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GOLDEN STATE STAKES AT DEL MAR

CAL-BRED PROGRAM IN FINEST FETTLE

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1. Cordiality 2. Tap the Wire 3. Naughty Tiger 4. Just Grazed Me 5. Fly to Mars 6. Take the One O One

From the EXECUTIVE CORNER DOUG BURGE CTBA PRESIDENT

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES AT DEL MAR

he Golden State Stakes Series, with total annual purses of more than $5 million, is featured prominently during the summer meet at Del Mar. Eight restricted stakes are ofered over the 36-day meet with opportunities for 2-year-olds, straight 3-year-olds, and older horses. Te four 2-year-old stakes have been offered for many years and help kick of the black-type opportunities for young horses. Te California Toroughbred Breeders Association has been adamant in protecting these 2-year-old races in order to ofer a quick reward to the owners/breeders of young horses that have broken their maiden in the spring or summer. Many people have inquired as to why two of the races at the end of the meet include a non-winners of a sweepstake of $50,000 clause. Tis provision was added at the request of the racing ofcials at Del Mar as an experiment to determine whether there would be positive efects on feld size. At the conclusion

of the meet, Del Mar and CTBA will evaluate and discuss the results in order to determine whether such a provision will be included in the future. Te Fleet Treat and Real Good Deal stakes, each with a purse of $150,000, are the last restricted stakes opportunities of the year for straight 3-year-olds. As such, these races continue to be extremely popular with the horsemen. Also, the two turf races ofered at $150,000 each for 3-year-olds and up consistently provide good, competitive felds. Te Solana Beach had a feld of nine, and the California Dreamin’ had a full feld of 11. Each of these winners is featured on both the cover and pages 24-29 of this publication. Congratulations to the breeders, owners, and all the connections. Tanks to the joint cooperation and support of breeders, racetracks, and the Toroughbred Owners of California, there are many lucrative Golden State Stakes to look forward to in the remainder of this year and into the future.

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Contents

FEATURES

24 CAL-BREDS

16 NorCal Sale Review

AT DEL MAR

20 Yearling Management

Te summer season at Del Mar ofers plenty of opportunities for California-breds in the wide variety of the Golden State Stakes program.

OFFICERS CHAIRPERSON PETE PARRELLA PRESIDENT DOUG BURGE

30 Pleasanton People, Part 4 34 Standout Employee: Kingfsher Farms Dream Team

VICE CHAIRPERSON TERRY C. LOVINGIER TREASURER GEORGE F. SCHMITT SECRETARY KATE BARTON

36 CTBA Member Profle: John and Allegra Ernst

DIRECTORS John C. Harris, Leigh Ann Howard, John H. Barr, Kate Barton, Gloria Haley, Pete Parrella, Sue Greene, Donald J. Valpredo, Terry C. Lovingier, George F. Schmitt, Edward Freeman, Clay Murdock

42 Health: Warts & Sarcoid Tumors

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NewsBits CAL-BRED WINS EMERALD DISTAFF

CURRENT CALIFORNIA

SIRES OF STAKES WINNERS

California-bred Reginella took command three-eighths from home in the $50,000 Emerald Distaf Aug. 12 at Emerald Downs and held of stablemate Top Quality through the stretch for a 23⁄4-length victory. Ridden by Juan Hernandez, Reginella ran 11⁄8 miles in 1:48.68 against seven other older females. Blaine Wright trains Reginella for owner/breeders Luigi and Diana DiPietro. A 4-year-old daughter of Ministers Wild Cat—Ghost Tree, by Cahill Road, Reginella earned $26,675 to boost her bankroll to $131,642. She fnished third in last year’s Washington Oaks at Emerald Downs, and in her most recent previous start, she ran second in the Boeing Stakes at the Washington track.

STALLION

Owner/breeder Nick Alexander retired his California-bred champion Enola Gray in late July with a minor injury. During three seasons of competition, she earned $585,100, with seven wins, two seconds, and one third in 12 starts. Enola Gray is by AlexEnola Gray ander’s homebred stallion Grazen out of the More Tan Ready mare Unsung Heroine. Phil D’Amato trained Enola Gray, and the flly was voted champion 2-year-old state-bred female of 2016. From the very beginning Enola Gray impressed observers. In her racing debut she beat Cal-bred fllies by 161⁄4 lengths in April 2016 at Santa Anita. She won that year’s Melair Stakes, Fleet Treat Stakes, and California Distaf Handicap and placed in three other 2016 stakes, including the La Brea Stakes (G1). In 2017 Enola Gray won the Wilshire Stakes (G3T), Irish O’Brien Stakes, and Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Sprint Stakes. In her only start this year she fnished fourth in the Royal Heroine Stakes (G2T).

QUALIFYING CLAIMING LEVELS The following claiming levels for California owners premiums and stallion awards are currently in effect: GOLDEN GATE FIELDS/$20,000 LOS ALAMITOS/$40,000 SANTA ANITA/$40,000

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FOALS OF RACING AGE

SWs

UNUSUAL HEAT (1990) †

823

BLUEGRASS CAT (2003)

940

STORMIN FEVER (1994) †

820

SWISS YODELER (1994) ¥

806

MINISTERS WILD CAT (2000)

454

OLD TOPPER (1995)

574

ROCKY BAR (1998) •

182

SEA OF SECRETS (1995) †

512

KAFWAIN (2000)

676

DECARCHY (1997) †

416

ATTICUS (1992)

510

COMIC STRIP (1995) †

360

LUCKY PULPIT †

461

SOUTHERN IMAGE

566

SQUARE EDDIE

196

VRONSKY

229

EDDINGTON

474

HEATSEEKER †

235

Indicates stallions who have died or have been retired from stud. ● Indicates stallions who have moved out of state but have California-bred 2-year-olds of this year.

All sires will remain on the list until their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old.

CALIFORNIA CONNECTIONS AT KEENELAND SALE Seventeen yearlings foaled in California have been cataloged for this year’s Keeneland September yearling sale. The 10 fllies and seven colts come from a wide variety of sire lines, including Kitten’s Joy, Shackleford, Sky Mesa, Mucho Macho Man, Bayern, Blame, and Twirling Candy. Many of the female families of the California-foaled youngsters hail from lines that will be very familiar to West Coast breeders and horsemen. Legacy Bloodstock has entered a son of Creative Cause out of the Swiss Yodeler mare Helen’s Echo, a full sister to champion sprinter

Thor’s Echo. Havens Bloodstock Agency has a daughter of Lea out of the Southern Halo mare Brooke’s Halo, winner of the Hollywood Breeders’ Cup Oaks (G2). Taylor Made Sales Agency offers Tadeo, a son of Sky Mesa out of Uzziel, a multiple stakes winner in California. Two of the yearlings are out of mares by leading California sire Unusual Heat. Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency offers them both: Nina En Fuego, a daughter of Mucho Macho Man—Renegade Heat, by Unusual Heat, and an unnamed daughter of Verrazano—Somethin’ Unusual, by Unusual Heat.

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Lava Man Recovering from Colic Surgery

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Lava Man, a two-time Califorrecord claim when Lava Man subnia-bred Horse of the Year and sequently earned $5,180,678, more earner of $5,268,706, underwent than any other former claimer. Lava colic surgery in July and is back at Man today ranks fourth on the list the barn of trainer Doug O’Neill of all-time leading Cal-bred earners, after initially recovering at the San behind California Chrome, Tiznow, Luis Rey Equine Clinic in Bonand Best Pal. sall. Te 17-year-old gelding is a Lava Man won 13 stakes and longtime pony for O’Neill, who followed Cal-bred Native Diver trained him through most of his as the second horse to win three stellar career. Hollywood Gold Cups (gr. I), in “He’s going after his feed real 2005, 2006, and 2007. He won two Lava Man, two-time California-bred Horse of the Year well, the clinic is very happy with editions of the Santa Anita Handihim, and so if they’re happy, we’re cap (gr. I), in 2006 and 2007. happy,” O’Neill told the Del Mar publicity department. When Lava Man captured the 2006 Pacifc Classic (gr. I), “He looks shiny and healthy. A lot of times, even in these he became the frst horse to win the Santa Anita Handicap, short periods of time, they’ll drop of, but he does look like Gold Cup, and Pacifc Classic in one year. he’s kept his muscle. Seventeen years old and he’s a warrior.” Since his retirement in late 2009, Lava Man has continJason Wood and Steve, Dave, and Tracy Kenly claimed ued to be a valued member of the O’Neill team, now as a Lava Man for $50,000 at Del Mar in 2004. It became a stable pony.

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■ Lakerville’s First Winner a NorCal Sale Grad Lakerball, a graduate of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Northern California yearling sale, became the frst winner Lakerville for the stallion Lakerville. Lakerball captured a maiden-claiming event for 2-year-old fllies at Del Mar Aug. 8 by 81⁄2 lengths. Despite racing wide in the 51⁄2-furlong race for California-breds and California-sired runners, Lakerball grabbed the lead leaving the turn and kept widening her advantage. Agapito Delgadillo rode Lakerball for trainer Doug O’Neill. Bardy Farm, DA Meah Racing, and Tom Roberts own Lakerball, who was a buy-back at the 2017 Northern California sale. Rancho de Los Aviadores bred the flly from the Capsized mare Category Ten. Lakerville stands at John Harris’ Harris Farms near Coalinga for private treaty. The son of Unusual Heat—Foreverinthegame, by Out of Place, won the 2014 Clocker’s Corner Stakes and was graded stakes-placed en route to earnings of $318,910.

both California choices. “Our decision to return to Santa Anita again refects the deep-rooted relationships we have developed with both the racetrack and the greater Los Angeles community,” Fravel Craig Fravel said. “We are thrilled to collaborate with the Del Mar, Solana Beach, and San Diego communities to once again create a world-class horse racing and entertainment experience at this remarkable location.” ANNE M. EBERHARDT

The Breeders’ Cup will return to California in 2019 and 2021. Santa Anita will host the multi-million-dollar two-day event in 2019, followed by Keeneland in Kentucky in 2020 and back to California in 2021 at Del Mar. Santa Anita will be hosting the Breeders’ Cup for a record-breaking 10th time, with the races scheduled for Nov. 1-2, 2019. For Del Mar, it will be the second time as host, after its successful Breeders’ Cup program in 2017. The Breeders’ Cup will be conducted at Del Mar Nov. 5-6, 2021. Craig Fravel, president and CEO of Breeders’ Cup, spoke of the advantages to

■ Merit Man Gets First Winner

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Merit Man was represented by his frst winner when Give Me a Hint captured the ninth race at Del Mar Aug. 12. The flly, ridden by Kent Desormeaux in her racing debut, drew off to a 91⁄4-length victory in the $50,000 maiden claimer for 2-year-old California-bred or California-sired fllies. She completed the 51⁄2 furlongs in 1:06.26. Owners Schroeder Farms and Welton Manfeld bred Give Me a Hint with Robert Hess. Robert Hess Jr. trains the flly. Give Me a Hint is out of the Beat Hollow mare Hint of Promise. Merit Man is a son of With Distinction—Precise Strike, by Precise End, and he is a stakes-winning earner of $462,030.

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Millionaire California-bred COST OF FREEDOM won the frst graded stakes of his career in the $250,000 Ancient Title Stakes (G1) at Cost of Freedom (outside) Santa Anita Sept. 27, 2008. Tyler Baze piloted the 5-year-old gelding, who prompted the pace four wide, took the lead into the stretch, and held off Street Boss, the odds-on favorite, by a half-length. Cost of Freedom completed the six furlongs in 1:07.53. Gary and Cecil Barber owned Cost of Freedom after Gary Barber chose to claim the gelding for $50,000 and won a shake for him. “He’s a super-game horse,” Gary said. John Sadler trained Cost of Freedom for the Barbers. John Harris’ Harris Farms bred the gelding, a son of Cee’s Tizzy—Freedom Dance, by Moscow Ballet. Cost of Freedom went on to win 16 of 47 races, with 10 seconds and seven thirds, for earnings of $1,018,799.

50 YEARS AGO

Trainer Danny Velazquez selected California-bred CHOOBLOO for owner John Pinner out of the 1993 BarChoobloo retts spring 2-year-old sale for $26,000, and the flly repaid them quickly. She scampered to victory in the $61,700 Debutante Breeders’ Cup Stakes at Bay Meadows the following Sept. 5. Adalberto Lopez piloted the flly for Pinner and Velazquez. As the 6-5 favorite, Choobloo battled throughout the six furlongs with Confetti and Fun, defeating that rival by 134 lengths and completing the distance in 1:10.70. “She’s the type of horse that will get out there, relax, and not use up all her energy,” said Velazquez. “Right from the beginning she was very intelligent.” Robert H. Walter bred Choobloo, a daughter of Bolger—Ahchoo, by Hold Your Peace. Choobloo eventually won six of 28 races for earnings of $151,644.

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I’M LOCK N LOAD

El Prado (Ire) – Alleynedale, by Unbridled, Fee: $10,000-LF

War Front – Mistical Bel, by El Prado (Ire) – Bauhauser Bel Bolide, Fee: $4,500 LF (Arg), by Numerous, By WAR FRONT (Fee $250,000) Fee: $3,000-LF

Graded Stakes winner three years running. By El PRADO, a proven Sire of Sires including leading sire, KITTENS JOY and MEDAGLIA D’ORO (Sire of Preakness Stakes winner & Eclipse Horse of the year RACHEL ALEXANDRA and 2015/2016 Eclipse Award winner, SONG BIRD ($4,562,000)).

HIDDEN BLESSING

WOLFCAMP

#1 Sire in U.S. by % Stakes Winners, Graded Stakes Winners and Grade 1 Stakes Horses. 34 Stake Horses in 2017 including 5 Grade 1 Stakes Winners worldwide. Lifetime: 18 Grade 1 Winners, 37 Graded Stakes Winners, 67 Stakes Winners. Yearlings sold for up to $1.9M in 2017.

Wolfcamp was on-the-board in 18 of 24 career starts with 7 victories and placed in Laurel’s $100,000 Dave’s Friend stakes. Wolfcamp is by Champion 2YO EL PRADO out of Grade 3/Group 3 Stakes Winner BAUHAUSER (9 wins in 16 starts) and from the foundation sire-producing family of DAME FRITCHIE!

LIGHTNIN N THUNDER

OSIRIS OF THE NILE

Orientate – Fast ‘n Fleet, by Storm Cat – Things Change, by Mr. Greeley, Fee: $1,500 -LFG Stalwart, Fee: $3,000-LFG

Pioneerof The Nile – Here We Be, by AP Indy, Fee: 3,450

By champion sprinter ORIENTATE ($1,716,950). Out of Graded stakes-placed producer FAST ‘N FLEET. A half-brother to multiple graded stakes-placed Remand and Graded stakes winner KARA’S ORIENTATION. Retired from racing with a career of 7-4-10 and earnings of $178,030.

By PIONEEROF THE NILE, (Fee $110,000) Sire of Horse of the Year & Triple Crown winner AMERICAN PHAROAH. 2 Champion 2-Yearolds from his frst 4 crops. $1M & $700K colts at OBS MAR ‘17.

Colts Sold at Barretts March 2YO Sale for $400,000 & $120,000. He is the sire of 8 stakes winners and fve stakes-placed runners, including group I winner and two-time Korean champion BULPAE GISANG ($426,523), and Graded stakes-placed Criola Bonita ($116, 820). Former #1 Stallion from both Massachusetts and Ohio regions. Progeny have earned more than $5.4 million with average earning per starter $39,737

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NewsBits BELLOCQ RECEIVES PINCAY AWARD Trainer Martine Bellocq, who was severely burned while trying to rescue her horses from the fre at San Luis Rey Downs training center last December, received the Lafft Pincay Jr. Award at Del Mar Aug. 18. Bellocq had to undergo a series of demanding surgeries and subsequently lost a foot due to circulation complications. She has steadfastly worked her way back from near death in a remarkable display of strength and spirit. “When I heard about what Martine went through for her horses, I knew she was meant to be honored in some way for her courage,” said Pincay. “I am so proud to be able to give her this award.” Also saluted at Del Mar during the ceremony were the staff of the Trifecta Equine Athletic Center and many of the trainers, grooms, and other workers who helped rescue more than 400 horses at the training center.

Carol Root Carol Root, wife of the late Marvin Root, died in late June in San Juan Capistrano at age 82. Carol helped her husband operate his California Horseman magazine for many years. The Roots published the magazine for more than 35 years, and Carol served as the coordinator and as a staff writer. The Roots also owned and bred Thoroughbreds in the state, and they frequently visited the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association offce in Arcadia. In retirement the Roots moved to Crescent City. Carol’s memorial service was to be held at sea off of Bora Bora, her favorite island.

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AHC TO BUILD UNIVERSAL MICROCHIP LOOK-UP TOOL Te American Horse Council announced a partnership to build an Equine Microchip Look-up Tool that can be used universally. Te AHC and Te Jockey Club Technology Services are to build the tool, with input from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and various equine organizations. It will be designed to coordinate and streamline horse identifcation across multiple breeds. A universal microchip look-up tool would provide a single source where the general public and various organizations and emergency response teams could fnd the identity of a horse or the registry with which the microchip number is associated. “Technology and public opinion have fnally aligned to allow microchipping to become an efcient aid when identifying horses,” said Julie Broadway, AHC president. “Microchips are a safe and efective form of identity for sale, competition, or emergency response. We hope that by simplifying the method with which the public can verify a horse’s identity, we can incentivize the country to look into microchipping their horses.” Te Jockey Club requires all Toroughbreds foaled in 2017 or later to be microchipped as part of the registration process.

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One of the California Toroughbred Foundation’s most prized item in its collection is the Spreckels Cup. A lasting representation of John D. Spreckels’ passion for polo, the cup has often been on display as part of the San Diego Polo Club’s Spreckels Cup tournament. John’s brother, Adolph, bred MorMorvich, the frst Cal-bred to win the vich, the frst California-bred horse to Kentucky Derby win the Kentucky Derby. Tough he never raced in his native state, Morvich brought honor to California. At 2 in 1921, he won all 11 of his starts. Ten at 3 in 1922, in his very frst start of the year, he captured the Kentucky Derby by leading nearly wire to wire “under a pull,” according to the race chart of the day. A son of Runnymede, Morvich was out of the mare Hymir, by Dr. Leggo. He was the only Cal-bred to win the classic race until Swaps in 1955. Since then, Cal-bred Decidedly won in 1962 and California Chrome in 2014. Morvich was voted into the CTBA Hall of Fame in 1988. John D. Peterson of Sonoma spent time in the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library researching Morvich. He also kindly made a donation to the Foundation, which thanks him.

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Te California Toroughbred Foundation Te California Toroughbred Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of equine research and education. Since 1958 the Foundation has operated as a non-proft 501(c)3 corporation that can accept tax-deductible contributions. For more than fve decades the CTF has sponsored numerous research and educational projects and awarded scholarships to veterinary students at U.C. Davis and Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona. Te Foundation maintains the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library, one of the most extensive collections of equine literature found anywhere. Several generous donations of book collections and artwork form the core of the Library, which is housed in the CTBA ofces in Arcadia. Among its 10,000 volumes are current veterinary publications, turf histories, sales catalogs, and books spanning a wide range of subjects from equine nutrition and care to fne arts. Te latest instructional videos also are available for viewing in the Library. Te resources of the CTF’s Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library are available to the public for research and pleasure.

memorial donations The CTF accepts donations in memory of relatives and friends, with all such donations allocated to Scholarship Funds of the Foundation and to the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library. Please remember members of our industry with a donation to the CTF memorial fund. Donations may be sent to CTF, P.O. Box 60018, Arcadia, CA 91066-6018.

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Northern Yearling and Horses of Racing Age Sale

The NorCal yearling sale-topper, a Ministers Wild Cat full brother to grade 3 winner Bella Luma

CALIFORNIA-BRED EXPERIENCE CTBA’S NORCAL SALE IS AN IMPORTANT STOP FOR BUYERS

xperience counts when it comes to topping the California Toroughbred Breeders Association Northern California yearling sale. Longtime breeders Tom Bachman and John Harris, along with Dave McGlothlin, Harris’ farm manager, combined to sell the highest-priced yearling, a colt by Ministers Wild Cat bringing $45,000. Bachman bred the youngster, a son of the stakes-winning Bold Badgett mare Bold Roberta, and Harris Farms consigned the colt. Harris Farms had consigned the 2017 sale-topper while two years ago Bachman sold Take the One O One, now a multiple stakes-winning earner of $341,181. Te CTBA conducted the 2018 sale, which also ofered a few horses of racing age, Aug. 14 at the Alameda County Fair-

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Tom Bachman (left) bred and Dave McGlothlin, farm manager of John Harris’ Harris Farms, consigned the sale-topper

grounds in Pleasanton. Te catalog consisted primarily of California-breds, and it was no surprise to see the sale-topper among them. Michael Dante of Bellfower bought the sale-topper, who is a full brother to Cal-bred Bella Luma, winner of this year’s Golden Poppy Stakes. Bachman bred Bella Luma as well and races her in the name of his Fairview in partnership with Linda Brown. “He was accepted at Del Mar (in the Barretts sale),” said Bachman. “But they know the full sister well in Northern California. He sold well, and I’m really happy where he’s going. Greg Gilchrist bought him for a client, and he’ll end up in California.” Bachman had purchased Cal-bred Bold Roberta privately through agent Gayle Van Leer. SLU Inc. had bred and raced the mare, who won the 2003 Pio Pico Stakes and the Las Madrinas Handicap and earned $449,704. “She was an old hickory-type of mare,” said Bachman. “She’s got a Goldencents colt on the ground.”

There were plenty of yearlings to look at...

I predict several nice runners will come out of this sale and be moneymakers for their owners.” — John Harris

... and enthusiastic buyers to do the shopping

Unfortunately, the mare colicked in July and had to be euthanized at age 20. “She had been a very good mare to me,” said Bachman. “I got some really good foals out of her.” Tough Bella Luma is Bold Roberta’s only stakes winner to date, she also produced the Cal-bred Papa Clem gelding Bold Papa, an earner of $135,155 who is still competing. Te sale-topper was the only ofering by Ministers Wild Cat in the sale. Ministers Wild Cat, who regularly ranks among California’s leading sires, stands at Tom and Debi Stull’s Tommy Town Toroughbreds in Santa Ynez. Harris Farms consigned the only yearling by Unusual Heat to the sale. A son of the Muqtarib mare Quickly Gone, a half sister to graded winner Quick Enough, the colt was a $75,000 buyback. Harris Farms sold a daughter of Lakerville—Don’t Despair, by High Brite, for $15,500 to Springdale Farms of Washington, Utah. Lakerville, a son of Unusual Heat, stands at Harris. Te stallion’s frst foals are 2-year-olds, and he recently had his frst winner. “I thought the physical fundamentals of the sale were very good,” said John Harris. “Te Pleasanton barn area was just for sale horses and had a fresh look to it. Te town of Pleasanton is a delightful place (and) reminds me a bit of Saratoga.

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The CTBA NorCal yearling sale provides a necessary service to California breeders

“Tere were lots of yearlings to look at, perhaps too many. Pedigrees and conformations varied, but overall not a bad group. I predict several nice runners will come out of this sale and be moneymakers for their owners. Breeders do have an opportunity to make money in future years, as the horses they bred and sold can generate Cal-bred breeders awards for any Cal-bred that runs frst, second, or third in any type of race at any California track, or graded stakes in other states.” Perry and Denise Martin, co-breeders and co-owners of champion California Chrome, bought two of the higher-priced oferings at the sale. Tey went to $24,000 to get the sale’s highest-priced flly, a daughter of Smiling Tiger—Tanned Refection, by Tannersmyman. Sue Greene’s Woodbridge Farm consigned the youngster, who comes from the family of multiple stakes winner My Show. Te Martins also bid $12,000 for a daughter of U S Ranger—Ankha, by Desert Classic. Rancho de los Aviadores consigned that flly, a half sister to millionaire, grade 1 winner, and Cal-bred champion Ultra Blend. Robert Jones of San Leandro purchased several of the higher-priced yearlings at the sale. Two came from the Rancho de los Aviadores consignment: a $17,500 son of Slew’s Tiznow—Special Return, by Slewdledo, and a $12,500 daughter of Southern Image—Special Venture, by Malek. Te colt is a half brother to stakes winner Special Holiday. Jones also bid $26,000 to obtain a son of Awesome Gambler out of the multiple stakes-winning Katowice mare Enum18

The highest-priced flly at the sale is this Smiling Tiger—Tanned Refections chestnut for $24,000

claw Girl. Terry Lovingier’s Lovacres Ranch consigned the colt. Lovacres also stands Awesome Gambler. As agent for Cheryl Bigon and Laura Cussins, Woodbridge sold the second-highest-priced yearling, a son of Old Topper—Cherokee Kiss, by Cherokee Run. Te gelding is a full brother to $407,100-earner and graded winner Top Kisser. Del Secco DCS Inc., which bought the 2017 sale-topper, purchased the youngster. Two yearlings sold for $15,000. Woodbridge consigned one of them, a daugh-

ter of Smiling Tiger—House of Grace, by Limehouse, sold to trainer William E. Morey. Willow Tree Farm consigned the other, a son of Boisterous—Loving Embrace, by Golden Missile. Norman Tavares of San Jose purchased the Boisterous colt. A total of 102 yearlings grossed $499,600 and averaged $4,898 for a median of $2,200. Te sale, which provides a necessary service to California breeders, had a buy-back rate of 32%. In 2017, 95 yearlings grossed $652,500 and averaged $6,868 for a $3,000 median.

Pleasanton hosted the NorCal sale at the Alameda County Fairgrounds

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Management

Teaching yearlings to walk is an important component of preparing them for the sales venues

THE IMPORTANCE OF PRIOR PROPER PREPARATION BY EMILY SHIELDS

ome sights are iconic in the Toroughbred industry: brand new foals scrambling alongside their dams; racehorses thundering down the track to the wire. But in between those bright moments comes that long stretch of the yearling year.

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the sales ring? Local horsemen and horsewomen recently discussed this educational time for future racehorses. Yearlings are typically divided into two main groups: those going to auction and those waiting to be put into training to race. Nearly all farms consistently turn horses out from the time they are weaned until they are ready to begin either the sales prep or training process. But the time they start either can difer. “Usually, 75 is enough days to get ready for a sale,” said Mike Allen, general manager of Tommy Town Toroughbreds, which produces about 50 horses for sales purposes and 50 to race as homebreds each year. “We do all the normal groundwork when we sales prep them, and then we’ll get them to where they are going around the Equicizer for eight minutes each direction at an

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READYING YOUNGSTERS

Mike Allen, general manager of Tommy Town Thoroughbreds

generally to their own devices? “We want them to grow up and just be horses,” Barton said. “Te select-sale ones will be brought in every night and are handled daily, with their feet picked and they get a bath. But they are still kicked out every day.” Miguel Jimenez, manager at Ballena Vista Farms, agrees, saying, “With our program, they are pretty much just out to pasture. Once we get a list of horses that our

from the rest of the herd. It’s not about a lot of exercise, but it’s about handling and refreshing their memories.” Sales consignor and trainer Mary Knight uses slightly diferent tactics when it comes to preparing for a sale. “I can do it in six weeks,” she said. “Te very frst thing I do is give them a Panacur PowerPac.” Te dewormer, which typically runs about $80 for a fve-day treatment, is worth

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extended trot. Tat seems to really tuck them up and get their shoulders and hips looking good.” Sue Greene, owner of Woodbridge Farm, prefers a full 90 days. “It gives us a little more time to expose them to things,” she said. “Yearlings go through a big growth spurt in the middle of that year, so from March to May you can see them really growing. Ten we bring them up for 90 days to keep the sun of their coats, and we are hand-walking them daily. We want to show them as much as possible so that when they go to the sale they’ve been exposed to anything that can cause them angst once there.” But getting the horses ready for their future careers can start even before weaning. “From the time they are born, they are handled,” said Renee Beckwith of Blue Diamond Horseshoe. “We wean them, depending on how they are doing, at four to fve months. Tey go with their friends in a pen of four, and they get led, walked, brushed, and get their feet done. Tey are totally tame. After their frst round of shots, they go across the street into an acre pasture with boys in one and girls in another. Tey’re still handled every day.” Both Beckwith and Kate Barton of Barton Toroughbreds do examinations on their horses to make sure the yearlings are progressing well. “In January of their yearling year, we do evaluations based on pedigree and conformation,” said Barton. “Between January to about May is when we continually evaluate, getting at least three evaluations of each horse. “Tat helps us put them in diferent categories. We might race them, and we know that from the get-go—that’s one option. Second is that they are a sales horse, and from there we decide if they are a select sale horse or not. Some might switch later in the program if one looks good enough to sell or one is not as mature and we end up racing it. Evaluations are really helpful for us to determine the best path for each horse.” Beckwith added, “Before they are allowed to train, the yearlings are all radiographed to check their knees for growthplate closure. No one is started under saddle until they have an A rating.” Before training, why are the horses left

Above, Letting horses be horses is key to raising a good horse, for sale or racing; below, Kate Barton of Barton Thoroughbreds

clients are nominating for the select sale, we will pull them out and work with them a bit. We handle them as suckling foals and weanlings, but for the most part they are out to pasture. We let them grow up to be horses because once their careers start they won’t get that.” Te Ballena Vista program is to prepare sales horses for 60 days, but Jimenez and his team “pull them from the pasture about two weeks before that to get them away

its cost, according to Knight. “It’s a sensible thing to do,” she said. “If you’re getting in horses from here and there and that farm over there, it just makes sense. It helps to fesh them out, especially if you have a yearling that might look a little poorly.” Feed is important in all facets of yearling preparation, whether for sale or the racetrack. Horsemen strive for a good balance of grain and roughage to allow the youngsters to grow up strong and healthy. Knight places a big emphasis on feed and hoof care. “I don’t give any artifcial body-builder stuf,” she said. “I feed a lot of alfalfa and molasses, which is high in protein and is really palatable. It gives them something to eat that they can’t get too heavy of of if you are watching their ration.”

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Proper nutrition is important whether the horse is going to be sold or trained to race. “Ours get their daily grain, which is four to six pounds of feed, and then alfalfa,” Jimenez said. “Tey do get some grain with their alfalfa,” Barton said, “and it’s a diferent mix than what the broodmares get.” “Sometimes I’ll feed them some Equine Junior,” Allen said. “It’s something you can feed more of without making them too hot.” Greene said, “Te diet is the one part of this that when I hear people say they can feed a horse on $4 a day, I just think, ‘No, you can’t!’ It’s a hard push because the babies are doing so much growth, and we are trying to put a fnished body on a young horse that is still growing. You don’t want to cause developmental issues by putting too many calories in them. Te diet and nutrition put into them builds their skeleton and keeps them growing for the rest of their careers. We are asking them to grow as fast as possible, so you have to feed that skeleton.” Getting a yearling “fnished” for the sales ring is a combination of having the horse look healthy, be somewhat exposed to the world via training, and appear physically ft. “People these days like to have yearlings a little physically ftter than they used to,” said bloodstock agent Andrew Havens. “Some form of exercise for 60 days or more leading up to the sale is usually very important, whether that’s some kind of longing or jogging or a treadmill that causes them to sweat a lot, gets the coat to shed out, allows you to feed them up a little bit with a higher nutrition, and gets the right kind of weight.” Horsemen can use simple training methods to help a yearling’s ftness without ever getting on their backs. “A lot of people longe in a round pen with a headstall that puts the head down and builds up muscle over their backend and hip,” Havens said. “Horses that are in the later sales often have been under tack for 40 days. It’s not something you would necessarily do that time of year if you weren’t going to sell.” Havens noted that improvements in sales ring steroid restrictions have limited how bulky a horse can look. 22

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Fresh air, sunshine, and exercise lay a good foundation for proper sales prep

“Tey used to like them carrying more weight and not be as racehorse looking as they do now,” he said. “In the old days they used steroids, but there are serious restrictions about what you can do. So now horses look ftter and a little more mature.” Once the sales horses have successfully gone of to their new homes, racehorse training can begin in earnest.

We want to show (yearlings) as much as possible so that when they go to the sale, they’ve been exposed to anything that can cause them angst once there.” — Sue Greene “We will begin breaking horses in August,” said Allen, “starting with the colts frst. I try to bring up a whole feld at a time because they’re already grouped by age and sex. We’ll break the January colts frst, etc.” Per Antonsen, trainer at Harris Farms, said, “For the ones that will be going out to the racetrack as early as January or February, we will start breaking them the frst of September. Tat’s considered an early bunch, though.” September or October is a common time for young racehorses to get their start. “We start mid-September, with everything of being broke by December,”

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Greene said. “Barring any injuries, our horses are out running around from the time they are weaned until either 90 days before the sales or until the fall, when they are broken. Tey’ve been out in the felds growing up while playing.” “I want to get them started by September or October,” Barton said. “We don’t need to rush the breaking process, but if they are mature and ready to go, I want to be on top of it. But if they need more time, they can have it.” “We start Oct. 1 with foals born in January or February,” Jimenez said. “Te foals born in April and May won’t be broken until late November or December. And we like to give them another 60 days of over the winter before bringing them back for that fnal 30 days of training. Of course, a lot depends on if a client has plans to move forward and run them early at 2.” Blue Diamond Horseshoe will be taking a more conservative approach. “We won’t start training until 2,” said Beckwith, “and they won’t go to the track until they turn 3. We used to race at 2, but we aren’t going to do it anymore. Tat means that the yearlings who are 18 months old and turned out right now won’t even be brought back over for training until January.” With early handling, careful evaluation, and proper nutrition, the yearling year becomes an essential step that will set the tone for the horse’s racing career and beyond.

Golden State Series

SPREADING THE WEALTH DEL MAR HOLDS THE POT OF GOLD FOR CAL-BREDS BY TRACY GANTZ

John and Allegra Ernst won their frst stakes as owner/breeders when Tap the Wire scored in the Graduation Stakes. Leading California sires Smiling Tiger and Grazen were represented by Naughty Tiger in the California Toroughbred Breeders Association Stakes and Just Grazed Me in the Fleet Treat Stakes, respectively. A partnership did well with Cordiality in the Solana Beach Stakes. And longtime successful owners Gary Barber and Samantha Siegel added more trophies with Fly to Mars in the California Dreamin’ Stakes and Take the One O One in the Real Good Deal Stakes. CORDIALITY’S SOLANA BEACH STAKES

Dr. Ed Allred has long played an infuential role in the Quarter Horse racing industry. He not only runs Los Alamitos, he is a major owner/breeder of champion Quarter Horses. He has also succeeded with Appaloosa racehorses, and he is expanding into Toroughbreds. Allred-bred Cordiality captured the $151,035 Solana Beach Stakes Aug. 10. Allred no longer owns 5-year-old Cor24

wide variety of owners found California-breds a lucrative investment during the frst half of the Del Mar meeting. Whether individual owner/breeders or large partnerships, they experienced the excitement of the Del Mar winner’s circle after the many stakes opportunities for Cal-breds that participate in the Golden State Series.

Trainer Mark Glatt has converted Cal-bred Cordiality, shown winning the Solana Stakes at Del Mar, from former claimer to mutiple stakes winner

diality, losing her on a $12,500 claim of a victory at Los Alamitos in 2016. Current trainer and co-owner Mark Glatt collared Cordiality for $32,000 of another win, this time at Sacramento in mid-2016. Glatt owns Cordiality with Lee Drummond and John Xitco. “It’s hard to claim a horse that ends up being a stakes horse,” said Glatt. “We all know it doesn’t happen very often, but it happens. We were just the fortunate ones to have gotten her.”

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Until this year Glatt had kept Cordiality in allowance/optional claiming company, and then he tried her in the May 19 Fran’s Valentine Stakes at Santa Anita. Tat resulted in a victory, and when Glatt jumped her into graded company, she fnished third in the June 24 Wilshire Stakes (G3T), also at Santa Anita. “She’s just getting good,” said the trainer. “She’s a diamond, and they don’t come around very often.” Cordiality went of as the 13-10 favor-

The Del Mar winner’s circle provides a warm and friendly atmosphere for Cordiality’s connections

ite in the Solana Beach at a mile on the turf against eight rivals. With Tyler Baze aboard, she prompted Princess Roi’s early pace from second, took the lead in upper stretch, and increased her lead to 21⁄4 lengths at the wire, stopping the timer in 1:34.14. “She just gives you confdence getting on her,” said Baze. “She’s relaxed, but she’s serious. Te older she’s gotten, the better she’s gotten. She’s a sweetheart.” Queen Bee to You outfnished Cheekaboo for second, with Princess Roi fourth. Queen Bee to You and Princess Roi are multiple stakes-placed while Cheekaboo is a graded stakes winner. “She tries hard every time—I think it was a little short for her,” said Gary Stevens, who rode Cheekaboo. Allred bred Cordiality by crossing his homebred Unusual Heat mare Warmth with Papa Clem. Tat California-based stallion was sold and moved to Turkey for the 2018 breeding season. Allred also bred and owned an Appaloosa named Warmth, who was out of the Toroughbred mare Magical Summer, a daughter of Magical Mile. Gils Magic, the dam of Magical Mile, is the third dam of Papa Clem. Cordiality was winning the ninth race of her career out of 23 starts. She has fnished second six times and third twice, for total earnings of $413,595.

monia before she was bred to Eddington to produce Tap the Wire. Her son is still another horse to win after going through last year’s San Luis Rey Downs fre. “Te veterinarians at San Luis Rey hospital saved the mare before we bought her,” said Allegra Ernst. John and Allegra Ernst of San Diego bred and race Tap the Wire, who became their frst stakes winner when he galloped home by 31⁄2 lengths in the $98,000 Graduation Stakes Aug. 4. Te Ernsts purchased Tap the Till from Moody Creek Farm. “Tis is the mare’s frst baby,” said John.

“A friend in Australia said Eddington was a great match for that mare, and he was absolutely right. We liked Eddington, and we liked the way it matched up.” Te Ernsts have most of their horses with trainer Dan Hendricks, with trainer Dan Dunham at San Luis Rey getting the young horses ready. Te Ernsts kept their homebreds with Dunham, and Tap the Wire gave Dunham his frst stakes victory at Del Mar. Tap the Wire, who was foaled and raised at Ballena Vista Farm, broke his maiden in his frst outing, a 41⁄2-furlong maiden race at Santa Anita May 5, by 33⁄4 lengths. He faced four others in the 51⁄2-furlong Graduation. Luck’s Royal Flush set the early pace, as jockey Drayden Van Dyke tucked Tap the Wire into second. “He broke really well,” said Van Dyke. “We were just sitting in there; he was relaxed.” When Van Dyke asked Tap the Wire, the colt overtook Luck’s Royal Flush and drew away, stopping the timer in 1:05.48. “Drayden said he could have won by more, but that once he got to the lead he just relaxed,” said an ecstatic John Ernst. “He did it so much in hand. He’s just a great horse.”

TAP THE WIRE’S GRADUATION STAKES

Tap the Wire probably gets his tenacity from his dam, the Tapit mare Tap the Till. Te mare had to overcome a bout of pneu-

Tap the Wire keeps his undefeated status intact with his victory in the Graduation Stakes

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“We were able to give him a little time (after his frst race) and have pointed to this race all along,” said Dunham. “Tis horse is a San Luis Rey fre survivor. He was turned loose, and I found him the next day in a feld of a diferent ranch. No major burns or anything—he was lucky.” Te Ernsts had four homebreds with Dunham that went through the fre, and all survived. Te Ernsts now own 35 horses, including 11 mares. Teir earlier runners include graded stakes-placed Rhiana. NAUGHTY TIGER’S CTBA STAKES

Naughty Tiger gave jockey Ruben Owners John and Allegra Ernst, center, celebrate Tap the Wire's matriculation in the Fuentes his frst stakes victory at Del Mar Graduation Stakes when they collaborated in the $100,690 “I could tell they were going fast up front, and she was comCTBA Stakes Aug. 1. Te 2-year-old flly didn’t break sharply, but that didn’t faze fortable,” said the rider. “So I just sat there and waited. Ten when I asked her to go, she sure did. Nice kick—she was best Fuentes. “Ruben used his head and just let her settle,” said Edward Free- today.” Naughty Tiger took the lead into the stretch, opened up a dayman, who trains Naughty Tiger and co-owns her with a large group. “I had told him, ‘I don’t care where you are on the back- light margin, and won by 11⁄4 lengths in 1:06.27. Accomplishedside; the horses to worry about are probably going to be coming sister came from farther back to fnish a nose ahead of favored from behind.’ It didn’t work out all that well—she went fve wide Lippy for second. Freeman purchased Naughty Tiger for $40,000 at this year’s on the turn.” Despite having to race wide in the 51⁄2-furlong race, Naughty Barretts spring sale of 2-year-olds from Andy Havens’ Havens Tiger responded to Fuentes’ urging. Bloodstock Agency consignment. Premier Toroughbreds bred the daughter of Smiling Tiger— Naughty Nightie, by Red Giant. Te ownership includes Brian Blackburn, Shannon Hunt, Mike Marsden, Antony Murigo, and Darrin Albert. Naughty Tiger’s bottom line doesn’t hail from California, but Del Mar fans certainly know her sire, Smiling Tiger. He captured the 2010 Bing Crosby Stakes (G1) and placed in four other graded stakes at Del Mar as part of a racing career in which he earned $1,480,704. Te stallion now stands at John Harris’ Harris Farms in Coalinga. Naughty Nightie is a half sister to Pennsylvania Derby (G2) winner Anak Nakal. Te third dam is French stakes winner Perlee, whose foals also include Dubai Poule d'Essai des Pouliches (French One Tousand Guineas, G1) winner Pearl Bracelet. Naughty Tiger debuted at SanNaughty Tiger minds her p's and q's to post a disciplined victory in the CTBA Stakes ta Anita May 28, fnishing third. 26

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The popularity of the CTBA Golden State Series manifests itself in an overfowing winner's circle for Naughty Tiger's CTBA Stakes win

Returning at Santa Anita before the meet ended, she broke her maiden June 14. Naughty Tiger made her stakes debut in the CTBA Stakes. Freeman was winning his second edition of the CTBA Stakes. He also captured it in 2013 with Reddam Racing's Sprouts.

1:23.60. Tree stakes winners followed her across the line—Show It N Moe It, One Fast Broad, and Spiced Perfection. “Two years ago we won this race with Enola Gray,” said Alexander. “Both horses were #7.” Just Grazed Me has a way to go to match the exploits of Enola Gray, who retired with earnings of $585,100. But D’Amato

feels she has potential. “Te thing I like about this flly is she’s versatile,” said the trainer. “She’s very well composed, very rateable, has a nice little kick, and I think she’s just going to get better.” Just Grazed Me is out of the Cuvee mare Fairway Road. “She was given to me of the track,” said Alexander. “She’s just had bad luck. She got spooked by a coyote or something, tried to jump a fence, got hung up on the fence, and completely tore her leg up.” Te mare eventually recovered, and Alexander sold her in foal to Grazen at the 2018 Barretts January sale. Woodbridge Farm consigned her, and Norman Tavares purchased her for $5,000.

JUST GRAZED ME’S FLEET TREAT STAKES

Grazen seems to understand Nick Alexander, his owner/breeder and the person who made sure the stallion recovered from the injury that ended his racing career and has a happy life. Grazen turns out stakes winners almost like clockwork for Alexander, in some cases with perfect timing. Just Grazed Me is a prime example. As Alexander was deciding that Grazen’s California-bred champion Enola Gray’s racing days were done, along came Just Grazed Me. Te 3-year-old flly in only her second start captured the $150,345 Fleet Treat Stakes July 29. “I was not expecting anything when she broke her maiden,” said Alexander. “All they ever told me was that she had really smooth action.” Trainer Phil D’Amato said that Just Grazed Me at 2 “had some shin problems so we took our time with her.” She debuted at Santa Anita June 24, winning by 61⁄4 lengths. D’Amato then stepped her up to stakes company in the seven-furlong Fleet Treat. Longshot Impecunious went to the early lead, and Just Grazed Me raced in ffth early for Baze, who won the 2016 Fleet Treat on Enola Gray. “She doesn’t get away from there as fast and get into the race as quickly,” said Baze of Just Grazed Me. “But boy, she can come running.” Tat’s exactly what Just Grazed Me did, fying home on top by 31⁄2 lengths in

Top, Nick Alexander's homebred Just Grazed Me takes the Fleet Treat Stakes; above, Alexander, center left, celebrates another stakes winner by his stallion Grazen

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Fly to Mars orbits the Del Mar turf course to land a victory in the California Dreamin' Stakes

FLY TO MARS’ CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ STAKES

Taking the blinkers of might prove to be the key to Fly to Mars’ improvement. Without that equipment Fly to Mars captured an allowance optional claiming race at Santa Anita June 10 and added the $151,725 California Dreamin’ Stakes July 28. “Te horse has really gotten good in the past two months since we took the blinkers of and have been getting him to relax,” said trainer Peter Miller. Not only did Fly to Mars improve enough to string together two wins for the frst time in his career, he set a course record in the California Dreamin’ of 1:39.50 for 11⁄16 miles on the turf. Sidney’s Candy set the previous record of 1:39.52 in the 2010 La Jolla Handicap (G2T). Te California Dreamin’ attracted 12 horses, with 11 going into the gate upon the scratch of Soi Phet. Pee Wee Reese, winner of the 2017 American Stakes (G3T), went of as the 2-1 favorite over the veteran millionaire Ashleyluvssugar and Fly to Mars, both at 4.60-1. 28

Jockey Flavien Prat stalked Pee Wee Reese’s early pace with Fly to Mars in second. “It was take the break and take a look,” said Prat. “We got a good spot right away; good trip all the way around. When he switched leads for me at the head of the stretch, he really gave me a

great turn of foot.” Tat turn of foot carried Fly to Mars to the front, and though Grecian Fire closed some ground, Fly to Mars held him of to win by a length. B Squared fnished third. “Flavien rode an unbelievable race,” said Miller. “Te pace was good, but it wasn’t crazy and he really kicked home. To set a track record here is something.” A very happy owner Gary Barber accepted the trophy for Fly to Mars. Barber bred the 4-year-old gelding in California. Fly to Mars is by Ministers Wild Cat—Warren’s Flyer, by Doc Gus. “I claimed the mare,” said Barber. “We have Boisterous standing here in California, and she’s been a very productive mare for me.” Gary and his brother, Cecil, claimed Warren’s Flyer for $20,000 at Hollywood Park in late 2011. Bred by Benjamin Warren, Warren’s Flyer had placed in the 2010 Robert H. Walter California Cup Juvenile Fillies and California Breeders’ Champion stakes and the 2011 Melair Stakes. Ministers Wild Cat and Boisterous both stand at Tom and Debi Stull’s Tommy Town Toroughbreds near Santa Ynez. Warren’s Flyer has been bred to Boisterous exclusively the past few years. She has a yearling colt by the stallion named Fly Buddy Fly.

Fly to Mars' owner, Gary Barber, second left, joins jockey Flavien Prat and trainer Peter MIller to accept the winning trophy

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TAKE THE ONE O ONE’S REAL GOOD DEAL STAKES

Now that LeBron James is becoming a Los Angeles Laker, racehorse owners are naming horses for him. As Del Mar began its meeting, a 2-year-old Kentucky-bred Medaglia d’Oro colt named Lebron J, sold as a 2-year-old for $1.2 million, was gearing up for his frst start. Take the One O One sported the nickname of LeBron long before the Lakers pulled of the coup that has catapulted the team back into the headlines. Breeder Tom Bachman called him that because of his size. Te Cal-bred continues to emulate the basketball star by stringing together victories, most recently in the $150,345 Real Good Deal Stakes July 27. Te colt also continues as the best advertisement for the CTBA Northern California yearling sale. Bachman’s Fairview sold the son of Acclamation—North Freeway, by Jump Start, for $47,000 at the 2016 edition of the sale. Take the One O One has now earned $341,181, more than seven times his purchase price. Take the One O One ended the Santa Anita meeting with a smashing victory in the $192,345 Snow Chief Stakes at 11⁄8 miles on the turf. He segued to Del Mar for the Real Good Deal at seven furlongs on the dirt in a display of versatility. Brian Koriner trains Take the One O One for Samantha Siegel’s Jay Em Ess Stable. Te trainer has more ambitious plans for later in the meeting. “I think the horse really wants to go a lot farther,” said Koriner. “Te plan was to go to the Del Mar Derby (G2T Sept. 2).” Take the One O One went of as the 11-10 favorite over Smiling Angelo, a Smiling Tiger colt who had won both of his starts by a combined margin of nearly seven lengths. Smiling Angelo took the early lead, speeding the frst quarter-mile in :22.57 and the half in :44.99. Jockey Joe Talamo stalked the leader in third aboard Take the One O One and asked his colt in the turn. Take the One O One responded to collar the pacesetter. Second-place Daddysprize tried to stay with Take the One O One to no avail, as Take the One O One defeated him by a half-length in 1:23.40. Longshot Shay-

Top, Take the One O One drives a dirt road to the wire in the Real Good Deal Stakes; above owner Samantha Siegel of Jay Em Ess Stable, with roses, and trainer Brian Koriner, third right

min fnished third while Smiling Angelo tired to fnish ffth of seven. “I thought I was going to go outside in this one,” said Talamo. “But the way the race set up, I was down inside. He was comfortable in there, and we weren’t get-

ting any kickback. At the three-eighths, I asked him and he went. He was all runner from there.” Take the One O One was winning his fourth race in nine starts, with one second and three thirds.

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Family Life

PLEASANTON PART 4: THE CRUCIBLE OF PLEASANTON FORGED FAMILIES FROM STRANGERS

BY DARRYL HOVE

This is part 4 of a series of articles about people who call Pleasanton home. Part 3 appeared in the August issue.

Without reminders history can slip away. Tat was the purpose of this series recalling some 75 years of history in Pleasanton. Te “good old days” basically came to an end in 2016 with the closing of the trailer park that graced the Alameda County Fairgrounds. Over the years the fairgrounds housed hundreds of racetrackers. And the tiny town that surrounded it— population of 2,500 in 1950—attracted hundreds more. Virtually all impacted horse racing in California and, in some cases, the country. To be sure, Carmela “Pinkie” Anderson and Tim and Kathy Bellasis were grandfathered in what has become an RV park. Pinkie has since left.

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“We all saw it coming,” said Anderson. “But it didn’t make it any less sad when Pleasanton was closed as an all-year auxiliary training center and the trailer park closed. “It was such camaraderie among those living there. Families, spanning generations, lived and raised their children. It was like one huge extended family. We celebrated everyone’s birthday; we played baseball together, went roller skating in the evenings together, and those who partook could be found playing pool or dancing at night at Te Roundup.” “I remember hearing Hillary Clinton making her ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ speech in 1998,” said Linda Anderson, the youngest of Pinkie’s four children raised in the trailer park. “It reminded me

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Casual Lies, Shelley Riley’s Kentucky Derby runner-up, has Pleasanton connections

how we all grew up. In reality, we didn’t have just one family unit. We had scores at any one time. As years went on, it seemed like we were all related, if not by blood, by marriage or just by interacting with so many families.” “I’m proud to have been a part of the 50 or 60 years I spent in that trailer park,” interjected Pinkie. “Not just my kids, but every kid who ever lived there developed a work ethic that enabled them to succeed, not only on the racetrack but in society. It is amazing how many occupations they grew up to fll. I was very fortunate to see it all transpire.” Pinkie’s family is a tremendous example. Her frst born, Becky, initially worked as a groom in the family operation, then for Russ Fawcett until leaving the track to get married. Son John was a respected trainer and was entrusted with the important job of breaking babies for many of the top outfts up and down California. He was also summoned by Shelley Riley to gallop Casual Lies when Jim Riley was injured as the colt was being trained up to the Triple Crown races. “Pleasanton was recognized as an outstanding place to break babies for two reasons,” said John. “First, it was basically a quiet place to train. You could take all day with a horse if needed. “Tere were so many gifted trainers. I hate to start naming names because I will leave so many out. But guys like Danny Morgan, Mike Larson, Don Hunter (who broke California-bred multiple stakes winner Don B.), Casey and Dick Doyle, David Walker, Monty Jackson, Allen Rogers, Billy Nolan…the list can go on forever. Jef Bonde probably got his biggest break (there).” Pinkie’s third born, Janice, escaped the backstretch when she was given an opportunity to work in mutuels at Bay Meadows and Golden Gate Fields. When Bay Meadows shut down, she took a position at the simulcast facility located on the San Mateo County fairgrounds. Ten there is Linda, who quit the track to attend college. “I sort of wanted out,” Linda admitted. “I graduated from U.C. Davis, then went to San Diego State for my graduate degree. Ten I became a teacher in the San Diego area. “One summer my grandfather got real

Leading Cal-based trainer Jeff Bonde got his biggest break at Pleasanton

sick and I came home. Just as I was going to return south, Dan Eidson ofered me a job in the racing ofce.” Linda accepted it on a limited basis and has been working as an assistant racing secretary and a paddock judge throughout Northern California ever since. Any number of Pleasantonites graduated to become racing secretaries, including Mary Sherlock. Mary and her husband, Bill, trained horses during the 1950s and early ’60s while raising their kids, Bill Jr. and Gary. Bill gravitated to the jock’s room and Mary to the racing ofce. She served numerous stints as racing secretary at Ferndale. Son Bill was a jockey agent while Gary has been a prominent member of the Southern California training fraternity for decades. DeeDee Robinson followed Mary to the head chair in the racing ofce at Ferndale. Ron Church became racing secretary at Los Alamitos, and Charlie Palmer became a mainstay in Ferndale as well as in Fresno. Ask any of the old-timers what is missing in today’s racing fraternity and one of the main topics will be “characters.” At old Pleasanton, they abounded. Jack Fumano was at the head of the class. An erstwhile trainer, he preferred to give out the “bad boy” persona, but in reality he

was as likeable a personality as ever existed. And, to our knowledge, his rap sheet with local law enforcement and the California Horse Racing Board was rather inconspicuous. With the Fu Manchu facial hair, he dressed to the nines, and a cane was always a part of his attire. Tere was probably no more a family of characters in Pleasanton than the Tracy family, whose roots go back to the 1950s. “My family certainly had its share (of characters),” said Jerry Lynn (Tracy) Hunter. “I’ll give you a pair to draw to—my dad, Jerome, and Big Ivan (Puhich) were running mates! I had so many uncles and cousins who I saw every day that I only knew by their nicknames—names like Coon and Patch. My relatives intermarried into so many racetrack families that it got a bit confusing.” To keep track of the Tracys, you almost need a scorecard. Tey married into the Blazing family, who ran the feed company that serviced all of the Northern California racetracks, and the Wifeys. John Wifey was a partner with Pete Christansen, who operated the major tack shops in the area. When Christansen retired, Wifey went into business with Al Liederman and they opened Western Saddlery, just outside the stable gate at Bay Meadows. “My aunts, Shirley and Kay (Evenson), ran the kitchens on the backside at Bay Meadows and worked in catering,” said Jerry Lynn. “Another aunt, Carol, married Hugh Morgan the starter.” Te patriarch of the family was Bo Tracy, who came to America from Ireland. His brother, Harold, trained in Northern California from the 1930s into the ’60s. “My dad trained for a while,” said Jerry Lynn, “but mostly worked as an outrider and valet throughout Northern California. We lived in the old trailer park but moved into the new one in the ’60s. We lived right next to the Silveras and the Banks. “Life there was all that I knew. Like all of the other kids, I was brought up to work hard and respect everyone. And the families did everything together, whether it be working, going to school, or playing.” “Jerry Lynn was kind of a special person,” said Pinkie Anderson. “She always seems to be reinventing herself.” “Initially, I galloped horses,” said Jerry Lynn. “I married Don Hunter, and he

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The backside at Pleasanton became a stage for racing families to interact

tion booth, and the money and Carrie, settled into the room. Ten Rod Frazier, a Pleasanton trailer park. vice president at Bay Mead“Being kids, my sister and ows, ofered me a job as his I enjoyed all of the exciteexecutive secretary.” ment that surrounded the All the while, Dale and fairs,” Carrie said. “But when Derron were experiencing it came time to go back to success as jockeys. Derron school, I was devastated became high profle in the when dad said we were stayfedging business of Arabian ing. Initially, he bought me a racing, and one year she won plane ticket back to Michithe Darley Award, the equiv- D. Wayne Lukas hired gan and made arrangements alent of an Eclipse Award in workers from Pleasanton for me to stay with relatives, Toroughbred racing. As a but I decided to stick around. result, she was invited to Dubai for World “Most of the kids were envious of us beCup Day. Kay accompanied her. cause we all had horses. Living in the trailer “It was an eye-opening experience,” said park certainly wasn’t like living in a neighKay. “So much pageantry. Te horse she borhood. Everybody there had the same rode, however, led then bled and had to goals. Te kids all grew up working togethbe pulled up. It was disappointing, but I er. Of course, we all looked forward to the guess I lived vicariously through Derron summer and going to the fairs.” for a while.” It wasn’t long before Russell moved into Carrie Fawcett remembers coming to Toroughbreds and trained locally for Pleasanton from Michigan in the 1960s. decades. Georgette would eventually run She thought they were just coming for the the test barns in Northern California. As summer. soon as she was old enough, Chris was “My dad trained Appaloosas back working in mutuels, and she is currently home,” Fawcett said. “He might have a in that capacity at the simulcast facility in Toroughbred or two at places like Hazel Bakersfeld. Park. But with the chances of running the Carrie became a much sought-after exAppys all summer, he thought it was going ercise rider and ponied in the afternoons. to be a good opportunity.” She moved to Southern California for sevSo the Fawcetts, Russell and his wife, eral years and galloped for D. Wayne LuGeorgette, and their two daughters, Chris kas and Richard Mandella. She returned

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had as many as 40 horses. So I galloped and helped at the barn. After Don and I divorced, I became a clocker in the mornings for about 15 years. And when Bay Meadows restructured the barn area to the infeld, Jack Liebau ofered me the job as stable superintendent.” Teir neighbors, the Bankses, went in a diferent direction. Pleasanton was never a Toroughbred-only track. In the early days the Toroughbred trainers shared it with the Standardbred people. Te Quarter Horse industry was also represented, and that was where Darrell and Ronnie Banks were headed. Ronnie, in fact, became one of the sport’s all-time leadings jockeys, with Jay Robinson as his agent. Sister Kay, however, made her own legacy. “Our dad, Ralph, rode in the frst pari-mutuel Quarter Horse race in California,” said Kay. “He also rode the Quarter Horse champion Wonder against Jessie Owens in a 100-yard match race in the old Oakland Stadium in the late 1940s. “Our family—all fve of us—grew up in a 35-foot trailer on the Pleasanton fairgrounds. We had no bathroom and washed our clothes on a washboard outside, as did everyone else. “When I was 10 years old, Ron would cook us all breakfast and then we would go to work at the barn. I ponied everything in the barn. I loved it. It was second nature, and all I wanted to be was a jockey. Of course, back then, females could not ride in legalized races. “I thought it was child abuse when my parents made me wear a dress,” Kay said, laughing. In her early teens Kay met jockey Dale Long, and they were later married. Tey had two children, son Brian and daughter Derron. It was only normal for Brian to follow in his father’s footsteps. By this time females had been accepted as jockeys, and Derron entered a profession her mom had always wished for. “When we were married, Dale didn’t want me working on the racetrack,” said Kay. “So I took an outside job with a construction company, but through Brian and Derron, I was still well connected. “Once Dale and I divorced, I took a job in catering at Bay Meadows. Tat led to jobs in the gift shop, the informa-

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backstretch. Her neighbors were the likes of Ace Gibson and Barney Willis, among others in Pleasanton lore. “My sister, Diana, and I might as well have lived in the park,” said Denise Buckridge, the oldest of Gloria’s two daughters. “When we were really young, Mom would bring us to the track in the mornings and people always found us sleeping on bales of straw. But from the time we were about

Life there was all that I knew. Like all of the other kids, I was brought up to work hard and respect everyone. And the families did everything together, whether it be working, going to school, or playing.” — Jerry Lynn Hunter

tion to the sport.” Soon, she made the natural progression to Los Alamitos. “Tere I worked for D. Wayne Lukas, and that was an education in itself,” Gloria said. “When I came to Pleasanton, it was with a few Quarter Horses. But Lukas would send me his overfow from Bay Meadows. At Pleasanton, Dick Doyle took an interest in me, and before I knew it, I was training Toroughbreds.” Like the vast majority of trainers, Gloria endured bad years and good years throughout her four decades of training. It was with some distinction that her Cal-bred Taco Willy won the frst-ever turf race at Santa Rosa. She really hit pay dirt with a Cal-bred flly named Mistical Plan. It came through an association she had formed over the years with Jerry and Carol Anderson, modest Northern California breeders. “I felt confdent that this was the best horse I ever trained,” said Gloria. “I took her to Santa Rosa and broke her maiden frst out. Ten I sent her down south for a minor stakes race. She had a bunch of excuses and fnished of the board.” Seemingly out of nowhere, trainer Doug O’Neill, on behalf of owner Paul Reddam, made an ofer to purchase the flly. “I hated every minute of the negotiations,” said Gloria. “But I totally understood when they accepted a $400,000 offer. Te flly had only broken her maiden and the Andersons still had her mother.” Mistical Plan would eventually earn $816,790 and win a grade 1. “Incredibly, I went on a Kentucky Derby junket this year,” said Denise. “And who was running in the second race on Derby Day? Big Gray Rocket, Mistical Plan’s 2014 foal (by Tapit). And he won!”

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8, we would get up at 4:30 and work our butts of to clean barns until it was time to go school.” In today’s world children would not legally be allowed to work that type of schedule. In the 1950s and well into the ’80s, the children were willing participants. “Most of the time I couldn’t wait for school to be over so I could get back to the barns,” Denise said. An early association with Quarter Horse afcionado Tony Arroyo shaped Gloria’s entrance into the horse racing world. “Tony taught me everything I thought I needed to know about training,” Gloria said. “Tony was really involved with match racing, and that was actually my introduc-

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Pleasanton trainer Gloria Buckridge sold the best horse she ever trained, eventual grade 1 winner Mystical Plan (middle), to trainer Doug O’Neill (left) for Paul and Zillah Reddam’s racing stable, and later the mare’s Tapit son Big Gray Rocket (right) won a race on the 2017 Kentucky Derby undercard

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to Northern California and was eventually hired as stable superintendent at Golden Gate Fields, a job she holds to this day. Tina Walker, the current clerk of the course throughout the north, also grew up in the trailer park. “My dad, David, rode for a bit,” said Walker. “But he went into training and, like most of the people at Pleasanton, broke a lot of babies. We did most everything as a family unit, and my dad was pretty strict about me staying in our own shedrow. Dad did a lot of traveling, and I would usually stay with the Andersons. “Pleasanton was a great place to learn and train. You could take all day with a horse if need be. I used to dream that I was going to be a trainer, and one of my friends, Alicia Altieri, was going to be my jockey. Later, I considered becoming a vet.” All that changed as a high school senior, when she quit school and started her own business galloping and ponying horses. “I made sure that I got my GED, but I had good clients,” Walker said, “people like Bryan Webb, Lenny Shoemaker, Donna Elordi, and Greg Gilchrist.” Walker contemplated leaving the racetrack at one point and applied to become a fight attendant. “When I was going for my second interview,” she remembered,” Dan Eidson offered me a job at Golden Gate Fields. Ten Gene Barsotti hired me at Bay Meadows and Greg Brent on the fairs.” Walker was back working shoulder to shoulder with her childhood best friend, Linda Anderson. Gloria Buckridge came to Pleasanton from Southern California. Technically not a resident of the fairgrounds, she and her family were as close as could be, living on Rose Avenue, which bordered the racetrack

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Standout Employees

Kingfsher Farms Dream Team

BY EMILY SHIELDS

“I call them my Dream Team,” she said. “I know them, they know me, and I don’t worry about a thing. Tere’s no drama; it’s just easy.” Fisher’s team consists of six men that she originally worked with for years at Magali Farms, and another three who have seamlessly integrated themselves with the original group. Ofce manager Britney Morehouse—“my miracle in the ofce,” said Fisher—rounds out the staf of 10. “Right when Magali Farms was transitioning into Barton Toroughbreds, things were falling Back row (left to right): Edgar Isguerra, Cristian Avalos, Salvador DeLeon Garcia, Martin Isguerra, Jose Luis Valdez, and Katie Fisher. Front row (left to right): Vicente Diaz, Rafael Perez, Juan Duran, together on my end,” Fisher said. and Jorge Hernandez At that time, Fisher had gotten one farm up and running and was about know I don’t have to watch them. Tey I did it on purpose. Edgar does mainteto receive a lot more lay-ups than origi- know what they need to be doing, and nance; the farm is really his farm. Martin nally planned. they don’t need to be told more than is phenomenal with the yearlings, and “One of my former co-workers, Jorge once.” Juan and Vicente can do both regular Hernandez, came knocking on my door In addition to Hernandez, the barn stall cleaning and maintenance stuf but and said that he needed a job,” Fisher said. staf comprises Cristian Avalos, Edgar also handle horses. How often do you “Te thing is, he’s just one of those guys Isguerra, Jose Luis Valdez, Juan Duran, fnd that?” in the background who knows how to do Martin Isguerra, Rafael Perez, Salvador Fisher jokes that it is more difcult to everything and is an amazing worker. But DeLeon Garcia, and Vicente Diaz. raise her twin toddlers than deal with the if he went anywhere, he would have to “Rafael was one of the original em- 40 horses on her property, thanks to the start from the bottom again because no ployees at Arroyo Arabians and worked Dream Team. one knows that. I told him he needed to there for 30 years,” Fisher said. “His “Tey sync up so well,” she said. “Tey go where someone knew his value and grandfather had racehorses in Mexico call themselves the Compadres. And asked him to come work for me.” when he was a child, so he grew up in honestly, they’re just freaking rad guys. From there, more of Fisher’s for- the industry. Jose Luis, Edgar, and Jorge Tey really impress me.” mer co-workers migrated to Kingfsher were all original employees at MagaAll the years that Fisher worked alongFarms. li Farms; Jose Luis even worked at the side many of the crew before they came “I have literally the best guys in the property before that. Cristian is the new- to her farm has paid of. world, and I worked alongside all of est of the guys. Salvador has incredible “Not only are they my Dream Team,” them at one point,” said Fisher. “I know attention to detail—if he notices a horse she said, “but they make the whole thing their strengths and weaknesses, and I missing of a list, he comes and asks me if a dream situation.”

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JOHN AND ALLEGRA ERNST BY EMILY SHIELDS

TWO TO WIN

ohn and Allegra Ernst, owner/breeders of California-bred stakes winner Tap the Wire, tell the story of their introduction to horse racing with palpable enthusiasm. “We live only 10 minutes from Del Mar, and we had always loved animals and sports,” John began. “We started going over there in the morning to see the horses work,” Allegra continued. “It’s the best show in town.” From there the Ernsts met outrider Tom Ellis and peppered him with questions for several seasons. One rare time, Ellis didn’t know the answer and enlisted the help of trainer Dan Hendricks. By the end of the day, Hendricks had given the Ernsts a tour of his barn, answered

John and Allegra Ernst are riding high with undefeated Cal-bred Tap the Wire

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more questions, and planted the frst seeds that later led them to become owners. “We were saving money for a second house,” Allegra said, “but we never found that house. A year later we returned to Del Mar and there’s Tom and Dan out in the morning. Next thing you know John and I were getting our credentials and putting in money for a claim.” Te frst horse they claimed, Stormy Spirit, was a $20,000 pickup on July 31, 2002. Te Ernsts were ofcially racehorse owners after years of watching from the sidelines. Stormy Spirit ran third twice at the meet, earning $7,200, before being claimed away for the same $20,000 tag. “We were crushed,” John said. “We got so attached to her and went to give her carrots every day.” Te Ernsts wanted to claim another one immediately, but Hendricks made them wait. All three of them scoured the entries daily, going well into the Santa Anita fall meet. Tree months later Hendricks claimed a mare named Rhiana for $40,000, and immediately moved her back up against allowance company. Rhiana fnished second, then won a Santa Anita allowance optional claimer by three lengths Dec. 31. “Knowing Dan Hendricks like we do now, the way he moved her from that claiming level to an allowance is very unusual,” John said. Te New Year’s Eve victory proved to be a spectacular afair, as the Ernsts were joined by family and friends, and the winner’s share of the $63,196 purse was worth $36,600. “But we’re in the tax and fnancial business,” John lamented. “So it’s the last day of the year and we’re all in the winner’s circle, and I said to Allegra, ‘We have a big problem, a tax problem!’ It was a nice problem to have.” Rhiana went on to fnish second in the Paseana Stakes two weeks later, then she ran third in the grade 1 Santa Maria Handicap. “We still didn’t really understand,” John admitted. “Dan told us she was worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars, but we were in love with her. We didn’t want to sell her.” Rhiana was twice more stakes-placed before she went through the ring at the 2003 Keeneland November mixed sale. Te daughter of Runaway Groom went in with a $200,000 reserve and her doting owners present ringside. “I was crying when she got to $200,000, because I knew she was gone,” Allegra recalled.

John and Allegra Ernst’s homebred Tap the Wire wins the Graduation Stakes at Del Mar

We kept breeding our mares even when the market was down. We’re both still working, so as long as we stay healthy and work, we’ll do that because it helps us hang on in the horse business.” — John Ernst

“She went for $270,000 to Dell Ridge Farm. Tey gave her a good home for life.” Rhiana went on to be the dam of 2008 Coolmore Lexington Stakes (G2) winner Behindatthebar. After the sale, the question arose: what to do with the money? “Dan asked us if we wanted to go on a ‘road’ trip,” Allegra said. “We went to Newmarket in England and went to the Tattersalls sale.” Tey came home with Irish-bred Chetak, a mare by Halling. She went on to produce Temple’s Door, a grade 2-placed runner by Leroidesanimaux bred by the Ernsts but not campaigned by them. Te couple acquired more horses, raced a few, and stood by Hendricks when the trainer sufered a motocross accident that left

him a paraplegic. Sixteen years after they got into the sport with whirlwind early success, they fnally broke through with their very frst stakes win via Cal-bred Tap the Wire. Tapit mares are a rare commodity in California, but the Ernsts have one, unraced Tap the Till. “She was recovering from pneumonia when we frst saw her,” John said. “She had been at the hospital for three months but survived. She still had a hole in her side. But when we frst saw her…” “Her hair was blowing back, the sun was shining on her, and she was a jaw-dropper,” Allegra fnished. Tap the Till couldn’t be bred the frst year because of her recovery, but her frst live foal is Tap the Wire. Te son of Eddington was in training with Dan

Dunham, who works out of San Luis Rey Downs and preps horses for several major trainers, including Hendricks. When the Lilac fre hit the training center last December, Dunham’s horses were set free, with Tap the Wire appearing in a neighboring feld the next day. “We had talked to Hendricks about racing these four Eddington colts we had, and said we were going to use Dunham,” John said. “Hendricks thought it was a good plan and strategy.” Tap the Wire broke his maiden frst out at Santa Anita on May 5, winning by 33⁄4 lengths as a 21-1 shot. He then had to wait for the $98,000 Graduation Stakes at Del Mar Aug. 4 to make his second start, which he won by 31⁄2 lengths. “We discussed the situation with Hendricks,” John said. “He deserves credit for not pushing us to switch trainers. We are loyal to him, but Dunham has done a heck of a job with the colt and we are loyal to him, too.” “Dunham got us this far,” Allegra said, “so Hendricks deserves a lot of credit for not pushing us to take the horse away. We were very happy that everyone feels okay to keep the horse with the trainer that has done such a good job.” Tap the Wire has earned $89,400 in his two winning starts. Te Ernsts own 10 broodmares, with Tap the Till producing a Smart Bid flly earlier this year after a Circumference flly in 2017. Another unraced mare, the Rock Hard Ten daughter Incredible Ten, has two winners from two starters. “We kept breeding our mares, even when the market was down,” John said. “We’re both still working, so as long as we can stay healthy and work, we’ll do that because it helps us hang on in the horse business.” With several young racehorses in training and an outstanding 2-year-old, the Ernsts couldn’t be more excited. Sixteen years removed from their early days watching workouts at Del Mar, they are set to become a long-lasting force in the California breeding industry.

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Winners JULY 23, 2018 Ð AUGUST 19, 2018 3-YEAR-OLDS & UP Acclamation—North Freeway: Take the One O One (38-16), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, STK, Real Good Deal S., 7/27, 7f, 1:23.40, $85,500. American Lion—Dawn Princess: Princess Tiznow (67-31), m, 5 yo, Penn National, STR, 8/10, 1mi 70yd, 1:45.15, $9,720. Benchmark—Desert Violet: Keith's Dessert (27-16), g, 7 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 8/3, 6f, 1:13.96, $2,480. Bertrando—Fantasy Rocks: Bold Fantasy (11-9), g, 7 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/28, 6 1/2f, 1:17.40, $21,000. Bertrando—Beaulena: Mr. Takahashi (11-9), g, 6 yo, Tillamook County Fair, ALW, 8/10, about 1 1/8mi, 1:59.80, $3,135. Birdonthewire—Lady Sorceress: Jayhawker (5-3), g, 5 yo, Ferndale, STR, 8/16, 7f, 1:28.71, $4,675. Calimonco—Danish Dessert: Runs Sweet (21-10), g, 4 yo, Grande Prairie, ALW, 8/5, 6f, 1:12.90, $2,332. Coil—Heatology: Spring Heat (33-18), f, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, ALW, 8/4, 5f (T), 58.23, $25,740. Creative Cause—Dover Crossing: Creative Crossing (116-52), g, 4 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 7/28, 6f, 1:11.18, $2,301. Decarchy—Awesome Broad: One Fast Broad (39-17), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/11, 1mi (T), 1:35.26, $48,360. Desert Code—Keep Active: Bountiful Desert (50-27), g, 6 yo, Sacramento, ALW, 7/29, 1mi, 1:37.40, $21,060. Elusive Warning—G Ma: Perfect Wager (24-13), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, STR, 8/3, 6f, 1:11.51, $25,200. Elusive Warning—Swiss Please: Super Swiss (24-13), g, 5 yo, Ruidoso Downs, SOC, 8/10, 5f, 57.30, $3,880. Good Journey—Go On Sophie: Party Rock (42-23), m, 6 yo, Delaware Park, STR, 7/28, 5 1/2f, 1:4.84, $13,200. Gotham City—Dancer Ivonne: My Friend George (14-6), g, 6 yo, Santa Rosa, WCL, 8/3, 5 1/2f, 1:4.42, $3,850. Grazen—Fairway Road: Just Grazed Me (31-21), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, STK, Fleet Treat S., 7/29, 7f, 1:23.60, $85,500. Grazen—Mark Set Go: Tough It Out (31-21), g, 5 yo, Del Mar, STR, 8/2, 1 1/8mi (T), 1:48.15, $21,600. He's Tops—Castle Bet: John Paul's Bet (19-6), g, 5 yo, Santa Rosa, STR, 8/3, 5f (T), 57.83, $6,300. Iron Cat—Alice May: Queen Kate (4-2), m, 8 yo, Prairie Meadows, SOC, 8/3, 6f, 1:10.58, $10,860. Lucky J. H.—I Can Yodele: Alpine Luck (15-9), g, 7 yo, Assiniboia Downs, AOC, 8/3, 6f, 1:11.40, $7,020. Lucky Pulpit—Granny Got Game: Grand Pulpit (145-61), g, 7 yo, Marquis Downs, WCL, 8/3, 6f, 1:13.58, $2,700. Lucky Pulpit—Lady Railrider: Pulpit Rider (145-61), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/11, 1mi (T), 1:34.90, $48,360. Make Music for Me—Good Book: Triple Shot (6-1), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/19, 6f, 1:11.28, $37,200. Marino Marini—Special Heather: Marjorie E (54-24), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, STR, 8/8, 1mi (T), 1:35.08, $25,200. Ministers Wild Cat—Warren's Flyer: Fly to Mars (108-55), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, STK, California Dreamin' S., 7/28, 1 1/16mi (T), 1:39.50, $85,500. Ministers Wild Cat—Ghost Tree: Reginella (108-55), f, 4 yo, Emerald Downs, STK, Emerald Distaff H., 8/12, 1 1/8mi, 1:48.68, $26,675.

The accompanying list includes runners that are both California-foaled and Californiasired winners in 2018 of all recent North American races, except straight claiming races. Abbreviations used for the class of race are similar to those used by Equibase: Alw– allowance; Hcp–overnight handicap; names of stakes race are spelled out, with the grade of the race, when applicable, in parentheses.

Ministers Wild Cat—Sensitive Soul: Minister of Soul (108-55), g, 4 yo, Albuquerque, ALW, 8/19, 7f, 1:22.86, $11,460. Misty'sgoldentouch—Yo Sal: World Famous Sam T (3-1), g, 9 yo, Columbus, ALW, 8/12, 6f, 1:13.00, $3,960. Northern Afeet—Fanny Chenal: Nice Ice (134-63), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/26, 1mi (T), 1:35.02, $37,200. Old Fashioned—Trashi Diva: Raven Creek (123-62), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/29, 1mi (T), 1:34.59, $37,200. The Pamplemousse—Crilly Now: Pamper Me Now (34-14), g, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, STR, 8/10, 6f, 1:10.76, $12,240. Papa Clem—Scenery Change: Salient (89-38), g, 5 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 7/29, 5f (T), 56.96, $37,200. Papa Clem—Chabuka: Big Miss Steak (89-38), m, 5 yo, Grande Prairie, ALW, 8/3, 6f, 1:13.37, $2,147. Papa Clem—Warmth: Cordiality (89-38), m, 5 yo, Del Mar, STK, Solana Beach S., 8/10, 1mi (T), 1:34.14, $85,500. Popular—Summer Bay: Dashing Don (8-6), g, 5 yo, Hastings Racecourse, AOC, 7/27, 1 1/16mi, 1:44.14, $12,100. Sierra Sunset—Beau's Gem: Touched by Autism (32-16), h, 5 yo, Sacramento, AOC, 7/28, 1mi, 1:36.87, $22,620. Sierra Sunset—Dancing Event: Dancing Sunset (32-16), m, 5 yo, Ferndale, ALW, 8/18, 1 1/16mi, 1:53.24, $8,400. Slew's Tiznow—The Great Atlantic: Atlantic Slew (40-22), m, 5 yo, Belterra Park, STR, 7/29, 6 1/2f, 1:19.55, $7,200. Smiling Tiger—Ann's Intuition: Helen's Tiger (44-21), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/9, 5f (T), 56.21, $37,200. Square Eddie—Gallantin Gal: Speedin With Eddie (84-36), g, 5 yo, Wyoming Downs, SOC, 7/29, 6f, 1:10.06, $2,340. Square Eddie—Teresa Ann: Eddie Haskell (84-36), g, 5 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/2, 5f (T), 55.96, $50,700. Square Eddie—Charred Rare: Rare Integrity (84-36), m, 5 yo, Presque Isle Downs, SOC, 8/6, 5f, 57.85, $11,100. Square Eddie—Charred Rare: Rare Integrity (84-36), m, 5 yo, Presque Isle Downs, SOC, 8/15, 6f, 1:11.13, $12,000. Stay Thirsty—Gladiatrix: Stay Glad (123-56), g, 3 yo, Marquis Downs, ALW, 8/17, 7f, 1:24.44, $2,183. Storm Wolf—Oakley's Song: Where's My Voucher (24-7), g, 6 yo, Tillamook County Fair, STR, 8/10, about 5f, 1:2.20, $1,485. Sundarban—Camas Creek: Cougar Creek (30-7), f, 4 yo, Assiniboia Downs, WCL, 8/4, 7 1/2f, 1:36.00, $5,220. Sundarban—Fast Splash: Sheswildnfree (30-7), m, 6 yo, Thistledown, SOC, 8/14, 1mi, 1:42.42, $9,120. Sundarban—Foxy Babe: Howdy (30-7), g, 6 yo, Albuquerque, SOC, 8/17, 1mi, 1:41.91, $8,460. Swiss Yodeler—Beyond Brite: Brite Echo (34-18), m, 5 yo, Santa Rosa, STR, 8/5, 5f (T), 58.49, $6,300. Swiss Yodeler—Coastal Skimming: Swiss Skimmer (34-18), m, 6 yo, Grande Prairie, ALW, 8/19, 6 1/2f, 1:18.08, $3,975. Tannersmyman—Major Issue: Prime Issue (26-11), g, 8 yo, Belterra Park, AOC, 8/19, 6f, 1:11.06, $9,900. Tizbud—Geode: Alive and Well (27-7), c, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, AOC, 8/11, 1mi (T), 1:35.63, $21,060.

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Top Hit—Jungle Girl: Maid Easy (33-19), m, 6 yo, Canterbury Park, SOC, 7/28, about 5f, 55.97, $8,700. Top Hit—Jungle Girl: Maid Easy (33-19), m, 6 yo, Canterbury Park, SOC, 8/4, 6f, 1:11.42, $10,200. Tribal Rule—Russian River: Marckie's Water (99-60), c, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/1, 1 3/8mi (T), 2:14.82, $48,360. Tribal Rule—Girl Named Sam: Family Girl (99-60), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/3, 6f, 1:11.72, $37,200. Tribal Rule—Vindicated Ghost: Meet and Greet (99-60), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/15, 5f (T), 56.40, $48,360. Tribal Rule—Petite Motion: Valiant Ruler (99-60), g, 5 yo, Wyoming Downs, STK, Au Revoir H., 8/19, 1mi, 1:37.99, $4,865. Unusual Heat—Quickly Gone: Clearly Gone (82-32), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/2, 1mi (T), 1:36.45, $37,200. Unusual Heat—Encanto Park: A Walk in the Park (82-32), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, AOC, 8/17, 1mi (T), 1:35.20, $37,200.

2-YEAR-OLDS Eddington—Tap the Till: Tap the Wire (42-16), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, STK, Graduation S., 8/4, 5 1/2f, 1:5.48, $57,000. Smiling Tiger—Naughty Nightie: Naughty Tiger (44-21), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, STK, California Thoroughbred Breeders' Association S., 8/1, 5 1/2f, 1:6.27, $57,000.

MAIDENS ACCLAMATION Old English Rancho (909) 947 3911 Acclamation—Transcending: Thermopolis (38-16), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 7/27, 1mi (T), 1:34.34, $36,000. Acclamation—Lutess: Acclaim the Queen (38-16), f, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/12, 6f, 1:11.44, $21,060. Atticus—Hyannis: Klay's Turn (22-10), g, 4 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/27, 5 1/2f, 1:4.81, $3,850. Atticus—Expense: Rosie's Gold (22-10), f, 2 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/29, 5f, 1:0.15, $4,950.

BOLD CHIEFTAIN Victory Rose Thoroughbreds (707) 678 6580 www.victoryrose.com Bold Chieftain—Montada: Dayjur Bold (28-12), f, 3 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/18, 5f, 1:3.68, $3,300. Brave Cat—Sharrene: Brave Ginger (9-8), f, 3 yo, Assiniboia Downs, MCL, 8/4, 6f, 1:15.00, $4,920.

CHAMP PEGASUS Barton Thoroughbreds (805) 693 1777 • info@bartonthoroughbreds.com www.bartonthoroughbreds.com Champ Pegasus—Tap Tap Ur It: Tap It Champ (43-7), c, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/5, 5 1/2f, 1:5.50, $20,280.

Leading California-Bred Winners JULY 23, 2018 Ð AUGUST 19, 2018 COIL Barton Thoroughbreds (805) 693 1777 • info@bartonthoroughbreds.com www.bartonthoroughbreds Coil—Spectacular Proof: Eighty Proof (33-18), g, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 7/26, 5 1/2f, 1:6.20, $18,000. Creative Cause—Teacher Teacher: Creative Instinct (116-52), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/1, 6f, 1:12.72, $36,000.

DESERT CODE Harris Farms (800) 311 6211 www.harrisfarms.com Desert Code—Exclusive Game: Easy Game (50-27), g, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/5, 5 1/2f, 1:4.55, $4,950. Desert Code—Xtrapleasure: Candy Coded (50-27), m, 5 yo, Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort, MCL, 8/8, 5f, 1:0.47, $3,538. Don'tsellmeshort—Improvisation: Scarlet Ribbons (23-8), f, 3 yo, Wyoming Downs, MSW, 8/11, 5 1/2f, 1:7.41, $1,140. Eddington—Deputy of Wood: Charleys Eddy (42-16), g, 3 yo, Prairie Meadows, MCL, 7/27, 6f, 1:12.67, $7,260. Empire Way—Clawpuccino: Hey Sal (43-19), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/11, 6f, 1:13.10, $18,000. Ez Dreamer—Tactical Rocket: Call Me Rocket (22-10), c, 2 yo, Marquis Downs, MSW, 8/17, 4f, 46.19, $2,480.

FULLBRIDLED Daehling Ranch (916) 685 4965 www.daehlingranch.com Fullbridled—Jule's Gold: Gold Bridle (7-3), c, 3 yo, Delaware Park, MCL, 8/1, 6f, 1:12.93, $6,000. Game Plan—The Zapana: Gamezapper (16-10), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 8/17, 4 1/2f, 52.51, $3,480. Golden Balls (IRE)—Le Grand Amour (IRE): Diversionist (14-6), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/18, 6f, 1:11.84, $36,000. Indy Film—Queen of Deals: Indy's Lady Luck (8-2), m, 5 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 7/27, 4 1/2f, 53.31, $3,090.

INFORMED Ridgeley Farm (951) 654 7728 ridgeleyfarmhemet@gmail.com Informed—Sayit: Sunrise Royale (25-9), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/19, 5 1/2f, 1:5.33, $36,000. Jet West—Red Hair Lady: Another Redhead (7-5), m, 7 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/5, 5 1/2f, 1:5.47, $4,950. Kafwain—Silk Queen: Silken Prince (57-31), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/3, 6f, 1:12.65, $36,000. Kafwain—You Lift Me Up: Oh My Soul (57-31), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 8/10, 4 1/2f, 53.09, $3,540. Kodiak Kowboy—Red Hot Renee: Sir Kowboy (85-46), g, 3 yo, Albuquerque, MCL, 7/25, 5 1/2f, 1:5.77, $5,640.

Lakerville—Category Ten: Lakerball (4-1), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/8, 5 1/2f, 1:6.98, $18,000. Lucky Pulpit—Chati Valley: Imalocomotive (145-61), g, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/3, 5 1/2f, 1:4.89, $3,850. Macho Uno—Mystery Me: Toreno (90-50), f, 3 yo, Albuquerque, MSW, 8/12, 6f, 1:10.85, $9,720. Marino Marini—Sierra Rose: Marina Rose (54-24), m, 5 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/26, 5f, 1:0.21, $3,850. Merit Man—Hint of Promise (GB): Give Me a Hint (2-1), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/12, 5 1/2f, 1:6.26, $18,000. Ministers Wild Cat—You Lift Me Up: Be Lifted Up (108-55), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/2, 5f, 1:0.57, $13,800. Ministers Wild Cat—All About Alex: All About Trump (108-55), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/9, 5 1/2f, 1:7.32, $13,800. Ministers Wild Cat—Champ's Rocket: Livin On Prayer (108-55), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/15, 6 1/2f, 1:18.54, $12,000. Morning Line—For Real Too: Dark Morning (57-25), g, 3 yo, Emerald Downs, MCL, 8/3, 1mi, 1:39.06, $3,520. Oxbow—Preshow: Start the Show (64-28), f, 2 yo, Delaware Park, MSW, 8/8, 5f, 59.15, $25,500. The Pamplemousse—Expense: French Expense (34-14), f, 4 yo, Arapahoe Park, MCL, 7/23, 5 1/2f, 1:5.69, $2,880. Papa Clem—Salty Fries: Gypsy Blu (89-38), f, 4 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/5, 6f, 1:12.70, $18,000. Peppered Cat—Angel Sings: Pepper Sings (44-18), g, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/2, 5 1/2f, 1:4.22, $4,950. Point Encounter—Collectors Edition: Seattle Encounter (4-3), g, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 8/12, 4 1/2f, 51.21, $3,480. Pure Thrill—Deputy Tombe: Fire Command (2-1), f, 3 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/29, 6f, 1:11.61, $8,400. Roi Charmant—Afeet Slew: Charmingslew (22-8), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/9, 1mi (T), 1:36.53, $36,000. Sea of Secrets—Kentucky Shampoo: Mon Camo (17-9), g, 3 yo, Ferndale, MCL, 8/17, 7f, 1:29.10, $3,300. Shackleford—Rita Katrina: Girl Drama (131-56), f, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/1, 1mi, 1:42.15, $12,000.

SIERRA SUNSET Daehling Ranch (916) 685 4965 www.daehlingranch.com Sierra Sunset—Passionate Heat: Phantom Heat (32-16), g, 5 yo, Tillamook County Fair, MCL, 8/8, about 5f, 1:5.20, $1,485. Slew's Tiznow—Carson's Dane: Hoss Cartwright (40-22), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 7/25, 6f, 1:11.44, $18,000. Slew's Tiznow—Lara Antipova: Katya Antipova (40-22), f, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/5, 5f (T), 58.98, $8,400.

SMILING TIGER Harris Farms (800) 311 6211 www.harrisfarms.com Smiling Tiger—Haley's Peanut: Stylist (44-21), f, 3 yo, Canterbury Park, MCL, 7/29, 1mi, 1:42.23, $6,000.

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Smiling Tiger—Finish Rich in Nyc: Miss Shirley C (44-21), f, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/12, 1mi (T), 1:39.30, $8,400. Smiling Tiger—Indiara: Run Jeanne Run (44-21), g, 3 yo, Assiniboia Downs, MCL, 8/15, 1mi, 1:45.40, $4,920. Square Eddie—Excessive Return: Lil' A. J. (84-36), f, 3 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 8/3, 4 1/2f, 53.29, $3,090. Square Eddie—Puff Pastry: Square Peggy (84-36), f, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/15, 5 1/2f, 1:4.84, $36,000. Square Eddie—Berengaria: Takeo Squared (84-36), g, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/16, 1mi (T), 1:37.82, $36,000. Strong Mandate—Diva's Tribute: Policy (11-2), c, 2 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/19, 5 1/2f, 1:5.95, $36,000.

SUNDARBAN Milky Way Farm (909) 241 6600 milkywaycattle@aol.com Sundarban—Multiplyingtheheat: Multiple Suns (30-7), g, 5 yo, Los Alamitos, MCL, 7/29, 4 1/2f, 52.54, $3,480.

TANNERSMYMAN Woodbridge Farm (209) 576 0692 www.woodbridgethoroughbreds.com Tannersmyman—For My Angel: Tanner's My Name (26-11), g, 2 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/9, 5 1/2f, 1:6.16, $4,400. Tannersmyman—Get the Money: Bag Man (26-11), g, 4 yo, Arapahoe Park, MCL, 8/10, 1mi, 1:42.54, $2,880. Tannersmyman—My Sis Liz: El Chavo Del Ocho (26-11), g, 3 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/11, 6f, 1:10.83, $20,280. Tenga Cat—Formal Rush: Tengas Rush (7-2), f, 3 yo, Wyoming Downs, MSW, 8/19, 5 1/2f, 1:6.42, $2,340. Terrell—Pen Pal (NZ): Terrell's Pen Pal (18-5), g, 4 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/29, 6f, 1:11.90, $4,400. Thoreau—Allura: Theorem (9-3), f, 3 yo, Monmouth Park, MCL, 8/3, 5 1/2f, 1:6.86, $7,200. Time to Get Even—Hameildaeme (GB): Hammy Time (21-10), f, 3 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/28, 5 1/2f, 1:5.54, $4,950. Tizway—Songo'thesea: Pacifc Song (164-75), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/8, 7f, 1:26.12, $12,000. Tribal Rule—Aunt Gert: Terrible Ted (99-60), g, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 7/26, 6 1/2f, 1:18.61, $36,000. Tribal Rule—Spice Spice Baby: Spice Hunter (99-60), g, 4 yo, Arapahoe Park, MCL, 7/30, 5f, 1:0.58, $2,880. Tribal Rule—Kiss Kiss: Raindance Rules (99-60), g, 4 yo, Del Mar, MCL, 8/2, 6f, 1:12.26, $12,000. Tribal Rule—Jet Set Girl: Jet Set Ruler (99-60), c, 3 yo, Del Mar, MSW, 8/17, 1mi (T), 1:36.40, $36,000. Twice the Appeal—Citizen Bernstein: Oh Be One (3-3), g, 2 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/27, 5 1/2f, 1:6.62, $7,800. Ultimate Eagle—Glad's Gals: She's an Eagle (7-1), f, 3 yo, Sacramento, MCL, 7/28, 6f, 1:12.71, $4,400. Unusual Heat—Style of the Year: Unusually Stylish (82-32), f, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, MSW, 8/4, 5f (T), 58.77, $20,280. Unusual Heat—Winning Tale: El Nino Fable (82-32), g, 4 yo, Santa Rosa, MCL, 8/11, 5 1/2f, 1:6.74, $4,400.

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WARTS & SARCOID TUMORS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW BUT ARE AFRAID TO ASK

Warts can appear on horses’ ears, eyelids and muzzles.

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Warts and sarcoid lumps are some of the common skin growths in horses. Sometimes they are hard to diferentiate because they can have similar appearances. WARTS

Dr. Andrew D. Smith, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences at University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine, says most warts are seen on young horses and are a temporary problem. “Here at our hospital, we only see the challenging cases (from veterinarians who refer them to us), maybe about one a year,” Smith said. “Most of the time the warts that occur in younger animals are not a problem. “Most of these are associated with equine papilloma virus 1, but they can have several forms or subcategories. Te warts that occur in older animals, such as the penile warts, are caused by equine papilloma virus 2. Tose don’t go away, and some of them progress into squamous cell carcinoma. We also see aural plaques (warts in the ears), which also don’t tend to regress.” Smith said that he doesn’t see common warts in younger horses unless an animal comes in with something else, such as lameness or colic. In those cases, he shows the warts to his students and explains that usually no treatment is needed. “Within a couple of months, those warts will regress and the horse will have a lifelong immunity and never get warts again,” Smith said. Tese warts are contagious in that

they can be transmitted among horses, or spread by some sort of fomite (fies or something else that takes the virus from one horse to another, such as grooming tools or tack used on multiple horses). “Usually, if a farm has one young horse with warts, there will soon be many with warts,” said Smith. “Te whole group of yearlings may have warts.” Tose warts usually don’t become a problem unless they become so large or numerous around the mouth and muzzle that they interfere with eating, breathing, or use of a bit. Warts on the penis are more problematic. “If a horse is referred to me for treatment, it is usually because the warts involve the entire glans penis,” said Smith. “We usually have to remove those by freezing them or doing a partial phallectomy (removal of part of the penis). Tis may be a little drastic, but horses with partial phallectomies do very well. Treating them any other way doesn’t get to the root of the problem to get rid of them.” Small and localized warts can be frozen or removed with a laser. “If we do a partial phallectomy, the horse would not be useable for breeding,” said Smith. “So we do those only in geldings. A partial phallectomy doesn’t work very well in stallions. If they get an erection (increasing the pressure in the penis), during the frst couple of months while those tissues are still healing, this increases the risk for surgical site dehiscence (rupturing) and breaking the sutures. “Hypothetically, you might be able to do this surgery on a stallion and still be able to collect him, if you were able to keep him from getting an erection until the surgical site was fully healed. But I don’t know

of anyone who has done that.” Because colts and breeding stallions are examined somewhat regularly, penile warts are often found early and a partial phallectomy isn’t necessary. Foals can also be born with a congenital form of warts. “Tose generally don’t regress,” said Smith. “Tey may be located on the forehead, nostrils, lower lip, and sometimes around the thorax or hind legs. Tese need to be removed.” Te only warts that actually regress are when young horses are normal at birth and then encounter the papilloma virus in their frst year or two of life. Tose warts usually appear around the face and muzzle, grow larger for a while, and then regress as the horse builds up an immunity to them. “We tell horse owners to just watch these to see if they regress,” said Smith. “It’s usually the warts in older horses that we end up having to remove surgically.” SARCOIDS

Sarcoids come in several types. Some are slow-growing and some are more aggressive. But most do not regress. “I rarely get to see a dormant sarcoid or one that hasn’t been previously treated,” said Smith. Tere are six types of sarcoids: occult, verrucous, nodular, fbroblastic, mixed forms, and malignant. While each can be distinctive, more often there’s a blurring of the margins and there are mixes of each. “We rarely see the classic forms by themselves,” said Smith. Te occult form is basically fat, hairless, and often small and circular. “Tey are sometimes more extensive, but usually appear around the mouth or

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“Usually, these are just a large, mixed form that is locally aggressive and continues to grow,” said Smith. “I’ve seen some that have taken over an area and are rapidly growing, such as all the way down a leg or whole portions of the face. Tere is no real treatment for those. Trying to keep these horses alive could be grounds for animal cruelty, since these growths are very pruritic (itchy) and the horse will be miserable. Te other types tend to be painless.” TREATMENTS FOR SARCOIDS

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ANDREW SMITH

eyes, or on the neck or medial aspects of the limbs, or hairless regions of the body,” said Smith. “Sometimes they are hardly noticed. You may just see a little bit of pigment change in the skin. “I was taught to leave occult sarcoids alone, as some of these will regress on their own. But the literature has now gone back and forth regarding this. If they do regress, however, those horses are generally free of sarcoid for the rest of their lives. Te body recognizes them and fghts them of, and those horses develop an immunity. “If they are extensive or in an area that’s not susceptible to trauma, I usually leave those alone and have the owner just watch them to see if they get bigger. In an area that is likely to sufer trauma, like the girth region, we try to remove them. Most of the ones we see start out as small and quiescent, but may be subject to some sort of trauma. If they are on the face or girth or along the horse’s side, the tack rubs them.” Any rubbing or trauma might irritate them and cause them to grow. “Trauma is usually what results in progression from less-aggressive forms,” Smith said. Verrucous sarcoid growths are wart-like, gray, and scaly. Tey extend deeper into the tissues than the occult sarcoids. “Sometimes they have a circular hairless patch around them that might look a little bit like ringworm, but because they are warty there may be multiple diferent types of lesions together,” said Smith. “Both the occult and the verrucous sarcoids are usually slow-growing and not very aggressive, but are susceptible to trauma (which may stimulate them to grow). Tese are the ones that are usually mistaken for warts. Tey both have that typical hyperplastic warty appearance.” Nodular sarcoids can be classifed as type A or type B. “Type A has no cutaneous involvement, while type B usually has cutaneous involvement,” said Smith. “Tey are both nodular in shape and just look like nodules underneath the skin (usually with the hair still covering them). Tey just look like a frm lump under the skin, and you don’t really see anything that would make you think it’s a sarcoid. Tey generally form in specifc locations, such as around the eye or the medial aspect of the legs.”

Top, sarcoids, such as this, might have a root-like system more beneath the skin surface; above, one method of treating sarcoids is by using localized radiation beads (called brachytherapy).

Fibroblastic sarcoids are basically nodular but hairless. “Tey look like masses with ulcerated margins,” said Smith. “Tey can either be pedunculated masses (on a stem) or have a broad base. Tey may be ulcerated or look like granulomatous lesions. As such, they might be mistaken for any number of things, such as exuberant granulation tissue (proud fesh), squamous cell carcinoma, cutaneous habronemiasis, pythiosis, etc. Tese growths can be very large and broad-based.” Mixed forms are basically a mix of verrucous, nodular, and fbroblastic. Smith said that some portions of the sarcoid might have a specifc appearance whereas other parts of the sarcoid look like the other types. A malignant sarcoid is fairly rare.

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It’s usually best to leave most sarcoids alone because if they are biopsied or removed, they often grow back in larger, more aggressive form. “We usually get to see the ones that people have unsuccessfully tried to treat, that haven’t responded to medical therapy such as Xxterra. 5-Fluorouracil, Imiquimod, BCG, etc.,” said Smith. “I am not saying that these treatments haven’t been used efectively to treat some sarcoids; I only see the ones that recurred after these treatments have failed. “I tell people that you shouldn’t just poke the bear. You either need to shoot the bear or leave the bear alone. Don’t poke it to see what happens. If the bear is asleep, leave it alone.” Surgery is probably one of the more common treatments for sarcoids that have to be removed for some reason. But the goal is to remove all of it. “Te veterinarian would generally make a decision regarding treatment based on the size and form of the growth. Te fbroblastic sarcoids are more likely to be treated surgically. Location makes a diference also, since we can’t really excise the tissue around the eyes or on the eyelids.” For sarcoid lesions around the eyes, a common treatment is an injection of BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin), which is an immune stimulant. “Tis produces a lot of infammation and makes the area very angry, and hopefully stimulates an immune response so the body will fght the tumor,” said Smith. If this works, the sarcoid becomes ulcerated and then falls of. Because of the swelling and infammation, the horse might be put on medication to help control that secondary infammation. “One risk when using the BCG is the

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Health possibility of side efects, which could include anaphylactic reactions,” Smith said. “A lot of the sarcoids around the eyes involve the eyelid, which means you can’t surgically remove them. So we use some kind of localized treatment like BCG or cisplatin, a type of chemotherapy.” Radiation therapy is used on some sarcoid lesions, but only a few hospitals ofer this form of treatment. “Although this is an efective treatment option, the drawback is that the horse usually needs to be anesthetized for each treatment,” said Smith. “So owners generally shy away from it.” Chemotherapy has also been found useful in treating equine sarcoids. “Most of what I do is surgical removal, followed up by chemotherapy,” said Smith. He explained that is because he sees cases where other treatments have already been tried. Tose treatments can include BCG, 5FU (Fluorouracil, a medication used to treat cancer), and Imiquimod cream, used to treat certain types of scaly growths on the skin or to treat superfcial basal cell carcinoma. Te size of the lesion makes a diference in how you treat it. “Probably no treatment would work very well for a really large fbroblastic mass,” said Smith. “Most of what we know about sarcoids goes back to their cause (bovine papilloma virus), and treatment may not be as efective as we’d like it to be.” Te virus enters the skin via trauma or fy bites; something opened the skin. “Te virus may lie dormant for many years in the skin,” said Smith. “Studies have shown that biopsies from normal horses (30-40%) are positive for the virus. More than 90% of sarcoids sampled contain bovine papilloma virus, so we know it’s a big player. “Sarcoids in general are not very well circumscribed masses. Te sarcoid has little fngers that go in all directions. Tey are similar to the root system of a tree in that some of it is beneath the surface. Te tumor and/or virus infltrates a wide area beneath the surface of the skin. “If you chop a tree of at the base, you haven’t removed the root system underneath. Te reason there’s a lot of treatment failure is that many people simply chop of what they can see. Tey don’t treat the 46

root system underneath, and the tree (or sarcoid) may regrow. “Unlike melanomas, which usually are very well circumscribed (you can tell the limits of these growths and remove them), with sarcoids we very rarely get all the margins. If you don’t treat the base, they will just recur. One reason they recur is that the papilloma virus is there, surrounding the sarcoid. Since you merely excised it and created infammation, the infammation stimulates more growth. In horses that have the virus in their skin, we think that all they need is a traumatizing event to get it going.”

Most of what we know about sarcoids goes back to their cause (bovine papilloma virus), and treatment may not be as efective as we’d like it to be.” — Dr. Andrew D. Smith

Te virus might have entered the horse’s skin years earlier—even 10 to 15 years before—and then the horse starts getting sarcoids. “Tis is what we think happens with most of the cases that occur on the limbs,” said Smith. “Tey are often getting bumped, scraped, or nicked, which might stimulate the virus to create the growth. So when you go in there surgically and do that, you cut down the tree but forget to remove the root system, and it regrows. “Tat’s why when people ask if I want to biopsy a growth to see if it’s a sarcoid, I tell them absolutely not. Either I am going to remove all of it and treat the base to remove the roots as well, or I am going to just watch it to see if it grows. If it starts to enlarge, that’s when you want to remove all of it. If you traumatize it, this just turns it into a more aggressive form. “Another reason some sarcoids recur after treatment is that most practitioners don’t have use of a laser or other tools that can excise tumors without spreading them by inoculating the tumor bed. When you cut the tissue with a blade,

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you inoculate the surrounding tissue with the virus. Even if you resect (cut out) the tumor with what you think are adequate margins, you are still likely going to be cutting through sarcoid tissue somewhere along the way. You are simply inoculating the whole area again, so the sarcoid is more likely to recur. “Sarcoids are likely to recur, regardless of treatment selected. Probably the most efective treatment is surgical excision followed by some sort of chemotherapy, whether cisplatin, carboplatin injections, or radiation. Most people inject the chemotherapy drug of choice with sesame oil, which increases the length of time the cisplatin or carboplatin stays in the surrounding tissue. Or you can make beads of chemo that you can implant, especially in areas that you can’t excise. Tese beads keep releasing the drug into the tissue, extending the length of efective treatment. “Tere are several radiation treatments, including a linear accelerator and localized radiation beads (called brachytherapy). But the newest way to increase the concentration of chemotherapy within the cells is electro-chemotherapy. Tis new method uses a machine that creates a current across the lesion, which changes the polarity of the cell membrane and increases uptake of the drug. “Tis form of treatment has actually shown the most promise. In one study, more than 90% of the treated horses had no recurrence in the several years following the treatment, and all of them remained free of sarcoid for greater than a year. “Te problem when you simply inject the drug (without the added sesame oil) is that it just disperses very quickly into the body and doesn’t stay in the target area long enough. So once you inject the area, you need to change the cells very quickly with current. “Te problem with this treatment is that the horse needs to be anesthetized. It’s not like an electrical jolt, but it does stimulate the muscles. So you don’t want to do it with the horse standing. We are getting ready to buy one of these machines here, and more hospitals are ofering this kind of treatment. Tis is a challenging disease, and the challenge grows exponentially with every failed treatment.”

Leading California Sires Lists

2018 LEADING BREEDERS IN CALIFORNIA BY EARNINGS (THRU AUG. 19, 2018) Breeder

Starts

Wins

Stakes Wins

Reddam Racing, LLC Tommy Town Thoroughbreds, LLC Terry C. Lovingier Nick Alexander Harris Farms Richard Barton Enterprises Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams Old English Rancho, Patsy Berumen & Sal Berumen Thomas W. Bachman Dr. & Mrs. William T. Gray Premier Thoroughbreds LLC Madera Thoroughbreds LLC Liberty Road Stables Old English Rancho BG Stables George Schmitt & Mary Clare Schmitt Michael Pageler Milt A. Policzer C-Punch Ranch Dr. Edward C. Allred Premier Thoroughbreds LLC & Alan Klein Heinz H. Steinmann Gary Barber H & E Ranch Rozamund Barclay Daehling Ranch LLC Madeline Auerbach & Barry Abrams Donald Valpredo Howard & Janet Siegel Racing LLC Joe Turner Legacy Ranch Red Baron’s Barn & Vaya Con Suerte Rod Rodriguez & Lorraine Rodriguez Cole Ranch Greg James Dahlberg Farms LLC Jim Robbins Esembee Inc. ARCHA Racing Inc. KMN Racing Rancho San Miguel James W. McKenney & Tammy McKenney Richard Allen Kritzski and AGR Racing Kristin Mulhall William Sims Mercedes Stables LLC Old English Rancho & Bruce Headley Anatolia, Inc Ellen Jackson Jim Eaton Phil D’Amato & Tommy Hutton Dream Stables Alex Paszkeicz Ballena Vista Farm Mikel C. Harrington & Patricia O. Harrington Revocable Trust Nadine Anderson & Brazeau Thoroughbred Farms, LP John Ernst & Allegra Ernst

207 431 504 219 378 476 197 226 62 122 85 192 150 151 70 153 4 75 68 23 8 73 19 40 64 94 43 147 67 48 96 12 52 53 50 40 4 5 21 30 54 19 6 39 11 33 58 6 45 25 15 88 30 62 76 29

27 86 56 43 52 44 26 32 19 19 12 27 21 18 9 17 3 13 14 6 3 11 2 3 7 13 5 20 14 12 18 1 10 9 6 11 2 2 2 1 10 3 1 8 4 7 4 2 8 4 6 8 6 9 7 3

3 1 1 4 0 0 3 1 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1

Leading Earner

B Squared ($167,963) Queen Bee to You ($89,112) Show It N Moe It ($149,351) Just Grazed Me ($120,900) Lynne’s Legacy ($108,991) Tule Fog ($87,870) Pulpit Rider ($246,708) What a View ($79,035) Take the One O One ($259,836) Nice Ice ($106,325) Spiced Perfection ($157,345) Solid Wager ($90,100) Psycho Dar ($67,585) Accountability ($77,999) Violent Ridge ($104,345) Touched by Autism ($65,230) Heck Yeah ($284,000) Kiss of Dahpespe ($53,400) Shades of Victory ($48,207) Cordiality ($203,430) Miss Sunset ($218,000) Swiss Minister ($70,748) Fly to Mars ($179,190) Rye ($126,345) Helen’s Tiger ($88,900) Gotham Desire ($61,999) Spring Heat ($74,422) Bako Sweets ($40,014) Jay Makes Us Laugh ($86,110) Sir Vronski ($77,224) Magicalchic ($26,580) Edwards Going Left ($156,000) Popular Kid ($68,730) Jet Set Ruler ($42,780) Laynee ($63,147) Sapphire Kid ($51,885) Loving Lynda ($153,545) Touching Rainbows ($147,537) Soi Phet ($139,080) Grecian Fire ($78,177) Southern Thunder ($47,686) Coniah ($116,800) One Fast Broad ($132,360) Hot Rodin ($47,734) Raven Creek ($97,825) Gorgeous Ginny ($42,660) Surfng Star ($43,945) Anatolian Heat ($122,174) Lil’ Chieftain ($41,120) My Friend Emma ($112,338) Table for Three ($76,248) Peppers Ace ($24,336) Mr Paytience ($47,400) Abets Abet ($45,050) Full Court ($19,045) Tap the Wire ($89,400)

Earnings

$1,479,987 $1,287,753 $1,165,505 $1,141,381 $1,125,559 $951,124 $808,569 $684,931 $609,542 $534,737 $431,863 $426,767 $399,735 $344,782 $302,288 $289,230 $284,000 $254,073 $234,211 $232,027 $227,825 $218,192 $217,445 $214,910 $212,107 $202,884 $200,699 $200,568 $197,511 $189,179 $182,628 $162,080 $158,040 $155,593 $155,390 $154,870 $153,545 $147,537 $147,184 $142,534 $140,072 $132,662 $132,360 $125,336 $124,995 $123,153 $122,794 $122,174 $120,827 $118,803 $117,318 $115,998 $115,809 $115,190 $114,613 $112,936

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Leading California Sires Lists 2018 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER RUNNER

2018 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MONEY WON

(MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS) Sire

Races Rnrs Won

Earnings/ Runner

Earned

Rnrs

Strts

Races Won

1 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

126

639

$2,496,636

Sire

Earned

1 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

33 $1,014,236

$32,717

2 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

151

723

101

$2,415,755

2 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

22 $1,075,232

$28,296

3 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

146

675

$2,029,671

3 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

44 $2,006,907

$23,892

4 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

331

$2,006,907

4 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

32 $1,005,528

$22,853

5 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

395

$1,520,159

5 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$266,258

$22,188

6 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 108

510

$1,465,655

6 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$480,465

$21,839

7 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

147

$1,075,232

$19,815

8 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

153

$1,014,236

9 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

198

$1,005,528

10 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

534

$994,276

11 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

356

$921,344

12 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) 53

270

$822,201

13 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

212

$724,152

14 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

259

$705,455

15 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE)

237

$621,322

7 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini 8 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry 9 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

126 12 82

90 $2,496,636 7

$226,963

44 $1,520,159

$18,914 $18,539

10 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

$233,819

$16,701

11 Grace Upon Grace, 2007, by Rio Verde

$280,215

$16,483

12 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$724,152

$16,458

13 Richard’s Kid, 2005, by Lemon Drop Kid

$160,313

$16,031

151 101 $2,415,755

$15,998

16 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

211

$596,394

14 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 15 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

$822,201

$15,513

17 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

285

$586,519

16 Golden Balls (IRE), 2004, by Danehill Dancer (IRE) 14

$214,769

$15,341

18 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

164

$566,735

17 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

$596,394

$15,292

19 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image

249

$508,239

18 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

$418,020

$14,929

20 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

130

$480,465

286

$477,394

19 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

$368,696

$14,181

21 † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 59

20 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$566,735

$14,168

22 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

152

$441,862

23 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

192

$433,902

2018 LEADING TURF SIRES IN CALIFORNIA

24 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

179

$420,775

(MINIMUM 50 STARTS)

25 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

158

$418,020

26 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

191

$406,927

27 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

237

$399,080

Sire

Rnrs Strts Wnrs Wins

Earned

1 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

42 126

$993,866

28 Dixie Chatter, 2005, by Dixie Union

212

$383,921

2 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

60 184

$967,069

29 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

120

$368,696

3 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$604,683

30 † Thorn Song, 2003, by Unbridled’s Song

229

$353,647

4 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

$455,813

31 Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

215

$353,090

5 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 22

$310,263

32 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat

140

$347,845

6 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

$301,575

33 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

104

$345,201

$285,266

34 Sierra Sunset, 2005, by Bertrando

172

$324,985

$214,065

35 The Pamplemousse, 2006, by Kafwain

137

$299,387

$210,773

36 † Sought After, 2000, by Seeking the Gold

136

$289,702

$202,848

37 Storm Wolf, 2002, by Stormin Fever

129

$282,730

38 Grace Upon Grace, 2007, by Rio Verde

$280,215

39 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$266,258

40 Elusive Warning, 2004, by Elusive Quality

139

$259,174

41 Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time

$249,217

7 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View 8 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig 9 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig 10 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

39 18 38 30

40 98 75

42 104

5 9 4 4

6 9 5 7

11 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

$202,556

12 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$172,387

13 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$160,063

14 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$155,211

15 Golden Balls (IRE), 2004, by Danehill Dancer (IRE) 8

$153,081

16 Einstein (BRZ), 2002, by Spend a Buck

17 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

18 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

19 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

20 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

42 Roi Charmant, 2001, by Evansville Slew

$234,449

43 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

$233,819

$137,228

44 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry

$226,963

$131,409

45 Sundarban, 2006, by A.P. Indy

162

$216,105

$127,963

46 Many Rivers, 2005, by Storm Cat

$215,667

$127,672

47 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even

$215,536

$126,760

48 Golden Balls (IRE),2004, by Danehill Dancer (IRE) 14

$214,769

The statistics shown here are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their complete and total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicates a stallion that has been pensioned or has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere (sires no longer standing in California remain on these lists until their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old). Freshman sires are highlighted in bold text. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) only. Stakes winners and wins follow TJCIS stakes rules. Racing statistics through August 19, 2018.

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2018 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY MEDIAN EARNINGS PER RUNNER (MINIMUM 10 RUNNERS) Sire

Sire

Races Rnrs Won

Earned

Median

Rnrs

Wnrs

Races Won

Earned

1 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

151

101 $2,415,755

1 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

33 $1,014,236 $26,590

2 Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

146

88 $2,029,671

2 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$266,258 $18,209

3 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

126

90 $2,496,636

3 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry

$226,963 $17,688

4 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 108

84 $1,465,655

4 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

$480,465 $14,381

5 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

5 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

44 $2,006,907 $11,698

6 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

44 $2,006,907

6 Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

$418,020 $10,464

7 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

7 Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

$406,927

$9,760

8 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

44 $1,520,159

8 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

$233,819

$9,689

Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$586,519

9 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

$441,862

$9,426

10 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

$705,455

10 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$566,735

$8,932

11 Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

$399,080

11 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

126

90 $2,496,636

$8,923

12 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$566,735

12 Sierra Sunset, 2005, by Bertrando

$324,985

$8,800

13 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

33 $1,014,236

13 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

44 $1,520,159

$8,196

Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

32 $1,005,528

14 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$921,344

$7,945

Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) 53

$822,201

151 101 $2,415,755

$7,934

$621,322

$508,239

$724,152

$477,394

$441,862

$353,090

$596,394

15 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 16 † Sought After, 2000, by Seeking the Gold

$289,702

$7,645

17 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

$994,276

$7,598

18 Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat

$347,845

$7,385

19 Angus, 2004, by Smokester

$109,394

$7,155

20 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

$705,455

$7,127

16 Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE) Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 18 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 20 Coil, 2008, by Point Given Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat 22 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

2018 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER START Rnrs

Srts

Earned

$921,344

2018 LEADING SIRES IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF RACES WON

(MINIMUM 100 STARTS) Sire

$994,276

Earnings Start

Sire

Rnrs

Srts

Races Won

Earned

1 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

147 $1,075,232

$7,315

1 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

151

101

$2,415,755

2 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

153 $1,014,236

$6,629

2 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

126

$2,496,636

3 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

331 $2,006,907

$6,063

3 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

146

$2,029,671

4 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

198 $1,005,528

$5,078

4 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 108

$1,465,655

5 Grace Upon Grace, 2007, by Rio Verde

$280,215

$4,061

5 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

$994,276

6 Golden Balls (IRE), 2004, by Danehill Dancer (IRE) 14

$214,769

$3,977

6 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$586,519

639 $2,496,636

$3,907

7 Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig

$921,344

7 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

126

8 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

395 $1,520,159

$3,849

8 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$2,006,907

9 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

130

$480,465

$3,696

† Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

$1,520,159

10 Big Bad Leroybrown, 2004, by Wild Again

$266,258

$3,458

10 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image

$508,239

11 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

164

$566,735

$3,456

11 Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai

$705,455

12 Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry

$226,963

$3,439

Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat

$399,080

13 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

212

$724,152

$3,416

Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark

$1,014,236

$1,005,528

$621,322

14 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 15 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

151 27

723 $2,415,755

$3,341

104

$3,319

$345,201

14 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE)

16 Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark

$233,819

$3,118

16 Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow

$566,735

17 Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson

120

$368,696

$3,072

17 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG)

$822,201

18 Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) 53

270

$822,201

$3,045

18 † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway

$477,394

19 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

675 $2,029,671

$3,007

19 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

$441,862

152

$2,907

20 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$724,152

20 Coil, 2008, by Point Given

146 33

$441,862

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Races Won

2018 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF WINNERS Earned

Strts

1 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$421,495

1 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$421,495

2 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$244,067

2 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$229,861

3 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$244,067

$178,021

$71,716

$39,717

7 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even 3

$229,861

3 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

4 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$178,021

4 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

5 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

$102,877

6 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

$88,399

7 † Comic Strip,1995, by Red Ransom

Rnrs

Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

$85,472

8 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister

$71,716

Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

9 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even

$62,835

$61,085

11 Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus 17

10 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

Wnrs

Earned

$62,835

$60,469

Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$52,130

Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$51,726

$60,469

Twice the Appeal, 2008, by Successful Appeal

$24,777

12 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$52,130

Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev

$20,460

13 Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$51,726

14 † Unusual Heat,1990, by Nureyev

$51,425

15 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

$39,717

16 U S Ranger, 2004, by Danzig

$38,665

17 Awesome Gambler, 2004, by Coronado’s Quest 5

$37,651

18 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$36,783

19 Affrmative,1999, by Unbridled

$35,200

20 Run Brother Ron, 2005, by Perfect Mandate

$28,150

21 Many Rivers, 2005, by Storm Cat

$28,080

1 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

Races Rnrs Won

Rnrs

Srts

Races Won

Earned

1 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

$421,495

2 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini

$229,861

3 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

$244,067

$178,021

$71,716

$39,717

$102,877

$85,472

Sire

5 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat 7 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

(MINIMUM 5 RUNNERS) Sire

2018 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY NUMBER OF RACES WON

Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

2018 LEADING SIRES OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS IN CALIFORNIA BY AVERAGE EARNINGS PER RUNNER Earnings/ Runner

† Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom

Earned

Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even

$62,835

$60,469

Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$52,130

$20,575

Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat

$51,726

$244,067

$18,774

Twice the Appeal, 2008, by Successful Appeal

$24,777

$85,472

$17,094

Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev

$20,460

$229,861

$14,366

$61,085

$12,217 $10,426

$421,495

$26,343

Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus

2 Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger

$178,021

$25,432

3 Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled

$102,877

4 † Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit

16 5

5 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom 6 Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini 7 Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat

Sire

Races Won

Rnrs

8 Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run

$52,130

9 Boisterous, 2007, by Distorted Humor

$88,399

$9,822

10 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev

$51,425

$8,571

11 Awesome Gambler, 2004, by Coronado’s Quest

$37,651

$7,530

12 Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 12

$71,716

$5,976

13 † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway

$23,667

$4,733

14 Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat

$39,717

$4,413

15 Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev

$20,460

$4,092

16 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker

$36,783

$4,087

17 Champ Pegasus, 2006, by Fusaichi Pegasus 17

$60,469

$3,557

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2018 LEADING LIFETIME SIRES IN CALIFORNIA (50 OR MORE NAMED FOALS)

Stallion (Foreign Foaled), Year, Sire

1 † Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureyev 2 Grazen, 2006, by Benchmark 3 Square Eddie, 2006, by Smart Strike

Crops

Avg Named Size Foals

Runners

Winners

2YO Winners

Stakes Winners

Graded Stakes Winners

Progeny Earnings

AEI

Comp Index

18 6 6

45 15 28

811 87 170

608-75% 60-69% 144-85%

438-54% 50-57% 105-62%

57-7% 10-11% 36-21%

44-5% 7-8% 12-7%

14-2% 1-1% 1-1%

$57,732,554 $5,466,517 $10,629,267

1.91 1.74 1.52

1.20 1.26 1.08

9 11 6 3 3 9 10 7 9

49 20 11 103 33 99 44 37 15

445 220 65 309 100 894 440 261 131

327-73% 148-67% 34-52% 147-48% 46-46% 544-61% 329-75% 135-52% 73-56%

216-49% 104-47% 20-31% 100-32% 22-22% 404-45% 236-54% 94-36% 52-40%

66-15% 15-7% 11-17% 39-13% 7-7% 115-13% 57-13% 19-7% 0-0%

10-2% 10-5% 1-2% 4-1% 2-2% 32-4% 11-3% 6-2% 2-2%

1-0% 3-1% 0-0% 1-0% 0-0% 6-1% 3-1% 3-1% 1-1%

$28,812,241 $11,598,545 $1,993,188 $7,048,329 $1,707,224 $40,025,537 $20,951,258 $7,915,182 $4,040,063

1.48 1.39 1.38 1.29 1.25 1.20 1.19 1.14 1.13

1.10 1.07 1.02 1.52 1.26 1.64 1.42 0.99 1.24

13 † Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 14 One Man Army, 1994, by Roman Diplomat 15 Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy

16 9 11

49 9 19

779 84 208

577-74% 57-68% 132-63%

397-51% 40-48% 77-37%

116-15% 3-4% 12-6%

26-3% 2-2% 6-3%

9-1% 1-1% 2-1%

$31,345,926 $3,003,756 $7,031,901

1.12 1.11 1.07

1.31 0.92 0.89

16 † Heatseeker (IRE), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 17 Affrmative, 1999, by Unbridled 18 Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image

7 9 10

31 13 51

220 113 505

161-73% 68-60% 247-49%

97-44% 44-39% 180-36%

27-12% 6-5% 47-9%

8-4% 2-2% 7-1%

1-0% 1-1% 1-0%

$7,360,275 $4,137,856 $14,530,314

1.06 1.05 1.04

1.24 0.80 1.15

19 † Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View

400

280-70%

195-49%

44-11%

13-3%

1-0%

$15,959,706

1.02

0.97

10 12 10 4 10 2 18 6 4 10 6 15 7 11 12 4

10 53 44 25 5 56 27 8 23 35 24 37 16 9 17 17

99 631 441 99 51 112 491 50 91 345 142 550 113 98 207 66

75-76% 446-71% 344-78% 55-56% 40-78% 51-46% 365-74% 36-72% 72-79% 213-62% 98-69% 435-79% 71-63% 70-71% 138-67% 37-56%

57-58% 20-20% 324-51% 96-15% 246-56% 65-15% 36-36% 11-11% 30-59% 11-22% 25-22% 10-9% 225-46% 43-9% 23-46% 4-8% 42-46% 9-10% 124-36% 15-4% 67-47% 16-11% 335-61% 113-21% 51-45% 6-5% 53-54% 10-10% 95-46% 27-13% 26-39% 5-8%

2-2% 18-3% 18-4% 3-3% 1-2% 4-4% 11-2% 1-2% 3-3% 8-2% 3-2% 19-3% 2-2% 1-1% 6-3% 1-2%

1-1% 6-1% 2-0% 1-1% 0-0% 0-0% 4-1% 0-0% 0-0% 4-1% 0-0% 1-0% 2-2% 1-1% 0-0% 0-0%

$3,888,192 $21,078,278 $18,310,603 $2,145,780 $2,064,119 $1,491,280 $15,194,174 $2,139,938 $2,981,987 $9,098,524 $4,664,384 $21,787,513 $3,272,823 $3,431,172 $5,650,053 $1,416,533

1.02 1.01 1.01 1.00 1.00 0.99 0.98 0.97 0.97 0.97 0.95 0.94 0.88 0.86 0.85 0.84

0.93 1.19 0.90 1.06 0.79 1.06 1.37 0.89 1.42 1.43 1.06 0.83 1.25 0.61 1.05 0.93

36 † Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom Sea of Secrets, 1995, by Storm Cat

16 16

22 31

351 489

263-75% 405-83%

193-55% 292-60%

51-15% 80-16%

12-3% 16-3%

0-0% 2-0%

$10,856,741 $19,361,855

0.83 0.83

1.10 1.04

38 † Sought After, 2000, by Seeking the Gold 39 Unbridled Native, 2001, by Unbridled

13 4

11 13

140 53

97-69% 36-68%

64-46% 18-34%

13-9% 1-2%

2-1% 0-0%

1-1% 0-0%

$3,635,653 $1,333,402

0.82 0.80

0.77 0.86

40 † Lucky J. H., 2002, by Cee’s Tizzy Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat 42 Empire Way, 2009, by Empire Maker 43 Time to Get Even, 2004, by Stephen Got Even 44 Skimming, 1996, by Nureyev 45 Sierra Sunset, 2005, by Bertrando Tannersmyman, 1998, by Lord Carson 47 Fullbridled, 2001, by Unbridled’s Song 48 Elusive Warning, 2004, by Elusive Quality 49 Mast Track, 2004, by Mizzen Mast 50 Awesome Gambler, 2004, by Coronado’s Quest

5 11 3 6 13 4 13 9 5 5 8

16 34 27 12 26 22 13 8 14 10 30

81 375 82 72 337 87 174 69 70 50 238

63-78% 284-76% 53-65% 52-72% 233-69% 48-55% 129-74% 32-46% 35-50% 38-76% 153-64%

43-53% 207-55% 26-32% 32-44% 162-48% 26-30% 89-51% 20-29% 24-34% 25-50% 80-34%

14-17% 40-11% 11-13% 13-18% 24-7% 7-8% 21-12% 0-0% 7-10% 4-8% 23-10%

1-1% 4-1% 1-1% 1-1% 7-2% 0-0% 3-2% 0-0% 1-1% 0-0% 1-0%

0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 1-0% 0-0% 1-1% 0-0% 0-0% 0-0% 1-0%

$2,911,509 $12,102,506 $1,348,228 $2,047,109 $8,599,651 $1,246,066 $5,049,873 $989,050 $1,132,579 $1,116,000 $4,352,586

0.79 0.79 0.77 0.76 0.75 0.72 0.72 0.71 0.70 0.69 0.68

1.16 0.95 0.90 0.68 0.96 0.81 0.71 0.87 0.98 1.09 0.75

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

21 23 25 26 27

30 31 32 33 34 35

† Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig Idiot Proof, 2004, by Benchmark Stay Thirsty, 2008, by Bernardini Acclamation, 2006, by Unusual Heat Bluegrass Cat, 2003, by Storm Cat Eddington, 2001, by Unbridled Street Hero, 2006, by Street Cry (IRE) Cyclotron, 2000, by Grand Slam

† Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister Slew’s Tiznow, 2005, by Tiznow Trapper, 2000, by Iron Cat Smiling Tiger, 2007, by Hold That Tiger Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev Bedford Falls, 2003, by Forestry Misremembered, 2006, by Candy Ride (ARG) North Light (IRE), 2001, by Danehill Desert Code, 2004, by E Dubai Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time Surf Cat, 2002, by Sir Cat Peppered Cat, 2000, by Tabasco Cat Lightnin N Thunder, 2001, by Storm Cat Bold Chieftain, 2003, by Chief Seattle

These statistics are for active California-based sires with a minimum of 50 foals of racing age, ranked here by their lifetime Average Earnings Index (AEI.) The statistics shown here are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their complete and total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicates a stallion that has been pensioned or has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere (sires no longer standing in California remain on these lists until their last Cal-bred crop turns 3 years old). Freshman sires are highlighted in bold text.. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) only. Stakes winners and wins follow TJCIS stakes rules. Percentages are based upon number of named foals of racing age.

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2018

REGIONAL RACE MEETINGS Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar

July 18-Sept. 3

Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley

Aug. 23-Sept. 30

Pomona Fair at Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos Santa Anita Park, Arcadia

Sept. 6-23 Sept. 28-Nov. 4

Fresno County Fair, Fresno

Oct. 4-14

Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley

Oct. 17-Dec. 18

Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar

Nov. 9-Dec. 2

Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos

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Dec. 5-18

California-Bred/California-Sired STAKES RACES September Ð October LOS ALAMITOS

FRESNO

SANTA ANITA

SATURDAY, SEPT. 8

SATURDAY, OCT. 6

SATURDAY, OCT. 13

$75,000 E.B. Johnston Stakes

$100,000 Harris Farms Stakes

$100,000 California Distaf

3-Year-Olds & Up 1 mile

3-Year-Olds & Up 6 furlongs

3-Year-Olds & Up, Fillies and Mares 5 furlongs (Turf)

SATURDAY, OCT. 20

$100,000 California Flag Handicap 3-Year-Olds & Up 5 furlongs (Turf)

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Stakes & Sales Dates SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 REGIONAL STAKES RACES

OCTOBER

SEPTEMBER

Date

Track

Stakes (Grade)

Conditions

Distance

Added Value

Dmr

Del Mar Debutante (Gr. I)

2-y-o f.

7 f.

$300,000

Dmr

John C. Mabee Stakes (Gr. II)

3-y-o & up, f. & m.

1 1⁄8 m. (T)

$200,000

Dmr

Del Mar Derby (Gr. II)

3-y-o

1 1⁄8 m. (T)

$250,000

Dmr

Del Mar Juvenile Turf

2-y-o

1 m. (T)

$100,000

Dmr

Del Mar Futurity (Gr. I)

2-y-o

7 f.

$300,000

Dmr

Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf

2-y-o f.

1 m. (T)

$100,000

Dmr

CERF Stakes

3-y-o & up, f. & m.

6 f.

$75,000

GGF Rolling Green Stakes

3-y-o & up

1 1⁄16 m. (T)

$50,000

Beverly J. Lewis Stakes

3-y-o f.

6 f.

$75,000

E.B. Johnston Stakes

3-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired

1 m.

$75,000

Barretts Debutante

2-y-o f.

6 1⁄2 f.

$100,000

Barretts Juvenile

2-y-o

6 1⁄2 f.

$100,000

Eddie D. Stakes (Gr. III)

3-y-o & up

abt. 6 ⁄2 f. (T)

$100,000

Awesome Again Stakes (Gr. I)

3-y-o & up

1 1⁄8 m.

$300,000

Chandelier Stakes (Gr. I)

2-y-o f.

1 ⁄16 m.

$300,000

American Pharoah Stakes (Gr. I)

2-y-o

1 1⁄16 m.

$300,000 $300,000

Rodeo Drive Stakes (Gr. I)

3-y-o & up, f. & m.

1 ⁄4 m. (T)

Unzip Me Stakes

3-y-o f.

abt. 6 1⁄2 f. (T)

$75,000

Zenyatta Stakes (Gr. I)

3-y-o & up, f. & m.

1 ⁄16 m.

$300,000

John Henry Turf Championship (Gr. II)

3-y-o & up

1 1⁄4 m. (T)

$200,000

Santa Anita Sprint Championship (Gr. I) 3-y-o & up

6 f.

$300,000

City of Hope Mile (Gr. II)

3-y-o & up

1 m. (T)

$200,000

Speakeasy Stakes

2-y-o

5 f. (T)

$100,000

Fno

Harris Farms Stakes

3-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired

6 f.

$100,000

L.A. Woman Stakes (Gr. III)

3-y-o & up, f. & m.

6 1⁄2 f.

$100,000

Swingtime Stakes

3-y-o & up, f. & m.

1 m. (T)

$70,000

Surfer Girl Stakes

2-y-o f.

1 m. (T)

$100,000

Zuma Beach Stakes

2-y-o

1 m. (T)

$100,000

California Distaff Handicap

3-y-o & up, f. & m. Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired 5 f. (T)

Anoakia Stakes

2-y-o f.

6 f.

$100,000 $75,000

Fno

The Bulldog Handicap

3-y-o & up

1 ⁄8 m.

$50,000

California Flag Handicap

3-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired

5 f. (T)

$100,000

GGF Pike Place Dancer Stakes

2-y-o f.

1 m. (T)

$75,000

Autumn Miss Stakes (Gr. III)

3-y-o f.

1 m. (T)

$100,000

Comma to the Top Stakes

3-y-o & up

1 m.

$75,000

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Ideal horse property business location in Norco, CA - $850,000 This great 3 bdr and 2 bt home is perfect for a horse business. It has 1925 sqft. and has a dog run, solar panels on back of home (Buyer to assume lease on solar panels), a 2 car garage and easy access to the property. Approximately 35 miles from Los Alamitos, 41 miles from Santa Anita, 50 miles from Galway Downs training track and 12 miles from the Ontario airport. THE HORSE FACILITIES ARE AMAZING. They were set up by a veteran horseman. The barn and perimeter are permanent. Everything else is fexible and portable. Horse facilities include but are not limited to an open space which is 90’ by 170’, currently confgured as a 60’ by 84’ turn out area, a 40’ round pen, horse trailer and truck parking. There are

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S 3 turnout pens 24’ by 24’ and a 24’ FOR BERNIER, CA by 24’ foaling barn. The barn is 60’ by 90’, all steel, chew proof, kick proof with a wind rating of 140 MPH. There are 6 pens 24’ by 12’, of which 4 can be opened into 24’ by 24’ foaling pens. 5 pens 16’ by 12’ of which one is enclosed as a quarantine pen. One side of pens is an 8’ wide alleyway to move horses from stalls or arena to an outside wash rack area. A 12’ by 20’ vet room and/or ofce. 220 electric is available. The second story of the barn is 12’ by 90’ with a data storage room and a 12’ by 24’ private ofce meeting area.

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449 LA CASA VIA, WALNUT CREEK, CA Horse set-up on 3+ acres. Custom 4 bedroom 21⁄2 bath home, sharp 4 stall barn. Tack room, feed storage shed ridge trails out your gate. And so much more. Asking $1,750,000 13600 MARSH CREEK ROAD, CLAYTON 2 Homes on 51+/- acres. 4 bedrooms, 41⁄2 bath, 4600 square foot home, numerous outbuildings, shop, kennel, children’s play area with custom built tree house. Just too much to list. Second home 1100+/- square foot home. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, nice in-law set-up. 3000 Sq Foot Garage. Asking $1,600,000 BRIONES VALLEY ROAD, BRENTOOD 18 acres with beautiful 4 bedroom 21⁄2 bath home. Gorgeous swimming pool with waterfall. 200x180 foot covered arena, fenced pasture, great well, and workshop. Ranch is located on a private gated road. Asking: $1,600,000 ROBINS RANCHES (agent) BRE #01039978 www.robinsranches.com (925) 550-2383 KROPA REALTY WALNUT CREEK, CA

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ADVERTISERS Arizona Thoroughbred Breeders Assoc. .......6 Auburn Laboratories Inc...............................5 Backyard Race Horse..................................55 Ballena Vista Farm ................................. OBC Barretts ........................................................19 Barton Thoroughbreds...............................15 Bella Equine-Amanda Navarro ..................54 BG Thoroughbred Farm...............................7 Blue Diamond Horseshoe, LLC ...................9 Blue Sky Training Center, LLC....................54 Cal- Bred Yearling Registration Deadline ...10 Cal-Bred Maiden Bonus Program*......... IBC

Cardiff, Suzanne, Pedigree Research ........55 Classic Silks USA .........................................54 Cole Ranch ....................................................8 CTBA 2019 Stallion Directory ....................45 CTBA Farm Spotlight .................................35 Daehling Ranch...........................................56 Dickson Podley Realtors (Jeannie Garr Roddy)..........................................................54 E.A. Ranches ...............................................11 Equineline.com ...........................................39 Farmers Insurance-Sue Hubbard...............54 Gayle Van Leer Thoroughbred Services ...55

Golden State Stakes Series........................23 Harris Farms ..............................................IFC Hudson Thoroughbred Management Services ........................................................54 Laurel Fowler Insurance Broker Inc ...........54 Lillian Nichols/Halters.................................54 NTRA /John Deere .....................................41 Robins Ranches-Nor Cal Horse Property Specialist .....................................................56 Tommy Town Thoroughbreds......................3 West Coast Racing Colors/June Gee .......56 www.horselawyers.com ..............................55

STALLIONS Affrmative .....................................................7 Bluegrass Cat ......................................... OBC Boisterous......................................................3 Capital Account ............................................7 Clubhouse Ride ........................................IFC Daddy Nose Best..........................................7 Desert Code* ............................................IFC Eddington ........................................ OBC Fighting Hussar.............................................7

Hidden Blessing............................................9 I’m Lock N Load............................................9 James Street .................................................9 Jeranimo....................................................IFC Kafwain ..........................................................3 King of Jazz (ARG) ........................................7 Lakerville....................................................IFC Lightnin N Thunder ......................................9 Ministers Wild Cat ........................................3

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Mr.Big ................................................ IFC Old Topper....................................................3 Osiris of the Nile ...........................................9 Smiling Tiger.............................................IFC Stanford .........................................................3 Tamarando ................................................IFC Unusual Heatwave ........................................7 Wolfcamp ......................................................9

BALLENA VISTA FARM

Eddington Colt Wins 2YO Stakes Race

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TAP THE WIRE 8.04.18 - Won the $100,000 Graduation Stakes at Del Mar on the dirt by 3 1/2 -lengths. Tap the Wire remains undefeated in 2 starts.

EDDINGTON Unbridled - Fashion Star, by Chief’s Crown

GRADE 1 MILLIONAIRE AND GRADE 1 SIRE 2019 Stud Fee: $3,500 Live Foal Property of Ballena Vista Farm

Nominated to the Breeders’ Cup

BLUEGRA SS CAT

Farm Manager: Miguel Jimenez

Inquiries to: Jeanne Davis

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