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n behalf of myself, my staff and the Board of Directors of New York Thor- oughbred Breeders Inc., I extend a warm welcome to our guests this evening. Every April at NYTB’s Awards Banquet, we get together to celebrate the racetrack achievements of the New York Thoroughbred Breeding Program Ofrom the prior year. Our video program will showcase all equine nominees as we crown the year’s New York-bred divisional champions, followed by the announcement of the 2017 New York-bred Horse of the Year. We also take this occasion to congratulate the most successful human participants in our program. I would like to draw attention to some highlights among the New York-bred achievements around the ovals last year. In 2017 New York-breds combined to win 106 stakes races worth $19.3 million. These wins came at 16 racetracks from coast to coast and beyond, and exactly half that number– or 53 victories – came in open stakes. Among these, 15 individual New York-breds won 19 graded stakes races last year. Three New York-breds achieved success at the very top tier of Grade/Group 1 racing. In late March, Mind Your Biscuits rallied to a wide-trip victory in the Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan Racecourse. October saw Diversify post a wire-to-wire victory in the storied Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park. In November at the Breeders’ Cup in Del Mar, Bar of Gold upset the Filly and Mare Sprint at longshot odds of 66-1. The Breeders’ Cup World Championships once again featured a strong contingent of New Yorkers, six horses in all, four by New York sires. In addition to Bar of Gold’s Filly and Mare Sprint victory for which she was voted an Eclipse Award finalist, Disco Partner by late New York sire Disco Rico finished third in the Turf Sprint, and Mind Your Biscuits by former New York sire Posse was third in the Sprint. I would be remiss not to also mention Ken- tucky-bred Sharp Azteca by New York sire Freud who finished second in the Dirt Mile. New York-breds made headlines in other ways last year. Patricia Generazio’s homebred Disco Partner established a world record time of 1:05.67 for 6 furlongs on turf in last year’s renewal of the Jaipur Invitational. Voodoo Song amazed everyone at the Spa when he posted four victories during the meet, capped by a frontrunning victory in the Grade 3 Saranac. The last horse to win four races during a single Saratoga meet was the legendary Native Dancer in 1952. Meanwhile, three more New York-breds attained millionaire status in 2017: Bar Of Gold, Highway Star, Japan-based Rieno Tesoro and veteran Weekend Hideaway. Of the most successful horsemen active in our program, it should surprise no one that the brothers Ortiz – Irad and reigning Eclipse champion jockey Jose – combined to win 17 stakes races aboard New York-breds. Among the outstanding trainers of New York-breds we find the usual suspects like Charlie Baker, Jeremiah Englehart, Linda Rice, Rudy Rodriguez, Dominick Schettino and Rick Violette. These days, however, the New York stalwarts are also sharing the limelight with many of the biggest barns in the country. Among those who have heeded the call to “get with the program” are Eclipse-winning trainer Chad Brown, who won 13 stakes with New York-breds, Christophe Clement with seven stakes wins and Todd Pletch- er with nine. Kiaran McLaughlin and Bill Mott are also getting in on the act. Last, but certainly not least, we all must tip our hats to perennial leading Finger Lakes trainer Chris Englehart, who was inducted into the Finger Lakes Hall of Fame last fall. In general, our farms and breeding program continue to thrive – there were 263 active farms in New York in 2017. The New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund, the principle sponsor of this event, distributed $17.2 million in awards and purse enrichment last year and breeders’ awards alone topped out at over $10.6 million. The average breeder’s award was worth just shy of $17,000. Meanwhile New York-breds go from strength to strength in the sales ring, gaining value every year. After tonight everyone will return to the hard work of breeding, foaling, breaking, training and racing New York-breds, but for now please sit back and enjoy our program. Everyone in this room should feel proud of the accomplishments of the best regional breeding program in the country and keep remembering that, if you breed the best to the best in New York, only the sky is the limit.

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WELCOME Jeffrey A. Cannizzo, NYTB Executive Director INTRODUCTION Thomas J. Gallo III, NYTB President PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Richard Migliore, Master of Ceremonies AWARDS CATEGORIES New York-Bred Champion Two-Year-Old Filly New York-Bred Champion Two-Year-Old Male New York-Bred Champion Three-Year-Old Filly New York-Bred Champion Three-Year-Old Male New York-Bred Champion Turf Female New York-Bred Champion Turf Male New York-Bred Champion Female Sprinter New York-Bred Champion Male Sprinter New York-Bred Champion Older Dirt Female New York-Bred Champion Older Dirt Male New York-Bred Horse of the Year New York Broodmare of the Year New York-Bred Trainer of the Year New York-Bred Jockey of the Year New York Breeder of the Year

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7 TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Berning Rose Dk. b./br. f., Freud–Peach Flambe, Flying Chevron. Breeder/owner: Robert Rosenthal and Bradford Bernstein. Trainer: Dominick Schettino. 2017 record: 3-2-1-0. $223,800. 2017 stakes: Maid of the Mist. ost of the announced crowd of 19,850 spectators who turned out at Saratoga the Wednesday after the Tra- vers – the start of what’s always a relatively subdued scene often with more bags to pack than action on the Mtrack – filed out before Berning Rose made her way to the paddock for her debut. They were there for Catholic Boy’s arrival, a victory one race earlier in the With Anticipation to jump start his strong 2-year-old campaign, but missed a chance to cash a good ticket in what turned into an impressive debut following a mash-up of pre-race activity. The action started in the paddock. Two of Berning Rose’s rivals grew agitated during the preliminaries, one so much she flipped, fell and was scratched from the race. On the track, another rival was scratched by the veterinarian, leaving Berning Rose just five Foaled at Jan Durrschmidt’s Indigo Farm in Stanfordville, Ber- opponents. ning Rose showed similar tactical speed that her stakes-winning They were quickly overmatched. dam Peach Flambe displayed winning a 7-furlong Florida-bred Berning Rose won by 5 lengths as the longest shot on the board stakes at 2. Berning Rose broke sharply in the Maid Of The Mist at 10-1, signaling good things for trainer Dominick Schettino and but relaxed under Kendrick Carmouche, who rode her in each of owners and breeders Robert Rosenthal and Bradford Bernstein. her three starts last season. Her next two starts came in stakes company, with fellow 2-year- “She has natural speed, but I think she will go a little longer as old filly finalist Held Accountable her chief adversary. Berning she learns to settle and relax,” Schettino said after her stakes win. Rose finished second to that foe three weeks after the maiden win “When she broke sharp, I figured Kendrick could get her to settle. in the Joseph A. Gimma Stakes and turned the tables in the Maid of She is easy like that. She is not a hard horse, she is not a run-off the Mist to kick off the Empire Showcase Day card. type. She is easy to relax once you take a hold of her.”

Held Accountable B. f., Exchange Rate–New Harmony, A.P. Indy. Breeder/owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: Phil Serpe. 2017 record: 4-2-1-0. $191,300. 2017 stakes: Joseph A. Gimma. hil Serpe walked down the shedrow at Saratoga last summer and pointed to a bay 2-year-old. She had yet to run, and was sharing a barn with plenty of more accomplished horses, but Serpe made sure he gave her a mention. P“One of the Bromans’ 2-year-olds that we really like,” the trainer said. “She’s going to run in a few weeks. She’s a work or two away from running.” The filly, Held Accountable, didn’t mind the attention and loved the ear scratch before Serpe moved along to the next stall. And then Held Accountable made Serpe look smart – winning her de- but going 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf at Saratoga Aug. 17. Bred and owned by Chester and Mary Broman, Held Accountable battled up New Harmony’s first foal for her new owners was Strike Accord, front early through fast fractions, then kicked away in the stretch to who won three times and was stakes-placed. The second, In Harm’s win by 2 1/4 lengths. The next month at Belmont Park, the daugh- Way, won five and placed in a graded stakes. Two other foals nev- ter of Exchange Rate went one better – winning the Joseph Gim- er won, and then came Held Accountable. She showed plenty of ma Stakes going 7 furlongs on the dirt. This time, she overcame a promise early and became a stakes winner in her second start. sloppy start to get organized and again score by 2 1/4 lengths. She Held Accountable emerged from the Demoiselle with some closed her year with a second behind fellow finalist Berning Rose shoulder trouble and spent the winter at the Bromans’ farm in in the Maid of the Mist Stakes at Belmont in October and then a Chestertown. She got back to work at Belmont last month, with fifth in the Grade 2 Demoiselle at Aqueduct in December. eyes on a 3-year-old campaign. The Bromans bought Held Accountable’s dam New Harmony “Mr. Broman was great when I said, ‘Hey, how about we give for $190,000 at Keeneland in 2008. Bred by Will Farish, the A.P. her a little time?’ ” Serpe said. “She came back to us at Belmont and Indy mare had produced two winners and was from a deep female she looks great. She grew a few inches in each direction. She’s really family that included graded winners Tricky Creek, Parade Ground, come back a bigger, better version of herself and we’re excited for Parade Leader and Speed Dialer and star producer Wings Of Grace. another year.” 8 Congratulations to Select Sales graduate Mind Your Biscuits

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9 18-1242 STP NYTB SelectSales Awards program full.indd 1 3/21/18 3:07 PM TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS I Still Miss You Dk. b./br. f., Majestic Warrior–Lion’s Terms, Lion Hearted. Breeder: Emcee Stable. Trainer: Jeremiah Englehart. Owner: Gold Star Racing Stable, Matthew Hand and Brian McKenzie. 2017 record: 6-3-1-0. $206,867. 2017 stakes: Astoria, Key Cents. eremiah Englehart saw a lot of similarities between Lion’s Terms and her daughter, I Still Miss You, before the Majestic Warrior filly made her first start last spring at Belmont Park. JThe young filly took after her mother, who won 16 of 43 starts and $235,042 the hard way in allowance, starter allowance and claiming company for Englehart and other trainers from 2008-13. “I trained her mother and they’re both very, very sharp indi- viduals. Mentally they’re very strong,” Englehart said. “They’re very similar. Lion’s Terms is a little bigger in stature, but the same amount of heart.” I Still Miss You showed she might be able to win early, which her mother did in her debut in July of her 2-year-old season. Englehart Lion’s Terms never started in a stakes race, but I Still Miss You didn’t let what he saw early affect his overall judgment, however. has made five of her six starts in stakes company. She won two, the “I never expected it,” he said of I Still Miss You, who won a state- Astoria early and the Key Cents late. The latter came after distant bred maiden in May and the $150,000 Astoria against open compa- finishes in the Seeking The Ante at Saratoga and Maid of the Mist ny in June in her first two starts. “I try to stay level headed with the at Belmont. young horses, it allows me to make better decisions. The latter was at a mile and Englehart chalked it up to being too “But I felt like she was smart enough to be early, I just wasn’t far. The former remains a puzzler. sure if she was fast enough to do some of the things she did.” “We had no idea where that came from,” he said. “Knowing Englehart trains I Still Miss You for the partnership of Gold Star her and how consistent she always is in training I just draw a line Racing Stable of Mark Wipperman – who bred her in the name of through it. Nothing showed up on her physically. Mentally she his Emcee Stable – Matthew Hand and Brian McKenzie. Englehart loves to train. I’m glad we didn’t get too discouraged by it because trained Lion’s Terms on two occasions, for Wipperman at the end she showed in her last race before we gave her a little time, that she of her career and for Maggi Moss in the middle. was the horse we think she is.”

Indy’s Lady Dk. b./br. f., Take Charge Indy–Sweet Aloha, Western Cat. Breeder: Alan Cook. Owner: Orlando DiRienzo, Southfield Farm. Trainer: Jeremiah Englehart. 2017 record: 4-2-0-1. $114,268. 2017 stakes: Lady Finger, Shesastonecoldfox. ndy’s Lady trained last spring and summer like a Saratoga horse – the type to make her debut in a state-bred maiden race worth $73,000. She was at the Spa, working well, learning her lessons and getting primed for a race on the big stage. IThen she really went big time, even if it wasn’t Saratoga. The daughter of Take Charge Indy began her career in the $116,550 Lady Finger Stakes at Finger Lakes. Spotted against six rivals in the early September race for New York-bred fillies, Indy’s Lady romped home in an 8-length laugher for trainer Jeremiah En- SV Photography glehart. Bred by Alan Cook, Indy’s Lady battled for the lead before pull- The stakes win justified a $150,000 purchase by owners Orlan- ing away in the stretch to win by herself at better than 7-1 while do DiRienzo and Southfield Farm at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s May collecting $69,930 in purses. Sixth in her next start, against males sale of 2-year-olds, and also confirmed Englehart’s early opinion. in the New York Breeders Futurity, she rebounded to win the She- “We thought she would be real quick developing, and making it sastonecoldfox at Finger Lakes in late October. The half-sister to to the races,” he said. “Then she got high strung on the track and multiple stakes winner Filibustin finished third behind fellow fi- I didn’t think she was ready mentally until we ran her. She really wasn’t. She transformed nicely into a much calmer horse.” nalists I Still Miss You and Pure Silver in the Key Cents in late No- So calm that she gave her connections a little scare before the vember. Lady Finger. Foaled at Sequel Stallions in Hudson, she’s back in training at “She worried me in the paddock; walked around there with her Belmont after a freshening at the Webb Carroll Training Center in head dragging,” Englehart said. “I thought, ‘Oh God, something South Carolina and Englehart is excited for the future. just made her go to sleep.’ But she woke up and ran a heck of a race “I’m looking forward to running her this year in her 3-year-old t h at d ay.” campaign because I think she’ll stretch out a little bit,” he said. 10 Classic Steakhouse with Style

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11 TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS March X Press Dk. b./br. f., Shanghai Bobby–Indian Rush, Indian Charlie. Breeder: Pine Ridge Stables Ltd. Owner: Golconda Stables. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2017 record: 4-2-0-0, $118,050. 2017 stakes: Bolton Landing. arch X Press was one of the stars of the 2017 Saratoga meeting. The filly made her debut against state-bred maidens going 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf Aug. 2. After a slow break, the Todd Pletcher trainee found herself Mdetached from the rest of the field. Last at the top of the stretch, she weaved through traffic under Jose Ortiz and got up to score by a neck. The daughter of Shanghai Bobby returned two weeks later in the Bolton Landing Stakes against open company. Due to the impressive run she put forth in her debut, she was sent off as the 2-1 favorite and in similar fashion to her first start, she won again by a the Bolton Landing. “Every time I wanted to get involved with a half-length. horse, I wasn’t excited about the people that were part of the pack- “She came out of the race really well,” Pletcher said after the age. (This time) it’s the right horse, it’s the right trainer, and it’s the stakes win. “On that day, she only ran like the last three-sixteenths right jockey.” of a mile, so we just wanted to monitor how she came out of the March X Press was bred by Martin Zaretsky’s Pine Ridge Sta- race, and she came out of it well. There are not too many opportu- bles. Zaretsky is a former business partner of Dr. Jerry Bilinski, but nities like this, so she gave us the indications that she was ready to run back, and we are glad we did.” now breeds his own stock. March X Press is the third foal out of the March X Press was purchased for $90,000 from the Keeneland stakes-placed mare Indian Rush. A 2-year-old Into Mischief colt September yearling sale by the Golconda Stables of Ben Goldberg sold for $750,000 to Shadwell Stables at last year’s Keeneland Sep- and Elliott Friman. She was the first horse the racing stable had tember sale. March X Press finished 2017 with a fourth in Wood- ever bought. bine’s Grade 1 Natalma and then a fifth on the Breeders’ Cup un- “It’s something I’ve wanted to do probably from the age of 18,” dercard at Del Mar in the Juvenile Turf Sprint. She started her 2018 Friman said after joining March X Press in the winner’s circle after campaign with a second in Gulfstream’s Melody Of Colors Stakes.

Pure Silver Gr./ro. f., Mission Impazible–Jehan, Forest Wildcat. Breeder/owner: Twin Creeks Farm. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2017 record: 7-3-2-0. $286,367. 2017 stakes: Lynbrook, Adirondack (G2). wins Creeks Farm homebred Pure Silver was special to her breeders from the beginning. By Mission Impazible, who was campaigned by Twin Creeks to multiple Grade 2 successes in 2010-11, and out of stakes winner Jehan, Pure TSilver showed her potential from an early age. “From day one she’s been good. It really helps because this game is so hard and there’s so many obstacles to get through,” said Randy Gullatt, Twin Creeks’ team manager. “When you have a horse who’s a great doer, very professional, eats up, easy to train, wants to do well, it just helps and makes things easier in a game that’s extremely difficult.” in July. Despite the impressive efforts, winning each start by 1 1/2 Excited over the budding prospect, Gullatt sent Pure Silver to lengths and leading at every pole, at first her connections looked to Paul Sharp in Ocala to prep for the sales. However, when she went another New York-bred stakes for her next race. Pure Silver forced through the ring at the OBS March sale, bidding stalled at $125,000. a change in plans however, because she was doing so well at Sarato- For that price, Twin Creeks bought the filly back (through McMa- ga. They entered her in the Grade 2 Adirondack instead. hon and Hill Bloodstock) and sent her to Todd Pletcher. Sent off the favorite, she won the open stakes by 9 1/2 lengths. “We always liked her and we want to put a lot of our good ‘Mis- sions’ in the sale and give the public an opportunity to buy them Fourth in the Grade 1 Spinaway at the end of the meet, Pure Silver and this is another case,” Gullatt said. “She worked great, she was returned to Belmont and finished second in the Key Cents Stakes ultra-professional. At the time, people weren’t really loving Mission and the New York Stallion Series Stakes late in 2017. Impazibles. Kind of in a quiet mode and I said, ‘Look, if they’re not “The mother and Mission himself were just super-duper classy going to pay for her, we’re going to keep her,’ so that’s what we did.” horses,” Gullatt said. “She’s the same thing. Very easy to please, very Pure Silver won her debut in a state-bred maiden at Belmont easy to train, and good to be around. When you have talent with Park in June and returned to win the restricted Lynbrook Stakes that, it’s a big advantage.” 12 Proud supporter of New York breeders and proud supplier of the year-end awards

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13 TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Aveenu Malcainu B. c., Into Mischief–Island Time, Trippi. Breeder: Taylor Brothers Properties, George Saufley, Brian Kahn. Owner: Gold Square. Trainer: Jeremiah Englehart. 2017 record: 4-2-0-1. $185,229. 2017 stakes: Funny Cide. he roster of finalists for New York-bred championship honors is filled with horses who won or competed ad- mirably in open graded stakes – two dozen in fact – and Aveenu Malcainu is part of the group. TThe 2-year-old son of Into Mischief didn’t win a graded stakes in 2017, but he ran in two after making quick work of his state-bred competition over a four-week stretch last summer at Saratoga. The best finish was a third behind Avery Island and Super Sermon in the Grade 2 Nashua at Aqueduct, about a month after he led early and faded to seventh in the Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont. “We went a little too quick in the Belmont race,” said Jeremiah Englehart, who trains the $150,000 OBS April buy for longtime pa- time or the fast gallop out,” Englehart said. “He was the kind of tron Al Gold’s Gold Square. “The Aqueduct race, that was a little horse you had to use your imagination a little bit to see what he bit of a puzzler to me. He kind of ranged up like he was going to could become. I’m glad he became what I thought he was going go by Avery Island, then he kind of waited on him a little bit which to be.” wasn’t like him. We decided after that to give him a little bit of a The bay colt proved Englehart right early, winning a New York- break for the winter.” bred maiden going 5 1/2 furlongs at Saratoga in late July, and Aveenu Malcainu, named for a Jewish prayer said on Rosh stretching another furlong at the upstate track to win the Funny Hashanah, earned the break. Initially a $125,000 Keeneland Sep- Cide Stakes on Saratoga Showcase Day Aug. 25. He was favored tember buyback as a yearling, he went through the 2-year-olds in in the Champagne and the Nashua, but the losses earned him a training process in Ocala with Susan Montanye’s SBM Training and winter break. Aveenu Malcainu spent the winter in Florida before Sales. He breezed well at the sale – a quarter-mile in :21.4 – but shipping north to Belmont to finish prepping for his 3-year-old didn’t attract a lot of buzz. campaign. Englehart eyed a start in the Grade 3 Bay Shore April “He was a horse that was real green, didn’t have the quick fast 7 at Aqueduct.

Battle Station Dk. b./br. g., Warrior’s Reward–Uriel, Unbridled. Breeder: Lansdowne Thoroughbreds. Owners: Ken and Sarah Ramsey. Trainer: Wesley Ward. 2017 record: 4-2-1-0, $146,334. 2017 stakes: Bertram F. Bongard. attle Station got a late start, in relative terms, for a 2-year- old in trainer Wesley Ward’s barn. It wasn’t April at Keene- land, instead it was August at Saratoga for the Warrior’s Reward gelding owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey. BBattle Station made his career debut on the Saratoga Showcase Day card in late August and showed that typical Ward speed – going gate to wire in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden on the turf. “This guy is a big, imposing colt – a big, galloping guy,” Ward said. “For him to do what he did was an eye-opener for me. I really didn’t expect him to do that. He just won on the grass because he’s in an allowance-optional at Churchill Downs. a good horse. But he’s really a dirt horse.” Battle Station is out of the Unbridled mare Uriel. Breeder Lans- The trainer was right. downe Thoroughbreds acquired the unraced mare when in foal to A month later, Battle Station won again. This time at 7 furlongs Warrior’s Reward at the 2014 Keeneland November breeding stock on the dirt in the Bertram F. Bongard Stakes at Belmont Park. He sale only three months before she foaled the eventual stakes win- led his competition on a merry chase again and was never even ner. Nine months after that, the Ramseys bought Battle Station as a challenged. He ran up the score through the stretch, crossing the wire 9 1/4 lengths clear. weanling for $50,000 at the 2015 Keeneland November sale. “I kept him nice and calm throughout and he ran really good,” After a short winter break, Battle Station made two starts at Aq- said jockey Kendrick Carmouche, aboard that day. “I’ve been work- ueduct in early 2018 – finishing fourth in the Damon Runyon in ing this horse since Saratoga. With Wesley training him and how January and winning a stretch duel with Morning Breeze in the he gets his 2-year-olds ready, they can do either/or (turf or dirt).” Rego Park in February. In his next start, Battle Station got caught in a speed duel in the Ward added the 3-year-old to the barn’s Turfway Park string af- Sleepy Hollow and faded to eighth. He ended 2017 with a second ter that win. 14 OF THE BEST

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15 18-140-006 BC congrats Ad_NTWAB Prog_7.5x10.indd 1 3/27/18 3:25 PM TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Evaluator Ch. c., by Overanalyze–Show Me The Carats, More Than Ready. Breeder: EKQ Stables Corp. Owner: R and H Stable. Trainer: Michael Dilger. 2017 record: 4-2-0-0, $195,634. 2017 stakes: Sleepy Hollow. ometimes it’s good when an owner talks to a jockey during a race and sometimes it’s bad. In early August last year at Saratoga, Richard Higgins talked to Joel Rosario as 10 juve- niles ripped along the Mellon Turf Course. Well, Higgins did Smore than talk, he pleaded. “Please don’t embarrass us,” Higgins said to Rosario as first-time starter Evaluator lagged behind nine rivals in the two-turn maiden. Like they heard him, Evaluator and Rosario clicked the switch. “I guess he just walked out of the gate and the whole rest of the race he was just sort of loping along and I was like, ‘Are we going to run now, are we going to run?’ ” Higgins said. “At the end of the wanted to try something new, and I was at the Kentucky Der- backstretch, he just went.” by with one of the guys at Team Valor and I asked if he knew Like an envelope down a mail slot, Evaluator, roared from last to of any young guys that were clean, run a good ship and he first, drawing away with every stride to hammer a 4-length chasm said to try Mike Dilger. So I went and met Mike. We bought a on his rivals. Trained by Mike Dilger, Evaluator went to the post couple horses at the auction.” 9-1 that day, but didn’t surprise Dilger. Dilger went stakes hunting after the maiden win and Eval- “We knew he would run really well, but we weren’t expecting uator mustered two sevenths against Grade 3 competition. him to leave the gate so slowly,” Dilger said. “That was a bit unex- Tried on the dirt for the first time in October, Evaluator re- pected, but I wasn’t overly concerned. The horse has shown quite a bit in the morning so we were quite happy with him.” turned to the winner’s circle with a nose decision in the Sleepy R and H Stable purchased the chestnut colt bred by EKQ Hollow at Belmont Park. Stables Corp. for $30,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New Evaluator returned to the work tab in February, posting York-bred yearling sale in 2016. half-mile drills over the Belmont training track in preparation “This is our first horse with (Dilger),” Higgins said. “We for his 2018 debut.

Sea Foam B. c., Medaglia d’Oro–Strike It Rich, Unbridled’s Song. Breeder/owner: Waterville Lake Stable. Trainer: Christophe Clement. 2017 record: 5-2-3-0. $131,600. 2017 stakes: Notebook. est laid plans. Waterville Lake Stable aims to sell its colts and keep its fillies. Well, that’s the plan with their eight broodmares. Sea Foam, a son of Medaglia d’Oro out of Waterville BLake’s Grade 3 stakes winner Strike It Rich, was meant to sell as a yearling at Saratoga. Then he got injured. And scratched. And then became a stakes winner. In his fifth start of 2017, the bay colt won the Notebook against New York-breds at Aqueduct in November, capping a season where he racked up two wins and three seconds for trainer Christophe Clement. Sea Foam finished second in his debut, going 6 furlongs at Sara- toga. A month later, he stalked the pace again and finished second thought we were going to get a huge amount of money because he’s at Belmont Park. Tried on the turf – his dam won the 2010 Boiling a gorgeous horse.” Springs – Sea Foam finished second again, beaten a neck. Switched In Thoroughbred racing, you learn to audible. Leahy, Meriweth- back to the dirt, he broke his maiden by a neck at Aqueduct and 23 er and Tully didn’t miss a beat when Sea Foam couldn’t make the days later, became a stakes winner in the Notebook. sale, sending him to Randy Bradshaw in Florida and planning on For Richard Leahy, a partner with John Meriwether and Daniel another day rate. Tully in Waterville Lake and the sole proprietor of Oak Bluff Stable, “We always thought he had talent,” Leahy said. “We were opti- 2017 was a very good year. Oak Bluff bred 2-year-old male finalist mistic from the very beginning.” Therapist and 2018 Florida Derby contender Audible. Clement freshened Sea Foam after the Notebook, he returned to Three stars – one sold, two kept. the work tab at Payson Park in late February. “We laugh about all the very planned-out strategies and how the Leahy laughed about not being able to sell Therapist and Sea strange ones surprise you,” Leahy said. “Sea Foam got injured right Foam. before the sale so that’s why we’re running him. We loved him, we “Again, it’s better to be lucky than good.” 16 CONGRATULATIONS to all the 2017 NY-BredDivisional Champion Nominees

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17 TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Therapist Ch. c., Freud–Lady Renaissance, Smart Strike. Breeder: Oak Bluff Stable and Christophe Clement. Owner: Oak Bluff Stables. Trainer: Christophe Clement. 2017 record: 3-3-0-0. $157,200. 2017 stakes: Laurel Futurity, Awad. t’s the natural stop. The Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Well, more like a way station for many of the championship finalists. Some sold, some didn’t. IThe bargain of all of them? Perhaps, the $8,000 RNA price for Therapist when the son of Freud went through the ring at the 2016 sale. Bred by Oak Bluff Stable and Christophe Clement and consigned by Winter Quarter Farm, the chestnut colt failed to elicit any interest and went into training for his breeders. “A May foal in August is often penalized,” Oak Bluff’s Richard Leahy said. “He seemed to be put together well, one of my advisors, John Donaldson, encouraged me not to sell him and put him into training.” They say you can never come home. Don’t tell that to Therapist. “From the very first race, you could see he had the desire to win, The chestnut colt performed like he was miffed at the snubbing. which is a nice thing to have if you’re a racehorse,” Leahy said. “I He rallied from well back to win his debut going 6 furlongs on the haven’t had many horses that have that kind of turn of foot.” turf at Belmont Park in July. Put away for the winter, Therapist returned in March, rallying to Clement shipped Therapist to Maryland for the Laurel Futurity finish third in the Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park against open company in the fall. It was an adventure. He crashed and then added the Cutler Bay Stakes March 31. through the gate without jockey Daniel Centeno, balked when Leahy bought Lady Renaissance, in foal to Strong Hope, for asked to reload and broke slowly in the field of nine. Spastic before $15,000 at the 2009 Keeneland November sale. She produced Gio’s the race, Therapist was all business in the race, rallying to win by a Lady in 2014, a two-time winner in 2017. Lady Renaissance pro- head. In his third start, he returned to New York to win the Awad duced a full-sister to Therapist in 2017. Bred to Temple City, Lady Stakes at Belmont Park, again against open company, to finish his Renaissance sold to Dennis Yokum for $52,000 at Keeneland Jan- season at a cool 3-for-3, all on turf and all without Lasix. uary sale this year.

What A Catch Ch. c., Justin Phillip–Catch My Fancy, Yes It’s True. Breeder: Castleton Lyons and Kilboy Estate. Owner: Gary Barber. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2017 record: 5-2-0-2. $132,867. 2017 stakes: Rockville Centre. aratoga offers a testing ground for horses and humans. It’s a time when ability, mettle, stamina, moxie, determination, resiliency – you name it – are on display. For the New York- bred 2-year-old division of 2017, Saratoga provided a cross- Sroads, for horses to step up or step back. The Funny Cide pitted two finalists, Aveenu Malcainu and What A Catch. Both were undefeated going into the 6 1/2-furlong stakes. That day, Aveenu Malcainu rallied from third to win while What A Catch faded from the pace to finish third. From there, Aveenu Malcainu aimed at graded stakes while What A Catch stayed in the New York division, finishing his season with two wins and two thirds, good for $132,867 for owner Gary Barber. the Funny Cide. A month later, What A Catch faded to third in the Bred by Castleton Lyons and Kilboy Estate, What A Catch burst Bertram F. Bongard. In November, shortened back to 6 furlongs, he onto the scene, winning his first two starts before the Funny Cide. faded to wind up seventh in the Notebook. Ridden by John Velazquez and trained by Todd Pletcher, What A Freshened briefly, What A Catch returned to finish third in his Catch drew off to win by 5 1/2 lengths in his debut, a 5-furlong 3-year-old debut at Aqueduct in February. dash for New York-breds at Belmont Park. Sent straight into the Steve Venosa’s SGV Thoroughbreds purchased What A Catch state-bred stakes division, the 9-5 second choice set the pace in the as a yearling for $90,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York- Rockville Centre and kept his speed rolling to score by a length bred sale. Seven months later, Justin Casse paid $265,000 at the over favorite Morning Breez. Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream sale of 2-year-olds in training. In between, “He has a lot of fight to him,” Velazquez said of the duel with Girvin, a son of Catch My Fancy’s first foal, Catch The Moon, won Morning Breez. the Grade 2 Risen Star. What a Catch, foaled at Berkshire Stud, From there, the water got deeper and the distances longer. What became the first winner and first stakes winner for his sire, Justin A Catch faded to third as the favorite behind Aveenu Malcainu in Phillip. 18 19 THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Bluegrass Flag Dk. b./br. f., Bluegrass Cat–No More Flags, Personal Flag. Breeders: Susanne Hooper, James Hooper and Thomas Albrecht. Owner: Thomas Albrecht and Vincent Fusaro. Trainer: Tom Morley. 2017 record: 5-3-1-0, $173,500. 2017 stakes: Cicada, NYSS Park Avenue. reeding racehorses comes with the highest highs and the lowest lows. Shortly after being blessed with the successes of Bluegrass Flag’s 3-year-old campaign in the spring, co-breeder Susanne Hooper suffered the loss of her dam, BNo More Flags in May. “It’s a little bit bittersweet,” said Hooper. “We bred and raced [No More Flags] and she produced these nice horses for us. It’s the ultimate irony, isn’t it? “Bluegrass Flag won those races in the spring, and the day after her last foal was delivered she colicked. We did surgery and everything we could, and about a week later we had to euthanize her.” ways a super elegant, athletic looking filly. When we started break- Her daughter of Bluegrass Cat has become the silver lining for ing her and training her she just seemed to take to it right away and her breeders, showing a strong start to racing that will hopefully did everything right.” carry into her broodmare career. Owned by co-breeder Thomas Albrecht and Vincent Fusaro, “No More Flags was the last filly born by Personal Flag, that’s Bluegrass Flag had a promising 3-year-old year with trainer Tom how she got her name,” said Hooper. “We had a really nice horse Morley. She broke her maiden in January, finished second in the some years back named Inherit The Gold and he was out of a Per- sonal Flag mare. We bred to Personal Flag to come up with a similar Franklin Square in February and scored back-to-back victories pedigree to what Inherit The Gold’s dam was. He was close by and in the Cicada and Park Avenue division of the New York Stallion we liked the pedigree and we got great bloodlines for a broodmare.” Stakes at Aqueduct in late spring. No More Flags produced the filly by Bluegrass Cat in April 2014. “It’s super exciting,” said Hooper. “Even though we don’t own “She was just a beautiful, balanced, nice filly to start with,” said her anymore, it’s still been awesome, such a thrill. I’m really, really Hooper. “She had a great temperament but had a bit of an edge to happy for Vince and Tom. We were partners with Vince years ago her which I think always makes a great racehorse. She was just al- at Finger Lakes and Tom is a good friend.”

Fifty Five B. f., Get Stormy–Soave, Brahms Breeder: Empire Equines. Owners: Empire Equines, Peter Brant. Trainers: Tom Bush, Chad Brown. 2017 record: 8-3-1-3, $320,600. 2017 stakes: Florida Oaks (G3), Ticonderoga. t’s the logical question to ask Dr. John Crowe. The orthopedic surgeon and Thoroughbred breeder answers it truthfully and eloquently. “Mixed feelings,” Crowe said. “Everything was homebred Iback to her grand dam, it was the kind of thing that no one wanted her and she ended up being a good horse . . . but at the end of the day we’re small breeders, we can’t afford to race all of ours, so we decided to sell her.” Crowe and his wife, Sandy, bred Fifty Five and campaigned her through a Grade 3 stakes win in the Florida Oaks in March. Grade 2 Sands Point in September. She finished her season with After that win, owner Peter Brant (who campaigned champions a win in the Ticonderoga, her only start against New York-breds Gulch and Waya among others and bred champion Thunder Gulch) during 2017. made an offer for the daughter of Get Stormy and the Crowes, who For Crowe, it was a satisfying outcome from a filly he tried to race under Empire Equines, decided to let the bay filly dance on sell as a yearling (she didn’t meet a $24,000 reserve at Saratoga) and someone else’s floor. had planned to sell as a 2-year-old. “We were getting some offers along the way but nothing which we thought was appropriate given how well she was doing,” Crowe “She looked great at Saratoga, but didn’t meet her reserve so we said. “The nice thing is she wound up with Peter Brant, he’s a se- sent her to Eddie Woods,” Crowe said. “Eddie said, ‘Look, I like her, rious person and he’ll breed her eventually. I’m sure he’s going to I think she can run. With the way the market is, you’re not going breed her to some great stallions, I wish him luck.” to get much for her, if you want to keep her, she’s a pretty good one After being purchased by Brant, Fifty Five moved from Tom to keep.’ We took his advice. It’s amazing how things work out. It’s Bush to Chad Brown. She hit the board in three open stakes, in- things like this that allow us to continue in the business or there cluding two Grade 3 stakes at Saratoga, before finishing fifth in the would be no hope.” 20 ey Your Ho on rse M Won’t Eat! s

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Sunset Ridge Ch. f., Algorithms–Cades Bay, Fusaichi Pegasus. Owner/Breeder: Alpha Delta Stable. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2017 record: 4-4-0-0. $242,400. 2017 stakes: Fleet Indian. on Clay expanded his interests in racing and breeding – beyond an existing partnership with two cousins in TIC Stables – about a decade ago with a goal of doing it on his own and with quality. JSunset Ridge, a finalist in multiple divisions for champion New York-bred honors in 2017, is one direct result of that plan. “She’s got a ton of talent,” said Reynolds Bell, the primary bloodstock advisor for Clay’s Alpha Delta Stable. “She’s one of those horses that, if you’re a numbers guy, she’s got a real good Thoro-Graph number from her third start. A graded stakes-quality number.” That race came Aug. 9 at Saratoga, when Sunset Ridge ran her record to 3-for-3 with a 16 3/4-length victory in a 7-furlong allow- regrettable but Sunset Ridge is proving a worthy heir to her dam. ance. “She had ability, some soundness issues, but a lot of ability,” Bell After that laugher, the daughter of Algorithms added a fourth said of Cades Bay. “The foals out of her have been pretty useful, victory to her resume 16 days later, stretching out to two turns for but Sunset Ridge has taken it to the next level. We decided because the first time, in the $196,000 Fleet Indian on the Saratoga Show- Cades Bay seemed to be passing along some trouble soundness case Day card. wise, we thought we’d move her out of the program and keep this Foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains, Sunset Ridge is out of the Fusaichi Pegasus mare Cades Bay who raced for Clay in the filly as the replacement in case we made a mistake with that deci- Alpha Delta colors to two wins in an eight-start career beset with sion. She ended up being the one to keep.” injuries. Cades Bay also produced R Y Squadron and Nevisian Sky, A minor physical issue kept Sunset Ridge from a possible start who won for Alpha Delta and Sunset Ridge’s trainer Chad Brown. in last year’s Grade 2 Lexus Raven Run at Keeneland and sidelined The decision to sell Cades Bay in foal to First Samurai at the her for the rest of 2017. She was back in training in early April at 2016 Keeneland November breeding stock sale, well before Sunset WinStar Farm in Kentucky with designs on a 4-year-old campaign Ridge made her career debut late last April at Belmont, may look with Brown in New York in 2018. 22 23 THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Verdant Pastures B. f., Colonel John–Stormy’s Smile, Stormy Atlantic. Breeder/Owner: Francis Paolangeli. Trainer: Charlton Baker. 2017 record: 5-3-0-0. $232,920. 2017 stakes: Empire Distaff. third generation homebred for Francis Paolangeli, Verdant Pastures traces her lineage back to her breeder’s foundation mare, Aggressivebynature. ABred in 1994 by Paolangeli, Aggressivebynature foaled Sereni- ty’s Smile in 1999. That daughter of Dixie Brass had a Stormy At- lantic filly in 2006 named Stormy’s Smile and Stormy’s Smile foaled Verdant Pastures in 2014. “I started breeding in the ’90s and this whole thing started out, I had a horse called Aggressivebynature that I raced and she did OK,” Paolangeli said. “I bred her and I had a foal from her that I named Serenity’s Smile and Serenity’s Smile, everything is coming from that line all the way through.” Verdant Pastures became the latest stakes winner from the Se- renity’s Smile line when she captured the Empire Distaff Handi- He also enjoys seeing Paolangeli reach the winner’s circle with cap at Belmont Park in October. Despite being unraced since a 14 his homebreds and earn a chance at a New York-bred award. 3/4-length allowance win at Saratoga in early August, the bay filly “I’m excited about it, but it’s even better for Francis,” Baker said. produced plenty of confidence in trainer Charlton Baker. “He has a good broodmare band, he has a good breeding program. “She was doing great going into that race,” he said. “I was very He has one of the better New York-bred programs. It’s been 10 confident in her because she was training very forwardly into that years or so since we got together and he’s my mainstay of owners race. I was expecting a big effort.” over the years. I talk to him pretty much every day, over horses or Verdant Pastures exceeded expectations, leading the field gate- just to talk. He’s a great guy, great friend, very good person.” to-wire in the 1 1/16-mile stakes to win by 2 lengths. Verdant Pastures enjoyed a short freshening after her 3-year-old Getting a good New York-bred in the barn is always special for campaign, started training in Florida in late winter and was due Baker. State-breds comprise about 80 percent of his stable and are back in Baker’s barn at Belmont in early spring to finish prepara- the basis for much of his success. tions for the start of her 2018 season.

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25 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Conquest Mo Money B. c., Uncle Mo–Stirring, Seeking the Gold. Breeder: Twin Creeks Farm. Owner: Judge Lanier Racing. Trainer: Miguel Hernandez. 2017 record: 6-3-2-0, $508,900. 2017 stakes: Mine That Bird Derby, Riley Allison. onquest Mo Money’s story was one of the more intriguing during the 2017 Triple Crown prep season. The son of Uncle Mo dominated the early 3-year-old preps at his home base Sunland Park in New Mexico, Cwinning a maiden race, the Riley Allison Stakes (by 11 lengths) and the Mine That Bird Derby in January and February. Next, he ran well to finish second (behind the Steve Asmussen-trained Hence) in the Grade 3 Sunland Derby in late March. He followed that effort with another stellar performance in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby. He set a torrid pace and led in the stretch, only to be run down by Justin Manning/Eclipse Sportswire/Getty Images 2016 champion 2-year-old Classic Empire in the final few strides. horse. He’s got good balance, good character, a wonderful head.” The success was quite a feat, considering Conquest Mo Money Conquest Mo Money finished seventh behind Cloud Comput- did not make his debut until early January. It’s even more impres- ing and Classic Empire in the Preakness in May, then got a long sive when you factor in he was purchased at Keeneland November break for the rest of the year. McKenna said Conquest Mo Money is less than two months before that winning debut, after only being back at Sunland with trainer Miguel Hernandez. The Breeders’ Cup in light training. Dirt Mile is the long-range goal. “Everything just fell in place,” said owner Tom McKenna of Judge Lanier Racing. “It was amazing that the horse came along “He’s matured a lot since we ran in the Preakness,” McKenna that fast. It shows you how smart he is.” said. “He’s done a total transformation from 3 to 4. He’s a much McKenna purchased Conquest Mo Money for just $8,500 from bigger horse. He’s a wonder to work with and he loves to work. You the Conquest Stables dispersal. Conquest paid $180,000 for the bay have to be very careful with him because he’ll work too much. He’s colt at Fasig-Tipton’s 2015 New York-bred sale in Saratoga. just one of those exceptional horses. He’s probably as good as I’ll “I just didn’t think I could buy an Uncle Mo for that dollar get. He’s a unique character. He takes a nap every afternoon. He’s amount, but we got it done,” McKenna said. “I liked a lot about the the boss of the barn.”

Control Group B. c., Posse–We Kept Her, Victory Gallop. Breeders: Colts Neck Stable and Alan Goldberg. Owners: Michael Dubb and David Simon. Monty Foss and John Moirano. Trainers: Rudy Rodriguez, Gary Contessa. 2017 record: 9-5-2-1, $296,570. 2017 stakes: Discovery (G3). orrest Gump would call it a box of chocolates. The finalists for the 3-year-old male championships run the gamut of New York-bred reach. A two-time stakes winner at Sunland Park. A homebred winner of the Grade 3 FBay Shore. A gelding who lost once in seven starts and that was in the Belmont Stakes. The first four-time winner at a single Sarato- ga meet since Native Dancer. And, last but not least, a finalist for claimer of the year. Bred by Colts Neck Stable and Alan Goldberg, Control Group brought $27,000 as a weanling at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall or perhaps prudent, Rodriguez shipped Control Group to Finger mixed sale in 2014. The next summer, he failed to sell for $49,000 Lakes to finish second 11 days later. at Saratoga. The following spring, he came home again, this time In three starts after being claimed, Control Group looked any- for $19,000. Gary Contessa wound up paying $15,000 for Control thing like the claimer of the year. That all changed. Group at the OBS June sale in 2016. Control Group won a $16,900 allowance at Finger Lakes in July, Contessa picked up four checks with Control Group before then scorched two straight at Saratoga before making his stakes de- dropping him into a $62,500 maiden claimer in his first 2017 start. Rudy Rodriguez filled out the claim slip for owners Michael Dubb but in the Empire Classic in October. Twisted Tom handled Con- and David Simon. The son of Posse finished third and Rodriguez trol Group, but the latter ran well, finishing second in the 9-fur- waited over two months before dropping Control Group to a long stakes. Next, Rodriguez aimed big, swinging at the Grade 3 $40,000 maiden claimer at Aqueduct. Once there, Control Group Discovery. Sent off as the favorite, Control Group opened up with drew off to win by 9 3/4 lengths. Another two months passed before every call to win by 3 lengths. And he picked up in 2018 just like he Control Group returned, this time, fading in a 40-length drubbing had left off in 2017, leading every step to capture the Alex M. Robb against open starter allowance foes at Belmont Park. Impatient, Stakes at Aqueduct Jan. 21. 26 27 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Long Haul Bay B. c., Quality Road–French Satin, French Deputy. Owner/Breeder: Alpha Delta Stable. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2017 record: 3-2-0-0. $198,000. 2017 stakes: Bay Shore (G3). ong Haul Bay started 2017 in South Florida with Chad Brown’s string at Palm Meadows, an unraced maiden who would go on to register his first win in February on the inner track at Aqueduct before finding graded-stakes success Lin a short amount of time. If that sounds familiar – think 2017 Preakness winner Cloud Computing albeit on a different path and sprinting rather than routing – looking back on the abbreviated season by Long Haul Bay isn’t much of a reach. The son of Quality Road broke his maiden for Brown and owner/breeder Jon Clay’s Alpha Delta Stables a week after Cloud Computing and registered his first stakes win – in the Grade 3 Bay Shore going 7 furlongs – more than a month Long Haul Bay, foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains and out before the Preakness. of the French Deputy mare French Satin, is back and nearing a re- “He has a lot of talent,” said Reynolds Bell, Clay’s primary turn to the races once Brown’s full contingent returns to New York. bloodstock advisor. “Chad thinks a lot of this colt, so much that he From there he’ll embark in more sprints, races which fit his pedi- stepped him up in his third start in the Woody Stephens. Reflecting gree and physical appearance. back on it I think we needed to try, but maybe he wasn’t ready to “He looks like a sprinter,” Bell said. “The mare breeds a type like make that jump where he’d been.” herself, more of the French Deputy, shorter coupled, little shorter Long Haul Bay didn’t embarrass himself in the Grade 2 Woody leg, strong and quick. He got Quality Road’s ability in some way Stephens on the Belmont Stakes Day undercard, finishing fifth and and got the mare’s conformation.” 7 1/2 lengths behind American Anthem. Clay bought French Satin in foal to Hard Spun through Bell for “He just needed a little more experience, running against a few $400,000 at the 2008 Keeneland November sale. She’s produced horses in that race that had a little more experience. And unfortu- five winners from as many foals to race for Clay, including Grade nately he didn’t come out of the race as well as he did going into it. 2-placed Midnight Transfer. She’s back in foal to Quality Road with He went to the sidelines and we took the time to get him right again.” an expected foaling date in early May.

Twisted Tom Ch. g., Creative Cause–Tiffany Twisted, Thunder Gulch. Breeder: Dr. William Wilmot and Dr. Joan Taylor. Owners: Cobra Farm, R R Partners and Head of Plains Partners. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2017 record: 7-6-0-0, $640,291. 2017 stakes: Empire Classic, Albany, New York Derby, Federico Tesio, Private Terms. verything about Twisted Tom is big – from his robust personality, to his towering 17-hand withers, to his knockout 3-year-old campaign that was perfect save for a Grade 1 try in the Belmont Stakes. Bred by Drs. Bill Wilmot and Joan ETaylor, the son of Creative Cause has exceeded all expectations. “We’d followed Creative Cause as a racehorse and then he retired to Airdrie so we went to see him,” said Wilmot. “We really liked him; big, rangy handsome horse. His mother was real hicko- ry, tough stakes winner. The irony is we perhaps overshot the mark. good-feeling colt. He would come out in the morning that week Twisted Tom is a big horse. People say, ‘Oh he’s too big, he’ll take a after he breezed and he was really feeling good and would stand up long time to come around.’ That’s not true. Everyone wants instant on his hind legs. That removed him from the short lists. We didn’t gratification.” want three RNAs on him because people would think he had tu- Twisted Tom was consigned twice as a yearling at Fasig-Tipton’s berculosis or something.” Saratoga New York-bred and Kentucky October sales, yielding two Twisted Tom was eventually sold privately, gelded and sold $22,000 bids that did not meet the reserve. Wilmot sent him to Niall Brennan with the intention of racing him in the future but again. The second was brokered by Steve Young, a deal that sent opted for the OBS April 2-year-old in training sale after impressing Twisted Tom to Chad Brown’s barn. Sixth for his new barn in an in training. allowance at Aqueduct in November 2016, Twisted Tom clicked off “He breezed in :10.3. They want :10.1. He’s big, he’s not one of three straight wins to start his 2017 season before his lone loss in those little rabbits that just hops out of there,” said Wilmot. “A few the Belmont Stakes. He closed the year with three more wins in a people liked him and he made a few short lists. row – the New York Derby at Finger Lakes, Albany Stakes at Sara- “People would come by in the morning to see him and he’s a big, toga and Empire Classic at Belmont. 28 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Voodoo Song Ch. c., English Channel–Mystic Chant, Unbridled’s Song. Breeder: Stonewall Farm. Owner: Barry Schwartz. Trainer: Linda Rice. 2017 record: 8-4-1-0, $355,085. 2017 stakes: Saranac (G3) hen Voodoo Song won a $40,000 claimer at Sarato- ga Race Course July 22, owner and breeder Barry Schwartz commented, “Maybe this race will wake him up as we move forward.” WSchwartz always saw potential in the son of English Channel out of the stakes-winning Unbridled’s Song mare Mystic Chant, but it failed to materialize until this past summer in upstate New York. Four days after that win, Voodoo Song doubled up in a New York-bred allowance and then earned his third victory of the Sara- toga season in a state-bred allowance-optional Aug. 23. Again, trainer Linda Rice entered Voodoo Song back quickly, “I just love grass horses,” Schwartz said. “I breed for the grass all targeting the Grade 3 Saranac Stakes the final Saturday of the meet. the time. If you look at the pedigrees of my horses, all my home- He beat open company in the 9-furlong turf stakes and became the breds have just so much grass. first horse since Native Dancer in 1952 to go 4-for-4 at a Saratoga “We bred her to a lot of good horses. The first one, I sold the foal meet. as a yearling, that was close to 10 years ago, for $250,000. So she’s Voodoo Song’s success vindicates Schwartz’s high opinion of always had good looking foals, but they just never really panned his mare, Mystic Chant, a $200,000 purchase at the 2003 Keene- land September sale. She won two of her first four starts, including out. This one has. It means I was right in keeping her all this time.” Aqueduct’s Open Mind Stakes in 2005, and had the distinction of Voodoo Song nearly made it five in a row when beaten setting a half-mile fraction of :42.78 on the downhill turf course at three-quarters of a length in the Grade 3 Commonwealth Derby at Santa Anita Park (before understandably fading a bit late) in 2006. Laurel Park in late September, then finished fifth in the Hawthorne Schwartz loved the speed she showed, and saw potential in her Derby in October. as a broodmare who could produce talented turf offspring. Voodoo After a freshening, he was back at work with Rice at Belmont Song is her first stakes winner from seven foals. Park in March.

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Fourstar Crook B. m. Freud–Avril a Portugal, D’Accord. Breeder: Kathleen Feron. Trainer: Chad Brown. Owners: Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables & Gary Asquith. 2017 record: 5-3-1-1, $344,116. 2017 stakes: Dr. James Penny (G3), Mount Vernon, John Hettinger. ourstar Crook registered her first win in her fourth start Oct. 8, 2015. Little did everyone know, that day was only the start of things to come. FShe won again in her next start to close out 2015 and the daughter of Freud was victorious in all four starts in 2016, including wins in the Yaddo and John Hettinger Stakes. She kept the streak going in her first start of 2017 with a triumph in the Mount Vernon Stakes at Belmont. “She’s obviously very consistent and we’re proud of her,” said trainer Chad Brown said after the seventh consecutive win. “She’s Fourstar Crook sold as a yearling for $55,000 at Fasig-Tipton wintered well. We gave her some time off and she put a lot of weight Saratoga in 2013. In 2014, she was offered by Parrish Farms and on and she had a great year last year.” did not meet her reserve at the Fasig-Tipton Florida sale at Adena That strength was on display in her next start when she suc- Spring South that year. She was offered again two months later at cessfully transitioned into graded competition with a 2 1/4-length Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s May sale, where Gary Young signed the score in the Grade 3 Dr. James Penny Memorial Stakes at Parx. ticket for owner Michael Dubb after a final bid of $110,000. That win ended up being the last in her eight-race streak. In “She was a big filly, a little awkward when we first got her. We the Yaddo at Saratoga, she made a wide move while Bar Of Gold knew later on before she left the farm that she would be a stakes came up the fresh path on the hedge to best Fourstar Crook by 1 horse,” said George Parrish of Parrish Farms. “She worked the same 1/4 lengths. time at both sales, which was kind of odd. She trained well on the Fourstar Crook returned to the winner’s circle a month later dirt at my farm. We didn’t necessarily think she’d be all grass.” when she repeated in the John Hettinger Stakes at Belmont. Fourstar Crook showed she’ll be a contender in the division Her last start of 2017 was the Grade 1 E. P. Taylor at Woodbine, again in 2018 after a victory in the Grade 2 Hillsborough at Tampa where she finished a respectable third and 2 1/2 lengths back. Bay Downs in early March. 32 QUESTROYAL NORTH

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35 TURF MALE FINALISTS Black Tide Dk. b./br. g., Hold Me Back–Turn The Tide, Theatrical. Breeder: Snow Lantern Thoroughbreds. Owner: Ivery Sisters Racing. Trainer: David Cannizzo. 2017 record: 10-5-1-0. $297,894. 2017 stakes: Mohawk. avid Cannizzo watched Black Tide for a few years, saw him toiling first in the state-bred maiden ranks and needing eight starts to break through and then mud- dling around as a useful if not spectacular dirt and turf Dsprinter. The trainer watched the Hold Me Back gelding so much that he came to a conclusion. “He’s a very interesting horse,” Cannizzo said. “I’d watched him run for a few years, he’d hang going short, hang going short, get in trouble. I said, ‘Man, he’s all turf horse, we’re going to claim him.’ ” The claim came for $35,000 in mid-November 2016 and two starts later he lost him for that same amount, after being aggressive Black Tide didn’t look back either, getting loose on the lead and and trying to collect a few checks as the year wound down. Can- winning by 7 1/4 lengths for a $25,000 tag April 23. He didn’t run nizzo and Brian Ivery’s Ivery Sisters Racing got the horse back for for a tag again in 2017 and racked up two state-bred allowance wins $25,000 in February 2017 – again while he was sprinting on the at Belmont, an open allowance victory at Saratoga and a win in the dirt – but this time they didn’t run him back short. Mohawk Stakes on Empire Showcase Day at Belmont. “I decided to sit on him,” Cannizzo said. “It was toward the mid- Bred by Snow Lantern Thoroughbreds and foaled at the former dle to end of winter, so there wasn’t any point sending him to the farm so we kept him in training.” Highcliff Farm in Delanson, Black Tide is a half-brother to three He also decided to stretch Black Tide to 1 1/16 miles on the winners including three-time graded stakes winner $550,625-earn- grass – a trip he’d only been once back in September 2015 – and er Avanzare. Black Tide closed 2017 by finishing last in the Claim- let him roll. ing Crown Emerald at Gulfstream Park – where he was bumped “Let him do what he wants to do, blinkers and to the lead,” at the start and unable to employ his preferred style – and is back Cannizzo said. “We never looked back. You can’t slow him down, in training with Cannizzo at Belmont for a 2018 campaign on the you’ve got to let him do his thing.” turf.

Disco Partner Gr. h., Disco Rico–Lulu’s Number, Numerous. Breeder/owner: Patricia Generazio. Trainer: Christophe Clement. 2017 record: 6-4-0-1. $547,000. 2017 stakes: Elusive Quality, Jaipur (G3), Forbidden Apple, Belmont Turf Sprint. isco Partner is the fastest horse in the world. Or at least he was on June 10, 2017 when he won the Jaipur Invi- tational Stakes at Belmont Park – in a difficult-to-even- type 1:05.67 for 6 furlongs on the turf. The 5-year-old Dgot help from a fast pace up front, but charged from eighth in a field of 10 to win by a half-length. The time was a record for the stakes, the course, the continent and even the world. And that was only part of Disco Partner’s banner 2017, his first season with trainer Christophe Clement after making 15 starts for Jim Ryerson. “I was lucky enough that Mr. (Frank) Generazio sent him my finished fourth at a mile on yielding turf. Back to 6 furlongs in Oc- way,” Clement said. “I received a very nice horse. Mr. Ryerson did a tober, Disco Partner won the Belmont Turf Sprint before heading great job with him. I’m very grateful that I got sent a horse in such to the Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar. There, going 5 furlongs, his late great shape.” run came up a half-length short of Stormy Liberal and Richard’s Already a stakes winner with $366,810 in the bank, Disco Part- Boy and he settled for third. Not that anyone was disappointed. ner took another step forward for Clement. “He’s a lovely horse, a small horse, well-made, well-balanced,” The Generazio homebred opened 2017 with a win in the Elusive Clement said in March. “He has an extraordinary amount of life Quality going 7 furlongs at Belmont, then blitzed the Jaipur to be- and energy even now as a 6-year-old. He’s a very pretty horse to come a graded stakes winner. Pure Sensation, another Generazio/ watch move because he has got so much bounce. And obviously he Clement standout, set fractions of :21.43, :43.04 and :54.35 that day has the most spectacular turn of foot.” and weakened slightly to finish fourth. The Generazios bred and raced much of Disco Partner’s female Stretched to a mile in the Forbidden Apple in July, Disco Partner family including dam Lulu’s Number and her dam Mary Lou’s made it three in a row. Clement aimed even higher in the Grade 1 Magic. After a winter break, Disco Partner was back with Clement Fourstardave at Saratoga, and called it a mistake as Disco Partner in Florida and aiming for a return to the races at Keeneland. 36 Congratulations White Birch Farm and 3-Year-Old Filly Nominee FiFty Five

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37 TURF MALE FINALISTS Get Jets Ch. c., Scat Daddy–Sunny, Dixieland Band. Breeder: Pat Pavlish. Owner: Team D. Trainer: Tony Dutrow 2017 record: 6-3-2-1, $279,000. 2017 stakes: West Point, Ashley T. Cole. finalist for champion New York-bred 2-year-old male honors in 2015 because of his efforts on dirt, Get Jets’ success in 2017 came exclusively on the turf. Trainer Tony Dutrow gave his colt the winter off after Aa victorious grass debut in his final start of 2016. Following a win against allowance company in June, Get Jets got his first stakes test of 2017 in the Forbidden Apple at Belmont against open company. He made a decent run from off the pace but could only manage second to fellow turf male finalist Disco Partner. Six weeks later on the Saratoga Showcase card, Get Jets came out on top to win the West Point after a stretch run that proved a half- length better than Offering Plan. The stakes win was the first since winner at Belmont in 2016 and Ride To The Sunset, a turf winner the 2015 Sleepy Hollow. at Gulfstream Park late last year. “I had to be concerned at the top of the stretch because our “When I bought him, I knew there was a lot of turf in the ped- horse had a lot of work to do, but he finished up fantastic,” Dutrow igree and I like turf horses but I’d rather have a dirt horse than a said after the West Point. “He did explode and I saw him do that at turf horse,” Dutrow said. “He was handling the dirt, he broke his Belmont one time (earlier in the year).” maiden up here very impressively. At OBS April in 2015, the veteran horseman spent $300,000 to “But when he got beat one day and I wasn’t liking the way he purchase the striking chestnut son of Scat Daddy as a 2-year-old lost I said, ‘That’s it, I’m putting him on the turf,’ and that’s what the for the Team D partnership. The previous summer, pinhooker Cary horse wants. What an awesome horse he is, when you stand there Frommer spent $162,000 on Get Jets at Fasig-Tipton’s New York- and look at him he’s just so awesome.” bred yearling sale in Saratoga. Get Jets narrowly defeated another strong group of New York- Get Jets’ dam Sunny won once (on the turf) in eight starts for breds in the Ashley T. Cole Stakes at Belmont in September. He breeder John Hettinger’s Akindale Farm. In additon to Get Jets she finished off his 2017 campaign with an admirable third by a length has produced British Exit, a $350,000 yearling, Heavenly Sun, a turf to Spring Quality in the Grade 3 Red Smith at Aqueduct.

Voodoo Song Ch. c., English Channel–Mystic Chant, Unbridled’s Song. Breeder: Stonewall Farm. Owner: Barry Schwartz. Trainer: Linda Rice. 2017 record: 8-4-1-0, $355,085. 2017 stakes: Saranac (G3) hen Voodoo Song won a $40,000 claimer at Sarato- ga Race Course July 22, owner and breeder Barry Schwartz commented, “Maybe this race will wake him up as we move forward.” WSchwartz always saw potential in the son of English Channel out of the stakes-winning Unbridled’s Song mare Mystic Chant, but it failed to materialize until this past summer in upstate New York. Four days after that win, Voodoo Song doubled up in a New York-bred allowance and then earned his third victory of the Sara- toga season in a state-bred allowance-optional Aug. 23. Again, trainer Linda Rice entered Voodoo Song back quickly, “I just love grass horses,” Schwartz said. “I breed for the grass all targeting the Grade 3 Saranac Stakes the final Saturday of the meet. the time. If you look at the pedigrees of my horses, all my home- He beat open company in the 9-furlong turf stakes and became the breds have just so much grass. first horse since Native Dancer in 1952 to go 4-for-4 at a Saratoga “We bred her to a lot of good horses. The first one, I sold the foal meet. as a yearling, that was close to 10 years ago, for $250,000. So she’s Voodoo Song’s success vindicates Schwartz’s high opinion of always had good looking foals, but they just never really panned his mare, Mystic Chant, a $200,000 purchase at the 2003 Keene- land September sale. She won two of her first four starts, including out. This one has. It means I was right in keeping her all this time.” Aqueduct’s Open Mind Stakes in 2005, and had the distinction of Voodoo Song nearly made it five in a row when beaten setting a half-mile fraction of :42.78 on the downhill turf course at three-quarters of a length in the Grade 3 Commonwealth Derby at Santa Anita Park (before understandably fading a bit late) in 2006. Laurel Park in late September, then finished fifth in the Hawthorne Schwartz loved the speed she showed, and saw potential in her Derby in October. as a broodmare who could produce talented turf offspring. Voodoo After a freshening, he was back at work with Rice at Belmont Song is her first stakes winner from seven foals. Park in March. 38 Cowboy Up with our New York-Breds 2017 graduates include: $160,000 Bustin Stones colt • $87,000 Fed Biz colt $65,000 Temple City filly (859) 621-2392 • [email protected]

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www.darleyamerica.com Be a part of it 39 FEMALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Absatootly B. f., Mineshaft–So N So, Freud. Breeder: Donald Newman. Owner: Newman Racing. Trainer: Charlton Baker. 2017 record: 9-3-1-3, $223,650. 2017 stakes: Iroquois, Primonetta. bsatootly is particularly special to the Newman family as her mating was one of the last things her breeder Don- ald Newman carried out before his passing in December 2014. AFoaled at Fawnridge Farm in East Nassau and a daughter of Mineshaft out of the family-owned homebred Freud mare So N So, Absatootly was bred by Newman and continues to race in the family’s Newman Racing colors. She won three of nine in 2017, with two stakes wins and three stakes placings to stake a claim in the ultra-tough New York-bred distaff sprint division. Absatootly’s success came after an atypical upbringing. She was initially rejected by her mother and was raised by a nurse mare. The the name resonates,” said Rich Newman, part of Newman Racing filly’s legs were also a bit offset when she was born and she under- with Adam, Gail and Rebecca Newman. “Everyone familiar with went surgery to put screws in her knees before turning 2. him laughed because he used that phrase all the time and for her to Placed in the care of New York-based trainer Charlton Baker, win the biggest purse Newman Racing has ever won was very spe- Absatootly placed second in her first start, won her second and cial. Her accomplishments represent a victory for small, family-run became a stakes winner in her third. She’s been consistent since, breeding operations.” winning or placing in 14 of 19 starts through March. Donald Newman purchased Absatootly’s third dam Lovelier By Her biggest win came in last year’s Iroquois in October on the Far in 1983. As a broodmare, she produced graded stakes winner Empire Showcase Day card at Belmont. The pronounced front- First And Only among others. Her daughter So Far So Good won runner produced a significant change in tactics in the 6 ½-furlong three times, and produced So N So (a stakes winner in five starts race. Joe Bravo took her back to last, but she stormed up the rail to for Newman). In addition to Absatootly, So N So has produced re- beat heavy favorite Quezon. cent debut winner Quest For Fire and four-time winner So Let It “Its always extra special because for anyone that knew my dad, Be So.

Bar Of Gold Dk. b./br. m. Medaglia d’Oro–Khancord Kid, Lemon Drop Kid. Breeder/owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: John Kimmel. 2017 record: 9-2-3-1, $822,000. 2017 stakes: Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1), Yaddo. ohn Kimmel shook raindrops from his coat as he walked alone down the aisle between the box seats last fall at Keeneland, found an empty spot with about five minutes to post for the Grade 1 Juddmonte Spinster, sat and looked at a sloppy track. JAsked about the chances of Bar Of Gold – previously 5-for-6 on wet tracks – Kimmel let out a big exhale. “Whew. So far, so good,” he said, looking at the tote board that read 9-5 on his star mare. The Spinster went anything but, as Bar Of Gold raced midpack and never really fired to finish sixth. Kimmel called the result “weird.” Once back at Belmont, Bar Of Gold returned to her old winner Khancord Kid. The Bromans purchased Khancord Kid’s self, turned in two strong breezes and Kimmel and Chester and dam, the unraced Storm Cat mare Confidently in foal to Mr. Pros- Mary Broman opted to shorten up and try the Breeders’ Cup Filly pector, for $1 million at the 2000 Keeneland January sale. Bar Of and Mare Sprint at Del Mar. Gold is Khancord Kid’s first foal. The decision worked, as Bar Of Gold pulled off the biggest upset Bar Of Gold will get every chance as a broodmare. of the two-day championship at 66-1. She provided Kimmel and “She came a week after the Breeders’ Cup,” said Gregg Falk, farm the Bromans their first Breeders’ Cup winner and became the third manager at Chestertown Farm. “That was pretty neat to have her New York-bred – after Dayatthespa and London Bridge – to win on here, but I felt bad for the poor girl. Twenty five days after she got racing’s biggest day. here, we had that big storm up here and got about a foot of snow. “We knew it was in there somewhere,” Kimmel said. “She pulled She was in sunny California getting a blanket of flowers put over it out at the right moment. She’s brushed on greatness a few times, her withers for winning a Breeders’ Cup race and three weeks lat- and she’s gotten better as the years have gone on.” er she was knee deep in snow. She loved it and settled in real well. Foaled at the Bromans farm in Chestertown, Bar Of Gold is a She’s in Kentucky, just confirmed in foal to Tapit and will come second generation homebred out of the Kimmel-trained Grade 3 back here to foal a New York-bred.” 40 CELEBRATING THE BURKE EQUINE GREATEST TRADITIONS Veterinary Care & Rehabilitation In Thoroughbred Racing and Sales www.burkeequinetherapy.com BURK“AE Spa at the Spa”

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41 FEMALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Highway Star Ch. f. Girolamo–Stolen Star, Cat Thief. Breeder/owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: Rodrigo Ubillo. 2017 record: 8-3-2-1, $640,000. 2017 stakes: Gallant Bloom (G2), Ruffian (G2), Distaff (G3). odrigo Ubillo was excited about the future for Highway Star back in 2016 when the then 3-year-old filly beat el- ders for the third straight start and open graded company in her first attempt in Aqueduct’s Grade 3 Go For Wand Rto end the season. “Every time she runs, she just gets better and better, more feisty and more happy,” he said. The Chester and Mary Broman homebred daughter of Girola- mo won five of seven that season and continued to prove her trainer right in 2017 with three more graded wins, an appearance in the Breeders’ Cup and another nomination for state-bred championship honors. “The owner has a lot to do with it, I had her for a year and didn’t Like Bar Of Gold, a finalist in two divisions and the winner of run her. When she was ready, she showed me, she worked in :48, like the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, Highway Star is a second she turned around. If you read the horse, there’s a success story there.” generation homebred for the state’s leading breeders. Highway Star, The Bromans’ latest success story started with the purchase who finished 11th in the Filly and Mare Sprint after a somewhat of the multiple stakes-placed Unbridled mare Unbridled Star for troubled trip, earned her flight to California with a victory in the $115,000 at the 2002 Keeneland November sale. The then 6-year- Grade 2 Gallant Bloom at Belmont and a runner-up finish in Sara- old mare sold in foal to Cat Thief and four months later produced toga’s Grade 1 Ballerina. the filly Stolen Star. She won three of 21 starts and placed in three “She’s given me my first graded stakes wins, she’s special, but all stakes before joining the broodmare band. The half-sister to mul- the horses are special,” Ubillo said. “I’m very thankful to her and tiple stakes winner Friend Or Foe, Stolen Star is the dam of two the owners. I’d be lying if I said, ‘Oh yeah, I knew she was going other winners besides Highway Star. to be a champion.’ When she was a 2-year-old, she was a big, leggy Highway Star is back for a 5-year-old campaign, which started horse, she was traveling a little awkward, I give her the time. with a fifth in the Heavenly Prize March 10 at Aqueduct.

Quezon Ch. m., Tiz Wonderful–Kalookan Dancer, Olympio. Breeder: Apache Farm. Owner: Marc Keller. Trainer: Bob Ribaudo. 2017 record: 7-1-3-2. $182,000. 2017 stakes: Garland of Roses. ooking for future racehorses, Marc Keller and Bob Ribau- do somewhat literally bumped into one at the Fasig-Tipton sales grounds at Saratoga in 2013. Part of the Marshall Sil- verman consignment at the New York-bred yearling sale, Lthe daughter of Tiz Wonderful was making people work. “She was an aggressive filly at the sale,” Ribaudo said. “She caught our eye. She had no pedigree, but I did love Tiz Wonderful at the time for some reason. Joe Rocco was riding a Tiznow filly (Grade 1 winner Tiz Miz Sue) in the Midwest for Steve Hobby and that was on my mind a little bit when I was looking at her.” Ribaudo’s instincts proved pretty sound, even if Quezon had five years with her. You can count on one hand how many fil- brought a little more breeding than the trainer suggested. Her dam lies win stakes at 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.” Kalookan Dancer won eight times and earned $404,031, most of But Quezon did. Last year began with six consecutive losses it on the minor California circuit, before being purchased by Jane (three seconds and two thirds), but ended with a win in the Gar- Moriarty for $20,000 in 2009. Quezon was the mare’s first foal, and land of Roses at Aqueduct in December. She placed in the Vagran- the only foal to race (Kalookan Dancer died in 2014). cy (G3) and Gallant Bloom (G2). She built her career on training By Tiznow’s son Tiz Wonderful, the yearling went for $90,000 sharply – and making her trainer sweat – in the morning. She went and joined Ribaudo’s barn the next year. Named Quezon, she was out early to avoid traffic, and normally put on a show. good from the start – winning her first two, four of her first five, “She’s very tough, I got a good rider (Bobby Chapman) who collecting five stakes wins and wrapping up a 19-start career with does great job with her,” said Ribaudo in February. “We get her out seven wins, six seconds, two thirds and $759,200 in earnings. Bred literally at 5:30 on the nose. The outriders don’t like you out there by the Moriarty family’s Apache Farm, Quezon was retired in unless they’re out there and we’re coming on at the same time they March and had a pending date with Horse of the Year Gun Runner. are. The track is empty in the morning for a while and she does “Listen, you can make that case for a lot of horses that never great. It’s like having her own little training track. She goes a good work out but she worked out,” Ribaudo said of his stable star. “We clip but she’s very relaxed doing it.” 42 FEMALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Wonderment Gr./r. f., Cosmonaut–A Wonder She Is, Three Wonders. Breeder: Michael Landers. Owner: Walking L Thoroughbreds and Magdalena Racing. Trainer: Ken McPeek. 2017 record: 7-2-0-1, $124,610. 2017 stakes: Dancin Renee, Arctic Queen. ever worse than fourth from seven starts in 2017, Won- derment is as consistent as they come. The daughter of Cosmonaut is a finalist for New York-bred honors for the third year in a row. N“She’s been a good, consistent filly. A stakes winner at 2, 3, and 4,” said Scott Leeds of co-owner Walking L Thoroughbreds. “She’s just always worked hard and been a filly who was ready to run every time we took her to the gate.” Trainer Ken McPeek started his filly’s 2017 campaign at Keene- land in April. After that Wonderment ran in every state-bred filly and mare stakes going one-turn for the rest of year, where she col- Lakes. Going 6 furlongs, she edged Bee Noteworthy by a nose lided with a deep group. as the heavy favorite. Leeds’ Walking L Thoroughbreds officially “Against the older (New York-bred) fillies and mares, that’s just joined Magdalena Racing as the owners of Wonderment after the a murderer’s row every time we run against them,” Leeds said. “In 2016 Fasig-Tipton November sale. the Union Avenue at Saratoga, I looked and there were 20-some “A subset of the group that owned her bought her at the sale,” stakes wins and $5 million earned between the horses in that race.” Leeds said of the $185,000 transaction. “We had five different Wonderment made two trips to the winner’s circle in 2017, owners and we decided to run her though the sale. It was less of a each with jockey Dylan Davis. She was first successful in Belmont’s traditional auction purchase and more of a recapitalization of the Dancin Renee Stakes in June on an off-track. ownership team.” “Our first reaction was ‘Wow, we didn’t know she could run in Now 5, Wonderment finished third in the La Verdad Stakes in the mud.’ We were glad that was the third race of the day, since they January, and will be bred this spring. Leeds hopes that her consis- canceled the card after that race,” Leeds said. tency and toughness will carry over into future foals. The mare registered her second win of the year a few months “We are going to breed her and we’re not sure if we’re going to later during early October in the Arctic Queen Stakes at Finger run her a little bit after that or not,” Leeds said.

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43 MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Disco Partner Gr. h., Disco Rico–Lulu’s Number, Numerous. Breeder/owner: Patricia Generazio. Trainer: Christophe Clement. 2017 record: 6-4-0-1. $547,000. 2017 stakes: Elusive Quality, Jaipur (G3), Forbidden Apple, Belmont Turf Sprint. isco Partner is the fastest horse in the world. Or at least he was on June 10, 2017 when he won the Jaipur Invi- tational Stakes at Belmont Park – in a difficult-to-even- type 1:05.67 for 6 furlongs on the turf. The 5-year-old Dgot help from a fast pace up front, but charged from eighth in a field of 10 to win by a half-length. The time was a record for the stakes, the course, the continent and even the world. And that was only part of Disco Partner’s banner 2017, his first season with trainer Christophe Clement after making 15 starts for Jim Ryerson. “I was lucky enough that Mr. (Frank) Generazio sent him my finished fourth at a mile on yielding turf. Back to 6 furlongs in Oc- way,” Clement said. “I received a very nice horse. Mr. Ryerson did a tober, Disco Partner won the Belmont Turf Sprint before heading great job with him. I’m very grateful that I got sent a horse in such to the Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar. There, going 5 furlongs, his late great shape.” run came up a half-length short of Stormy Liberal and Richard’s Already a stakes winner with $366,810 in the bank, Disco Part- Boy and he settled for third. Not that anyone was disappointed. ner took another step forward for Clement. “He’s a lovely horse, a small horse, well-made, well-balanced,” The Generazio homebred opened 2017 with a win in the Elusive Clement said in March. “He has an extraordinary amount of life Quality going 7 furlongs at Belmont, then blitzed the Jaipur to be- and energy even now as a 6-year-old. He’s a very pretty horse to come a graded stakes winner. Pure Sensation, another Generazio/ watch move because he has got so much bounce. And obviously he Clement standout, set fractions of :21.43, :43.04 and :54.35 that day has the most spectacular turn of foot.” and weakened slightly to finish fourth. The Generazios bred and raced much of Disco Partner’s female Stretched to a mile in the Forbidden Apple in July, Disco Partner family including dam Lulu’s Number and her dam Mary Lou’s made it three in a row. Clement aimed even higher in the Grade 1 Magic. After a winter break, Disco Partner was back with Clement Fourstardave at Saratoga, and called it a mistake as Disco Partner in Florida and aiming for a return to the races at Keeneland.

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45 MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Long Haul Bay B. c., Quality Road–French Satin, French Deputy. Owner/Breeder: Alpha Delta Stable. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2017 record: 3-2-0-0. $198,000. 2017 stakes: Bay Shore (G3). ong Haul Bay started 2017 in South Florida with Chad Brown’s string at Palm Meadows, an unraced maiden who would go on to register his first win in February on the inner track at Aqueduct before finding graded-stakes success Lin a short amount of time. If that sounds familiar – think 2017 Preakness winner Cloud Computing albeit on a different path and sprinting rather than routing – looking back on the abbreviated season by Long Haul Bay isn’t much of a reach. The son of Quality Road broke his maiden for Brown and owner/breeder Jon Clay’s Alpha Delta Stables a week after Cloud Computing and registered his first stakes win – in the Grade 3 Bay Shore going 7 furlongs – more than a month Long Haul Bay, foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains and out before the Preakness. of the French Deputy mare French Satin, is back and nearing a re- “He has a lot of talent,” said Reynolds Bell, Clay’s primary turn to the races once Brown’s full contingent returns to New York. bloodstock advisor. “Chad thinks a lot of this colt, so much that he From there he’ll embark in more sprints, races which fit his pedi- stepped him up in his third start in the Woody Stephens. Reflecting gree and physical appearance. back on it I think we needed to try, but maybe he wasn’t ready to “He looks like a sprinter,” Bell said. “The mare breeds a type like make that jump where he’d been.” herself, more of the French Deputy, shorter coupled, little shorter Long Haul Bay didn’t embarrass himself in the Grade 2 Woody leg, strong and quick. He got Quality Road’s ability in some way Stephens on the Belmont Stakes Day undercard, finishing fifth and and got the mare’s conformation.” 7 1/2 lengths behind American Anthem. Clay bought French Satin in foal to Hard Spun through Bell for “He just needed a little more experience, running against a few $400,000 at the 2008 Keeneland November sale. She’s produced horses in that race that had a little more experience. And unfortu- five winners from as many foals to race for Clay, including Grade nately he didn’t come out of the race as well as he did going into it. 2-placed Midnight Transfer. She’s back in foal to Quality Road with He went to the sidelines and we took the time to get him right again.” an expected foaling date in early May.

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47 OLDER DIRT FEMALE FINALISTS Absatootly B. f., Mineshaft–So N So, Freud. Breeder: Donald Newman. Owner: Newman Racing. Trainer: Charlton Baker. 2017 record: 9-3-1-3, $223,650. 2017 stakes: Iroquois, Primonetta. bsatootly is particularly special to the Newman family as her mating was one of the last things her breeder Don- ald Newman carried out before his passing in December 2014. AFoaled at Fawnridge Farm in East Nassau and a daughter of Mineshaft out of the family-owned homebred Freud mare So N So, Absatootly was bred by Newman and continues to race in the family’s Newman Racing colors. She won three of nine in 2017, with two stakes wins and three stakes placings to stake a claim in the ultra-tough New York-bred distaff sprint division. Absatootly’s success came after an atypical upbringing. She was the name resonates,” said Rich Newman, part of Newman Racing initially rejected by her mother and was raised by a nurse mare. The with Adam, Gail and Rebecca Newman. “Everyone familiar with filly’s legs were also a bit offset when she was born and she under- him laughed because he used that phrase all the time and for her to went surgery to put screws in her knees before turning 2. win the biggest purse Newman Racing has ever won was very spe- Placed in the care of New York-based trainer Charlton Baker, cial. Her accomplishments represent a victory for small, family-run Absatootly placed second in her first start, won her second and breeding operations.” became a stakes winner in her third. She’s been consistent since, winning or placing in 14 of 19 starts through March. Donald Newman purchased Absatootly’s third dam Lovelier By Her biggest win came in last year’s Iroquois in October on the Far in 1983. As a broodmare, she produced graded stakes winner Empire Showcase Day card at Belmont. The pronounced front- First And Only among others. Her daughter So Far So Good won runner produced a significant change in tactics in the 6 ½-furlong three times, and produced So N So (a stakes winner in five starts race. Joe Bravo took her back to last, but she stormed up the rail to for Newman). In addition to Absatootly, So N So has produced re- beat heavy favorite Quezon. cent debut winner Quest For Fire and four-time winner So Let It “Its always extra special because for anyone that knew my dad, Be So.

Bar Of Gold Dk. b./br. m. Medaglia d’Oro–Khancord Kid, Lemon Drop Kid. Breeder/owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: John Kimmel. 2017 record: 9-2-3-1, $822,000. 2017 stakes: Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1), Yaddo. ohn Kimmel shook raindrops from his coat as he walked alone down the aisle between the box seats last fall at Keeneland, found an empty spot with about five minutes to post for the Grade 1 Juddmonte Spinster, sat and looked at a sloppy track. JAsked about the chances of Bar Of Gold – previously 5-for-6 on wet tracks – Kimmel let out a big exhale. “Whew. So far, so good,” he said, looking at the tote board that read 9-5 on his star mare. The Spinster went anything but, as Bar Of Gold raced midpack and never really fired to finish sixth. Kimmel called the result Alex Evers/Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders Cup “weird.” Once back at Belmont, Bar Of Gold returned to her old winner Khancord Kid. The Bromans purchased Khancord Kid’s self, turned in two strong breezes and Kimmel and Chester and dam, the unraced Storm Cat mare Confidently in foal to Mr. Pros- Mary Broman opted to shorten up and try the Breeders’ Cup Filly pector, for $1 million at the 2000 Keeneland January sale. Bar Of and Mare Sprint at Del Mar. Gold is Khancord Kid’s first foal. The decision worked, as Bar Of Gold pulled off the biggest upset Bar Of Gold will get every chance as a broodmare. of the two-day championship at 66-1. She provided Kimmel and “She came a week after the Breeders’ Cup,” said Gregg Falk, farm the Bromans their first Breeders’ Cup winner and became the third manager at Chestertown Farm. “That was pretty neat to have her New York-bred – after Dayatthespa and London Bridge – to win on here, but I felt bad for the poor girl. Twenty five days after she got racing’s biggest day. here, we had that big storm up here and got about a foot of snow. “We knew it was in there somewhere,” Kimmel said. “She pulled She was in sunny California getting a blanket of flowers put over it out at the right moment. She’s brushed on greatness a few times, her withers for winning a Breeders’ Cup race and three weeks lat- and she’s gotten better as the years have gone on.” er she was knee deep in snow. She loved it and settled in real well. Foaled at the Bromans farm in Chestertown, Bar Of Gold is a She’s in Kentucky, just confirmed in foal to Tapit and will come second generation homebred out of the Kimmel-trained Grade 3 back here to foal a New York-bred.” 48 Bergen Stables LLC Breeding - Racing

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49 OLDER DIRT FEMALE FINALISTS Highway Star Ch. f. Girolamo–Stolen Star, Cat Thief. Breeder/owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: Rodrigo Ubillo. 2017 record: 8-3-2-1, $640,000. 2017 stakes: Gallant Bloom (G2), Ruffian (G2), Distaff (G3). odrigo Ubillo was excited about the future for Highway Star back in 2016 when the then 3-year-old filly beat el- ders for the third straight start and open graded company in her first attempt in Aqueduct’s Grade 3 Go For Wand Rto end the season. “Every time she runs, she just gets better and better, more feisty and more happy,” he said. The Chester and Mary Broman homebred daughter of Girola- mo won five of seven that season and continued to prove her trainer right in 2017 with three more graded wins, an appearance in the Breeders’ Cup and another nomination for state-bred champion- “The owner has a lot to do with it, I had her for a year and didn’t ship honors. run her. When she was ready, she showed me, she worked in :48, like Like Bar Of Gold, a finalist in two divisions and the winner of she turned around. If you read the horse, there’s a success story there.” the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, Highway Star is a second The Bromans’ latest success story started with the purchase generation homebred for the state’s leading breeders. Highway Star, of the multiple stakes-placed Unbridled mare Unbridled Star for who finished 11th in the Filly and Mare Sprint after a somewhat $115,000 at the 2002 Keeneland November sale. The then 6-year- troubled trip, earned her flight to California with a victory in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom at Belmont and a runner-up finish in Sara- old mare sold in foal to Cat Thief and four months later produced toga’s Grade 1 Ballerina. the filly Stolen Star. She won three of 21 starts and placed in three “She’s given me my first graded stakes wins, she’s special, but all stakes before joining the broodmare band. The half-sister to mul- the horses are special,” Ubillo said. “I’m very thankful to her and tiple stakes winner Friend Or Foe, Stolen Star is the dam of two the owners. I’d be lying if I said, ‘Oh yeah, I knew she was going other winners besides Highway Star. to be a champion.’ When she was a 2-year-old, she was a big, leggy Highway Star is back for a 5-year-old campaign, which started horse, she was traveling a little awkward, I give her the time. with a fifth in the Heavenly Prize March 10 at Aqueduct. Wonderment Gr./r. f., Cosmonaut–A Wonder She Is, Three Wonders. Breeder: Michael Landers. Owner: Walking L Thoroughbreds and Magdalena Racing. Trainer: Ken McPeek. 2017 record: 7-2-0-1, $124,610. 2017 stakes: Dancin Renee, Arctic Queen. ever worse than fourth from seven starts in 2017, Won- derment is as consistent as they come. The daughter of Cosmonaut is a finalist for New York-bred honors for the third year in a row. N“She’s been a good, consistent filly. A stakes winner at 2, 3, and 4,” said Scott Leeds of co-owner Walking L Thoroughbreds. “She’s just always worked hard and been a filly who was ready to run every time we took her to the gate.” Trainer Ken McPeek started his filly’s 2017 campaign at Keene- land in April. After that Wonderment ran in every state-bred filly and mare stakes going one-turn for the rest of year, where she col- Lakes. Going 6 furlongs, she edged Bee Noteworthy by a nose lided with a deep group. as the heavy favorite. Leeds’ Walking L Thoroughbreds officially “Against the older (New York-bred) fillies and mares, that’s just joined Magdalena Racing as the owners of Wonderment after the a murderer’s row every time we run against them,” Leeds said. “In 2016 Fasig-Tipton November sale. the Union Avenue at Saratoga, I looked and there were 20-some “A subset of the group that owned her bought her at the sale,” stakes wins and $5 million earned between the horses in that race.” Leeds said of the $185,000 transaction. “We had five different Wonderment made two trips to the winner’s circle in 2017, owners and we decided to run her though the sale. It was less of a each with jockey Dylan Davis. She was first successful in Belmont’s traditional auction purchase and more of a recapitalization of the Dancin Renee Stakes in June on an off-track. ownership team.” “Our first reaction was ‘Wow, we didn’t know she could run in Now 5, Wonderment finished third in the La Verdad Stakes in the mud.’ We were glad that was the third race of the day, since they January, and will be bred this spring. Leeds hopes that her consis- canceled the card after that race,” Leeds said. tency and toughness will carry over into future foals. The mare registered her second win of the year a few months “We are going to breed her and we’re not sure if we’re going to later during early October in the Arctic Queen Stakes at Finger run her a little bit after that or not,” Leeds said. 50 2000 ATTORNEYS | 38 LOCATIONS WORLDWIDE ˚

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51 OLDER DIRT MALE FINALISTS Diversify B. g., Bellamy Road–Rule One, Street Cry. Breeders: Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding. Owners: Lauren and Ralph Evans. Trainer: Rick Violette. 2017 record: 8-4-2-0. $690,825. 2017 stakes: Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1), Evan Shipman, Saginaw. ick Violette contemplated moves for Diversify at Saratoga. At that stage, the son of Bellamy Road had won five of eight starts but just one New York-bred stakes, the Sagi- naw at Belmont Park in July. R“We’re probably going to experiment on the grass in the West Point. We’re also nominated to the Evan Shipman…but I’m not sure he wants to do a mile-and-an-eighth, his only bad race was a mile-and-an-eighth. He’s been 1-2 his other seven starts,” Violette said. “He’s never run on the grass, breezed real well on it twice. If he can improve on the grass, he becomes a real horse.” Violette opted for the Shipman, Diversify dominated three foes, Evans bought the bay gelding for $210,000. drawing off to win by 11 1/2 lengths. He looked like a real horse. “Awfully special people,” said Violette of the Evans family. “If Violette aimed really big after the Shipman, stretching Diversify you were mapping out what a good owner should be, they’d exceed another furlong in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont. it. They’re great people.” Diversify stretched his speed, staving off Keen Ice by a length. Without seeing the horse prior to the sale, Ralph Evans signed Shipped to Churchill Downs for the Grade 1 Clark, Diversify the ticket and Diversify returned to Violette’s barn shortly after. finished fourth to close out a stellar campaign that netted four wins “We just went off of what Rick said,” said Evans. “Rick was very and $690,825. That’s real. honest with everybody that was interested in him. We thought we’d Bred by Fred Hertrich III and John Fielding and foaled at Ma- have to pay more than the reserve and we made one bid. Of course jestic View Farms in Gardiner, Diversify lured a $150,000 bid from he was a gelding and it was the end of his 3-year-old year so there Maverick Racing at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred year- was no residual value, but I’m in it to race.” ling sale in 2014 and went 2-for-2 for Violette and WinStar Farm Diversify will race in 2018 and wintered at Palm Meadows, before selling at Keeneland November in 2016. Ralph and Lauren where he turned in a bullet 5-furlong move in 1:00.45 March 28.

Giant Expectations Ch. c. Frost Giant–Sarahisittrue, Is It True. Breeder: Sunrise Stables. Owner: Exline-Border Racing, Gatto Racing & Garrett Zubok. Trainer: Peter Eurton. 2017 record: 7-4-1-0, $410,000. 2017 stakes: Pat O’Brien (G2), San Antonio (G2). rior to his breakout season in 2017 the most significant part of Giant Expectations’ racing career was a runner-up performance to Arrogate before that champion went on to worldwide success and more than $17 million in earnings. PIn his fifth start, Giant Expectations finished second to Arrogate in a maiden race at Santa Anita in June 2016. The chestnut needed two more tries to figure out the winning thing – a return trip to his native state in his 2017 debut did the trick – and once out of the way the son of Frost Giant became one of the more respected members of the country’s older male division. bles, owner of Frost Giant, who stands at Irish Hill and Dutchess Victories in back-to-back state-bred events – a 6 1/2-furlong Views Stallions in Stillwater. maiden and a 1-mile allowance – over a 10-day stretch last spring at The finalist in two divisions (male sprinter and older dirt male) Belmont Park started things off for Giant Expectations in 2017. He won stakes sprinting and routing in 2017. First came the 7-furlong wound up winning four of seven and Gary Stevens, who rode him Pat O’Brien. Three starts later, in December, he stretched to 1 1/16 six straight times in 2017-18, called Giant Expectations a “bulldog” miles in the Grade 2 San Antonio – and led at every call while after winning the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien at Del Mar in August. winning by 3 1/4 lengths to earn a trip to the $16 million Pegasus “Once he gets out there and in his comfort zone he’s actually a pretty good horse,” said Peter Eurton, who trains Giant Expecta- World Cup in January. tions for the partnership of Ryan Exline’s Exline-Border Racing, Foaled at Saratoga Glen Farm in Schuylerville, Giant Expecta- Gatto Racing and Garrett Zubok. “He’s got the natural speed of a tions sold first as a short yearling for $85,000 at the 2014 Keeneland sprinter but he has the stamina … a nice cruising speed where he January sale then was bought back for $70,000 nine months later at can get the two turns.” Keeneland September. Exline bought him for $135,000 at the 2015 Giant Expectations was bred by Andrew Cohen’s Sunrise Sta- OBS March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training. 52 OLDER DIRT MALE FINALISTS Inside Straight B. g., Super Saver–Dance Alexa, Southern Halo. Breeder: SF Bloodstock. Owner: Randy Howg. Trainer: Robertino Diodoro. 2017 record: 6-2-1-1, $523,300. 2017 stakes: Oaklawn H. (G2). razy. That’s what trainer Robertino Diodoro would have said if you told him Inside Straight, fresh out of a $40,000 claiming win for WinStar Farm and Todd Pletcher at Bel- mont Park in 2016, would win a Grade 2 stakes and earn Cmore than $500,000 for owner Randy Howg and Diodoro in 2017. “Yeah, I’ll be honest, I would have said you’re crazy,” Diodoro said. “I just thought he would be a handy little horse to run in Can- ada in those derbies, after that, if he would have been a solid 30, 50,000 claiming horse I would have been more than happy. For what he’s done for us, the excitement he’s given us, it’s more than we expected and we’re pretty thankful for it as well.” Purchased privately after winning that 3-year-old claimer, the Ciara Bowen/Eclipse Sportswire/Getty Images son of Super Saver finished third in the Harry Jeffrey Stakes and later, he really missed the break, refusing to start in the Saginaw won the Manitoba Derby at Assiniboia Downs, before venturing to Stakes at Belmont. Northlands Park, Remington Park and Zia Park. “Out of nowhere, completely unexpected,” Diodoro said. “Touch By winter, the bay gelding settled in at Oaklawn Park, producing wood, no, he hasn’t shown anything like that since.” three solid efforts and convincing Diodoro to take a shot in the The Canadian-born trainer decided to give Inside Straight a Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap. Inside Straight stalked and pounced, long break after that debacle, bringing him back to win two of three upsetting six rivals in the 9-furlong stakes. starts at Oaklawn Park this winter and aim at defending his title in “Awesome,” Diodoro said. “Especially for the owner, he’s a real the Oaklawn Handicap April 14. good friend of mine as well as a client for 22, 23 years now, he was “He’s always been a sound horse, he’s fresh, he’s probably the best there that day, it was definitely a big rush for both of us.” he’s ever looked since we’ve had him,” Diodoro said. “He loves to Shipped to New York, Inside Straight missed the break in the train. With most good horses, they have to like to train and be able Metropolitan Handicap, winding up 12th and last. Three weeks to stand up to some training to run in some of the bigger races.”

Mind Your Biscuits Ch. c., Posse–Jazzmane, Toccet. Breeder: Jumping Jack Racing. Owner: Head of Plains, J Stables, M. Scott Summers, Daniel Summers and Chad Summers, Michael Kisber. Trainer: Chad Summers. 2017 record: 6-2-2-1, $1,713,800. 2017 stakes: Dubai Golden Shaheen (G1), Belmont Sprint Champ. (G2). arning the title of New York-bred Horse of the Year in 2016 with Mind Your Biscuits still brings pride to trainer and co-owner Chad Summers. Fresh off winning the Group 1 Dubai Golden Shaheen a few days before the awards cere- Emony, Summers called the New York Thoroughbred Breeders rec- ognition a symbol of the program’s success. “It was one of those things where we won the award right on the heels of coming back from Dubai and they were showing clips of the race,” said Summers, who took over the horse’s training from Summers knows his horse wasn’t the only New York-bred star in Robert Falcone Jr. after the 2016 season. “To embrace not only be- 2017 as Bar Of Gold took down the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare ing an American horse to go over there and win the race, but to do Sprint for Chester and Mary Broman and trainer John Kimmel. it for New York for a horse who was New York-sired as well, I think “It’s funny, in any other year, once you won in Dubai, you is a big deal. All year long, we wore that crown proudly and I think wrapped up New York-bred Horse of the Year for 2017, but that’s we had a really solid year. not the case here with as strong as the New York-breds were last In addition to winning in Dubai in late March, Mind Your Bis- year,” he said of his horse’s chances at the big prize. “To see how cuits started 2017 with a second behind Unified in the Grade 3 the division has grown and changed and what being a New York- Gulfstream Park Sprint, and blasted six others in the Grade 2 Bel- bred means, it’s important to know that New York-breds can win mont Sprint in July. The son of Posse finished sixth in the Grade 1 anywhere. The New York-bred program, from a stallion rewards Forego at Saratoga and was third (beaten 3 lengths) in the Grade perspective, from a breeders’ awards perspective, is phenomenal.” 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint in November. In December, he stretched a And for another encore, Mind Your Biscuits came from well bit in distance and finished second to Sharp Azteca in the Grade 1 back to win the 2018 Golden Shaheen March 31 in Dubai and pass Cigar Mile to close the campaign. $3.7 million in career earnings. 53 OLDER DIRT MALE FINALISTS Send It In B. g., Big Brown–Sharp Instinct, Awesome Again. Breeder/Owner: Paul Pompa Jr. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2017 record: 3-2-0-1, $162,500. 2017 stakes: Excelsior (G3), Haynesfield. ou could write about his maiden win at Saratoga, a 9-furlong arrival, in 2015. Or his four-race win streak, a throwback stance, at Aqueduct in the winter of 2015-16. Or his stakes double in the Alex M. Robb and Haynesfield Ythe following winter. Or about how he hit the board in 15 of his first 17 starts. Or his triumph in the 2017 Grade 3 Excelsior, the day he reeled in Tu Brutus like a tarpon off the coast of Boca Grande to win by a half- length, the two warriors were 14 lengths clear of the third horse in the 10-furlong test. four times and earning $181,214. He banged out another $319,700 Yeah, you could write about those performances, those accom- in 2016-17. Always the hard way, Send It In won his first race at plishments, those memories or you could call and ask for an update Saratoga, his second at Belmont and the next seven under the dark on Send It In, a granite-tough gelding who won nine of 18 starts in sky and in the cold air of Aqueduct. his career for owner/breeder Paul Pompa and trainer Todd Pletcher. Send It In won the Haynesfield in his 2017 debut, finished third But, sadly, there is no one to call. Send It In is gone. in the Stymie against open company and then won the Grade 3 Ex- Making his first start since the Excelsior, the son of Big Brown stumbled at the break in the Hal’s Hope at Gulfstream Park in Feb- celsior in April. That day, John Velazquez placed the long-striding ruary, recovered quickly and established a stalking spot outside gelding in a stalking spot outside in third, just off Chilean import stablemate Malagacy in the Grade 3 stakes. Going into the turn, Tu Brutus and Bellamy Way. Most horses respond to Velazquez, eventual winner Economic Model slid between horses and Sent It but some mesh their mettle with Velazquez’s directness like coffee In began to backpedal, then broke down and disappeared. and cream. With every pump and slap from Velazquez, Send It In It was a sudden and sad end to a story that had been nothing but lowered and stretched, somehow scouring the bottom of the bucket feel-good. By Pompa’s Derby and Preakness winner Big Brown, out to make up 2 lengths inside the eighth pole. of Sharp Instinct, a three-time winner for Pompa and Pletcher in Send It In finished with his ears flattened and galloped out with 2009-10, Send It In made 10 starts during his first season, winning his ears pricked. That’s how we should remember him.

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Welcome back, High Hope Steeplechase. TRAINER OF THE YEAR Linda Rice inda Rice enjoyed a career year in 2017 and as always she’s appreciative of what was but not about to rest on the accomplishments. L“Last year was frankly very good,” Rice said of her barn’s 2017 performance before immediately changing the narrative. “And in 2018 we’ve had a lot of young horses come to hand and win stakes races. Holiday Disguise won the Biogio’s Rose, Startwithsilver won the Broadway, Midnight Disguise won the Busanda and the Busher and is on to the Gazelle. We’ve really had a good winter, despite some setbacks, weather closings, not racing, quarantines, despite that we’ve had a good winter thus far.” Rice’s productive start to 2018 is reflective of her season last year – her sixth as the top trainer of New York-breds – with success in multiple divisions and a variety of races. Perhaps most significant is Rice’s return to the top of the New York-bred trainer standings for at NYRA tracks, including the 2009 Saratoga meeting, Rice won the fourth time in the last five years without a star like La Verdad 166 races and her horses earned $7,107,114 in purses in 2017. New or Palace. York-bred runners won 72 of those races and $3,520,844 in purses. “The 2017 season will be very fond for me because we had such Rice won back-to-back champion New York-bred trainer titles a good year in general, not specifically with one horse carrying the in 2009 and 2010 and then three straight from 2013-15. barn, just in general,” she said. “Back on top,” she said one morning from her Belmont Park Voodoo Song, winner of the Grade 3 Saranac and the first horse barn in March before heading off to Aqueduct. “I’ve really struc- to win four races at a Saratoga meet since Native Dancer in 1952, tured my business to stay in New York all year round and it’s actual- led the barn in 2017 with $355,085 in earnings. He’s a finalist in the ly gone quite well. I’m a big believer in the New York program and 3-year-old male and turf male categories, one of two finalists for New York racing is very near and dear to my heart. Rice along with Holiday Disguise in the 3-year-old filly division. “I’ve been on the NYTHA board for 15 years now. I’m very in- A longtime member of the New York Thoroughbred Horse- vested in New York racing and the New York-bred program. It’s an man’s Association board and winner of four leading trainer titles honor to receive this award.” JOCKEY OF THE YEAR Irad Ortiz Jr. verybody knows how the New York-bred program impacts breeders and owners with strong purses, bonuses, stakes programs and restricted racing opportunities. But how about the jockeys? EThey too benefit, and all it takes is a look at the annual lead- erboard for proof. Irad Ortiz Jr. led the nation in total wins (318) in 2017, and was third in terms of purses earned ($22.9 million). Neither gaudy achievement could have been accomplished without New York-breds. Forty percent of Ortiz’s 1,493 rides in 2017 came aboard New York-breds, mainly at Aqueduct, Belmont Park and Saratoga. Ortiz piled up 139 wins and more than $8.7 million in earnings on New York-breds to run away with his second consecutive crown as leading jockey.

The native of Puerto Rico made it five in a row for the family Shen/Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders Cup Ting with New York-bred crowns won by Irad in 2013, Jose in 2014 and Ortiz followed his grandfather (also named Irad) and uncle 2015, and Irad the last two seasons. Ortiz rode championship finalists I Still Miss You, Therapist, (Ivan) on the jockey career path and rode his first race on New Control Group, Disco Partner, Get Jets, Bar Of Gold, Mind Your Year’s Day 2011 in Puerto Rico. He won 76 races and by June was Biscuits and Diversify. The highlights are easy to identify and are at Belmont Park. Younger brother Jose followed and together they led by Grade 1 wins aboard Bar Of Gold in the Breeders’ Cup Filly have found a strong spot in the strong New York jockey colony led and Mare Sprint and Diversify in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Ortiz by John Velazquez, Javier Castellano and other veterans. teamed up with Disco Partner to win four stakes. Irad has increased his victory total each year – from 151 in 2011 Beyond New York-breds, Ortiz led all jockeys in New York wins to 152, 224, 290, 300, 313 and finally the 318 put up in 2017. The with 296 while winning individual titles at Aqueduct’s inner-track, 25-year-old rides primarily in New York and Florida, but last year spring and fall meets as well as the Belmont fall championship won major races at Penn National, Arlington Park, Santa Anita and meet. In addition to the New York-bred stars, Dacita, Lady Eli, Fi- Del Mar. The 2018 season was unfolding much the same as Ortiz renze Fire and Lady Ivanka provided Grade 1 wins in 2017. had already passed 100 wins for the year in late March. 56 Our readers mean your business Put your stallion, farm or business in The Saratoga Special. THE place to advertise all season long at Saratoga.

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57 BREEDER OF THE YEAR Chester and Mary Broman When you’ve been New York’s Breeder of the Year four times, an encore might be difficult to produce. But Chester and Mary Bro- man put together their best season ever in 2017 thanks to a variety of stars flying the familiar green and white silks. Tops on the list came Bar Of Gold and Highway Star. The homebred mares became millionaires in 2017 with the former capturing the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint in a 66-1 upset and the latter landing two Grade 2 stakes and placing in two Grade 1 stakes. Each horse wound up a finalist for New York- bred championship honors among female sprinters and older fillies/mares, and also made strong cases for Horse of the Year. They were that good. The stars paced a stable that won 48 races in 2017 and earned more than $3.4 million – both career highs for the Bromans, who won 46 and earned $2.4 million in 2014. Beyond the big names, four Broman horses earned more than $100,000 in 2017 – Mr. Buff, Land Mine, Can You Diggit and Held Accountable. The Bromans employed numerous trainers – including John Kimmel, Rodrigo Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders’ Cup photo Ubillo, Phil Serpe, Jimmy Jerkens, Bill Mott, Kiaran McLaughlin her first three starts in 2014-15, became a stakes winner in 2016 and Linda Rice. and delivered on big stages as a 5-year-old in 2017 – winning the All but three of those 48 wins came with New York-breds, mean- Yaddo on the turf at Saratoga in August and then taking down the ing just about all of the Broman horses were foaled at Chestertown Breeders’ Cup race with a late charge. Farm just off Friends Lake in Chestertown. The farm is about 50 Chester Broman heads Clifford Broman and Sons, a Long Is- miles north of the nearest racetrack (Saratoga Race Course) and land-based trucking company, founded in 1938. In 1995, Broman nearly 3,000 from Breeders’ Cup host Del Mar Thoroughbred Club and his wife Mary purchased Chestertown in the Adirondacks in California, but rode along with every moment. and set out on the pursuit of Thoroughbred excellence. Formerly “Everybody on the farm is elated, we’re very happy,” said farm known as Assunta Louis Farms, the 300-acre property was owned manager Gregg Falk in March. “The Breeders’ Cup win last fall was by early New York Thoroughbred Breeders president Dr. Dominick special. We were on cloud nine and that carries everybody a long DeLuke. way. It gets you through the winter. It’s pretty special for everybody. Now, the farm is home to about 30 broodmares and has pro- Bar Of Gold’s dam Khancord Kid was foaled here as well and a lot duced such standouts as Kentucky Derby starter Friends Lake, of people go back that far and remember her. There’s a lot of con- Grade 1 winner Artemis Agrotera, Hook And Ladder, Friend Or nection with the families here.” Foe, Mine Over Matter and dozens of others. The mares visit some Chester Broman spent $1 million to purchase the broodmare of the most fashionable stallions in the industry, and return to foal Confidently at Keeneland January in 2000. She was in foal to Mr. in New York. Young horses prep with Becky Thomas and Ocala Prospector and, though that foal (Project Liberty) never raced, Stud, and then get dispatched to the various trainers at the track. Confidently went on to produce stakes horses Crackerjack Jones Falk started at Chestertown a bit more than a year ago, and loves and Khancord Kid. The latter, a daughter of Lemon Drop Kid, won it. the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride Stakes for the Bromans and train- “A lot of good work gets done on this farm,” he said. “Mr. Bro- er John Kimmel in 2010 and outdid herself as a broodmare with man is old school, his horses always come first and to have a year her first foal Bar Of Gold. The daughter of Medaglia d’Oro won like 2017 is very rewarding for everyone.”

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59 By breeding and racing these quality NY-breds, the nominees have set an example for horsemen and horsewomen across the state to help the Fund achieve its mission:

“To promote by monetary incentives the responsible breeding of quality thoroughbred racehorses in keeping with the founding legislation to preserve New York's irreplaceable farmland.”