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Legends old and new

N a break from our normal tradition of having our main trainer profile on the cover, we’ve decided to run a tribute to American Pharoah by encapsulating his Triple Crown. We’ve fused history with the present by using a black and white photograph to embody the passage of time since Affirmed in 1978 to American Pharoah in 2015, modernizing the 21st century accomplishment by keeping American Pharoah and Victor Espinoza in color.

If we hadn’t gone for this image, you’d have been greeted by a photo of King T. Leatherbury, who rightfully will have his achievements recognized by the Hall of Fame in August. As Frances J. Karon found out when spending time with him over Preakness weekend, “KT” is not only a legendary trainer but also a legendary character, which only adds to his longevity on the Maryland circuit.

King’s response to being profile in our magazine was, “What on earth are you going to write about me that hasn’t been written before?!”

Well, we’ve got plenty of stories and anecdotes amassed from a career that has spanned the last six decades into this article and if you’re going to be in Saratoga Springs on August 7th, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed if you go to the Hall of Fame induction ceremony in the Fasig-Tipton Sales Pavilion!

We also profile Barry Abrams, who, despite battling an absolutely dreadful form of cancer, has managed to keep his stable going

through the adversity thrown his way. As Barry suggests, it’s the lure of the racetrack that has kept him going. Barry makes an interesting observation about the state of the industry in California: “It’s a matter of time before we go to three days of racing and eventually weekend only racing. But I believe it will slowly come back to three, four, five days a week, because people will start breeding more horses, the economy will improve, and more people will get into horseracing.”

It’s certainly food for thought, but if like me you did a doubletake at the massive numbers posted at the end of the 2014-15 Hong Kong season and wondered how and why this happens, the answer may be in the “less is more philosophy” that has fueled the growth and success in the New Territories.

Hong Kong holds an “elite,” two-day-a-week meet for the duration of its season by only allowing horses of a certain standard to run, and perhaps it’s this format that could be introduced stateside.

The top tier tracks with long meets could run two “elite” days per week, featuring horses rated above a given threshold, and allow the other days to run as “regular” days. It’s the incentive of competition that will fuel the growth of racing, and with encouraging results already this year from boutique racing days at Belmont Park, and with exciting purse structures coming this fall from both Parx and Kentucky Downs, this could well be a way forwards.

Wherever your racing takes you this summer, good luck! ■

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Tough as leather

Frances J. Karon on Maryland stalwart King T. Leatherbury, a 2015 Hall of Fame inductee.

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Synovial infection

A look at this life-threatening infection and the keys to helping a horse survive it, by Dr. Peter Milner.

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Winning against adversity

Ed Golden shines a light on the not-so-usual struggles that Barry Abrams has faced on his path to success.

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Nature’s basket

Three natural ingredients that could be beneficial to equine nutrition, by Dr Catherine Dunnett.

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Consignors and Breeders Association

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The Tetrarch

A hundred years after The Tetrarch’s first breeding season, Frances J. Karon looks back on the breed-shaping sire and his home, Ballylinch Stud.

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Sudden death syndrome

Thomas Mahoney discusses Sudden Death Syndrome, that can tragically strike even the most fit racehorse.

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Trackside

All the latest racetrack news

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Contributors

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Frank Mitchell on an organization whose well-placed members have come together to work for the common good.

California Thoroughbred Trainers

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TRM Trainer of the Quarter

The whip hand

Ed Golden looks at the finesse involved in making crops, plus a primer on the new whip rules now in place in California.

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A day with the stewards

A bird’s-eye view from the stewards’ room at Churchill Downs,

by Denise Steffanus.

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The Claim game

Bill Heller highlights how a gamble with low-level claimers has paid off big-time for some trainers.

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Product Focus

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Suppliers Directory

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Stakes Schedules

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The Sid Fernando column

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SIRIUS a BBAG graduate 1. Großer Preis von Berlin, Gr. 1

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CONTRIBUTORS

Editorial Director/Publisher Giles Anderson Editor Frances Karon Designer Neil Randon

Editorial/Photo Management Louise Crampton 1 888 659 2935 Advertising Sales Giles Anderson, Scott Rion 1 888 218 4430 Photo Credits Carlos Arias, Eclipse Sportwire/Scott Serio, Horsephotos, Galopfotos/Frank Sorge, Fasig-Tipton, Frances J. Karon, Keeneland, Photos By Z, Dr Peter Milner, Suzie Picou-Oldham, Shutterstock Cover Photograph Frances J. Karon

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

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.

An Anderson & Co Publishing Ltd publication Contact details Tel: 1 888 218 4430 Fax:1 888 218 4206 info@trainermagazine.com www.trainermagazine.com United Kingdom 14 Berwick Courtyard, Berwick St Leonard, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 5UA North America PO Box 13248, Lexington, KY 40583-3248 North American Trainer is the official magazine of the California Thoroughbred Trainers. It is distributed to all ‘Trainer’ members of the Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and all members of the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association

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.

Ed Golden is the author of Santa Anita’s widely acclaimed “Stable Notes,” hailed by peers as “the best in racing.” A native of Philadelphia, he earned Eclipse Award honorable mention while with the Philadelphia Daily News and has written for The Blood-Horse and USA Today.

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 spends summers in Saratoga and winters in South Florida.

His 26-year-old son Benjamin lives in Albany, N.Y., is an accomplished runner and recently won a 5-K race and a mini-marathon.

Frances J. Karon is from Puerto Rico and graduate of Maine’s Colby College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She operates Rough Shod LLC based in Lexington, Kentucky and specializes in sales, pedigree research and recommendations.

Professor Celia Marr is an equine clinician at Rossdales, Newmarket.

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

Dr. Peter Milner is Senior Lecturer in Equine Orthopaedics at Liverpool University (UK). His role involves lameness investigation and orthopaedic surgery and he is interested in advanced diagnostic imaging modalities, particularly MRI. 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.

Denise Steffanus is a freelance writer and editor based in Cynthiana, Kentucky. A longtime contributing editor for Thoroughbred Times, she earned the prestigious Michael E. DeBakey Journalism Award and the USA Equestrian (now the U.S. Equestrian Federation) Award for Media Excellence. Steffanus, a Pitttsburgh native, is a licensed Thoroughbred racehorse trainer and a member of American Mensa.

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ALL-TIME WINNING TRAINER GOES FROM SKEPTIC TO ENTHUSIAST SCOTT LAKE SEES DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN HIS THOROUGHBREDS // BY MARK HANSEN

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hen you’re one of the top all-time winning thoroughbred trainers, you’re not about to jeopardize the health of your horses, your winnings, or your reputation by giving them a new performance supplement without doing your research first. That is why Scott Lake, a thoroughbred trainer with more than 5,000 all-time career wins, was - at first - hesitant to try a supplement that his colleague insisted would dramatically increase his horses’ performance.

Scott said, “I was skeptical about trying anything promising to boost EPO levels because I have heard too many horror stories about horses being harmed by doping. But a friend of mine in the industry kept giving me information on this new, all-natural supplement. Then I did my own research, and I realized this isn’t the synthetic EPO that damages horses. This is a 100% all-natural supplement, with data to back up its claims.”

So Scott chose 6 horses that he felt were under performing to try EPO-Equine®.

“The horses had coats that weren’t where I thought they should be. They were dull, dry and wiry. Plus, their blood levels were a little messed up, and they were training just ‘OK’. I thought, let’s try it. Let’s see if this supplement will help them.”

After feeding his horses EPO-Equine® for a month, Scott noticed a huge improvement. “All of my horses looked better and their coats were shinier. Then

4 of the horses on the supplement won the first time I ran them. Coincidence? I don’t think so. They looked better and performed better. They really turned it around. I liked seeing that.”

Scott’s quite certain that EPOEquine®, the natural supplement he tried, is making a huge difference in his horses’ performance. And because of the results, he plans on putting more of his horses on this natural “blood builder”.

But why is it important to “build blood,” and how does this supplement work as a blood builder?

Just like in people, a horse’s muscles require oxygen. Red blood cells are the oxygen-carrying cells that deliver oxygen to muscles. A higher red blood cell count = more oxygen = more muscle energy.

Elevated muscle energy helps the horse perform harder, faster and longer during endurance events.

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For 42 days, one group of horses was supplemented with the active ingredient in EPO-Equine® and another group of horses was given a placebo.

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According to Scott Lake, “I absolutely recommend EPO-Equine® if your horse isn’t performing or competing to its potential. Give it a shot. It definitely turned my horses around.”

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ALAN F. BALCH Complacent?

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NE of the world’s great companies tried to change and grow as it was assaulted by competition in many forms.

Its primary defensive strategy – to diversify – resulted in its entering other industries through acquisitions, costing it billions of dollars. It had plans to compete with new technology in its own space, but the abundant cash it generated from its traditional products had apparently led to complacency in its core business.

Sales from its mainstay offerings started to fall, and then fall precipitously, by 20 to 30 percent a year! As late as 2005, it had commanded market shares of 85% and 90% in camera sales and film sales respectively in the United States. By 2009, it posted a $137-million quarterly loss and slashed 4,500 jobs. In January 2012, this once mammoth company filed for bankruptcy and was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.

The company is Kodak.

Those of us born in the last half of the twentieth century can hardly grasp how this could happen. Few American adults alive now haven’t purchased or enjoyed Kodak products, one way or another. And although it’s “only” one company – not an entire product category – the lesson should be instructive for us.

I have always felt that our management leadership’s complacency is racing’s greatest vulnerability. So great at times is our success, we almost seem blinded by it. In part, I believe, that’s because

our sport was protected for its formative decades, probably 60 years or more, by state and other regulation that enabled us to grow and manage our business without the traditional day-to-day competition and intense strategizing that a modern free and international market requires.

In Kodak’s case . . . just one company but the T-Rex in its field . . . it apparently failed to recognize the quality and character of its competition, rapidly evolving technology, and changing culture it was facing. It didn’t respond properly until too late, so great was its dominance. Its sense of security was clearly false.

By the mid-1980s in California racing, and just about everywhere else in America, some major outside threats to us were already clear: specifically, state-sponsored gaming in scratch-offs and Lotto, as well as expanded casino gaming in some areas.

What wasn’t clear until later were tribal casinos proliferating near major population centers, and after that the Internet and all its possibilities. Inside racing, calendars and racing dates had expanded beyond all measure, and simulcasting was beginning to add an infinite supply of pari-mutuel wagering availability to almost every significant market at the same time.

By many measures, it is a testament to the great strength of our sport and innate appeal of betting on Thoroughbreds that we remain viable at all. The market contraction has claimed other racing breeds that didn’t ever “emerge,” markedly diminished quarter-horse and harness racing, and resulted in the demise of

important Thoroughbred tracks.

Even so, we’ve been paying for our Kodak moments . . . . dearly. Threats surround us.

We should have recognized and responded to them seriously and better, long ago.

Before it’s too late, we must immerse ourselves in research, product development, and strategic planning. All the attention The Jockey Club and its adherents are wasting on its Lasix fixation is worse than a distraction; it’s a profoundly misguided effort, the wrong priority, and unintentionally, unnecessarily harming the sport. In fact, it’s somewhat akin to Kodak spending billions outside its own industry, rather than paying attention to its fundamental expertise and its competitive threats.

The contemporary world of gaming is where our attention must be. For every other game of skill and every game of random chance, for every fantasy sport and fantasy league, we have a corresponding potential game in racing – both at the track and electronically. And a better one.

We must understand gaming the way the gaming market – the customer or potential customer – understands and values games and betting on them.

We must price, market, distribute, and conduct our games accordingly. Not the same way we have since 1934. Or 2004. Or even 2010.

Our failure to understand our competition properly, and even the fundamentals and potential of our own sport in the contemporary world, are the serious threats to our future.

Not anything else except complacency. ■

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All the attention The Jockey Club and its adherents are wasting on its Lasix fixation

is worse than a distraction; it’s a profoundly misguided effort, the wrong priority, and

unintentionally, unnecessarily harming the sport. In fact, it’s somewhat akin to Kodak spending billions outside its own industry, rather than paying attention to its

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The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Bob Baffert. Baffert 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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DON’T know about Bob Baffert’s reading habits but perhaps he took inspiration from Sir Robert Scott’s famous book of 1828, “Tales of a Grandfather,” which recounted the future Scottish king, Robert the Bruce, and his conviction of “if it at first you don’t succeed try, try again.”

Robert the Bruce’s advice became renowned worldwide and could easily apply to Bob Baffert, who after three near Triple Crown misses in the past decade became the first trainer to complete the feat since Laz Barrera in 1978.

Much has been written about Baffert’s accomplishments over the years but with a record of 12 individual classic wins and now one Triple Crown to his name, there is no better or more timely recipient of this TRM Trainer of the Quarter award.

Plenty has also been written about Baffert, his team, and most importantly, American Pharoah. Ironically and fortuitously for Zayat Stables, both Pioneerof the Nile and his son American Pharoah were Zayat homebreds bought-in at the sales by their breeder.

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Tough as Leather

The King of Maryland racing, King T. Leatherbury, enters the Hall of Fame

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KING T. LEATHERBURY

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“I’ve got some material. I don’t need notes!”

The man in the blue jacket takes a sip from his drink, a Black-Eyed Susan.

“Say,” he jokes, “there’s supposed to be booze in here! You don’t see anybody with one of those little flasks in their hip pocket, do you?”

It is Thursday, May 14th, 2015, in the Terrace Dining Room at Pimlico Race Course, where people are congregated for the Alibi Breakfast. By the time King T. Leatherbury gets up, with a head full of material, to accept a plaque naming Ben’s Cat – bred by K.T. Leatherbury Assoc. Inc., owned

by Leatherbury’s The Jim Stable, and trained by Leatherbury – Honorary Postmaster of Preakness Week 2015, you know you’re in for a treat.

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IS opening zinger doesn’t disappoint. “I informed Ben’s Cat of the honor he got from the postmaster.

He said, ‘Oh no, don’t tell me they’re bringing back the Pony Express?!’ Now, this is straight from the horse’s mouth.”

Without pause, Leatherbury transitions to his next joke, and another, and another.

“Jockey walks into a bar, he’s got a parrot on his shoulder, and the bartender says, ‘Where’d you get him?’ And the parrot says, ‘At Pimlico, there must be 30 of them there!’”

And: “A horse walks into a bar. Bartender says, ‘Why the long face?’”

Ladies and gentlemen, Henny “Take my

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wife, please!” Youngman wouldn’t have nailed the delivery any better. There are no long faces in this crowd.

Local sportscaster Keith Mills, the emcee, retakes the podium when Leatherbury wraps up, and he says, “King and I are members of the Anne Arundel County Sports Hall of Fame…and believe me, he cleaned some of [the jokes] up for you guys, because the night he was inducted, man, it was show time. Ohh, show time.”

Leatherbury is so much a part of the Maryland racing scene that everyone, it seems, has a story that relates in some way to him, and folks participating in the Alibi Breakfast are no exception.

When Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas takes the mic, the first thing he

says is, “[King]’s an amazing trainer and a wonderful guy. I hate to follow him on the podium.”

Jasmine Napravnik reads from a speech written by her sister Rosie, awaiting (at the time) the birth of her first child: “King Leatherbury let me ride a couple for him, an accomplishment in itself!”

Another Hall of Famer, jockey Gary Stevens, says that Rosie Napravnik has done two things he hasn’t: Have a baby, and ride for Leatherbury. “So King, next time I’m in town, throw me on one,” he says.

Announcer Larry Collmus reminisces on his first-ever race call, at Bowie on June 5th, 1985. “The race was won by a horse named Tiara’s Flame, and it was trained by a guy named King Leatherbury.”

At the conclusion of the breakfast, Leatherbury pulls a to-do list out of his pocket and heads off to run errands at various track offices, taking steps two at a time whenever he has to go upstairs. “If you do two you only have to do half as many,” he points out. But as his trim figure traverses Pimlico, his forward progress is frequently hindered by well-wishers. “That’s the one good thing about growing old,” says Leatherbury, “you get to know people.”

“I love your jokes, as always,” a woman says, before two elderly gentlemen stop him to have a conversation – with each other.

Guy 1: “Hey, congratulations. That was a helluva speech you gave this morning.”

Guy 2: “What do you know, you can’t even hear, how do you know what he said?!”

Guy 1: “I can hear. I heard all his jokes!

KING T. LEATHERBURY Leatherbury is brought to the Pimlico track on Preakness day on a Budweiser wagon pulled by a team of Clydesdales

He claimed a horse for me one time. He won a couple of times but the horse had bad knees, had ’em operated on. But he won a few races with him, he put him together with bubble gum and glue.”

“I heard your material is good,” says another guy, “but you’ve got to save some bullets for the Hall of Fame ceremony.”

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That King Taylor Leatherbury is going to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame located in Saratoga Springs, New York, is an achievement he never expected, one that many people never thought would come. In 56 years of training racehorses, there is not a lot of black-type on his resume, but racking up thousands of victories with “bubble gum and glue” claiming horses is nothing to sneeze at.

Leatherbury says, “One of the things that was keeping me out was the fact that I’m basically known as a claiming trainer, and I think what helped me get in was that Ben’s Cat has kept my name in the higher echelon of racing. Other than that, people would be starting to forget about me because I’m down to 14 horses.

“Not getting in [the Hall of Fame] didn’t worry me at all,” he says. “I’ve got so many awards and honors, more than anybody could ever expect in a lifetime. I’m in a couple of Halls of Fame. This one was the ultimate but really, it wasn’t on my mind.

If it happened, good; if it didn’t happen, no big deal. It is a big deal, I mean, but it wasn’t a big objective of mine. I’ve never

really had any objectives other than I like to try to be leading trainer at certain meets, and other than that I just let things evolve as they did.”

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Objective: To be leading trainer at certain meets.

Result: 56 meet titles, at Laurel Park, Pimlico, and Delaware Park. Leading trainer in the U.S. by wins in 1977 (with 322) and 1978 (304). Fourth on the list of all-time leading trainers (after Dale Baird, Steve Asmussen, and Jerry Hollendorfer) by wins, with 6,456 through June 30th. Class of 2015 Hall of Fame inductee.

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of Maryland racing” so often that it has become cliché, yet to most people he is “KT” or “Leather.” “King” was his mother Evelyn’s maiden name, not an honorific.

He says, “Because I used to be leading trainer in Maryland all the time, of course they just figured ‘King’ was a nickname.”

Here, at Pimlico, as at Laurel where his stable – overseen by longtime employee, assistant Avon Thorpe – is based, “This is my little world, see,” says Leatherbury, whose popularity is evident. “I go somewhere else and nobody knows me.”

It’s hard to tell who is more endeared these days – Leatherbury, or his stable star “Big Ben,” AKA Ben’s Cat, a nine-year-old gelding whose coat is as black and shiny as anthracite coal.

Leatherbury entered the breeding end of the industry when he inherited 12 broodmares upon his father W. Taylor Leatherbury’s passing in 1976. But the best lines he mined trace to a mare he bought in early 1982, when Leatherbury and two partners got the unraced broodmare Dronette, carrying her first foal, for $57,000. Leatherbury recalls, “Literally one of her feet was turned like that,” he twists his hand out from his wrist, “sideways. And it was a gamble, because how did you know it wouldn’t pass on? But since we divided it up three ways, it was worth a gamble.”

The man knows a good gamble, and the one with Dronette continues to pay dividends 33 years later.

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PROFILE Thirty Eight Go Go, a Grade 2 winner of $871,000; Notches Trace, a Grade 3 winner of $360,000; and a pair of stakes-placed runners. Two full sisters to Thirty Eight Go Go, sired by Thirty Eight Paces – a Grade 3 winner Leatherbury trained for Double Paces Stable in the early 1980s – went on to produce Grade 3 winners by the halfbrothers Malibu Moon and Parker’s Storm Cat for the breeding entity: Ah Day, an earner of $921,574; and Ben’s Cat, whose 29 victories to date include four Grade 3 events, one each in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 – coinciding with his Maryland Horse of the Year titles.

“I had no idea he was going to be any good,” Leatherbury says of Ben’s Cat. A photo of the gelding who has amassed more than $2.4 million in prize money is tiled on the trainer’s custom-printed tie, a gift from his son Todd’s girlfriend Diana. “I just wasn’t ready to give any thought for a name. He’s by the stallion Parker’s Storm Cat, and my father had this real good friend of his named Ben Parker who I ended up training some horses for. Anyhow, so I’m looking at Parker’s Storm Cat and the first thing I think of is Ben Parker so I just put down Ben’s Cat, just as something to slap around.”

And although he has an unorthodox approach to training – hands off, a style that evolved from hands-on training, to training from his car, to training from home – his success, be it training, gambling, or breeding, is not accidental.

“I put my time in when I first started out,” Leatherbury says. “It wasn’t like I just started this way. I did everything myself.

I mean, I literally put all my bandages on myself and did the whole thing. Now, when

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Very few people choose an 82-year-old man to train for them. I’m the fourth-winningest trainer in the history of racing. You can’t hardly beat that title.

I’ll take that and feel good about it

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somebody tells me something, I know what it is. I rely on my exercise boys more than I do just watching the horse galloping. If you’ve got a good boy and he’s on the horse every day, as long as the horse is going the same as he’s been going you don’t need to pay attention, but if he starts to go a little bit different, then you call the vet in. I don’t have to be there to see that.”

It a system that has worked for the University of Maryland graduate, who used to schedule classes around days at the racetrack to bet on the ponies. He recently ran into a college classmate. “She reminded me,” he says, “you know when they write things about you, like if you’re a football player or anything like that, on mine it said ‘Track’ like I was running track, because they didn’t know.”

After college, Leatherbury joined the Army and he honed his form-reading skills by handicapping races in outdated Daily Racing Form copies he received, checking

his theoretical wagers against the results when the next Form arrived.

He inherited his love of gambling from his father, another of whose passions was to breed racehorses on his Craftwell Farm in Maryland. Growing up, Leatherbury fussed around only minimally with the horses on Craftwell, so it came as somewhat of a surprise when he set up shop as a trainer.

His father gave him five cheap horses, and in 1959 Leatherbury won his first race at Sunshine Park (now known as Tampa Bay Downs) in Florida with his father’s homebred Mister L. Another milestone occurred when Leatherbury met his future wife Linda one morning during training hours at Marlboro Downs in Maryland. They married in 1964 – Leatherbury’s first year to break the 50win mark – and together they raised their sons, identical twins Taylor, who lives in California, and Todd. The name “The Jim Stable” comes from what the boys used to call each other as kids.

“I used to walk hots and groom,” Todd says. “People would always ask, ‘Why don’t you be a trainer?’ And I was like, ‘Two reasons: It’s work, and it’s hard work,’” adding that following his father into training would have been “like Michael Jordan’s son playing ball.” He adds, “KT is my idol.”

Todd tells this story on his father: “One day he walks out of the house, it’s payday, he gets a few steps off the porch when a guy jumps out of the bushes. He sticks a gun in my dad’s ribs and says, ‘Give me your money!’ And my dad reaches into his pocket, pulls out his money, hands it to him. The guy says, ‘No, man, I want the payroll.’ My dad says, ‘Damn!’ He gives him the payroll and then starts negotiating

Four-time Maryland Horse of the Year Ben’s Cat (farside) wins the Jim McKay Turf Sprint Stakes on the undercard of the Preakness

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PROFILE with the armed robber. My dad goes, ‘Can I get my betting money back?’ How funny is that?! Somebody’s got a gun to his head and he’s haggling with them: ‘It’s my betting money.’”

Laughing and shaking his head, Todd says, “You’re going to have to put six bullets in my old man to keep him from going to the window.”

He didn’t get his betting money back, but King Leatherbury generally has a good feel for reading situations and people – other trainers, the Form, and the speed ratings and figures he deciphers like nobody’s business; his skill is what has kept him winning at a rate of about 18% to starters, with 45% top three finishes. He’s driven by intellectual challenges – placing horses, claiming horses, gambling on horses, breeding horses. And each of these pursuits has been a success story.

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One of the items on Leatherbury’s to-do list is a visit to the clubhouse dining area as post time approaches, to pass on betting tips to members of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, who are at Pimlico for a day at the races. He arrives early but finds that one of their members, Mary Ann, is early as well. She tells him that she once picked five out of seven winners at Saratoga. “Yes,” he says, cutting to the more crucial point, “but did you bet all them?!”

He sits down and gives Mary Ann his plays for three races, and when he gets to the end of his handicapping seminar, closes his binder with a snap. “Alright now, lesson’s over,” he says. “’Cause I usually give a lot of money for this and I don’t see anything laying on the table!”

“Give me a big pot and I might bring a horse back to you!” Mary Ann tells him.

“Alright. All you’ve got to do is call. All it takes is money.”

The superfecta he gives out for the card’s fifth race – sponsored by the Colonial Dames – hits.

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Leatherbury charges, and has always charged, a “reasonable” day rate. “I give a good deal,” he says, “because I get 10%, so all I need to do is break even on [training fees], and then I get 10% of the earnings.”

But even for a trainer who churns out winners as easily as you’d shoo a fly, horses are down. “Very few people get in the game and choose an 82-year-old man to train for them,” he says. “I’m the fourth-winningest trainer in the history of racing. You can’t hardly beat that title. I’ll take that and feel good about it.”

In one day, Ben’s Cat will arrive to the indoor saddling enclosure, kitted out in fluorescent orange gear, prior to winning the Jim McKay Turf Sprint Stakes. And Leatherbury will make a less bright but no less grand entrance, rolling in style a Budweiser wagon pulled the length of the 16

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Leatherbury’s assistant Avery Thorpe

homestretch by a team of Clydesdales – an invitation he couldn’t refuse.

But today, he escapes the pomp and circumstance of being Maryland legend King T. Leatherbury at Pimlico during Preakness Week by taking refuge in his old black Lexus, the only place he’s afforded a chance to talk without interruption.

It’s “pretty special,” he acknowledges, to have bred Ben’s Cat and his dam Twofox, and to have trained both of them along with Twofox’s sire Thirty Eight Paces and stakeswinning granddam Thirty Paces. He reflects that, in retrospect, there have been many other pretty special moments in his career.

Leatherbury says, “A lot of things go by me and I don’t think I appreciate them at the time. I take so much for granted; it’s

KING T. LEATHERBURY’S GRADED STAKES WINNERS Grade 1 Catatonic *Taking Risks Grade 2 Thirty Eight Go Go Wait for the Lady Grade 3 *Ah Day *Ameri Valay *Ben’s Cat Do the Bump Dynamic Trick *I Am the Game Learned Jake Thirty Eight Paces Other notable *Thirty Paces *Maryland champion

just been that way my whole life. You know, if something’s good, just like when I was leading trainer in the country two years, and I look back on it and I say, ‘Damn.’ I look at some of the pictures, and here we won five races this day, three races the next day, five races the next day, and I’m saying, ‘God, how did I do that?’ I don’t even know how I did it. But at the time I was doing it, of course I wasn’t worried about it, it was coming good. I tend to not appreciate things at the time. I’ve been kind of spoiled in that because I’ve gotten things like that come my way.”

He chalks his success down to good management, trying to do things right, and the “luck” of good health. “The guys I started out with” – including Bud Delp, John Tammaro, and Dick Dutrow, who with Leatherbury made up Maryland’s dominant “Big Four” of the 1960s and ’70s – are gone.”

He’s in good health and his mind is sharp as a tack, but Leatherbury is not certain how much longer it will make sense to maintain a stable.

“My problem is, right now, everything’s financed by Ben’s Cat. I don’t have that many owners. I own a lot of the horses myself, and at what stage do you keep paying money just to be a trainer? See? So, I love being a horse trainer. I want to stay being a horse trainer, but if it starts costing me $50,000 a year, is it worth $50,000 just to be a horse trainer?”

And when it is time to call curtains on his career, the number one thing he’d like to be remembered for? “Just winning races.”

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VETERINARY

Looking inside joints and tendon sheaths allows the identification of any foreign material such as dirt or hairs or damage to internal structures such as a cut to a tendon

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SYNOVIAL INFECTION

Most experienced trainers will know from bitter experience that a seemingly tiny wound can have a big impact if a horse is unlucky enough to sustain a penetrating injury right over a critical structure like a joint capsule or tendon sheath. Collectively, joints and tendon sheaths are called synovial structures, and synovial infection is a serious, potentially career-ending and sometimes life-threatening problem. A team of veterinary researchers from Liverpool University Veterinary School, led by this writer, have recently published a study in Equine Veterinary Journal that examines factors influencing outcome and survival.

WORDS: DR. PETER MILNER PHOTOS: SHuTTERSTOck, DR. PETER MILNER

What is synovial infection?

Infection involving a synovial cavity, such as a joint or tendon sheath, is a common and potentially serious injury for the horse. The most prevalent cause is a wound, although a smaller proportion of cases result following an injection into a joint or tendon sheath, or after elective orthopedic surgery to the area. Additionally, infection can occur via the bloodstream, particularly in foals that have not received enough colostrum. Left untreated, the horse will remain in pain, and ongoing infection and inflammation can result in permanent damage. This can ultimately result in euthanasia on welfare grounds.

What factors are important for horse survival?

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VETERINARY information gathered included what the levels of white blood cells and protein were in the synovial fluid after surgery and whether the horse needed further surgical treatment.

All horses in this study were greater than six months old and the majority had sustained a wound that communicated with a joint or tendon sheath. Eighty-six per cent of the 214 horses admitted to the hospital survived to hospital discharge. Of the 31 horses that did not survive, 27 were euthanized due to persistent infection or lameness.

An angry, protein-soup

Wounds are a common cause of synovial infection: here an overreach injury at the back of the fetlock area has caused an infection into the tendon sheath

huge inflammatory response, leading to swelling and pain. The horse usually shows severe lameness but following a good clinical examination, the cause is often quickly identified. Prompt veterinary recognition of involvement of a joint or tendon sheath and aggressive treatment (involving flushing the affected synovial cavity and the correct use of systemic and local antibiotics) will often result in a good outcome for the horse. Flushing removes inflammatory debris including destructive enzymes and free radicals, and it eliminates contaminating bacteria in most cases. This is performed most effectively by arthroscopic guidance (“keyhole” surgery) under general anaesthesia. Using a “scope” to do this is considered superior to flushing through needles because arthroscopy allows the inside of the problem area to be inspected, foreign material (for example, dirt or splinters of wood) to be removed, and any concurrent damage (such as damage to the cartilage or a cut into a tendon) to be evaluated. In addition, targeted high volume lavage is best achieved via arthroscopy.

Survival following arthroscopic treatment of synovial sepsis is good – approximately 8090% of adult horses undergoing a flush are discharged from hospital. In foals, however, the figure is much lower, at around 55%, and this is likely due to complicating factors such as concurrent sepsis involving multiple organs. Our study, recently published in Equine Veterinary Journal, investigated what factors might be involved in determining survival to hospital discharge in 214 horses 20

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undergoing arthroscopic treatment for synovial sepsis. We used statistical modeling to evaluate the interactions with different factors at three key time points during the management of the condition at Liverpool Veterinary School, one of the leading referral veterinary hospitals in the U.K. Information collected on admission to the hospital included when the horse was last seen to be normal, the cause of the infection, the degree of lameness present, and the level of white blood cells and protein in synovial fluid collected from the infected joint or tendon sheath. These lab tests are an important method that veterinarians use to determine how severe the infection is. Additional data collected included whether the surgery was performed out-of-normal working hours, if foreign material was present, the amount of inflammation present in the area, and whether any additional cartilage or tendon damage was found at surgery. Post-operative We apologise that a statement published in Equine Veterinary Journal’s article on Stress Fractures (page 26, Issue 36) was incorrect. In the 3rd paragraph, the article states that there is higher race-day fatality rate data on synthetic surfaces.

On the contrary, as correctly stated in the same article, in California racetracks, a 37% decrease in race day fatalities after the main racetracks were converted from dirt to a synthetic surface.

A high level of protein in the synovial fluid of the affected joint or tendon sheath on admission and levels that remained high after surgery were strongly associated with a poor outcome and loss of the horse.

Protein concentrations are normally fairly low in a normal joint or tendon sheath, but protein leaks into the synovial cavity from surrounding blood vessels when inflamed.

Protein is also produced by cells in the synovial cavity when they are activated in response to a severe insult such as infection. Protein clots trap bacteria in the joint, making it harder to remove infection. The protein soup also includes lots of inflammatory mediators such as enzymes and signaling molecules, and these cause further inflammation, tissue damage, and sensitize pain receptors in the synovial cavity magnifying the inflammatory response and increasing the pain experienced by the horse. Unchecked, this angry, inflamed environment can result in cartilage degeneration, bone damage, and adhesion (scar) formation. This fits well with another observation from this study linking the presence of moderate or severe synovial inflammation at surgery as a negative factor for survival.

Small wounds can lead to big trouble

Interestingly, horses presenting with an obvious wound (as opposed to a small penetrating injury or no visible wound) were more likely to survive to hospital discharge.

This may be due to the injury being noticed earlier and hence prompting earlier veterinary intervention. Alternatively, open wounds may allow drainage of inflammatory synovial fluid and lessen the detrimental effects of increased pressure within the joint as well as reducing ongoing exposure to inflammatory mediators. This finding highlights the fact that trainers should act promptly when faced with a wound – it is easy to underestimate just how much damage may be going on under the surface.

Horses undergoing surgical treatment of a joint or tendon sheath infection outof-hours (for example in the middle of the night) were three times less likely to survive to hospital. Often, horses with a synovial infection arrive stressed and painful and not in an ideal state for having an anesthetic.

Early identification of an infection and appropriate management is important but stabilization of the horse and preparation for

SYNOVIAL INFECTION surgery appear to outweigh any perceived benefits of undertaking immediate surgery.

This is borne out by the finding that time from initial injury to treatment was not associated with outcome and is in agreement with previous findings from other researchers. It is important to reiterate that prompt recognition and treatment of a horse with an infection in a synovial cavity is essential but that surgical management within 12-24 hours of diagnosis, so that the horse is in the best condition for undergoing anaesthesia, does not affect outcome.

Do horses return to work after a synovial infection?

The big question that owners and trainers want to know is whether the horse will regain full function of the joint or tendon sheath after having an infection. Figures for return to function following surgical (arthroscopic) treatment for a synovial infection vary between 54-81%. Various factors appear to relate to outcome but when looking at a predominately thoroughbred racing population, the statistic for return to training appears to be at the higher end of this range. Factors associated with failure to return to athletic performance include the presence of thickened inflammatory tissue (known as pannus) at the time of surgery and that may relate to the development of fibrous adhesions and scar tissue within joint or tendon sheath longer-term. Some structures are particularly likely to compromise future function, and horses with an infection of the navicular bursa in the foot following a nail penetration generally do worse.

Take home message

Horses sustaining an infection to a joint or tendon sheath have a good chance of the infection clearing up and surviving the injury, with the likelihood of racing as high as around 80%. Our key message for trainers from this study is that it is essential that they recognize early when an infection involves one of these structures and have a veterinarian fully evaluate the injury. Aggressive treatment is important and involves flushing the synovial cavity using a “scope” under anesthesia to remove as much inflammatory and infective debris as possible. n

The most effective way of flushing out a joint or tendon sheath is using an arthroscope (“scope”) under general anesthesia

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Barry aBrams Winning against adversity Barry Abrams was struck by throat cancer ten years ago, and despite the devastating effect the illness has had on his life, he’s still training and enjoying success through the remarkable stallion he co-owns, Unusual Heat.

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N old man goes to a doctor.

“What’s the problem?” the doctor says. “I can’t pee,” the old man says. “How old are you?” the doctor says.

“Eighty-four,” the old man

says. “you peed enough,” the doctor says.

Life is relative. People die of old age if they’re lucky. youth, however, is indestructible. Kids smoke even though every pack of cigarettes says it will kill them.

Barry abrams never smoked. He got cancer anyway. a bear of a man at 6’ 4”, 315 pounds when he was 51, abrams was stricken with inoperable throat cancer. Ten years later and 60 pounds lighter, some of it weight from the throat cancer doctors ultimately had no choice but to remove, abrams is still doing what he loves best, coming to the racetrack and training Thoroughbreds. He may be diminished in physical stature, but his outlook on life is bright and his sense of humor remains Bunyanesque. at santa anita, he is a fixture at Clockers’ Corner, always at the same table, sitting in a chair facing a racetrack in front of a backdrop borne idyllically by nature after eons of

Barry aBrams gestation, a verdant mountainous landscape monet, to art’s misfortune, missed by a century.

Occasionally, abrams peers up from his social media toys to watch the horses and chat with cronies. It’s a wonder he can chat at all, given he barely speaks above a whisper.

Half his voice box is gone. Jagged red scar tissue is visible on the left side of his neck. you can feel the hardness of the bone flush against his skin.

Frankenstein looks good by comparison. If there’s a sequel to “The Godfather,” abrams would be a prime candidate to play Don Corleone. abrams doesn’t bitch or sulk about his fate. He has accepted it, battled through the nightmare that is cancer, and faces each day with a gladiator’s courage and a positive outlook that would gratify Norman Vincent Peale. “an experience like this puts everything in perspective,” abrams said after the first siege 10 years ago. “Ordinarily, you talk about things like saving for the future and making plans for this and that, but facing this, you realize that there could be no future. you realize this could happen to anyone at any time.”

For abrams, it happened overnight.

“One day I felt a little lump the size of a marble right in my throat when I was shaving,” he said. “I went to the doctor and he said, ‘Well, it could be a lymph node,’ and he wasn’t really that worried, but he advised me to see an ear, nose, and throat doctor.

“I did and he checked it out and saw one of my tonsils was real red, like I smoked a lot of cigarettes, but I told him I never smoked. He did a biopsy just to make sure it was nothing serious but the biopsy came back showing it was cancer.

“Then they took a scan and it showed there was a tumor in my throat but the doctor couldn’t operate on it because all the muscles that move your lips and your tongue were attached to that tumor. If they operated, I wouldn’t have been able to move my tongue or my mouth because they would have had to cut all the muscles out with the tumor.”

Fast forward to 2015. abrams is still here, having endured cancer treatment’s primary demons, radiation and chemotherapy, in addition to immeasurable personal and familial anguish. But the side effects are devastating.

“I’m hoping that I never catch any kind of cancer again,” he said, “because my body can’t withstand anymore chemotherapy or radiation. Basically, I’m cancer-free at the moment, but I’ve got all kinds of other problems from the damage that chemotherapy and radiation did over a 10-year period, and I’ve got to live with that.

“I’ve got no taste buds, I can’t swallow, I use a feeding tube, I can’t eat, I can’t run, I can’t go in the ocean or the swimming pool.

I’m just functioning and I’m happy to be alive.

“I can’t eat because I can’t swallow normal-sized bits of food. The radiation

shrunk my throat so much I can only get down something the size of a pea. I can swallow liquids, and I can eat cookies as long as they’re liquefied by dipping them in coffee and made pudding-like.

“I can’t swallow anything else because I have no salivary glands that create saliva.

No one can swallow without salivary glands.

Chewing releases saliva and helps food pass through the throat.

“I see eight doctors regularly, some of them every two months: an ear, nose, and throat doctor; a radiation doctor; a cancer doctor; a urologist; a pulmonary doctor; a cardiovascular doctor; a psychiatrist; my family doctor--a regular m.D.; and my dentist.

“Luckily, I have Blue shield and it’s been really good until this Obama Care went into effect and the coverage slacked off, like everybody else’s. I pay a little more now, but at least I have insurance. Without it, my treatment probably cost over $3 million.”

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Ordinarily, you talk about things like saving for the future and making plans for this and that, but facing this, you realize that there could be no future

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If you think abrams has been to hell and back, there’s more.

“If you are cancer-free after five years, you are considered not to have cancer,” he said. “after my initial throat cancer, six years later cancer came back on my jugular and carotid arteries, and I had to go through surgery with only a 10 percent chance of survival.

No doctor wanted to touch me, because one wrong move operating on the jugular and it’s over.

“I found one brave cancer surgeon, Dr. Poomima rao of Huntington memorial Hospital, who agreed to perform the surgery. after a five-hour operation, she was able to scrape the cancer off the carotid and jugular. I then had to undergo chemo and radiation in the throat area twice a day for 40 days. It was a miracle that I survived. “my radiologist, Dr. Helen Cham of City of Hope, was very worried that the carotid and jugular could be burned off from the massive doses of radiation I absorbed. That was four years ago, on July 1, 2011.” abrams missed five months at the track during that time. abrams never could have envisioned the dastardly deed fate had in store for him when he was born in minsk, russia, on march 4, 1954, the son of Lev, a butcher.

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He began training standardbreds in 1978 at The meadowlands, and in 1984, one of his horses, the prophetically named Guts, won nearly $2 million. He returned to southern California in 1987 working for trainer roger stein and began training Thoroughbreds on his own in 1993. His first winner was Cheyenne Gold at Del mar in 1993.

He enjoyed his most productive season in 2008 when his stable earned a career-high $2.9 million, and he saddled seven horses to win 12 stakes. He never did, however, shake the standardbred modus operandi of running horses as often as every week, considered verboten in elite Thoroughbred circles.

“It wasn’t like I had a plan to run horses back in a week or 10 days,” abrams said.

“I just had a theory that if the horses are sound, and in the right class, they could come back in a week, as long as they weren’t going head-and-head on the front end.

I used to train them to make one run, to come from behind. If a horse only has to run the last quarter of a mile, why can’t it come back in a week?

“I was in New york when Oscar Barrera was running his horses once or twice a week and winning, and the horses didn’t break down. I tried it and it worked out, so I just kept doing it, and it’s still working out.”

In 1994 abrams sent out Bengal Bay to run fourth in the 5½-furlong El Conejo Handicap, then two days later ran him in the san Luis Obispo Handicap at a mile and a half where he finished sixth.

“I raced a filly named rising mist three times in 13 days at Pomona, and she won all three races,” he said.

Abrams with Lethal Heat, a Grade 2 winner

by Unusual Heat

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If I didn’t have the racetrack to come to, I don’t know what I would have done. I get there four in the morning sometimes and people are there already, and it makes me feel good

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If abrams is a medical miracle, his equine counterpart in a non-life threatening sense is Unusual Heat. The remarkable stallion, still in service at the grand old age of 25, is owned by California owner/breeder madeline auerbach in conjunction with abrams. auerbach’s son, Harris, manages the syndicate. madeline also is a member of the California Horse racing Board.

It was madeline who handled payroll and other business matters, aided by Harris, for five months in 2011 while Barry was recovering from additional cancer surgery.

On the racetrack, Unusual Heat won six races and earned $143,707, but at stud he’s been an equine Lothario. The champion sire of California stands for $20,000 at Harris Farms in Coalinga, on the vast estate of owner/breeder John Harris. abrams was one of three trainers of Unusual Heat, who is the son of Nureyev and the grandson of one of the world’s greatest sires, 1964 Kentucky Derby winner Northern

Dancer. Dermot Weld and richard mandella also trained Unusual Heat.

Unusual Heat was the champion sire of California based on overall foal earnings six straight years, from 2008 through 2013, and the champion sire of foals based on turf earnings 11 straight years, from 2004 through 2014.

Out of the Glacial mare rossard, Unusual Heat was retired from racing in 1996 and has been at stud since 1998. He holds the California breeding record for progeny earnings in a single year with $5,827,513 in 2008. He has produced 39 black-type winners, among them 2011 Eclipse award Older male acclamation; The Usual Q.T., Unusual suspect; Lethal Heat; Golden Doc a; Gervinho; Tucked away; Burns; Pretty Unusual; Lightmyfirebaby; Betty’s Bambino; Unusual Heatwave; Lennyfromalibu; add Heat; starspangled Heat; and Lakerville.

“Unusual Heat is the last of the Golden Era of California sires,” said Harris auerbach.

“Benchmark and Cee’s Tizzy remain [as pensioners], but Tribal rule, Bertrando, and In Excess are gone. John Harris recently told me that of the eight stallions standing at his farm, including Lucky Pulpit (sire of 2014 Horse of the year California Chrome) and smiling Tiger, Unusual Heat is still the most fertile.

“He was bred to 46 mares this season; 40 are in foal and three are pending. I think the reason he’s still going strong is because he wasn’t overbred as a young stallion. His highest year was 2009 when he served 83 mares. For him being sexually active and fertile at 25 equates to a man of 90 doing the same thing.” abrams sees no quick cure for California

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Lakerville, with Corey Nakatani up, wins the Clockers Corner Stakes at Santa Anita

racing’s current ills, but he does hold a trace of cyclical optimism.

“Unfortunately,” he said, “I have a very negative view of the immediate future. It’s a matter of time before we go to three days of racing and eventually weekend racing only.

But I believe it will slowly come back to three, four, five days a week, because people will start breeding more horses, the economy will improve, and more people will get into horseracing.

“We’ll hit bottom before we rise up again.

History repeats itself, and this business is no different.”

Nor is life. In the end, few people remember you, unless you’re Elvis or Lincoln. It comes down to health, family and having a purpose, a goal, an objective. For Barry abrams, two out of three ain’t bad.

“If I didn’t have the racetrack to come to, I don’t know what I would have done,” said the 61-year-old abrams, who resides in arcadia, a mile from santa anita. “Now, when I wake up in the middle of the night, whether it’s two in the morning, three in the morning, or four in the morning, I put my clothes on, take a drink, put something in my stomach and come to the track.

“I get there four in the morning sometimes and people are there already, and it makes me feel good. Once I see people, my mind just forgets everything else. I have Tony Garcia handling things at my barn where we have 16 horses in training. He’s been with me 12 years and he’s my right-hand man. He does everything.

“I come by the barn in the evenings when there’s nobody around, when there’s no dust, and I write down on a chart what I want done the next day. I look over the horses and Tony does everything I want him to do. We communicate all morning by telephone.” abrams might not have made it this far had it not been for family, friends, and racing.

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outlook, because all thoughts stem from your brain. If you’re scared and think you’re not going to make it, you’re not, and vice-versa.” and abrams has friends, although they don’t go shouting it from the highest mountain. One is richard Baltas, who has recently established himself as a training presence on the southern California circuit.

“Barry is a very nice person,” said Baltas, who assisted in the barn operation during abrams’ five-month recovery in 2011. “He’s very kind with a good heart. years ago I wanted to leave Louisiana and come home to California, but I needed a job. Barry didn’t quibble. He simply asked me, ‘How much do you want to make?’ and that was it.

“He came to my wedding on February 26, 2011, when he was sick with cancer. He’s done many kind and generous things for me.

He took me and my wife (Debby) to Las Vegas, bought the plane tickets, even bought us tickets to shows. We saw ‘Jersey Boys.’” abrams relies on escapism to help alleviate thought balloons on cancer.

“I don’t even think about my illness or what I’ve gone through,” he said. “I do what I can to keep my mind off it. I always liked to bet, but I never bet on every race. Now I do, because it keeps my mind active on the present and not the past or the future. you don’t feel the pain and you don’t think about the problems.

“When you’re at the track every day and betting, time goes faster. your mind is like a computer and your brain is the fastest

“

You realize life is not about money or material things. It’s about having friends, having something to do, and having a good mind with a positive outlook

”

computer in the world. When you come to a red light, and it turns green, you’ve calculated how much pressure to put on the accelerator and if anyone is coming on either side of you, all in one second. No computer can do that.

“If you think you can do something, you can do it, but the family comes first in providing support. my two daughters, anna marie and Natalie; my brother, David; my wife, Dyan – anything I needed, 24 hours a day, they’re always there.”

Natalie is a writer for Entertainment Weekly. she is married to a writer for the Hollywood Reporter. anna marie is a revenue manager for Intercontinental Hotels. Together with Dyan they form Barry’s Gibraltar-solid foundation.

“Being positive through all this was the main thing,” said Dyan, 58, an adopted child from New york who celebrated her 33rd wedding anniversary with Barry on July 24.

“Whenever we went into the hospital, we always were smiling and told happy stories.

We spent many hours there, but for Barry, the important thing was being able to bet on horses. He had his laptop, so betting helped keep his mind off other things. “also, the progeny of Unusual Heat were just turning two and getting ready to race during Barry’s hospital visits, so having a stallion that we had never bred before kept his mind occupied. He felt this was no time to die; he had something to live for. Being positive is a primary philosophy in our lives.” abrams’ innate goodness also was beneficial.

“Barry is so kind and helpful,” Dyan said.

“If you needed the shirt off his back, he’d give it to you. some people don’t know him that well, and if he doesn’t know you, he’s kind of shy, but once you get to know him,” she said, laughing, “of course, he doesn’t shut up.

“He’s one of the good ones. He’s got a good heart and a good soul. He’s helpful to people. We took care of his parents and then my parents as they got older. my grandparents always lived with us, and that’s what you did; you took care of family.

“Barry knows six people who have throat cancer, and he talks with each of them based on his experience, to try and ease their mind, to help. I can’t say enough good things about Barry.”

Family support has provided Barry with great comfort. “That kind of caring,” he said, “gave me peace of mind. If you don’t have friends or family, being alone is a frightening experience.”

Having loyal subsistence, in great part, is why abrams has made it this far. Negativity has been vanquished through the comfort of loved ones.

“There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure,” someone once said. abrams has not failed. and assuredly, he is not lonely. His name might not be found on a list of great trainers, but in the fight for life, it’ll be right up there.

When his final verse is written, this would do: “Barry abrams: His family was his life, and his life was racing.” n

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Resveratrol may act at the gene level to reduce inflammation

Interest in resveratrol has grown in recent years, and it has become a significant active ingredient in many supplements for a wide range of human sports. There are also a small number of companies marketing produces with a focus on resveratrol.

These supplements target the inflammatory processes in joint disease and in conditions such as equine metabolic syndrome. In terms of racing, they seek to maintain health and sustain performance by helping to offset the inflammation-driven micro damage that occurs within tissues in response to training.

Resveratrol is what’s known as a polyphenol antioxidant and it is a natural component of most notably red wine, as some varieties of grapes are a rich source.

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plant’s defense mechanism against disease and therefore levels will depend on species, environment, and growing conditions.

A horse’s natural diet would not provide any significant quantities of resveratrol. In humans, the interest in resveratrol from red wine was initiated by what’s known as the ‘French Paradox,’ which in general terms means that the French as a nation consume a higher fat diet than other countries yet have a generally lower incidence of heart disease. Animal studies (mostly in rodents) have suggested that resveratrol is a potent antioxidant and also has anti-inflammatory and vasodilator effects.

Conventional non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs like Phenylbutazone or Banamine inhibit the enzymes (Cox 1

and/or Cox 2) that promote the formation of inflammatory mediators. Resveratrol in contrast is reputed to act a stage farther back at the gene level to decrease the expression of genes that produce these enzymes and other substances that promote inflammation.

Unpublished data from the University of Kentucky Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center showed, in response to resveratrol supplementation over four weeks, a reduction in the circulating level of two key cell signaling molecules: tumor necrosis factor alpha and interferon gamma. These substances are intricately involved in the initiation of the inflammation process.

A recent 2015 published trial reported a reduction in malondialdyhide (MDA),

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Overall, the scientific community is still rather undecided as to the efficacy of resveratrol, yet there are a few studies in horses that show promise for this interesting ingredient

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a marker of oxidative stress, in lame aged horses supplemented with a proprietary resveratrol supplement compared to control horses. In addition, the activity of catalase and superoxide dismutase, two antioxidant enzymes that form part of the body’s antioxidant defenses, increased although that of glutathione peroxidase decreased.

Overall, the scientific community across species is still rather undecided as to the efficacy of resveratrol, yet there are a few studies in horses that show promise for this interesting ingredient.

Inevitably, the number of resveratrolbased neutraceutical supplements continues to grow for both humans and horses.

Can Spirulina be a superfood for horses?

Spirulina has been used as a food supplement for many years and was originally consumed by the Aztecs who harvested it from Lake Texcoco. More recently it has been discovered as a feed ingredient in equine products.

Spirulina is a cultivated cyanobacterium, and although not an algae, it is sometimes known as blue–green algae.

Spirulina harnesses the energy of the sun to create plant biomass through photosynthesis.

It has been proposed as a perfect protein source due to its very high protein content (on average 60%), as well as the profile of the constituent amino acids. It is regarded as a complete protein as it contains all of the required essential amino acids, and it’s been labeled a superior protein source to that of forages or legumes such as alfalfa.

Spirulina does contain a broad range of amino acids and compared to standard equine feedstuffs such as hay, oats, or oat bi-products, it has a very favorable profile. However, when compared against other quality protein sources such as soya, which is a frequent ingredient in feeds for growth or racing, it does not stand out. For example, the concentration of the

AMINO ACID CONTENT (per 100g) Essential amino acids Isoleucine Leucine Lysine Methionine Phenylalanine Threonine Tryptophan Valine Non-essential amino acids Alanine Arginine Aspartic acid Cystine Glutamic acid Glycine Histidine Proline Serine Tyrosine

Soya 6.0 9.5 8.8 1.9 2.3 6.9 2.2 6.0

Spirulina 3.5 5.4 2.9 1.4 2.8 3.2 0.9 4.0

Whey 4.8 8.1 6.2 1.3 5.2 3.8 1.3 5.0

Hemp 1.13 2.53 1.55 0.92 1.78 1.49 0.36 1.51

5.2 2.5 10.9 2.2 16.8 2.2 2.0 6.6 5.4 2.7

4.7 4.3 6.1 0.6 9.1 3.2 1.0 2.7 3.2 3.0

4.2 7.5 11.5 1.3 19.0 4.1 2.6 5.1 5.2 3.8

1.87 5.07 4.5 0.79 7.69 2.08 1.28 1.74 2.48 1.4

amino acid leucine, which is suggested to drive muscle protein synthesis, is lower in Spirulina than either soya or whey. Similarly, the levels of lysine, regarded as the limiting amino acid in equine diets, and glutamic acid, which supports the immune system, are also considerably lower in Spirulina.

However, Spirulina isn’t just about amino acids, as it also contributes B vitamins, vitamin E, vitamin A, vitamin K, macro and trace minerals, and is a source of antioxidants, phytonutrients, and carotenoids. Two of the most significant constituents in Spirulina are c-phycocyanin and phycocyanobilin.

The pigment phycocyanobilin is particularly important, as it acts as a potent inhibitor of the enzyme NADPH oxidase. NADPH oxidase is significant as it promotes the formation of free radicals and reactive oxygen species. While these reactive species perform an important function in the body’s defense against infection, they are also intimately involved in many disease processes.

Although I could not find any research on the use of Spirulina in horses, there are several interesting studies in humans and other animals of relevance to horses in training.

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Curcumin is thought to be a targeted antiinflammatory via what is known as the Cox 2 pathway, which potentially decreases the risk of gastric bleeding

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In humans, Spirulina supplemented at 2.5g three times a day has delivered a decrease in the circulating level of MDA – a marker of oxidative stress – and improved endurance, seen as an increased time to fatigue during exercise studies.

Interestingly, it is also reputed to have a beneficial effect on nasal congestion in sufferers of allergic rhinitis. Some data to support the use of Spirulina in horses would be beneficial, particularly with respect to horses in training and equine disease, where inflammation and free radical damage is highly relevant.

Curcumin is a potent active Iingredient in the spice Turmeric

Curcumin is a spice that I have come across more often in recent years during my consultations with both racing and rehabilitation stables in Europe. It is mentioned quite regularly in a social media setting for horses on blogs and bulletin boards. Curcumin is the yellow pigment in the curry spice turmeric and it can also be found to a lesser extent in ginger. It has been used for centuries in Indian cooking, as well as in Ayurvedic medicine. Its main property of interest to horses is its alleged potent antiinflammatory action.

Inflammation is not only associated with acute injuries, as chronic inflammation is now known to be involved in the mechanism of many diseases in humans and horses. Developmental orthopedic diseases, osteoarthritis, recurrent airway obstruction, metabolic disease, and laminitis all involve inflammation. During training, a horse’s physiological systems are stressed sufficiently by exercise to elicit a suitable training response, and this inevitably creates an inflammatory state in the body. Our diets naturally provide a counter to this ongoing battle against inflammation.

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Published human scientific trials have delivered relatively good evidence for curcumin efficacy, with a number of studies showing decreased inflammation, reduced pain, and a lowering effect on blood pressure. One such study in humans also reported a 40% increase in circulating nitric oxide, a potent vasodilator. In addition, curcumin is reported to have antioxidant properties with a direct effect on antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and catalase.

In horses, of course, there has been very little research conducted; however, trials undertaken by US veterinarian Tom Schell and published in the peer-reviewed journal of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association are interesting. A trial of six horses with osteoarthritis using a proprietary formula containing curcumin, vitamin E, and vitamin C showed an improvement in lameness scores by at least one, together with a decrease in circulating Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in synovial fluid, which is involved in cartilage degradation. Curcumin is thought to be a targeted anti-inflammatory via what is known as the Cox 2 pathway, which potentially decreases the risk of gastric bleeding.

Curcumin, however, is fat-soluble naturally, making availability from the digestive tract quite low in humans. Bioavailability in horses is hitherto unknown. Technological advances in the nutraceutical industry have enabled water-soluble curcumin to be produced, or likewise curcumin can be co-presented with ingredients that facilitate absorption. When considering a curcumin-containing product therefore it is important to not only look at the level of active ingredient present, but also at its source and physical presentation.

The parent spice turmeric is not a good source of curcumin in its raw state as it only contains about 5% curcumin.

While the ingredients discussed here are interesting and may potentially offer some benefit to horses in training, care should be taken in their use, ideally consulting with a veterinarian regarding their safety and efficacy. In addition, the physiological actions of any of these ingredients should also be considered in the context of the rules of racing to ensure that lines in the sand are not crossed unwittingly. ■

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An education in sales The work of the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association

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CBA at Fasig-Tipton, in the formation of the CBA included Mark Taylor of Taylor Made Sales, Pat Costello (Paramount Sales), Kerry Cauthen (Four Star Sales), and breeder Rob Whiteley, with Mike Cline of Lane’s End joining them quickly in forming the organization.

“This was a small group that drew up articles of incorporation,” Welker recalled, “and then we formed a calling tree where we rang up other consignors with a call to get on board. It was a straightforward call to action and it worked out.”

Pat Costello noted that the CBA is “an amazing group. We are all competitors in business but leave our hats at the door for the CBA. At this stage, I believe both [Keeneland and Fasig-Tipton] look to us for input at their sales.”

One of the fundamentals of the organization was that the founders and the board work on the principle that constructive dialogue and a fair-minded approach are good for the sport and for the business in the long-term.

The group has managed to live up to its ideals through the first decade of its existence and has prospered by providing an organizational voice for consignors and breeders on large and small issues. The CBA describes itself as “your seat at the table” when addressing thorny and sometimes controversial subjects like scoping, OCDs, the yearling sale process, and most recently, steroids.

The initial vision for the group

More than a decade ago, a small group of committed consignors and commercial breeders pooled their resources of capital, imagination, and dedication to address some of the issues that were consistently proving an impediment to the conduct of business, especially at yearling auctions.

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HE group took the name of the Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association (CBA), and they created a mission statement to work “democratically on behalf of every consignor and commercial breeder, large and small, to provide representation and a constructive, unified voice related to sales issues, policies, and procedures. The Association’s initiatives are

designed to encourage a fair and expanding market place for all who breed, buy, and sell Thoroughbreds.”

At this beginning, Bayne Welker, who was a founding member and the CBA’s first president, said, “One of the reasons the CBA was formed was to provide a voice and to have a trade association for North American consignors.” The others aligning with Welker, then of Mill Ridge Farm and currently vice president of sales

From the start, the leaders of the CBA envisioned it as far more than a promotional agency. That function is already well managed by the sales companies and breed groups.

Instead, Welker said, “One of the founding tenets in putting the group together was education. The CBA saw a large part of its role as being there to educate all members who are involved at the sales, and through the hard work of Rob Whiteley, there were booklets produced that help people become more educated, involved, and comfortable with their investments in Thoroughbreds.”

With these educational approaches, the scope of the CBA was both broader and more focused, and among the first undertakings of the group was to create a series of brochures that explain to the buying public in plain language the practice and terminology of vets, consignors, and auction houses.

The CBA’s first educational project was to create a booklet for distribution at the sales that addressed endoscopic examinations (scoping) in yearlings. Its purpose was to explain “What is scoping, what does the procedure tell buyers, and how can they best use that information to inform their buying decisions?”

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Kerry Cauthen and Bayne Welker

Bayne Welker

The repository at Keeneland Sales

under the impression that a “bad scope” was the equivalent of a bad horse, large studies of racing results revealed that moderate differences in throat conformation, as seen through an endoscope, did not mean that horses would not reach their athletic potential.

Numerous other veterinarians added their experience and expertise to the CBA’s booklet. Some were racetrack vets, others primarily sales or farm vets, and their understanding had grown over time so that they could offer some perspective on the practice of scoping and interpretation of scoping results.

Racetrack practitioner Dr. Jay Addison noted, “I’ve seen horses who are champions and multiple Grade 1 winners who would, at best, be marginal on an endoscopic exam at a sale, and that’s what has brought a lot of insight into our understanding about what horses are capable of doing. This demands a more liberal approach in evaluating them.”

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is invaluable information for which the CBA recognized a need. The educational booklets now number five, and the organization’s mission has sent its publications into different venues to represent breeders and sellers. The booklets help illustrate different aspects of Thoroughbred sales and selection. They have been translated into several languages and are widely circulated through North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia.

A seat at the table

Another of the goals for the CBA was to gain access to the process of decisionmaking, whether politically or legally or administratively, and to give its members a collective voice that could speak to organizations making choices about serious matters in the business and management of horses and sales.

One of the first significant decision processes that the CBA stepped into was Kentucky legislation regarding the sale of horses, both privately and publicly. The

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guiding force behind the proposed new laws was the nationally prominent owner and breeder Jess Jackson, who raced Horses of the Year Curlin and Rachel Alexandra.

When Jackson felt he had been abused in the sales arena, he responded by having proposed a set of new laws in the Kentucky legislature that would have a broad effect on sales and Thoroughbred business.

Welker said, “Addressing the legislation before the representatives in Frankfort was a new avenue for the CBA, but one of the reasons the CBA was formed was to give our members a voice in these kinds of decisions.

As individuals whose everyday activity would be affected by the legislation proposed at that time,” the CBA needed to make its case because there were “good intentions but some unintended consequences,” he recalled.

One of the “unintended consequences” related to proposed requirements to license all agents doing business in Kentucky.

“The challenge is that there are so many bloodstock agents from all over the world who come to the Kentucky sales, both in September and in November,” Welker said, “that the logistical challenges to licensing each one were going to be unbearable, both for the agents and for the regulatory agencies.”

Kerry Cauthen, who is also an attorney, noted another element of difficulty with the proposed legislation: “Jess Jackson’s idea of legislating penalties for undisclosed dual-agency was a great idea, but due to the legislation being drafted by people unfamiliar with our industry, numerous honest people could have been caught up in potential lawsuits, even for transactions done at the highest standards of integrity.”

The CBA met with Jackson and the attorneys who drafted the bill and suggested some sensible changes. Also, at the public hearing phase of the process the CBA was able to step in with testimony before members of the Kentucky legislature and offer some perspective on horse sales,

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For the members, this means a discount, and for the businesses, it is a good way to cement customer loyalty.

The essence of this kind of approach is communication, and that is fundamental to the CBA, regardless of its area of engagement.

Cauthen said, “Good communication is the key to doing good business. The

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The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sales in 2014

Kerry Cauthen

Alfredo Lichoa studies a yearling

the vast majority of which are ethical transactions, and encourage legislators to approach the problem pragmatically.

Jackson’s legislation passed the Kentucky legislature and became law, although input from industry groups, including the CBA, helped shape it so that business could proceed without undue burdens. Welker said, “It was a great learning process, and it showed us what could be accomplished when we worked together as a group, rather than a fragmented set of individuals.”

Surviving the slings and arrows

The presence of the CBA proved they were an organization with a role to play, and their input was becoming a key to the development of a broader consensus among breeding industry participants.

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following took a toll on horse racing and breeding. When the chips are down, who needs a horse? The contraction of sales, of values of horses, of the number of participants in the industry, and the general economic malaise forced a good deal of rethinking, as well as some reworking of how things in breeding and sales were carried out.

The fact that the CBA has been able to survive lean times, serve its purpose, and maintain its credibility means that it has stuck to its founding principles of providing education and a unified voice.

Part of that unified voice comes in addressing entities or institutions from a position not far removed from collective bargaining. One of the outcomes of this is that members of the CBA are eligible for discounts from participating businesses.

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CBA is an organization that is meant to consolidate and communicate the views of a large majority of the consignors because it is hard for the sales companies and others to interact with the 300 or so consignors out there and to swap information back and forth. Our goal, like theirs, is to share our understanding so that the improvement in the sales arena elevates the experience for all the participants.”

For instance, Cauthen noted that the differences in understanding some facets of sales were at the center of misconceptions about the legislation proposed by Jess Jackson and by the recent imposition of antisteroid regulations by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA), which stands to impact European participation at U.S. auctions.

Cauthen said: “There needs to be a lot more education and understanding of the issues and regulations by all sides. It’s not always as simple as saying, ‘We will just do away with this negative thing’ within the industry. There are myriad interconnecting points, and when you put a new policy or set of regulations into practice, you often have to adapt them to be sure they do more good than harm.

“If we can do something practical, we can surely all agree,” Cauthen continued.

CBA “The situation with steroids is nearly the same. The BHA is working to do a good thing by preventing steroid-enhanced horses coming into their racing, but all the parties need to continue to communicate and educate to create the very best policy possible.” To that end the CBA’s current president, Denali Stud’s Craig Bandoroff, participated with the sales companies and BHA representatives at a meeting in early June to discuss how to work through the coming yearling sale season in the U.S. All parties left with a better understanding of the regulations and sales conditions.

The BHA, Jockey Club, CBA, sales companies, and other industry participants are all working for a similar result of integrity within the sport. While all the agreements and regulations regarding steroids have not been finalized, there appears a consensus that the BHA’s domestic proposal in England and the sales companies’ policies in

the U.S. will govern each group. There has been a steroid testing procedure in place by the U.S. sales companies for the past eight years. Additionally, for the 2015 September yearling sale, Keeneland has been working with the BHA and will modify its conditions of sale so as to provide for a single postsale test that can be used to check for unauthorized steroids and also to satisfy the BHA’s importation regulations. The sales conditions would allow for return of the yearling if the sample comes back positive under either test protocol.

Cauthen concluded, “Communication, combining plenty of understanding, patience, and common sense, will help all parties reach a mutually agreeable position.

The BHA’s regulations preventing the administration of steroids to performance animals is not a huge change for us, but we will all have to work with them, the sales companies, and other industry participants

to make a system that works for everyone.”

Conclusion

As with its work and support of parties in the agreements about steroids, the CBA has founded itself on a platform of communication, education, and service, with the expectation that the results will benefit all those commercially involved with the production of Thoroughbred racehorses.

The organization’s survival through good times and bad indicates that the CBA is serving a purpose that its members value, and the CBA’s progress as a voice for consignors and breeders has led to its taking a seat at the table with other important industry organizations. ■ For a download of any of the CBA’s educational booklets, visit www.consignorsandbreeders.com

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WHIPS

The whip hand Jockeys are having to adapt to new Californian rules

One of Webster’s many descriptions of the word “whip” reads: “An instrument, either a flexible rod or a flexible thong or lash attached to a handle, used for driving animals or administering corporal punishment.”

Carlos Arias has a much more benign explanation: a means of making a living. His business card reads: “Arias Whips. Jockey Apparel, Pants/Shirts.

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If Wayne Gretzky wanted a hockey stick taped just so with marilyn monroe curves to produce his 894 career goals, easton was happy to comply.

If jockeys want a “riding crop” caressing their hands like Paderewski’s gliding over a keyboard, Arias is their man. He has a shop in the back of his home, filling worldwide requests for riding crops “non-stop every day.” He works alone, crafting items both standard and custom, with prices starting at $67.75 for the no frills variety and increasing based on additional bells and whistles. “on a good day,” Arias says, “I can make a whip in 30 minutes.

“I take a fiberglass rod about 50 inches long, cut it from both ends, apply masking tape, then vinyl binding on the whip end and flinch-wrapped rubber on the handle.”

He is the Stradivari of whip makers.

“It’s not that I want to work alone,” Arias says. “I need help, but it’s hard to find someone with the technique and finesse it takes in such a specialized field.”

Born in mexico City, mexico, Arias has made his home in monrovia, California, a few furlongs from Santa Anita for the past 28 years.

There are competitors, but Arias is the

only one who makes customized whips.

His business is international, with riders partaking of his wares in france, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Singapore, and mexico.

His clients in the United States include mike Smith, Gary Stevens, martin Pedroza, edwin maldonado, Jon Court, Corey Nakatani, Alex Solis, Jose Lezcano, Joel Rosario, and Junior Alvarado.

After riding for nearly three decades, mostly in California, Arizona, and for seven years in Dubai, he hung up his tack in 2007, eventually buying his whip business lock, stock, and barrel 10 years ago from former jockey orlando Garrido, who was plying his trade in Arizona.

“He sold me his patent and everything,” said Arias, who will be 58 on November 4.

“I turned it in into ‘Arias Whips.’ I’m the only one who does custom whips that I know of. most others make them in batches, and jockeys buy them like someone who shops at Walmart.”

Understandably, some jockeys are fussy about their whips, which, due to an amendment of California Horse Racing Board ruling #1688 that went into effect July 1, now must conform to more stringent applications.

The amendment to California Horse Racing Board rule #1688 on use of whips was filed with the Secretary of State on march 2, 2015.

Perhaps with the intention to soften the blow figuratively and literally, every reference to the word “whip” in said amendment has a line drawn through it,

followed immediately by its politically correct replacement, “riding crop.”

The amendment stipulates the following: (a) In all races where a jockey will not ride with a riding crop, an announcement shall be made over the public address system of such fact. (b) Although the use of a riding crop is not required, any jockey who uses a riding crop during a race is prohibited from using a riding crop on a horse; (1) on the head, flanks, or on any parts of its body other than the shoulders or hind quarters: (2) during the post parade except when necessary to control the horse; (3) excessively or brutally causing welts or breaks in the skin; (4) when the horse is clearly out of the race or has obtained its maximum placing; (5) persistently even though the horse is showing no response under the riding crop; or (6) more than three times in succession without giving the horse a chance to respond before using the riding crop again. (c) Correct uses of the riding crop are: (1) showing horses the riding crop before hitting them; (2) using the riding crop in rhythm with the horse’s stride; and (3) using the riding crop as an aid to maintain a horse running straight. on June 30, the CHRB issued the following release: “California is introducing the strictest regulation in the country governing the use ISSUE 37 TRAINERMAGAZINE.COM

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“Jockeys will be required to limit their use of the riding crop to three times in succession, and then pause to give the horse a chance to respond before using the crop again.

“California racing industry organizations and the Jockeys’ Guild support this latest effort by the CHRB to protect horses. The stewards and representatives of the Guild have been working with California jockeys for nearly one year on adjusting their riding styles. This has involved a review of racing videos and informing jockeys when their actions would have incurred a penalty under this impending rule. Stewards report that jockeys are now in substantial compliance.

“Violation of the rule will result only in sanctions to the jockey. No horse will be disqualified as a result.

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“CHRB Rule 1688 contains other, longstanding restrictions that strictly limit use of the crop to the least sensitive shoulder and hind quarters, while emphasizing its proper use for control and safety purposes.

“In 2010 the CHRB amended Ruler 1685 to require shorter crops with padded tips.”

Hall of fame jockey mike Smith is in favor of the new rule.

“Riders like different flexibilities in a whip, but as far as protection on the whip, it has to be the same on all of them, which it is now because of regulations,” Smith said. “The whips have a cushion popper almost all the way down – no more hard leather. It’s a big, cushion kind of whip. It’s really good. I was the first one to start using it in the United States. I’ve seen them in europe and I always thought that was the way to go.

“We all use pretty much the same materials although there might be different links and flexibility, depending on what you prefer. Some riders use their wrists more, others their arms.

“A whip is used to try and get the horse to run ahead of the pack. In a big field like the Kentucky Derby, with 160,000 people screaming, the jockey is trying to get the

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horse to open up on the field, but it wants to stay with the group. Horses are herd animals, so it’s something you need to do to encourage them somewhat.

“In saying that, we’re taking all the precautionary measures in trying to keep them safe, while at the same time encouraging them, and I think we’ve done that. It’s a good, safe whip.”

Brice Blanc, a native of Lyon, france, has experience using whips both in europe and the U.S., where he has been riding for the past 20 years.

“I like my whip very flexible, not stiff,” he said. “I don’t hit horses hard. I just tap them most of the time, making noise to give them the idea that it’s time to go. The new pad is a plus.”

Ron mcAnally has seen whips come and go. The legendary Hall of fame trainer, conditioner of many champions, including the great gelding John Henry, who was Horse of the Year twice, in 1981 and again in 1984 at the ancient age of nine, is a proponent of moderation.

“Very seldom would jockeys need a stick on John Henry, especially [Bill] Shoemaker,” said mcAnally, who turned 83 on July 11. “He’d hit him once or twice and that was about it. other riders, like Sandy Hawley, used a big, long stick and would use it more forcefully.

“To me, Trevor Denman is absolutely right. If you hit a horse once or twice, like Shoe, and if they don’t respond, put the whip away. I agree with Trevor 100 percent.”

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Rafael Bejarano, Martin Pedroza, David Flores, Brice Blanc – they hardly ever pull their sticks, so I think it’s changed more to the Eddie D. [Delahoussaye] style

Trevor Denman

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Denman, as much a part of Santa Anita as its signature art deco facade, has been calling races at the historic track since 1983 and is a staunch animal rights activist. He says major strides have been made in that time.

“I’ve been here just over 30 years and we’ve come a long way,” said the South African native, who early on aspired to be a jockey until size and weight did him in.

“It was absolutely brutal 30 years ago. of the first World countries, we were by far the worst of the lot.

“In the Scandinavian countries, they don’t even use a whip. We’ve made major advancements, primarily in the way whips have changed. They were big, thick, heavy things. They’re much more gentle now, and I think jockeys have changed, too.

“Gary Stevens, mike Smith, they used to hit quite a bit, but not any more. Rafael Bejarano, martin Pedroza, David flores, Brice Blanc--they hardly ever pull their sticks, so I think it’s changed more to the eddie D. [Delahoussaye] style.

“The first thing a horse will do is run away from the pain. more races are lost by horses shifting ground because of pain from the whip than because a rider didn’t have a whip. on the head-on shots, it looks like the horse shifted. Not so. He was moving away from the whip. Race after race, horses get beat that way, and it’s because they’re tired.

“We’re definitely heading in the right direction--categorically. The new rule is excellent, if it can be implemented properly.

Why we just didn’t use the english rule 15 years ago, I don’t know. But change comes slowly. People don’t like it, especially in racing.

“There’s a saying I always use about three negatives: rejection, reflection, and recognition. The first time it’s suggested to do something about the whip, the reaction is rejection. Next time, it’s reflection, and thinking about it might take five years. finally, there’s recognition: ‘oK, let’s do it!’

“We’ve been moving in the right direction but we should have moved a whole lot sooner. When I first came to the United States and retirement homes for horses were suggested, people were like, ‘What?!’ Now retirement facilities are all over the place.

They’re a dime a dozen.”

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Over the years, a mystique has surrounded the stewards, like the wizard behind the curtain in the Land of Oz. Racing fans only see them behind binoculars high atop the grandstand, and horsemen tend to regard a request to meet with them like being summoned to the principal’s office.

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We want people to know why we do what we do.

We’re not hiding behind the stewards’ door. We want to explain ourselves, because it benefits us and the bettors and other concerned parties

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HAT horsemen and fans see is the public side of the steward’s job. But the work behind the scenes is what keeps the racetrack running smoothly.

The most revered steward in American racing was J. Keene Daingerfield Jr., who officiated over the 1974-’86 Kentucky Derbys during a career that spanned 40 years at 20 racetracks in 11 states. In 1985, Daingerfield was bestowed the Eclipse Award of Merit.

“Daingerfield’s presence at any racetrack or race meeting was accompanied by an air of authority unmatched in other jurisdictions and a firm confidence that the regulation of each racing day was in good hands,” fellow Churchill Downs steward Dave Hooper wrote at Daingerfield’s death in 1993 at age 82.

Today’s stewards at Churchill Downs are the eclectic trio of Kentucky chief steward Barbara Borden, her fellow state steward Brooks “Butch” Becraft, and association steward Rick Leigh. Each brings a unique set of knowledge, skills, and experience to the job. Before becoming racing officials, Borden and Becraft worked their way up through the backstretch as hotwalkers, grooms, and exercise riders. Becraft rode a few races when he was 18 and later worked on the gate crew. Leigh worked his way up doing every job in the racing office, including racing secretary, before becoming a steward.

To be certified as a steward by the Racing Officials Accreditation Program, candidates must complete a week-long program and pass a written and oral test. Sixteen continuing-education hours are required every two years to maintain certification.

Those who gripe about the stewards’ eyesight will be happy to know that they are required to have vision corrected to 20-20, and they can’t be color blind.

Essentially, the stewards are the “top cops” at the racetrack. Almost everything falls under their purview, from settling disputes on the backstretch to locking the betting windows when the horses leave the gate. The stewards supervise, control, and regulate all horses and all persons, licensed and unlicensed, on racetrack grounds and all matters relating to racing. It’s a big job.

“When everything goes as it should, our job is easy,” Becraft said. “Everything runs smoothly until it goes wrong, and that’s when we have to step in.”

The stewards’ day

The stewards’ day begins at 6:45 a.m. to prepare for 7 a.m. scratch time and oversee entries. The post-position draw usually occurs around 11 a.m., later if entries are slow, and a steward must be present to assure everything is done properly, no entry is overlooked, and every horse has a named rider.

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THE STEWARDS previous day’s races with riders in the jockeys’ room. The film may concern an incident they wish to investigate further with the riders involved, or they simply may want to discuss how to avoid or handle specific situations. All apprentice riders are required to be present.

The rest of the day in the office is spent hearing complaints, settling disputes, investigating infractions, delivering penalties, answering questions, and a long list of other duties and responsibilities.

The stewards’ day ends after the last race, sometimes as late as midnight.

Except when activities require the full panel of stewards to be present, such as officiating races, they take turns at their various duties so the same person doesn’t have to be there all day, every day.

Borden, Becraft, and Leigh are accessible and approachable. Their door is always open unless a private hearing or a confidential discussion is taking place behind it.

“We want people to know why we do what we do,” Borden said. “We’re not hiding behind the stewards’ door. We want to explain ourselves, because it benefits us and the bettors and other concerned parties.”

All stewards have their critics, but this group seems to be well liked, judging by the number of horsemen who stop in just to say hello. On this day, no one has been summoned by the stewards, no disputes must be resolved, and no one has lodged a

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A trainer notifies Borden that he needs to scratch his horse because she colicked and was medicated by his veterinarian.

“You can’t enter her again until after next Monday,” she tells him.

Another caller has a tricky question about lost registration papers. Borden has experience as longtime horse identifier for Turfway Park, so she tells him what steps he has to take to get duplicate papers.

Many calls are from out-of-state trainers asking questions about Kentucky’s regulations. Borden said having uniform rules governing racing would make it easier for all participants, but she understands the uphill battle this will take. Even when adopting model rules, most jurisdictions tweak them to address specifics they feel are important to them, and they resist giving up those points.

Between phone calls, Borden works on her daily stewards’ log, a report of all actions the stewards take, official rulings, and anything out of the norm that occurs that day.

Penalties

Penalties for drug violations are specified in the regulations, but penalties for other infractions are at the stewards’ discretion.

They take the violator’s past history into consideration when deciding an appropriate penalty that will discourage the same behavior.

“We had a young assistant trainer at Keeneland who cussed out the vet pretty severely and interfered with the vets as they tried to assist the horse on the track, and we penalized him pretty severely,” Borden said. “We fined him $500, which is a pretty big number for an assistant trainer.

Did he learn anything from that? I would hope so.

“Most of our drug penalties are for overages, so, naturally, we hope the people learn from that and back off on the medication. We have a few people who had a drug positive and turned right around and shortly thereafter had another one. Their penalty is going to be elevated.”

The stewards’ job is to enforce the rules not make them, but they often are consulted by the racing commission when it is penning a new rule or amending an existing one. A regulation Leigh and Becraft would like to see amended is the current minimum age for an apprentice jockey. They believe it should be raised from 16 to 18.

“They may have the physical ability to do that job, but they don’t have the maturity,” Leigh said. “A kid may be good on horseback, but the decision-making is not there at 16.”

Becraft believes some teenage apprentice riders have troubled private lives because they are not mature enough to handle the celebrity, money, and adrenaline-addicting danger of a jockey’s life.

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MEET THE STEWARDS Barbara Borden, 55, spent her childhood in the Cleveland suburb of Mentor, Ohio, participating in 4-H and showing horses with her sister, Deb. Her brother, Dave Borden, was a jockey. He introduced his sisters to the racetrack at Thistledown. Both were hotwalkers and grooms.

Barb ponied horses and then became an exercise rider. Later, she was a chart-taker for the Daily Racing Form, worked in the licensing office and test barn, and eventually became horse identifier at Turfway Park. She was an associate steward at Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky, and a steward at Bluegrass Downs in Paducah before being appointed Kentucky’s chief state steward in 2012.

Brooks “Butch” Becraft, 60, a fourth-generation native of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, began his racing career at River Downs in Cincinnati.

In the mid-1970s, he and Steve Cauthen worked side by side as grooms and exercise riders for trainer Jim Sayler. Three years later in 1978, Cauthen became the youngest jockey to win the Triple Crown, aboard Affirmed. Becraft also tried his hand at riding, but he had to give it up when he realized he was too tall to maintain 105 lbs.

“Jim had a stable of 20-plus horses, so we pretty much worked all day – galloping horses, hotwalking, turbulating horses,” Cauthen recalled. “Butch was a few years older than me; I was 15, and I wasn’t really legal [to exercise horses], but nobody bothered me.

“Butch is a good man, pretty straightforward. He tells it like he sees it.”

Becraft also broke yearlings, tattooed horses, worked on the gate crew for the Kentucky Derby, was an assistant trainer, and was a horse identifier before becoming a steward in 1995 at Ellis Park.

Rick Leigh, 68, is a native of East Liverpool, Ohio, across the river from Mountaineer Park, which was known as Waterford Park when Leigh started there in 1972. Leigh’s mother manned Waterford’s switchboard and rotated through a number of other jobs in the racetrack office. When he was laid off from his job in the steel mill, she got him a spot in the racing office, helping out wherever he was needed.

Leigh served in various roles at racetracks in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Ohio, including horse identifier at Beulah Park near Columbus, before becoming racing secretary and later Director of Racing at Turfway Park in northern Kentucky. His first steward’s job was at Churchill Downs in 1989.

At the races

Ninety minutes before post time, the stewards ascend to their booth, so high atop Churchill’s new clubhouse that they look down onto the famous twin spires.

They reminisced about the first time they officiated the Kentucky Derby.

“It was surreal,” said Borden of her first Derby in 2012, won by I’ll Have Another.

“I was trying to maintain and be casual and normal, like a normal day, but it’s really difficult. I’m standing there, watching the Kentucky Derby on the seventh floor of Churchill Downs through my binoculars, thinking, ‘Oh, my God. It’s the Derby!’

And I was so proud to have this job.”

Leigh’s first Derby as steward was for Unbridled’s victory in 1990.

“I was just overwhelmed,” he said.

“We were so much closer over there (he gestures to the twin spires below), we were down two or three floors lower. That many people, that many horses – just the power of the whole day!”

Becraft worked the gate crew for several Derbys before officiating over Barbaro’s win in 2006.

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worked on the starting gate, when you turn that horse loose and you hear that roar…”

Even after years officiating the Derby, the race remains special to them.

“What’s odd about the Derby is that for the 45 minutes leading up to it, you can hear a pin drop in this room,” Becraft said.

“Nobody else is allowed in here, and we don’t say much unless there’s something going on. It’s kind of like you’re isolated in this little booth before it happens. It gets real quiet in here.”

For the races, the stewards also share duties. One steward focuses his attention

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on the five large screens, which show the paddock and post parade before the race and then switch to various views of the horses during the race. The same steward is responsible for locking the betting windows by pressing a large red button as the horses exit the gate. Today, Becraft has these duties.

The other two stewards – today Borden and Leigh – will walk out onto the terrace with binoculars to watch the post parade, the gate, and the race.

Until minutes before the post, the stewards are in contact via telephone with the clerk of scales, who apprises them of any rider changes; the claims clerk, who reports claiming activity for the race; and the racing office if there is a late change. Other key personnel maintain constant radio contact.

“Because our eyes can’t be everywhere, we can’t see everything that’s going on, so we have all these racing officials who report to us if something is amiss,” Borden said.

The first radio call of the day comes from the commission veterinarian who oversees the post parade. It’s the first race, a maiden special weight, and the horses are on the track.

“I recommend you scratch the 1A,” he says. “That’s Senseu’vbeengone. She warmed up lame.”

“OK,” Leigh replies. He phones the mutuels manager and the announcer to inform them of the scratch, and over the radio he calls the starter and the outrider to let them know what has taken place.

Seconds later, the track loud speakers blare the announcement.

The horses are at the post, and the stewards’ concentration is at its peak.

Becraft’s finger is on the red button. The bell rings and the horses burst out of the gate. Simultaneously, Becraft locks the betting windows.

Leigh and Borden on the terrace follow the horses with their binoculars, while Becraft’s eyes dart from one screen to another, following the best camera shots as the race advances.

The horses cross the wire, and Leigh reenters the booth, announcing 3-6-4-1.

The winning numbers light up on the tote board, but the results are far from official.

The stewards replay the race to check for incidents that might require them to change the order of finish. Meanwhile on the track, the mounted jockeys file past the outriders to give them an opportunity to lodge a claim of foul.

The outrider radios the booth that there are no fouls, and the stewards see no incidents in the replay. The race is clean, and they make the results official.

After each race, the stewards are required to send the winner plus a horse of their choosing to the test barn for a post-race test.

“The horse we select might be a beaten favorite or a longshot that comes in,” Becraft said, “Or it might just be a random horse to let trainers know that every time you put a bridle on a horse, you might get the call.”

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“Let’s send this one,” Borden suggests.

“She was lugging in the whole race.”

A horse that lugs in, or pulls to the left, may have a soundness issue. If the horse becomes lame while cooling out in the test barn, the commission veterinarian may place it on the Vet’s List to prohibit it from racing until it demonstrates that it can gallop sound.

Stewards inquiry

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It’s the sixth race. Borden and Leigh go onto the terrace with their binoculars to watch the race, while Becraft watches the five screens in the stewards’ booth. The race is over and Leigh returns to the desk and announces the order of finish: 7-5-6-3.

But Becraft alerts Borden and Leigh.

“Look at this,” he says, “the 5 and 6.”

The stewards watch the race replay from the start to the finish, paying particular attention to the head-on footage at the sixteenth pole. Becraft points out that Corey Lanerie on the 5 appears to strike the 6 in the head as he switches the whip from his right hand to his left. They all agree that they need to investigate. Borden lights the red “Inquiry” sign, and Leigh notifies the Clerk of Scales to have Lanerie on the 5, Engaginglee, and Marcelino Pedroza on the 6, Miss Melinda, call the stewards.

Lanerie is the first on the phone.

“Did you hit that other horse?” Becraft asks, probing rather than accusatory.

“Yes, sir, I did,” Lanerie replies. “I think I might have hit her with my hand.”

Next Pedroza is on the phone.

“What happened to your horse?” Becraft asks.

“I’m not really sure,” he says. “Something happened, but I don’t know what.”

Over and over the stewards watch the replay of the incident, trying to determine exactly what happened in that split second before Pedroza’s filly tosses her head in reaction to the blow. Becraft, the former rider, slows the film and explains what he sees.

“Watch Corey’s hand,” he says. “He doesn’t complete the stroke. He hits something right here that stops his hand.”

Borden and Leigh nod, and all three agree that the 5 must be disqualified and placed behind the 6. Borden turns off the Inquiry sign, and Leigh notifies the mutuels manager, the placing judge who adjusts the tote board, and the announcer that there has been a change in the order of finish – with the new order of finish 7-6-5-3 – and the results are official.

A roar of jubilation rises from a small section of the apron, countered by a low grumble and boos from elsewhere in the crowd.

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stewards on speed dial. “Steve in Jersey,” as he calls himself, ends every irate phone call with, “I can’t bet your racetrack anymore.”

But he does.

Leigh laughs. “We just say, ‘OK, Steve.

Talk to you tomorrow.’

“Then we have this gentleman.” Leigh pulls a letter out of his desk, postmarked New York but with no return address. The writer’s string of profanity linked together by a few civil words questions the stewards’ eyesight and mental state. The note is almost comical, and Leigh shrugs it off, adding. “And he writes us all the time, so we know he’s out there.”

A major flap arose over Victor Espinoza’s use of the whip on the then-future Triple Crown winner American Pharoah in the Derby. Borden said that in the days following the race, all was well in the media.

On May 6, a reporter accosted her as she exited a racing commission meeting and asked her why the Churchill stewards hadn’t sanctioned Espinoza for hitting his horse 32 times in the stretch run.

“This was the first time I heard about it,” she said. “If you look at the news stories and comments, for four days everyone is saying it was a great race. On day five, the comments turn to ‘the stewards are incompetent; this guy should be fined.’”

Borden said she and her fellow stewards, when reviewing the Derby before making the results official, saw nothing that would constitute a violation of Kentucky’s whip rule, an extensive, detailed regulation that sets specifications for padded safety crops and when and how a crop is to be used. The rule does not limit the number of strikes, unlike in California, which prohibits more than three consecutive strikes without giving the horse a chance to respond.

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regulatory vets, outriders, security, the media, and people in the test barn. Had we gotten a phone call saying, ‘This horse has welts all over him,’ that would have caused us concern, but we did not.”

Jockeys are required to use padded safety crops that elicit a response from the horse through the noise of the hit rather than pain, Borden explained. The regulation is lengthy and goes into very specific details about how a crop may and may not be used.

Jockeys are permitted to strike the horse only on the shoulder and the hindquarters, and they are forbidden to leave welts on the horse’s hide or break the skin. The regulations further stipulate that the jockey should wave the crop within the horse’s sight, called flagging, and allow the horse a chance to respond before hitting it with the crop. If the horse stops responding to the crop, the jockey must stop hitting it.

“What is more concerning to us is if somebody is continually hitting a horse and not getting a response, or a rider is last and just mad at the horse for whatever

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reason. That’s something that does get our attention,” Borden said.

“We actually have a regulation: ‘Every horse in every race shall be ridden so as to win or finish as near as possible to first and demonstrate the best and fastest performance of which it is capable at the time.’

“That’s what happened – Victor Espinoza was riding to win the race. And if he stopped riding and the horse on the inside passed him, we’d have a whole new issue. Ceasing to attempt to win before the wire is a lot more serious than a rider riding to the wire to win the race,” she said.

Borden said she realizes that being in the hot seat is a part of the steward’s job.

Sometimes, it isn’t racetrackers or bettors or the media who set that seat ablaze, it’s Mother Nature.

Pimlico stewards in Baltimore watched the skies and the weather radar as post time drew near for this year’s Preakness Stakes. Should they delay one of the most important races in America? They held off on the intended start time of 6:18 PM to run the race at 6:21, when radar showed no imminent danger of the lightning that had been in the area just minutes earlier. The horses and riders were caught in a torrential downpour but made it around the track safely.

She was not involved in the Preakness decision, but Borden said, “Obviously, we wouldn’t send horses out when lightning is striking. We try to be careful about that, and the riders don’t want to go out there in the thunder and lightning.”

Would the stewards ever cancel the Derby because of severe weather and run it another day?

“Arghhh!” Borden shuddered and shook her head. “Don’t even say it.”

No favoritism

Borden said the biggest misconception about the stewards is that they treat certain people differently when making their decisions.

“People think the big stables are getting a big advantage from us, but nothing is further from the truth,” she said. “Nobody believes this, but we don’t pay attention to who the trainer is when we make a decision.

A few races later, we might say, ‘Who did we take down?’ And then we’ll flip back and look.”

Becraft agreed.

“It seems like a lot of people seem to think we have some vested interest and we really care who wins a race or who loses, and we don’t.”

Leigh said, “People think we bet. It’s against the regulations. You can’t have any interest at all in horses in any manner; you can’t own or breed or anything.”

Becraft added that people think the stewards know who the winners will be.

“Boy, I wish I did,” he said. “I wouldn’t be here at quarter to seven in the morning to do scratches. I’d be showing up about the first race, sitting in the clubhouse.” ■

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THE CLAIM GAME

At any level, claiming a horse is like rolling dice. You’re never sure what you’re going to get. “Owning a horse is a gamble, period,” trainer Linda Rice said. She’s got a point. Claiming horses would be a whole lot easier for owners and trainers if there were national rules and regulations that applied to every racing jurisdiction in the United States. Instead, just as with medication, horsemen must follow each individual state’s rules even though they race their horses in more than one state.

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OST states prohibit a claimed horse from racing in another state until the present meet concludes and/or for a specified time. But that could change.

A Kentucky lawsuit challenging that regulation, commonly known as the jail rule, has advanced to the Kentucky Supreme Court. Jerry Jamgotchian, who lives in California, sued the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission in May of 2011 for its rule prohibiting a horse claimed in Kentucky from racing out of state until that meet concludes. After he made a claim at Churchill Downs, he attempted to enter the horse at Penn National and at other tracks outside of Kentucky before the Churchill meet finished.

Most states also mandate that a claimed horse must make his first post-claim start for a price at least 25 percent higher than the figure he was claimed for. There are exceptions. In California, a horse who wins the race he was claimed in must jump up at least 25 percent, but a claimed

CLAIMING HORSES Caixa Eletronica was claimed for $62,500 and won the $1 million, Grade 2 Charles Town Classic and Grade 2 True North Handicap for owner Michael Repole

horse who doesn’t win can remain at the same level – just not at a lower level.

The varying claiming rules haven’t slowed down multiple Eclipse Award-winning owner and breeder Ken Ramsey, who seems to claim horses as frequently as he blinks and knows the inherent risk. “Nobody bats one thousand,” he said. “I put my money up and I take my chances.”

Ramsey delights in the considerable success of his most astute claims, which have helped him win multiple owner titles at Churchill Downs, Keeneland, Belmont Park, Saratoga, and Gulfstream Park. He is Churchill Downs’ all-time leading owner and set a record for victories at Saratoga with 22 in 2013.

On April 25th, 1999, Ramsey and trainer Rick Schosberg claimed Catienus for $50,000 and were immediately rewarded when he won a $55,000 stakes at Delaware Park in his next start. Catienus then finished second in the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap, third in the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap, and second in the Grade 2 Saratoga Breeders’ Cup Handicap, a race he finished second again in the following year. Then he

became a successful sire. “Catienus turned out to be a blue-collar stallion,” Ramsey said.

Ramsey and trainer Mike Maker claimed Furthest Land for $35,000 on October 24, 2008, and he captured the Grade 2 Kentucky Cup Classic and the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile a year later.

Of course, other Ramsey claims have tanked. “I claimed a bunch of duds, but I only want to talk about the winners,” he laughed.

Asked why an owner who’s won at racing’s highest level enjoys the claim game as much as he does, Ramsey laughed.

“Well, I’m very competitive,” he said. “I’ll do whatever it takes to win.”

The trainers he uses to upgrade his claims include Maker, Chad Brown, Wesley Ward, and Joe Sharp, a former assistant to Maker who is having a sensational first year on his own.

Ramsey’s Saratoga challenger

Owner Michael Repole, a lifelong New York Mets fan from Queens, got hooked on racing as a young teenager. “I’ve been

coming to the track, mostly Aqueduct, since I was 13 years old,” he said. “I used to find the nearest old man and give him $2 to bet on a horse for me.”

Repole, 46, makes his own bets now.

His ultra-successful career has fueled his substantial involvement with horseracing.

Repole was the president and co-founder of Glaceau, the maker of Vitaminwater and Smartwater. Repole sold Glaceau to CocaCola for $4.1 billion in 2007. He also served as chairman and majority owner of Pirate Brands, the manufacturer of Pirate’s Booty snacks that was sold for $200 million in 2013. He is now the majority shareholder in Body Armour Super Drink.

Repole bought his first horse, Da Rodeo Man, for $22,000 in 2002. Six years later, he purchased 27 horses at auction to beef up his stable, and he finished as the leading owner in New York in 2009. Trainers Todd Pletcher and Bruce Levine handle his current stable of 80 horses.

Repole has enjoyed success at racing’s top level with such horses at Uncle Mo, the Eclipse Award Champion Two-YearOld Male in 2010, and other Grade 1

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RACING remarkable move. He claimed the beautiful gray, 10-year-old New York-bred millionaire gelding Be Bullish for $16,000 on May 17th just so he could send the horse he had twice before claimed and lost to retirement at Old Friends at Cabin Creek, the New York satellite of Old Friends in Georgetown, Kentucky. Be Bullish won that final start, his 19th victory in 87 career starts. He also had 26 seconds, 14 thirds, and earnings topping $1.1 million.

Two great Rice claims

Joe Sharp had his first graded stakes victory with a Ken Ramsey claim, Sandbar, in the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap

winners Stay Thirsty, Stopchargingmaria, and Overanalyze.

Repole ended Ramsey’s Saratoga winning streak, finishing as leading owner in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Vowing to get the title back, Ramsey claimed a bunch of horses in the summer of 2013 and did, indeed, get the Saratoga title back that year.

“We see each other and we’ll joke about it,” Repole said. “I think Mr. Ramsey, he’s very good for the game. Sometimes, owners with successful horses forget about the $25,000 claimer. For me, it’s part of my stable and it’s fun. I just love the action, claiming horses and putting horses into claimers.”

He had two outstanding claims in the last five years. First, he took Calibrachoa for $40,000 on November 18, 2010. The horse won his next three starts – the $65,000 Gravesend, the Grade 3 Toboggan and the Grade 3 Tom Fool – then finished third in the Grade 2 True North and in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt. The following year, Calibrachoa captured three Grade 3 stakes – the Bold Ruler, Toboggan, and Tom Fool – and finished third in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile.

In January of 2011, Repole claimed the incredibly versatile Caixa Eletronica for $62,500 and won the $1 million, Grade 2 Charles Town Classic and Grade 2 True North Handicap with him. “That was my best claim,” Repole said. Unfortunately, Caixa Electronica died in a training accident when another horse collided with him headon a year and a half ago. “It’s a very, very sad story,” Repole said. “Freak accident.”

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Linda Rice, the only woman to win a training title at Saratoga, came up with one of the greatest claims in racing history when she plucked Palace for owner Antonino Miuccio for $20,000 from a maiden claimer at Belmont Park on October 6, 2012.

Making his fourth career start, and his first for a claiming price, the son of City Zip – the outstanding bargain purchase who Rice trained and who became a great racehorse and a great sire – rolled to an 11¾-length victory as the even-money favorite.

Fast forward. Palace won two consecutive Grade 1 stakes at Saratoga last August and has earned $1.36 million. “We’ve had some pretty exciting moments with Palace,” Rice said. “That’s not what you have in mind when you claim him. I trained City Zip. The horse was a New York-bred. He’d run for WinStar. I just felt he was worth the $20,000 he was in for.”

Rice only spent $16,000 to claim Sheriffa, a three-year-old New York-bred daughter of Posse, for Miuccio last September 12 at Belmont Park. She, too, won the race the day Rice claimed her, by 3¾ lengths as the 2-5 favorite. “She was always third or fourth,” Rice said. “We’d be going into winter racing soon. I thought she’d get back the cost really quickly. It seemed like a no-brainer to me. I didn’t see the downside there at the price of $16,000.”

Soon, she did see the downside. Sheriffa had an entrapped epiglottis. “I sent her for throat surgery two days after I claimed her,” Rice said. “I told Mr. Miuccio we’d have to wait a month. He lets me do that.”

Rice remained positive about her new filly: “I said she won the race with an entrapped epiglottis. Maybe she’s even better without it. It appeared to me the filly wanted to run long.” She did.

It wasn’t long before Sheriffa was back racing, and she has won three times, including an 11¾-length romp in a mileand-70-yard New York-bred allowance race in her four-year-old debut, since the claim.

On Memorial Day, Sheriffa captured the one-mile $200,000 Critical Eye Stakes, a $120,000 return for Miuccio.

Asked what she looks for in general to make a claim, Rice said, “For me, I like to claim young horses, lightly raced with good pedigrees. I think the old campaigners have already developed. What you see is what you get. It’s kind of higher risk, higher reward with younger horses.”

And they all don’t work out. Every trainer makes bad claims. “I’ve had horses that I’ve

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RACING had to find a home for them,” Rice said. “I claimed one for $15,000, sent her to New Vocations ]for training for a new career after racing]. Not every $16,000 claimer turns into Sheriffa or Palace.”

Memorial Day winners

Racing at several tracks on Memorial Day, May 25th, showcased half a dozen trainers who won with horses making their first or second start off the claim.

The only horse who won her first start off the claim at Belmont Park that day hit a home run.

Trainer Gary Sciacca claimed the threeyear-old filly Perfect Freud for $40,000 for owner Dan Henning when she was a front-running third on grass April 24th at Aqueduct. Sciacca switched Perfect Freud back to dirt, moved her up to a one-mile $72,000 New York-bred allowance race, and she galloped, winning by open lengths under Javier Castellano. In doing so, she earned $43,200.

Sciacca was understandably thrilled: “She’s already covered [the cost of the claim]. She was unbelievable. He didn’t even hit her.”

Sciacca explained why he claimed Perfect Freud: “She always tried. She’s a New Yorkbred. That’s pretty much it.” In general, he said, “Basically, you’re looking for soundness; how the workouts are; gaps in races; finding out about him from people who had him, and you have a good look in the paddock.

You do your homework. You put everything together and make a decision.”

Trainer Jeremiah Englehart claimed Dot Product for $25,000 for owner Neal

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Sometimes, owners with successful horses forget about the $25,000 claimer.

For me, it’s part of my stable and it’s fun. I just love the action, claiming horses and putting horses into claimers

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Michael Repole

Allard when she finished fifth in a maiden race on dirt April 2 at Aqueduct. Englehart immediately switched her to grass, and, in a maiden $40,000 claimer, she finished third on May 3. Her start on Memorial Day was at the same level and she won at 8-5. “I liked the pedigree,” Englehart said. “The family turned out some turf horses. The timing for me was right because we were just getting ready to go to Belmont.” Englehart feels he has an advantage making claims at the three New York Racing Association tracks -Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga -- because he also maintains a string of horses at Finger Lakes and can ship a new claim there if needed. “The worst ones are the ones you have to retire after you claim them,” he said.

“That happens to everybody.”

At Churchill Downs, Joe Sharp, who just became a dad when his wife, jockey Rosie Napravnik, gave birth to their son on June 2nd, got to test out his latest claim for Ramsey, Out of Context, a three-year-old gelding. Out of Context had finished ninth on grass in his career debut at Tampa Bay Downs and, with blinkers added, was third in a mile-and-a-sixteenth maiden $20,000 claimer at Keeneland, where he became the latest Ramsey claim.

“I liked the breeding,” Ramsey said. “He was bred to go a distance of ground. He was

by Medaglia d’Oro. I loved the bottom side, Caerleon. I could win the Melbourne Cup [run at two miles] with this horse. I loved that he wasn’t on Lasix. I thought we could help him a little bit. I gave him to Joe and Joe said he’s training like a machine. I was going to put him in for $50,000, but Joe said, `We don’t want to lose him.’”

Instead, they entered him in a mile-and-aquarter maiden special weight. Racing with Lasix added, he won by a length.

“A mile and a quarter was a reach, but he had the right pedigree,” Sharp said.

He wasn’t Ramsey and Sharp’s first successful claim together. Ramsey claimed One King’s Man for $40,000 on October 23rd and he delivered Sharp’s first stakes victory, in the $200,000 Louisiana-bred Premier Night Championship Stakes at Delta Downs on February 7th. An earlier Ramsey claim, Sandbar, who was taken for $30,000 in mid-September, gave Sharp his first graded stakes victory when he captured the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap on the Preakness undercard at Pimlico.

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CLAIMING HORSES “I’m trying to help Joe Sharp get started,” Ramsey said. It’s working.

Trainer Chris Hartman had claimed Collin’s Smile, a five-yearold gelding, for $16,000 for Black Hawk Stable on May 8th when he won by 4½ lengths. Collin’s Smile had been racing in $25,000 claimers at Tampa Bay Downs before a brief freshening. “The horse ran well the day we claimed him,” Hartman said. “He looked like he was a $25,000 claimer the day we claimed him. I thought he could move up.”

Asked why he liked Collin’s Smile, Hartman said, “He was dropping. He had been freshened. We did a little bit of homework when he came out of Tampa. I don’t claim a horse without watching him on video. We’ve learned that. It looked like a good claim to me.”

It was. On Memorial Day at Churchill, Collin’s Smile won a $25,000 claimer by six lengths.

At Monmouth Park on the same day, trainer Edwin Broome, who had claimed Allstar, a four-year-old gelding, for himself and his longtime partner Richard Malouf for $12,500 when he finished second at Gulfstream Park on April 3, dropped his new horse into a $10,000 claimer. He won by a head. “You’re not looking for a love affair,” Broome said. “You’re looking to place him. If you lose him, you lose him. He’s got some issues.”

Broome said when he considers a claim, “You watch the horse at least once and see if they look sound, make sure there’s nothing sticking out that shouldn’t be.”

Trainer Richard Shelansky had a Memorial Day winner at Pimlico with Silver Legend, a five-year-old gelding he had claimed for $4,500 on May 10th. He put Silver Legend in a starter allowance and he won by a half-length. “Nice horse,” Shelansky said. “I got out-shook for him in April. I always liked the horse: good body, good size, straight-legged. He was getting better and he likes Pimlico.”

The bottom line when it comes to claiming horses? “There’s no rule book on how to do this,” as trainer David Jacobson said. “You go by instinct.” ■

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“He certainly had been on this earth before.” ~ Steve Donoghue, Donoghue Up! The Tetrarch. The Rocking Horse. The Spotted Wonder. Flying machine.

He is buried in the center of an open area, beneath a flat, triangular gravestone at Ballylinch Stud in Ireland. The limestone is speckled, making it a fitting memorial for The Tetrarch, who jockey Steve Donoghue in Just My Story described as “a sort of elephant grey, with big splotches of lime colour, looking as though someone had splashed him all over with handfuls of wet lime that had stuck and dried on him!”

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HE Tetrarch’s early nickname was “The Rocking Horse” because with his distinctive coat, he resembled a child’s toy. It was only after he had earned respect on the racecourse that he was more respectfully recognized as “The Spotted Wonder,” which was, in an unfortunate nod to the colt’s splotches, also a sobriquet that “caused many a wretched schoolboy passing through the awkward age to be dubbed ‘The Tetrarch,’” as it was said in the August 1950 issue of British Racehorse.

“I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not,” says John O’Connor, managing director of Ballylinch, near Thomastown in

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County Kilkenny, of The Tetrarch’s spotted grave marker. “That’s local limestone and you’d get those blotches on it, but they may well have picked it exactly for that reason.”

A hundred years after The Spotted Wonder stood his first season at stud, his turf legacy endures as one of the most revered.

But when news broke of The Tetrarch’s death at Ballylinch on the eighth of August in 1935, it was reported that it “probably surprised most followers of racing to learn he was alive until then.”

The Tetrarch was an embodiment of breeder Edward Kennedy’s foresight, independent thinking, and ultimately, his perseverance.

Late in 1909, Kennedy paid 2,000 guineas for the French-bred five-year-old Roi Herode. Roi Herode’s three wins, including

the Grand Prix de la Ville de Vichy at four and the Prix de la Table at five, were over distances of 2,600 and 3,000 meters.

“It is impossible to rate [Roi Herode] better than a useful second class stayer,” British Racehorse assessed the grey. Kennedy sent him to Oxford-educated trainer Henry Seymour “Atty” Persse in England, but Roi Herode didn’t have the opportunity to disprove that appraisal, breaking down in May while preparing for the 1910 Chester Cup. Roi Herode was by French St Leger winner Le Samaritain, a grey (like his sire Le Sancy) who ended his career as “a somewhat indifferent hurdler,” and out of Roxelane, the 1897 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches and Prix de Diane winner.

Retiring to Kennedy’s Straffan Station Stud in County Kildare near the end of the breeding season and with underwhelming credentials, Roi Herode, at 35 guineas plus a one-guinea groom’s fee, covered few mares. One of these was Vahren, a daughter of 2,000 Guineas winner Bona Vista. Said to be “difficult to train,” Vahren had won three races for Oscar Rayner, who paid 240 guineas for her as a yearling. Her dam Castania was unraced due to “ankylosis” of the knees, and unraced granddam Rose Garden had once been “sold…to a Tedworth publican” and used as a “hired… hack for young ladies” and a hunter.

In 1904, seven-year-old Vahren failed to attract a bid at public action after she aborted what would have been her first foal,

THE TETRARCH and Kennedy bought the chestnut privately from Rayner for 200 guineas.

From these modest roots came a breedshaping champion.

Vahren had seven live foals – including Nicola, a winning sprinter for owner Kennedy and trainer Persse and later the dam of Milesius, the 1920 Coventry Stakes winner by Roi Herode – in 17 years and died birthing a Prince Philip filly in 1921, but her place in history was secured by her second foal, a first-crop Roi Herode colt.

The Tetrarch was born at Straffan Station Stud on Saturday, the 22nd of April, 1911.

Chestnut at birth, Vahren’s colt had turned an unsavory shade of grey when Kennedy sold him as a yearling at Doncaster’s September sale, where he went for 1,300 guineas to the bid of Atty Persse. Persse re-sold him at cost to his first cousin once removed, Major (then Captain) Dermot Hugh Bingham McCalmont, MC, just home from service in India. Persse stayed on as trainer.

Steve Donoghue, first jockey at Persse’s Chattis Hill Stables in Stockbridge, England, wrote in one of two autobiographies that when “brilliant and shrewd judge” Persse – who had trained The Tetrarch’s sire (briefly) and older half-sister Nicola – bought this funny-colored colt, “most people thought that his judgment had slipped for once.”

Donoghue disagreed: “I thoroughly approved of [Persse’s] selection…a horse that walked as grandly as he did could not have been other than a great galloper.”

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Donoghue wrote that jockey Danny Maher, whose best finish against The Tetrarch was a fourth on Soulouque in the Coventry, told him, ‘I’m fed up with riding behind this fellow. He is not a racehorse at all; he is a flying machine’

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Kennedy shared Donoghue’s sentiment, as he told him later: “Ah, I always knew he would turn out a smasher. He showed us as a yearling how he could go. Of all the bunch of them galloping in the paddock he was the only one that could keep up with the deer.”

The name “The Tetrarch” acknowledged Herod the Great – namesake of sire Roi Herode – and the title held by his sons and sister who inherited his kingdom in 4 BC. Disregarding his “rare and unpopular colour” and “weird white blotches,” The Tetrarch was by all accounts a superb physical specimen. Donoghue wrote, “…thinking of [The Tetrarch] purely as I knew him when he first went into training at Stockbridge, I

can only say that this tremendous two-yearold looked like a four-year-old, like a young hunter.

“His quarters were immense; his muscular development was tremendous, and his length of rein caught your eyes at once.”

With Donoghue aboard, The Tetrarch had his first serious trial on the fifth of April, 1913, at Chattis Hill, going five furlongs at level weight with seven-year-old Captain Symons. Donoghue observed that it was unusual for Persse to try a two-year-old at equal weights, in this case 119 lbs., with Captain Symons; normally, the youngsters received a 21-pound weight-for-age allowance. The other trialers – a three-yearold and two-year-old – had weights of 105 lbs. The Tetrarch dispensed of them all.

In a five-furlong trial a week later, the grey carried 126 lbs. against Captain Symons under 8st. “I did not at the time know the precise weights,” wrote Donoghue. “If I had known them I should have said that The Tetrarch was being asked to do more than any horse could at his age have accomplished.” But the result was the same. “The Tetrarch laughed at the extra weight…”

In another work, The Tetrarch was so far ahead of four-year-old filly Noramac that Persse began to yell. Pulling up afterwards, Donoghue worried that something had gone wrong until Persse said, “I was only shouting to the lad on the mare to tie her on to the grey’s tail!”

The Tetrarch debuted at Newmarket in

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THE TETRARCH’S RACES Date 1st (weight) 17 April 1913 1. The Tetrarch, 126 lbs 3 June 1913 1. The Tetrarch, 124 lbs 17 June 1913 1. The Tetrarch, 126 lbs 19 July 1913 1. The Tetrarch, 131 lbs 31 July 1913 1. The Tetrarch, 132 lbs 2 September 1913 1. The Tetrarch, 121 lbs 9 September 1913 1. The Tetrarch, 126 lbs

Race 2nd (weight) Maiden Two-Year-Old Plate 2. Mount William, 133 lbs Woodcote Stakes 2. Our Lassie, 124 lbs Coventry Stakes 2. Courageous, 126 lbs National Breeders’ Produce Stakes 2. Calandria, 114 lbs Rous Memorial Stakes 2. Princess Dorrie, 119 lbs Champion Breeders’ Foal Stakes 2. Clairvoyante, 114 lbs Champagne Stakes 2. Stornoway, 126 lbs

a five-furlong maiden contested on heavy ground, five days before his actual birthdate.

Donoghue recounted that jockey Skeets Martin on Rose of Dawn asked, “Is that a four-year-old you’re puttin’ over on us?” when he saw The Tetrarch. The strapping “odd-coloured beggar,” in McCalmont’s light blue and scarlet quartered silks with a white cap, won by four lengths as the third betting favorite.

Donoghue considered the National Breeders’ Produce Stakes at Sandown Park the colt’s “most wonderful performance.”

To onlookers watching through a “thick” mist, it was his worst.

Racecourse Runners Newmarket 21 ran Epsom 11 ran Ascot 8 ran Sandown Park 9 ran Goodwood 6 ran Derby 7 ran Doncaster 3 ran

In Donoghue’s words: [The Tetrarch] jumped off to a false start and in so doing got the tapes caught in his mouth. This caused him to rear up in the air.

On coming down he landed on the quarters of [Orebi] next to him and came down on his knees.

The significance of the happening soon swept through the heads of the quick-witted jockeys who were riding other horses in the race. A sort of murmur went through them: ‘The Tetrarch’s down,’ and off they set like birds.

I was nearly heart-broken. Thousands of people had come down on this Bank Holiday to see the great horse, and here was I at the

Distance Time 5 furlongs 1:02 3/5 6 furlongs 1:07 3/5 5 furlongs 1:02 4/5 5 furlongs 1:05 3/5 6 furlongs 1:12 5 furlongs 0:59 1/5 6 furlongs 1:12 3/5

1st Prize Margin Value: £196 Won by 4 lengths Value: £930 Won by 3 lengths Value: £1,843 Won by 10 lengths Value: £4,357 Won by a neck Value: £1,195 Won by 6 lengths Value: £1,085 Won by 4 lengths Value: £1,730 Won by 3 lengths

start with my horse all unbalanced and the field galloping away as fast as they could.

The Tetrarch “went after the field like a swallow,” defeating Calandria, who carried 17 pounds less, by a neck.

In the aftermath of the Rous Memorial, the crowd swarmed around The Tetrarch, “patting him on the neck and on his quarters, quite ignorant or careless of any danger they might be running.” Some asked Donoghue if they could pull hair from the grey’s tail.

The jockey replied, “Take anything you like, but please don’t take the horse!”

The Tetrarch never raised a foot against them.

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BREEDING Donoghue wrote that jockey Danny Maher, whose best finish against The Tetrarch was a fourth on Soulouque in the Coventry, told him, “I’m fed up with riding behind this fellow. He is not a racehorse at all; he is a flying machine.”

But The Tetrarch was not a smoothrunning machine; his powerful conformation presented challenges. Persse said: When he galloped his back seemed to get shorter and his legs longer. That was due to extraordinary hind leverage; his hind legs seemed to project right out in front of his forelegs. When he was going fast he galloped absolutely true, but when held in check to go half speed seemed to cross or ‘plait’ his forelegs.

He did this ‘plaiting’ when walking, and you could actually hear him doing it. From the time I had him as a yearling he was a constant source of worry to me in this way. [Bloodstock Breeders’ Review 1935] While training for Kempton’s Imperial Produce Stakes in October, The Tetrarch, who wore half-shoes that didn’t extend to the back of his foot, rapped his right foreleg.

The injury was pin-fired and the colt, unbeaten in seven starts and early favorite for the classics, was put away for the season.

As The Tetrarch turned three and the 2,000 Guineas approached, he worked a mile with stablemate Land of Song, winner of the Windsor Castle Stakes at two. In receipt of 15 pounds, Land of Song held off The Tetrarch by a neck and Persse determined that the grey was not “well and fit,” taking him out of Guineas contention.

Persse came to regret his decision. “Had I known then what I knew later,” he said, “I should have recommended running him…

The Tetrarch would have won in a trot.”

Land of Song was fourth in the Guineas, two lengths and two heads behind Kennymore.

In May, two weeks before the Derby, The Tetrarch pleased connections in a gallop, but three days later, he rapped the same leg at a “half-gallop,” and he was withdrawn from another classic. “The leg filled and the colt was very lame. It was a hopeless outlook,” said the Bloodstock Breeders’ Review.

The public and newspapers were critical of Persse and McCalmont, accusing them of having kept The Tetrarch’s condition a “mystery.” In their defense, a “Special Correspondent” for The Straits Times opined: “…in the case of The Tetrarch the stable has neither been secret nor officious.

Until he hit himself again at exercise this week (this being the third time it has occurred), there was every confidence among his connections that he would win, and only the day previous to his scratching Mr Persse had increased his stake upon him for the race.”

The Tetrarch never started again. His turf career over with a whimper, he moved on to his equally brilliant, equally troubled next career at the celebrated Ballylinch Stud, where he would achieve even more lasting fame.

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The Tetrarch and Tetratema resided in identical boxes built to accommodate their careers. Tetratema’s is shown above

The Tetrarch at stud

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HE Spotted Wonder’s stud career was more frustrating than anyone could have anticipated.

McCalmont described his champion as “monastic in the extreme” when it came to covering mares. An article in Pacemaker International in April, 1982, stated: “When [The Tetrarch] consented to go into action all work at the stud had to cease as the sound of a man hammering in the distance would be sufficient to induce him to cease fire.”

In the 11 breeding seasons from 1915 to 1925, The Tetrarch sired 130 foals, from a high of 23 in 1920 to a low of one in 1926, when three-time winner Tetranella was his final foal. (Tetranella became third dam of 1958 2,000 Guineas winner Pall Mall.)

The Tetrarch’s introductory fee, for “approved foaling mares only,” was 300 guineas plus one guinea for the stud groom.

Only Prince Palatine, Tracery, and William the Third, at 400 guineas each, stood for more. The Tetrarch was priced the same as Bayardo, Polymelus, Sunstar, Swynford, and five others, while his sire Roi Herode, who never got anything else nearly as good as The Tetrarch, was 200 guineas. In time, The

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Tetrarch’s covering fee topped out at 500 guineas (all fees included).

In F M Pryor’s Register of Thoroughbred Stallions, The Tetrarch was originally advertised as standing at Mount Juliet and later at Ballylinch Stud, but he was always based at Ballylinch, where visiting mares would arrive by train to Thomastown Station, two-and-a-half miles away.

His first season resulted in 15 foals of 1916, led by Snow Maiden (1919 Irish Oaks; third in the Irish Derby) and Stefan the Great (1918 Middle Park Plate; injured in the 2,000 Guineas). The Tetrarch’s second crop of 18 included his best son, champion Tetratema, who was unbeaten in five starts at two: the National Breeders’ Produce Stakes, Molecomb Stakes, Champagne Stakes, Imperial Produce Plate, and Middle Park Plate. With the successes of Snow Maiden and Tetratema, The Tetrarch was leading sire of 1919.

Tetratema won the 2,000 Guineas and King George at three but failed to stay either the 12 furlongs of the Derby or the 10 furlongs of the Eclipse. He had an undefeated four-year-old season, winning the King’s Stand, July Cup, and King George. Bred and raced by McCalmont and trained by Persse, Tetratema took up residence at Ballylinch and was the leading sire of 1929, when his son Mr Jinks won the 2,000 Guineas for McCalmont and Persse. Tetratema and Mr Jinks are interred at Ballylinch, under speckled stones like The Tetrarch’s.

Caligula, Tetratema’s contemporary and a brother to Snow Maiden, won the Ascot Derby (12 furlongs) and 14-furlong St Leger in 1920. More St Leger winners followed: Polemarch (a foal of 1918) and SalmonTrout (1921).

McCalmont’s The Satrap, a brother to Tetratema, was one of The Tetrarch’s four

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BREEDING 1924 foals. At two he won the Chesham, July, Chesterfield, and Richmond Stakes. He was injured in his only loss, a second in the Rous Memorial Stakes, after which McCalmont sold him for $100,000, according to a 1927 report in The Miami News, to William duPont Jr.’s Foxcatcher Farm in America. The Satrap was pointed to the classic Preakness Stakes but never ran after the Rous Memorial.

Many of The Tetrartch’s more recognizable offspring ran in McCalmont’s colors, but the Aga Khan III, grandfather of modern-day turf pillar Aga Khan IV, owed much to the sire, whose stud career coincided with the Aga Khan’s emergence on the European turf scene. When in 1922 he first invested in thoroughbreds outside of India, he enlisted trainer George Lambton to select them.

Lambton chose three of The Tetrarch’s 16 yearlings: Taj Mahal, later the dam of 1,000 Guineas winner Taj Mah; Salmon-Trout, who defeated Derby winner Sansovino in the St Leger; and the greatest of them all, “The Flying Filly” Mumtaz Mahal for 9,100 guineas. (The Aga Khan would also breed a good one by The Tetrarch: champion twoyear-old and Coronation Stakes winner Moti Mahal.)

Mumtaz Mahal won seven of 10 starts and finished second twice. She won the Queen Mary and the Nunthorpe, and four races also won by Tetratema: the National Breeders’ Produce Stakes, Molecomb, Champagne, and King George. Champion at two and champion sprinter at three, Mumtaz Mahal was the most influential of her sire’s progeny.

Her direct ancestors include sires Nasrullah, whose male line produced US Triple Crown winners Secretariat and Seattle Slew, and Royal Charger. The female line continues to produce top runners worldwide, most recently this year’s undefeated Epsom Derby winner Golden Horn, whose ninth dam is Mumtaz Mahal.

“Though the tribe he fathered were small their influence on the breed of racehorse has been immense,” wrote Steve Donoghue of The Tetrarch. Prophetically, Donoghue added, “We will probably never see his like on our racecourses again, but if we see something resembling him that something will probably be one of his own descendants.”

Donoghue pegged it: The Tetrarch left behind about 70 daughters and 47 entire sons, and his name remains prominent in the pedigrees of leading 21st century thoroughbreds. As Ballylinch’s O’Connor says, “The Tetrarch is a great story because he came out of nowhere, to a certain extent. But he left an indelible mark on the breed.”

He wasn’t a homozygous grey breeder but many of The Tetrarch’s better-known progeny – Mumtaz Mahal, Tetratema, Snow Maiden, Caligula, The Satrap, and Stefan the Great – were grey. Tracing the lineage of modern greys reveals that most have at least one unbroken grey link to The Tetrarch, a mark that serves as a physical reminder of one of the greatest horses of the past 100 years and whose name has grown only more exalted with the passage of time. n 68

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HE provenance of Ballylinch Stud, as researched by noted Kilkenny archivist John Kirwan, is as old as time itself.

In a condensed history, the land was seized from Cistercian monks during the Suppression of the Monasteries in 1541 and was acquired in the 1670s by the Butlers of the Ikerrin viscountcy. The first Earl of Carrick, also the eighth Viscount Ikerrin, purchased adjoining land in 1757 and constructed a riverbank estate, which he called Mount Juliet after his wife, Lady Juliana. The earl had a bridge, in use today, built across the River Nore to connect Ballylinch and Mount Juliet.

The Butler family owned Ballylinch for 250 years and Mount Juliet for 160 years, until it caught the attention of Dermot McCalmont, who bought both parcels from the seventh Earl of Carrick in 1914, believing that the Ballylinch side would be

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a home worthy of his great racehorse, The Tetrarch.

The McCalmonts developed and owned the properties until 1987, when first Mount Juliet and then Ballylinch were purchased

by Dr. Tim Mahony and his Killeen Group Holdings. The 200-year-old Mount Juliet House was converted into a luxury hotel, with a 72-par golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus, and “The Tetrarch” and “Mr Jinks” bars paying homage to its McCalmont heritage.

Meanwhile, when Mahony bought Ballylinch, “There was no stock of any sort on the farm,” says John O’Connor. “None whatsoever.” O’Connor was installed as manager and resident veterinarian a year later in 1988, when only four broodmares called the stud home; the stallion Bob Back followed him over from Baroda Stud.

O’Connor was given free rein at Ballylinch, and the result is a property that has been restored to its days of glory while maintaining the character from The Tetrarch’s time. The land, says O’Connor, “has a lot of history, and we didn’t want to lose that.”

The Ballylinch of 2015 thoughtfully fuses the timespan with preserved century-old exteriors concealing updated interiors. For instance, mares visiting the stud’s stallions unload into a walk-in unit that, from the outside only, resembles the grain store it used to be. “We took the upper floor out and made it an empty shell and built these walk-in boxes as a way of reusing an old building. It was either that or knock it down, so we decided to colonize it,” explains O’Connor.

A state-of-the-art laboratory is ensconced inside a house bearing the McCalmont

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family crest – a griffin’s head with a fleur de lis – and “NIL DESPERANDUM” (“never despairing”) motto dated 1915, with Virginia creeper climbing up limestone walls.

The lab has hematology and biochemistry equipment, a centrifuge, and a refractometer.

“When we present a horse to the vet we’ve already got a history with that blood picture, so he’s coming in equipped,” says general manager Adam Sherry, who has been with Ballylinch since 2008.

In line with O’Connor’s efforts to marry Ballylinch’s past and present, one of the stud’s 40-odd broodmares is Uncharted Haven, a US Grade 2 winner acquired at Tattersalls for 320,000 guineas as a breeding prospect in 2001. It was a homecoming of sorts: Uncharted Haven’s second through fourth dams were bred at Ballylinch by Major Victor McCalmont, son of Dermot.

In his colors, Uncharted Haven’s third dam Mesopotamia won the Railway Stakes and placed in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, and the next dam, Agar’s Plough, won the 1955 Irish Oaks. O’Connor says, “We hoped to reinvigorate the Mesopotamia family within Ballylinch. A quirky thing, if you like, but an interesting thing to do.”

Uncharted Haven has done her Ballylinch forebears proud, as the dam of Group 3 winner and Oaks-placed High Heeled and granddam of Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Just the Judge, by Ballylinch sire Lawman.

Last season, Qatar Racing Ltd. and the Sangster Family’s Just the Judge won the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor in Canada.

Horseshoes worn by McCalmont colorbearers as long ago as 1909 are mounted in the two oldest stallion boxes, the former homes of The Tetrarch and Tetratema.

Racing plates line the walls of both barns, where people can touch The Tetrarch’s half-shoes or note that Tetratema’s foot was bigger than The Satrap’s. Some are missing: O’Connor tells of an ex-Mount Juliet employee who after leaving claimed to have taken one of The Tetrarch’s shoes.

Dewhurst winner Intense Focus, sire of O’Connor-bred Group 1 winner Astaire, lives in the stable that was built for The

Above left: Classic winner Lawman is already a Classic sire of Just the Judge.

Above right: Last year’s leading first-crop sire Lope de Vega Right: 30-year-old Soviet Star and his companion Bertie in March of 2014

Tetrarch. “A lot of the farm was developed literally to accommodate The Tetrarch and his stallion career,” says O’Connor. Inside, a floor mosaic is in the McCalmont colors: a base of white with the initials “D Mc C” in scarlet and “The Tetrarch” in light blue.

Before his death last October, 30-year-old Soviet Star, who won the 1987 Poule d’Essai des Poulains and was the oldest known living classic winner, shared Tetratema’s former paddock and box – in a stable identical to The Tetrarch’s, with Tetratema’s name spelled out in the mosaic – with goat Bertie.

Looming behind their paddock is an ancient burial mound, beyond which is the graveyard of the earls of Carrick.

Resident stallion Lope de Vega already has five Group winners, including Group 1 Dubai Dewhurst Stakes winner Belardo, from his first foals. He was leading first-crop sire in Europe last year and is housed in a newer stallion unit with Lawman, five-time Group 1 winner Dream Ahead, and the stalwart Beat Hollow.

Ballylinch has cultivated huge successes from a relatively small group of mares, including Belardo’s homebred dam Danaskaya (a grey, like her ancestor The Tetrarch). O’Connor says, “There’s nature and there’s nurture as well. We try to do things as professionally as we can and look after the horses really well but equally we do have an advantage, it’s a fantastic farm.

It isn’t a coincidence that it was picked by people who could afford to pick whatever they wanted.”

Roughly 35-40 yearlings per year are broken in at Ballylinch, which has a 5-furlong gallop, that’s part grass and part homemade mixture of sand, fiber, and rubber. Ten kilometers of woodland serve as trails for young or rehabilitating stock.

In The Tetrarch’s time, Ballylinch was almost a self-sufficient village. Today, hay is grown on the land, and while the timberworks still stands, most of the fencing and other small jobs are subcontracted out.

But among the staff of about 40 is Billy Townsend, who after 55 years and various positions handling mares and stallions at Ballylinch – “he’s seen them all come and go,” says Sherry – is caretaker of the gardens.

Until a year ago, Ballylinch Stud had known only two owners in the 100 years since The Tetrarch came to live there. A new era began following the liquidation of investments

by Killeen Group Holdings: Mount Juliet to Emmet O’Neill and Brehon Capital Partners in May 2014; and of Ballylinch in December to American John Malone, who owns Bridlewood Farm in Florida and bought Ireland’s Castlemartin in 2015. Among Malone’s first orders of business was to leave John O’Connor in his role at the stud.

As the latest in a short list of custodians of this historic land, Malone has made a good start to his European breeding venture.

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VETERINARY Japanese horse Admire Rakti started favorite for the Melbourne Cup in November but died shortly after the race

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SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME

Cardiovascular equine sudden death syndrome Contemporary horseracing news has identified a small medical trend in which assumedly disease-free racehorses are suddenly expiring before their time. Several investigations indicate that the trainers of such horses are not culpable in these tragedies sustained by their animal charges. If so, then it is necessary to examine these cases in a new light, such that the physiological “machines” that racehorses are provide some answers as to the source of this Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS).

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ETER Physick-Sheard, BvSc, MSc and fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, remarks, “Horses have been evolving ever since first used by man [7-10,000 years ago]. Embarkment on the domestication and selective ‘typing’ of horses [3-5,000 years] has been followed by subsequent use of intense physical selection pressure [for as little as 200 years in some breeds]. However, these manipulations have been sufficient to produce the competition horses we now have.

“The cardiovascular (CV) system of the horse is remarkably similar to that of other mammals with a few minor, but important, differences related to elements of their large muscle contractility, skeletal properties, and vessel flow dynamics” that result from maintaining a proportionately larger heart, says Nicholas Robinson, PhD, assistant professor of veterinary pathology at the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota.

Robinson continues, “Equine athletes have been developed to go fast; the CV systems of racehorses [Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds, as well as Quarter Horses, Arabians, and Appaloosas], as a group, have genetically striven to keep up.”

Physick-Sheard opines that such rapid evolution in body type has not necessarily been accompanied by corresponding changes in functional CV capacity and robustness. “Due to the type of repetitive work racehorses are asked to perform in today’s racing world they are subjected to physical stresses that don’t really have an

equivalent in their evolutionary history.”

So, it has been observed that, under certain circumstances, this cardiovascular fitness can break down. In research by Catriona Lyle and her colleagues, SDS has generally been defined as an acute collapse and death of a closely observed and apparently healthy racehorse during or immediately following exercise, i.e. racing or training. A host of Thoroughbred risk factors, quotes this research group, may include higher age; increased race distance; a greater number of starts in the past 60 days; racing in high heat; and being engaged in hurdling, steeplechase, or National Hunt.

The roster of prominent racehorses that have succumbed to this condition is legion: Admire Rakti, ventricular arrhythmia; Irrefutable, cardiopulmonary failure; Mr. Nickerson, cardiac condition; Swale, collapse, heart abnormality. Jumpers include Tiptoeaway, collapse, cardiac condition; Do Rightly, heart attack; Earthstopper, collapse, post-race; and Hickstead, aortic rupture.

Physick-Sheard comments, “Each horse displays a certain CV reserve capacity to do extra work [when training or racing] until a ceiling or maximal level is hit.” It may be that SDS is an adverse consequence of attempts to surpass this point.

Subsequently, the dividing line between “sickness” and health may be a fine and murky one. In these cases, we are lead to question what, despite expensive and extensive post-mortem investigation including toxicology screens, precipitates SDS. Indeed, in about half the occurrences documented, no definitive reason for this syndrome is detected by pathologists in necropsy.

Sudden death, a calamitous event, is an

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exceedingly rare in competition horses, i.e. those who exercise at speed. Lyle et al. cite a Sudden Death Syndrome rate of only about 13% in a sample of races in California, the United Kingdom, and Victoria, Australia.

The range of fatalities around the world in toto seems to be approximately 3.5-19%, depending on the definition of SDS used.

In a report issued by the California Horse Racing Board’s Medication and Track Safety Committee in 2013 and spanning the years 2008-2012, the rate for California lies somewhat in the middle, at about 4-12%; this did not represent a significant spike in SDS due to CV failure when compared with previously studied time intervals. All of these numbers translate into about one fatality for every 8000 racing starts or 158,000 training days.

Statistics recently gleaned in the wake of a rash of SDS phenomena from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2013 in California show 23 racing and 55 training fatalities. The latter training SDS rate of about 30-60 training sessions per racing start is obviously larger. Robinson says, “We may posit that SDS occurs less frequently in racing than in training because of the heightened physiological state a horse assumes [e.g. more adrenaline] while racing. Moreover, in the name of increased athleticism, chronic drug administration [even of legal substances] to racehorses is rampant. Each of these phenomena may temporarily mask or mitigate any pathophysiology present in the CV system.”

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But what forms of deficiencies in the cardiovascular system most significantly appear to induce SDS in racehorses?

We saw above that the CV system of the athletic horse is exceptional, manifesting, when running at speed, high blood vessel pressure and a heart rate of over 200 beats/ minute. Thus, remarks Robinson, “The compromising of a major, large artery, especially in the abdominal or thoracic cavities, under these conditions can easily cause hemorrhage through a rupture or tear [aneurism] of the vessel.”

The aorta, the largest caliber artery in the body, carries oxygenated blood from the heart to the peripheral tissues. It is

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often involved in the most serious cases of this type of SDS. Such rapid hemorrhaging of the aorta can result in a sudden severe drop in blood pressure, followed by shock and death. The mesenteric artery of the abdomen is the most common vessel, other than the aorta, to be implicated in SDS. Bone fractures, even of the skull, sufficient to cause severe tissue disruption of a major blood vessel may lead to SDS. A bleeding out of one of the larger superficial vessels of the skin, which often stand out on the body, due to traumatic rupture may also induce this condition.

Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage (EIPH) is commonly found in racehorses, so much so that it is sometimes deemed to be an inevitable consequence of moderateto-intense exercise in virtually all of these athletic animals. SDS is a real and dangerous outcome of this disorder. In her study of 11 horses who died from SDS, Dr. D.E. Gunson and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania - New Bolton Center observed that nine were seen to have EIPH. EIPH results, in its initial stages, from engorgement of the pulmonary vessels.

Their terminal capillaries, exposed to the extremely high pressure of the CV system, may fracture and bleed into the interstitial (sub-pleural) spaces surrounding the lungs’ alveolar sacs and then into the sacs proper.

This induces airway inflammation and an impairment of the oxygen gas exchange process.

EIPH can escalate to rupture of larger

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vessels deep within the lungs or near the trachea. With time, it is possible that repeated bouts of EIPH might occur in daily training rather than from one race, resulting in more significant airway changes and a greater degree of damage, such that lung function progressively decreases and racing performance declines. Once the clinical signs of chronic cardiopulmonary issues appear, the horse will always have them. However, the above authors calculated that, in such horses, the death rate of horses using Lasix is up to four times less than that of horses not using the drug. Chronic administration of Lasix can lead to irregular heartbeat by decreasing the blood fluid component and raising potassium and magnesium levels.

In a segment of SDS cases, the EIPH may become severe enough to impart pulmonary vessel hypertension to the extent of rupture, hemorrhage induction (hemothorax), and, then SDS. Lyle’s group has stated that it is unclear whether this latter more serious and acute variety of pulmonary CV malfunction is a “fulminant manifestation” of EIPH and whether it has the same etiology as “traditional” EIPH. What of cardiovascular crises at the other end of the Sudden Death Syndrome spectrum? A thrombosis is the generic term for a blood clot. “Their formation,” says Physick-Sheard, “is usually spontaneous following damage to a venous blood vessel wall. Blood flow will be slowed or obstructed to varying degrees.” But, on a more serious note, such a thrombus can detach from the vessel wall so that it begins to travel around 74

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Evidence exists that, by and large, when horses collapse after vigorous exercise, their hearts show no histological cardiac lesions

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Perry Habecker the CV system of the body. “When this happens,” he continues, “the primary target is usually the lungs’ main artery or one of its branches. Such a pulmonary embolism that blocks the blood flow to the lungs brings to bear a terrible pressure on the heart’s right ventricle. Occasionally, an infarct of heart tissue can develop, giving rise to subsequent shock/collapse of the animal and SDS.” In a seven-year North Carolina State University equine study by Dr. Jennifer Davis et al., it was estimated that approximately 10% of their Thoroughbred horse investigative pool exhibited cardiac manifestations that were consistent with congestive heart failure (CHF). These somewhat rare symptoms principally included murmur and rapid heart rate. About 90% of the CHF horses showed edema of the ventral abdomen and the extremities, enlarged heart, and poor heart function, e.g. exercise intolerance.

Inculcated mitral valve insufficiency or regurgitation defects were identified as the most common CHF sources.

Moreover, CHF may proceed in a more distressingly acute and rapid manner if the mechanical apparatus of the heart’s mitral valve is involved. The chordae tendinae and/or papillary muscles, which serve to open and close this valve, may suddenly and powerfully rupture, leaving the heart’s left side atrium and ventricle open to a blood volume overload. This condition, as blood “backs up” from the left ventricle through the mitral valve into the atrium then into the pulmonary vein, causes a dangerous increase in pulmonary vessel pressure (hypertension).

The above scenario eventually plays out into pulmonary congestion. Physick-Sheard states that “at its end-stage, CHF forces fluid from the venous capillaries into their interstitia then into the alveolar sacs since, by now, the lung tissue and lymphatic ducts can no longer efficiently drain the excess liquid.” The cited drastic increase in pulmonary venous pressure can, in some instances, yield a rupture of a major lung vessel, with subsequent initiation of the above-mentioned sequence of cardiovascular collapse, shock, and SDS. “Evidence exists,” says Perry Habecker, VMD and chief of equine pathology at the New Bolton Center, “that, by and large, when horses collapse after vigorous exercise, their hearts show no histological cardiac lesions. Here, the presence of arrhythmic cardiogenic shock may be indicated. This is generated by a non-structural dysfunction in atrial or ventricular heart conduction, i.e. the electrical activity of a portion of the heart muscle is either irregular or is faster or slower [‘out of sync’] than that of the remaining cardiac tissues.”

Theories about what causes these arrhythmias in racehorses abound.

Increased racing distances may contribute to fatal cardiac arrhythmia if they incite a decrease in blood pH or an increase in bodily catecholamines or potassium levels.

On the other hand, arrhythmogenesis may reflect other biochemical aberrations such as a problem with the ion channels within the heart cells of the accessory conduction pathways.

Francisco Uzal, DVM, PhD, and professor of diagnostic pathology at the University of California-Davis, notes, “The cardiac atrioventricular and sinoatrial nodes, the overarching controllers of all cardiac electrical impulses, are the ‘pacemakers’ of the heart.

Inflammation of these sites has been seen at necropsy. We might find that these tissue lesions have interfered with the nodes’ promotional electrophysiological activity.”

Habecker concludes, “Ventricular arrhythmias of any variety are particularly life-threatening since they usually affect the outward pumping ability of the heart and may render SDS through cardiac arrest without advance symptoms.”

Robinson observes that the hearts of some horses undergo “cardiac remodeling”

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VETERINARY or hypertrophy – an increase in heart size/ structure with a decrease in physiologic functioning – in response to myocardial injury sustained from spirited racing or training. “Current data,” he says, “suggests that a correlation between these changes and arrhythmia may also exist.”

Uzal suggests, “We have to question, however, whether such pathological structural heart conduction artifacts [and their ancillary post-mortem conditions such as pulmonary edema, hemorrhage, or vessel rupture] …are, indeed, significant contributors to SDS arrhythmic events, as these heart tissue abnormalities are often discovered even in necropsy of horses euthanized due to leg injuries.” But, since in vivo cardiac conduction activity cannot be observed in a dead horse, the relationship between morphological changes to these pathways and their corresponding dysfunction is difficult to establish. Hence, these changes, usually easily observed by eye or microscope, may not convey the etiology behind them.

In the last few years, Physick-Sheard has made some “field” observations of equine heart rhythm and rate, indicative of cardiac output in the exercise response, when he attached “portable” EKG monitors to some hundreds of Standardbred and Thoroughbred racehorses during normal competitive racing – from saddling to early recovery – at Woodbine and Mohawk racetracks in Canada.

Ventricular arrhythmias, estimated to be abnormal in about 95% of cases, occurred in Standardbreds in association with what is generally thought to be normal step-wise vagus-mediated heart deceleration during the recovery phase. All horse hearts returned to sinus rhythm and none died. Conversely, the heart rates of Thoroughbreds in recovery, after this drop-off period, then sped up and stayed higher but did not show the same rhythm disturbances. The peak of SDS in Thoroughbreds in the immediate post-race period was reliably confirmed, for now, in unpublished data. Furthermore, this part of the study’s data infers that Thoroughbreds seem to be as much as nine times more susceptible to sudden cardiac death than Standardbreds.

Physick-Sheard believes that this difference may be accounted for by the radically dissimilar post-race routines of the two breeds: For Standardbred horses, the removal of the harness and race bike directly in the paddock produces a much more direct approach to the post-race period with a rapid attendant cool-out. On the other hand, Thoroughbred horses travel up to a quarter mile past the finish line, return to the grandstand with rider and tack aboard before returning to the barn, often with inhand exercise; so, the cooling-out process is much more gradual and conveys the real possibly of extended CV stress.

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(i.e. clinically abnormal)? “This rhythmic instability,” Physick-Sheard says of his data, “is seen in a large number of horses during normal horseracing ‘use’… The suspicion is that these rhythm/rate problems on occasion deteriorate and result in death.”

It should be said that, currently, no genetic factors are known to predispose a racehorse to Sudden Death Syndrome; the industry is far behind efforts in human research, which has sought to determine heritable CV

pathological conditions. Although PhysickSheard and his cohorts have tentatively shown that there may be a genetic liability for atrial fibrillation in Standardbred horses, Robinson says that “only the surface has been scratched on SDS genetics; high cost, time, and effort are currently preventative factors for investigating this biological avenue further.”

Recent opinion suggests that fitness and performance in racehorses can be maximized by their trainers to reduce SDS. It has been shown that, as muscles train to better efficiency, it takes less work to achieve the level of athletics expected. This leads to a decrease in cardiac stress (lower heart recovery time, higher cardiac output, greater heart mass, and increased left ventricle size) and, presumably, fewer SDS tendencies.

At this time, the issue of breed predisposition to SDS is unresolved.

Findings indicate that the race activity of both Standardbred and Thoroughbred horses represents a maximal level of effort.

There is no evidence that the work of the former animals is any less intense than that performed by the latter—the exercise of each is at “full-throttle,” so to speak. Thus, any difference in SDS rates between the two breeds is just as likely to be caused by circumstance, type of work

SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME being done, and physical characteristics of the breed.

Physick-Sheard asserts that it is only recently that we have been able to measure CV health with available technology. The armamentarium available to racehorse cardiologists and internists for CV study has exploded in the 20th and 21st centuries.

It now includes EKG, ECG [ultrasound]; use of treadmills to measure horse cardiac function and airway pulmonology; microscopic transthoracic biopsy; and blood chemistry evaluations. Habecker speaks to these last procedures when he says, “Part of the problem in diagnosing cardiopathy is that the horses do not live long enough after cardiac shock and, subsequent SDS, to generate positive evidence of tissue irregularity. However, if, for instance, blood could be taken from a dying horse, some reading of heart muscle enzymes may point to the relevant pathology.”

Actions taken to prevent SDS should definitely include frequent examination of a horse’s heart, airways, and lungs by stethoscope, endoscope, X-ray, and bronchoalveolar lavage to extract airway cells and mucus that might indicate an inflammatory condition. Timing is everything – these exams, if a cardiovascular problem is suspected, should be carried out on the horse

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with great dispatch after exercise.

Such measures have already proven their worth: changes in the pre-racing regulations for medical exams have produced a healthy decline in fatality rates in the California horseracing industry during the year ending June 30, 2013. Now if a horse is seen upon examination to have any CV irregularities, the severity of the heart problem and future ability for the animal to continue as an event horse can be evaluated before he returns to work. The keeping of consistent patient medical histories can go a long way

to identifying changes in exercise patterns or medical management that may be imputed in SDS. Along these same lines, pre-purchase heart and CV exams with ECG have become more prevalent; they can identify a potential SDS-at-risk horse when young. However, this detection will only preclude the sale or, at most, a racing career.

To more effectively address the above determinants and their post-mortem repercussions, a stabilization of protocol in SDS exams is needed. After death, a meticulous and thorough evaluation by a trained equine pathologist should always be performed. With these regulatory guidelines in mind, much of the success of a post-mortem assessment of an SDS horse depends on the background of the pathologist conducting the investigation, the deftness of his CV dissection, and, thus, the significance attached to his findings.

Physick-Sheard argues, “We may compound the more negative impacts of developmental forces on racehorse CV systems when we selectively breed sires largely for speed rather than longevity.

Hence, the physiological performance risk factors we know of might be expected to result in occasional SDS. Undoubtedly, more study of CV function in racehorses is needed to elucidate this relationship.” n

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Thoroughbred OwnerView Conference The only bad news with a great opening act is that it’s a tough act to follow. And by any judgment, from vastly different perspectives, the first Thoroughbred OwnerView Conference at Keeneland in October, 2014, wasn’t just a home run, but a grand slam.

How do you top that?

We’ll find out in January, when the second OwnerView Conference is unveiled at Gulfstream Park, January 11-14th, a perfect lead-in to the January 16th Eclipse Awards at the very same venue, the Sport of Kings Theater.

While helping fulfill owner Frank Stronach’s vision of Gulfstream Park as a unique, vital equine destination punctuated by a $30 million magnificent statue of Pegasus, the second conference will be another vital step for an industry that has cried for ways to lure new owners for decades. The first conference finally gave prospective owners first-hand access to information crucial to making that

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initial investment in a Thoroughbred.

“Many owners told us that getting into the ownership ‘was like a board game without any instructions,’” Gary Falter said.

Falter heads Thoroughbred OwnerView, the website and information resource developed

by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA).

The impetus for Thoroughbred OwnerView came from a comprehensive study of the sport commissioned by The Jockey Club in 2011. The study found a need for a central resource to encourage Thoroughbred ownership.

Falter, a Thoroughbred owner and breeder since 1981, was assigned by The Jockey Club to start Thoroughbred OwnerView.

The website, www.ownerview.com, which launched in May of 2012, offers detailed

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information about more than a dozen aspects of Thoroughbred ownership including trainers, syndicates, stallion farms, breaking/ training, licensing, vets, publications, and aftercare. Even experienced owners, fans, and media will find useful, comprehensive material presented in an easy-to-use format.

“Phase one was the website,” Falter said. “Phase two is this conference, this information that was missing. Penny Chenery said she wished she had access to that information when she started out and needed it.”

Chenery, the owner of Secretariat and Riva Ridge, was just one of the celebrities who put substantial sizzle into the first conference. The keynote speaker was Gary Player, one of the world’s greatest golfers and a Thoroughbred owner and breeder for decades in his native South Africa. Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron was another.

Tom Durkin, too.

“Basically, it was the Hall of Fame,” George Bolton, co-owner of Curlin, said.

“People loved it. There was electricity in the air all the time. If you’re from Iowa and you’re 10 feet away from these kind of people, it’s exactly what we need to be doing.

A lot of people questioned whether or not this should happen. You had a lot of people taking a risk. Is it going to work? I think this conference proved to be a success. It should be done on an annual basis. I will definitely go to Gulfstream. I’m trying to get my peers involved.”

Many of them were at the first conference.

Pete Bradley of Bradley Thoroughbreds in Lexington, Kentucky, was one of the panelists speaking about purchasing horses. Bradley, who pinhooked the undefeated Lady Eli, was blown away by the quality of the conference.

“I thought they did an exceptional job,” he said. “Most of the time, conferences are wellmeaning and get good people to speak, but all they conjure is fans, not people who want to become owners.”

The cost of the three-day conference was $750, which remains the cost for the second conference in January with an option of buying a $350 ticket for the social events only.

Many attendees came a good way to be at the first one. “You don’t go that distance and spend that amount of money for nothing,” Bradley said. “I think they attracted as good a group of people who were truly interested

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in becoming an owner as any conference I’ve seen. It was a good group there for two to three days with a cocktail party, breaks to talk with other people. It really immersed the potential new owner. I thought the whole scenario did very well to produce a comfort level.”

Retired trainer Michael Dickinson didn’t need a comfort level, but he, too, was impressed with the first conference.

“I enjoyed it very much,” he said. “We had so many good speakers. Gary Player was fantastic, a very neat guy. He was very motivating. He was terrific. Everything about the conference was good. All the panelists were good. If you’re a new owner in the game, it was a must. Absolutely. It made me excited, and I’ve been in the game a long time. It was excellent. It was stimulating. It shows this is a terrific game.”

Mike Ryan, a bloodstock agent, owner, and breeder in Lexington, was another panelist, and he also left with a good feeling.

“I thought it worked very well,” he said.

“The emcee, Tom Durkin, was unbelievable with his knowledge, articulation, and wit. He was the perfect person to be the emcee of the conference. Simon Bray from TVG did an outstanding job. People were very positive about the experience.”

He did offer a criticism: “I thought there was a very brief question and answer. I think other people in the audience wanted to ask questions.”

Regardless, Ryan said, “It was very well run. I enjoyed it. I think it’s something that’s going to grow.”

Jennifer Baron, a financial advisor in Brookhaven, New York, already owns horses in partnerships but also enjoyed the conference. “I liked the itinerary,” she said.

“It’s nice to learn other people’s point of views, how things are done, meet other owners. I loved it. I thought it was great. The speakers were wonderful. It was really nice to

hear from owners across the board, trainers across the board, jockeys across the board.

Everything they talked about applied to any owner, but it was geared more to the highend ownership. They didn’t talk of $25,000 claimers.”

Baron loved the social events, which included visiting Stronach’s Adena Springs and Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farm. “[Adena] brought their stallions out,” she said. “Mucho Macho Man, Ghostzapper, Macho Uno, and Awesome Again. That was awesome. We went to Jess Jackson’s barn. There was a reception [at Stonestreet].

Everybody got a bottle of Curlin wine.”

A golfer, Baron is still amazed that she had one of the winning bids for a celebrity round of golf at an auction for various charities. “I was extremely nervous, but we had lunch first.

That helped,” she said. “We played the first nine with Chris McCarron and the second nine with Gary [Player]. Very nice man. We took pictures. The whole experience was over the top. It was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. It was something special.”

Player enjoyed it, too. “It was a pleasure sharing my experience with other enthusiasts in Kentucky last year,” he said. “I am very fortunate that my golfing career has allowed me to carry out my passion for Thoroughbred racehorses. Golf and my stud farm are more interconnected than most people think. I would not have been able to breed Thoroughbred racehorses had it not been for my golfing career, but I also do not know if I would still be as active in the golfing world had I not had the stud farm to take my mind off golf.”

But racing is all about the bottom line. Did the conference impact potential new owners?

Michelle Davis, a 49-year-old from Dallas, Texas, and owner of The Costume Closet, an extensive dance costume and performance apparel consignment internet company she began in 1997, thought so. “I thought it was

fabulous,” she said. “I’ve already registered to go to the next one.”

Though she owns a mustang, her interest in racing began with handicapping. “I started handicapping about 10 years ago,” she said.

“I thought I might want to own. I wanted to educate myself for a couple of years.” So she did an internship at Lone Star Park and worked with CANTER, the horse rescue begun by Jo Anne Normile. “I want to know every aspect of it,” she said. “I’m pretty voracious. You can’t go to school for it.”

A friend suggested she attend the first conference. “They did it absolutely firstclass,” Davis said. “They really took it seriously. Great speakers. They took care of us. A lot of opportunities to mix and mingle and network. The horse industry is different from other industries. Everybody was accessible to everybody. I got to gain insight. The one negative is that anybody who is already entrenched in the industry might not garner as much information as I did. I was the only person at the seminar that wasn’t already involved. That was the only negative comment from some people. I loved it. I can’t wait for the next one.”

Chris Rossow, a dentist in Port Huron, Michigan, and his wife Marnie, have been planning on involving themselves and their three children, aged eight, six and two, in a family commitment to owning Thoroughbreds. They loved the conference.

Marnie grew up riding horses at summer camp in Michigan. “My husband is very competitive; he played sports,” she said.

“We watched the Derby every year. One year watching the Derby, we decided to go the next year. We saw Mine That Bird. We got bitten by the racing bug. We went all over to tracks.”

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TRACKSIDE n Continued from page 79 to handicap. It really became something we do together. Our kids are young. We want to do it as a family adventure in a couple of years. We joined a club in Woodbine.”

And they went to the first conference.

“It was great,” Marnie said. “It did exactly what we wanted it to do: meet people who are currently in the industry to find out more information without making mistakes.

To have all those people in one place, it was worth the money. There’s so much to learn: breeding, handicapping. We found it very helpful. That conference made us want to learn more about it. We want to see additional tracks, keep on spreading our wings. Saratoga is on our short list. We will probably do partnerships. We want to do it with another couple.”

There was another aspect of the conference Marnie and Chris enjoyed. “I was starstruck,” she said. “I was able to sit behind and talk to Penny Chenery for two days. I had cocktails with Barbara Banke. I talked with Gary Player several times. I got a picture with him. Contrary to popular belief, the people in horseracing are like you and I. This isn’t a dying sport. Anybody can be an owner.

You don’t have to have millions of dollars.

They really wowed us. The other thing we really enjoyed was the cap on the number of participants [300]. We were able to mingle more. We really liked that it was small and intimate. We made some great connections.”

Chris was blown away, too. “Oh, man, it was inspiring,” he said. “With the Gary Player keynote speech, it was more of a life lesson listening to him talk. That was great. I wanted to learn a little more about how much I want to get involved in Thoroughbred ownership. I learned quite a bit. It threw some dollars and cents into it. You leave with realistic numbers thrown at you. It’s something I can get involved in. The overall thrill and excitement is second to none.”

And he and Marnie are still reaping benefits from attending the conference. “I still have people getting in touch with me from it,” Chris said. “We made some really good

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contacts. Gary hooked us up with Woodbine.

Pete Bradley, he’s more than happy to text me. If I text him, he responds right away.”

Will they make the jump into ownership?

Marnie said, “It’s not a question of ‘if’ for us,” Marnie said. “It’s a question of ‘when.’

It is something we’ll do.”

How do you put a price on that? More importantly, how do you make the second conference even better?

The agenda is already set. Tom Durkin will return to be the emcee at the first morning conference, Tuesday, Jan. 12th, to be followed by action videos of winning horses and their owners and a welcome by Frank Stronach.

A panel discussion providing an overview of ownership will feature panelists speaking about concierge, accounting, advisors/ agents, legal matters and, of course, owning Thoroughbreds.

The next panel about buying horses will feature three owners: Laurie Wolf, Maggi Moss and Robert LaPenta. A jockey panel, hosted by former jockey/TV analyst Richard Migliore, features Hall of Famers Jerry Bailey and John Velazquez, jockey Joe Bravo and former jockey/TV analyst Donna Brothers. Lunch and breakout sessions fill the afternoon. That first evening, a cocktail

reception previews the Gala Dinner.

Wednesday’s activities begin with morning workouts at Gulfstream Park with trainers discussing their daily plans for their horses.

Jim Rome, the host of sports shows on radio and TV and an incredibly successful new owner, will deliver the Keynote Address later that morning. Rome, as a member of Jungle Racing LLC, has already had two super horses, two-time Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner Mizdirection and Shared Belief, the Two-Year-Old Male Eclipse Champion of 2013 whose 10 victories in 12 starts include five Grade 1 stakes.

Next up is a panel of successful owners which includes Ken Ramsey and Don Little, Jr. That panel is followed by a presentation about daily care and after-care for horses.

George Bolton will be on that panel. Following that is a presentation of all the people who are involved daily with a Thoroughbred including a presentation from Gulfstream Park President Tim Ritvo. Following him will be a trainer, groom, exercise rider, jockey, jockey agent, blacksmith, veterinarian, dentist, chiropractor, pony rider, hotwalker, identifier, member of the gate crew, entry clerk and racing secretary.

That afternoon features a lunch sponsored

by Gulfstream Park and a day of racing.

On Thursday morning, there’s a 3 ½-hour tour of the Miami area. The following evening, an Eclipse Awards Eve Party concludes the conference. Attendees can purchase tickets for the Eclipse Awards the next night.

If the second conference is as successful as the first, Thoroughbred OwnerView’s Gary Falter’s job isn’t over; rather, it will continue.

“We want owners coming into this business with their eyes wide open,” he said. “We want to give owners access to information.

I went looking for a list of syndicates, and there wasn’t one.”

So Falter put one together and made that list available online. “We get a lot of traffic at the website,” he said. “We’ve had over a million page views. We know there’s more to do to encourage ownership.”

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$7.5m Kentucky Downs five-day meeting

“This will be a very exciting fall in Kentucky, with record purses at Kentucky Downs and the Breeders’ Cup coming to Keeneland,” said Kentucky Downs President Corey Johnsen. “We have designed our stakes schedule to complement the Keeneland Breeders’ Cup meeting, and with an average of $1.5 million in daily purses and KTDF, this will be our greatest season ever.”

A record total of $7.5 million in purses and Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF) money will be offered during the 2015 Kentucky Downs five-day meeting which begins on September 5. Contested over a Europeanstyle turf course, full cards are also set for September 10, 12, 16 and 19.

The Kentucky Downs racetrack is among the longest courses in North America, at 15/16 miles in length. With subtle elevation changes throughout the course, a sweeping turn into the stretch run, and a quartermile run from the end of the final turn

to the finish line, racing at the Franklin, Kentucky, track is unlike any seen this side of the Atlantic Ocean.

The signature event of the track’s 24th meet is the Grade 3, $600,000 Kentucky Turf Cup on September 12. The 1½-mile race will be one of 12 stakes races that should suit turf contenders for the Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, which will make its debut at Keeneland on October 30 and 31.

Overnight races will offer $120,000 for maiden special weight and as much as $130,000 for allowance races. These races and stakes receive significant support from the KTDF. For the past three years, Kentucky Downs has increased purses, due in large part to pari-mutuel wagering on historical horse races.

There will be three new stakes, including the $150,000 Old Friends Stakes on September 16, added to the schedule.

The race will honor Old Friends, the non-

profit Thoroughbred retirement center in Georgetown, Kentucky, which entered into a joint venture with Kentucky Downs, which now houses retired racehorses on its grounds.

“Many of the top horsemen in the country have supported our program,” said Tyler Picklesimer, racing secretary at Kentucky Downs. “They have high regard for our safe and consistent turf course and like the way their horses bounce out of their races here. We have been in touch with them, and they are pointing their top turf specialists to Kentucky Downs in September.”

Earlier this year HANA, the Horseplayers Association of North America, named Kentucky Downs as the number one racetrack in North America. The HANA Racetrack Ratings are based on an algorithm using factors indicative of horseplayer betting value, gleaned from both empirical and academic study. Key factors including takeout rate, field size, wager variety, pool size, and signal distribution are analyzed track by track and weighted to produce a final composite score.

“With low takeout and a field size over ten horses per race, Kentucky Downs has definitely given horseplayers something to get excited about,” said Horseplayers Association of North America (HANA) President Jeff Platt. “Despite the short meet, the ratings algorithm does not discriminate when it comes to value; Kentucky Downs has it and horseplayers have been responding.”

“It is gratifying to be recognized for our efforts,” said Johnsen. “Providing the horseplayer value drives virtually every decision we make at Kentucky Downs. As our formula continues to be successful and handle increases – which produces more purse money – then it is a win-win-win for the fans, horsemen, and track.”

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TULAROSA, N.M. – “It runs in the family.” People who utter this phrase could be referring to some hereditary trait like eye color or height that passes its way down from generation to generation. But they also may be referencing personality characteristics, shared hobbies or traditions that likely have more to do with nurture than nature.

Joel Marr isn’t too concerned about the distinction. The owner of Joel H. Marr Training Stable in Tularosa, New Mexico, the town where he was born and raised, Marr has been around horses for his entire life. He’s the son of another horse trainer (his father) and a champion barrel racer (his mother). He has a degree in animal science from New Mexico State University and has been training since 1989. Add it all up, and it would be easy to simply say that Marr followed in his family’s footsteps – and leave it at that.

Knowing that we are all products of our upbringing and environment, at least to some extent, Marr probably wouldn’t argue with being labeled a “family footsteps” guy – not because he necessarily agrees with such a blanket assessment, but more so because it’s much easier to just do what comes naturally than worry or argue about why it does.

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Marr to a lot of success on the racetrack for the thoroughbreds and quarter horses he trains. More recently, it’s also led to a transformation of his 150-acre training facility, which is now in its third generation of Marr family ownership.

Over the years, Marr has operated both at his own location and remotely, including at various group-owned training centers. While some of Marr’s clientele will always be based at the racetrack, his goal was to modernize Marr Training Stable and centralize his growing operation at home, where he could have greater control over all aspects of his training regimen.

“I train primarily for other owners,” said Marr. “A lot of young horses get started at our site. They learn and train, and then go to the racetrack from there. Some will also come here for rest or rehabilitation, and head back to the track once they are closer to being ready to run again.”

The existing site included an irrigated pasture, barns and other traditional structures, but Marr’s vision was to take the facility to the next level. One item, in particular, that had been on his wish list for about 10 years was a tension fabric building.

Marr looked into various fabric structure manufacturers and ultimately decided to

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“The conventional architecture of the Legacy building was very appealing,” said Marr. “I don’t like the hoop shape you see on a lot of fabric structures, because you lose so much space on the sidewalls. It was clear that their engineering was well thought out and very modern. Their installation methods are more advanced as well. The fabric is attached in a way where it never touches the steel, and the individual fabric panels are easier to tension and install than buildings with one big cover.”

The stall barn measures 79 by 180 feet, enough space to accommodate a wash area, office space, and 45 new box stalls for broodmares and breeding stock that are permanent residents, as well as other horses that come and go. The solid frame design of the fabric structure provides straight sidewalls, exactly what Marr wanted in

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Sitting atop a pier and curb foundation that was engineered by Legacy, the building includes overhead entrance doors on both the endwalls and sidewalls. The roof is equipped with Schaefer RV3000 ridge vents, while 18inch overhangs provide additional ventilation.

The fabric structure is designed to withstand winds speeds of 90 miles per hour.

Legacy’s in-house installation crew put up the barn in about two weeks, and Marr was immediately impressed with the new investment. “I love the amount of sunlight that you still get through the roof,” he said.

“It’s kind of like being outside all the time but still having shade. The temperature is good inside. It stays pretty warm in the winter and cooler in the summer.”

Marr quickly observed another aspect of the fabric building that made it a fitting habitat – and natural home – for his horses.

“It’s very quiet inside,” he noted. “When you get rain or hail or wind, there’s no banging or clanging, no sharp or rough sounds. It’s a more natural environment for animals than a dark metal building. When they’re happier they do better, and they don’t get sick as much or have as many problems. You can’t put a number on it – it’s just more pleasing for them.”

In addition to the stall barn, the plan for the Marr Training Stable upgrade, from the beginning, was to add a riding arena to the site, figuring that such a facility would provide the ability to keep horses on a consistent training schedule, regardless of rain, wind or other inclement weather. Not having been around many fabric structures previously, Marr had wanted to see how construction on the first building went before proceeding with the second. Once he had time to experience the benefits of the stall barn, Marr decided to go with Legacy for the riding arena as well.

The arena measures 124 by 300 feet, and features a clearspan interior that allows use of

every square foot of space inside. It includes a 14-foot clear gabled endwall on one side and a large garage door on the other to accommodate semi trucks, water trucks and harrows that work the arena dirt. Legacy’s four-person crew erected the structure in just nine days.

“I based it a lot on a rodeo arena and how big you would need it to be to do performance horse events, roping calves, things like that,” said Marr. “It didn’t need to be 300 feet long for those activities, but the added length gives us more area to ride the racehorses – not run them fast, but for exercise and rehab, it gives you enough distance to do everything you want to do.”

According to Marr, the arena gets used literally every day. On top of accommodating racehorse training, the arena also helps further the Marr family equestrian tradition.

Performance horses are also trained at the site, and Marr’s wife and children frequently run barrels inside the arena.

“We have young horses, the babies, that will get started in the arena and get up to speed before they move on to the racetrack, and it’s a great atmosphere for them,” said Marr. “The acoustics are good. It’s fresh and dry and clean. You don’t ever have condensation dripping off the roof like you would with metal panels. It’s a controlled environment, yet you still get the benefit of the daylight coming in. Even with a nice full moon, there’s enough light inside the building to ride a little at night.”

With his two new buildings in place, Marr has no current plans for any further expansion, but said he would give Legacy the first call if the need for another fabric structure should arise.

“Legacy was very professional throughout the process,” said Marr. “They came out to the site ahead of time to discuss everything.

And their installation time is outstanding – it’s far faster than putting up steel, wood, or masonry. This was something we had looked at for a long time and finally had the ability to do it, and we really like it. It was very special to be able to create something like this we could call our own.”

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Track Mountaineer Charles Town Charles Town Charles Town

Race Name & (Sponsor) West Virginia Legislature Chairman’s Cup Henry Mercer Memorial Rachel’s Turn St Its Only Money S

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Parx Racing Lone Star Park Lone Star Park Indiana Downs Parx Racing Fort Erie Niigata Del Mar Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Del Mar York Parx Racing Parx Racing Parx Racing Delaware Park Delaware Park Longchamp

PARX Dash TTA Sales Futurity - C&G Div TTA Sales Futurity - Filly Div Brandywine S Power By Far S Rainbow Connection S Ibis Summer Dash Daisycutter H’cap Tyro St Colleen St Green Flash H’cap Nunthorpe St (Coolmore) Mr. Jenney H’cap Turf Monster H’cap Turf Amazon H’cap First State Dash Small Wonder Prix de l’Abbaye de Longchamp (Qatar)

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

Evangeline Downs Evangeline Downs Arapahoe Park Belterra Park Woodbine Monmouth Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Thistledown Ruidoso Downs Ruidoso Downs Arapahoe Park Arapahoe Park Saratoga Del Mar Arapahoe Park Arapahoe Park Saratoga Saratoga Del Mar Saratoga Monmouth Park Arapahoe Park Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland

D.S. Shine Young Memorial Futurity - La Bred D.S. Shine Young Memorial Futurity - La Bred Colorado Derby Hoover St Shady Well S Klassy Briefcase St Prairie Gold Juvenile Prairie Gold Lassie Miss Ohio St Rio Grande Senorita Futurity Rio Grande Senor Futurity Columbine S Mount Elbert S Lucky Coin CTBA St Silver Cup Futurity Colts and Geldings Division Silver Cup Futurity Filly Division Caress Coronation Cup Graduation St Quick Call My Frenchman St Spicy S Schenectady Troy St Smart N Fancy BC Turf Sprint Woodford Buffalo Trace Franklin County

GB USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN

Newmarket Lone Star Park Delaware Park Arapahoe Park Arapahoe Park Indiana Downs Delaware Park Belmont Park Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Belmont Park Northlands Park

July Cup (Darley) Valor Farms St The Dashing Beauty Overnight Stakes CTBA Lassie CTBA Futurity Shelby County S The Hockessin Overnight Stakes Rockville Centre Miss Woodford St Emerald Express Lynbrook Princess Margaret

Breeders’ Cup

Class S S

Race Date 01-Aug-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15

Value $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000

4.5f (900m) Age 3+ 2 2F 3+

Surface D D D D

Metres 900 900 900 900

Furlongs 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5

3+ 2 CG 2F 3+ FM 3+FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F&M 2 2F 3+ 2+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 2 2 F&M 2+

T D D D D T T T D T T T T T T D D T

1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

2F 2 CG 3 2 2F 3+ FM 2 2F 2 F (OH Bred) 2F 2 3+FM 3+ 4+ 2F 2 C&G 2F 4 + FM 3F 2 3 3+ 3 + FM 2 3+ 3 + FM 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M

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

1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5 5.5

3+ 3+ FM (TX Bred) 3 + FM 2F 2 3+ F&M 3+ 2 NY Bred 3F 2 C&G 2F 2F

T D D T T D D D D D D D

1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200 1200

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

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Turf Sprint

Gp 1 S Gr 3 R R Gp 1

11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 17-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 28-Jul-15 02-Aug-15 07-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 19-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 05-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 04-Oct-15

5f (1000m)

$200,000 $100,000 $100,000 $65,000 $75,000 CAN 75,000 $685,000 $80,000 $60,000 $60,000 $80,000 £250,000 $75,000 $350,000 $350,000 $75,000 $75,000 €350,000

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S

S S S

S

S

Gr 1 Gp 3 L

11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 27-Jul-15 31-Jul-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 05-Aug-15 06-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 30-Aug-15 31-Oct-15 03-Oct-15 09-Oct-15

$100,000 $100,000 $40,000 $75,000 CAN 150,000 $60,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $175,000 $175,000 $40,000 $40,000 $100,000 $100,000 $35,000 $35,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $60,000 $40,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $1,000,000 $150,000 $100,000

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11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 19-Jul-15 19-Jul-15 19-Jul-15 24-Jul-15

£500,000 $50,000 $50,000 $40,000 $40,000 $85,000 $50,000 $125,000 $60,000 $50,000 $125,000 CAN 50,000

27-Jun-15 01-May-15 01-May-15 11-Jul-15 09-Jul-15 23-Jun-15 31-Jul-15 07-Aug-15 23-Jun-15 22-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 31-Aug-15 31-Aug-15 26-Aug-15

5.5f (1100m)

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Closing 20-Jul-15 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15

20-Jun-15 20-Jun-15 02-Jul-15 24-Jun-15 03-Jul-15 10-Jul-15 10-Jul-15 15-Jul-15 01-Feb-15 01-Feb-15 19-Jul-15 11-Jul-15

18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 31-Jul-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 19-Oct-15 16-Sep-15 20-Sep-15

6f (1200m) 05-Jul-15 02-Jul-15 01-Jul-15

08-Jul-15 04-Jul-15 10-Jul-15 Inv 04-Jul-15 15-Jul-15

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Track Monmouth Park Saratoga Woodbine Northlands Park Del Mar Woodbine Hakodate Emerald Downs Saratoga Finger Lakes Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park Arlington Park Monmouth Park Mountaineer Mountaineer Mountaineer Mountaineer Monmouth Park Woodbine Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Thistledown Curragh Woodbine Finger Lakes Woodbine Thistledown Monmouth Park Arapahoe Park Finger Lakes Hastings Racecourse Deauville Kokura Saratoga Del Mar Evangeline Downs Belterra Park Evangeline Downs Sapporo Woodbine Del Mar Haydock Park Parx Racing Parx Racing Saratoga Kokura Monmouth Park Presque Isle Downs Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Del Mar Del Mar Belmont Park Keeneland Delaware Park Delaware Park Monmouth Park Belterra Park Monmouth Park Canterbury Belmont Park Hanshin Zia Park Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Finger Lakes Finger Lakes Parx Racing Thistledown Presque Isle Newmarket Newmarket Belmont Park Monmouth Park Woodbine Emerald Downs Albuquerque

Race Name & (Sponsor) Jersey Shore St Sanford St Colin S Edmonton Juv Bing Crosby S Royal North S Hakodate Nisai St Angie C St Honorable Miss H’cap Arctic Queen H’cap Alfred G Vanderbilt H’cap Amsterdam St Isaac Murphy St Addison Cammack Regret St The Senator Robert C Byrd Memorial St Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies St Mountaineer Juvenile St West Virginia Secretary of State St Teddy Drone St Nandi S Florida Stallion St - Desert Vixen Division Florida Stallion St - Dr. Fager Division Iowa Cradle S Iowa Sorority Louisiana Cup Filly and Mare Sprint Louisiana Cup Sprint Louisiana Cup Juvenile Louisiana Cup Juvenile Fillies Cleveland Kindergarten St Phoenix Sprint St (Keeneland) Ontario Debutante S Niagara St Vandal S Honey Jay St Blue Sparkler St Gold Rush Futurity Ontario County St New Westminster (AlwS) Prix Morny (Darley) Kitakyushu Kinen Tale of the Cat Generous Portion St Evangeline Downs Starlet Tah Dah St Evangeline Downs Star Keeneland Cup Kenora S I’m Smokin St Sprint Cup (Betfred) Dr Theresa Garofalo Mem Banjo Picker Sprint Prioress Kokura Nisai St Sorority St The Mark Mcdermott St MN Distaff Sprint Championship MN Sprint Championship Northern Lights Debutante St Northern Lights Futurity St C.E.R.F St Pirate’s Bounty S Christiecat Open Mind Tax Free Distaff The New Castle Eleven North H’cap Loyalty St New Jersey Breeders H Shakopee Juvenile Stakes Allied Forces Centaur St Premiere Cup H’cap Northwest Farms St Captain Condo St Aspirant St Lady Fingers St Gallant Bob H’cap Scarlet & Gray H’cap Mrs Henry D. Paxson mem St Cheveley Park St Middle Park St Vosburgh Invitational Jersey Juvenile Bull Page S NWSS Cahill Road Stakes Camino Real Futurity

Breeders’ Cup

Class Gr 3 Gr 3

Turf Sprint

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

R R R S S S S S S S Gp 1 S S S

S Gp 1 Gr 3 S R

Gr 3 R S Gp 1 S S Gr 1 Gr 3 L S S S S S R

R R

Gr 2

Sprint

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

Race Date 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 29-Jul-15 31-Jul-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 14-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 28-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 30-Aug-15 02-Sep-15 04-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 11-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 18-Sep-15 18-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 27-Sep-15 27-Sep-15 27-Sep-15

Value $100,000 $150,000 CAN 125,000 CAN 50,000 $300,000 CAN 150,000 $542,000 $50,000 $200,000 $50,000 $350,000 $200,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 CAN 125,000 $200,000 $200,000 $75,000 $75,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $75,000 €60,000 CAN 125,000 $50,000 CAN 150,000 $75,000 $60,000 $100,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 €350,000 $685,000 $100,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $723,000 CAN 125,000 $150,000 £250,000 $75,000 $75,000 $300,000 $542,000 $75,000 $75,000 $60,000 $60,000 $80,000 $80,000 $80,000 $80,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $60,000 $75,000 CAN 60,000 $75,000 $100,000 $1,030,000 $75,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $100,000 $300,000 $75,000 $75,000 £170,000 £170,000 $400,000 $60,000 CAN 125,000 $50,000 $100,000

6f (1200m)

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

Furlongs Closing 6 10-Jul-15 6 11-Jul-15 6 08-Jul-15 6 15-Jul-15 6 16-Jul-15 6 08-Jul-15 6 09-Jun-15 6 Inv 6 18-Jul-15 6 6 18-Jul-15 6 18-Jul-15 6 22-Jul-15 6 22-Jul-15 6 24-Jul-15 6 20-Jul-15 6 20-Jul-15 6 20-Jul-15 6 20-Jul-15 6 24-Jul-15 6 15-Jul-15 6 03-Mar-15 6 03-Mar-15 6 6 6 25-Jul-15 6 25/07/2015 6 25-Jul-15 6 25-Jul-15 6 29-Jul-15 6 01-Jul-15 6 22-Jul-15 6 6 29-Jul-15 6 05-Aug-15 6 07-Aug-15 6 09-Aug-15 6 6 15-Aug-15 6 29-Jul-15 6 07-Jul-15 6 08-Aug-15 6 6 08-Aug-15 6 19-Aug-15 6 6 21-Jul-15 6 12-Aug-15 6 6 07-Jul-15 6 22-Aug-15 6 22-Aug-15 6 22-Aug-15 6 21-Jul-15 6 23-Aug-15 6 26-Aug-15 6 26-Aug-15 6 26-Aug-15 6 6 6 6 6 6 04-Sep-15 6 31-Aug-15 6 31-Aug-15 6 04-Sep-15 6 02-Sep-15 6 04-Sep-15 6 03-Sep-15 6 6 04-Aug-15 6 03-Sep-15 6 05-Sep-15 6 05-Sep-15 6 6 6 05-Sep-15 6 09-Sep-15 6 09-Sep-15 6 21-Jul-15 6 21-Jul-15 6 15-Sep-15 6 18-Sep-15 6 09-Sep-15 6 Inv 6 CLOSED

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Track Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Keeneland Finger Lakes Keeneland Niigata Woodbine Thistledown Zia Park Zia Park Belmont Park Ascot Finger Lakes Woodbine Woodbine Belmont Park Moone Valley Thistledown Woodbine Keeneland Thistledown Mahoning Valley Mahoning Valley Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Zia Park Zia Park Zia Park Zia Park Zia Park Belmont Park Finger Lakes Flemington Mahoning Valley Mahoning Valley Aqueduct Woodbine Aqueduct Mahoning Valley Mahoning Valley Penn National Penn National Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct Kyoto Beulah Park Aqueduct Nakayama Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct

Race Name & (Sponsor) Breeders’ Cup Merrillville S Brickyard S The Crown Ambassador S City of Anderson S Hillsdale S Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Sprint Leon Reed Memorial H’cap Thoroughbred Club of America S F&M Sprint Sprinters St Victorian Queen S Best of Ohio Sprint H’cap Permian Basin S Governor’s Cup Futurity QIPCO British Champions Sprint S New York Breeders’ Futurity Nearctic S Turf Sprint Ontario Fashion S Matron Manikato St Diana St Fanfreluche S BC Sprint Cardinal H Cardinal H Emerald Necklace S Fort Springs Juvenile Dirt Sprint Perryville 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 Pumpkin Pie Shesastonecoldfox S Darley Classic First Lady St Glacial Princess St Notebook Kennedy Road S Key Cents Steel Valley Sprint Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Distaff Blue Mountain S The Fabulous Strike H’Cap Fall Highweight Furlough King’s Swan Keihan Hai Joshua Radosevich Memorial S Garland of Roses Capella St Fifth Avenue Gravesend Great White Way

USA USA USA CAN CAN CAN USA CAN CAN FR USA CAN USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN USA USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN USA USA

Ellis Park Canterbury Saratoga Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Del Mar Northlands Park Northlands Park Deauville Del Mar Northlands Park Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Del Mar Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Hastings Racecourse Saratoga Saratoga Woodbine Woodbine Northlands Park Northlands Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Presque Isle Downs Kentucky Downs

Don Bernhardt MTA Stallion Auction S John Morrissey St British Columbia Cup Debutante (AlwS) British Columbia Cup Nursery (AlwS) Shepperton S Best Pal St Sales Stakes Fillies Sales Stakes Prix Maurice de Gheest Sorrento St Sun Sprint St WTBOA Lads St Barbara Shinpoch St Rancho Bernardo H’cap Adirondack St Saratoga Special Union Avenue St Hard Rock Casino Vancouver Funny Cide Seeking the Ante Simcoe S Muskoka S Bird of Pay St Birdcatcher St CTHS Sales (AlwS) CTHS Sales (AlwS) Presque Isle Downs Masters S Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint

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

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

L L L S S S S S S Gr 1

Gr 2

R Gp 3

Gr 3 R Gr 3

Race Date Value 30-Sep-15 $85,000 30-Sep-15 $85,000 30-Sep-15 $85,000 30-Sep-15 $85,000 30-Sep-15 $85,000 03-Oct-15 $250,000 02-Oct-15 $50,000 03-Oct-15 $250,000 04-Oct-15 $1,718,000 10-Oct-15 CAN 125,000 10-Oct-15 $150,000 12-Oct-15 $55,000 12-Oct-15 $55,000 17-Oct-15 $200,000 17-Oct-15 £600,000 17-Oct-15 $200,000 18-Oct-15 CAN 300,000+ 18-Oct-15 CAN 150,000+ 18-Oct-15 $200,000 23-Oct-15 AUS $1,015,000 24-Oct-15 $75,000 25-Oct-15 CAN 150,000 31-Oct-15 $1,500,000 31-Oct-15 $50,000 31-Oct-15 $75,000 31-Oct-15 $75,000 31-Oct-15 $100,000 31-Oct-15 $100,000 31-Oct-15 $100,000 01-Nov-15 $130,000 01-Nov-15 $140,000 01-Nov-15 $140,000 01-Nov-15 $170,000 01-Nov-15 $140,000 01-Nov-15 $100,000 06-Nov-15 $50,000 07-Nov-15 AUS $1,002,500 21-Nov-15 $75,000 21-Nov-15 $75,000 21-Nov-15 $100,000 22-Nov-15 CAN 200,000+ 22-Nov-15 $100,000 23-Nov-15 $200,000 23-Nov-15 $75,000 25-Nov-15 $75,000 25-Nov-15 $200,000 26-Nov-15 $250,000 26-Nov-15 $150,000 27-Nov-15 $150,000 29-Nov-15 $685,000 05-Dec-15 $75,000 05-Dec-15 $100,000 13-Dec-15 $633,000 20-Dec-15 $150,000 26-Dec-15 $100,000 27-Dec-15 $150,000

6f (1200m) Age Surface 3+ F&M D 3+ D 2 D 2F D 2 D 3+ AWT 3+ D 3+ F&M AWT 3+ T 2F AWT 3+ (OH Bred) D 2F D 2 D 2 D 3+ T 2 D 3+ T 3+ F&M AWT 2F D Open T 3 + FM (Ohio bred) T 2F AWT 3+ D 3 + (Ohio bred) T 3+ D 2F D 3F D 2 D 3 D 3+ F&M D 2F D 2 C&G D 3+ D 3+ F&M D 3+ FM D 2F D Open T 3F T 2 F (Ohio bred) T 2 D 3+ AWT 2F D 3 D D 2 F (PA bred) D 3+ D 3+ D 2F D 2 D 3+ T 2 (OH Acc) D 3+ FM D 3+ D 2F D 3+ D 2 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

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S S S R Gr 2

Gp 1 Gr 2

Gr 3 Gr 2 Gr 2 S

R R

S S Gr 2

18-Jul-15 19-Jul-15 30-Jul-15 03-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 20-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 28-Aug-15 28-Aug-15 02-Sep-15 02-Sep-15 04-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 12-Sep-15

$50,000 $55,000 $100,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 125,000 $200,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 €€250,000 $200,000 CAN 50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $200,000 $200,000 $100,000 CAN 50,000 $200,000 $200,000 CAN 200,000 CAN 200,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $400,000 $300,000

3+ 3 3+ (NY bred) 2F 2 CG (BC Bred) 3+ 2 2F 2 C&G 3+ 2F 3+ 2 CG 2F 3+ F&M 2F 2 3+ FM (NY bred) 2F 2 2F 2 C&G 2F 2F 2 C&G 2F 2C&G 3+ F&M 3+ F&M

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

Closing

16-Sep-15 16-Sep-15 18-Aug-15 23-Sep-15 30-Sep-15 28-Sep-15 28-Sep-15 03-Aug-15 30-Sep-15 30-Sep-15 22-Sep-15 14-Oct-15 07-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 29-Oct-14

23-Sep-15 23-Sep-15 23-Sep-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15

09-Nov-15

04-Nov-15

18-Nov-15 18-Nov-15

13-Oct-15

27-Oct-15

6.5f (1300m) D D D D D AWT D T T T D D D D D D D D D D D AWT AWT D D D D AWT T

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

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

04-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 15-Jul-15

15-Jul-15 5-Sug-2015 Inv

01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 02-Sep-15

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Track Kentucky Downs Woodbine Emerald Downs Northlands Park Northlands Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Belmont Park Presque Isle Downs Belmont Park Belmont Park Parx Racing Parx Racing

Race Name & (Sponsor) The Kentucky Downs Turf Dash Bold Venture S Chinook Pass Sprint St Red Diamond St Premier’s Futurity Jack Diamond Sadie Diamond Gallant Bloom Fitz Dixon Mem S Irpquois Hudson Donna Fryer SC Residence Race (F) Christopher Elser Mem SC Residence (C & G)

Breeders’ Cup

Class Gr 3 S S S S Gp 2

R R

Race Date 12-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 01-Oct-15 24-Oct-15 24-Oct-15 15-Nov-15 15-Nov-15

Value $300,000 CAN 150,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 100,000 CAN 100,000 $300,000 $100,000 $150,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000

7f (1400m) Age 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 2 CG 2F 3+ FM 2 3+ FM 3+ 2F 2 CG

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

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

Furlongs Closing 6.5 02-Sep-15 6.5 26-Aug-15 6.5 05-Sep-15 6.5 6.5 09-Sep-15 6.5 12-Sep-15 6.5 12/09/2015 6.5 6.5 21-Sep-15 6.5 6.5 6.5 31-Oct-15 6.5 26-Sep-15

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Woodbine Chukyo Woodbine Woodbine Del Mar Charles Town Del Mar Pimlico Saratoga Saratoga Woodbine Gulfstream Park Charles Town Calder Charles Town Del Mar Arlington Park Charles Town Woodbine Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Arlington Park Del Mar Saratoga Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Woodbine Kentucky Downs Kentucky Downs Del Mar Saratoga Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Curragh Curragh Woodbine Charles Town Keeneland Charles Town Charles Town Belmont Park Longchamp Longchamp Newmarket Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Kyoto Charles Town Belmont Park Woodbine Tokyo Kyoto Woodbine Aqueduct Woodbine Woodbine Charles Town Aqueduct Parx Racing Charles Town Hanshin

Passing Mood S Procyon St Duchess S Deputy Minister S Fleet Treat St Robert G Leavitt St Real Good Deal St Shine Again St Shine Again Test Seaway S The Florida Sire St - Unbridled Div. Sadie Hawkins St Florida Sire St - Three Rings Div. Frank Gall Memorial Pat O’Brien H’cap Arlington-Washington Futurity Sylvia Bishop Memorial Play the King S King’s Bishop Ballerina St Forego Arlington-Washington Lassie Del Mar Debutante Spinaway St Florida Stallion St - Affirmed Division Florida Stallion St - Susan’s Girl Division Swynford S Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Kentucky Downs Juvenile Del Mar Futurity Hopeful St LA Stallions S LA Stallions S Moyglare Stud St National St (Goffs Vincent O’Brien) Overskate S Pink Ribbon St Dogwood Charles Town Oaks Wild and Wonderful St Joseph A. Gimma Prix de la Foret (Qatar) Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere-Grand Criterium Dewhurst St Raven Run Lafayette BC Filly & Mare Sprint Swan St Tri-State Futurity Bold Ruler Frost King S Keio Hai Nisai St Fantasy St Jammed Lovely S Staten Island Bessarabian S Glorious Song S West Virginia Futurity (WV) Thunder Rumble Pennsylvania Nursery St Eleanor Casey Memorial Hanshin Cup

R Gr 3 R S S S R Gr 1 Gr 3 R S

Dirt Mile

F&M Sprint Sprint

Juv F Turf

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

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

Mile Juv Turf

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

S S Gr 2

11-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 19-Jul-15 22-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 01-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 05-Aug-15 05-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 14-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 27-Sep-15 04-Oct-15 04-Oct-15 10-Oct-15 17-Oct-15 29-Oct-15 31-Oct-15 31-Oct-15 31-Oct-15 31-Oct-15 04-Nov-15 07-Nov-15 07-Nov-15 07-Nov-15 15-Nov-15 15-Nov-15 21-Nov-15 21-Nov-15 29-Nov-15 05-Dec-15 12-Dec-15 26-Dec-15

CAN 125,000 $633,000 CAN 125,000 CAN 125,000 $200,000 $50,000 $200,000 $100,000 $100,000 $500,000 CAN 150,000 $150,000 $50,000 $150,000 $50,000 $250,000 $100,000 $50,000 CAN 200,000+ $500,000 $600,000 $700,000 $75,000 $300,000 $350,000 $300,000 $300,000 CAN 125,000 $200,000 $200,000 $300,000 $350,000 $100,000 $100,000 €300,000 €200,000 CAN 125,000 $100,000 $100,000 $350,000 $100,000 $150,000 €300,000 €350,000 £5,000,000 $250,000 $100,000 $1,000,000 $1,030,000 $50,000 $200,000 CAN 125,000 $647,000 $504,000 CAN 150,000 $125,000 CAN 150,000+ CAN 125,000 $50,000 $125,000 $75,000 $50,000 $1,173,000

7f (1400m) 3F 3+ 3F 3 3F 3 3 3+ FM 3 + FM 3F 3+ F&M 3 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3+ 2 3F 3+ 3 3+ FM 3+ 2F 2F 2F 2 2F 2 2 F&M 2 2 2 2 C&G (LA Bred) 2 F (LA Bred) 2F 2 CF 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3F 3+ 2F 3+ 2 CF 2 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 2 3+ 2 2 2F 3F 3+ FM 3+ F&M 2F 2 3+ 2 C&G 2F 3+

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

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

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

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Newmarket Lone Star Park Belmont Park Canterbury Canterbury Chantilly Presque Isle Downs

Falmouth Assault St Forbidden Apple Lady Canterbury St Mystic Lake Mile Prix Jean Prat Leematt S

Gp 1 R

Gp 1 S

10-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 12-Jul-15

£160,000 $50,000 $150,000 $100,000 $100,000 €400,000 $75,000

3+ F 3+ (TX Bred) 4+ 3+ FM 3+ 3 CF 3+

24-Jun-15 26-May-15 01-Jul-15 01-Jul-15 22-Jul-15

25-Jul-15 25-Jul-05 22-Jul-15 03-Mar-15 29-Jul-15 03-Mar-15 05-Aug-15 13-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 05-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 19-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 03-Mar-15 03-Mar-15 19-Aug-15 25-Aug-15 25-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 CLOSED CLOSED 27-May-15 27-May-15 02-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 29-Aug-15 05-Sep-15 26-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 04-Aug-15 07-Oct-15 22-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 15-Sep-15

14-Oct-15 29-Sep-15 29-Sep-15 21-Oct-15 28-Oct-15 04-Nov-15

21-Nov-15 02-Dec-15 10-Nov-15

8f (1600m) T D T T T T AWT

1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600

8 8 8 8 8 8 8

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Race Name & (Sponsor) Breeders’ Cup Northern Fling S Manila Northlands Oaks Ta Wee S Hanshin Cup Michael G. Schaefer Mile St Oceanside St Ontario Damsel S Girls, Inc. Shelby County Carl Hanford Memorial Overnight San Clemente H’cap Wickerr St Springfield St CTBA Breeders Oaks Chukyo Kinen Little Silver St Sussex (Quipco) West Virginia Senate President’s Breeders’ Cup St West Virginia House of Delegates Speaker’s Cup Prix de Rothschild Shuvee H’cap Prairie Meadows Juvenile Mile The Groupie Doll De La Rose St Soaring Softly New York Stallion Series - Cab Calloway Division Indiana First Lady Governor’s St New York Stallion Series - Statue of Liberty Division Sandy Blue H’cap Fourstardave H’cap Prix Jacques le Marois (Haras de Fresnay-Le-Buffard) Mile Sekiya Kinen Longacres Mile H’cap Solana Beach H’cap Ontario Colleen S Del Mar Mile Mystic Lake Derby Harry F. Brubaker H’cap El Cajon St Niigata Nisai St Vice Regent S Torrey Pines St Better Talk Now Halton S Tranquility Lake S Florida Sire St - Jewell Princess Div. Florida Sire St - Prized Div. Del Mar Juvenile Turf The More Than Ready Mile Sapling St Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf Distaff S (Indiana Grand) Centaur S The One Dreamer Matron St (Coolmore) F & M Turf Summer S Juv Turf Natalma S Juv F Turf DTHA Governors Day St Happy Ticket Sunday Silence Prix du Moulin de Longchamp Ricoh Woodbine Mile Mile Keisei Hai Autumn H’cap Comcast Sports New St The Old Friends St Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf A L Red Erwin S Elge Rasberry S Alberta Oaks Noble Damsel The Dueling Grounds Oaks La Prevoyante S Premio Vittorio di Capua Ack Ack H’cap Jefferson Cup Sun Chariot St (Kingdom of Bahrain) Foxwoods Champagne Juv Frizette St Juv F Shadwell Turf Mile Mile Armed Forces First Lady Our Dear Peggy Prix Marcel Boussac Juv F Turf Chaves County S Fillies’ Mile (Dubai) Toorak H

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Class S

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

Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 3

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

R

L L S Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 2 R

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

Race Date Value 12-Jul-15 $75,000 12-Jul-15 $100,000 17-Jul-15 CAN 50,000 17-Jul-15 $100,000 18-Jul-15 $100,000 18-Jul-15 $100,000 18-Jul-15 $100,000 18-Jul-15 CAN 150,000 18-Jul-15 $100,000 18-Jul-15 $50,000 19-Jul-15 $200,000 22-Jul-15 $80,000 25-Jul-15 $75,000 25-Jul-15 $40,000 26-Jul-15 $685,000 26-Jul-15 $60,000 29-Jul-15 £300,000 01-Aug-15 $100,000 01-Aug-15 $100,000 02-Aug-15 €300,000 02-Aug-15 $200,000 07-Aug-15 $60,000 08-Aug-15 $100,000 08-Aug-15 $100,000 08-Aug-15 $75,000 10-Aug-15 $100,000 12-Aug-15 $150,000 12-Aug-15 $150,000 13-Aug-15 $100,000 14-Aug-15 $80,000 15-Aug-15 $500,000 16-Aug-15 €600,000 16-Aug-15 $685,000 16-Aug-15 $200,000 16-Aug-15 $150,000 22-Aug-15 CAN 150,000+ 23-Aug-15 $200,000 23-Aug-15 $200,000 26-Aug-15 $80,000 29-Aug-15 $100,000 30-Aug-15 $542,000 30-Aug-15 CAN 125,000 30-Aug-15 $100,000 31-Aug-15 $100,000 02-Sep-15 CAN 125,000 02-Sep-15 $80,000 05-Sep-15 $150,000 05-Sep-15 $150,000 05-Sep-15 $100,000 05-Sep-15 $300,000 06-Sep-15 $100,000 07-Sep-15 $100,000 09-Sep-15 $125,000 09-Sep-15 $200,000 10-Sep-15 $150,000 12-Sep-15 €300,000 12-Sep-15 CAN 200,000+ 12-Sep-15 CAN 200,000+ 12-Sep-15 $75,000 12-Sep-15 $75,000 12-Sep-15 $75,000 13-Sep-15 €450,000 13-Sep-15 CAN 1,000,000+ 13-Sep-15 $685,000 13-Sep-15 $35,000 16-Sep-15 $150,000 19-Sep-15 $300,000 19-Sep-15 $150,000 19-Sep-15 $150,000 19-Sep-15 CAN 50,000 19-Sep-15 $200,000 19-Sep-15 $200,000 26-Sep-15 CAN 125,000 27-Sep-15 €242,000 26-Sep-15 $100,000 26-Sep-15 $100,000 03-Oct-15 £160,000 03-Oct-15 $400,000 03-Oct-15 $400,000 03-Oct-15 $1,000,000 03-Oct-15 $75,000 03-Oct-15 $400,000 03-Oct-15 $75,000 04-Oct-15 €300,000 05-Oct-15 $55,000 09-Oct-15 £50,0000 11-Oct-15 AUS $402,000

8f (1600m) Age 3+ F&M 3 3F 3F 3+ 3+ 3 3F 4+ F&M 3+ 3F 3+ 3 3F 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F 3+ FM 2 3+ FM 4 + FM 3+ FM 3 3F 3 3F 3F 3+ 3+ CF 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3 2 3 3F 3 3+ 3+ F 3F 3+ 2 3+ 2 2F 3F 3 3+ FM 3+ F 2 2F 3+ 2F 2 3 + CF 3+ 3+ 3 F WA bred 3+ 3+ F&M 3 (LA Bred) 3 F (LA Bred) 3F 3 + FM 3F 3F 3+ 3+ 3 3+ F 2 2F 3+ 2 3+ F&M 2F 2F 3+ F&M 2F Open

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

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

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

Closing 01-Jul-15 27-Jun-15 07-Jul-15 08-Jul-15

01-Jul-15 08-Jul-15

15-Jul-15 09-Jun-15 17-Jul-15 26-May-15 20-Jul-15 20-Jul-15 08-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 26-Jul-15

01-Aug-15 22-Jul-15 07-Jul-15 02-Aug-15 05-Aug-15 16-Aug-15

21-Jul-15 12-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 03-Mar-15 03-Mar-15 25-Aug-15 23-Aug-15

02-Sep-15 03-Jul-15 26-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 31-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 04-Aug-15 05-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 CLOSED CLOSED 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 03-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 04-Aug-15 20-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 16-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 16-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 26-Aug-15 21-Sep-15 04-Aug-15 05-Oct-15

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Track Woodbine Belmont Park Ascot Northlands Park Doncaster Belmont Park Belmont Park Tokyo Northlands Park Belmont Park Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Tokyo Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Saint-Cloud Zia Park Zia Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Flemington Kyoto Tokyo Aqueduct Kyoto Zia Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Hanshin Hanshin Aqueduct Aqueduct

Race Name & (Sponsor) Breeders’ Cup Bunty Lawless S Pebbles Queen Elizabeth II St (Qipco) Freedom of the City St Trophy (Racing Post) Sleepy Hollow Maid of the Mist Saudi Arabia Royal Cup Fuji St Canadian Juvenile St English Channel BC Dirt Mile BC Juvenile Fillies Turf Championship BC Juvenile Turf BC Mile Artemis S Indiana Futurity Miss Indiana S Criterium International New Mexico Classic Cup Rocky Gulch Championship Peppers Pride New Mexico Classic Championship for Fillies & Mares Nashua Tempted Emirates St Daily Hai Nisai St Musashino St Artie Schiller Mile Championship New Mexico Eddy County S Go For Wand Cigar Mile Hanshin Juvenile Fillies Asahi Hai Futurity St Damon Runyon East View

Class R Gp 1 Gp 1

Gr 3

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

Race Date Value 11-Oct-15 CAN 125,000 12-Oct-15 $200,000 17-Oct-15 £1,000,000 23-Oct-15 CAN 50,000 24-Oct-15 £200,000 24-Oct-15 $250,000 24-Oct-15 $250,000 24-Oct-15 $723,000 24-Oct-15 CAN 50,000 25-Oct-15 $100,000 30-Oct-15 $1,000,000 30-Oct-15 $1,000,000 30-Oct-15 $1,000,000 31-Oct-15 $2,000,000 31-Oct-15 $504,000 31-Oct-15 $85,000 31-Oct-15 $85,000 01-Nov-15 €275,000 01-Nov-15 $180,000 01-Nov-15 $170,000 04-Nov-15 $200,000 04-Nov-15 $200,000 07-Nov-15 AUS $1,005,000 14-Nov-15 $647,000 15-Nov-15 $671,000 21-Nov-15 $100,000 22-Nov-15 $18,080,000 25-Nov-15 $140,000 27-Nov-15 $300,000 28-Nov-15 $500,000 13-Dec-15 $1,173,000 20-Dec-15 $1,274,000 26-Dec-15 $100,000 27-Dec-15 $100,000

8f (1600m) Age 3+ 3F 3+ 2F 2 C&F 2 2F 3+ 2 3 3+ 2F 2 CG 3+ 2F 2 C&G 2 F (IN Bred) 2 CF 3+ 3+ F&M 2 2F Open 2 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ FM 3+ 2F 2 No G 2 2F

Surface T T T D T D D T D T D T T T T D D T D D D D T T D T T D D D T T D D

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

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Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Canterbury Canterbury Presque Isle Downs

Donna Reed Iowa Breeders’ Oaks Minnesota Derby Minnesota Oaks HBPA S

S S S S

08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 01-Oct-15

$85,000 $80,000 $80,000 $80,000 $100,000

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

Delaware Park Monmouth Park Woodbine Emerald Downs Belterra Park Northlands Park Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Del Mar Northlands Park Northlands Park Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Belmont Park Emerald Downs Saratoga Del Mar Woodbine Parx Racing Louisiana Downs Prairie Meadows Del Mar Woodbine Del Mar Woodbine Mountaineer Woodbine Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Prairie Meadows Prairie Meadows Arlington Park Arlington Park Louisiana Downs Saratoga Gulfstream Park Del Mar Presque Isle Downs Belterra Park Belterra Park

Delaware Oaks Long Branch St Bison City S Seattle Slew H’cap Cincinnatian St Madamoiselle H Indiana Oaks Indiana Derby Mari Hulman George S Osunitas St Count Lathum St Fred Jones S Lamplighter St Kent Handicap Saginaw Mt Rainier H’cap Lake George St San Diego H’cap Ontario Matron S Crowd Pleaser Louisiana Cup Turf Classic Prairie Meadows H’cap California Dreamin’ H’cap Eternal Search S Clement L. Hirsch S Victoriana S West Virginia Governor’s St Seagram Cup S Monmouth Cup Oceanport St Lady’s Secret St British Columbia Cup Dogwood St British Columbia Cup Stellar’s Jay St Iowa Breeders’ Derby Ralph Hayes Black Tie Affair H’cap Lincoln Heritage H’cap Super Derby Prelude Lure Eight Miles East La Jolla H’cap Malvern Rose S Horizon St Vivacious H’cap

Gr 2 L R

Gr 2 Gr 2 L R

Gr 2 Gr 2 Gr 3 S S

F&M Classic

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

Gr 3 S

11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 12-Jul-15 17-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 19-Jul-15 24-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 29-Jul-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 09-Aug-15

$300,000 $100,000 CAN 250,000 $50,000 $75,000 CAN 50,000 $200,000 $500,000 $100,000 $80,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $60,000 $50,000 $100,000 $50,000 $200,000 $200,000 CAN 150,000+ $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $150,000 CAN 125,000 $300,000 CAN 125,000 $200,000 CAN 150,000+ $200,000 $150,000 $100,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $80,000 $85,000 $75,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000 $75,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000

Closing 23-Sep-15 03-Aug-15 14-Oct-15 11-Aug-15

15-Sep-15 14-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 15-Sep-15

14-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15

02-Nov-15 29-Sep-15 29-Sep-15 29-Sep-15 10-Nov-15

27-Oct-15 10-Nov-15

8.25f (1650m) D D D D AWT

1650 1650 1650 1650 1650

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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

8.25 8.25 8.25 8.25 8.25

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8.5f (1700m) 3F 3 3F 3 CG 3F 3+ F&M 3F 3 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 3 3+ 3 3F 4+ 3+ 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3 3+ (LA Bred) 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ F&M 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3 CG 3 4+ C&G (IA Bred) 3+ 3+ FM 3 4+ 3+ 3 3F 3 3 + FM

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

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

8.5 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

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Track Northlands Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Hakodate Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Monmouth Park Penn National Monmouth Park Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Parx Racing Monmouth Park Thistledown Saratoga Woodbine Woodbine Saratoga Churchill Downs Monmouth Park Churchill Downs Parx Racing Parx Racing Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Del Mar Canterbury Canterbury Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Monmouth Park Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Finger Lakes Keeneland Delaware Park Louisiana Downs Louisiana Downs Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Emerald Downs Emerald Downs Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Parx Racing Northlands Park Northlands Park Northlands Park Parx Racing Woodbine Finger Lakes Keeneland Belmont Park Thistledown Belmont Park Emerald Downs Keeneland Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Keeneland Gulfstream Park Gulfstream Park Woodbine Woodbine Keeneland Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Indiana Downs Keeneland Thistledown Northlands Park Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Northlands Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Keeneland Belmont Park Belmont Park Belmont Park Keeneland Keeneland Indiana Downs

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Race Name & (Sponsor) City of Edmonton Distaff St Sonoma St Westerner St Elm St Richmond Derby Trial Hong Kong Jockey Club H’cap Monmouth Oaks Robellino S Cliff Hanger St West Point H’cap Yaddo H’cap Ballston Spa Smarty Jones The Violet St Pay the Man S With Anticipation St Algoma S Elgin S P.G. Johnson St Pocahontas St Boiling Springs St Iroquois St Mrs. Penny St Roanoke S The Wasted Tears The Vid Yellow Ribbon Handicap MN Classic Championship MN Distaff Classic Championship CTHS Sales CTHS Sales Lighthouse St A J Foyt Florence Henderson Genesee Valley Breeders’ H’cap Locust Grove George Rosenberger St River Cities Unbridled Hcap Jersey Girl H’cap Charles Hesse H’cap Pegasus Training Center St Muckleshoot Tribal Classic Champions Starters Series Final Champions Distaff Starters Series Final Cotillion St Breeders’ H’cap Fall Classic Distaff Beaufort St Alphabet Soup H’cap La Lorgnette S Jack Betta Be Rite H’cap Lukas Classic Pilgrim Catlaunch Stakes Miss Grillo Gottstein Futurity Darley Alcibiades S Florida Stallion St - My Dear Girl Division Florida Stallion St - In Reality Division Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity Florida Sire St - Foolish Pleasure Div. Forida Sire St - Meadow Star Div. Mazarine BC S Grey BC S Dixiana Bourbon S The Richmond S Gus Grissom S Hoosier Breeders Sophomore S Hoosier Breeders Sophomore S JP Morgan Chase Jessamine S Juvenile St Duchess of York St Cup and Saucer S Ascot Graduation St Fantasy St Harvest Gold Plate Athenia Empire Classic Empire Distaff Valley View Mohawk Ticonderoga Turnback the Alarm BC Juvenile Fillies BC Juvenile Francis Slocum S

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Breeders’ Cup

Class

G3

Gr 3 R Gr 3 S S Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 Gr 2 R R Juv F Juv

Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 3 S S

Gr II S S

R S S L R

S S

Gr 1 S S S S S L Gp 3

Juv F

Juv Turf

Juv F Turf

Gp 3 R Gr 1 R R Gp 1

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

Gp 3

Gp 3

Gp 3 Gr 1 Gr 1 S

Race Date 14-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 28-Aug-15 28-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 02-Sep-15 02-Sep-15 02-Sep-15 03-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 11-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 25-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 27-Sep-15 27-Sep-15 02-Oct-15 03-Oct-15 03-Oct-15 03-Oct-15 03-Oct-15 03-Oct-15 04-Oct-15 04-Oct-15 04-Oct-15 07-Oct-15 07-Oct-15 07-Oct-15 07-Oct-15 08-Oct-15 10-Oct-15 10-Oct-15 11-Oct-15 12-Oct-15 12-Oct-15 12-Oct-15 17-Oct-15 24-Oct-15 24-Oct-15 24-Oct-15 24-Oct-15 24-Oct-15 30-Oct-15 31-Oct-15 31-Oct-15 31-Oct-15

Value CAN 75,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $633,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $100,000 $75,000 $100,000 $150,000 $150,000 $400,000 $300,000 $100,000 $75,000 $200,000 CAN 125,000 CAN 125,000 $100,000 $200,000 $100,000 $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $200,000 $60,000 $60,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75,000 $85,000 $85,000 $50,000 $100,000 $75,000 $75,000 $75,000 $60,000 $60,000 $50,000 $50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $1,000,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $75,000 CAN 125,000 $50,000 $175,000 $200,000 $75,000 $200,000 $65,000 $400,000 $500,000 $500,000 $500,000 $150,000 $150,000 CAN 150,000 CAN 150,000 $250,000 $85,000 $85,000 $85,000 $85,000 $150,000 $150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN250,000 CAN 75,000 CAN 75,000 CAN 50,000 $200,000 $300,000 $250,000 $150,000 $200,000 $200,000 $200,000 $2,000,000 $2,000,000 $150,000

Age 3+ F&M 3F 3+ 3+ 3 3F 3F 3+ 3+ 3+ (NY bred) 3+ FM (NY bred) 3+ FM 3 3+ F&M 3 + FM 2 3+ F&M 3+ C&G 2F 2F 3F 2 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3 CG 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM WA bred 3+ WA Bred 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ F&M 3 3+ 3F 3+ FM 3+ 2 3 + (Ohio bred) 2F 2 WA 2F 2F 2 2 3 3F 2F 2 2 3+ F&M 3+ C&G 3 3F 2F 2 3+ F&M 2 2 2F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM 2F 2 C&G 3+ F&M (IN Bred)

8.5f (1700m) Surface D D D D D D D T T T T T D T D T AWT AWT T D T D T D T T T D D D D D T T D D T T T D D D D D D D D D D T AWT D D T T T D AWT D D D D D AWT AWT T D D D D T D D T D D D T D D T T T D D D 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 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

Furlongs 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 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 05-Aug-15 05-Aug-15 05-Aug-15 07-Jul-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 19-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 12-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 19-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 19-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 23-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 26-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 29-Aug-15

04-Sep-15 31-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 04-Sep-15 04-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 09-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 02-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 16-Sep-15 Inv 16-Sep-15 03-Mar-15 03-Mar-15 16-Sep-15 03-Mar-15 03-Mar-15 16-Sep-15 16-Sep-15 16-Sep-15

23-Sep-15 30-Sep-15 30-Sep-15 23-Sep-15 03-Oct-15 03-Oct-15 03-Oct-15

17-Oct-15

19-Oct-15 19-Oct-15

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Track Indiana Downs Woodbine Zia Park Mahoning Valley Woodbine Woodbine Zia Park Zia Park Penn National Woodbine Woodbine Woodbine Mahoning Valley Aqueduct Aqueduct

Race Name & (Sponsor) Too Much Coffee S Princess Elizabeth S Veterans S Ohio Debutante H Autumn S South Ocean S Zia Park Oaks Zia Park Derby The Swatara Ontario Lassie S Kingarvie S Display S Bobbie Bricker Memorial H’cap Bay Ridge Alex M. Robb

Breeders’ Cup

Class S R

Gr 2 S

S S

Race Date 31-Oct-15 01-Nov-15 02-Nov-15 07-Nov-15 08-Nov-15 14-Nov-15 25-Nov-15 25-Nov-15 25-Nov-15 28-Nov-15 28-Nov-15 29-Nov-15 05-Dec-15 12-Dec-15 31-Dec-15

Value $150,000 CAN 250,000 $55,000 $75,000 CAN 150,000+ CAN 125,000 $300,000 $200,000 $100,000 CAN 150,000 CAN 125,000 CAN 125,000 $75,000 $100,000 $100,000

8.5f (1700m)

Age Surface 3+(IN Bred) D 2F AWT 3+ D 3 + FM (Ohio bred) T 3+ AWT 2F AWT 3F D 3 D 3+ D 2F AWT 2 AWT 2 AWT 3 + FM T 3+ FM D 3+ D

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

Stakes Schedules updated online monthly USA USA USA USA CAN USA USA CAN USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA CAN CAN CAN USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA JPN USA USA USA USA USA USA CAN CAN CAN CAN CAN USA USA USA JPN CAN USA CAN USA USA USA USA USA JPN CAN CAN JPN USA USA USA USA

Arlington Park Del Mar Delaware Park Thistledown Woodbine Saratoga Saratoga Woodbine Belterra Park Saratoga Mountaineer Saratoga Hakodate Monmouth Park Monmouth Park Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Assiniboia Downs Saratoga Saratoga Del Mar Emerald Downs Niigata Emerald Downs Saratoga Saratoga Del Mar Arlington Park Arapahoe Park Emerald Downs Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Saratoga Monmouth Park Saratoga Saratoga Sapporo Saratoga Del Mar Saratoga Belmont Park Louisiana Downs Parx Racing Woodbine Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Hastings Racecourse Parx Racing Belmont Park Belmont Park Hanshin Woodbine Belmont Park Woodbine Keeneland Thistledown Belterra Park Belmont Park Keeneland Tokyo Hastings Racecourse Woodbine Tokyo Keeneland Keeneland Keeneland Charles Town

American Derby Eddie Read S Kent BC St George Lewis Memorial St Nijinsky St Diana St Coaching Club American Oaks Toronto Cup S Norm Barron Queen City Oaks Curlin West Virginia Derby Jim Dandy St Queen St Haskell Invitational (INV) WinStar Matchmaker British Columbia Cup Classic H’cap British Columbia Cup Distaff H’cap Manitoba Derby National Museum Racing Hall of Fame St Whitney H’cap John C. Mabee H’cap Washington Oaks Leopard St Emerald Downs Derby Alydar Lake Placid Del Mar Oaks Pucker Up St Arapahoe Park Classic Emerald Distaff Saratoga Dew St Summer Colony Albany St Fleet Indian Personal Ensign Inv St Philip H. Iselin St Evan Shipman (NYB) The Woodward Sapporo Nisai St Saranac St Del Mar Derby Bernard Baruch H’cap Sands Point Super Derby PTHA President’s Cup Canadian S British Columbia Derby British Columbia Breeders’ Cup Oaks Delta Colleen H’cap SW Randall Plate H’cap Pennsylvania Derby Ashley T. Cole John Hettinger Rose St Ontario Derby Beldame Durham Cup S Juddmonte Spinster S Best of Ohio Distaff H’cap John W. Galbreath Memorial St Knickerbocker Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Mainichi Okan Ballerina Breeders’ Cup St Carotene S Fuchu Himba St BC Distaff Championship Hagyard Fayette Bryan Station My Sister Pearl

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

Gr 2 Gr 2 G3 Gr 1 Gr 3 S S

Classic

Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 2 Gr 3

Gr 2 Gr 1 Gr 3

S S F&M Classic

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

F&M Turf

Gr 2 Gr 3 L

Gr 2

Distaff

Gr 2 Gr 3 Gp 1 Gr 3 Gr 1 S Gp 3 Gp 1 Gr 2 Gr 3 S Gr 2 Gr 1 Gp 2 L S

11-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 18-Jul-15 19-Jul-15 25-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 26-Jul-15 31-Jul-15 01-Aug-15 01-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 02-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 07-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 08-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 09-Aug-15 14-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 17-Aug-15 24-Aug-15 28-Aug-15 28-Aug-15 29-Aug-15 30-Aug-15 04-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 05-Sep-15 06-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 12-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 13-Sep-15 19-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 20-Sep-15 26-Sep-15 03-Oct-15 04-Oct-15 10-Oct-15 10-Oct-15 10-Oct-15 10-Oct-15 11-Oct-15 12-Oct-15 12-Oct-15 17-Oct-15 30-Oct-15 30-Oct-15 30-Oct-15 07-Nov-15

$150,000 $400,000 $150,000 $75,000 CAN 200,000 $50,0000 $300,000 CAN 125,000 $75,000 $100,000 $750,000.00 $600,000.00 $633,000 $1,000,000 $150,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 75,000 $200,000 $1,250,000 $250,000 $65,000 $723,000 $65,000 $100,000 $300,000 $300,000 $100,000 $100,000 $65,000 $100,000 $100,000 $250,000 $200,000 $750,000 $150,000 $100,000 $600,000 $542,000 $300,000 $250,000 $250,000 $500,000 $500,000 $250,000 CAN300,000+ CAN 250,000 CAN 100,000 CAN 50,000 CAN 50,000 $1,000,000 $125,000 $125,000 $908,000 CAN150,000+ $400,000 CAN150,000+ $500,000 $150,000 $150,000 $200,000 $500,000 $1,173000 CAN 100,000 CAN150,000 $955,000 $2,000,000 $200,000 $100,000 $50,000

Furlongs 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 14-Oct-15 19-Oct-15 21-Oct-15 28-Oct-15 10-Nov-15 10-Nov-15 18-Nov-15 11-Nov-15 11-Nov-15 11-Nov-15

9f (1800m) 3 3+ 3 3+ (OH Bred) 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3 3F 3 3 3 3+ F&M 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+FM 3 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3F 3 3 4+F 3F 3F 3F 3+ 3+ FM 3+ FM (NY bred) 3 + FM 3 (NY bred) 3F 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3 3 3+ 3F 3 3+ 3+ F&M 3 3F FM 3+ 3 3+ 3+ FM 3F 3 3+ FM 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ FM (OH Bred) 2F 3+ 3F 3+ 3+FM 3F 3+ FM 3+ FM 3+ 3 3+ F&M

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

1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

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

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04-Aug-15 02-Sep-15 16-Sep-15 16-Sep-15 30-Sep-15 30-Sep-15 21-Sep-15 01-Sep-15 03-Oct-15 23-Sep-15 01-Sep-15 19-Oct-15 22-Oct-15 22-Oct-15 28-Oct-15

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Track Kyoto Woodbine Aqueduct Charles Town Tokyo Zia Park Aqueduct Aqueduct Aqueduct Mahoning Valley Hanshin Aqueduct

Race Name & (Sponsor) Miyako St Coronation Futurity Discovery A Huevo St Tokyo Sports Hai Nisai St Zia Park Distance Championship Comely Demoiselle Remsen Ruff/Kirchberg Memotial H’cap Challenge Cup Queens County

USA USA CAN CAN USA USA

Arlington Park Arlington Park Woodbine Fort Erie Arlington Park Belmont Park

Modesty H’cap Arlington H’cap Prince of Wales S Prince of Wales S Beverly D. St Hill Prince

GB

Goodwood

Nassau

Breeders’ Cup

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

Race Date 08-Nov-15 08-Nov-15 11-Nov-15 14-Nov-15 23-Nov-15 25-Nov-15 28-Nov-15 28-Nov-15 28-Nov-15 28-Nov-15 12-Dec-15 19-Dec-15

Value $671,000 CAN250,000 $150,000 $50,000 $580,000 $150,000 $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $75,000 $723,000 $100,000

9f (1800m)

Age 3+ 2 3 3+ 2 3+ 3F 2F 2 3+ 3+ 3+

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

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

3+ FM 3+ 3 3 3+ FM 3

T T D D T T

1900 1900 1900 1900 1900 1900

3+ F

T

1970

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F&M Turf

Gr 3 Gr 3 R S Gr 1 Gp 3

11-Jul-15 11-Jul-15 28-Jul-15 28-Jul-15 15-Aug-15 03-Oct-15

$150,000 $150,000 CAN 500,000 CAN 500,000 $750,000 $500,000

01-Aug-15

£200,000

Fukushima Delaware Park Hakodate Munich Kokura Woodbine Arlington Park Arlington Park Arlington Park Del Mar Saratoga Deauville Sapporo Saratoga Thistledown Niigata Leopardstown Belmont Park Belmont Park Hanshin Longchamp Thistledown Caulfield Ascot Woodbine Kyoto Moone Valley Rome Keeneland Keeneland Flemington Woodbine Saint-Cloud Tokyo Rome Fukushima Kyoto Chukyo Nakayama

Tanabata Sho Delaware H’cap Hakodate Kinen Grosser-Dallmayr Preis Kokura Kinen Wonder Where S Arlington Million XXXI Secretariat Stakes American St Leger St TGV Pacific Classic Alabama Prix Jean Romanet (Darley) Sapporo Kinen Travers Governor’s Buckeye Cup Niigata Kinen Irish Champion St Flower Bowl Invitational St Jockey Gold Cup Sirius St Prix de l’Opera (Longines) Best of Ohio Endurance H’cap Caulfield St Champion (Qipco) E P Taylor S Shuka Sho Cox Plate Premio Lydia Tesio BC Filly & Mare Turf BC Classic Mackinnon St Maple Leaf S Criterium de Saint-Cloud Tenno Sho (Autumn) Premio Roma Fukushima Kinen Radio Nikkei Hai Nisai St Kinko Sho Hopeful S

Turf

Classic

Turf F&M Turf

F&M Turf

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

12-Jul-15 $723,000 18-Jul-15 $750,000 19-Jul-15 $723,000 26-Jul-15 €155,000 09-Aug-15 $723,000 09-Aug-15 CAN 250,000 15-Aug-15 $1,000,000 15-Aug-15 $500,000 15-Aug-15 $400,000 22-Aug-15 $1,000,000 22-Aug-15 $600,000 23-Aug-15 €250,000 23-Aug-15 $1,226,000 29-Aug-15 $1,250,000 05-Sep-15 $75,000 06-Sep-15 $723,000 12-Sep-15 €1,000,000 26-Sep-15 $600,000 03-Oct-15 $1,000,000 03-Oct-15 $633,000 04-Oct-15 €400,000 10-Oct-15 $150,000 11-Oct-15 AUS $402,000 17-Oct-15 £1,300,000 18-Oct-15 CAN 500,000 18-Oct-15 $1,608,000 24-Oct-15 AUS $3,050,000 25-Oct-15 €264,000 31-Oct-15 $2,000,000 31-Oct-15 $5,000,000 31-Oct-15 AUS $1,002,500 31-Oct-15 CAN 150,000 01-Nov-15 €250,000 01-Nov-15 $2,721,000 08-Nov-15 €242,000 15-Nov-15 $723,000 28-Nov-15 $580,000 05-Dec-15 $1,085,000 27-Dec-15 $1,173,000

York

International St (Juddmonte)

Turf

Gp 1

19-Aug-15

£750000

3+ 3+ FM 3+ 3+ 3+ 3F 3+ 3 3+ 3+ 3F 4+ F 3+ 3 3+ (OH Bred) 3+ 3+ 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ (OH Bred) Open 3+ 3+ F&M 3F Open 3+ F 3+ F&M 3+ Open 3+ F&M 2 CF 3+ 3+ 3+ 2 3+ 2

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

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 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000 2000

Kentucky Downs Kentucky Downs

The Dueling Grounds Derby Kentucky Downs Ladies Marathon

12-Sep-15 19-Sep-15

$300,000 $300,000

3+

T

2080

Delaware Park Dusseldorf Hastings Racecourse Northlands Park Woodbine Del Mar Del Mar Saratoga Northlands Park Niigata

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Robert G Dick BC St Henkel Preis der Diana German Oaks British Columbia Cup Marathon (BC Bred) Canadian Derby Sky Classic S CTT & Thoroughbred Owners of California H’cap Del Mar H’cap Glens Falls H’cap Speed to Spare St St Lite Kinen

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Gr 3 Gp 1 S Gr 3 Gr 2 Turf

Gr 2 Gr 3 Gr 2

11-Jul-15 02-Aug-15 03-Aug-15 15-Aug-15 16-Aug-15 21-Aug-15 22-Aug-15 05-Sep-15 07-Sep-15 21-Sep-15

$200,000 € 50,0000 CAN 20,000 CAN 200,000 CAN 200,000 $80,000 $200,000 $200,000 CAN 100,000 $942,000

01-Jul-15 01-Jul-15 14-Jul-15 01-Jul-15 23-May-15

9.85

23-Jun-15

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27-Oct-15

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Closing 29-Sep-15 21-Oct-15

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Track Niigata Hastings Racecourse Aqueduct Kyoto

Race Name & (Sponsor) All Comers BC Premier’s H’cap Red Smith Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup

Breeders’ Cup

Class Gr 2 Gr 3 Gp 3 Gr 1

Race Date 27-Sep-15 12-Oct-15 14-Nov-15 15-Nov-15

Value $1,173,000 CAN 100,000 $250,000 $1,636,000

11f (2200m) Age 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM

Surface T D T T

Metres 2200 2200 2200 2200

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Arlington Park Delaware Park Longchamp Curragh Del Mar Ascot Belmont Park Saratoga Hoppegarten Woodbine York Saratoga Baden-Baden Parx Racing Kentucky Downs Longchamp Woodbine Belmont Park Cologne Hanshin Longchamp Kyoto Keeneland Ascot Caulfield Keeneland Milan Woodbine Keeneland Munich Aqueduct Tokyo

Stars and Stripes St Cape Henlopen St Grand Prix de Paris (Juddmonte) Irish Oaks (Darley) Cougar II H’cap King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (Betfair) Bowling Green H’cap Waya St Grosser Preis Von Berlin Breeders’ S Yorkshire Oaks (Darley) Sword Dancer Invitational St Longines Grosser Preis von Baden Greenwood Cup Kentucky Turf Cup Prix Vermeille (Qatar) Northern Dancer BC Turf Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational St Preis von Europa Kobe Shimbun Hai Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe (Qatar) Kyoto Daishoten Sycamore QIPCO British Champions Series Fillies & Mares Caulfield Cup Rood & Riddle Dowager Gran Premio del Jockey Club e Coppa d’Oro Pattison Canadian International BC Turf Grosser Pries Von Bayern Long Island Japan Cup

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11-Jul-15 $100,000 11-Jul-15 $50,000 14-Jul-15 €600,000 18-Jul-15 €400,000 24-Jul-15 $100,000 25-Jul-15 £1,000,000 01-Aug-15 $250,000 08-Aug-15 $200,000 09-Aug-15 €175,000 16-Aug-15 CAN 500,000 20-Aug-15 £325,000 29-Aug-15 $1,000,000 06-Sep-15 €250,000 07-Sep-15 $200,000 12-Sep-15 $600,000 13-Sep-15 €350,000 13-Sep-15 CAN 300,000+ 26-Sep-15 $600,000 27-Sep-15 €155,000 27-Sep-15 $942,000 04-Oct-15 €4,000,000 12-Oct-15 $1,173,000 15-Oct-15 $100,000 17-Oct-15 £565,000 17-Oct-15 AUS $3,150,000 18-Oct-15 $125,000 18-Oct-15 €242,000 18-Oct-15 CAN 1,000,000 31-Oct-15 $3,000,000 01-Nov-15 €155,000 07-Nov-15 $200,000 29-Nov-15 $5,426,000

Tokyo Nakayama

Copa Republica Argentina Arima Kinen

Gr 2 Gr 1

08-Nov-15 27-Dec-15

$997,000 $4,530,000

3+ 3+ 3 CF 3F 3+ 3+ 4+ 3+ FM 3+ 3 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ F 3+ 3+ 3+ 3 3+ CF 3+ 3+ 3 + FM Open 3+ F&M 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ 3+ FM 3+

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Saratoga Belmont Park

John’s Call St Temperence Hill Invitational

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Birdstone St Leger (Irish) Marathon Valedictory S

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Doncaster

St Leger (Ladbrokes)

Gp 1

12-Sep-15

£600,000

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Kyoto

Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger)

Gr 1

25-Oct-15

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2920

Saint-Cloud

Prix Royal-Oak

Gp 1

25-Oct-15

€250,000

3 No G

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3000

Flemington

Melbourne Cup

Gr 1

03-Nov-15 AUS $6,200,000

3+

T

3100

Saratoga

A P Smithwick Mem

Gr 1

30-Jul-15

$125,000

Open

T

3200

Nakayama

Stayers St

Gr 2

05-Dec-15

$1,085,000

4+

T

3300

Saratoga

New York Turf Writers Cup

Gr 1

20-Aug-15

$150,000

3+

T

3600

Longchamp

Prix du Cadran (Qatar)

Gp 1

04-Oct-15

€300,000

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15.5f (3100m)

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HE 1970s have been held up as the last Golden Age of racing. Three Triple Crown winners during the decade – Secretariat in 1973 and Seattle Slew in 1977 before Affirmed, not to mention the exploits of the great gelding Forego, a threetime Horse of the Year from 1974 to 1976 – highlight its historical significance. It was also a period when racing was a major spectator sport in the mainstream, and such trivialities as race entries and results were published in newspapers, including, yes, the New York Times. For that matter, even the literary New Yorker carried a widely read column on racing

by George F.T. Ryall, penned under the nom de plume of Audax Minor. His last column, coincidently, appeared in December of 1978 after beginning in the 1920s.

If 1978 was a watershed year until American Pharoah in 2015, consider this about the 1970s: It was also a time when racetrack handle funded purses and the parimutuel tax was the major gambling revenue generator for state governments. In stark contrast, this isn’t the case today. According to a study published in March by The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public policy research arm of the State University of New York, national parimutuel wagering “now represents less than 1.0 percent of such revenue.” That is astounding.

Truth be told, under the nostalgic goldplating of the 1970s, there were chinks in its armor that are gaping holes now. It was, for instance, the era when Lasix was legally introduced, and what a lightning rod for controversy that’s become now. More significantly, though, it was the era of the Interstate Horse Racing Act (IHA) of 1978, a piece of federal legislation enacted to address on-track parimutuel declines – big signs of future trouble – as technology spawned the growing phenomenon of simulcast wagering and the growth of Advance Deposit Wagering (ADW) platforms across state lines.

Fast forward to the Year of The Pharoah, and parimutuel wagering isn’t king anymore; newspapers – those survivors of the technological revolution – barely cover racing, and technology and loopholes have made the IHA of 1978 obsolete in some significant 96

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Pharoah triumph hits home 37-year reality Well, it finally happened. American Pharoah did what so many before him over the last 37 years had attempted and failed to accomplish. A Triple Crown winner, the first since Affirmed in 1978, when the game was so vastly different to what it is today that the achievement bridges a gulf of time to reflect upon. ways. On-track handle and attendance have ceased to be relevant except on the biggest stages.

In between 1978 and 2015, a Trojan horse, the racino, entered the game as state governments looked for other opportunities to boost coffers. And like a “pusher” in a 1970s playground, the racino hooked racing, already weakened through years of neglect and relegated to the fringe from the mainstream as a “niche” game, by giving it a taste of huge purses from gaming monies. Horsemen got sky high, but at what price? The deal was done in party with state governments in exchange for expanded gaming that competes with racing’s core product, gambling. And that gaming money is now funding purses at racinos, and racing is as dependent on it as a junkie on dope.

Take a look at the chart here that was tweeted recently by Chris Rossi of TimeformUS from Equibase data. It’s a picture common to most racinos now, of increasing purses with decreasing handle. How counterintuitive is this? What is the business model, to be

supported by the welfare of another business in the same game, especially one that would gladly end your business if it could? And how long will that other business – and the state governments dependent on their sizable tax revenue – continue to fund racing, which is viewed as a poor cousin with its hand out?

States with racinos and casinos are increasingly competing against neighboring states with similar dynamics in saturated gambling markets, and there will come a time when the monies allocated to racing will dry up. It’s already started to happen in places like Canada and West Virginia.

Ultimately, the only way to organically grow the game is through an increase in parimutuel wagering, and one way to do that is to make betting on horses as attractive as other forms of gaming. At present, the takeout is too high to compete, and this is an issue that racing’s leaders must address with the same zeal they address Lasix and other matters. There’s still some $10 billion bet on racing per year, but this game doesn’t have the legs to last another 37 years in its current state. ■ A tweet by Chris Rossi of TimeformUS from Equibase data highlighting the increase in purses with the decrease in handle at Philadelphia Park/Parx from 1996-2014

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