and died of natural
causes on April 8, 2010.
• McGaughey added to his trove of memorable victories on Aug. 29,
2010 at Saratoga when the aptly named Persistently, bred and owned
by the Phipps Racing Stable, caught and passed reigning Horse of the
Year Rachel Alexandra in the Personal Ensign (G1), named for the
undefeated champion trained by McGaughey. It was the fourth victory
in the race for a Phipps horse trained by McGaughey, who has trained
for the family since 1985. He won the race when it was called the John
A. Morris in 1990 with Personal Business and 1995 with champion
Heavenly Prize. The race was renamed the Personal Ensign in 1999
and McGaughey won in 2004 with champion Storm Flag Flying – a
grandaughter of Personal Ensign – who defeated 2002 Horse of the
Year Azeri. As a result, McGaughey has twice accomplished the rare
feat of winning a race named for one of the horses he trained while
beating a Horse of the Year.
• In 2009, McGaughey made a shrewd managerial decision with Gone
Astray, skipping the Travers (G1) for the Pennsylvania Derby (G2).
After the Dixie Union colt finished second in an overnight stakes at
Saratoga, McGaughey decided that the Travers assignment might be
too tough and opted instead for the $1 million race for 3-year-olds a
week later. Gone Astray romped to a 9-1/4-length victory. Earlier in the
season, Gone Astray, whose granddam is Hall of Famer Inside
Information, finished third in the Withers (G3).
• Dancing Forever, a graded stakes winner in 2008, finished third in the
2008 Breedersʼ Cup Turf. Could be considered something of a miracle
horse, because he is the first foal out of Dancinginmydreams, a full
sister to Heavenly Prize, who broke down in the 2000 Frizette.
Dancinginmydreams was sent to the New Bolton Center after
shattering her right rear pastern. She spent 13 months at the
University of Pennsylvaniaʼs facility before being released.
• In 2006, his 3-year-old filly Pine Island was a contender for the division
title after Grade 1 victories in the Alabama and Gazelle. The second
choice in the wagering for the Distaff, she suffered a catastrophic leg
injury entering the backstretch at Churchill Downs and was
euthanized.
• McGaughey won 13 Grade 1 races with five different horses in 1989,
including the Belmont Stakes with Easy Goer. He won nine Grade 1
races in 1995.
• Won an unprecedented five stakes races in one day on Breedersʼ Cup
Preview Day at Belmont Park on Oct. 16, 1993: Grade 1 Jockey Club
Gold Cup (Minerʼs Mark); Beldame (Dispute); and Frizette (Heavenly
Prize); and Grade 3 Kelso Handicap (Lure); and Lawrence Realization
(Strolling Along). Of the seven horses McGaughey entered on that
card, six were winners (Regal Solution won an allowance race).
• Trained Coronadoʼs Quest to win five consecutive stakes during his
3-year-old campaign in 1998, including the Haskell Invitational (G1)at
Monmouth and the Travers (G1) at Saratoga.
• McGaugheyʼs longtime assistant is Buzz Tenney, a childhood friend
who has been the No. 2 guy on the staff since 1985.
• Grew up in Lexington, Ky., the son of a real estate agent ... He
attended the University of Mississippi, but dropped out in his junior
year to keep his job as a groom for trainer David Carr.
• Served as Carrʼs assistant and later as an assistant to David Whiteley
for five years ... Took out his own license in April 1979 and was
stabled at Keeneland ... Started to work for owner John Ed Anthony of
Loblolly Stable in 1982 … Named trainer of the Phipps family stable on
Nov. 11, 1985. Won his first race for the Phipps family with Erin Bright
in the Display Handicap (G3) on Dec. 31, 1985.
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LAUGH TRACK
B.c.4 Distorted Humor - Flaming Heart by Touch Gold
Bred in Kentucky by WINSTAR FARM, LLC (Feb 19, 2009)
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DISTORTED
HUMOR,
ch, 1993
LAUGH TRACK
b, c
February 19,
2009
Forty Niner, 1985
19s, SW, $2,726,000
920 f, 57 SW, 1.97 AEI
Danzig's Beauty, 1987
8s, SW, $205,806
14 f, 8 r, 6 w, 2 SW
Touch Gold, 1994
15s, SW, $1,679,907
812 f, 31 SW, 1.26 AEI
FLAMING HEART,
b, 2001
Hot Lear, 1995
7s, SW, $106,050
9 f, 5 r, 3 w, 1 SW
14s, SW, $112,171
1,178 f, 181 SW, 3.98 AEI
File, 1976
22s, SW, $73,774
11 f, 11 r, 7 w, 1 SW
Danzig, 1977
3s, wnr, $32,400
1,074 f, 202 SW, 3.97 AEI
Sweetest Chant, 1978
40s, SW, $414,410
11 f, 10 r, 9 w, 1 SW
22s, SW, $696,964
1,141 f, 90 SW, 2.53 AEI
Passing Mood, 1978
9s, SW, $45,361
9 f, 7 r, 6 w, 5 SW
Lear Fan, 1981
8s, SW, $175,901
891 f, 84 SW, 1.74 AEI
Medicine Woman, 1985
12s, SW, $161,427
13 f, 11 r, 10 w, 3 SW
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Tom Rolfe
Continue
Northern Dancer
Pas de Nom
Mr. Leader
Gay Sonnet
Vice Regent
Mint Copy
Buckpasser
Cool Mood
Roberto
Wac
Dr. Blum
Julita
LAUGH TRACK'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2
1
0
1
0
$11,389
at 3
4
2
1
1
$87,546
at 4
4
2(1)
1(1)
0
$184,632
Lifetime
9
4(1)
3(1)
1
$283,567
Sire: DISTORTED HUMOR, ch, 1993. Raced 3 yrs, 23 sts, 8 wins, $769,964. Won Commonwealth
Breeders' Cup S (gr. II), Churchill Downs H (gr. II), Ack Ack H (gr. III), Salvator Mile H (gr. III), Screen
King S; 2nd Fayette S (gr. II), Jerome H (gr. II), Kentucky Cup Classic H (gr. III); 3rd Cigar Mile H (gr.
I), Philip H. Iselin H (gr. II), King's Bishop S (gr. II).
Lifetime: 12 crops, 1,139 foals, 922 rnrs (81%), 717 wnrs (63%), 147 2yo wnrs (13%), 118 sw (10%),
2.21 AEI, 2.21 CI, 490 sale yrlgs, avg $244,421, 4.5 TNA.
1st dam: FLAMING HEART, b, 2001. Bred by Adena Springs (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs, 13 sts, 5 wins,
$253,414. Won Hill 'n' Dale S, Strolling Belle S (R); 2nd Next Move H (gr. III). Dam of 4 named
foals, 4 rnrs, 4 wnrs, 1 sw. ($1,500,000, 2007 keenov, Street Cry (Ire)).
2008: Mythical Bride, ch f, by Street Cry (Ire). Raced 3 yrs, 13 sts, 1 win, $35,040.
2009: LAUGH TRACK, b c, by Distorted Humor. ($180,000 keenov).
At 4: Won Vigil S (Can-III); 2nd Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix S (gr. III).
2010: Saint X., b c, by Tiznow. Raced 2 yrs, 9 sts, 1 win, $58,214. ($450,000 keesep yrlg).
2011: Commissioner, b c, by A.P. Indy. Raced 1 yr, 2 sts, 1 win, $59,000.
2012: Dkb/br c, by Tiznow.
2013: Barren.
Inbreeding: 5SX5D Hail to Reason; 4SX5DX5D Northern Dancer.
Nicking: DISTORTED HUMOR w/TOUCH GOLD mares: 4 foals, 3 strs, 2 wnrs (50%), 0 2yo
wnrs (0%), 1 SW (25%), 1 GSW (25%).
Broodmare sire: TOUCH GOLD, b, 1994. Sire of 230 dams of 642 foals, 429 rnrs (67%), 307 wnrs
(48%), 106 2yo wnrs (17%), 1.30 AEI, 1.45 CI; 23 sw.
2nd dam: HOT LEAR, b, 1995. Bred by Glencrest Farm (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs, 7 sts, 4 wins, $106,050.
Won Santa Clara H, Bay Meadows Debutante S, Courtship S; 2nd Fremont H T; 3rd Miss America
H. Dam of Dash for Money (f, General Meeting; $53,202. 3rd Railbird S, gr. III; dam of NO SPIN,
So Lonesome).
Breeder/Co-Owner
WinStar Farm ... Owner(s): Kenny Troutt ... Born: born Jan. 8, 1948, in
Mount Vernon, Ill. ... Residence: The Troutts live in Dallas, Texas ...
Family: wife, Lisa, three children ... Professional Background: Troutt
founded Excel Communications, a long-distance telephone service and
communications company. ... Web site: www.winstarfarm.com
Quick facts about WinStar Farm:
• The past few years ushered in several changes within the WinStar
organization. In Oct. 2010, it was announced that Kenny Troutt had
bought Bill Casner out of his portion of WinStar and was now the sole
owner of the operation with Casner staying on as the farmʼs largest
client. Casner and Troutt both stated the dissolution of their
partnership was a “business strategy” and that their longtime
friendship remained intact. Weeks later, WinStar president Doug
Cauthen announced he was leaving the farm to create his own
independent consulting service. Former trainer Elliott Walden, who
conditioned 1998 Belmont Stakes winner Victory Gallop, took over as
president and CEO of WinStar.
• In 2013, WinStar, both alone and in partnership, has been represented
by graded stakes winners Take Charge Indy, Revolutionary, General
Election, and Laugh Track. Take Charge Indy, a Grade 1-winning son
of A.P. Indy out the Grade 1 winner Take Charge Lady, was retired to
WinStar after suffering a left-front condylar fracture during the
Monmouth Cup Stakes (G2) and will stand the 2014 breeding season
at the farm. He is a half-brother to leading 3-year-old colt Will Take
Charge.
• This year, as a breeder WinStar has also been represented by graded
stakes winners Fiftyshadesofhay, Mr. Hot Stuff and Go Blue or Go
Home. Originally campaigned by WinStar, Mr. Hot Stuff finished third
in the Santa Anita Derby (G1) in 2009 and competed in both the
Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. He was later sold and gelded
and is now a new star on the steeplechase circuit, winning the A. P.
Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase Stakes (G1) at Saratoga in August.
• WinStar Farm expanded its facilities in 2013 by building a
state-of-the-art stallion barn to house its top sires like Distorted Humor,
Tiznow, Speightstown, and More Than Ready as well as new
prospects Bodemeister and Gemologist. The new stallion barn
features 18 stalls, two breeding sheds, three viewing areas to inspect
the stallions, and 22 paddocks that are three acres each.
• Major sires More Than Ready and Congrats made up part of a group
of five stallions who relocated to WinStar at the beginning of 2013. The
group also included Kodiak Kowboy, Pure Prize, and Street Hero.
They were the remainder of the stallions that formerly stood at Vinery
Ltd. At the end of 2012, former Vinery stallions Pioneerof the Nile and
Maimonides were also moved to WinStar.
• In 2011, WinStar earned its first Breedersʼ Cup victory in stunning
fashion, when Drosselmeyer won the Breedersʼ Cup Classic at odds of
14-1.
• In a banner 2010 season, WinStar captured both the Kentucky Derby
and Belmont Stakes with Super Saver and Drosselmeyer, respectively,
and earned its first Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner. WinStar first
gained national fame as the breeder of 2003 Kentucky Derby and
Preakness Stakes winner Funny Cide, but Super Saver, a homebred,
marked the first classic winner owned by Casner and Troutt.
• WinStar captured the 2009 $6 million Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1) with
its homebred Well Armed, whom Casner personally rehabilitated on
his farm in Texas after the gelding suffered a broken pelvis that kept
him sidelined for more than a year following the 2006 United Arab
Emirates Derby (UAE-G2).
• Sold first foal out of Grade 1 winner Awesome Humor, a colt by Storm
Cat, for $8.2 million at the 2006 Keeneland September yearling sale.
• Other horses bred by WinStar (singly and partnerships) include One
Cool Cat (Europeʼs champion 2-year-old of 2003), Grade 1 winners
Golden Ticket and Sharp Lisa, graded stakes winners Doubles
Partner, Rule and Itʼs No Joke, English group winner Lucky Story,
Pompeii and Ministerʼs Bid.
• Today, WinStar Farm is comprised of approximately 1,864 acres,
including an original 450-acre tract of land, once known as Silver Pond
Farm. Settled in the 1700s by the Williams of Tidewater Virginia, the
Silver Pond property remained in the family for over 150 years. Today
the original farmhouse, smokehouse, pond, bank barn and Osage
orange allee on Pisgah Pike are listed on the National Register of
Historic Places. Casner and Troutt initially purchased the 1,450-acre
Prestonwood Farm property near Versailles, Ky., from brothers Art,
Jack and J.R. Preston, also natives of Texas, and renamed it WinStar
Farm in early 2000.
• The farm offers WinStar Stablemates to fans of the sport. It is an
online, exclusive membership club that delivers a unique insiderʼs view
of the thoroughbred racing industry. Benefits include VIP,
private-guided, behind-the-scenes tour of WinStar Farm, including
picnic lunch at Farm; access to cams throughout the farm; photo
opportunities with WinStarʼs stallions; access to the Handicapperʼs
Edge; and free contests and entry into four random drawings annually
to name a WinStar yearling.
• Troutt formerly owned Landview Farm, a Thoroughbred operation in
Nebraska, which he sold in 1982. Troutt met former trainer Casner in
the late 1970s when they attempted to claim the same horse at
Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha, Neb., and later campaigned a claiming stable
together. Both Troutt and Casner withdrew from active participation in
racing during the 1980s and 1990s while pursuing other business
interests.
• With the Race Track Chaplaincy of America, Troutt created the White
Horse Award, presented annually to a farm or racetrack worker who
performs an unselfish heroic act for a horse or a human.
• Troutt currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Thoroughbred
Owners and Breeders Association as well as on the Board of Directors
for the Breedersʼ Cup.
Co-Owner
Gary Barber ... Born: Johannesburg, South Africa. ... Residence: Los
Angeles ... Family: Three daughters ... Education: Studied commerce at
Wits University in South Africa on a soccer scholarship.
Starts 1st
2nd
4
0
0
3rd
2
Earnings
$597,000
return trip to the $5 million Breedersʼ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park
after romping in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) at Belmont Sept 28. It
was his first win since the Sunshine Millions Classic in January.
Six-year-old Ron the Greek ran fourth in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup
Classic at Santa Anita after winning the Santa Anita Handicap (G1)
earlier in the season and finishing sixth in 2012 Jockey Club Gold Cup.
7th
3rd
4th
3rd
• Barber also will be represented by Percussion, of whom he is sole
owner, in the 2013 Breedersʼ Cup Marathon (G2). The durable
five-year-old gelding is a winner of five of 27 starts, with 2013 being his
most successful season to date. He won his first stakes this year, the
Albert the Great at Belmont, as well as running second in the Brooklyn
Handicap (G2) and third in the Alydar Stakes.
• Barber has owned three Breedersʼ Cup starters with his brother, Cecil.
The pair has had two third-place finishes – with Delegation in the 2012
Dirt Mile and Cost of Freedom in the 2009 Sprint. In 2008, they sent
out Zappa, who finished seventh in the inaugural Marathon.
• Barberʼs Sisterly Love won the Ontario Matron Stakes (G3) in late July
2013, and his Delegation won the Dominion Day Stakes at Woodbine
July 1.. Barber also co-owns multiple graded stakes winner Comma to
the Top with fellow movie-makers Roger Birnbaum and
KevinTsujihara. Among the five-year-oldʼs wins this season are the
Los Angeles Handicap (G3) and Tom Fool Handicap (G3). He also
won the Cash Call Futurity (G1) at two.
2008
2009
2012
Marathon
Sprint
Classic
Dirt Mile
Zappa
Cost of Freedom
Ron the Greek
Delegation
Quick facts about Gary Barber:
• He also owns, or has owned, horses in partnerships with several other
owners and racing operations, including Team Valor International,
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Altamira Racing Stable, Kevin
Tsujihara, and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
• Ron the Greek [trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott for Brous Stable,
Wachtel Stable, breeder Jack T. Hammer and Gary Barber] earned a
• Barberʼs stable was led in 2012 by standout three-year-old filly In
Lingerie. Trained by Todd Pletcher for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners
and Barber, the daughter of Empire Maker won the G1 Spinster last
fall and Keeneland, and also scored in the March 24 Bourbonette (G3)
and May 18 Black-Eyed Susan (G2), and was second in the Alabama
(G1) and third in the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1). She retired
late last year with a record of 4-2-1 from seven starts, for career
earnings of $712,265,
• Formed a successful partnership with Jim Stoneʼs Stoneway Farm in
owning Spring Venture, who secured a “Win and Youʼre In” berth in the
2012 Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G2) with her victory in the
Natalma Stakes (G2). She was unplaced in the Breedersʼ Cup.
• His horses have won not only in the United States, but in France,
Ireland, Australia and South Africa. In addition to 2006 Woodbine Mile
(G1) winner Becrux, who also was the 2004 champion two-year-old
male in Italy, Barber has raced (with Team Valor) Sweet Stream,
winner of the 2004 Prix Vermeille (G1) in France, and Carnadore, the
2004-05 two-year-old male champion in South Africa.
• Previous top runners include 2000 Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner The
Deputy (Ire), campaigned in partnership with Team Valor; other graded
stakes winners include Gitano Hernando (GB), winner of the 2009
Goodwood Handicap (G1) at Oak Tree at Santa Anita and headed for
the Breedersʼ Cup Classic before being declared out; Red Arrow
(Aus), winner of Hollywood Parkʼs 2009 Los Angeles Handicap (G3);
Reine de Romance (Ire); Geronimo (Chi); Fast Parade; Hull; Media
Mogul; Becrux (Ity); and $50,000 claim Cost of Freedom, who went on
to win the Ancient Title Stakes (G1), Los Angeles Handicap (G3) and
Vernon O. Underwood Stakes (G3).
• Co-founder, along with Roger Birnbaum, and CEO of Spyglass
Entertainment, which has produced such motion pictures as
“Seabiscuit” (nominated for seven Academy Awards), “Memoirs of a
Geisha” (won three Academy Awards), “The Insider” (nominated for
seven Academy Awards) and “The Sixth Sense” (nominated for six
Academy Awards). Barber has served as executive producer of more
than 50 films, including “Seabiscuit.”
• Initially worked as a chartered accountant in South Africa and a
certified public accountant in the United States. He emigrated to the
United States in 1982, following his brother Cecil, who came in 1979.
Trainer
Mark E. Casse ... Born: Feb. 14, 1961, Indianapolis, Ind. ... Residence:
Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, and Ocala, Fla. ... Family: wife, Tina; seven
children: Cheryl, Norman, Joel, Alex, Camille, Kyle and Colby; three
grandchildren ... Norman is the top assistant to his father. ... Web site:
www.casseracing.com
Starts 1st
2nd
15
0
1
1994
2001
2004
2006
2007
2008
2010
2011
2012
3rd
2
Earnings
$1,129,000
Sprint
End Sweep
Juvenile Fillies
Jealous Forum
Juvenile Fillies
Higher World
Juvenile
Skip Code
Juvenile Fillies
Clearly Foxy
Filly & Mare Turf Sealy Hill
Juvenile Turf
Skip A Date
Juvenile Fillies
Delightful Mary
Juvenile
Prospective
Juvenile Fillies
Northern Passion
Classic
Pool Play
Dirt Mile
Delegation
Juvenile
Dynamix Sky
Juvenile Fillies
Spring in the Air
Juvenile Fillies Turf Spring Venture
11th
8th
12th
9th (DH)
6th
2nd
11th
3rd
13th
7th
8th
3rd
6th
5th
13th
Quick facts about Mark E. Casse:
• Casse has started 15 horses in the Breedersʼ Cup and came close in
2008 with Canadian Filly Triple Crown winner Sealy Hill, who led in
deep stretch, but finished second in the Filly and Mare Turf, and with
Delegation, third in the 2012 Dirt Mile. Six of his horses have
competed in the Juvenile Fillies.
• Casse has won five Sovereign Awards as Canadaʼs top trainer,
including consecutively in 2011-2012, and in back-to-back-to-back
years (2006-2007-2008). He holds the record for the most consecutive
wins. Two of his trainees were the Canadian Horse of the Year and
eight are Sovereign Award winners and have a combined 12 trophies
among them- Uncaptured (2012 Horse of the Year and 2-Year-Old
male), Spring in the Air (2012 3-Year-Old Filly), Delightful Mary (2010
2-Year-Old Filly), Marchfield (2008-09 Outstanding Older Horse on
dirt), Sealy Hill (2007 3-Year-Old Filly, Turf Female, and Horse of the
Year), Kimchi (2006 3-Year-Old Filly), Added Edge (2002 2-Year-Old
Male) and Exciting Story (1999 2-Year-Old Male).
• Although 2013 was lagging behind Casseʼs spectacular success in
2012, he was still ranked in the top 10 with $5,853,619 in earnings
through September 26 and won a number of significant graded stakes
and major Canadian stakes, including the Prince of Wales which is the
second leg of the Triple Crown, this year. A top trainer at Woodbine for
more than a decade, he was on his way in to his seventh consecutive
title and eighth overall with almost three times as many wins as his
nearest competitor. He has been the top juvenile trainer there for the
past 15 years.
• Casse had his career-best year in 2012, ranking 7th in earnings in
North America with earnings of $10,234,707 and 129 wins, including
many top stakes, to build upon his record-setting success in 2011,
when his horses topped $7 million in purses and won 140 races. “It
was the best year weʼve ever had. Itʼs funny. We thought 2011 was
pretty good, but then last year just blew that one away,” said Casse,
who ended up ranked in the top five of graded stakes-winning trainers.
• Casse had a bevy of promising two-year-old fillies in his barn in 2012,
including Spring Venture, who won the Natalma Stakes (G2) at
Woodbine on the way to a 13th place finish in the Juvenile Fillies Turf.
Her stablemate, John Oxleyʼs Spring in the Air, who closed strongly for
second in the Natalma and went on to win the Alcibiades (G1), was
fifth in the Juvenile Fillies. In 2011, Northern Passion took the same
route to the Juvenile Fillies, where she finished seventh. Spring
Venture was Casseʼs fourth Natalma winner in seven years.
• Casseʼs impressive colt Uncaptured, who was under consideration for
the 2013 Dirt Mile, took the 2012 Clarendon, Vandal, and Swynford
Stakes as a juvenile after breaking his maiden at first asking for owner
Oxley. Although he skipped the Breedersʼ Cup, Uncaptured was voted
as Canadaʼs Horse of the Year and 2-Year-old champion male at
yearʼs end. “Heʼs a beautiful moving horse. Heʼs just all class,” said
Casse. Uncaptured won the 2013 Prince of Wales Stakes, the second
leg in Canadaʼs Triple Crown, giving Casse his second straight trophy
from the race and third overall.
• Casse added to a strong 2012 with 3-year-olds winning graded stakes.
Oxleyʼs filly Dixie Strike won the Prince of Wales Stakes, the second
jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown, after finishing third against the
boys in the first leg, the prestigious Queens Plate. She also won the
Selene Stakes (G3) and the Florida Oaks. Prospective and Stealcase,
both owned by Oxley as well, are multiple 2012 derby winners, with
Prospective taking the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) and the Ohio Derby
(G3) and Stealcase notching the Ontario Derby (G3).
• Casse oversees an expansive stable of over 80 horses and is based at
Woodbine in Ontario, Canada, with divisions a major division in
Kentucky overseen by his son and top assistant Norman, while his
wife Tina operates a training center in Ocala, Fla. named Moonshadow
Farm. The operation employs more than 50 people in the United
States and Canada. Casse is the former private trainer and operations
director for the massive Mockingbird Farm, which former owner Harry
Mangurian dispersed in 1999.
• In 2011, he won a record 119 races at Woodbine and more purses
than any other horseman in a single year ($6,670,906) to eclipse the
mark he set in 2007.
• Casse won the 1,000th race of his career on Aug. 9, 2008 when
Laragh won a maiden allowance for juvenile fillies at Woodbine.
Through Sept. 25, 2013, he had won 1,592 races in his career.
• One of his favorite horses is Sealy Hill, the only filly to capture the
Canadian Filly Triple Crown and a Eugene Melnyk homebred who was
retired after nearly winning the 2008 Breedersʼ Cup Filly and Mare Turf
and is now a top young broodmare for Melynk. “I really miss having
her in the barn,” Casse said, who had one of her daughters in the barn
in 2012. His other good horses have included Met Mile (G1) upset
winner Exciting Story, 2011 Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) winner
Pool Play, Seaside Retreat, who ran 10th in the 2006 Kentucky Derby,
Top Notch Lady, who competed in the 2006 Kentucky Oaks,
Marchfield, winner of the $500,000 Breedersʼ Stakes (G1) in 2007 and
the Sky Classic (G2) in 2009.
• Father, Norman, retired as the chairman of the board of the Ocala
Breedersʼ Sales in 2006 and is a 40-year-plus veteran of
Thoroughbred owning, breeding and training.
• Casse immersed himself in Thoroughbred racing when only 12 years
old. A trip in a horse van with his father to see Secretariat win the
Kentucky Derby in 1973 in track record time completely hooked him.
He began running his fatherʼs Cardinal Hill Farm when he was only 15
and began training officially when he was 18. He won his first race in
1979 at Keeneland.
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Trainer: KELLY J. BREEN
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dkb/br, 1999
PANTS ON FIRE
dkb/br, h
March 20, 2008
CABO DE
NOCHE,
dkb/br, 2001
Seattle Slew, 1974
17s, SW, $1,208,726
A.P. Indy, 1989
1,050 f, 114 SW, 3.66 AEI
11s, SW, $2,979,815
1,181 f, 151 SW, 2.87 AEI Weekend Surprise, 1980
31s, SW, $402,892
14 f, 12 r, 9 w, 4 SW
Storm Cat, 1983
8s, SW, $570,610
Steady Cat, 1993
1,414 f, 180 SW, 2.97 AEI
19s, wnr, $224,427
Hopespringsforever, 1984
8 f, 7 r, 5 w, 1 SW
5s, pl, $1,182
11 f, 9 r, 6 w, 1 SW
Seeking the Gold, 1985
15s, SW, $2,307,000
Cape Town, 1995
935 f, 92 SW, 2.29 AEI
12s, SW, $795,817
Seaside Attraction, 1987
425 f, 22 SW, 1.25 AEI
12s, SW, $272,541
5 f, 5 r, 5 w, 4 SW
Bates Motel, 1979
19s, SW, $851,050
Key Flight, 1986
578 f, 39 SW, 1.43 AEI
4s, wnr, $17,040
Key to Flight, 1980
11 f, 8 r, 8 w, 2 SW
Unraced
5 f, 3 r, 3 w
Bold Reasoning
My Charmer
Secretariat
Lassie Dear
Storm Bird
Terlingua
Mr. Prospector
Hopespringseternal
Mr. Prospector
Con Game
Seattle Slew
Kamar
Sir Ivor
Sunday Purchase
Key to the Mint
Flight Dancer
PANTS ON FIRE'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2010
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2
4
1
2
0
$48,600
at 3
7
2(2)
1(1)
1(1)
$779,500
at 4
5
2(1)
0
0
$106,460
at 5
6
3(2)
0
3(3)
$263,075
Lifetime
22
8(5)
3(1)
4(4)
$1,197,635
Sire: JUMP START, dkb/br, 1999. Raced 1 yr, 5 sts, 2 wins, $221,265. Won Saratoga Special S (gr.
II); 2nd Champagne S (gr. I).
1st dam: Cabo de Noche, dkb/br, 2001. Bred by Equus Farm (Ky.). Raced 3 yrs, 16 sts, 1 win, $57,673.
Dam of 5 named foals, 3 rnrs, 3 wnrs, 1 sw. ($52,000, 2002 keesep yrlg; $147,000, 2003 obsmar
2yo; $27,000, 2005 keenov; $120,000, 2006 keenov, Thunder Gulch).
2007: Louderthanthunder, b g, by Thunder Gulch. Raced 2 yrs, 14 sts, 1 win, $11,456.
2008: PANTS ON FIRE, dkb/br c, by Jump Start.
At 3: Won Louisiana Derby (gr. II), Pegasus S (gr. III); 2nd LeComte S (gr. III); 3rd Count Fleet S.
At 4: Won Skip Away S.
At 5: Won Monmouth Cup S (gr. II), Ack Ack H (gr. III); 3rd Hal's Hope S (gr. III), Skip Away S
(gr. III), Mountainview H.
2009: Slipped.
2010: Raising Dakota, dkb/br f, by War Chant. Raced 2 yrs, 14 sts, 1 win, $69,701. 2nd Northbound Pride Oaks (T).
2011: Dakota Sky, dkb/br f, by War Chant. Unraced.
2012: Stevarino, b c, by Stephen Got Even.
Inbreeding: 5SX5SX5D Buckpasser; 4SX4D Mr. Prospector; 3SX4D Seattle Slew.
Nicking: JUMP START w/CAPE TOWN mares: 3 foals, 2 strs, 2 wnrs (67%), 1 2yo wnr
(33%), 1 SW (33%), 1 GSW (33%).
Broodmare sire: CAPE TOWN, b, 1995. Sire of 93 dams of 241 foals, 167 rnrs (69%), 126 wnrs
(52%), 42 2yo wnrs (17%), 1.15 AEI, 1.43 CI; 9 sw.
2nd dam: Key Flight, dkb/br, 1986. Bred by Edward P. Evans (Va.). Raced 2 yrs, 4 sts, 1 win, $17,040.
Dam of HATFIELD (c, Proud Citizen; $171,529. Won Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint S, T; 3rd Fall Highweight H, gr. III), KEY HUNTER (f, Jade Hunter; $168,092. Won Russian Tango H, R; 3rd Coaching
Club American Oaks, gr. I, Honey Bee Breeders' Cup H, gr. III; dam of LIQUOR CABINET (Ire)).
Breeder/Owner
George and Lori Hall ... Born: George, Sept. 10, 1960, New York City;
wife Lori, Nov. 10, 1969, New Bedford, Mass. ... Residence: Rumson,
N.J. ... Family: The Halls have three children – daughters, Kathryn and
Charlotte, and a son, George Jr. George, a noted philanthropist,
especially to cancer-related causes, met Lori when she was working with
the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. ... Education: George is a
graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy and the
Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania; Lori
graduated from Houston Community College. ... Web site:
www.hallnj.org
Starts 1st
2nd
3
0
0
2008
2009
2011
3rd
1
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Classic
Earnings
$495,000
West Side Bernie
Bickersons
Ruler on Ice
6th
10th
3rd
Quick facts about George and Lori Hall:
• The Halls have had starters in three Breedersʼ Cups and Ruler on Ice,
third in the 2011 Classic, has given them their best finish. Their classy
filly Bickersons had a bad day in the 2009 Juvenile Fillies, ending up
10th, and West Side Bernie was sixth in the 2008 Juvenile.
• The Hallsʼ best hope for returning to the Breedersʼ Cup is Pants on
Fire, whose 2013 stakes wins include the Monmouth Cup (G2) and
Ack Ack (G3) at Churchill Downs ... Their 2013 stakes winners also
include Vegas No Show, who captured the Ricci Tavi Stakes at
Delaware Park.
• The Halls named Kelly Breen as their private trainer at the conclusion
of the 2006 Monmouth meet, and among the first horses he bought for
them the following year were West Side Bernie and Atomic Rain, both
of whom made it to the Kentucky Derby. In 2012, the parties agreed
that Breen could take on outside clients because they were changing
their business model. The Halls decided to concentrate more on
breeding and less on buying horses.
• George was introduced to racing by his grandfather, Larry Fagan, who
took him to the races at Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga. George
named one of his first horses Faganʼs Legacy, in his honor. Faganʼs
Legacy won the 2005 Pilgrim Stakes.
• The Halls had a banner year in 2012, winning the Sanford (G2) and
taking third in the Hopeful (G1) at Saratoga with Bern Identity and the
Long Branch at their home base of Monmouth wth My Adonis, a colt
named for Georgeʼs father, who passed away earlier in the year. “To
win our first graded stakes race at Saratoga was wonderful,” said Lori.
“He won so impressively in his second race and then to have him in
the cream of the crop of two-year-olds is terrific.
• My Adonis, who is an aptly named very handsome horse, is the Hallsʼ
sentimental favorite because of Georgeʼs father. My Adonis finished
eighth in the 2012 Belmont Stakes (G1).
• The Halls had their best year in 2011, winning the Belmont Stakes with
Ruler on Ice, who finished third in that yearʼs Breedersʼ Cup Classic,
and the Louisiana Derby (G2) with Pants on Fire. “We sold Sweet
Ducky, who I thought would be our best three-year-old, but then to win
races like the Belmont and Louisiana Derby with our other horses was
amazing. It would be incredible to win those races in a lifetime, much
less the same year.”
• The Halls have had three starters in the Kentucky Derby and two in the
Belmont Stakes. Pants on Fire was the second choice in the wagering
in 2011 but finished ninth after bleeding. In 2009, West Side Bernie
was ninth while stablemate Atomic Rain was 16th. Both colts were
subsequently purchased by Godolphin Racing. Ruler on Ice won the
2011 Belmont and My Adonis, who was an also-eligible for the
Kentucky Derby, ran in the Triple Crownʼs third leg in 2012, finishing
eighth.
• The Halls have about 30 horses in training with Breen. They also own
the 385-acre Annestes Farm in Versailles, Ky., where they keep
approximatly 12 broodmares who include 2005 Sorority Stakes winner
Keeneland Kat, named for their oldest daughter. Bold Union,
Bickersons, Eternal Grace, True Addiction, Cabo de Noche, and Sala
de Oro are among those on the farm. Cabo de Noche is the dam of
Louisiana Derby (G2) winner Pants on Fire and Cabo de Noche is the
mother of 2009 Sorority Stakes winner Truth and Justice.
• The Halls breed and sometimes race under the name K&G Stables,
which bears the initials of their two oldest children. K & G Stables is
the breeder of record of Pants on Fire.
• They entered racing in 2004 with the purchase of four yearlings for a
combined $180,000 and two of them, Keeneland Kat and Faganʼs
Legacy, became stakes winners.
• The Halls were the top owners at Monmouthʼs “Elite Meet” in 2010,
winning 13 races during the 50-day stand.
• Hall is heavily involved in charitable work. A board member of the New
York University School of Medicine Foundation, he helped to create its
Head and Neck Cancer Research Laboratory. Hall has been awarded
the universityʼs prestigious Sir Harold Acton Medal in recognition of his
philanthropic efforts. The award is given to those individuals,
foundations or corporations that make a one-time donation of $1
million or more.
• Additionally, Hall has been an active supporter of the Monmouth
County Unit of the American Cancer Society, and hosted an annual
summer event for cancer patients in Monmouth County and their
families. He established the George E. Hall Childhood Diabetes
Foundation, which is affiliated with the Hall Family Center for Pediatric
Endocrinology and Diabetes at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
• He also established the Hall Institute of Public Policy, a forum for
academic research and debate in his home state of New Jersey.
• George Hall is president, founder and majority shareholder of Clinton
Group, Inc., a Manhattan-based investment company that manages
approximately $6.6 billion in capital.
Trainer
Kelly J. Breen ... Born: May 13, 1969, Perth Amboy, N.J. ... Residence:
Tinton Falls, N.J. ... Family: wife Melissa; daughter Tiffany and son Kelly
Jr.
Starts 1st
2nd
3
0
0
2008
2009
2011
3rd
1
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Classic
Earnings
$0
West Side Bernie
Bickersons
Ruler on Ice
5th
10th
3rd
Quick facts about Kelly J. Breen:
• Breenʼs most recent Breedersʼ Cup starter was Ruler On Ice, who
finished third in the 2011 Classic after winning the Belmont Stakes that
same year. His other entrants were Bickersons, who was 10th in the
2009 Juvenile Fillies, and West Side Bernie, sixth in the 2008 Juvenile.
• Has a pair of Breedersʼ Cup contenders in Pants On Fire for the Dirt
Mile, and Stonetastic for the Juvenile Fillies. Pants On Fire had three
wins and three thirds in six 2013 starts, including consecutive victories
in the Monmouth Cup (G2) and Ack Ack Handicap (G3). Stonetastic
didnʼt debut until August 10, breaking her maiden at Monmouth Park,
then was second as the favorite in the Pocahontas (G2).
• Breen was the private trainer for George and Lori Hall from the fall of
2006 to the summer of 2012, when the Halls began to focus more on
the breeding aspect of the industry. He continues to train for the Halls
while also working for outside clients. “Weʼve been fortunate in the last
few years and enjoyed success with their homebreds,” Breen said.
“We agreed on this new arrangement.”
• Previously known primarily as a New Jersey-based trainer, Breen
enjoyed a breakthrough year at the national level in 2011 when he won
the Belmont Stakes with Ruler On Ice and the Louisiana Derby (G2)
and Pegasus (G3) with Pants On Fire. He parlayed that into a
successful 2012 campaign with Sanford Stakes (G2) winner Bern
Identity. “That was the first graded stakes Iʼve won at Saratoga and
one of the top races Iʼve ever won,” he said. “It was a real thrill.”
• Breen also trained Sweet Ducky, runner-up in the 2011 Holy Bull (G3).
Sweet Ducky was subsequently sold to Ramzan Kadyrov, the
president of Chechnya.
• Breenʼs first taste of success in a Triple Crown race came in the form
of Ruler On Iceʼs victory in the 2011 Belmont Stakes at 24-1 odds.
Breen called the victory a “perfect storm of things going right.” In the
weeks leading up to the Belmont, Ruler On Ice battled a low red blood
cell count. Breen also put blinkers on the gelding to help him mature
as a runner. “I usually donʼt get too excited but I yelled so much for
Ruler On Ice that I lost my voice for 30 days. I had go to a doctor to get
treated,” Breen said.
• Call Breenʼs cell phone and youʼll hear Frank Sinatra singing “New
York, New York” while you wait. “I added that after the Belmont. It
reminds me of the race and the day.”
• In 2009, Breen entered two horses in his first Kentucky Derby: West
Side Bernie, who finished 9th, and Atomic Rain, who finished 16th.
Both were for owners George and Lori Hall, and were from among the
first horses he purchased for the Halls when hired as their private
trainer and bloodstock advisor.
• Other top horses have included Bold Union, who captured the 2008
Astoria; 2006 Astoria winner Desire to Excel; Praying for Cash, who
won the 2006 Long Branch Breedersʼ Cup and was second in the
Haskell; and two Sorority Staks winners in Keeneland Kat (2005) and
Truth and Justice (2009).
• Pulled off a rare feat on Aug. 28, 2007 when he saddled two horses for
Presidential Thoroughbreds – Second Collection and Findeeʼs
Keepeeʼs – and the two horses finished in a dead-heat for first in the
second race at Monmouth Park.
• Breen is based at New Jerseyʼs Monmouth Park, where he was the
leading trainer in 2005 and 2006.
• Saddled his first winner in 1993 and kicked around with a tiny, but
high-percentage, stable for a few years before going back to work as
an assistant to Ben Perkins Sr. from 1994-2000. When Perkins retired
in 2000, Breen went on his own for good. While with Perkins, he
galloped top sprinters Meritocrat, Appealing Skier, Forest Wildcat and
Confide – all graded stakes winners who ran their way into Breedersʼ
Cup Sprint appearances. Breen galloped all of the horses he trained
until he injured his wrist when a horse he was working fell while
coming off the track. “I enjoyed being on a horse and getting the feel of
my horses. That helped me understand my horses. That fall put me on
the pony now,” he said.
• Breen was a high school soccer player and wrestler in Old Bridge,
N.J., who was introduced to the track at age 12 while attending the
races with his father, Jackie, a member of Steamfitters Union 638. He
aspired to be a jockey, wrestling at the 90-pound weight class as an
early teen, and took riding lessons and mucked stalls at a neighborʼs
farm. He grew nearly six inches over the winter at age 16 and outgrew
his dreams of race riding, but went to the track as an exercise rider
before becoming an assistant trainer by age 18 with Walter Reese.
TAPTOWNE
Gr/ro.g.5 Tapit - Holly's Wager by Valid Wager
Bred in Kentucky by CLOVER TOWNE FARM (Apr 27, 2008)
05Oct13 Ind9
07Sep13 CD9
03Aug13 Mnr7
29Jun13 Prm8
31May13 CD7
30Apr13 CD8
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24Mar13 OP7
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Workout(s):
126
Owner: CLOVERTOWNE FARM
Trainer: TIM GLYSHAW
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TAPIT,
gr/ro, 2001
Pulpit, 1994
6s, SW, $728,200
835 f, 70 SW, 1.91 AEI
Tap Your Heels, 1996
9s, SW, $47,275
8 f, 5 r, 3 w, 1 SW
TAPTOWNE
gr/ro, g
April 27, 2008
Valid Wager, 1992
16s, SW, $306,020
500 f, 19 SW, 1.03 AEI
HOLLY'S
WAGER,
dkb/br, 1999
Holly Bugs, 1991
20s, wnr, $14,893
8 f, 8 r, 8 w, 1 SW
A.P. Indy, 1989
11s, SW, $2,979,815
1,181 f, 151 SW, 2.87 AEI
Preach, 1989
15s, SW, $304,656
13 f, 11 r, 10 w, 1 SW
Unbridled, 1987
24s, SW, $4,489,475
566 f, 49 SW, 2.65 AEI
Ruby Slippers, 1982
14s, wnr, $83,760
13 f, 13 r, 10 w, 2 SW
Valid Appeal, 1972
36s, SW, $201,733
791 f, 88 SW, 2.19 AEI
Bid Gal, 1979
Unraced
12 f, 10 r, 9 w, 2 SW
Fit to Fight, 1979
26s, SW, $1,042,075
834 f, 41 SW, 1.38 AEI
Statuesque, 1981
22s, wnr, $63,173
10 f, 9 r, 8 w, 1 SW
Seattle Slew
Weekend Surprise
Mr. Prospector
Narrate
Fappiano
Gana Facil
Nijinsky II
Moon Glitter
In Reality
Desert Trial
Bold Bidder
Nowmepache
Chieftain
Hasty Queen II
Gay Mecene
Delta Queen
TAPTOWNE'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2010
2011
2012
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 2
3
1
0
1
$14,115
at 3
8
1
2(1)
1(1)
$76,975
at 4
8
2(1)
0
0
$79,793
at 5
9
2(1)
5(4)
1
$381,716
Lifetime
28
6(2)
7(5)
3(1)
$552,599
Sire: TAPIT, gr/ro, 2001. Raced 2 yrs, 6 sts, 3 wins, $557,300. Won Wood Memorial S (gr. I), Laurel
Futurity (gr. III).
1st dam: Holly's Wager, dkb/br, 1999. Bred by Mockingbird Farm (Fla.). Raced 3 yrs, 15 sts, 2 wins,
$35,473. Dam of 6 named foals, 5 rnrs, 5 wnrs, 2 sw. ($27,000, 2000 obsaug yrlg; $10,000, 2007
keenov, Tapit; $12,000, 2010 keenov, Ready's Image).
2004: Brokabouteven, dkb/br g, by Sultry Song. Raced 2 yrs, 9 sts, 3 wins, $26,440.
2006: TACKY CAT, b f, by Tactical Cat. Raced 2 yrs, 4 sts, 1 win, $36,870. Won Cincinnati Trophy
S. Sent to Korea 2010.
2007: Intallclover, b f, by Tactical Cat. Raced 2 yrs, 4 sts, 1 win, $20,680.
2008: TAPTOWNE, gr/ro g, by Tapit.
At 3: 2nd John Battaglia Memorial S; 3rd WEBN Stakes.
At 4: Won Cryptoclearance S.
At 5: Won West Virginia Governor's S; 2nd Oaklawn H (gr. II), Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H
(gr. III), Ack Ack H (gr. III), Michael G. Schaefer Memorial S.
2009: Five Star Wager, b f, by Five Star Day. Raced 2 yrs, 5 sts, 1 win, $4,506.
2011: Holly's Image, dkb/br f, by Ready's Image. Unraced.
2012: B c, by Badge of Silver.
Inbreeding: 5SX4D In Reality.
Nicking: TAPIT w/VALID WAGER mares: 1 foal, 1 str, 1 wnr (100%), 1 2yo wnr (100%), 1
SW (100%), 0 GSW (0%).
Broodmare sire: VALID WAGER, b, 1992-2007. Sire of 79 dams of 203 foals, 141 rnrs (69%), 104
wnrs (51%), 25 2yo wnrs (12%), 1.11 AEI, 1.36 CI; 8 sw.
2nd dam: Holly Bugs, dkb/br, 1991. Bred by Wakefield Farm (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs, 20 sts, 2 wins, $14,893.
Dam of BELLE'S APPEAL (f, Valid Appeal; $101,566. Won Old Hat S; dam of LITTLE MISS FLURRY).
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VERRAZANO
B.c.3 More Than Ready - Enchanted Rock by Giant's Causeway
Bred in Kentucky by EMORY A. HAMILTON (Jan 27, 2010)
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Owner: LET'S GO STABLE, MRS. JOHN MAGNIER,
MICHAEL TABOR & DERRICK SMITH
Trainer: TODD A. PLETCHER
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MORE THAN
READY,
dkb/br, 1997
VERRAZANO
b, c
January 27, 2010
ENCHANTED
ROCK,
ch, 2004
Halo, 1969
31s, SW, $259,553
Southern Halo, 1983
724 f, 63 SW, 2.89 AEI
24s, wnr, $344,875
1,815 f, 176 SW, 1.71 AEI Northern Sea, 1974
20s, SW, $219,962
8 f, 6 r, 5 w
Woodman, 1983
5s, SW, $28,045
Woodman's Girl, 1990
1,957 f, 111 SW, 1.37 AEI
28s, wnr, $69,195
Becky Be Good, 1981
5 f, 5 r, 4 w, 1 SW
Unraced
13 f, 9 r, 5 w, 2 SW
Storm Cat, 1983
8s, SW, $570,610
Giant's Causeway, 1997
1,414 f, 180 SW, 2.97 AEI
13s, SW, $3,078,989
1,884 f, 146 SW, 1.86 AEI Mariah's Storm, 1991
16s, SW, $724,895
10 f, 9 r, 7 w, 2 SW
14s, SW, $112,171
Chic Shirine, 1984
1,178 f, 181 SW, 3.98 AEI
16s, SW, $237,944
Too Chic, 1979
11 f, 8 r, 6 w, 2 SW
8s, SW, $136,270
11 f, 11 r, 8 w, 2 SW
Hail to Reason
Cosmah
Northern Dancer
Sea Saga
Mr. Prospector
Playmate
Naskra
Good Landing
Storm Bird
Terlingua
Rahy
Immense
Raise a Native
Gold Digger
Blushing Groom
Remedia
VERRAZANO'S RACE AND (STAKES) RECORD
Year
2013
Age
Sts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earned
at 3
8
6(4)
0
0
$1,556,300
Lifetime
8
6(4)
0
0
$1,556,300
Sire: MORE THAN READY, dkb/br, 1997. Raced 2 yrs, 17 sts, 7 wins, $1,026,229. Won King's
Bishop S (gr. I), Sanford S (gr. II), Hutcheson S (gr. II), Tremont S (gr. III), WHAS-11 S, Flash S;
2nd Toyota Blue Grass S (gr. I), Vosburgh S (gr. I), Louisiana Derby (gr. II), Dwyer S (gr. II); 3rd
Futurity S (gr. I).
Lifetime: 10 crops, 1,862 foals, 1,432 rnrs (77%), 1,021 wnrs (55%), 177 2yo wnrs (10%), 123 sw
(7%), 1.75 AEI, 1.90 CI, 1,070 sale yrlgs, avg $119,833, 1.7 TNA.
1st dam: Enchanted Rock, ch, 2004. Bred by Emory A. Hamilton (Ky.). Raced 1 yr, 1 st, $169. Dam
of 3 named foals, 2 rnrs, 2 wnrs, 2 sw.
2009: EL PADRINO, ch c, by Pulpit. Raced 2 yrs, 8 sts, 3 wins, $326,770. Won Risen Star S (gr.
II); 3rd Remsen S (gr. II). ($210,000 keesep yrlg).
2010: VERRAZANO, b c, by More Than Ready. ($250,000 keesep yrlg).
At 3: Won William Hill Haskell Invitational S (gr. I), Wood Memorial S (gr. I), Tampa Bay Derby
(gr. II), Pegasus S (gr. III).
2011: La Madrina, gr/ro f, by Tapit. Unraced.
2012: B f, by Pulpit.
2013: Ch c, by Pulpit.
Inbreeding: 4SX3D Mr. Prospector; 4SX5D Northern Dancer.
Nicking: MORE THAN READY w/GIANT'S CAUSEWAY mares: 5 foals, 5 strs, 2 wnrs (40%),
1 2yo wnr (20%), 2 SW (40%), 1 GSW (20%)
Broodmare sire: GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, ch, 1997. Sire of 327 dams of 718 foals, 438 rnrs (61%),
2nd dam: CHIC SHIRINE, b, 1984. Bred by Emory Alexander (Ky.). Raced 2 yrs, 16 sts, 3 wins,
$237,944. Won Ashland S (gr. I), Hail Hilarious S; 2nd Santa Ynez S (gr. III); 3rd Mother Goose S
(gr. I), La Centinela S (R). Dam of WALDOBORO (c, Lyphard; $204,877. Won True North H, gr. II;
2nd Gulfstream Park Sprint H), TARA ROMA (f, Lyphard; $192,017. Won Ladies H, gr. II; dam of
SERRA LAKE, CAPPUCHINO). Granddam of KRIS'S DANCER, RASTA FARIAN, SOARING EMPIRE,
HUNGRY ISLAND, SOMALI LEMONADE, Chic Joy, Tokyo Time.
Breeder
Emory Alexander Hamilton ... Born: Philadelphia ... Residence: San
Antonio, Texas ... Family: Husband Frederic and daughter Helen. ...
Education: Hamilton grew up in Chester County in southern
Pennsylvania and attended the University of Pennsylvania and St. Maryʼs
University of Law in San Antonio.
• Hamilton bred and raced Brahmsʼ dam, Queena, who finished fifth in
the 1991 Breedersʼ Cup Distaff and won three consecutive Grade 1s in
the fall of 1991. Queena was named champion older female that year
and is Hamiltonʼs only Breedersʼ Cup runner as an owner.
Quick facts about Emory Alexander Hamilton:
• Other recent stakes winners bred by Hamilton include El Padrino,
Soaring Empire and 2008 G1 Haskell runner-up Coal Play.
• Verrazano may be Hamiltonʼs best-known success a breeder. He is a
half-brother to El Padrino, and boasts Grade 1 wins in the Wood
Memorial and Haskell Invitational. Hamilton sold Verrazano, who now
belongs to a syndicate that includes Letʼs Go Stable, Michael Tabor,
Mrs. John Magnier, and Derrick Smith. He trains with Todd Pletcher.
• Other top horses raced include Too Chic, Queenaʼs dam; La Reina
and Serra Lake Purchased her first horse – Too Chic – as a yearling at
a King Ranch dispersal in 1980 following the death of her grandfather
in 1974. She paid $100,000 for the filly. Both Too Chic and Queena
won the G1 Maskette. Another of Too Chicʼs daughters, G1 winner
Chic Shirine, produced G2 winners Waldoboro and Tara Roma.
• Hamilton bred and owns Hungry Island, a 5-year-old multiple graded
stakes-winning mare who has wins in the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile
(G2), the Woodford Reserve Lake Placid, and the 2012 First Lady
Stakes (G1).
• Al Khali was Hamiltonʼs third and most recent runner in the Breedersʼ
Cup World Championships as a breeder ... Al Khali was seventh in the
2010 Breedersʼ Cup Turf and has continued running at the graded
stakes level since.
• Brahms, who is out of Hamiltonʼs Queena, competed in the Breedersʼ
Cup twice – in the Juvenile and in the Mile, finishing off the board in
both races. He retired a multiple graded stakes winner and sired Arson
Squad, Belltone, Sea Rescue, and Test Boy among others. He
currently stands in Arkansas.
• Hamilton said in 2013 that she “generally sells the colts and keeps the
fillies” she produces.
• Is a member of one of the Thoroughbred industryʼs most notable
families ... Her mother is breeder and owner Helen Groves and three
of her five siblings are quite prominent in the business ... Sister Helen
owns Middlebrook Farm near Lexington, Ky., where Hamilton boards
her broodmares; sister Dorothy Alexander Matz is married to former
Olympian Michael Matz, trainer of 2012 Belmont Stakes winner Union
Rags and 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro, and sister Henrietta
Alexander George previously trained Thoroughbreds ... Her other
siblings are Caroline Alexander Forgason, who owns a Texas ranch,
and John Alexander Jr., an investor ... Her grandfather, Robert J.
Kleberg Jr., operated King Ranch in Texas and bred and owned 1946
Triple Crown winner Assault and 1950 Kentucky Derby and Belmont
Stakes winner Middleground ... Her mother and sister, Helen, raced
Acoma, a homebred who won the G1 Spinster and was fifth in the
Breedersʼ Cup Ladiesʼ Classic in 2010.
• Practiced law (in the oil and gas section for a firm) for a few years prior
to turning to homemaking and motherhood.
Co-Owner
Letʼs Go Stable ... Owner(s): Kevin Scatuorchio and Bryan Sullivan ...
Born: Scatuorchio, Nov. 14, 1981 in Long Branch, N.J.; Sullivan, June
13, 1976 in Yonkers, N.Y. ... Residence: Scatuorchio, Red Bank, N.J.;
Sullivan, Fair Haven, N.J. ... Family: Scatuorchio, single; Sullivan: wife,
Courtney ... Education: Scatuorchio, Monmouth University; Sullivan,
Fairfield University.
Quick facts about Let's Go Stable:
• Co-owner of multiple Grade 1 winner Verrazano, 3-year-old son of
millionaire More Than Ready who has won six of eight starts, all this
year, for purses of $1,556,300. Letʼs Go Stable bought Verrazano for
$250,000 at Keenelandʼs September 2011 yearling sale and this year
sold a half-interest in the horse to the Coolmore conglomerate of
Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith.
• Verrazano won the first four races of his career, including the Tampa
Bay Derby (G2) in March and the Wood Memorial (G1), the top
Kentucky Derby prep race in New York, in April. After finishing 14th in
the Kentucky Derby, Verrazano romped in both the Pegasus (G3) and
Haskell Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park before running seventh in
the Travers (G1) at Saratoga Race Course on Aug. 24, his most recent
start.
• Since many of the investors in the horse are from the New York metro
area, Verrazano is named for the double-decker suspension bridge
connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn. Among the partners is Jim
Scatuorchio, father of Letʼs Go Stable co-founder Kevin Scatuorchio,
who campaigned More Than Ready, a winner of four career graded
stakes including the Grade 1 Kingʼs Bishop in 2000.
• Letʼs Go Stable has had two Breedersʼ Cup starters: Silent Valor, who
was eighth in the 2008 Juvenile and Readyʼs Echo, runner-up to
Furthest Land in the 2009 Dirt Mile.
• Silent Valor had two wins and a second in 10 lifetime starts from
2008-10, and earnings of $144,480. He won the Grade 3 Sapling at
Monmouth Park and was fifth in the Grade 1 Norfolk Stakes at Santa
Anita prior to his run in the Breedersʼ Cup. He went winless in five
subsequent outings before being retired. His grandsire, Tale of the
Cat, was owned by James Scatuorchio as a member of the Phantom
House partnership.
• Another offspring of More Than Ready, Readyʼs Echo had a record of
2-5-4 from 14 starts with earnings of $517,988. He took part in 10
graded stakes races over his lifetime, finishing second in the Seagram
Cup (G3) and Kelso (G3) in 2009, and third in the Forego (G1),
Jamaica (G2), Peter Pan (G2) and Belmont Stakes (G1) in 2008, the
latter in a dead heat with Anak Nakal. “To finish third in the Belmont
Stakes was a great thrill for everyone involved in the stable,”
Scatuorchio said. “We thought he was sitting on a big race going into
the Belmont, and how often do you get that type of opportunity? It was
a joy to finish third.”
• After raising $2,740,000 to purchase their first four yearlings, The Letʼs
Go Stable partnership was formed in 2006 by brothers-in-law Kevin
Scatuorchio and Bryan Sullivan, who married Scatuorchioʼs sister,
Courtney. The stable buys young horses then creates racing
partnerships for them. The stableʼs name comes from a favorite
expression of oneʼs of Scatuorchioʼs friends, Rob Petitti, a National
Football League player with the St. Louis Rams and investor in the
stable.
• Sullivan worked as a trader for the Clinton Group until 2007 when he
left to focus on working for Letʼs Go Stable. Scatuorchio became a fan
of thoroughbred racing through his father, who has owned horses for
more than 25 years, winning an Eclipse Award in 2007 with turf
champion and Breedersʼ Cup Turf winner English Channel. “Iʼve been
going to the racetrack with my dad since I was little kid,” Kevin
Scatuorchio said.
Co-Owner
John Magnier ... Born: Feb. 10, 1948, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland ...
Residence: Coolmore Stud, Fethard, County Tipperary, Ireland, with
other homes in Barbados, Spain and Switzerland ... Family: wife, Susan,
daughter of legendary trainer Vincent OʼBrien; four sons and a daughter,
who is married to trainer David Wachman. Son M.V. Magnier has become
a key figure in buying horses for the stable. ... Web site:
www.coolmore.com
Quick facts about John Magnier:
• The European record for a yearling sold at auction was shattered on
the opening day of Book 1 of the 2013 Tattersalls October Yearling
Sale when the Galileo brother to Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture was
sold to Magnier for 3.6 million guineas (about $6.08 million).
• Declaration Of War is set to represent the Magnier/Coolmore team in
the 2013 Classic, a race targeted ever since “the lads” (as they are
often referred to by trainer Aidan OʼBrien), purchased him in 2012 from
the yard of French trainer Jean-Claude Rouget after two races as a
juvenile in 2011. During a busy seven-race campaign in 2013, the son
of War Frontʼs two Group 1 successes came in the Queen Anne
Stakes at Royal Ascot and the International Stakes at York.
• Having won four of the five English Classics in 2012, the
Magnier/Coolmore team had to settle for just two in 2013. Ruler Of
The World (Ire) progressed from being an unraced three-year-old to
land the Epsom Derby in less than two months and a second English
Classic came courtesy of Leading Light (Ire) (St Leger). Other G1
successes were recorded by St Nicholas Abbey (Ire) (Coronation Cup
and Dubai Sheema Classic), Magician (Ire) (Irish 2000 Guineas) and
War Command (Dewhurst).
• Galileo, Coolmoreʼs four-time champion sire, was responsible for five
of the 12 Epsom Derby runners in 2013 and one of his sons, Ruler Of
The World, duly provided Magnier/Coolmore with a third consecutive
Derby after Pour Moi and Camelot, and record fifth in total. He was
unraced as a juvenile and did not make his debut until April.
• St Nicholas Abbey gave Magnier and his Coolmore partners a race
record third consecutive success in the Coronation Cup (G1) at Epsom
in June 2013. The six-year-old son of Coolmore stallion Montjeu took
his career earnings to just under £5 million with his sixth success at
the highest level. He had started the campaign with victory in the
Dubai Sheema Classic (G1).
• St Nicholas Abbey suffered a career-ending injury when fracturing a
pastern during a piece of work in preparation for the King George VI &
Queen Elizabeth Stakes in July 2013. Recovery has been arduous, but
it is hoped he will be saved for stallion duties.
• Lines Of Battle, who had been beaten in the 2012 Breedersʼ Cup
Juvenile Turf by stablemate George Vancouver, gave
Magnier/Coolmore a second successive victory in the UAE Derby (G2)
at Meydan following the victory of Daddy Long Legs in 2012.
• The Magnier/Coolmore-owned George Vancouver, a son of 2008
Breedersʼ Cup Classic runner-up Henrythenavigator, followed up the
2011 triumph of Wrote in the Juvenile Turf in 2012.
• Magnier nearly came full circle when he almost took the first English
Triple Crown since his and Sangsterʼs Nijinsky II in 1970 with Camelot
in 2012. Undefeated, the son of Montjeu blew through the 2000
Guineas and Epsom Derby, and added the Irish Derby on his way to
an unfortunate second-place finish in the St Leger Stakes. Magnier
has always been sporting, and brought Camelot back to run in the Prix
de lʼArc de Triomphe, but he finished seventh, and was later found to
be suffering from life-threatening colic issues. he raced three times in
2013, but suffered defeat as favourite in both the Group 1 Tattersalls
Gold Cup and Prince of Walesʼs Stakes. Having been found lame on
Oct. 14, 2013, it was announced he would be to stand at Coolmore for
the 2014 season. camelot amassed four Group/1 victories and almost
£2 million prize-money in a 10-race career.
• Since Magnier installed Aidan OʼBrien as the master of Ballydoyle, he
has found new ways to top spectacular years with further unthinkable
successes. In addition to Camelotʼs exploits in 2012, the Coolmore
team swept the rest of the classics with Power taking the Irish 2000
Guineas, Homecoming Queen the 1000 Guineas and Was the Epsom
Oaks.
• Magnier sent So You Think (NZ) off to stud duty at his Coolmore
Australia farm in the summer of 2012, but first added the Tattersalls
Gold Cup and the Prince of Walesʼs Stakes to the Choisir coltʼs Group
1 tally. In Magnierʼs world, when one goes away, another comes on,
as he won the Phoenix Stakes (G1) with juvenile Pedro the Great by
his stallion Henrythenavigator.
• One of Magnierʼs top performers in 2011 was the Australian sensation
So You Think (NZ), whom he bought after the Choisir (Aus) colt had
won six Group 1 races in Australia. He went on to win three more
Group 1 races including the Irish Champion Stakes in 2011. Cape
Blanco (Ire) lit up 2011 by winning three Grade 1 races in America
before retiring due to injury: Man oʼWar Stakes, Arlington Million, and
Joe Hirsch Turf Classic.
• Among the top-class performers Magnier has owned or co-owned are
Dylan Thomas, Yeats, Galileo, Henrythenavigator, Oratorio, Imagine,
Montjeu, Hurricane Run, Rock of Gibraltar, etc.
• Most of his horses run in the colors of his wife or those of Michael
Tabor or Derrick Smith. In Ireland, they are mainly trained by Aidan
OʼBrien (no relation to Vincent OʼBrien) and Magnierʼs son-in-law,
David Wachman; in England, they are mainly with John Gosden,
Jeremy Noseda and Sir Michael Stoute; and in America they are
primarily with Todd Pletcher and recently, with Bob Baffert.
• Magnier has built Coolmore up to the extent that he is now managing
partner of the Coolmore Castle Hyde and Associated Stud Farms
Company, which is the worldʼs largest stud operation ... According to
one independent authority, it now accounts for over 43 percent of the
British and Irish stud market ... Irish Component: The Irish section of
the company includes six other studs apart from Coolmore itself.
Magnierʼs brother, David, is manager of the original family property,
Grange Stud.
• Coolmore Ireland stands 20 flat stallions (including Danehill Dancer,
Galileo, Holy Roman Emperor, Peintre Celebre, High Chaparral, and
Rock of Gibraltar) and 11 jumps stallions ... American Component: Its
American arm is based at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., where a
further 12 stallions stand, including Munnings, Tale of the Cat, Uncle
Mo, Scat Daddy, and Giantʼs Causeway. Henrythenavigator, who
stood at Ashford in 2012, began standing at Coolmore Ireland in 2013.
• Australian Component: During the Southern Hemisphere covering
season Coolmore Australia, which is in New South Wales, is home to
Duke of Marmalade, Dylan Thomas, Lookin At Lucky and seven other
top-class “shuttle” sires (the concept of “shuttling” sires for use in both
Northern and Southern Hemisphere covering seasons was pioneered
by Coolmore) not to mention three stallions who reside in Australia all
year around including Encosta de Lago. ... Coolmore also has sires in
Japan, New Zealand, Chile and Argentina.
• Magnier served in the Irish Senate for a period in the late 1980s and
has been a member of both the Irish racing industryʼs two governing
bodies, the Irish Horseracing Authority (IHA) and the Turf Club. He
was nominated to the IHA in 1994 by order of the Minister for
Agriculture having previously served for many years on its
predecessor, the Racing Board (also by Government appointment).
• Magnier is a partner in the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados, and in the
Mitchells and Butler pub company with fellow investors Michael Tabor
and Derrick Smith.
• Sangster died in 2004, but had long since dropped out of his business
partnership with Magnier. In the mid-1990s, Michael Tabor began
investing in horses with Magnier, and later Derrick Smith. Most horses
are owned in a three-way partnership, but not all. When Vincent
OʼBrien retired, Magnier found other good judges to help pick out
horses at the sales, headed by Demi OʼByrne, Paul Shanahan and
Tim Hyde.
• The partnership grouped a great trainer with a big capital investor and
a breeding expert. They bought American blood, causing a big splash
at the Keeneland sales, and dominated the European classics ...
Initially, Coolmore was forced to sell its American-bred yearling
purchases that went on to achieve great things on the racecourse,
such as The Minstrel and Alleged, to finance further acquisitions. But
in 1982, Be My Guest gave Coolmore its first siresʼ championship and
he has been followed by Caerleon, Danehill, and most importantly of
all, the 14-time champion Sadlerʼs Wells. An era came to an end in
April 2011 when Sadlerʼs Wells died at the ripe old age of 30.
• When Magnierʼs father, Tom, died suddenly in 1966, Magnier was
withdrawn from school at the age of 16 and plunged into management
of the familyʼs Grange Stud, County Cork ... Never afraid to take a risk,
especially in the early days, he pulled off his first big coup in Oct.
1971, buying Green God from David Robinson just two days before he
won the Vernons Sprint Cup. Vincent OʼBrien spotted Magnierʼs talent
and installed him as manager when he bought Coolmore Stud in
partnership with Robert Sangster in 1975.
• The Magnier family was well known in the south of Ireland for standing
high-quality jumping stallions long before John was born. Operating
since the 1850s, the Magnier name has been associated with a whole
sequence of top-class steeplechasing stallions, including Deep Run,
who was champion jumping sire for the 14th successive year in 1993.
• Although he started out as a farmer, albeit a very astute one, Magnier
is reputed to make more money on the stock market now than he does
through his bloodstock interests ... For instance, in conjunction with
another powerful racehorse owner, J.P. McManus, Magnier spent over
£100 million in acquiring a major shareholding in Manchester United
Football Club. In May 2005, some five years later, the pair sold their
stake at an estimated £80 million profit when Malcolm Glazer, of
Tampa Bay Buccaneers fame, bought the club ... The Sunday Times
estimates his Coolmore racing empire to be worth $200 million.
Co-Owner
Michael Tabor ... Born: Oct. 28, 1941 in the East End of London ...
Residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco and Barbados ... Family: wife Doreen;
son Ashley is chief executive of the Global Talent Group, a music
publishing, artist management and rights ownership business with a $10
million turnover.
Quick facts about Michael Tabor:
• Tabor will return to the Breedersʼ Cup in 2013 with plenty of
confidence behind Declaration Of War in the Classic, a race targeted
ever since Tabor and Coolmore partners purchased him last summer
from the yard of French trainer Jean-Claude Rouget after two races as
a juvenile in 2011. During a busy seven-race campaign in 2013, the
coltʼs two Group 1 successes came in the Queen Anne Stakes at
Royal Ascot and the International Stakes at York. His trainer, Aidan
OʼBrien, says Declaration Of War reminds him of 2000 Breedersʼ Cup
Classic runner-up Giantʼs Causeway, who was bred by Tabor and was
foaled at Ashford Stud near Lexington before racing in Ireland and
England. Giantʼs Causeway, now standing at Ashford, was champion
sire in 2009 and 2010.
Tabor/Coolmore team had to settle for just two of the five in 2013.
Ruler Of The World (Ire) progressed from being an unraced
three-year-old to land the Epsom Derby in less than two months and a
second English Classic came courtesy of Leading Light (Ire) (St
Leger). Other G1 successes were recorded by St Nicholas Abbey (Ire)
(Coronation Cup and Dubai Sheema Classic) and Magician (Ire) (Irish
2000 Guineas).
• Tabor returned to Dubai to start the season in 2013 with St Nicholas
Abbey, who had won the 2011 Breedersʼ Cup Turf and finished third in
the same race in 2012. Having finished runner-up in the Dubai
Sheema Classic (G1) in 2012, the six-year-old went one better in a
cracking renewal which saw no fewer than six Group/Grade 1 winners
in the field of 11. And Tabor/Coolmore also tasted success for the
second year in succession in the UAE Derby (G2) with Lines Of Battle,
who had failed to fire when equipped with blinkers for the first time in
the Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile Turf.
• His love of American racing is long-held. He won the Kentucky Derby,
Belmont Stakes and Travers Stakes in 1995 with his first equine
superstar, the Wayne Lukas-trained Thunder Gulch, who was then
retired to stud at Ashford in Lexington, Ky. and sired dual classic
winner and Horse of the Year Point Given. Tabor was out of luck in
139th Run For The Roses in 2013 when Lines Of Battle, racing on dirt
for the first time, finished 14th to Orb.
• Tabor purchased an interest in No Nay Never after he landed the
Norfolk Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot for trainer Wesley Ward and the
juvenile son of Scat Daddy kept his undefeated record intact with a
stylish victory in the Prix Morny (G1) at Deauville in Aug. 2013. No Nay
Never was bred in Kentucky by Jayne D. Johnson and David Sparrow,
and is owned by the partnership of Susan Magnier, Tabor, and Derrick
Smith.
• Havana is likely to represent Tabor in the Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile,
having earned $300,000 of his $575,000 purchase price for Tabor,
John Mangier and Derrick Smith, when taking the Foxwoods
Champagne at Belmont Park (G1) on Oct. 5. It was the son of
Dunkirkʼs second start for trainer Todd Pletcher.
• War Command, whom Tabor owns in partnership with Joseph Allen,
Susan Magnier and Derrick Smith, gave his sire War Front a 14th
Group/Grade 1 winner when landing the Dewhurst Stakes at
Newmarket on Oct. 12, 2013.
• Taborʼs association with Pletcher has produced numerous victories in
America. The 2012 Champion Two-Year-Old Male Shanghai Bobby,
who is owned by Tabor in association with Starlight Racing, Mrs. John
Magnier and Derrick Smith, won his first start in six months at Belmont
Park on Sept. 20 in the listed Aljamin Stakes, putting himself in
contention for a place in either the 2013 Breedersʼ Cup Sprint or the
Dirt Mile before it was discovered he had injured a ligament during the
victory. Shanghai Bobby, unbeaten in five starts at two, including the
Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile, was competing in a sprint for the first time
since winning the Hopeful (G1) in 2012. He will stand at Coolmoreʼs
Ashford Stud in Kentucky in 2014.
• Verrazano, owned by the partnership of Letʼs Go Stable, Tabor, Mrs.
John Magnier and Derrick Smith, gave Pletcher his third Haskell
Invitational (G1) at Monmouth Park in July 2013 by 9-3/4 lengths, the
largest winning margin in the raceʼs 46-year history. It was the sixth
success in seven lifetime starts for the three-year-old son of More
Than Ready, who previously landed the Wood Memorial (G1) at
Aqueduct.
• Tabor is looking to land the Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile Turf for the third
year in succession in 2013, following victories with George Vancouver
(2012) and Wrote (2011), both for trainer Aidan OʼBrien.
• In 2012, Classic success came thick and fast for Tabor, and the
Coolmore/Aidan OʼBrien team nearly ran the table. Homecoming
Queen took the 1000 Guineas, Was the Epsom Oaks, Power the Irish
2000 Guineas, and Camelot the English 2000 Guineas, Epsom Derby,
Irish Derby, and was finally stopped with a runner-up finish in the St.
Leger Stakes. Camelot is a son of Taborʼs Montjeu.
• In 2012, when he had Camelot in the 2000 Guineas the same day as
Daddy Long Legs in the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs was where
Tabor chose to be, despite the difference in their chances. The then
undefeated Camelot won the Guineas.
• Tabor started the 2012 in Dubai, with his 2011 Breedersʼ Cup Turf
winner St. Nicholas Abbey finishing second in the Dubai Sheema
Classic (G1) and Daddy Long Legs winning the UAE Derby (G2).
• Taborʼs So You Think (NZ) retired to stud duty in Australia in 2012, but
first won two more Group 1 races for him – the Prince of Walesʼs
Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Tattersalls Gold Cup.
• Other top horses of 2011 were Grade 1-winning juvenile Power (GB),
and another Scat Daddy juvenile, Grade 3 winner Finale, trained by
Todd Pletcher. Multiple Group stakes winner Await the Dawn also
boosted the Tabor stable in Europe in 2011.
• Australian import So You Think (NZ) won three Group 1 races in 2011,
Misty For Me (Ire) won the Irish 1,000 Guineas and Tabor was in
partnership on another Irish classic winner in Treasure Beach (GB),
who took the Irish Derby. Taborʼs had two exciting juveniles in 2011,
including the unbeaten filly Maybe (Ire), and the promising Grade 2
winner Daddy Long Legs, by Scat Daddy, whom he raced in
partnership with Jim Scatuorchio. He also partnered with Jim and Fitri
Hay on Cape Blanco (Ire), who came to the United States in 2011 to
win three Grade 1 events: the Manhattan, Arlington Million, and Joe
Hirsch Turf Classic, the former two putting away American champion
Gio Ponti. Cape Blanco suffered an injury in the Turf Classic and
retired to stud at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky.
• In 2010, his star performers were both fillies: Lillie Langtry, who won
both the Coronation Stakes and the Matron Stakes, and the
two-year-old Misty For Me, who won the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1)
and the Prix Marcel Boussac (G1).
• In the United States, his biggest moments of 2009 were provided by
Man Of Iron, who won the Breedersʼ Cup Marathon; Munnings, who
won twice in Grade 2 company; and Dunkirk, who went close in the
Belmont Stakes, finishing runner-up to Summer Bird. In Europe he
won the Irish 1,000 Guineas with Again and the Criterium International
with Jan Vermeer.
• Tabor was part of the unstoppable Aidan OʼBrien bandwagon in 2008,
sharing in most of his 23 Group 1 victories. He also teamed up with
trainer David Wachman for three more wins in the highest company
(two with Bushranger, one with Again).
• Rags To Riches followed two Californian Grade 1 triumphs with victory
in the 2007 Kentucky Oaks (G1), before becoming the first member of
her sex in over a century to lift the Belmont Stakes (G1).
• While Tabor still laments not joining Magnier on Holy Roman Emperor,
the sire of his classic-winning filly Homecoming Queen, he and Smith
owned Rags to Riches without Magnier as partner. Generally, though,
all three own horses they race.
• In 2005, Tabor was owner or part-owner of the winners of 10
European Group 1 races, including three of the five British classics.
His best horse was a son of Montjeu, Hurricane Run, who was bought
in June just before his Irish Derby and later notched a stunning
success in the Prix de lʼArc de Triomphe.
• In 2002, High Chaparral won the English and Irish Derbys along with
the Breedersʼ Cup Turf, then repeated in the 2003 Turf in a dead-heat.
Winning the English Derby in Taborʼs colors remains one of his
fondest racing memories.
• The 2001 season saw Taborʼs colors carried to a Breedersʼ Cup
victory by Johannesburg in the Juvenile, while Milan won the St Leger
and was runnerup in the Breedersʼ Cup Turf. In partnership with Susan
Magnier, Tabor became champion owner in Britain for the first time.
• Although not often listed as breeder, preferring the racing game to
breeding, Tabor did breed the sensational Giantʼs Causeway, who was
foaled at Ashford Stud near Lexington before racing in Ireland and
England. Giantʼs Causeway, now standing at Ashford, has been
champion sire in 2009 and 2010, and among the leading sires from
2006-2008, and again in 2011.
• 1999 was a banner year for Tabor with 11 victories at the top level in
Europe, most notably with Montjeu, who won the French and Irish
Derbys and the Prix de lʼArc de Triomphe ... Montjeu continued his
brilliant progress in 2000, winning in Ireland, France and England, but
he was outshone by stablemate Giantʼs Causeway, who won five
consecutive Group 1 races in England and Ireland. Giantʼs Causeway
(owned in partnership with Susan Magnier) will be best remembered
for his gallant runner-up effort in the 2000 Breedersʼ Cup Classic.
• Entrepreneur provided him with his first European classic success in
1997.
• Taborʼs first equine superstar was the Wayne Lukas-trained Thunder
Gulch who won the 1995 Kentucky Derby, Belmont Stakes and
Travers Stakes, then retired to stud at Ashford in Lexington, Ky. and
sired dual classic winner and Horse of the Year Point Given.
• His principal trainers are Aidan OʼBrien in Ireland, and Todd Pletcher
in America. He also has horses in America with Simon Callaghan; in
England with Jeremy Noseda, Gerard Butler, Michael Bell, Peter
Chapple-Hyam and Henry Cecil; in Ireland with David Wachman; and
in France with John Hammond and Richard Gibson.
• Among the top performers that Tabor has owned or co-owned on
either side of the Atlantic are Alexandrova, George Washington, Hold
That Tiger, Landseer, Left Bank, Lion Heart, Mozart, Oratorio, Scat
Daddy, Sophisticat, So You Think (NZ), Munnings,
Starspangledbanner and Yonaguska ... He is one of only four men to
have won both the Kentucky and Epsom Derbies as an owner.
• It wasnʼt until 1994 that he started increasing his stable and became a
leading buyer at yearling sales throughout Europe and North America,
mainly in partnership with John Magnier and his Coolmore Stud
organization. Their association rapidly became such a force in
European racing that they were able to challenge the dominance of the
Maktoum family.
• Introduced to John Magnier by mutual friend J.P. McManus, a fellow
racing owner and investor, in 1994 when Tabor expressed an interest
in racing in America. Among his first purchases with the help of
Coolmore was then-2-year-old Thunder Gulch, who won the Kentucky
Derby the next year.
• He has since invested heavily in the leisure industry, in 2006 selling
his Next Generation fitness clubs business at a $30 million profit ...
Part owner of the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbardos with John Magnier
and Derrick Smith ... He also has a sizeable stake in the Victor
Chandler internet gaming business and in 2009 bought heavily into the
pub company Mitchell and Butlers, owners of the All Bar One and
Harvester chains, with fellow Coolmore investor Derrick Smith.
• Tabor started out as a ladiesʼ hairdresser, but decided the job was not
for him and he left after two years to become a settling clerk in a
betting shop ... When he reached his mid-20s, he purchased two
betting shops of his own in High Wycombe ... These two shops grew
into a chain of 113 under the Arthur Prince banner. On Sept. 29, 1995,
he sold the entire chain to Coral.
Co-Owner
Derrick Smith ... Born: London, England ... Residence: Barbados ...
Lives in a multimillion dollar mansion next to the Sandy Lane Hotel, of
which he is a part-owner in the company with John Magnier, Michael
Tabor and J.P. McManus ... Owns other properties in Barbados and
Florida. ... Family: wife Gay.
Quick facts about Derrick Smith:
• Smith will return to the Breedersʼ Cup in 2013 with plenty of confidence
behind Declaration Of War in the Classic, a race targeted ever since
Michael Tabor and Coolmore partners purchased him last summer
from the yard of French trainer Jean-Claude Rouget after two races as
a juvenile in 2011. During a busy seven-race campaign in 2013, the
son of War Frontʼs two Group 1 successes came in the Queen Anne
Stakes at Royal Ascot and the International Stakes at York. His trainer,
Aidan OʼBrien, says Declaration Of War reminds him of 2000
Breedersʼ Cup Classic runner-up Giantʼs Causeway, who is now
standing at Ashford and was champion sire in 2009 and 2010.
• Four-time Group/Grade 1 winner Camelot (GB), who went close to
winning an elusive Triple Crown at three, had a truncated 2013
campaign. Last yearʼs 2000 Guineas and Derby winner ran just three
times after recovering from a life-threatening bout of colic but was
turned over in the Tattersalls Gold Cup at 4-11 and then finished fourth
in the Prince of Walesʼs at Royal Ascot in June when favourite. He was
retired in October 2013 to stand at Coolmore for the 2014 season.
Smith/Coolmore team had to settle for just two in 2013. Ruler Of The
World (Ire) progressed from being an unraced three-year-old to land
the Epsom Derby in less than two months and a second English
Classic came courtesy of Leading Light (Ire) (St Leger). Other G1
successes were recorded by St Nicholas Abbey (Ire) (Coronation Cup
and Dubai Sheema Classic), Magician (Ire) (Irish 2000 Guineas) and
War Command (Dewhurst).
• Galileo, Coolmoreʼs four-time champion sire, was responsible for five
of the 12 Epsom Derby runners in 2013 and one of his sons, Ruler Of
The World, duly provided Smith and the current triumvirate of
Coolmore owners (along with John Magnier and Michael Tabor) with a
third consecutive Derby after Pour Moi and Camelot, and record fifth in
total. He was unraced as a juvenile and did not make his debut until
April.
• St Nicholas Abbey gave Smith and his Coolmore partners a race
record third consecutive success in the Coronation Cup (G1) at Epsom
in June 2013. The six-year-old son of Coolmore stallion Montjeu took
his career earnings to just under £5 million with his sixth success at
the highest level. He had started the campaign with victory in the
Dubai Sheema Classic (G1) which saw a brilliant tactical ride from
Joseph OʼBrien, as his mount beat five other G1 scorers, including
Japan Cup winner Gentildonna.
• After the highs came a major low as St Nicholas Abbey suffered a
career-ending injury when fracturing a pastern during a piece of work
in preparation for the King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes in
July, and underwent emergency colic surgery soon after. Sadly, the
weight-bearing pin inserted into his cannon bone broke in late August
forcing surgeons to immediately remove it and place his leg in a cast.
However, it is hoped he will make a full recovery for a stud career.
• In 2013, Lines Of Battle, who had been beaten in the 2012 Breedersʼ
Cup Juvenile Turf by stablemate George Vancouver, gave Smith and
his Coolmore partners a second successive victory in the UAE Derby
(G2) at Meydan following the victory of Daddy Long Legs in 2012.
• Smith/Coolmore saw George Vancouver follow up the 2011 triumph of
Wrote in the Juvenile Turf. The son of 2008 Breedersʼ Cup Classic
runner-up Henrythenavigator sadly failed to build on that success in
2013, racing without success three times at the top level in England.
has been a standout even when running up against the great Frankel.
Second to that obstacle twice in 2012, Excelebration nevertheless
gave Smith wins in the Prix Jacques le Marois (G1), Queen Elizabeth
II Stakes (G1), and Gladness Stakes (G3) and will compete in the
2012 Breedersʼ Cup Mile.
• Other 2012 highlights were wins by Was in the Epsom Oaks,
Homecoming Queen in the 1000 Guineas, Power in the Irish 2000
Guineas, and something to look forward to: 2-year-old Pedro the Great
in the Phoenix Stakes (G1).
• The Aidan OʼBrien-trained War Command, whom Smith owns in
partnership with breeder Joe Allen, Susan Magnier and Michael Tabor,
took the Group 1 Dewhurst Stakes on Oct. 12, 2013, giving a 14th
Group/Grade 1 success for sire War Front.
• Smith also owns shares in Australian sensation So You Think (NZ)
with regular partners Magnier and Tabor, and in 2011 so did Malaysian
owners Dato Tan and Tunku Yahaya. So You Think carried Smithʼs
silks to victories in three 2011 Group 1 races: Tattersalls Gold Cup,
Eclipse Stakes, and Irish Champion Stakes, while also finishing
second in the Prince of Walesʼs Stakes (G1) and the Champion Stakes
(G1), and fourth in the Prix de lʼArc de Triomphe (G1)
• Camelotʼs 2012 Derby victory marked the 100th Group 1 triumph in
which Smith has been involved. Prior to Camelot, Smithʼs
purple-and-white silks had been carried by four previous Derby
runners-up.
• Part-ownerships in Cape Blanco and Fame And Glory were sold to Jim
and Fitri Hay before Cape Blanco won three U.S. Grade 1 races in
2011 and Fame And Gloryʼs 2011 Ascot Gold Cup triumph in Hayʼs
silks.
• In 2012, So You Think (NZ) found his groove and won the Tattersalls
Gold Cup (G1) and the Prince of Walesʼs Stakes (G1) before going off
to stud in Australia in the summer.
• In 2008, when Coolmore trainer Aidan OʼBrien went on a tear and won
23 Group 1 races that year, he had a share in the winners of 12 of
them, most notably the three-time top level scorer, Halfway To
Heaven.
• Smith and partners bought Excelebration in the summer of 2011 and
left him with trainer Marco Botti, but in OʼBrienʼs hands this year he
• In 2010, Smithʼs purple and white silks were carried to Group 1 wins
by Cape Blanco (Ire), who won the Irish Derby and Irish Champion
Stakes; Fame And Glory, winner of both the Tattersalls Gold Cup and
the Coronation Cup; and Joshua Tree, who landed the Canadian
International.
• Enjoyed a highly successful 2007 in the United States with two horses
owned with Michael Tabor – the Florida Derby (G1) winner, Scat
Daddy (also owned with Jim Scatuorchio), and the remarkable
four-time Grade 1-winner, Rags to Riches, who followed up her
Kentucky Oaks success by becoming only the third filly to beat the
boys in the Belmont Stakes … In Europe, in 2007, his biggest moment
came when Soldier of Fortune took the Irish Derby.
richest race in Barbados; Gamut, the 2004 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud
(G1) and 2005 Princess of Walesʼs Stakes (G1) winner; and Black
Jack Ketchum, who landed the Brit Insurance Novices Hurdle at the
Cheltenham Festival in March 2006.
• First gained prominence as a co-owner with Michael Tabor in such
horses as Lion Heart, Pomeroy, Sense of Style and Chapel Royal,
third in the 2003 Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile ... Has since been a partner
in many top horses trained by Aidan OʼBrien in Ireland, such as
George Washington and Alexandrova, as well as G1 Irish Derby and
G1 Prix de lʼArc de Triomphe winner Hurricane Run.
• Celebrated the first Group 1 victory in his own purple and white colors
when Simply Perfect won the Filliesʼ Mile at Ascot in Sept. 2006.
• Smith, along with Tabor and Magnier, took over the pub company
Mitchells and Butlerʼs in 2009, and invested in Britainʼs largest nursing
home operator, Barchester. While he didnʼt enter the British Rich List
until 2000, his investments have grown until he was #23 on the list in
2011, with an estimated fortune of 550 million pounds. His house on
Barbados is the largest on the island, and valued at 30 million pounds,
and is partners with John Magnier, J.P. McManus, and Michael Tabor
in the Sandy Lane Hotel there.
• Wife Gay also is an owner; her major winners: Spectroscope, 2003
winner of the Triumph Hurdle in England; Sharp Impact and Zarad, the
first two home in the 2006 renewal of the Sandy Lane Gold Cup, the
• First successful at the British bookmakers, Ladbrokes, working as onand off-course trading director … Left in 1988 to go into business on
his own and made his fortune in property and currency trading
• Other notable G1 victories have been provided by Excellent Art (St
Jamesʼs Palace Stakes), Simply Perfect (Falmouth Stakes) and
Astronomer Royal (Poule dʼEssai des Poulains).
Trainer
Todd A. Pletcher ... Born: June 26, 1967, Dallas, Texas ... Residence:
Garden City, N.Y. ... Family: wife Tracy, children Payton, Kyle and
Hannah ... Education: Graduated from the University of Arizona in 1989
with a bachelorʼs degree in Animal Science. ... Web site:
www.toddpletcherracing.com
Starts 1st
2nd
95
7
10
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
3rd
12
Sprint
Juvenile
Filly & Mare Turf
Sprint
Sprint
Mile
Sprint
Classic
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Turf
Classic
Distaff
Juvenile
2005
Earnings
$13,209,650
Rare Rock
Graeme Hall
Pico Teneriffe
More Than Ready
Trippi
Balto Star
Left Bank
Harlanʼs Holiday
Appleby Gardens
Chapel Royal
Ashado
Balto Star
Newfoundland
Ashado
Proud Accolade
9th
12th
12th
5th
9th
12th
5th
9th
5th
3rd
2nd
9th
12th
1st
6th
2006
Sprint
Classic
Distaff
Distaff
Juvenile Fillies
Mile
Mile
Sprint
Turf
Classic
Classic
Distaff
Distaff
Distaff
Filly & Mare Turf
Filly & Mare Turf
Filly & Mare Turf
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile
Juvenile Fillies
Juvenile Fillies
Sprint
Turf
Speightstown
Flower Alley
Ashado
Capeside Lady
Adieu
Host (Chi)
Limehouse
Lion Tamer
English Channel
Flower Alley
Lawyer Ron
Fleet Indian
Pool Land
Spun Sugar
Honey Ryder
Quiet Royal
Wait a While
Circular Quay
King of the Roxy
Scat Daddy
Cotton Blossom
Octave
Friendly Island
English Channel
1st
2nd
3rd
6th
7th
7th
6th
3rd
5th
11th
9th
dnf
9th
8th
3rd
9th
4th
2nd
8th
4th
3rd
2nd
2nd
3rd
2007
2008
2009
Turf
Go Deputy
Turf
Icy Atlantic
Classic
Any Given Saturday
Classic
Lawyer Ron
Distaff
Indian Vale
Distaff
Octave
Distaff
Unbridled Belle
Filly & Mare Turf Honey Ryder
Juvenile Turf
The Leopard
Mile
Host (Chi)
Mile
Icy Atlantic
Turf
English Channel
Classic
Fairbanks
Filly & Mare Turf Wait a While
Juvenile
Munnings
Juvenile
Silent Valor
Juvenile Turf
Bittel Road
Dirt Mile
Readyʼs Echo
Filly & Mare Sprint Game Face
Juvenile
Aikenite
Juvenile
Eskendereya
Juvenile Fillies
Devil May Care
Juvenile Fillies Turf Rose Catherine
Juvenile Turf
Interactif
7th
11th
6th
7th
9th
3rd
5th
2nd
7th
5th
9th
1st
10th
3rd
10th
8th
8th
2nd
9th
5th
9th
11th
2nd
3rd
2010
2011
2012
Marathon
Nite Light
Mile
Cowboy Cal
Sprint
Join in the Dance
Classic
Quality Road
Dirt Mile
Aikenite
Juvenile
Stay Thirsty
Juvenile
Uncle Mo
Juvenile Fillies
R Heat Lightning
Juvenile Turf
Allure dʼAmour
Juvenile Turf
More Than Real
Juvenile Turf
Pluck
Ladies' Classic
Life At Ten
Ladies' Classic
Malibu Prayer
Turf Sprint
Rose Catherine
Classic
Stay Thirsty
Classic
Uncle Mo
Filly & Mare Sprint Her Smile
Juvenile Fillies Turf Stopshoppingmaria
Juvenile Fillies Turf Sweet Cat
Juvenile Turf
Finale
Ladies' Classic
Super Espresso
Mile
Sidneyʼs Candy
Sprint
Aikenite
Distaff
Love and Pride
8th
10th
9th
12th
8th
5th
1st
2nd
13th
1st
1st
11th
10th
7th
11th
10th
3rd
2nd
3rd
7th
7th
6th
4th
5th
Filly & Mare Sprint Turbulent Descent
Filly & Mare Turf In Lingerie
Juvenile
Shanghai Bobby
Juvenile Fillies
Dreaming of Julia
Juvenile Fillies
Kauai Kate
Juvenile Fillies Turf Tara from the Cape
Turf
Turbo Compressor
Turf Sprint
Bridgetown
7th
9th
1st
3rd
4th
4th
12th
14th
Malice also won the Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) ... Pletcherʼs other Triple
Crown wins came from Rags to Riches in the 2007 Belmont Stakes
and Super Saver in the 2010 Kentucky Derby.
• Pletcherʼs 2013 stable also features 3-year-old filly sensation Princess
of Sylmar, winner of four Grade 1 stakes: the Beldame, Alabama,
Coaching Club American Oaks and Kentucky Oaks ... His other Grade
1 winners in 2013 include Verrazano in the Haskell and Wood
Memorial; Cross Traffic in the Whitney; Capo Bastone in the Kingʼs
Bishop; Graydar in the Donn; and Overanalyze in the Arkansas Derby.
Quick facts about Todd A. Pletcher:
• Pletcher collected the 3,000 win of his career on Feb. 11, 2012 when
Spring Hill Farm won the third race at Gulfstream Park.
• Pletcher added to his impressive Breedersʼ Cup totals in 2012 when
2-year-old champion Shanghai Bobby won the Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile
... It was his seventh Breedersʼ Cup victory ... His best year at the
Breedersʼ Cup came in 2010 when he won three Breedersʼ Cup races:
the Juvenile with eventual champion Uncle Mo, the Juvenile Turf with
Pluck, and the Juvenile Fillies Turf with More Than Real.
• Pletcher has led the nation in earnings seven times, including the last
three years ... He is well on his way to a fourth straight earnings crown
in 2013 ... Pletcher is currently second in all-time earnings with
$253,112,790 through Sept. 30, 2013 ... He trails only his mentor, D.
Wayne Lukas. ...
• Pletcherʼs other Breedersʼ Cup winners are English Channel (2007
Turf), Ashado (2004 Distaff), and Speightstown (2004 Sprint).
• His Breedersʼ Cup totals through 2012 stand at 95 starts, with 7 wins,
10 seconds and 12 thirds and earnings of $13,209,650 ... He ranks
fourth in earnings and fifth in wins.
• Pletcherʼs 2013 campaign was highlighted by his third Triple Crown
victory when Palace Malice captured the Belmont Stakes ... Palace
• His 10 Eclipse Award champions through 2012 are Shanghai Bobby,
Uncle Mo, Rags to Riches, Lawyer Ron, English Channel, Wait a
While, Fleet Indian, Speightstown, Ashado and Left Bank.
• His list of stakes winners in 2012 included Shanghai Bobby, Stay
Thirsty, Awesome Maria, Caixa Eletronica, Calibrachoa, Violence,
Overanalyze, Dreaming of Julia, Kauai Katie, Unlimited Budget, Love
and Pride, Gemologist, Dominus and Turbulent Descent
• In 2011, Pletcher had to withdraw two-year-old champion and early
favorite Uncle Mo with an unknown illness the day before the Kentucky
Derby. The colt was later found to have cholangiohepatitis, a liver
disorder, and was sent to WinStar Farm for several months of
recovery. He returned to run a very game second in the 2011 Kingʼs
Bishop at Saratoga, getting beaten by just a nose by Calebʼs Posse.
He won the Kelso (G2) at Belmont before running 10th in the
Breedersʼ Cup Classic, the final race of his career.
• Despite having to scratch Uncle Mo from the Kentucky Derby, Pletcher
did play a part in that yearʼs race as Uncle Moʼs defection left his
jockey, John Velazquez, available; Velazquez picked up the mount on
Derby winner Animal Kingdom.
• Stay Thirsty stepped up during his stablemateʼs recovery. After a 12th
place finish in the Kentucky Derby, Stay Thirsty finished second in the
Belmont Stakes and won the Jim Dandy (G2) and Travers Stakes
(G1). He also finished third in the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1).
• 2011 was the second consecutive year in which Pletcher had to
scratch a Kentucky Derby favorite; in 2010, Eskendereya, winner of
the Fountain of Youth (G1), Florida Derby (G1) and Wood Memorial
(G1) was injured the week of the race. Pletcher had won eight different
Kentucky Derby preps with six different horses, and it was Super
Saver who finally got him his elusive first Derby win. The WinStar
Farm color-bearer rebounded from a second-place finish in the
Arkansas Derby (G2) to capture the Kentucky Derby under a patented
rail-skimming ride from jockey Calvin Borel.
• 2010 saw Pletcher win 14 Grade 1 races. In addition to the Kentucky
Derby with Super Saver and Breedersʼ Cup Juvenile and Champagne
with Uncle Mo, his wins included: Life At Ten (Beldame, Ogden
Phipps); Quality Road (Donn, Metropolitan Handicap, Woodward);
Devil May Care (Mother Goose, Coaching Club American Oaks); R
Heat Lightning (Spinaway); Discreetly Mine (Kingʼs Bishop); the Malibu
Prayer (Ruffian); Eskendereya (Wood Memorial).
• Pletcher won Eclipse Awards as Outstanding Trainer in 2010, 2007,
2006, 2005, and 2004 and was the leader in earnings 2010-12 and
2004-07.
• Pletcher had a relatively slow 2009, winning only three Grade 1 races.
Among other ʼ09 highlights were Dunkirkʼs second-place finish in the
Belmont and the transfer of Quality Road to his stable.
• Pletcher started 2008 by collecting his 2,000th career win on January
13 with On the Virg and finished the year as the second-leading
trainer, behind Steve Asmussen, with 208 wins from 1090 starts and
$13,571,546 in earnings. Among his best horses in 2008 were
Fairbanks, Game Face, Cowboy Cal, Unbridled Belle, and Wait a
While.
• Pletcher earned his fourth consecutive Eclipse Award as Outstanding
Trainer in 2007, the third trainer to accomplish that feat, joining Bobby
Frankel (2000-2003) and Laz Barrera (1976-79). He won his third
Breedersʼ Cup race with English Channel in the Turf, trained three
Eclipse Award Champions – Rags to Riches (Three-Year-Old Filly),
English Channel (Turf Horse) and Lawyer Ron (Older Male) – and won
Grade 1 races with six other horses.
• Pletcher won his first Triple Crown race in 2007 when Rags to Riches
became the first filly since Tanya in 1905 to win the Belmont. The
Preakness is the only Triple Crown race Pletcher hasnʼt won.
• In 2007, Pletcher trainee Lawyer Ron broke the track record set by
Pletcherʼs first Eclipse Award winner, Left Bank, when he captured the
Whitney in a final time of 1:46.64. Previously, also in the Whitney, Left
Bank had equaled the Saratoga track record of 1:47 set by Tri Jet in
1974.
• Pletcher shattered his own record from 2006 when he ended the year
with $28,576,097 in earnings. In 2006, his stable earned $26,820,243.
He surpassed D. Wayne Lukasʼ record of 92 stakes victories in a year
on Oct. 15, 2006, when Scat Daddy won the Champagne, and he
finished that year with 100 stakes wins out 416 starters. He also broke
Lukasʼ record of 53 graded stakes victories in a year with 57 victories.
Two of his horses won Eclipse Awards in 2006: Fleet Indian (Older
Female) and Wait a While (Three-Year-Old Filly).
• With 47 individual stakes winners in 2005, Pletcher became the first
trainer to crack $20 million in purse earnings with $20,867,842.
• In 2004, Pletcher won his first two Breedersʼ Cup races with Ashado
(Distaff (now the Ladies Classic)) and Speightstown (Sprint), which
helped him lead the nation in earnings with $17,511,923 and win his
first Eclipse Award as outstanding trainer. Ashado and Speightstown
were both voted the champions of their divisions.
• A perennial leader in New York, Pletcher won five consecutive
Saratoga training titles from 2002-2006. After three consecutive years
in second place, he regained the title in 2010 and won his fourth
straight crown in 2013 ... In 2011, he broke his own record for wins
during the meet with 38 ... A 10-time champion at Saratoga, Pletcher
won his first title at the Spa in 1998 ... He also holds training titles at
Belmont Park, Aqueduct, Gulfstream Park and Keeneland.
• While in college, Pletcher spent his summers working with trainers
Henry Moreno, D. Wayne Lukas and Charlie Whittingham; he went to
work as an assistant for Lukas two weeks after his college graduation.
• After seven years with Lukas, Pletcher opened his own public stable
with seven horses in Dec. 1995 at Hialeah and won his first race in
Feb. 1996 at Gulfstream Park with Majestic Number. Among his early
success stories was Jersey Girl, who won seven consecutive races
before being injured, including three Grade 1 stakes: the Acorn, the
Mother Goose and the Test.
• Pletcher grew up in the racing business, helping his father, Jake (J.J.)
Pletcher, who trained Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses throughout
the Midwest and California. Jake Pletcher continues to work with
Thoroughbreds at a training center in Ocala, Fla.
• Pletcher has reduced his stable in recent years to around 100 horses
and employs four assistant trainers. Tristan Barry works with Pletcher
at Saratoga and Palm Meadows; Michael McCarthy oversees
Pletcherʼs Belmont stable; Ginny DePasquale works at Saratoga and
Palm Meadows and often travels with Pletcher horses; and Anthony
Sciametta works with Pletcher at Monmouth and Gulfstream ... Former
Pletcher assistants who have gone on to train on their own include
George Weaver, Michelle Nihei, Seth Benzel and Michael Dilger.

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