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MIKE MITCHELL
A new lease of life after a year of adversity
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From backward yearling to a star in the making
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RACETRACK FAILURE OR JUST WRONG CAREER? The latest research on upper airway obstruction
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GILES ANDERSON Looking at alternative roles for ex-racers
UR first issue of the year is action packed as always and over the coming pages, you’ll be reading about Mike Mitchell, who has experienced a true emotional rollercoaster but finished out the year full of hope for the season ahead. We also profile the making of Goldencents as a racehorse. He went from being in the last yearling sale of the season to being a backward two-year-old who became a golden ticket for his patient consignor. We also start our major “campaign” for the coming year by looking at the different options available to owners and trainers to recycle their ex-racers into different equine disciplines. The number of opportunities are on the increase and with the right horse and handling, horses may not only gain some financial reward but more importantly to get the chance to flourish in alternative disciplines. We have widened our popular series of “Relative Values” to encompass “family dynasties.” We start 2013 by looking at the influence and legacy of the late Louis Wolfson and the history of
his wife Patrice, who was honored in January at Gulfstream Park. We take a timely look at the gradual erosion of races restricted to four-year-olds in the late winter / spring calendar and why the likes of the Strub series is vital for providing opportunity for the previous year’s classic crop. Our veterinary articles cover important research on how mucus and airborne particles can cause upper respiratory problems for horses. While the debate continues about the use of Salix, I sometimes can’t help thinking that the environment that many horses live in should be the subject of greater focus. It has been proven time and time again that well-ventilated barns reduce the risk of upper airway problems that can be a major factor as a cause of bleeding. We also take an in-depth look at throats and examine the reasons why horses “roar” as well as how the condition can be treated. Finally, we ask whether the bran mash is a feeding tradition or nutritional pariah. Wherever your racing takes you this spring, good luck! n
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WILL’S WAY The views of William Koester Make them sweat I am honored to have the opportunity to speak on a subject that is important to me as a life-long enthusiast of Thoroughbreds and racing. I previously chaired the Association of Racing Commissioners International (RCI), but the opinions and ideas expressed in this article are mine alone and do not necessarily represent either the RCI or the members themselves.
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HE horse is out of the barn, if you will allow the expression. Whether it is in government, politics, religion, healthcare, banking, or scouting, the current velocity of information is shaking the foundations of our institutions. Dirty little secrets spread virally now, and news of HGH, EPO, Toradol, steroids, concussions, and frog juice are making sports professionals sweat. The racing commission that I serve is now receiving public record requests like never before, as are those in all racing states. Well into the information age, people are demanding information as an inalienable right. There are many fine portals of information on various aspects of our sport and online accessibility has allowed even casual fans to delve deeply into the sport. But the Paulick Report, particularly, is an agent of change in racing. Due to the reader comments, static headlines bloom into dialogue. The chorus of changing voices can take any topic anywhere, and all of us along with it. What was once a small, insular group with knowledge guarded as a source of power has grown into a diverse virtual community. For every 100 readers who comment on raceday drug use, thousands may have read, considered, and internalized the opinions but not commented. As a member of the virtual community, we all share an interest in racing, but are individually as varied as veterinarians, owners, breeders of Derby winners, gamblers, commissioners, or uninitiated new fans. For
the first time, we are all in the same room. We are now privileged to be exposed to a diversity of point of view. We are now witnesses to first-hand accounts of what were in the past only individual experiences diffused across the country. Some readers have business acumen. Some share emotional responses. Some are youthful and some are mature. Some readers ask simple, yet perceptive questions. Some are wearing masks and aren’t afraid to throw stones. Our community is more diverse than ever, and change is happening faster than ever. Claiming race rules were revised after casino money inflated purses incentivized owners and trainers to race horses into the ground. Change came astonishingly quickly. This efficiency was only possible because of the current conversation about breakdowns. Many people were on watch with heightened sensitivity to the number of breakdowns. Now Aqueduct has pledged to perform necropsies on all fatally injured horses and other tracks are likely to join in the initiative. This is progress. Last fall, a Quarter Horse trainer who was suspended for 21 years in New Mexico for frog juice doping merely sidled across the border and entered horses in races in Oklahoma. Of course we all agree that some issues within racing are beyond ridiculous, this being one of them. But yet they still occur. Social media has kept our attention on this issue, and brought it into our own backyard. Now, more than ever before, the racing community is hyper-vigilant to this particular breach of
justice. Our culture has changed: and in the dearth of state reciprocity, our community now demands that racetracks take accountability for giving stalls to trainers with histories of drug violations. I expect that the recent suspension of a top trainer from New York racing will be honored by tracks in other states. For better or for worse, the current reality is that the enforcement of ethics in horseracing is by the self-deputized. If your name is among the top ten trainers by earnings and you drop a horse down the claiming ranks until it breaks down, questions fly like arrows from the online community. Why were there so few works recently? Why was a route horse sprinting all of a sudden? Why didn’t anyone claim such a good horse? Of course, the trainer has not committed a crime; he has only used to his greatest advantage the opportunity available to him. But the voices within our community are speaking loudly against the ethical transgressions within our sport, this being clearly one of them. The voices are reconciling the rules of the sport with present-day, democratic, ethical boundaries. This is progress. All of the questions are moving up the food chain. Who is paying for the joints being tapped? Who is dropping the horse precipitously down to a claiming race? The buck stops at the owners. Online at least, no one is off-limits. For the betterment of the sport, make them sweat. n
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CONTENTS... 2 Will’s Way
The views of William Koester.
8 California Thoroughbred Trainers Alan Balch on the marketing of racing; English-born trainer Ben Cecil.
14 TRM trainer of the quarter
D.Wayne Lukas fights back, by Bill Heller.
16 Mike Mitchell Steve Schuelein profiles the Southern California trainer grateful to be back in his barn these days.
24 Goldencents The inexpensive yearling purchase who has turned into a big success, by Bill Heller.
30 Biomechanics of locomotion David Williams breaks down the basics of equine locomotion.
36 Retraining What to do when your horses are ready to put their racetrack days behind them, by Ken Snyder and Suzy Crossman.
42 Roarers The latest news in diagnosing and treating roaring, by Stacey Oke.
46 Dynasties The Wolfson family, who raced Affirmed, by Bill Heller.
52 Stable dust Celia Marr examines the performance-damaging link between airborne particles and mucus in stabled horses.
58 Decline of four-year-old stakes races Bill Heller wonders if races restricted to four-year-olds are still relevant.
66 Product Focus 69 Stakes Schedules Forthcoming stakes races from North America and around the world. Goldencents at Santa Anita 04 TRAINERMAGAZINE.com ISSUE 27
76 Sid Fernando column Time to take action on fatalities.
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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. 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 (@sidfernando) 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. 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.
Professor Celia Marr is an equine clinician at Rossdales, Newmarket. She is a RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Medicine and Honorary Professor at the Glasgow University Veterinary School. She has previously worked at veterinary schools in Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and London and in racehorse practice in Lambourn. She is Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Thoroughbred Research & Consultation Group and Editor-in-Chief of Equine Veterinary Journal. 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 internationallyrecognized, peer-reviewed journal, creates continuing education materials for both human and veterinary medicine, and conducts biomedical research studies. Steve Schuelein is the Southern California correspondent for Thoroughbred Times. A native of upstate New York, Steve was introduced to racing as a sports writer for the Syracuse HeraldJournal and Buffalo News before moving to California in 1982. Ken Snyder is a Louisville, Kentucky based freelance writer. He is a regular contributor to several other racing publications, a feature writer and essayist for some non-racing magazines, and an advertising marketing writer, as well.
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David Earl Williams Ph.D Has fulfilled many roles in the science of racing and contributed to a number of scientific journals on the subject of the locomotion of the racehorse. Aside from this he is also a noted country and
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HESE days, there is more and more chatter about the necessity of “better marketing” for racing, now that the sport seems to be bumping along at the bottom of a trough of historic lows in attendance and public interest. We’ve been there before, I suppose, but things were never this bad. Just consider the fact that many tracks do not even report attendance any more or, when they do, the figures are either terrifying or so bogus that nobody can seriously believe them. What a change from 40 years ago, when the handle might be a subject of some interest from time to time, but almost all of us concentrated on attendance as the best barometer of public interest and industry health. After all, reported handle is subject to all kinds of distorting factors, whether short fields, off tracks, numbers of races run per day, numbers of pools offered, inclement weather, or – most important – inflation. Purse levels have always been of interest to horsemen, of course, but as for the public, purses count mainly when they’re gigantic: the original “hundred-grander,” the Santa Anita Handicap, the Arlington Million, the Breeders’ Cup. That is to say, when they are featured in track marketing. When you stop to think about it (which we seldom do), it is remarkable that millions of dollars in prizes are distributed to the connections of race horses based on the outcome of a sporting contest which takes just a minute or two to contest. That’s why the Derby existed so long on the premise of “the most exciting two minutes in sports.” As for purses, as long as approximately 80%
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By Alan F. Balch CTT Executive Director
“The mantra is always the same: what you lose at the track you will more than make up with the volume of betting away from the track. And it has never been so” of purses are won by 20% of connections – an 80/20 rule of longstanding and only barely heading toward 75/25, last I checked – nobody can seriously think high purses will save the sport. Since attendance figures are seldom credible, pundits now concentrate on handle. Despite the drawbacks of doing so. And the latest drawback is wondering if everyone’s even counting the dollars the same way, which we are given to believe they may not be. In any event, according to Equibase, the handle on U.S. Thoroughbred racing in 2012 was $10.9 billion. In inflation-adjusted terms, according to one method, that’s about 60% less than the total handle in 1987! I’m inclined to believe it, since Santa Anita handled $543 million in 1987 all by itself, all at the track, in less than 90 days of racing at its winter/spring meeting. By any measure, racing has fallen a long, long way in public interest, in a very short 25-year generation. If any sport needed
massive marketing to resuscitate it – or massive something – it’s racing in the United States. The first fundamental question is whether it’s too late. Remember, American racing has been in the doldrums many times before over the last century, including the early 1970s. In thinking about this seriously, and trying to account for all the differences in the marketplace just since then, a few key issues are worthy of attention. Generally speaking, investing in marketing requires a strong belief in future prospects for the product or brand to be marketed. Racing certainly had that 40 years ago, despite plenty of predicted doom. A wave of marketing ingenuity gradually engaged the country, tracks competing against each other, to outdo one another in innovation, facility improvement, purses, and methods to draw fans. Some of it didn’t work, much of it did, and this ongoing investment ultimately resulted in the high-water marks for the sport in the mid- to late-80s. Unfortunately, that very success opened the door for an accounting and consulting mentality that predicted still greater enrichment from the introduction of virtually unlimited simulcasting, off-track, and telephone account wagering. “These will be different fans, new markets,” we were told. Much the same speeches, in fact, that we now hear from advocates of exchange wagering. New York had been the first major center to be afflicted with the perils of off-track betting, and 25 years later, the same predicament gradually afflicted the whole country. The mantra is always the same: what you lose at the track you will more than make up with the volume of betting away from the track. And it has never been so. I always used to preach that the time to invest the most in marketing is when you have the most to do it with, to keep a product or brand on the “crest of the wave.” If you don’t do it, if you don’t keep the wave rolling, there will come a time when you don’t have the means to generate the wave again. And so it has come to pass. Track executives increasingly saw the opportunity to make short term gains at the bottom line by aggressively cutting the marketing “spend,” as they saw it (“investment,” as I see it). More than one said to a self-satisfied board, “You see? We put almost all of those marketing dollars we cut right onto the bottom line.”
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F you are born in Oxford, given a middle name of Amherst, and are the nephew of a trainer knighted “Sir,” intelligent contributions in the Thoroughbred racing industry may be an expected given. Ben Cecil would have seemed a natural to keep his bloodlines and ply his skills in his native England, but he instead chose the United States as the site for his career. “When I came here originally (in 1992), I worked one and a half years under Gary Jones and planned to go back,” said Cecil between races at Santa Anita Park in January. “But seeing the level of prize-money here compared to England, I decided not to rush back. “It’s very easy to start training here,” explained Cecil, 44, of another contrast with his homeland. “You don’t have to buy or lease a yard.” Cecil knew of the giant footprints left in American racing during the 1970s and 1980s by such English-born trainers as John Russell, Neil Drysdale, and John Gosden, and he continued the British invasion. England’s loss has been America’s gain. Since taking out his license in 1996 and basing his stable in California, Cecil has earned more than $20 million in purses and conditioned one Eclipse Award winner. Cecil brought a wide background of international experience to this country, having broken in under Colin Hayes in Australia after graduation from high school and sandwiching a pair of stints in England under Ian Balding and Mark Tompkins around an assignment with the British Bloodstock Agency. Cecil’s career took off in California. “I got used to it very quickly working for Gary Jones,” said Cecil of adapting to American training methods. Cecil accepted a better job as the top assistant to Rodney Rash in 1994 before the unexpected shocked the racing community. Rash died suddenly of a rare blood disorder at age 36 in 1996 with a classy 33-horse stable. Cecil hurriedly took out his trainer’s license, inherited most of the stable, and quickly learned of the vicissitudes of the game. “My first two starters finished second and third in a race
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Cecil continues family’s European winning tradition in America at Santa Anita, and a week later I won my first race with Celtic Arms in the Pan American Handicap at Gulfstream Park,” said Cecil of breaking his maiden in style in the Grade 2 stakes. “But he injured a sesamoid ligament and never raced again.” Celtic Arms thrust Cecil, 27 at the time, into the spotlight, and stamped him as a young trainer on the rise, as well as one who would continue to thrive on turf
with European imports. “I kept most of the clients from Rodney’s stable, and the biggest was Gary Tanaka, who had eight to ten horses, most of which were bought in Europe and concentrated on turf,” explained Cecil of his early success on turf, a pattern that has continued throughout his career. “Winning the Pan American was a good way to get started, and we were very lucky and kept
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“There aren’t many grass stakes here that I haven’t won for fillies. That’s what I tend to buy. I try to push my clients onto buying European horses” it going,” said Cecil of the early years on his own. “We won 14 stakes one year.” The late 1990s produced Cecil’s first Grade 1 winner in Donna Viola, who captured the Santa Barbara and Gamely handicaps in 1997. The following year produced another double Grade 1-winning European import owned by Tanaka in Squeak, who annexed the Beverly Hills Handicap and Matriarch Stakes. “Squeak loved a cut in the ground and won the Matriarch by six on soft turf,” recalled Cecil. But for sheer accomplishments, the easy number one choice is Golden Apples, another Tanaka-owned filly who won the Eclipse Award as champion female turf horse in 2002. “She got here a week before winning the (2001) Del Mar Oaks,” said Cecil of the Irish-bred filly. “I’ve had a couple that I thought might be better, but nobody achieved what she achieved.” At four, Golden Apples won the Beverly D and Yellow Ribbon stakes, two of the marquee events in her division, en route to the championship. “She had a helluva turn of foot,” said Cecil. “She would sit last and explode. She was a very laid-back horse around the barn. She just did what she had to do, that’s it. “She was from the first crop by Pivotal,” said Cecil of the British stallion. “I never heard of him. She was his first good one. He went on to be a top stallion and sired horses like Megahertz.” Golden Apples went on to earn $1,672,583 before being retired and sold at auction to Shadwell for $3.4 million. Golden Apples, Donna Viola, and Squeak were all females. “There aren’t many grass stakes here that I haven’t won for fillies,” said Cecil. “That’s what I tend to buy. I try to push my clients onto buying European horses. I still get the odd European sent to me. That’s probably my reputation.” Indeed, of 38 graded stakes wins recorded by Cecil, 34 have been on turf, 22 by females. Cecil’s favorite victory by a non-female may have been an 11-1 upset by Passinetti in the historic 2003 San Juan Capistrano Handicap, the longest Grade 1 in the country at about 1¾ miles on turf. “He was brought off the farm after a three-year layoff and Mr. Tanaka had nearly
given him away six months before the race as a riding horse,” said Cecil, who rejuvenated the seven-year-old gelding. Cecil credited his own racing pedigree to both his father and mother. “My father (David) was the twin brother of Henry Cecil,” said Cecil of the famed English trainer elevated to “Sir” status by Queen Elizabeth in 2011. “My father trained briefly and ran a stud farm in Yorkshire,” continued Cecil. (David Cecil died in 2000.) “My mother (Fiona) had a brother, Arthur Corbett, who trained in Newmarket and won a lot of big handicaps. I had it a bit on both sides.” Cecil remembered a visit to Newbury with Henry Cecil at 14 that changed his life. “He had two horses in, I bet them, and they both won,” said Cecil. “I thought, ‘This was easy.’ That’s when I decided what I wanted to do.” Cecil visits England three times a year and remains in contact with Uncle Henry. “I certainly keep an eye on what he does and last saw him in December at Newmarket,” said Cecil. “He went through some tough years in addition to his health problems,” said Cecil of his uncle, 70, who is battling stomach cancer. “It’s great to see him back on top.”
Carrying the elder Cecil back to the pinnacle of the sport was superstar Frankel, who was retired last year after going unbeaten in 14 races. “The one time I saw him race live was probably the worst race he ever ran,” said Cecil of a narrow score in the 2011 St. James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot. “I saw Frankel at Juddmonte in December. He was pretty special, maybe the best horse of all time in Europe.” Sir Henry Cecil will always rank number one in his nephew’s eyes. “For someone I looked up to since I got into training, he’s definitely the one,” said Cecil of role models. “The two trainers I respected most in
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Cecil’s stable star is 2012 Royal Heroine Mile winner Quiet Oasis America were Charlie Whittingham and Bobby Frankel,” added Cecil of the legendary pair. “When Rodney died, Charlie got an offer from (owner) Bob Hibbert to take his horses, and Charlie told him to leave them with me. Not many trainers would have done that.” Cecil also thanked Rash, who went on his own after several years under Whittingham. “He was quite a tough guy on his help and made me work pretty hard,” said Cecil. “I had to be at the barn at four o’clock. But that’s where I had the most responsibility. That’s how you learn. You don’t learn from watching. You learn from doing it.” Cecil considers himself a product of varied influences. “There are a lot of little things you pick up from different people,” he said. “There is no one specific thing. As a trainer, you’re learning every day. You learn from your mistakes. Every horse is different. “The thing is you never stop learning,” continued Cecil. “There is a different challenge every day. That’s what makes it fun.” Cecil is not afraid to express his displeasure with medication rules in both California and the United States. “I’m one of a handful of California trainers who is anti-medication,” said Cecil. “It’s damaging American racing, the breeding industry,
and our perception in the rest of the world. “Go other places and they think America is full of drugs,” continued Cecil. “I’m not saying it is, but there is only one way to change it. It is affecting sales and breeding. The majority of the great stallions are now in Europe. The roster of American stallions is not as strong as ten years ago. “I think it’s a bit sad that we have to rely on drugs to get horses to the races,” added Cecil. “If you dehydrate a horse with Lasix before he runs, you’re going to knock him out and he won’t be able to run back for three or four weeks. In England, you can run a horse back in a week. If nothing else, the medication rules in America should at least be consistent from state to state. That’s why American racing doesn’t get the respect it deserves.” Cecil is also pro-synthetic in the ongoing debate over track surfaces. “Statistics prove synthetics are much safer,” said Cecil. “We rushed to put them in in California. Some were not put in properly and not maintained the way they should have been. “There was a lot of pressure from old-time trainers to have them removed,” continued Cecil. “Del Mar was the one track that spent the money and did it properly. It took a few years but they have a good track now.”
Cecil balanced his comments by commending the progress Santa Anita has made since re-implementing a dirt track. “Santa Anita’s dirt track is also good now because of the work that was put in during the last year,” he said. “I may be biased,” admitted Cecil. “My horses are mostly turf horses, and a lot of turf horses won’t run on dirt, but will run on synthetic.” Cecil said his 18-horse barn is predominantly made up of European imports, about 75 percent. Even his chief assistant of eight years is a European import: Alannah Holloway from Wales. Cecil’s stable is headed by Quiet Oasis, a five-year-old Irish-bred mare who highlighted an otherwise sub-par 2012 with victories in the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Mile and Grade 3 Wilshire Handicap – Cecil’s third win in that race. “She had a chip taken out of a knee last summer, is working and should be ready to race in February,” said Cecil. He is also high on Tiger Day, a three-year-old colt from Europe; and Shumoos, a four-year-old filly on the comeback trail after finishing second in the 2011 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Sprint. Cecil’s primary owners are Paul Reddam, Arnold Zetcher, Paul Boghossian (Triple B Farm), and David Fernandes (Davon Stable). Cecil’s wife, Kristina, has also earned a reputation for churning out winners. She is co-producer of the television sit-com hit “Big Bang Theory” on CBS. The couple lives in Pasadena with their children: Francesca, three; and Hugo, two. Cecil compared widely contrasting training methods between America and Europe. “There is much more time for the horse in England: one and a half to two hours each morning,” he said. “Here you are pressed for time. “In England, there is much more variation,” he continued. “In Newmarket, you can go somewhere different each day to vary training. Here we have the main track and the training track and are confined to an amount of time. In an ideal world, I think England is probably better for the horse.” Cecil, wearing a navy blazer and blue jeans, looked like a perfect model of merging the best of both worlds. n
Where went the marketing? tContinued from page 8 But in doing so, they disconnected the engines from racing’s train. The train kept rolling, but slower and then slower still. Year after year of reduced marketing investment resulted in a greater downside than all the prior years’ upside! After all, competition for the gaming dollar simultaneously increased at a breathtaking rate. Just as its business was transferred off track at the same time, racing
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had to share more and more of its remaining treasure with external entities. Then nobody had the resources for the necessary investment! Market development – inducing trial from new customers – was left a province of the tracks, whose own financial ability and ingenuity had been drastically reduced by their short-sighted and ill-understood decisions. The second fundamental question is
whether marketing for profit is even affordable in our sport. Because the attitude that any idea that sounds good is good, which is what passes for “marketing” in many places these days, will only tighten the spiral in the wrong direction. Hard-nosed marketing based on investment principles of cost vs. benefit, short and long term, is the only possible answer. Along with a sincere belief that there is a future worthy of the investment. n
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E’S back! Refusing to fade quietly into the night, Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas is reminding all of us that he didn’t get to be Thoroughbred racing’s all-time leader in earnings ($261 million and counting) and eighth in victories (4,659) by accident. So what if he’s 77? In the space of eight days, Lukas captured the $200,000 Grade 3 LeComte Stakes with Oxbow in spectacular fashion at Fair Grounds, the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes with Will Take Charge at Oaklawn Park, and the $125,000 Grade 3 Col. E.R. Bradley Handicap with Optimizer back at Fair Grounds, January 26th. The trio of stakes winners pushed Lukas up to 13th in the country in earnings. Last year, Lukas saddled just five stakes winners to win six stakes races. When asked if people thought he’d forgotten how to train, Lukas laughed before answering, “That’s always amazed me. There’s no how-to book. If I could give advice to an owner late in my career, it would be that the experience factor is paramount in training horses. It’s all based
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on your experience. It’s no accident that we had our Derby run. Baffert had his. You can go down through the history books. That experience is so important. “My energy is pretty damn good at 77,” he said. “We’re not doing anything physical. Football players, basketball players, they may lose a step. All we have to do is stay sharp mentally.” Lukas was born focused. He literally revolutionized training by running horses all over the country, and he’s had great success in the Triple Crown. “We always, over the years, placed emphasis on our young horses, especially the three-year-olds,” he said. “We try finding someone with the quality to maybe get us there. The other side of the coin is that’s where most of the clientele wants to be.” Oxbow just might take Lukas back to the Run for the Roses. He absolutely romped wire-to-wire in the LeComte. “I expected him to run well,” Lukas said. “He’s a tough rascal. He enjoys training. That horse has a lot of try in him, and he’s got a great efficiency of motion. All the horses I’ve had good luck with are horses that got to the top of the stretch
without exerting a lot of energy. He gets into that high cruising speed.” Will Take Charge’s victory was a bit dicey. He won the Smarty Jones by a neck, then stumbled afterwards. But he escaped injury. “He’s 100 percent,” Lukas said. “He’s trained every day since.” Lukas never stopped believing in Optimizer, who finished 11th, sixth, and 10th in last year’s Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes, before switching back to grass and winning the Grade 3 Kent at Delaware Park by 4¼ lengths. He followed that race with a tiring 11th in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf before finishing third in both the Grade 3 River City Handicap at Churchill Downs and the Grade 2 Hollywood Turf Cup. Lukas briefly freshened the four-year-old son of English Channel and he responded with a powerful 3½-length victory in the Bradley as the 2-1 favorite under Jon Court. “He’s on the surface he prefers,” Lukas said. “The English Channels seem to mature just a little later. I hope he follows that pattern. We’ll point him to the Arlington Million.” But that’s in the late summer. What about the first Saturday in May? Lukas has won four
D.Wayne Lukas – still going strong at the age of 77
Kentucky Derbies, the last with Charismatic in 1999. “We realize it’s January,” he said. “But Oxbow has a ton of quality about him. He’s going to have a big spring.” n
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IFE is coming back to normal now,” said Mitchell, 64, who underwent extensive radiation and chemotherapy treatments. “My appetite is fine now. And I’m excited about the Santa Anita meet. I’m looking forward to a real good year.” Since taking out his training license in 1974, Mitchell had been based at Betfair Hollywood Park his entire career but he decided to uproot himself and shift his barn 35 miles from southwest to northeast of Los Angeles. “It’s kind of a strange feeling,” said Mitchell of the move to Santa Anita. “I had been in Barn 72 at Hollywood Park since they built it, but I’m not sure if they’re going to stay open beyond this year. “I hate to lose Hollywood,” lamented Mitchell. “Hollywood Park is a wonderful place to train and their trackman, Dennis Moore, is probably the best in the business. Those big concrete barns are good for the horses and the big wide shedrows are safe. “All the driving is too much too,” said Mitchell, who lives closer to Hollywood Park in coastal Redondo Beach. “We also have an apartment in Temple City (near Santa Anita), and we’re eventually going to move from the South Bay and look for a house near Santa Anita. “I wanted to get my foot in the door at Santa Anita,” added Mitchell of the decision, also
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Veteran trainer Mike Mitchell peered out from his stable office in Barn 24 at Santa Anita Park early at the meet this year, savoring a new lease on life from a new barn at a new track. No horseman looked more forward to turning the page on 2012, after surviving surgery for a brain tumor last summer. Mitchell’s new year’s story is an inspiring mixture of faith and family, love and perseverance, change and hope. WORDS: Steve Schuelein PhOtOS: hORSePhOtOS.cOM
pointing out that training on the dirt track at Santa Anita might benefit some of his horses in preparing them to race on it. “We’re in a rebuilding stage,” said Mitchell of his stable. “We’re down in numbers. We have 30 to 35, and I usually average 45. Usually before Del Mar (in July), I’m hustling to get horses because everybody wants horses to run there.” But the medical crisis sidelined him at that time and put him behind the eight ball replenishing his stock for the remainder of the year. “In this whole new transition, I’m trying to upgrade now,” said Mitchell. “I cleaned house with the horses I did not want. I’m not getting out of the claiming business, but I’m trying to get away from the cheap claimers, the $8,00010,000 ones.” Mitchell, whose reputation was built largely on his success in the claiming game, has quietly moved to the top echelon of Southern California trainers. He became the all-time leader in wins at Del Mar in 2011, ranks
second behind Bobby Frankel at Hollywood Park, and is fifth at Santa Anita. A devout Christian, Mitchell considered those accomplishments impossible without help from above and was particularly thankful for divine intervention in pulling him through his recent health crisis. “The only praise I would like to give is to Jesus Christ,” said Mitchell. “The powers of praying and strength that he has given me got me through everything. I was never scared. I was never alone. It was touching and peaceful. “I’d have to give credit where it belongs,” continued Mitchell. “That’s what got me healed up. I thought my mind would be slow, but my body handled it real well. My body handled the chemo better than I thought.” Mitchell also has wife Denise in his corner. “Denise is my rock,” said Mitchell of his petite blonde wife. “She took me to all my doctor appointments. She got me all my medications. She was always there for me. She’s my best friend. Coming home to Denise makes it all worthwhile. She’s a big reason I’m successful.” Mitchell remembered all too well awakening from surgery at the University of Southern California Medical Center in late June. “I woke up in the ICU unit, and Denise was there with a computer, and she opened it up,” recalled Mitchell. Mitchell must have thought he had gone to heaven the next few minutes as he and Denise and their two daughters, McCall and Shea, watched the Mitchell-trained Camp Victory rally for an upset victory in the
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Grade 1 $250,000 Triple Bend Handicap at Hollywood Park. “We were cheering so loud that the nurse came over and said, ‘You’ve got to be quiet!’” said Mitchell after the 10-to-1 score. “To see Camp Victory beat The Factor kind of took the pain away for a little while.” In the winner’s circle, sobbing co-owner Lynne Miller was almost hysterical in explaining the significance of the victory, which was vintage Mitchell. Miller and her husband, Tom, were part of a four-owner partnership for whom Mitchell claimed Camp Victory for $40,000 in a six-way shake in 2011. Mitchell’s extended family has grown in recent years, putting a smile on the trainer’s face for both personal and professional reasons. McCall is married to Craig “Boomer” Rounsefell, an Australian-born bloodstock agent who has helped fortify the Mitchell barn. In December, Shea – an accomplished singer – married French-born jockey Julien Leparoux, an Eclipse Award winner who has won races for Mitchell. “Shea asked me one day after they got serious, ‘Daddy, do you like him?’” recalled Mitchell. “I said, ‘Honey, I liked him before you met him!’” The couple exchanged vows in Arcadia and had their reception at trainer Hector Palma’s farm in Bradbury overlooking the San Gabriel Valley and track below. “The pastor at the church during the service pointed out that I had once told my kids when they were much younger, six and eight, ‘No
jockeys!’” said Mitchell sheepishly. A trainer can always change his mind. “He’s a fine young man and all business when he rides,” said Mitchell in endorsing the groom who has shifted his tack to California. Although Leparoux enjoys preferred status on calls with Mitchell, the trainer does not expect he will always be available. “I told his agent, Joe Ferrer, to do what is best for Julien,” said Mitchell understandingly. Mitchell is equally happy with his older
“Denise is my rock. She took me to all my doctor appointments. She got me all my medications. She was always there for me. She’s my best friend. Coming home to Denise makes it all worthwhile” daughter’s choice in Rounsefell, who divides his time between Australia and California and travels globally for his Boomer Bloodstock agency. Rounsefell’s keen eye and business sense enabled him to buy two horses who developed into 2012 graded stakes winners on turf for Mitchell at the Tattersalls Horses in Training
Sale in England in October, 2011, at attractive rates. “We got both Dhaamer and Obviously cheaper than expected,” said Rounsefell of the Irish-breds. “Dhaamer sold first. He was owned by Shadwell and was trained by John Gosden. I expected him to sell for $150,000, but we got him for $50,000. I thought Obviously would go for $325,000 to $350,000, and we got him for $220,000.” Mitchell was impressed by his son-in-law’s reactions on a limited budget. “There was another nice horse we liked who was selling after Dhaamer and before Obviously,” said Mitchell. “We could only afford one and Boomer said that the other was too expensive and Obviously was the one he really liked.” Obviously vindicated his faith with victories in the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile and Arroyo Seco Mile and a third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Mile behind Wise Dan and Animal Kingdom. Dhaamer won an emotional Grade 3 Sunset Handicap on closing day of the Hollywood Park meet in mid-July under Leparoux. Less than three weeks after surgery, a gaunt Mitchell attended the races for the first time. “I didn’t look as pretty as usual,” said Mitchell with his dry sense of humor. “But it was such a fun thing. We did it all as a family.” Mitchell would like to see the pattern repeat. “I hope to go to some big races with a horse picked out by one son-in-law and ridden by the other son-in-law,” said Mitchell of a leading New Year’s wish. One of the sentimental favorites in Mitchell’s
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barn is a three-year-old filly named Sheaparoux, an imaginative merger of the names of the newlyweds. “The owner, Bob Hutton, came up with the name,” said Mitchell. “He also named one McBoomer for my other daughter and her husband.” “It’s a team effort for sure, actually a family effort,” said Denise. “We’re a triple threat now: trainer, jockey, and bloodstock agent.” All that is needed now is a Triple Crown horse for a perfect ending to the story. Mitchell did not fret during his down time
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because of his confidence in assistant Phil D’Amato overseeing the program. D’Amato, a Southern California native, graduated from USC and attended the University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program. He learned the basics at several barns and tracks in Kentucky, New York, and Florida – most recently under Chuck Simon – before yearning to return home to California eight years ago. “I agreed to see him with the intention that I’d ask around if another trainer needed help, but after I started talking with him, I realized
that this is a kid I need,” said Mitchell, impressed with the interview. “He’s a very hard worker, puts in long hours, and the owners all love him,” said Mitchell. “Phil makes it all work. I like to get his opinion.” Mitchell was happy with his work even before the trial under fire. “It was really a trying time for everybody,” said D’Amato. “But working for Mike for so long, I like to think I was just doing things the way Mike did. I knew his ways like the back of my hand. It was business as usual, training like Mike was still there. “As soon as Mike was well enough after surgery, we were in steady contact every day going over horses,” said D’Amato. “We work as a great team. I feel like an extension of him.” D’Amato has learned a great deal watching his boss. “Mike is an extremely versatile trainer,” said D’Amato. “He doesn’t put a horse in a specific program. He treats each horse as an individual. That’s why he has been so successful. “When he claims a horse, he tries to find the key to unlock the box to the answer the other couldn’t do,” said D’Amato, explaining Mitchell’s ability to elevate claimers into stakes horses. “It seems to be second nature to him. “As an example, we claimed a horse named On the Acorn (for $40,000), and he ran last in his first race for us,” said D’Amato. “He had been a run-off in his previous barn. Mike gelded him and took his time, put our most experienced exercise rider on him, and gave him long gallops on the training track. We could see him go from an unruly horse to a well-mannered one.” On the Acorn became a multiple graded stakes winner on turf, capturing the Grade 2 San Juan Capistrano Handicap in 2007 and the Grade 2 Jim Murray Handicap in 2007 and 2008. “Mike is not just a claiming trainer,” added D’Amato. “He showed that when he won the Hollywood Starlet (a Grade 1 race for twoyear-old fillies in 2006) with Romance is Diane.” D’Amato also lauded Mitchell for his candor with owners. “Mike is very straightforward; he doesn’t sugarcoat things with them,” said D’Amato. “If an owner spent $50,000 for a horse, and Mike thinks he should be running for $25,000, he tells him that. I think he has kept clients loyal to him since he started, like Phil Belmonte and Steve Ustin. for that reason.” D’Amato also appreciated the encouragement he received from Mitchell when he was offered a couple of horses to train on his own for Arizona college classmate Cash Vessels in 2011. “He was gracious and supportive and thought it was a good way to get my feet wet,” said D’Amato, who now trains six on his own but still puts his work for Mitchell first. Mitchell, a California native, has spent all his life around horses. “My dad (trainer Earl
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PROFILE Mitchell) trained for Desi Arnaz at his Corona Breeding Farm when they had Nashville at stud,” said Mitchell of his youth. “Then Dad went to work for Gem State Stable in Tipton, a small town between Bakersfield and Fresno. It was owned by an aunt (Thelma) from Boise, Idaho, who was married to Harry Morrison, who owned a construction company that built Hoover Dam. “I had two older brothers who helped my father on the track, so after I finished high school, he sent me to work on the farm where I was more needed,” said Mitchell, who looked back at the assignment as a blessing. “That was not a bad thing for me,” said Mitchell of the work with ten stallions, 150 mares, and their foals. “A lot of trainers never built that foundation. I learned a lot about breaking babies and the breeding business.” Neither of Mitchell’s brothers remained in racing, and he migrated to the track and began working for several major names: Farrell Jones, Loren Rettele, Ron McAnally, and Willard Proctor. “You had to really work for Proctor, but he was a good horseman,” said Mitchell. “He gave me stalls when I got my first few horses. I remember how good he was to me. Tom Proctor (Willard’s son) and I are real close friends. I never claim horses off him because of my closeness to the family.” Mitchell’s barn at Hollywood Park was close to that of the legendary Frankel and he passed it on his way to the track each morning. “Bobby Frankel was the greatest trainer I’ve ever seen,” said Mitchell. “I learned a lot just watching him.” Mitchell learned his lessons well. When he forged to the top of the career wins list at Del Mar, he passed McAnally, who in turn had passed Jones. That in itself had special meaning. “It felt good to break the record,” said Mitchell, now at 463 at Del Mar. “I worked as a pony boy for Ronnie (McAnally) and have a lot of respect for him. He’s a Hall of Famer and a class act.” Del Mar turned out to be an important site again in 2012. Still weak from surgery, Mitchell managed to be there in the afternoons to see Obviously win the Del Mar Mile on August 25 and Potesta capture the Torrey Pines Stakes on September 2. Both races were run in record clockings for one mile at the coastal facility: Obviously in 1:32.10 on turf, and Potesta in 1:34.86 on Polytrack. In the matter of one week, Mitchell, jockey Joe Talamo, and owners Joe Scardino and Anthony Fanticola
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teamed to account for leaders on both mile surfaces there. Mitchell, by now familiar with coping with adversity, absorbed another blow when the highly regarded Potesta fractured a cannon bone so severely in training in mid-September that her life was in jeopardy. Mitchell was pointing the winner of the Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks to the Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic. “She broke the leg so badly that the bone came through the skin,” said Mitchell. “But her owners (Scardino and Fanticola) are great, great guys. They said, ‘Save her. Do whatever it takes, whatever it costs.’ “We sent her to Alamo Pintado,” said Mitchell of the reputable equine medical
“Mike is an extremely versatile trainer. He doesn’t put a horse in a specific program. He treats each horse as an individual. That’s why he has been so successful” Paul d’Amato center in Los Olivos in the Santa Ynez Valley. “She was a good patient.” The filly must have taken a cue from her trainer to survive. Potesta healed and was sold for $800,000 as a broodmare prospect at the recent Keeneland January sale. Del Mar was also the site of Mitchell’s first Grade 1 victory, with Kela in the 2004 Bing Crosby Handicap, a victory he remembers not only as an important milestone. “When we got married, Denise promised when I won my first Grade 1, she was going to jump into the nearest fountain to celebrate,” said Mitchell. “Shea and McCall called her on it after the Bing Crosby, and she ran into the fountain near the entrance and came out soaking wet.” Major stakes wins became
more common for Mitchell during the last decade, often after claims. “Claiming horses like Ever a Friend and Star Over the Bay and seeing them win Grade 1s have given me some unbelievable thrills,” said Mitchell. Ever a Friend, claimed for $62,500, won the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile in 2008, while Star Over the Bay, claimed for $80,000, won the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes in 2004. Other claims-to-graded-stakes fame include Leprechaun Kid, Kessem Power, Symphony Sid, Sun Boat, Big Booster, and Church Service. Church Service and Big Booster finished second and third, respectively, in the 2008 Breeders’ Cup Marathon. Despite a lengthy list of more accomplished winners, Mitchell places none above a hardtrying claimer named Banker John early in his career. “He was a bad bleeder when I first got him, and he was a real mean horse,” said Mitchell. “He used to bite everybody in the barn, and once he reached over and bit another horse during a race. He was tough. “He was a favorite because he was so competitive,” said Mitchell of the $10,000 claim who earned $130,000. Nowadays Mitchell looks at better stock. Obviously, Dhaamer, and Camp Victory are all poised for more stakes scores in 2013. “I’m pointing Dhaamer to the marathon turf races at Santa Anita,” said Mitchell. “I would like to run Obviously down the hill (6½ furlongs) in the San Simeon Stakes (April 20) and see how he handles that,” continued Mitchell. “That would help me decide whether to try the Breeders’ Cup Mile again or the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (at Santa Anita in November). “Camp Victory loves Hollywood Park but I might run him here once before the summer meet there,” added Mitchell of his ace sprinter. Mitchell has hopes for several other prospects, including another pair of European imports purchased by Rounsefell at the October Tattersalls Sale: a three-year-old filly named Need You Now and a fouryear-old gelding named Big Note. But mostly, Mitchell is just happy to be back at work. n
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T WAS love at first sight. Carroll and his right-hand man, Travis Durr, had just pulled into the backstretch for that sale. “We parked in a corner,” Carroll said. “He was way out in the field. I just glanced out and I could see him maybe 100 yards from me. I just saw the most unusual stride I’ve ever seen. I didn’t know anything about him. I didn’t know if he was a colt, filly or gelding. And I said, `What a walk! What a huge overreach!’” “Overreach” could be Goldencents’ mantra. The $5,500 yearling became a $62,000 two-year-old in training purchase whose three victories in four starts include back-to-back Grade 3 stakes scores for his latest connections: trainer Doug O’Neill, seeking his second consecutive Kentucky Derby; and his brother Dennis, who bought Goldencents at that two-year-old sale for a partnership which includes University of Louisville head basketball coach Rick Pitino. Partners Karyn Pirrello and Charles and Lyra Miller’s Rosecrest Farm, just outside Paris, Kentucky, bred Goldencents, a son of Into Mischief out of the Banker’s Gold mare Golden Works. “Karyn bought the dam in 2007 at Keeneland for $7,000,” Charles Miller said.
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The road to the Kentucky Derby begins long before a young colt makes his first start. Goldencents had traveled from Kentucky to South Carolina to Florida to California before he ever ran. But it’s the way that Goldencents walked that convinced pinhooker Webb Carroll to purchase the colt for $5,500 in the October, 2011, Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale. WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM, JUDIT & TIBOR PHOTOGRAPHY
“She was the one who selected the sire. Goldencents was born and raised on our farm.” Miller believed Goldencents’ pedigree was better than it appeared on paper, even though Into Mischief was an unproven sire. “Golden Works had a bad rap about her progeny,” he said. “She had a Posse colt, a very nice colt, and he developed a disease and died. Then, she had a nice filly by Action This Day, who was on our farm, and then was sold as a yearling. She was injured on another farm and had to be put down. Bad luck. Then Golden Works was bred to Into Mischief.” Goldencents didn’t have the look of an eagle
in his eye or the immense size of a Forego, but he did make an impression on Miller. “Most horses hang out with their mom,” he said. “He walked away. He wanted to explore. He was an outgoing, gregarious foal.” Still, Goldencents wasn’t a “wow” yearling. “He was not the horse who jumped out at you in terms of his physicality,” Miller said. “He was okay. He was a big colt and he had a big hip. But nobody looked at him and said, ‘He’s the next Derby winner.’ He had a nice walk, but you have to remember, the sire hadn’t done a thing. There wasn’t anything that stood out.” Selling him made sense, and Miller turned to
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his friend at Crestwood Farm, Pope McLean, to consign him for the October yearling sale, the last one of the year in Kentucky. “We can’t take too much credit for him,” Crestwood Farm director Pope McLean Jr., said. “We only had him for two weeks. Webb’s a friend of ours. He caught his eye. He really liked the horse.” Robert Keck, Crestwood’s pedigree and bloodstock advisor, was impressed with Goldencents’ physical appearance. “This is not 20-20 hindsight,” he said. “We thought he was outstanding physically, but with limited breeding. He had great cannon bones, a beautiful hind leg, great pasterns and a great pastern angle. He moved real nice. He was correct through the knees. Honestly, I don’t know why more people weren’t interested in him.” Webb Carroll isn’t a stranger to quality horses. “We turn out winners,” he said. “Shackleford, Havre de Grace, War Emblem, Tale of the Cat.” Goldencents? After seeing him walk from a distance, Carroll wondered, “Was he a freak? We had him walk to us and away from us. He was correct. I looked him up in the catalog. I saw that Into Mischief had nothing. The dam hadn’t done anything. I said this sure isn’t a lot
“I said this sure isn’t a lot of pedigree, but I don’t spend a lot of money. They really need to walk well. This horse had that” Webb Carroll
of pedigree, but I don’t spend a lot of money. They really need to walk well. This horse had that. I knew he had vetted well. I said, ‘Okay, let’s keep our eyes on him.’ I thought the horse would bring $15,000 to $25,000. I was willing to go that much or a little higher.” Keck was hoping for a little more: “At the time, his pedigree wasn’t very marketable, but we thought he could bring $35,000-$40,000 on his looks. He’ll catch somebody’s eyes.” He had: Carroll’s. But nobody else. Carroll got Goldencents for $5,500. “I was shocked that we got him for what we did,” he said. Then Carroll took him home to his farm, the Webb Carroll Training Center in Matthews, South Carolina. Carroll would break him as well as a $5,000 yearling from that sale he didn’t own, Seaneen Girl, who would go on to capture the Grade II Golden Rod Stakes at Churchill Downs last November. Carroll said Goldencents developed typical two-year-old shin problems. “We didn’t give him 30 days off,” he said. ”We just brought him along at a slower pace.” Still, he prospered. Carroll thought he’d enter Goldencents in the Fasig-Tipton Timonium Two-Year-Olds in Training Sale last May in Maryland, but decided to enter him
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instead in the Ocala Breeders’ Two-Year-Olds in Training and Older Horse Sale the following month. Carroll, though, was told that the nominations for the sale were closed. Then he caught a break. The sales company decided to have an addendum, and Carroll sent Goldencents and two other horses to Greg Dodd at Southern Chase Farm in Florida to be prepped. “Travis had him ready when he got here,” Dodd said. “I told Travis, `I really didn’t do anything.’ We didn’t have the horse but ten days or two weeks. He was a real nice horse with a big walk in him. Nobody has a crystal ball, but he’s a nice horse.” Susan Montanye, a freelance exercise rider, agreed wholeheartedly. “I’ve been riding for Greg Dodd and other consignors,” she said. “I prepped him and I breezed him at the sale. I really, really liked the colt. He’s smart. He’s also class. There’s something about him.” Goldencents made that apparent when he breezed a quarter in :211/5 for the sale. “I sit on so many horses,” Montanye said. “He did everything so easy.” Then she made selling Goldencents easy by sharing her opinion of the colt with Dennis O’Neill. “I said to Dennis, ‘I breezed 76 horses just for the June sale, and there’s two horses I breezed that you need to buy.’ Goldencents was one of them. He didn’t even have the addendum. I dragged him over there.” Carroll was delighted to tell O’Neill Goldencents’ story. “Dennis said, ‘He doesn’t have a lot of (catalog) page, but he sure was nice breezing. We’ll bid on the horse,’” Carroll said.
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“You don’t have to spend a lot of money. It gives the little guy a chance. You can have a little bit of luck and have a big horse” Travis Durr When O’Neill did, so did someone else. “Some competition jumped in there, and they ran him right up,” Carroll said. The hammer fell at $62,000 for a partnership of Pitino’s RAP Racing, Dave
Kenney, and the W.C. Racing Stable of Josh Kaplan and Glen Sorgenstein. The O’Neills were thrilled with Goldencents as he trained forwardly for his debut. “Dennis said this horse was special and will win his first out,” Carroll said. Goldencents won his debut at Del Mar by 7¼ lengths. He then traveled cross country to finish second by five lengths to Shanghai Bobby in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes. Shanghai Bobby would add the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and be named champion two-year-old colt. Goldencents followed his only loss with victories in those two Grade 3 stakes, the Delta Jackpot by 1¾ lengths at Delta Downs and the Sham by a length and a half at Santa Anita at 2-5. His bankroll topped $750,000 in his first four starts. “He’s an exceptionally nice horse,” Carroll said. “For us to have a horse like that, we can say we bought this horse, we gave him the opportunity to be the best he could be, and we put him in a two-year-old sale, and he excelled. It just makes you so happy when something like this happens. You need to take a chance on a horse and do right by him. Sometimes it’s more what you don’t do. Bro, the rest is history.” Travis Durr said, “It’s great. First of all, you get to know you picked the right horse to get on that Derby trail. It’s good for the business. You don’t have to spend a lot of money. It gives the little guy a chance. You can have a little bit of luck and have a big horse.” Montanye said she was “privileged to get on him. I’m happy for the entire team.” n
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VETERINARY INTRODUCTION The horse appears to have developed as a very highly specialized locomotor machine, well adapted for travel over long distances at moderate rates of speed, and with the additional capability of quite high rates of speed for short distances. Perhaps the horse is the most efficient running machine that has ever evolved, and probably no other vertebrate has had as many structural adaptations for rapid and untiring progress on the ground. The third metacarpal and metatarsal bones have undergone extensive elongation and have been combined with a grouping of muscles at the proximal end of the limb. This design provides a long lever arm with very powerful muscle drivers. In addition, a large number of muscles have been reduced in size, while others have been incorporated with tendoligamentous structures that have resulted in a marked degree of automaticity in lower limb leg junction. Once in a full run, the muscle drivers of the shoulders and rear quarters supply the power, while from the knee down, the tendons and ligaments act like rubber bands and the movement of the limbs is nearly automatic. Furthermore, the large lungs and thorax suggest a locomotor adaptation that provides a large tidal volume of air for efficient long distance running. The first written records of gait studies in horses can be traced back to the Greek historian Xenophon (434-355 B.C.). However, it has only been within the end of the 19th Century, and the beginning of the 20th Century, that the correct sequence of horses’ hooves striking the ground was discovered (Muybridge, 1899). Since the beginning of the 20th Century, many modern technologies have been utilized for gait studies in horses. As a result, many scientific studies have allowed the various gaits of many different species to be fully defined. Gaits fall into two categories: symmetrical
The evolutionary history of the horse, Equus caballus, has been well documented. Due to the large abundance of bone and especially teeth in the fossil records, the horse is the single most cited paradigm of evolution. In the United States alone there are in excess of a half a million specimens of fossil horses in museums and academic collections. The modern day horse is the result of sequential changes in Hyracotherium, a dog-sized, four-toed creature some 55 million years ago. WORDS: DAVID EARL WILLIAMS MS, Ph.D PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM, SHUTTERSTOCK
and asymmetrical. In the horse, symmetrical gaits are the walk and the trot, where once in motion, no “lead” foot is required. In contrast to the symmetrical gaits of the walk and trot, the asymmetrical gait of the gallop requires the horse to establish a “lead” foot; either the left or the right. There are two major variations of the asymmetrical gallop gait: the transverse gallop and the rotary gallop. When a horse is at a full run, as in a race, it must utilize the transverse gallop. The trailing hind limb hits the ground first, followed by the leading opposite hind limb that hits the ground second. Then the trailing fore limb hits the ground third, followed by the leading fore limb that hits the ground fourth, thus completing the sequence. The last limb that hits the ground in the sequence is the leading forelimb, thus establishing a “lead.” The transverse gallop is necessary due to the fact that horses have very little lateral motion and nearly equal straddle, and to prevent limb interference. The limited lateral motion of the horse is analogous to a spoke in a wagon wheel, and normally stays in the plane of the wheel. If
The cheetah’s ability to arch his back means it can use the rotary gallop at high speeds
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all four wheels are the same size, and the front wheels are almost touching the hind wheels, the wagon would display equal straddle analogous to the horse. Each individual limb of the horse must stay in its “designated” area to prevent interference with the other limbs. If the wagon was tweaked into a parallelogram with the right front wheel being forward, the wagon would display a right “lead” wheel; both of the wheels on the same side are leading the opposite wheels on the other side. If the wagon was tweaked into a parallelogram with the left front wheel in front, the wagon would display a left “lead” wheel. Therefore, the front and hind limbs of the horse must use the same lead when traveling at high speeds to avoid interference. In contrast is the rotary gallop, which is utilized by the cheetah. During the rotary gallop, the trailing hind limb hits the ground first, followed by the opposite leading limb. At this point the hind limbs have established a “lead.” The third limb that hits the ground in the rotary gallop is the trailing forelimb, however, it hits on the same side as the leading forelimb. Finally, the leading forelimb hits the ground and the sequence is complete. This means that in the rotary gallop that the hind limb lead pattern is opposite of the front limb lead pattern. The cheetah places both hind feet in front of the front feet when progressing to the next stride. Thus the hind limbs must straddle the front limbs to avoid interference. Due to the cheetah’s ability to arch his back it can use the rotary gallop at high speeds. Racehorses may utilize the rotary gallop stride pattern at very slow speeds; however, due to their rigid spine and limited lateral motion they cannot straddle the front limbs with their hind limbs. Therefore, at high speeds generated by racehorses while performing, these particular equine athletes tend to use the transverse gallop as a rule. As previously described, while using the asymmetrical gallop gait, a racehorse must establish a lead foot of either the right or the left. When passing by on the track, a racehorse leaves distinctive hoof prints on the track surface that are indicative as to which lead
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The gallop gait is divided into two phases (above and below). Phase one is the stance phase when one or more of the horses hooves are on the track surface
stride pattern the horse has utilized. The gallop gait is divided into two phases 1). the stance phase when one or more of the horses hooves are on the track surface, and 2). the suspension phase when the horse is fully airborne. When performing, a full gallop is the alternation between the stance phase and the suspension phase repeated over and over. While repeating the asymmetrical gait of the gallop at high speeds during performance, the racehorse has the option of choosing which lead to use, and can change lead patterns at anytime during progression in a straight line. In the racehorse, there is a direct link between breathing and galloping, with exactly one breath per stride. Because horses have no collarbone, the motion of the forelimbs is tied directly to the ribs and spine by the horse’s powerful muscles. When the forelimbs strike the track surface at the run, the compressive loading transmitted through the legs forces the ribs upward, which physically squeezes the air out of the lungs. Simultaneously, the horse is lowering its head and neck, which presses the ribcage backwards adding to the compressive effect. Finally the front of the body is decelerating at this instant in the gallop cycle as the forelimbs make contact with the track surface; this causes the internal organs, which are attached to the diaphragm by springy ligaments, to push forward and gives the lungs a further squeeze. The entire process of the front limbs pushing upwards on the ribcage, the downward motion of the head and neck squeezing the ribcage, and the anterior movement of the internal organs, cause an effect similar to that of a bellows. This suggests that the racehorse, while performing, has very little or no control of the expiration phase of breathing. As the horse’s head and neck are raised and the load is lifted from the forelimbs, the rib cage and the sternum are then forced forward and down; the front of the body accelerates once again and the “piston” formed by the internal organs slides backwards. Both of these actions cause the lungs to expand drawing in air while the horse is in the suspension phase of the gallop, during which time the limbs are tucked under the horse preparing for the next stance phase. The mechanical process described above provides evidence that breathing in a racehorse, while performing, is synchronized to the transverse gallop gait and pace. When the frequency of limb contact on the track surface increases, the frequency of breathing increases as well. There is exactly one breath per stride. Therefore, inspiration occurs during the racehorse’s suspension phase as the forelimbs are entirely airborne, and the expiration occurs during the stance phase as the forelimbs make contact with the track surface.
DISCUSSION The second phase is the suspension phase when the horse is fully airborne
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Now, let’s take a close look at the length of stride in a racehorse. As previously described
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BIOMECHANICS there are two phases in the transverse gallop gait in which a racehorse utilises while performing: the stance phase and the suspension phase. In addition, there is a stance phase and suspension phase for the left lead stride pattern and a stance phase and suspension phase for the right lead stride pattern. Therefore, the stride length is the distance of the stance phase added to the suspension phase. This is easily measured on the track surface. The distance from the trailing hind limb (that hits the track surface first) to the leading forelimb (that hits the track surface last) will reveal the stance phase. The distance from the “lead” foot to the trailing hind limb of the next stride will reveal the suspension phase. Simple! For the sake of discussion lets say an individual horse has a 21-foot stride generated from the simple formula Stance Phase + Suspension Phase = Stride Length. Let’s assume that the stance phase is 15 feet and the suspension phase is six feet; thus a 21-foot stride. Another individual horse may have a 16foot stance phase and a five-foot suspension phase therefore also producing a 21-foot stride. As one can easily see, there are numerous combinations of both phases that can generate a 21-foot stride, especially in lieu of the fact that
we can measure in even smaller increments than a foot. It is also possible that an individual horse may have a 21-foot stride in one lead and an entirely different stride length in the other. There is a wide range of variance in racehorses’ stance phases and suspension phases, thus a wide range of variance in total stride lengths. In addition, there is a wide range of variance in each individual racehorse’s left lead stride
“If a horse breathes in more air during the suspension phase than it can exhale in the stance phase an oxygen debt is most likely to occur” pattern and its right lead stride pattern. Recall that there is exactly a 1:1 ratio of breath per stride. If the suspension phase could be increased the time of inspiration would be increased. Therefore, suggesting that the “time” of the stance phase would also need to increase to allow the horse to fully expire the tidal
volume of inspiration. We all know that with an increase of time that a horse spends in the stance phase (on the track surface); the slower the horse. This is not a good trait in a racehorse! In addition, oxygen consumption comes into play. If a horse breathes in more air during the suspension phase than it can exhale in the stance phase an oxygen debt is most likely to occur, especially when one takes into consideration the many strides a horse takes while performing. The same would be true if the timing of the stance phase did not match the timing of the suspension phase. Therefore, the optimal racehorse would have an equal time of inspiration and expiration; any alteration of timing of stride would be an alteration of breath, leading to an alteration of oxygen consumption. It is well known that oxygen consumption is one of the leading limiting factors in athletic performance in any mammal, which includes the horse, of course. This is exactly why a cheetah cannot run full speed over 65-75 yards – it runs out of oxygen. The cheetah must lift its heavy, muscular legs, taking a large amount of energy. It has two air phases, its stride is not directly linked to breath, and it utilises the rotary gallop gait. So, to compare the horse to the cheetah, is well, apples and oranges. n
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INDUSTRY William Fox-Pitt on Parklane Hawk, who raced as Park Lane until the age of seven, on his way to overall victory in the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event
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OFF-TRACK THOROUGHBREDS: Reversing the decline “The horse is God's gift to mankind.” Arabian Proverb
“Anything free has no value.” Anonymous
Here is a recent transaction that is not uncommon on the racetrack: Michael Matz, in a chance conversation with a fellow trainer at Gulfstream Park, finds a second home for a filly in his stable whose racing career has run its course. “I just thought after the owners spent six months on training, she’s not going to be good enough for what they want. I’m sitting there talking to John Servis, and he said, ‘I have a girl up in Pennsylvania. Let me give her a call. She takes these horses and tries to find where to fit it in.’” The girl took the filly from Matz. WORDS: KEN SNYDER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM
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OUR decades ago, a sport horse trainer would have bought that same off-track Thoroughbred (OTTB). That’s not the only thing, though, that has changed with the times. Steuart Pittman, president of the Retired Racehorse Training Project (RRTP) and a sport horse trainer, illustrates with a startling fact: “The statistics from the U.S. Equestrian Foundation show that 40% of registered show horses 40 years ago were Thoroughbreds, and 10% are today.” If Thoroughbreds are free off the racetrack, why aren’t they representing at least 40% of sport horses in competitions? Supply and demand economics has been a factor. So has sport horse buyers looking for sales commissions. Lack of marketing has played a role. A trend in something seemingly removed from breed selection as judging in horse shows has been a function in the decline. Thoroughbred breeding practices are pointed to as a possible culprit in the loss of interest.
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INDUSTRY Follow the money “There’s more supply than demand for horses coming off the track,” said Steuart Pittman. “Prices decline and when prices get low enough, then the horses are considered almost disposable, of very little value. People start using words like ‘rescue’, and it becomes the norm for the horses to be given away, a tax write-off to a non-profit. When the value is that low, the professional trainer and horse dealers walk away because there’s no money in it for them.” Indeed, agents typically buy horses for equestrian clients. “The more the client pays for a horse, the more the trainer gets in commissions. In eventing, they love Thoroughbreds. But in the hunter-jumper world it’s just been very profitable for the dealers, the trainers, to go to the European Warmbloods where the prices and the commissions are higher.” Aggressive marketing of competing breeds has provided an unpinning for pre-disposing American equestrians in the market. Breed associations “run ads in all of the major equestrian publications regularly. They have websites that promote their breeds, and they make a big deal of it when one of theirs wins something,” Pittman said. Meanwhile, associations like The Jockey Club have only tried to recapture the place of Thoroughbreds in sport horse disciplines in the past few years. Matz, who has a unique perspective on Thoroughbreds’ fitness for sport horse disciplines as a former Olympic rider, has had a ringside seat to the “battle of the breeds” in equestrian sports. “I remember when I first rode [in Europe], some of those horses [Europeanbred non-Thoroughbreds] were so heavy and cold-blooded,” he said. “What is amazing is the Europeans were taking the Thoroughbred breed over there and we were bringing in these heavy things over here for us.” The trend, which essentially began in the 80s and 90s, fit well with an era where judging changed to fit the breeds in competitions. “They
“What is amazing is the Europeans were taking the Thoroughbred breed over there and we were bringing in these heavy things over here for us” Michael Matz wanted a horse to be so dead instead of seeing a horse gallop around and jump,” Matz said. This fit well with more than a few riders, too. “There were all these kids that wanted to learn to ride that maybe weren’t the most talented, so the trainer would get them a horse that was a little bit cold-blooded,” Matz continued. Pittman takes it a step further: “The typical equestrian became less likely to be from a rural household and more likely to be a suburbanite. These are people who didn’t grow up around horses.” There was a perception that OTTBs were less safe for these “city kids.” There is a perception, too, that Thoroughbred
breeding has resulted in conformation not suited to sport horse disciplines – smaller, quicker horses between 15 and 16 hands on average. Perception is not reality, according to Pittman. “I used to believe the racing industry was breeding for speed and short distances to create two-year-old winners, and that was creating horses that were less suited for jumping and dressage.” But what he found was that modern Thoroughbred breeding is “still producing amazing sport horses.” So what is the truth? Are OTTBs as good as they ever were for sport horse disciplines and better than Warmblood competitors? Matz provides the bottom line: “Some people are very good athletes. Some people aren’t athletic. It’s the same with horses. It’s very hard to just categorize.”
More trainable than non-racers “I’m from the sport horse world and feel strongly that people in my world need to rediscover the quality and the trainability of the Thoroughbred off the track,” said Pittman. “The Warmblood crosses are still not as intelligent in my opinion, not as trainable, and not as forward thinking in their work. The heart and mind of a Thoroughbred are unique.” He also believes the flight instinct in Thoroughbreds makes them “quicker in their minds, which makes them learn more quickly and react to less pressure.” Pittman additionally suggests another surprising attribute of the Thoroughbred: “Not only are Thoroughbreds more trainable than the European Warmblood, but Thoroughbreds that have raced are more trainable than horses that have not. “When they come off the racetrack they have learned to go forward, and so they are straight. It’s easier to get them to go forward; they’re braver.” The environment from which ex-racers have come also works in their favour, Pittman believes. “They’ve been exposed to chaos. There’s nothing they’ll ever see that’s more chaotic than a crowd of people cheering as they gallop down the homestretch, the paddock, and everything else they see at the track, even the gate. They’ve learned to trust people. They’ve been handled every day. “My experience is that taking a horse off the racetrack at four years old or five and turning it into a sport three-day eventing competitor, I can get it to the preliminary level of eventing, which is mid-level – a significant level – in about half the time it would take me to get a homebred horse from the time I started it as a three-yearold to that level.”
Reversing the trend
Becky Holder on her new star Can't Fire Me, who earned just $405 as a racehorse, in the Rolex Kentucky Three Day Event
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In an oft-repeated quote, veteran eventing coach and Olympian Jimmy Wofford said, “When I was riding professionally, I couldn’t believe that people would pay me to ride Thoroughbreds. It was the Warmbloods that made me work for a living.”
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OFF-TRACK THOROUGHBREDS There is rich irony in Wofford’s quote given the state of Thoroughbreds in sport horse disciplines. Today it is taking a significant amount of money to put Thoroughbreds into sport horse riding disciplines and horse shows. This year, as in the past three, the Jockey Club will pump $100,000 into its Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) to encourage Thoroughbred-only divisions and high-point awards to Thoroughbreds in sanctioned horse shows. The efforts are succeeding. “In 2012, there were 167 horse shows that offered T.I.P. awards,” according to the Jockey Club’s Kristin Leshney, who administrates the program. “For 2013, we received about 400 applications from horse shows. We’re going to approve 370 for 2013 and that covers 46 states and Canadian provinces.” As significant as the efforts of the Jockey Club is the response of the sport horse world. “We’ve had a lot of support from the national discipline organizations,” said Leshney. Specifically, the U.S. Hunter-Jumper Association (USHJA) has established a task force to explore how the association can attract more Thoroughbreds. This body has an eye towards a national umbrella organization for Thoroughbred organizations. The goal, ultimately, is a U.S. Equestrian Foundation-rated division for Thoroughbreds in hunter-jumper competitions, the discipline where Thoroughbreds have most experienced a decline. “They’re pretty committed to how to reverse that trend,” Leshney said of the USHJA. Michael Matz, who spoke to the USHJA’s annual meeting in 2011, believes the efforts of the Jockey Club will produce results. “Recently, there’s been this big influx of shows that are for Thoroughbreds. They just had a show down here in Florida and they had an overwhelming turnout. I think the Thoroughbred is making a comeback.” What is unquestioned, at least in Matz’s mind is the inherent quality of the breed. “A good Thoroughbred is as good as they get in the jumping arena. You get a good one, they have the heart and the fight and they’re very competitive.” Other Thoroughbred organizations may have taken note of Jockey Club efforts and are following suit. Just this past year the New York Racing Association and the New York Thoroughbred Horseman’s Association launched Career2 to foster and encourage second careers for retired Thoroughbreds on the New York state eventing circuit. Of course, non-profit organizations like CANTER (The Communications Alliance to Network Thoroughbred Ex-Racehorses), New Vocation Racehorse Adoption Program, and ReRun, Inc., to name only a few, will always continue to find homes for Thoroughbreds. More important, they will find careers for OTTBs. Steuart Pittman lauds the work of non-profits like CANTER but believes the real solution is re-establishing second careers through the private sectors. His own interest in injecting Thoroughbreds back into the sport horse spotlight and establishment of his Retired Racehorse Training Project began with a tremendous response to a public event. He conducted a symposium on training horses off the racetrack in 2009. “Three hundred and fifty people showed up from ten states paying $25 apiece for four hours to watch us with horses at different levels of training.” Following the symposium Pittman launched a Trainer Challenge in which three sport horse trainers each worked with an OTTB at the Maryland Horse Expo. The trainers worked with the horses for five weeks then showed off the results at the Pennsylvania Horse World Expo. The RRTP’s website chronicled the training and it received more than 250,000 hits. The RRTP will likely top this promotion with this year’s 100-Day Challenge. Four former racers will go through training and videos from Day One through Day 100. Through the website viewers will be able to track progress daily and vote for their favorite. Former champion two-year-old Declan’s Moon, now 11, is one of the four learning sport horse disciplines this year. How successful the resurgence of OTTBs can be is dependent not only through ongoing and successful efforts in placing more Thoroughbreds in the equestrian world but also by developing a value for OTTBs. “If you can get $5,000 for your horse that is retiring sound, then maybe it’s not worth running it in those last few claiming races,” Pittman said. This brings us back to the horse from Michael Matz going to Pennsylvania. The price, remember, was absolutely nothing.
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It’s time to do the right thing
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E HAVE heard it before: “Exracehorse wins Kentucky Three Day Event” or “Racetrack failure Courageous Comet looking to shine at World Equestrian Games.” You don’t think of Michael Matz as a failed show jumper because he changed careers to train racehorses, do you? Far from it. He retired from a very successful show jumping career and is now a Kentucky Derby-winning trainer. The same thought process applies to ex-racehorses who have found their niche in other disciplines. As horsemen and horsewomen, should we be looking outside the barn, so to speak, and take more responsibility for these animals? It says more about a horseman’s natural skill and talent if he can see a racehorse is going to waste in training and could lead a happier life in another equestrian sphere. The plight of what are classed as racing’s failures has gained increasing publicity in recent years and it is knowing what alternatives there are that is a significant issue. Of course, not every off-track Thoroughbred (OTTB) is suitable to find a home for, but then neither should a horse simply be shipped off to anyone willing to take it on. Recently, a photo of a horse was placed with a “two weeks till slaughter” notice on a very well-known public media site. This horse had won a few thousand dollars in prize-money but was never going to be a world-beater. He had been sold to a complete novice who, after four years of bad management and lack of knowledge, was too scared to handle him. Apparently, this person had never owned a horse before and was never questioned over her ability to ride. The question is: whose fault is it that this horse ended up on death row? The new owner, or the owner/trainer who financially gained from selling him to such a novice? Part of a trainer’s remit should be education into what to do with these horses,
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The plight of the Thoroughbred without a future in racing is a growing concern, but a change of attitude and an awareness of all the options in place could give these horses a happier alternative life. WORDS: SUZY CROSSMAN
what the options are and how, with minimal effort, the bar could be raised on how much OTTBs are worth. Professionals should be working closer together to assure that success stories become the norm, and harrowing tales of neglect a thing of the past. The horse world has always been competitive: the racehorse trainer thinks dressage riders can’t really ride; the event riders think show jumpers are not brave enough to ride cross country; and welfare charities are thought to be run by ‘horsey dogooders.’ The common denominator is that in realistic terms the horse world could not function without any of the above. So, it is about time we started working together towards equine welfare.
Let’s begin Say you have a four-year-old gelding who has performed poorly in all of his starts and the owner wants to get rid of him. What are you going to do? Ask yourself these questions: l What is his temperament like? l Does he have good conformation and is he sound and in good health? l Does he move well? l Is he easy enough to handle? The best-case scenario answers are that he moves well, he has a good nature, and is generally in good health, soundness, and of good conformation. What could he go on to do? The list is endless: he could be an event horse, a hunter/jumper, a show horse, or even a police horse. Even if he just became a pony or companion horse on a farm, the important thing is that he will be well cared for through the rest of his days.
The options Speak to CANTER in your region. CANTER is a network solution to connect buyers and sellers of ex-racehorses online. Covering many of the U.S. states, it is a non-profit organization started in 1997 and will not charge to advertise horses who need homes. Occasionally, in a worst-case scenario where maybe the owner of a horse has hit financial hard times or for a good reason can no longer care for his Thoroughbred, the horse can be donated to CANTER. Obviously there’s no financial reward for this option but your horse would be in expert hands. CANTER’s re-homed horses are successful in more than just the competition world; in Delaware, OTTBs are being used as police mounts. Look at classified advertisements for professionals used to retraining ex-racehorses. Build a relationship with a re-trainer you can trust and who knows what he or she is doing. Many Thoroughbreds take relatively little time to adjust to life off the track and so for a minimal financial outlay your racetrack failure worth cents may find its niche in life and have a greater sales value. Make contact with a well-respected horse agent. There are plenty all over the world and these are the people who will act on your behalf if you think the horse you have in your barn has the quality, talent and nature to go on to a professional career in another discipline. Agents have the contacts to place your horses with the right people and often for a very decent financial return. Whatever option you take, be honest. If your horse is difficult to saddle or has dietary requirements then it is important to say so. If you have managed to deal with your horse’s special needs, it is likely someone else can, too.
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OFF-TRACK THOROUGHBREDS USEFUL CONTACTS If you are in any doubt what to do with horses ready to leave your training establishment then any of the contacts below would be happy to advise. Their websites are full of useful information and they are there to ensure OTTBs don’t end up in the wrong hands. Madeline Auerbach Founder & Board Chairman www.carma4horses.org
Smokey Stoker, a Grade 2 winner, going through his paces in the show jumping arena
Worst-case scenario You send him to your local auction and hope that someone makes the minimal bid. The horse may get lucky; a farmer or someone looking for a riding horse may be attracted to him. Or, just as easily, he could fall into the wrong hands and for cents end up in the hands of a kill buyer. Just because your horse did not get you into the Hall of Fame, does he deserve this fate? He was valuable enough for you to put him into training, so surely he is worth an advertisement or a couple of phone calls to see that he finds a good home. Alternatively, the horse could be unsound or mentally unsuitable to be ridden in a new life. In this case you should contact the many charities that now run to give these horses some quality of life in retirement.
What the industry needs to do The industry, from the grass roots up, needs to take responsibility for the animals that give us so much entertainment and pleasure. If you bred it, trained it, or owned it then some of the responsibility should fall back on you. There needs to be tougher regulations, improved welfare checks and better education. If a percentage from every race entry fee went into one central trust set up for the care and retraining of these horses then everyone involved in getting that horse to the track would ensure it had the best chance when leaving it. The common myths often associated with OTTBs have to be dealt with. A Warmblood is just as likely as a Thoroughbred to throw an uneducated rider. A Quarter Horse is just as likely to become hard to handle if fed or treated incorrectly. Promotion through media is key and the use of social media may play its part in highlighting those in the business who earn their living from these horses but pay no respect when they’ve outlived their usefulness.
Supporting programs, associations, and charities In every state there are various charities and
organizations to help, support, and advise. They offer services from re-homing to sponsoring show classes and promoting equine welfare. Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P) This year The Jockey Club will disburse $100,000 in prize-money and prizes in kind to more than 375 shows in a number of U.S. states and Canadian provinces. With a reward of $5,000 for both Thoroughbred of the Year and Young Rider of the Year, placing your ‘failure’ in the right hands could prove both profitable and offer your training establishment positive publicity. For further information visit www.tjctip.com. TAKE2 and Career2 The New York Racing Association (NYRA), together with The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association (NYTHA) and New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB), joined forces to support these two programs to help, sponsor and promote the Thoroughbred in horse shows. They aim to support the relative state associations to develop individual Thoroughbred showcases. For further information visit www.ntraaftercare.com NTRA Safety and Integrity Alliance Aftercare This offers a comprehensive Aftercare Organization Locator on their website www.ntraaftercare.com. Retired Racehorse Training Project This is a project to increase demand for retired Thoroughbred racehorses as pleasure and sport horses through public events, clinics, training publications, videos and internet tools. They offer online listings of horses available and also a trainer’s directory for those looking for a professional to retrain an ex-racehorse. Visit www.retiredracehorsetraining.org
Your response As the person at the forefront of training these
Erin Crady Executive Director Thoroughbred Charities of America PO Box 910668, Lexington, KY 40591 www.tca.org Anna Ford Program Director New Vocations www.horseadoption.com Nancy Koch Executive Director, CANTER USA www.canterusa.org Jane Gilbert President ReRun www.rerun.org Lucinda Mandella Executive Director, CARMA www.carma4horses.org Karl Nobert Upperville Racing LLC www.uppervilleracing.com Diana Pikulski Executive Director – External Affairs Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation www.trfinc.org Steuart Pittman Retired Racehorse Training Project www.retiredracehorsetraining.org Jan Roehl Executive Director Thoroughbred Horse Show Association www.tbhorseshow.com
horses we respect your opinion. We would like to hear your views on how the re-homing system could be improved, your own success stories on horses changing codes and what you think the industry needs to do to support the owners, breeders and trainers with horses beyond their racing and breeding careers.
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New thoughts on Thoroughbred throats
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It’s the roar of the crowds, not the roaring of his horses, that Kiaran McLaughlin, trainer of Invasor, 2007’s Horse of the Year, likes to hear. As any experienced trainer will testify, throat problems like “roaring” are all too frequent. Roaring is one the most common causes of respiratoryrelated poor performance in Thoroughbreds and has attracted a great deal of interest from the equine community. Although surgeries for the condition were first attempted over 150 years ago, the success rate remains less than ideal. WORDS: Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc PHOtOS: ROBIN PeteRSON
CLAUGHLIN admits he hasn’t had great luck with throat surgeries in the past. He lamented, “I just wish there was something else we could do.” Veterinary researchers and surgeons agree that improvements are needed, which drives them to seek solutions to owners’ and trainers’ pleas for better results. This article looks at the most up-to-date information on how best to diagnose and treat roaring. Novel, promising treatment options that can be used with the classic “tie-back” surgery are also discussed.
To roar or not to roar When you are standing on the rail in the morning, the sound of a roarer galloping past you is fairly distinctive. The noise is caused by the left arytenoid cartilage (see sidebars) drooping into the opening of the larynx. The underlying cause of the problem is dysfunction of the left recurrent laryngeal nerve. When that nerve fails to function properly, it stops signaling the left arytenoid cartilage to pull back during exercise. If a horse can’t move enough air to the lungs during exercise – in this case because the arytenoid cartilage is blocking
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airflow – they cannot perform their best. This is why roarers tend to fade or even stop during the latter part of a race. In contrast, the arytenoid cartilages in normal horses abduct fully to allow a large volume of air to move unobstructed through the throat.
In the eye of the beholder As easy as an abnormal arytenoid cartilage should be to recognize, it is not always that straightforward. “It can be extremely challenging to diagnose the cause of the noise,” explained James C. Hunt Jr., DVM, a private practitioner at Belmont Park in New York. Over the course of Dr. Hunt’s 30 year career, he has scoped thousands of horses, including Curlin, Invasor, and Rags to Riches. Hunt said, “For starters, the horse usually needs to work or run atleastfive-eighths of a mile before fatigue occurs and the roaring sound can be heard. Most people don’t breeze farther than that, so if you’re relying on your ears to detect a problem, you’re going to miss a lot of roarers.” He went on to explain that a routine resting “scope” (examination of the horse’s throat with an endoscope) can only tell you so much.
“When vets scope, what we see is not always what is happening on the track. Even if they were making noise on the track, if we scope them right away the horse could be completely abducted. If you scope them again 30-40 minutes later then you may see the asymmetry,” said Hunt. By “asymmetry” Hunt means that the right and left arytenoid cartilages are not opening in an either equal or symmetric manner. “Scoping the horse on a treadmill or using a dynamic scope can give us a lot of information,” Hunt noted. Dynamic scoping involves breezing a horse with a scope in the horse’s airway. It is a valuable tool that allows veterinarians to record exactly how the throat is functioning under race conditions. Scoping on a treadmill also remains a viable option to help diagnose upper airway disorders that could be overlooked with standing (resting) endoscopy. In the right hands, ultrasound is another important diagnostic option. Cornell University researchers used ultrasound in 154 horses with a history of poor performance due to upper airway disease. In their report, scheduled to be published in an upcoming edition of the journal Veterinary Radiology and Ultrasound, the authors concluded, “…ultrasound offers many
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advantages for diagnosing RLN [Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve] in horses. Ultrasound is noninvasive, depicts a real-time view of the tissues, and is widely available…. Ultrasound should not be used as a replacement for endoscopy, but to help refine case selection for dynamic endoscopic examination either by treadmill or overground testing.” Eric Parente, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, an associate professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania's New Bolton Center, concurred with Hunt regarding the importance of properly diagnosing the horse’s throat problem. “The first step to success is obtaining an accurate diagnosis,” advised Parente.
Should the horse go for surgery? One of the most common questions that owners and trainers ask veterinarians when faced with a roarer is, “Can they still race or do they need to go for surgery?” Experts agree that just because a horse is making noise does not mean they must head straight to surgery; it depends on how asymmetric, or “lazy,” the left arytenoid cartilage is. McLaughlin mentioned, “We don’t tend to do anything with horses with a lazy left cord
[arytenoid cartilage] until it is compromising their performance.” Parente advised, “When performance is impacted, then it is time to consider surgery even if a resting endoscopic exam shows they still have a lot of movement.” Timing of surgery is also important. Data from a recent study showed that horses that were not completely paralyzed prior to surgery returned to a higher level of performance than horses that were completely paralyzed. “There is no benefit of waiting until a horse is completely paralyzed before pursuing surgery if the horse’s performance begins to be
“There is no benefit of waiting until a horse is completely paralyzed before pursuing surgery if the horse’s performance begins to be compromised” Eric Parente
compromised,” recommended Parente.
Don’t call it a comeback If you have ever trained or owned a roarer then you know that not all horses make it back to a successful racing career after surgery. “Thinking back over the years, I have had minimal success. I haven’t had that many great tie-backs,” McLaughlin relayed. The tie-back is one of the most common surgeries for roarers that literally involves “tying back” the left arytenoid cartilage so it no longer sags into the airway. Parente confirmed McLaughlin’s sentiment, noting, “Using a traditional tie-back technique, only 25–70% of surgeries are generally considered ‘successful.’” Due to the fact that a traditional tie-back costs approximately $3,000, the horse needs about 4-6 weeks off for recovery, and only approximately 50% return to a successful racing career, Parente devised a modified surgical technique. His goal was to minimize some of the common complications that occur postsurgically. In addition to tying back the arytenoid cartilage, Parente now also removes the cartilage in the cricoarytenoid joint (the connection between the cricoid and arytenoid
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VETERINARY OTHER BREATHING PROBLEMS WORTH NOTING Don’t write your horse off as a roarer without it being fully evaluated by your vet. Intermittent dorsal displacement of the soft palate (IDDSP) also frequently causes upper respiratory noise and is an important cause of poor performance. The DDSP is treated by a tie-forward, which is different than the tie-back used to treat roarers. Other causes of upper respiratory noise and problems in the throat area include: l Epiglottic entrapment; l Arytenoid chondritis (inflammation of the arytenoid cartilages); l Pharyngeal or tracheal collapse or collapse of other structures of the throat/larynx; l Epiglottic retroversion
SUMMARY OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF THROAT SURGERIES As early as the 1850s, veterinarians have been trying to surgically achieve and maintain a large, stable, open airway during exercise. A variety of techniques were used that formed the basis of treatments that are still used today. “The Hobday” Devised over 100 years ago, this involves removing the ventricles (ventriculectomy) in an attempt to stabilize the arytenoid cartilage and restore some function. The Hobday is still performed, but often in concert with other procedures, such as removal of the vocal cords (ventriculocordectomy). Tie-back (Prosthetic Laryngoplasty) Developed in the 1970s, the tie-back remains the mainstay of treatment today, using suture material to pull back the paralyzed arytenoid cartilage out of the larynx. Cordectomies (removal of the vocal cords) and vetriculocordectomies can be performed in concert with tie-backs. In some (failed) cases, repeat tie-backs can be performed. Arytenoidectomy First reported in 1866, arytenoidectomy (removal of some of the arytenoid cartilages/flapper) is sometimes used as an initial treatment approach, although it is often reserved for a second-line surgery in cases of failed tie-backs. Laryngeal Reinnervation and Grafting Currently, techniques to essentially “rebuild” the connection between the left recurrent laryngeal nerve and the muscles that abduct the larynx are technically difficult and have not achieved better success rates than the tie-back.
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cartilages) to help keep the arytenoid cartilage abducted. As Parente described in a recent study published in the journal Veterinary Surgery, “We performed our modified tie-back surgery on 70 Thoroughbred racehorses. When compared to Thoroughbreds that had previously beat our treated horses (and were therefore presumed to not be roarers), the treated horses had the same number of race starts and same dollars earned postsurgically.” In addition, all horses that underwent Parente’s modified tie-back surgery raced at least once, and all treated horses ultimately competed for as long as the untreated contenders. “While still far from perfect, our technique demonstrates a clear improvement,” noted Parente. Norm G. Ducharme, DMV, MSc, Dipl. ACVS and colleague Jon Cheetham, VetMB, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, both surgeons at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, New York, also modified the traditional tie-back surgery. “We inject the cricoarytenoid joint of the larynx with bone cement to help hold the airway in an open position, which helps minimize loss of arytenoid abduction postoperatively in horses undergoing a tieback," Ducharme explained. In Ducharme’s hands, the success rate of a tie-back is 70-75%..
Reasons for failure, concerning complications Tie-backs fail for a number of reasons. One of the most common is loss of the opening that was created at the time of surgery. For example, the sutures that “tie-back” the arytenoid cartilage can fail (pull out), and the horse’s airway again becomes obstructed. A second problem with tie-backs is aspiration. If the arytenoid is tied back too far then the airway is
too large, and food or water can go down the wrong pipe (i.e., down the trachea to the lungs instead of down the esophagus to the stomach). Aspiration can cause the horse to cough and develop respiratory infections including pneumonia. In fact, approximately 50% of horses cough in the postoperative period, and 15% have persistent coughing. “One problem is that we are taking what should be a dynamic functional larynx and making it into a somewhat static structure. In addition, we are working with tissues that have significant variability to their shape and stiffness, making it difficult for surgeons to construct and maintain an open airway,” explained Parente. In an attempt to minimize the development of aspiration pneumonia in treated horses, Parente (like other surgeons) only abducts the arytenoid cartilage 80-90% of the way in his modified tie-back procedure. Problems in the lower airways (lung) can also develop postsurgically. In a recent study published by veterinarians with the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the authors warn owners and trainers to consider some of those secondary complications following a tie-back, not just “surgical success.” In that article scheduled to be published in the Equine Veterinary Journal, the authors reported that 22 Thoroughbred racehorse roarers who underwent a standard tie-back surgery had shorter careers than the 44 control horses. They found: l 100% of the horses that underwent surgery had excessive tracheal mucus; l 36% (8/22) also had at least one episode of bleeding (epistaxis, bleeding from those nose, exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage, EIPH); l Only 32% (14/44) control horses had mucus; and l Only 6.8% (3/44) bled.
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ROARERS Horses that underwent surgery had fewer starts following the surgery than racehorses which did not have surgery; however, no overall difference in the stakes money earned was found between the two groups of horses in this long-term study. The authors concluded, “Epistaxis in particular can lead to premature retirement and shorter racing careers, especially in countries that have strict regulatory regulations for this condition.”
Breathing success into the future In lieu of lasers and scalpels, Huisheng Xie, DVM, PhD, an associate clinical professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, is using electroacupuncture to treat roarers. Electroacupuncture involves passing an electric current through needles inserted in specific pairs of acupuncture points. The electrical current presumably stimulates a larger area than ‘dry needling.’ In his report, the only study published to date on the use of any form of acupuncture for roarers, Xie described performing electroacupuncture on 18 Thoroughbreds once weekly for between three and seven sessions, depending on severity of the disease. “The grade of laryngeal disease improved in all the horses after electroacupuncture therapy, and no side effects were observed," wrote the authors. "The results of this study suggest that electroacupuncture may serve as an effective non-surgical method for the control of laryngeal hemiplegia.” Cornell University researchers are approaching the roaring problem from yet another angle, with a technique called “functional electrical stimulation” (FES). The rationale is to externally stimulate the muscles that open the throat. When tested on six adult horses, FES significantly improved abduction of the arytenoid during Eric Parente exercise. “Essentially, this is like a laryngeal pacemaker. This type of technique can answer trainers’ wishes for new treatment options. Although not clinically available yet, a number of studies support FES, indicating that FES is promising strategy for roarers,” said Ducharme.
“I believe the modified technique gives horses a better chance at getting back to racing than the traditional tie-back, but I don’t think I’ll find it ‘acceptable’ until the success rate is 100%”
Concluding thoughts “Because of the advancements in diagnostics, [veterinarians] are both further ahead and at a bit of a disadvantage. We can now detect even slight deviations from normal but remain limited in our knowledge of how to treat them,” noted Hunt. Parente concurred, recognizing that his surgical approach remains a less than perfect solution for roarers. “I believe the modified technique gives horses a better chance at getting back to racing than the traditional tie-back, but I don’t think I’ll find it ‘acceptable’ until the success rate is 100%,” said Parente. “For now, the modified technique is the best we can do while we continue to strive to find ways to further modify the technique and find other ways to minimize complications.” He added, “Owners and trainers need to appreciate and remember that athletic competition is never about one factor. We can’t just fix the throat to make the horse great. Some horses can compete successfully with less than perfect throats because everything else is so good. Putting a realistic face on the current condition of treatment is prudent. Understanding that [surgeons] can usually provide significant benefit but can’t make the horse ‘normal’ is probably a good place to start.” n
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The Wolfsons On January 20th at Gulfstream Park, Patrice Wolfson, her late husband Louis, and their homebred Triple Crown champion Affirmed were honored at a brunch with the inaugural ThoroFan Award, presented by ThoroFan to individuals “who have contributed significantly to helping energize the racing fan base.” Proceeds from the brunch were split between ThoroFan and a Thoroughbred retirement program. WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM
“T Patrice Wolfson, daughter of legendary Hall of Fame trainer, Hirsch Jacobs, has a website based on Wolfson family’s greatest horse, Affirmed, www.Affirmedtriplecrown.com
HAT was lovely,” Patrice said. “That was so nice. They try to make sure the fans are treated the right way.” Retired Hall of Fame jockey Jose Santos has personal knowledge of the Wolfsons’ contributions to racing. Santos still cherishes the support he received from Louis Wolfson and his family as he was just beginning his incredible career in the United States more than 25 years ago. “He was very nice to me, very noble,” Santos said. “I spoke with him many times. He said to me, `Kid, you’re going to make it. I’ve seen a lot of good jockeys in my lifetime. You’re a good rider. Just keep working hard and be honest.’ He was a very, very nice man. Every time he saw me, he and his wife and his son Marty came to me to shake my hand.” Louis was a giant in the Thoroughbred industry and in finance, a man who didn’t let a major setback in his life prevent him from continuing his philanthropy and success in racing. His second wife, Patrice, is Thoroughbred royalty, an incredible horsewoman herself who was the daughter of legendary Hall of Fame trainer Hirsch Jacobs. Louis’ 61-year-old son Marty is a successful Florida-based trainer who has won a Breeders’ Cup race and routinely develops successful Thoroughbreds. His brothers, Steve and Gary, founded Happy Valley Farm. Marty’s nephew,
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PROFILE Steve Wolfson Jr., was the 2003 Daily Racing Form Champion Handicapper. They are an eclectic family who continue to impact Thoroughbred racing more than seven decades after Hirsch Jacobs set the bar high for every single trainer who has followed him. Asked why she has maintained her love of horses and racing, Patrice said, “How could I have not? It’s in my blood.” Still. Patrice, who began a website for Affirmed last year, www.Affirmedtriplecrown.com, is currently working on a coffee table book about her life with horses, tentatively entitled “From Stymie to Affirmed.” Stymie, whom Jacobs claimed for $1,500 and became the richest Thoroughbred earner of all time as well as a Hall of Fame inductee, may be the first horse people think of when they
hear Jacobs’ name, but Jacobs had a Hall of Fame resume long before he made his most historic purchase in 1943. Born April 8th, 1904, Jacobs led the nation in training victories from 1933-39 and from 1941-44. He also led trainers in earnings in 1946, 1960, and 1965 and was the leading breeder in earnings from 1964-67. He saddled 3,593 winners in his remarkable career, which still ranks 15th all time. Hirsch and Patrice’s mom, Ethel, owned and raced a number of horses in her name. Jacobs also had tremendous success with his partner, Colonel Isidor Bieber One of ten children of a tailor in Brooklyn, Jacobs raced pigeons for small bets. “Almost every kid in the neighborhood was interested in keeping pigeons when I was growing up,” Jacobs told Sports Illustrated in a June 26th, Left: Stymie won 35 of his 131 starts, with record earnings of $918,485, having been purchased in 1943 for $1,500 Below: Affirmed (right) gets up by a nose to beat Alydar in the Belmont Stakes to win the Triple Crown
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1961 story. “The importance of pigeons in my case was that they put me in touch with people who were interested in horses.” At the time of the article, Jacobs’ three children, John, Patrice, and Tommy, were 26, 24 and 20 years old, respectively. John was his dad’s assistant. Sports Illustrated described Patrice as “animated and pretty as Debbie Reynolds,” while also documenting her intricate knowledge of horses and racing. Patrice was especially close to Hail To Reason, who won seven stakes as a two-yearold in 1960, including the Hopeful at Saratoga when he set a track record under Bobby Ussery, before losing a shoe and breaking both sesamoid bones in his right front leg during a workout. He had done enough to be named Champion Two-Year-Old Colt and was an outstanding stallion, leading North American sires in earnings in 1970. Jacobs called Hail to Reason “the greatest horse I ever had.” But it was Stymie’s earnings that enabled Bieber and Jacobs to acquire their 283-acre farm in Maryland, which they named Stymie Manor. Jacobs claimed two-year-old Stymie for $1,500 for his wife, and he did not show much improvement initially, losing ten straight. He improved considerably in 1943, finishing second in the Wood Memorial and third in six other stakes. But the key to his success may have come when racing was shut down by the federal government for four months in 1945. That extended Stymie’s layoff from three months to seven, and, when he returned, he excelled, winning numerous stakes before
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THE WOLFSONS Marty Wolfson with wife Karla at Calder where he operates a 20-barn stable
suffering a career-ending injury as an eightyear-old when he suffered a fractured sesamoid bone in his right front foot. He had won 35 of his 131 starts, with 33 seconds and 28 thirds and record earnings of $918,485. At the zenith of his career, Jacobs had 215 horses in New York, Virginia, Kentucky, Florida, and California. None of those horses accomplished more than Affirmed, Patrice and Louis’s Harbor View Farm homebred and 1978 Triple Crown winner, pushed to greatness by Calumet Farm’s gallant Alydar in the greatest rivalry in modern racing history. They met six times as two-yearolds, with Affirmed winning four of them. Affirmed beat Alydar in the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, and Belmont Stakes, but in their tenth and final meeting, Affirmed blatantly fouled Alydar while winning the Travers Stakes, only to be disqualified and placed second behind his rival, who recovered from interference to re-rally into second. Thoroughbred racing hasn’t had a Triple Crown winner since. “You need a special horse,” Patrice said. “I think he has to be a superstar and do extraordinary things as the last three (Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed) did.” Louis Wolfson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on January 28th, 1912. His family moved to Jacksonville, Florida, when he was just one year old. His dad, Morris Wolfson, was a junk man/scrap metal dealer. One of eight children, Louis boxed professionally as “Kid
Wolf,” earning as much as $100 per fight as a teen-ager. An outstanding athlete, he was an All-Southern end for Jacksonville’s Andrew Jackson High School football team, then played football at the University of Georgia. He left college after two years, never graduating. Instead, using $5,000 from a wealthy University of Georgia football fan, Harold Hirsch, and a matching stipend from his family, he started the Florida Pipe and Supply Company. Trading building materials, his company grew exponentially, allowing Louis to become a millionaire at the age of 28. He then had tremendous success with the Capital Transit Company; Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a marine construction and salvage firm; and Universal Marion Co., which owned the Miami Beach Sun and the Jacksonville Chronicle. The firm was a co-sponsor of Mel Brooks’ first movie, ”The Producers,” which won an Oscar and then enjoyed a great run on Broadway. By then, his father had begun a pattern of philanthropy Louis would embellish. His father donated half a million dollars in 1946 to create Wolfson Children’s Hospital in Jacksonville. Louis served as chairman of the Wolfson Family Foundation for 35 years until the 1980s. In 1960, Louis established Harbor View Farm in Fellowship, Marion County, Florida, and raced 1963 Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Raise a Native and 1965 Horse of the Year Roman Brother. Louis’s first wife, Florence, died from cancer
Steve Wolfson Jr won the Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship in 2003
in 1968. The timing couldn’t have been worse for Louis. He was convicted in 1967 and again in 1968 by two separate federal judges. The first conviction stemmed from stock sales; the second from perjury and obstruction of justice. Louis served nine months in prison, but his life turned around when he met and then married Patrice on December 30th, 1972. Following his incarceration, Wolfson became a prison-reform advocate. He resumed his philanthropy and delighted in continuing his
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PROFILE success with horses with Patrice, winning Eclipse Awards as the nation’s outstanding owner and breeder in 1978 and again as owner in 1979. Affirmed, the horse of a lifetime, was the 1978 and 1979 Horse of the Year. He finished his brilliant career with 22 victories, five seconds and one third from 29 starts and earnings of just under $2.4 million – like Stymie, a record at the time. Affirmed’s impact on Louis was substantial. “Affirmed’s name meant more to him than anything in the world,” his son, Steve, told Glenye Cain Oakford in her story in the Daily Racing Form, June 7th, 2007. “On the back of Affirmed, he was resurrected. It was a great bringing together of a family, seeing him rise to the top again. It was palpable. He had lost his name and never stopped trying to prove his innocence. Affirmed brought him back.” Other racing stars followed, including 1984 Champion Two-Year-Old Filly and Breeders’ Cup winner Outstandingly and Flawlessly, an Affirmed homebred who was Champion Turf Filly or Mare in 1992 and 1993. Louis died from Alzheimer’s disease and colon cancer at the age of 95 on December 30th, 1997, his and Patrice’s 35th wedding anniversary. Louis’s children would continue his legacy. Marty’s acclimation to racing was similar to his stepmom’s. “I was always around the Jacobs family at Saratoga,” he said. “We’d always talk about racing. They had some really great horses.” Though he attended Miami-Dade Community College after graduating from high school, he didn’t take long to return to his passion. “I was studying psychology,” he said. “I wanted to train horses. I dropped out of college.”
Marty Wolfson had great success with Ask The Moon, winning both the G1 Ruffian Handicap and G1 Personal Ensign Stakes
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“We try to buy fillies, turn them out, get some black type with them and put them in sales. We sell most of them.” Marty Wolfson He received his trainer’s license at the age of 18. “The first horse I ran, End of Time, won the Steven Calder Handicap,” he said. “My dad was there. We were close, especially when I had horses for him. I learned from the people working with him, like Laz Barrera. I learned patience, to know your horse. I think, in the beginning, I just wanted to run horses. You need to be patient.” Eventually, Marty would train horses for Live Oak Plantation, John Franks, and Fred Hooper. “Mr. Hooper was great,” Marty said. “He sent me 20 horses in one day. He would always fill me up with horses. He was a very good horseman himself. He didn’t have to talk to the farm manager. He knew his horses, even into his eighties and nineties.” Marty won the 2006 Breeders’ Cup Mile with Miesque’s Approval, who was named Champion Older Turf Male. Marty enjoyed tremendous success with Ask the Moon, a filly he claimed for $75,000 on June 15th, 2011. She finished third in the Sky Beauty Stakes, then won the Grade I Ruffian Handicap and Grade I Personal Ensign Stakes. He had similar success with Jessica Back, claiming her for $35,000 and
winning the Princess Rooney Stakes and more than $600,000. “Then we sold her for $475,000,” Marty said. “We try to buy fillies, turn them out, get some black type with them and put them in sales. We sell most of them.” With the assistance of his wife, Karla, Marty operates a 20-horse stable at Calder, his home base for his entire career. Marty’s brothers, Steve and Gary, operated Happy Valley Farm and bred It’s in the Air, the 1978 Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Filly, before selling the farm. Steve Wolfson Jr., a high school teacher, made headlines as a professional handicapper when he captured the 2003 Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship, worth $100,000, at the age of 37. To do so, he passed his father, who had led after the first day of the two-day tournament before finishing fifth overall. The Wolfson family’s common bond is their love and passion for horses and for the sport. Never is that more evident than when a threeyear-old enters the Belmont Stakes with a chance to win the Triple Crown – a chance to make history, an opportunity to join Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Affirmed as only the fourth Triple Crown winner since 1948. In three consecutive years in the late ‘90s, Silver Charm, Real Quiet, and Charismatic had that chance. So did War Emblem, Funny Cide, and Smarty Jones from 2002-2004 and Big Brown in 2008. I’ll Have Another would have had his opportunity last year had he not suffered a career-ending injury before the Belmont Stakes. Each time a Triple Crown has been on the line, Patrice and her friend, Penny Chenery of Secretariat fame – just a few box seats away at Belmont Park – were rooting for a new threeyear-old to join their exclusive club, simply because it would be so good for racing. Marty said, “They’ve been there and done that, her and Penny. They know how good horseracing used to be.” n
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This horse may be benefitting from fresh air but as doorways can be areas of high traffic, particulate material can accumulate in nearby stalls
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R MELISSA Millerck-May and colleagues have published two reports in the Equine Veterinary Journal, the most recent of which will appear in the January issue. These researchers have at long last been able to show a direct link between airborne particulate matter and visible tracheal mucus in Thoroughbred racehorses. Mucus in the trachea (a.k.a. windpipe) and airway inflammation can be triggered by bacteria, viruses, and airborne irritants such as pollen, dust, and molds. Many horses with mucus do not have active infection and this prompted the Michigan researchers to investigate whether airborne particulate matter in the stable environment was linked to mucus production and inflammatory cell
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Accumulation of mucus in the trachea is an incredibly common ailment in racehorses and it can significantly compromise their performance. Since the early 18th century respiratory health has been linked to the stable environment, but researchers based at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University have recently taken a fresh look at the problem, with funding from the Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation. WORDS AND PHOTOS: CELIA MARR
Above left: Samples of mucus are often submitted for further laboratory testing to assess the numbers of inflammatory cells and look for bacteria or viral products Above right: under the microscope, strands of mucus are interlaced with inflammatory cells. Left: Mucus is generally diagnosed during endoscopic examination, or “scoping.” This horse has a large stream of mucus in the windpipe.
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numbers. As most trainers know, the first sign that a horse has mucus can be a cough but in many, the problem is not evident until it is examined by endoscopy. Tracheal washes, or samples of the material within the trachea, can be submitted for laboratory investigations that usually include counting the number of inflammatory cells and culturing for bacteria. Occasionally samples are analyzed for evidence of viral or other infections. In humans it is known that inhalation of particles of less than ten micrometers (one micrometer is one thousand of a millimeter), referred to as PM10 by the researchers, will cause inflammation of the airways and this has been related to their metal content. PM2.5, even smaller particles that are less than 2.5 micrometers, make up a larger percentage of the airborne particulate matter, and because of their large numbers and small size, collectively they have a large surface area per unit mass, and as a result, these particles are inherently more damaging to the airways than the coarser particles. Bacteria and their harmful by-products can stick to these small particles and add to their injurious effects on the respiratory tract. In humans, increases in PM2.5 are consistently associated with increased severity of respiratory disease while increases in PM10 tend to be linked to short-term, transient worsening of disease. Specific information on how different particle sizes influence respiratory tract of horses is not yet available but the Michigan group found that visible mucus was associated with particles between 0.7 and 2.0 micrometers in size. Stable air quality is influenced by particles originating from both outside and inside the stable. Sources inside include the forage, bedding, and stable dust while outside, roads, car parks, and woods can all be sources of particles. Millerck-May and her colleagues used novel methods to assess the stable environment. Traditional methods of assessing air quality used stationary sampling pump/filter devices and Millerck-May’s group was the first to use particle concentration
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Neutrophil: With airway inflammation, the numbers of neutrophils will rise. This inflammatory cell can be identified because its nucleus has a characteristic multilobed appearance (arrows) Above: This diagram shows how particle concentration mapping creates a plan of areas within stables that have the highest concentrations of particles. Red represents stalls with the high levels of particular material; yellow intermediate and white, low levels. Gray stalls were not examined. Green = trainers office, blue arrows indicated doorways. Reproduced with permission from Equine Veterinary Journal, 2012, 45(1) Below: Inside stables, forage, bedding and stable dust are obvious sources of particulate matter but outside, trees, woods, roads and traffic important sources of harmful particles that can be harder to limit
mapping. This novel approach samples the environment at multiple sites and on multiple occasions. In this way, a map of particle concentration can be created to show exactly where within the facility the highest concentrations of airborne particulate matter exist. Millerck-May conducted particle concentration mapping in three stables based within an Thoroughbred racetrack, at three different times of day and three different times of year. Stable design, specific stalls, and time of day and month all influenced the numbers and types of particles. Morning samples were taken during the busiest times when horses were being fed and groomed and stalls and walkways were being cleaned; at midday, when the stables were at their quietest; and in the early evening, which coincided with feeding and racing. Both the particle types, PM10 and PM2.5, were at their highest in the busy morning time. In the latest Equine Veterinary Journal study, the researchers showed that stable, stall, month, and particle concentration were all linked to the accumulation of tracheal mucus. By scoping 107 Thoroughbred racehorses, they found that those 67% had visible mucus, and this was highest in September, the warmest, driest month when 77% had mucus, and lowest in July, which was cool and damp and 54% had mucus. November, with a mucus prevalence of 69%, was cold, snowy, and wet, and trainers had closed doors and windows at that time. Stable design is vitally important and the stable with the most modern design including openings along both long sides, high vaulted ceilings, and large sliding doors had the lowest levels of larger particles and the lowest
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prevalence of visible mucus, emphasizing what horsemen have long known, that ventilation is critical for respiratory health. However, open sides and high vaulted ceilings also allowed the smallest particles, generated from roads and parking areas near the stables, to enter the building. Millerck-May reported that increased odds of visible tracheal mucus associated with stable and particle concentration and numbers are probably due to insufficient ventilation within enclosed stables resulting in continual exposure to particles, whereas ventilation in open-sided stables allows for more rapid settling of particles. Specific details of management practices also had important influences on air quality. These are the aspects that should be the easiest for trainers to change. The stable that had the highest particle concentrations had staff working for the longest period throughout the morning, thus creating greater opportunity for generation and dispersion of particles and at the same time reducing the length between busy times during which the particles could settle. This was also the only stable that fed hay from nets. MillerckMay noted “the hay was taken from the bale and shaken to loosen it before it was packed into the hay nets and hung near the doorway of each stall. In order to eat from the net, horses pulled the hay-filled net into the doorway, which both released particles and probably obstructed air from entering the stall.� One of the most fascinating aspects of this study was that by allowing individual stalls to be sampled, it was possible to show that some areas within a stable are more problematic than others. In one of the stables, stalls located at the center of the barn had higher
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Horses in a barn at the British Racing School benefit from having open windows at the back of each stall so they can take advantage of the outdoor environment.
levels, most likely because of lack of mixing of the air limiting dilution of the particles. Perhaps more surprisingly, stalls near the doors were also likely to have higher levels of particles. The researchers proposed several reasons for this. Millerck-May noted that there was a lot of horse and human traffic through the doors and vehicles stopped and started outside throughout the day, and a manure storage building was located near the door. At some times of year, large floor fans were used but because these were placed near the high-traffic manure handling area, the fans maybe contributed to particle accumulation rather than reduced it. In another barn, a central group of stalls had high numbers of large particles present in the afternoon, contrasting from other areas where particle levels were low in the afternoon. The researchers observed that this area of the stable was used to cool down horses by walking them around this central group of stalls. Millerck-May commented that this observation was an excellent example of why one cannot gain a good understanding of particle concentrations in stables by simply using stationary samplers at one or two locations. There may be many factors that can cause high particle concentration in a few stalls and very specific times of day. The important message from this study is that the generation, accumulation, and dispersal of particulate material within and nearby stables involves complex processes influenced by stable design, local geography, weather patterns, and stable management practices. Particle concentration mapping can identify problem areas that if addressed should benefit respiratory health. Reasons for these problem areas can be explored, and remedial action taken. n
“The stable with the most modern design including openings along both long sides, high vaulted ceilings, and large sliding doors had the lowest levels of larger particles and the lowest prevalence of visible mucus�
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RACING Sunny Desert wins the Cat Cay Stakes at Aqueduct, one of the few races in the country available exclusively to four-year-old fillies
HIGH STAKES
The decline of races
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HOSE two exclusive races were an aberration. Races restricted to four-year-olds are few and far between. Santa Anita was the only major track in the country this winter with regular opportunities for fouryear-olds to face their own generation in graded stakes, claiming races, and conditional races. But even at Santa Anita, the Grade II El Encino Stakes was dropped from the 2013 schedule. “It just wasn’t showing the support that the four-year-old stakes for colts had,” Racing Secretary Rick Hammerle said. The El Encino, first contested in 1954 and won by two Horses of the Year – Lady’s Secret in 1986 and Zenyatta in 2008 – was the middle leg of the La Canada Series, which began with the La Brea and ended with the La Canada. Only three fillies swept the series: Taisez Vous (1978), Mitterand (1985) and Got Koko (2003). The male counterpart of the La Canada Series, the Strub Series, has survived, with the Grade I Malibu run in late December for threeyear-olds, the Grade II San Fernando, and the Grade II Strub, named to honor Charles H.
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Just 78 minutes after Sunny Desert won the $75,000 Cat Cay Stakes for four-year-old fillies at Aqueduct on Sunday afternoon, January 6th, in Jamaica, New York, Almost a Lady captured a $21,000 claiming race (for a tag of $12,500) for four-year-old fillies at Santa Anita, more than 2,500 miles away. WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM, BOB COGLIANESE PHOTOS
Strub, who built and owned Santa Anita. The San Fernando and Strub are the only graded stakes exclusively for four-year-olds in the winter. “I am aware of that, and I get asked about that all the time,” said Hammerle, who previously worked at Monmouth, Meadowlands, Gulfstream Park, Golden Gate, and Del Mar. “Years ago, the racing world was a little more traveler-friendly. Everything seems to be a little more territorial. There used to be a little more movement for three-year-old preps and four-year-old preps.” Whether or not stakes for older horses should be exclusively for four-year-olds rather than four-year-olds and up depends upon
one’s perspective. Obviously, two-year-olds never face older horses – at least not in this country, though they can in Europe. However, there is an important rite of passage for three-year-olds when they square off against older horses every fall or early winter. Some three-year-olds succeed. The ones who don’t would have been better off sticking to their own generation. So if a three-year-old can be at a disadvantage facing elders, wouldn’t a just-turned four-year-old possibly be at a disadvantage facing older horses in January and February? It’s an interesting argument. Horsemen who race at Santa Anita can use stakes exclusively
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Eventual winner Sugar Shake (number 4, above) at the start of the G2 El Encino Stakes, part of the four-year old fillies three-race La Canada Series, which has been dropped from the 2013 schedule
for four-year-olds or stakes for four-year-olds and up as a bridge to get to the Grade I Santa Anita Handicap. Hammerle said that Santa Anita is committed to keeping its exclusive four-yearold only races. “Each year, we go to look at our stakes schedule,” he said. “There’s less horses being bred. There should be less graded stakes to make them more meaningful. For newly-turned four-year-olds, they tend to stick with their own generation. The end of the Strub Stakes is early (Feb. 2nd). It allows a four-year-old to stay in his own division. We’re trying to make avenues to get to the Santa Anita Handicap. If we took out the San Fernando or the Strub, it wouldn’t be good here. These have been a staple for so long, there would be a lot of bad karma. We’re not extending four-year-old stakes, but it gives horsemen another operation. While we have enough horses to do that, we’ll keep it. I think it’s pretty unique here. Just a few races at the beginning of the year.” At the same time, Santa Anita hasn’t forgotten its blue-collar four-year-olds. “I have a few races each book limited to four-year-old claimers, all over the place, from $10,000 to
Ultimate Eagle, with Martin Pedroza up, after winning last year’s G2 Strub Stakes
$62,500,” Hammerle said. “The horsemen appreciate them. I’ll keep writing them as long as they don’t interrupt other four-year-olds and up races. We’re trying to give owners a chance to run their horses at competitive levels. People get used to a system. If you make them think they’re racing in an easier spot, let them do it. When Hollywood opens in April, it kinds of ends it.” Trainer John Sadler is pleased by the opportunity Santa Anita gives four-year-olds. “We think it’s very good,” Sadler said. “I’ve been racing here my whole life. Santa Anita has always had a four-year-old program. In the old days, you had a lot of horses who would
use the Strub to get to the Santa Anita Handicap. The problem with modern racing is that there are horses everywhere. Other tracks write up races for three-year-olds and up. We think four-year-old races are a great transition to four-year-olds and up. I’m hoping the fouryear-old races will continue for years to come.” Trainer Jack Carava is also a fan. “From a trainer’s standpoint, they’re nice to have if the inventory is big enough,” he said. “The one problem you can run into is that the older horse population might not be able to fill it. Sometimes, it’s more about the older horses than the four-year-olds. When you go ahead and have straight four-year-old races, they
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RACING tend to be a little easier. I see both sides of it. I think the race secretary here (at Santa Anita) does a good job knowing his inventory.” In New York, Racing Secretary P.J. Campo, son of trainer Johnny Campo, tries to be flexible dealing with the New York Racing Association’s three tracks: Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga. “If you have enough horses to do it, it’s not a bad idea,” he said in early January. “We just had the four-year-old stakes for fillies (the Cat Cay). It was light (a field of five was reduced to four with a scratch). You don’t try to write too many of them. I haven’t done it in the last two, three years, but we’ve had straight four-year-old claiming races, especially in January and February. You try to do it sparingly. I don’t think it’s one of the main categories. But when we write some races, we do it with a tag for four-year-olds.” Sunny Desert’s trainer, John Parisella, was obviously delighted to have his filly facing only four-year-olds in the Cat Cay Stakes, which, while marred with the fatal breakdown of Wildcat’s Smile, proved to be Sunny Desert’s sixth consecutive victory. “I think it’s a good thing,” he said of the age-restricted race. “It’s not often that a trainer has a horse who won six in a row.” Parisella has an interesting perspective because he trained in California for a couple of years. “Going back, I thought it was a great idea when I was out there,” he said. “They have the Strub Series and that’s very successful.” He hasn’t seen many four-year-old only races, including stakes, in New York. “Not at
“We tried straight four-year-old maidens and four-year-old claimers. But why do you need it? Somebody’s got to give me a reason to do it” Patrick Pope, Oaklawn Park all,” he said. “We didn’t have any and it bothered me. You get a three-year-old who just turned four and you have a five-year-old who has won $850,000. It’s not fair.” Other than Santa Anita and Aqueduct, the only other major winter track with a stakes written for four-year-olds was Tampa Bay Downs, which had a pair of overnight turf sprint stakes listed. But those two races deserve a huge asterisk, because they weren’t actually run as written. “It was a mistake in the book,” Race Secretary Allison DeLuca said. “The turf races were a misprint. They were four-year-olds and up.” Tampa Bay has had four-year-old races. “I tried one, a dirt handicap, about four years ago, and it didn’t fill,” DeLuca said. “When I was race secretary at Sportsman’s Park a long time ago, we had a stakes for four-year-olds, the Cicero, and it was very popular. It’s a Monterey Jazz wins the 2008 Strub Stakes at Santa Anita, part of the three-race Strub series for four-year-old horses
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good idea. I don’t know why it didn’t fill here.” At Gulfstream, Race Secretary Don Bork hasn’t written a race exclusively for four-yearolds in his four-year tenure, but he isn’t opposed to the idea. “I know some places that have them,” he said. “The thought has crossed my mind. I haven’t ruled it out. With maidens, there’s no need to do it, but maybe with some of the conditional races it could work. Those races are a possibility. There’s a couple different sides to it. I can see both sides. You want to get everyone involved. You don’t want to leave anybody on the sidelines. That’s the tricky part.” Oaklawn Park Racing Secretary Patrick Pope wrote four-year-old races previously, but has abandoned them. “We had them in the past,” he said. “We tried a couple, maybe three or four years ago. We tried straight four-yearold maidens and four-year-old claimers. But why do you need it? Somebody’s got to give me a reason to do it. If I wrote a straight $10,000 claimer for four-year-olds, it would fill. But I don’t need another category. Santa Anita does it for three-year-olds turning four. But now with the Breeders’ Cup, we have three-year-olds facing older horses then.” Fair Grounds has no four-year-old stakes or any other races exclusively for four-year-olds, only for horses four-year-olds and up. Different tracks have different priorities for their horsemen. At Santa Anita, trainers with four-year-olds have more options at the beginning of the year than at any other track in the country. n
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BRAN MASHES
Useful tradition or nutritional pariah?
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N ITS most common form a bran mash consists of a warm sloppy mixture of wheat bran, with other minor ingredients such as rolled barley, linseed, vegetable oil, honey, molasses or date syrup often being added. The exact recipe for a particular yard’s bran mash is often a closely guarded secret, being regarded as part of a winning formula, and it could have been handed down through the generations of trainers. Traditionally a warm ‘mash’ has been offered to horses following hard exercise, or sometimes just once a week on the day of no or limited exercise, which is commonly a Sunday. Some of the oldest horsemanship texts give us insight into the rationale for a bran mash as part of a racing diet. Bran mashes were seen as having a purgative or laxative effect and so were used in the belief that they would help to cleanse the digestive tract and maintain the normal movement of the gut, thus preventing impactions following hard exercise and during days of rest. Bran mashes have also been used to encourage normal eating and water intake during periods where appetite may be suppressed such as in sick horses, following surgery, or simply after racing or hard days of work. They have also been used as a method for introducing medications or other additives given on a periodic basis. In clinical settings, wheat bran is also combined with paraffin oil in an attempt to soften feces and help resolve early stage impactions within the digestive tract, although in this application the wheat bran really only serves as the carrier for the paraffin oil, which can of course be introduced by the veterinarian via nasogastric tube. When evaluating the usefulness of wheat bran mashes, we need to consider the main
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Bran mashes are perhaps one of the most traditional elements of a feeding regime for a horse in race training. The attraction of this equine equivalent of a warm bowl of oatmeal or cup of hot chocolate has endured despite the many other changes in feeding practices over the years. WORDS: CatheRine Dunnett BSC, PhD, R.nutR PhOtOS: BOB LanGRiSh
nutritional characteristics of this ingredient and evaluate whether it’s suitable for the job. Wheat bran, as the name suggests, is a by-product of the production of flour from wheat, made from the high fiber outer layers of wheat, whereas wheat feed or wheat middlings, which are widely used in horse feed pellets, contain much more of the inner layers of wheat including some germ
and endosperm. From a negative viewpoint the fibrous outer layer of cereals including wheat bran can harbor undesirable mycotoxins. Nutritionally wheat bran is high in fiber, which has a relatively low digestibility. It is also comparatively high in protein, but the starch content is relatively low, as most of the starch would be located in the grain portion
NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS 1 Nutritional Characteristic
Unit
Wheat bran
Wheat feed
Protein
%
15.5
16.5
Oil
%
3.5
4.5
Crude Fiber
%
11.0
7.5
NDF Fiber
%
45.4
32.0
ADF Fiber
%
13.4
9.9
Ash
%
6.0
4.5
Starch
%
16.0
23.0
MJ/kg)
9.5
11.0
Calcium (Ca)
%
0.12
0.1
Phosphorus (P)
%
1.15
0.95
0.1:1
0.1:1
Energy (DE)
Ca/P ratio
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of the wheat itself. Wheat bran provides a low level of digestible energy and also has a low bulk density, and so it is able to absorb large amounts of water or other liquid. As with most cereals and their by-products, wheat bran is very low in calcium and comparatively high in phosphorus giving a most unsuitable calcium-to-phosphorus ratio. The perceived laxative effect of wheat bran in horses probably reflects its use in human nutrition. Our digestive tract does not have the well-developed fiber fermenting capacity of a horse’s. In people, the insoluble fiber from wheat bran travels through our digestive tract largely unchanged and so adds bulk to the feces giving rise to its reputation for ‘keeping you regular.’ Horses have a superior fiber fermenting capacity and studies to date have not confirmed a similar laxative effect. In fact some research at Cornell University failed to show any change in fecal moisture when the concentrate feed was replaced by 50% wheat bran fed alongside hay. Additionally, in terms of fiber intake, wheat bran is not that spectacular and certainly many other ingredients – such as hay, alfalfa, and oats – would offer a higher fiber content. The strengths of the traditional bran mash probably lies in its palatability and therefore its use to encourage eating, where appetite is suppressed. Improvement of water intake, when voluntary drinking is reduced, is another potential benefit. However, there are two big negatives to
bran mashes that have demonized their use with nutritionists worldwide, the first being the appalling calcium-to-phosphorus delivery. Being pragmatic, bran mashes are rarely given in isolation and are usually fed as part of a well-balanced ration. Equally, it is a relatively simple task to add a little limestone to the historical bran mash recipe in order to rectify this calcium-to-phosphorus situation, although the high level of phosphorus in the form of phytate may reduce the absorption of other minerals in the diet. Nutritionists also get very excited about the potential negative impact of the periodically fed bran mash on the microbial balance of the hindgut. A disruption to the normal balance of microflora in the hindgut is vey undesirable and may increase the risk of digestive disturbance. However, hindgut microbes generally respond badly to abrupt changes to what is being fed and so in some ways regular daily use of a bran mash may be more appropriate. It is possible to produce a bran mash recipe that has a balanced calcium-to-phosphorus ratio and which introduces other desirable ingredients such as Omega-3 rich full-fat linseed. When fed daily as part of the normal diet, a mash of this type is unlikely to upset the microbial balance and may offer some benefits in terms of feed and water intake in fussy feeders, although is unlikely to have any significant effect on fecal bulk or regularity. n
BRAN MASH RECIPE EXAMPLE Wheat bran
300g
Micronized full fat linseed
150g
Oats
50g
Honey
25g
Limestone
25g
Total per day
550g*
*Add warm water to provide a warm sloppy feed
NUTRITIONAL CHARACTERISTICS 2 Nutritional Characteristic
IEN Unit bran mash
Protein
%
15.5
Oil
%
10.5
Crude Fiber
%
8.2
Ash
%
9.5
Starch
%
14.0
MJ/kg)
12.0
Calcium (Ca)
%
1.9
Phosphorus (P)
%
0.8
Energy (DE)
Ca/P ratio
2.2:1
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Surface D D D D D D D D D D D D
Metres 900 900 900 900 900 900 900 900 900 900 900 900
4+ F&M 4+ F&M 4+ 4+ 3+ 4+ F&M 3+ NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2 CG 2 2F 2 2F
D D D T D T D T T T T T T T D AWT D D T
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
4+ F&M 4+ 4+ F&M LA Bred 4+ FM ( NM Bred) 4+ La Bred 4+ 3F 4+ FM 3+FM 3+FM 3+ 3F 2 3+ 3 + FM 3+ 3+ FM 2 2F 3 2F 2 CG 3 + FM 3+ 3F 3+ 2F
D T D D D T D T D T T T D T T D T D D T D D T T T T D
1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100
3+ FM 3+ 3F 4 + FM NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 4+ 3+ 4+ 3+ F&M (Ark Bred) 3+ C&G (Ark Bred) 3+ 3
D D D T AWT D D AWT D D D D D D D D AWT AWT
1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200
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L Gr 1 Gr 3 S
R R
02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 24-Feb-13 08-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 04-May-13 17-May-13 18-May-13 27-May-13 01-Jun-13 06-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 06-Jul-13 04-Aug-13 11-Aug-13
$55,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $50,000 $60,000 AED 500,000 $17,000 $1,000,000 $125,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $60,000 $60,000
S S Gr 3 S
R S S
S S
R
$60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $60,000 $100,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $60,000
Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct Fair Grounds Meydan Turf Paradise Aqueduct Golden Gate Fields Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Belmont Park Oaklawn Park Sam Houston Race Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Fair Grounds Golden Gate Fields Meydan
Correction Toboggan H’cap Dearly Precious St Mardi Gras S Al Shindagha Sprint Phoenix Gold Cup Hollie Hughes (NYB) Albany St Downthedustyroad Breeders Nodouble Breeders Tom Fool H’cap Gazebo Sam Houston Cup Sprint Tom Fool Fred Cappy Capossela St Duncan F. Kenner St Camilla Urso St Mahab Al Shimaal
S Gr 3
Gr 3
S S Gr 2 S Gr 3 L Gr 3
02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 12-Feb-13 14-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 24-Feb-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 03-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13
$100,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $200,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $60,000 $60,000 $200,000 $60,000 $50,000 $200,000 $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 $200,000
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
17-Jan-13 17-Jan-13 18-Jan-13 19-Jan-13 25-Jan-13 09-Feb-13 03-Mar-13 04-Feb-13 25-Mar-13 10-Apr-13 07-May-13 07-May-13 16-May-13 22-May-13 15-Apr-13 06-Jun-13 15-Apr-13 26-Jul-13 02-Aug-13
5.5f (1100m)
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Closing 01-Mar-13 15-Oct-12 15-Oct-12 10-Apr-13 15-May-13 01-Jun-13 11-Jun-13 12-Jun-13 19-Jun-13 11-Sep-13 11-Sep-13 11-Sep-13
5f (1000m)
Now available for iPhone/iPad via Appstore 17-Feb-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 31-Mar-13 13-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 01-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 09-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 05-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 14-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 25-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 02-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 12-Aug-13 14-Aug-13 07-Sep-13
Furlongs 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5
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 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5
02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 15-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 27-Mar-13 09-Apr-13 03-Apr-13 18-May-13 31-May-13 31-May-13 07-Jun-13 26-Jun-13 22-Jun-13 22-Jun-13 05-Jul-13 11-Jul-13 11-Jul-13 18-Jul-13 01-May-13 01-May-13 26-Jul-13 26-Jul-13 05-Aug-13 07-Aug-13 17-Jul-13
6f (1200m)
3+ 3 3+ 4+ NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+
6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
19-Jan-13 19-Jan-13 26-Jan-13 02-Feb-13 11-Feb-13 08-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 07-Feb-13
16-Feb-13 20-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 28-Feb-13 04-Mar-13
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Track Monmouth Park Aqueduct Tampa Bay Downs Oaklawn Park Churchill Downs Oaklawn Park Aqueduct Meydan Oaklawn Park Sunland Park Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Aqueduct Oaklawn Park Evangeline Downs Prairie Meadows Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Racecourse Prairie Meadows Oaklawn Park Tampa Bay Downs Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Canterbury Canterbury Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Monmouth Park Churchill Downs Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Belmont Park Churchill Downs Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Belmont Churchill Downs Canterbury Canterbury Monmouth Park Lone Star Park Monmouth Park Saratoga Monmouth Park Saratoga Belmont Park Monmouth Park Saratoga Monmouth Park Saratoga Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Saratoga Canterbury Saratoga Monmouth Park Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Monmouth Park Belmont Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Penn National Penn National Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct
Race Name & (Sponsor) Decathlon Stakes Cicada St Wayward Lass St Hot Springs S Winning Colors St Rainbow Miss S Broadway (NY Bred) Dubai Golden Shaheen Rainbow S Czaria H Carousel H Instant Racing Distaff H’cap Count Fleet Sprint H Inaugural St Golden Circle Land of Lincoln St Pretty Jenny St Robert S. Molaro H’cap The Third Chance H’cap Goldfinch Bachelor Hilton Garden Inn Sprint Mamie Eisenhower John Wayne Ladys Slipper St 10,000 Lakes St Bob Bryant Gray’s Lake Prairie Express Prairie Rose Red Cross St Aristides St John J Reilly H’cap Open Mind H’cap Isaac Murphy St Addison Cammack True North H’cap Debutante Blue Sparkler St Iowa Sprint H’cap Saylorville Victory Ride St Bashford Manor St Frances Genter Victor Myers St Jersey Shore St Valor Farms St Mr. Prospector St Schuylerville St Just Smashing St Sanford St Prioress St Regret St Prioress Teddy Drone St Honorable Miss H’cap Iowa Classic Sprint Iowa Cradle S Iowa Sorority Alfred G Vanderbilt H’cap Hoist Her Flag St Union Avenue St Miss Woodford St MN Distaff Sprint Championship MN Sprint Championship Northern Lights Debutante St Northern Lights Futurity St Sapling St Sorority St Icecapade St Eleven North H’cap New Jersey Breeders H’Cap Vosburgh Invitational Futurity St Matron St Jersey Juvenile Hudson H’cap New York Stallion Series - Fifth Avenue Division New York Stallion Series - Great White Way Division Lady in Waiting The Fabulous Strike H’Cap Fall Highweight H’cap Garland of Roses Gravesend
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Sam Houston Race Park Turfway Park Sunland Park Gulfstream Park Santa Anita Santa Anita Santa Anita Sunland Park Gulfstream Park Santa Anita Santa Anita Santa Anita Lone Star Park Lone Star Park Santa Anita Santa Anita
Bucharest S Cincinnati Trophy St El Diario H Hurricane Bertie H Sensational Star St Las Flores St Irish O’Brien St Bill Thomas Memorial S Sir Shackleton Echo Eddie St Evening Jewel St Potrero Grande St Premiere St JEH Stallion St Las Cienegas St San Simeon St
Class Gr 3
Gr 3 S S Gr 1 S
Gr 2 Gr 3 S S S S
S S
S S
Gr 3
S S Gr 2 Gr 3
Gr 3 Gr 3
Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 S S S Gr 1 S S S S S Gr 3
Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 S S S S
Gr 3
Race Date 11-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 27-Mar-13 29-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 06-Apr-13 11-Apr-13 12-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 14-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 06-May-13 06-May-13 10-May-13 11-May-13 17-May-13 18-May-13 18-May-13 18-May-13 24-May-13 24-May-13 27-May-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 02-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 22-Jun-13 22-Jun-13 28-Jun-13 28-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 04-Jul-13 04-Jul-13 04-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 07-Jul-13 19-Jul-13 21-Jul-13 21-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 28-Jul-13 29-Jul-13 03-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 04-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 19-Aug-13 31-Aug-13 01-Sep-13 01-Sep-13 01-Sep-13 01-Sep-13 01-Sep-13 01-Sep-13 02-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 28-Sep-13 29-Sep-13 29-Sep-13 05-Oct-13 19-Oct-13 23-Nov-13 23-Nov-13 27-Nov-13 27-Nov-13 28-Nov-13 07-Dec-13 21-Dec-13
Value $75,000 $150,000 $50,000 $75,000 $100,000 $60,000 $75,000 $2,000,000 $60,000 $50,000 $100,000 $75,000 $200,000 $250,000 $50,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $70,000 $70,000 $50,000 $50,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $100,000 $60,000 $60,000 $125,000 $100,000 $400,000 $100,000 $60,000 $125,000 $100,000 $150,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $50,000 $75,000 $150,000 $60,000 $200,000 $300,000 $75,000 $300,000 $100,000 $200,000 $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $400,000 $50,000 $100,000 $60,000 $55,000 $50,000 $55,000 $55,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $60,000 $60,000 $400,000 $200,000 $200,000 $60,000 $150,000 $125,000 $125,000 $150,000 $250,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000
6f (1200m) Age 3+ 3F 4+ FM 4+ 3+ FM 3 F (Ark Bred) 3+ FM NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ 3 C&G (Ark Bred) 3+ F&M 4+ F&M 3F 3+ FM 4+ 3 3 3 3F 4+ 4+FM 3F 3 4+ 4+ F&M (IA Bred) 4+ C&G (IA Bred) 3+F&M 3+ 3 F (IA Bred) 3 C&G (IA Bred) 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ 3+ (NJ Bred) 3+ FM (NJ Bred) 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M 3F 2 3 F (Min Bred) 3 + CG 3 3+ FM (TX Bred) 3+ 2F 3F 2 3F 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ (IA Bred) 2 C&G (IA bred) 2F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM (NY bred) 3F 3 FM 3 2F 2 2 2F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 2 2F 2 (NJ bred) 3+ (NY bred) 2F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+
Surface D D D D D D D AWT D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D AWT AWT D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
4+ 3F 3+ F&M 4+ F&M 4+ (CA Bred) 4+ FM 4+ FM (CA Bred) 3+ 4+ 3 (CA Bred) F 3 (CA Bred) 4+ 3+ ( TX Bred) 3+ FM (TX Bred) 4+ FM 4+
T AWT D D T AWT T D D D D D D D T T
Metres 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200
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Gr 3 S Gr 3 S
S S Gr 2 R R Gr 3 Gr 3
02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 10-Feb-13 24-Feb-13 10-Mar-13 17-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 06-Apr-13 11-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 20-Apr-13
$50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $85,000 $75,000 $200,000 $200,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000
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
Closing 03-May-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 11-May-13 16-Mar-13 25-Mar-13 29-Mar-13
30-Mar-13 05-Apr-13 11-Apr-13
18-Apr-13 23-Mar-13 01-May-13 02-May-13 10-May-13 10-May-13 01-Mar-12 15-May-13 15-May-13 15-May-13 17-May-13 18-May-13 24-May-13 17-May-13 29-May-13 29-May-13 24-May-13 08-Jun-13 14-Jun-13 16-Jun-13 16-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 20-Jun-13 20-Jun-13 22-Jun-13 27-Jun-13 28-Jun-13 06-Jul-13 12-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 19-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 19-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 25-Jul-13
20-Jul-13 08-Aug-13 12-Aug-13 23-Aug-13 22-Aug-13 22-Aug-13 01-Apr-13 01-Apr-13 18-Aug-13 23-Aug-13 23-Aug-13 06-Sep-13 06-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 27-Sep-13 05-Oct-13 CLOSED CLOSED 15-Nov-13 15-Nov-13 16-Nov-13 23-Nov-13 07-Dec-13
6.5f (1300m) 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300
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
23-Jan-13 24-Jan-13 01-Feb-13 26-Jan-13 14-Feb-13 28-Feb-13 07-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 21-Mar-13 21-Mar-13 28-Mar-13 04-Apr-13 04-Apr-13 04-Apr-13 11-Apr-13
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Track SunRay Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park SunRay Park SunRay Park Canterbury Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Belmont Park
Race Name & (Sponsor) Russell and Helen Foutz Distaff H’cap New York Stallion - Park Avenue Division New York Stallion - Times Square Division Vagrancy H’cap Aztec Oaks Dine St Dark Star Cup Amsterdam St John Morrissey St Adirondack St Saratoga Special Gallant Bloom H’cap
Class S
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Delta Downs Delta Downs Gulfstream Park Laurel Park Gulfstream Park Tampa Bay Downs Laurel Park Santa Anita Laurel Park Santa Anita Tampa Bay Downs Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Tampa Bay Downs Tampa Bay Downs Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Arlington Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Evangeline Downs Saratoga Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Charles Town Aqueduct Aqueduct Charles Town Charles Town Gulfstream Park
L.A Premier Night Prince L.A Premier Night Starlet Hutcheson St The Wide Country Stakes Gulfstream Park Sprint The Manatee St The Barbara Fritchie H’Cap San Vicente St General George H’cap San Carlos St Super St Swale S Inside Information Carter H’cap Bay Shore St Madison St Commonwealth St Beaumont St Confucius Say St Original Gold St Robert Hilton Memorial Sugar Maple St Eight Belles St Humana Distaff Churchill Downs St Ocala Breeders’ Sales Sophomore St Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies St The Acadiana St - La Bred Affirmed Success Bouwerie St Mike Lee St The Ragin Cajun St - La Bred Jaipur St Woody Stephens St Bed o’ Roses (H’cap) Chicago H’cap New York Stallion Series - Cupecoy’s Joy Division New York Stallion Series - Spectacular Bid Division Oak Hall St James Marvin Robert G Leavitt St Sadie Hawkins St Sylvia Bishop Memorial Frank Gall Memorial Ballerina St Test Foxwoods King’s Bishop Forego Spinaway St Three Chimneys Hopeful St Pink Ribbon St Charles Town Oaks Wild and Wonderful St Researcher S Iroquois Bertram F Bongard St Joseph A Gimma St Bold Ruler Tri-State Futurity New York Stallion Series - Staten Island Division New York Stallion Series - Thunder Rumble Division West Virginia Futurity (WV) Eleanor Casey Memorial The GP Aftercare Stallion Stakes
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA
Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Delta Downs Delta Downs Lone Star Park Canterbury Evangeline Downs Canterbury
Black Gold St Allen Lacombe Memorial H’cap Azalea Pelican Lane’s End Stallion Scholarship St Brooks Fields St Louisiana Showcase Starter St (10,000 or less in 2012-13) Shakopee Juvenile Stakes
USA USA USA USA USA USA UAE USA USA UAE UAE USA USA
Delta Downs Delta Downs Fair Grounds Santa Anita Turfway Park Turfway Park Meydan Laurel Park Oaklawn Park Meydan Meydan Fair Grounds Sam Houston Race Park
L.A Premier Night Ladies Starter L.A Premier Night Distaff Tiffany Lass S Arcadia St 96ROCKStakes Valdale St UAE 1000 Guineas The Miracle Wood Stakes Martha Washington S Firebreak St UAE 2000 Guineas Sarah Lane’s Oates S Jim’s Orbit S
Gr 2 S S Gr 2 S Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2
Race Date 20-Apr-13 05-May-13 05-May-13 18-May-13 25-May-13 26-May-13 08-Jun-13 28-Jul-13 01-Aug-13 11-Aug-13 11-Aug-13 21-Sep-13
6.5f (1300m)
Value $65,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $65,000 $65,000 $50,000 $200,000 $100,000 $200,000 $200,000 $200,000
Age 3+ FM 3F 3 3+ FM 3 F (NM Bred) 3 CG (NM Bred) 3+ 3 3+ (NY bred) 2F 2 3+ F&M
Surface D
3 3F 3 3F 4+ 4+ F&M 3+F&M 3 3+ 4+ 4+ 3 4+ F&M 3+ 3 4+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3 4+ FM 3F 4+ FM 4+ 3 3F 3F 3 + (NY Bred) 3 F (NY bred) 3 (NY bred) 3 3+ 3 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3F 3 3+ 3+ 3 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3 3+ 2F 2 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3F 3+ F&M (NY bred) 2 2F 3+ 2 3+ FM 3+ 2 2F 3+
D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D AWT AWT AWT D D D D D D D D D D D D D D T D D AWT T T D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D
1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400
3 3F 3F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ (La Bred) 2
D T D D T T T T
1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500
4+ F & M 4+F&M 4 + F&M 4+ 3 3F NH 3F SH 3F 3 3F SH-bred 3+ & NH-bred 4+ NH 3yo SH 3yo 3 F LA Bred 3
D D D T AWT AWT AWT D D AWT AWT T D
1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600
D D D D D D D D D D
Metres 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300
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Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2
S S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 R R Gr 3 S S S S Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1
S
Gr 3 R S S S
02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 17-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 02-Mar-13 17-Mar-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 11-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 14-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 03-May-13 04-May-13 04-May-13 06-May-13 06-May-13 31-May-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 07-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 30-Jun-13 30-Jun-13 13-Jul-13 19-Jul-13 03-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 23-Aug-13 24-Aug-13 24-Aug-13 31-Aug-13 01-Sep-13 02-Sep-13 21-Sep-13 21-Sep-13 21-Sep-13 21-Sep-13 19-Oct-13 19-Oct-13 19-Oct-13 26-Oct-13 09-Nov-13 23-Nov-13 23-Nov-13 30-Nov-13 21-Dec-13 05-Apr-13
$125,000 $125,000 $150,000 $125,000 $150,000 $50,000 $250,000 $150,000 $250,000 $200,000 $75,000 $150,000 $150,000 $400,000 $250,000 $300,000 $175,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $85,000 $200,000 $150,000 $300,000 $400,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $100,000 $125,000 $125,000 $50,000 $150,000 $400,000 $150,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $500,000 $500,000 $500,000 $500,000 $300,000 $300,000 $50,000 $400,000 $85,000 $400,000 $150,000 $125,000 $125,000 $150,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $60,000
S S R R
$75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 $100,000
Gr 2
L
Gr 3 Gr 3 S
02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 03-Feb-13 07-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 14-Feb-13 14-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 16-Feb-13
$70,000 $150,000 $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $250,000 $125,000 $75,000 $200,000 $250,000 $60,000 $100,000
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 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 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
18-Jan-13 17-Jan-13 19-Jan-13 24-Jan-13 26-Jan-13 26-Jan-13 07-Feb-13 07-Feb-13 07-Feb-13 14-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 02-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 27-Mar-13 27-Mar-13 27-Mar-13 10-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 23-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 21-May-13 18-May-13 18-May-13 18-May-13 21-May-13 25-May-13 25-May-13 01-Jun-13 19-Jun-13 CLOSED CLOSED 02-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 24-Jul-13 31-Jul-13 14-Aug-13 07-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 11-Sep-13 07-Sep-13 11-Sep-13 07-Sep-13 05-Oct-13 05-Oct-13 05-Oct-13 12-Oct-13 CLOSED CLOSED 20-Nov-13 11-Dec-13 23-Mar-13
7.5f (1500m)
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Closing 13-Apr-13 CLOSED CLOSED 04-May-13 18-May-13 19-May-13 30-May-13 13-Jul-13 25-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 07-Sep-13
7f (1400m)
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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
7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5
19-Feb-13 19-Feb-13 22-Feb-13 22-Feb-13 02-May-13 06-Jun-13 22-Jun-13 25-Jul-13
8f (1600m) 8 17-Jan-13 8 17-Jan-13 8 19-Jan-13 8 24-Jan-13 8 24-Jan-13 8 21-Feb-13 8 04-Feb-13 8 31-Jan-13 8 8 11-Feb-13 8 11-Feb-13 8 02-Feb-13 8 31/12 of Yearling Year
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Track Sam Houston Race Park Aqueduct Oaklawn Park Santa Anita Meydan Gulfstream Park Sunland Park Delta Downs Meydan Delta Downs Laurel Park Meydan Sam Houston Race Park Santa Anita Santa Anita Gulfstream Park Meydan Gulfstream Park Sam Houston Race Park Delta Downs Delta Downs Turfway Park Sunland Park Fair Grounds Gulfstream Park Meydan Aqueduct Keeneland Oaklawn Park Keeneland Belmont Park Churchill Downs Golden Gate Fields Lone Star Park SunRay Park Prairie Meadows Churchill Downs Lone Star Park Monmouth Park Arlington Park Evangeline Downs Belmont Park Belmont Park Monmouth Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Golden Gate Fields Penn National Prairie Meadows Belmont Park Golden Gate Fields Canterbury Belmont Park Monmouth Park Churchill Downs Belmont Park Monmouth Park Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Lone Star Park Monmouth Park Canterbury Belmont Park Evangeline Downs Canterbury Canterbury Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Evangeline Downs Prairie Meadows Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park Arlington Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Aqueduct Aqueduct
Race Name & (Sponsor) Two Altazano S Comely Southwest S Buena Vista St Al Fahidi Fort Canadian Turf Island Fashion S Eldorado Meydan Classic Fremont Caesar’s Wish St Zabeel Mile Texas Heritage Stakes Las Virgenes St Frank E. Kilroe Mile Gulfstream Park H Burj Nahaar Honey Fox H Spring Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge S Gold Coast Borgata Bourbonette Oaks Harry W Henson H Crescent City Oaks Appleton H Godolphin Mile Ruffian H’cap Maker’s 46 Mile Northern Spur Appalachian St Westchester H’cap Derby Trial San Francisco Mile Texas Mile Jack Cole H’cap Prairie Mile Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Texas Stallion St - Got Koko Division Red Bank St Hanshin Cup Opelousas St Metropolitan H’Cap Acorn St Little Silver St Purple Violet St Springfield St Kingston H’cap Mount Vernon H’cap Campanile St Penn Mile Panthers Just a Game St Silky Sullivan St Mystic Lake Mile Hill Prince St The Dan Horn H’Cap Firecracker H’cap Poker H’cap Elkwood St Louisiana Legends Distaff Louisiana Legends Mile - La Bred Fillies Louisiana Legends Mile - La Bred C&G Assault St Salvator Mile Lady Canterbury St Shuvee H’cap Matron St Northbound Pride Oaks Mystic Lake Derby De La Rose St New York Stallion Series - Cab Calloway Division New York Stallion Series - Statue of Liberty Division Evangeline Mile Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile Fourstardave H’cap Riskaverse P.G. Johnson St With Anticipation St Arlington-Washington Lassie Arlington-Washington Futurity Noble Damsel Kelso H’cap Frizette St Foxwoods Champagne Pebbles St Nashua St Tempted St Go For Wand Hcap Cigar Mile H’cap
USA USA USA
Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Sunland Park
Monmouth Beach St Serena’s Song St Mine That Bird Derby
USA USA USA USA USA
Prairie Meadows Canterbury Canterbury Aqueduct Aqueduct
Iowa Breeders’ Oaks Minnesota Derby Minnesota Oaks East View St Damon Runyon St
Class Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 R L R Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 R R Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 2 R Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 1 Gr 1 S S S S S
Gr 1 S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S S R Gr 3 Gr 2
R R
Gr 2
Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1
Race Date 16-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 21-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 24-Feb-13 28-Feb-13 28-Feb-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 22-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 06-Apr-13 12-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 18-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 01-May-13 04-May-13 11-May-13 18-May-13 25-May-13 25-May-13 27-May-13 27-May-13 27-May-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 09-Jun-13 13-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 16-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 04-Jul-13 05-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 03-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 07-Aug-13 08-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 20-Aug-13 28-Aug-13 29-Aug-13 07-Sep-13 07-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 28-Sep-13 05-Oct-13 05-Oct-13 14-Oct-13 03-Nov-13 03-Nov-13 29-Nov-13 30-Nov-13
Value $75,000 $200,000 $300,000 $150,000 $250,000 $150,000 $50,000 $60,000 $150,000 $60,000 $150,000 $250,000 $50,000 $250,000 $300,000 $300,000 $200,000 $100,000 $50,000 $70,000 $70,000 $100,000 $85,000 $75,000 $100,000 $1,000,000 $25,000 $300,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $175,000 $100,000 $200,000 $65,000 $60,000 $250,000 $75,000 $100,000 $150,000 $50,000 $750,000 $300,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $125,000 $125,000 $100,000 $50,000 $60,000 $500,000 $100,000 $125,000 $150,000 $60,000 $150,000 $150,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $150,000 $100,000 $200,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $125,000 $60,000 $500,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $100,000 $150,000 $150,000 $400,000 $400,000 $400,000 $200,000 $200,000 $150,000 $250,000 $400,000
8f (1600m) Age 3F 3+F 3 4+ FM NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 4+ 3F 4+ F M NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ 4+ 3F NH 3yo+ SH 3yo+ 3+ 3F 4+ 4+ NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 4+ F&M 3+ F&M 4+ FM 4+ 3F 3+ F&M 3 la. bred F 4+ NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 3+ FM 4+ 3 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 4+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ 3 + FM 3+ FM 3F 3F 3F 3 3+ (NY Bred) 3+ FM (NY Bred) 3 F (CA Bred) 3 3F 3+ F&M 3 (CA Bred) 3 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3F 3 3+ (TX Bred) 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ FM 3F 3 3 + FM 3 3F 3+ 2 3+ 3F 2F 2 2F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 2F 2 3F 2 2F 3+ FM 3+
Surface D D D T T T D D T D D T D D T D AWT T D D D AWT D D T AWT D T D T D D T D D D T D T AWT T D D T AWT AWT T T T T D T T T T T T T T D D D D D T D T T T T T T D D T T T T AWT AWT T D D D T D D D D
Metres 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600
3+ FM 3F 3
D D D
1625 1625 1625
3 F (IA bred) 3 CG 3F 2 F N.Y. Bred 2 (NY Bred)
D D D D D
1664 1664 1664 1664 1664
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S S S S S
03-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 15-Dec-13 15-Dec-13
$75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $80,000 $75,000
Furlongs Closing 8 31/12 of Yearling Year 8 16-Nov-13 8 8 07-Feb-13 8 18-Feb-13 8 09-Feb-13 8 16-Feb-13 8 15-Feb-13 8 25-Feb-13 8 15-Feb-13 8 21-Feb-13 8 25-Jan-13 8 20-Feb-13 8 16-Feb-13 8 16-Feb-13 8 23-Feb-13 8 04-Mar-13 8 02-Mar-13 8 8 08-Mar-13 8 08-Mar-13 8 14-Mar-13 8 16-Mar-13 8 02-Mar-13 8 16-Mar-13 8 25-Mar-13 8 23-Mar-13 8 27-Mar-13 8 8 03-Apr-13 8 13-Apr-13 8 10-Apr-13 8 18-Apr-13 8 18-Apr-13 8 20-Apr-13 8 23-May-13 8 10-Apr-13 8 8 06-May-13 8 15-May-13 8 14-May-13 8 11-May-13 8 11-May-13 8 17-May-13 8 22-May-13 8 22-May-13 8 18-May-13 8 18-May-13 8 23-May-13 8 02-Jan-00 8 23-May-13 8 25-May-13 8 30-May-13 8 27-Jun-13 8 01-Jun-13 8 07-Jun-13 8 15-Jun-13 8 22-Jun-13 8 28-Jun-13 8 22-Jun-13 8 22-Jun-13 8 22-Jun-13 8 27-Jun-13 8 22-Jun-13 8 27-Jun-13 8 06-Jul-13 8 09-Jul-13 8 25-Jul-13 8 25-Jul-13 8 27-Jul-13 8 CLOSED 8 CLOSED 8 30-Jul-13 8 01-Aug-13 8 27-Jul-13 8 23-Aug-13 8 21-Aug-13 8 17-Aug-13 8 28-Aug-13 8 28-Aug-13 8 31-Aug-13 8 14-Sep-13 8 21-Sep-13 8 21-Sep-13 8 28-Sep-13 8 19-Oct-13 8 19-Oct-13 8 16-Nov-13 8 16-Nov-13
8.25 8.25 8.25
17-May-13 05-Jul-13 15-Feb-13
8.32f (1664m) 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32
01-Apr-13 01-Apr-13 30-Nov-13 30-Nov-13
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Track Aqueduct Aqueduct Delta Downs Delta Downs Oaklawn Park Santa Anita Tampa Bay Downs Tampa Bay Downs Tampa Bay Downs Golden Gate Fields Gulfstream Park Sam Houston Race Park Sunland Park Oaklawn Park Santa Anita Tampa Bay Downs Gulfstream Park Aqueduct Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Gulfstream Park Sam Houston Race Park Turf Paradise Aqueduct Aqueduct Sam Houston Race Park Tampa Bay Downs Fair Grounds Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Santa Anita Tampa Bay Downs Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Fair Grounds Oaklawn Park Sunland Park Sunland Park Sunland Park Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Keeneland Keeneland Santa Anita Tampa Bay Downs Tampa Bay Downs Golden Gate Fields Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Evangeline Downs Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Racecourse Turf Paradise Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Belmont Park Belmont Park Lone Star Park Arlington Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Monmouth Park Belmont Park Golden Gate Fields Lone Star Park Belmont Park Prairie Meadows Churchill Downs Prairie Meadows Arlington Park Arlington Park Churchill Downs Monmouth Park Belmont Park Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Monmouth Park Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Saratoga Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Saratoga
Race Name & (Sponsor) Withers St Busher St L.A Premier Night Gentlemen Starter L.A Premier Night Championship Essex H Robert B. Lewis St Endeavour St Sam F. Davis St Florida Oaks California Oaks Donn H Tomball S Curribot H Bayakoa S Santa Maria St The Tampa Bay St Sabin Kings Point Rachel Alexandra St Risen Star S Mineshaft H’cap Gentilly S Bayou H’cap Davona Dale St Jersey Village S Turf Paradise Derby Top Flight H’cap Gotham St Jersey Lilly S Challenger St New Orleans Ladies St Honeybee S Razorback H San Felipe St Tampa Bay Derby Rebel S Azeri S Red Camelia St Arkansas Breeders (Female Division) New Mexico Breeders’ Derby New Mexico Breeders’ Oaks Sunland Park Oaks Fair Grounds Oaks Costa Rising St Crescent City Derby Transylvania St Central Bank Ashland St Santa Anita Oaks The First Dude Turf Distaff The Dayton Andrews Sophomore Turf Golden Poppy St Arkansas Breeders (Open) Fantasy S Jenny Wiley St Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare St Coolmore Lexington St John Henry St Milwaukee Avenue H’cap Peach Of It H’cap Gene Fleming Breeders Derby Edgewood St American Turf St La Troienne St Alysheba St Beaugay Fort Marcy Texas Stallion St - Stymie Division Arlington Classic Majestic Light S Lamplighter St Jim Rasmussen Mem Wild Rose The Miss Liberty Ogden Phipps H’cap All American Lone Star Park H’cap Commentator Hawkeyes Handicap Early Times Mint Julep H’cap Cyclones Handicap Black Tie Affair H’cap Lincoln Heritage H’cap Matt Winn St Pegasus S Mother Goose St Revidere St Iowa Distaff Eatontown St Iowa Derby Iowa Oaks Lighthouse St The Louisiana Legends Mile - La Bred Louisiana Legends Classic - La Bred Long Branch St Jersey Derby Lake George St Desert Vixen S Molly Pitcher St Oceanport St Monmouth Cup Donna Reed Ralph Hayes Waya St
Class Gr 3 R S Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3
Gr 1
Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 S Gr 2
Gr 2 Gr 3
L Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S S S Gr 2 S S Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1
S Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 S S S
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 R
Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 3 S S S Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1
Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 R S
Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 S S
Race Date 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 10-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 17-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 05-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 07-Apr-13 07-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 19-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 03-May-13 03-May-13 03-May-13 03-May-13 04-May-13 04-May-13 11-May-13 25-May-13 25-May-13 25-May-13 25-May-13 25-May-13 26-May-13 27-May-13 27-May-13 27-May-13 01-Jun-13 07-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 08-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 16-Jun-13 22-Jun-13 23-Jun-13 28-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 30-Jun-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 07-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 24-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 28-Jul-13 28-Jul-13 28-Jul-13 03-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 05-Aug-13
Value $200,000 $75,000 $70,000 $200,000 $100,000 $200,000 $150,000 $250,000 $150,000 $50,000 $500,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $200,000 $150,000 $100,000 $75,000 $200,000 $400,000 $150,000 $60,000 $75,000 $250,000 $50,000 $75,000 $200,000 $400,000 $50,000 $60,000 $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $300,000 $350,000 $600,000 $150,000 $60,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $500,000 $60,000 $75,000 $100,000 $500,000 $300,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $60,000 $400,000 $300,000 $100,000 $200,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $50,000 $150,000 $200,000 $300,000 $300,000 $150,000 $150,000 $75,000 $150,000 $750,000 $60,000 $60,000 $60,000 $75,000 $400,000 $100,000 $300,000 $150,000 $75,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $300,000 $60,000 $100,000 $100,000 $250,000 $200,000 $750,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $60,000 $200,000 $60,000 $200,000 $150,000 $200,000 $85,000 $85,000 $100,000
8.5f (1700m) Age 3 3 FM 4+ 4+ 4+ 3 4+ FM 3 3F 3F 4+ 4 + F&M 3+ 4+ F&M 4+ FM 4+ 4+ F&M 3+ (NY Bred) 3F 3 4+ 3 LA Bred 4+ FM 3F 4+ 3 3 + F&M 3 4+ F&M 4+ 4+ FM 3F 4+ 3 3 3 4+ F&M 4+ FM La Bred 3+ F&M (Ark Bred) 3 3F 3F 3F 4+ La. Bred 3 La. Bred 3 3F 3F 4+ FM 3 3 3+ (Ark Bred) 3F 4+ FM 4+ FM 3 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3 (AZ Bred) 3F 3 3+ FM 4+ 3+ FM 3+ 3 CG 3 3+ 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3+FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3 + (NY Bred) 3+ F&M (IA Bred) 3+ FM 3+ (IA Bred) 3+ 3+ FM 3 3 3F 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 3 3F 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 4+ F&M (IA Bred) 4+ C&G (IA Bred) 3+ FM
Surface D D D D D D T D T AWT D T D D D T D D D D D T T D T D D D T D D D D D D D D T D D D D D D D T AWT D T T T D D T AWT T T D D T T T D D T T D T D T D D T D AWT D D T D T T D D D T D T D D D T D D T T T D T D D D T
Metres 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700
Furlongs Closing 8.5 19-Jan-13 8.5 19-Jan-13 8.5 18-Jan-13 8.5 18-Jan-13 8.5 8.5 24-Jan-13 8.5 19-Jan-13 8.5 19-Jan-13 8.5 19-Jan-13 8.5 31-Jan-13 8.5 26-Jan-13 8.5 30-Jan-13 8.5 02-Feb-13 8.5 8.5 07-Feb-13 8.5 02-Feb-13 8.5 02-Feb-13 8.5 09-Feb-13 8.5 09-Feb-13 8.5 09-Feb-13 8.5 09-Feb-13 8.5 09-Feb-13 8.5 09-Feb-13 8.5 09-Feb-13 8.5 13-Feb-13 8.5 8.5 16-Feb-13 8.5 16-Feb-13 8.5 20-Feb-13 8.5 16-Feb-13 8.5 23-Feb-13 8.5 8.5 8.5 28-Feb-13 8.5 23-Feb-13 8.5 8.5 8.5 09-Mar-13 8.5 8.5 16-Mar-13 8.5 16-Mar-13 8.5 09-Mar-13 8.5 16-Mar-13 8.5 16-Mar-13 8.5 16-Mar-13 8.5 20-Mar-13 8.5 27-Mar-13 8.5 28-Mar-13 8.5 23-Mar-13 8.5 23-Mar-13 8.5 28-Mar-13 8.5 8.5 8.5 27-Mar-13 8.5 03-Apr-13 8.5 03-Apr-13 8.5 16-Apr-13 8.5 8.5 8.5 EARLY CLOSING 8.5 10-Apr-13 8.5 10-Apr-13 8.5 10-Apr-13 8.5 10-Apr-13 8.5 20-Apr-13 8.5 20-Apr-13 8.5 8.5 13-Apr-13 8.5 17-May-13 8.5 17-May-13 8.5 16-May-13 8.5 16-May-13 8.5 17-May-13 8.5 11-May-13 8.5 16-May-13 8.5 16-May-13 8.5 18-May-13 8.5 29-May-13 8.5 25-May-13 8.5 30-May-13 8.5 05-Jun-13 8.5 05-Jun-13 8.5 01-Jun-13 8.5 03-Jun-13 8.5 08-Jun-13 8.5 14-Jun-13 8.5 16-Jun-13 8.5 15-Jun-13 8.5 16-Jun-13 8.5 16-Jun-13 8.5 21-May-13 8.5 22-Jun-13 8.5 22-Jun-13 8.5 22-Jun-13 8.5 12-Jul-13 8.5 13-Jul-13 8.5 19-Jul-13 8.5 14-Jul-13 8.5 14-Jul-13 8.6 14-Jul-13 8.5 25-Jul-13 8.5 25-Jul-12 8.5 29-Jul-13
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Track Monmouth Park Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park Canterbury Saratoga Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Canterbury Canterbury Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Penn National Aqueduct
Race Name & (Sponsor) Monmouth Oaks West Point H’cap Yaddo H’cap Hatoof HBPA Distaff Ballston Spa The Ladys Secret St Cliff Hanger St MN Classic Championship MN Distaff Classic Championship Charles Hesse H’cap Jersey Girl H’cap Pilgrim St Athenia Ticonderoga H’cap Mohawk St Turnback the Alarm The Swatara Alex M. Robb H’cap
Class Gr 3 S S
Gr 2 Gr 3 S S
Gr 3 S S Gr 3 S
Race Date 10-Aug-13 15-Aug-13 16-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 24-Aug-13 25-Aug-13 25-Aug-13 01-Sep-13 01-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 06-Oct-13 12-Oct-13 19-Oct-13 19-Oct-13 26-Oct-13 27-Nov-13 28-Dec-13
8.5f (1700m)
Value $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $75,000 $50,000 $250,000 $75,000 $100,000 $55,000 $50,000 $60,000 $600,000 $150,000 $150,000 $175,000 $175,000 $150,000 $150,000 $80,000
Age 3F 3+ (NY bred) 3+ FM (NY bred) 3F 3+FM 3+ FM 3+FM 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 2 3+ F&M 3+ F&M (NY bred) 3+ (NY bred) 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ (NY Bred)
Surface D T T T T T D T D D D D T T T T D D D
Metres 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700
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Santa Anita Santa Anita Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Aqueduct Golden Gate Fields Laurel Park Meydan Fair Grounds Gulfstream Park Laurel Park Garrison Savannah Gulfstream Park Sam Houston Race Park Gulfstream Park Santa Anita Laurel Park Meydan Tampa Bay Downs Laurel Park Aqueduct Turfway Park Santa Anita Sunland Park Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Fair Grounds Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Meydan Aqueduct Aqueduct Santa Anita Tampa Bay Downs Santa Anita Keeneland Oaklawn Park Oaklawn Park Sunland Park Charles Town Hawthorne Racecourse Hawthorne Racecourse Keeneland Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Belmont Park Arlington Park Belmont Park Penn National Monmouth Park Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs SunRay Park Prairie Meadows Canterbury Canterbury Arlington Park Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Saratoga Saratoga Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Monmouth Park Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park
Strub St San Antonio St Gulfstream Park Turf H Suwannee River Stymie H’cap El Camino Real Derby John B. Campbell H’cap Balanchine Fair Grounds H’cap Fountain Of Youth St Maryland Racing Media St XXXII Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup The Herecomesthebride S Maxxam Gold Cup The Palm Beach S Santa Margarita St Private Terms St Jebel Hatta Hillsborough St Harrison E. Johnson Memorial St Excelsior Spiral Stakes Santa Anita St Sunland Derby Louisiana Derby Mervin H Muniz Jr Memorial New Orleans H The Gulfstream Oaks The Rampart S Florida Derby Dubai Duty Free Gazelle St Wood Memorial St Santa Anita Derby The Turf Classic Providencia St Toyota Blue Grass St Oaklawn H Arkansas Derby Sunland Park H Charles Town Classic Illinois Derby Sixty Sails H’cap Ben Ali St Kentucky Oaks Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Peter Pan St Arlington Matron Sands Point St The Mountainview H’cap Monmouth St Stephen Foster H’cap Regret St Fleur de Lis H’cap San Juan County Commissioners H’cap Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H’cap Blair’s Cove St Princess Elaine St Arlington Oaks TVG Coaching Club American Oaks Evan Shipman (NYB) Curlin Diana St Jim Dandy St Taylor Made Matchmaker Haskell Invitational (INV) Whitney H’cap National Museum Racing Hall of Fame St Restoration St Philip H. Iselin St Woodford Reserve Lake Placid Albany St Personal Ensign Inv St Saratoga Dew St Twin Light St Bernard Baruch H’cap The Woodward Pucker Up St Garden City St John Hettinger Ashley T Cole H’cap Beldame Invitational
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Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S Gr 3 Gr 1
Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr II S Gr 1 S Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 S Gr 1
02-Feb-13 03-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 21-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 23-Feb-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 03-Mar-13 07-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 24-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 07-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 13-Apr-13 14-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 20-Apr-13 21-Apr-13 03-May-13 04-May-13 11-May-13 25-May-13 27-May-13 01-Jun-13 09-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 15-Jun-13 23-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 03-Jul-13 03-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 22-Jul-13 26-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 28-Jul-13 28-Jul-13 03-Aug-13 09-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 18-Aug-13 18-Aug-13 21-Aug-13 25-Aug-13 26-Aug-13 31-Aug-13 31-Aug-13 31-Aug-13 04-Sep-13 14-Sep-13 15-Sep-13 15-Sep-13 28-Sep-13
$200,000 $200,000 $300,000 $150,000 $75,000 $200,000 $100,000 $200,000 $150,000 $400,000 $125,000 $102,500 $100,000 $100,000 $150,000 $300,000 $150,000 $300,000 $150,000 $125,000 $150,000 $500,000 $150,000 $800,000 $1,000,000 $400,000 $400,000 $300,000 $150,000 $1,000,000 $5,000,000 $350,000 $1,000,000 $7,500,000 $75,000 $150,000 $750,000 $500,000 $1,000,000 $85,000 $1,500,000 $750,000 $200,000 $150,000 $1,000,000 $500,000 $200,000 $150,000 $200,000 $25,000 $200,000 $500,000 $100,000 $175,000 $75,000 $300,000 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $300,000 $100,000 $100,000 $600,000 $600,000 $150,000 $1,000,000 $750,000 $200,000 $60,000 $150,000 $200,000 $150,000 $600,000 $100,000 $60,000 $250,000 $750,000 $175,000 $300,000 $150,000 $150,000 $400,000
4 4+ 4+ 4+ F&M 3+ 3 3+ NH F&M 4yo+ SH F&M 3yo+ 4+ 3 3+ FM 3+ 3F 4+ 3 4+ FM 3 NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 4+ FM 3+ 3+ 3 4+ F&M 3 3 4+ 4+ 3F 4+ F&M 3 NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 3F 3 3 4+ 3F 3 4+ 3 3+ 4+ 3 3+ F&M 4+ 3F 3+ 3 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ CG 3+ FM 3F 3F 3+ 3 3+ FM 3 3+ FM 3 3+ 3 3 3+ 3F 3 (NY bred) 3+ FM 3+ FM (NY bred) 3F 3+ 3+ 3F 3F 3+ F&M 3+ (NY bred) 3+ F&M
Furlongs 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.6 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5
Closing 27-Jul-13 03-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 07-Aug-13 08-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 16-Aug-13 11-Aug-13 22-Aug-13 22-Aug-13 06-Sep-13 06-Sep-13 21-Sep-13 28-Sep-13 05-Oct-13 05-Oct-13 12-Oct-13 15-Nov-13 14-Dec-13
9f (1800m) D D T T D AWT D T T D D T T D T D D T T D D AWT T D D T D D D D T D D D T T AWT D D D D D D AWT D T D AWT T D T D T D D D T T AWT D D D T D T D D T T D T D D D T T D T T T T D
1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800
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 9 9 9 9 9
24-Jan-13 24-Jan-13 26-Jan-13 26-Jan-13 02-Feb-13 07-Feb-13 07-Feb-13 18-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 09-Feb-13 14-Feb-13 11-Jan-13 16-Feb-13 20-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 07-Mar-13 28-Feb-13 04-Mar-13 23-Feb-13 07-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 02-Mar-13 14-Mar-13 01-Feb-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 12-Jan-13 25-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 23-Mar-13 22-Dec-12 23-Mar-13 28-Feb-13 27-Mar-13
06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 06-Apr-13 10-Apr-13 03-Apr-13 23-Feb-13 10-Apr-13 27-Apr-13 15-May-13 11-May-13 22-May-13 26-May-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 01-Jun-13 16-Jun-13 16-Jun-13 20-Jun-13 20-Jun-13 10-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 19-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 14-Jul-13 20-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 09-Aug-13 04-Aug-13 03-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 10-Aug-13 19-Aug-13 23-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 04-Sep-13 31-Aug-13 31-Aug-13 31-Aug-13 14-Sep-13
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Value $150,000 $400,000 $150,000 $250,000 $50,000 $50,000 $250,000 $250,000 $80,000
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Surface D T T D D D D D D
Metres 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800
NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ NH 3F SH 3F NH 3yo SH 3yo 4+ NH 3 SH 3 3+ FM 3 3+ FM 3+ 3
AWT AWT AWT D AWT T T T AWT T
1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900
4+ 4+ NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ NH 4yo+ SH 3yo+ 4+ FM 3 3+ 3+ FM 3 + FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3yo 3F 3 3+ F&M 3+
T D AWT AWT T D T T D D T D T T T D D T D
2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000
4+ F&M 4+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 3+
T T T T T T T T T
2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200
NH 4yo+ SH 4yo+ 4+ 4+ 4+ 4+ F&M NH 4yo+ SH 4yo+ 4 + F&M 4+ 3+ 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ FM
T T T AWT T T T T T D D T T T
2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400
3+ 3+
T T
2600 2600
SH-bred 3+ & NH-bred 4+ 4+
T T
2800 2800
T
3200
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Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 1
09-Feb-13 03-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 30-Mar-13 20-Apr-13 04-May-13 08-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 06-Jul-13 06-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 27-Jul-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 24-Aug-13 28-Sep-13 28-Sep-13
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16-Feb-13 16-Feb-13 25-May-13 06-Jul-13 13-Jul-13 24-Aug-13 02-Sep-13 07-Sep-13 16-Nov-13
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$250,000 $150,000 $150,000 $100,000 $150,000 $5,000,000 $150,000 $150,000 $100,000 $200,000 $1,000,000 $600,000 $600,000 $150,000
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02-Mar-13 21-Apr-13
$200,000 $150,000
30-Mar-13
11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
02-Feb-13 02-Feb-13 11-May-13 22-Jun-13 29-Jun-13 16-Aug-13 17-Aug-13 24-Aug-13 02-Oct-13
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
25-Mar-13 17-Mar-13 09-Mar-13 14-Mar-13 16-Mar-13 25-Mar-13 03-Apr-13 03-Apr-13 11-May-13 25-May-13 26-Jan-13 03-Aug-13 14-Sep-13 26-Oct-13
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Y the time you’re reading this, we’ll know whether the next 12 days yielded more deaths to match or exceed last year’s month-end total. I hope not, because many safeguards – surface excepted – were put in place this year to prevent the fatal accidents that marred racing last season. Allow me to mash-up some lines from a favorite poem by John Fernando and apply them to the intersection of horseracing, technology, and society, as they apply to this issue: “Get a taste and awake to the sounds of a new age, page after page, enter the stage of… taking horseracing fatalities seriously.” It’s something the industry needs to do to adapt to the times, and it was the subject of the “Will’s Way” column of William Koester in the front of this magazine last quarter. It’s an issue that’s not going away and one that must be addressed. Media (old, new, and social) now routinely amplifies the outrage of society to equine breakdowns and deaths and to the mistreatment of horses – whether real or perceived. And there’s real interest from fans and the public to find out what’s going on. This tweet from Dan Needham (@thorotrends) on January 18 put it aptly: “[I’ve] Been thinking about how we learned [about] the outcome of racing injuries before turf writers [began] Tweeting, and the answer is we usually never did.” It’s not just the writers tweeting, either; fans, bloggers, bettors – in short, anyone plugged into the technology – are sources, and bad news travels as fast as it’s made. Breakdowns are news. Bob Baffert got a taste of this “new age” when he dropped Kaleem Shah’s one-time Graded horse Tweebster into a $12,500 claimer on December 30, 2012, at Santa Anita. There was quite a bit of chatter, speculation, and concern on Twitter about this drop before the race, but the reaction to the horse’s euthanasia after breaking down was unprecedented. The uproar against Baffert and Shah was loud enough for Baffert
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Taking horseracing fatalities and the treatment of horses seriously At this writing, January 19, 2013, here’s how Aqueduct Racetrack’s inner track meet equine fatality statistics compare to the year before: five deaths this season versus seven through January a year ago. (@midnightlute) to tweet, on December 31, “it’s times like these that sort out who your real friends are and those who secretly take satisfaction in watching you suffer.” He followed that up with a traditional press release the same day, underlining his side of the story: that the horse was sound before the race. The release said in part, “When the public’s perception is that you are somehow responsible it makes the pain all the greater. Not only am I distressed over the death of this tough, gallant horse, I am deeply troubled by the comments on social media.” I was on Twitter when this story was raging and saw firsthand how it triggered the New York Times story that appeared on December 31, the same day of Baffert’s tweet and press release. The article was titled “Baffert’s Horse Is Euthanized After Claiming Race, but Some
“Media (old, new, and social) now routinely amplifies the outrage of society to equine breakdowns and deaths and to the mistreatment of horses – whether real or perceived”
Wonder Why It Was Running.” Joe Drape, the writer, came by the story when an outraged and outspoken critic on Twitter sent a tweet in full public view to him (@joedrape) about Tweebster’s big drop and subsequent demise. Drape didn’t know about the breakdown at the time, but he promised to investigate and did because the issue has been special to the Times. Drape and his co-writers and editors at the Times spent 2012 outing racing’s fatalities on a scale never seen before. The paper’s March 24, 2012, exposé “Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys,” the first of its multi-part “Death and disarray at America’s racetracks” series that ran throughout 2012, spells out the content in the headlines unequivocally. Though the first article’s main focus was on the climate of drugs and carnage at racetracks in New Mexico, the collateral damage to racing’s public standing – even in New York – was vast. Aqueduct Racetrack was only marginally mentioned in the Times piece, but it quickly came under the microscope for the equine fatalities of its inner track meet, which ended early at about the time the Times article was blowing up. Bluntly, the 2011/2012 inner track meet was a catastrophe. From November 30, 2011, to its premature end on March 22, 2012, 21 horses lost their lives on its winterized racing surface – significantly more than the fatalities at the meet in each of the last three years – and were the subject of a Task Force report instigated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office. Before the inner track meet began this year on December 12, many of the recommendations of the task force had been implemented by the New York Racing Association (NYRA) and state regulatory agencies. Yet the deaths have still come. Because of this, NYRA was scheduled to discuss the possibility of a synthetic-surface installation for next year at its January 25 board meeting. This was originally suggested in the Task Force report, and it’s certainly worth the discussion if the experts feel it could lead to a decrease in fatalities. Taking action, and acting preemptively, is the only way forward in today’s world. n
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