2022 TOBA National Awards Program

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Welcome to the 37th annual TOBA National Awards We are honored to celebrate the outstanding achievements of racing’s top owners and breeders at Keeneland, one of our sport’s most iconic and beloved venues Many dreams in Thoroughbred racing have been born on these hallowed sales grounds and many of them will be realized tonight

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Congratulations to all of the TOBA National Award winners and finalists. We admire and commend your passion and commitment to the Thoroughbred racehorse

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TOBA and Keeneland share a similar vision for the improvement of Thoroughbred racing and breeding On the eve of the world-famous Keeneland September Yearling sale, we will recognize the leading owners and breeders of 2021, as well as three horses including the National Broodmare of the Year, the Sport Horse of the Year, and the Claiming Crown Horse of the Year In addition, we will remember an industry leader who gave selflessly of his time for the betterment of the sport and helping those in need

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Now in our 61st year, TOBA represents the interests of Thoroughbred owners and breeders on issues of national importance One of our guiding principles is to be a relentless advocate on behalf of not only our members, but all owners and breeders TOBA members are the foundation of our organization and we are very appreciative for their continued support and loyalty

We are grateful for the support of our corporate sponsors and advertisers, as they help make this evening possible The TOBA National Awards are unique, in that the winners are selected by their peers, fellow owners and breeders To be recognized by your fellow competitors is a distinct honor in our sport and cherished by the award winners over the last 37 years

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I go more toward conformation and how their past foals have run ”

BY FRANK ANGST

While McDowell acquires many broodmares from larger farms that are culling, he then works hard to find the right matches that can move them forward. That approach saw 32 horses bred by McDowell Farm attain winning status in 2021 With many of those runners competing for lucrative purses at Oaklawn Park—often in state-bred races—that success would add up to $1,331,514

“I don’t raise that many, and I don’t spend that much money either,” said McDowell, who enjoys promoting Arkansas breeding and racing through his role as president of the Arkansas Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Horsemen’s Association “We spend a lot of time shopping around at sales, but we don’t spend a huge amount of money on mares, or stud fees for that matter But there are nice mares out there Other people’s culls are my diamonds in the rough ”

That approach has produced stakes-winning standouts like Hillary G, who as a 3-year-old in 2021 won three of five starts, including the $150,000 Rainbow Miss Stakes, where she topped 10 other Arkansas-bred fillies of her generation at WithOaklawnhisemphasis

on strong conformation, many McDowell Farm runners prove to be sturdy types In 2021, 11-year-old Rock City Roadhog won an allowance optional claiming race at Fonner Park and claiming races at Prairie Meadows and Arapahoe Park For good measure, Rock City Roadhog already has earned a victory at age 12 this year—giving him at least one victory in 10 straight “Hanyah,seasonsbyHansel, was a good old mare,” McDowell said of the dam of Rock City Roadhog “I sent her to Valid Expectations; I loved Valid Expectations So I think that’s where that durability comes from I do love breeding a horse that lasts ” ●

As an owner/operator of a family horse farm in Sparkman, Arkansas, Bill McDowell knows how tough it is to succeed in this industry, which is why he’s especially proud of the more than $1 3 m illion in earnings in 2021 by Thoroughbreds he bred

“With stallions I just look at who is popular—and I look at some numbers—but also who I can afford.

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“To me the most pleasing number was the $1 3 million in earnings,” McDowell said, “and knowing that about half of that came from races at Oaklawn Park from state-bred races That was a big help McDowell,” who operates the farm with his wife Mary, tries to find value in overlooked mares and then largely makes breeding decisions based on conformation matches The approach has seen McDowell Farm be named TOBA’s Arkansas Breeder of the Year 16 times since 2001

Winner of the 2011 Travers Stakes (G1) and 2012 Cigar Mile (G1), Stay Thirsty already was siring good runners when Lovingier bought a

My Fiona’s 2018 American Pharoah Cal-bred filly Fi Fi Pharoah, bred and co-owned by Lovingier,

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also won stakes in 2021 As a result, the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) recognized My Fiona as the 2021 California Broodmare of the Year

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major interest in him and stood the stallion at his Lovacres Ranch in Warner Springs, California

Runners Bred by Terry Lovingier in 2021 amassed Earnings of over $3 million, including California Champion 2 Year-old Finneus

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Terry Lovingier had already annually ranked among the top California breeders for several years when he brought the stallion Stay Thirsty to the state in 2018 Lovingier and Stay Thirsty dominated all kinds of leading California lists in 2021, especially with 2-year-olds from the stallion’s first California crop.

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In a battle for leading California breeder that came down to the final days of 2021, Lovingier prevailed with purse earnings of $3,035,604 He edged Nick Alexander, with Reddam Racing and Richard Barton Enterprises not far behind

Last year, Stay Thirsty led all California sires of 2-year-olds by money earned, with $1,936,000 He also led sires of 2-year-olds in the state by number of winners and number of races won His Calbred runners included Graduation Stakes winner Rock N Rye, an earner of $134,170, and Royal Owl Stakes winner Thirsty Always, an earner of $148,100 Lovingier bred them both

Lovingier credits many of his staff at Lovacres for the operation’s success Stay Thirsty is only one of seven stallions standing at the ranch In 2022, Lovingier is again vying with Alexander for California leading breeder honors Not only does he have Stay Thirsty’s second California crop joining that successful first one, last year Lovingier predicted that Smokem, a young Union Rags stallion standing at Lovacres, would do well, and that stallion’s first foals are already winning in 2022 ●

“He’s a great-bodied horse,” said Lovingier “He’s got a big shoulder, big gaskin, and big hind end I just thought he’d work really well in California He’s got enough turn of foot, and he can carry his speed

not only offered Stay Thirsty to California breeders, he went shopping for broodmares that fit the horse. He already had a California-bred champion in My Fiona, and to the cover of Stay Thirsty she produced Finneus With a win in the 2021 Golden State Juvenile Stakes, two graded stakes placings, and earnings of $266,366, Finneus received the champion Cal-bred 2-YearOld Male title of 2021

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Lovingier-bred horses of 2021 included At the Spa, a Cal-bred daughter of Outwork who won the Fasig-Tipton Debutante Stakes at Santa Anita and CTBA Stakes at Del Mar Last year, At the Spa received the title of Champion Cal-Bred 2-YearOld Female

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Lisa Balaz, her brother Michael, father Rick, and Ernie’s children Kim and Mark Samuel have operated Sam-Son for the past decade following the passing of Balaz’s mother Tammy The Milton farm has been overseen by David Whitford, and its division in Ocala, Florida, by Tom Zwiesler

The Greer family comes from an accomplished line of horse people Terrance Greer’s father, Reg, raised dozens of successful hunters and jumpers in Ontario before gravitating to Thoroughbreds Terrance shared his father’s love for racing, managed a breeding farm, and would take his young son Brandon, to Woodbine to watch the

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One of the gelding’s best efforts was his secondplace finish in the Shoemaker Mile Stakes (G1T) at Santa Anita

The victory was worth the winner’s share of more than $500,000 plus over $100,000 in Ontario breeders awards for a payday that totalled more than the Greers had won in their previous years as owners and breeders combined

For half a century, Sam-Son Farm in Milton, Ontario has been producing top-class racehorses and bloodlines that have made a mark internationally Founded by the late Ernie Samuel in the early 1970s, Sam-Son Farm, a multiple honoree by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association for Canadian Breeder of the Year, once again reigned supreme in 2021, collecting its 11th Sovereign Award as Canada’s Outstanding Breeder

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Not only was the victory by Town Cruise the first in a stakes race for a Greer runner, but the gelding was only the second horse they had ever started in a stakes race in two decades

Brandon was still a child, Terrance purchased their first mare for not much more than $800 and bred her This began the fatherand-son breeding enterprise, which numbered no more than one or two horses each year In 2004, Brandon took out his trainer’s license and had

“This horse sent us on an amazing adventure this past year,” said Brandon Greer “We are so blessed and so lucky to have him ” ●

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success racing their small stable in claiming and allowance races

At Woodbine, Sam-Son Farm's own speedy gelding, Tio Magico, a son of Uncle Mo, won the Queenston Stakes In total, Sam-Son bred nine black-type horses in 2021 and 31 winners from 52 starters Sam-Son breds earned over $2 6 m illion to lead all Canadian breeders

BY JENNIFER MORRISON

bred by Sam-Son were front and center in a number of graded stakes races in the U S Say the Word, a son of More Than Ready raced by Sam-Son and Agave Racing, won the Elkhorn Stakes (G2T) at Keeneland in the spring and completed 2021 with an impressive score in the Hollywood Turf Cup Stakes (G2T) at Del Mar

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Terrance Greer & Brandon Greer CANADA SMALL BREEDER OF THE YEAR

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BY JENNIFER MORRISON

Bred by Terrance Greer and Brandon Greer, whose horse population, including mares, numbers in the single digits, Town Cruise was named Canada’s Champion Male Turf Horse of 2021 thanks to his front-running victory in the prestigious race that is part of the “Win and You’re In” program for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships

The bay colt is a fifth-generation Sam-Son-bred, as his dam, Checkered Past, is a descendant of No Class, one of Samuel’s first yearling purchases and a foundation mare Checkered Past’s third dam is Sam-Son bred Radiant Ring, Canadian Broodmare of the Year in 2003

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There is no doubt that Sam-Son Farm has its place on the short list of one of Canada’s top breeding farms, sharing that honor with the likes of Windfields, Kinghaven, Gardiner and Tall Oaks Farm ●

A big, lanky chestnut, Town Cruise won his career debut in 2018 and two more races through the next two seasons In 2021, at the age of six, Town Cruise won the first two starts of his campaign and then finished a good second in the King Edward Stakes (G2T) The Greers felt their homebred deserved a chance in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes, and thanks to a smooth ride by jockey Daisuke Fukumoto, Town Cruise led the strong field of classy milers on a merry chase, winning by 2 1/4 lengths

It was a bittersweet moment, however, when Samuel’s granddaughter Lisa Balaz accepted the award at a ceremony this spring, as the farm dispersed all of its breeding stock at the outset of 2021 Sam-Son retained some horses of racing age, including stakes-placed Dancin in Da’Nile, a 2022 Queen’s Plate hopeful

Other major Sam-Son bred stakes winners in 2021 were Rideforthecause, a Candy Ride (ARG) filly who won the Possibly Perfect Stakes at Santa Anita; and Curlin’s Catch, winner of the Suncoast Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs

One of the most magical stories in Canadian racing in 2021 was that of Town Cruise, the Ontario-bred gelding and only horse of Terrance and Brandon Greer who upset the $1 million Ricoh Woodbine Mile Stakes (G1T)

Sam-Son also bred the exciting 2-year-old of 2021, Messier, an Empire Maker colt based in California who won the Bob Hope Stakes (G3) at Del Mar

Three years later, they paid $4,267 for Candy Cruise, a yearling by Candy Ride (ARG) from the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Canadian-bred Yearling Sale While Candy Cruise earned barely $5,000 on the track, Terrance was fascinated by pedigrees and went to work on finding a stallion for Candy Cruise. He selected the fleet Speightstown stallion Town Prize, who was standing for $3,500 and had only a few small crops of horses That mating would produce Town Cruise, who was foaled on a friend’s farm near Barrie, Ontario

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All of Live Oak Stud’s Canadian winners were campaigned in the name of Weber’s Live Oak AnPlantationadditional graded win for the farm’s ownership arm came in the United States in the Victory Ride Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park, won by Souper Sensational (Curlin), who was bred by Newtownanner Stud and purchased by Live Oak Plantation for $725,000 at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton New York Saratoga Select Yearling Sale

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In 2021, Live Oak Stud had another “souper” year, with four homebreds earning graded stakes wins, two of them carrying that distinctive “Souper” name, a nod to owner / breeder Charlotte Weber’s family business, Campbell Soups Souper Escape (Medaglia d’Oro) repeated her victory in the Trillium Stakes (G3) at Woodbine Racetrack. Live Oak runners won five other graded stakes at the Ontario track: the Vigil Stakes (G3) with Souper Stonehenge (Speightstown), who also won the Jacques Cartier Stakes (G3); the Seagram Cup Stakes (G3), won by Tap It to Win (Tapit); and the Selene Stakes and Ontario Colleen Stakes (both G3), with Our Flash Drive (Ghostzapper)

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Live Oak Farm’s breeding and racing program boasts two Eclipse Award winners: Miesque’s Approval was voted the 2006 Champion Turf Male, an honor won by his half-brother World Approval in 2017 Both are out of the secondgeneration Live Oak homebred Win Approval, who was named Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s (TOBA) 2017 Broodmare of the Year Live Oak won the TOBA Breeder of the Year award that same year The farm currently owns nearly 200 horses, including foals, horses in training, and stallion interests and has won more than a dozen Florida breeders awards, including 2021 Florida Breeder of the Year ●

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TOBA.ORG | 2 9 2021 STATE AND CANADIAN BREEDER AWARDS CONGRATULATES Florida Breeder of the Year Live Oak Stud Charlotte Weber FLORIDA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS’ AND OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Lonny T. Powell, CEO Tammy A. Gantt, Associate Vice President Membership Services & Events 352-629-2160 • Fax: 352-629-3603 801 SW 60th Ave. • Ocala, FL 34474 www.ftboa.com • info@ftboa.com 23914 FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICES Nicole “Nikki” Fried, Commissioner Emily Hetherington (850) 617-7291 www.FDACS.govEmily.Hetherington@FDACS.gov(Office)

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Live Oak Plantation won the 2021 Sovereign Award for Outstanding Owner, repeating in that category after having won it in 2020

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“Indiana is just a good program to make money, whether you’re just a mare owner, but especially if you own the mare and the stallion,” says Justice “ The state has done a really good job; they try to get input from breeders to help improve the program They’re continuing to add money and I hope more people start to look at the program ”

“I think Harry’s Holiday had over 20 winners last year,” says Justice “The quality of mares has improved with him, so I can just see bigger and better things for him in the coming years ”

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previously earned the title of Indiana Breeder of the Year multiple times, including in 2016, thanks to his breeding program Some of his top horses he bred in 2021 include Snack Stakes winner Troubled Justice (Dominus – Kissin Kendall, by Lemon Drop Kid), multiple black type stakes winners Hard Luck Justice and Holy Justice, both by Harry’s Holiday

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A longtime supporter of regional breeding programs, Greg Justice has found the key to success with his breeding program, especially with his focus on Indiana It’s easy to find what horses come from his program— each name contains “Justice” as a way of branding his Justice Farms He supports the program by breeding his mares to his own stallions in Indiana--graded stakes placed Harry’s Holiday (Harlan’s Holiday) and multiple graded stakes winner Lantana Mob (Posse), both standing at Breakway Farm in

Coming off an already remarkable campaign in 2020 that produced 21 black-type wins from 14 runners, Godolphin returned even stronger in 2021 with 30 North American stakes wins from 19 runners that were all homebreds

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Year after year, H Allen Poindexter keeps producing good runners A 2022 inductee into the Prairie Meadows Racing Hall of Fame, Poindexter continued to excel in 2021 Last year alone, horses bred or co-bred by Poindexter included a filly who sold for seven figures at auction, a Breeders’ Cupplaced colt, and a standout Iowa-bred sophomore filly.

maiden in October 2021, Giant Game finished third to eventual 2-year-old champion Corniche in the Nov 5 TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G1) He is unplaced in two starts this year And Game for More continues to yield fruit for her owner A son of Into Mischief-Game for More hammered for $385,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, and was then pinhooked for $825,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sale Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training this past April

Another beautifully-bred horse to pass through the Keeneland tents last year was Mind Out Co-bred in Kentucky by Poindexter and Tapit Syndicate, Mind Out sold for $850,000 at the 2018 FasigTipton New York Saratoga Select Yearling sale

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Sheikh Mohammed’s international Godolphin operation continued to reap large dividends in 2021 from its decades-long commitment to building a premier broodmare band and stallion operation

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“It was an absolutely amazing year, and we had to pinch ourselves seeing it continue from the beginning all the way to the end,” said Michael Banahan, director of bloodstock for Godolphin USA “The energy that it brought to all the divisions on all the farms was palpable because they were homebreds They went through so many hands and everyone had a piece to play in it—from the people in the office to the grooms, from the people foaling out the mares to the breaking and training ”

Poindexter, who entered the breeding business in 2005, foals his mares across the country Passionate about promoting Iowa’s Thoroughbred industry, he has had particular success in the Hawkeye State Last year, his Iowa-owned runners earned over $850,000, while Iowa-bred foals brought home more than $930,000, making him Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association’s 2021 Owner & Breeder of the Year One particular success story came with homebred Bossy Moment, who took the Sept 25 Iowa Breeders’ Oaks at Prairie Poindexter-bredsMeadows light up auction and tote boards on a national stage That’s in no small part thanks to smart buys and stallion choices At the 2011 Fasig-Tipton Heiligbrodt Dispersal - Phase I, Poindexter snapped up a stakes-placed More Than Ready mare called Game for More In foal to Bwana Charlie, she sold for $8,000 But she proved her worth in the breeding shed Sent to Australian champion Lohnro, Game for More produced multiple graded stakes winner Isotherm Bred to turf star Gio Ponti, she yielded grade 1-placed Gio Game In 2019, to the cover of Giant’s Causeway, Game for More produced a good-looking colt Named Giant Game, he sold for $500,000 to West Point Thoroughbreds and Albaugh Family Stables After breaking his

The stakes-placed Tapit filly sold for $1.2 million on day one of the 2021 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, becoming a member of Dana and Jim Bernard’s fledgling broodmare band Mind Out’s dam, Kid Majic (by Lemon Drop Kid), proved an integral member of Poindexter’s broodmare roster In addition to her milliondollar daughter, Kid Majic produced Poindexterbred Miss Mischief (by Into Mischief), Canada’s Sovereign Award winner for Champion Older Mare and Female Sprinter in 2015 ●

Maxfield, a son of Darley Stallions’ Street Sense, had been previously undefeated in a pair of starts each at ages two and three, but last year produced a career-best season with four wins from seven starts. He was never off the board and ended the year with $2,001,812 in career earnings His best wins for the year came in the Clark Stakes Presented by Norton Healthcare (G1), Stephen Foster Stakes (G2), and the Alysheba Stakes Presented by Sentient Jet (G2), all at Churchill Downs. He is the first horse to sweep these three graded stakes in the same year. Maxfield entered stud at Godolphin$40,000also

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Essential Quality, already the Champion 2-YearOld Colt for 2020, produced another championship season by winning the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1), Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1), Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2), Jim Dandy Stakes (G2), and Southwest Stakes (G3) The son of Tapit earned $3,420,000 during his sophomore season alone, raising his career earnings to $4,755,144 He entered stud at $75,000

“Then to have a couple horses come back to the stallion barn, made it a magical year,” he said Multiple champion Essential Quality and multiple grade 1 winner Maxfield started their stud careers after 2021 campaigns that captured a combined nine graded stakes wins

was represented by grade 1 winners Albahr (GB), Althiqa (GB), Modern Games (IRE), Space Blues (IRE), Walton Street (GB), Wild Beauty (GB), and Yibir (GB) ●

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“I get a phone call from somebody and they ask, ‘What are you doing?’ I’m just sitting at the bar Then I’m like, ‘Hang on a second ’ I ask the bartender, ‘You got something I can write on real quick?’ And I wrote the name down ”

and Mr Ladner, she was on one bullet ”

It was a bullet that almost wasn’t fired. Ladner said at birth, Cilla was small and wasn’t nursing. But after several hours, she was fine.

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Dale Ladner recalls sitting at the bar of the Evangeline Downs Racetrack kitchen 10-12 years ago, knowing he had wanted to talk to Brett Brinkman about training horses Brinkman drew high regard from people Ladner spoke with across the industry Ladner knew for some time he wanted to approach Brinkman; he just never got around to it

Until that night Call it luck or coincidence—have your pick—but when Brinkman walked into the same establishment, it now feels more like destiny

“It was such a surreal feeling,” Brinkman said “Just you know, being at the barn getting ready You’re at Saratoga, you made the decision to go there Everything’s gone right And you know, just everything just felt right And lo and behold it happened You look back at it after the fact because you don’t really think about it, ‘Wow You know, I raised her mother I bred her I did it all ’”

“One is she was a California Chrome (her sire), which the people in Kentucky aren’t, it’s not the true bluebloods of the generation that we have today,” explained Ladner

Adding irony to the mix, the first horse they bought together? Sittin At The Bar

“In hindsight you know sometimes the stupidest things you do, what you think might be stupid, in this case, not selling her I don’t know where the bidding stopped, the real bidding But…we took her back home and when she started growing, hit growth spurts, she just got bigger and stronger and she can flat out run.” ●

That started the pair on the path to raising and training Cilla, Louisiana Horse of the Year and daughter of Sittin At The Bar Cilla won four of her eight starts in 2021, including the Prioress Stakes (G2) at Saratoga

As she began developing quickly, the pair decided to put her in the Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale with a reserve price of $120,000 But she didn’t sell for a couple of reasons

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The other was Cilla being born in May, making her smaller than those born four or five months earlier.

“You look back at the guys in Kentucky that do this 20 times a year with horses But you know, with me

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Jockey Corey Lanerie said of his ride that day, “She gives everything she’s got every time She’s got the fastest turn of foot of any horse I’ve ridden At the five-sixteenths pole, if she gives me her kick, I know I’m going to catch them ”

Lothenbach Stables bought Bell’s the One at the 2017 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July Select Yearling Sale for $155,000 Since 2000, she has been his highest earner

Her 2021 got off to an auspicious start when she took second in the Madison Stakes (G1) at Keeneland She then followed that up later in the year with a pair of grade 2 triumphs First, the Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga That race was notable for Bell’s the One moving from last in the field of eight to first.

In 2021, Aloha West, produced from Chanceland Farm’s grade 3-winning Speightstown mare Island Bound, won five of nine starts. Campaigned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trained by Wayne Catalano, Aloha West broke his maiden in his career unveiling at Oaklawn Park in February 2021 before later adding three allowance level

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“She’s about as high-class a filly as you want. She gives it her all every time she runs,” said Neil Pessin, her trainer, after the Honorable Miss “Hopefully, now she’ll get the accolades she deserves and people won’t put her on the backburner when they talk about the sprint fillies.”

Friendship, Maryland home at the age of 82 A champion of Maryland racing and creator of the Maryland Million races, he owned Chanceland Farm with his long-time partner Voss He was named the 2016 Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association National Small Breeder of the Year for being the breeder of grade 1 winner Cathryn Sophia, who captured the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1), Fasig-Tipton Davona Dale Stakes (G2), and Forward Gal Stakes (G2) in addition to three other grade 1 placings The daughter of Street Boss, out of Manfuso’s Mineshaft mare Sheave, went onto earn over $1 2 million and was named the 2016 Maryland-bred Horse of the Year

Last year is certainly one Bob Lothenbach won’t soon forget, and leading the charge for his stable was Bell’s the One I n her 5-year-old season, the mare went 4-2-0 in seven starts, bringing home $640,235 and going over the $1 million threshold in career earnings

Manfuso, a past owner of Pimlico Race Course and Laurel Park, died in March 2020 in his West

Aloha West became the first Breeders’ Cup winner bred by the late Robert T Manfuso and Katharine Voss when the colt scored an upset victory in the Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) last fall at Del Mar The top-level success capped an already successful year for Manfuso and Voss, who also bred grade 3 winner Cordmaker

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Manfuso and Voss are also the breeders of Maryland favorite Cordmaker With nearly $1,000,000 in earnings, Cordmaker took four of nine starts in 2021 for Hillwood Stable and trainer Rodney Jenkins Among his stakes wins last year at Laurel Park and Colonial Downs were the Harrison E Johnson Memorial Stakes, Victory Gallop Stakes, Richard W Small Stakes, and the race named after his breeder, the Robert T Manfuso Stakes The venerable gelding, a son of Chanceland Farm’s mare Tanca, became a graded stakes winner this year at the age of seven in the Feb 19 General George Stakes (G3) at Laurel Park ●

The daughter of Majesticperfection, who won all but his first of six starts, culminating with an Alfred G Vanderbilt Handicap (G1) victory, has been her father’s leading progeny by earnings for three consecutive years heading into 2022 She is a daughter of Street Mate, by Street Cry (IRE)

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While Bret Jones is the breeder of Bell’s the One, Lothenbach Stables homebreds also fared well in 2021 as filly Charlie’s Penny captured the Silverbulletday Stakes and gelding Captivating Moon won the Fair Grounds Stakes (G3T) ●

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Following a second in the Open Mind Stakes, Bell’s The One returned to Keeneland to claim the Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes It was another come-from-behind rally, this time sitting in fifth after half-a-mile before going wide and winning by a neck

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victories to his resume In his graded stakes debut, his late rally fell a neck short of catching Special Reserve in the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix Stakes (G2) at Keeneland Earning a ticket to the Breeders’ Cup following that effort, the colt went off at odds of 11-1 in the Breeders’ Cup and displayed a fantastic kick down the stretch to nail multiple grade 1 winner Dr Schivel at the wire Aloha West’s dam, Island Bound, was awarded the 2021 Maryland Broodmare of the Year for Chanceland Farm

Those wins were preceded by a fourth-place showing in the Derby City Distaff Stakes presented by Kendall-Jackson Winery (G1) and a win in the Roxelana Overnight Stakes

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Obtaining their first horse in 1969, Manfuso and Voss established Chanceland Farm in West Friendship in 1987 Currently, Voss owns 32 horses overall, including 12 broodmares and six horses in training

House, Fire the Groom, Fit to Lead, and Leger Cat (ARG), among others

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of Law Legacy Stables, New Jersey native Joel R Weiner died in February of this year at the age of 76 A practicing tax attorney for 40 years in Monmouth County, New Jersey, Weiner left behind his wife, Linda, four daughters, and 10 grandchildren

sired a remarkable 12 winners from 14 starters for cumulative progeny earnings of nearly $2 million as of July 2022

Alta’s Velocita’s dam, Over the Bridge, has produced four winners from four foals to race for Law Legacy Stables The 14-year-old mare was reported as being bred to Bullsbay for the 2022 breeding season ●

Many of Law Legacy Stables runners hail from their stallion, Il Postino The 16-year-old son of Distorted Humor was a $300,000 Keeneland September yearling and won four of 22 starts for Law Legacy Stables before retiring to stud He stood the 2022 breeding season at Colonial Farms in Colts Neck, New Jersey, for $1,000 From only 21 foals, Il Postino has

He helped create the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA), and as a member of the NTRA’s board of directors, he co-founded its Racing Integrity and Drug Testing Task Force

Hubbard got into racetrack ownership when he bought into Ruidoso Downs in 1988 with partner Dr Ed Allred Hubbard eventually became the sole owner of Ruidoso until he sold it in 2017

R D “Dee” Hubbard brought energy, drive, and fun to just about every aspect of the Thoroughbred business and made his mark as a breeder, owner, industry leader, and racetrack operator The larger-than-life figure passed in April 2020 at 84 and has posthumously been named the top New Mexico breeder for 2021 by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association

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Skip Einhorn has been the stable’s trainer, based at Monmouth Park, for over 15 years

Alta Velocita broke her maiden under the Weiner colors in her third start as a 3-year-old at Monmouth Park She continued to race for Law Legacy until being claimed from the stable in February of 2021, where Antonio Sano dropped the ticket on the filly at Gulfstream Park Sent to trainer Andrew Simoff at Monmouth that spring, she rallied to win a New Jersey-bred allowance race Sh e later scored back-to-back wins against New Jersey-breds and earned her first blacktype triumph in the Eleven North Handicap

she has already gotten off to a fast start with her 6-year-campaign, landing the May 14 Spruce Fir Handicap at Monmouth Park

Hubbard also became a prominent Thoroughbred breeder/owner His top horses included multiple grade 1 winner Gentlemen (ARG) He also campaigned alone and with partners the graded stakes winners Puerto Madero (CHI), Spring

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While he found success in a number of ventures and became president of Safelite Auto Glass and later formed AFG Industries, horse racing and breeding were his passion. During his first years in the glass business in Kansas, Hubbard and his boss, Art Lankin, became interested in Quarter Horses At the time of his death, he had bred the earners of more than $4 7 m illion, and he owned, bred, and raced many more in partnerships

Hubbard, a member of the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame, was also awarded the American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA) Racing Council Lifetime Achievement Award, the AQHA Gordon Crone Special Achievement Award, the Jockeys’ Guild Merit Award, the Horatio Alger Award, the California Equine Retirement Foundation Award of Merit, the Galbreath Award by the University of Louisville, and was honored as Man of the Year by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association in 2000 ●

Following the Eleven North, Alta Velocita defeated open company in consecutive allowance level victories at Delaware Park and Laurel Park An earner of over $385,000 and boasting a 8-5-1 record from 21 career starts,

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As a breeder, he produced more than 30 blacktype winners, including multiple group 1 winner Stravinsky, grade 1 winner Timely Assertion, and grade 2 winner Cool Conductor He owned Crystal Springs Farm in Central Kentucky before moving the farm to New Mexico

Winners Law Legacy bred that were sired by Il Postino in 2021 include Alta Velocita, Postino’s Idol, and Postino’s Vow While Postino’s Idol and Postino’s Vow captured allowance level contests, the best of the trio is Alta Velocita

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He also built and operated The Woodlands, a dual greyhound and racehorse facility in Kansas City, Kansas In addition, Hubbard served as the chairman of Hollywood Park and Turf Paradise,

Law Legacy Stables, a long-time owner and breeder in the Garden State, procured their first Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Breeders Award for their success in 2021 The stable bred the stakes-winning filly Alta Velocita and accumulated $216,193 in earnings with their runners who raced in their Thesilksowner

Randall Dee Hubbard was born in Smith City, Kansas, in 1935, the youngest of eight children

“Dee had an insatiable appetite for work,” remembered his grandson Shaun Hubbard, who ran Ruidoso Downs for his grandfather for about seven years “I’ve known successful people and I’ve known hard workers, and he was second to absolutely none He worked hard and played harder ”

and he headed a group that was awarded the license to build Zia Park in New Mexico in 2003

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They’ve led the state’s breeders by earnings in five of the last six years and topped the owners’ list by earning from 2016 through 2019 Their homebred

InHandicap2017,their homebred Bar of Gold (Medaglia d’Oro) closed late to spring a huge upset in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1) at 67-1, finishing that year as the top-earning New Yorkbred, with fellow Broman homebred Highway Star finishing at #4.

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Frisky Cheerleader didn’t race until age three, but she broke her maiden in just her second start, finishing five lengths clear of the favorite after being bumped Her only other career triumph came two races later, but she still managed to finish on the board in four of her nine starts and earn $34,764

Tiger also foaled Flat Out Flying Bred by Muirhead, Coniglio, and Sid Ritman, the Flat Out mare won or placed in six of eight 2021 starts and earned $63,580 last year Her half-siblings include gelding Double Tough Tiger (by Tourist), who won three of 13 starts in 2021, while Rockstar Romeo (by Graydar) broke his maiden in the fall ●

in 2018 as a millionaire, she, like Bar of Gold, joined the Bromans’ broodmare band in Upstate New York

Star was by Girolamo, a stallion then standing in New York, and in 2017 she won three graded stakes races and missed a grade 1 win by a head in the Ketel One Ballerina Stakes Retiring

$264,464 while winning seven races in 69 starts, while Special Congrats, their half-brother by Congrats, tallied eight wins from 64 starts, earning Muirhead’s$218,940homebred

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Tough to Tame broke his maiden last July in a five-furlong sprint at Arlington Park He replicated his winning form in his next contest, an allowance at Horseshoe Indianapolis Sent to Churchill Downs, Tough to Tame ran a close second in the Iroquois Stakes (G3) over 1 1/16 miles That primed him for a shot at the TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G1), where he wound up finishing last Tough to Tame has resumed his best form this spring, tallying an

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In 2021, horses bred by Beth Muirhead were tough to beat, and Tough to Tame showed he had that determination in spades A grade 3-placed winner, the son of Speightster hails from a family that Muirhead has been cultivating for Muirheaddecades

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stallion Friend or Foe out of their mare Speightful Affair (Speightstown), Mr. Buff began racing at age two and retired at age seven, amassing more than $1 4 million and 11 stakes wins, including two in the Empire Classic

In recent years, the Bromans have shifted from breeding to race to breeding to sell, with their horses finding success both on the racetrack and in the sales ring

first acquired Tough to Tame’s granddam, Frisky Cheerleader (Roar)

Bar of Gold’s first foal, Coinage, a colt by Tapit, sold for $450,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale in 2020 to DJ Stable, with the Bromans purchasing an interest He’s a graded stakes winner with earnings of more than Highway$300,000

Mr. Buff finished in the top five in earnings in the state in both 2020 and 2019, in the latter year runner-up only to multiple graded stakes winner

An $80,000 purchase as a 2-year-old, Captain Bombastic is a half-brother to Highway Star by Forty Tales, another New York stallion In a 20race career, he’s earned nearly $522,000 for owner Team Hanley, with four stakes wins ●

Sent to Concerto, the mare produced Special Cheers, who reeled off three consecutive wins in the fall and winter of 2006 for Muirhead, Frank Coniglio, and Roman Sidney In her final career start, the chestnut filly captured the Sandpiper Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Such consistency is a hallmark of the types of horses Frisky Cheerleader throws Double the Cheers, a full brother to Special Cheers, earned

She’sa Tough Tiger (Tiger Ridge-Frisky Cheerleader) annexed two races from 16 starts, bringing home $96,120 In 2019, she produced the Speightster gelding Tough to Tame, bred by Muirhead in Kentucky Ryan Ritt, who campaigns Tough to Tame in the name of his Rittdiculous Gazmanian Stable, purchased the youngster for $75,000 at the 2021 Ocala Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training

Since purchasing Chestertown Farm in 1994, Chester and Mary Broman have been a force in New York’s breeding industry D eveloping a prodigious breed-to-race program, the Bromans have been named Outstanding Breeders in the state seven times, most recently in 2019

optional claiming contest at Hawthorne In nine career starts, he has won three races, running second three times, and bringing home a total of She’sa$139,740Tough

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At the OBS March Sale of 2-Year-Olds In-Training in 2019, the Bromans-bred Chestertown was the highest seller, going for $2 million to West Point Thoroughbreds, Robert Masiello, and Siena Farm By Tapit, Chestertown—named in honor of the Bromans’ farm—is out of Artemis Agrotera, a multiple grade 1-winning mare for the Bromans

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Mengucci eventually moved into breeding Thoroughbreds, buying Devil On Ice, a graded stakes-placed son of Devil’s Bag, and breeding mares to him A few years ago, Mengucci relocated to Paris, Kentucky There, Mengucci operates Nirvana Farm with a partner, Charles Allen

putting together Shellby’s pedigree when she privately purchased the unraced Western Fame mare She Can Too, Shellby’s second dam Mengucci bred She Can Too to Devil On Ice to get Devils Dragonfly. A Washington-bred, Devils Dragonfly won two races at Portland Meadows and one at Emerald Downs

“It’s cool that I got to be recognized,” Mengucci said ●

Chub Wagon kicked off her 4-year-old season with back-to-back allowance wins On April 27, she demolished five competitors in the Unique Bella Stakes at Parx by 7 ½ lengths. The bay filly next posted two consecutive wins at Pimlico, then romped in Delaware Park’s Dashing Beauty Stakes by 5 ¼ lengths. After finishing a good second in Parx’s Dr Teresa Garofalo Memorial Stakes, Chub Wagon won two more stakes at that same oval in September. She finished 2021 as the richest runner bred in the Keystone State last year, raking in Chub$487,400Wagon

Shellby was one of the final horses Mengucci bred in Oregon, with the breeder moving the filly to Kentucky as a yearling Shellby has done all of her racing at tracks in Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Texas. The filly, who races for Nirvana, has won at Keeneland, Charles Town, and Delta

In fact, Chub Wagon is a three-quarter sister to Chublicious and Brother Chub Lopez bought the brothers’ dam, Sassy Broad (Arch), for $12,000 at the 2009 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky February Mixed Sale At the time, Sassy Broad was carrying a Lion Heart filly named Takin the Plunge, the future dam of Chub Wagon

“I ended up with a Thoroughbred mare named Ronita’s Tormenta,” Mengucci said “She was a big, type mare I bred her to a Western pleasure stallion, and she had a few beautiful babies ”

Devil On Ice is now deceased, but Mengucci currently has the stallion Spring Warrior, a son of Speightstown out of the Pulpit mare Ten Carat Lady Spring Warrior sired Shellby, and Mengucci has bred Devils Dragonfly back to him after getting a 2021 colt by Paynter out of the mare

Mengucci brought 13 mares to Kentucky from Oregon, and she has about 60 horses now, including racehorses, yearlings, and weanlings She foals out her horses herself While she races a few, she sends many of her homebreds to public auction

Few people have been as involved with the pedigrees of their horses as Andria Mengucci She owned the sire, first two dams, and broodmare sire of her homebred Oregon champion Shellby Shellby and her dam, Devils Dragonfly, earned Mengucci her title as the national Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Oregon Breeder of the Year In 2021, Shellby tied with El Maestro as Oregon’s Horse of the Year, and Shellby was also voted Champion 3-Year-Old Filly In addition, the Oregon Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association named Devils Dragonfly as the 2021 Oregon Broodmare of the Year

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A homebred for Daniel Lopez’s Joe-Dan Farm and George Chestnut, Chub Wagon sped to victory time and time again last year Named Pennsylvania’s Horse of the Year, Champion Older Female, and Champion Female Sprinter, the daughter of Hey Chub won or placed in all of her nine 2021 starts Six of her wins came in stakes races

Hey Chub, a dual stakes winner by Carson City, is a homebred for Lopez In 2022, Hey Chub held court for $1,000 at Lopez’s Joe-Dan Farm in Medford, New Jersey In 2021, he was named the Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association of New Jersey’s Stallion of the Year for the sixth time

Mengucci grew up in Oregon, mostly showing Quarter Horses and Paints in Western pleasure Then, she discovered Thoroughbreds “I was visiting a friend, and one of her friends had all these big, beautiful Thoroughbreds,” Mengucci

And Lopez has reaped the rewards by breeding, alone and in partnership, Hey Chub’s best runners Besides Chub Wagon, that includes 2016 New Jersey-bred Champion Sprinter and Older Male Chublicious, who annexed the 2017 Frank J De Francis Memorial Dash Stakes (G3), and his full brother Brother Chub, also named 2018 New Jersey-bred Champion Sprinter

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Of Takin the Plunge’s five foals, three have run, and all three have won A full brother to Chub Wagon, Chubofftheoldblock, was stakes-placed and earned $177,388 Last year, Lopez and Chestnut sold Takin the Plunge’s Uncle Lino gelding, Helosthismarbles, for $25,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic December Mixed Sale Thus far in 2022, Helosthismarbles has won three of four starts Takin the Plunge has produced two unraced full sisters to Chub Wagon: a yearling and a 2-year-old ●

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has continued her winning ways in 2022 Favored in the June 27 Power by Far Stakes at Parx, the now-5-year-old mare was assigned a hefty 128 pounds Despite that impost, she bested co-highweight Hey Mamaluke by three-quarters

The breeder is proud to represent Oregon, though she laments the demise of Portland Meadows

of a length In her entire career, Chub Wagon has never finished off the board, winning 12 of 13 starts and earning a total of $648,600

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initially wanted to cross Thoroughbreds with her Western pleasure horses to get a horse that would show well in hunter under saddle

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“Iaccomplishwanttobreed stakes horses, but the end goal is that I want one of them in purple, I want to go to the Breeders’ Cup,” Kuhlmann said “We got so close I t hink it’s attainable, the mares that we’re putting together, bit by bit, one of them will get there ”

owners and breeders, Smith is represented by Dixie Drawl, by his stallion Done Talking, who stands at the Training Center Racing primarily at Laurel Park, the bay gelding ran seven times in 2021 for a record of 3-1-1, earning black type in a third-place finish in the Harrison E. Johnson Memorial Stakes at Laurel A son of Broken Vow, Done Talking won the 2012 Illinois Derby (G3) and ran in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) that year, finishing 14th. With lifetime earnings just shy of $300,000, Dixie Drawl is his most successful progeny

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The long-time owner of the Elloree Training Center in Elloree, South Carolina, Franklin G Smith got his first horse in 1972 and currently owns more than 60 head, representing virtually all elements of the Thoroughbred racing industry, from foals, to horses in training, to breeding stock A multiple winner of awards for South Carolina

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In 2012, Smith’s Nag Nag Nag (Just A Miner) was named South Carolina’s Champion 3-Year-Old Filly, an honor that her dam, Havin’ a Moan, also won She, too, was owned and bred by Smith Smith counts among the best horses he bred Intelligent Male (Ride The Storm – Likearone),

“She wasn’t big, she was small, which she got

who earned nearly $340,000 and finished second in the Phil D Shepherd Stakes at Fairplex Park In 2006, Smith purchased Hugo (Stormy Atlantic) out of the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern Fall Yearling Sale, paying $16,000 for the son of stakesplaced Go Baby Go (IRE). Hugo won five races, including the John D Marsh Stakes at Colonial Downs, and upon his retirement stood at the Elloree Training Center As is the case with most of Smith’s horses, Hugo was trained by Smith’s brother Hamilton, who is based at Laurel Park ●

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“They’re budget mares, but they have family They all have a reason for being at my house,” Kuhlmann said of her five-horse broodmare band. “If they’re not going to meet our goals and they’re not producing at the level that we want them to produce, then we sell them and reshuffle the deck.”

“I’m counting on that I can see something in somebody else’s mare that they couldn’t see If they didn’t cull them from their program then I wouldn’t be able to get them on mine ”

Breeder Lisa Kuhlmann is a champion of the BasedunderdoginBryan, Texas, Kuhlmann has generated a large payback from a small-scale operation with her ability to find promise in horses that others cannot This has allowed her to achieve success without breaking the bank

criticized on her whole career. She wasn’t flashy, she was just a workhorse and she knew she was the best thing that ever walked And in her mind, she was ”

After losing the daughter of Commissioner in March of this year after a stall accident, Kuhlmann says there is still much more she would like to

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Smith also bred Nana’s Shoes, campaigning her through 19 starts before losing her to a claim Now a veteran of 49 starts, the bay mare has earned nearly $200,000 Like Nana’s Shoes and Dixie Drawl, 2016 mare Sweet Home Dixie is by Done Talking and bred by Smith, earning just over $190,000 from a record of 26-7-7-4

“It’s lightning in a bottle, but that’s what we’re all in it for If there was a guarantee that a mare will produce a fast horse that will win, then that takes all the fun out of it ” ●

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Kuhlmann recalled watching the filly’s races and listening to the commentator’s remarks

“Nobody gave her any respect at all Here’s this small filly from Texas by a stallion that got shipped, she shouldn’t run like that T hen I’m like, ‘How many stakes races does she have to win?’ At what point does she become legit?”

Kuhlmann, who breeds to sell, did just that in January 2017 when she purchased Second Street City from the Keeneland Horses of All Ages Sale for The$8,000damwould go on to produce the late multiple graded stakes winner Con Lima, who won seven of her 13 starts and earned $884,865

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Chess Chief, now six, is a Virginia-foaled son of Into Mischief out of the Mineshaft mare Un Blessed, with career earnings of $878,169 through June 30 Through the same timeframe, he is unplaced in three starts this year, most recently in an allowance optional claiming race June 25 at Churchill Downs

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they also built was a successful breeding operation Beginning with six non-commercial mares, they have expanded their broodmare band to about 20, and now, they are honored as the 2021 Virginia Breeder of the Year The couple previously won the award in 2019

That initial interest in horses would lead to childhood riding, a passion Lewin would

Challenges remain for Virginia breeders, with the state lacking stallions and the increasing travel costs required when sending mares to farms elsewhere to be bred. But they have one benefit, Suzie said: “Great land ”

“I guess we’re waiting with bated breath on Churchill’s purchase,” Suzie said, referring to Churchill Downs Inc entering into a February purchase agreement to acquire the parent company of Colonial Downs and its gaming Virginiacenters

Well aware of the potential expenses involved in taking on an older mare, Lewin made sure to partner with Essex when they acquired Blazingbellablu’s dam, Bellomesa, by Sky Mesa The one requirement Lewin included on the deal was that the mare would be sent to the sire Grazen, who is based at Tommy Town Thoroughbreds in California Lewin noticed that Grazen already had a top filly out of a Sky Mesa mare in grade 3 winner S Y Sky, out of Sky Marni

continue as an accomplished eventer Along the way she has devoted some five decades to breeding and racing Thoroughbreds, an effort that reached new heights in 2021 with Washington Horse of the Year Blazingbellablu, a daughter of Grazen who also earned the state’s Champion 3-Year-Old Filly honors

Petra Lewin sometimes wonders if growing up in a house that featured the long-closed Ingleside Racetrack in San Francisco as her backyard—the track left its footprint in the form of the neighborhood’s Urbano Drive that mirrored the former dirt oval—somehow influenced her lifelong love of horses.

done well—(grade 3 winner) Celtic Dreamin made over $600,000—but I’d sold him With Charlie as the co-breeder—because he’s a trainer--I was put in a position where we were going to race this filly. That has been a good thing for me ”

“We’re flattered,” Wayne said. “This is our 43rd year, and I think we’re still going strong ”

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“It was a beautiful farm, but it didn’t have any fences and buildings We built it from there,” he Whatsaid

A bright future seemingly lies ahead, with Virginia’s Colonial Downs conducting racing for increased purses, buoyed by historical horse racing gaming revenue

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Initially, “we foaled more in Kentucky than here,” Wayne said “Now, we foal almost exclusively here That’s taken a while to get there, and now it’s almost getting a little fashionable to be a Virginia breeder ”

Lewin”bred and races Blazingbellablu with Charlie Essex, who also trains the gray or roan filly. After taking four starts to secure her maiden win, Blazingbellablu would earn 2021 stakes wins in the Kent Stakes at Emerald Downs as well as the Jeff and Jack Coady, Sr Stakes and City of Phoenix Stakes at Turf

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“When they’re born, she becomes their mother,” Brown said “Even when they’re racing at two or three years old she’ll call them and they come It’s amazing ” ●

Last year, Morgan’s Ford Farm bred more than a dozen winners, led by stakes winners Bella Aurora and Chess Chief

“It’sParadisereally been the thrill of a lifetime,” Lewin said “I have bred some other horses who have

Country Life Farm’s Bella Aurora, a daughter of Carpe Diem, won the Interborough Stakes at Aqueduct in January 2021 The Estate of James J Coleman Jr ’s Chess Chief then continued the momentum by capturing the New Orleans Classic Stakes (G2) in March at Fair Grounds and adding the Tenacious Stakes there in late December

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Rainbow Meadows Farm/Petra Lewin 2021 WASHINGTON BREEDER OF THE YEAR

“It’s amazing, because I never expected it,” Lewin said “I breed horses because I love it A nd I just keep working at it So I guess diligence pays off sometimes.”

“We initially called her the princess, but after becoming the first 3-year-old filly in more than 20 years to be named Washington Horse of the Year, she’s progressed to being called the queen

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racing is “now bursting into bloom in a very nice way,” Wayne said “Getting the mares here, getting good stallions to come here--that’s going to take time, and we hope to benefit from that as that all takes shape ” ●

“As kids we rode our bike route on that road that was the old racetrack,” said Lewin, before adding with a laugh, “This is crazy, but I always thought that maybe the spirits of the horses in my backyard got to me ”

Chess Chief is typical of many Morgan’s Ford Farm-bred runners –by a Kentucky stallion but foaled and raised on their farm in Virginia Many of the horses they breed later are sold via public auction They also race some horses they breed, such as Strands of Pearls, a winner in 2021-22

Lewin’s significant other, Bob Brown, who assists in operating Rainbow Meadows, said his partner’s love of horses keeps her coming back year after year She typically breeds three or four mares each season

When Wayne and Suzie Chatfield-Taylor launched Morgan’s Ford Farm in 1979 in Virginia, the Front Royal farm was, as Wayne Chatfield-Taylor described it, in a “state of zero ”

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by Nicholas M Lotz and Betsy Kelley out of the stakes-winning, graded stakesplaced Awesome Again mare Jennie R , M iles Ahead was a $175,000 purchase from Top Line Sales’ consignment to the Ocala Breeders’ Sales March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training in 2019

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“It wasn’t like I was trying to take a base on balls,” he Ultimately,quipped

“I think people are going to hear more from him,” Plesa said after the gelding was second in the Kelly’s Landing Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs July 2 for current trainer Paul McGee “We were just happy to be a caretaker for that period of time He did well for us monetarily, which is part of the game, but part of the game is also being associated with these kinds of horses It was a good trip for all of us ”

Miles Ahead was not the home-run Rich Strike was, but a solid extra-base hit

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He showed Eddie Plesa little in his workouts in advance of a December 2019 debut, and he decided to debut him on the grass with the hope the gelding would take a liking to that surface Instead, he lost by 43 lengths

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captured the 2021 Smile Sprint Invitational Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park, the 2021 Claiming Crown Rapid Transit Starter Stakes, and the 2022 Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes And now, he has picked up another prize: the honor of being the 2021 Claiming Crown Horse of the Year, as selected by the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association (HBPA)

But the distant loss allowed him to drop him in class, which proved key in making him eligible to the Claiming Crown Plesa said he ran him for a claiming price because he felt at the time that was where the horse belonged

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Before eventual 2022 Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) winner Rich Strike rebounded from a distant loss in his 2021 debut on turf to win a maiden claiming race on dirt at second asking by a commanding margin, there was Miles Ahead He also showed a two-race, turf-todirt, class-dropping turnaround

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BY BRYON KING

Miles Ahead now races for Samantha Siegel’s Jay Em Ess Stable following a private purchase after his victory in the Gulfstream Park Sprint in February, but it is his connections from the time of his Claiming Crown victory that are recognized for the 2021 award by the National HBPA

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Miles Ahead, a 5-year-old gelding by Competitive Edge, won 11 races in 21 starts for his initial connections, earning $435,725 for their BredpartnershipinKentucky

Only the connections of Miles Ahead, unlike the initial owner of Rich Strike, didn’t lose him at the claims box Owners David Melin, Leon Ellman, and Laurie Plesa retained him when no claims were submitted in his second race at Gulfstream Park on Jan 29, 2020, and “that started him on the trail” to success, said trainer Eddie Plesa, Laurie’s

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“I had a ‘young rider’ horse 20 years ago that I tried to get to Kentucky on Unfortunately, he got hurt a month before we were to ship in for the event, and it has taken me this long to get another horse to that level again,” Voss said “I was fortunate that they ran the four-star level at Kentucky this year It was perfect for Gyles to come and get exposure to the big venue and to get our feet wet at that level Making it to Kentucky was a big accomplishment for the both of us, to be able to go and experience this year ”

United States, welcomed a four-star event to run alongside the higher level, giving riders and horses a taste of the international stage of what is to come

2021 SPORTHORSE OF THE YEAR

Registered with The Jockey Club as Office Hours, the Washington-bred son of Private Gold ran 21 times in California, seeing a record of 4-3-4 with earnings of $35,301 In what turned out to be his last start, he was claimed by Elmer January as a 5-year-old at Los Alamitos Little did he know, he was about to begin his star-studded career as an event horse with then-young rider Skyeler Voss “I have had him nine years now; one of my young rider’s moms found Gyles (as he is more affectionately known as in the barn) in California and claimed him for me,” Voss said “He came directly from the claiming race to me in Virginia ”

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This year’s recipient of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Sporthorse of the Year Award, Argyle, has been excelling in the world of eventing for nearly a decade What his competitors on the course might not know, however, is that eventing is the second discipline Argyle has learned

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Prior to World War I, Shawan Farm, a 2,500-acre estate near Hunt Valley in Baltimore County, Maryland, was filled with horses and cattle Local equine enthusiasts enjoyed frequent crosscountry races and the annual Worthington Valley Horse Show, which benefited the Women’s Hospital in Baltimore Over time the expansive estate was divided, with several descendants of the original owners living on nearby farms, all a part of the original acreage

Between 1982 and 1992, Baltimore County lost 16,000 acres of farmland to development despite some of the nation’s strictest zoning Concerned about the loss of local farmland, in 1997, area residents foresaw the possibility that the core of the Shawan Farm could be saved from development and conserved as open space for farming and as an equine facility to support local equine traditions Horseman Charles Fenwick Jr was one of the local leaders who

This year, the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event, initially the only five-star event in the

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Voss trains out of Morningside Training Farm in The Plains, Virginia, home to Morningside Eventing, a full-service premier facility offering coaching and boarding while catering to competitive young riders and adult amateurs Voss has competed to the advanced level in eventing and accomplished a United States Dressage Federation silver medal

Over the last nine years, the formidable duo has tackled nearly every course on the East Coast in eventing, beginning at the introductory levels and now competing at the international four-star level

Currently pregnant with her second child, Voss will be handing Argyle’s tack over to her long-time assistant trainer, Erin Murphy, who will compete the 14-year-old this fall before Voss takes the ride over after giving birth

made this dream a reality, shoring up support from 19 neighbors to acquire the property under the aegis of the Land Preservation Trust (LPT), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation An additional 175 neighbors donated at least $10,000 each to share in creating an equestrian venue, notably the current steeplechase course and its

“I am due in December, so he will start back with me this winter, and we will aim to come back to the Kentucky four-star and maybe a fall five-star (possibly at Fair Hill)

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“I have ridden a lot of different breeds of horses, and the Thoroughbreds have so much heart, fitness, and stamina. Stamina is so important at the upper levels of eventing and has made a big

keeping with the center’s preservation mission, no significant infrastructure is required to accommodate the equestrian facilities ●

difference in Argyle’s career. He is built for this sport and has the determination and heart for it ” Together, Argyle and Voss contested the Intermediate division at Pine Top Horse Trials in February and the Advanced division at both Carolina International and Fair Hill International before finishing 24th in the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI four-star show in April They started at the Tryon International Spring Three-Day Event CCI four-star long event in May

Shawan Downs, the property is in preservation to maintain its agricultural legacy, allowing no new residential development The property has grown into a first-class equestrian center Today, over 250 acres are preserved as open space while hosting equine events including The Legacy Chase, The Green Spring Valley and Shawan Point to Points, Steeplechase Schoolings, The Maryland Combined Training Association Horse Trials, The Junior Hunt Cup, and for many years, The Pony Club tetrathlon This is in addition to farming over 150 acres for hay In

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WinStar Farm acquired Indian Miss for $240,000 from Claiborne Farm’s consignment to the 2018 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale They cashed in on their investment after the success of Mitole, a son of Eskendereya who is now a stallion at Spendthrift Farm, when Larry Best’s OXO Equine went to $1 9 million at the same sale in 2020 to take home Indian Miss from the consignment of Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency Now residing at Taylor Made Farm, she dropped an Instagrand colt Jan 28 and produced an Into Mischief colt last year Five of her six foals to race have been winners The 13-year-old was also honored as the 2021 Kentucky Broodmare of the Year by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association / Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders this spring ●

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The female family traces to the King Ranch-bred Kermis, who foaled stakes winners Mercedes Miss (by Carr de Naskra), Hot Rod Charlie’s fourth dam, and Senate Appointee (by Storm Cat)

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After running third in the Robert B Lewis Stakes (G2) won by Medina Spirit to start his 3-year-old season, Hot Rod Charlie won the 2021 Twinspires com Louisiana Derby (G2) at Fair Grounds Race

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In addition to the commonly occurring Mr Prospector inbreeding, Hot Rod Charlie also carries a 3x5 cross to Deputy Minister through his paternal grandsire Awesome Again and through Deputy Minister’s excellent sire son Silver Deputy, the sire of Lady Diplomat Other grade 1 winners who are inbred to Deputy Minister include Curalina, Mind Your Biscuits, Keen Ice, and Vino Rosso

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Indian Miss was a modest performer on the racetrack, only placing for the late Edward Cox Jr , who bred her in Kentucky But the daughter of Indian Charlie delivered as a broodmare, producing not only 2019 Champion Male Sprinter Mitole, but following up with grade 1 winner Hot Rod Charlie

James Herbener Jr. offered the dark bay short yearling at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky February Mixed Sale, where Erickson Equine purchased him for $17,000

Hot Rod Charlie is the second generation bred by Cox, who purchased the colt’s granddam, 2007 Astoria Stakes winner Glacken’s Gal (by Smoke Glacken) at the 2008 Keeneland January Horses of All Ages Sale for $250,000. She produced five winners from eight runners, including grade 2 stakes winner Live Lively (by Medaglia d’Oro) Evidently impressed by the family, Cox also acquired Hot Rod Charlie’s third dam, the stakes-placed Silver Deputy mare Lady Diplomat

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Course & Slots, finished third in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), and was second in the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1). Disqualified from a victory in the TVG. com Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) for interference, he followed up with a Pennsylvania Derby (G1) win Then it was on to the Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) at Del Mar, where Hot Rod Charlie finished a respectable fourth against open company

Eight months later Dennis O’Neill purchased the more mature youngster from the Small Batch Sales consignment at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale for $110,000, and Hot Rod Charlie headed to the barn of trainer Doug O’Neill Running for Boat Racing, Gainesway Stable, Roadrunner Racing, and William Strauss, the Oxbow colt broke his maiden at fourth asking in 2020 and ran second to Essential Quality in the TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G1) at Keeneland, but 2021 would be his breakout year

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Few people immersed themselves more into the world of Thoroughbred breeding and racing than did the late Dr J David Richardson A renowned surgeon, educator, and chief of surgery at the University of Louisville Hospital, Richardson also found the time and energy to give back to the sport he loved while serving in several positive roles The industry leader passed away last September at 76 due to COVID-19 while visiting Saratoga

(G2T) at Keeneland in 2020 and added the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) at Del Mar last November in devastating style He returned to action in Keeneland’s Shakertown Stakes (G2T) in April, when he blitzed his rivals after setting brutal fractions, seemingly never coming out of first gear.

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In his own words, Richardson remained understated, telling BloodHorse:

Leading the way stateside is the Wesley Wardtrained speedball Golden Pal T he son of Uncle Mo won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint

“Dr J David Richardson was a remarkable man both in the medical community and Thoroughbred industry,” said Dan Metzger, president of TOBA “Dr Richardson gave selflessly of his time, supporting many of our sport’s organizations He was admired and loved by the countless people he touched throughout the industry, and we will be forever indebted to him for his steady leadership at TOBA ”

In recent times, Georg von Opel’s Westerberg has joined the longtime Coolmore racing partnership of Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, and Derrick Smith, and the quartet has already enjoyed considerable success on either side of the Atlantic

Michael Tabor’s first horse of major note in North America was Kentucky Derby (G1), Belmont Stakes (G1), and Travers Stakes (G1) winner Thunder Gulch, who went on to become a champion sire He also raced Belmont Stakes (G1) heroine Rags To Riches in partnership with Derrick Smith ●

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Former KHRC Executive Director Marc Guilfoil took note of Richardson’s commitment to racing and adhering to the goal of always moving the sport

“He’sforwardatrue foundation person,” he said “Everything’s got to have a solid foundation regardless of what is in life, and Dr Richardson was our foundation in horse racing If you take any issue, I don’t care if it’s the health and welfare of a human being, welfare of the horse, KTDF money, anything; Dr Richardson was always the foundation ” ●

Last year, the partnership also enjoyed a day to remember at Belmont Park when Bolshoi Ballet landed the Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T) just over an hour after Santa Barbara came home in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T)

In brief, Richardson was a breeder/owner for more than half a century and enjoyed his greatest success with Mrs Revere, a multiple stakes winner in the mid-1980s, whom he co-owned with Dr Hiram Polk He and Polk also campaigned 1995 Flower Bowl Invitational Handicap (G1T) winner Northern OwnershipEmeraldwasone of his lesser roles within racing He served as a board member and was the former chairman of TOBA and served as chair of the American Graded Stakes Committee He was a board member of BloodHorse and a director emeritus and former president of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association G overnors of both political parties appointed him to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, and he served on the advisory board for the Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF) He was also a member of The Jockey Club and served as a long-standing member of the Breeders’ Cup as a director on its board, holding positions on various committees He pressed on critical issues such as racing programs, equine safety, and integrity

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Billed by trainer Wesley Ward as “the fastest horse on the planet,” Golden Pal was sent to Royal Ascot for the King’s Stand Stakes (G1T), but unfortunately, complications at the gate led to his missing the break and losing all chance of success Ward is looking forward to another tilt at the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in November at Keeneland, after which Golden Pal may be campaigned in Australia

Rice had chosen Protonico, a grade 1-placed, grade 2 winner who entered stud at Taylor Made Stallions at $6,500, for Mongolian Changa’s first mating.

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“I chose to focus on the good stuff,” Rice said of Medina Spirit’s 3-year-old season “Everything on this earth is temporary We all wish he could have stayed around longer but this is the way it happened ”

Derby undercard In his 15-start career, the ultraconsistent colt has won 11 races, with one second and one third, and earned $2,474,664

Medina Spirit ultimately was purchased by agent Gary Young for $35,000 for Amr Zedan’s Zedan Racing Stables The colt then went to trainer Bob Baffert.

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a 2021 Eclipse Award as top speedster and the title of Kentucky-bred Champion Male Sprinter, Jackie’s Warrior earned $1,051,400, winning four races from seven starts In 2022, Jackie’s Warrior is undefeated in three starts, all graded stakes The highlight came with his four-length win in the Churchill Downs Stakes presented by Ford (G1) on the 2022 Kentucky

I n a topsy-turvy world, Jackie’s Warrior has shown breathtaking consistency on the racetrack Bred by John and Jennie Williams’ J & J Stables, the fleet-footed colt blazed his way to 2021 Champion Sprinter honors J Kirk Robison, who races Jackie’s Warrior with his wife, Judy, purchased the colt for $95,000 at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale

One son of Protonico in 2021 provided breeder Gail Rice with horse racing’s highest of highs and lowest of lows

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Medina Spirit finished first in the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), only to be disqualified after testing positive for the antiinflammatory steroid betamethasone.

“I cried. It affected me like he was my family,” Rice said “Like it was one of my kids that had passed away ”

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Still, when Rice remembers 2021, she cherishes the memories provided by Medina Spirit, whom she bred in Florida out of Mongolian Changa (Brilliant Speed)

Rice, who earned her first grade 1 victory as a breeder when Speech won the 2020 Central Bank Ashland Stakes (G1), watched as Medina Spirit developed to provide an unforgettable first Saturday in May

The colt’s sophomore season followed an even more successful path On the undercard of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), Jackie’s Warrior eked out a head win in the Pat Day Mile Stakes presented by LG&E and KU (G2) Imitating his form the previous fall, he rattled off graded stakes wins that included the Amsterdam Stakes (G2), H Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1), and Gallant Bob Stakes (G2) prior to a sixthplace finish in the Qatar Racing Breeders’ Cup Sprint

“I had so much fun that year It was such a blessing to have that in my life, to experience those things we only see on TV and think that it’s always somebody else But to have that in my own heart, and it’s in my phone – I have permanent records of the coverage and the videos and the articles I’ll never forget it ”

At the 2021 Keeneland November sale, J&J Stables-bred Little Hidden Gem, a Bodemeister half-sister to Jackie’s Warrior in foal to City of Light, fetched $320,000 At the same auction the previous year, John Williams and Carlo Vaccarezza had sold the siblings’ dam, Unicorn Girl—in foal to Into Mischief and consigned by Beau Lane Bloodstock—for $850,000, and her American Pharoah colt, also a Beau Lane consignee, for $600,000

“I never thought I would be in this position as a small breeder,” Rice said “To have a horse that became so famous, and I was there when he won the Kentucky Derby And the Breeders’ Cup, I was there It feels unreal ”

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“I was like, ‘You know what? I just did that I’m gonna try to do it again because it was so much fun,’” she said

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The Vaccarezza and Williams families partnered up on another young star in 2021 Bred in Florida by J&J Stables and Carlo Vaccarezza, Sweet Dani Girl won the Oct 29 Myrtlewood Stakes at Keeneland for J&J and Nicholas Vaccarezza Residents of Wesley Chapel, Florida, the Williamses bought their first horse in 2005 at auction. ●

Medina Spirit’s season made Rice more determined to enjoy similar future success She hopes her “cheap on cheap” approach – quality breeding matches combined with good horsemen and a little help from God – can produce another special horse

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The dark bay colt then finished third in the Preakness Stakes (G1), returned to the winner’s circle two more times, and ran second to Knicks

In 2020, the Maclean’s Music youngster rattled off triumphs in the historic Saratoga Special Stakes Presented by Miller Lite (G2), Runhappy Hopeful Stakes (G1), and Champagne Stakes (G1) He finished off the board in the TVG Breeders’ Cup Juvenile presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G1) and was a finalist for the Eclipse Award for Champion 2-Year-Old Colt

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Rice currently has two broodmares: Naughty Mabel and Rossellini As she spoke in mid-July, she was anticipating their return from Kentucky to Magic Oaks Farm in Citra, Florida, which is owned by her daughter Taylor and son-in-law and prominent East Coast jockey Jose Ortiz

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Heconsignmentfoundanother home in 2017 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, with the Korea Racing Authority snatching him up for $87,000 from the Woods Edge Farm consignment

The Moores sent the gray/roan son of Paynter to auction as a weanling at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale, where he went for $40,000 to Northface Bloodstock from the Bill Reightler

For the Moores, a horse of this caliber has been life-changing, and they have simply hung on tight “Sometimes I think about it, and I can’t even imagine it’s happening to me,” Sabrina said “I’m like, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ half the time I know people work for a really long time to get nice horses ”

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“(Angie)’s been a huge supporter,” Sabrina said “She got the ball rolling, she started it I was kind of lost into what to do and she set up this farm, so I was handed all the tools to succeed ”

January 2016 when the Moores brought a fourth foal out of their stakes-winning mare Kosmo’s Buddy into the world at their own GreenMount Farm in Glyndon, Maryland

“It’s been 100% surreal…It’s really rewarding for sure,” Sabrina said ●

Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes Presented by 1/ST BET (G1) in January of this year He ended his career at 10-4-1 from 25 starts with $9,258,135 in earnings, and two Eclipse Awards - winning both the Champion Older Dirt Male and Horse of the Year titles in 2021

The last couple of years have been a wild ride for the mom-daughter team of Angie and Sabrina

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After retiring from the track, Knicks Go advanced into his second career as a stallion He stood the 2022 season at Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville, Kentucky, for $30,000

First trained by Ben Colebrook and then Brad Cox, the now 6-year-old horse would have an astounding career, winning his first grade one in his fourth start and adding numerous graded stakes wins to his resume, including two wins on the world stage in the 2020 Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) and the 2021 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1)

This horse would be none other than Knicks Go

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Banke and her late husband Jess Jackson started Stonestreet in 2005 on the former Buckram Oak estate near Versailles, Kentucky Their goal then is the same as their goal today, to breed elite racehorses that are successful at the highest level “Tointernationallybeupfor this award says a lot about what we have accomplished and what we still hope to accomplish,” Moynihan said ●

Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farms celebrated one of its best years ever in 2021, which put the owner/breeder operation solidly among the top three finalists for National Breeder of the Year honors from the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association

Hertrich and Fielding bred Americanrevolution (Constitution—Polly Freeze, by Super Saver), a 3-year-old colt in 2021 who won the Cigar Mile Handicap Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) as well as three stakes for New York-breds, earning a whopping $941,750 for the year Another 3-year-old colt co-bred by Hertrich and Fielding, Beyond Brilliant (Twirling Candy—Summer On the Lawn, by First Defence), proved best in the Hollywood Derby (G1T) and banked $421,280 on the season

In addition to the many number of grade 1 winners, the breeders are credited with 60 other winners in 2021

is no surprise that this dynamic duo would find their horses in the winner’s circle of prominent races Hertrich, either with his original partner, the late equine veterinarian Dr Ph il McCarthy, or with Fielding, has co-

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Stonestreet was represented by three grade 1 winners as a breeder Besides Malathaat, who also won the Central Bank Ashland Stakes (G1) and Alabama Stakes (G1), Clairiere captured the Cotillion Stakes (G1), and Silver State won the Hill ‘n’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap (G1) The farm’s other graded stakes winners for the year included grade 3 winners Pauline’s Pearl, Midnight Bourbon, and In Good Spirits

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Hertrich also is the breeder of JuJu’s Map, a Liam’s Map filly who won the Darley Alcibiades Stakes (G1) and $620,800 on the season; and of Hit the Road, who won the Frank E Kilroe Mile Stakes (G1T) and the Thunder Road Stakes (G3T) last year as a 4-year-old The son of More Than Ready earned $369,000 for the year

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“Our team (which includes Fielding and Robert Tribbett), spends a lot of time selecting the mares we want to buy and the stallions we breed each mare to,” Hertrich said “We think we raise a horse as well as anyone We’ll strive to continue our success, but I don’t know that we can ever do this again ” ●

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bred such runners as Rushing Fall, Shamardal, Diversify, Thethiefatmidnight, Street Boss, Boys At Tosconova, and Catholic Boy, grade 1 winners

or bred from—there is something special about the raising of that horse and the sweat equity that goes into planning the mating, raising the horse the right way, and training the horse the right way There is so much that goes into it, it is almost immeasurable, so when it all goes right, it’s extremely rewarding ”

Banke has had a long association at the track and on the farm with the families of these three fillies. Malathaat is out of Stonestreet’s homebred grade 1 winner Dreaming of Julia Clairiere is the first foal out of Cavorting, whom Banke bought as a weanling at the 2012 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale and went on to see her become a multiple grade 1 winner with graded wins at ages two, three, and four Pauline’s Pearl is out of Hot Dixie Chick, the first filly Banke bought on her own, who won multiple graded stakes racing under Grace

North American breeders for the year Stonestreet bred 13 black-type winners, which included six graded stakes winners

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Maxim Rate, bred by the duo, took the Gamely Stakes (G1T), and the daughter of Exchange Rate earned $217,000 in 2021 Two-year-old colt Pinehurst won the Runhappy Del Mar Futurity (G1), and the son of Twirling Candy banked $272,000 on the season

breeding great horses whether she races them or sells them,” said John Moynihan, bloodstock adviser for Stonestreet “For most owners, when they breed a horse that wins a graded race—especially from a family that we bought into

Most Thoroughbred breeders would likely be termed a success if they were credited with breeding a half-dozen grade 1 winners in their career C onsider, then, Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding, who bred/co-bred six horses that won grade 1 events in 2021 alone That is a truly remarkable feat, and the reason why they have been named finalists for National Breeder of the

One of the highlights of the year was watching Malathaat, bred by Stonestreet and raced by Shadwell Stable, win the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) Also in this premier race for sophomore fillies were Stonestreet homebreds Clairiere and Pauline’s Pearl

many people are able to breed six grade 1 winners in one year?” he noted “There are 60plus people involved—a whole chain of people who touch the horse—from the time a foal is born until the time it gets to the racetrack When you think of how many things can go wrong; it’s phenomenal We’re very grateful and thankful for that good fortune But it’s against all odds ”

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Life is Good romped home eight lengths clear of Medina Spirit again in the 1 1/16 mile San Felipe Stakes (G2) before being sidelined due to injury Returning in the H Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1), Life is Good was handed his first career loss, finishing second by a neck to eventual champion sprinter Jackie’s Warrior Life is Good bounced back handily with a 5 ½-length victory in the Kelso Handicap (G2) Rounding out his stellar season, the bay colt scooted home an easy winner by 5 ¾ lengths in the Nov 6 Big Ass Fans Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1). From five 2021 starts, he won four races, finished second in one contest, and earned $1,025,000

Certainly, horses that start a season with sprinting on the turf in allowance company aren’t expected by summer to defeat some of the best older dirt runners at 1 1/4 miles But John Sadler, the only trainer Hronis Racing has ever had, knows how to patiently bring a horse along, something he also demonstrated in 2021 with Flightline

enjoyment as Kosta, Pete, and Stephanie get from their racing stable, they also give back to the industry while juggling their responsibilities with the family grape and citrus business in California’s Central Valley

Racing (and winning) once at age two, Life is Good cranked up for the 2021 Triple Crown trail, besting eventual Kentucky Derby (G1) first-place finisher Medina Spirit by ¾ length in the one-mile Sham Stakes (G3)

For CHC Inc and WinStar Farm LLC, life is, indeed, good The partnership of China Horse Club (CHC) and Kentucky nursery WinStar has yielded dividends, campaigning Life is Good to grade 1 wins in 2021 and 2022

“There is quite a bundle of women wanting to come together and find a way to be engaged at the track,” said HronisStephanieRacing can be a blueprint for anyone wanting to know how to succeed in horse ownership—and have incredible fun in the process ●

Knicks Go and Belmont Stakes (G1) victor Sir Winston In his 10-furlong debut, Life is Good shipped to the United Arab Emirates, where he ran fourth in the Dubai World Cup Sponsored By Emirates Airline (G1) Most recently, he showed a return to winning form in the July 2 John A Nerud Stakes (G2)

Few owners dominate major races the way Hronis Racing has with the 1 1/4-mile TVG Pacific Classic Stakes (G1) at Del Mar In the past four years, Hronis has won the race three times—first with champion Accelerate in 2018, then with Higher Power in 2019, and lastly, with Tripoli in 2021

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In that debut, Flightline won by 13 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita At the end of Del Mar’s summer meeting, he returned to vanquish foes by 12 3/4

brother, Pete “That was really exciting for Tripoli and what his journey has been, going from turf to dirt Who would have ever thought at the beginning of the year that he was going to end up on the dirt and winning the Pacific Classic?”

Hronis Racing owns Flightline in partnership with his breeder, Summer Wind Equine, as well as West Point Thoroughbreds, Siena Farm, and Woodford Racing Though Flightline has been creating even more exciting headlines in 2022, his journey began in 2021 with a brief three-race campaign But what a campaign it was

Thus far in 2022, Life is Good has continued to deliver In his debut at the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes presented by 1/ST BET (G1), he beat soon-to-be-crowned Horse of the Year

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Through TOC, Stephanie is helping to organize the first Horse Racing Women’s Summit this fall.

“The rocket blastoff is Flightline,” said Stephanie. “We were hearing about his workouts from John, how he was the most special horse And then there was that first race.”

She also sits on the boards of the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and the Thoroughbred Owners of California (TOC)

Stephanie joined the board of the Edwin J G regson Foundation, her education background a perfect fit for one of that foundation’s major goals, providing scholarships for children of backstretch workers

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The same day as the Nerud, CHC and WinStar almost strolled into another winner’s circle At Churchill Downs, Americanrevolution, a $275,000 purchase, finished second in the Stephen Foster Stakes (G2) In 2021, the son of Constitution tallied three stakes races for New York-breds and ran third in the Pennsylvania Derby (G1) He rounded out the season with a win in the Cigar Mile Handicap Presented by NYRA Bets (G1)

Last year, additional runners for the partnership included Pennine Ridge Stakes (G3) victor Sainthood and WinStar Gulfstream Park Mile Stakes (G2) winner Fearless (now racing for Repole Stables) As they look ahead to 2023, perhaps CHC and WinStar should name their next runner The Sky’s the Limit ●

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At the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, China Horse Club and Maverick Racing purchased the son of Into Mischief for $525,000

lengths. His final 2021 start came Dec. 26, in the Runhappy Malibu Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Again the margin was double digits—11 1/2

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out for me is the interest he took in every detail Nobody did anything for him without him saying, ‘Yes’ or ‘No,’” said Dr John Chandler, president of Juddmonte’s American operation “He knew more about his horses individually than any owner I ever knew ”

Klarman races primarily in New York, and in 2021 he earned his third consecutive year-end title as leading owner on the New York Racing Association circuit of Belmont Park, Saratoga Race Course, and Aqueduct Racetrack

Abdullah died Jan 12, 2021 at 85, leaving behind a legacy that will influence the sport and the breed for generations to come

As a 3-year-old in 2021, Search Results won four of six starts, with a second and third in her other two races A runner-up in the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1), she went on to win the Acorn Stakes (G1) at Belmont Park Klaravich purchased the dark bay filly through agent Mike Ryan for $310,000 at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale from the consignment of Select Sales

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Having won the 2017 Preakness Stakes (G1) with Cloud Computing (Maclean’s Music), Klarman returned to the Triple Crown trail in 2021, when his homebred Highly Motivated (Into Mischief) earned enough qualifying points to run in the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (G1), finishing 10th. This year, Klarman won his second Preakness Stakes, this time with Early Voting, after electing to skip the Kentucky Derby to point to the second leg of the Triple Crown

dignified manner in which he treated everyone around him While he had his greatest successes in Europe with stars such as Dancing Brave and Frankel, a late commitment to breeding and racing in North America allowed for major victories in some of racing’s top dirt races, eventually leading to victory in America’s most elusive race, the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) T he victories add up to Juddmonte being named a finalist for National Owner of the Year for 2021 by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders

Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T) at Santa Anita Park Purchased for $200,000, Bricks and Mortar earned more than $7 million on the track T hat year, Klaravich and Lawrence received the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Owner

Following a 2020 in which Seth Klarman saw his Klaravich Stables, Inc. finish third in earnings nationally, Klarman went one better in 2021, ranking second on the end-of-year leaderboard with more than $7 million Among his standout horses in 2021 were Domestic Spending (GB) Kingman (GB) and Search Results, both grade 1 winners

A player at the international level for four decades, the late Abdullah will be remembered for his commitment to breeding world-class Thoroughbreds, his competitive spirit at the races, his attention to detail, and for the quiet and

Klarman purchased Domestic Spending as a yearling for $412,430 at the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale; as a 3-year-old in 2020, the bay gelding won the Hollywood Derby (G1T) at Del Mar, returning in 2021 to win the Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic Stakes at Churchill Downs and Resort World Casino Manhattan Stakes at Belmont Park (both G1T) He ran second by a neck in the Mr D Stakes (G1T) at Arlington International Racecourse

Klarman is quick to credit the team he has assembled to achieve his success, including trainer Chad Brown and bloodstock agent Mike Ryan At first with long-time partner William Lawrence, with whom he topped the 2019 owner earnings list, and now solo, Klarman has found success at racing’s highest levels In 2019, Klaravich Stables campaigned Bricks and Mortar (Giant’s Causeway) to five grade 1 wins, including the

The crown jewel to Juddmonte’s 2021 season came with the exploits of homebred Mandaloun, who

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According to Juddmonte, Abdullah’s famous green, pink, and white silks have been worn to victory by more than 500 stakes winners, of which he bred more than 440 T hose stakes winners include more than 110 group/grade 1 winners, of which he bred more than 100

was elevated to first in the 2021 Kentucky Derby following the disqualification earlier this year of first-place finisher Medina Spirit. Mandaloun, who came into the Derby off a score in Fair Grounds’ Risen Star Stakes Presented by Lamarque Ford (G2), typifies the dedication to Abdullah’s breeding program The son of three-time leading sire Into Mischief, Mandaloun’s first three dams were bred, raised, and raced by Juddmonte Abdullah paid $700,000 for Queen of Song, the fourth dam of the Derby winner, at the 1989 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale A grade 2 winner, Queen of Song later produced the stakes-placed, grade 1-producing Aspiring Diva (by Juddmonte stallion Distant View), who in turn produced stakeswinning Daring Diva (by Juddmonte stallion Dansili), who produced Mandaloun’s dam, the black-type winning, classic-producing Brooch (by Juddmonte stallion Empire Maker)

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While a Derby win ranks among the pinnacle of the sport in any given year, it was by no means Juddmonte’s lone achievement in 2021 Homebred Juliet Foxtrot won at the grade 1 level, scoring in Keeneland’s Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes, and other major wins in New York and Kentucky were achieved by Viadera, Pocket Square, Obligatory, Fulsome, and Set Piece ●

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Prince Khalid bin Abdullah founded Juddmonte Farms in 1980, and few in the long annals of Thoroughbred breeding and racing had such success while developing his own bloodlines

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A hedge fund manager and founder of the Baupost Group, Klarman has brought the lexicon of both investment banking and politics into Thoroughbred racing with his horses’ names, campaigning among others Currency Swap, Takeover Target, Public Sector (GB), and Separationofpowers, all graded stakes winners

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Essential Quality entered stud this year at $75,000, while Maxfield started his stallion career at $40,000.

Godolphin also enjoyed remarkable success during the Breeders’ Cup World Championships when three homebreds took home trophies—Yibir (GB) won the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf (G1T), Space Blues (IRE) won the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile Presented by PDJF (G1), and Modern Games (IRE) captured the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) All three Breeders’ Cup winners are by Dubawi (IRE), Godolphin’s star homebred stallion who stands at Dalham Hall Stud in England

Essential Quality, already the Champion 2-Year-Old Colt for 2020, produced another championship season by winning the Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1), Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1), Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (G2), Jim Dandy Stakes (G2), and Southwest Stakes (G3) The son of Tapit earned $3,420,000 during his sophomore season alone, raising his career earnings to $4,755,144

“We are so grateful to Sheikh Mohammed that we get to implement his vision and what he wants out of his breeding and training program,” said Michael Banahan, director of bloodstock for Godolphin USA “We all realize how special this really is ”

Godolphin campaigned nine grade 1 winners, led by multiple champion Essential Quality and Maxfield, who won a combined nine graded stakes

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groups of colts every year that are out of very good families, very good broodmares, and they don’t make it They might make it as a decent racehorse or a decent graded stakes winner even, but to get those of the caliber that can stand in Kentucky is extremely special With all the hurdles you have to get over for that to happen and much that can go wrong, to have a couple horses come back to the stallion barn, made it a magical year,” he said

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“In all the time I’ve worked for Godolphin, my favorite time ever was last year at the Travers when Essential Quality won,”

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said Banahan. “We had a lot of staff up there, people who have been with us a long time Niall Brennan, who breaks our horses in Florida, was there Brad Cox and Luis Saez had their families there to celebrate with us This was one of those times when it all came together and was a great day He’s just such a neat horse and never let us down ”

Maxfield, a son of Darley Stallions’ Street Sense, was a grade 1 winner at 2 but wrestled with niggling injuries that allowed him to make only two starts as a 2-year-old and two as a 3-year-old Last year produced a career-best season with four wins from seven starts. He was never off the board and ended the year with $2,001,812 in earnings His best wins for 2021 came in the Clark Stakes Presented by Norton Healthcare (G1), Stephen Foster Stakes (G2), and the Alysheba Stakes Presented by Sentient Jet (G2), all at Churchill Downs. He is the first horse to sweep these three graded stakes in the same year

Capping off the successful year was the transition of Essential Quality and Maxfield to Godolphin’s Darley Stallions operation at

“It was an absolutely amazing year and we had to pinch ourselves seeing it continue from the beginning all the way to the end,” Banahan said “The energy that it brought to all the divisions on all the farms was palpable because they were homebreds They went through so many hands and everyone had a piece to play in it—from the people in the office to the grooms, from the people foaling out the mares to the breaking and training ”

“The script gets torn up every year, though this is always the plan,” Banahan said “When we do matings, you just hope that every few years you raise a horse that can compete at this high level It was remarkable in 2021, but to think you could replicate that…it is extremely difficult to find that magic.”

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Adding a high gloss to the illustrious year is that all of Godolphin’s graded stakes winners are homebreds

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“Maxfield had to go through some speed bumps during his 2-year-old and 3-year-old year, but then he turned it around to win three signature handicap graded races at Churchill He is a big beautiful horse with a terrific following,” Banahan said.

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