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Santa Anita Park’s Santa Anita Oaks (grade I) and Las Virgenes Stakes (grade I) in 2001, en route to earning On June 5, the California-bred a year-end title as the California mare Golden Ballet left her permaChampion Three-Year-Old Female. nent mark on an American classic ©Coglianese ©Benoit Retired with a career bankroll of when her three-year-old Distorted Drosselmeyer Golden Ballet $732,145, she set a record as the Humor colt, Drosselmeyer, won the highest-priced Cal-bred broodmare prospect in history $1 million Belmont Stakes (grade I) at Belmont Park. when she sold for $1.6 million at the 2001 Keeneland Bred by Jerry Dutton and Vladimir Popovich and sired November Breeding Stock Sale. by Moscow Ballet, Golden Ballet won six starts, including
NEWS FLASH: Wygods To Disperse California Holdings
Martin and Pam Wygod, California’s leading breeders from 2006 through 2008, announced plans on June 16 to sell their California holdings and relocate their breeding operation to Kentucky. The couple’s 250-acre River Edge Farm in Buellton will be closed and sold, and the farm’s four stallions—
Bertrando, Benchmark, Tribal Rule and Dixie Chatter— will be relocated. A dispersal of approximately 100 broodmares, yearlings and weanlings who are currently owned by the Wygods will be conducted in conjunction with the Barretts Equine Limited/CTBA California Cup Yearling Sale in October.
Cal-Bred Boasts Best Beyer
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Enriched
California-bred Enriched, a High Brite halfbrother to two-time California Horse of the Year Lava Man, was assigned a 110 Beyer Speed Figure for his 9 1/4-length victory in a one-mile turf allowance at Hollywood Park on May 22. His handicapping measurement is the highest such fig-
ure given to any North American turf runner to date in 2010, and the sixth-highest figure among all runners on any surface. Five-year-old Enriched was bred by Carol Lingenfelter. The grade III-placed gelding has won six of 18 races and $329,656.
What Are The Odds? length when Live Sundays defeated Paul’s Hope, What are the odds of four geldings, three of them Tribesman and Jiggly, respectively, while Jiggly California-breds, appearing together at Golden Gate was the respective winner from Tribesman, Paul’s Fields in three consecutive allowance races, within Hope and Live Sundays when five lengths the period of less than eight weeks, with the Calcovered them all on April 16. bred trio each winning one of the races? ©Vassar Both Tribesman and Jiggly are homebreds, the Well, if your Las Vegas bookkeeper had afforded Live Sundays (#3), Tribesman (#1) & you such a lucrative bet, then you would have been former a multiple stakes winner for Kjell Qvale Jiggly (#2) cashing in a huge payout on May 13. and the latter a five-time winner for Pete and That’s when Tribesman, Jiggly, Florida-bred Paul’s Hope and Evelyn Parrella’s Legacy Ranch, while stakes-placed Live Live Sundays finished in that order after posting other first-four Sundays was bred by Harris Farms and is owned by Stan and Fran finishes at the Northern California track during the months of Hodge (Hajji Farms) who purchased him for $5,000 at the 2007 March and April. CTBA (California Thoroughbred Breeders Association) Sales’ On March 21, the quartet were also separated by less than a Northern California Yearling Sale.
Zenyatta Stretches Unbeaten Record To 17 Races On June 13, California Thoroughbred Breeders Association members Jerry and Ann Moss were on hand at Hollywood Park to witness the 17th consecutive win by their undefeated mare, Zenyatta, who captured the track’s $234,000 Vanity Handicap (grade I) for the third straight year. The six-year-old daughter of Street Cry (Ire), winner of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Classic (grade I), ranks as the highest-earning female Thoroughbred in North American racing history with a career bankroll of $6,074,580. The 17-race win streak by the Eclipse
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Champion Older Female of 2008 and 2009 is a modern record for consecutive victories in non-restricted races, and allowed Zenyatta to pass former recordholders Cigar, Citation, Hallowed Dreams and Mister Frisky, each of whom had won 16 races in a row.
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