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FEEDING the FILLIES A sensitive issue?

50 years of NORTHERN DANCER Was he the greatest sire of his generation?

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GILES ANDERSON Great figures with legacies that will live on

HE one trainer who I wished to have met and have featured on the cover of this magazine was Dickie Small. Sadly the great man is no longer with us but the indelible mark he has left on the industry will remain. For many years, my good friend Ted Mudge has recounted many great “Dickie” stories to me so it’s kind of fitting that Ted writes a very personal tribute to his lifelong friend, revealing some amusing facts and stories about Dickie.

But Dickie’s legacy lives on and is in a way tied to our cover feature on Mike Maker. One of Dickie’s great accomplishments in life was the nurturing of jockeys. Anna “Rosie” Napravnik was one jockey who came from the “Dickie Small Riding School” and is now very much part of the Mike Maker stable.

Maker has been quietly climbing towards the top of the racing tree, having learned his trade at the “D. Wayne Lukas Training School.” As Bill Heller discovered, Lukas realized that Mike’s great gift is understanding his horses. It seems fair to say that “let the horses do the talking” is Mike Maker’s unofficial motto. To me, Mike’s greatest strength is his commitment to his team and his horses, quietly giving each the opportunity to perform.

It’s no surprise to those who know and trust his judgment that his stable has risen to national prominence.

Northern Dancer, one of the greatest historical figures of the last halfcentury is featured in this issue. It’s hard to believe this horse, who helped

define the modern day Thoroughbred, first shot to international prominence in 1964 when winning two-thirds of the U.S. Triple Crown. Still these years later, he continues to make his mark on the worldwide scene. Indeed his great-great-great grandson Pineau de Re won the famed Aintree Grand National over 4½ miles in April. His influence in breeding sheds across North America, Europe, and Australia remains as strong as ever.

MUCH has been written recently about the ills of our sport and at times I’ve felt that the alleged actions of a minority have had a detrimental effect on the majority. Trainers have pretty much been left without a voice but with every organization with an acronym bringing its five cents to the table.

I feel that for starters, we could be doing a better job of explaining the difference between medication and drugs, which are often easily confused.

What horsemen and horsewomen need more than anything else is support. Some tracks could and should be investing in environments for the healthy horse – barns with proper ventilation, light, and dust-free bedding. Once we start building a habitat for a healthy horse, the trainer will have the confidence not to medicate. What if there is a gradual reduction over two years in the threshold for Lasix so that we can truly see what effects this has on racehorses while we further enhance ideal stabling conditions for them?

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Mike Maker

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Northern Dancer

Bill Heller speaks to a trainer who is a man of few words but whose horses write themselves into history books.

Fifty years on from his Kentucky Derby and Preakness wins, Northern Dancer remains a legend, by Frank Mitchell.

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Dickie Small

Ted Mudge with a personal remembrance of the much beloved trainer.

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Feeding position

Dr. Colin Roberts on why it may be healthier to look to the wild horse for tips on how to feed the racehorse.

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Food for thought

Split pasterns

An explanation of how pastern fractures heal, by Matt Smith and Professor Celia Marr.

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Los Alamitos

Mary Knight takes us to Los Alamitos Race Course, the home of California Chrome.

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Should we be feeding fillies differently? asks Dr. Catherine Dunnett.

Contributors

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California Thoroughbred Trainers

Winning owners

Profiles on owners of recent Grade 1 winners, by Bill Heller.

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Product Profile

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Treating sore shins

TRM Trainer of the Quarter

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Product Focus

Thomas O’Keeffe on a problem that affects two-year-old racehorses.

Darin Lamoureux

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Bill Heller on the pre-trainer who keeps young stock “all in line”.

Suppliers Guide

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Stakes Schedules

Quarter cracks can be avoided with proactive management of heels, by Scott Morrison, DVM.

The Sid Fernando column

Shunted heels

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Publisher & Editorial Director Giles Anderson Editor Frances Karon Circulation/Editorial Executive Suzy Crossman, Louise Crampton Picture Editor/Editorial Executive Harriet Scott Design/Production Neil Randon Advertising Sales Giles Anderson Photo Credits

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

Scott Morrison graduated from the Eastern School of Farriery, Virginia in 1990 and graduated Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine in 1999. After an internship at Rood and Riddle in 1999, he then started the podiatry center at the hospital. The podiatry center currently employs 5 podiatry veterinarians and 5 farriers. Scott currently provides podiatry services and consultations in the USA and often travels internationally. He has written many papers, articles and book chapters on equine podiatry and still finds time to play polo and work with green horses.

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

Ted Mudge was President and partowner of AmTote International, and while there, he developed Instant Racing with Oaklawn Park. After this he became President of BrisBet.com before it was purchased by Twinspires.com. Most recently, he retired as Vice President of development for the Maryland Jockey Club.

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

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Bill Heller, Eclipse Award winner and author of 25 books including biographies of Hall of Fame jockeys Ron Turcotte, Randy Romero, and Jose Santos, is a member of the Harness Racing Hall of Fame Communications Corner. He and his wife Anna live just 30 miles south of Saratoga Race Course in Albany, where their 24-year-old son Benjamin also resides.

Mary Knight owns and operates Professional Thoroughbred Services in Southern California. She has been licensed as a thoroughbred trainer since 1973 and has been selling thoroughbreds at auction since 1983.

Celia Marr is an equine clinician at Rossdales, Newmarket. She is a RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Medicine and Honorary Professor at the Glasgow University Veterinary School. She has previously worked at veterinary schools in Glasgow, Pennsylvania, Cambridge and London and in racehorse practice in Lambourn. She is Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board’s Thoroughbred Research & Consultation Group and Editor-in-Chief of Equine Veterinary Journal.

Frank Mitchell wrote a column at Daily Racing Form for nearly 15 years.

He now pens a column for the online Paulick Report and does conformation and biomechanical analysis for DataTrack International. In his spare time, Frank works with his own horses and livestock on a farm not far from Lexington, Kentucky.

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Thomas O’Keeffe is a graduate of University College Dublin, currently working in Ocala, Florida. He worked for Rossdales and Partners in Newmarket, UK as a member of their ambulatory racing veterinary team and in their world-renowned hospital facility. He was also an associate with Scone Equine Hospital, Australia, as resident veterinary surgeon for Darley’s Kildangan Stud in Ireland and worked in Lexington, Kentucky with Dr Ruel Cowles, DVM. Dr Colin Roberts BVSc, MA, PhD, FRCVS is an independent equine veterinary consultant and an Affiliated Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Cambridge. His professional areas of interest include equine internal medicine, equine upper airway disease, equine welfare and equine sports medicine.

Steve Schuelein is a freelance writer based in Playa del Rey, California. A native of upstate New York, Steve was introduced to racing as a sports writer for the Syracuse Herald-Journal and Buffalo News before moving to California in 1982.

Matt Smith BVetMed Dipl. ECVS DEO MRCVS is an independent equine veterinary consultant and an Affiliated Lecturer in Veterinary Anatomy at the University of Cambridge. He has extensive experience in equine sports medicine.

His professional areas of interest include equine internal medicine, equine upper airway disease, equine welfare and equine sports medicine.

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CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS

Shooting the messengers?

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HE ancient plight of messengers bearing bad news is much with us in racing today. If for no other reason that given the advent of the Internet, hidden cameras, smart phones, and constant surveillance, there are more messengers – and more agendas – than ever before.

That got me to thinking. At the dawn of recorded history, would Plutarch have been as disturbed by a messenger losing his head (literally) for delivering the wrong information, as for innocently delivering bad news? To this day, we believe it necessary to discipline children for lying or for misleading their parents or teachers; in business and politics, being mistaken has consequences, and being willfully dishonest or wrong has even more severe outcomes.

In other words, messengers may deserve our disapproval – not for the sincere delivery of bad or unpleasant news, but for delivering erroneous or misleading news. This is more important than ever these days, when most of us believe (without a second thought) that “perception is reality.” Our slavish adoption of such a silly notion, with hardly a critical thought, has led to increasingly superficial acceptance of any widespread suggestion, accusation, or smear as truthful. It has empowered emotion over reason. And most of all, it has empowered those who are adept at creating perception, at the very great expense of those who believe instead that facts should inform perception. Creating false perception has apparently become more lucrative than ever.

Given the marvels of modern science, it’s actually funny to consider how many people simply accept the “perception is reality” ruse.

After all, we still perceive the earth to be flat, and the sun to be moving overhead, though we have been taught otherwise. Perception is most certainly not reality. Power, however, especially in politics, business, and sports, seems to be increasingly concentrated in those

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By Alan F. Balch CTT Executive Director

“Racing is exceptionally vulnerable to virtually any claim or accusation because of its lack of cohesive governance” who control perceptions, rather than in those who would choose facts and considered reason.

This state of affairs is extraordinarily dangerous for a dis-integrated sport like racing is in the United States. Racing is exceptionally vulnerable to virtually any claim or accusation because of its lack of cohesive governance, and difficulty in serious, timely, and straightforward communication among its many independent stakeholders and governing bodies.

Never has all this been more evident than the last few years (and particularly the last few months). The New York Times – both editorially and in its coverage of racing – has become an advocate not only for insufficiently defined federal supervision of some aspects of racing, but also openly hostile to and unbalanced in its coverage of what it has editorially determined to be a “disreputable sport.” Decades ago, racing would have looked to its major racing associations to guide its public relations, as it did in racefixing scandals of old. Now, the tracks are largely if not completely silent at each bodyblow to the sport emanating from The Times.

Instead, the “alphabet organizations” take to issuing statements and wringing hands, whether comprised of breeders, veterinarians, owners, horsemen, tracks, or combinations of them.

Some of these statements – presumably intended to defend the sport and advance its reputation – actually make the situation worse, particularly when they include inaccuracies! After all, correcting erroneous perceptions ought to begin with reliance on objective facts. But let us not forget that pursuing an organizational agenda seems to trump all else these days.

Attacking the use of furosemide to inhibit exercise-induced equine bleeding was where the current smear of racing began in 2010.

That attack originally emanated from The Jockey Club, which apparently chose to disregard the results of its own expensive study on the medication. The cudgel was then wielded by “reporters” for The Times (should I say “advocates”?) who expanded the bludgeon to include all manner of purported “performance enhancing drugs,” including furosemide as one, allegedly administered indiscriminately to race horses, resulting in sordid examples of abuse and mayhem.

Here are just two key facts, largely unreported in our nation’s “newspaper of record.” A recent survey performed by the Association of Racing Commissioners International on 320,000 testing samples from race horses found 99.59% not in violation for prohibited substances. And, contrary to The Jockey Club’s much more damning public assertion, only four racing states (Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Colorado) are not in the process of implementing uniform reform of medication rules. And even those four states do have their own rules, however individual they may be, and purport not to tolerate abuse of medication; they certainly do not knowingly tolerate cheating of any kind, however misguided or antiquated their procedures may be.

Am I claiming that racing is pure and without problems? No. However, the serious problems we do have are magnified beyond those of any other sport for one reason: the performance and nobility of the horse. All the equestrian sports rely on the equine athlete, and racing requires its peak of exertion and therefore its highest risk. The requirements of horsemanship, rightly understood, place a far higher responsibility on its organizers and leadership and participants for those athletes than for the athletes in any other sport!

Given the undeniable evolution of racing toward gaming and away from sport, our problems should be no great surprise, especially given the simultaneous rise in public questioning of any activity where an animal is the focus of attention. So it behooves us to re-double our efforts to improve

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RAINER Richard Baltas has learned the definition of “macher,” a Yiddish word that roughly means “big shot, achiever, an important person.”.

That is because Baltas trains Big Macher, a four-year-old gelding that has become a big shot in the California sprint division with his achievements this year and has elevated his conditioner into a position of growing importance in the trainer ranks.

Baltas, who turns 53 on May 30, has experienced the vicissitudes of the sport manning a wide array of posts during the past three decades and appreciates a major stakes horse heading the 28-horse stable he has built up at Santa Anita Park.

Working in the giant shadows created by current California “machers” with such familiar last names as Baffert, Hollendorfer, Sadler and O’Neill, Baltas garnered some rays of respect when Big Macher won the California Cup Sprint in January and finished a game second in the Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes in March.

Big Macher, a California-bred son of Beau Genius named by a previous owner, has turned into a dream claim, earning nearly $200,000 in eight starts after being haltered for $20,000 in his debut at Del Mar last July.

“I was a little skeptical about claiming him,” admitted Baltas from a mezzanine box at Santa Anita recently. “Brendan Bakir (whose Tachycardia Stables owns the horse in partnership with Tom Mansor) asked me to claim a horse for him and asked about his first start at Del Mar. “He looked okay in the paddock and I won a three-way shake for him,” said Baltas after Big Macher’s inauspicious bow in which he broke slowly and finished a non-threatening seventh.

“The horse did terrible and looked like he had some issues,” said Baltas candidly. “He was very bad in the gate.”

Despite two more lackluster starts at Del Mar, Big Macher showed some glimmers of hope to Baltas, who patiently continued to work with overcoming his gate deficiencies.

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Baltas’ turn to be a big shot with Big Macher him in a $40,000 maiden claimer and he won like a thief in the night,” said Baltas of the turnaround race in his fourth start at Santa Anita in October which he won by 4¾ lengths with a big Beyer figure jump.

Big Macher validated the effort with a statebred allowance score at Hollywood Park in November, earning an even higher Beyer

number and heralding the arrival of a stakes horse.

Following two more good efforts, Big Macher recorded his first added-money victory by 1¾ lengths in the Cal Cup Sprint and ran courageously to finish second in the San Carlos in his first try in graded stakes company.

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Big Macher, with Rafael Bejarano up, wins the $125,000 Donald Valpredo California Cup Sprint “I was so proud of our horse,” said Baltas of his runner-up finish by a half-length to stretchrunning Sahara Sky in the seven-furlong San Carlos. “He did most of the work and just got beat by the Met Mile winner last year.

“Now I know I have a graded stakes horse in the barn,” said Baltas after Big Macher numbered graded stakes winners Clubhouse Ride, Wild Dude, and Shakin It Up among the starters trailing him across the finish line.

“I see a bright future for him,” said Baltas, who would like to keep picking his spots in California sprints this year leading to a possible Breeders’ Cup climax at Santa Anita on November 1.

Baltas enjoyed one other fling with stardom. In 2001, Freedom Crest put his name on the map by giving him his first stakes victory in the Grade 2 San Pasqual Handicap and nine months later shocking the racing world with a 39-to-1 upset in the Grade 2 Goodwood Breeders’ Cup Handicap, leaving multiple Grade 1 stakes winner Skimming and reigning Horse of the Year Tiznow in his wake.

Much like Big Macher, Baltas claimed Freedom Crest as a three-year-old maiden, this time for $32,000 at Hollywood Park. “I watched him train for three or four days, he was all over the place, and I gelded him,” said Baltas. “It took him a while to break his maiden. When I took his blinkers off and stretched him out, he got really good.

“To claim a horse and beat the guys with the best horses is a big accomplishment.It gave me a lot of satisfaction” “He just kept going up the ladder,” said Baltas, so impressed with his improvement that he felt the horse ready for his stakes bow in the San Pasqual, which he won by three lengths over Bosque Redondo.

“He won pretty easy,” recalled Baltas of the

milestone victory. “I think I ran the length of the grandstand with the horse. That was my dream. You never expect to live your dream.”

While Baltas thought Freedom Crest had a realistic chance of winning the San Pasqual, the Goodwood was a surprise. “We were going to ship out of town, but it was a $500,000 race, and I thought we could finish third, so why ship?” said Baltas, virtually conceding the first two spots to the handicap stars.

“At the top of the lane, I could see he was full of run (after stalking pacesetter Skimming from second) and Tiznow didn’t fire,” said Baltas of the unexpected length victory that lit up the toteboard. “I couldn’t believe I won the race.”

Freedom Crest earned more than $600,000 during his career, almost half of it in the Goodwood.

“To claim a horse and beat the guys with the best horses is a big accomplishment,” said Baltas after playing the role of giant-killer. “It gave me a lot of satisfaction.”

Baltas is a prime example of perseverance in

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CALIFORNIA THOROUGHBRED TRAINERS the sport. Born in Gary, Indiana, Baltas grew up in Southern California after his family moved west when he was in third grade. One of six children, he graduated from Marina High School in Huntington Beach.

“My father used to take me to the races as a kid when they had 70,000 people here,” said Baltas of his first visits to the track. “I saw The White Tornado, Vigors. I saw Spectacular Bid and The Shoe. I saw Exceller and all the great Whittingham horses. I just liked the sport.

“I used to think a trainer’s job was really glamorous,” he said with a laugh of experience.

“I saw Charlie saddle three or four horses in a stake and thought ‘What a great job!’ although I had never touched a horse in my life.”

Baltas was determined to change that. He wanted to find work in the Santa Anita stable area, only to learn at the gate that he could not enter without a license or being signed in by a trainer.

Baltas tried to educate himself, enrolling at Orange Coast College and then Cal Poly Pomona to learn more about horses and taking riding lessons at Huntington Beach Equestrian Center.

In 1983, Baltas went to Louisville to see Sunny’s Halo win the Kentucky Derby and decided to add to his equine education in the Bluegrass State.

“I went to the Kentucky Equine Institute at the Kentucky Horse Park in 1984 because they guaranteed you a job after six months,” said Baltas. “I learned about everything from anatomy to nutrition to foaling.

“At the same time, I started working at the farms, first at Pillar Stud and then Spendthrift Farm when Leslie Combs owned it. I rubbed yearlings when Affirmed, Seattle Slew, Raise A Native and Caro all stood there. I just got chills looking at all those horses.”

Baltas then began a long journey on a winding road filled with several potholes across the racetracks of America. He worked briefly as a groom for John Ward at Keeneland before returning to California in 1986 as a groom for Darrell Vienna.

One year later Baltas drove a horse van across the country and serendipitously landed a job with Tom Skiffington in New York. “He later moved me to Lexington where Eddie Kenneally and I were foremen and Niall O’Callaghan was his assistant,” said Baltas of the all-star lineup of horsemen at Keeneland.

Baltas moved around to tracks in Florida and Illinois as well as Kentucky and New York under Skiffington before returning to California again.

Baltas took out his trainer’s license in 1991 and won with his first starter, Latchburn, at Hollywood Park under Jorge Velasquez. But the owner soon went broke and Baltas was out of a job.

The dark-haired trainer next went to work for future Hall of Famer Richard Mandella. “I wasn’t afraid to take a step back,” said Baltas.

“If you’re doing what you love for a first-class outfit, is it really a step back? I don’t think so.

“I was hired as a groom, but was sent to Arkansas with Golden Treat and Leger Cat,” said Baltas of two stakes horses that were in Mandella’s barn. “We also had Bel’s Starlet, Likeable Style, Devil’s Orchid, and Mama Simba during that time.

“I think going from Belmont to Santa Anita to Keeneland and working at Spendthrift Farm, you’re around the best horsemen and best horses. That helped a lot” “Kotashaan was just getting rolling, and Phone Chatter was just coming in,” said Baltas of the time in 1993 he left before the pair went on to Breeders’ Cup wins, the former earning Horse of the Year honors.

Back on his own, Baltas settled for smaller awards. “One of my favorite horses was Bit of Petrone,” said Baltas of the 1996 Claimer of the Meet at Santa Anita. “He had five firsts and two seconds in seven starts that meet. Matt Garcia rode him. I claimed him for $16,000 for Ron and Susie Anson.”

After some more valleys surrounding the Freedom Crest peak, Baltas hooked on as an assistant to Craig Dollase in 2005-2006. Later he took a job with Mike Moreno’s Southern Equine Stable and trained a division in Louisiana. He returned as an assistant to Barry Abrams and saddled Burns to victory in the

Grade 2 La Jolla Handicap at Del Mar in 2011 when the trainer was ailing.

Baltas said his wide range of experience prepared him well for today. “You can learn from all different people,” he said. “If you’re paying attention, and work for people that are successful, you are going to learn to do things the right way.

“Mandella was probably the best teacher I’ve ever had,” continued Baltas, citing lessons learned. “If you do things the right way, the horse will reward you. There are no shortcuts.

I learned a lot working for a perfectionist: his day-in, day-out care for the horses, knowing when it’s time to back off.

“I think going from Belmont to Santa Anita to Keeneland and working at Spendthrift Farm, you’re around the best horsemen and best horses,” said Baltas. “That helped a lot.”

That lengthy résumé appears to be paying off since he started putting together his current stable two and a half years ago. In addition to Bakir and Mansor, the multipleowner roster includes Jerry Fialkowski’s Riley Racing, Paul Gange’s Panic Stable, Jason Tackitt’s Jaam Racing, Barbara Kelly, Sonny Pais, Janavar Stables and Valerie Naify.

Baltas also took an important step in his personal life in 2011 by marrying his girlfriend, Debby. The couple recently moved to Los Alamitos.

Baltas credited chief assistant Melissa Saldana and his crew for the stable’s rising fortunes and seeks continued improvement.

“Last year the stable earned $750,000,” said Baltas. “We’re already over $300,000 before the first quarter this year. Hopefully, we’ll hit $1 million. I just want to keep progressing.”

He would love to see Big Macher get a crack at the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and try to join three other Cal-bred overachievers--Thor’s Echo, Dancing in Silks, and Amazombie--in the winner’s circle.

“He just seems to have the will, and he’s getting better,” said the trainer of his rising stable star.

Baltas hopes for better luck in post position draw if he gets in. His two previous Breeders’ Cup starters, Freedom Crest, in the 2001 Classic, and Flashy Ways, in the 2012 Juvenile Fillies Turf, both drew unlucky post 13 and fared poorly.

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Walter W. “Red” Smith, who concluded his career with The New York Times and for whom racing was a favorite of all sports, embraced a different standard for and approach to journalism than we see today.

He lamented the sports-writing sin of “puffing

up the people [we] write about,” creating “false values Godding-up those ballplayers,” exaggerating the glory of athletes.

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Art Sherman (third right) celebrates California Chrome's Santa Anita Derby victory with owners Steven Coburn (second left) and Perry Martin (far right)

TRM Trainer of the Quarter

ART SHERMAN

The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Art Sherman. Sherman and his team will receive a selection of products from the internationally-acclaimed range of TRM supplements, as well as a bottle of fine Irish whiskey.

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RT Sherman thought he had the best ride of his life, literally and figuratively, with legendary Swaps in 1955. Yet 59 years later, Sherman will likely send out the favorite in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby on May 3, California Chrome, whose fourth consecutive, dominating victory came in the $1 million Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby, the same stakes Swaps captured before adding the Kentucky Derby. Regardless of what happens with California Chrome in the Run for the Roses, the California-bred has already provided a great bookend for Sherman’s fascinating career..

The son of a barber, Sherman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Southern California after his family moved there when he was seven. His dad’s clients urged Sherman to become a jockey. “I was always small in stature,” Sherman said. “At 16, I was 95 pounds.”

On the way to getting his jockey’s license, he was a groom and exercise rider for trainer Mesh Tenney, whose clients included the Rex Ellsworth Stable, which bred and owned Swaps

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– considered by many as the greatest California-bred to ever race. “I didn’t gallop him, but I got on him quite a few times,” Sherman said. He also got to sleep with him.

Swaps shipped from California to Louisville for the Kentucky Derby by train. It took five days. Swaps was accompanied by five other horses in Tenney’s stable. “We had a car with six horses,” Sherman said. “Swaps had half the car to himself. He deserved it. I tried sleeping with the other horses, but all they’d do all night long was dip their heads into the water and get my sleeping bag wet.”

So Sherman slept beside Swaps: “He was such a sweetheart.”

On the track, he was a shark. He won 19 of 25 starts with two seconds and two thirds. “He had six world records at one time,” Sherman said. “Who does that?”

Sherman began riding in Southern California before moving on to Florida and the Midwest. He returned to California in 1968 and rode until 1978, when he became an assistant trainer for Paul Guidotti. Sherman had a brief fling as a racing official in Northern California before taking out his trainer’s license there in 1980.

California Chrome and Victor Espinoza win the Grade 1 $1,000,000 Santa Anita Derby

He shifted his operation to Southern California in 2007, the same year he recorded his 2,000th win, with Oneanwin at Bay Meadows. Sherman’s son, Steve, took over his Northern California stable. Sherman’s other son, Alan, was a jockey who became and remains his dad’s assistant trainer. “Alan rode for Charlie Whittingham,” Sherman said.

“Then he got too big. So he stayed with me and became my assistant. Alan is my key man.”

Now the Shermans have the favorite heading into the Kentucky Derby. California Chrome won two of his first six starts, then took his game to another level, winning a pair of Cal-bred stakes by daylight. When he added a 7¼-length romp in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes, California Chrome became the leading West Coast Kentucky Derby hope. His breathtaking 5¼-length victory in the Santa Anita Derby guaranteed that all being well, Sherman will be saddling the favorite for the Kentucky Derby.

“He could always run, but he was green,” Sherman said. “A light bulb went off. It’s really hard to say why. When horses mature, they get confident. He thinks he’s a king now. The Santa Anita Derby was an awesome race. He’s a rock star. There were people chanting his name in the winner’s circle. I was awed. One guy showed me a tattoo of California Chrome right on his shoulder. He’s the people’s horse. I don’t know why.”

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MIKE MAKER Letting his horses do the talking

Mike Maker has ascended the national trainer standings the way he lives: with little fanfare. When he recorded his 1,000th career win in March of 2013, someone texted: “Congratulations Mr. Quiet!”If Maker had his way, he would have changed the exclamation mark to a period. “His actions speak more than his words,” his highest profile client, owner/breeder Ken Ramsey, said. “He’s very quiet.”

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ET Ramsey, last year’s Eclipse Award-winning owner and breeder, loves the way Maker communicates. “A lot of trainers don’t talk with you,” Ramsey said.

“With Mike, we have a dialogue instead of a monologue. We discuss horses and races and how we’re going to do it. I am so impressed with Mike.”

Who isn’t? Though he’s only 45 and has only been on his own since 2003, he’s finished in the top ten in victories and top 12 in earnings three consecutive years and counting. He was ninth in victories and tenth in earnings in 2011; tenth in wins and 12th in earnings in ’12, and third in victories and eighth in money last year.

This year, through the end of March, Maker is fifth in both victories and earnings. He also has a leading Kentucky Derby contender, Ramsey’s Grade 2 $1 million Louisiana Derby winner Vicar’s in Trouble; another contender, General A Rod; and maybe a third, Harry’s Holiday, any one of whom could fulfill Maker’s childhood dream, the one inspired by rooting for Affirmed over Alydar in the great Triple Crown battles of 1978. “Just because Steve Cauthen was riding Affirmed,” Maker said.

Maker was nine years old then and growing up in Madison Heights, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. His dad, George, was a successful trainer, saddling more than 1,000 winners and the earners of over $7.4 million. “My family raced at Hazel Park half the year and Detroit Race Course the other half, and like most kids, I dreamed of winning the Kentucky Derby,” he said.

Most kids didn’t have trainers in the family to fuel the fire. Maker began working with his dad at the track when he was ten. Half-hour commutes to the racetrack strengthened their bond. “On the weekends, I’d go to the track with my dad,” he said. “I fell in love with it immediately. I worked summer vacations and holidays. I’d clean the stalls and walk horses.

Wayne Lukas, I looked up to as a kid. I was always watching the big races. I had dreams of having good horses.”

“On the weekends, I’d go to the track with my dad. I fell in love with it immediately. I worked summer vacations and holidays. I’d clean the stalls and walk horses.

Wayne Lukas, I looked up to as a kid” Then Maker bought his first horse – at the age of 13. He can thank the Detroit Free Press and his father for that. “I had a paper route and my dad paid me for walking hots on weekends,” he said. “I stuck the money away. It was a lot of money at that age. We bought a horse for $2,500. My dad bought the horse. I

became a 25 percent owner. He raced at Hazel Park. The horse’s name was Fools Exodus. He was a $4,000 claimer. He won his first race. It was cool.”

Maker was hooked for life. He would eventually become his father’s assistant before he briefly ventured on his own in 1993, winning his first race April 28, 1993, at Detroit Race Course. Maker was 24 years old. He saddled 12 additional winners, including Macheath in the Sir Sprite Handicap at Detroit on September 6th. The purse was $12,000.

That year, Maker’s horses earned $55,761.

Maker decided he wasn’t really ready to be on his own. He reached out to trainer Dallas Stewart, then working at Oaklawn Park for none other than Wayne Lukas. Stewart hired him.

Thanks to Stewart, Maker got to work for his boyhood idol Lukas, beginning as an exercise rider, then becoming barn foreman and an assistant trainer. “Dallas is a great guy, very well liked,” Maker said. “Wayne was like a sports hero in my eyes. I thought I was very privileged to land in that spot. He was great. Great job; great memories.”

And Maker blossomed. In 1997, Stewart left Lukas to open his own stable. Maker took over the Churchill Downs division for Lukas, racing summers at Monmouth Park. “I was fine with it,” Maker said. “The way I thought was, it was just different racetracks. I loved Louisville.”

Maker is just another member of the Lukas Training Tree, joining other former Lukas assistants who have become top trainers, including Todd Pletcher, Kiaran McLaughlin,

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Maker gives instruction to Wild Swava's morning rider

Stewart, Mark Hennig, George Weaver, RandyBradshaw, and Bobby Barnett. “These guys that have come through our program, if I didn’t do anything else, I chose good guys,” Lukas said. “If I helped them a little, so be it. I always felt in my heart they were going to be successful. They have the feel for the game.

Mike has that in spades. They’re just good people. I’m very proud of them.”

Lukas admitted that it took a little time to understand Maker’s quiet demeanor. “When Mike came up, he was real quiet,” Lukas said.

“He doesn’t speak a lot. When I was first around him, I didn’t know if I could get him turned around. I’m kind of outspoken. But it didn’t take me long to realize he knew what he was doing and that’s just the way he is. He’s remarkably adept at dealing with people.”

Maybe he inherited it. Maker learned much from his dad, not just about horses: “My dad was one of these guys who paid his bills right away. Just very good to everybody. He said, `Getting mad’s not going to make anything better.’ He was close to living that; I don’t think I am.”

In 2002, Bruce Maker died, and Maker decided to go on his own the following year. “It was something I did want to do,” he said.

“When my dad passed, I kind of felt bad. He had lost a couple horses because he was sick.

One of them, the owner fired him because he was going through chemo. I figured, `Why not take a jump in the pool and see what happens?’”

He didn’t take a long to make a splash.

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Then, again, he’d made a great connection.

Ken Ramsey said, “I got to know him through Lukas. Mike asked me to dinner. He said he was buying. He said, `I’m thinking about going on my own.’ Then he asked if I can give him some horses. I said, `Yes.’” Ramsey has never regretted that decision: “He’s done good with my horses. We’ve never had an ill word. I don’t tell him what to do. He knows what he’s doing.”

You think?

They’ve made history together, Maker and Ramsey – setting records at Keeneland – and now their impressive winner of the Louisiana Derby, Vicar’s in Trouble, has as good a chance

“When I was first around him, I didn’t know if I could get him turned around. But it didn’t take me long to realize he knew what he was doing and that’s just the way he is. He’s remarkably adept at dealing with people” D. Wayne Lukas

as any to step up and win the Kentucky Derby.

The fact that Maker’s assistant, Joe Sharp, is Vicar’s in Trouble’s jockey Rosie Napravnik’s husband makes it an even better story.

Sharp, 29, oversaw 40 horses including Vicar’s in Trouble at Fair Grounds over the winter. “I’ve never heard Mike raise his voice,” Sharp said. “Not once. You can tell if he’s unsatisfied. He’ll tell you how to do something or show you, and then that’s it. Then it’s over.

There’s no yelling. Mike’s very quiet. He’s trusting you to do your job. Employees respond to that and want to do more because he tells them less. He gives you the responsibility and the trust that he knows you’re going to do the job right.”

John Lynde, Maker’s 49-year-old assistant who has 75 horses, including many two-yearolds, at Turfway Park, echoed Sharp’s assessment of their boss: “He’s a man of few words. He doesn’t talk a lot. He keeps everything fairly simple. If there’s any issues, we talk to him. He doesn’t micromanage. He has a lot of faith in his assistants.”

Kind of like the faith Maker’s dad had in him.

There are many of his dad's training insights he still draws from today. “He had pretty much the attitude that things go wrong with horses,” Maker said. “You have to fix them. Have patience. Deal with individuals. Growing up in Detroit, you see a lot of horses’ problems, a million different things. They had a lot of issues. He’d tell me which horses not to claim.

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Ready for work: three of Maker’s horses out on track

worked together seven days a week. We were very close.”

That early experience with claiming horses set Maker up well for his future success with Ken Ramsey.

“When I worked for Wayne, Mr. Ramsey had a couple of horses with him,” Maker said. “To have an owner like Mr. Ramsey makes my job easier. He lets me place my horses where I think they belong.”

Ramsey does so with natural exuberance.

“That type of enthusiasm carries over to the stable,” Maker said.

When asked how many of Ramsey’s horses he has, Maker said, “It changes every minute.”

That’s because Maker and Ramsey claim horses constantly. For sheer volume, it’s hard to believe any owner/trainer combo in the world is busier. On March 29, when Vicar’s in Trouble stamped his ticket to Churchill Downs at Fair Grounds with his impressive victory in the Louisiana Derby, their Eriugena won a $37,900 allowance. As uncoupled stablemates at Gulfstream Park, Joes Blazing Aaron finished fourth in the $200,000 Grade 2 Pan American, while Admiral Kitten, who had four wins and six seconds in 11 starts heading into the race, was seventh.

At Turfway Park, Perry Kitten finished second in a maiden special weight and Emerald Crescent was third in a $5,000 claimer.

Additionally, Maker-owned Burn the Mortgage finished third in the $288,000 Grade 2 Mervin H. Muniz Jr. Handicap at the Fair Grounds. On

the next day at Gulfstream, Maker/Ramsey’s Cage Fighter won a starter allowance.

It’s good to be Maker or Ramsey these days, but it will take a victory in the Kentucky Derby to top the happiness that abounded after the Louisiana Derby, a race Maker watched in person instead of staying in Florida.

“Mike doesn’t show up at Fair Grounds that often,” Napravnik said.

“The Florida Derby was the same day and he chose to come to the Fair Grounds. He went to the right place.”

Twenty minutes after J. Amando Rodriguez’s General A Rod earned his trip to the Kentucky Derby by finishing third in the $1 million, Grade 1 Florida Derby, Maker, Sharp, and Napravnik were celebrating Vicar’s in Trouble victory at the Fair Grounds. “I’d like to have that every weekend,” Maker said.

Sharp was a little more enthusiastic: “It was

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It could on the first Saturday in May. Vicar’s in Trouble had won the Grade 3 LeComte Stakes by nearly seven lengths before finishing a solid third from the hugely disadvantageous 13 post to Intense Holiday in the Grade 2 Risen Star. Vicar's in Trouble then beat Intense Holiday by 3½ lengths in the Louisiana Derby.

Napravnik, who also rode another possible Derby starter for Maker, Skychal Racing’s Harry’s Holiday when he was second by a nose to – ironically – Ramsey’s We Miss Artie in the

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Grade 3 Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park on March 22, was impressed with Maker before she began riding for him: “Mike’s a great horseman. He won’t tell you much, but you can see how his program runs. I know what a quiet guy he is. When Joe was hired by Mike, they hadn’t met personally. I thought it was funny because Mike has such a hard time talking.

“That’s the way Mike is. Now, he talks to Joe for an hour and a half on the phone. Joe will have to tell him, `I can’t talk anymore because I have a horse in the next race.’ I’ve seen Joe

develop so much. He’s doing great under Mike’s direction.”

Just like his horses. Maker has rolled up 13 training titles at Turfway Park; three at Keeneland, including a record 25 in the 2013 spring meet; two at Churchill Downs, including a record 31 in the 26-day 2008 fall meet; two at Ellis Park; and one at Kentucky Downs.

“It’s been exciting,” said another Maker assistant trainer, 46-year-old Lazaro Guerra, who works with Maker at the Trackside Training Center, formerly known as the Sports Spectrum Training Center, near Churchill Downs. “The horses are doing well. He’s been working on horses for a long time.”

Freefourinternet gave Maker his first stakes victory and his first graded stakes victory in his first two starts in Maker’s barn in 2004, capturing the Labor Day Handicap at Mountaineer and then the Grade 2 Hawthorne Gold Cup. Four years later, Maker claimed Furthest Land for Ramsey for $35,000 at Belmont Park, and the gelding capped a remarkable year-long run by winning the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at 21-1, marking Furthest Land’s seventh win in ten starts for his new connections.

Stately Victor only won three of 26 starts for Maker, but one of them was a 4¼-length score in the 2010 Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at 40-1.

He then finished eighth in both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes.

On September 24, 2011, Maker won four stakes in one afternoon, including the Kentucky Cup Juvenile with Hansen, a

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Vicar's In Trouble with Rosie Napravnik aboard (right) heads into the Fair Grounds stretch to go on and win the Louisiana Derby-Gr2

striking colt who was almost white. Six weeks later, Hansen gave Maker his second Breeders’ Cup victory and sealed his first Eclipse championship when he capped his three-forthree juvenile season by nipping Union Rags by a head in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. The following year, Hansen finished second in the Grade 3 Holy Bull then won the Grade 3 Gotham before his final Derby prep: the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. That race will forever be known as the Tale of the Tail.

Like Maker, Hansen’s co-owner and breeder, Dr. Kendall Hansen, is from the Detroit area. Unlike Maker, Hansen is a man of many words who craves the spotlight. In a 2012 story

by Melissa Hoppert in the New York Times, Hansen expressed his frustration with Maker’s quiet nature: “You ask him, `How did Hansen work today?’ And he’ll say, `Great.’ And then there’s a long pause.”

Maker had plenty to say when Hansen dyed his colt’s tail blue to match his silks on the day

Mike Maker’s rise To ProMinence Year

starts

Wins (rank)

2nds

3rds

earnings

(rank)

2010

605

126 (18)

90

68

$3,947,853

(21)

2011

734

158 (9)

125

88

$6,721,836

(10)

2012

737

159 (10)

136

95

$6,864,949

(12)

2013

998

228 (3)

182

130

$8,357,325

(8)

*2014

241

71 (5)

38

35

$2,683,803

(5)

*Through March 31, 2014

Mike Maker’s HiGHLiGHTs 1,000th Career win Magical Season, Fair Grounds, March 16, 2003 First Stakes win Freefourinternet, Labor Day Handicap, Mountaineer, 2004 First Graded Stakes win Freefourinternet, Grade 2 Hawthorne Gold Cup, 2004 Breeders’ Cup winners Furthest Land, Dirt Mile, 2009; Hansen, Juvenile, 2011 Eclipse Champion Hansen, Two-Year-Old Colt, 2011

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of the Blue Grass. Maker, who had been told by the stewards the horse would be scratched if he showed up at the gate with a blue tail, had the color washed out. Then Hansen nearly dyed it again, before finally demurring. Hansen finished second that day, then ninth in the Kentucky Derby. He returned to win the Grade 3 Iowa Derby by ten lengths before finishing fourth in the Grade 2 West Virginia Derby, and he was retired soon afterwards because of a tendon injury.

Two years later, Maker has only fond memories of his most famous colt. “My only Eclipse Award winner,” Maker said. “Wellknown horse, too. He won my second Breeders’ Cup. Any time you can win those type of races, it’s very gratifying. We started dreaming about the roses the next day. It didn’t work out, but it was a great ride.”

More have followed. On October 6, 2012, Maker won two Grade 1 stakes at two different tracks: the Dixiana Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland with Joha, and the Jamaica Handicap at Belmont Park with King David, a horse he claimed for $35,000 in his previous start.

He defers credit for his success. “Having the right people around the horses is very important,” he said. “I use the strategy that I don’t want to teach them to lose, because that’s very easy to do. I feel that every horse we get is going to make money. I know it’s not true, but it’s better than thinking they won’t.”

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DICKIE SMALL

Celebrating the life of a legend Much has been written about Dickie Small, a lot highlighting his impressive career as a trainer, since his untimely death in April. Dickie trained my horses and I have lots I can say about that, but I want to focus more on Dickie the person, because ultimately, it was his character and personality that made him the legend he is.

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FIRST met Dickie in September of 1957 when we were both 11 years old entering the 7th Grade at the Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. The class list was of course alphabetized by last name followed by first name and, when called upon, Dickie would have taken a good deal of ribbing from his classmates and me if he hadn’t been about a foot taller than all of us. He remained larger than life to me throughout our long friendship.

Neither of us was particularly well behaved, and in those days, students were given demerits and had to report to the gymnasium on Saturday mornings to sort socks, jocks, and t-shirts. Dickie and I sorted a lot of socks, jocks, and t-shirts and ran a lot of laps when the sorting was over, but somehow we always enjoyed it and had a lot of laughs and came back for more.

One of his favorite stories from our high school days was the canoe trip we took in the spring of our sophomore year, shooting the rapids in the Potomac River. I don’t think we were in the Potomac more than 15 minutes before we both capsized and watched all our gear floating down the river. We recovered most of it and when we pitched our tents that night I asked Dickie what he brought to eat and he said, “Not much, but I swiped a bottle

of bourbon from my father!” On the third and final day of the canoe trip, we could hear the rapids up ahead and they were really loud.

Fortunately, we had the good sense to pull over and take a look – much to our horror, not 50 yards downstream, were the Great Falls of the Potomac!!

Dickie was a terrific athlete at Gilman, playing tight end and defensive end on the undefeated football team and starring on defense for an equally good lacrosse team. He went from Gilman to Penn (University of Pennsylvania) where he played lacrosse as a freshman and was elected captain of the team as a sophomore, only to get thrown out before the spring season.

Speaking of getting thrown out: Dickie loved to tell the story that, when introducing me to a couple for whom he trained, he told them that I was responsible for getting him through Gilman School; when they asked, “Oh Dickie, did you cheat on him?” he replied, “Oh, no, they threw Teddy out first and I got to stay.”

After leaving Penn, Dickie enlisted in the Army and went through training as a Green Beret, doing two tours of duty in Special Ops. He came back and finished his education, working himself through college as a member of the gate crew at Delaware Park. Remarkable

as it may seem, on September 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Buildings, Dickie showed up at the Fort Meade recruiting office and tried to re-enlist.

He was disappointed when they told him he was too old, and he tried to talk them out of declining him by telling them how much he could teach young recruits who were headed to Special Ops. I don’t for a second doubt that he was right and they were wrong.

Dickie’s training career is well documented, but there were many early successes in addition to those of Broad Brush, Concern, and Valley Crossing – the recently known heroes. He took Festive Mood to the Hollywood Gold Cup, and jockey Herbie Hinosa was his rider. At the press party the night before the race, Herbie spotted Angie Dickinson and gave her a big hug and kiss and explained to Dickie they’d gone to high school in Texas together. Angie introduced Dickie to her then-husband, Burt Bacharach, who sent him a horse; from that time on, Dickie trained for him.

I think that was what Dickie was most proud of – that owners stayed with him throughout their career or his, and he was the rare trainer who felt that the obligation to take care of owners was equally as important as taking care of the horse.

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It wasn’t just the owners that Dickie took care of. Everyone knows about the successful female jockeys that came out of the so-called “Dickie Small Riding School,” but very few people know that there were literally hundreds of people he helped in one way or another.

When his niece, veterinarian Jane Merryman, went through his desk after he died, she discovered it jammed with letters of thanks from people of all walks of life.

Another of his famous horse stories was about him and fellow serious drinker Billy Turner. Between them, they had the best threeyear-old filly and the best three-year-old colt within a year of each other, although they could barely get out of bed in the mornings.

Seattle Slew, of course, went on to win the Triple Crown but Caesar’s Wish may have proven to be equally good if she hadn’t broken down in the Alabama. The owner of that

Dickie Small talking with Ted Mudge (left)

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horse, Sally Gibson, kept her horses with Dickie for almost 40 years until her death, and her son continued the tradition after that.

Dickie grew up in Monkton, Maryland. His mother was an accomplished horsewoman who appeared in a foxhunting scene from the movie Maryland and his father trained racehorses, as did his Hall of Fame uncle, Sidney Watters. I kept my breeding stock at Sidney’s farm and was fortunate enough to get to know him over the years, and I always felt like I was talking to an older version of Dickie.

Dickie loved that part of Maryland and was in the process of completing the rehabilitation of his family farm in Monkton when the cancer struck, but throughout his illness he continued clearing, mending fences, and building a training barn himself.

Perhaps the most famous horse Dickie trained was Broad Brush, whom he described

as being “a little bit difficult.” Everybody knows about Dickie driving his horse around in his van just to give him something different to do but there was also a time when we had a significant snowstorm of about two feet.

Dickie knew that the track would be closed and the horse would hurt himself if all they could do was shedrow him, so he put chains on the van and took the horse to his father’s farm where there is an enormous hill – a photo of Broad Brush running up that hill in two feet of snow might have been his favorite picture.

Sad to say Dickie never got to write the children’s book that he wanted to do about Broad Brush, who was the equine version of the ugly duckling.

What I hadn’t realized until I began going to Pimlico before work in the mornings to watch my horses train with Dickie is that he had become a serious student of history. He got me turned on to books on tape and for many years we’ve been trading history books back and forth and talking about various topics in American history that interested us both. One of my fondest memories of discussing history was on a road trip we took. For many years he kept a string in Camden, South Carolina, and

“He was the rare trainer who felt that the obligation to take care of owners was equally as important as taking care of the horse” he would drive there to watch his horses when he had a two-day gap between races in Maryland.

When I mentioned that I had never been to Camden, he offered to take me with him. He called me up one Sunday at 4:00pm and said, “Can you be at my house at seven?” I did so and we loaded up his pickup truck with his two dogs, some Diet Pepsis, and cheese crackers. We arrived in time for a quick breakfast before training and afterwards toured the training center, the tack shop, and grabbed an early lunch. Before noon, we were back in the truck headed for Baltimore and arrived at 7:00pm – exactly 24 hours after our departure!

Even though I grew up on a farm with horses, have ridden my entire life, and have been involved with racing for over 25 years, I can honestly say that I learned more about racing and breeding from Dickie in a few serious conversations that we’ve had than I’d learned from any other source. The unfortunate thing for me is there is so much more I could have learned but Dickie went too soon. The larger than life figure that I befriended in 1957 will always be part of my life, as he will be for those hundreds of people that he managed to help find the right path. n

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FEEDING POSITION A horse prefers to eat with its head low to the ground

What is the correct feeding position?

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The wild horse lives a very different life to the modern racehorse but its lifestyle is worthy of our consideration as, in order to minimize the adverse effects of the artificial way of life that we impose on the modern horse, it is essential to understand how the horse is actually designed to live.

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N its natural state, the horse is a browsing, herd-dwelling herbivore, living on a diet of varied forms of herbage and typically eating for around 16-to-18 hours a day. Wild horses are not particularly fit; they usually move at a slow pace, with high-speed exercise limited to brief bouts, frequently when under attack from predators. When keeping horses under our modern, unnatural forms of management, we should consider what detrimental effect this may have on their health. Amongst the many factors that should be considered, an important one is our feeding practices.

The normal herbage eaten by horses is of low dietary quality and contains a high proportion of roughage. Much of the energy contained in herbage is bound up in complex carbohydrates that cannot be broken down by mammalian digestive enzymes. To combat this, herbivores rely on a symbiotic relationship with microbes (primarily bacteria and protozoa) that live in specially designed regions of the intestine. The microbial flora is able to digest much of the plant material unavailable to mammalian digestive processes, and the products of its work may then be absorbed by the host herbivore. In ruminants, such as cattle and sheep, the microbial flora is housed in specially adapted regions of their complex stomach, and microbial digestion precedes a more conventional form of digestion. In the horse, however, while there is a certain amount of microbial digestion in the stomach, by far the majority of the microbial flora is found further down the digestive tract, in portions of the large intestine known as the cecum and large colon.

After the horse has subjected its food intake to a conventional form of digestion, the microbial flora break down much of the plant material that cannot be dealt with by the horse’s digestive pathways. This results in the availability of substances known as volatile fatty acids (VFAs) that can be absorbed across the wall of the cecum and colon and used for energy. The gut microflora also build proteins from the nitrogenous material present in plants but, whereas in the ruminant this

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bacterial-derived protein can be broken down and absorbed in the small intestine, the horse has no mechanism to deal with bacterial protein and so it is lost.

The dentition of the horse is very different to that of man. The article “How Eating Aids the Skeletal Structure” by Gary Waters and Mary Bromiley that was published in a previous North American Trainer (Issue 30) goes into some detail into the horse’s mouth and how its teeth work, but for the purposes of this article, here is a refresher:

“Eating a kilogram of hay takes a horse about 40 minutes compared to ten for a kilogram of oats.

Hence, eating concentrate feeds reduces feeding time and may be a factor in the development of behavioural abnormalities” Horses have six incisor teeth in the front of the upper and lower jaws, and these are used to grasp food. In the cheeks there are a further six teeth in both the upper and lower arcades on each side. These consist of pre-molars (the front three teeth in each arcade) – which have temporary and permanent sets – and the molars (the rear three), of which there is only one set. These teeth are used for the grinding of food and chewing, and they continue to erupt throughout life as they are worn down, typically at a rate of around two-to-three millimeters per year.

In front of the premolars, much smaller, rudimentary premolar teeth known colloquially as wolf teeth are found, in many horses in the upper jaw and in a few horses, the lower jaw. The full complement of teeth is completed by the canines, which are found in

most male horses and a few mares. They lie a short distance behind the incisor teeth in the space between the incisors and premolars – known as 'the bars' – where the bit is situated when the horse is wearing a bridle.

When chewing food, horses move the cheek teeth in a three-phase cycle, consisting of opening, closing, and power strokes.

During the power stroke, the lower cheek teeth move over the upper ones in a grinding movement. The horse's lower jaw is narrower than the upper one and so as the cheek teeth wear on each other, they need a wide range of lateral (sideways) movement so that they move across and abrade each other sufficiently to avoid the formation of sharp points on the outer aspect of the upper cheek teeth and the inner aspect of the lower ones.

It has been found that in equids – such as Przewalski’s horses, zebras, or mules – that live in a more natural fashion, obtaining food solely by grazing, rarely have lateral points on their teeth. When they do, the lateral points are slight in degree whereas, without appropriate dental attention, sharp points occur on the cheek teeth of the vast majority of domesticated horses. In fact, the degree of movement of the lower jaw is sufficient to give full contact of the upper and lower teeth when horses chew hay but not when they are fed pelleted feed. The tendency to form lateral points on the teeth is, therefore, likely to be increased when horses eat a greater proportion of concentrates compared to forage. Jaw movements during eating are also reduced when horses eat dry food as opposed to grass.

The use of high-roughage feeds appears therefore to be good for dental health in the horse; however, performance horse diets must be high in energy, and which means making up a significant part of the horse's ration with high-energy concentrate feeds, predisposing to the development of dental problems and necessitating frequent dental attention.

Head position may also have an important influence on dental health. When horses are fed forage from a hay net or a rack that forces them to eat with an elevated head position, the lower jaw moves back on the upper one so that the two dental arcades do not move over each other correctly. With time, this can cause the formation of a hook on the front of the first upper premolars and the back of the last lower molars. As it grows, the upper front hook can push the lower jaw further back, making the teeth move even further out of correct line with each other. This backward pressure can also cause abnormal pressure on the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), the joint between the lower jaw and the skull.

Occasionally, this may progress to degenerative joint disease in the TMJ, which can cause pain, reduced jaw motion, and resentment of attempts to open the mouth.

When eating hay, a thousand-pound horse typically takes around 1,700 chews per one

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pound of hay, whereas when eating oats this falls markedly to around 425 chews per pound. Eating a pound of hay takes a horse about twenty minutes compared to five for a pound of oats. Hence, eating concentrate feeds reduces feeding time and it has been suggested that this may be a factor in the development of some behavioral abnormalities, some workers having reported an increase in the prevalence of stereotypical behavior such as cribbing, wind sucking, wood chewing and boxwalking (behavior patterns once so wrongly described as ‘stable vices’) in horses fed diets that were lower in forage.

“The prevalence of gastric ulceration in racehorses is very high; it has been variously estimated as occurring in 80 to 100% of horses in training” Respiratory disorders occur frequently in horses. In younger racehorses, these disorders are frequently related to bacterial and, less frequently, viral infections, but as horses get older a respiratory hypersensitivity or allergy known as recurrent airway obstruction (RAO) occurs more often. Horses with RAO have a hypersensitivity to the spores of molds that occur commonly in the stable environment. The condition may be viewed a little like the occupational asthmas of

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man where prolonged exposure to aeroallergens (airborne substances capable of generating an allergic response) are inhaled over a long period of time. Forage can be a major source of aeroallergens, so reduction of exposure of the horse to them, either by the use of a minimum-dust form of forage – such as the haylage-type feeds – or by soaking or steaming good quality hay, can minimize exposure to the allergens and may minimize the risk of horses developing RAO. The prevalence of gastric ulceration in racehorses is very high; it has been variously estimated as occurring in 80-to-100% of horses in training. It has also been reported to occur in a high proportion of horses used for other activities, including endurance, eventing, showing, and even pleasure riding.

The horse's stomach is divided into two parts.

The first, so-called squamous portion has a lining that is continuous with that of the esophagus (or gullet), while the second, glandular portion contains the cells that release gastric acid and other secretions.

Gastric ulcers have been reported in both regions of the stomach, with ulcers in the squamous part being reported most frequently as well as being the most studied and the more easily seen on gastroscopy (examination of the stomach with an endoscope).

The most important factor in the development of gastric ulcers in the horse appears to be excessive exposure of the gastric surface to acid. Hydrochloric acid, which is secreted continuously into the stomach as part of the normal digestive and gastrointestinal protective process, provides

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“Horses at pasture have the lowest prevalence of gastric ulcers, whilst those whose diet contains less roughage and more concentrates have a higher prevalence” the main source of acid, but VFAs produced in the stomach by bacterial fermentation can also contribute to the problem.

There are a number of risk factors for the development of gastric ulcers and, along with dietary considerations, these include stressful events such as transport, competition, and training. Intense exercise may predispose to the development of gastric ulcers by causing the diaphragm and abdominal contents to press on the stomach, making gastric acid contact the squamous part of the stomach, which lacks protection against acid insult.

Water deprivation also appears to be a risk factor for the development of gastric ulcers.

While non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as phenylbutazone, can also be involved in their development, many horses with gastric ulcers have no history of NSAID administration. In humans, an important cause of gastric ulcers is infection with the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, but in the horse there is no convincing evidence that this organism has a role.

Dietary factors appear to play an important role in the development of gastric ulcers.

Fasting is associated with ulcers, and the intermittent feed intake that occurs in horses fed a high-concentrate, low-forage diet is also a risk factor. Horses at pasture have the lowest prevalence of gastric ulcers, while those whose diet contains less roughage and more concentrates have a higher prevalence.

Left to its own devices, the horse would spend up to eighteen hours per day grazing and would rarely go for more than two-tofour hours without eating. Horses produce saliva in response to chewing and under natural conditions, due to the amount of time that they spend eating, they produce copious amounts of saliva for the majority of the day.

Saliva contains bicarbonate, an alkaline substance that buffers (negates the effects of) gastric acid.

The signs of gastric ulceration in the horse are very variable and may include any combination of poor appetite, dullness, change of attitude, reduced performance, reluctance to train, poor condition, weight loss, low-grade colic, excessive periods spent lying down and, in foals (in which gastric ulcers are a risk following a wide range of medical disorders), tooth grinding. While the majority of horses with gastric ulcers show no overt clinical signs, it is possible that they still feel pain from them and this, of course, carries important welfare issues as well as being a sub-clinical cause of impaired performance.

Given the high prevalence of gastric ulcers in racehorses, it is perhaps unfortunate that the use of the effective inhibitor of gastric acid production, omeprazole – which is a very effective treatment for gastric ulcers – is not permitted during racing. However, there are a number of dietary measures that may be helpful in some cases. Allowing free access to good quality grazing or increased access to forage can help to combat the development of gastric ulcers. Although this is often not feasible in the racing environment, minimizing the time for which the horse is fasting and providing as much forage as possible can certainly help. The use of alfalfa hay has been shown to reduce stomach acidity and this may reduce the prevalence of gastric ulcers. Feeding meals that are low in starch can reduce VFA formation in the stomach, and it has been suggested that horses prone to the development of gastric ulcers should be fed no more than one pound of concentrate per 220 pounds of bodyweight and at intervals of at least six hours.

It is apparent that there is much more to the feeding of horses than solely the basic ingredients that constitute their diet. The frequency of feeding and how the feed is given is also important. A consideration of factors such as these can bring about easily achieved yet significant improvements to horse health and welfare that may reflect also on performance.n

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT Does diet make a difference in performance between colts and fillies?

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FILLIES Zenyatta, America’s Horse of the Year in 2010, enjoyed dandelions as part of her diet

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There are certain trainers in the horseracing world who seem to be particularly adept at bringing talented fillies to the racetrack to produce winning performances, often over and over again. Some will even race following a quick return from the breeding shed, with great success. While inherent ability from their genetic makeup must be a huge factor in their success, the skill of the trainer and his or her team in knowing just how hard to push to achieve optimum training must also be key. Are fillies ‘dynamic divas,’ or should they be regarded as the ‘weaker sex’? Should we treat them any differently to colts when it comes to their feeding and management? In exploring these questions this quarter, I will focus on these real or perhaps perceived differences between colts and fillies.

WORDS: CatheRine Dunnett BSC, PhD, R.nutR PhOtOS: ShutteRStOCK, BenOit PhOtOS, CaROline nORRiS, FRanCe GalOP/aPRh

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ROM a comparison of various elite human disciplines, it is estimated that men are about 11% faster than women and there are some obvious physical differences contributing to this in terms of stature, muscle mass, bone density, etc. In horses, fillies are generally slightly shorter and lighter than colts and they have a higher percentage of body fat. However, there are few studies that describe any appreciable differences in muscle mass, bone density, lung capacity, or heart

size. Perhaps not surprisingly researchers suggest that the difference in speed between colts and fillies is only about 1%.

Interestingly, however, the ability to tolerate muscle lactic acid, which is largely genetically controlled but which can be influenced by diet, is likely to be lower in fillies compared to colts. This is because muscle carnosine (a dipeptide involved in buffering lactic acid in muscle) is lower in fillies compared to colts.

Evolution is likely to provide the reason for the comparatively small difference in running speed between fillies and colts. As an animal

of flight, the fastest horses would have survived irrespective of their sex. So it would seem that the fillies can seriously take on the colts and compete effectively; however, for the

TABLE 1: PERCENTAGE OF INJURIES COLTS/FILLIES No. of horses out of 514

2-year-olds

No. of horses out of 424

3-year-olds

2-year-olds

Colts

Fillies

3-year-olds

Colts

Fillies

Sore Shins

150

58%

42%

53

65%

35%

Inflammatory Airway Disease

68

54%

56%

35

51%

49%

Joint Problems

57

49%

51%

55

69%

31%

Fractures

52

33%

67%

40

65%

35%

Tying Up

27

22%

78%

17

24%

76%

Knee Chips

17

53%

47%

17

53%

47%

Tendon Problems

12

50%

50%

16

69%

31%

Soft Palate problem

8

50%

50%

13

62%

39%

Colic

8

50%

50%

3

33%

67%

Roaring

6

100%

0%

7

71%

29%

Other

68

46%

54%

49

55%

45%

Adapted from: Wilsher et al (2006); Factors associated with failure of Thoroughbred horses to train and race

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Snow Fairy, seen winning the 2012 Irish Champion Stakes, beating the colt Nathaniel into second place

biggest racing accolades there are procedural limitations. There may be an economic argument at play, since a top race winning colt is infinitely more valuable at stud than a similar broodmare that can only foal once a year.

Temperament is another factor that has stereotypically defined fillies, with many being described as highly strung or nervous, although this should certainly not be taken as the norm. Multiple Grade/Group 1-winning fillies Ouija Board and Snow Fairy were described by their trainer Ed Dunlop as being tough and gutsy. He said, “They always galloped well and generally ate well – the exceptional ones are tough and will keep going.” However, where fillies do have a difficult temperament it can bring particular issues to training them successfully. They may be fussy feeders and while they eat up when they first come into training, finishing up a feed is a target that is not always reached as training work increases and pressure mounts.

Fillies particularly can be very skilled at filtering out small pellets which they find unpalatable in mixes or sweet feed, which are unfortunately often the carrier for important vitamins and minerals. The addition of powdered supplements can add to the

“Evolution is likely to provide the reason for the small difference in running speed between fillies and colts. As an animal of flight, the fastest horses would have survived irrespective of their sex” problem because these can be left at the bottom of the feed bowl. Adequate intake of forage can also go by the wayside as the season progresses, which can contribute to nutritionally related problems such as gastric ulcers and tying up.

It has long been anecdotally believed in racing that tying up is more prevalent in fillies than colts, and data published by Dr. Sandra Wilsher and Dr. ‘Twink’ Allen demonstrates dramatically that this is indeed the case (Table 1). While accepting that genetics have a part to play, Dr. Stephanie Valberg of the University of Minnesota suggests that a frequent trigger for

an acute episode of tying up can be any excitement or stress, such being held up at the rear of the string. Fillies can also be anxious travelers, sweating heavily and thus losing important electrolytes, the balance of which is vital for normal muscle function. Interestingly other issues such as fractures that can also be influenced by nutrition were significantly more common in fillies as two-year-olds but in colts as three-year-olds, while joint problems were more significant in older colts.

Long distance travel can mean that continuity in feeding is difficult to achieve unless you take your own feed with you. It can take some fillies a few days to fit into a different feeding regime when racing abroad.

Neophobia, which is essentially a fear of new feedstuffs, is a behavior that is commonly seen in other species and is sometimes described in horses traveling to other countries. Some fillies become seasoned travelers and by all accounts adapt well to their changing environment and feed. Pragmatically, It is always going to be difficult getting your exact feed when abroad and you just have to do the best you can and hope they will adapt well within the time frame.

Energy requirements for horses in training are calculated using body weight and, because

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NUTRITION fillies will usually weigh less than colts of a similar age and stage of training, it is normal for them to require less feed to maintain condition. On the contrary some fillies will eat as much as a big strapping colt but this largely depends on their comparative body size.

The picture is complicated where a filly is a fussy feeder and some increase in energy density of feed is needed. This basically means that more energy has to be packed into a smaller volume.

Feeding a less than straightforward filly should mean that they receive a balanced diet that is suitable for intense exercise, but also one that keeps them occupied and stimulated psychologically and reduces stress and anxiety. Ideally meal times need to be regular and consistent, and meal size kept small and frequent. John Shirreffs, trainer of one of the greatest mares in Zenyatta, likes to feed small amounts five times times a day. He says “Always the trick is to keep trying feeds until you find something she likes and don’t train so hard that she won’t eat – they love attention so bring fun treats like dandelion, sweet potatoes, Guinness, or aloe vera juice.”

Interestingly, he also said that he always likes to feed from the floor in a rubber trug bucket or rub, as he feels this is a much more natural position for feeding.

Regard must be given not only to how much energy is provided from feed, but also where that energy is coming from in terms of the balance between fiber, starch, sugar, and oil. This is particularly important where temperament is an issue, or if there is a family history or previous incidence of muscle stiffness or acute tying up.

For fillies in early training, a minimum of 1.5% of bodyweight in hay should be allowed

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as this will set up good eating habits for the rest of the season and will also reduce the reliance on concentrate feed. Forage intake can decrease as work increases but a minimum of 1% of bodyweight must always be goal. Feeding fillies different types of forage such as hay, haylage, alfalfa chop, and grass chaff in one sitting can help to tempt them to eat an adequate amount.

“A ration that provides plenty of forage combined with a concentrate feed that is low in starch and sugar is much more likely to keep a stressy filly settled than a lowforage, high-starch, and sugar-based ration” During this time, a feed that is low in starch (20% or less) and sugar that also provides adequate quality protein (e.g. from soya) is desirable. While some low-energy feeds may be low in starch, they do not provide adequate quality protein to support muscle turnover in these elite athletes in my opinion. As training progresses, a higher starch feed can be introduced, but this is not always necessary or desirable, especially where the filly is of a very excitable disposition. Recent research in trotters suggested that ‘performance’ was not diminished in horses fed an exclusive forage-

based ration. These findings need to be examined further because ‘in field’ performance is so different to treadmill tests and comparatively difficult to quantify, and intensity of exercise somewhat different between trotting and certainly flat racing.

What is clear is that energy source has a far more evidence-based effect on behavior than many supplements. A ration that provides plenty of forage combined with a concentrate feed that is low in starch and sugar is much more likely to keep a stressy filly settled than a low-forage, high-starch, and sugar-based ration. If supplemental ‘calmers’ are effective and are acceptable within the rules of racing then they could be beneficial; however, most do not offer any tangible evidence of benefit.

High-oil feeds for top dressing such as linseed and rice bran, or even straight vegetable oil, are excellent for increasing the energy density of the ration and so maintaining condition. Sugar beet, while not hugely popular in racing circles, is a great feed to add moisture and to help disguise powdered supplements or to carry those vitamin- and mineral-containing pellets.

It has been suggested that hormones account for the large difference in the incidence of tying up between colts and fillies, but no study to date has unequivocally proven a causal link. There is no doubt in some individuals, however, that behavior and the ‘will to win’ may be affected by stages in the estrus cycle. Some fillies can be either cranky or too docile during estrus, either of which can have a negative effect on performance.

Interestingly some really talented fillies may show little evidence of estrus and simply get on with their job.

The stable hormonal state established following a visit to the breeding barn may explain the relative success of some great mares. Although it is not allowed under BHA rules, Regumate seeks to address this situation, with marbles inserted in the uterus to mimic pregnancy being used as a nonpharmacological option with relative degrees of success. There are also many supplements that seek to address so called ‘PMS’ in fillies and mares, most of which contain herbs including agnus castus (chaste berry). Agnus castus would appear to have some benefit in humans although its effect in horses has not been investigated fully.

So it would seem that the fillies certainly have the talent, and when trained and fed sympathetically they are able to deliver at the highest level. John Shirreffs’ bottom line is to keep their ears forward and keep them happy!

And if Black Caviar could speak, perhaps she would agree with another world-class female athlete: “Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do – but I think that you have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner!’’ – Venus Williams, a world-class tennis player. n

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WINNING OWNERS Profiles on Grade 1-winning owners between January and March, 2014

North American Trainer’s special feature on our top Grade 1 winners for the past quarter. Visit trainermagazine.com/winners to view the profiles of all Grade 1-winning owners from April 2013 through March 2014.

WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: HORSEPHOTOS.COM

FASHION PLATE

Won the Las Virgenes at Santa Anita, February 1st, 2014 Owned by Arnold Zetcher and Michael Tabor Trained by Simon Callaghan Sire Old Fashioned Dam Miss Puzzle by Citidancer

ARNOLD Zetcher fell in love with Thoroughbred racing at Cahokia Downs, a track operated by the East St. Louis Jockey Club near Alorton, St. Clair County, Illinois, not far from Zetcher’s native St. Louis, where he attended Washington University. Seeing Buckpasser and Secretariat race at Arlington Park in Chicago fanned his passion for racing. He held on to a winning ticket on Secretariat as a souvenir, and, in an interview in Thoroughbred Times, said that racing made him a “better person.” Then he tried making racing better, serving as chairman of Thoroughbred Owners of California.

Now 73, Zetcher worked with Federated Department Stores in Cincinnati, Bonwit Teller in New York City, Kohl’s Food Stores in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the John Breuner Company in San Francisco before becoming chairman, president, and CEO of Talbots, an international clothing manufacturer and retailer of upscale professional women’s wear headquartered in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was named one of the top 25 managers of the year in 2000 by Business Week, and, two years later, was awarded the National Retail Federation’s Gold

Medal, the industry’s highest honor. He has also served as the chairman of the National Retail Federation Foundation, which is involved in education projects in retail sales. He retired from Talbots in March, 2008.

Zetcher became a Thoroughbred owner in 2000, with Hall of Famer Ron McAnally as his trainer. Zetcher’s first graded stakes winner was Fairy Ransom, who captured the 2003 Grade 2 Del Mar Derby. House of Fortune won a pair of Grade 2 stakes – the Fantasy and Hollywood Oaks – the following year.

In 2008, Zetcher switched to another Hall of Fame trainer, Bob Baffert, and saw continued success. Zetcher’s Gabby’s Golden Gal won the Acorn Stakes-G1 and Richard’s Kid the Grade 1 Pacific Classic in 2009, and in 2010, his EZ’s Gentleman won the Triple Bend Handicap-G1 and El Brujo the Pat O’Brien Stakes-G1. Another big year was 2011, with Midnight Interlude winning the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby and Liaison the CashCall Futurity-G1. John Shirreffs trained the owner’s Zardana, a Grade 2 winner in North America, to defeat reigning Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra in 2010.

racing. “It’s more of a tribute to my grandfather and father,” Seth Hancock, the 64-year-old owner, partner and manager of Claiborne, said at the time. “My grandfather (Arthur B. Hancock) started all this over here in Kentucky, and my dad (Arthur B. “Bull”

Hancock Jr.) built it up into what it was, and I’m just trying to keep it going.”

Hancock, who graduated from the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture in 1971, and his sister Dell have done more than keep it going. They have continued a standard of excellence at the historic farm whose most recent stars include 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Blame, who began his stallion career at Claiborne in 2011; 2012 graded stakes winners Cease and Rumor; and 2013 triple graded stakes winner Departing. All three were campaigned in partnership with Adele Dilschneider.

Many of the sport’s greatest champions preceded them, none more accomplished than Triple Crown champion and two-time Horse of the Year Secretariat, whom Seth Hancock syndicated for a then-record $6 million in

LEA Won the Donn Handicap at Gulfstream Park, February 9th, 2014 Owned by Claiborne Farm and Adele B Dilschneider Trained by Bill Mott Sire First Samurai Dam Greenery by Galileo

IT’S HARD to believe there could be a more iconic farm than Claiborne Farm in Paris, Kentucky, which celebrated its 100th year of operation in 2011 and was honored that year with an Eclipse Award of Merit for outstanding achievement in Thoroughbred

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LOCHTE Won the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap at Gulfstream Park, February 9th, 2014 Owned by Crossed Sabres Farm Trained by Marcus Vitali Sire Medaglia d’Oro Dam Lemon Kiss by Lemon Drop Kid

Carolyn Vogel, an experienced equestrian who races in the name of Crossed Sabres Farm, has teamed with a fellow New Englander, trainer Marcus Vitali, to become a power in South Florida racing.

Crossed Sabres was the second leading owner of the 2013 Calder summer meet, with 14 victories from 50 starts. The stable is doing even better this year. Through the first week of

April, Crossed Sabres is tied for third leading owner of the 2014 Calder winter meet with nine wins from 31 starters. And Vitali is the leading trainer by number of wins, with 18.

Winning the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap with 39-1 longshot Lochte was a major coup. “She encouraged me to start him,” Vitali said. “She said, `Go for it.’ She’s a wonderful lady and she’s good for the industry.

She’s put me in a great position.”

Vogel also has horses with Dale Romans, who trains Pick of the Litter, a four-year-old colt who was a $150,000 yearling purchase at the 2011 Keeneland September sale.

Following a 7½-length maiden victory in his second career start, Pick of the Litter, who runs in Vogel’s name, became the owner’s first starter in a Grade 1 when he finished sixth to Orb in the 2013 Florida Derby. Pick of the Litter then finished third to Winning Cause in the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland and fifth in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational to Verrazano at Monmouth Park.

On the February 9th Donn undercard, Pick of the Litter won an allowance race by 2¼ lengths, boosting his career earnings to more than $175,000.

Earlier this year, Crossed Sabres Farm’s Jay Eye See, who is trained by Vitali, finished third in the $65,000 Thrillin Discovery Handicap at Calder on January 25.

WINNING PRIZE Won the Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita, March 8th, 2014 Owned by David Heerensperger and Jose Maria Nelson Trained by Neil Drysdale Sire Pure Prize Dam Winning Ways by You and I

Trainer Neil Drysdale arranged David Heerensperger and Jose Maria Nelson’s 50-50 partnership on Winning Prize, who was imported from Nelson’s home country of Argentina, where Winning Prize will stand when his racing career is over.

Heerensperger, a 67-year-old native of Longview, Washington, retired as CEO of Pay ‘n Pak Hardware Stores in 1989 and founded

Eagle Hardware and Garden. “He had always wanted a chain of stores that were bigger and better,” his wife Jill said. Eagle Hardware and

1972, the same year he took over Claiborne following his father’s death. Blenheim II, Bold Ruler, Conquistador Cielo, Damascus, Danzig, Easy Goer, Triple Crown winner Gallant Fox, Mr. Prospector, Nasrullah, Nijinsky II, Princequillo, Round Table, Sir Gallahad III, Sir Ivor, Tom Rolfe, and Unbridled are among the long list of Thoroughbred to be bred and/or stand at Claiborne. The only horse to win the Kentucky Derby in Claiborne’s silks, Swale, passed away after winning the Belmont and before he was able to retire to the historic farm.

Hancock has long been an industry leader.

He is a director of Keeneland, a member of The Jockey Club, vice chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, and a member of the American Graded Stakes Committee. He was on the board of directors at Churchill Downs from

1973 to 2008. Hancock’s brother, Arthur, owns and operates Stone Farm adjacent to Claiborne.

Dilschneider is a native of Alton, Illinois, across the river from St. Louis, Missouri.

Her great-grandfather, William E. Levis, was the founder of Corning-Illinois Glass, a prominent maker of beer bottles in the middle of the 20th century. Her grandfather, John Olin, bred and owned Cannonade, who won the 100th Kentucky Derby in 1974 for Hall of Fame trainer Woody Stephens and Hall of Fame jockey Angel Cordero Jr. She owns approximately two dozen racehorses and 30 broodmares in partnership with Claiborne, and frequently travels from Missouri to watch her horses run. “I wouldn’t be in this business if I can’t watch my horses race,” she said.

Garden grew to more than 30 stores in the western United States, and David retired again in 1997, nearly two decades after he and Jill had gotten involved with Thoroughbreds.

After they purchased a trip to the Kentucky Derby at a charity auction, Jill, who had grown up showing Saddlebreds and Quarter Horses, suggested to her husband they buy a Thoroughbred. On a whim, they attended a horse sale in Washington in 1979 and wound up buying the sales topper, Flame Commander, who bowed a tendon and never raced. The Heerenspergers dove into Thoroughbred racing anyway, not just as owners and breeders, but also as significant investors in Emerald Downs, a track in Auburn, Washington, which opened on June 20, 1996. Jill served on the board of the Washington Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association for 13 years.

Their top horses include Grade 1 winners Artiste Royal and Millennium Wind. Other top runners include millionaire Hawksley Hill, the winner of three Grade 2s; and Bourbon Bay, who won six Grade 2 stakes and made nearly $1 million. The couple usually has up to half a dozen horses in training with Neil Drysdale in Southern California and Tom Wenzel at Emerald Downs. “We both love our horses and we want to give them every chance we can,” Jill said. “We want to do right by them.”

Dr. Jose Maria Nelson, a prominent owner and breeder in Argentina, is president of the Argentine Stud Book. He is also on the Argentine Jockey Club Committee and a member of the racing commission of the Hipodromo de San Isidro, a racetrack in Buenos Aires.

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RACING

LET FAITH ARISE

Won the Santa Margarita Invitational Stakes at Santa Anita, March 15th, 2014 Owned by Tommy Town Thoroughbreds LLC Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer Sire Kafwain Dam Babe Hall by El Corredor

Tom and Debi Stull, who were the leading breeders of California-breds in 2009 and 2012, operate Tommy Town Thoroughbreds LLC in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County. Tom, a manufacturing machinist, started a single tool and die shop in Santa Fe Springs more than 30 years ago.

That grew into Tower Industries, which has shops in Anaheim and Ontario, California, and in Wisconsin. He also dabbles in real estate. Debi was an accomplished equestrian, a talent she passed on to their daughter Shelly, a successful show jumping competitor who trains hunter jumpers. They also have a son, Aaron.

Jim Wilson of Wilson Stock Farm picked out their first winner, Fa La Te Dough, who captured seven stakes and earned more than a quarter of a million dollars in the mid-1980s.

After racing and breeding a few horses at their farm in Hemet, they decided to do more. “We decided to do it right,” Tom said.

CONSTITUTION

Constitution with Javier Castellano wins the Besilu Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park

Won the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park, March 29, 2014 Owned by WinStar Farm LLC and Twin Creeks Racing Stables LLC Trained by Todd Pletcher Sire Tapit Dam Baffled by Distorted Humor

MULTI-FACETED Steve Davison, a 56-year-old native of Ruston, Louisiana, owns both Twin Creeks Farm and Twin Creeks Racing Stables.

He is an attorney who also is the principal owner

of Genesis Energy LP, a publicly traded energy and transportation company. Davison developed Squire Creek Country Club, a residential golf course community where his family lives in Choudrant; and bought “The Sheets” handicapping service with Jake Haddad in 2012. He remains close to his alma mater, Louisiana Tech University, where he lettered in baseball.

Davison got involved in racing when his farm manager and best friend since kindergarten, Randy Gullatt, began his career as a trainer in 1985. Davison bought a couple of horses for him to train. One was multiple stakes winner La

They purchased D. Wayne Lukas’ former 165-acre Westerly Training Center in 2000, and the Stulls expanded it to more than 350 acres. Tommy Town stands four stallions, all multiple stakes winners: Kafwain, Ministers Wild Cat, Old Topper, and Grazen. The facility, which is run by ranch manager Mike Allen, has 100 stalls, a custom Equicruiser, and a seven-furlong track.

One of Tommy Town Thoroughbreds’ top horses was Whatsthescript, a private purchase after the horse raced three times in Ireland. After recovering from a foot bruise, he won a pair of Grade 2 stakes, the American Handicap and Del Mar Mile Handicap, before finishing third in the 2008 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

More recently, they campaign 2013 California champion three-year-old filly Doinghardtimeagain, who like Let Faith Arise, is a homebred trained by Jerry Hollendorfer.

Paz, who was sold as a broodmare for $1.6 million in 2000 after producing five foals, Grade 2 winner Forest Camp (who was raced by Aaron and Marie Jones), for Twin Creeks. Eight years later, Twin Creeks purchased a yearling son of La Paz for $200,000. Named Mission Impazible, he went on to win a pair of Grade 2 races: the Louisiana Derby and the New Orleans Handicap.

Twin Creeks is the co-breeder of multiple Grade 1 stakes winner To Honor and Serve, who was sold as a weanling for $250,000 and then re-sold as a yearling for $575,000. Twin Creeks also sold that colt’s dam, Pilfer, for $650,000 in 2008.

Twin Creeks raced Graydar, whose victories included the Grade 2 Donn Handicap and the Grade 2 New Orleans and Kelso Handicaps.

Gullatt is responsible for selecting the horses Twin Creeks purchases and managing their racing careers, while Davison handles the organization of the partnership and assists with the evaluation and purchase of yearlings. Twin Creeks has horses with Kellyn Gorder, Todd Pletcher, Al Stall Jr. and Mike Stidham. Gullatt’s wife Kim, a former jockey, handles marketing and client relations.

Davison and his wife, Sara, have twins, Joe and Kate. He also has two children from a previous marriage.

GRADE ONE WINNERS – JANUARY-MARCH 2014 Racecourse

Race

Date

Horse

Sire

Owner

Trainer

Santa Anita Park Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Santa Anita Park Santa Anita Park Gulfstream Park

Las Virgenes St Gulfstream Park Turf H Donn H Frank E Kilroe Mile Santa Margarita Invitational Florida Derby

1/2/2014 9/2/2014 9/2/2014 3/8/2014 03/15/2014 03/29/2014

Fashion Plate (KY) Lochte Lea Winning Prize Let Faith Arise Constitution

Old Fashioned Medaglia d’Oro First Samurai Pure Prize Kafwain Tapit

Arnold Zetcher LLC and Tabor, Michael B Crossed Sabres Farm Claiborne Farm and Dilschneider, Adele B. David Heerensperger Tommy Town Thoroughbreds LLC Twin Creek Racing Stables LLC

Simon Callaghan Marcus J. Vitali William I. Mott Neil Drysdale Jerry Hollendorfer Todd Pletcher

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BUCKED SHINS

TREATING SORE SHINS

Can current research make a breakthrough?

Last November, Cleburne, a leading fancy in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, was scratched in the build-up to the race due to having “bucked shins.”

From the turn of the year, consignors have been preparing their horses on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for the rigorous and demanding process of two-year-old Thoroughbred sales and have, no doubt, been battling the phenomenon of bucked shins.

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ULTIPLE studies have been performed over the past 30 years to better understand and help prevent the condition. As recently as 2013, the Equine Veterinary Journal published a paper reviewing the incidence of bucked shins and the efficacy of a commonly used preventative technique, “periosteal scraping.”

Bucked or sore shins are part of the disease complex known as dorsal metacarpal disease and they have been affecting young racehorses for generations. In North America, a 2002 veterinary report stated that over 70% of horses in training suffer from bucked shins and due to this condition the financial losses for North America alone were estimated to be $10,000,000 in lost training and racing days!

Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that 12% of those horses that suffer from bucked shins subsequently develop radiographic evidence of stress fractures of their cannon bone up to one year after the initial injury. Bucked shins is a condition seen throughout the world and has been treated over time in a variety of methods, from surgical management to traditional empirical therapies. Management of sore shins is a controversial subject, with many

trainers and veterinarians differing on the optimal treatment strategy.

This article aims to discuss briefly why this condition occurs, the current research undertaken on the bone’s adaptive response to exercise, and the different approaches to managing this condition.

Development of bucked shins Bucked shins usually occur in two-year-old Thoroughbred horses in training or in older horses that have not reached race speed previously or have had a long layoff. They can occur bilaterally and in North America are seen to usually occur sequentially, with the left leg being affected first as a consequence of the anticlockwise direction in which horses are trained and raced.

The disease is diagnosed on physical examination, where palpation of the front of the cannon bone reveals heat and pain. Affected horses are uncomfortable, but the presence of overt lameness is variable. Diagnosis can be confirmed radiographically by the presence of periosteal new bone formation over the front of the cannon bone, although this finding is not always initially apparent.

Originally, it was thought that bucked shins resulted from concussive damage to the periosteum (the membrane that covers the

outer surface bones), with subperiosteal hematoma formation, microfractures, and inflammation leading to clinical signs. Current research has demonstrated that bucked shins may be the result of high-strain cyclic fatigue, caused by excessive compression on a bone that has not adequately remodeled to withstand such stress.

Bone that is stressed immediately seeks to form a new layer of bone at the point of stress.

This rapidly formed woven bone is more porous and weaker than the more slowly laiddown lamellar bone. In the process of this rapid bone formation, the periosteum becomes lifted and inflamed, ultimately leading to the clinical signs characteristic of bucked shins.

The shin is a barometer of what is going on in the rest of the skeleton, and when sore the shin indicates the skeleton needs more time to adapt, a caution that unheeded can lead to more serious injuries, such as stress fractures of other long bones like the tibia or humerus.

Racehorse training and bucked shins As described above, bucked shins are a result of the mismatching of exercise with the modeling and remodeling of the cannon bone necessary for the bone to withstand the rigors of training and racing.

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Healing with pins

Healing with rest

Periosteal scraping

structure for racing; it must be developed. A scientific law known as Wolff’s Law states that bone can only develop based on its own experience and as a result the purpose of training is to adapt bone to training and therefore training that mimics racing ought to adapt bone to racing.

When an animal is exercising at race speeds, its leg is at a much different angle than when the animal is jogging or even galloping, and the bone has to adapt to be structurally sound. Dr. David Nunamaker, VMD, DACVS, has spent a large part of his career researching the dorsal metacarpal disease complex and is a world-renowned expert on the subject.

Nunamaker and his colleagues’ research over the past 30 years has shown that different exercise programs can change the shape and substance of bone. High speed exercises in small doses have been proven to be highly protective against bucked shins, whereas long galloping exercise increases the chances of bucked shins. Nunamaker found that increasing the number of short distance works (breezes) from once every seven-to-ten days (as done with classical training programs) to three times a week produced large changes in the modeling, remodeling, and inertial property measurements of the cannon bone.

It has been proven that exercise programs do exist to decrease the incidence of bucked shins and that the implementation of such effective training programs can significantly decrease the incidence of fatal musculoskeletal mid-cannon bone fractures. Despite evidence validating that the changing of a training regimen can reduce the occurrence of disease, some trainers are often reluctant to a lter their training methods, and thus other techniques and therapies should be discussed.

are commonly not presented to the veterinary surgeon. The stable staff and trainers know how to recognize sore shins and they treat them in a variety of traditional methods. Veterinary advice is usually to restrict the horse to trotting until the cannon bone is no longer painful to light fingertip pressure with the limb flexed.

The horse is then re-introduced to the exercise level one step beneath the level that produced the soreness. This speed is maintained for one month before increasing. If the shin soreness returns as speed increases the cycle is repeated.

More invasive therapies have been trialed at various times. These include shock wave therapy, various forms of blistering, and in the past practices such as pin firing or freeze firing.

Freeze firing removes the pain from the frozen area for a short time and offers no long term benefit. Pin firing has provoked much debate and consternation since the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) attempted to outlaw the practice in 1991.

This proved to be unenforceable but thankfully with the passing of time and the mounting evidence proving its ineffectiveness, the practice has greatly reduced. The current stand of the RCVS is that it considers all forms to be mutilations – practices that RCVS council considers ineffective and/or lacking justification as methods of treatment and that should be discontinued. As with all clinical conditions, there is veterinary personal preference with regards to management, and treatment and regarding bucked shins in particular there are a plethora of theories and treatments highlighting the lack of a single definitive effective treatment strategy.

Fractures of the front of the cannon bone are an extension of the dorsal metacarpal disease process and are known as dorsal cortical stress fractures. These usually lead to pain on palpation localised to one area of the cannon bone rather than being distributed across the

entire surface of the skin. These fracture lines can be extremely difficult to see on x-rays in some cases, whereas clinical presentation is usually enough to make a presumptive diagnosis.

The fractures can be treated by surgical drilling (osteostixis), screw insertion across the fracture line, or shockwave therapy to encourage healing. The most common approach in these cases in the U.K. is conservative management, with a month out of training advised and a three-month wait before full training speeds are reached again. This approach contrasts strongly with the more proactive strategies often implemented in North America to treat these cases.

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The North American approach to treatment Great strides have been made in changing training techniques to manage racehorses with bucked shins in the U.S. Once inflammation is noticed, ice, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and topical cooling products (poultice) are often all that are required if training intensity is reduced and modified.

Once the periosteum is hot, thickened, and sore over a large portion of the dorsal cortex of the cannon bone, the North American view is often that modifying training is too late.Training should be stopped and often pin firing or periosteal scraping is performed on the shin.

These procedures are thought to strengthen the bone and decrease healing time by causing an acute inflammatory reaction.

Periosteal scraping is when a 16-gauge needle is used to create linear incisions of the periosteum using aseptic technique. Pin firing and periosteal scraping are done after the inflammation has subsided, and they are combined with rest. Both procedures lack scientific credibility but are still performed at the request of trainers due to anecdotal reports of previous successes.

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In 2002, financial losses due to bucked shins were estimated to be $10,000,000

Recently there have been published reports of success treating bucked shins with the bisphosphonate drug tiludronate, along with shockwave therapy. The findings indicated success with this therapy in conjunction with a slow return to an exercise program, but the study was limited by the small number of horses treated, necessitating further investigation to establish its efficacy as a firstline treatment.

Dorsal cortical fractures are managed in general more aggressively in the U.S. than in the U.K., with surgery often deemed necessary.

Cortical drilling (forage, osteostixis) using numerous small diameter holes across the fracture line is thought effective and thus widely performed. In certain cases a bone screw surgically placed across the fracture line is deemed appropriate; however, implants must be removed before training begins.

This general, blunt description of the approaches of veterinarians in both North America and the U.K. should not be seen as a criticism of either method or as a suggestion that all follow this trend. It is simply an overview of the general management of the condition on both continents and I am aware that opinions on this controversial subject vary greatly among the veterinary profession and trainers alike.

Efficacy of periosteal scraping, new evidence in 2013 In 2013 the Equine Veterinary Journal published a paper by Dr. Sarah Plevin and Dr. Jonathan McLellan of Florida Equine Veterinary Associates in Ocala. The paper reviewed the efficacy of periosteal scraping in preventing bucked shins in juvenile Thoroughbreds and included 85 yearlings on whom periosteal scraping was performed and a control group of 85 yearlings that were not treated.

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was unaffected by the study. The results showed a slight increase in the incidence of bucked shins in the control group in comparison to those that has been scraped.

The treated horses breezed greater cumulative miles before clinical incidence of bucked shins than those not treated, but periosteal scraping failed to prevent the disease in the long term. Plevin and McLellan concluded that the altered training regimen described by Nunamaker remains the gold standard for reducing the occurrence of bucked shins, and more investigation into prophylactic techniques such as periosteal scraping is warranted to establish effectiveness.

Conclusion As with most musculoskeletal injuries, an increased awareness and understanding of the physiologic requirements of bone's adaptation to modern training practices has led to the early detection of many stress-related injuries.

Bucked shins are just a precursor to what could become a potentially deleterious breakdown in the microstructure of the cannon bone and also potentially other fatal stress injuries of other long bones such as the tibia and humerus.

Extensive research over has informed us of the mechanism by which bucked shins develop and highlighted the most effective training strategies in preventing their occurrence. The huge financial cost and the obvious welfare issues that the disease process encompass make it imperative that trainers and veterinarians work together in a bid to reduce the incidence of this condition. The varied approaches to the syndrome in different parts of the world are in part driven by anecdotal reports of the apparent beneficial effects of such therapies.

Veterinarians and trainers must capitalize on the work performed in researching this and other clinical syndromes of the Thoroughbred and strive to make evidence-based decisions in their quest to improve the health and careers of our racehorses. n

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You can teach an old dog new tricks

IKE most thoroughbred trainers A. Ferris Allen III is used to dealing with bucked shins in young horses. In the past he followed a standard regimen of icing, poultice, and anti-inflammatories.

He started using the IoniCare System in addition to the other treatments and after treating numerous horses this way noticed that he was getting consistently faster recovery times, on the order of about 30% on average.

But he learned something new and useful when two of his shin cases had dermatitis on their legs.

He didn’t want to irritate the legs further by using ice, poultice or anti-inflammatories. So he put a soothing lotion on the skin and used IoniCare therapy alone. He discovered that even without the full blown treatment, the horses treated only with IoniCare therapy, still showed dramatic improvement, and significant reduction in inflammation and soreness.

Many users who treat shins with IoniCare therapy report they are cutting their time back to training in half. That is money for them.

Like so many other trainers who use the IoniCare System, Ferris has found it to be a powerful tool to help improve not only bucked shins, but also sore heels, suspensory issues, splints, and inflammation. Ferris has had a good start to the season at Pimlico and continues the daily use of the IoniCare therapy.

According to System developer Equine OrthoCare LLC, the patent pending IoniCare System 3 is based on the well established principle that external electrical field therapy positively influences the repair mechanisms of bone, cartilage and other connective tissue. It has been specifically designed and adapted to apply a proven technology for horses.

The System delivers a patented, low amplitude, sub-sensory electrical signal to the

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Many users who treat shins with IoniCare therapy report they are cutting their time back to training in half. That is money for them

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treatment site. This unique signal creates a specific electrical field within the treatment site designed to mimic or enhance the internal electrical fields that are naturally produced in the body.

Daniel V. Flynn, V.M.D., past president of AAEP, medical director Equine OrthoCare, and the man with the most clinical experience with the System, reports on shins and other bone issues: “It is very effective in the treatment of a number of osteoarthritic carpal bone injuries, including non-displaced slab fractures. In addition, the low motion joints of the hock respond very well to treatment if osteolytic changes are not found deep within the joint.

“It is also very effective in the management of bucked shins during a controlled training program. It minimizes down time with faster, more complete results.

“Splint bone fractures are quite common in racing and performance horses. When the middle 1/3 of the bone is involved, a non-union healing fracture occurs. The System is very effective in stimulating complete healing at the fracture site.

“Selected sesamoid fractures of the fetlock are often characterized by non-unions with attending suspensory desmitis. This injury is always difficult, but a more rapid and more

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complete healing of the sesamoid bone and attending suspensory ligament branch will commonly occur.”

Equine OrthoCare says the effectiveness of the IoniCare System in treating causes of equine

lameness has been demonstrated by years of field testing by equine veterinarians, trainers and horse owners in the United States. This versatile non-drug, non-invasive technology has been used in equine veterinary practice to successfully treat joint and connective tissue injuries including bone, cartilage, tendon and ligament. When properly used, the System is safe and has no known adverse side effects. Its design allows for treatment of two sites simultaneously, and can be used on multiple horses each day.

For more information call 855-446-6422, or visit www.ionicare.com.

“Your time is cut probably in half from conventional ways of treating horses … I've used it pretty much on everything … bucked shins, suspensory problems, bowed tendon … I think it really helps a lot because you cut your time, space down, you can get back to racing quicker” Graded Stakes winning trainer Rodney Jenkins, aka The Red Rider

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DARIN LAMOUREUX Horseman with focus on long-term success

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WO years later, Soldat won the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth before finishing 11th in the Run for the Roses. This year, Cairo Prince, a leading Derby contender, won the Grade 2 Holy Bull Stakes by 5¾ lengths before finishing fourth as the favorite in the Grade 1 Florida Derby.

“After Super Saver won, my dad called and said, ‘They can never take this away from you.

You won the Kentucky Derby,’” Lamoureux said. “I said, ‘Yeah, now I have to produce another one.’

“To get to the top, you have to test yourself every day. When you get to the top, you get tested every day. Are you up to the test?”

It’s a test that Lamoureux embraces, believing deeply that the twisting road he has traveled has helped him develop a training regimen focused on long-term success rather than immediate results. That belief was forged from his own experiences as an athlete and as a jockey; his ongoing ability at the age of 48 to ride the horses he trains; and the influence of the people he’s worked for, including his dad Bruce, a retired trainer, and former trainer Elliott Walden, now president and CEO of WinStar Farm.

PROFILE

Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” But what if you want the same results over and over again? Darin Lamoureux, the farm manager/ trainer at All In Line Stables in Ocala, Florida, has been anything but a one-hit wonder since Super Saver, a yearling he broke and trained, won the 2010 Kentucky Derby.

WORDS: BILL HELLER PHOTOS: SANDRA MADISON, HORSEPHOTOS

The results speak volumes. “I think he does a great job,” said Cairo Prince’s trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, who also trained Soldat. “Both horses were well broken. Great mentally. I give the guy who breaks them a lot of credit.

I’ve been up there watching him. He gets on a lot of them. He works hard. He’s obviously a very good horseman.”

Remarkably, Lamoureux has only been on his own since 2007. “It surprises me, in that

racing is a numbers game, and he hasn’t had that many horses,” his dad Bruce said. “He’s a very good horseman. He’s very patient. He puts a foundation into a horse. So many in the industry rush them. He learned, as I learned over the years, that it takes time. The horse has to learn to respond to what the rider wants to do and that he’s not going to be hurt.

That doesn’t happen right away.”

When Lamoureux was four years old, his dad was working as a truck owner/driver and trainer simultaneously in San Jose, California.

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A philosophy of hard work has reaped rewards for Darin Lamoureux

“He owned eight or nine trucks and a couple Thoroughbreds,” Lamoureux said. “He had a horse running on the fair circuit in California.

His name was Liquidator. They brought him back after the race, and he was cooling out, and my dad put me on him. My dad held me by my waist as he cooled out. That was the first time I got on a horse.”

Nine years later, Bruce Lamoureux moved his family to Indianapolis, taking a job with the Mayflower Moving Company. Lamoureux wasn’t thrilled with the move. “I grew up in California,” he said. “I was a surfer and a water skier. When he took us to Indiana, it was a big culture shock.”

Lamoureux’ dad hadn’t abandoned horseracing. He was about to dive in full time.

“My dad had Quarter Horses at the track with another trainer. He decided he wanted to get out of trucking and get into the racing business. He heard of a farm in New Ross, 30 miles south of Indianapolis, which was up for sale. He bought that farm. It was 20 acres. We had three stallions and probably 15 to 20 broodmares, weanlings, yearlings, two-yearolds and racehorses, Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds, probably a total of 25-to-30

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head. He built up his own operation from scratch. We started racing at Beulah Park. We raced in Illinois and at fair tracks.”

Lamoureux began galloping horses for his dad, getting a license when he was 14 by saying he was 15 and then getting his jockey’s license when he was 15, a year younger than the minimum age. He started riding a few horses for his dad and quickly excelled,

“He’s a very good horseman. He’s very patient. He puts a foundation into a horse.

So many in the industry rush them. He learned, as I learned over the years, that it takes time” Bruce Lamoureux

finishing as the second leading jockey at Beulah Park. “Then it just took off,” he said.

He had other skills. He was a wrestler and was a good enough infielder in high school to be invited to a Cincinnati Reds tryout. But his future was with Thoroughbreds.

On his last day of high school, Lamoureux walked into his house. “I plopped down on the couch, and my dad said, `I sold the farm and I’m going to train and work at the track, and if you want, you can come with me.’” He agreed, riding in Louisiana and then at Hoosier Park. By then, he was dealing with a problem he couldn’t ignore. “I was fighting my weight badly,” he said.

Lamoureux had one more brief fling as a jockey in Louisiana before he joined his dad in Florida. Bruce was training for Fred Hooper, best known for winning the Kentucky Derby with his first horse, Hoop Jr., in 1945 before emerging as an industry leader.

Working with Hooper was a major break for both Bruce and Darin Lamoureux. “I was at the racetracks in the Midwest,” Bruce said.

“Cheap horses. I knew I had to get better horses, better owners. I sent out a bunch of resumes and he (Hooper) responded and said he needed a farm trainer. I remember Tri Jet and Precisionist. It was quite a step up for me.

It sure was.”

Lamoureux shared a story about Mr. Hooper: “He had a horse racing in California, Shuttle Jet, maybe ’86, ’87. They brought him back to the farm. He’d always been at the racetrack. Mr. Hooper told my dad, `Bruce, this horse is going to run off.’ Dad told me to gallop this horse. Mr. Hooper walks out to inspect all the horses. He saw me on Shuttle Jet. He said, ‘Son, he’ll run off with you if you keep your stirrups up.’ I put them down. I didn’t want to lose leverage but I did it. I gallop him and there are five or six babies around him on the track and he ran off with me with his head down to the ground, his nose is four inches off the ground. I was like, `Holy cow!’ On the last turn, there was a chain link fence. I got his nose into the fence to slow him down. We jog back. Mr. Hooper and my dad are there. Mr. Hooper said, `I told you you couldn’t hold him.’ I said to Mr. Hooper, `I’ll bet you $100 that I can hold him tomorrow.’

He said, `Okay, you’re on.’

“The next morning, what I did, I got a little piece of twine from hay bale, I tied it to one side of his bit, up through his lip like a lip chain, then tied it to the other side of the bit and cut it off so Mr. Hooper couldn’t see it.

This second day, there weren’t any babies coming out behind us when I came around the first lap. I galloped him around the first time. I waved to Mr. Hooper. He didn’t run off with me. I come back, Mr. Hooper was holding out a $100 bill for me to grab when I went by. I took it.”

Lamoureux got to be so close to Mr. Hooper that Hooper signed his wedding certificate.

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PROFILE But Lamoureux never told him the truth about Shuttle Jet. “Hell no, I never told him.

Are you crazy?”

Lamoureux blew a chance to work with Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott at Churchill Downs by arriving several days late. But he caught on with Elliott Walden in 1996, working as an exercise rider and eventually becoming shedrow foreman. “I loved it,” Lamoureux said. “I loved it because it showed me how to train and do things at a bigger level. Being at Elliott Walden’s barn taught me a lot about the business part, how to have staff, how to make a smooth shedrow.”

He also worked for consignor/trainer Hoby Kight before starting his own breaking/training business operation – Mountain View Racing Stables – in Ocala, Florida. Mountain View ultimately merged

Derby hope Cairo Prince (above) winning the Miller Lite Holy Bull at Gulfstream Park, was put through his early paces (below, left) by Lamoureux, shown riding him

“He’s broken a lot of nice horses for me. He’s just a good horseman.

He doesn’t do anything fancy. He takes his time with his babies. That’s a great thing” Harvey Clarke with All In Line Stables. Three years later, a horse Lamoureux broke and trained as a yearling, Super Saver, won the Kentucky Derby for WinStar Farm. Lamoureux received considerable acclaim afterwards for having advised WinStar to pull Super Saver out of Keeneland’s two-year-olds in training sale of April 2009. “I told them, `This is a good horse. I love the horse.’ He was a blue collar worker. There was not one day he was off his game. He was the same every day.”

The following year, Soldat added to Lamoureux’ resume. Soldat’s owners included Harvey Clarke, one of Cairo Prince’s owners.

Clarke had sold I’ll Have Another as a yearling at the 2010 Keeneland September Sale for $11,000. Never looking back, Clarke, now 72, was rooting for I’ll Have Another as he won the 2012 Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

Soldat didn’t win the Kentucky Derby, but he did capture the Fountain of Youth. “He was a natural,” Lamoureux said. Clarke was thrilled: “It took about 25 years for me to win a stakes race,” he said. “I’ve got good people around me. They do all the work. I just sign the check.”

Of course, Clarke is impressed with Darin Lamoureux: “He’s broken a lot of nice horses for me. He’s just a good horseman. He doesn’t do anything fancy. He takes his time with his

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Soldat won the Fountain Of Youth Stakes Stakes at Gulfstream Park for Lamoureux in 2011

babies. That’s a great thing. He gets them in great shape when they go to the trainers on the racetrack. Every one of them tells me that.

They’re well schooled. They don’t need that much gate work. He lets a horse become a horse.”

Lamoureux feels he has an advantage because of his background as an athlete and a rider. “As an athlete, it’s not just physical,” he said. “You have to have the mental part. If you don’t have the mental part, the physical part won’t matter. If you don’t have that, it doesn’t matter how physically talented you are. There is a fine balance between mental and physical.

It’s a big-time advantage having been an athlete. You know what those horses have to do in a race.

“Our babies probably spend 35 to 40 days being ridden at the farm before they see a racetrack. We have them in the paddock. We do trail riding. They gallop strong, just like in a race. The first day, they walk through the starting gate. Jog out. Then they walk back through the starting gate on the way back.

From the first day they go to the racetrack, the first week-to-ten days, it’s just two riders and me on the pony. After they’re comfortable with three horses; what I do is I have one rider pull his horse back and race from behind, let

“He’s a one-on-one trainer. He takes them as individuals. He’s out there and takes a lot of time with them. He rides them himself. That’s a huge advantage” Kelly Lamoureux them eat dirt, then come up in between horses. I teach the babies what they need to know. They are ready for eyeball-to-eyeball competition.”

Like any trainer, Lamoureux, who frequently gets on his yearlings himself, appreciates natural speed. But he puts it in perspective. “It’s all about how they gallop out,” he said. “My regimen at the farm is after they go a couple eighths, I turn them out. I give them ten days off. It might be a couple weeks if I see one is going too fast.

“I don’t want them to be too forward. Are they frazzled after their breeze? I want them to be able to walk off the racetrack. I’m not burning these babies out to get to the sales.

Who cares about the speed? What good is that going to do when you want to go a mile and an eighth and have a Derby horse?”

Super Saver won the Derby. Soldat was a legitimate contender heading into the Run for the Roses. So is Cairo Prince. Neither David Lively nor his wife Kelly, both exercise riders for Lamoureux for several years, are surprised at his success. “He takes his time breaking them,” David, 52, said. “He does all the ground work himself. He puts a lot of bottom into them. It’s very important. It helps build the bones so they won’t be stressed.”

Kelly, who rode 2005 Derby winner Giacomo, Super Saver, and Cairo Prince, said, “He’s a one-on-one trainer. He takes them as individuals. He’s out there and takes a lot of time with them. He rides them himself. That’s a huge advantage.”

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Avoiding cracks with proactive management Functionally adapted for speed and efficient use of energy, the Thoroughbred foot is thin-walled and light compared to other breeds.

This adaptation for speed renders the hoof more susceptible to hoof capsule distortions, or shape changes that interfere with the normal function of the foot, which are: support, traction, shock dissipation, and proprioception. Examples of hoof capsule distortions are under run heels, collapsed heels, contracted heels, flares, cracks, and shunted heels.

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ISTORTIONS are a result of either overloading a healthy structure, causing it to collapse or bend, or can be the result of under loading a structure, such as the case of a contracted heel on a clubfoot.

In these cases the heel is under loaded and the toe is overloaded, causing the heel to contract and the toe to flare or dish. Distortions can also result from disease processes, such as laminitis, where the hoof wall in the toe region is separated and flares or dishes.

Fungal infections or white line disease can also cause weakening of the hoof and subsequent distortion. In the case of the Thoroughbred racehorse, we have a healthy structure that is put under repetitive high loads.

The combination of a lighter hoof with thinner hoof wall and sole depth combined with rigorous speed training makes the Thoroughbred hoof susceptible to distortion.

The heel region of the hoof is softer and more pliable than the toe and is designed to dissipate shock. It houses such structures as the collateral cartilages, digital cushion, and an abundant vascular system, al l designed to absorb shock.

The toe is more rigid, designed to penetrate the

ground to establish traction. Since the heel is softer, more pliable, and hits the ground first, hoof distortions typically present here first.

Speed training puts high force on the heels, which lowers the hoof angle over time. As the angle gets lower, more force is placed on the heel creating a vicious cycle that can be difficult to manage while the horse is in full work. Heel distortions can predispose the racehorse to many problems, such as chronic bruising, heel/quarter cracks, pedal bone wing fractures, and osteitis.

Many heel problems tend to be reoccurring.

This is because the primary problem has not been effectively corrected. Having knowledge of the etiology of a foot problem will help formulate a successful treatment plan to heal the condition, prevent reoccurrence, and improve the longevity and wellbeing of the horse.

One problem that is common all over the world is the reoccurring quarter crack. Quarter cracks rarely occur out of the blue. Almost always they are preceded by a hoof capsule distortion known as the shunted heel, also called a sheared or displaced heel (Figure 1).

Shunted heels occur as one side of the heel is loaded more heavily than the other, causing it to

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displace upward. As the heel bulb and hoof wall in the heel and quarter regions get pushed up, the wall reaches its limitation on elasticity; and as the heel expands during loading, the wall will crack at the hairline, creating a bleeding, painful quarter crack. As long as the heel is allowed to stay in the shunted position the foot is at high

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risk of cracking again. Sheared heels are believed to be the result of a conformational fault that causes overloading of one region of the foot, typically the medial (inside) heel of a front foot but can be seen on hind limbs and laterally as well.

The conformation that has historically been recognized to predispose the shunted medial heels is outward rotation of the front limbs.

Most horses with outward rotation don't move efficiently, and they typically interfere as well. I see many severe sheared heels in racehorses; however, I see very few with this severe outward rotation conformation.

Most racehorses I see with sheared heels seem to have fairly good conformation. When I evaluate them at the walk they seem to track well, without any significant conformational problems. This led me to study these horses a little closer. Are shunted heels the result of foot imbalance from the manner in which they are trimmed? Are shunted heels the result of conformation?

Since 2010, we examined 72 sheared heels and recorded the conformation of each horse with photographs. We also took radiographs of the feet from the front and side to evaluate foot balance. Of the 72 sheared heels on front feet, 70 were medial and two were lateral. Both cases with lateral sheared heels were fetlock varus.

Of the 70 medial sheared heels, 60 had a combination of carpal valgus and inward rotation of the distal limb, eight had the classic outward rotation of the limb, one had fetlock valgus, and one had normal conformation (no major conformation fault).

Using the radiographs, we investigated the relationship of medial to lateral imbalance and sheared heels. We measured the vertical

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distance from the medial and lateral wings of the pedal bone to the ground surface on standard horizontal front views of front feet.

We were able to detect a significant difference between the normal and sheared heel cases. The sheared heel feet were out of balance medial to lateral, with the medial heel being lower.

(Morrison, Beasley and Morell, unpublished data) The most common conformation that predisposes to a sheared heel is the carpal valgus and inward rotation of the digit. This

“Sheared heels are believed to be the result of a conformational fault that causes overloading of one region of the foot, typically the medial heel of a front foot” conformation is very common in well-bred Thoroughbreds and has interesting effects on the foot (Figure 2 and Figure 3). The rotation usually occurs as a result of a spiral deformity of the metacarpus (cannon) or pastern bones. As the digit rotates inward, it places the medial heel bulb directly below the boney column or vertical line of force.

The medial heel bulb therefore receives more force, causing it to collapse inward and be shunted upward. As the medial wall is overloaded, the vessels are compressed, slowing hoof wall and sole growth on the medial regions

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of the foot. As medial hoof growth is slowed down and other regions of the foot maintain normal growth, the hoof becomes out of balance or low on the medial side. This in turn causes more inward rotation of the digit.

Previous studies show that if you lower the medial hoof or raise the lateral aspect of the hoof the digit rotates inward. This sets up a cycle of overload imbalance and more overload.

Since we cannot change the conformation of the limb, we must address the balance and medial wall overload. But first, let’s take a closer look at how the hoof accommodates load: The hoof capsule is made up of hoof wall, frog, and sole. All of these structures in a healthy foot are designed to receive some portion of the load. Another mechanism to receive large loads and dissipate shock is the extensive blood flow to the foot.

As the horse is galloping and the foot is swinging through the air, the vessels of the foot are fully perfused with blood. Then as the foot hits the ground, and loaded, blood is pushed out of the foot and not allowed to return until the foot is unloaded again. This is largely due to one-way valves in the veins, compressed soft tissue, and clamping off the arteries – basically functioning as a hydraulic shock absorber and tissue support system.

This fluid held in closed spaces helps support the foot on impact, and then is moved out of the foot to dissipate shock. Additionally, as the foot impacts the ground, the footing (turf, dirt, synthetic) packs into the sole creating sole/arch support. Racehorses at speed can accommodate tremendous loads with the aid of all these mechanisms.

In my opinion, hoof capsule distortions occur to a large extent when the horse is

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standing around or on stall rest. It is during this time that the foot is largely dependent on the perimeter hoof wall and its composition for support. The feet are generally cleaned out and the horse is put into a stall with straw or shavings with very little arch/sole support. Yes, most trainers pack the feet with poultice or mud to draw out inflammation and heat but these products don’t provide adequate sole support.

They spend over 20 hours a day standing on the shod foot, which suspends the sole and frog off the ground, loading the perimeter wall.

The hoof then slowly and gradually distorts and the sole arch flattens. Even though the foot can accommodate large sudden impacts during exercise, it is less able to accommodate long periods of low-intensity abnormal loading.

Management of the shunted heel: There are several effective foot management strategies to manage this problem. The first element is the trim. The hoof needs to be trimmed for balance or even sole depth beneath

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the pedal bone. As discussed earlier, the shunted heel case is typically lower on the shunted heel side. Therefore these feet need to be trimmed lower on the side opposite the shunted heel. The goal is to trim the foot so that the solar surface is perpendicular to the pastern.

Often a “T” square can be used to help establish the proper trim.

The second component of effective treatment is support (Figure 4 and Figure 5). This can be provided in several ways. A heart-bar or stabilizer plate is a very effective way to provide frog support and to redistribute weight off of the hoof capsule in the heel region. Heart-bars and stabilizer plates can be used for training and then switched to normal race plates a few days before racing. This is an effective way to rehabilitate a shunted heel and still be able to compete with normal shoes.

Many trainers do not like bar shoes such as heart-bars and stabilizer plates because it can add weight, decrease traction, and affect the overall movement; some horses will travel

differently in these types of shoes. Another way to tackle the problem is the use of temporary orthotics. Orthotics are sole/arch supports custom made for each horse. The orthotic is worn only while the horse is in the stall and removed for training. Orthotics can be bandaged to the hoof with vet wrap or elastic adhesive tape. Orthotics provide arch support 20+ hours a day when support is most needed.

Most feet improve with correct trimming, heartbars/stabilizer plates, or orthotics (Figure 6 and Figure 7).

Shunted heel cases should be trimmed and reshod every three weeks. As the hoof grows unevenly it becomes most out of balance towards the end of the shoeing cycle, putting the foot at the most risk of injury. In fact, most quarter cracks occur towards the end of the shoeing cycle.

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NORTHERN DANCER Northern Dancer wins the 1964 Kentucky Derby by a neck ahead of Hill Rise

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Small in stature but a giant among Thoroughbreds Few horses were ever as animated and filled with a zest for life as the great racehorse and sire Northern Dancer. The bay son of Nearctic needed all the grit and exuberance he possessed, however, because he broke through prejudice and naysayers at every turn.

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RACING Born of well-bred but hardly fashionable parents, Northern Dancer started life and his public career as a wee yearling that nobody would buy when left unsold at $25,000 in breeder E.P. Taylor’s yearling sale of stock with announced reserves. A couple of things dimmed the colt’s appeal to buyers. First, he lacked height, though neither balance nor quality. To compound his shortcoming, the colt’s sire was a young stallion known better for speed than stamina, and the yearling was the first foal out of a mare who had not won a stakes and kept it.

Natalma had finished first in the Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga, which was quite an endorsement of her speed, but she was

disqualified from victory. Then, in preparation for the Kentucky Oaks the following spring, Natalma chipped a knee, was retired, bred late to Taylor’s stallion Nearctic, and then foaled Northern Dancer on May 27, 1961.

So the greatest stallion of the late 20th century owed his existence, in the words of Tony Morris, to “an accident, a whim of nature, and a mating dictated by expediency.”

Northern Dancer went into Taylor’s racing stable with trainer Horatio Luro, and what a stroke of luck that was.

As a two-year-old, Northern Dancer established himself as a very good racehorse, with seven victories in nine starts. The last five of his victories came in succession, and the

powerful bay colt’s most notable success was the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct on November 27, 1963. The Remsen and a mile allowance nine days earlier in which the colt had defeated Futurity Stakes winner Bupers were Northern Dancer’s only starts outside Canada as a juvenile.

But both the colt’s improvement as his racing season progressed and his favorable impression going the mile of the Remsen made Northern Dancer a prospect for the Classics of 1964.

There again, Northern Dancer had to prove himself.

The speed of his sire and dam dominated many observers’ estimation of Northern Dancer’s chances in the Classics. Nearctic, a son of the great sire Nearco and the Hyperion mare Lady Angela, had useful form but showed his best over shorter distances. Northern Dancer’s dam, Natalma, was by the once-beaten champion Native Dancer and out of the great producer Almahmoud. Her best demonstrated form came at two over sprint distances, but she might well have done better at three had she had the opportunity.

Northern Dancer lost his three-year-old debut, a six-furlong allowance at Hialeah, then won a special exhibition before his first test in the March 3 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah. The bounding bay won the Flamingo and his remaining preps for the Kentucky Derby.

And after winning his last five races, plus ten of his last 11 starts, one might expect that Northern Dancer would be favored for the Kentucky Derby.

E.P. Taylor (left) with wife Winnie and jockey Bill Hartack after Northern Dancer cruised to an emphatic victory in the Queen’s Plate (below)

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NORTHERN DANCER Not so.

Instead, Northern Dancer had to overcome the prejudice that a “good big horse will beat a good little horse most of the time.” The good big horse was a towering son of Hillary named Hill Rise, and after successes in California, he was made favorite in the Kentucky Derby, with Northern Dancer sent off at 34-10.

In the Classic, Northern Dancer stayed within hailing distance of the pacesetters, took the lead by the mile post, and when Hill Rise came to Northern Dancer in the stretch, he wouldn’t let the bigger horse get by him, winning by a neck.

David had slain Goliath, and then Northern Dancer repeated the process two weeks later in the Preakness, this time stretching his dominance to two-and-a-quarter lengths.

Favored for the first time in the Belmont Stakes, Northern Dancer finished a tired third, but bounced back to win the Canadian Classic Queen’s Plate two weeks later. However, in a workout afterward, the colt bowed a tendon and was retired.

The winner of three Classics from four attempts at three, Northern Dancer was named the champion of his age in the U.S., as well as in Canada, where he was Horse of the Year in 1964.

1986 Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand was sired by Northern Dancer’s son Nijinsky

The career at stud Sent to stud at what was then called National Stud in Canada, Northern Dancer had much greater odds to overcome as a sire than as a racehorse. Becoming a really good sire is an excellent outcome that falls to no more than one horse of high promise in ten that retire to the stud.

But Northern Dancer was a much better sire than Nearctic. Instead of being a good sire, Northern Dancer became a breed shaping stallion of international influence.

To accomplish this, Northern Dancer had to get horses of the highest class and had to sire plenty of them. So he did.

From only 21 foals in his first crop, Northern Dancer got nine stakes winners, including Viceregal, who was voted Canada’s Horse of the Year as a two-year-old.

Then Taylor sent both Northern Dancer and Nearctic to the newly developed Maryland property named Windfields Farm, and from Northern Dancer’s second crop of racers came Nijinsky II, who remains the only English Triple Crown winner since Bahram in 1935.

Nijinsky and other good performers made Northern Dancer the leading sire in England and Ireland in 1970, and he led the North American sire list in 1971.

The best of Northern Dancer’s American racers was probably either Fanfreluche (Alabama Stakes) or White Star Line (Alabama, Kentucky Oaks), although Dance Number, Northernette, and Lauries Dancer were also Grade 1 winners. All were fillies.

The stallion’s colts were better abroad or, more likely, the best of them went abroad

Sadler’s Wells became Northern Dancer’s greatest son at stud in Europe

because the time when Northern Dancer’s reputation and stallion success arose was the period when the purchase of American-bred stock for export reached a high point.

Northern Dancer was partly the cause of this demand for American-breds. His stock were generally very suitable for European racing. They had a good cruising speed, they were largely agreeable to being held up, and when unleashed, the best of them had a devastating turn of foot.

One has only to review grainy recordings of races won by Nijinsky, Sadler’s Wells, El Gran Senor, and others to see the way that the really

good Northern Dancers would finish. It made them devastating on the racecourses of Europe, and then they were given the best opportunities at the leading studs of the time.

And in getting good racehorses that bred on, Northern Dancer had to overcome the most elusive hurdle of all. Many good stallions, and more than a few of the great ones, have proved their importance during their own lifetimes, but when the next generation tried to take the old man’s place, the spark was gone.

Not so with Northern Dancer.

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RACING influence of his trainer, the legendary Woody Stephens, and the wealth of his owner, Henryk de Kwiatkowski.

With Stephens telling important breeders that Danzig was the real deal as a racer and with de Kwiatkowski backing the horse with high-quality mares, Claiborne was able to syndicate Danzig and attract books of mares that enabled the horse to become the leading freshman sire of his crop, as well as ascend to international prominence.

Just as with Northern Dancer, however, the greatest test was whether the Danzigs would breed on in other hands, and they have done so in such adamant fashion that Danzig has threatened to overwhelm all other lines, not just the Northern Dancers, in the venues where the fast super-milers that the Danzig line tends to produce are best suited.

Australia is virtually swamped with the blood of Danzig’s son Danehill, and Europe has not only the important Danehill stallion Dansili but also Danzig’s son Green Desert influencing pedigrees there.

In Conclusion Storm Bird at Keeneland Sales in 1979

The Legend grows Since Phalaris, no stallion other than Northern Dancer’s grandsires Nearco and Hyperion had established such a set of important sons at stud.

Nijinsky was his best son in America, with Classic winners across the globe; Sadler’s Wells was the best in Europe; Nureyev was a talent of international scope, especially noted for his speed; and both The Minstrel and Lyphard were American-based sires of great quality that generally expressed itself more effectively in Europe.

Not surprisingly, Northern Dancer and his elite sons became the toast of breeding and the sales through the 1970s. Although Triple Crown winner Secretariat sired the first yearling to sell for more than $1 million, Northern Dancer sired the second.

Furthermore, that yearling was named Nureyev, became a top-tier racer, and then an important stallion on his retirement to stud.

Not surprisingly, international sportsmen – first the English betting pools heir Robert Sangster, then Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, and followed then by sheikhs from the Middle East – laid out fortunes to acquire the premium stock by Northern Dancer and his sons at the sales.

Their purchases included duds like Snaafi Dancer and Ballydoyle, but their successes included The Minstrel, Storm Bird, Caerleon, and others. And the run of high-class winners fueled an unprecedented run-up in prices and demand for foals and yearlings by Northern Dancer. At the height of his popularity, the stud fee to breed to a mare to Northern Dancer rose to $1 million.

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For racing in America, as distinct from breeding, there was a discontinuity.

Throughout the 1970s, there were no American Classic winners by Northern Dancer, and the first Classic-winning colt descending from him was a grandson, Gate Dancer (by Sovereign Dancer) in 1984.

As the sons of Northern Dancer established themselves, they proved the link to the American Classics for Northern Dancer.

Nijinsky sired Ferdinand, winner of the Kentucky Derby. Storm Bird, a highweight at two in England and Ireland who didn’t train on, sired Preakness Stakes winner Summer Squall, and he in turn sired Horse of the Year Charismatic, winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.

Storm Bird is also the broodmare sire of classic winners Thunder Gulch (Kentucky Derby and Belmont) and Birdstone (Belmont).

But Storm Bird gained even greater acclaim through his son Storm Cat. Out of a Secretariat mare like Summer Squall, Storm Cat became the predominant sire in America of the last 15 years, at least when considering points other than the Triple Crown. Although Storm Cat’s son Tabasco Cat won the Preakness and Belmont, none of his offspring or those of his sons have won the Kentucky Derby.

Of all Northern Dancer’s fabled racing sons, however, the one who has emerged to hold the widest grasp on breeding and racing worldwide is one of the least renowned for racing.

Although unbeaten in three starts, Danzig never raced in a stakes, and he retired to stud at the world famous Claiborne Farm due to the

In addition to the energy and dominant competitiveness of Northern Dancer, his offspring and descendants over the past halfcentury have prospered because they possess a variety of qualities that make them admirably suited to racing.

Generally, they have a good mind for racing: alert and competitive but not unmanageable.

They have speed, frequently allied with enough stamina to make them contenders for the Classics. They have toughness, allied with determination, which serves them well in training and in racing.

There is a versatility to the tribe that has allowed them to spread and prosper in differing racing jurisdictions from Argentina to India, England to Hong Kong.

One of the most interesting things about Northern Dancer is that the mental and athletic qualities of the stallion and his best offspring seem to remain the same, even when the physical type of a male-line branch changes or the racing environment is different.

Breeders and sales buyers noted that, even in the first generation, there was some physical change from Northern Dancer in type. The really big, scopy Nijinsky was the most divergent, with The Minstrel being distinct but reminiscent of his sire, especially in attitude and in gamely running out his races. On the other hand, Lyphard and Nureyev were most like their sire, small and typey horses of the highest quality.

The differing types and sire-line tendencies of the Northern Dancer tribe showed that in his case, at least, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The game and glorious little battler from Canada was a class racehorse to the bone and has managed to spread many of his best qualities throughout the sporting world. n

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Fractures are relatively common injuries in Thoroughbred racehorses. This relates to the high athletic demands of racing and training, and the cumulative stresses imposed on the musculoskeletal system by the repetitive nature of race training.

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N A recent scientific report published in Equine Veterinary Journal, equine orthopedic surgeons from Newmarket Equine Hospital (NEH) in the United Kingdom detailed the healing process and warned that radiographs taken at the time of the initial injury may not be revealing the full extent of the damage that is present.

What is a “split pastern?”

A “split pastern” is one of the most commonly encountered fractures - a longitudinal fracture of the proximal phalanx (long pastern bone) that extends from the metacarpophalangeal or metatarsophalangeal (fetlock) joint towards the proximal interphalangeal (pastern) joint.

This is the most common long bone fracture of Thoroughbreds in race training, accounting for 15% of all fracture cases.

Fractures of the pastern occur more commonly in

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This radiograph (above) shows the typical appearance of a ‘split pastern’ – in this case a long incomplete parasagittal fracture of the proximal phalanx indicated by the arrows. The sagittal plane divides the body into left and right sections and the term parasagittal is used to describe any parallel plane. Pastern fractures (below) are usually repaired surgically by placement of screws across the fracture to compress and stabilize the fractured bone.

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training than when racing. Two-year-olds are most often affected, and forelimbs are injured with much greater frequency than hindlimbs.

The term ‘fracture configuration’ refers to the path of the fracture through the bone, and there is remarkable consistency in the location and direction in pastern fractures. At the fetlock joint, the bottom of the cannon bone has a ridge that runs from front to back along the center line of the bone. Opposing this in the top surface of the long pastern bone is a groove – the sagittal groove – that accommodates this ridge.

Most commonly, fractures start in the sagittal groove and then course distally (towards the hoof). Fractures can be complete – extending to emerge either at the cortex of the bone or into the pastern joint, or incomplete – with the fracture ending somewhere in the central portion of the bone.

Incomplete fractures are more common than complete.

The Newmarket Equine Hospital study In all previous reports of fractures of the proximal phalanx, only descriptions of fracture configuration from radiographs obtained at the time of initial injury were available. In cases treated at NEH, vets had observed that pastern fractures often appeared radiologically more complex, and extensive,

on follow-up radiographs obtained between during the first two months following initial injury. This concern had not previously been investigated, and it prompted the Newmarket group to embark on a more detailed objective study to document the true configuration of fractures, and investigate how, and over what time period, fractures healed.

As cases are usually treated by screw repair, this was set as an entry criteria to identify cases for the fracture-healing part of the study.

Radiographs were examined from 121 cases of fracture seen over a five-year period at NEH. Radiographs from the time of initial injury, and then throughout the horses’ recovery from injury while the fracture was healing, were examined. The configuration of fracture was determined from the radiographs taken at the time of injury, and then any changes observed in length or complexity of the fracture during the horses recovery were documented. Finally, the way the fracture healed and the time taken was recorded.

Progression of the fracture The majority of horses in the study were twoand three-year-olds training or racing on the Flat. Consistent with previous observations, long incomplete fractures running parallel with the long axis of the bone were the most common configuration, with complete and comminuted (multi-piece) fractures making

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St Nicholas Abbey recovered well from surgery after suffering from a split pastern during exercise, but lost a battle against colic this year

A radiograph (above) obtained shortly following injury demonstrates a typical incomplete parasagittal fracture of the proximal phalanx. At a month after surgery (below), the fracture line appears much more obvious, but it is also longer and changes direction in the lower third of the bone

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SPLIT PASTERNS up a much smaller proportion of the case population.

The study confirmed the surgeons’ suspicions, and a novel conclusion was that in the first two months following injury, in many cases, the fracture was longer or more complex than seen on the initial radiographs.

Fractures were on average 15 mm longer, with some cases being over 30 mm longer than initial X-rays suggested.

One possible explanation for this was that fractures become longer when the horses recovered from general anesthesia – a high-risk period for the horse undergoing fracture repair. However, radiographs obtained within the first week after surgery showed injury during anesthesia was not the culprit.

Instead, the change in fracture configuration was a result of the normal process of fracture healing. Damaged, nonviable bone along the fracture line has be removed by the body before healing can occur – resulting in the true configuration of the fracture becoming more apparent on X-rays taken two-to-seven weeks after the injury was sustained.

“Vets observed pastern fractures often appeared radiologically more complex, and extensive, on follow-up radiographs obtained between during the first two months following initial injury” Completion of the healing process After this first seven-week bone removal phase, radiographs showed that the fractures went on to heal progressively, with the majority of them having healed by 100 days following injury. When following cases through during healing, however, it was observed that the bone nearest the fetlock joint surface was slowest to heal. In some horses, delayed healing in this location can

require further surgery to obtain complete healing.

Advice for the future This study provided some important information for equine surgeons managing split pastern cases in future. There is often quite marked disparity in the degree of comfort of the horse following repair of fractures of the proximal phalanx, a feature that could be explained by the fracture being more complex than suspected on radiographs obtained at the time of initial injury.

The second important conclusion from the Newmarket Equine Hospital study is that serial X-rays should be obtained routinely during the period two-to-seven weeks following injury to allow better guidance as to how the horse should be managed during recovery from injury.

Thirdly, knowledge of the normal timeframe for fracture healing to occur gained from this study allows more confident identification of cases where healing is delayed which in turn will allow more timely veterinary intervention if problems arise. n

During recovery from anesthesia at the end of fracture repair surgery, a cast is applied to the lower leg to protect the fracture. The recovery stall has padded floors and walls to prevent the horse injuring itself as it stands. This is a high-risk period, but the NEH study showed that most damage to the fractured bone occurs in the following seven weeks

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LOS ALAMITOS Breaking new ground

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Southern California has a new racing schedule and a new player in the high stakes game of Thoroughbred horseracing: Los Alamitos Racing Association. Los Alamitos has joined the Thoroughbred racing circuit with two meets scheduled for this year. The Summer Thoroughbred Festival will start on Thursday, July 3 and run through July 13, racing Thursday through Sunday afternoons. The second meet will run December 4 through the 21st, also racing Thursday through Sunday.

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OS Alamitos’s loyalty and dedication to its longstanding relationship with Quarter Horses is still very much intact. The old format will continue with business as usual, racing both Quarter Horses and lower-tier Thoroughbreds at night.

Jumping in with both feet, Los Alamitos Racing Association offers two Grade 1 races along with a Grade 2 race. The first, the Los Alamitos Derby-G2, will have a guaranteed purse of $500,000 and is scheduled to run on July 5, 2014, during the inaugural meet. The Grade 1 Starlet, with a guaranteed purse of $350,000, will run on December 13, 2014, and the $500,000-guaranteed Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity on December 20, 2014.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort and without it, nothing great was ever achieved.” There can be no doubt about Los Alamitos’s owner Dr. Ed Allred’s enthusiasm for the sport of horseracing. The effort and expense associated with the expansion of Los Alamitos from five-eighths of a mile to just short of one mile and the construction of additional stabling on prime Orange County real estate speaks for itself. Dr.

“This is something we’ve been working on for a long time and once we got the dates approved by the CHRB, I think people were surprised at how quickly we got things done.”

Dr. Ed Allred Allred said, “This is something we’ve been working on for a long time and once we got the dates approved by the CHRB (California Horse Racing Board), I think people were surprised at how quickly we got things done.” The City of Cypress approved the expansion project on December 10 and the track was open and ready for training on January 21.

Ed Allred went to the races at Los Alamitos for the first time in 1956. The Daily Racing Form showed horses owned by Allred Brothers were racing that day. They were no

The track expansion was completed in just over a month

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relation to him but it proved to be a good day for the racing game. Doc Allred was hooked!

He and his good friend Tom Seibly (a retired judge and a current Los Alamitos board member) went to the Orange County oval at every opportunity.

As time went on and circumstances allowed, Doc bought his first racehorse, Beowawe. He also bought an interest in a filly named Punch Time who had little success while racing, but produced some runners and, significantly, created an interest in breeding horses. Doc became a leading breeder and owner of running Quarter Horses and when the chance to acquire full ownership of Los Alamitos presented itself in 1998, Doc stepped up and took it.

Plans to expand the racetrack at Los Alamitos have been in the works since Hollywood Park made it known they were closing their doors. The original plan to enlarge the track called for a lengthening of the track to extend the distance but the turns would have been exceptionally tight due to limits of available land. Trainers were reluctant to embrace this design, believing that tight turns would be very hard on their horses. Undaunted, Dr. Allred and his team

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Dr. Ed Allred (above left) with Art Sherman, trainer of Kentucky Derby favorite California Chrome (above), seen on track at Los Alamitos

went back to the drawing board and with the help of a friend and co-owner of adjacent property, found a way to redesign the track with wider turns. Satisfied with the new plans, both the Thoroughbred Owners of California and the California Thoroughbred Trainers signed on.

The old guard and the newcomers are equally pleased with the stabling and training arrangements at Los Alamitos. There is a wide, deep dirt path from the barn area to the track and the track itself is spacious enough to accommodate the horse traffic with no crowding or imposition at all. The track surface has a fluffy look even from the grandstand and horses gallop by soundlessly and comfortably.

The infield of the original track has a lake, palm trees, and gardens. The landscaping within the new infield portion of the track will include a

soccer field for the backside employees as well as a lake, palm trees and gardens. The homestretch is 1,380 feet long and 110 feet wide. It is 34 feet longer than the homestretch at Fair Grounds which was formerly the longest homestretch in American racing.

Los Alamitos has been a proving ground for some of America's leading trainers. D. Wayne Lukas and Bob Baffert both trained at Los Alamitos before moving up to the highest levels of Thoroughbred racing.

During the day, Los Alamitos operates as a satellite wagering facility and in that capacity, out-handles all other satellite wagering facilities in California. During last year's Kentucky Derby – the biggest day in American Racing – Los Alamitos handled $1.9 million to Santa Anita's $1.78 million.

Location, location, location! The realtor's

mantra is particularly appropriate regarding Los Alamitos Racecourse. There are more attractions in Orange County than there are in most states. From the well-known theme parks of Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm to the Southern California Wine Country and 42 miles of uninterrupted beaches, this part of the state is a vacation destination and provides an ideal opportunity to expand the fan base of Thoroughbred racing in California.

Dr. Allred demonstrated uncommon dedication to the racing community when, in 2005, he formed Finish Line Self Insurance Group (FLSIG). Many of the trainers at Los Alamitos were experiencing unsustainable Worker's Compensation costs. To continue racing and training at Los Alamitos, he created an insurance plan that allowed trainers to pay on a horse-by-horse basis.

Thoroughbred trainers throughout the state were experiencing the same difficulties and on July 1, 2011, FLSIG invited all California Thoroughbred trainers to join. This allowed many small stables to continue to race and train and keep their livelihoods.

With the closure of Hollywood Park, Los Alamitos has become an official auxiliary stabling site for training Thoroughbred horses. Among the horses currently training at Los Alamitos is Santa Anita Derby winner and likely Kentucky Derby favorite, California Chrome. The son of Lucky Pulpit has been training at Los Alamitos since it reopened after the renovation and Art Sherman, his trainer, said, “The track surface at Los Alamitos is as good a racetrack as you will find anywhere in the country. It is a wide, big racetrack and it will make for a beautiful track to race on.”

The addition of Los Alamitos to the California Thoroughbred racing community is just what the doctor ordered! n

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3+ F&M 4+ F&M (IA Bred) 3+ 4+ C&G (IA Bred) 3+ FM 3 F (IA Bred) 3+ 3+ FM 3 C&G (IA Bred) 3+ F&M 3+F&M 3+ 3+ 3F 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3+FM 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ (NJ Bred) 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3 3+FM 3+ FM (NJ Bred) 3+ 3 + FM 3 3 3+ FM 3 F (PA Bred) 3+ 3+FM 3 + FM 3+ 3+ 2F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M 2 3+ 3 + CG 3 F (Min Bred) 3+ FM 3+ 3 3F 3 3 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM (TX Bred) 3+ FM

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

5.5f (1100m) Furlongs Closing 5.5 5.5 22-Jun-14 5.5 22-Jun-14 5.5 22-Jun-14 5.5 26-Jun-14 5.5 26-Jun-14 5.5 05-Jul-14 5.5 5.5 04-Jul-14 5.5 04-Jul-14 5.5 12-Jul-14 5.5 12-Jul-14 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 26-Jul-14 5.5 5.5 5.5 01-Aug-14 5.5 01-Aug-14 5.5 02-Aug-14 5.5 5.5 CLOSED 5.5 CLOSED 5.5

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

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

CLOSED 02-May-14 03-May-14 03-May-14

10-May-14

10-May-14 CLOSED

17-May-14 17-May-14

11-May-14 16-May-14 18-May-14 24-May-14 18-May-14 18-May-14 18-May-14 18-May-14 17-May-14 03-Jun-14 29-May-14 05-Jun-14 01-Jun-14 05-Jun-14

06-Jun-14 08-Jun-14 CLOSED 08-Jun-14 14-May-14 14-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 21-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 22-Jun-14 22-Jun-14 22-Jun-14 22-Jun-14 19-Jun-14 24-Jun-14 19-Jun-14 28-May-14 07-May-14 04-Jul-14 01-Jul-14

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STAKES SCHEDULES EnduraForce™ for pre-race stamina & Equisel-BCAA for post-race recovery. Use together!

Country USA USA USA JPN USA USA CAN USA CAN CAN USA CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN USA USA CAN CAN USA CAN USA USA FR JPN CAN JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA GB USA USA CAN USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA JPN GB CAN USA USA USA USA USA JPN CAN USA USA USA GB CAN CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA JPN

Track Arapahoe Park Delaware Park Arapahoe Park Hakodate Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Northlands Park Arlington Park Woodbine Northlands Park Monmouth Park Woodbine Emerald Downs Ruidoso Downs Monmouth Park Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Mountaineer Mountaineer Mountaineer Mountaineer Woodbine Finger Lakes Ruidoso Downs Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Monmouth Park Woodbine Finger Lakes Arapahoe Park Deauville Kokura Woodbine Sapporo Monmouth Park Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Belterra Park Haydock Park Finger Lakes Finger Lakes Assiniboia Downs Monmouth Park Kokura Zia Park Delaware Park Delaware Park Belterra Park Canterbury Hanshin Newmarket Woodbine Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Finger Lakes Finger Lakes Finger Lakes Niigata Woodbine Belterra Park Zia Park Zia Park Newmarket Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Zia Park Zia Park Zia Park Zia Park Zia Park Finger Lakes Finger Lakes Mountaineer Woodbine Penn National Zia Park Penn National Mahoning Valley Mahoning Valley Kyoto Mahoning Valley Nakayama

Race Name & (Sponsor) CTBA Lassie The Fort Delaware St CTBA Futurity Hakodate Nisai St Miss Woodford St Emerald Express Princess Margaret Addison Cammack Colin S Edmonton Juv Regret St Royal North S Angie C St Lincoln H’cap Teddy Drone St Louisiana Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Louisiana Cup Sprint Louisiana Cup Juvenile Louisiana Cup Juvenile Fillies The Senator Robert C Byrd Memorial St Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies St Mountaineer Juvenile St West Virginia Secretary of State St Nandi S Niagara St Aspen Cup Ontario Debutante S New Westminster (AlwS) Jersey Shore St Vandal S Ontario County St Gold Rush Futurity Prix Morny (Darley) Kitakyushu Kinen Kenora S Keeneland Cup Sorority St MN Distaff Sprint Championship MN Sprint Championship Northern Lights Debutante St Northern Lights Futurity St Tah Dah St Sprint Cup (Betfred) Aspirant St Lady Fingers St Winnipeg Futurity Eleven North H’cap Kokura Nisai St Premiere Cup H’cap Tax Free Distaff The New Castle Loyalty St Shakopee Juvenile Stakes Centaur St Cheveley Park St Bull Page S Jersey Juvenile NWSS Cahill Road Stakes Arctic Queen H’cap Leon Reed Memorial H’cap New York Breeders’ Futurity Sprinters St Victorian Queen S Best of Ohio Sprint Permian Basin S Governor’s Cup Middle Park St (Vision.ae) Nearctic S Ontario Fashion S Fanfreluche S New Mexico Classic Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Championship New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile For Fillies New Mexico Classic Cup Juvenile For Colts and Geldings New Mexico Classic Cup Sprint Championship New Mexico Classic Cup Championship for Fillies Tin Cup Chalice S Shesastonecoldfox S Sophomore Sprint Championship St Kennedy Road S Blue Mountain S Zia Park Distaff S Fabulous Strike H First Lady St Glacial Princess St Keihan Hai Joshua Radosevich Memorial St Capella St

CAN CAN USA USA

Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Santa Anita Belterra Park

Ross Mcleod Jim Coleman Province (AlwS) Desert Code St Tall Stack St

Class

Gr 3

S

Gr 3 R S S S S S

R S S

Gr 3 S S Gp 1 Gr 3 R Gr 3 Li S S S S Gp 1 S S

Gr 3 R R

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

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

Gr 3 Gr 3

Race Date 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 14-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 21-Jul-2014 26-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 4-Aug-2014 10-Aug-2014 10-Aug-2014 10-Aug-2014 16-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 18-Aug-2014 25-Aug-2014 25-Aug-2014 28-Aug-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 28-Sep-2014 28-Sep-2014 28-Sep-2014 29-Sep-2014 5-Oct-2014 5-Oct-2014 5-Oct-2014 6-Oct-2014 12-Oct-2014 12-Oct-2014 15-Oct-2014 15-Oct-2014 18-Oct-2014 20-Oct-2014 20-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 2-Nov-2014 2-Nov-2014 12-Nov-2014 24-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 29-Nov-2014 30-Nov-2014 1-Dec-2014 14-Dec-2014 15-Dec-2014

Value $40000 $50000 $40000 $293564 $60000 $50000 CAN 50,000 $100000 CAN125,000 CAN 50,000 $75000 CAN150,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100000 $50000 $50000 $50000 $50000 $100000 $100000 $100000 $100000 CAN125,000 $50,000 $50000 CAN125,000 CAN 50,000 $100000 CAN150,000 $50,000 $100000 € 350000 $371868 CAN125,000 $391646 $75000 $60000 $60000 $75000 $75000 $50000 £250000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN 50,000 $60000 $293713 $75000 $75000 $75000 $50000 $75000 $558347 £170000 CAN125,000 $60,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $200,000 $930269 CAN125,000 $150000 $55000 $55000 £170000 CAN300,000+ CAN150,000+ CAN150,000 $130000 $140,000 $140,000 $170,000 $140000 $50000 $50000 $85000 CAN200,000+ $75,000 $75000 $200000 $50000 $50000 $371285 $50000 $342015

Age Surface 2F T 4+ T 2 T 2 T 3F D 2 C&G D 2F D 3+ AWT 2 AWT 2 C&G D 3+ FM D 3+ F&M T 2F D 3+ FM D 3+ D 3+ F&M (LA Bred) D 3+ ( LA Bred) D 2 (LA Bred) D 2 F (LA Bred) D 3+ D 2F D 2 D 3+ FM D 2F AWT 3F D 3F D 2F AWT 2 D 3 D 2 AWT 3 D 2 T 2 CF T 3+ T 3+ AWT 3+ T 2F D 3 FM D 3 D 2F D 2 D 2F T 3+ T 2 C&G D 2F D 2 D 3+ FM D 2 T 3+ D 3+ F&M D 3+ D 2 T 2 D 3+ T 2F T 2 C&G AWT 2 (NJ bred) D 2 WA D 3+ FM D 3+ D 2 D 3+ T 2F AWT 3+ T 2F D 2 D 2C T 3+ T 3+ F&M AWT 2F AWT 3+ F&M D 2F D 2 C&G D 3+ D 3+ F&M D 2 C&G D 2F D 3 D 3+ AWT 2 F (PA bred) D 3+ F&M D 3+ D 3F T 2F T 3+ T 2 T 3+ D

Metres 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

Biotic 8™ – the easy and efficient way to maintain a healthy digestive tract S

4-May-2014 4-May-2014 4-May-2014 9-May-2014

CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75000 $50000

3F 3 3 3

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

Closing 01-Jul-14 11-Jun-14 12-Jul-14

13-Jul-14 10-Jul-14 19-Jul-14 10-Jul-14

19-Jul-14 20-Jul-14 20-Jul-14 20-Jul-14 20-Jul-14 22-Jul-14 22-Jul-14 22-Jul-14 22-Jul-14 17-Jul-14

24-Jul-14 07-Aug-14 03-Aug-14 31-Jul-14

31-Jul-14 09-Jul-14 07-Aug-14 23-Jul-14 23-Aug-14 22-Aug-14 22-Aug-14 CLOSED CLOSED 22-Aug-14 09-Jul-14

30-Sep-14 23-Jul-14 02-Sep-14 02-Sep-14 04-Sep-14 05-Sep-14 06-Aug-14 23-Jul-14 11-Sep-14 20-Sep-14

20-Aug-14 25-Sep-14 03-Oct-14

30-Jul-14 02-Oct-14 02-Oct-14 09-Oct-14

29-Oct-14 06-Nov-14 16-Nov-14 15-Nov-14

15-Oct-14 29-Oct-14

6.5f (1300m) D D T T

1300 1300 1300 1300

6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5

CLOSED 04-May-14 CLOSED CLOSED

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STAKES SCHEDULES HA-140™ to ensure higher bioavailability; use daily to aid joint health or post surgery recovery Country CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN CAN USA CAN CAN CAN CAN FR USA USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN

Track Hastings Racecourse Woodbine SunRay Park Emerald Downs Santa Anita SunRay Park Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Canterbury Northlands Park Northlands Park Canterbury Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Northlands Park Deauville Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Woodbine Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Northlands Park Northlands Park Emerald Downs Woodbine Northlands Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse

Race Name & (Sponsor) The John Longden 6000 Hendrie S Aztec Oaks Auburn H’cap Mizdirection St Dine St Seattle H’cap WA State Legislators Stakes Dark Star Cup Sales Stakes (fillies) Sales Stakes MTA Stallion Auction S Shepperton S British Columbia Cup Debutante (AlwS) British Columbia Cup Nursery (AlwS) Sun Sprint St Prix Maurice de Gheest WTBOA Lads St Barbara Shinpoch St Simcoe S Muskoka S CTHS Sales (AlwS) Bird of Pay St Birdcatcher St Dennis Dodge St Bold Venture S Red Diamond St Premier’s Futurity Sturgeon River St Jack Diamond Sadie Diamond

USA USA USA USA CAN CAN JPN CAN USA CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA CAN JPN CAN CAN USA CAN USA USA CAN USA USA USA CAN IRE IRE CAN USA USA USA USA FR FR GB JPN JPN JPN CAN USA CAN CAN CAN USA USA JPN

Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Santa Anita Woodbine Woodbine Tokyo Woodbine Santa Anita Woodbine Woodbine Santa Anita Arlington Park Santa Anita Arapahoe Park Arapahoe Park Woodbine Chukyo Woodbine Woodbine Charles Town Woodbine Charles Town Charles Town Woodbine Charles Town Arlington Park Arlington Park Woodbine Curragh Curragh Woodbine Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town Longchamp Longchamp Newmarket Kyoto Tokyo Kyoto Woodbine Charles Town Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Charles Town Charles Town Hanshin

Eight Belles St Humana Distaff Churchill Downs St Lazaro Barrera St Fury S Vigil S Keio Hai Spring Cup Queenston S Angels Flight St Connaught Cup S Lady Angela S Triple Bend St Chicago H’cap San Juan Capistrano St Front Range S George Wafer Mem Passing Mood S Procyon St Duchess S Deputy Minister S Robert G Leavitt St Play the King S Sadie Hawkins St Frank Gall Memorial Seaway S Sylvia Bishop Memorial Arlington-Washington Lassie Arlington-Washington Futurity Swynford S Moyglare Stud St National St (Goffs Vincent O’Brien) Overskate S Pink Ribbon St Charles Town Oaks Wild and Wonderful St Researcher S Prix de la Foret (Qatar) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Dewhurst St Swan St Keio Hai Nisai St Fantasy St Frost King S Tri-State Futurity Jammed Lovely S Bessarabian S Glorious Song S West Virginia Futurity (WV) Eleanor Casey Memorial Hanshin Cup

Class Gr 3 S

S

R S S Gp 1

R R S

S Gr 3 S S S S S

Race Date 20-May-2014 25-May-2014 25-May-2014 26-May-2014 26-May-2014 28-May-2014 2-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 2-Jul-2014 2-Jul-2014 21-Jul-2014 5-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 18-Aug-2014 28-Aug-2014 28-Aug-2014 2-Sep-2014 6-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 22-Sep-2014 22-Sep-2014

Value CAN 50,000 CAN150,000+ $50000 $50,000 $75000 $50000 $50,000 $50000 $75000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $55000 CAN125,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 € 250000 $50000 CAN 200,000 CAN 200,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $50000 CAN150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 100,000 CAN 100,000

Age 3+ 4+ F&M 3 F (NM Bred) 3 CG 3 + FM 3 CG (NM Bred) 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 3&4F 3&4 C&G 3 3+ 2F 2 CG (BC Bred) 3+ 3+ 2 CG 2F 2 C&G 2F 2F 2F 2 C&G 2 CG WA bred 3+ 3+ 2 2F 2 CG 2F

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

Metres 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300

Stasis™ – maintaining normal capillary integrity in the lungs Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 S Gr 3 Gr 2 S Gr 2 R Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 2

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

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

S Gr 2

3-May-2014 4-May-2014 4-May-2014 11-May-2014 11-May-2014 12-May-2014 18-May-2014 18-May-2014 18-May-2014 1-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 7-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 14-Jul-2014 21-Jul-2014 24-Jul-2014 10-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 24-Aug-2014 25-Aug-2014 31-Aug-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 6-Oct-2014 6-Oct-2014 18-Oct-2014 2-Nov-2014 9-Nov-2014 9-Nov-2014 9-Nov-2014 9-Nov-2014 9-Nov-2014 17-Nov-2014 23-Nov-2014 30-Nov-2014 21-Dec-2014 28-Dec-2014

$175000 $300,000 $400000 $100000 CAN150,000 CAN150,000+ $558191 CAN150,000 $75000 CAN200,000+ CAN125,000 $300000 $150000 $200000 $40000 $40000 CAN125,000 $342498 CAN125,000 CAN125,000 $50000 CAN200,000+ $50000 $50000 CAN150,000 $50000 $100000 $150000 CAN125,000 € 300000 € 200000 CAN125,000 $100000 $500000 $100000 $100000 € 300000 € 350000 350000 $558092 $352473 $274148 CAN125,000 $100000 CAN150,000 CAN150,000+ CAN125,000 $50000 $50000 $635085

3F 4+ FM 4+ 3 3F 4+ 4+ 3 3F 4+ 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3F 3F 3+ 3F 3 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F&M 3F 2F 2 2 2F 2 CF 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3 3+ 2 CF 2 C&F 3+ 2 2F 2 2 3F 3+ F&M 2F 2 2F 3+

Canterbury Canterbury Lone Star Park Delaware Park Ruidoso Downs

Brooks Fields St HBPA Distaff Lane’s End Stallion Scholarship St Nick Shuk Memorial Overnight Land of Enchantment H’cap

R S

8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 11-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014

$75000 $75000 $50000 $50000 $50,000

3+ 3+FM 3+ FM 2 3+

1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400 1400

Newmarket Churchill Downs

2000 Guineas St (Qipco) Churchill Distaff Turf Mile

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Gp 1 Gr 2

4-May-2014 4-May-2014

£400000 $300000

3 C&F 4+ FM

Closing 09-May-14 08-May-14 18-May-14 16-May-14 21-May-14

06-Jun-14

02-May-14 17-Jul-14 CLOSED CLOSED 17-Jul-14

07-Aug-14 07-Aug-14 CLOSED

28-Aug-14

CLOSED CLOSED

T T T T D

T T

7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7

CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 02-May-14 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 11-May-14 15-May-14 22-May-14 20-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 20-Jun-14

26-Jun-14 28-May-14 03-Jul-14 03-Jul-14 24-Jul-14

07-Aug-14 24-Aug-17 24-Aug-14 21-Aug-14 29-May-14 29-May-14 04-Sep-14

28-Aug-14 28-Aug-14 30-Jul-14 17-Sep-14 01-Oct-14 01-Oct-14 23-Oct-14 23-Oct-14 30-Oct-14 06-Nov-14

12-Nov-14

7.5f (1500m) 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500

Liver Flush & Kidney Flush™ – to detoxify vital organs and improve performance GB USA

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

7f (1400m) D D D D AWT AWT T AWT D T AWT D AWT T T T T D AWT AWT D T D D AWT D AWT AWT AWT T T AWT D D D D T T T T T T AWT D AWT AWT AWT D D T

Chill Ultra™ – reduces anxiety, focuses the mind and relaxes muscles to perform better USA USA USA USA USA

6.5f (1300m)

7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5 7.5

30-May-14 30-May-14 06-Jun-14 27-Jun-14

8f (1600m) 1600 1600

8 8

CLOSED CLOSED

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STAKES SCHEDULES Respi-Free™ – opens airways, loosens mucus, reduces coughs from irritation Country GB USA USA FR FR JPN GB USA USA JPN IRE USA USA IRE CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN USA CAN JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA GB GB GB CAN CAN USA CAN JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA GB CAN USA USA USA FR CAN CAN USA JPN GB USA USA FR CAN CAN CAN FR JPN CAN USA CAN CAN JPN USA USA USA USA IRE CAN CAN USA USA FR CAN JPN CAN CAN

Track Newmarket Lone Star Park Lone Star Park Longchamp Longchamp Tokyo Newbury Monmouth Park Santa Anita Tokyo Curragh Arlington Park Monmouth Park Curragh Woodbine Golden Gate Fields Delaware Park Golden Gate Fields Penn National Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Penn National Delaware Park Northlands Park Arlington Park Northlands Park Tokyo Golden Gate Fields Santa Anita Santa Anita Monmouth Park Calder Emerald Downs Monmouth Park Canterbury Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Royal Ascot Northlands Park Northlands Park Santa Anita Woodbine Tokyo Emerald Downs Churchill Downs Santa Anita Santa Anita Emerald Downs Mountaineer Mountaineer Monmouth Park Delaware Park Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Delaware Park Newmarket Assiniboia Downs Lone Star Park Canterbury Canterbury Chantilly Northlands Park Woodbine Arapahoe Park Chukyo Goodwood Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Deauville Assiniboia Downs Assiniboia Downs Assiniboia Downs Deauville Niigata Woodbine Emerald Downs Woodbine Woodbine Niigata Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Leopardstown Woodbine Woodbine Delaware Park Canterbury Longchamp Woodbine Niigata Northlands Park Assiniboia Downs

Race Name & (Sponsor) 1000 Guineas St (Qipco) Texas Stallion St - Stymie Division Texas Stallion St - Got Koko Division Poule d’Essai des Poulains Poule d’Essai des Pouliches NHK Mile Cup Lockinge St (Jlt) Red Bank St American St Victoria Mile Irish 2000 Guineas (Tattersalls) Hanshin Cup Majestic Light S Irish 1000 Guineas (Etihad Airways) Nassau S All American The Grover Buddy Delp Memorial Overnight Stakes Campanile St Penn Mile Prairie Mile Panthers Penn Oaks Our Mims Overnight John Patrick H Purple Violet St Spangled Jimmy H Yasuda Kinen Silky Sullivan St Crystal Water St Shoemaker Mile Little Silver St Nancy’s Glitter H’cap Budweiser H’cap The Dan Horn H’Cap Northbound Pride Oaks St James’s Palace St Queen Anne St Coronation St Red Smith Ky Alta H Singletary St King Edward S Unicorn St Coca-Cola H’cap Firecracker H’cap Royal Heroine St Senorita St Irish Day H’cap Independence Day St Firecracker St Elkwood St Carl Hanford Memorial Overnight Salvator Mile Boeing H’cap The Christiana Overnight Falmouth (Etihad Airways) RC Anderson St Assault St Lady Canterbury St Mystic Lake Mile Prix Jean Prat Northlands Oaks Ontario Damsel S CTBA Breeders Oaks Toyoto Sho Chukyo Kinen Sussex (Quipco) A L Red Erwin S Elge Rasberry S Prix de Rothschild Assiniboia Oaks Distaff St Agassiz St Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Sekiya Kinen Ontario Colleen S Longacres Mile H’cap Halton S Vice Regent S Niigata Nisai St Happy Ticket Sunday Silence Jim Beam St Comcast Sports New St Matron St (Coolmore Fusaichi Pegasus) Summer S Natalma S DTHA Governors Day St Mystic Lake Derby Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Ricoh Woodbine Mile Keisei Hai Autumn H’cap Alberta Oaks Buffalo St

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

S Gr 1 S Gr 1

Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1

Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3

Gr 3

Gp 1 R R

Gp 1 S Gr 3 Gp 1 R/S R/S Gp 1 R S Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 R R Gr 3

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

Race Date 5-May-2014 11-May-2014 11-May-2014 12-May-2014 12-May-2014 12-May-2014 18-May-2014 18-May-2014 18-May-2014 19-May-2014 25-May-2014 25-May-2014 25-May-2014 26-May-2014 26-May-2014 27-May-2014 29-May-2014 1-Jun-2014 1-Jun-2014 1-Jun-2014 1-Jun-2014 1-Jun-2014 5-Jun-2014 7-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 18-Jun-2014 18-Jun-2014 21-Jun-2014 21-Jun-2014 22-Jun-2014 22-Jun-2014 23-Jun-2014 23-Jun-2014 23-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 3-Jul-2014 3-Jul-2014 5-Jul-2014 6-Jul-2014 7-Jul-2014 7-Jul-2014 10-Jul-2014 12-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 15-Jul-2014 19-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 31-Jul-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 4-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 18-Aug-2014 18-Aug-2014 24-Aug-2014 25-Aug-2014 28-Aug-2014 31-Aug-2014 1-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 22-Sep-2014

Value £400000 $75000 $75000 € 450000 € 450000 $900461 £180000 $100000 $100000 $880895 € 300000 $150000 $750000 € 300000 CAN200,000+ $100000 $50000 $100000 $500000 $75000 $75000 $100000 $50000 CAN 50,000 $100000 CAN 50,000 $978704 $100000 $100000 $400000 $60000 $75000 $50,000 $60000 $75000 £375000 £375000 £375000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75000 CAN200,000 $332645 $50,000 $200000 $200000 $100000 $50,000 $75000 $75000 $75000 $50000 $150000 $50,000 $50000 £160000 CAN 30,000 $50000 $100000 $100000 € 400000 CAN 50,000 CAN150,000 $40000 $371808 £300000 $150000 $150000 € 300000 CAN 50,000 CAN 30,000 CAN 30,000 € 600000 $371868 CAN150,000+ $200,000 CAN125,000 CAN125,000 $293667 $75000 $75000 $50000 $35000 € 300000 CAN200,000+ CAN200,000+ $75000 $200000 € 450000 CAN1,000,000+ $372198 CAN 50,000 CAN 30,000

Age 3F 3 CG 3F 3C 3F 3 No G 4+ 3+ 3+ 4+ F&M 3 CF 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 3 3 F (CA Bred) 3 3 3F 3F 3F 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3+ 3 (CA Bred) 4 + (CA bred) 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3F 3C 4+ 3F 3F 3 3 3+ 3 3 CG 3+ 3 + FM 3F 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ F 3F 3+ (TX Bred) 3+ FM 3+ 3 CF 3F 3F 3F 3+ 3+ 3 (LA Bred) 3 F (LA Bred) 3+ F 3F 3+ FM 3+ C&G 3+ CF 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ 3 2 2F 2 3 CG WA bred 3 F WA bred 3+ F 2 2F 3+ 3 3 + CF 3+ 3+ 3F 2

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

8f (1600m) Metres 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

Furlongs 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Closing CLOSED

CLOSED CLOSED 02-May-14 CLOSED 06-May-14 09-May-14 CLOSED CLOSED 11-May-14 17-May-14 CLOSED 08-May-14 16-May-14 20-May-14 23-May-14 22-May-14 24-May-14 24-May-14 22-May-14 27-May-14 25-May-14 CLOSED 30-May-14 30-May-14 06-Jun-14 08-Jun-14 01-Jun-14 08-Jun-14 06-Jun-14 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED

15-Jun-14 05-Jun-14 14-May-14 15-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 18-Jun-14 18-Jun-14 27-Jun-14 24-Jun-14 22-Jun-14 27-Jun-14 18-Jun-14 04-Jul-14 27-Jun-14 27-Jun-14 26-Jun-14 03-Jul-14 11-Jun-14 28-May-14 CLOSED CLOSED 10-Jul-14 25-Jul-17

24-Jul-14 09-Jul-14 07-Aug-14 07-Aug-14 14-Aug-14 23-Jul-14 24-Aug-14 24-Aug-14

03-Jul-14 28-Aug-14 28-Aug-14 02-Sep-14 05-Sep-14 28-Aug-14 28-Aug-14 06-Aug-14

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STAKES SCHEDULES RegenerEQ™ – promoting appetite, weight gain and a healthy gastro-intestinal environment Country CAN ITY USA GB FR ITY CAN GB GB CAN GB JPN CAN FR USA USA JPN USA JPN JPN JPN USA JPN JPN USA

Track Woodbine Milan Zia Park Newmarket Longchamp Milan Woodbine Newmarket Ascot Northlands Park Doncaster Tokyo Northlands Park Saint-Cloud Zia Park Zia Park Tokyo Mountaineer Kyoto Tokyo Kyoto Zia Park Hanshin Hanshin Arlington Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) La Prevoyante S Premio Vittorio di Capua Chaves County S Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Prix Marcel Boussac (Total) Gran Criterium Bunty Lawless S Fillies’ Mile (Dubai) Queen Elizabeth II St (Quipco) Freedom of the City St Trophy (Racing Post) Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji St Canadian Juvenile St Criterium International New Mexico Classic Cup Rocky Gulch Championship Peppers Pride New Mexico Classic Championship for Fillies & Mares Artemis S Mountaineer Mile S Daily Hai Nisai St Musashino St Mile Championship New Mexico Eddy County S Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Asahi Hai Futurity St Springfield St

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

Monmouth Park Mountaineer Mountaineer Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Canterbury Canterbury

Monmouth Beach St West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker’s Cup West Virginia Senate President’s Breeders’ Cup St Donna Reed Iowa Breeders’ Oaks Minnesota Derby Minnesota Oaks

USA USA USA USA CAN CAN USA USA USA CAN USA USA USA USA CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN CAN CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN USA CAN CAN CAN USA

Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Delaware Park Arlington Park Calder Woodbine Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Penn National Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Delaware Park Prairie Meadows Churchill Downs Santa Anita Prairie Meadows Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Churchill Downs Monmouth Park Santa Anita Monmouth Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Delaware Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Monmouth Park Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Canterbury Canterbury Finger Lakes Los Alamitos Delaware Park Finger Lakes Monmouth Park Finger Lakes Finger Lakes Monmouth Park Woodbine Emerald Downs Northlands Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Emerald Downs

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

Race Date 28-Sep-2014 29-Sep-2014 30-Sep-2014 5-Oct-2014 6-Oct-2014 13-Oct-2014 13-Oct-2014 18-Oct-2014 19-Oct-2014 25-Oct-2014 26-Oct-2014 26-Oct-2014 26-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 2-Nov-2014 2-Nov-2014 16-Nov-2014 16-Nov-2014 24-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 15-Dec-2014 22-Dec-2014 31-Jun-2014

Value CAN125,000 € 209000 $55000 £160000 € 300000 € 209000 CAN125,000 £170000 CAN 50,000 £200000 $391680 CAN 50,000 € 250000 $180,000 $170000 $274148 $130000 $351753 $362311 $976929 $140000 $635154 $683899 $100000

Age 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ F 2F 2 C&F 3+ 2F 3+ 2F 2 C&F 3+ 2 2 CF 3+ 3+ F&M 2F 3+ 2 3+ 3+ 2 2F 2 No G 3

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

3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 4+ F&M (IA Bred) 3 F (IA bred) 3 CG 3F

D T T D D D D

Metres 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

AntiFlam™ – supports sound feet and joints!

S S S S

26-May-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 10-Aug-2014 10-Aug-2014

$75000 $100000 $100000 $85000 $80000 $75000 $75000

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Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 S

Li

R Gr 2

S Gr 3 Gr 3 S

R

Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S

Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3

S S S Gr 2 Gr 2 S S S R

3-May-2014 3-May-2014 3-May-2014 4-May-2014 19-May-2014 20-May-2014 22-May-2014 25-May-2014 25-May-2014 26-May-2014 27-May-2014 27-May-2014 27-May-2014 31-May-2014 2-Jun-2014 2-Jun-2014 6-Jun-2014 7-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 22-Jun-2014 22-Jun-2014 22-Jun-2014 22-Jun-2014 27-Jun-2014 28-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 2-Jul-2014 2-Jul-2014 2-Jul-2014 2-Jul-2014 4-Jul-2014 4-Jul-2014 5-Jul-2014 6-Jul-2014 6-Jul-2014 6-Jul-2014 6-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 14-Jul-2014 14-Jul-2014 19-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014

$300,000 $300000 $150000 $250000 CAN150,000 CAN 50,000 $50000 $150000 $75000 CAN125,000+ $75000 $75000 $50000 $75000 + CAN200,000+ CAN 50,000 $50000 $75000 $100,000 $100000 $75000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN125,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $100000 $150000 $200000 $100000 $100000 $100000 $50000 $100000 $250000 $200000 $750000 CAN150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $60000 $60000 $50,000 $500000 $300000 $50,000 $100000 $150,000 $75,000 $60000 CAN250,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $50000

Closing 11-Sep-14 29-Aug-14 23-Jul-14 28-Aug-14 12-Sep-14 25-Sep-14 23-Jul-14 06-Aug-14 13-Aug-14 17-Sep-14 09-Oct-14

17-Sep-14 21-Oct-14 01-Oct-14 01-Oct-14 01-Oct-14 29-Oct-14 12-Nov-14 18-May-14

8.32f (1625m) 1625 1625 1625 1625 1625 1625 1625

Hemex™ – maintains a normal red blood cell count and supports better oxygen utilization La Troienne St Alysheba St Edgewood St American Turf St Selene S Strawberry Morn H’cap The Winter Melody Overnight Stakes Arlington Classic Memorial Day H’cap Marine S The Miss Liberty Jim Rasmussen Mem Wild Rose The Lyphard Eclipse S The Monashee The Justakiss St Hawkeyes Handicap Early Times Mint Julep H’cap Affirmed St Cyclones Handicap River Rock Casino (AlwS) Emerald Downs (AlwS) Steady Growth S Sir Winston Churchill H’cap Vancouver Sun H’cap Matt Winn St Pegasus S Summertime Oaks Eatontown St Black Tie Affair H’cap Lincoln Heritage H’cap Stanton St Iowa Distaff Iowa Derby Iowa Oaks Lighthouse St Dominion Day S Chris Loseth Lt Governors’ H’cap Supernaturel St Blair’s Cove St Princess Elaine St Genesee Valley Breeders’ H’cap Los Alamitos Derby Delaware Oaks Jack Betta Be Rite H’cap Long Branch St New York Derby New York Oaks Lamplighter St Bison City S Seattle Slew H’cap Madamoiselle H Count Lathum St Fred Jones S Kent Handicap

8f (1600m) Furlongs 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

3+ FM 4+ 3F 3 3F 3+ FM 3 + FM 3 3+ 3 3+FM 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 4+ 3+ 3 + FM 3+ F&M (IA Bred) 3+ FM 3 3+ (IA Bred) 3 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3 3 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3 3+ F&M 3 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3 3+ 3F 3+ CG 3+ FM 3+ 3 3F 3+ FM 3 3 (NY Bred) 3F 3 3F 3 CG 3+ F&M 3 3+ 3F

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

1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32 8.32

17-May-14 22-Jul-14 22-Jul-14 26-Jul-14 CLOSED CLOSED

8.5f (1700m) 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 04-May-14 CLOSED 20-May-14 13-May-14 CLOSED 11-May-14 08-May-14 17-May-14 18-May-14 18-May-14 23-May-14 15-May-14 20-Jun-14 27-May-14 30-May-14 25-May-14 30-May-14 31-May-14 23-May-14 30-May-14 22-May-14 02-Jun-17 30-May-14 01-Jun-14 02-Jun-14 12-Jun-17 08-Jun-14 08-Jun-14 08-Jun-14 17-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 21-Jun-14 12-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 20-Jun-14 02-May-14 24-Jun-14 22-Jun-14

05-Jul-14 26-Jun-14

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STAKES SCHEDULES Healthy Horse™ – Hemex, Immune Plus, Lung Flush & Liver Flush in one convenient format!

Country USA USA CAN USA USA USA JPN USA CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN CAN USA CAN CAN CAN USA CAN CAN USA USA CAN CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN USA CAN CAN USA USA USA CAN CAN CAN USA USA

Track Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Woodbine Prairie Meadows Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Sapporo Monmouth Park Woodbine Woodbine Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Louisiana Downs Mountaineer Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Monmouth Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Arlington Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Woodbine Woodbine Monmouth Park Ruidoso Downs Canterbury Canterbury Monmouth Park Ruidoso Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Delaware Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Woodbine Woodbine Emerald Downs Northlands Park Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Northlands Park Woodbine Woodbine Zia Park Woodbine Woodbine Zia Park Zia Park Penn National Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Los Alamitos Los Alamitos

Race Name & (Sponsor) Desert Vixen S Mt Rainier H’cap Ontario Matron S Prairie Meadows H’cap Molly Pitcher St Monmouth Cup Elm St Oceanport St Victoriana S Eternal Search S Louisiana Cup Distaff Louisiana Cup Turf Classic Iowa Breeders’ Derby Ralph Hayes Super Derby Prelude West Virginia Governor’s St Seagram Cup S British Columbia Cup Stellar’s Jay St Monmouth Oaks City of Edmonton Distaff St Sonoma St Westerner St Hatoof Richmond Derby Trial Hong Kong Jockey Club H’cap The Violet St Cliff Hanger St Algoma S Elgin S Boling Springs St Ruidoso Downs Thoroughbred Derby MN Classic Championship MN Distaff Classic Championship Lady’s Secret St Ruidoso Downs Championship River Cities Unbridled Hcap Jersey Girl H’cap Charles Hesse H’cap Pegasus Training Center St Muckleshoot Tribal Classic George Rosenberger St Breeders’ H’cap Fall Classic Distaff Beaufort St La Lorgnette S Classy ‘n Smart S Gottstein Futurity Duchess of York St Mazarine BC S Grey BC S Cup and Saucer S Ascot Graduation St Fantasy St Harvest Gold Plate Display S Princess Elizabeth S Veterans S Autumn S South Ocean S Zia Park Oaks Zia Park Derby The Swatara Sir Barton S Ontario Lassie S Kingarvie S Starlet Los Alamitos Futurity

USA USA USA USA FR USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN CAN CAN CAN USA USA CAN

Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Santa Anita Arlington Park Longchamp Santa Anita Santa Anita Penn National Monmouth Park Churchill Downs Santa Anita Churchill Downs Churchill Downs Tokyo Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine SunRay Park Prairie Meadows Woodbine

Kentucky Oaks Woodford Reserve Turf Classic Honeymoon St Arlington Matron Prix d’Ispahan Gamely St Californian St The Mountainview H’cap Monmouth St Stephen Foster H’cap Vanity St Fleur de Lis H’cap Regret St Epsom Cup Plate Trial S Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser Victoria Park S San Juan County Commissioners H’cap Prairie Meadows Cornhusker H’cap Dance Smartly S

Class

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

Gr 3 S Gr 3

Gr 3 Gr 3 R R Gr 3 S S S

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

R Gr 2 S

S S S Gr 1 Gr 1

Race Date 20-Jul-2014 21-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 31-Jul-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 3-Aug-2014 4-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 10-Aug-2014 16-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 23-Aug-2014 23-Aug-2014 24-Aug-2014 25-Aug-2014 28-Aug-2014 28-Aug-2014 31-Aug-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 1-Sep-2014 2-Sep-2014 2-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 8-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 22-Sep-2014 29-Sep-2014 29-Sep-2014 5-Oct-2014 6-Oct-2014 6-Oct-2014 13-Oct-2014 14-Oct-2014 14-Oct-2014 14-Oct-2014 2-Nov-2014 3-Nov-2014 4-Nov-2014 10-Nov-2014 16-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 1-Dec-2014 1-Dec-2014 7-Dec-2014 14-Dec-2014 21-Dec-2014

Value $60000 $50,000 CAN150,000+ $75000 $200000 $200000 $342473 $150000 CAN125,000 CAN125,000 $75000 $75000 $80000 $85000 $100000 $200000 CAN150,000+ CAN 50,000 $100000 CAN 75,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $150000 $100000 CAN125,000 CAN125,000 $100000 $50000 $60000 $60000 $750000 $60000 $75000 $75000 $60000 $60000 $50000 $50000 $75000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN125,000 CAN125,000 $65000 CAN 50,000 CAN150,000 CAN150,000 CAN250,000 CAN 75,000 CAN 75,000 CAN 50,000 CAN125,000 CAN250,000 $55000 CAN150,000+ CAN125,000 $300000 $200000 $100000 CAN125,000 CAN150,000 CAN125,000 $350000 $500000

Age Surface 3F T 3+ D 3+ F&M AWT 3+ D 3+ FM D 3+ D 3+ D 3+ T 3+ F&M T 3F AWT 3+ F&M (LA Bred) T 3+ (LA Bred) T 3 D 4+ C&G (IA Bred) D 3 T 3+ D 3+ AWT 3 CG D 3F D 3+ F&M D 3F D 3+ D 3F T 3 D 3F D 3+ F&M T 3+ T 3+ F&M AWT 3+ C&G AWT 3F T 3 D 3+ D 3+ FM D 3+ FM D 3+ D 3+ F&M T 3+ T 3+ FM D 3+ D 3+ FM WA bred D 3+ WA Bred D 3+ FM T 3+ D 3+ F&M D 3 D 3F AWT 3+ F&M AWT 2 WA D 3+ F&M D 2F AWT 2 AWT 2 T 2 D 2F D 3+ D 2 AWT 2F AWT 3+ D 3+ AWT 2F AWT 3F D 3 D 3+ D 3+ AWT 2F AWT 2 AWT 2F D 2 D

Metres 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

Testos Boost™ – a natural way to increase a horse’s production of testosterone Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 R R

Gr 3 Gr 2

3-May-2014 4-May-2014 5-May-2014 25-May-2014 26-May-2014 27-May-2014 1-Jun-2014 1-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 15-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 23-Jun-2014 23-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 7-Jul-2014

$1000000 $500000 $200000 $150000 € 250000 $300000 $200000 $200000 $200000 $500000 $300000 $200000 $100000 $391437 CAN150,000 CAN500,000 CAN125,000+ $75000 $300000 CAN200,000+

3F 3+ 3F 3+ FM 4+ 3 + FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 + FM 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3 3F 3 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M

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

8.5f (1700m) Furlongs 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.6 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5 8.5

Closing 12-Jul-14 10-Jul-14 19-Jul-14 14-Jul-14 14-Jul-14 11-Jun-14 14-Jul-14 10-Jul-14 17-Jul-14 20-Jul-14 20-Jul-14 26-Jul-14 20-Jul-14 22-Jul-14 17-Jul-14 25-Jul-14 26-Jul-14

03-Aug-14 14-Aug-14 14-Aug-14 10-Aug-14 10-Aug-14 07-Aug-14 07-Aug-14 17-Aug-14 22-Aug-14 22-Aug-14 23-Aug-14 24-Aug-14 24-Aug-14 30-Aug-14 30-Sep-14

02-Sep-14

04-Sep-14 11-Sep-14

18-Sep-14 18-Sep-14 25-Sep-14 CLOSED CLOSED 16-Oct-14 16-Oct-14 23-Oct-14 30-Oct-14

15-Nov-14 13-Nov-14 13-Nov-14 20-Nov-14 16-May-14 16-May-14

9f (1800m) 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 11-May-14 CLOSED 16-May-14 23-May-14 22-May-14 26-May-14 01-Jun-14 07-May-14 01-Jun-14 01-Jun-14 CLOSED 29-May-14 02-May-14 05-Jun-14 16-Jun-14 15-Jun-14 19-Jun-14

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STAKES SCHEDULES EnduraForce™ for pre-race stamina & Equisel-BCAA for post-race recovery. Use together!

Country JPN CAN USA CAN USA USA USA USA JPN CAN CAN CAN USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN CAN CAN USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN USA JPN CAN CAN USA USA USA JPN CAN CAN JPN JPN USA USA JPN USA CAN USA JPN USA USA USA

Track Fukushima Woodbine Arlington Park Woodbine Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Belterra Park Mountaineer Sapporo Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Assiniboia Downs Emerald Downs Niigata Emerald Downs Arapahoe Park Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Arlington Park Louisiana Downs Sapporo Assiniboia Downs Assiniboia Downs Arlington Park Assiniboia Downs Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Delaware Park Hanshin Woodbine Woodbine Belterra Park Belterra Park Belterra Park Tokyo Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Tokyo Kyoto Charles Town Charles Town Tokyo Zia Park Woodbine Mahoning Valley Hanshin Mahoning Valley Remington Park Delaware Park

Race Name & (Sponsor) Radio Nikkei Sho Nijinsky St Arlington Oaks Toronto Cup S Haskell Invitational (INV) Taylor Made Matchmaker Norm Barron Queen City Oaks West Virginia Derby Queen St British Columbia Cup Classic H’cap British Columbia Cup Distaff H’cap Manitoba Derby Washington Oaks Leopard St Emerald Downs Derby Arapahoe Park Classic Philip H. Iselin St Emerald Distaff Washington Park H’cap Super Derby Sapporo Nisai St J.W. Sifton St Matron Breeders’ Cup St Pucker Up St Gold Cup Canadian S British Columbia Derby Delta Colleen H’cap British Columbia Breeders’ Cup Oaks SW Randall Plate H’cap Kent BC St Rose St Ontario Derby Durham Cup S Best of Ohio Distaff Juvenile St John W. Galbreath Memorial St Mainichi Okan Ballerina Breeders’ Cup St Carotene S Fuchu Himba St Miyako St My Sister Pearl A Huevo St Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai St Zia Park Distance Championship Coronation Futurity Ruff/Kirchberg Memotial H’cap Challenge Cup Bobbie Bricker Memorial H’cap Oklahoma Derby Obeah St

USA JPN USA USA CAN USA

Pimlico Kyoto Arlington Park Arlington Park Fort Erie Arlington Park

Preakness St Heian St Modesty H’cap American Derby Prince of Wales S Beverly D. St

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

Gr 3

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

Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3

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

Race Date 7-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 21-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 3-Aug-2014 4-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 5-Aug-2014 10-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 18-Aug-2014 18-Aug-2014 31-Aug-2014 7-Sep-2014 7-Sep-2014 13-Sep-2014 13-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 21-Sep-2014 22-Sep-2014 22-Sep-2014 5-Oct-2014 12-Oct-2014 12-Oct-2014 12-Oct-2014 13-Oct-2014 14-Oct-2014 14-Oct-2014 19-Oct-2014 10-Nov-2014 16-Nov-2014 23-Nov-2014 25-Nov-2014 27-Nov-2014 30-Nov-2014 7-Dec-2014 14-Dec-2014 21-Dec-2014 21-Sep-2107 15-Jun-2108

Value $361861 CAN200,000 $150000 CAN125,000 $1000000 $150000 $75000 $750000 $342443 CAN 75,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 75,000 $65,000 $391332 $65,000 $100000 $150000 $65,000 $150000 $400000 $293715 CAN 30,000 CAN 50,000 $175000 CAN 50,000 CAN300,000+ CAN 150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 100,000 CAN 50,000 $150000 $489672 CAN150,000+ CAN150,000+ $150000 $150000 $150000 $607118 CAN 100,000 CAN150,000 $519023 $362311 $50000 $50000 $312578 $150000 CAN250,000 $50000 $390663 $50000 $400000 $150000

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

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

Metres 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

Biotic 8™ – the easy and efficient way to maintain a healthy digestive tract Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 S Gr 1

18-May-2014 25-May-2014 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 30-Jul-2014 17-Aug-2014

$1500000 $342481 $200000 $200000 CAN500,000 $750000

3 4+ 3+ FM 3 3 3+ FM

Churchill Downs Rome Niigata Santa Anita Longchamp Santa Anita Hanshin Hanshin Royal Ascot Santa Anita Sandown Park Woodbine Delaware Park Arlington Park Fukushima Hakodate Munich Goodwood Kokura Woodbine Arlington Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Deauville Sapporo Niigata Leopardstown Hanshin

Kentucky Derby Premio Presidente della Repubblica Niigata Daishoten Charles Whittingham St Prix Saint-Alary (Pour Moi Coolmore) American Oaks Naruo Kinen Mermaid St Prince of Wales’s St The Gold Cup at Santa Anita Eclipse St (Coral) The Queen’s Plate S Delaware H’cap Arlington H’cap Tanabata Sho Hakodate Kinen Grosser-Dallmayr Preis Nassau Kokura Kinen Wonder Where S Arlington Million XXXI Secretariat Stakes American St Leger St Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Sapporo Kinen Niigata Kinen Irish Champion St Sirius St

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Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 R Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 R Gr 1 Gr 1 Li Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3

4-May-2014 12-May-2014 12-May-2014 25-May-2014 26-May-2014 1-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 19-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 6-Jul-2014 7-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 14-Jul-2014 21-Jul-2014 28-Jul-2014 3-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 11-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 25-Aug-2014 25-Aug-2014 8-Sep-2014 14-Sep-2014 5-Oct-2014

$2,000,000 € 297000 $391650 $200000 € 250000 $350000 $391475 $342471 £375000 $500000 £425000 CAN1,000,000 $750000 $200000 $391486 $391461 € 155000 £200000 $391332 CAN250,000 $1000000 $500000 $400000 € 250000 $636233 $391666 € 1000000 $342758

3 4+ 4+ 3+ 3F 3F 3+ 3+ FM 4+ 3+ 3+ 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3F 3+ 3yo 3+ 4+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+

Closing 28-May-14 03-Jul-14 06-Jul-14 03-Jul-14 14-Jul-14 18-Jul-14 22-Jul-14 25-Jun-14 25-Jul-14 25-Jul-14 24-Jul-14 25-Jun-14

03-Aug-14 17-Aug-14 12-Aug-14 23-Jul-14

31-Aug-14 28-Aug-14 11-Jul-14 05-Sep-14 11-Jul-14 05-Sep-14 09-Sep-14 22-Sep-14 04-Sep-14 18-Sep-14 03-Oct-14 03-Oct-14 03-Oct-14 03-Sep-14 03-Oct-14 25-Sep-14 03-Sep-14 01-Oct-14

15-Oct-14 13-Nov-14 29-Oct-14 21-Sep-17

9.5f (1900m) D D T T D T

1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900

HA-140™ to ensure higher bioavailability; use daily to aid joint health or post surgery recovery USA ITY JPN USA FR USA JPN JPN GB USA GB CAN USA USA JPN JPN GER GB JPN CAN USA USA USA FR JPN JPN IRE JPN

9f (1800m) Furlongs 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9

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

2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000

9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5

CLOSED CLOSED 29-Jun-14 CLOSED CLOSED

10f (2000m) 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

26-Jan-14 CLOSED 02-May-14 16-May-14 20-Feb-14 23-May-14 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 20-Jun-14 CLOSED 02-May-14 01-Jul-14 29-Jun-14 28-May-14 11-Jun-14 07-May-14 09-Jul-14 25-Jun-14 24-Jul-14 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 31-Jul-14 09-Jul-14 23-Jul-14 22-May-14 20-Aug-14

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STAKES SCHEDULES Stasis™ – maintaining normal capillary integrity in the lungs Country FR USA GB CAN JPN ITY CAN ITY JPN FR JPN JPN JPN JPN

Track Longchamp Belterra Park Ascot Woodbine Kyoto Rome Woodbine Rome Tokyo Saint-Cloud Fukushima Kyoto Chukyo Chukyo

Race Name & (Sponsor) Prix de l’Opera (Longines) Best of Ohio Endurance Champion (Quipco) E P Taylor S Shuka Sho Premio Lydia Tesio Maple Leaf S Premio Roma Tenno Sho (Autumn) Criterium de Saint-Cloud Fukushima Kinen Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai St Kinko Sho Aichi Hai

Class Gp 1

IRE FR FR GB

Curragh Chantilly Chantilly York

Gold Cup (Tattersalls) Prix du Jockey Club Prix de Diane (Longines) International St (Juddmonte)

JPN JPN USA USA GER CAN CAN CAN JPN JPN CAN JPN

Kyoto Hanshin Delaware Park Monmouth Park Dusseldorf Woodbine Northlands Park Northlands Park Niigata Niigata Hastings Racecourse Kyoto

Kyoto Shimbun Hai Takarazuka Kinen Robert G Dick BC St United Nations St Henkel Preis der Diana German Oaks Sky Classic S Canadian Derby Speed to Spare St St Lite Kinen All Comers BC Premier’s H’cap Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup

JPN USA JPN JPN GB USA GB GB ITY IRE FR GER CAN USA FR IRE GB GER GB GER FR CAN GER JPN FR JPN ITY CAN GER JPN

Tokyo Churchill Downs Tokyo Tokyo Epsom Downs Belmont Park Epsom Downs Epsom Downs Milan Curragh Saint-Cloud Hamburg Woodbine Arlington Park Longchamp Curragh Ascot Hoppegarten York Baden-Baden Longchamp Woodbine Cologne Hanshin Longchamp Kyoto Milan Woodbine Munich Tokyo

Aoba Sho Louisville H’cap Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) Oaks (Investec) Belmont St Coronation Cup (Investec) Derby (Investec) Gran Premio Milano Irish Derby (Dubai Duty Free) Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud IDEE 145. Deutsches Derby Singspiel S Stars and Stripes St Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Irish Oaks (Darley) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) Grosser Preis Von Berlin Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Northern Dancer BC Turf Preis von Europa Kobe Shimbun Hai Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Kyoto Daishoten Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Pattison Canadian International Grosser Pries Von Bayern Japan Cup

JPN JPN

Tokyo Tokyo

Meguro Kinen Copa Republica Argentina

GB IRE CAN

Doncaster Curragh Woodbine

St Leger (Ladbrokes) St Leger (Irish) Valedictory S

JPN

Kyoto

JPN FR

Kyoto Saint-Cloud

Tenno Sho (Spring) Prix Royal-Oak

JPN

Nakayama

Stayers St

GB FR

Royal Ascot Longchamp

Gp 1 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 3

Race Date 6-Oct-2014 12-Oct-2014 19-Oct-2014 20-Oct-2014 20-Oct-2014 27-Oct-2014 2-Nov-2014 3-Nov-2014 3-Nov-2014 9-Nov-2014 17-Nov-2014 30-Nov-2014 7-Dec-2014 21-Dec-2014

Value € 400000 $150000 CAN500,000 $871592 € 209000 CAN150,000 € 209000 $1292420 € 250000 $390800 $312578 $585958 $341958

10f (2000m)

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

Surface T T T T T T AWT T T T T T T T

Metres 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000

Chill Ultra™ – reduces anxiety, focuses the mind and relaxes muscles to perform better Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1

26-May-2014 2-Jun-2014 16-Jun-2014 21-Aug-2014

€ 210000 € 1500000 € 1000000 £750000

4+ 3 CF 3F 3+

T T T T

Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1

11-May-2014 30-Jun-2014 6-Jul-2014 7-Jul-2014 4-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 17-Aug-2014 2-Sep-2014 22-Sep-2014 29-Sep-2014 14-Oct-2014 17-Nov-2014

$508960 $1291213 $200000 $500000 € 400000 CAN200,000 CAN 200,000 CAN 100,000 $509279 $607290 CAN 100,000 $879240

3 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3+ FM

T T T T T T D D T T D T

4-May-2014 25-May-2014 26-May-2014 2-Jun-2014 7-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 8-Jun-2014 9-Jun-2014 29-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 7-Jul-2014 7-Jul-2014 13-Jul-2014 14-Jul-2014 20-Jul-2014 27-Jul-2014 11-Aug-2014 22-Aug-2014 8-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 29-Sep-2014 29-Sep-2014 6-Oct-2014 14-Oct-2014 20-Oct-2014 20-Oct-2014 2-Nov-2014 1-Dec-2014

$505990 $100,000 $945792 $1950131 £400000 $1500000 £350000 £1325000 € 209000 € 1250000 € 400000 € 500000 CAN150,000+ $150000 € 600000 € 400000 £1000000 € 175000 £325000 € 250000 € 350000 CAN300,000+ € 155000 $509273 € 4000000 $607118 € 209000 CAN1,000,000 € 155000 $2442708

3 3+ 3F 3 No G 3F 3 4+ 3 C&F 3+ 3 CF 4+ 3 CF 3+ 3+ 3 CF 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3 No G 3+ CF 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+

T T T T T D T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T

2-Jun-2014 10-Nov-2014

$538263 $538502

4+ 3+

T T

2500 2500

3 C&F 3+ 3+

T T AWT

2800 2800 2800

AntiFlam™ – supports sound feet and joints!

Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3

14-Sep-2014 15-Sep-2014 8-Dec-2014

£600000 € 300000 CAN150,000+

Gr 1

27-Oct-2014

$1091954

3 No G

T

5-May-2014 27-Oct-2014

$1284727 € 250000

4+ 3+

T T

3200 3200

Testos Boost™ – a natural way to increase a horse’s production of testosterone Gr 2

7-Dec-2014

$585958

3+

T

Gp 1 Gp 1

20-Jun-2014 6-Oct-2014

£375000 € 300000

09-Aug-14 20-Aug-14 03-Oct-14 01-Oct-14

12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12

CLOSED 11-May-14 CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 09-May-14 CLOSED 12-Jun-14 CLOSED 19-Jun-14 29-Jun-14 CLOSED CLOSED 11-Jun-14 21-May-14 25-Jun-14 18-Jun-14 28-Aug-14 28-Aug-14 02-Jul-14 20-Aug-14 15-May-14 03-Sep-14 19-Sep-14 02-Oct-14 13-Aug-14 15-Oct-14

12.5f (2500m) 12.5 12.5

CLOSED 01-Oct-14

4+ 4+

T T

14 14 14

23-Jul-14 22-May-14 20-Nov-14

15

CLOSED

16f (3200m) 16 16

CLOSED 09-Oct-14

18f (3600m) 3600

EnduraForce™ for pre-race stamina & Equisel-BCAA for post-race recovery. Use together!

Gold Cup Prix du Cadran (Qatar)

CLOSED 14-May-14 24-Jun-14 22-Jun-14 CLOSED 31-Jul-14

15f (3000m) 3000

Healthy Horse™ – Hemex, Immune Plus, Lung Flush & Liver Flush in one convenient format!

Gr 1 Gp 1

11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11

14f (2800m)

Hemex™ – maintains a normal red blood cell count and supports better oxygen utilization Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger)

CLOSED CLOSED CLOSED 25-Jul-14

12f (2400m) 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400 2400

RegenerEQ™ – promoting appetite, weight gain and a healthy gastro-intestinal environment Gr 2 Gr 2

10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5

11f (2200m) 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200 2200

Respi-Free™ – opens airways, loosens mucus, reduces coughs from irritation Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gp 1 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 1

Closing 28-Aug-14 03-Oct-14 06-Aug-14 02-Oct-14 03-Sep-14 26-Sep-14 16-Oct-14 03-Oct-14 17-Sep-14 23-Oct-14 01-Oct-14 15-Oct-14 29-Oct-14 12-Nov-14

10.5f (2100m) 2100 2100 2100 2100

Liver Flush & Kidney Flush™ – to detoxify vital organs and improve performance Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 3

Furlongs 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10

4000 4000

18

29-Oct-14

20f (4000m) 20 20

CLOSED 28-Aug-14

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SID FERNANDO

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DDITIONALLY, three of the four older male champions in that span – Acclamation, Gio Ponti, and Wise Dan (two years) – didn’t win a single dirt race in four years.

This, alone, is astounding as this award was traditionally given to the best “handicap horse“ in the country, a euphemism for older dirt male.

Without male dirt champions, of course, there are no stallion prospects of the marquee type that have traditionally attracted North American breeding establishments. In fact, only Blame, the champion older horse of 2010, upheld the virtues of the “Establishment” as a dirt horse over this five-year period.

I don’t need to define who the Establishment is. It’s the Old Guard of racing and breeding. It’s the Jockey Club’s Hancocks of Claiborne Farm, the co-owner-breeder of Blame, who now stands at the famous farm in Paris, Kentucky, where such luminaries as Bold Ruler, Mr. Prospector, and Danzig, among so many others, carved out illustrious careers. It’s Jockey Club steward Will Farish of Lane’s End Farm, where Curlin stands, and where such as A.P. Indy, Kingmambo, and others have called home. It’s Ogden Mills “Dinny“ Phipps, chairman, and Stuart S. Janney III, vice chairman of the Jockey Club, who together bred and raced the popular 2013 Kentucky Derby winner Orb – now at stud at Claiborne. And it’s others like them, many of whom are members of the Jockey Club. They share memories of a not-too-distance past when “drug free” American racing was held in high regard the world over, when top-class and versatile ten-furlong dirt horses like Buckpasser, Damascus, Dr. Fager, Secretariat, and Forego, to name a few, defined a Golden Age for American racing.

How ironic was it, then, when “The Jockey Club Tour on Fox,” a Jockey Club-backed initiative with the Fox network to broadcast a series of the most “prestigious races for older horses” – their wording from a press release – was heavily skewed to turf and all-weather races instead of dirt events? One can only imagine the consternation in some Old Guard quarters, perhaps leading to questions like, “Just what the

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Dishing out the dirt If you follow this space, you’ll recall that in the previous issue I posed the question, “Why are intact, older male dirt champions such a rare breed?” Curlin, in 2008, was the last male dirt horse to be named Horse of the Year; from 2009 to 2013, the females Rachel Alexandra, Zenyatta, and Havre de Grace, plus the gelding Wise Dan (two years), accounted for the last five consecutive HOTY titles. heck, Skip, are the executives in New York up to?”

Then, presto! Things changed. Keeneland made the watershed announcement on April 2 to abandon its successful eight-year Polytrack surface for dirt this fall. One of the most popular and profitable tracks in the country, Keeneland is run by president and CEO Bill Thomason, but the power behind the organization reportedly lies with trustees Will Farish and Louis Lee Haggin III, both members of the Jockey Club. It’s certain that a change wouldn’t have been made without their tacit approval. It’s also known that Keeneland wants to host the Breeders’ Cup – chaired by Bill Farish, son of the Lane’s End owner – and the BC wants dirt.

With Keeneland switching, following Santa Anita in 2010 and ahead of Del Mar – which will install a dirt surface after its summer meet – the landscape of racing at the major centers in the United States will now dramatically change.

Including the recent demise of Hollywood and

“Including the recent demise of Hollywood and its all-weather track, racing at the “A” tracks in California, Kentucky, Florida, and New York will now all be dirt – a shift back to the past”

its all-weather track, racing at the “A” tracks in California, Kentucky, Florida, and New York will now all be dirt – a shift back to the past. It’s what the Establishment and many leading trainers have wanted from the moment it became obvious that dirt sires and runners were losing ground to all-weather and turf horses and stallions.

In fact, the Establishment is making plenty of noise to reclaim its beloved sport, tarnished lately by drug and animal welfare scandals and rudderless without leadership. But it will have to navigate the future carefully to satisfy the many factions, including trainers, bettors, and fans, that comprise it.

For instance, many of the trainers who joined in support of dirt are still against the Jockey Club’s no-race-day medication stance, exemplified best by the Jockey Club’s support of the Pitts-Udall bill that would phase out Lasix and put the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in charge of drug testing, policy, and prosecution.

The bettors, so sensitive to Churchill Downs’ recent takeout increase, will be up in arms again when it becomes evident that funding PittsUdall’s USADA component will come from takeout.

And the fans? Animal welfare is a major concern for them. They were outraged by the undercover PETA video of the Steve Asmussen operation that alleges animal cruelty, and they are struggling to understand Keeneland’s decision to go to a dirt surface after the Jockey Club itself released data that said “synthetic racing surfaces continued to be associated with significantly fewer fatal injuries than dirt” for the period 2009-2013. n

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