The 49th Annual Sovereign Awards

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Sovereign Awards APRIL 18, 2024

Celebrating Outstanding Achievements in Canadian Thoroughbred Racing

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The Jockey Club of Canada Welcomes You to the 49th Annual Sovereign Awards Ceremony On behalf of Chief Steward, R. Glenn Sikura and the Jockey Club of Canada Board of Stewards, we would like to congratulate all of the finalists and winners this evening.

We would like to say a special thank you to our dedicated Sponsors and Advertisers for continuing to support the Sovereign Awards.

The Master Trophy The Master Sovereign Award Trophy is a permanent fixture on display in the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame located at the west entrance of Woodbine Racetrack. The Trophy is a symbol of the outstanding achievements of all Sovereign Award recipients from the past 49 years.

Affixed on the base of the Master Trophy are the names of the Horse of the Year recipients as well as the recipients of the E. P. Taylor Award of Merit (formerly the Man of the Year Award).

The Sovereign Award Trophy The Sovereign Award Trophy is a replica of St. Simon (1881-1908). St. Simon raced at age two and three and was undefeated in 10 starts.

His major racecourse accomplishment was his 20-length victory in the Ascot Gold Cup. He annihilated the field with such ease that his jockey was unable to pull him up after the 2 1/2 mile test. Highly regarded as a racehorse, it was as a stallion that St. Simon gained everlasting international fame.

The son of Galopin – St. Angels, by King Tom, headed the list of winners nine times and the maternal grandsire list on six occasions, records that have never been equaled. St. Simon, or one of his three sons, led the winners’ sire list sixteen times between 1890 and 1913.

The Sovereign Award Trophy is a bronze which was sculpted by local carver and award winning sculptor, the late Siegfried Puchta, a native of Germany who immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1953.

Only one Sovereign Award Trophy is to be presented to an individual or partnership in his or her lifetime. Any subsequent awards are to be noted by the addition of a Gold Sovereign Coin and a brass plate which are intended to be affixed to the individual’s or partnership’s original trophy.

Individual breeders or partnership breeders of a Sovereign Award winning horse will only receive one trophy in his or her lifetime. Breeders or breeding partnerships of subsequent award winners will receive a brass plate only which is intended to be affixed to the individual breeder or partnership breeder’s original trophy.

Only one Gold Sovereign or Trophy is to be awarded in any single year for the accomplishments of a horse, individual, or partnership. If a horse, individual or partnership is awarded in more than one category this is to be noted on individual brass plates intended to be affixed to the base of one trophy.

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The Jockey Club of Canada STEWARDS

MEMBERS Mike Ambler

Colleen Dalos

Robert Mark Krembil

Adrian Munro

Barry Anderson

Don Danard

Mitchell Kursner

Liam O’Rourke

Kevin Attard

Rolph Davis

Robert Landry

Charles Overland

Roger Attfield

Richard Day

Greg Lang

John C. Oxley

Lisa Balaz

Michael P. De Paulo

Donato Lanni

Mike Rogers

Michael Balaz

Frank Di Giulio

Patrick Lawley-Wakelin

Jaime Roth

Rick Balaz

Joseph Di Scola

James J. Lawson

Tom Ryan

James Bannon

William Diamant

Michael Lay

Paul Ryneveld

David Anderson

Jeffrey Begg

Darren Dunn

George Ledson

Mark Samuel

Douglas Anderson

Russell J. Bennett

Arika Everatt-Meeuse

Wally Leong

Yvonne Schwabe

Craig Bernick

John Fielding

Gordon Lickrish

Michael Secker

Peter Berringer

Charles Fipke

Michael Loughry

Suzi Shoemaker

Ian Black

Sean Fitzhenry

Bruce Lunsford

John G. Sikura

Ray Bouchard

Nicholas Gonzalez

Mark Mache

Steven Smith

Paul Braverman

Jeff Goy

Earle I. Mack

George Strawbridge Jr.

John Brnjas

Gabe Grossberg

Rajendra Maharajh

Andrew Stronach

R. Glenn Sikura Chief Steward

Hazel Bennett Catherine Day Phillips Don Ferguson Sue Leslie Bernard McCormack

Andrij Brygidyr

Adolf Gust

Ross McKague

Frank Stronach

Vicki Pappas

Barbara Burke

George Hendrie

Sherry McLean

Robert Tiller

Frank Romeo

Theodore Burnett

Andrew Hudson

Robert McMartin

Lou Tucci

Josie Carroll

Rene Hunderup

John Menary

Howard Walton

Mark Casse

Ben Hutzel

David Milburn

Wesley Ward

Derek Chin

Keith Johns

Barbara Minshall

David Willmot

David Clancy

Horatio Kemeny

Shawn Minshall

Gail Wood

Tom Cosgrove

Steven Kemp

Dan Mooney

Katherine Curry

Robert Krembil

Peter Mosakos

Michael Vanin

HONORARY MEMBER Stuart S. Janney III

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Micheal Burns

ELYSIAN FIELD

Congratulations to all fellow nominees Best of luck racing and breeding in 2024

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Emcees

Order of Presentation Special Sovereign Award Outstanding Writing

Evening Emcees, Order, Appreciation

Outstanding Photograph Outstanding Digital Audio/Visual and Broadcast

The 49th annual Sovereign Awards mark the second ceremony for Dawn Lupul and Jeff Bratt as co-hosts.

Outstanding Groom sponsored by OLG Outstanding Off-track Worker Champion Two-year Old Female

Dawn has been involved in the sport since she was very young and turned her love of horse racing into a broadcast career in 1995. She has worked across Canada, gaining respect as an expert racing analyst of both thoroughbreds and standardbreds.

Dawn is currently the Manager of Racing and Communications for BC Racebook in Vancouver.

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Jeff began his career with Woodbine Entertainment in 1999, starting as one of the first hosts at The Racing Network (TRN), which eventually became HPItv. Following one year in that position, he joined the thoroughbred simulcast team where he has hosted many of the network shows for Woodbine’s biggest races. Currently the host of the Thoroughbred daily simulcast show, Jeff has also contributed in an Emcee role for the CTHS (Ontario Division).

Champion Female Sprinter

Champion Three-year Old Female Champion Three-year Old Male sponsored by Woodbine Entertainment Outstanding Broodmare Outstanding Breeder

Champion Male Sprinter Outstanding Apprentice Jockey Outstanding Jockey Champion Female Turf Horse Champion Male Turf Horse sponsored by Woodbine Entertainment Outstanding Trainer Champion Older Main Track Female Champion Older Main Track Male

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Outstanding Owner sponsored by HBPA of Ontario Horse of the Year

Special thanks to the following Woodbine Broadcasting Department Video Production & Online Streaming Michael Burns Photography Program Photos Jeff Bratt and Dawn Lupul Emcees Deanne Penny, Sportswood Printing A Division of The Aylmer Express LTD. Program Design and Printing Jennifer Morrison Editorial Contributions The Jockey Club of Canada Sovereign Awards Committee Chair: Doug Anderson James Bannon Colleen Dalos R. Glenn Sikura Michael Vanin White Heather Pipes and Drums Pipes and Drums

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Special Sovereign Award

Robert ‘Red’ McKenzie After more than 80 years working in horse racing in Alberta, you might think that Robert ‘Red’ McKenzie has done it all. A former jockey, and then successful trainer, who has won some 1,600 races, Robert landed in the record books on the evening of June 23, 2023 when his mare Entitled Star won a claiming race at Century Mile. At the age of 96, he became the oldest trainer to saddle a winner in Canadian racing history when his mare circled the field as the longest shot on the board at 25-1.

Considering thoroughbred racing statistics are hard to come by before 1976, the official number of winners for Robert as a jockey, trainer, and owner, could be much higher than 1,600. But what is known is that the Alberta resident, who was born on January 1, 1927, was still bringing horses over to race in 2023.

Robert loved horses and started riding at the age of 10 at a riding academy in Edmonton. He accompanied his father and sister to the racetrack and started riding races at bush tracks such as Ponoka, Rimbey, and Red Deer. When he turned 16 and was old enough to ride the ‘A’ tracks, he would travel throughout the Western Canada Association which included tracks in Calgary, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Saskatoon.

His riding career was short-lived as he became too big; so, he took up training, something that he was already dabbling in before he quit riding at 18. At that time, he was breaking and training young horses for other owners and he quickly became a very accomplished conditioner. Well-known for his memories of virtually every horse he came across, one of the best horses he mentions was Grandin Park, a foal of 1970 produced by the mare Colatha, which Robert had claimed for $900. After winning with Colatha, he gave the mare to a friend who bred her, and the foal, Grandin Park, was bought by Morris Stephenson. Robert won 29 races with the son of Haydn, including the Birdcatcher Stakes, the Ky. Quill Handicap, and the Harvest Gold Plate Handicap.

Other notable horses trained by Robert included Chariot Chaser, who has a stakes race named after her, and Chopstick, who won both divisions of the 1965 Alberta Derby. Chariot Chaser also won the Saskatchewan and Canadian Derbies, the latter over Toronto invader Weed Bender.

Robert has raced horses in Toronto, New York, New Jersey, and California, and, as recently as 2008, he had over 80 starters and won numerous races with the good three-year old filly Chatahoochie.

His mare Entitled Star has also been around for a while. The California-bred by Roi Charmant was ten years old when she won for Robert last summer. He claimed the bay mare in 2018 for $8,000 from a race at Turf Paradise and they have won seven races together.

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The Jockey Club of Canada is pleased to recognize Robert ‘Red’ McKenzie with a Special Sovereign Award, which has been presented, in years past, to famous horses such as Sunny’s Halo and Awesome Again, and notable industry figures such as Frank Drea, Sue Leslie, Harvey Warner, and Sam-Son Farm.

Horse Racing Alberta

Congratulates

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FOUR FOOTED FOTOS

Special Sovereign Award recipient Red McKenzie, inaugural Outstanding Off-track Worker Award winner Jennifer Buck and all of the Sovereign Awards finalists

RED MCKENZIE

Best of luck in 2024

JENNIFER BUCK

Horse Racing Alberta

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Jennifer Morrison

Curtis Stock

CAT’S LONG WAY HOME

THE TURCOTTES

With tentative steps and a few pauses to take in the lush tree-lined paddocks, the handsome gelding stepped off the van. It was well into the evening but the barn lights were on. It seemed as if he recognized the sights and smells.

It’s just the wind,” says Alfred Turcotte, stealing back the quilt from his wife, Rose, and draping it over his ample shoulders.

Outstanding Writing

Larry Wong

Mark Colley

IT WAS THE GREATEST RACE IN CANADIAN HISTORY. FIFTY YEARS LATER, SECRETARIAT’S LEGACY IS STILL FELT Tucked away in the quiet of the stall, hidden from security and onlookers, Tom Cosgrove stood alone with the greatest racehorse to ever live.

His visit to Barn 8 at Woodbine Racetrack in northwest Toronto was timed perfectly. The two Pinkerton security guards stationed around the clock were gone, driving to an airport hotel to switch their 12-hour shift with two others.

So Cosgrove stood alone in the hay, admiring the horse’s chestnut hair and the white streak running down the bridge of its nose. The horse was Secretariat.

Cosgrove, the groom of Presidial, another horse in the Canadian International Stakes that weekend in October 1973, was friends with Secretariat’s groom, Eddie Sweat, who co-ordinated Cosgrove’s clandestine visit. Sweat watched for months as Secretariat rewrote the definition of equine greatness, winning the Triple Crown and setting track records at every stop.

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His final race was in Toronto, 50 years ago Saturday, considered by many to be the greatest run in Canada.

Decades later, the mark he left on Canadian racing is still reverberating...

It seemed as if the Cat knew he was home.

Cool Catomine had just completed a journey of some 2,100 kilometres (about 1,300 miles) in a horse van, taking him from the rolling hills and farmer’s fields of Iowa, across the central United States to the bluegrass of Kentucky before heading north to the maple trees of Ontario.

At nine years old, Cool Catomine is a senior in racehorse terms. He stands on battle-worn ankles with osselets marking arthritic fetlock joints on otherwise strong legs. It is October 4th and he is bright-eyed as he is led into the very barn where he was born by Bernard and Karen McCormack.

Their hearts were full and tears welled. The Cat, a Canadian classic winner who had been toiling in low-level claiming races for years, racing for dozens of owners and trainers, was back home thanks to a large group of human friends throughout North America, including LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society and the McCormacks.

On or off the racetrack, it was one of the biggest stories in Canadian racing in 2023...

“Just the wind,” he murmurs again, rolling back to sleep, the bedside clock reading 11 p.m.

Rose knew otherwise. A mother always knows.

Rose slides away from the complaining of the narrow bed, grabs her housecoat and slips across the cranky wood floor and through the darkness. In socked feet, she heads to the tiny bedroom where Gaetan, the 22-month-old baby of the family of 11 children, has wrestled himself awake one more time.

Cheeks flushed red as gooseberries, tears scampering down his face, Gaetan is hungry.

Outside, the wind breathes heavily, still not exhausted from its long, icy slide down the Salmon River. The gale has been relentless — howling and shrieking for days on end, tearing and scrapping at everything in its wide swath — while the snow, which has been falling for days, is now knee high, burying just about everything.

It is Friday, December 8, 1958.

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Outstanding Photograph

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RAIN RUNNIN

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A KISS FOR COMMANDO

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Outstanding Digital Audio/Visual and Broadcast

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Outstanding Groom

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to groom. Oh yeah, she was a fierce biter and a kicker but I just kept talking nicely to her and spoiling her.” Caren went on to be Canada’s Horse of the Year at the 2016 Sovereign Awards.

Michelle has had many other favourite horses, such as the claiming filly She’s the North, who used to seek out hugs from Michelle.

Michelle Armata Being from one of the most successful racing families in Canada, horse racing is an integral part of Michelle Armata. Her father, Joe, was a trainer at Woodbine and Michelle would often visit the stable, despite being a bit scared of horses when she was young.

Michelle studied Early Childhood Education in the latter part of her school years, working hours towards her diploma, until one day she decided her life was with horses. There was a litany of family members at Woodbine by then, including her brother Steve and sister Josie. She was in her 20s when she started working there, first for Joe, and then for Steve. “My brother and his wife Sharon taught me a lot about grooming horses,”

said Michelle. “I was taught horsemanship the old school way.”

After leaving the track to start a family - she has two children with her husband, trainer Ross Armata, Jr., - Michelle returned to work for her brother-in-law, Mike De Paulo and his wife and assistant, Josie, Michelle’s sister.

In 2015, only two years after starting with Mike and Josie, Michelle became the groom for a filly who had a reputation for being tough, but was showing promise.

“I remember when Josie first brought Caren off the van and she was laughing at me, knowing that this nasty filly was going into my stalls for me

The Mike De Paulo barn, one of the largest and busiest on the Woodbine backstretch, is also one of the more successful stables in Canada, and Michelle has played an integral role in that success. That was certainly the case in 2023 when Mike was serving a three-month suspension at the beginning of the Woodbine season. Michelle helped Josie keep the shedrow running smoothly and the horses happy and healthy, providing invaluable assistance by way of her exceptional work ethic.

“It’s all about the horses and that’s why we love our jobs,” said Michelle. “They all have their different personalities, I respect so much what they do for us.”

The Jockey Club of Canada congratulates Michelle for being selected to receive the Outstanding Groom Award, presented by OLG, at the 2023 Sovereign Awards.

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Jennifer Buck The inaugural Outstanding Off-track Worker Award will be presented this evening to Jennifer Buck, who has been with Adrian Munro’s Highfield Stock Farm in Okotoks, Alberta since 2013. The Jockey Club of Canada introduced the Outstanding Off-track Worker Award as a way to honour the unsung heroes who make thoroughbred racing in Canada possible through their hard work and dedication at off-track thoroughbred racing, training, boarding, breeding, sales, and aftercare farms and facilities.

Jennifer, who was born in Ontario, learned to ride horses at a young age when living in Connecticut.

Once settled in Alberta as a teenager, she worked for Glenview Stables and manager Brian Ferguson, a Windfields Farm alumni, learning the intricacies of farm management, from painting fences to barn care. She pursued performing arts in school at Mount Royal and worked as a fly-fishing guide on the famous Bow River, which she still does today. But the lure of horses was too strong. While raising her son Hunter, Jennifer went to work at the famed Bar None Ranches for Mike Vanin. She also had a love for working with polo horses and she played at the Calgary Polo Club before moving over to Highfield.

To say she is merely the farm manager at the very successful Highfield Stock Farm would do Jennifer

little justice. Her position is all-encompassing and includes very long days during the breeding season. Jennifer manages Highfield’s leading Canadian stallion, Fed Biz, and oversees his very busy breeding schedule. She also foals out mares for Highfield and their clients, and preps their youngstock for sale.

“We foal anywhere from 70 to 80 mares a year,” said Jennifer, who also helps Munro in planning the matings of his mares.

Jennifer has developed a work safety, health, and education program with detailed regulations for her staff. She is also keen on visiting other farms throughout North America and prides herself on learning from other successful managers in the business. “It’s a generous crowd out there,” she says. “People are happy to share their knowledge.”

Jennifer’s passion for thoroughbred horses shines through each Highfield horse on the track or in the sales ring.

“I was so surprised when I found out I would receive this award,” said Jennifer. “I’m excited to go to the awards and meet up with all the other great breeders and farm managers.”

Congratulations to Jennifer Buck, the first recipient of the Outstanding Off-track Worker Award!

Congratulations to all Sovereign Award Nominees

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Living Magic

Tripolina

Witwatersrand

CH. F. 2, by Justify – Living the Life *Ire (Footstepsinthesand *GB)

B. F. 2, by Constitution – Ballykiss (Street Boss)

B. F. 2, by Connect – Carta de Oro (Medaglia d’Oro)

Kevin Attard X-Men Racing 3, Madaket Stables LLC and SF Racing LLC Breeder: WinStar Farm, LLC

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Mark E. Casse Gary Barber G. Watts Humphrey Jr.

2023:

3 Starts – 2 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $107,031

Winner:

Mazarine S. (G3) MSW

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Phil Schoenthal HnR Nothhaft Horse Racing, LLC HnR Nothhaft Horse Racing LLC

2023:

6 Starts – 3 wins – 1 second – 1 thirds – $192,917

Winner:

Chelsey Flower S. My Dear S. MSW

Stakes Placings: 2nd Presque Isle Debutante S.

3rd Astoria S.

Trainer: Owner:

2023:

3 Starts – 2 wins – 1 second – 0 thirds – $108,999

Winner:

Display S. MSW

Stakes Placings: 2nd Mazarine S. (G3)

Stakes Placings: 3rd Glorious Song S.

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Babbo

My Boy Prince

Two Ghosts

B. C. 2, by Kantharos – Calling Rhy Rhy (City Zip)

GR./RO. C. 2, by Cairo Prince – Hopping Not Hoping (Silent Name *Jpn)

DK. B./BR. G. 2, by Ghostzapper – Celia’s Song (Distorted Humor)

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Sid C. Attard Lucio Tucci Robert G. Harvey

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Mark E. Casse Gary Barber Murray Graham Smith

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

2023:

6 Starts – 3 wins – 2 seconds – 0 thirds – $217,912

2023:

6 Starts – 3 wins – 2 seconds – 1 third – $429,638

Barbara J. Minshall Hoolie Racing Stable, LLC Ghostzapper Syndicate & Brushy Hill Enterprises LLC

2023:

Winner:

Coronation Futurity AOC MSW

Winner:

Cup and Saucer S. Simcoe S. MSW

6 Starts – 2 wins – 2 seconds – 0 thirds – $130,559

Winner:

Grey S. (G3) MSW

Stakes Placings: 2nd bet365 Summer S. (G1)

3rd Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1)

Stakes Placings: 2nd Display S.

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Elysian Field

Fashionably Fab

Solo Album

CH. F. 3, by Hard Spun – Elysian (Smart Strike)

DK. B./BR. F. 3, by Silent Name *Jpn – Flashy’s Legacy (Curlin)

CH. F. 3, by Curlin – Summer Solo (Arch)

Mark E. Casse Team Valor International and Barber, Gary Breeder: Anderson Farms Ont. Inc. Trainer: Owner:

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Kevin Attard Terra Racing Stable Terra Farms Ltd

Mark E. Casse Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Barber, Gary, and Rocco, Steven Breeder: Payson Stud Inc. Trainer: Owner:

2023:

7 Starts – 2 wins – 3 seconds – 0 thirds – $492,029

2023:

7 Starts – 4 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $196,420

2023:

8 Starts – 2 wins – 3 second – 0 thirds – $160,099

Winner:

Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser MSW

Winner:

Ashbridges Bay S. Eternal Search S. La Prevoyante S. Rondeau Bay S.

Winner:

Selene S. (G3) MSW

Stakes Placings: 2nd Breeders’ S.

2nd Fury S. Presented

by Stella Artois 2nd King’s Plate S.

Stakes Placings: 3rd Bison City S.

Stakes Placings: 2nd Maple Leaf S. (G3)

2nd Ontario Damsel S. Presented by Ketel One

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Champion Three-year Old Male

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Paramount Prince

Patches O’houlihan

Touch’n Ride

CH. G. 3, by Society’s Chairman – Platinum Steel (Eddington)

B. G. 3, by Reload – Maythefourthbwithu (Silent Name *Jpn)

B. G. 3, by Candy Ride *Arg – Niigon’s Touch (Niigon)

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Mark E. Casse Langlois, Michael J. and Barber, Gary Ericka Nadine Rusnak

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Robert P. Tiller Frank D. Di Giulio, Jr. Frank Di Giulio Jr.

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Layne S. Giliforte Chiefswood Stables Limited Chiefswood Stables Limited

2023:

6 Starts – 2 wins – 2 seconds – 1 third – $566,568

2023:

7 Starts – 6 wins – 0 seconds – 0 thirds – $301,882

2023:

5 Starts – 3 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $317,257

Winner:

King’s Plate S. Plate Trial S.

Winner:

Bold Venture S. (G3) Vigil S. (G3) Lake Huron S. Lake Superior S. OC OC

Winner:

Ontario Derby (G3) Breeders’ S. MSW

Stakes Placings: 2nd Queenston S.

3rd Prince of Wales S.

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Outstanding Broodmare 49thAnnual

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Weyburn

Mendocino Beano

Sunday Affair

Bay mare, 2005 Montjeu *Ire - Pretty *Ire, by Darshaan *GB

Dark bay/brown mare, 2008 Smart Strike – Trishyde Slew, by Seattle Slew

Dark bay/brown mare, 2007 A. P. Indy – Million Gift *Jpn, by Sunday Silence

8 starters, 6 winners, 3 Blacktype Winners, 1 Blacktype Placer

5 starters, 5 Winners, 1 Graded Blacktype Winner, 2 Blacktype Winners, 1 Blacktype Placer

7 Starters. 6 Winners. 2 Graded Blacktype Winners, 1 Blacktype Placer

Progeny earnings: $1,326,392

Progeny earnings: $1,253,560

Progeny earnings: $1,811,024

Game – a name befitting a broodmare whose progeny have been just that on the racetrack. With progeny earnings of over $1.3 million, the French-bred mare has had tremendous success when bred to 1999 Belmont Stakes winner, Lemon Drop Kid. That cross has produced offspring which have fared particularly well in the Canadian Triple Crown and Triple Tiara, with three of four foals placing or winning in the marquee races: Season Ticket captured the 2015 Wonder Where Stakes and was third in that year’s Woodbine Oaks; Game’s highest earner, Belichick, put an end to Mighty Heart’s Triple Crown bid with a score in the 2020 Breeders’ Stakes after running second to him in the Queen’s Plate on his way to earning almost $480,000; and, most recently, Wickenheiser ran second in both the 2023 Woodbine Oaks and Wonder Where Stakes.

Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry bred and raced Mendocino Beano, who provided them with a maiden special weight victory and a third in the Grade 3 Ontario Colleen Stakes.

But, it has been in the breeding shed where the Ontariobred has really left her mark. From five foals, each of which have run and won, her progeny earnings stand at just over $1.2 million.

Chiefswood Stables Limited’s Sunday Affair was a finalist for this lifetime achievement award at the 2021 Sovereign Awards, and has long been a star in the breeding shed for her owners. The beautifully-bred mare boasts champions A. P. Indy as her sire and Sunday Silence as her broodmare sire, and has progeny earnings of over $1.8 million. Her first foal, Nipigon, was stakes-placed at two, four, and five.

Mendocino Beano’s highest earner is Tone Broke, who captured two-thirds of the 2019 Canadian Triple Crown and finished third in that year’s Queen’s Plate on his way to amassing over $500,000 in earnings. She also produced overnight stakes winner Stallion Heiress and the stakes-placed winner Conquest Fleetfeet.

Mendocino Beano’s final foal, Millie Girl, is a finalist for 2023 Champion Older Main Track Female after capturing the Grade 3 Ontario Matron Stakes and Grade 3 Maple Leaf Stakes along with placings in the Grade 2 Royal North Stakes, Grade 2 Nassau Stakes, and Grade 3 Seaway Stakes.

Sunday Affair’s 2014 foal, Yorkton, boasts five stakes wins and five stakes placings, including back-to-back scores in the Grade 3 Bold Venture Stakes.

Her most recent stakes horse is Weyburn, who captured the 2021 Grade 3 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct before annexing the 2022 and 2023 editions of the Sir Shackleton Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The Pioneerof the Nile colt was also third in the Grade 3 Westchester Stakes at Belmont Park last year and has over $560,000 in career earnings.

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Millie Girl

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Game’s first foal, Broken Game, was a stakes winner and Group 2-placed in Peru and the mare is expecting a foal

by Maclean’s Music in 2024.

Sovereign Awards

Cindy Pierson Dulay

Wickenheiser

YORK TON SUNDAY AFFAIR

2023 Sovereign Award Finalist for Outstanding Broodmare MULTIPLE GRADED STAKES WINNER From The Family of VIOLENCE

11 G1Ws • 6 Millionaires • 2 Champions

Stud Fee: $5,000 LFSN

www.crestwoodfarm.com

Oustanding Breeder

Adena Springs

Anderson Farms Ont., Inc.

Chiefswood Stables Limited

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Frank and Frieda Stronach’s legendary Adena Springs North, in Aurora, Ontario, was voted Outstanding Breeder for the 13th time in 2022, more than any other Canadian breeder in the history of the Sovereign Awards. The Adena Springs-bred star of 2023 was once again Moira, the 2022 Horse of the Year who came back at four and won the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine.

Campaigned by Madaket Stables LLC, SF Racing LLC and X-Men Racing, Moira placed in four graded stakes at Woodbine before ending her season with an impressive third-place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita. Moira, by Adena’s star stallion Ghostzapper, is a finalist for Champion Female Turf Horse this evening.

This is the third time David Anderson’s Anderson Farms has been a finalist for Outstanding Breeder since David went on his own following the passing of his father Bob in 2010. Bob Anderson bred many champions at the St. Thomas, Ontario farm, and his son has continued that legacy, though a Sovereign Award for Outstanding Breeder would be a first for the family. The star Andersonbred in 2023 was the three-year old filly Elysian Field, a daughter of Hard Spun who won the Woodbine Oaks and finished a solid second in the King’s Plate to Paramount Prince. Elysian Field, a finalist for Champion Three-year Old Female, just missed by a nose in the Breeders’ Stakes at 1 1/2 miles on the grass to another top colt of 2023, Touch’n Ride. Elysian Field, produced from the Smart Strike mare, Elysian, raced for Gary Barber and Team Valor International.

Robert and Mark Krembil’s Chiefswood Stables Limited has bred and raced dozens of stakes winners and has received two Sovereign Awards as Outstanding Owner.

This evening, they seek their first Outstanding Breeder Award. One of their stars in 2023 was Touch’n Ride, a finalist for Champion Three-year Old Male tonight. A son of Candy Ride (ARG) out of the Krembils’ mare Niigon’s Touch, Touch’n Ride broke his maiden in his second career start. The victory was impressive enough that trainer Layne Giliforte sent the gelding to the King’s Plate.

The bay encountered some trouble, but finished a good fifth behind Paramount Prince before coming back to win the gruelling 1 1/2 mile Breeders’ Stakes despite being carried out in deep stretch. Touch’n Ride was placed first in his sophomore finale, the Grade 3 Ontario Derby, after the front-running filly Solo Album was disqualified from the victory.

Starters 42; Winners 19 Earnings $1,934,913 Starts 221; Wins 27; 2nd 33; 3rd 28

The debut victory by their homebred filly Shamans Girl in the $150,000 Shady Well Stakes was a highlight.

A daughter of Adena stallion Shaman Ghost, by Ghostzapper, Shamans Girl is out of the Stronachs’ Woodbine Oaks-winning mare, Ginger Brew. Adena Springs also saw Malibu Mambo finish third in the Grade 1 Pattison Canadian International.

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In addition to their Canadian successes, Stronach runners were in the winner’s circle 27 times internationally, and their stalwart gelding, Silent Poet, was second in the Grade 3 Golden Gate Handicap.

Starters 19; Winners 9 Earnings $1,453,485 Starts 78; Wins 13; 2nd 14; 3rd 7

Anderson Farms also bred a pair of two-year old fillies who were stakes winners in 2023: Inudation,

by Collected, won the prestigious Princess Elizabeth Stakes for owners Al and Bill Ulwelling, and Airosa, by Uncle Mo, won the Catch a Glimpse Stakes. South of the border, Northern Invader, bred by Anderson Farms and Peter Berglar, won the Gio Ponti Stakes at Aqueduct. The farm’s international runners amassed 19 wins and earned over $556,000.

Starters 36; Winners 11 Earnings $1,757,355 Can. Starts 139; Wins 16; 2nd 20; 3rd 19

Chiefswood also bred promising juveniles Piper’s Factor, second in both the Grade 3 Grey Stakes and the Coronation Futurity, and Western Whirl, third in the Display Stakes. Collective Force, third in the Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes, and Hard Edge, second in the Zadracarta Stakes, were two other stakes horses for the farm last year. The farm’s top older colt, Weyburn, also captured the Sir Shackleton Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Sean Fitzhenry

Sam-Son Farm

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Sean Fitzhenry, along with his wife Dorothy, has been breeding, selling, and racing thoroughbreds for about 20 years and has put together an enviable broodmare band. From just 14 runners, Sean bred several notable horses of the 2023 Canadian racing season, highlighted by multiple graded stakes winner Millie Girl, a finalist for Champion Older Main Track Female tonight. Millie Girl, by Hard Spun, won the Grade 3 Maple Leaf Stakes and Grade 3 Ontario Matron Stakes for Kingfield Racing Stable, Ltd., Braconcrest Inc. and Apricot Valley Thoroughbreds. Trained by Catherine Day Phillips, Millie Girl was also second in the Grade 3 Seaway Stakes and third in the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes and Grade 2 Royal North Stakes. Millie Girl’s dam, Mendocino Beano, is a finalist for Outstanding Broodmare.

The farm that Ernie Samuel built more than half a century ago has received the Sovereign Award as Outstanding Breeder 11 times. The legendary farm, which dispersed its horses in 2021, is no longer home to the blue-blooded broodmares of years past, but the Sam-Son bloodlines live on. The farm is a finalist for top breeder after being represented by six stakes horses in 2023, the majority of which raced in the U. S. Sam-Son was the breeder of 10 winners of over $900,000 in Canada in 2023, a list headed by Fury Stakes winner, Ticker Tape Home. Owned

by Live Oak Plantation, Ticker Tape Home, by Medaglia d’Oro, was sold as a yearling by Sam-Son for $625,000.

Starters 14; Winners 7 Earnings $1,146,284 Starts 73; Wins 11; 2nd 12; 3rd 4

The Fitzhenrys also bred the good three-year old colt Kaukokaipuu, by Mr. Speaker, who won the Queenston Stakes and was a gritty second in both the Prince of Wales Stakes and the Grade 3 Marine Stakes. Additionally, three-year old filly Wickenheiser, a daughter of the Fitzhenry’s former broodmare, Game (FR), was second in the Woodbine Oaks and Wonder Where Stakes in 2023.

Dedicated to finding adoptive homes and new careers for former Thoroughbred racehorses.

Starters 19; Winners 10 Earnings $905,112 Can. Starts 90; Wins 17; 2nd 14; 3rd 6

There were 15 Sam-Son-bred winners south of the border last year, including two-time Grade 3 winner Mission of Joy. Sporting decades of successful Sam-Son bloodlines, Mission of Joy was also a close third in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland. Ancient Peace was second in the Grade 2 Summertime Oaks and Grade 3 Remington Park Oaks and Tio Magico, still co-owned

by Sam-Son, was third in the Grade 2 San Gabriel Stakes at Santa Anita. Additionally, both Ladywearsthering and Secrets Told were third in stakes races at Golden Gate in northern California in 2023.

Congratulations to all Sovereign Awards finalists.

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Champion Female Sprinter

Fashionably Fab

Loyalty

Our Flash Drive

DK. B./BR. F. 3, by Silent Name *Jpn – Flashy’s Legacy (Curlin)

DK. B./BR. F. 4, by Hard Spun – Slew’s Quality (Elusive Quality)

B. M. 5, by Ghostzapper – Dynamotor (Dynaformer)

Josie Carroll Gainesway Stable (Antony Beck) and LNJ Foxwoods Breeder: Best A Luck Farm LLC & Godolphin LLC

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Mark E. Casse Live Oak Plantation Live Oak Stud

2023:

6 Starts – 2 wins – 0 seconds – 0 thirds – $189,415

Winner:

Royal North S. (G2) Whimsical S. (G3)

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Kevin Attard Terra Racing Stable Terra Farms Ltd

2023:

7 Starts – 4 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $196,420

Winner:

Ashbridges Bay S. Eternal Search S. La Prevoyante S. Rondeau Bay S.

Stakes Placings: 3rd Bison City S.

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2023:

5 Starts – 3 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $205,599

Winner:

Bessarabian S. (G2) Hendrie S. (G3) AOC

Stakes Placings: 3rd Ontario Fashion S.

Presented by Tanqueray (G3)

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Champion Male Sprinter

Dream Shake

Lucky Score

Patches O’houlihan

DK. B./BR. G. 5, by Twirling Candy – Even Song (Street Cry *Ire)

B. G. 5, by Lookin at Lucky – Miss Matzo (Royal Academy)

B. G. 3, by Reload – Maythefourthbwithu (Silent Name *Jpn)

Michael Stidham Exline-Border Racing, LLC, Eurton, Peter, Hausman, Richard and Stonestreet Stables LLC Breeder: Dunwoody Farm

Trainer: Owner:

Mark E. Casse Pantofel Stables, LLC, Wachtel Stable, and Barber, Gary Breeder: James Everatt, Janeane Everatt & Arika Everatt-Meeuse

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Robert P. Tiller Frank D. Di Giulio, Jr. Frank Di Giulio Jr.

2023:

7 Starts – 6 wins – 0 seconds – 0 thirds – $301,882

Winner:

Bold Venture S. (G3) Vigil S. (G3) Lake Huron S. Lake Superior S. OC OC

Trainer: Owner:

2023:

6 Starts – 2 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $138,171

2023:

8 Starts – 1 win – 2 seconds - 3 thirds $318,220

Winner:

Connaught Cup S. Presented by Bulleit Bourbon (G2) AOC

Winner:

Highlander S. (G2)

Stakes Placings: 3rd Kennedy Road S. (G2)

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Stakes Placings: 2nd Nearctic S. (G2)

3rd Ricoh Woodbine Mile S. (G1) 3rd Connaught Cup S. Presented by Bulleit Bourbon (G2) 3rd King Edward S. (G2)

Keeneland is immensely proud to celebrate its sales graduates who are finalists for the 49th annual Sovereign Awards. This honor is a testament to the relentless dedication and exceptional talent of both the horses and the incredible teams that stand behind them. Thank you for granting Keeneland the privilege of sharing in this remarkable journey.

Champion Two-Year-Old Female Tripolina

Champion Older Main Track Male

Witwatersrand

Treason

Champion Two-Year-Old Male Two Ghosts

Champion Three-Year-Old Female Solo Album

Champion Female Turf Horse Moira

Champion Male Turf Horse Lucky Score Palazzi

Champion Older Main Track Female Millie Girl

Tyson

Champion Female Sprinter Loyalty

Champion Male Sprinter Dream Shake Lucky Score

Outstanding Broodmare Game (FR) Sunday Affair

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Amanda Vandermeersch

Sofia Vives

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Growing up in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Fraser Aebly was barely a teenager when he first sat on a retired racehorse owned by his father Derek. Knowing that he wanted to pursue a career riding races, Fraser learned the ropes of horse care through working for top trainers such as Tim Rycroft. He soon graduated to galloping horses and, in 2022, went to work for trainer Steve Henson at Hastings in Vancouver. His first ever mount in a race came for Steve on the 11-1 longshot Quagmire on September 18, 2022, and he guided the gelding to a handy victory. After winning three races from 23 mounts in 2022, Fraser rode at racetracks across Canada in 2023, competing in just shy of 500 races. He won an unlisted stakes race aboard Just Jimmy in the CTHS Sales Stakes in August, one of 29 wins he collected at Hastings. Fraser spent much of his summer commuting between there and Assiniboia Downs, where he added another 23 victories. He moved his tack to Woodbine in October, and he fit right in.

With former rider Gerry Olguin as his agent, the 19-year old won 16 races before the Woodbine season ended, giving him 68 wins for the year and earnings of just over $1.1 million.

It was a good omen when Amanda Vandermeersch won the first race of the 2023 Woodbine meet last April.

Guiding longshot Silver Tunes, Amanda kicked off her first full season as a jockey with flair, and it would lead to the Simcoe, Ontario resident winning 41 races and earning her first Sovereign Award nomination. Amanda grew up on her family’s tobacco farm and worked in nursing for a few years before the thought of riding racehorses appeared on her radar. Amanda credits a neighbour, owner Maureen Hewitt-Topp, for encouraging her to exercise some thoroughbreds on her farm. Amanda then took a job exercising horses for trainer Saul McHugh, and rode her first three races late in 2021. She won 15 races from 128 mounts in 2022 before polishing her riding skills at the popular Palm Meadows Training Centre in Florida in early 2023. Amanda, who came close in some stakes races last season, was Fort Erie’s leading apprentice rider with 18 wins, putting her sixth in that track’s overall jockey standings.

In her first full season riding races, Sofia Vives pulled away from the pack with the most wins of any apprentice in 2023, winning 100 races between Woodbine and Fort Erie. Her impressive win total at Woodbine, 88, put her fourth in the rider standings behind reigning champion Kazushi Kimura, Sahin Civaci, and Rafael Hernandez, and ahead of champions Emma-Jayne Wilson and Patrick Husbands. Sofia also rode at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Born in Walterboro, South Carolina, and raised in horse country in Ocala, Florida, Sofia followed her father, former jockey Lazaro Vives, to the barns of dual Hall of Famer Mark Casse, who gave Sofia a leg up to start her riding career. The young rider galloped as many horses as she could each day and rode in her first race late in 2022 at Woodbine. She had just over a dozen mounts that year, winning four of them, and then embarked on a busy first year as a rookie rider. It wasn’t long before Sofia was riding for top stables and racking up wins virtually every day, gaining invaluable experience while competing in a very contentious jockey colony. Horses ridden by Sofia in Canada earned almost $3 million.

Michael Bye

Outstanding Apprentice Jockey

Fraser Aebly

Starts 499; Wins 68; 2nd 95; 3rd 61 Earnings $ 1,105,517

Starts 452; Wins 41; 2nd 52; 3rd 53 Earnings $981,124

Starts 600; Wins 100; 2nd 82; 3rd 74 Earnings $2,956,521

Where champions begin…

Congratulations to all the finalists, winners, and their connections.

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Rafael Manuel Hernandez

Kazushi Kimura

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This is the first Sovereign Award nomination for Sahin Civaci who began his riding career in Canada in 2014 at Hastings Racecourse in his hometown, Vancouver, British Columbia. While born in Canada, Sahin grew up in Ankara, Turkey, his family’s country of origin. There, he took school courses sponsored by the Turkish Jockey Club that included horse care and riding. He would later return to Vancouver to launch his career as a jockey.

One of Canada’s perennial leading riders after making Ontario his home eight years ago, Rafael Hernandez won this award in 2020 and has been runner-up each of the last two years. In 2023, Rafael not only had another superb Woodbine campaign, but he landed a special milestone, winning his 3,000th career race on July 14 aboard Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry’s Bill Needle. Rafael was also the regular rider for a number of the stars of last year: He partnered the flashy grey colt Tyson to victory in the Grade 2 Seagram Cup Stakes and Grade 3 Dominion Day Stakes and that Josie Carroll-trainee is a finalist for Champion Older Main Track Male in 2023. Rafael teamed up with Millie Girl, who won the Grade 3 Maple Leaf Stakes and Grade 3 Ontario Matron Stakes to stamp herself one of the top older mares of the season. The Catherine Day Phillips trainee is a finalist for Champion Older Main Track Female this evening. Certainly a satisfying win for Rafael last season came with one of his favourite mounts, reigning Horse of the Year, Moira, who won the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes for her first graded stakes win. Rafael and Moira then went on to finish third in the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor Stakes. Rafael also won graded stakes races on Dream Shake, another Sovereign Award finalist, and Ready to Venture (GB).

Canada’s riding sensation, Kazushi Kimura, seeks his third consecutive Sovereign Award for Outstanding Jockey only six years into his riding career. The Japanese-born jockey burst onto the scene in 2018 with 104 victories, won the Sovereign Award as Outstanding Apprentice that year and repeated in 2019. He was also the Eclipse Award Outstanding Apprentice Jockey in 2019. It has been a smooth transition for Kazushi as a journeyman and in 2023, he won more races at Woodbine than he ever has and set a personal best for purse money. He won 15 stakes races including the third jewel of Canada’s Triple Crown, the Breeders’ Stakes, aboard Chiefswood Stables Limited’s Touch’n Ride. Kazushi won graded stakes races aboard Loyalty, a contender for Champion Female Sprinter for 2023, and Wolfie’s Dynaghost and Treason, both finalists for Champion Older Main Track Male.

Kazushi won at an exceptional 20 percent rate in 2023. In addition, Kazushi accomplished milestones south of the border in 2023: He won his first American Grade 1 race with Gold Phoenix (IRE) in the Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita and rode in his first Kentucky Derby, also a Grade 1, finishing 12th aboard Mandarin Hero (JPN).

Outstanding Jockey

Cindy Pierson Dulay

Sahin Civaci

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Starts 558; Wins 129; 2nd 101; 3rd 83 Earnings $6,252,811 Stakes wins 15

In the years since he moved his tack to Woodbine in 2019, Sahin has steadily improved his skills. He won 29 races that first season in Ontario, a number that grew to 70 in 2022 and 129 in 2023. It was the best year of his career so far, and saw him finish second in the jockey standings behind reigning champion Kazushi Kimura.

The soft-spoken rider won 15 stakes races, including guiding Team Valor International and Gary Barber’s Elysian Field to victory in the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, his first Canadian classic victory. Sahin and Elysian Field came back to finish a good second in the King’s Plate to Paramount Prince. He also won graded stakes races on Il Malocchio, Lucky Score, Palazzi, and Solo Album, as well as two black-type races aboard My Boy Prince, all of whom are Sovereign Award finalists this evening.

Starts 647; Wins 119; 2nd 80; 3rd 89 Earnings $5,142,707 Stakes wins 9

Starts 816; Wins 161; 2nd 158; 3rd 113 Earnings $7,177,876 Stakes wins 15

Thank you to everyone here tonight to honour our great horses.

My deepest appreciation to the racing community.

Your ongoing support and dedication play an integral role in my business and success.

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to all the 2023 Sovereign Award winners and finalists

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Sahin Civaci

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Champion Female Turf Horse 49thAnnual

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Fev Rover *IRE

Moira

Our Flash Drive

B. M. 5, by Gutaifan *Ire – Laurelita *Ire (High Chaparral *Ire)

B. F. 4, by Ghostzapper – Devine Aida (Unbridled’s Song)

B. M. 5, by Ghostzapper – Dynamotor (Dynaformer)

Kevin Attard Madaket Stables LLC, SF Racing LLC and X-Men Racing Breeder: Adena Springs

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Mark E. Casse Live Oak Plantation Live Oak Stud

2023:

6 Starts – 2 wins – 0 seconds – 0 thirds – $189,415

Winner:

Royal North S. (G2) Whimsical S. (G3)

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Mark E. Casse Tracy Farmer Manister House Stud

2023:

6 Starts – 3 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $787,320

Winner:

Beverly D. S. (G1) E. P. Taylor S. (G1) Nassau S. (G2)

Stakes Placings: 3rd Diana S. (G1)

Trainer: Owner:

2023:

6 Starts – 1 win – 3 seconds – 2 thirds – $445,317

Winner:

Canadian S. Presented by the Japan Racing Association (G2)

Stakes Placings: 2nd Dance Smartly S. (G2)

2nd Nassau S. (G2) 2nd Belle Mahone S. (G3) 3rd E. P. Taylor S. (G1) 3rd Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1)

Congratulations to all

2023 Sovereign Award Nominees

Back Better than Ever in 2024

EARLE I. MACK LLC

sponsored by Woodbine Entertainment

Champion Male Turf Horse

Lucky Score

My Boy Prince

Palazzi

B. G. 5, by Lookin at Lucky – Miss Matzo (Royal Academy)

GR./RO. C. 2, by Cairo Prince – Hopping Not Hoping (Silent Name *Jpn)

B. G. 5, by Pioneerof the Nile – Kindle (Indian Charlie)

Mark E. Casse Pantofel Stables, LLC, Wachtel Stable, and Barber, Gary Breeder: James Everatt, Janeane Everatt & Arika Everatt-Meeuse

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Mark E. Casse Gary Barber Murray Graham Smith

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

2023:

6 Starts – 3 wins – 2 seconds – 1 third – $429,638

Mark E. Casse Gary Barber HnR Nothhaft Horseracing LLC & Pioneerof the Nile Syndicate

2023:

Winner:

Cup and Saucer S. Simcoe S. MSW

6 Starts – 3 wins – 0 seconds – 0 thirds – $169,267

Winner:

Pattison Singspiel S. (G3) AOC AOC

Trainer: Owner:

2023:

8 Starts – 1 win – 2 seconds – 3 thirds – $318,220

Winner:

Highlander S. (G2)

Stakes Placings: 2nd Nearctic S. (G2)

3rd Ricoh Woodbine Mile S. (G1) 3rd Connaught Cup S. Presented by Bulleit Bourbon (G2) 3rd King Edward S. (G2)

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Stakes Placings: 2nd bet365 Summer S. (G1)

3rd Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1)

MICHAEL BURNS

CHIEFSWOOD STABLES

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2023 SOVEREIGN AWARD NOMINEES

Congratulations to the 2023 Sovereign Award Finalists Mark & Tina

Best of luck tonight from the Chiefswood Stables team.

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Kevin Attard

Mark Casse

Martin Drexler

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For the seventh time in his career, Kevin Attard is a finalist for Canada’s Outstanding Trainer. Kevin’s barn is home to many horses, and his 12 stakes wins came with 10 different horses for half a dozen different owners.

A member of both the Canadian and U. S. Horse Racing Halls of Fame, Mark Casse has been atop the Outstanding Trainer category for more than a decade, having won twelve consecutive times. Incredibly, his stable set a new record in 2023 for purse earnings at Woodbine and its starters collected over $7.8 million in Canada. Mark trained the winners of 113 races and 24 stakes races in Canada. His 24 stakes wins in Canada, ten of them graded, were by 21 different horses, of which 12 are Sovereign Awards finalists this evening. Among the stars for the Mark Casse team in 2023 was Fev Rover (IRE) who provided Mark with his first victory in the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor Stakes. Already a Grade 1 winner on turf in the U. S. during the year, Fev Rover also won the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes at Woodbine.

This is the first Sovereign Award nomination for Martin Drexler, who finished second in the trainer standings at Woodbine in 2023 thanks to a career year. Martin set personal records with winners in Canada, 86, and purses, which totaled just shy of $3 million.

Starts 406; Wins 73; 2nd 66; 3rd 61 Earnings $4,295,580 Stakes wins 12

His preparation of the three-year old Velocitor last year was a highlight, as Al and Bill Ulwelling’s gelding finished fourth in the King’s Plate before battling to victory in the Prince of Wales Stakes, the second consecutive win in the second jewel of Canada’s Triple Crown for Kevin and the Ulwellings. He sent out the two-year old filly Inudation, also owned by the Ulwellings, to win the prestigious Princess Elizabeth Stakes. Three of Kevin’s stakes winners from 2023 are Sovereign Award finalists including Terra Racing Stables’ Fashionably Fab, who won three stakes last year. His star pupil, Moira, won the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes and was third in the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor Stakes before finishing a close third in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita. Tripolina, a finalist for Champion Two-year Old Female, won the Display Stakes over the colts for X-Men Racing 3, Madaket Stables LLC and SF Racing LLC. Kevin’s other stakes winners were Love to Shop, who beat colts in the Toronto Cup for Repole Stable and St. Elias Stables LLC, and the two-year olds Airosa, Pipit, War Painter, and Zippy Gizmo.

Starts 556; Wins 113; 2nd 105; 3rd 81 Earnings $7,821,080 Stakes wins 24

Mark’s trainees took home the two most prestigious races for three-year olds as Elysian Field won the Woodbine Oaks and Paramount Prince won the King’s Plate. Gary Barber’s My Boy Prince won the $250,000 Cup and Saucer Stakes before he finished a strong third in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. Our Flash Drive had another big season for the Casse team with two graded stakes wins. His other graded winners included Lucky Score, Palazzi, Solo Album, Souper Hoity Toity, and Conglomerate, who won the year’s final graded stakes race, the Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes.

Starts 357; Wins 86; 2nd 59; 3rd 42 Earnings $2,982,917 Stakes wins 2

Born in Slovakia, Martin went to Winnipeg, Manitoba as a teenager and fell in love with horseracing at Assiniboia Downs, where his father was a physician for the jockeys.

Martin worked as a mutuel clerk, hotwalker, and groom, studying under some of the top trainers in Manitoba before taking out his trainer’s license and racing his first horse in 2002. Martin has gradually built up his stable and is now a fixture at the top of the trainer standings.

Il Malocchio, a finalist for Champion Older Main Track Female, won the Grade 3 Trillium Stakes and was third in the Grade 3 Seaway Stakes and Grade 3 Ontario Matron Stakes for Martin last year. Old Chestnut, owned by Bruno Schickedanz, was third in both the Grade 3 Jacques Cartier Stakes and the Grade 3 Bold Venture Stakes.

Carrothers, claimed last winter at Gulfstream Park, came north for Martin and was second in the Grade 2 Eclipse Stakes and Grade 2 Seagram Cup Stakes. Martin also had a good season with his young horses with Hurricane Clair winning the Muskoka Stakes and finishing second in the South Ocean Stakes. Martin had an impressive 24 percent win rate at Woodbine in 2023.

Congratulations TO THE

2023 SOVEREIGN AWARD FINALISTS!

Kevin Attard offers sincere thanks to his Owners for their trust and loyalty throughout the 2023 Racing Season and once again gives special recognition to his dedicated team for all their hard work, commitment and dedication.

KEVIN ATTARD RACING STABLE

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Four Footed Fotos

Champion Older Main Track Female 49thAnnual

Sovereign Awards

Il Malocchio

Infinite Patience

Millie Girl

B. M. 5, by Souper Speedy – Egbert Bay (Sligo Bay *Ire)

B. M. 6, by Sungold – Montero (Louis Quatorze)

B. M. 5, by Hard Spun – Mendocino Beano (Smart Strike)

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Martin Drexler Franco S. Meli Franco Meli

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Barbara Heads Decoursey, William and R. N. H. Stable William DeCoursey

2023:

6 Starts – 1 win – 0 seconds – 2 thirds – $123,430

2023:

5 Starts – 4 wins – 0 seconds – 0 thirds – $126,027

Winner:

Trillium S. Presented by Stella Artois (G3)

Winner:

Ballerina S. BC Cup Distaff H. Delta Colleen H. Northlands Distaff H.

Stakes Placings: 3rd Ontario Matron S. (G3)

3rd Seaway S. (G3)

Catherine Day Phillips Kingfield Racing Stable, Ltd., Braconcrest Inc. and Apricot Valley Thoroughbreds Breeder: Sean Fitzhenry Trainer: Owner:

2023:

7 Starts – 3 wins – 1 second – 2 thirds – $257,344

Winner:

Maple Leaf S. (G3) Ontario Matron S. (G3) AOC

Stakes Placings: 2nd Seaway S. (G3)

3rd Nassau S. (G2) 3rd Royal North S. (G2)

THE BEST IN HIS FIELD

$35,000 S&N

Sovereign Award finalists Elysian Field, Loyalty, Millie Girl: all daughters of Hard Spun.

They are among his 26 Black Type performers in 2023 – no stallion under $65k could top that. The best indeed...

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Champion Older Main Track Male

Treason

Tyson

Wolfie’s Dynaghost

B. G. 5, by Constitution – Cougarstown (Speightstown)

GR/RO. C. 4, by Tapit – Honouring (Smart Strike)

B. G. 5, by Ghostzapper – Dynaire (Dynaformer)

Josie Carroll LNJ Foxwoods and MSK Racing Ventures, LLC Breeder: Ramspring Farm

Trainer: Owner:

Josie Carroll Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Inc. (J. G. Sikura) and Stetch Run Ventures, LLC Breeder: Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Inc and Stetch Run Ventures, LLC

Trainer: Owner: Breeder:

Jonathan Thomas Woodslane Farm Woodslane Farm

2023:

8 Starts – 5 wins – 0 seconds – 1 third – $541,246

Winner:

Autumn S. (G2) Prairie Bayou S. Twinspires Kentucky Cup Classic S. Allowance Handicap

Trainer: Owner:

2023:

4 Starts – 1 win – 2 seconds – 0 thirds – $135,876

Winner:

Eclipse S. Presented by Don Julio (G2)

Stakes Placings: 2nd King Edward S. (G2)

2nd Dominion Day S. (G3)

2023:

7 Starts – 3 wins – 0 seconds – 2 thirds – $319,967

Winner:

Seagram Cup S. (G2) Dominion Day S. (G3) AOC

Stakes Placings: 3rd Jockey Club Gold Cup S. (G1)

3rd Eclipse S. Presented by Don Julio (G2)

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Stakes Placings: 3rd Durham Cup S. (G3)

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sponsored by HBPA of Ontario

Outstanding Owner

49thAnnual

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Gary Barber

Chiefswood Stables Limited

Bruno Schickedanz

In Canada:

In Canada:

In Canada:

Gary Barber has been one of Ontario horse racing’s most successful owners in the last decade and this evening he seeks his first Sovereign Award as Outstanding Owner. A film producer in Hollywood, Gary is a staunch supporter of racing in Ontario and led all owners by earnings at Woodbine in 2020 and 2021. Gary’s statistics as a sole owner in 2023 were impressive once again as he won 22 races, six of them stakes, and his horses collected over $1.8 million. Among those winners were My Boy Prince, a CTHS Ontario Yearling Sale purchase who won the Cup and Saucer Stakes and Simcoe Stakes before finishing a gallant third in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. The colt also placed in the Grade 1 Summer Stakes and is a finalist for Champion Two-year Old Male this evening. Gary also won graded stakes races with Conglomerate, Palazzi, and Witwatersrand. In partnership, Gary won two of the biggest races in the country last year: Paramount Prince, whom he owns with Mike Langlois, won the King’s Plate and Plate Trial Stakes and Elysian Field, co-owned with Team Valor International, won the Woodbine Oaks. Gary was also co-owner of graded stakes winners Lucky Score and Solo Album.

A winner in this category in 2017 and 2018, Chiefswood Stables is the powerhouse breeding and racing operation of Robert and Mark Krembil. The stable ended 2023 just two wins shy of 400 victories since its first winner in 2000, and last year the Chiefswood horses won 17 races in Canada, two of them stakes races. They were third in the owner’s standings at Woodbine by purse earnings.

Touch’n Ride, a gelding by Candy Ride (ARG), was their Woodbine-based star after being given plenty of time to develop by trainer Layne Gliforte. Touch’n Ride, a finalist for Champion Three-year Old Male, broke his maiden at second asking with an impressive 91 Beyer Speed Figure before reeling back to finish a troubled fifth in the King’s Plate. In the 1 1/2 mile Breeders’ Stakes, Touch’n Ride won a hard-fought battle with top filly Elysian Field to win by a nose. He completed his first season of racing with a second-place finish in the Grade 3 Ontario Derby but was placed first when the winner, Solo Album, was disqualified. Other top Chiefswood performers in 2023 were graded stakes-placed two-year old Piper’s Factor, older horse Collective Force, and stakes-placed Western Whirl.

Toronto businessman Bruno Schickedanz won his first Sovereign Award for Outstanding Owner in 2022 and is up for a repeat after another banner season with his runners. Since 2015, Bruno has led all owners at Woodbine by number of wins and did so again in 2023, with his runners heading to the winner’s circle 58 times.

He also topped all owners by purses at $1.8 million to go along with being the leading owner at Fort Erie Race Track for the third straight year, collecting 23 victories at the border oval. Bruno had 569 starts with his horses in Canada last year, a personal record, which helped him win his first North American leading owner title by wins at 178 from over 1,100 starters. Bruno’s star horses of 2023 included his consistently good gelding, War Bomber (IRE), who won the Grade 2 King Edward Stakes on the Woodbine turf. The hard-knocking son of War Front, who was claimed by Bruno for $25,000 in 2021, was also second in the Grade 2 Connaught Cup Stakes. Another claimed horse, Old Chestnut, was third in the Grade 3 Jacques Cartier Stakes and Grade 3 Bold Venture Stakes.

Old Chestnut is trained by Martin Drexler, a finalist for Outstanding Trainer this evening.

Starts 96; Wins 22; 2nd 19; 3rd 15 Earnings: $1,873,307 Stakes wins 6

Starts 126; Wins 17; 2nd 18; 3rd 13 Earnings $1,776,738 Stakes wins 2

Starts 569; Wins 81; 2nd 91; 3rd 65 Earnings $2,887,883 Stakes wins 2

Congratulations to the 2023 Sovereign Award nominees.

We wish you success in the upcoming racing season.

From the HBPA Board of Directors & Staff

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2023 HORSE OF THE YEAR The three finalists are: 1.

2.

3.

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Sovereign Awards – 52 –

2022 HORSE OF THE YEAR

Moira

Michael Burns

Horse of the Year

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SPECIAL SOVEREIGN

HORSE OF THE YEAR

1978: Jean Romanet

1998: Awesome Again

1951: Bull Page

1970: Fanfreluche

1988: Play the King

1979: Honourable

2002: Roland Roberts

1952: Canadiana

1971: Lauries Dancer

1989: With Approval

1953: King Maple

1972: La Prevoyante

1990: Izvestia

1954: Queen’s Own

1973: Kennedy Road

1991: Dance Smartly

1992: Milt Dunnell

1955: Ace Marine

1974: L’Enjoleur

1992: Benburb

THE JOCKEY CLUB OF CANADA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

1956: Canadian Champ

1975: L’Enjoleur

1993: Peteski

1957: Hartney

1976: Norcliffe

1994: Alywow

1958: Nearctic

1977: L’Alezane

1995: Peaks and Valleys

1959: Wonder Where

1978: Overskate

1996: Mt. Sassafras

1979: Overskate

1997: Chief Bearhart

1980: Glorious Song

1998: Chief Bearhart

Frank Drea

1983: John Finney 1983: Sunny’s Halo 1988: Richard

Duchossois

1991: Rothmans Ltd.

Past Winners

2016: Tyler Hehn

2007: Louis Romanet 2011: Sue Leslie 2017: Sam Lima 2019: Harvey Warner 2020: Sam-Son Farm

2018: Bobby Mihalik

Lautenschlager

1975: E.P. Taylor

1984: Jim Coleman

1976: Jack Diamond

1985: George Gardiner

1977: E.P. Taylor

1986: D.G. (Bud) Willmot

1978: Ron Turcotte

1987: Lawrence D. Regan

1988: Sandy Hawley

1980: Jack Stafford

1989: George C. Frostad

1981: Jim Bentley

1990: James W. Wright

1982: Jean-Louis

1991: Ernest L. Samuel

Levesque

1983: Joe Thomas

1992: Charles Baker

E.P. TAYLOR AWARD OF MERIT 1994: Jack H. Kenney

2010: Robert Anderson

1995: Charles Taylor

2015: R.J (Russell)

1998: David S. Willmot 1999: George M. Hendrie

2000: Honourable 49 Annual th

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Michael D. Harris

2005: Michael C. Byrne

Mrs. G. McMacken E.P. Taylor

Bill Beasley

Col. K.R. Marshall Windfields Farm

MAN OF THE YEAR

Hendrie

E.P. Taylor

Larkin Maloney

2017: Tyson

1979: George C.

E.P. Taylor

and Lois Bennett

2016: Frank Stronach 2018: Gustav

Schickedanz

2018: William D. Graham 2021: Ivan Dalos 2022: Dale Saunders

L. Maloney & Conn Smythe

1960: Victoria Park

Windfields Farm

1961: Hidden Treasure Bill Beasley

1962: Crafty Lace

Jerome M. Jacobs

1963: Canebora

Windfields Farm

1964: Northern Dancer Windfields Farm

1965: George Royal

E.C. Hammond & R.W. Hall

1966: Victorian Era

Windfields Farm

1967: He’s a Smoothie Bill Beasley

1968: Viceregal

Windfields Farm

1969: Jumpin Joseph

Warren Beasley

Jean-Louis Levesque Mrs. A.W. Stollery

Jean-Louis Levesque

Mrs. A.W. Stollery Jean-Louis Levesque Jean-Louis Levesque Norcliffe Stable

Jean-Louis Levesque Stafford Farms Stafford Farms

Frank Stronach & Nelson Bunker Hunt

1981: Deputy Minister

Kinghaven Farms & Centurion Farm

1982: Frost King

Bill Marko & Ted Smith

1983: Travelling Victor R.J. Bennett

1984: Dauphin Fabuleux Sam-Son Farm

1985: Imperial Choice Sam-Son Farm

1986: Ruling Angel

Sam-Son Farm

1987: Afleet

Richard Kennedy & Taylor Made Farms

Kinghaven Farms Kinghaven Farms

Kinghaven Farms Sam-Son Farm

Knob Hill Stable

Earle I. Mack Kinghaven Farms Pin Oak Stable

Minshall Farms Sam-Son Farm Sam-Son Farm

1999: Thornfield

Knob Hill Stable

2000: Quiet Resolve

Sam-Son Farm

2001: Win City

Frank Di Giulio Jr.

2002: Wake At Noon

Bruno Schickedanz

2003: Wando

Gus Schickedanz

2004: Soaring Free

Sam-Son Farm

2005: A Bit O’Gold

Two Bit Racing Stable

2006: Arravale

Robert Costigan

2007: Sealy Hill

Melnyk Racing Stables, Inc.

2008: Fatal Bullet

Bear Stables, Ltd.

2009: Champs Elysees (GB)

Juddmonte Farms Inc.

2010: Biofuel

Brereton Jones

2011: Never Retreat Team Block

2012: Uncaptured

John C. Oxley

2013: Up with the Birds Sam-Son Farm

2014: Lexie Lou

Gary Barber

2015: Catch a Glimpse

Gary Barber, Michael Ambler & Windways Farm

2016: Caren

Robert Marzilli

2017: Pink Lloyd

Entourage Stable

2018: Wonder Gadot Gary Barber

2019: Starship Jubilee

Blue Heaven Farm

2020: Mighty Heart

Lawrence Cordes

2021: Mighty Heart

Lawrence Cordes

2022: Moira

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Past Winners

CHAMPION TWO-YEAR OLD MALE

49thAnnual

Sovereign Awards – 56 –

CHAMPION THREE-YEAR OLD MALE

1975: Proud Tobin

1991: Free At Last

2007: Kodiak Kowboy

1975: L’Enjoleur

1991: Bolulight

2007: Alezzandro

1976: Sound Reason

1992: Truth Of It All

2008: Mine That Bird

1976: Norcliffe

1992: Benburb

2008: Not Bourbon

1977: Overskate

1993: Comet Shine

2009: Hollinger

1977: Dance in Time

1993: Peteski

2009: Eye of the Leopard

1978: Medaille d’Or

1994: Talkin Man

2010: Madman Diaries

1978: Overskate

1994: Bruce’s Mill

2010: Big Red Mike

1979: Allan Blue

1995: Gomtuu

2011: Maritimer

1979: Steady Growth

1995: Peaks And Valleys

2011: Pender Harbour

1980: Bayford

1996: Cash Deposit

2012: Uncaptured

1980: Ben Fab

1996: Victor Cooley

2012: Strait of Dover

1981: Deputy Minister

1997: Dawson’s Legacy

2013: Go Greeley

1981: Frost King

1997: Cryptocloser

2013: Up with the Birds

1982: Sunny’s Halo

1998: Riddell’s Creek

2014: Conquest Typhoon

1982: Runaway Groom

1998: Archers Bay

2014: Heart to Heart

1983: Prince Avatar

1999: Exciting Story

2015: Riker

1983: Bompago

1999: Woodcarver

2015: Shaman Ghost

1984: Dauphin Fabuleux

2000: Highland Legacy

2016: King and His Court

1984: Key To The Moon

2000: Kiss A Native

2016: Amis Gizmo

1985: Grey Classic

2001: Rare Friends

2017: Admiralty Pier

1985: Imperial Choice

2001: Win City

2017: Channel Maker

1986: Blue Finn

2002: Added Edge

2018: Avie’s Flatter

1986: Golden Choice

2002: Le Cinquieme Essai

2018: Sky Promise

1987: Regal Classic

2003: Judiths Wild Rush

2019: Mr. Hustle

1987: Afleet

2003: Wando

2019: Global Access

1988: Mercedes Won

2004: Wholelottabourbon

2020: Gretzky The Great

1988: Regal Intention

2004: A Bit O’Gold

2020: Mighty Heart

1989: Sky Classic

2005: Edenwold

2021: God of Love

1989: With Approval

2005: Palladio

2021: Frosted Over

1990: Rainbows For Life

2006: Leonnatus Anteas

2022: Philip My Dear

1990: Izvestia

2006: Shillelagh Slew

2022: Sir For Sure

CHAMPION TWO-YEAR OLD FEMALE

CHAMPION THREE-YEAR OLD FEMALE

1975: Seraphic

1991: Bucky’s Solution

2007: Dancing Allstar

1975: Momigi

1991: Dance Smartly

2007: Sealy Hill

1976: Northernette

1992: Deputy Jane West

2008: Van Lear Rose

1976: Bye Bye Paris

1992: Hope For A Breeze

2008: Ginger Brew

1977: L’Alezane

1993: Term Limits

2009: Biofuel

1977: Northernette

1993: Deputy Jane West

2009: Milwaukee Appeal

1978: Liz’s Pride

1994: Honky Tonk Tune

2010: Delightful Mary

1978: La Voyageuse

1994: Alywow

2010: Biofuel

1979: Par Excellence

1995: Silken Cat

2011: Tu Endie Wei

1979: Kamar

1995: Scotzanna

2011: Inglorious

1980: Rainbow Connection 1996: Larkwhistle

2012: Spring in the Air

1980: Par Excellence

1996: Silent Fleet

2012: Irish Mission

1981: Choral Group

1997: Primaly

2013: Ria Antonia

1981: Rainbow Connection 1997: Cotton Carnival

2013: Leigh Court

1982: Candle Bright

1998: Fantasy Lake

2014: Conquest Harlanate

1982: Avowal

1998: Kiry’s Song

2014: Lexie Lou

1983: Ada Prospect

1999: Hello Seattle

2015: Catch a Glimpse

1983: Northern Blossom

1999: Gandria

2015: Academic

1984: Deceit Dancer

2000: Poetically

2016: Victory to Victory

1984: Classy ‘N Smart

2000: Catch The Ring

2016: Caren

1985: Stage Flite

2001: Ginger Gold

2017: Wonder Gadot

1985: La Lorgnette

2001: Dancethruthedawn

2017: Holy Helena

1986: Ruling Angel

2002: Brusque

2018: Bold Script

1986: Carotene

2002: Lady Shari

2018: Wonder Gadot

1987: Phoenix Factor

2003: My Vintage Port

2019: Curlin’s Voyage

1987: One From Heaven

2003: Too Late Now

2019: Desert Ride

1988: Legarto

2004: Simply Lovely

2020: Lady Speightspeare

1988: Tilt My Halo

2004: Eye of the Sphynx

2020: Curlin’s Voyage

1989: Wavering Girl

2005: Knights Templar

2021: Mrs. Barbara

1989: Blushing Katy

2005: Gold Strike

2021: Munnyfor Ro

1990: Dance Smartly

2006: Catch the Thrill

2022: Cairo Consort

1990: Lubicon

2006: Kimchi

2022: Moira

ThankYou to everyone here tonight to honor good horses

WILL WONG

and dedicated horsemen

Good luck to our nominees Loyalty, Treason, and Tyson!

Josie Carroll – 57 –

Past Winners

CHAMPION OLDER MALE

49thAnnual

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CHAMPION SPRINTER

1975: Rash Move

1991: Sky Classic

2007: True Metropolitan

1980: La Voyageuse

1990: Twist the Snow

2000: One Way Love

1976: Victorian Prince

1992: Rainbows for Life

2008: Marchfield

1981: Eternal Search

1991: King Corrie

2001: Mr. Epperson

1977: Norcliffe

1993: Cozzene’s Prince

2009: Marchfield

1982: Avowal

1992: King Corrie

2002: Wake At Noon

1978: Giboulee

1994: King Ruckus

2010: Sand Cove

1983: Fraud Squad

1993: Apelia

2003: Soaring Free

1979: Overskate

1995: Basqueian

2011: Fifty Proof

1984: Diapason

1994: King Ruckus

2004: Blonde Executive

1980: Overskate

1996: Mt. Sassafras

2012: Hunters Bay

1985: Summer Mood

1995: Scotzanna

2005: Judiths Wild Rush

1981: Driving Home

1997: Chief Bearhart

2013: Alpha Bettor

1986: New Connection

1996: Langfuhr

2006: Judiths Wild Rush

1982: Frost King

1998: Terremoto

2014: Lukes Alley

1987: Play the King

1997: Glanmire

2007: Financingavailable

1983: Travelling Victor

1999: Deputy Inxs

2015: Are You Kidding Me

1988: Play the King

1998: Deputy Inxs

2008: Fatal Bullet

1984: Canadian Factor

2000: One Way Love

2016: Are You Kidding Me

1989: Mr. Hot Shot

1999: Deputy Inxs

1985: Ten Gold Pots

2001: A Fleets Dancer

2017: Pink Lloyd

1986: Let’s Go Blue

2002: Wake At Noon

2018: Mr Havercamp

1987: Play the King

2003: Phantom Light

2019: Pink Lloyd

1988: Play the King

2004: Mobil

2020: Skywire

1989: Steady Power

2005: A Bit O’Gold

2021: Mighty Heart

1990: Twist the Snow

2006: True Metropolitan

2022: Who’s the Star

CHAMPION OLDER FEMALE 1975: Victorian Queen

1991: Avant’s Gold

2007: Financingavailable

1976: Momigi

1992: Wilderness Song

2008: Bear Now

1977: Reasonable Win

1993: Dance for Donna

2009: Serenading

1978: Christy’s Mount

1994: Pennyhill Park

2010: Impossible Time

1979: La Voyageuse

1995: Bold Ruritana

2011: Embur’s Song

1980: Glorious Song

1996: Windsharp

1981: Glorious Song 1982: Eternal Search

CHAMPION MALE SPRINTER 2009: Field Commission

2014: Calgary Cat

2019: Pink Lloyd

2010: Hollywood Hit

2015: Stacked Deck

2020: Pink Lloyd

2011: Essence Hit Man

2016: Noholdingback Bear 2021: Pink Lloyd

2012: Essence Hit Man

2017: Pink Lloyd

2013: Phil’s Dream

2018: Pink Lloyd

2022: Filo di Arianna (BRZ)

CHAMPION FEMALE SPRINTER 2009: Tribal Belle

2014: Hillaby

2019: Summer Sunday

2010: Indian Apple Is

2015: Miss Mischief

2020: Artie’s Princess

2011: Atlantic Hurricane

2016: River Maid

2021: Amalfi Coast

2012: Roxy Gap

2017: Ami’s Mesa

2022: Hazelbrook

2012: Roxy Gap

2013: Youcan’tcatchme

2018: Moonlit Promise

1997: Woolloomooloo

2013: Sisterly Love

1998: Santa Amelia

2014: Strut the Course

TOP GRASS HORSE

1983: Eternal Search

1999: Magic Code

2015: Miss Mischief

1984: Sintrillium

2000: Saoirse

2016: Midnight Miley

1985: Lake Country

2001: Mountain Angel

2017: Ami’s Mesa

1986: Bessarabian

2002: Small Promises

2018: Escape Clause

1987: Carotene

2003: One For Rose

2019: Here’s Hannah

1988: Carotene

2004: One For Rose

2020: Souper Escape

1989: Proper Evidence

2005: One For Rose

2021: Skygaze

1990: Diva’s Debut

2006: Financingavailable

2022: Lady Speightspeare

1975: Victorian Queen

1982: Frost King

1989: Charlie Barley

1976: Victorian Queen

1983: Kingsbridge

1990: Izvestia

1977: Momigi

1984: Bounding Away

1991: Sky Classic

1978: Overskate

1985: Imperial Choice

1992: Rainbows For Life

1979: Overskate

1986: Carotene

1993: Hero’s Love

1980: Overskate

1987: Carotene

1994: Alywow

1981: Ben Fab

1988: Carotene

CHAMPION MALE TURF HORSE

OUTSTANDING BROODMARE

1995: Hasten To Add

2005: A Bit O’Gold

2015: Interpol

1975: Reasonable Wife

1991: Classy ‘N Smart

2007: Lover’s Talk

1996: Chief Bearhart

2006: Sky Conqueror

2016: Conquest Enforcer

1976: Northern Minx

1992: Ballade

2008: Kathie’s Colleen

1997: Chief Bearhart

2007: Cloudy’s Knight

2017: Johnny Bear

1977: Doris White

1993: Bold Debra

2009: Pico Teneriffe

1998: Chief Bearhart

2008: Rahy’s Attorney

2018: Mr Havercamp

1978: Fanfreluche

1994: Rainbow Connection 2010: Destroy

1999: Thornfield

2009: Champs Elysees (GB)

2019: El Tormenta

1979: Fitz’s Fancy

1995: Sea Regent

2011: Noble Strike

2000: Quiet Resolve

2010: Grand Adventure

2020: Say The Word

1980: Hangin Round

1996: Amelia Bearhart

2012: Misty Mission

2001: Numerous Times

2011: Musketier (GER)

2021: Town Cruise

1981: Native Flower

1997: Charming Sassafras

2013: Captivating

2002: Portculllis

2012: Riding the River

2022: Filo di Arianna (BRZ)

1982: Yonnie Girl

1998: Fleet Courage

2014: Eye of the Sphynx

2003: Perfect Soul

2013: Forte Dei Marmi (GB)

1983: Two Rings

1999: Sharpening Up

2015: Rare Opportunity

2004: Soaring Free

2014: Dynamic Sky

1984: Friendly Ways

2000: Primarily

2016: Galloping Ami

1985: No Class

2001: Dance Smartly

2017: Victorious Ami

1986: Loudrangle

2002: First Class Gal

2018: In Return

1987: Arctic Vixen

2003: Radiant Ring

2019: Loving Vindication

1988: Polite Lady

2004: Annasan

2020: Danceforthecause

1989: Passing Mood

2005: Native Rights

2021: Avie’s Empire

1990: Shy Spirit

2006: Dream Smartly

2022: Count to Three

CHAMPION FEMALE TURF HORSE 1995: Bold Ruritana

2005: Ambitous Cat

2015: Catch a Glimpse

1996: Windsharp

2006: Arravale

2016: Lexie Lou

1997: Woolloomooloo

2007: Sealy Hill

2017: Starship Jubilee

1998: Colorful Vices

2008: Callwood Dancer (IRE) 2018: Starship Jubilee

1999: Free Vacation

2009: Points of Grace

2019: Starship Jubilee

2000: Heliotrope

2010: Miss Keller (IRE)

2020: Theodora B.

OUTSTANDING OWNER

2001: Sweetest Thing

2011: Never Retreat

2021: Jolie Olimpica

1975: Jack Stafford

1993: Frank Stronach

2010: Sam-Son Farm

2002: Chopinina

2012: Irish Mission

2022: Lady Speightspeare

1976: George Gardiner

1994: Frank Stronach

2011: TIE

2003: Inish Glora

2013: Solid Appeal

1977: Bory Margolus

1995: Frank Stronach

2004: Inish Glora

2014: Lexie Lou

1978: Conn Smythe

1996: Minshall Farms

Donver Stable Glen Todd AND Patrick Kinsella

1979: James Shields

1997: Frank Stronach

1980: Ernest L. Samuel

1998: Frank Stronach

2012: John C. Oxley

1981: Dave Kapchinsky

1999: Frank Stronach

1982: Kinghaven Farms

2000: Sam-Son Farm

1983: Bahnam K. Yousif

2001: Sam-Son Farm

1984: Ernest L. Samuel

2002: Stronach Stable

1985: Ernest L. Samuel

2003: Stronach Stable

1986: Kinghaven Farms

2004: Sam-Son Farm

1987: Kinghaven Farms

2005: Stronach Stable

1988: Ernest L. Samuel

2006: Sam-Son Farm

1989: Kinghaven Farms

2007: Melnyk Racing

1990: Kinghaven Farms 1991: Ernest L. Samuel 1992: Knob Hill Stable

Stables

2008: Bear Stables 2009: Melnyk Racing

2013: John C. Oxley 2014: John C. Oxley 2015: Sam-Son Farm 2016: Conquest Stables, LLC

2017: Chiefswood Stable Limited

2018: Chiefswood Stables Limited

2019: Sam-Son Farm 2020: Live Oak Plantation 2021: Live Oak Plantation 2022: Bruno Schickendanz

Stables

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Past Winners

OUTSTANDING BREEDER

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Sovereign Awards – 60 –

OUTSTANDING JOCKEY

1975: Bory Margolus

1991: Ernest L. Samuel

2007: Adena Springs

1975: Hugo Dittfach

1991: Mickey Walls

2007: Patrick Husbands

1976: E.P. Taylor

1992: Knob Hill Stable

2008: Adena Springs

1976: Chris Rogers

1992: Todd Kabel

2008: Patrick Husbands

1977: Conn Smythe

1993: Kinghaven Farms

2009: Eugene Melnyk

1977: Avelino Gomez

1993: Robert Landry

2009: Patrick Husbands

1978: Jean Louis Levesque 1994: Kinghaven Farms

2010: Adena Springs

1978: Sandy Hawley

1994: Robert Landry

2010: Eurico Rosa Da Silva

1979: Kinghaven Farms

1995: Kinghaven Farms

2011: Gardiner Farms Ltd.

1979: Robin Platts

1995: Todd Kabel

2011: Luis Contreras

1980: Marvin Hamilton

1996: Minshall Farms

2012: William D Graham

1980: Gary Stahlbaum

1996: Emile Ramsammy

2012: Luis Contreras

1981: Tom Webb

1997: Frank Stronach

2013: Sam-Son Farm

1981: Irwin Driedger

1997: Emile Ramsammy

2013: Eurico Rosa Da Silva

1982: Kinghaven Farms

1998: Frank Stronach

2014: Sam-Son Farm

1982: Lloyd Duffy

1998: David Clark

2014: Patrick Husbands

1983: Russell J. Bennett

1999: Frank Stronach

2015: Adena Springs

1983: Larry Attard

1999: Patrick Husbands

2015: Eurico Rosa Da Silva

1984: Frank Stronach

2000: Sam-Son Farm

2016: Adena Springs

1984: Chris Loseth

2000: Patrick Husbands

2016: Eurico Rosa Da Silva

1985: E.P. Taylor

2001: Sam-Son Farm

2017: Adena Springs

1985: Don Seymour

2001: Patrick Husbands

2017: Eurico Rosa Da Silva

1986: Kinghaven Farms

2002: Sam-Son Farm

2018: Tall Oaks Farm

1986: Larry Attard

2002: Patrick Husbands

2018: Eurico Rosa Da Silva

1987: Kinghaven Farms

2003: Sam-Son Farm

2019: Sam-Son Farm

1987: Don Seymour

2003: Todd Kabel

2019: Eurico Rosa Da Silva

1988: Ernest Samuel

2004: Sam-Son Farm

2020: Live Oak Plantation

1988: Sandy Hawley

2004: Todd Kabel

2020: Rafael Hernandez

1989: Kinghaven Farms

2005: Adena Springs

2021: Sam-Son Farm

1989: Don Seymour

2005: Todd Kabel

2021: Kazushi Kimura

1990: Kinghaven Farms

2006: Adena Springs

2022: Adena Springs

1990: Don Seymour

2006: Todd Kabel

2022: Kazushi Kimura

OUTSTANDING TRAINER

OUTSTANDING HANDICAPPER

1975: Gil Rowntree

1991: Jim Day

2007: Mark Casse

1976: Lou Cavalaris

1992: Phil England

2008: Mark Casse

1977: “Red” Smith

1993: Roger Attfield

2009: Roger Attfield

1978: Frank H. Merrill, Jr.

1994: Daniel J. Vella

2010: Roger Attfield

1979: Jim Day

1995: Daniel J. Vella

2011: Mark Casse

1980: Gerry Belanger

1996: Barbara J. Minshall

2012: Mark Casse

1981: Ron Brock

1997: Mark Frostad

2013: Mark Casse

1982: Bill Marko

1998: Michael Wright, Jr.

2014: Mark Casse

1983: Bill Marko

1999: Mark Frostad

2015: Mark Casse

1984: Mike Doyle

2000: Mark Frostad

2016: Mark Casse

1985: Jim Day

2001: Robert P. Tiller

2017: Mark Casse

1986: Roger Attfield

2002: Roger Attfield

2018: Mark Casse

1987: Roger Attfield

2003: Robert P. Tiller

2019: Mark Casse

1988: Jim Day

2004: Robert P. Tiller

2020: Mark Casse

1989: Roger Attfield

2005: Reade Baker

2021: Mark Casse

1990: Roger Attfield

2006: Mark Casse

2022: Mark Casse

2017: Michael Eisen

2018: Nick Noce

2019: Paul Shurman

OUTSTANDING APPRENTICE JOCKEY 1975: Jeff Fell

1991: Mickey Walls

2007: Tyler Pizarro

1976: Chris Loseth

1992: Stanley Bethley

2008: Janine Stianson

1977: Brad Smythe

1993: Constant Montpellier 2009: Omar Moreno

1978: Ron Hansen

1994: Dave Wilson

2010: Omar Moreno

1979: Ray Creighton

1995: Dave Wilson

2011: Ryan Pacheco

1980: Valerie Thompson

1996: Neil Poznansky

2012: Scott Williams

1981: Richard Dos Ramos

1997: Rui Pimentel

2013: Skye Chernetz

1982: Richard Dos Ramos

1998: Helen Vanek

2014: Sheena Ryan

1983: Robert King Jr.

1999: Ben Russell

2015: Erika Smilovsky

1984: Robert King Jr.

2000: Cory Clark

2016: Kayla Pizarro

1985: Nancy Jumpsen

2001: Chantal Sutherland

2017: Rey Williams

1986: Todd Kabel

2002: Chantal Sutherland

2018: Kazushi Kimura

1987: Jim McAleney

2003: Julia Brimo

2019: Kazushi Kimura

1988: Jim McAleney

2004: Corey Fraser

2020: Mauricio Malvaez

1989: Maree Richards

2005: Emma-Jayne Wilson

2021: Mauricio Malvaez

1990: Mickey Walls

2006: Emma-Jayne WIlson

2022: Slade Jones

OUTSTANDING GROOM 2016: Dexter Brathwaite

2019: Michael Williams

2017: Alfredo Ramos

2020: Michelle Gibson

2018: Amanda Erwin

2021: Denzil Fonseca

2022: TIE

Amber Hutchinson AND Ricardo Nichalson

OUTSTANDING DIGITAL AUDIO/VISUAL & BROADCAST 2012: Horse Racing Alberta & WhiteIron Productions

2013: Woodbine Entertainment Group Broadcast Department

Broadcast Department

Past Winners

2018: Horse Racing Radio Network 2019: Woodbine Entertainment Group

2021: Woodbine Entertainment Group Broadcast Department

2022: Woodbine Entertainment

OUTSTANDING WRITING 2012: Denise Ryan

2016: Beverley Smith

2020: Chris Lomon

2013: Alex Campbell

2017: Perry Lefko

2021: Hayley Morrison

2014: David Briggs

2018: Hayley Morrison

2022: George Williams

2015: Curtis Stock

2019: David Briggs

Thank You

DAVE LANDRY

2016: Woodbine Entertainment Group

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2017: Horse Racing Alberta

2020: Santino Di Paola

2015: Talkin Horses

Sovereign Awards

to all Sovereign Awards finalists and winners, including Robert “Red” McKenzie, winner of the Special Sovereign Award.

Broadcast Department

2014: Scott Jagow

49thAnnual

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to each of our Sovereign Awards sponsors.

OUTSTANDING PHOTOGRAPH 1975: Michael Burns

1992: Jeff Goode

2009: Michael Burns

1976: Michael Burns

1993: Michael Burns Jr

2010: Tod Marks

1977: Bob Gilmour

1994: Michael Burns

2011: David Landry

1978: Michael Burns

1995: Ken Villeneuve

2012: Michael Burns

1979: Jeff Goode

1996: Skip Dickstein

2013: Patti Tubbs

1980: Wayne Glowack

1997: Michael Burns Jr.

2014: Cindy Pierson Dulay

1981: Bob Gilmour

1998: Ryan Haynes

2015: Chris Young

1982: Jeff Goode

1999: David Landry

2016: Cody Gregory

1983: Michael Burns

2000: David Landry

2017: David Landry

1984: Patricia Burns

2001: Michael Burns Jr.

2018: Santino Di Paola

1985: Michael Burns Jr

2002: Michael Burns Jr.

2019: Michael R. Bye

1986: Katey Barrett

2003: Michael Burns Jr.

2020: Will Wong

1987: Boris Spremo

2004: David Landry

2021: Will Wong

1988: Les Bazso

2005: David Landry

2022: TIE

1989: Jeff Goode

2006: David Landry

1990: Michael Burns Jr.

2007: Michael Burns Jr.

1991: Mike Moore

2008: Matt Waples

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