fastfurlongs Texas Stallion Silver City Sires First Winner and Stakes Winner, Leads National Sire List ford Manor Stakes (G3) at the home of the Kentucky Derby. Bred by Scharbauer and owned by his son Douglas, Silverhill broke his maiden by nearly four lengths at Lone SILVER CITY Star in May. The Bret Calhoun-trained runner has banked $33,560. Silver City is a stakes-winning and graded stakes-placed son of Unbridled’s Song who won four of eight career starts and is one of four stakes winners produced from the stakes-placed Mt. Livermore mare Proposal. Silver City stood the 2014 breeding season for a $2,000 fee. Through June 30, the stallion had sired four winners and topped the North American freshman sire list by earnings with a total of $151,668.
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Freshman stallion Silver City, who stands at the late Clarence Scharbauer Jr.’s Valor Farm near Pilot Point, Texas, got off to a quick start as his Texas-bred daughter Promise Me Silver become his first winner and first stakes winner in the span of six weeks. Promise Me Silver kicked off her racing career with a 6 ¾-length maiden victory at Lone Star Park on May 11 in a rapid :51.61 for 4 ½ furlongs. The filly, who is out of the Macho Uno mare Uno Mas Promesa, then moved on to Churchill Downs where she captured the sixfurlong, $108,300 Debutante Stakes by two lengths on June 21 to push her earnings to $78,355. Promise Me Silver is a homebred running for Robert Luttrell, and she became the second consecutive Bret Calhoun trainee and Valor Farm-sired runner to win the Debutante. Last year, Scharbauer’s homebred Fiftyshadesofgold, by My Golden Song, won the race by eight lengths. The now 3-year-old Texas-bred scored in this year’s Eight Belles Stakes (G3) at Churchill on May 2. One week after Promise Me Silver took the Debutante, Silver City’s gelded Texas-bred son Silverhill finished second in the $108,100 Bash-
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Ide Be Cool Named Louisiana-bred Horse of the Year The Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association held its annual meeting and awards banquet on May 24 in Opelousas at the Equine Sales Company sales pavilion. Prior to the award presentations, Dr. Ide Be Cool, shown here winning this Gary Potter, a retired Texas year’s Pelican Stakes at Delta Downs, A&M University equine science is undefeated in six career starts. professor, gave an informative presentation on feed and nutrition for mares’ optimum breeding and pregnancy condition. Champion racehorses and the broodmare of the year were selected by a vote of the LTBA membership, while the awards for top stallion and breeders were determined by statistics. Ide Be Cool, who finished his 2-year-old campaign with four wins in as many starts, earned his divisional award as well as Louisiana-bred Horse of the Year honors. The gelded son of Ide, who was bred by Gulf Haven Farms and runs for owner and trainer Henry Ray Dunn, earned $189,600 during his juvenile campaign. He recorded stakes wins in the Louisiana Legacy Stakes at Delta Downs and the Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile at Fair Grounds. Ide Be Cool has also won both of his starts 10
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against stakes company this year as a 3-year-old to improve his record to a perfect six-for-six with earnings of $324,600. Following is a complete list of winners: 2-Year-Old Filly: Designer Legs Breeder: Tommy Hewett • Owner: Valene Farms 2-Year-Old Colt or Gelding, Horse of the Year: Ide Be Cool Breeder: Gulf Haven Farms • Owner: Henry Ray Dunn 3-Year-Old Filly: Sittin at the Bar Breeder: Spendthrift Farm LLC • Owner: P. Dale Ladner 3-Year-Old Colt or Gelding: Sunbean Breeder/Owner: Brittlyn Inc. Older Filly or Mare: Little Miss Protocol Breeder/Owner: Coteau Grove Farms LLC Older Male: String King Breeder/Owner: Charlie Smith Broodmare of the Year: Miss Cheers Owner: Terry Adcock Andrew L. “Red” Erwin Stallion of the Year: Ide Owner: The Ide Group Leading Breeder by Breeders Awards: Southern Equine Leading Breeder by Percentage of Stakes Winners: Gulf Haven Farms