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GR AHAM MOTION In profile THE WHIP DEBATE How the use of the whip is viewed around the world

AFTER THE KENTUCKY DERBY What’s next for Derby also rans?

THE FRENCH MODEL What makes French racing so strong?

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Introduction Giles Anderson

The move by the Association of Racing Commissioners International to develop a plan to eliminate the use of raceday medication must be supported and endorsed by all in the industry. It’s the right action at the right time. At the end of the day what the industry needs is a sense of clarity: clarity in what you can do on raceday and clarity on the correct withdrawal periods for medication prior to raceday.

For me, medication is one of the most important rules that need to be agreed upon on a national and international basis. Another area I feel could also benefit by having unilateral international agreement is the use of the whip. This issue of the magazine features a major study of the perception of whip use on three major racing continents: North America, Australia and Europe.

Earlier this year strong momentum was building for an overall ban of the whip in two-year-old races and such talk split the industry into two very much opposing camps - those who agreed and those who disagreed. At the same time, in France, plans were announced to reduce usage of the whip inside the final furlong from this July and in England a proposal was put forward that would eliminate the use of the stick in Point-to-Point races (Hunt Club races).

The debate has been further fueled in England with the jockey who rode the winner of the 2011 Grand National getting a fiveday suspension for excessive use of the whip at the end of what was a grueling four-and-a-half mile race. The race attracts as much media attention in the England as the Kentucky Derby gets in America or the Melbourne Cup in Australia, and coupled with two fatalities in the race, the media coverage from the popular press towards racing has been particularly sour since the race.

A harmonization of international rules on use of the whip could actually be turned to our favor just as medication rules will be. The average person will only get exposure to racing on its big days and while it is easy for the mainstream media to sensationalize its attention, it might also be interested to learn just what efforts the industry is making to improve its appeal to the person on the street.

Our cover profile is on Graham Motion, a trainer whose star is very much on the ascent this spring and who could be represented through the Triple Crown campaign with a handful of live chances.

In this issue, you’ll also find Bill Heller’s fascinating look at the careers of Derby starters following the Run for the Roses. He comes out with some fascinating stats about the 178 also-rans over the past ten years.

So if your horse doesn’t make it to the winner’s circle in this year’s Derby, don’t despair! There could well be plenty of fine days to follow.

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California Thoroughbred Trainers The changing nature of the Thoroughbred.

Profile of Myung Kwon Cho.

14 Trainer of the quarter Jeff Bonde may have two runners in the Kentucky Derby after his recent run of success.

16 Graham Motion Frances J. Karon profiles the quiet trainer who lets his horses do his talking on the track. These days, they have much to say.

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26 After the Derby As Bill Heller notes, for most horsemen and women, winning the Derby is the pinnacle of their career. But can getting a horse to peak in the Derby be too costly?

34 Whipping A perspective on the perception of the use of the stick from three racing jurisdictions: Australia, Europe, and the U.S. Contributed by Michell Lamb, Colin Mackenzie, and Gary West.

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CONTENTS ISSUE 20 48 Piroplasmosis An introduction to a disease about which we are hearing more, and its possible impact on horseracing around the world, by Dr. Stacey Oke.

52 The French Model Isabel Mathew on why the French racing model is known as “the best system in the world.�

58 Human vs. Equine Sports Nutrition What similarities are there in sports nutrition for human and equine athletes? By Catherine Dunnett.

62 Fair Hill What is so special about this iconic training center in the heart of horseracing country? Joe Clancy finds out.

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68 All in the Genes Dr. David Marlin wonders if the answers to racehorse potential can be easily found via genetic tests.

72 Night Racing K.T. Donovan looks at night racing to see if this is one answer to making racetracks fun again.

78 The Stakes are High for Change A look at how the quality of racing is being brought down by uncooperative stakes schedules, by Sid Fernando.

82 Product Focus 84 Stakes Schedules Indexes of forthcoming major stakes races.

96 The Arnold Kirkpatrick column

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CONTRIBUTORS

Publisher & Editorial Director Giles Anderson Managing Editor Frances Karon Design/Production Neil Randon Circulation Pippa Anderson Photo Credits ARB, Benoit & Associates, Churchill Downs, Frank Sorge, FRBC, Horsephotos.com, Kempton Park, Maggie Kimmitt, Reed Palmer Photography, Shutterstock, Sportpix, Sunland Park Cover Photograph Maggie Kimmitt North American

An Anderson & Co Publishing Ltd publication Main Address – United Kingdom 3 Stibb Hill, West Lavington SN10 4LQ Representative Address – North America PO Box 13248, Lexington, KY 40583-3248 Contact details Tel: 1 888 218 4430 Fax: 1 888 218 4206 info@trainermagazine.com www.trainermagazine.com North American Trainer is the official magazine of the California Thoroughbred Trainers. It is distributed to all ‘Trainer’ members of the Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and all members of the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association

Alan F. Balch was hired as Executive Director of California Thoroughbred Trainers in April 2010. His professional career in racing began at Santa Anita in 1971, where he advanced to the position of Sr. Vice PresidentMarketing and Assistant General Manager, and was in charge there of the Olympic Games Equestrian Events for Los Angeles in 1984. He retired in the early 90s to become volunteer president of the national equestrian federation of the USA, as well as of the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden. He remains volunteer president of USA Equestrian Trust, Inc.

Joe Clancy is editor, publisher and owner of the Fair Hill-based ST Publishing, which produces awardwinning newspapers The Steeplechase Times and The Saratoga Special. He has written about racing for numerous publications for more than 20 years and spent his early years as an assistant in the barn of his father Joe, a former trainer on the Mid-Atlantic circuit.

K. T. Donovan travels domestically and internationally to cover racing through writing, television, and video, and markets farms, stallions, and events, while regularly working sales to make sure she can still put her hands on the horse, the center of it all. As a freelancer, she has written for most of the major racing publications around the world, and contributed in various capacities to live shows and documentaries on several American television networks, as well as for Sky, and RTE (Irish television). She is based in Lexington, Kentucky.

Dr Catherine Dunnett BSc, PhD, R.Nutr. is an independent nutritionist registered with the British Nutrition Society. She has a background in equine research, in the field of nutrition and exercise physiology with many years spent at The Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. Prior to setting up her own consultancy business, she worked in the equine feed industry on product development and technical marketing.

Sid Fernando is president of eMatings LLC and Werk Thoroughbred Consultants, Inc. He is the former bloodstock editor of Daily Racing Form and also blogs about racing and breeding.

Frances J. Karon, is a native of Puerto Rico and graduate of Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She operates Rough Shod LLC based in Lexington, Kentucky and specializes in sales, pedigree research and recommendations.

Bill Heller, Bill Heller, Eclipse-Award winner Bill Heller's 22nd book, "Above It All; The Turbulent Life of Jose Santos," was published in March, 2011. Heller, a member of the Harness Racing Hall of Fame Communicators Corner, is 58 and lives in Albany, New York, just 30 miles south of Saratoga Race Course, with his wife Anna and their 22-year-old son Benjamin, a senior honor student at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

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Arnold Kirkpatrick in more than 45 years of involvement in the thoroughbred industry, Arnold Kirkpatrick has accumulated a vast experience in most aspects of the business – from being executive vice president of a major breeding farm to president of a race track. He has won major industry awards both as a writer and as a breeder.

Mitchell Lamb was the senior producer and reporter with Australia's Sky Racing Network for more than a decade and is currently senior producer for the industry-owned network TVN. His passion for racing extends more than 25 years and hails from a strong family involvement in the industry but also a genuine passion for the sport from all aspects.

Colin Mackenzie worked as a news and foreign correspondent for the Daily Express and Daily Mail before joining the nascent Racing Post at the end of 1985. He returned to the Daily Mail as Racing Correspondent at the end of 1988, retiring in 2008.

Dr David Marlin is a specialist in exercise physiology, thermoregulation, transport, and respiratory physiology. He has authored over 170 scientific papers and book chapters, and Equine Exercise Physiology. Marlin is International Board Chairman of the International Conference on Equine Exercise Physiology, editor of Comparative Exercise Physiology, and holds visiting Professor positions at the Universities of Bristol, Nottingham, and Oklahoma State. He works as a consultant to the racing industry, the British Equestrian Teams, the FEI, and the International League for the Protection of Horses.

Isabel Mathew is a freelance journalist based in Paris. She works for several different publications covering subjects related to the French Horseracing Industry and elsewhere. After graduating from the Darley Flying Start and working in racing across many different countries, she has been in France for nearly two and a half years.

Dr. Stacey Oke is a licensed veterinarian and freelance medical writer and editor. In addition to writing for various horse publications, she also contributes to scientific journals, is an editor of an internationally-recognized, peerreviewed journal, creates continuing education materials for both human and veterinary medicine, and conducts biomedical research studies.

Gary West is a sports columnist with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and a former president of the National Turf Writers Association. Gary has written about horse racing for more than 25 years.

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CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS

Spring Impertinence

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T’S time for a dose of impertinence to temper the optimism of spring that every horseman and every breeder lives for . . . let’s just face it: in no other sport are hopes dashed so quickly and so often. Mother Nature will have Her way, and try as we might, nobody successfully messes with Her. Since racing as a sport is inherently based on risk, and risk taking, there’s a certain intrinsic rationality in these facts of life.

Those who confront their risk via the breeding shed, on the race track, or assessing the odds of winning a bet, are all in the “game” together. If you are risk-averse, racing – or breeding – are not for you.

This is where sport comes in. Nobody can guarantee winning, even in the most predictable sports. Rod Laver, or Pete Sampras, or Roger Federer, can lose. So can the New York Yankees, and the Miami Heat.

So can the most prohibitive 1-9 favorite.

They didn’t call it the “Chicken Flamingo” for nothing, when Hialeah itself declined to take any risk at all despite seven betting interests (including the coupling of Buckpasser and Stupendous) in the 1966 Flamingo Stakes. In sport, outcomes are never pre-determined; that is its fundamental appeal. And the bedrock appeal of racing, especially.

But racing’s essential nature as sport has been increasingly challenged, and changed, by market economics. Somewhere along the line, the prevailing opinion developed that owners and breeders and trainers and tracks can simply expect handsome returns on investment. How did this idea ever take root, in a sport where 80% of the purses are won by 20% of the interests, year after year?

Mother Nature sees to that, since only the noses getting to the wire first have a big pay day, and very few noses are born with fast, strong bodies attached.

In 1950, 1960, and 1970, the average starts per runner was around 10 or 11 per year.

Since then, over 40 years, the starts per runner has declined by nearly half. The steady decline occurred even in the face of the number of races run per year peaking at about 80,000 in 1990, and declining again to about 54,000 in 2009 – virtually the same

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By Alan F. Balch CTT Executive Director

“The very nature of the Thoroughbred horse may have changed” number of races as were run in 1970!

The average foal crop in the 50s was just under 10,000. In the 60s, it averaged about 18,000. By the 70s, it grew to an average of about 28,000, or over 50%. In the 80s, it grew even more, to 46,000 per year, before declining in the 90s to about 37,500 per year.

I think these statistics are very revealing, and quite startling.

First, they tell me that the very nature of the Thoroughbred horse may have changed.

It didn’t happen suddenly, but gradually. But the change seems undeniable. Why do I believe this?

Not too long ago, I was involved in managing a small breed registry. We were facing the same trials as every breed organization. In talking to an eminent international expert at the University of Kentucky about some of the breed’s problems, he said to me, “Who is in charge of your phenotype?” Since I’d been around horses virtually every day of my life for nearly 50 years at that point, I hated to admit I didn’t even know what that was. He taught me. A phenotype of a horse is its actual, observed properties, including its conformation. A genotype, by comparison, represents its exact genetic makeup, the particular set of genes it possesses.

American breeding – virtually all American breeding in major registries – is strictly based on genotypes. Breed a Thoroughbred to a

Thoroughbred and you have a Thoroughbred, ready to be registered with The Jockey Club, if the breeding has been conducted according to its rules. If he’s crooked, or fragile, or slow or swaybacked, he’s still a Thoroughbred.

Most European breeding of sport horses, excluding racing, is instead based on phenotype – if you breed a Holsteiner to a Holsteiner, you don’t have a registered Holsteiner until the resulting animal is inspected and passes rigid (if somewhat subjective) standards of conformation, substance, soundness, and way of going!

Genetics, in other words, can only take us part of the way to success. “Breed the best to the best and hope for the best” tend to be a breeder’s watchwords. So why would anyone breed the unsound (or unproven) to the unsound (or unproven) and have any reasonable expectation of greater soundness and durability? And who or what defines “best” any more, to begin with?

Until the recent worldwide market collapse, the trend of economic forces for the previous several decades was to provide ever greater incentives for breeders to breed for the auction market and for brilliant two- and three-year-olds, not for any classics for older horses. Can it be simply true that good horsemanship (and good sport) have been increasingly sacrificed on the altar of short term gain? Forty years ago or more, breeders and owners aspired to winning The Jockey Club Gold Cup at two miles. The Triple Crown was a prelude, not an end in itself.

The minimum “classic distance” was a mile and a quarter. And all market research indicated the bettors (who generate those mammoth purses, by the way) wanted more two-turn races, not fewer.

So, who or what does determine our phenotype, the conformation and physical durability of our breed? Have the market forces dictating racing and breeding decisions served the sport and its future well? When “the best” is now often a three- or four-yearold who has survived the Triple Crown (and perhaps another year), and run a mile and a quarter once or twice, what does that tell us about substance, stamina, and durability in our breed?

Of all the serious problems facing the sport, everything starts – and ends – with the horse. Racing began with the proposition that one horse is better, faster, and stronger than another. Breeding needs to be a means to that end, not the end in itself. Breed for, and buy, substance and soundness. Re-evaluate and re-cast the architecture of the sport. And always remember it is a sport, first, and the cornerstone of all sport in America. n

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CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS

Popular “Mr. Cho” enjoys big results from his small stable

Cho with one of his owners, Rafael Martinez

By Steve Schuelein

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PLETHORA of thoughts and emotions will flood trainerowner-breeder Myung Kwon Cho when he watches the Kentucky Derby from his California home on television this year.

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Cho will remember the excitement of his first two trips to the Run for the Roses with a pair of longshots. He will agonize briefly over what might have been with Premier Pegasus, a homebred colt who was considered a leading contender before being sidelined with an injury a month before the race.

Cho will not dwell on the negative and will look forward to another crack at Churchill Downs in a future year. An eternal optimist, the 68-year-old Korean native will continue living his version of the American Dream.

“Mr. Cho,” as the popular conditioner is called by almost everyone at the track, has enjoyed maximum results from a small stable during two decades in the sport.

Cho still struggles with his English,

although his horses seem to understand him perfectly. He recently discussed his life as son Raxon, a 17-year-old high school student and aspiring trainer, helped to pinch-hit for him.

Like many of his horses, Cho has overcome long odds to reach the winner’s circle. Born in North Korea in 1942 during World War II, Cho moved as a child with his family to Seoul in South Korea to escape Communism.

In 1978, Cho moved to the United States with the same motivation as many immigrants, to seek a better life in the land of opportunity. Cho first paid his bills by painting apartments before his first stroke of good luck.

A friend from Korea in the clothing export and import business contacted him and said he needed a business link in Los Angeles.

The friend explained how he ran the business and Cho began his own on that model.

Cho founded Comak Trading Co. in the City of Vernon near downtown Los Angeles in 1980 and expanded it into a clothing export and import business featuring vintage styles that serves an international clientele.

The success of Comak, where Cho still spends long hours as owner and president, enabled him to move his family to a home in posh Rolling Hills Estates on the Palos Verdes peninsula and support his newfound interest in horse racing.

Cho had never heard of horse racing in Korea, and when an American friend asked him if he wanted to go to the races at Santa Anita during the 1980’s, Cho thought he meant auto racing.

When the friend explained that it was horse racing, Cho conjured up an image of steeplechase racing. When Cho arrived at the track and saw his first race, he was immediately smitten.

That initial attraction eventually led Cho to make his first claim as an owner in 1989 on a horse named Zonar. Later that year, Cho was encouraged by the potential of a two-year-old colt named Video Ranger, who finished far back in a maiden sprint but finished with interest.

When Video Ranger routed for the first time at 1 1/16 miles in January, 1990, Cho claimed him for $40,000 from trainer D. Wayne Lukas following a 13-length score in the mud. After the race, trainer Bob Baffert n continued on page 12

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Premier Pegasus was the favorite for the Santa Anita Derby before surgery on a hairline fracture of a cannon bone n from page 10

approached Cho, said he had considered claiming him, too, and offered to buy him for $50,000. “No way,” said Cho. Video Ranger went on to finish second to Mister Frisky in the Santa Anita Derby, earning him a trip to the Kentucky Derby.

Dismissed at 65-to-1 odds under Ron Hansen as part of the field, Video Ranger rallied from 14th to finish fourth behind Unbridled, Summer Squall and Pleasant Tap and in front of a three-horse entry trained by Lukas.

As much as the race, Cho remembered needing to find a Derby hat for his wife, Lydia, in quarter-horse time. Unaware that all ladies wore hats to honor the occasion until they arrived at the admission gate, Cho frantically searched the parking lot before finding another woman willing to sell hers.

Video Ranger earned $257,650 before being retired to stud at Wilson Stock Farm in California.

Cho returned to Kentucky for the 1998 Derby as the trainer-owner-breeder of Nationalore, a homebred son of Video Ranger, who was still a maiden despite a series of stakes placings, including a third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

Nationalore, sent off at 109-to-1 under Goncalino Almeida, was last in a field of 15 with a half-mile to go and rallied mildly to finish a non-threatening ninth behind winner Real Quiet. Nationalore never did win a race in 26 starts during a career in which he earned $318,227.

Cho said he never worried about the odds at which the public sends his horses postward, only that he knows that they are training well. He saw that Video Ranger was

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training well before both the Santa Anita and Kentucky derbies and entered him in both races with confidence.

Cho said that Nationalore’s come-frombehind style reminded him of Video Ranger.

He said that type of horse usually does not take as much out of himself and has a better chance for a longer career. He could count on Nationalore unleashing a patented rally and passing most of the field but, unfortunately, he could never quite get there on top.

A decade later, Cho was again excited about a possible trip to Louisville after homebred Street Hero proved he belonged with the nation’s top two-year-olds by capturing the Grade 1 Norfolk Stakes and finishing third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, both at Santa Anita in 2008.

Unfortunately, Street Hero came out of the Juvenile with a knee injury that failed to respond to treatment. Derby hopes dashed, Cho retired the colt to stud at Vinery in Kentucky.

Cho had reason to believe he was going to return to Louisville with a bonafide Derby contender after Premier Pegasus, a halfbrother to Street Hero, vaulted into prominence with a seven-length victory in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes in March.

Victorious in four of five starts, Premier Pegasus was established as the morning-line favorite at the Santa Anita Derby draw in April, only to come out of a gallop the following morning at Santa Anita lame. Xrays revealed a hairline fracture of a cannon bone, which required surgery to insert one screw.

The injury was a bitter pill to swallow, but Cho remained philosophical. The timing of it was the worst, lamented Cho, two days

before the Santa Anita Derby. But he considered it lucky that the injury was not more serious, and if it had not been caught in time, a catastrophic breakdown could have followed.

Cho said that the surgery went well and that after 90 days for recovery, the colt will be re-evaluated in July with hopes for a fall return.

Cho also hopes to have a second threeyear-old stakes colt back around the same time. Riveting Reason was sent to a farm with a hoof injury following a second-place finish in the Grade 2 Robert Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita in February.

Premier Pegasus, by 2000 Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus, and Street Hero, by Street Cry, are both out of prize broodmare Squall Linda, a horse that Cho said turned his life around.

Cho, who began buying yearlings at auction in 1989, bought Squall Linda at the 1997 Keeneland September yearling sale for $62,000. He explained the name in part to her sire, Summer Squall, and the fact that Los Angeles was lashed that day by a storm caused by Hurricane Linda.

Squall Linda enjoyed modest success at the track, finishing second in the Grade 3 Monrovia Handicap and earning $154,727, but she has excelled in the breeding shed.

Cho hopes that two more sons of Squall Linda follow in the footsteps of the two stakes winners. Groovin Solo, a two-year-old colt by Bob and John, is ready to join the barn. A yearling colt by Street Cry waits in the wings.

Squall Linda, boarded with three other Cho mares at Hartwell Farm in Kentucky, is back in foal to Fusaichi Pegasus.

Cho initially began as an owner with trainer Ian Jory, who conditioned Video Ranger, and also used Steve Miyadi and Rafael Martinez before opting to train his own horses in the early 1990’s.

Cho explained that he wanted to test his own approach in training. He said he is still learning every day, using trial and error to find the right equation for each horse.

Cho has enjoyed more than his fair share of success for a small barn, which currently stables 10 head. Cho relies heavily on Maria Ayala, his Mexican-born assistant of 20 years, and also consults regularly with Martinez, who often saddles starters for him.

While waiting for the return of his two stakes colts later this year, Cho is hopeful a three-year-old filly will fulfill her stakes potential. Love Theway Youare, a latedeveloping stretch runner, is being pointed to the Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks in June.

Cho said the filly needed a mile and a sixteenth to find herself and that her style reminds him of Zenyatta. If Cho likes the filly, don’t sell her short. As he can tell you, anything is possible in America. n

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Jeff Bonde (far right), whose Sway Away may join Twice The Appeal in the Kentucky Derby if he runs well in the Arkansas Derby

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IGHT days can be a lifetime for a trainer chasing the Kentucky Derby. Eight days took 56-year-old, California-based Jeff Bonde (pronounced Bon-dee) from disappointment to jubilation in pursuit of his first starter in North America’s biggest race on the first Saturday in May. On March 19th at Oaklawn Park, he sent out Sway Away, who went off at 9-5 in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes and finished sixth after lunging at the start and bashing his head on the starting gate, losing a tooth in the process. That might explain why he finished 9Ÿ lengths behind winner The Factor, who had beaten Sway Away by just three-quarters of a length in the Grade 2 San Vincente in their previous start at Santa Anita.

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the only trainer in Northern California who can hold his own on a national stage.

Just last summer, Bonde won his first Grade 1 stakes when Smiling Tiger captured the Bing Crosby at Del Mar. After finishing third in the Grade 1 Pat O’Brien, Smiling Tiger captured the Grade 1 Ancient Title at Oak Tree at Hollywood Park and finished a strong third in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint, a length and three-quarters behind wire-to-wire winner Big Drama.

“It’s difficult for trainers from our area to get to that new level,” Bonde said.

“Right now, we’re enjoying climbing that mountain. I hope it continues. We’re trying. We don’t buy the expensive horses often. Most of ours are partnerships so we can compete at a higher level. We’re trying to make the most of it, and half the barn is two-yearolds who haven’t even started yet.”

The grandson of trainer Duke Bonde, Jeff started working on the backstretch

“There was more adversity in the Rebel then he wanted to handle that afternoon,” Bonde said. “For me, it was just a throw-out race.” Regardless, Sway Away probably needed to finish first or second in the Arkansas Derby to amass enough graded stakes earnings to make the Kentucky Derby field.

Not to worry. Eight days later at Sunland Park in New Mexico, Bonde’s Twice the Appeal scored a stunning length-and-a-half victory in the $800,000 Grade 3 Sunland Derby at odds of 25-1.

“That was one of the most fun races of my life,” Bonde said. “It was the biggest purse we ever won with an unlikely character in the public view. That made it even more special.” Twice the Appeal’s next start will be in the Kentucky Derby.

Run sixth with a 9-5 contender, win handily with a 25-1 longshot? Welcome to the Derby trail Jeff Bonde, who is quickly showing everyone that 2011 Hall of Fame nominee Jerry Hollendorfer isn’t

when he was 15, for trainer Jerry Dutton in the Bay Area near his home in Pleasanton, California. Four years later, Bonde got his own trainer’s license and he carved a successful career in Northern California, establishing a reputation for doing well with two- and three-year-olds.

“We have a lot of young horses,” said Bonde, who estimated in early April that he has 35 horses at Pleasanton, 15 at Santa Anita, 10 at Golden Gate Fields and four at Oaklawn Park. “We have a good system and we have very good assistants,” he said.

He also potentially has at least one Kentucky Derby starter, two if Sway Away runs well in the Arkansas Derby.

“I’ve always felt very fortunate,” Bonde said. Asked how much he’d appreciate winning the Run for the Roses, he replied, “I can’t speak for every trainer in the world, but that’s what almost every trainer aspires to.” Including the ones in Northern California. n

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GRAHAM MOTION His parents were heavily involved in racing and it rubbed off on their son, who started training in 1993 and 11 years later won his first Breeders’ Cup event with Better Talk Now in the Turf. That win threw the mild-mannered Englishman into the limelight and he hasn’t looked back. By Frances J. Karon

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RAINER Graham Motion packed a suit in a carry-on bag, borrowed a Herringswell Stables jacket from one of his assistants, and flew in to Kentucky for the day to saddle three stakes runners at Turfway Park.

While having lunch in a box overlooking the racetrack, Motion accidentally knocks over a salt shaker. One of his companions says, “That’s good luck, isn’t it? Aren’t you supposed to throw it over your shoulder?”

Motion wasn’t about to let an opportunity go to waste. “Which hand?” he asks, before throwing the salt over his left shoulder with his right hand.

A short while later, he sends off My Meadowview Farm’s Marion Ravenwood to a sixth place finish in the Grade 3 Bourbonette Oaks, and favorite Crimson China walks out of the gate to spots the field many lengths before closing powerfully to finish second in the Listed Rushaway Stakes.

It is not looking like Motion’s lucky day after all. He makes his way to the paddock for the Vinery Spiral Stakes, a Grade 3 event in which Animal Kingdom, like Crimson China a Team Valor International-owned three-year-old, is second betting choice.

He puts blinkers on Animal Kingdom.

His jockey Alan Garcia, frustrated over his ride on Crimson China, gets blinkers of

sorts as well: “Don’t worry about that race,” Motion tells him. “Focus on this ride.”

Motion and his assistant Heather Craig go into an office on the ground floor hoping to see the simulcast from Fair Grounds, where Smart Bid, trained for George Strawbridge’s Augustin Stable, is about to start in a Grade 2. Inside, one of the TVs is replaying the Rushaway on a loop. Motion turns the volume down after the third or fourth time Crimson China loses in quick succession. “I can’t watch this again.”

The Fair Grounds race unfolds on another TV but it’s too close to call on the wire, with a nose, a head, and a neck separating the first four. Smart Bid’s is the nose that is either first or second. It’s hard to tell whether the five-year-old has eked out his first graded stakes victory, but there’s not much time to think about it as the horses are loading for the Spiral.

As the gates open at Turfway, Smart Bid’s race in Louisiana becomes official – he has won. Moments later, Animal Kingdom roars down the stretch an emphatic, two-andthree-quarter length winner, and Motion looks relieved. He and Craig start to head out of the office to the winner’s circle before the trainer pulls himself up. “Is it official?” he asks. “Do you think we need to wait?”

Motion and his team have won two graded stakes races within a span of about

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Animal Kingdom after winning the Vinery Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park

three minutes. After the winner’s circle crowd of Team Valor partners has dispersed, the reporters huddle close to Motion to record his soft, quiet voice.

Although he’s worried about making it to the airport in time for his flight home, he answers their questions politely. “That’s why we’re in the game, for moments like that,” he concludes, and as he turns to leave a fan is waiting for his autograph.

These three minutes pretty much sum up the season that the mild-mannered Englishman based at Fair Hill in Maryland has been having.

Unlike his accent, his roots are as much American as they are British. Motion’s two sisters were born in the U.S., and although the family moved back to England in 1962 – two years before Motion was born – they would return for good in 1980.

Michael and Jo Motion were heavily involved in horseracing. Michael at one time or another worked for Fasig-Tipton and managed several horse farms, while Jo had looked after 1951 Grand National winner Nickel Coin and was one of the first women in the U.S. with a trainer’s license.

They ran their own farm, Herringswell Manor, near Newmarket, which is where Graham was introduced to horseracing.

His mother recalls taking him to the races “in his pram,” standing at a dike overlooking the July Course at Newmarket, when he was four months old because children weren’t allowed in the enclosure.

As a child on his pony, he’d pretend to be Lester Piggott or Sandy Barclay, a Classicwinning jockey from Scotland, and later, Steve Cauthen. Jo says, “He and his brother used to race through the woods, and Graham would always have a running commentary going. They’d make obstacle courses for themselves and you could hear them tearing through the woods.”

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“My dad thought if he sent me to Jonathan’s it would make me or break me, that either I would really like it, which is what happened, or it would put me off for life” On working for Jonathan Sheppard

Tattersalls, for whom Michael was the North American representative, provided 15-year-old Graham with one of his earliest experiences in the industry: “My dad got me a job at Tattersalls one sale and I would pick up manure,” he says. “I’d do the rope and let them in and out, and clean up after them if necessary.” It could be said that Graham Motion started from the ground up.

After finishing out his education Kent School in Connecticut, Motion spent a year in France, living with his sister Pippa while he worked at Haras du Mesnil. There, he says, “I found the stud side really boring but the training side appealed to me. When my dad asked what I was going to do when I got back [to the U.S.], I said I’d really like to work for a trainer.”

His parents hooked him up with Jonathan Sheppard, another transplanted Englishman. “To be honest,” Motion says, “I think my dad thought if he sent me to Jonathan’s it would make me or break me, that either I would really like it, which is what happened, or it would put me off for life.”

The young Motion, says Sheppard, was “really a lot like what you see now, which is, he always seems pretty calm, pretty low-key.

And he always looks a bit worried.”

Motion stayed at Sheppard’s for six years, learning and working his way up to travelling head lad. To this day, one of the highlights of Motion’s life was accompanying steeplechase champion Flatterer to race in France in 1986 and England in 1987, where the gelding was second in both countries’ versions of the Champion Hurdle. “That was something,” he says. “That would be hard to duplicate even as a trainer, those experiences. They were pretty special.”

Drawing back on his pony days, Motion admits, “I always wanted to be a jockey. I rode a little bit as a kid but until I went to work for Jonathan I had really barely ridden.

The first year at Jonathan’s there were about two horses I could ride – that was it – that were ‘safe.’”

But by the time he left Sheppard, he was a winning jockey, having steered his mother’s Indianole, trained by Sheppard, to victory in a flat race at a hunt meeting in the fall of 1989. “It was my first big achievement. But it was a long time ago,” he laughs. “To be able to win a race of any description was very gratifying, and I do think as a trainer it’s a big deal to have actually done that.

People are very quick to criticize jockeys but when you’ve done it yourself, you know it ain’t that easy.”

One of Sheppard’s major owners, George Strawbridge, helped Motion secure a season-long stint in France with Jonathan Pease, the trainer of Strawbridge’s Frenchbased stable, in 1990. It was there, after near misses when both worked at Tattersalls,

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Better Talk Now winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Lone Star Park in 2004

Heatherwold Stud, and Herringswell – but never at the same time – that Motion finally met his future wife, British-born Anita, who was working for Alain de Royer-Dupre. “We were literally passing each other on a string of horses,” remembers Anita.

On his return to the U.S. the next year, Motion’s parents solicited Sheppard’s advice on what their son should do next.

Says Sheppard, “I kind of regretted not having been at a smaller racetrack with some horses that needed to be held by baling twine and iced twice a day, and I thought if I was starting out again I’d wish that I had done that, so I suggested to Graham’s parents that he should get a job in Maryland and get down in the trenches, get stuck into it and figure out what they do on that end of things.”

Motion took his mentor’s advice. He was getting on horses in the mornings at Bowie for an acquaintance while looking for something more permanent, when Carlos Garcia, a trainer with a small stable of horses, sent him to meet Bernie Bond, whose assistant had quit after being pinned down and mauled by Gala Spinaway.

“I snuck off one morning because Carlos had told me to. Bernie and Charlie Hadry were sitting in the Pimlico grandstand watching the horses, but it was pitch dark.

They were the only two there, looking out onto the track, which you couldn’t even see.

Bernie hired me and told me to go to the barn.” Motion laughs. “I still had a job and everything, but I went to the barn and they said they didn’t need anybody. It was very awkward. I went back to my other job at

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“I don’t want to turn him out in a field and forget about him. I don’t think he’s the kind of horse that would adjust to that. He likes his routine” On ‘Blackie’ - Better Talk Now

Bowie and then I showed up at the races in the afternoon and saddled a horse for Bernie.”

In his 70s, Bond taught Motion the one thing he couldn’t learn from Sheppard: how to train two-year-olds. Bond was the man who a decade earlier had taken charge of a difficult and impossibly slow colt named Cure the Blues and made an undefeated racehorse out of him, winning the Grade 1 Laurel Futurity, before voluntarily surrendering him to LeRoy Jolley for his three-year-old season. When Bond retired in 1993, Motion took out a license and inherited the stable.

Sheppard says, “I think he questioned whether he was ready for it but [the owners] kind of twisted his arm a little bit.

People say, ‘Oh, it’s just luck.’ Well, it isn’t just luck. Luck is being presented with the opportunity in the first place, then it’s up to you if you’re good enough to make the most of it. And obviously he is.”

Motion’s first winner was Bounding Daisy at Laurel Park on February 19, 1993, three weeks the filly had broken her maiden for Bond. But the horse that carried the stable through the season was Gertrude Leviton’s Gala Spinaway, the savage colt to whom Motion owed his job.

Gala Spinaway was at his owner’s farm at the time of the fledgling trainer’s promotion, so Anita would drive out to ride and work with him. “He had an awful reputation, and it was true,” she remembers.

“You’d almost have to do a few Hail Marys before you went in his stall.” In Motion’s first year, Gala Spinaway won three stakes races, including a Grade 3, for the stable.

When Motion got some second-string horses for Joe Allbritton’s Lazy Lane Farms, where his brother, Andrew, was working, it was a big break. “Lazy Lane sending me horses got me recognition. It was right around the time of [Preakness and Belmont winner] Hansel [trained by Frankie Brothers], and I think when people saw that I was training for them I was kind of ‘alright.’ It was very good for me.”

One of the Lazy Lane horses was their homebred Silent Greeting, who won three stakes, including a Grade 3, as a three-yearold in 1996. Motion also got the attention of Josephine Abercrombie’s Pin Oak Stud, and one of the numerous stakes winners he conditioned for her was Philip H. Iselin Handicap-G2 and Ben Ali Handicap-G3 winner Broken Vow, who earned over $725,000.

But it was Better Talk Now who made the name H. Graham Motion known beyond the mid-Atlantic circuit. When Bushwood Stable purchased him after he had broken his maiden at three, Motion took over training of the gelding and kept him going until he was ten. “Blackie’s” last win came at the age of eight, but he placed

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Motion’s assistant trainers David Rock (left) and Adrian Rolls are long-term employees, while Sue Kenny runs the Fair Hill barn office

second in the Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes and third in the Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap, both Grade 1s, as a ten-year-old. He made 51 starts, with 14 wins, 8 seconds, and 5 thirds and over $4.35-million in earnings. When Better Talk Now won the 2004 Breeders’ Cup Turf at 27-1, it was “without a doubt the biggest thrill” for the conditioner. “It was a huge turning point for me. All of a sudden I was on a national stage. International, really.”

Motion has been back to the Breeders’ Cup every year since – including five consecutive editions of the Turf with Better Talk Now that also yielded a second and a fourth – and has had at least one horse hit the board in all but two years. Film Maker gave the Herringswell team two seconds and a third in her three Filly & Mare Turf starts, Rebellion (GB) placed second in the 2008 Dirt Mile and, last year, Shared Account won the Filly & Mare Turf.

Shared Account’s victory at 46-1 was vindicating for Motion, and that his filly held off Midday (GB), the heavy favorite trained by Henry Cecil, was beyond exciting. “When I was a kid growing up, Henry Cecil was like a god, and beating him

was something I never imagined doing. To me, it wasn’t that big a surprise that she won, and I’m not saying that to be smart but we’d always thought she was that kind of a horse. When you achieve something like that that you set out to do a long time ago, that’s very rewarding, even with lesser horses – it doesn’t have to be in Grade 1s.”

Does success put added pressure on Motion to do well? He says, “No, I don’t think so, because I’ve always felt that kind of pressure. I mean, pressure on myself to have success. Every year, you have a great year, and all of a sudden you start off with a clean slate, and you’re like, ‘Wow, our horses made $6-million last year, now we’ve got to start over.’ That’s daunting at the beginning of a year. There’s pressure you put on yourself to succeed, and you want to succeed for the owners. I don’t think it’s any different now than it was necessarily when we had 20 or 30 horses. Obviously there’s more exposure, and there’s more, maybe, expected of you when you’ve got horses that are running in the limelight.”

But Motion is most comfortable winning big races while keeping out of the limelight at Fair Hill, far from the bustle of the

racetrack. “This would drive me crazy,” he admits during training hours at Keeneland one particularly rough morning, eating what’s left of a Twix bar from the night before for breakfast.

“As you get more successful, you get taken away from what you really enjoy, which is the one-on-one with the animals. I mean, that’s why we all get into it. I loved riding a set or two, but as you get bigger that becomes harder to do. I love going to Saratoga because we might have 15 horses, and I might get to cool one out. If anything, the hardest thing is that you get removed from what you really enjoy doing, which is the horses. But I’m so lucky that Anita has taken over the business side of things, and she’s done a great job with it. That’s huge.

It’s such a load off me.”

Herringswell’s assistant trainers – Adrian Rolls and David Rock – are long-time employees. Rolls followed Motion from Sheppard to Bond’s stable and has been with him since, while Rock first worked for Motion in 1993. Sue Kenny, a childhood friend of one of Motion’s sisters, runs the Fair Hill barn office.

Motion’s training style is to “try to do

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what Jonathan does on a different scale,” although for his part, Sheppard says, “I think he’s probably run by me at this point. Of course, he doesn’t do the jumps like I do!”

Motion explains: “I think what I do is very much a combination of what Bernie and Jonathan did. I wouldn’t have had a clue how to train a two-year-old had I not worked for Bernie Bond – that was very good for me – but obviously Jonathan’s influence is what I try to do, and it’s no coincidence that I’ve ended up having turf horses. For me to get two-year-olds bugeyed to go as fast as they can, to me that’s not what it’s all about.”

But just as he says that, he is quick to add: “I think if people looked at our two-year-old stats they’d be surprised! I’m not a big believer in that you don’t train two-yearolds; otherwise they’ll have the same problems when they’re three-year-olds.

They need to do it, they need to develop their bones, but you’ve also got to have the confidence to say, ‘This horse has a little bit of a tendon or an ankle or he’s not handling it’ and you’ve got to back off. I want to have horses around. I like having five- and sixyear-olds.”

As a father of two – Jane is 14 and “Chappy” recently celebrated his eighth birthday, for which his parents had him send out handwritten thank you cards for his presents – is Motion worried about the

Toby’s Corner, winner of the Wood Memorial

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“When I was a kid growing up, Henry Cecil was like a god, and beating him was something I never imagined doing” On winning the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf

future of racing? “Definitely. With reason.

I’ve been very fortunate that I haven’t been affected necessarily by the economy because I’ve got owners that have been in the game a long time, but I think it’s very concerning and the way the industry is being perceived is very worrying.

“I worry about it if any of my children – my son, because my daughter’s not that interested – decides to get into it. I don’t know what the future holds. I would love it if he got involved to get the pleasure out of it that I’ve had out of it. I’d probably, like my parents did, try and steer him to do something else but at the end of the day, how lucky am I to do something that I enjoy so much and can make a good living at it? A lot of people would like to do that.”

A lot of people would do well, too, to follow Herringswell’s example of finding good homes for all their horses when their racing careers are over. Being in horse country, re-homing potential show or hunting prospects is a natural fit. “I hate this idea of people washing their hands of their horses when they’re gone. You have a responsibility to them. The flip side of it is this attitude of sending them all to retirement homes which I think is ridiculous, because those places are overrun.

If you can find another outlet for them, retirement homes should be the last resort.”

Twelve-year-old Better Talk Now lives with his Herringswell family in retirement.

“I don’t want to turn him out in a field and forget about him,” says the trainer. “I don’t think he’s the kind of horse that would adjust to that. He likes his routine. He has a groom, he goes on the walker every morning, and he gets turned out. I think horses like him, when they’ve been around that long, it’s important to keep their routine.”

Gala Spinaway, 23, was lost for years. The Levitons had given him to the Motions, who because they had nowhere to keep him at the time leased him out at no cost with the stipulations that he was never to be moved without their consent and that he be returned to them should he become unwanted. Despite their best intentions, the gelding disappeared from their radar until Anita received a call out of the blue last year. “Well,” Anita told the caller, “actually, that’s my horse, and I’ve been looking for him for a long time.”

Now, he and Better Talk Now spend hours a day turned out together. “We have these two grumpy old men that are like lawn ornaments, and we’re delighted to have them both,” says Anita.

Motion received a boost when Barry Irwin appointed him sole trainer of Team Valor’s North American racehorses last November, putting his stable at around 120.

“A), it’s flattering to be asked, and b), it’s just a tremendous opportunity to have

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horses running in really nice races. When you don’t have them you realize how hard it is. Everyone wants to be running on these kinds of days and to train for somebody like that, so it’s exciting. I like Barry’s international vision. It’s a very interesting dynamic.”

The biggest result so far this year is Animal Kingdom’s Spiral victory, and depending on a workouton the dirt at Churchill, the three-year-old colt is a potential Kentucky Derby horse. Stakesplaced Crimson China is scheduled to race in the Grade 1 Toyota Blue Grass at Keeneland on April 16th, meaning that he could also be a Derby horse. Pluck, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf winner when conditioned by Todd Pletcher, was shaping up to be a Classic contender in Europe for Team Valor/Motion until a scan revealed bone bruising on his hind cannons after two uncharacteristically blasé races.

Motion recently received Kentucky Oaks hopeful Summer Soiree after Team Valor purchased her from a partnership that included Brereton Jones, for whom Motion has trained over the years.

(Animal Kingdom, a homebred, and Crimson China were trained as juveniles by Wayne Catalano and Brian Meehan, respectively.)

Other Herringswell sophomores include

$1-million, Grade 1 Wood Memorial winner Toby’s Corner for Dianne Cotter, putting Motion in an unfamiliar position of having multiple possible Derby entrants, but only if he feels they are legitimate contenders. While for some the Derby is the ultimate goal, Motion says, “I want to be taken there by a horse. I want the horse to be good enough. It’s not all about getting to that race.”

Of course, the greatest challenge of the Triple Crown trail for Graham Motion may

very well be the disruption of his quiet routine. But Motion will handle the attention as he does everything else: politely, modestly, and generous with his time. But too, he may look a little worried.

Still, there’s no doubting that what his mother Jo says, is true: “He just loves what he’s doing, and always has from square one.”

With a lot of good horsemanship and a little bit of luck, Graham Motion is a man on the move. n

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Dear International Horsemen, Thank you for your continued support and participation in the Breeders’ Cup racing programs. We look forward to welcoming you to Churchill Downs this autumn, for what we know will be a memorable and thrilling Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

We have some very exciting changes planned for the Breeders’ Cup Challenge Win and You’re In® Series in 2011. We will be selecting the very best races around the world as part of the new program. The Challenge program will feature approximately 50 races in North America and another 15 internationally across seven countries.

The winners of these select races will receive the following prizes and awards: Automatic berth in their corresponding Championships division race.

All Entry fees paid (provided the horse is nominated by time of entry) 4 Travel Stipend for Horse Shipping, $10,000 in the US and Canada, $20,000 internationally 4 $10,000 Foal Nominator Award to the person nominating the horse 4 4

The new Challenge program added to the $26 million Breeders’ Cup World Championships provides nearly $30 million annually for horsemen to run for. These combined programs will provide horsemen with great opportunities to compete on a world stage.

In addition, if you have a non-nominated runner, we are going to offer a one-time special open enrollment period during 2011. The only requirement to participate in this open enrollment program is that the sire of your horse has to be nominated to the Breeders’ Cup in 2011.

This open enrollment will allow yearlings, two-year-olds and three year olds and up to be nominated to the Breeders’ Cup for their entire racing careers at substantially reduced prices. This program which will begin February 1, 2011 will only run until June 30, 2011.

For more information on both programs and how you can participate in 2011, please visit www.members.breederscup.com or call our office at (859) 514-9423.

Thank you again for twenty-seven years of nominations, entries and attendance, we couldn’t do it without you and with your help and support, we’ll just get better and better.

Kind regards,

Dora Delgado Senior Vice-President, Racing & Nominations

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Every trainer in North America tries to get their threeyear-olds to peak on the first Saturday of May. Then what? What happens to the Kentucky Derby alumni after that grueling mile-and-a-quarter Classic?

By Bill Heller

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HE horses good enough to reach the top of the mountain and win the Run for the Roses don’t necessarily keep winning. While four of the last ten Derby winners also captured the Preakness Stakes (War Emblem, Funny Cide, Smarty Jones and Big Brown), only two of the other six won another race. Ever.

Just four of the last 10 Derby winners were named Champion Three-Year-Old (War Emblem, Funny Cide, Smarty Jones and Big Brown), while all ten Preakness winners earned that distinction, including Rachel Alexandra, who was named 2009 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly as well as Horse of the Year.

Of the 188 horses who competed in the Derby the past decade, two were named Horse of the Year lost the first leg of the Triple Crown: Point Given, who was fifth in 2001 to Monarchos; and Curlin, who was third in the 2007 Derby to Street Sense before earning 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year titles and becoming the all-time leading money earner, topping $10.5 million.

Charismatic, who won the Derby in 1999, is the sole Derby winner named Horse of the Year in the last 22 years.

The only Derby starters of the last ten years in the top 50 sires in progeny earnings in 2010 were Derby losers: Lion Heart (9th), Tapit (12th), Medaglia d’Oro (17th), Johannesburg (27th), Harlan’s Holiday (39th), Empire Maker (40th), Afleet Alex (43rd) and Songandaprayer (44th). Lion Heart, who ran second to Smarty Jones in the 2004 Derby, stands at the Jockey Club of Turkey. Medaglia d’Oro, who finished fourth to War Emblem in the 2002 Derby and went on to win more than $5.7 million on the track (22nd all-time), commands the highest stud fee of the Derby alumni, $100,000, at Darley in Kentucky. Tapit, who finished ninth to Smarty Jones in 2004, commands an $80,000 fee at Gainesway. Of course, there are caveats. Two Derby winners, Funny

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Cide and Mine That Bird, are geldings; a third, Barbaro, suffered a tragic injury in the Preakness, and the most recent Derby heroes haven’t had a three-year-old crop to race yet.

So how do trainers balance the desire to win the greatest race in America while keeping their horses sound enough physically and mentally to keep going the rest of their careers?

“We’ve been very aggressive getting to the Derby and very conservative after the Derby,” said trainer Todd Pletcher, who ended a zero-for-24 Derby drought with Super Saver last year on the way to his fifth Eclipse Award. “Our number of starters in the Preakness (just five before Super Saver finished eighth last year) reflect that. If you look at More Than Ready and Any Given Saturday, they won Grade 1s after the Derby. When they told us there were tired after the Derby, we took our time with them.”

More Than Ready, who finished fourth in the 2000 Derby to Fusaichi Pegasus, won the Grade 1 King’s Bishop later that summer.

He was the sixth leading sire in 2010 with progeny earnings topping $7.3 million and stands for $40,000 in 2011 at Vinery Kentucky.

Fusaichi Pegasus,

who stands for $15,000 at Ashford Stud, ranked 32nd in 2010 sire earnings and is the only horse in the top 50 sires of last year to finish first in the Derby.

Any Given Saturday finished ninth to Street Sense in the 2007 Derby, but won the Grade 1, $1-million Haskell by 4½ lengths over Hard Spun and Curlin, who finished second and third, respectively in that Derby.

Countless other horses who competed in the Derby did not have much success after running that mile-and-a-quarter on the first Saturday of May. “If I think a horse can’t win it or finish second or third, I won’t push him to make the distance,” said Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, who won the Derby with Silver Charm in 1997, Real Quiet in ’98 and War Emblem in 2002. “It’s hard on the horses who are really limited when you’re stretching them out. They have to have a real good foundation.”

Kenny McPeek, who saddled Harlan’s Holiday to a 12th place finish as the extremely tepid 6-to-1 favorite in the 2002 Derby, said, “If a horse isn’t right, or isn’t good enough, you don’t go in the Derby.

All horses have issues, and it’s a trainer’s job to make sure they’re manageable. Is the Derby hard on them? Sometimes it is.

Sometimes it isn’t. Harlan’s Holiday was rock solid. Harlan’s Holiday was an easy one. We trained him along and he liked it.

He really wasn’t a horse we had to press, or had to fix any problems with.”

Pletcher had a problem with the horse he hoped would give him his first Derby last year, Eskendereya, that he couldn’t fix: a career-ending injury after he upped his record to three-for-three with a breathtaking 9¾-length victory as the 1-2 favorite in the Wood Memorial. Then Pletcher broke his maiden in the Derby anyway with Super Saver.

Any Given Saturday won the Grade 1 Haskell after finishing ninth in the 2007 Derby

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Super Saver had two victories and a second from four starts as a two-year-old in 2009. To get to the Kentucky Derby, Super Saver finished third by half a length to Odysseus in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby and second by a neck to Line of David in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby.

“As far as getting to the Triple Crown, so much depends on what a horse has done in his two-year-old year,” Pletcher said. “If you have a horse with a great foundation, my preference has been to do two preps. That worked well for Super Saver last year, and that’s what we’re trying to do with Uncle Mo. You have to treat them as individuals.”

Uncle Mo stamped himself as a rather remarkable individual when he debuted on Travers Day at Saratoga last summer and scored by 14¼ lengths. “I would have been disappointed had he not won,” Pletcher said. “I never imagined he’d win by that margin.”

Subsequent handy victories in the Grade 1 Champagne and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile guaranteed that Uncle Mo would be the winter book favorite for the 2011 Derby.

He made his three-year-old debut on March 12th, easily winning the Timely Writer Stakes at Gulfstream Park, and may make his final Derby prep in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.

If he wins the Derby, he must come back in two weeks to capture the Preakness, then add the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes to become the first Triple Crown champion since Affirmed in 2008. Since 1997, seven three-year-old colts won the Derby and Preakness: Silver Charm, Real Quiet, Charismatic, War Emblem, Funny Cide, Smarty Jones and Big Brown. All failed to reach that incredibly difficult destination: Funny Cide had the most successful post-Derby winning career compared to any Derby winner during the past decade

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“If I think a horse can’t win it or finish second or third, I won’t push him to make the distance.

It’s hard on the horses who are really limited when you’re stretching them out” Bob Baffert

the winner’s circle in the Belmont Stakes to complete the Triple Crown.

“It’s hard enough to go through three major preps with the best three-year-olds around, then you have to do the Derby, Preakness and Belmont,” Funny Cide’s trainer, Barclay Tagg. “You don’t ask a horse to do that at any time.”

Funny Cide finished third to Empire Maker in the Belmont Stakes on a sloppy track, but won six more races later in his career, including the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup. His seven victories from 31 post-Derby starts towers over the other nine Derby winners the past decade both in starts and victories. Mine That Bird went zero-for-nine and Giacomo one-for-eight.

If ever a trainer got his horse to peak in the Derby, it was Chip Woolley with Mine That Bird in 2009. With Woolley as his trainer to begin his three-year-old season, Mine That Bird lost his two starts before the Derby at Sunland Park in New Mexico.

He stunned the racing world with a 6¾length Derby victory on a sloppy track at 50-1 and, though he ran gallantly to finish second to Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness and third in the Belmont Stakes to Summer Bird, he lost his final nine starts after the Derby, the last three with Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas training. The gelding is retired, but his name will be linked to Derby glory forever.

Many of the 178 Derby losers the past ten years have gone to have great success on the track and off.

Medaglia d’Oro, trained by the late Hall of Famer Bobby Frankel, followed his fourth in the 2002 Derby with an eighth by 17¼ lengths in the Preakness. He never threw in another bad race, posting six

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victories and five seconds in his final 11 starts, all Grade 1 and 2 stakes.

Perfect Drift’s third-place finish in the 2002 Derby was only his seventh lifetime start. He, too, had a horrible next start, running 10th in the Belmont Stakes, 51¼ lengths behind longshot winner Savara.

Perfect Drift then posted eight victories and 10 seconds in his ensuing 34 starts, which included five consecutive appearances in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

He was 12th in the 2002 Classic, then sixth, fourth, third and eighth. After zero-for-four campaigns in both 2006 and 2007, the popular gelding’s career numbers were 11 victories, 14 seconds and seven thirds in 50 starts with earnings topping $4.1 million, 44th all-time through 2010.

Afleet Alex, who’s had considerable success as a stallion, took the sting out of a close third to Giacomo in the 2005 Derby with his unbelievable victory in the Preakness despite being nearly knocked down at the top of the stretch, and a dominating score in the Belmont Stakes.

He was the fifth consecutive three-year-old to win two-thirds of the Triple Crown.

Baffert knows the feeling of winning two out of three Classics better than anyone,

having done that four times in six years with Silver Charm, Real Quiet, Point Given and War Emblem. He said his decision to send Point Given to the Belmont Stakes after his victory in the Preakness was an easy one. “You know what? All the horses I’ve won Classics with were the best horse.

But Point Given is the only horse I had who just got stronger and gained weight. By the time he got to the Belmont, it was easy for him. It was nice to win the Belmont, but I really thought he could have won the Triple Crown. You need luck.”

Luck abandoned Baffert last year when Lookin At Lucky drew the dreaded rail for the Derby and was bounced around like a pinball leaving the gate. He then rallied to finish seventh as the slight 6-1 favorite.

Lookin At Lucky rebounded to win the Preakness by three-quarters of a length.

“When he won the Preakness, that was so exciting,” Baffert said. “He showed he was a good horse.”

Baffert, though, elected not to send Lookin At Lucky to the Belmont Stakes. “A mile and a half can push them over the top,” he said. “Lookin At Lucky, I really didn’t want to push him a mile and a half. I wanted to bring him back and run in the Haskell and maybe the Travers.”

Lookin At Lucky did win the Haskell by a resounding four lengths. Baffert called it “his exclamation point as a three-year-old.”

But Lookin At Lucky spiked a temperature after the race and Baffert declared him out of the Travers. “It would have been nice to go to the Travers,” Baffert said.

Instead, Lookin At Lucky returned in the Grade 2 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park.

On a sloppy track, Lookin At Lucky appeared to be struggling with the footing on the backstretch as he raced in ninth and then eighth. “I thought, why did I bring him here?” Baffert said. “It was a lot of money, but it’s a small track.”

Not to worry. Lookin At Lucky found his mojo and rallied to win by a length and a quarter before finishing a close-up fourth in his final start, the Breeders’ Cup Classic, behind Blame, Zenyatta and Fly Down.

Like many Derby alumni who didn’t win the Run for the Roses, Lookin At Lucky continued a successful career anyway. n

The Last Ten Derby Winners Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Horse Monarchos War Emblem Funny Cide Smarty Jones Giacomo Barbaro Street Sense Big Brown Mine That Bird Super Saver

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Trainer John Ward Bob Baffert Barclay Tagg John Servis John Shirreffs Michael Matz Carl Nafzger Rick Dutrow Jr Chip Woolley Todd Pletcher

Post-Derby Record zero-for-three two-for-five seven-for-thirty-one one-for-two one-for-eight zero-for-one two-for-five three-for-four zero-for-nine zero-for-three

2011 Stallion Fee and Location $6,000, Nuckols Farm (KY) Shadai Stallion Station (Japan) gelding $10,000, Ghost Ridge Farm (PA) $5,000 Adena Springs (KY) died $40,000 Darley (KY) $40,000 Three Chimneys (KY) gelding $20,000 WinStar Farm (KY)

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THE WHIP DEBATE Whipping offenses are arguably the most controversial part of horseracing when it comes to opinion of a non-racing public, to whom hitting a racehorse is strictly a punishment and a cruelty as opposed to a safety tool or a reminder to keep a horse’s mind on task. At North American Trainer, we were interested in how this topic is viewed across some of the major racing countries and compiled thoughts from writers based in Australia, the United States, and Europe.

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VIEW FROM AUSTRALIA There’s an old saying Down Under: “Australia rode on the sheep’s back,” says Mitchell Lamb, which is a social reference to our wool industry as the once great backbone of the Aussie economy.

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S much as that may be true, it is the horse, fauna-wise at least, that has most defined our culture. Our early reliance on horses for transport, work, and particularly companionship was integral in such a vast land.

And at the forefront of that equine influence on Australia is Thoroughbred racing.

Racing is the sport that was organized before all others and gave hope to so many during the great depression, and it is the only sport that stops this nation.

That’s why the heartstrings are tugged for so many involved in the industry when racing’s biggest “perception” issue – the whip debate - is given the attention that, rightly or wrongly, society has demanded.

MORE THAN JUST THE WHIP Not that long ago jockeys who were “hard” whip riders were considered as some of the best in the game. They were seen as the men you wanted on your horse when it was fighting out a close finish. In fact, it’s fair to say they were celebrated for their whip skills, most certainly from a punters point of view.

Hall of Fame jockey Mick Dittman, winner of almost 90 Group One races throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s, was nicknamed “The Enforcer” due to his powerful style in the saddle. With his strong whip riding he could literally lift a horse to victory.

“Believe me, only the very best horses, champions like Lonhro, will try their very best without the whip. They’re the exception; most horses need the whip,” Dittman says.

From that, and Dittman’s riding style, you could assume that Dittman’s certainly not anti whip. Well, that’s true, but illusion was what Dittman was all about during his career. It’s often told that he never marked a horse, never left a welt or a wound. Don’t misunderstand, he did give them a whack often, but it was the “threat” of the whip and Dittman’s vigor that gave the appearance that he was “cutting a horse in half.”

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introduced in September, 2009.

Australian Racing rule 137A has nine sub rules within it. The main changes to the previous rule are with the design of a whip and how many times a jockey can use it in a race. The introduction of the padded whip is really the only change to the specification of a whip design, which naturally must be approved by stewards to their satisfaction.

It’s sub rule 5 that perhaps caused the most voices of dissention within the riding and training ranks. It states: 1. The whip shall not be used in a forehand manner in consecutive strides prior to the 100 meter mark;

“It is unethical for academics to write partisan-funded light-weight papers purporting to show results their patron wants” Robbie Waterhouse – bookmaker

2. The whip shall not be used in a forehand manner more than on five occasions prior to the 100 meter mark; 3. The rider may at his discretion use the whip with a slapping motion down the shoulder, with whip hand remaining on the reins, or alternatively in a backhand manner, prior to the 100 meter mark; 4. In the final 100 meters, a rider may, subject to the other requirements of this rule, use his whip at his discretion.

Prior to when this rule was amended in 2009 there was a complicated set of rules in place that required riders to count their strikes with the whip at several points within the final parts of a race. That caused great uproar, especially amongst jockeys. The amendment somewhat eased riders’ fears that they would forever be counting whip strokes while attempting to ride out their mounts in a race. Several Australian Racing Board meetings since have seen those rules remain unchanged, although outside pressures continue to apply just that.

The RSPCA Australia (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is without doubt the organization with the biggest “pull” to influence people outside the racing fraternity.

In July of 2009 at the International Society for Equitation Science’s annual conference held in Sydney, RSPCA Chief Scientist Dr. Bidda Jones asked the question of whether a horse will ever actually enjoy the activities that humans ask of them.

“Horses are the basis of a multi-billion dollar industry. In Australia, their use in racing alone generates around 4 billion (Australian) dollars a year and is inextricably linked with gambling and through taxation revenue to government funding.

“But ultimately, with the possible exception of police work, the things we make horses do, headed by racing, are all carried out for the same reason.

“Horse riding is not a productive, educational, scientific, or useful activity. It is something people do, directly or indirectly, for entertainment, pleasure, or fun.

There are some obvious benefits to horses from their domestication and use by humans: the provision of food and shelter, protection from predators, disease prevention and care during illness and injury.

“But there is little evidence that horses benefit in any other significant way from our use of them, despite what we might like to think in our more romantic moments.

Doing something for pleasure or fun is not

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an inherently bad thing, but it doesn't provide much moral justification for an activity.

“That wouldn't matter, if it wasn't for the fact that the horse has to share the experience.

So if that experience is not a good one, it raises the question of whether we should be making them do it at all. If elite competition is to be ethically sustainable, it requires clear action to ensure that welfare impacts are minimized.”

While Dr. Jones may be correct on several fronts, many would disagree with the statement that racing is purely for “entertainment, pleasure or fun” and “is not a productive activity.”

The racing industry within Australia is an employer of some 250,000 people either full or part time. It is only a small percentage of people making a grand living from horseracing; most earn just enough to survive. But that’s just it. They are earning a living. Keeping humans fed, putting a roof over their head, generations of families’ livelihood made from what Dr. Jones describes as “just fun.”

Many would argue that is surely a justification for what happens to a racehorse during its career, including the fact that it may be whipped (under regulation) during a race. Especially when you consider that the vast majority of racing people are more passionate about horse welfare than any others that claim the same.

In January this year a study, funded by the RSPCA, claimed that racehorses do not perform any better when jockeys use the whip on them in the final stages of a race. A pair of animal behavior academics from the University of Sydney completed the study, with co-author Paul McGreevy stating that he “hoped it would highlight the fallacy and futility of whipping.”

“We looked at running times in a series of races, how whips were used and whether that whip use influenced the outcome of a race.

“What we found was that whipping did not affect the probability of whether or not a horse finished a race in the first three placings.

“How a horse ran in the first part of a race, when it wasn't being whipped, was the most critical factor in racing success. So horses are being whipped in the final stages of a race, in the face of muscle fatigue, for no benefit.

“The reason for whip use has traditionally been the need to be seen to ride the horse out and the suggestion that you can steer a horse with the whip,” stated McGreevy.

“Many horse riders, and certainly these findings, refute that.

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“We have never made a secret of the fact that we doubt the scientific worth of applying logistic regression to draw conclusions about the extent of the effect on performance of the use of a padded whip” Andrew Harding – Chief Executive, ARB winning combination.

“That’s all you need. We have evidence here that great horsemanship does not involve flogging tired horses.”

The aforementioned Dr. Jones also chimed in: “The results would help end the debate over whether there is a place for whipping in the future of Australian racing.

“Jockeys may as well save their energy, keep their hands on the reins, and head straight for home. Their horses will be so much better off for it.”

The study was met with anger and contempt from high profile members of the Thoroughbred industry.

Leading bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse, husband of champion trainer Gai Waterhouse, was scathing.

“Its faux-statistical nature is laughable. I

cringe to think of a statistical study using only 48 horses. To me, nothing less than 20,000 runners is appropriate. To talk of Pvalues and R2s is to let the paper hide behind a statistician’s respectability coat. To ‘discover’ that horses near the lead at the 400m and 200m do better is puerile and obvious. They’d get an ever better R2 fit if they tried 100m, or 50m, or 10m, or, come to think of it, 1cm positions! What deliberate rubbish.”

He continued with: “It is unethical for academics to write partisan-funded lightweight papers purporting to show results their patron wants. It is wrong that the RSPCA should spend Aus$20,000 (the funding of the study) of hard-earned donors’ money on time-wasting matters.

The RSPCA (and academics) should concern themselves with matters of more concern, say recreational fishing or, perhaps, the poor dogs and cats on death row at RSPCA pounds.”

One leading jockey stated, “Give me a tape of 500 races and I will show you the reason a majority of winners won, and that was from good whip-riding.”

And a prominent Melbourne trainer declared, “I know with most academics they have to be published or perish, but they should spend their time on curing MS or cancer instead of insulting the industry with this baseless garbage. If the RSPCA have got that sort of money, they should go out and find homes for cats and dogs, and stop investing in schemes and studies that are only intended to damage the brand name of an industry that gives tens of thousands of Australians a living.”

The Australian Racing Board’s (ARB) Chief Executive Andrew Harding was slightly less exuberant in his response.

“The ARB and its expert advisers will consider the study’s contents. We cooperated with the study because we have a good working relationship with the RSPCA and we are committed to doing everything possible to protect the welfare of racehorses.

“But we have never made a secret of the fact that we doubt the scientific worth of applying logistic regression to draw conclusions about the extent of the effect on performance of the use of a padded whip.

There are literally myriad variables in every race that will have an effect on the outcome.”

IS TWO TOO YOUNG? New South Wales’ (NSW) two most senior racing figures – Chief Steward Ray Murrihy and Racing New South Wales boss Peter V’Landys – are adamant that for the safety of both rider and horse, whips are a necessity, especially in juvenile racing.

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issue was raised and quickly declined when the last lot of whip reforms were put before the Australian Racing Board,” V’Landys stated.

There was rumor that Victoria had been flirting with the idea of banning whips in two-year-old racing but Murrihy said, “Doing something like that is very difficult one out, as horses travel freely between states, and would need to happen on a national level. I would not be supporting it to be introduced in New South Wales.”

But Victorian counterpart Terry Bailey quickly hosed down any suggestion that Victoria was on the brink of introducing a ban of the whip for two-year-olds.

“While there is merit in exploring whipfree racing in two-year-olds, there is no definitive move to change those rules. Any changes to the whip rule like that would require a national approach anyway.”

Glyn Schofield, champion South African jockey and currently one of Sydney’s leading riders, thinks it “would be laughable if any administration decided to put a stop on using a whip in two-year-old races.

“The way the new whips are designed they are not meant to hurt a horse anyway, they are padded. The use of the whip in two-year-old races is a steering tool, you need it to correct green horses and keep them going straight. We definitely don't

need any more regulations or modifications.”

PERCEPTION AND REALITY Unfortunately for the Thoroughbred racing industry the use of the whip on racehorses will forever be frowned upon by certain sections of the wider community. It is a harsh fact that many see it as cruel, although that number is probably swelled by those same sections who may well have you believe that everyone on the planet outside of the racing fraternity thinks the same, whereas in reality much of society have more important everyday concerns within their own lives and this topic would hardly be one that pops up at the dinner table every night.

There is a push from within racing that some of the terms associated with whipping during a race don’t aid the view held by others in society. Words like “striking,” “hitting,” or “whip” itself, they say, don’t do the industry any favors. Some would prefer terms like “crop” or “persuader” and “caress” or “flick.” But the cold truth is that those terms currently used are a much better description of what actually happens.

And does it really matter? Yes some horses need the whip to get the best out of them. Yes some need it more than others, and some not much at all. It is what it is. But

the question is – is that such a blight on the human race?

The short answer is that in the scheme of “terrible” things the human race is accountable for, including those against our animal friends, the regulated whipping of horses during a race surely doesn’t get a spot on that list!

The racing industry has worked immensely hard of late to govern (for the better) whip use in racing. A whole set of new rules has been implemented.

Authorities have cracked down on those who are prepared to flaunt the breaking of those rules.

Yes, perhaps it is something that should have been commanded and expected of the racing industry a long time ago. It’s fair to say in the past many racing leaders have not welcomed change, whether they be blinded by their own selfish interests or have just simply not been “brave” enough to take any backlash that may occur because of it.

But on this particular issue they are as close as they have ever been in getting it right, perhaps as close as they can be. And at least for the sake of industry participants, the human ones that is, they now need to stand strong in the face of reaction, resistance, and retaliation that comes from parts of society that simply don’t agree with them. n

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VIEW FROM AMERICA He was known as “The Slasher,” a sobriquet that today might suggest homicidal mania or recall scenes from an especially grim horror flick. But no, Ted “The Slasher” Atkinson was neither a maniac nor a celluloid villain, but one of the most successful jockeys of his time. He had a place among the postwar era’s elite riders, alongside Eddie Arcaro, Johnny Longden and George Woolfe, who all became household names. And everyone knew Atkinson, the regular rider of the great Tom Fool and the first jockey to win more than $1-million in purses in a season, as “The Slasher.” By Gary West

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ESCRIPTIVE of a highwinding and liberal use of the whip, the nickname and its attachment to a respected athlete imply much about postwar sensibilities. Atkinson once appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and by all accounts was a most respected gentleman; he was also known as “The Professor” because of his love of classic literature. But he apparently was best known as “The Slasher.” If there’s a modern uneasiness with the nickname or even a revulsion that, too, could be suggestive: Sensibilities indeed have changed.

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And horseracing is changing, too. The most traditional of sports is finally confronting modernity in all its ramifications.

One of the changes involves the whip. It’s not even called a “whip” anymore, because, of course, that would suggest punishment and cruelty. While people close to the sport know very well that cruelty has no role in it, casual observers, long removed from the farm and from a pastoral culture once infrangibly linked to horses, might depend for an introduction to racing on a few images gleaned from media or on an afternoon’s entertainment at the track, and

if their initial impression includes a jockey’s waling away on a hapless favorite – well, the whip has been replaced by the crop, and increasingly by the soft crop.

The change isn’t only to accommodate modern sensibilities, nor is it purely linguistic. If the word with the offensive connotations has been abandoned, it’s because an anachronistic attitude that’s equally offensive also has been left behind, along with the old whips, which could sometimes be as thick as a broom handle and as lethal as a truncheon. Jockeys no longer walk into the paddock carrying a shillelagh, and more and more horsemen, it seems, have taken the position that whipping a horse seldom accomplishes anything but can be extremely detrimental.

“I’ve never been an advocate of the whip,” said Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, the sport’s all-time leader in earnings, his stable having amassed more than $247-million over the years. “It actually bothers me to see a jockey reach back and hit a horse who’s opened up four or five lengths on the field.”

A jockey needs a crop, Lukas explained, only “to get a horse’s attention” and sometimes to guide a horse. As for encouraging a horse to run faster, Lukas said whipping was ineffective. A whip won’t make a slow horse, or even a tired horse, run faster. But some jockeys, he said, rely on the

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whip to try to cover up their lack of skill.

“I’ve had many horses, a lot of fillies, stop [retreat] because of the whip,” said Lukas.

He explained that he supports the use of a standardized crop, one that doesn’t induce pain but nevertheless gets attention with a fillip or a noisy pop.

Lukas said his experience basically agreed with the recent conclusions of two University of Sydney veterinarians, David Evans and Paul McGreevy. Studying a small sample of Thoroughbred races in Australia, they found that use of the whip did not affect the outcome. Horses ran fastest, of course, during the early stages of the races examined, when they weren’t struck with a crop; when they tired and slowed, use of the crop wouldn’t induce horses to run faster. Using the whip just allowed the jockeys to appear busy, but at the horses’ expense.

Horseracing, especially in America, journeyed a long time, some would say too long, in arriving at this clarifying moment.

Wasn’t anybody watching when Pat Day and Eddie Delahoussaye won all those races, thousands of races, without relying on a stick but only on their seemingly preternatural gift to communicate through their hands their goals and requests?

Watching, yes, but just watching. Nothing grips the popular awareness, and nothing motivates, like tragedy; it was the tragic death of Eight Belles that gave American racing the impetus it needed to change.

With fractured sesamoid and cannon bones, Eight Belles collapsed shortly after she finished second to Big Brown in the 2008 Kentucky Derby. She had to be euthanized. A gallant and beautiful filly falling and ultimately dying on the racetrack – it was in every way repellant, and it happened on the sport’s most conspicuous stage, before its largest audience at the climax of its most celebrated moment.

Writing in the Washington Post, Sally Jenkins referred to the sport’s “moral crisis.”

In the days and weeks that followed, many critics denounced the sport; people whose knowledge of horses and racing couldn’t have filled a thimble alternated in assigning blame for the tragedy, bouncing from jockey to trainer to owner to breeder to virtually everybody in racing. Fillies should never race against colts, three-yearolds shouldn’t race 1 1/4 miles in May, two-year-olds shouldn’t race at all, racetracks remain frighteningly unsafe, pervasive use of medication contributes to fatalities, whips contribute to injuries, racing contributes to the decline of Western civilization, and so it went, the cultural and social winds riffling the accusations and concerns, most of them not even connected to Eight Belles, but just given voice because, well, it was a time for screaming.

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“I’ve never been an advocate of the whip.

It actually bothers me to see a jockey reach back and hit a horse who’s opened up four or five lengths on the field” D. Wayne Lukas But much already has been accomplished, it seems, perhaps most notably by The Jockey Club, National Thoroughbred Racing Associations, Association of Racing Commissioners International, Jockeys’ Guild, Racing Medication and Testing Consortium and American Association of Equine Practitioners. Among the accomplishments should be counted a new and fresh attempt to look at use of the whip, or riding crop, and the creation of the “soft” crop.

The soft crop differs significantly from the whips the “The Slasher” probably used.

It’s not as large as the old whips. The recommended soft crop, according to the sport’s model rules, is no more than 30 inches long and weighs no more than eight ounces. Most important, the intention of the soft crop, which has a padded popper, isn’t to induce pain but to make noise. In

fact, a person taking a hard stroke across an arm or hand would feel little discomfort.

Quite simply, the soft crop doesn’t hurt.

The old whips would sometimes leave welts. And in addition to “The Slasher” – who, by the way, said he didn’t leave welts and used his whip only to put the horse in a serious frame of mind – many jockeys over the years have been known for their use of painful encouragement.

Still, only rarely, it would seem, were there injuries resulting from the use of a whip that required veterinary care. Gary Norwood, an equine practitioner who has worked at various racetracks around the country for 40 years, said he could recall only “four or five” times that he had to treat a horse for an injury caused by a whip. Two of those, he said, resulted from the horse’s being hit in an eye. Still, even with few injuries, inflicting pain can’t be accepted.

And a safer crop that’s designed to deliver noise, not pain, should largely eliminate injuries associated with the crop.

And so the soft crop has gained widespread use throughout the country, according to Terry Meyocks, the national manager for the Jockeys’ Guild. Some racing jurisdictions, such as New Mexico, allow the use of no other whip, or crop.

And as a “house” rule, many racetracks, such as those owned by Churchill Downs, allow only a crop that meets the soft-crop specifications.

“They’ll eventually be all over,” Meyocks said, pointing out that a new study about riding crops and their use has just been undertaken.

John Beech, a former rider and a regional manager with the Jockeys’ Guild, explained that the soft crop “catches a little more air” and can be slightly heavier than a whip of the past. Otherwise, though, this new crop has a similar feel, he said, and once they’ve used it a few times jockeys generally become comfortable with it.

Steve Asmussen, the Eclipse Awardwinning trainer in 2008 and 2009 who had a brief riding career, explained that a riding crop is useful only to prevent distraction.

But when used too much or too fiercely, it becomes the distraction. And so now that jockeys are accustomed to using the new soft crops, Asmussen said, “there isn’t an issue.”

But regulating the use of a crop requires balancing three interests: protection of the jockey, protection of the horse and protection of the bettors. As Jerry Burgess, a longtime steward and former jockey, said, the betting public associates an honest, hard-trying riding effort with the use of the crop. And sometimes, he said, “there’s a fine line” between protecting the horse and protecting the public, but it’s a line that’s less problematic with the soft crop.

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jockeys and horsemen and even bettors.

Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron said he would like to see the stewards “call in” more jockeys, not for disciplinary action, but for education in the use of the crop. Or perhaps McCarron himself could travel around the country speaking to young riders about how they use the riding crop, for what purpose and to what extent.

Certainly nobody would be better suited for such a role.

“When I first started riding,” McCarron said, recalling his early success in Maryland,

in 1974, “I thought my job was make a horse run.” And many young jockeys today have the same perspective.

McCarron became one of the most accomplished and successful jockeys in the sport’s history, winning more than 7,141 races. But looking back on his early years as a jockey, he said, causes him some embarrassment because, well, he misunderstood so much. He thought he could make a horse run, he said, but his job actually was to allow the horse to run, ask the horse to run.

“When you’re riding, you communicate with the horse through your hands.

And so I cringe when I see a rider relying too heavily on a crop” Chris McCarron

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McCarron said it was an illuminating moment when he watched his daughters – Erin, Stephanie, and Kristin – interact with their ponies. The ponies responded to kindness and gentleness. He watched other jockeys, such as Gary Stevens and Day and Delahoussaye and Laffit Pincay Jr., and, he said, he listened to California announcer Trevor Denman extol the hand-ride. And he learned that the best jockey is the one who minimizes the burden – in other words, he’s the one who guides but doesn’t get in the way or distract or interfere.

Six years ago, McCarron opened the North American Riding Academy in Lexington, Kentucky. It’s a school for jockeys. Its graduates have ridden 800 winners. McCarron said the philosophy he embraces and teaches is that of minimizing the burden.

“One of the things I teach is that you get run out of a horse with your hands,” McCarron said. “When you’re riding, you communicate with the horse through your hands. And so I cringe when I see a rider relying too heavily on a crop. I cringe because I know I was once like that myself.”

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VIEW FROM EUROPE To whip or not to whip - that is the question as international racing wrestles with an increasingly sensitive public who are aware of pressure groups campaigning against animal cruelty. By Colin Mackenzie

“I don’t like to see beaten horses whipped.

They should be ridden out hands and heels.

But horses are big, strong animals and for their safety jockeys must carry a whip to encourage a horse to travel in a straight line.

I have very mixed feelings about banning the whip as there are so many occasions when it is needed.”

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GERMANY Trainer Christian Von Der Recke trains over 100 horses and runs them regularly in 12 different European countries. On one day last year he fielded six runners at five different racecourses in three different countries.

In Germany the maximum a jockey may hit an older horse is seven times. Special whips have been introduced for two-year-old races which are only 40 cms long. They are used for correcting horses, not for whipping them.

He said: “You can’t do any damage to two-year-olds with these whips but I think they are a waste of time. Jockeys should be allowed to use a regular whip, just for steering and correction on two-year-olds.

“Rules are so different from country to country and they change all the time. I rely on my friends and colleagues in each country to tell me what the up-to-date system is. In some countries, for example, you can fit earplugs without mentioning it and in others you can’t without declaring them. It’s a big confusion.

“You have the hands and heels series (in which jockeys ride without crops) in

HOSE within the sport of racing know that, as a general rule of thumb, the Thoroughbred receives a fivestar lifestyle while in training.

These half-ton creatures are bred for speed and the modern, cushioned, whip can hardly be viewed as an instrument of torture or pain.

It is more to do with perception. Close-up television pictures of big races can demonstrate horses being whipped up to 30 times in a race – although in most racing jurisdictions in the modern era a jockey whipping a horse more than a dozen times in the final two furlongs will incur a riding suspension.

Increasingly, though, prominent voices – such as retired BBC commentator Sir Peter O'Sullevan and TV pundit John McCririck in the UK – and others abroad are suggesting that the days when the whip should make the difference between victory and defeat are numbered.

In some European countries whips are even banned in two-year-old races. So what is the position of differing European racing authorities and should these rules be standardized to assist both trainers and jockeys in their pursuit of big races?

SCANDINAVIA Nicholas Cordrey, son of the former champion jockey of Sweden Chris Cordrey and himself a former rider, is Manager of Taby and Malmoe racecourses and responsible for the rules of racing where whips are concerned.

He said: “We keep a close eye on our neighbors Norway, where whips have been banned for 20 years now in all races. You are not allowed to carry a stick when riding older horses but you may do so on two-yearolds and jumpers but only to use it as a precautionary measure.

“Here in Sweden you are allowed to use the stick on older horses but only three times as a maximum before you incur a fine. You may not use a whip in two-year-old races.

There has always been a dilemma in Norway and the system there doesn’t work perfectly.

Jockeys and trainers are always complaining that they are not allowed to use the stick.

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“In Sweden there is no problem at the moment. Animal rights organizations occasionally write letters but there have been no protests. You certainly don't see abusive behavior with the whip by jockeys and it is not a huge issue.”

FRANCE Classic-winning trainer Criquette HeadMaarek confirmed that jockeys are not allowed to hit their mounts more than seven or eight times in the straight and no more than five times in the final furlong.

She revealed: “I think they want to reduce this when the authorities meet up this summer. It’s very difficult and complicated when a jockey is head-to-head, he wants to win and he is defending the rights of the owner, trainer, and punters by encouraging his horse.

“Personally I don’t like to see a lot of the whip but I do understand why jockeys need it. Horses don't go much faster after you've hit them three or four times. But some horses do need the whip to motivate them.

What they should do is stop jockeys whipping horses who are 7th or 8th and out of contention.

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England. But you couldn’t run a lazy or leery horse in that type of race. Really it's up to the jockey to familiarize himself with whip rules in whatever country he is in. What help is it to me if the rules are on a Swedish internet site (in Swedish) if I am running a horse in that country? That’s why I rely on friends.

“Personally I don’t think the whip affects a horse too much. I don’t think they feel it.

But it’s better not to be too hard on them and better that they come out of a race fresh.

“It’s different with races like the Cheltenham Gold Cup or Group races on the Flat. You need to be harder because they affect the value of the horse much more. In handicaps I prefer to use girl riders who are not so hard on horses.”

UNITED KINGDOM The Director of Equine Science and Welfare for the British Horseracing Authority is qualified vet Professor Tim Morris, who believes the current whip regulations in Great Britain are just about right. In his view there is no need to amend them.

There was talk at one point-to-point meeting that their rules might be amended to abolishing the use of the whip on the run-in. But Lucy Brack of the Point-ToPoint Association said that this is not the case although the subject may come up again at their May AGM (annual general meeting).

Professor Morris, 52, who has been working full time for the BHA for the last three years, believes whip offenses come in two categories. The first is using the whip with excessive frequency and in the wrong place. These offenses do not involve a risk to horse welfare.

The second category is marking a horse with weals that have the potential to cause

“I have very mixed feelings about banning the whip as there are so many occasions when it is needed” Criquette Head-Maarek harm to a horse. The threshold for this penalty for a rider is quite high. For example, David Bass (five days) and Timmy Murphy (six days) received bans at the 2011 Cheltenham Festival for this reason.

Morris said: “There is no evidence the whip causes pain or distress to a horse. If it did we might change the rules. We examine every single horse who gets marked with a weal after a delay. Horses are fired up in races and they don’t feel pain from this source.

“We recognize that there is a public perception about the use of the whip. It’s on their behalf that we take this matter so seriously and, in fairness, jockeys are happy with this. These days we have padded whips and a different style of using them (from the past).

“We work in conjunction with the RSPCA and the last time a horse was injured by the whip was in 2002. In Hong Kong recently, as Chairman of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities Welfare Committee, I discussed standardizing the design of the padded whip. There was general agreement about their introduction.

“The real challenge we face is public perception (of the whip). We need jockeys with decades of experience to explain the need for them. There are good communicators among them and they are the right people to do this.”

IRELAND Jim Kavanagh, who runs the Irish Racehorse Trainers’ Association, recently attended a European Trainers' Federation meeting in Prague which debated the use of the whip.

But although there is a demand for commonality in whip rules he believes this will never happen. There is a chance, however, that agreement can be reached on the length and thickness of the whip and whether or not it is cushioned.

He said: “We are quite happy with our procedures in Ireland. Abuse is regarded as seriously as anywhere else and excessive use is a matter of common sense. We have very good stipendiary stewards here who know if a horse has been abused.

“We always say that the whip is an added aid to riding. There is no way a horse would be allowed to be abused. We don’t ban the use of whips in two-year-old races, but if a jockey were to abuse a newcomer the stewards would come down on him.

“There are protesters in Ireland but not to the degree they exist in the UK. In Ireland we appreciate hunting and country pursuits. In Britain a lot people have lost touch with that side of life and it makes it more difficult to justify things like the whip.

Our rules won't be changing in the near future.”

These, then, are the pan European views on the whip. It would appear there is unlikely to be cohesive agreement among differing jurisdictions so jockeys and trainers will have to remain aware of local regulations.

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Piroplasmosis: Is this insect the most feared in racing?

Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc discusses why a tiny, bloodloving, parasitic protozoan is making such a huge impact on horses and the racing industry

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HE United States, Canada, Ireland, and England are all free of piroplasmosis – an infectious disease of horses caused by microscopic organisms called protozoa. Since the eradication of piroplasmosis in 1988, the U.S. has reported sporadic cases of the disease, including those in Florida in 2008 and in Missouri in June, 2009. Most recently, both the U.S. and Ireland diagnosed cases of piroplasmosis in the autumn of 2009.

Unlike the U.S., Ireland rapidly contained and eradicated the disease within three months of finding infected horses. In contrast, piroplasmosis has become an ongoing, persistent problem in the U.S. Initially, quarter horses were diagnosed with piroplasmosis from a single ranch in Texas, but many other cases, some involving Thoroughbred racehorses have since been diagnosed.

One of the big questions trainers have is, “what impact does piroplasmosis have on the Thoroughbred racing industry?”

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In the United States Calder Casino & Race Course, in Miami Gardens, Fla., and in an adjacent training center (not owned by Calder) imposed racing and training restrictions after 12 Thoroughbred racehorses tested positive for piroplasmosis. Eight of those belonged to a single cluster of infected horses that were associated with the same trainer at Calder.

The quarantined horses were still permitted to train, but after normal training hours and the positive horses were ultimately humanely euthanized.

The remaining horses at Calder (approximately 1,750 horses at Calder were not involved in the racing and training restrictions) were largely unaffected by the racing and training restrictions. Other horses were permitted to ship in and out during the quarantine.

Trainer Steve Standridge experienced the famous “Calder Quarantine” first hand, but says, “It really hasn’t affected my stable. We just needed to integrate the testing into our routine. It mostly affects the owners because of the expense, the $80 test, they have to endure.”

Kiaran McLaughlin, who trains in New York and Florida, agrees with Standridge and relays that piroplasmosis isn’t a big concern for his stable, either.

“Piroplasmosis hasn’t affected us much except that we need to stay on top of the tests. We have to be ready to ship on short notice. It seems like the test lasts for different amounts of time at the different tracks so it is just keeping track of these dates that is important.”

According to E.S. Rusty Ford, DVM, equine programs manager for the Kentucky State Veterinarian, “Horses destined to tracks and/or training facilities in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas all need to test negative for piroplasmosis.”

McLaughlin is correct in that the testing guidelines do differ from State to State.

Thus, trainers and veterinarians need to provide ample time to check with the state and/or track they are planning on shipping into to ensure their horse(s) meet the requirements for backside access.

In the Republic of Ireland “Piroplasmosis is a Notifiable Disease. Thus, when it occurs here, the disease is controlled by the State,” explains Dr. Des Leadon, a European College & RCVS Registered Consultant, Specialist in Equine Medicine,

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and Head of Clinical Pathology at the Irish Equine Centre, County Kildare, Ireland.

“We investigated a poor performance episode in a racing yard here in 2009.

Three horses were anemic with no obvious cause and no history of importation. The stable contained some 60 horses in training at this time. More than 40 were shown to be piroplasmosis positive on further investigation,” Leadon recalls. “There was no evidence of spread and the outbreak was subsequently officially declared over within three months of the diagnosis.”

Because Ireland does not have the tick vectors (needed to spread the disease), the presumptive causation was iatrogenic. That is, spread from humans to horses via medical or other equipment.

Leadon adds, “This episode heightened our awareness of the disease.”

No testing for piroplasmosis is necessary

for any horse being imported into Ireland. In contrast, all horses being imported into the U.S. (except those from Iceland and Canada) are required to be tested cELISA negative at the U.S. import center before they are granted entry.

In England “There is free movement of horses throughout the European Union without restrictions,” relays Fred Barrelet, an equine surgeon from Rossdale & Partners, in Newmarket, U.K., despite the occurrence of piroplasmosis in the Republic of Ireland in 2009 and in the U.S. since 2009, Just like Ireland, horses do not require any form of testing for piroplasmosis to enter the U.K. In fact, even horses being imported to England from piroplasmosis endemic regions in Europe are moved freely to and from the U.K. Even piroplasmosis positive horses are routinely moved into the

The Troublesome Tick Most of the ticks in the United States are not able to transmit the parasites that cause piroplasmosis (B. caballi and T. equi). In the United States, only Dermacentor nitens, D. variabilis, and Amblyomma cajennense are known to transmit piroplasmosis. These ticks are only found in specific regions of the U.S., which limits the natural spread of the disease.

Other ticks, however, are still capable of transmitting important infectious diseases to horses. Lyme disease, for example, is spread by ticks.

Other diseases spread from ticks to horses include: Equine Ehrlichiosis; Colorado Tick Fever; Tularemia; Tick Paralysis; and Equine Granulocytic Anaplasmosis

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Number of Horses with Piroplasmosis in the U.S. Number of horses diagnosed*

413 T. equi positive horses

Number of horses diagnosed in association with the original Texas outbreak*

292 T. equi positive horses

Number of horses diagnosed not associated with the original Texas outbreak**

154 (148 T. equi and 6 B. caballi)

Number of Thoroughbred racehorses diagnosed**

12 (8 of those belong to a single cluster of infected horses that were associated with the same trainer).

* From the USDA Final Report Dated 12/15/2010 ** From the USDA Sit Report Dated February 2011 According to Pelzel, “We have tested over 100,000 horses in the U.S. in the past year of many different breeds, disciplines and geographic locations. All states have been represented in this surveillance testing. Out of those 100,000 horses unrelated to the Texas ranch outbreak, less than 160 EP-

positive horses have been found and they all are either racehorses or horses previously imported from endemic countries. We have not found this disease in any other populations in the U.S. and the testing is still happening with the number of tests per month actually increasing.”

Newmarket area on a regular basis.

“These animals are mixed with the local population without any lateral spread having been observed during the past 15 years,” notes Barrelet. “Piroplasmosis is not a clinical problem in the UK. Infrequent, sporadic, stress induced clinical cases are suspected in horses that have been brought to this country from endemic regions in Europe, South America, Africa, the Middle East and Australia following transport. The iatrogenic spread represents the greatest threat to local horses (tooth rasping, unhygienic injection material and unsterilized surgical instruments, etc.)

Trainer and veterinarian Mark Johnston in North Yorkshire, England concurs, and says piroplasmosis makes, “No impact whatsoever” on his stables.

To shed some more light on equine piroplasmosis, the remainder of this article looks at the causes and spread or

piroplasmosis and describes why piroplasmosis is so challenging to diagnose and eliminate.

Once Bitten, Twice Shy? Even though both B. caballi and T. equi can both cause piroplasmosis in horses, a horse’s immune system considers them two completely different bugs. This means that if a horse was previously infected by B. caballi and has the serious misfortune of being infected with T. equi at a latter point in time (or vice versa), that the horse’s immune system does not recognize that it is the same disease. Instead, the second parasite is considered “new” to the horse’s immune system and the horse must mount an immune response all over again to fight the infection.

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What is piroplasmosis?

Piroplasmosis is an infectious disease of horses caused by Babesia caballi and/or Theileria equi. These microorganisms are microscopic protozoan parasites that, in horses, live inside red blood cells.

How Does a Horse Get Piroplasmosis?

Although piroplasmosis is an infectious disease, it is not contagious – piroplasmosis can not be directly spread form one horse to another. Instead, piroplasmosis is spread either by biting ticks or by transferring blood from an infected horse to a normal (uninfected) horse.

Sharing needles and syringes, blood transfusions, dental floats (rasps), and tattooing equipment can all spread piroplasmosis between horses. An infected mare may be able to pass the infection on to her foal in utero.

Not all ticks can spread the parasites that cause piroplasmosis. In the U.S., there are only three known ticks able to spread piroplasmosis: the cayenne tick (Amblyomma cajennense), the American dog tick, Dermacentor variabilis (both of which can spread T. equi), and Dermacentor nitens, the tropical horse tick (which spreads B. caballi.

These ticks only live in a few areas of the U.S. For example, the tropical horse tick has only been identified in southeastern Florida and Texas. The other states are too cold for the tropical horse tick to survive.

Signs of Piroplasmosis in Horses After either being bitten by a tick carrying B. caballi or T. equi or after being exposed to contaminated blood, the parasite multiplies in the horse’s red blood cells. Infected hose begins to show signs of the disease between 1 and 4 weeks later. Some horses show few, if any, signs of infection (e.g., poor performance, mild, intermittent fever, mild colic, slight swelling of the limbs). Usually, however, horses have a fever, are anorexic, and depressed. Blood tests show a lower than usual number of red blood cells and platelets (anemia and thrombocytopenia, respectively). Affected horses can appear jaundiced (have a yellow color to their gums and the whites of the eyes), have hemoglobin (a blood breakdown product) in their urine or discolored urine, and weakness. These signs are mostly due to the destruction of red blood cells by the parasite in the horse’s circulation. As the anemia worsens, horses can develop diarrhea, have a massive destruction of the red blood cells that contain the parasites, developing brown colored urine (hemoglobinuria, a similar color to the urine that is produced in horses that have severely tied-up), and even heart (cardiac) abnormalities due to damage to the heart muscle.

Only rarely do horses die from a piroplasmosis infection. As with the cases in the most recent outbreak in the U.S., most horses recover and become inapparent carriers of the disease. This means that most recovered horses return to their previous performance level, but serve as a reservoir for the parasites.

Diagnosis (Testing) Any horse showing any of the abovedescribed signs of an acute piroplasmosis infection should be examined by a veterinarian and tested for piroplasmosis.

Piroplasmosis is challenging to diagnose because, in carrier horses, there may be few live parasites in the blood. Thus, trying to find one from a single blood sample under a microscope can be extremely difficult or even impossible. Further, even advanced blood tests can “miss” the microorganisms.

The test currently used on Thoroughbreds prior to accessing a racetrack’s backstretch is the cELISA. This stands for, “competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.” This is a blood test that can detect the presence of antibodies to either T. equi or B. caballi in a small sample of a horse’s blood. There is a separate test for each parasite.

Both tests are very good at detecting antibodies against the parasites. With the B. caballi test kit, only a very small number of false positive tests are occurring (less than 0.05% tests turn up positive when the horse is actually negative).

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“Both cELISA tests are screening tests, so we do expect some false positives for the test to be performing adequately,” says Angela M. Pelzel, DVM, a Western Regional Epidemiologist and the national equine piroplasmosis response coordinator, from the USDA APHIS Veterinary Services.

Pelzel adds, “The false negative rate is extremely close to zero. The only false negatives we usually get are horses that are acutely infected and have not had the 3-4 weeks needed to produce an antibody response that is measurable on the cELISA test. We usually catch those horses on other diagnostic tests, such as complement fixation, blood smear, or PCR.” Only laboratories authorized to perform the test should be used and samples need to be collected by an accredited veterinarian.

No Currently Approved Treatment for Piroplasmosis There are treatments available, but only in countries where treatment is permitted. The U.S. is not one of these countries.

“In the U.S., EP (piroplasmosis)-positive horse owners are given four options: euthanasia, export out of the country, lifetime quarantine, or long-term quarantine with enrollment in the approved USDAARS treatment research program,” relays Pelzel.

Concluding Thoughts: Avoiding Piroplasmosis In the Thoroughbred racehorses diagnosed with the disease, biting ticks have not been the source of the infection. Instead, the infection was thought to be spread by equipment contaminated with blood – medical equipment (syringes, needles, dentistry equipment) or tattooing equipment.

Scott Weese is a board certified specialist in equine internal medicine and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathobiology and Public Health and Zoonotic Disease microbiologist for the University of Guelph's Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses. Weese is also Chief of Infection Control at the Ontario Veterinary College Teaching Hospital and cocoordinates the college’s “EquID Blog,” an equine infectious disease and infection control educational endeavor (available at http://www.equidblog.com/).

In his post from June 15, 2010, Dr. Weese suggests that in many piroplasmosis cases diagnosed in the U.S., the cause is human activity (i.e., reusing syringes and needles between horses). It is possible, however, that additional tick species, other than the three ticks known so far, are actually able to transmit the infection, but we just haven’t identified them yet.

Weese wrote, “Regardless of how T. equi

Research Ongoing to Find Treatment Options for Piroplasmosis “USDA-APHIS-VS and USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) currently have an approved EP treatment research program in place and many of the recently found EPpositive horses have been enrolled in the program. The goal of the program is to find chemotherapeutic drugs that are capable of permanently clearing the horse of the organism. To date, a highdose imidocarb therapy is showing a good deal of promise in treating both B. caballi and T. equi infected horses. There are currently no drugs in the U.S. labeled or approved to treat EP,” says Angela M. Pelzel, DVM, a Western Regional Epidemiologist and the national equine piroplasmosis response coordinator, from the USDA APHIS Veterinary Services.

Fred Barrelet, an equine surgeon from Rossdale & Partners, in Newmarket, U.K. adds, “In endemic regions acute piroplasmosis is successfully treated with anti-protozoal drugs together with NSAIDS. Full recovery periods with a return to pre-infection athletic performance levels can vary and last up to six months. It is possible to eliminate the organism from horses infected with B. caballi. Treatment is an ordeal for the animals as an extended course of intramuscular drugs that causes painful reactions at the injections sites and can lead to terminal colics.”

got to these regions and whether or not there may be ticks that can transmit the disease in a given area, poor management practices need to be addressed. It’s just common sense. Anything that could result in transmission of blood between horses must be avoided. The small amount of money and/or time saved by re-using needles or other instruments isn’t worth the risk associated with disease transmission.”

The take-home message is the U.S., despite having been “cleared” of the disease previously, continues to have sporadic cases and outbreaks and that piroplasmosis.

Weese goes so far as to suggest that maybe the U.S. “may have to stop calling this an outbreak and recognize that piroplasmosis is an endemic disease in the US. Regardless, the best way to avoid piroplasmosis is through biosecurity and infection control practices, and (apparently) to a lesser extent, tick control. The currently-instituted testing regulations will help responsible trainers avoid piroplasmosis. n

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THE FRENCH MODEL

Keeping ahead of the racing game “The best system in the world” has been one of the many compliments used to describe the success of the French model by professionals and enthusiasts across the globe in recent times. By Isabel Mathew

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S several of its racing neighbors continue to struggle with their own individual problems, there are numerous arguments to support this accolade. Despite this, France’s secure position is experiencing change, and the coming year is an extremely important one for the future of the sport in the country.

Racing under rules was created in France in 1775, however it was the Duke of Morny who brought this pastime to the fore in the mid-19th Century. The brother of Napoleon III, he also founded racing at the Normandy seaside town of Deauville.

The creation of the Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU) in 1930 to finance all areas of the sector, by organizing and regulating betting on- and off-course, has proved a key factor in the success of the French model in the modern era.

Aymeric Verlet, Director of International Development for PMU, explains, “The industry has held up well in France thanks to a system which is very beneficial to the sport, funding 80% of its activity. In the last 10 years, the amount received has increased by 47 points.

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“This model allows a whole economic sector to survive – 900,000 horses, 250 racecourses, 7,100 equestrian establishments, as well as the 75,000 employees connected with these.”

Composed of 51 non-profit racing authorities, the PMU is an Economic Interest Group (Groupement d'Intérêt Economique – GIE). Both France Galop

(Thoroughbred) and the Société d’Encouragement du Cheval Français (trotting) are the most important of these, while the remainder are made up of provincial racecourse societies across the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries as well as the Ministry of Budget and Public Accounts play a close role in the

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supervision of the organization, which since May 2009 has been under the direction of Philippe Germond.

Until last June, the PMU (racing only) and Française Des Jeux (lottery) held a betting monopoly in France, a control that had been in place since 1539 following an edict passed by King François I. As a result, this ensured that France's successive

governments have maintained a strict control on gaming. This policy first came into question by the European Commission in 2007.

As it stands now, gambling on racing is still on a pari-mutuel basis in a bid to safeguard its revenue streams, both from the PMU and other licensed companies, policed by the nation's Online Games Regulation

Authority, ARJEL. These outside corporations are subject to an eight percent levy. For the first time, online sports betting is now available, on a fixed-odds basis.

In 2009, the PMU recorded a turnover of €9.3 billion, its last full year’s trading before the change. From this figure (see table), 74.8% was returned to gamblers with another 1.7% going towards social levies.

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Of the remaining 23.5%, which is then filtered further, 7.8% is put back into the 51 authorities, equating to €771 million. This amount received from the PMU is split in a number of different ways. Of these, one of the most important is prize money.

France numbers a total of 148 racecourses for Thoroughbreds, holding nearly 7,000 races a year. In 2009, the prize money set aside for these contests added up to €171 million, with an average allocation of €22,908 in rewards per flat race, and over jumps €28,432.

To use a comparison with the United Kingdom, it can be seen that in the same year, British racing received just under €125 million (1GBP = €1,126) to be spread over 60 racecourses (9,628 races). This equated to average prize money of €13,235 on the flat and €12,404 over jumps.

In addition, France has some very high profile investors, namely Qatar, the sponsor of Europe’s richest race, the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, amongst others. Last year, it was announced that the state will continue their support until 2022, and by 2018 the total prize money for the Arc will have risen to €5.8 million.

Further to the elevated levels of rewards available, which have seen more and more British and foreign trainers make the journey to compete (also in part also due to the varying levels of competition throughout the country), there is also the question of premiums for French-bred and -assimilated horses.

These contribute to a significant “bonus” for owners and breeders whose

“Once you give something it’s hard to take it back, but the idea of giving breeders’ premiums for eight- or 10-yearold geldings winning bad races is absurd” John Hammond

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horses are eligible. Owners’ premiums consist of a percentage of the allocated prize money, received in addition to the winnings.

Over €36 million a year is put aside for these premiums, which are only eligible to flat owners. They consist of an extra 75% of the winnings for two-year-olds, 63% for three-year-olds, and 48% for four-year-olds and upwards.

Domestically, breeders’ premiums represent 14% of prize money available in all open French Flat races, and abroad, 10% (with conditions). There could however be room for improvement in the system, as trainer John Hammond argues.

“Once you give something it's hard to take it back, but the idea of giving breeders’ premiums for eight- or 10-year-old geldings winning bad races is absurd, particularly as they might have been sold for a big price as yearlings. It merely encourages mediocrity.

The idea is to reward breeders for breeding a good horse, not the opposite! It's a state subsidy under another name,” the dual Arcwinning Chantilly handler said.

The draw of owners’ premiums for eligible horses has been one of the factors that has ensured the continuous rise and success of France’s most prominent sales company, Arqana, in recent years. Together with the increase in quality of their service and offering, Arqana has all but thrived in the current economic climate, compared to some of its closest rivals.

Managing Director Olivier Delloye said, “I think in the last couple of seasons we have regained lost market shares from previous years, especially for the yearlings. This is due to the healthiness of the French industry as a result of 17 years’ continuous growth in prize money. No racing country can claim to have

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“We have regained lost market shares from previous years, especially for the yearlings. This is due to the healthiness of the French industry” Olivier Delloye

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the same achievement during this period.”

On the breeding front, France has in recent decades been lacking in stallion power, partly due to being unable to compete with the prices offered for the best racehorses from elsewhere.

This is as a direct result of mare owners being unwilling to pay high nomination fees, resulting in a smaller book for a new high-profile stallion as well as top end ones.

In consequence, this means that studs would have to wait longer to see a full return on their investment than the targeted three years.

As well as this, there is a French mentality of preferring to send their best mares to stallions in Ireland or even England rather than “help” their neighbor by using a domestic one.

Delloye added, “I think the challenge here is to improve the quality of the broodmares so that they are capable of producing yearlings for the August Sale as we are short of commercial breeders.

“Since 2006 we have been proactive in recruiting horses from elsewhere as well as domestically to keep improving the standard of the sale. This year we will mix the first two days a little more with Frenchbreds.”

France is also subject to high tax rates on stallion earnings, which can amount to up to 33% for a company, or 44% for an individual shareholder dependent on their overall income, considerably more elevated than in Britain and Ireland.

Despite this, the success of French bloodstock in both the Flat and National

Hunt spheres has been outstanding. Over jumps, French-breds have shaped the industry in England and Ireland for the last two decades, having mostly started their careers on home soil before being sold.

The rewards of the premiums system as well as lucrative prize money have made France a leader in terms of financial return on the keep and training expenses of horses by their winnings. Statistics from the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities (IFHA) show that in 2009 a horse that had run at least once in France covered 55% of these costs, a number that has been consistent over the last decade.

When Great Britain is used in comparison, although no value is available for the same year, the figure has dropped from 28% in 2004 to 23% over the succeeding five years. It is a similar story for Ireland, although the drop is more marked: from 31% to 23% in 2009.

Training costs also appear to be more reasonable in France, although to an extent this is obviously dependant on location.

Owners are fortunate that on top of premiums and prize money, they also receive travelling allowances for their horses that go to the races, with over €6million allocated for this purpose.

Although the future seems prosperous for the industry, there are some major challenges that the French are going to have to overcome in order to continue on the same successful path.

The most important factor for the PMU and therefore the funding of racing is that of the opening up of the online betting and gambling market. In a bid to maintain and continue its success, the company is now concentrating on becoming a global operator.

Verlet said, “Last year was a transitional period and we have succeeded in our transformation. Not only have we resisted our rivals and were placed in the top three for sports betting, we also attained six percent of the poker market, which at the beginning was only offered in addition to betting.

“These successes resulted in an increase in overall turnover by 2.6%, which all contributes back to the racing sector. We are confident about the future of the sport,

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“Our objective is to continue the expansion of our betting outlets, which represent 90% of our revenue, as well as international development Aymeric Verlet because the PMU is enduring.

“The outlook is positive as there is strong demand, but to keep it going we need to be inventive in proposing new products as well as producing a program with a greater foreign offering.

“In 2010 the PMU offered gambling on over 700 races abroad from 24 different countries. This year we have introduced racing from Argentina and Holland.

Equally, domestic racing is shown outside France, benefiting both sides.

“Our objective for the future is to continue the expansion of our betting outlets, which represent 90% of our revenue, as well as international development,” Verlet concluded.

Another important issue that has come to the fore in recent times is the problem of France Galop’s refusal to harmonize with

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other European countries on their interference rulings.

These came into sharp international focus with the demotion to fifth of Dar Re Mi in the Group 1 Prix Vermeille at Longchamp in September 2009 having passed the post first. Currently France’s rules are in a similar mold to that of Japan’s, demoting winners on apparent merit rather than allowing a worthy winner to keep a race.

This problem is damaging France’s reputation on an international scale due to their policies. Their current rules are not encouraging to potential foreign participants across the globe both in terms of betting and runners because of lack of awareness. In contrast, France argues that their rules are “protecting the punter.”

Low attendance numbers at French and

especially Parisian racecourses is also another concern, even though entrance fees are either free or very minimal for all meetings including at the very highest level.

Provincial racecourses tend to be popular, however, audiences are lacking for the very big events across the year, especially on the Flat where there can be a lack of ambiance. The exception to this is over Arc weekend, although the majority of the crowd is made up of visitors from across the channel.

Despite these struggles, the French model’s success to date is undeniable and should be commended for its profitability and sustainability in the face of today’s hardships. France has a huge amount to offer in terms of their racing and breeding, and one can only hope their prosperity continues for centuries to come. n

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Horses and humans What parallels can we draw?

By Catherine Dunnett Bsc, Phd

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utritioN significantly influences athletic performance – at least this is what a recent international olympic Committee (ioC) statement on human sports nutrition has stated. they have also advised that all athletes should adopt specific nutritional strategies before, during, and after training and competition to maximize both their mental and physical performance and recovery. this may not seem earth shattering, but perhaps the significance is that nutrition is held in such high regard as a factor that helps athletes attain optimum exercise performance.

Within horseracing, we have tended to regard nutrition as being ‘the icing on the cake’ and perhaps not fundamental to performance. So are there any pointers that we can draw from the approach to sports nutrition in human athletes? in short, the answer is yes. But... racehorses obviously vary from human athletes in many ways, including the structure and function of their digestive system, but also in key aspects of their physiological and biochemical makeup, which contributes to their natural athletic talent. When considering the application of any element of human sports nutrition these differences must be factored in.

Carbohydrate – horses can also build glycogen from fibER Carbohydrate is a primary dietary focus for both human and equine athletes, and the ioC recommends that for human athletes carbohydrate should be sufficient to meet their needs during training, but also to replenish carbohydrate stores (glycogen) in the liver and muscles during recovery from training sessions and competition.

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replenishing glycogen stores is important as it represents an important fuel source to power muscle contraction during exercise.

While human athletes can be tuck into plenty of bread, pasta, rice, potatoes and other vegetables, we address this need in horses primarily via starch from cereals such as oats, which are traditionally relatively abundant in racing rations. But here we must pause for thought. there are two fundamental differences between horses and humans in this respect. the first is that compared with humans the rate of glycogen re-synthesis following exercise is about 2-3 times slower in horses. the second is that horses can also build glycogen from substances known as volatile fatty acids, which are the products of fiber fermentation in the hindgut. Horses are believed to be less efficient at producing glycogen from dietary starch, due to a reduced capacity for digestion in the small intestine, combined with a reduced uptake of glucose into muscle compared to humans. Additionally, meals with high starch content can contribute to significant negative health issues in horses including gastric ulcers, colitis, colonic ulcers, colic, loose droppings, and laminitis.

So with our current knowledge, the strategy may be to maximize glycogen synthesis from fiber by providing highly digestible forage and complementing this Kempton Park staged a 100-meter charity race in June, 2010, between former British Olympiad Jamie Baulch and Peopleton Brook, trained by Brendan Powell and ridden by Fergus Sweeney.

Peopleton Brook and Sweeney defeated the human athlete racing on foot

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with small meals containing cereal starch on a little and often basis, so as not to overwhelm the small intestine. in addition, training programs perhaps need to factor in the 2-3 days needed to replenish muscle glycogen following hard work or racing.

simply not appear to work in horses and can also be detrimental to health. More sophisticated methods that are sympathetic to the horses’ digestive and muscular physiology need to be developed to support more efficient muscle glycogen synthesis in horses.

l Aim for a daily forage intake of 1.5% of

bodyweight (150lb for a 1,100lb horse). l oats are a good cereal as they are

digested well in the small intestine. l other pre-cooked cereals (e.g.

micronized) are also good as the cooking increases digestibility in the small intestine. l 4.5lb or less of a racing feed per meal is ideal or 3lb of straight oats.

Glycogen loading is a practice used in human athletics that involves initially depleting glycogen stores in the lead up to competition and then replenishing them with a very high carbohydrate diet, so as to boost muscle glycogen above its original level. interestingly, while glycogen loading may be useful for human endurance-type athletes before competition, according to the Australian institute for Sport (AiS), this practice is not advocated for sprinters because glycogen depletion is not considered to be the main contributor to fatigue over the shorter distances. the human strategy for glycogen loading does

Protein For human athletes the advice on protein intake is relatively similar to that for horses, i.e. it must be present in the diet at a higher level than for non-athletes, but should not be excessive. A well-balanced diet for humans will apparently satisfy the need for protein, and we can draw a parallel in racehorses.

According to the AiS, a power athlete which is not dissimilar to a racehorse requires a greater protein intake during the early stages of strength training. Protein intake apparently then becomes less important once training is well established.

Here we have another clear deviation in horses, as many young racehorses are still growing during their early training and racing careers and so will continue to have a higher dietary protein requirement.

Timing of protein intake can make all the difference Muscle and body protein in general exists in a continuous state of breakdown and repair,

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which is tipped in favor of breakdown during exercise and towards repair during recovery from exercise. Amino acids from protein provide vital building blocks for this repair process in muscle and need to be in the right place at the right time. the practice in racing of feeding after exercise would appear therefore to be a good one according to human research, as this will increase the availability of amino acids to muscles and other tissues during the repair phase. racing feeds provide a mix of protein (providing amino acids) with carbohydrate in the form of starch, which again from human data suggests that this is good. Feeding protein alongside carbohydrate (starch) helps to increase the uptake of amino acids into muscle and other tissues due to the action of the hormone insulin, the level of which increases in blood following a starchcontaining meal. in horses, however, we also need to think about the source of protein. racing feeds should contain protein from sources with good digestibility in the small intestine, as horses can only absorb amino acids here.

Generally protein from cereals and pulses like soya is more digestible in the small intestine than that from forage, although alfalfa is a relatively good source. in human athletes, supplements based on whey are popular as an additional source of high quality protein. Some research suggests that the amino acids arginine, ornithine, glutamine, and leucine in particular promote protein synthesis to support the repair process. ingredients such as soya, whey, and blue-green algae known as spirulina are relatively rich sources of these amino acids. However, this is not an area that has received much research attention in horses and so the benefit of a higher profile in racing diets is not known.

Hydration is important for physical and mental well being Dehydration can impair performance in human athletes and horses, and good hydration before racing is important.

Dehydration can adversely affect performance, as it can reduce the body's ability to regulate heat, leading to an increased body temperature and an elevated heart rate. When dehydrated, the perceived effort of exercise is greater and so an athlete may feel more tired and reduced mental function may affect the will to win. in horses, there is the added risk of severe digestive problems from dehydration. therefore any perceived benefit in horses from a reduction in bodyweight by reducing water intake will be quickly lost through the adverse physiological effects of impaired hydration.

Supplements – don’t always translate from human to horse one of the major issues with supplements for horses in training is that so many remain unproven and so we don’t know whether they are beneficial, or a waste of money. the human supplement market is also full of products that claim to support exercise, but likewise many of these claims are dubious. Some human products have even led to athletes dope testing positive due to inadvertent contamination with steroidal substances such as nandrolone.

Both the ioC and AiS offer athletes guidance in this area. the ioC suggests that athletes should consider whether a supplement is safe, has been shown to be beneficial and is value for money. the AiS go one stage further offering a rating system

“For human athletes the advice on protein intake is similar to that for horses, i.e. it must be present in the diet at a higher level than for nonathletes, but should not be excessive” of A, B, C and D for common supplements used by human athletes. Supplements in the A list, such as multivitamins, vitamin E and C, electrolytes, probiotics, caffeine, and creatine are supported for use.

Supplements on the B list are regarded as having some data to support their efficacy and are often well regarded by coaches these include glutamine, β alanine, HMB, and ribose. Supplements without sufficient evidence of benefit such as carnitine, branch chain amino acids, and gamma oryzanol are placed on the C list. Finally the AiS suggest that supplements on the D list should be actively avoided as they either contain banned substances or represent a high risk for contamination with doping ingredients. in horses, it would be a great step forward to have such a list, but unfortunately it doesn’t exist at the moment. Additionally, it would be difficult to compile as the volume of research in horses on supplement ingredients is so very low in comparison to humans. Some

supplements that are known to be effective in human athletes have also been shown to have efficacy in horses. From available research data, nutrient-based supplements such as multivitamins, vitamin E and C, etc. can be beneficial under some circumstances for horses.

Probiotics such as live yeasts also have a reasonable amount of evidence to support their use in horses. Conversely, creatine monohydrate which is known to be very effective in human athletes has been shown not to be absorbed from the equine gut in three independent published studies. Similarly, while caffeine has been shown to be a beneficial performance enhancer for some human athletes it is a prohibited substance under the rules of racing and FEi (Fédération Équestre internationale) regulations, and therefore represents a risk substance for contamination of feeds or supplements during manufacture.

Nutrition prior to racing – an opportunity What and how to feed prior to racing is a big question and one that has received little attention in horses. interestingly, for sprinters and middle-distance runners the AiS suggests that the priority on race day should be to eat and drink to maintain intestinal comfort and to avoid hunger. they recommend a carbohydrate-based meal in the morning, followed by very light snacks up to 2 hours before a race with plenty of fluid, sports drinks or gels being consumed.

Depending on the timing of races, horses could essentially be fed normally up to a few hours before the race, although meal size should probably be kept small. Forage intake remains important but can be reduced to a minimum of 1% of bodyweight in the 24 hours before racing. the use of sports drinks or gels is not an area that has been evaluated for horses, but there is perhaps potential to beneficially affect blood glucose level prior to racing. it is however vital to always provide ordinary water as horses can be put off by drinking anything added to the water.

While equine and human athletes have many common requirements, there are also significant differences in their physiology.

Consequently, while we can draw some valuable parallels and utilize relevant information and advice from human sports nutrition, we must be mindful that horses are different. the most prominent contrast is the horse’s digestive tract, which can behave very differently to the human gut. the horse’s digestive tract needs to be supported by our feeding practices in racing to maintain health and support optimum performance. n

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FAIR HILL A training center success story

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The 300-acre, 17 barn, two-track training facility has had its ups and downs during its 28-year history, but it is now regarded as one of the country’s most thriving Thoroughbred establishments. And that’s down to the people who have worked there for many years.

By Joe Clancey

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ALLY Goswell’s Blackberry rings approximately every 45 seconds as she drives her clattering blue Hyundai station wagon on the rough dirt roads.

Call topics range from wood chips to sand to deliveries to problems with the racetrack’s top gap.

“The chips will be here in half an hour, I’ll get someone to meet the driver, the sand has to be moved into the maintenance shed, some of those guys can help shovel while they’re waiting and the top gap has always been the top gap but we’ll look at it,” she says, sometimes into the phone, sometimes not. All the while, her yellow Labrador Retriever Woody lounges in the backseat.

Across the way, Goswell’s husband Mike moves the dogs (cones, not Labs) off the dirt track and another morning of hyperactivity slides into an afternoon of hyperactivity for the manager of Fair Hill Training Center in Cecil County, Maryland. The training center has ridden a recent wave of success to its spot as one of

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“You can do anything you want to do with a horse here.

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the country’s most thriving Thoroughbred operations. The 300-acre, 17-barn, twotrack facility houses trainers and horses of all manner – from Breeders’ Cup winners to Penn National claimers. Major operations headed by Graham Motion, Michael Matz, Mike Trombetta, and the Fair Hill Equine Therapy Center garner most of the attention, but Goswell and other “lifers” give Fair Hill its spirit, its soul, its connection, its history.

Rewind – all the way – to the beginning.

In 1926, area sportsman William du Pont Jr. bought a farm in the northeastern corner of Maryland. He moved his foxhounds to the area from Virginia and added to his holdings – amassing more than 7,000 acres in Maryland and Pennsylvania. The property grew to include custom bridges and tunnels for the animals and foxhunters, a system of dirt roads, a cattle operation, the Fair Hill steeplechase course, the Cecil County Fairgrounds, rolling fields of hay and more. Du Pont had deep roots in racing as the designer and co-founder of Delaware Park and other racetracks, a breeder and an owner. He won the Preakness in 1938 with Dauber and campaigned champions Fair Star, Fairy Chant, Parlo and Berlo in his blue and gold Foxcatcher Farm silks.

After du Pont died in 1965, his heirs sold nearly 6,000 acres to the state of Maryland as a Natural Resources Management Area (the Pennsylvania property was sold privately but continues to be largely open space). The steeplechase meet continued, as did the county fair, and the property gradually added public uses such as hiking,

mountain biking, a nature center, youthgroup campsites, horse shows, trail rides, three-day eventing, fishing, hunting and onsite state property management. Say Fair Hill to the average Marylander and you might hear something about the historic covered bridge over the Big Elk Creek, the grueling Orange Trail, the Oprah Winfrey movie filmed there or the demolition derby held each summer at the county fair.

But you might also hear about the training center.

Founded in 1983 with a long-term lease from the state, the facility represented new thinking for American Thoroughbred racing. The concept called for privatelyowned barns built around public areas such as tracks, gallops, veterinary facilities, and more under a condominium association.

Part of the allure was access to the rest of Fair Hill and its miles of turf fields and varied acreage, in addition to easy ships to East Coast tracks. Wealthy Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred owners/breeders built the first barns, funded the track, helped make it happen. The training center was part of a state goal to turn Fair Hill into a Thoroughbred hub and the community now houses the offices of the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, the National Steeplechase Association, and Fasig-Tipton Midlantic – though Fair Hill never became a mini-Lexington.

Today, the training center includes much of its original dream – first hatched by veterinarian turned trainer Dr. John R.S. Fisher – though it’s been a long road through trial, error, and failure to the success of today. Barns sold for $1 or not at all. A barn’s roof collapsed from the snow one winter. Another barn burned to the ground, killing several horses and wounding the entire place. Security guards would fall asleep, leaving van drivers to rap on the gate just to be let in after racing at night. Barn plumbing and electrical systems failed.

The past makes people smile, wince, wonder.

“We had the wood-chip track and put sprinklers on the inside rail to water it regularly,” recalled trainer Tim Woolley.

“Great idea, right? They were on a timer, which was good, but the timer kept getting screwed up and would come on during training. It was a chain reaction, you’d be out there galloping a horse, the sprinklers would come on, one horse would get out of hand and then they’d all get out of hand.”

The English native came to Fair Hill for a job with Michael Dickinson and simply stayed – rising from exercise rider to public trainer. His wife, Penny, used to gallop horses at Fair Hill and now works in the Fasig-Tipton office. Woolley rents a dozen stalls in Parlo I, one of the original barns on

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A thriving horse transportation business based at Fair Hill is owned by Keith and Joy Cooper

the property. He can tell stories about the sprinklers, the barn roof collapse, the annual two-year-old trials and “peoplechase,” his first encounter with an outrider, the winter the Budweiser Clydesdales spent a few days at Fair Hill due to bad roads, the various horses and trainers and ideas that have come and gone.

But he can also rattle off the benefits to training racehorses at Fair Hill.

“You can do anything you want to do with a horse here,” said Woolley, 46. “There’s no better place to prepare a young horse. The tracks, the fields, the places to go.”

When Woolley came to work for Dickinson, he knew nothing more than the training center “was stuck in the middle of a field in Maryland.” Fair Hill reminded him of home, of an atmosphere where the horse comes first.

“I couldn’t understand why Americans didn’t get the concept,” he said. “You have to appreciate the horse here, you have to be A view of the barn owned by David Ross

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willing to do the work, to use the facility.

When Fair Hill first started, if you weren’t stabled at a racetrack you didn’t get horses.

Now, there’s more awareness to it. Owners want to consider Fair Hill or places like it now.” oy Cooper came to Fair Hill to ride Arabians. In 1992, Delaware Park rented two barns from the then-struggling facility for Arabian racehorses and Cooper was an exercise rider. That fall, she rented a room in a house a mile down Route 213 from the training center. She married her landlord, van driver Keith Cooper, in 1997 and now

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they own a thriving horse transportation company based in Fair Hill. Nearly all of their business comes from the training center and their original $6,500 used truck has turned into a tractor-trailer, a ninehorse van and two gooseneck trailers.

They’re on the road “hell-bent-for-leather” for nine or 10 months of the year, but accumulate enough time and credit card points to take epic vacations. A junket to Burma, Tonga, Sri Lanka, and Tanzania comes next, once the Coopers get off the road.

They still live in that house down the road, and marvel at the changes to the area.

The once simple intersection now boasts a bank, a gas station, a deli and a real traffic light with left-turn lanes. The old man’s house on the corner became a doctor’s office, but the produce stand across the street never left.

“We live here, it’s our life,” said Joy, 43.

“We’ve watched the place grow up. I remember when the stoplight went in. That was a big deal.”

Though they drive trucks for a living, the Coopers are horsepeople. Keith, 45, once accompanied steeplechase champion Lonesome Glory to Cheltenham, England, and Joy counts several Fair Hill jobs – beyond the Arabians – on her resume.

“I remember going out on a set for Ricky Hendriks with (Flat jockey) Nick Santagata,” said Joy. “We went out back to one of those big fields. The horses had been there plenty of times, but Nick thought we were crazy. There was no rail, no poles, no nothing but a big open field and a hill. I just told him to drop his horse’s head and follow me. At Fair Hill, sometimes you just ride.”

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raham Rennison used to ride at Fair Hill; now he power washes barns, fixes stall doors, answers pretty much any maintenance call from trainers. Like

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Woolley, “Rennie” came for a job with Dicksinon – starting in 1987 and rising to assistant trainer, managing the Parlo III barn and overseeing such standout horses as Delaware Handicap winner Seattle Dawn.

He trained some himself, finding success with stakes horse Bartman among others but eventually gave up the horses – if not the place.

“I’m a handyman now,” he said. “People kept asking me to do things, all the small stuff around here. Broken stalls, updating things, setting up the barns. It helps that I know about horses and I know trainers’ schedules. Other guys might show up at 8 o’clock in the morning and expect to start the job. That doesn’t work with racehorses.”

Rennison, 56, remembers a Fair Hill where everyone did the same job – for different people. The early days were full of after-work gatherings, soccer games, racing, camaraderie.

“Everybody watched out for each other, everybody got along, we were all in it together I suppose,” he said. “Then, for whatever reason, it seemed like we got away from that as Fair Hill went through its struggles. Now, it’s more like it used to be – there are good outfits here, good people.”

Rennison is at Fair Hill every day, working on something. He gets his horse fix by taking a minute to watch workouts or say hello to a Thoroughbred in a stall but otherwise doesn’t follow racing and hasn’t been on a horse in years. Now, he appreciates Fair Hill as much for its nonhorse qualities.

“The whole place is something,” he said.

“I enjoy coming to work at Fair Hill, even if I no longer do the horses. It reminds me so much of England. I take photos from time to time, go for walks, fly my radiocontrolled airplane. I enjoy the place.”

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ally Goswell came to Fair Hill in much the same manner as everyone else.

She and Mike ran a public stable in Maryland and other states for years, finding success but also longing for some stability and permanence for their two sons.

They relocated their horses to Fair Hill in 1984 and were in their own barn the next year. Like the other owners, they rode out the storms and got to 1995 with a major decision point.

“One group of barn owners wanted to close for the winter and re-open as a seasonal training center,” said Goswell, 57.

“Another group wanted to stay open, change the structure and save the place.”

She was in the second group, along with barn owner Luisita Cuprill, veterinarian Kathy Anderson, and Dickinson’s partner Joan Wakefield. The women revamped the business model: trimming the staff, cutting expenses, finding a new revenue streams, closing barns the center owned (it had become cheaper to rent individual stalls from the association than to own a barn and pay condo fees).

Fair Hill got lucky too as Delaware Park rented two barns for its Arabians and New York trainer John Kimmel rented another barn. The new tenants prepaid, the manure removal income peaked at $300,000 a year, the association sold the barns it owned, and value returned. Purses at Delaware (13 miles away) skyrocketed from slots revenue and Fair Hill offered an independent alternative to racetrack stabling. Barns changed hands for fair prices. Owners invested in barn improvements (funded in part by the association’s surplus revenue) and infrastructure assessments halted.

Eventually, the Goswells sold their barn, stopped training and became employees of the association. Sally staffs the office, alone, and gets much of the credit for the relatively smooth operation now in place – though she quickly passes it on to others including her husband, fellow staffer Kathee Rengert, Anderson, the board of directors, and a maintenance staff of seven.

“I like to think I had something to do with it, but I don’t deserve all the accolades,” she said. “There were other people and really a part of me just refused to believe it wouldn’t work. When I started, I was a barn owner too so I had to pay a part of every bill I agreed to. We didn’t have much money when I first started, but it was very well spent.”

Be it Goswell, luck or circumstance, Fair Hill emerged because it reached enough of a low point to essentially start over. The barn owners became the managers, the responsible parties, the leaders.

“I fell in love with Fair Hill when we moved here,” Goswell said. “The location, the way of life, the quality of life. I had a passion for it then and still do.”

Today’s Fair Hill includes Motion, Matz, Steve Klesaris, two barns owned by Earle Mack, one owned by David Ross, another recently purchased by Team Valor, and a seven-furlong Tapeta synthetic track, a onemile dirt track, Anderson’s on-site veterinary clinic, an equine therapy center complete with hyperbaric chamber. Barns sell for $1 million. The security guards are gone. So is the sprinkler system.

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Is it all in the genes?

Is knowledge of the basic genetic make-up of a yearling the future? Genetic tests might be used to make decisions about which sire and dam to breed together.

Once born, a genetic test may decide which foals should be sent to the sales and which to keep and race. As a trainer knowledge of a horse’s genetics might influence its training program and the direction of its racing career.

Until recently, such genetic tests have not been available, but now this area of technology is changing fast.

By Dr David Marlin

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UYING yearlings at the sales up until recently has been a case of studying the bloodlines beforehand, observing the conformation and temperament, watching the animal walk, and having a wind test or a vet examine radiographs. If the yearling is then purchased it will likely be at least six months before anyone really knows what has been bought. Unfortunately, excellent breeding is an essential quality to have as great horses are not made by nutrition or training (although many a potential great horse can be ruined), but breeding is not as simple as breed A with B and get A+B. If only genetics were that simple. And of course, when we breed two horses together we are trying to manipulate genetics. We don’t actually know what is going on at the gene level. All we know about are the performance and bloodlines of the sire and dam. In addition, we may well know something about detrimental traits as well, for example lines that seem to produce more horses prone to tying-up or “bleeders” or horses with poor temperament. I always caution on temperament however, as this can be a selffulfilling prophecy. If a horse arrives with a reputation as being difficult based on its breeding, there is a good chance it will be handled in a way that ensures it develops into one!

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Back in the early 1980s, the introduction of muscle biopsies to “type” the muscles either as sprinter or stayer was seen as a major advance that some suggested would become commonplace or routine.

However, the fact that different muscles and even different parts of the same muscle can vary quite dramatically in their type of fibers meant this was going to be challenging. For example, the surface of a muscle contains more sprint fibers and the deeper parts contain more stayer fibers.

The muscles of the forelimb contain more stayer fibers than the muscles of the hindlimb. So many mistakes were made in the early days of trying to apply this technique to type horses for either potential optimum distance or ability.

Through more careful research we learned that indeed the muscles of an out-and-out five-furlong sprinter do look very different to those of an out-and-out stayer. But muscle biopsy is invasive and along with the problems of collecting a representative sample, it never became widely adopted as a characterization or selection tool.

Even prior to the interest in muscle as a predictor of performance, in the 1960s James Steel, a vet in Australia, proposed that the size of a horse’s heart was an important factor in determining performance and that the duration of the QRS wave of the ECG (or heart score) was an indicator of heart size. In theory, the

bigger the heart the longer the time it took for the electrical activity took to move around the heart. This was never shown to be a particularly robust technique.

However, it still crops up from time to time. As an aside, Dr. Lesley Young, a leading equine cardiologist, and I did do a small study comparing heart characteristics obtained by ultrasound with heart score.

While there was not a very reliable relationship in our study, the horses with smaller hearts tended to have the lowest heart score and the horses with the larger hearts tended to have the highest heart scores. The problem was that in the middle there was a tremendous amount of overlap.

The technique of ultrasound characterization of the size of the heart and also the thickness of the walls and other related measurements became popular in the past decade. A number of scientific studies initially failed to show clear associations between heart characteristics and performance. However, a series of subsequent high quality studies by Dr. Young proved the utility of this approach.

The approach has become more popular in the USA than in the UK. Another predictive technique was the inter-mandibular width (the distance between the jaw bones). This was proposed

by Bob Cook, an eminent veterinary surgeon with a lifelong interest in the horse’s respiratory system. Perhaps the weakness in all of these techniques is that they are only looking at one system or one part of a system and that while these are clearly characteristics that have a heritable component, we don’t necessarily know yet which genes control these factors.

One argument in favor of the principle of looking at one characteristic only is the concept of symmorphosis. This is the theory that different body systems are matched. The easiest way to explain symmorphosis is to consider a high-end sports car such as a Ferrari. If we see a Ferrari and we open the hood and see a Ferrari engine, we would not expect to see the tires, brakes, and suspension of a small family car. In the same way, we should not expect to find a horse with a large heart that has a small set of lungs or poor muscles or poor conformation.

Even if we accept the principle of symmorphosis, things can still go wrong.

The genes may be coding for a large heart, the right type of muscle, and good conformation but there is also potential for things to go wrong while the foal is developing in the uterus. Stress on the mare, infection, imbalanced nutrition are just three factors that could result in the foal not developing as the genes are dictating.

At present we might consider wanting to know information about an individual

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Dr Lesley Young auscultates the left side of a horse to examine and measure the circulatory system (heart sounds)

horse related to either 1) its ability (low, medium, high); 2) its type (sprinter, middle distance, stayer); and 3) its health.

With respect to health, a number of tests are already in common use. For example, tests for polysaccharide storage myopathy (PSSM) and hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP), both conditions affecting muscle, are commercially available. So the progression to performance or “type” tests was a natural extension. However, equine genetics professor Dr. Matthew Binns notes that both of these tests are relevant in Quarter Horses and derived breeds, but that the mutations haven’t been seen in Thoroughbreds as far as he knows.

Why would one want to know more about the basic genetics of a yearling? If you are the breeder and there are genetic tests, you might use these to make decisions about which sire and dam to breed together. Once the foal is born, you may use a genetic test to decide which foals to send to sales and which to keep and race

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in your own name. As an owner, you may want a genetic test to confirm what you have bought at the sales and which trainer to send it to. And as a trainer you may be able to use knowledge of the genetics to inform your training program (e.g. training sprinters and stayers differently from day one) and also to plan a horses’ racing career.

Until recently, such genetic tests have not been available. However, this area is starting to change rapidly. In 2010, a Speed Gene Test, which proposes to identify the optimum racing distance for an individual based on the “spelling” of the DNA, was launched. Researchers identified that at a specific point in the myostatin gene, which is a principal regulator of muscle development, the genetic code can be “spelled” with either a ‘C’ or a ‘T.’ Each horse has two copies of the gene – one inherited from the dam and one from the sire – which means that there are three potential genetic types (genotypes): C:C, C:T and T:T. Each genetic type

corresponds to an observed athletic type – precocious, speedy, sprint type (C:C), classic middle-distance type (C:T), and those with enhanced stamina (T:T).

Applying this information to patterns of genetic inheritance can potentially explain, and identify, instances in which full siblings may turn out to be suited to racing over entirely different distances. This definitive knowledge of a horse’s racing type – and also therefore its progeny’s most likely type – cannot be determined through pedigrees and visual observation alone. A similar type of approach to genetic testing for type and performance is being offered by The Genetic Edge, based in Kentucky, whose principle scientist is Dr. Matthew Binns.

This service rates horses based on their genetic test profile for performance, distance, surface preference, and height. Dr. Binns and pedigree expert Tony Morris recently co-authored “Thoroughbred Breeding: Pedigree Theories and the Science of Genetics,” which is well worth reading before you embark on genetic testing in a big way and is likely to convince you of the value of a move towards genetic testing.

What are the downsides to using genetic tests? If as a breeder you use the test and it soon becomes apparent that you only send sprinter or stayer yearlings to the sales then this may affect the price your horses fetch.

If as an owner, you test all your horses following the yearling sales, if you try to move on yearlings that do not match your requirements this may increase movements and drop prices. As a trainer, you may lose horses once the owner becomes aware that the horses they have just purchased do not meet their expectations. Even if you can see the tests as being advantageous, it’s worth considering that it’s still early days for this new technology. The tests may have been validated in several hundred or perhaps even a thousand horses, but in order to be sure of the utility its going to be several years possibly before they are proven.

Bottom line. If I were a breeder, owner, or trainer, I would want to have the information that these tests can provide.

Especially now, when they are not widely used. I suspect what will happen is that within a few years the use of genetic tests will be almost universal and that there will no longer be a major advantage, and these tests will become as routine as vaccination and worming. And potentially the growth in testing for performance genes may well help push along the discovery of genes linked to disease, and those that get in now can probably gain a strategic advantage. So is it all in the genes? The answer is no, but probably 90% is. But unless you are starting with the right genes, you cannot produce elite horses. Champions are born that way, not made. n

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Some people would say the Marx Brothers had it right when they called it “A Day at the Races” and left evening entertainment to “A Night at the Opera.” However, a lot has changed in our beloved sport in 70 years, and while racing lends itself to appreciating athletic activity in the sunny outdoors, nowadays working people make up the core racing audience of the 21st century.

By K.T. Donovan

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HOROUGHBRED racing seeks to energize the sport with additional entertainment via night racing, but this method designed to draw new and younger fans to the sport is not new. While Happy Valley can run racing in Hong Kong on a Wednesday night and draw a capacity crowd of well-dressed, eager patrons, that has not been the case in America until very recently. Harness and Quarter Horse racing traditionally run at night, and these two variants of horse racing do not experience the same attendance, revenues, or media coverage that Thoroughbreds do, so merely moving to a more convenient post time is no panacea for drawing younger fans. Indeed, few associate glamour and youth with those two sports.

In 2009, tradition-bound Churchill Downs responded to the economic recession with “Downs After Dark,”

realizing that by combining music, dancing, dining, and racing, they could give patrons a memorable night out. The four sessions with a 6:00pm post were wildly successful, with 28,011 people showing up ready to party the first night.

Four evenings of “Downs After Dark” during the 2010 spring meet and a fifth in the fall came complete with a beer garden, red carpet entry, live bands, and dancing for a $10 admission, and the average attendance of 27,139 on those nights was four times the average of a Friday afternoon. The themed dates saw employees and fans alike enthusiastically dressing up, adding some life to an 11-race card, with four of the races under the nowpermanent lights.

According to Churchill Downs president Kevin Flannery, the experiment is now “clearly established as an entertainment option that is attractive to a wide range of

age groups” and justified the $4-million installation of the lights, which had been temporary in 2009. Even the Breeders’ Cup saw use of the lights, as Zenyatta nearly ran down Blame in the darkening autumn shadows.

Churchill’s twin spires were built facing east when the idea of racing was to enjoy an afternoon watching the horses, and as the sun sank behind the spires, the shadows on the homestretch were an indication that the day’s racing was about to end. In America, football stadiums are built north-south, so the sun won’t get in the eyes of the players.

The idea of having to put in lights to conduct an outdoor sport has shaken traditionalists to their core.

Aesthetically, the lights are unpopular, especially at Churchill Downs where history is revered. More importantly, they are costly, not only to purchase and install, but for the electricity to run them. Added costs for night racing come chiefly, however, from the extra shifts of personnel, because races start during the day. These costs are part of why keeping the nights to a few special evenings makes them profitable, as opposed to grinding out races night after night like harness racing does.

Churchill did not make its decision in a vacuum. Nearby Turfway Park has conducted night racing on Fridays for 15 years, but experienced the same sort of ordinary acceptance that harness tracks receive. The small (and dwindling) audience was the same bettors who would

“The experiment is now clearly established as an entertainment option that is attractive to a wide range of age groups” Kevin Flannery – President, Churchill Downs

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Churchill Downs has proved it can draw the younger night-clubbing generation to the track

be there no matter what the post time.

Three years ago, Turfway injected a bit of fun with dollar beers and live rock bands, focusing on young people. President and CEO Bob Elliston said it took time to build the Friday night brand, to see what worked and what didn’t.

Then in February of 2011, Elliston’s track opened the upstairs restaurant Top of the Park for the first time in years, and instituted Saturday Night Lights. An older crowd with higher-end tastes listened to not rock, but other live music, and happily paid $27 for dinner. These were married people in their 40s, looking for a date night option. The regular Saturday crowd, similar to the young beer-drinking crowd of Friday nights, still came during the day on Saturday, but now Turfway was appealing to both kinds of people. Glamour was returning, with a night of racing as viable an evening entertainment as a fine restaurant or upscale nightclub.

“We changed Friday night to wrap completely around the racing product,” Elliston explained. “And with Saturday, it will take a while to develop that as it did for Friday, but what we are offering is entertainment they want, PLUS racing. The crowd on Saturday might want to go out to a restaurant, a casino, listen to music, and we offer all of that, and have racing too. So we are drawing new fans who might not have otherwise thought of coming here for that kind of an evening.”

Tracking costs versus profits is the key, and while food and beverage profits have spiked, the attendance is building slowly and the handle will follow last. Sherry Pinson,

director of communications at Turfway, noted that Sunday’s crowds were steadily growing as Saturday nights seemed to encourage people to come back during the day. Overall handle was up 7-8% over 2010, according to Elliston, and the new format of the Friday nights increased on-track handle 30-35% over the last three years.

“It was our stick-to-it-iveness over all these years, watching what makes places like Del Mar popular – they are not all there for the racing, but they regularly come out to the track – and we have been encouraged,” Elliston says enthusiastically.

“The horsemen have a vested interest in us succeeding, as they receive 53% of the wagering dollar, so they have supported us through the gradual growth. We see what hasn’t worked in the past, and are now coupling entertainment options with the racing, and that IS working.”

Elliston is still deciding whether they will bring back Saturday Night Lights for the meeting in September, waiting to review the numbers this summer.

Following the example of its parent company Churchill Downs, Fair Grounds tried going to nights during the 2010-2011 season. Starlight Racing on three Friday nights offered music and dining, building on what New Orleans is known for to entertain patrons. With a 5:00pm post, racing was over by 9:00pm but the band played on for two more hours.

The state of Florida has several obstacles to racing Thoroughbreds at night, including a law that greyhound racing interests put into place long ago to prevent Thoroughbreds from racing after 7:00pm.

That hasn’t stopped Gulfstream Park from taking advantage of its focus on alternative entertainment elements. Three nights of twilight racing, with a 3:00pm post, are planned for April.

Executives at Magna Entertainment, owner of Gulfstream, intend to aggressively fight to remove the ban. The track optimistically installed lights for the 20112012 winter meeting. The horsemen need to approve it, and so Timothy Ritvo, Vice President of Racing East Coast for Magna, has been in conversations with them, saying that as an ex-horseman himself, he understands the objections to a long day, with a short turnaround to come back Saturday morning, and noise that could disturb horses later at night than usual. “(Magna Chairman Frank Stronach) always wants to do what is in the best interest of the GAME, not just for Gulfstream,” Ritvo insisted. “And to do that, we have to all come together to find ways to make it thrive, not just survive.”

Ritvo pointed out that Florida weather is perfect for night racing, and that The Village at Gulfstream encourages nightlife, with fine dining, shopping, and slot machines.

“We have a full range of things for couples to do, with wives shopping and men playing the horses. It’s a quality day for older adult family entertainment, starting in the morning with the works, and going through the whole day and into the night. Our inspiration for the night racing was this full menu of options for people who want a complete package and are staying late anyway right now.”

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“Our inspiration for the night racing was this full menu of options for people who want a complete package and are staying late anyway right now” Timothy Ritvo – Vice President, Magna Entertainment business, but is realistically careful, too.

“We’ll experiment with three days, and have the same number of races as last year on those Fridays, to compare. Our worries are that it could be too late at night and we might lose the New York OTB, so we’re just going to tinker with Fridays right now.”

The concern about profits prompts executives like Ritvo to look seriously at night racing from both sides. The additional costs for staff, electricity, and infrastructure are not as big an issue at Gulfstream, which benefits not only from having the plant already set up in its favor, but also from being in the Eastern Time Zone for simulcast purposes. With a 50-50 split for horsemen, the purses stand to go up if current restaurant patrons start betting at night.

California was not so lucky. As with so much of entertainment, the state was at the forefront and went into night racing back in the 1990s in a big way. The mixed results included angry horsemen having to drive nearly two hours crosstown from areas near Santa Anita where many lived, in Los Angeles Friday night traffic, to race at Hollywood Park on the coast and return late at night, only to be back at the barn early Saturday morning. Hall of Fame

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jockey Eddie Delahoussaye flat out refused to ride Friday nights, insisting that evenings were his time with his family, and other horsemen began to follow suit.

Worse, the signal was lost to East Coast bettors, and a power crisis shot costs skyward. However, Turfway’s Elliston notes that the more recent difficulties that California has had with night racing were more attributable to short fields than the time the signal went out.

“If you’ve got a good product, they will find you,” he said. “We have 95% of our total wagering coming from off-track, but today you can wager from your Blackberry or on TVG, and other methods to make it viable even late at night. Los Alamitos (which races Quarter Horses at night in California) found a niche that way. What we have to do is find ways to get them to come to the track, make them comfortable here, and then show them how to wager as part of that night’s entertainment.”

A successful return to the night experiment during spring 2010 was curtailed by the Thoroughbred Owners of California last fall, when they asked for the Oak Tree meeting held at Hollywood Park to return the final Thursday night from a 7:05pm post to its regular 1:00pm post. Six

weeks of Thursday and Friday nights was hurting overall handle at Northern California tracks running during the day, in addition to draining horsemen.

Declining handle t Hollywood Park is difficult to compare to previous years because the economy hit California particularly hard.

Hollywood Park President Jack Liebau admitted that attendance had gone up, but not as much he had hoped. However, he called night racing “the wave of the future” and Friday night racing will be a major part of the revitalized spring 2011 meeting at the beleaguered track.

Remember when racing was FUN? Remember when it wasn’t about smelly simulcast centers and arguments over medication? Remember when it was a place where you wanted to go to be with your friends and family? Tracks like Turfway Park are learning to return focus onto the sport and entertainment portion of what racing offers. Moving the time of the event isn’t the only answer – make it more attractive, make it a hip place to be where patrons are actually smiling, and night racing won’t be as stuffy as the opera, but instead could be as fun as a Marx Brothers movie. n

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Graded stakes scheduling across the country has become farcical in recent years, says Sid Fernando, with too many races for the same types of horses clustered together to make them meaningful events in their own right, on many levels.

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AKE, for example, a February weekend at Santa Anita this winter where the track’s famed La Canada series for four-yearold fillies concluded with the Grade 2 La Canada at nine furlongs on Sunday, Feb. 13, one day following Saturday’s Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes for fillies four and up at 8.5 furlongs at the same track. The latter race, with a $150,000 purse, drew five starters and was won by the fouryear-old Vision in Gold; the La Canada, also a $150,000 race, drew four runners and was taken by four-year-old Always a Princess.

Two like races, on back-to-back days, with small fields and easy black-type opportunities aren’t in the best interests of bettors or the bloodstock industry, which relies on graded race form as a guide to quality. Horsemen with runners to contest these events aren’t about to complain, of course, because there’s nothing like a big graded pot with a short field to whet the appetite, but for the overall good of the game, changes need to be made.

Instead of two similarly scheduled races drawing from essentially the same pool of horses on consecutive days at similar distances at the same track, perhaps one Grade 2 race at nine furlongs with a value of $300,000 for fillies and mares four and up might have drawn the nine combined runners of the two Santa Anita races? It would have made the one race a better event for bettors and a more meaningful test of quality, even if it meant the end of the La Canada series for four-year-old fillies only.

The reality of racing today is that there aren’t enough graded stakes-quality horses to compete in the plethora of races on offer, and the problem will only worsen in the future, especially if graded races aren’t scheduled appropriately to draw the best fields possible. Traditional events can and have been changed or eliminated to meet the needs of the times throughout the history of the sport in this country, and history here is as much about tradition as it is the breaking of it. One notable race that appeared and disappeared in Belmont’s fall schedule in the 1970s was the Marlboro Cup, won by Secretariat and Forego before its hasty exit as a tobacco-sponsored race.

In fact it seems likely that graded stakes races will have to be folded in the future to reflect a decreasing horse population – and that’s a decision for the Graded Stakes Committee – but in the meantime

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scheduling changes need to be implemented during this “transitional phase” we are now in – that is, the period between the larger foal crops before the market crash of 2008 and the much smaller foal crops since, and projected forward into the foreseeable future. It’s the only way to draw stronger and larger fields for racing’s most prestigious events and to protect the integrity of the product for bettors and the bloodstock and racing industries alike.

Santa Anita’s problem – two very similar races at the same track, under the auspices of the same stakes coordinator, with no nearby competition from other tracks – is easier to

“Owners get upset with you for not running enough sometimes, but it’s because these tracks compete with each other and hold races for the same horses on the same weekends” Barclay Tagg

fix, than, say, the New York Racing Association’s (NYRA), which competes with various tracks within its geographic proximity that are scheduling similar races for the same pools of horses. It’s here where cooperation between tracks is especially needed for the greater good of the sport, because in the absence of a referee – a racing czar or league office with teeth – everyone is competing for the same diminished pools of horses, one fiefdom against another. Casino money is altering the balance of power in many jurisdictions, too.

Tracks like Parx Racing (formerly Philadelphia Park, before that Keystone) in Pennsylvania, for instance, have the money they once didn’t with the legalization of slots to draw horses away from NYRA – without slots through 2010 – with races like the Grade 2 Fitz Eugene Dixon Cotillion Stakes, a $750,000 race for three-year-old fillies in early October, and the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby, a $1,000,000 race, in late September.

Both races are now set up to serve as Breeders’ Cup preps, which means that they are viable alternatives to NYRA’s fall “championship” schedule, which itself has undergone serious surgery with traditional Belmont fixtures like the Grade 1 Woodward now at Saratoga as NYRA expanded Saratoga’s meet to capitalize on The Spa’s financial draw.

Andrew Byrnes, the stakes coordinator at NYRA, agrees that things have to change, and he says that whenever possible, NYRA has made concessions to competitors for the good of all concerned. “A couple of years ago, for example, we moved the [Grade 1] Gazelle [for three-year-old fillies] away from its traditional date in the fall to near Thanksgiving because we knew it was getting hurt by the Cotillion. We’ve done things like that and we’ve made concessions,” he said. But he’s quick to note that NYRA posts its stakes schedule at the beginning of the year “for all to see” and is irked that his competitors don’t appear willing to reciprocate. “The purse for the Penn Derby in September makes it a viable option now for some Travers horses,” Byrnes said, noting that traditionally the Haskell flowed into the Travers, and the Pennsylvania Derby didn’t attract that type of horse. “I’m going to be honest,” he said, “it’s cutthroat and we’re all going for the same horses. I hate to say it, but it’s true. A lot of tracks are seasonal tracks and they have to run their races at a certain time.

Other tracks have their highlight days. So on certain weekends, there are three or four options for the same horses. The only way to stop this is to have a ‘League Office’ that can control scheduling.”

From a trainer’s standpoint, this can be good and bad, depending on where one stands. “If you have a horse that’s below the leaders of the division and there are a cluster

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“It may have worked out in our favor, in terms of a betting race. It allowed Brethren to be the favorite in a larger field, but not as big a favorite as Uncle Mo would have been” Margo Flynn – Tampa Bay of graded races around the same time, you can pick your spots, going where the competition isn’t,” noted Dallas Stewart, who avoided the Grade 2 Cotillion with his Grade 3 winner Seeking the Title after the attractive purse drew divisional heavyweights Blind Luck and Havre de Grace. Instead, with the owner’s advisor, he plotted a course for the Grade 1 Gazelle for Seeking the Title – ironically a $250,000 race versus the $750,000 of a grade-lower Cotillion – as a year-end target, figuring the Cotillion and Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic double would keep most of the top threeyear-old fillies out of the Gazelle. He was right and was rewarded when his filly ran third to get a highly sought after Grade 1 placing against softer competition. In fact, the Gazelle winner, No Such Word, and Seeking the Title had run 1-2 in the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks in August, and the filly who split them in the Gazelle, Awesome Maria, had been almost 10 lengths behind Havre de Grace and Blind Luck in third in the Grade 2 Cotillion. The form of the Grade 1 NYRA race, then, was markedly below that of the Grade 2 race, but sales catalogs will never reflect this fact.

Barclay Tagg, who trains on the NYRA circuit in the spring, summer, and fall and winters in Florida, agreed with Byrnes for a need for a “racing czar” and said a clustering of graded races by racetracks frequently caused difficulty in planning campaigns effectively. “Owners get upset with you for not running enough sometimes, but it’s because these tracks compete with each other and hold races for the same horses on the same weekends, instead of working together to have a circuit,” he said. “Most racing secretaries really don’t coordinate with other racing secretaries, and sometimes you wonder if they’re doing it on purpose to try and put a stakes on to interfere with another guy’s race. It’s really pretty dumb.”

This spring Gulfstream Park did just that when it carded the Listed Timely Writer Stakes on the same day as the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby at a mile and a sixteenth to lure champion Uncle Mo from the smaller track’s signature race. The reason: Uncle Mo’s connections preferred the mile

distance and easier competition of the tailormade Gulfstream race for their colt’s seasonal debut.

Margo Flynn, vice president of marketing at Tampa Bay, is diplomatic about what happened, though her $350,000 Grade 2 race lost much of its quality and attraction after Uncle Mo’s defection. “It may have worked out in our favor, in terms of a betting race. It allowed Brethren to be the favorite in a larger field, but not as big a favorite as Uncle Mo would have been in a shorter field. Of course, it would have been a treat for our fans to see Uncle Mo,” she conceded.

Flynn, who has been widely credited with helping to grow Tampa Bay, said that her team crafts the Tampa stakes schedule after analyzing both Gulfsteam’s and Fair Grounds’s schedules, and then works backwards from the Kentucky Derby, for three-year-olds, with a set of races at increasing distances.

A similar approach in planning is used for all divisions, she said, to be as conflict-free as possible with the stakes races at other tracks.

Tampa Bay’s approach to cooperation is

notable and a model that should be emulated industry wide, because the small track – which is not casino-owned and prides itself on customer service – takes its few graded races very seriously and strives to improve their quality.

This year Tampa Bay lost graded status for its Florida Oaks, which had been contested previously as a Grade 3 race on dirt with small and less-than-stellar fields on Tampa Bay Derby day in March. Flynn said Tampa made the decision this year to switch to turf and altered its placement on the calendar to mid-February, and the results this year were a stronger race with a full field of 12. “We hope to regain graded status for this race,” she said.

Until other tracks around the country take a cooperative approach to graded stakes scheduling as Tampa Bay Downs has done, or until a league office or a “racing czar” is put in charge to oversee the placement of graded races on the national calendar, the integrity of the “best races” in the United States are under assault. Of that, there’s no question. n

Uncle Mo’s connections opted to run their colt in the Timely Writer Stakes at Gulfstream Park, rather than the Tampa Bay Derby that was run on the same day

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Lactic acid ultimately curtails finishing speed Any exercise that involves speed and power will result in the production of lactic acid in muscle. Towards the end of a race lactic acid build-up in the muscles is peaking, bringing on fatigue, which inevitably slows the pace. This rise in lactic acid in muscle is the primary reason why horses can only maintain their peak speed for a relatively short period of time.

Carnosine is the counter strategy against lactic acid Horses, like humans, have a very effective biological strategy to counter lactic acid build-up in muscles. Muscle contains a mini protein or dipeptide known as carnosine, which acts almost like a biological sponge to soak up, or buffer, lactic acid, so preventing it from impeding proper muscle contraction. As an elite athlete the horse is endowed with a significant level of carnosine in muscle but this varies considerably between individual horses and can be increased through anaerobic training such as interval training.

Individual differences in muscle carnosine content will contribute greatly to the inherent differences in racing talent between individual horses.

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Beta-alanine is recognised as being the limiting factor to the rate and extent of carnosine synthesis in the muscles but unfortunately the level

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of beta-alanine in the horse’s diet is very low and so providing a supplement such as Storm™ that contains patented beta-alanine can support carnosine synthesis, which in turn is likely to help the horse to maintain top speed for longer.

Horse research led the way From the mid ‘90s’ British scientists from Newmarket, England, undertook pioneering research into beta-alanine in horses and subsequently led the explosion of similar research in humans. The initial published work in horses confirmed that beta-alanine is absorbed from the gut into the blood stream when added to the diet, allowing its delivery to muscle. This is an especially significant finding as most other sports-supplement ingredients have unproven or very poor absorption from the horse’s digestive tract.

Research data also shows that the absorption of beta-alanine from the digestive tract in horses increases progressively during at least the first month of supplementation of the diet. The most exciting finding was that supplementing the diet with beta-alanine led to a significant increase in the level of carnosine in muscle and a corresponding enhancement in the ability to buffer lactic acid in muscle. This should enable horses to delay the onset of fatigue and maintain their peak speed for longer.

Strong support for this patented sports supplement This ground-breaking equine research prompted a series of studies to be carried out in humans and more than 25 scientific papers have been published to validate the significant beneficial effects of beta-alanine supplementation for a wide range of athletic disciplines including cycling, rowing, sprinting, endurance sports and weightlifting. The use of beta alanine as an ingredient in sports supplements, such as STORM™ from Racing Blue, is protected by worldwide patents including humans, horses and camels, which gives confidence in its

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Need for Speed Stakes Tellike Stakes Time to Leave Cool Frenchy Churchill Downs Turf Sprint Stakes Jim McKay Turf Sprint The Very One Stakes TTA Sales Futurity TTA Sales Futurity Lost in the Fog Stakes King’s Stand St PARX Dash Victoria S Minstrel S Princess S My Dear S D.S. Shine Young Memorial Futurity D.S. Shine Young Memorial Futurity Punchline Stakes Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint H’cap Ibis Summer Dash The Jennie Wade Handicap Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup Nunthorpe St (Coolmore) Catcharisingstar St Fasig-Tipton Turf Dash Turf Amazon Handicap Turf Monster Handicap Mr. Jenney Handicap Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Qatar) First State Dash Stakes Small Wonder Stakes Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint

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Gr 3 R R Gp 1

S S S Gr 3 Gp 1

Gr 3 S Gp 1 S S Gr 2

Race Date 29-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 1-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 20-May-2011 20-May-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 14-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 29-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 19-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 2-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 5-Nov-2011

Value $50,000 $50,000 $70,000 $70,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 £300,000 $200,000 CAN150,000+ $50,000 $50,000 CAN150,000+ $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $75,000 $978,000 $100,000 $200,000 £240,000 $75,000 $75,000 $200,000 $350,000 $100,000 €300,000 $75,000 $75,000 $1,000,000

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Race Date 23-Apr-2011 11-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011 21-Jun-2011 22-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011

Value $100,000 $100,000 $70,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000

Closing 11-May-11 18-May-11 08-Jun-11 08-Jun-11 08-Jun-11 19-Jun-11 25-Jun-11 25-Jul-11 07-Sep-11 07-Sep-11 07-Sep-11

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Age 3+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 2 CG 2F 2 3+ 3+ 2 2 2F 2F 2F 2 CG 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2+ 2F 2 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2+ 2 2F 3+

Surface D T AWT AWT T T T D D AWT T T AWT T T AWT D D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

Furlongs 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

Age 3+ FM 2F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ 2 2F

Surface T AWT AWT AWT AWT T D D D D

Furlongs 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5

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Furlongs 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5

Closing 20-Apr-11 20-Apr-11 21-Apr-11 28-Apr-11 13-Apr-11 10-May-11 10-May-11 15-Apr-11 15-Apr-11 02-Jun-11 19-Apr-11 04-Jun-11 1 Jun 2011 11-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 08-Jun-11 13-Apr-11 13-Apr-11 22-Jun-11 7 Jun 2011 19 Jul 2011 20-Jul-11 21-Jun-11 15-Aug-11 15-Aug-11 02-Jul-11 24-Aug-11 04-Oct-11 04-Oct-11 24-Oct-11

5.5f (1100m) Closing 13-Apr-11 02-Jun-11 02-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 15-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 11-Jun-11

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Track Mountaineer Woodbine Prairie Meadows Lone Star Park Lone Star Park River Downs Colonial Downs Colonial Downs Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Arlington Park Woodbine River Downs Saratoga Evangeline Downs Colonial Downs Colonial Downs Colonial Downs Evangeline Downs Canterbury Saratoga Calder Calder

Race Name & (Sponsor) Dale Baird Memorial Stakes Clarendon S Iowa Stallion Futurity Texas Stallion Stakes - Pan Zareta Division Texas Stallion Stakes - Staunch Avenger Division Hoover Stakes Chenery Stakes Tippett Stakes Prairie Gold Juvenile Prairie Gold Lassie Arlington Sprint Shady Well S Tah Dah Stakes Quick Call John Franks Memorial Sales Stakes The Bert Allen (formerly The John D Marsh Stakes) Oakley Stakes Jamestown Stakes John Franks Memorial Sales Stakes Barenscheer Juvenile Stakes Troy Stakes Birdonthewire St Cassidy St

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Race Date 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 8-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 10-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 23-Jul-2011 28-Jul-2011 29-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 14-Aug-2011 17-Aug-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011

Value $75,000 CAN150,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 CAN150,000 $50,000 $75,000 $60,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $60,000 $50,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000

5.5f (1100m) Age 3+ 2 2 2F 2 CG 2 2 2F 2 2F 3+ 2F 2F 3 2F 3+ 3+ F&M 2 2 CG 2 4+ 2 2F

Surface D AWT D D D D T T D D T AWT D T D T T T D D T D D

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Dr TF Classen Memorial Stakes Harry Henson Stakes Goldfinch Golden Circle Governor’s Lady Handicap Land of Lincoln Stakes Pretty Jenny Stakes Robert S. Molaro Handicap Whimsical S Babst/Palacios Memorial Handicap Clem McSpadden Memorial Route 66 Stakes Wilma Mankiller Stakes Vincent Moscarelli Stakes Mamie Eisenhower John Wayne In Summation (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref) French Village (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref) Hastings Handicap Inaugural Stakes Ohio Valley Handicap Tom Ridge S Miss Preakness S Skipat Stakes Bob Bryant Gray’s Lake The Ambassador of Luck Stakes Maryland Sprint Handicap Chick Lang Stakes Presidentialaffair Hcap New Providence S The Changing Times Shelby County Danzig S Wonders Delight Michael F Rowland Memorial Handicap William Henry Harrison My Juliet Stakes Great Lady M Seattle Handicap Prairie Express Prairie Rose Winning Colors Stakes Los Angeles Handicap Angenora Stakes George W Barker Handicap Auburn Handicap Valid Expectations Stakes Ballade Stakes Aristides Stakes Ellen’s Lucky Star Snack Stakes True North Handicap Susan B Anthony Handicap Bold Ruckus S Leave Me Alone St Ponche H’cap U Can Do It H’cap Unbridled St CBC Sho Manhattan Beach Stakes Golden Jubilee St Desert Stormer Handicap Saylorville Iowa Sprint Handicap White Oak Handicap Isaac Murphy Handicap Sweet N Sassy Stakes Debutante Highlander S Bashford Manor Stakes

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S S

S S Gr 3 S R R R R S R

Gr 3 Gr 3 S S R Gr 3 R R Gr 2 S R

Gr 3 Gp 1

S S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3

Race Date 20-Apr-2011 21-Apr-2011 22-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 13-May-2011 14-May-2011 14-May-2011 14-May-2011 15-May-2011 17-May-2011 17-May-2011 18-May-2011 20-May-2011 20-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 22-May-2011 27-May-2011 27-May-2011 27-May-2011 27-May-2011 28-May-2011 28-May-2011 28-May-2011 29-May-2011 29-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 1-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 10-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 19-Jun-2011 24-Jun-2011 24-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 2-Jul-2011

Value $50,000 $70,000 $60,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN150,000+ $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 $70,000 $70,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $60,000 $60,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 CAN125,000 $75,000 $84,000 $75000 + $75000 + $50,000 $84,000 $250,000 $70,000 $50,000 $60,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 CAN125,000 $100,000 $84,000 $84,000 $250,000 $50,000 CAN125,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $978,000 $70,000 £400,000 $70,000 $100,000 $125,000 $100,000 $100,000 $125,000 $100,000 CAN200,000+ $100,000

Furlongs 5.5 5.5 5 .5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5

Closing 20-Jun-11 15-Jun-11 15-Apr-11 15-Apr-11 30-Jun-11 06-Jul-11 06-Jul-11 08-Jul-11 08-Jul-11 06-Jul-11 29-Jun-11 14-Jul-11 21-Jul-11 5/18/2011 20-Jul-11 20-Jul-11 20-Jul-11 5/18/2011 04-Aug-11 10-Aug-11

6f (1200m) Age 3+ FM 3 3F 3 4+ FM 3 3F 4+ 4+ F&M 3+ 3+ CG 3+ FM 4+ 4+ F&M 4+ C&G 3 3F 3+ FM 3F 3+ FM 3 3F 3+ FM 3F 3 C&G 3+ F&M 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3 CG 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3 3+ 3+ FM 3 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 2F 3+ 2

Surface D T D D D D D D AWT D D D D D D D D D AWT D AWT D D D D D D AWT AWT D D D D D D D T D D D D AWT D D D D AWT D D D D D T D D D D T T T AWT D D AWT AWT D D T D

Furlongs 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Closing 20-Apr-11 14-Apr-11 15-Apr-11 15-Apr-11

06-Apr-11 27-Apr-11 26-Apr-11 26-Apr-11 26-Apr-11 06-May-11 06-May-11 30-Apr-11 30-Apr-11 07-May-11 03-May-11 07-May-11 10-May-11 10-May-11 01-Mar-10 01-Mar-10 11-May-11 10-May-11 10-May-11 11-May-11 4 May 2011 17-May-11 17-May-11 17 May 2011 17 May 2011 18-May-11 18-May-11 14-May-11 19-May-11 21-May-11 21-May-11 14-May-11 19-May-11 20-May-11 16-May-11 19-May-11 11 May 2011 21-May-11 31-May-11 01-Jun-11 28-May-11 28-May-11 25 May 2011

26 Apr 2011 09-Jun-11 19-Apr-11 09-Jun-11 14-Jun-11 14-Jun-11 15 Jun 2011 15-Jun-11 14-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 8 Jun 2011 18-Jun-11

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Track Woodbine Colonial Downs Hollywood Park Monmouth Park Hakodate Belmont Park Finger Lakes Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle Downs Lone Star Park Newmarket Calder Calder Calder Calder Penn National Belmont Park Hollywood Park Finger Lakes Woodbine Hollywood Park Saratoga Saratoga Penn National Parx Racing Penn National Finger Lakes Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Woodbine Woodbine Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Mountaineer Thistledown Mountaineer Mountaineer Mountaineer Calder Calder Saratoga Saratoga Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Woodbine Hakodate Curragh Woodbine Kokura Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Delaware Park Thistledown Finger Lakes Deauville Saratoga Saratoga Thistledown Sapporo Evangeline Downs River Downs Haydock Park Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Kokura Monmouth Park Evangeline Downs Finger Lakes Finger Lakes Monmouth Park Woodbine Louisiana Downs Parx Racing Assiniboia Downs Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hanshin Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Parx Racing Newmarket Belmont Park Presque Isle Downs Finger Lakes Woodbine Nakayama Newmarket Woodbine Thistledown Delaware Park Delaware Park Woodbine

Race Name & (Sponsor) Achievement S Chesapeake Stakes Robert K Kerlan Memorial Handicap Jersey Shore Stakes Hakodate Sprint Stakes Prioress Stakes Niagara Stakes Leematt S Northern Fling S Valor Farms Stakes July Cup (Darley) Princess Rooney H’cap Smile Sprint H’cap Carry Back St Azalea St The Daylily Jaipur Stakes Landaluce Stakes Arctic Queen Handicap Colin S Hollywood Juvenile Championship Schuylerville Stakes Sanford Stakes Femme Fatale S Power By Far S The East Hanover Ontario County Stakes Regret Stakes Teddy Drone Stakes Vandal S Royal North S Iowa Classic Sprint Iowa Cradle S Iowa Sorority The Senator Robert C Byrd Memorial Stakes Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies Stakes Mountaineer Juvenile Stakes West Virginia Secretary of State Stakes Florida Stallion St - Desert Vixen Division Florida Stallion St - Dr. Fager Division Honorable Miss Handicap Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap Angie C Stakes Premio Esmeralda Stakes Nandi S Hakodate Nisai Stakes Phoenix St (Keeneland) Ontario Debutante S TV Nishinippon Corp Sho Kitakyushu Kinen Louisiana Cup Juvenile Louisiana Cup Juvenile Fillies Louisiana Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Louisiana Cup Sprint Endine Stakes Honey Jay Stakes Leon Reed Memorial Handicap Prix Morny (Darley) Union Avenue Stakes Victory Ride Stakes Miss Ohio Stakes Keeneland Cup Opelousas Stakes Coca-Cola Bassinet Stakes Sprint Cup (Betfred) MN Distaff Sprint Championship MN Sprint Championship Northern Lights Debutante Stakes Northern Lights Futurity Stakes Kokura Nisai Stakes Sapling Stakes Lafayette Stakes Aspirant Stakes Lady Fingers Stakes Sorority Stakes Kenora S Temperence Hill Dr Theresa Garofalo Mem Winnipeg Futurity Derby Bar and Grill Express Derby Bar and Grill Ladies Express Centaur Stakes Lady Razorback Futurity Razorback Futurity Gallant Bob Handicap Cheveley Park St Vosburgh Stakes Presque Isle Debutante S New York Breeders’ Futurity Victorian Queen S Sprinters Stakes Middle Park St Bull Page S Best of Ohio Sprint Handicap New Castle Hcp Tax Free Shopping Distaff Nearctic S

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Class S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 S S S S Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 S S S Gr 3 S S S S

R R Gr 2 Gr 1 R R R Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 S S S S Gr 3 S S Gp 1 S Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gp 1 S S S S Gr 3 S S R S

Gr 2 S S Gp 1 Gr 1 S R Gr 1 Gp 1 R S R R Gr 1

Race Date 2-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 8-Jul-2011 8-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 15-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 22-Jul-2011 24-Jul-2011 29-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 1-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 22-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 28-Aug-2011 3-Sep-2011 3-Sep-2011 3-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 10-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 16-Oct-2011

Value CAN150,000 $50,000 $70,000 $150,000 $978,000 $250,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 £400,000 $350,000 $350,000 $200,000 $150,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 CAN150,000+ $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN150,000 CAN150,000 $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $85,000 $50,000 $85,000 $85,000 $85,000 $75,000 $75,000 $150,000 $250,000 $50,000 $50,000 CAN125,000 $785,000 €190,000 CAN150,000 $978,000 $50,000 $50,000 $60,000 $60,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 €350,000 $75,000 $100,000 $50,000 $978,000 $50,000 $50,000 £225,000 $50,000 $50,000 $55,000 $55,000 $785,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN125,000 $50,000 $75,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $1,422,000 $50,000 $50,000 $250,000 £140,000 $350,000 $100,000 $200,000 CAN125,000 $2,232,400 £140,000 CAN125,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75,000 CAN500,000+

Age Surface 3 AWT 3+ D 3+ T 3 D 3+ T 3F D 3F D 3+ AWT 3+ F&M AWT 3+ FM D 3+ T 3+ FM D 3+ D 3 D 3F D 3+ F&M 3+ T 2F AWT 3+ FM D 2 AWT 2 AWT 2F D 2 D 3F D 3 D 3 3 D 3+ FM D 3+ D 2 AWT 3+ F&M T 3+ D 2 C&G D 2F D 3+ 2 D 2F D 2 D 3+ FM D 2F D 2 D 3+ FM D 3+ D 2F D 2 CG D 2F AWT 2 T 2 CF T 2F AWT 3+ T 2 D 2F D 3+ F&M D 3+ D 3+ FM D 3+ D 3+ D 2 CF T 3+ FM (NY bred) D 3F D 2F D 3+ T 2F D 2F D 3+ T 3 FM D 3 D 2F D 2 D 2 T 2F D 2 D 2 C&G D 2F D 2F D 3+ AWT 3+ D 3F D 2 D 3+ D FM D 3+ T 2 F (AR bred) D 2 C&G (AR bred) D 3 D 2F T 3+ D 2F AWT 2 D 2F AWT 3+ T 2C T 2 C&G AWT 3+ D 3+ D 3+ F&M D 3+ T

6f (1200m) Furlongs 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Closing 15 Jun 2011 22-Jun-11 16-Jun-10 18-Jun-11 24-May-11 18-Jun-11 21-Jun-11 28-Jun-11 28-Jun-11 30-Jun-11 03-May-11

05-Jul-11 02-Jul-11 07-Jul-11 02-Jul-11 29-Jun-11 07-Jul-11 09-Jul-11 09-Jul-11 19 Jul 2011 16-Jul-11 20-Jul-11 16-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 13-Jul-11 13-Jul-11 29-Jul-11 25-Jul-11 27-Jul-11 25-Jul-11 25-Jul-11 25-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 20-Jul-11 21 Jun 2011 13-Apr-11 27 Jul 2011 5 Jul 2011 06-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 09-Aug-11 10-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 03-Aug-11 15-Aug-11 13-Aug-11 17-Aug-11 19 Jul 2011 20-Aug-11 15-Jul-11 05-Jul-11 25-Aug-11 25-Aug-11 01-Apr-11 01-Apr-11 19 Jul 2011 21-Aug-11 20-Aug-11 21-Aug-11 17 Aug 2011 27-Aug-11 02-Jul-11 31-Aug-11 2 Aug 2011 21-Sep-11 21-Sep-11 10-Sep-11 19-Jul-11 17-Sep-11 21-Sep-11 14 Sep 2011 16-Aug-11 26-Jul-11 21 Sep 2011 05-Oct-11 04-Oct-11 04-Oct-11 28 Sep 2011

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Track Belmont Park Woodbine Beulah Park Woodbine Beulah Park Churchill Downs Calder Mountaineer Beulah Park Woodbine Penn National Penn National Penn National Kyoto Turfway Park Nakayama Turfway Park Turfway Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) Hudson Handicap Fanfreluche S Scarlet & Gray Handicap Ontario Fashion S Glacial Princess Stakes Breeders’ Cup Sprint Jack Dudley Sprint H’cap Sophomore Sprint Championship Stakes Ohio Freshman Stakes Kennedy Road S The Le Bagoter The Six Bits Handicap Blue Mountain S Keihan Hai Holiday Inaugural Stakes Capella Stakes Gowell S Holiday Cheer Stakes

Country CAN USA USA USA CAN USA CAN CAN USA USA CAN CAN USA CAN USA CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN CAN CAN USA CAN CAN CAN USA FR CAN USA USA CAN CAN USA CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA

Track Hastings Racecourse SunRay Park Hollywood Park Hollywood Park Hastings Racecourse SunRay Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Belmont Park Belmont Park Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Emerald Downs Hastings Racecourse Belmont Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Parx Racing Emerald Downs Charles Town SunRay Park Emerald Downs SunRay Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Saratoga Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Saratoga Deauville Woodbine Saratoga Saratoga Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Presque Isle Downs Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Belmont Park Presque Isle Downs Calder Parx Racing Parx Racing

Race Name & (Sponsor) George Royal (AlwS) Inaugural Handicap Alphabet Kisses Stakes NTRA Stakes Brighouse Belles (AlwS) Russell and Helen Foutz Distaff Handicap Boulevard Casino (AlsW) Jim Coleman Province (AlwS) New York Stallion - Park Avenue Division New York Stallion - Times Square Division Hendrie S Senate Appointee (AlwS) Governor’s Handicap John Longden 6000 (AlwS) Vagrancy Handicap Emerald Downs (AlwS) River Rock Casino (AlwS) Jostle Stakes Washington State Legislators Stakes Lady Charles Town Stakes Aztec Oaks Pepsi-Cola Handicap Dine Stakes Lassie (AlwS) New Westminster (AlwS) Bold Venture S Amsterdam Stakes British Columbia Cup Debutante (AlwS) British Columbia Cup Nursery (AlwS) British Columbia Cup Sprint Handicap John Morrissey Stakes Prix Maurice de Gheest Shepperton S Adirondack Stakes Three Chimneys Saratoga Special Jack Diamond (AlwS) Sadie Diamond (AlwS) Presque Isle Downs Masters S CTHS Sales (AlwS) CTHS Sales (AlwS) Gallant Bloom Handicap Fitz Dixon Mem S Kenny Noe Jr H’cap Donna Fryer SC Residence Race (F) Christopher Elser Mem SC Residence (C & G)

Class S S S R Gr 1 S R Gr 3 R Gr 3 S Gr 3 S

Race Date 22-Oct-2011 23-Oct-2011 29-Oct-2011 30-Oct-2011 5-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 15-Nov-2011 19-Nov-2011 19-Nov-2011 23-Nov-2011 23-Nov-2011 23-Nov-2011 26-Nov-2011 3-Dec-2011 11-Dec-2011 23-Dec-2011 31-Dec-2011

Value $125,000 CAN150,000 $50,000 CAN150,000+ $50,000 $2,000,000 $125,000 $75,000 $50,000 CAN150,000+ $75,000 $200,000 $75,000 $978,000 $50,000 $927,000 $50,000 $50,000

6f (1200m) Age 3+ (NY bred) 2F 3+ FM 3+ F&M 2F 3+ 3+ 3 2 3+ 3 3+ 2F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 3+

Surface D AWT D AWT D D D D D AWT

Age 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ CG FM 3+ FM 3F 3 3F 3 4+ F&M FM 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3 3F 3+ FM 3F 3F 3 CG 3 CG 2F 2 3+ 3 2F 2 CG 3+ 3+ (NY bred) 3+ 3+ 2F 2 2 CG 2F 3+ F&M 2F 2CG 3+ F&M 2 3+ 2F 2 CG

Surface D D AWT AWT D D D D D

D T AWT D AWT AWT

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Gr 3

Gr 2

S S

Gr 2 S S S S Gp 1 R Gr 2 Gr 2 S S Gr 3 S S Gr 2 R R

Race Date 22-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 24-Apr-2011 1-May-2011 7-May-2011 8-May-2011 8-May-2011 14-May-2011 21-May-2011 22-May-2011 23-May-2011 4-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 5-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 20-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 5-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 10-Jul-2011 20-Jul-2011 1-Aug-2011 1-Aug-2011 1-Aug-2011 1-Aug-2011 3-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 10-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 15-Aug-2011 19-Aug-2011 19-Aug-2011 10-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 13-Nov-2011 13-Nov-2011

Value CAN 50,000 $50,000 $60,000 $60,000 CAN 50,000 $85,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN150,000+ CAN 50,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 $150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $200,000 $50,000 $75,000 $85,000 $50,000 $85,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN150,000 $150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75,000 €250,000 CAN125,000 $150,000 $150,000 CAN 100,000 CAN 100,000 $400,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $150,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000

Track Hollywood Park Hollywood Park Hollywood Park Parx Racing Woodbine Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Woodbine Woodbine Tokyo Hollywood Park Hollywood Park Woodbine Lone Star Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Charles Town Charles Town Parx Racing Belmont Park Belmont Park SunRay Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) B. Thoughtful Stakes Grey Memo Stakes Warren’s Thoroughbred Stakes Philmont St Fury S Eight Belles Stakes Churchill Downs Stakes Humana Distaff Queenston S Vigil S Keio Hai Spring Cup Lazaro S Barrera Memorial Stakes Railbird Stakes Lady Angela S Cinemine Stakes New York Stallion Series - Cupecoy’s Joy Division New York Stallion Series - Spectacular Bid Division The Acadiana Stakes - La Bred The Ragin Cajun Stakes - La Bred Woody Stephens Stakes Wild and Wonderful Stakes Red Legend Stakes Donald LeVine Memorial Handicap Bouwerie Stakes Mike Lee Stakes Dr. O.G. Fischer Memorial Handicap

Class S S R S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 R R R Gr 2

S S

Race Date 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 26-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 6-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 8-May-2011 14-May-2011 15-May-2011 21-May-2011 23-May-2011 30-May-2011 5-Jun-2011 5-Jun-2011 10-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 28-Jun-2011

Value $125,000 $70,000 $70,000 $75,000 CAN150,000 $100,000 $300,000 $300,000 CAN150,000 CAN150,000+ $1,422,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN125,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $50,000 $250,000 $100,000 $400,000 $200,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000

Closing 08-Oct-11 5 Oct 2011 19-Oct-11 12 Oct 2011 26-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 01-Nov-11 09-Nov-11 2 Nov 2011 14-Nov-11 14-Nov-11 14 Nov 2011 11 Oct 2011 24-Nov-11 25 Oct 2011 15-Dec-11 22-Dec-11

6.5f (1300m)

AWT D D D D D D D D D D D D D D AWT D D D D D T AWT D D D D AWT D D D AWT D D D

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Furlongs 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Furlongs 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5

Closing 16-Apr-11 01-Apr-11 01-Apr-11 17-Apr-11 CLOSED CLOSED 27-Apr-11

21-May-11 28-May-11 08-Jun-11 13-Jun-11 27-Jun-11 29-Jun-11 16-Jul-11

27-Jul-11 20-Jul-11 20 Jul 2011 30-Jul-11 30-Jul-11 31-Aug-11 10-Sep-11 21-Sep-11 30-Jun-11 30-Jun-11

7f (1400m) Age 4+ FM CA bred 3+ 3+ FM 3 3F 3F 4+ 4+ FM 3 4+ 4+ 3 3F 3F 3F 3F 3 3 3 3 3+ 3 3+ 3 F (NY bred) 3 (NY bred) 3+ FM

Surface AWT AWT AWT D AWT D D D AWT AWT T AWT AWT AWT D T T D D D D D D D

Furlongs 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

Closing 01-Apr-11 01-Apr-11 01-Apr-11 12-Apr-11 13 Apr 2011 13-Apr-11 13-Apr-11 13-Apr-11 20-Apr-11 20-Apr-11 29-Mar-11 05-May-11 12-May-11 4 May 2011 19-May-11 CLOSED CLOSED 01-Jun-11 01-Jun-11 28-May-11 08-Jun-11 04-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 20-Jun-11

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Track Parx Racing Parx Racing Hollywood Park Arlington Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Kyoto Evangeline Downs Hollywood Park Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Charles Town Saratoga Charles Town Charles Town Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Charles Town Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Calder Calder Woodbine Curragh Saratoga Woodbine Saratoga Saratoga Woodbine Woodbine Parx Racing Curragh Woodbine Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Woodbine Parx Racing Longchamp Longchamp Newmarket Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Kyoto Woodbine Churchill Downs Charles Town Kyoto Tokyo Calder Calder Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Parx Racing Charles Town Hanshin

Race Name & (Sponsor) Caught in the Rain Stakes Peppy Addy Stakes Triple Bend Handicap Chicago Handicap Bed o’ Roses (Handicap) Futurity Stakes Matron Stakes Procyon Stakes Oak Hall Stakes A Gleam Handicap Passing Mood S Deputy Minister S Duchess S Robert G Leavitt Stakes Test Sadie Hawkins Stakes Frank Gall Memorial Louisiana Cup Derby Louisiana Cup Oaks Sylvia Bishop Memorial Foxwoods King’s Bishop Ballerina Stakes King’s Bishop Stakes Florida Stallion St - Affirmed Division Florida Stallion St - Susan’s Girl Division Play the King S Moyglare Stud St Forego Handicap Seaway S Spinaway Stakes Three Chimneys Hopeful Stakes Muskoka S Simcoe S PA Horse Breeders Sprint Vincent O’Brien National St Swynford S Charles Town Juvenile Stakes Charles Town Oaks Pink Ribbon Stakes LA Stallions S LA Stallions S Overskate S Brandwine Stakes Prix de la Foret (Total) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Dewhurst St Iroquois Handicap Bertram F Bongard Stakes Joseph A Gimma Stakes Bold Ruler Mainichi Broadcast Swan Stakes Frost King S Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint Tri-State Futurity KBS Kyoto Sho Fantasy Stakes Keio Hai Nisai Stakes Jack Price Juvenile Joe O’Farrell Juvenile Fillies Glorious Song S Jammed Lovely S Bessarabian S Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes Eleanor Casey Memorial Hanshin Cup

Country USA USA USA USA USA USA

Track Hollywood Park Lone Star Park Evangeline Downs Louisiana Downs Calder Calder

Race Name & (Sponsor) Tiznow Stakes Irving Distaff Stakes Louisiana Showcase Starter Stakes Barksdale Naked Greed (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref) Crystal Rail (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref)

Class S S Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 R R S Gr 1 S S S S S Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 R R Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 R R S Gp 1

S S R Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 S S S Gr 3 Gr 2 R Gr 1 R Gr 3 Gr 2 S S S Gr 3 S S Gr 2

Race Date 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 10-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 23-Jul-2011 27-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 28-Aug-2011 28-Aug-2011 3-Sep-2011 3-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 28-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 29-Oct-2011 29-Oct-2011 2-Nov-2011 4-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 13-Nov-2011 16-Nov-2011 20-Nov-2011 10-Dec-2011 17-Dec-2011 17-Dec-2011

Value $75,000 $75,000 $250,000 $100,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $927,000 $50,000 $200,000 CAN125,000 CAN125,000 CAN150,000 $50,000 $250,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $250,000 $250,000 $250,000 $125,000 $125,000 CAN200,000+ €225,000 $250,000 CAN150,000 $250,000 $250,000 CAN 200,000 CAN 200,000 $100,000 €190,000 CAN150,000+ $100,000 $400,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN125,000 $150,000 €300,000 €350,000 £350,000 $125,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $1,422,000 CAN125,000 $1,000,000 $100,000 $734,000 $927,000 $125,000 $125,000 CAN150,000+ CAN150,000 CAN150,000+ $75,000 $50,000 $1,724,000

7f (1400m)

Age Surface 3F D 3 D 3+ AWT 3+ FM AWT 3+ F&M 2 D 2F D 3+ D 3+ D 3+ FM AWT 3F T 3 AWT 3F AWT 3 D 3F D 3+ F&M D 3+ D 3 D 3F D 3F D 3 3+ FM D 3 D 2 D 2F D 3+ T 2F T 3+ D 3+ F&M AWT 2F D 2 D 2F AWT 2 C&G AWT 3+ D 2 CF T 2 AWT 2 D 3F D 3+ FM D 2 C&G D 2F D 3+ AWT 2 D 3+ T 2 CF T 2 C&F T 3+ F&M (NY bred) D 2 (NY bred) D 2 F (NY bred) D 3+ D 3+ T 2 AWT 3+ FM D 2 D 2F T 2 T 2 D 2F D 2F AWT 3F AWT 3+ F&M AWT 2 C&G D 2F D 3+ T

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Race Date 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 2-Jul-2011 6-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011

Value $125,000 $50,000 $100,000 $50,000 $75,000 $75,000

7.5f (1500m) Age 4+ CA bred 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 3F

Surface AWT T T T T T

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Track Keeneland Lone Star Park Golden Gate Fields Lone Star Park Belmont Park Hollywood Park Golden Gate Fields Churchill Downs Pimlico Newmarket Calder Newmarket SunRay Park Hollywood Park Churchill Downs Tokyo Newbury Tokyo Longchamp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Appalachian Stakes Texas Mile Work the Crowd Stakes Grand Prairie Turf Challenge Westchester Handicap Wilshire Handicap San Francisco Mile The Cliff’s Edge Derby Trial Stakes Henry S Clark Stakes 2000 Guineas St Miami Mile H’cap 1000 Guineas St Jack Cole Handicap Senorita Stakes Churchill Distaff Turf Mile NHK Mile Cup Lockinge St Victoria Mile Poule d’Essai des Poulains

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Class Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gp 1

Race Date 21-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 1-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 8-May-2011 14-May-2011 15-May-2011 15-May-2011

Value $100,000 $200,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $75,000 £350,000 $125,000 £350,000 $110,000 $100,000 $200,000 $2,256,000 £175,000 $2,214,000 €450,000

Furlongs Closing 7 18-Jun-11 7 18-Jun-11 7 23-Jun-11 7 22-Jun-11 7 18-Jun-11 7 18-Jun-11 7 18-Jun-11 7 24 May 2011 7 07-Jul-11 7 07-Jul-11 7 06-Jul-11 7 6 Jul 2011 7 13-Jul-11 7 27-Jul-11 7 23-Jul-11 7 03-Aug-11 7 10-Aug-11 7 06-Aug-11 7 06-Aug-11 7 17-Aug-11 7 13-Aug-11 7 13-Aug-11 7 13-Aug-11 7 7 7 10 Aug 2011 7 25-May-11 7 20-Aug-11 7 17 Aug 2011 7 20-Aug-11 7 20-Aug-11 7 17-Aug-11 7 17 Aug 2011 7 02-Jul-11 7 25-May-11 7 24 Aug 2011 7 07-Sep-11 7 03-Sep-11 7 07-Sep-11 7 CLOSED 7 CLOSED 7 7 Sep 2011 7 17-Sep-11 7 24-Aug-11 7 24-Aug-11 7 26-Jul-11 7 08-Oct-11 7 08-Oct-11 7 08-Oct-11 7 15-Oct-11 7 13 Sep 2011 7 12 Oct 2011 7 24-Oct-11 7 7 27 Sep 2011 7 27 Sep 2011 7 7 7 26 Oct 2011 7 26-Oct-11 7 2 Nov 2011 7 30-Aug-11 7 07-Dec-11 7 8 Nov 2011

Furlongs 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5

Closing 01-Apr-11 14-Apr-11 11-Jun-11 23-Jul-11

8f (1600m) Age 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 4+ 3 3+ 3 C&F 3+ 3F 3+ 3F 3+ FM 3 No G 4+ 4+ FM 3C

Surface T D T T D T T D T T T T D T T T T T T

Furlongs 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Closing 06-Apr-11 14-Apr-11 14-Apr-11 14-Apr-11 16-Apr-11 21-Apr-11 21-Apr-11 13-Apr-11 20-Apr-11 01-Mar-11 20-Apr-11 01-Mar-11 30-Apr-11 28-Apr-11 13-Apr-11 29-Mar-11 29-Mar-11 29-Mar-11

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Track Longchamp Pimlico Arlington Park Belmont Park SunRay Park Curragh Curragh Lone Star Park Belmont Park Mountaineer Mountaineer Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Churchill Downs Woodbine Hollywood Park Tokyo Tokyo Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Indiana Downs Royal Ascot Colonial Downs Belmont Park Emerald Downs Indiana Downs Arlington Park Arlington Park Woodbine Emerald Downs Indiana Downs Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Monmouth Park Hollywood Park Mountaineer Mountaineer Chantilly Hollywood Park Churchill Downs Canterbury Indiana Downs Presque Isle Downs Newmarket Woodbine Hollywood Park Indiana Downs Assiniboia Downs Evangeline Downs Goodwood Penn National Colonial Downs Penn National Canterbury Deauville Assiniboia Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Saratoga Niigata Prairie Meadows Evangeline Downs Deauville Assiniboia Downs Emerald Downs Assiniboia Downs Woodbine Calder Calder Emerald Downs Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Leopardstown Monmouth Park Woodbine Niigata Woodbine Presque Isle Downs Arlington Park Woodbine Arlington Park Longchamp Nakayama Assiniboia Downs Woodbine Woodbine Belmont Park Woodbine Newmarket Louisiana Downs

Race Name & (Sponsor) Poule d’Essai des Pouliches James W Murphy S Hanshin Cup Shuvee Handicap SunRay Park & Casino Handicap Irish 2000 Guineas Irish 1000 Guineas Ouija Board Distaff Stakes Metropolitan Handicap Decoration Day Handicap Memorial Day Handicap Honey Moon John Franks Mem Panthers Prairie Mile Dogwood Stakes Nassau S Redondo Beach Stakes Unicorn Stakes Yasuda Kinen Poker Handicap Acorn Stakes Just a Game Stakes Queen Anne St St James’s Palace St Oliver S Coronation St Da Hoss Stakes Hill Prince Stakes Budweiser Handicap Shelby County Boys & Girls Club S Purple Violet Stakes Springfield Stakes King Edward BC S Irish Day Handicap Shelby County Louisiana Showcase Mile - La Bred Fillies Louisiana Showcase Mile - La Bred C&G Louisiana Showcase Distaff Salvator Mile Shoemaker Mile Independence Day Stakes Firecracker Stakes Prix Jean Prat Royal Heroine Mile Firecracker Handicap Dean Kutz Stakes Indiana First Lady Windward S Falmouth Ontario Damsel S Le Cle Stakes Distaff S RC Anderson Stakes Matron Stakes Sussex The Dauphin Miss Brookmeade Stakes Capital City Lady Canterbury Breeders’ Cup Stakes Prix de Rothschild Assiniboia Oaks Donnie Wilhite Memorial S Sunny’s Halo S De La Rose Stakes Sekiya Kinen Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile Evangeline Mile Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Agassiz Stakes Longacres Mile Handicap Distaff Stakes Ontario Colleen S Lindsay Frolic St Seacliff St Barbara Shinpoch Stakes P.G. Johnson Stakes With Anticipation Stakes Riskaverse Matron St (Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus) Cliff Hanger Vice Regent S Niigata Nisai Stakes Halton S Presque Isle BC Mile Arlington-Washington Lassie La Prevoyante S Arlington-Washington Futurity Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Keisei Hai Autumn Handicap Buffalo Stakes Natalma S Summer S Noble Damsel Handicap Ricoh Woodbine Mile Fillies’ Mile (Shadwell) A L Red Erwin S

Class Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 S S Gr 3 Gr 2 R Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 S Gp 1 Gr 3 S S S Gr 2 S S S S Gr 3 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 R Gp 1 S S R Gp 1 S Gp 1

Gr 3 Gp 1 S Gr 3 R Gr 3

Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 3 R Gr 3 R Gr 3 R Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 R Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gp 1 R/S

Race Date 15-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 22-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 4-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 5-Jun-2011 5-Jun-2011 5-Jun-2011 10-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 14-Jun-2011 14-Jun-2011 15-Jun-2011 17-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 19-Jun-2011 22-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 29-Jun-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 5-Jul-2011 5-Jul-2011 8-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 10-Jul-2011 13-Jul-2011 15-Jul-2011 23-Jul-2011 27-Jul-2011 29-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 1-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 15-Aug-2011 19-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 26-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 28-Aug-2011 31-Aug-2011 1-Sep-2011 2-Sep-2011 3-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 9-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 16-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 18-Sep-2011 18-Sep-2011 23-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011

Value €450,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 325000 325000 $200,000 $500,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $50,000 $60,000 $60,000 $100,000 CAN300,000+ $70,000 $908,000 $2,447,000 $100,000 $300,000 $400,000 £250,000 £250,000 $200,000 £250,000 $50,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN 250,000 + $50,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $75,000 $75,000 €400,000 $150,000 $175,000 $50,000 $84,000 $100,000 £180,000 CAN150,000 $70,000 $125,000 CAN 50,000 $50,000 £300,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $75,000 €300,000 CAN 50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 $978,000 $60,000 $125,000 €600,000 CAN 50,000 $200,000 CAN 50,000 CAN150,000+ $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $75,000 $150,000 $75,000 €190,000 $150,000 CAN125,000 $785,000 CAN125,000 $250,000 $100,000 CAN125,000 $100,000 €450,000 $978,000 CAN 50,000 CAN200,000+ CAN250,000+ $100,000 CAN1,000,000+ £200,000 $150,000

8f (1600m) Age 3F 3 3+ 3+ FM 3 3 CF 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3 3F 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 4+ 3C 3 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3F 3 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 3F 3 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3 CF 3+ F&M 3+ 3 3F 3+ F&M 3+ F 3F 3F 3F 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 3 3+ FM 3+ F 3F 2F 2 4+ FM 3+ 2 3+ 3+ CF 3+ C&G 3+ 3+ FM 3F 2F 2 2F 2F 2 3F 3+ F 3+ 3 2 3+ 3+ 2F 3F 2 3 + CF 3+ 2 2F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 3

Surface T T AWT D D T T T D T T T T D D D T T D T T D T T T T T T T D T AWT AWT T D T D D D D T T T T T T T T AWT T T T T D T T T T T T T D T T T T D D T D D D T D D D T T T T T T T T AWT AWT T AWT T T D T T T T T T

Furlongs Closing 8 8 10-May-11 8 11-May-11 8 07-May-11 8 14-May-11 8 CLOSED 8 CLOSED 8 19-May-11 8 14-May-11 8 16-May-11 8 16-May-11 8 21-May-11 8 21-May-11 8 27-May-11 8 27-May-11 8 21-May-11 8 18 May 2011 8 26-May-11 8 26 Apr 2011 8 26-Apr-11 8 28-May-11 8 28-May-11 8 28-May-11 8 19-Apr-11 8 19-Apr-11 8 04-Jun-11 8 19-Apr-11 8 08-Jun-11 8 04-Jun-11 8 8 11-Jun-11 8 15 Jun 2011 8 15-Jun-11 8 8 Jun 2011 8 8 18-Jun-11 8 11-Jun-11 8 11-Jun-11 8 11-Jun-11 8 18-Jun-11 8 23-Jun-11 8 20-Jun-11 8 20-Jun-11 8 15-Jun-11 8 23-Jun-11 8 18-Jun-11 8 23-Jun-11 8 24-Jun-11 8 25-Jun-11 8 14-Jun-11 8 22 Jun 2011 8 30-Jun-11 8 02-Jul-11 8 10-May-11 8 17-Jul-11 8 24-May-11 8 19-Jul-11 8 20-Jul-11 8 20-Jul-11 8 21-Jul-11 8 13-Jul-11 8 20-Jul-11 8 23-Jul-11 8 23-Jul-11 8 30-Jul-11 8 21 Jun 2011 8 05-Aug-11 8 04-Aug-11 8 27-Jul-11 8 10-May-11 8 8 10-May-11 8 10 Aug 2011 8 8 8 8 24-Aug-11 8 25-Aug-11 8 26-Aug-11 8 29-Jun-11 8 21-Aug-11 8 17 Aug 2011 8 19 Jul 2011 8 17 Aug 2011 8 30-Aug-11 8 31-Aug-11 8 24-Aug-11 8 31-Aug-11 8 24-Aug-11 8 2 Aug 2011 8 CLOSED 8 31-Aug-11 8 31-Aug-11 8 03-Sep-11 8 31-Aug-11 8 19-Jul-11 8 CLOSED

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Track Louisiana Downs Newmarket Milan Belmont Park Longchamp Belmont Park Belmont Park Milan Belmont Park Kyoto Ascot Calder Woodbine Tokyo Doncaster Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Saint-Cloud Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Mountaineer Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Tokyo Kyoto Hanshin Nakayama

Race Name & (Sponsor) Elge Rasberry S Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Premio Vittorio di Capua Kelso BC Handicap Prix Marcel Boussac (Total) Champagne Stakes Frizette Stakes Gran Criterium Pebbles Stakes Daily Hai Nisai Stakes Queen Elizabeth II St (Sony) Frances Genter H Bunty Lawless S Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji Stakes Trophy (Racing Post) Iroquois Stakes Pocahontas Stakes Criterium International Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile Mountaineer Mile Handicap Chilukki Stakes Breeders’ Cup Mile Tokyo Chunichi Sports Hai Musashino Stakes Mile Championship Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes

Country USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

Track Prairie Meadows Calder Calder Mountaineer Mountaineer Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Canterbury Canterbury Mountaineer Mountaineer Parx Racing Calder Calder Presque Isle Downs

Race Name & (Sponsor) Iowa Stallion Stakes El Kaiser (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref) Three Rings (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref) West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker’s Cup West Virginia Senate President’s Breeders’ Cup Stakes Iowa Breeders’ Oaks Donna Reed Minnesota Derby Minnesota Oaks Summer Finale Stakes Labor Day Stakes Smarty Jones Brave Raj St Foolish Pleasure St HBPA S

Country USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN USA USA USA USA USA CAN USA USA USA USA CAN USA USA USA CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

Track Keeneland Hollywood Park Keeneland Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Racecourse Hollywood Park Fonner Park Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Pimlico Belmont Park Belmont Park Hollywood Park Hollywood Park Lone Star Park Lone Star Park River Downs Golden Gate Fields Woodbine Pimlico Pimlico Pimlico Pimlico Hollywood Park Woodbine Hollywood Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Arlington Park Woodbine Belmont Park Belmont Park River Downs Woodbine Monmouth Park Golden Gate Fields Lone Star Park Lone Star Park Lone Star Park Calder Thistledown Delaware Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Hollywood Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) Doubledogdare Stakes Melair Stakes Coolmore Lexington Stakes Milwaukee Avenue Handicap Peach Of It Handicap Inglewood Handicap Bosselman/Gus Fonner Stakes American Turf Stakes Alysheba Stakes La Troienne Stakes Federico Tesio Stakes Beaugay Fort Marcy Mervyn LeRoy Handicap Alydar Texas Stallion Stakes - Got Koko Division Texas Stallion Stakes - Stymie Division Tomboy Stakes Alcatraz Stakes La Lorgnette S Hilltop Stakes William Donald Schaefer BC Stakes Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes Gallorette Handicap Milady Handicap Marine S Fran’s Valentine Stakes Jim Rasmussen Mem Wild Rose Arlington Classic Eclipse S Kingston Handicap Mount Vernon Handicap Green Carpet Stakes Connaught Cup S The Violet Stakes Berkeley Stakes Dallas Turf Cup Lone Star Derby Lone Star Park Handicap Memorial Day H’cap Ohio Derby Go for Wand Stakes Hawkeyes Handicup Cyclones Handicup Affirmed Handicap

Class R/S Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 R Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1

Race Date 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 25-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 9-Oct-2011 10-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 30-Oct-2011 30-Oct-2011 30-Oct-2011 4-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 13-Nov-2011 20-Nov-2011 11-Dec-2011 18-Dec-2011

Value $150,000 £180,000 €297,000 $200,000 €300,000 $300,000 $300,000 €297,000 $100,000 $927,000 £1,000,000 $75,000 CAN125,000 $978,000 $200,000 $100,000 $150,000 €250,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $1,000,000 $125,000 $150,000 $2,000,000 $927,000 $2,447,000 $1,588,000 $1,724,000

8f (1600m) Age 3F 3+ F 3+ 3+ 2F 2 2F 2 C&F 3F 2 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 2 C&F 2 2F 2 CF 2F 2 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 2F 2 No G

Surface T T T D T D D T T T T T T T T D D T T T D D D T D T T T

Age 3 3 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3F 4+ F&M 3 CG 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3 2F 2 3+ F&M

Surface D D D T T D D D D T T D D D AWT

Furlongs 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8 + 70yd

Age 4+ FM 3 F CA bred 3 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3+ FM 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 3F 3 CG 3F 3 3F 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ FM 3 3+ FM CA bred 3+ 3+ F&M 3 4+ 3+ 3+ FM 3 4+ 3+ F&M 4+ 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 3

Surface AWT AWT AWT D D T D T D D D T T AWT AWT D D T T AWT T D D T AWT AWT T D D T AWT T T T T T AWT T T D D D D D D AWT

Furlongs Closing 8.5 13-Apr-11 8.5 01-Apr-11 8.5 13-Apr-11 8.5 8.5 8.5 14-Apr-11 8.5 20-Apr-11 8.5 13-Apr-11 8.5 13-Apr-11 8.5 13-Apr-11 8.5 27-Apr-11 8.5 23-Apr-11 8.5 23-Apr-11 8.5 21-Apr-11 8.5 28-Apr-11 8.5 14-Apr-11 8.5 15-Apr-11 8.5 05-May-11 8.5 05-May-11 8.5 27 Apr 2011 8.5 10-May-11 8.5 10-May-11 8.5 10-May-11 8.5 10-May-11 8.5 12-May-11 8.5 4 May 2011 8.5 12-May-11 8.5 20-May-11 8.5 20-May-11 8.5 15-Apr-11 8.5 11 May 2011 8.5 14-May-11 8.5 14-May-11 8.5 19-May-11 8.5 11 May 2011 8.5 15-May-11 8.5 19-May-11 8.5 19-May-11 8.5 19-Apr-11 8.5 19-May-11 8.5 8.5 5/25/2011 8.5 24-May-11 8.5 03-Jun-11 8.5 03-Jun-11 8.5 02-Jun-11

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Race Date 9-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 7-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011

Value $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $85,000 $85,000 $75,000 $85,000 $60,000 $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $300,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000

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Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 S

Gr 3 S S S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 S S Gr 3

Race Date 22-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 24-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 6-May-2011 6-May-2011 6-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 7-May-2011 8-May-2011 14-May-2011 14-May-2011 14-May-2011 14-May-2011 15-May-2011 20-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 21-May-2011 22-May-2011 28-May-2011 28-May-2011 28-May-2011 28-May-2011 29-May-2011 29-May-2011 29-May-2011 29-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 4-Jun-2011 4-Jun-2011 10-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011

Value $100,000 $125,000 $200,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $200,000 $300,000 $300,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $70,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $75,000 CAN150,000+ $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 CAN150,000+ $70,000 $60,000 $60,000 $100,000 CAN150,000+ $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 CAN150,000+ $150,000 $100,000 $150,000 $200,000 $300,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000

Closing CLOSED 19-Jul-11 25-Aug-11 17-Sep-11 24-Aug-11 24-Sep-11 24-Sep-11 08-Sep-11 24-Sep-11 30 Aug 2011 02-Aug-11 5 Oct 2011 13 Sep 2011 09-Aug-11 12-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 27 Sep 2011 04-Oct-11 25-Oct-11 08-Nov-11

8.32f (1664m)

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Furlongs 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Closing

25-Jul-11 25-Jul-11 29-Jul-11 01-Apr-11 01-Apr-11 22-Aug-11 22-Aug-11 15-Aug-11 21-Sep-11

8.5f (1700m)

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Track Churchill Downs River Downs Penn National Churchill Downs Monmouth Park Churchill Downs Belmont Park Thistledown Delaware Park Woodbine Prairie Meadows Arlington Park Arlington Park Hollywood Park Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Belmont Park River Downs Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Parx Racing Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Monmouth Park Delaware Park Delaware Park Lone Star Park Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Colonial Downs Delaware Park Delaware Park Finger Lakes Emerald Downs Hastings Racecourse Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Hastings Racecourse Calder Woodbine Saratoga Penn National Colonial Downs River Downs Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Belmont Park Saratoga Monmouth Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Penn National Penn National Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Louisiana Downs Mountaineer River Downs Finger Lakes Woodbine Saratoga Saratoga Presque Isle Downs Presque Isle Downs Monmouth Park Canterbury Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Saratoga Finger Lakes Monmouth Park Calder Canterbury Canterbury River Downs Woodbine Woodbine Parx Racing Parx Racing Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Delaware Park Delaware Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) Early Times Mint Julep Handicap Sydney Gendelman Memorial Handicap The Lyphard Matt Winn Stakes Pegasus S Jefferson Cup Ogden Phipps Handicap J William Petro Memorial Handicap John W Rooney Stakes Steady Growth S Iowa Distaff Black Tie Affair Handicap Lincoln Heritage Handicap Hollywood Oaks Boiling Springs Stakes Iowa Oaks Iowa Derby Mother Goose Stakes Cincinnatian Stakes Vancouver Sun Handicap Chris Loseth Lt Governors’ Handicap Louisiana Showcase Classic Dwyer Stakes Supernaturel Stakes Bison City S Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap Governor’s Stakes Golden Bear S Long Branch Stakes Delaware Oaks Barbaro Stakes Assault Stakes Florence Henderson A J Foyt Kitten’s Joy Stakes The Sussex Stakes RRM Carpenter Stakes New York Derby Boeing Handicap Strawberry Morn Handicap Seattle Slew Handicap Washington’s Lottery Handicap SW Randall Plate Handicap Nancy’s Glitter H’cap Ontario Matron S Lake George Stakes Red Carpet S Daniel Van Clief Stakes Horizon Stakes Jersey Derby Lady’s Secret Stakes Majestic Light S Ruffian Handicap Fourstardave Handicap Oceanport Stakes British Columbia Cup Dogwood Stakes British Columbia Cup Stellar’s Jay Stakes Robellino S Russian Rythm S Iowa Breeders’ Derby Ralph Hayes Super Derby Prelude West Virginia Governor’s Stakes Vivacious Stakes Genesee Valley Breeders’ Handicap Seagram Cup S New York Stallion Series - Cab Calloway Division New York Stallion Series - Statue of Liberty Division Lil E Tee Hcap Malvern Rose S Monmouth Oaks John Bullit Stakes Richmond Derby Trial Victoriana S Louisiana Cup Distaff (Walmac Farms) Louisiana Cup Turf Classic Eternal Search S Hong Kong Jockey Club Handicap Ballston Spa Handicap New York Oaks Molly Pitcher Stakes Darn That Alarm MN Classic Championship MN Distaff Classic Championship Budweiser Select Cradle Stakes Algoma S Elgin S Crowd Pleaser Mrs. Penny Stakes Happy Ticket River Cities Unbridled Hcap Sunday Silence Super Derby George Rosenberger Stakes Brandywine Stakes

Class Gr 3 S R Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 S R S S Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 S

S Gr 2 R R S Gr 2 S S

S

Gr 2 S S

Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S R R S S S S Gr 3 R R S S Gr 3 R S S R Gr 2 S Gr 2 S S R R S S

Gr 3 R

Race Date 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 14-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 19-Jun-2011 24-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 1-Jul-2011 1-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 4-Jul-2011 6-Jul-2011 6-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 12-Jul-2011 13-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 23-Jul-2011 24-Jul-2011 27-Jul-2011 29-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 1-Aug-2011 1-Aug-2011 5-Aug-2011 5-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 10-Aug-2011 11-Aug-2011 12-Aug-2011 12-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 26-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 28-Aug-2011 3-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011

Value $100,000 $50,000 $75000 + $125,000 $200,000 $100,000 $250,000 $50,000 $75,000 CAN125,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $150,000 $200,000 $250,000 $250,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 75,000 CAN 75,000 $100,000 $150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN250,000 $200,000 $84,000 $100,000 $150,000 $300,000 $100,000 $75,000 $84,000 $84,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 $50,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 $75,000 CAN150,000+ $150,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $250,000 $150,000 $200,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $85,000 $100,000 $125,000 $50,000 $50,000 CAN150,000+ $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $150,000 $50,000 CAN 75,000 CAN125,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN125,000 CAN 50,000 $200,000 $75,000 $250,000 $75,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 CAN125,000 CAN125,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $500,000 $75,000 $125,000

8.5f (1700m) Age 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M 3 3 3 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3F 3F 3 3F 3F FM 3 3+ 3+ 3 3F 3F 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3 3F 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 3+ FM FM 3 CG 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 3 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3F 3 CG 3+ 3+ F&M 3 4+ C&G 3 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 3F 3 3F 3F 3+ 3 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3F 3+ FM 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 2 3+ F&M 3+ C&G 3 3+ FM 2F 3+ F&M 3+ 2 3 3+ FM 3+

Surface T T T D D T D D T AWT D T T AWT T D D D T D D D D D D AWT T T D D D D D T T T T D D D D D D D D AWT T T T T T D D D T T D D T T D D T D T D AWT T T AWT AWT D T D T T T AWT D T D D D D D T AWT AWT T T T T T T D T D

Furlongs 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

Closing 28-May-11 02-Jun-11 04-Jun-11 04-Jun-11 04-Jun-11 04-Jun-11 04-Jun-11 08-Jun-11 07-Jun-11 1 Jun 2011 14-Jun-11 15-Jun-11 15-Jun-11 16-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 14-Jun-11 14-Jun-11 11-Jun-11 16-Jun-11

11-Jun-11 18-Jun-11 15-Jun-11 20-Jun-11 12-Jul-11 25-Jun-11 25-Jun-11 25-Jun-11 25-Jun-11 30-Jun-11 01-Jul-11 02-Jul-11 06-Jul-11 02-Jul-11 02-Jul-11 02-Jul-11

6 Jul 2011 16-Jul-11 19-Jul-11 20-Jul-11 21-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 16-Jul-11 16-Jul-11 17-Jul-11 26-Jul-11 26-Jul-11 29-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 25-Jul-11 28-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 20 Jul 2011 CLOSED CLOSED 02-Aug-11 02-Aug-11 30-Jul-11 04-Aug-11 27 Jul 2011 06-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 3 Aug 2011 13-Aug-11 13-Aug-11 14-Aug-11 25-Aug-11 25-Aug-11 15-Jul-11 17 Aug 2011 17 Aug 2011 02-Jul-11 02-Jul-11 27-Aug-11 27-Aug-11 27-Aug-11 27-Aug-11 10-Aug-11 30-Aug-11 06-Sep-11

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Jack Betta Be Rite Handicap Judy’s Red Shoes (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref) Needles St (Fl Stall’ St elig’ ‘10 pref) Elm Stakes Roanoke S Kent BC Stakes Stage Door Betty H’cap Gottstein Futurity Selene S PA Horse Breeders Distaff Cotillion Stakes Blue Hen Stakes CTHS Sales (AlwS) Ascot Graduation Stakes Fantasy Stakes Miss Grillo BC Stakes Pilgrim BC Stakes CTHS Sales (AlwS) Classy ‘n Smart S Alphabet Soup Handicap Dover Stakes Mazarine BC S Grey BC S Ligature S Nepal S Athenia Handicap John W Galbreath Memorial Stakes Juvenile Stakes Cup and Saucer S Spend a Buck H’cap Florida Stallion St - My Dear Girl Division Turnback the Alarm Princess Elizabeth S Ack Ack Handicap Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Breeders’ Cup Juvenile South Ocean S Commonwealth Turf Autumn S Arthur I Appleton Juvenile Turf John Franks Juvenile Fillies Turf Elmer Heubeck Distaff H’cap Mrs. Revere Stakes The Swatara Bobbie Bricker Memorial Handicap Golden Rod Stakes Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes Kingarvie S Display S Sir Barton S Ontario Lassie S My Charmer Stakes

Class S Gr 3 S Gr 3 R Gr 3 S Gr 2 S Gr 3 Gr 3 S R S Gr 3 Gr 3 R R Gr 3 S S R Gr 3 R Gr 3 R Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 S Gr 3 Gr 2 S S S Gr 2 R Gr 2 Gr 2 S S S S

Race Date 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 19-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 25-Sep-2011 25-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 5-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 9-Oct-2011 14-Oct-2011 14-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 29-Oct-2011 29-Oct-2011 4-Nov-2011 4-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 9-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 19-Nov-2011 23-Nov-2011 26-Nov-2011 26-Nov-2011 26-Nov-2011 26-Nov-2011 27-Nov-2011 30-Nov-2011 3-Dec-2011 10-Dec-2011

Value $50,000 $75,000 $75,000 $927,000 $75,000 $250,000 $75,000 $65,000 CAN250,000+ $100,000 $750,000 $75,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 75,000 CAN 75,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN 50,000 CAN125,000 $75,000 $75,000 CAN 200,000+ CAN 200,000+ $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 CAN250,000 $100,000 $300,000 $100,000 CAN250,000 $100,000 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 CAN125,000 $100,000 CAN150,000+ $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $175,000 $75,000 $50,000 $150,000 $150,000 CAN125,000 CAN150,000+ CAN125,000 CAN150,000 $50,000

8.5f (1700m) Age 3+ FM 3F 3 3+ 3+ 3 3+ FM 2 3F 3+ F&M 3F 2F 3F 2 2F 2F 2 3CG 3+ F&M 3+ 2 2F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F&M 2F 2 2 3+ 2F 3+ F&M 2F 3+ 2F 2 CG 2F 3 3+ 2 2F 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ FM 2F 2 2 2 3+ 2F 3+ F&M

Surface D T T D D T D D AWT D D D D D D T T D AWT T D AWT AWT D D T D D T D D D AWT D D D AWT T AWT T T D T D D D AWT AWT AWT AWT AWT

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Snow Chief Stakes Ben Ali Stakes Fukushima Himba Stakes Antares Stakes Kentucky Oaks Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Peter Pan Stakes Black-Eyed Susan BC Stakes Dixie Stakes Arlington Matron American Hcap Gamely Stakes Sands Point Stakes Californian Stakes Plate Trial S Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser Obeah Stakes Honeymoon Hcap Monmouth Stakes Victoria Park S Epsom Cup Docent All Along Breeders’ Cup Vanity Handicap Stephen Foster Handicap Regret Stakes Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap The Daniel Stearns Cleveland Gold Cup Blair’s Cove Stakes Radio Nikkei Sho Swaps Stakes Dance Smartly S San Juan County Commissioners Handicap Virginia Oaks George Lewis Memorial Stakes Norm Barron Queen City aks Toronto Cup S Coaching Club American Oaks Mt Rainier Handicap Nijinsky Stakes Evan Shipman (NYB)

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Class S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 R R Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 R Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 S S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S Gr 1 Gr 2

Race Date 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 23-Apr-2011 24-Apr-2011 6-May-2011 7-May-2011 14-May-2011 20-May-2011 21-May-2011 28-May-2011 28-May-2011 30-May-2011 30-May-2011 4-Jun-2011 5-Jun-2011 5-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011 14-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 2-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 3-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 10-Jul-2011 12-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 23-Jul-2011 24-Jul-2011 24-Jul-2011 25-Jul-2011

Value $150,000 $150,000 $927,000 $927,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $200,000 $250,000 $200,000 $100,000 $150,000 $250,000 $150,000 $150,000 CAN150,000 CAN500,000 $150,000 $150,000 $250,000 CAN150,000+ $996,000 $75,000 + $100,000 $250,000 $500,000 $125,000 $300,000 $75,000 $50,000 $960,000 $150,000 CAN300,000+ $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 $75,000 CAN150,000 $250,000 $50,000 CAN300,000+ $75,000

Furlongs 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

Closing 03-Sep-11 2 Aug 2011 10-Sep-11 13-Sep-11 7 Sep 2011 17-Sep-11 04-Jul-11 20-Sep-11

17-Sep-11 17-Sep-11 14 Sep 2011 24-Sep-11 27-Sep-11 21 Sep 2011 21 Sep 2011 4 Oct 2011 4 Oct 2011 01-Oct-11 05-Oct-11 05-Oct-11 28-Sep-11 15-Oct-11 12-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 19 Oct 2011 26 Oct 2011

14-Nov-11 16-Nov-11 9 Nov 2011 9 Nov 2011 9 Nov 2011 16 Nov 2011 01-Dec-11

9f (1800m) Age 3 CA bred 4+ 4+ FM 4+ 3F 3+ 3 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3 3F 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ 3 3+ CG 3 3 3+ F&M 3+ 3F 3+ 3F 3 3F 3+ 3+ 3+

Surface AWT AWT T D D T D D T AWT T T T AWT AWT AWT D T T AWT T D T AWT D T D D T T AWT T D T D D T D D T

Furlongs Closing 9 01-Apr-11 9 13-Apr-11 9 15 Mar 2011 9 15 Mar 2011 9 19-Feb-11 9 19-Feb-11 9 30-Apr-11 9 10-May-11 9 10-May-11 9 18-May-11 9 19-May-11 9 19-May-11 9 14-May-11 9 26-May-11 9 18 May 2011 9 01-May-11 9 31-May-11 9 02-Jun-11 9 29-May-11 9 25-May-11 9 26 Apr 2011 9 04-Jun-11 9 08-Jun-11 9 09-Jun-11 9 04-Jun-11 9 04-Jun-11 9 14-Jun-11 9 22-Jun-11 9 23-Jun-11 9 24 May 2011 9 30-Jun-11 9 22 Jun 2011 9 04-Jul-11 9 06-Jul-11 9 06-Jul-11 9 07-Jul-11 9 29-Jun-11 9 09-Jul-11 9 9 06-Jul-11 9 09-Jul-11

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Track Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Canterbury Saratoga Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Assiniboia Downs Mountaineer Saratoga Saratoga Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Sapporo Saratoga Saratoga Monmouth Park Saratoga Emerald Downs Niigata Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Thistledown Saratoga Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Delaware Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Assiniboia Downs Belmont Park Assiniboia Downs Arlington Park Parx Racing Belmont Park Assiniboia Downs Woodbine Hanshin Parx Racing Woodbine Belmont Park Belmont Park Sapporo Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Woodbine Belmont Park Tokyo Thistledown Belmont Park Calder Tokyo Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Woodbine Kyoto Charles Town Beulah Park Calder Calder Charles Town Tokyo Churchill Downs Calder Churchill Downs Calder Calder Hanshin Hanshin Turfway Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) Curlin Diana Stakes Jim Dandy Stakes Princess Elaine Stakes Ruffian Hcap Haskell Invitational (INV) Taylor Made Matchmaker British Columbia Cup Classic Handicap British Columbia Cup Distaff Handicap Manitoba Derby West Virginia Derby Whitney Handicap National Museum Racing Hall of Fame Stakes Washington Oaks Emerald Downs Derby Hokkaido Shimbun Hai Queen Stakes West Point Handicap Yaddo Handicap Philip H. Iselin Stakes Woodford Reserve Lake Placid Emerald Distaff Leopard Stakes Albany Stakes Bernard Baruch Handicap Saratoga Dew Stakes Rose DeBartolo Memorial Stakes The Woodward Delta Colleen Handicap Sir Winston Churchill Handicap DTHA Governors Day Stakes British Columbia Breeders’ Cup Oaks British Columbia Derby Gold Breeders’ Cup Stakes Ashley T Cole Handicap Matron Breeders’ Cup Stakes Pucker Up Stakes PTHA President’s Cup Garden City BC Stakes J.W. Sifton Stakes Canadian S Kansai Telecasting Corp Sho Rose Stakes Pennsylvania Derby Ontario Derby John Hettinger Beldame Stakes Sapporo Nisai Stakes Ballerina Breeders’ Cup Stakes Carotene S Durham Cup S Jamaica BC Handicap Mainichi Okan Best of Ohio Distaff Handicap Knickerbocker Handicap Tropical Park Derby Fuchu Himba Stakes Ticonderoga Handicap Mohawk Stakes Empire Classic Handicap River City Handicap Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic Cardinal Handicap Coronation Futurity Miyako Stakes My Sister Pearl Ruff/Kirchberg Memorial Stakes Carl G Rose Classic Bonnie Heath Turf Cup A Huevo Stakes Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai Stakes Falls City Handicap My Charmer H’cap Clark Handicap Fred W Hooper H’cap Tropical Turf H’cap Naruo Kinen Japan Cup Dirt Prairie Bayou Stakes

Class Gr 1 Gr 2 S Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 S S Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 S Gr 2 S S Gr 1 R Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 1 R Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 S Gr 3 Gr 3 S S S Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 3 R Gr 3 S R S S S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 S

Race Date 29-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 30-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 1-Aug-2011 1-Aug-2011 1-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 6-Aug-2011 12-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 18-Aug-2011 19-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 24-Aug-2011 26-Aug-2011 29-Aug-2011 3-Sep-2011 3-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 5-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 16-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 17-Sep-2011 18-Sep-2011 18-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 24-Sep-2011 25-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 8-Oct-2011 9-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 16-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 22-Oct-2011 3-Nov-2011 4-Nov-2011 6-Nov-2011 6-Nov-2011 6-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 19-Nov-2011 19-Nov-2011 24-Nov-2011 24-Nov-2011 25-Nov-2011 26-Nov-2011 2-Dec-2011 3-Dec-2011 4-Dec-2011 17-Dec-2011

Value $75,000 $500,000 $500,000 $50,000 $250,000 $1,000,000 $200,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $750,000 $750,000 $150,000 $65,000 $65,000 $927,000 $100,000 $100,000 $250,000 $150,000 $65,000 $1,098,000 $100,000 $200,000 $75,000 $50,000 $750,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75,000 CAN 100K CAN 200,000 CAN 50,000 $100,000 CAN 50,000 $100,000 $250,000 $250,000 CAN 50,000 CAN300,000+ $1,274,000 $1,000,000 CAN150,000+ $100,000 $350,000 $785,000 CAN 100,000 CAN150,000 CAN150,000+ $250,000 $1,588,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $1,292,000 $125,000 $125,000 $200,000 $100,000 $2,000,000 $100,000 CAN250,000 $927,000 $50,000 $75,000 $150,000 $125,000 $50,000 $785,000 $150,000 $100,000 $500,000 $100,000 $100,000 $996,000 $3,192,000 $50,000

9f (1800m) Age Surface 3 3+ FM T 3 D 3+ FM T 3+ FM D 3 D 3+ FM T 3+ D FM D 3 D 3 D 3+ D 3 T 3F D 3 D 3+ FM T 3+ (NY bred) T 3+ FM (NY bred) T 3+ D 3F T 3+ FM D 3+ D 3 (NY bred) D 3+ T 3+ FM (NY bred) D 3+ FM D 3+ D FM D 3+ D 3+ D 3F D 3 D 3+ D 3+ (NY bred) T 3+ FM D 3F T 3+ T 3F T 3 C&G D 3+ F&M T 3F T 3 D 3 AWT 3+ F&M T 3+ F&M D 2 T FM D 3F T 3+ AWT 3 T 3+ T 3+ FM D 3+ T 3 T 3+ FM T 3+ F&M (NY bred) T 3+ (NY bred) T 3+ (NY bred) D 3+ T 3+ FM D 3+ FM T 2 AWT 3+ D 3+ F&M D 3+ D 3+ D 3+ T 3+ D 2 T 3+ FM D 3+ FM T 3+ D 3+ D 3+ T 3+ T 3+ D 3+ AWT

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Preakness Stakes Tokai TV Hai Tokai Stakes Colonial Turf Cup The Old Nelson Modesty Handicap American Derby Prince of Wales S Beverly D. Stakes Washington Park Handicap Saranac Stakes Nassau (Blue Square)

Class Gp 1

Race Date 22-May-2011

Value €250,000

Class Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 R Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 1

Race Date 21-May-2011 22-May-2011 18-Jun-2011 18-Jun-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 13-Aug-2011 3-Sep-2011 4-Sep-2011 30-Jul-2011

Value $1,000,000 $1,292,000 $500,000 $$150,000 $200,000 CAN500,000 $750,000 $100,000 $100,000 £180,000

Closing 22-Jul-11 16-Jul-11 16-Jul-11 21-Jul-11 16-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 20-Jul-11 25-Jul-11 23-Jul-11 30-Jul-11 5 Jul 2011 06-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 06-Aug-11 5 Jul 2011 13-Aug-11 13-Aug-11 22-Aug-11 24-Aug-11 20-Aug-11 30-Aug-11 31-Aug-11 27-Aug-11 06-Sep-11 7 Sep 2011 03-Sep-11 03-Sep-11 10-May-11 31-Aug-11 2 Aug 2011 04-Jul-11 7 Sep 2011 10-Sep-11 17-Sep-11 16 Aug 2011 14 Sep 2011 14 Sep 2011 24-Sep-11 30 Aug 2011 05-Oct-11 01-Oct-11 30 Aug 2011 08-Oct-11 08-Oct-11 08-Oct-11 24-Oct-11 19-Oct-11 27 Sep 2011 02-Nov-11 02-Nov-11 09-Nov-11 11-Oct-11

25 Oct 2011 11-Oct-11 08-Dec-11

9.25f (1850m) Age 4+

Surface T

Furlongs 9.25

Age 3 3+ 3 3+ 3+ FM 3 3 3+ FM 3+ 3 3+ F

Surface D D T T T T D T AWT T T

Furlongs 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.85

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Furlongs 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

Closing 04-May-11

9.5f (1900m) Closing 10-May-11 12 Apr 08-Jun-11 08-Jun-11 29-Jun-11 15-Apr-11 29-Jun-11 29-Apr-11 24-Aug-11 20-Aug-11 05-Jul-1

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Track Tokyo Churchill Downs Niigata Rome Longchamp Kyoto Hollywood Park Belmont Park Royal Ascot Hanshin Belmont Park Curragh Hollywood Park Woodbine Woodbine Belmont Park Arlington Park Hollywood Park Fukushima Hollywood Park Colonial Downs Delaware Park Prairie Meadows Hakodate Woodbine Munich Kokura Arlington Park Arlington Park Saratoga Sapporo Deauville Saratoga Saratoga Niigata Leopardstown Thistledown Hanshin Belmont Park Belmont Park Hanshin Longchamp Thistledown Ascot Kyoto Woodbine Rome Tokyo Churchill Downs Woodbine Rome Saint-Cloud Fukushima Kokura Kokura Hanshin

Race Name & (Sponsor) Sankei Sports Sho Flora Stakes Kentucky Derby Niigata Daishoten Premio Presidente della Repubblica Prix Saint-Alary (Montjeu Coolmore) Kinko Sho Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap Prince of Wales’s St Mermaid Stakes New York Stakes Pretty Polly St (Audi) Beverly Hills Handicap The Queen’s Plate S Dominion Day S Suburban Handicap Arlington Handicap Hollywood Gold Cup Tanabata Sho American Oaks Virginia Derby Delaware Handicap Prairie Meadows Handicap Hakodate Kinen Wonder Where S Grosser Dallmayr-Preis-Bayerisches Zuchtrennen Kokura Kinen Secretariat Stakes Arlington Million XXVIII TVG Alabama Sapporo Kinen Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Travers Personal Ensign Stakes Niigata Kinen Irish Champion St Governor’s Buckeye Cup Asahi Challenge Cup Flower Bowl Invitational Stakes Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational Stakes Sirius Stakes Prix de l’Opera Best of Ohio Endurance Handicap Champion (Emirates Airline) Shuka Sho E P Taylor S Premio Lydia Tesio Tenno Sho (Autumn) Breeders’ Cup Classic Maple Leaf S Premio Roma Criterium de Saint-Cloud Fukushima Kinen Chunichi Shimbun Hai Aichi Hai Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai Stakes

Class Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 3 R Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 R Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 S Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 S Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3

Race Date 24-Apr-2011 7-May-2011 8-May-2011 15-May-2011 22-May-2011 28-May-2011 11-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 15-Jun-2011 19-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 25-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 1-Jul-2011 2-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 10-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 23-Jul-2011 24-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 31-Jul-2011 13-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 20-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 27-Aug-2011 28-Aug-2011 28-Aug-2011 3-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 1-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 15-Oct-2011 16-Oct-2011 16-Oct-2011 23-Oct-2011 30-Oct-2011 5-Nov-2011 5-Nov-2011 6-Nov-2011 12-Nov-2011 20-Nov-2011 10-Dec-2011 18-Dec-2011 24-Dec-2011

Value $1,274,000 $2,000,000 $996,000 €297,000 €250,000 $1,570,000 $250,000 $400,000 £400,000 $927,000 $250,000 €190,000 $100,000 CAN1,000,000 CAN200,000+ $300,000 $150,000 $500,000 $1,053,000 $250,000 $600,000 $750,000 $100,000 $1,053,000 CAN250,000 €155,000 $1,053,000 $400,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $1,724,000 €250,000 $1,000,000 $300,000 $1,053,000 750000 $50,000 $996,000 $500,000 $750,000 $927,000 €350,000 $75,000 £1,300,000 $2,175,000 CAN1,000,000+ €297,000 $3,234,000 $5,000,000 CAN175,000+ €297,000 €250,000 $996,000 $996,000 $927,000 $785,000

10f (2000m) Age 3F 3 4+ 4+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 4+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ F 3+ FM 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3F 3+ 4+ F 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2 CF 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 2

Surface T D T T T T T T T T T T T AWT AWT D T AWT T T T D D T T T T T T D T T D D T T D T T D D T D T T T T T D AWT T T T T T T

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Eclipse St (Coral)

Class Gp 1

Race Date 2-Jul-2011

Value £400,000

10.05f (2010m) Age 3+

Surface T

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Country Track GB York

Race Name & (Sponsor) International St (Juddmonte)

Country FR IRE FR FR

Track Longchamp Curragh Chantilly Chantilly

Race Name & (Sponsor) Prix Ganay Gold Cup (Tattersalls) Prix du Jockey Club Prix de Diane

Country JPN USA JPN USA USA USA GER CAN USA USA JPN JPN CAN USA JPN

Track Kyoto Belmont Park Hanshin Monmouth Park Delaware Park Belmont Park Dusseldorf Woodbine Saratoga Belmont Park Nakayama Nakayama Hastings Racecourse Churchill Downs Kyoto

Race Name & (Sponsor) Kyoto Shimbun Hai Sheepshead Bay Handicap Takarazuka Kinen United Nations Stakes Robert G Dick BC Stakes Man o’ War BC Stakes Henkel Preis der Diana (Deutsches Stuten-Derby) Sky Classic S Glens Falls Handicap Bowling Green BC H’cap RF Radio Nippon Sho St Lite Kinen Sankei Sho All Comers BC Premier’s Handicap Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup

Class Gp 1

Race Date 17-Aug-2011

Value £700,000

Race Date 30-Apr-2011 22-May-2011 5-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011

Value €300,000 €210,000 €1,500,000 €850,000

Age 3+

Surface T

Age 4+ 4+ 3 CF 3F

Surface T T T T

Race Date 7-May-2011 28-May-2011 26-Jun-2011 2-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 9-Jul-2011 7-Aug-2011 21-Aug-2011 5-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 18-Sep-2011 25-Sep-2011 2-Oct-2011 4-Nov-2011 13-Nov-2011

Value $1,332,000 $150,000 $3,234,000 $750,000 $200,000 $600,000 400000 CAN250,000+ $100,000 $150,000 $1,332,000 $1,570,000 CAN 100,000 $2,000,000 $2,214,000

Furlongs 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5

Age 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM

Surface T T T T T T T T T T T T D T T

Furlongs 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

Race Name & (Sponsor) Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes

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Class Gr 3

Race Date 28-Apr-2011

Value $150,000

Furlongs 10.4

Age 4+ FM

Surface T

Furlongs 12

Closing 21-Jun-11

Closing 13-Apr-11 16-Mar-11

11f (2200m)

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Closing 26-Apr-11

10.5f (2100m)

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Furlongs 10.05

10.4f (2080m)

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Furlongs Closing 10 15 Mar 2011 10 10 29 Mar 2011 10 14-Apr-11 10 10 12 Apr 2011 10 02-Jun-11 10 28-May-11 10 19-Apr-11 10 10 May 2011 10 11-Jun-11 10 20-Apr-11 10 16-Jun-11 10 01-May-11 10 15-Jun-11 10 18-Jun-11 10 29-Jun-11 10 30-Jun-11 10 24-May-11 10 07-Jul-11 10 06-Jul-11 10 02-Jul-11 10 15-Jul-11 10 7 Jun 2011 10 13-Jul-11 10 10-May-11 10 21 Jun 2011 10 15-Apr-11 10 29-Apr-11 10 06-Aug-11 10 5 Jul 2011 10 03-Aug-11 10 13-Aug-11 10 13-Aug-11 10 19-Jul-11 10 30-Mar-11 10 02-Sep-11 10 2 Aug 2011 10 17-Sep-11 10 17-Sep-11 10 16 Aug 2011 10 24-Aug-11 10 05-Oct-11 10 02-Aug-11 10 30-Aug-11 10 28 Sep 2011 10 22-Sep-11 10 13-Sep-11 10 24-Oct-11 10 19 Oct 2011 10 06-Oct-11 10 26-Oct-11 10 11 Oct 2011 10 25 Oct 2011 10 8 Nov 2011 10 8 Nov 2011

Closing 29 Mar 2011 14-May-11 10-May-11 18-Jun-11 25-Jun-11 25-Jun-11 CLOSED 3 Aug 2011 20-Aug-11 27-Aug-11 2 Aug 2011 16 Aug 2011 24-Oct-11 04-Oct-11

12f (2400m) Closing 20-Apr-11

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Country USA JPN USA JPN USA JPN USA USA ITY CAN FR IRE GER FR USA USA IRE GB GER CAN USA USA GER GB GER USA FR CAN JPN GER USA FR JPN ITY CAN USA USA JPN USA

Track Keeneland Tokyo Hollywood Park Tokyo Churchill Downs Tokyo Belmont Park Belmont Park Milan Woodbine Saint-Cloud Curragh Hamburg Longchamp Parx Racing Hollywood Park Curragh Ascot Hoppegarten Woodbine Saratoga Saratoga Cologne York Baden-Baden Turfway Park Longchamp Woodbine Hanshin Cologne Belmont Park Longchamp Kyoto Milan Woodbine Churchill Downs Calder Tokyo Calder

Race Name & (Sponsor) Fifth Third Elkhorn Stakes TV Tokyo Hai Aoba Sho Jim Murray Memorial Handicap Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) Louisville Handicap Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) Brooklyn Handicap Belmont Stakes Gran Premio Milano Singspiel S Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud Irish Derby Deutsches Derby Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Greenwood Cup Sunset Hcap Irish Oaks (Darley) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) 121st Grosser Preis von Berlin Breeders’ S Waya Stakes Sword Dancer Invitational Stakes Rheinland-Pokal Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Grosser Preis von Baden Turfway Park Fall Championship Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Northern Dancer BC Turf Kobe Shimbun Hai Preis von €opa Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational Stakes Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Kyoto Daishoten Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Pattison Canadian International Breeders’ Cup Turf WL McKnight H’cap Japan Cup La Prevoyante H’cap

Country GB GB GB

Track Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Epsom Downs

Race Name & (Sponsor) Coronation Cup Oaks Derby (Investec)

Class Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 R Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3

Race Date 29-Apr-2011 30-Apr-2011 14-May-2011 22-May-2011 28-May-2011 29-May-2011 10-Jun-2011 11-Jun-2011 12-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 26-Jun-2011 27-Jun-2011 3-Jul-2011 14-Jul-2011 16-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 17-Jul-2011 23-Jul-2011 24-Jul-2011 7-Aug-2011 8-Aug-2011 13-Aug-2011 14-Aug-2011 18-Aug-2011 4-Sep-2011 10-Sep-2011 11-Sep-2011 18-Sep-2011 25-Sep-2011 25-Sep-2011 1-Oct-2011 2-Oct-2011 9-Oct-2011 16-Oct-2011 16-Oct-2011 5-Nov-2011 26-Nov-2011 27-Nov-2011 2-Dec-2011

Value $150,000 $1,332,000 $150,000 $2,378,000 $100,000 $3,368,200 $150,000 $1,000,000 €297,000 CAN150,000+ €400,000 1250000 500000 €600,000 $200,000 $100,000 425000 £1,000,000 €175,000 CAN500,000 $75,000 $500,000 €155,000 £310,000 250000 $100,000 €350,000 CAN 500,000+ $1,332,000 €155,000 $500,000 €4,000,000 $1,588,000 €297,000 CAN 1,500,000+ $3,000,000 $150,000 $6,129,000 $100,000

12f (2400m) Age 4+ 3 3+ 3F 3+ 3 No G 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 4+ 3 CF 3 CF 3 CF 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3 4+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3 No G 3+ 3+ 3+ CF 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM

Surface T T T T T T D D T T T T T T D T T T T T T T T T T AWT T T T T T T T T T T T T T

Age 4+ 3F 3 C&F

Surface T T T

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Race Date 3-Jun-2011 3-Jun-2011 3-Jun-2011

Value £250,000 £325,000 £1,250,000

Track Tokyo Tokyo Nakayama

Race Name & (Sponsor) Meguro Kinen Copa Republica Argentina Arima Kinen (The Grand Prix)

Class Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1

Race Date 29-May-2011 6-Nov-2011 25-Dec-2011

Value $1,422,000 $1,422,000 $4,894,000

Race Name & (Sponsor) Stars and Stripes Stakes John’s Call Stakes

Class Gr 3

Race Date 23-Jul-2011 5-Aug-2011

Value $100,000 $75,000

Age 3+ 3+ 3+

Surface T T T

Track Curragh Churchill Downs Woodbine

Race Name & (Sponsor) St Leger (Irish Field) Breeders’ Cup Marathon Valedictory S

Class Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3

Race Date 10-Sep-2011 4-Nov-2011 4-Dec-2011

Value 230000 $500,000 CAN150,000+

Age 3+ 4+

Surface T T

Race Name & (Sponsor) St Leger (Ladbrokes)

Class Gp 1

Country Track JPN Kyoto

Race Name & (Sponsor) Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger)

Country Track FR Longchamp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Prix Royal-Oak

Race Date 10-Sep-2011

Value £500,000

Age 3+ 3+ 3+

Surface T D AWT

Race Date 23-Oct-2011

Value $2,745,000

Race Date 23-Oct-2011

Value €250,000

Race Name & (Sponsor) Tenno Sho (Spring)

Class Gr 1

Race Date 1-May-2011

Value $3,099,000

Race Name & (Sponsor) Sports Nippon Sho Stayers Stakes

Country Track GB Royal Ascot FR Longchamp

Race Name & (Sponsor) Gold Cup Prix du Cadran (Qatar)

Class Gr 2

Race Date 3-Dec-2011

Value $1,570,000

Age 3 No G

Surface T

Furlongs 15

Race Date 16-Jun-2011 2-Oct-2011

Value £250,000 €250,000

Closing 12 Apr 2011 27 Sep 2011 08-Nov-11

Closing 13-Jul-11 29-Jul-11

Closing 30-Mar-11 24-Oct-11 16 Nov 2011

Age 3+

Surface T

Closing 19-Jul-11

15f (3000m) Closing CLOSED

15.5f (3100m) Furlongs 15.5

Closing 05-Oct-11

16f (3200m) Age 4+

Surface T

Furlongs 16

Closing 15-Mar-11

18f (3600m) Age 3+

Surface T

Furlongs 18

Age 4+ 4+

Surface T T

Furlongs 20 20

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Furlongs 14 14 14

Furlongs 14.6

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Furlongs 13 13

Surface T

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Furlongs 12.5 12.5 12.5

Age 3 C&F

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Closing 05-Apr-11 15-Mar-11

14.6f (2920m)

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Furlongs 12.05 12.05 12.05

14f (2800m)

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11-Oct-11

13f (2600m)

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02-Jul-11 07-Jul-11 CLOSED 07-Jun-11 10-May-11 24-Jul-11 01-Aug-11 30-Jul-11 24-May-11 21-Jun-11 14-Jun-11 01-Sep-11 24-Aug-11 31 Aug 2011 16 Aug 2011 28-Jun-11 17-Sep-11 04-May-11 30 Aug 2011 15-Sep-11 28 Sep 2011 24-Oct-11

12.5f (2500m)

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Closing 20-Apr-11 15 Mar 2011 05-May-11 CLOSED 14-May-11 CLOSED 28-May-11 22-Jan-11 12-May-11 8 Jun 2011 08-Jun-11 CLOSED

12.05f (2410m)

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Furlongs 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

Closing 25 Oct 2011

20f (4000m) Closing 19-Apr-11 24-Aug-11

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THE ARNOLD KIRKPATRICK COLUMN

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NLIKE most people of my vintage, I consider memory loss to be one of the benefits of the aging process.

Unfortunately, though, my memory just isn’t going fast enough for someone who loves the Thoroughbred game and cares about the future of racing the way I do.

For instance, the recent announcements that The Jockey Club has hired the international consulting firm McKinsey & Company – undoubtedly at enormous expense – to generate “a comprehensive study of the current state of Thoroughbred racing and the potential for growth of breeding and racing in North America” over the next decade is a laudatory endeavor at the very least. The problem is that damned memory thing.

As I recall, about 20 years ago, there was a previous “McKinsey Report,” which enraptured people in the business discussed endlessly for about a year in the sort of reverential whisper reserved for such phrases as “Triple Crown Winner” and “The Second Coming of Christ.”

The original McKinsey Report dealt mostly with drug testing and management of drugs in racing. It was very thorough, filled with a lot of very good ideas, and very persuasive. Yet 20 years later – and I must admit my opinion is derived solely from empirical evidence – as best I can tell our current situation with respect to drugs in racing is just as bad today as it’s ever been.

Maybe worse.

Factoid: According to The Jockey Club 2011 Fact Book, in 1960, without the assistance of the myriad of pharmacological

A History Lesson props that are given to Thoroughbreds today (both legally and illegally), the average horse made 11.31 starts per year.

In 2009, the average runner made only 6.23 starts per year, a decline of about 45%.

It was also interesting to note that Ohiobreds led the nation in 2009 with an average of 7.3 starts per runner, followed in order by Illinois- and Florida-breds (7.0), New York-breds (6.9) and Michigan-breds (6.8).

Meanwhile, in late March, The Blood-Horse asked 30 industry participants to come up with five ways to improve the horse industry and, believe it or not, even a few bettors and fans were included among those asked.

The consensus among the 30 or so respondents produced the following suggestions: 1. Reduce the number of racing days to create a higher-quality product and make racing more of an event.

2. Create a national governing body and appoint a commissioner.

3. Promote the excitement and fun of racing through a national marketing program.

4. Improve the integrity of the sport with stricter medication testing and zerotolerance policy.

5. Implement uniform medication rules for all racing jurisdictions.

Sound familiar? With the exception of number 1, which is the exact opposite of

what racing has been doing for the past 20-30 years, all these suggestions have been around nearly as long as I have. Good ideas, every one of them, but in one form or another they have all been languishing in the stagnant quagmire of racing’s inertia for decades.

In the meantime, the Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI) held their annual meeting in New Orleans and issued a call for the state racing commissions to join together and back “a five-year phase out of drugs and medications entirely in racing.” As William Koester, incoming chairman of RCI noted, the organization needs “to take the moral high ground and implement drug rules that mirror the racing in Australia, Dubai, Europe, Hong Kong, and even Russia.”

High ideals, indeed, if it weren’t for the fact that, in my experience, most racing commissioners are as inclined as anyone associated with our industry to guard their fiefdoms as jealously as a wicked stepmother – and more so than most – and to get all revved up about something at their annual convention only to forget all about it before the wheels are even in the well on their flight home.

I guess if we don’t keep trying, though, we’re never going to accomplish anything.

Just don’t run over any old poots tottering along on walkers in the process. One of them just might be me. n

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