Visit the WINTER MEMORIES TDN Website: RETURNS A WINNER www.thoroughbreddailynews.com P6 FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2011 For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. JESS JACKSON PASSES AWAY PREVIS A REAL PRESENCE IN HONG KONG Jess Jackson, founder of Kendall-Jackson winery and For obvious reasons, recent G1 Dubai Duty Free S. owner of the Stonestreet Stables which campaigned hero Presvis (GB) (Sakhee) ranks as assistant trainer champions Curlin (Smart Strike) and Rachel Alexandra Charlie Henson=s favorite horse. AI owe him a lot,@ (Medaglia d=Oro), died Wednesday at his home in Henson commented. AWe've travelled 50,000 air miles Geyserville, California, after a long battle with cancer. together and he always puts He was 81. A statement in even if he does have a mind from the winery stated, of his own and can be a bit AWe are saddened to difficult to handle some announce that our founder, mornings. He's close to my Jess Jackson has passed heart.@ The globetrotting away. Our thoughts and Presvis makes his fourth trip prayers are with the to Hong Kong for Monday=s Jackson family.@ G1 BMW Champions Mile, but Presvis HKJC.com Personifying the ideal of makes something of an the self-made man, unexpected appearance in the event. The veteran made Jackson was a one-time a successful first visit in 2009, defeating local legend longshoreman and police Viva Pataca (GB) (Marju {Ire}) in the G1 Queen officer who put himself Elizabeth II Cup over the metric 10 panels. Third in that through the University of year=s G1 Hong Kong Cup, he was unable to overcome a dawdling pace and settled for fifth in last year s QE II California Berkeley=s Boalt = Cup. He is fresh off his stirring victory at Meydan Hall school of law. He Mar. 26, and connections believe he s got the tools to Jess Jackson started the Kendall-Jackson = excel at this specialist trip. "He's broken :22 seconds Horsephotos wine business in 1974 for the last 400 meters in his past two runs here at this with the purchase of an time of the year, and he'll take some holding out if he 80-acre pear and walnut orchard in Lakeport, California. can rattle off those sort of sectionals over the mille,@ He produced his first bottle of wine under the Kendall- Henson commented. AHe'll want some pace on up front Jackson label in 1982 and it would become America=s but that's always the case with this horse. You have to best-selling Chardonnay for over two decades. Jackson ride him cold.@ TDN Feature Presentation cont. p8 founded Jackson Family Wines, a winery holding company that, in addition to Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates, owns and operates more than 35 individual wineries around the world. In 2003, following a lifelong passion for horses, Jackson turned his vision towards horseracing. He purchased Buckram Oak Farm in February of 2005 and christened it Stonestreet. Jackson quickly rose to the pinnacle of the Thoroughbred world, purchasing Curlin along with Padua Stables and George Bolton. The strapping chestnut won the 2007 GI Preakness S. and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup before cementing Horse of the Year and champion three-year-old honors with a 4 1/2-length victory in the GI Breeders= Cup Classic. In 2008, Curlin took his dominance international with an authoritative 7 3/4-length victory in the G1 Dubai World Cup. He added wins in that year=s GI Stephen Foster H., GI Woodward S. and GI Jockey Club Gold Cup and was again awarded the gold Eclipse statue as Horse of the Year. He retired to Lane=s End with career earnings of over $10.5 million. Cont. p2 claibornefarm.com TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/22/11 • PAGE 2 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Jess Jackson cont. Jackson didn=t have to wait too long for his next champion. After watching Rachel Alexandra cruise to a 20 1/4-length victory in the 2009 GI Kentucky Oaks, Jackson purchased the filly for a reported $10 million with partner Hal McCormick. She went on to win the GI Preakness S. while carrying Jackson=s gold and burgundy silks and, after a 19 1/4-length thrashing of her own sex in the GI Mother Goose S., beat up on the boys in the GI Haskell Invitational. She ended her year with a gritty win Horsephotos over older males in the GI Woodward S. and was named 2009 Horse of the Year. Rachel Alexandra was bred to Curlin in February. This year, Jackson=s standout runners include Astrology (A.P. Indy), who goes postward in Saturday=s GII Jerome H., as well as impressive maiden winners Dominus (Smart Strike), Maclean=s Music (Distorted Humor), and Wilburn (Bernardini). Stonestreet has also enjoyed success in the sales ring. The Lexington farm is home to a powerhouse broodmare band which produced the 2008 Keeneland September sales topper in a $3.1-million daughter of A.P. Indy out of Chimichurri (Elusive Quality). Last year, Stonestreet led North America in total yearling sales, selling 46 yearlings for over $7.2 million. The Moynihan Remembers “A True Sportsman”... Stonestreet broodmare band also includes Grade I For the past six years, the Stonestreet team was winners Dream Rush and Hot Dixie Chick, as well as advised and represented at the sales by John Class on Class, dam of Don=t Get Mad, Maggy Hawk, Moynihan, who also served in that role to Bob and dam of champion Afleet Alex, and Stormy Way, dam of Beverly Lewis. Contacted yesterday by the TDN, Capt. Candyman Can. Moynihan remembered Jess Jackson and praised his Jackson is survived by his wife Barbara Banke, five business acumen and work ethic. children: Jennifer Harford, Laura Giron, Katie Jackson, ATo be able to work with someone like that who is Julia Jackson and Christopher Jackson; and two such a visionary and had such a work ethic, that was grandchildren. so consumed with making the business model, whatever that STONESTREET STABLES GRADED STAKES WINNERS business was, better and constantly striving to make Horse (Sire) Stakes Race(s) things better everyday, would Astrology (A.P. Indy) GIII Iroquois S. consider themselves lucky,@ he Curlin (Smart Strike) G1 Dubai World Cup, commented. AWe constantly had GI Breeders’ Cup Classic, meetings on how to improve GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, GI Preakness S. things. When our team did El Roblar (War Chant) GIII Ack Ack H., matings, we=d review the GIII Inglewood H. matings and he would constantly Forest Music (Unbridled’s Song) GII Honorable Miss H. ask questions that would always challenge you to think more and, Kantharos (Lion Heart) GII Saratoga Special S., John Moynihan GIII Bashford Manor S. in most cases, make better Kensei (Mr. Greeley) GII Dwyer S., GII Jim Dandy S. decisions. Whether it be racing horses, breeding horses, Rachel Alexandra (Medaglia d’Oro) GI Preakness S., GI Haskell, buying horses or managing horses, he was a best-of- GI Mother Goose practices guy that he never wanted to take the easy Tiz Wonderful (Tiznow) GII KY Jockey Club S., route. If it was more difficult to do it the right way, we GII Iroquois S. always did it the right way.@ Cont. p3 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 4/22/11 • PAGE 3 of 12 • thoroughbreddailynews.com The bloodstock agent and adviser said that Jackson=s AWe had a lot of great memories together, we won tireless efforts were an asset to the Thoroughbred some major races together,@ Moynihan offered. AWe industry at large. won two Preaknesses, we won the Dubai World Cup, AEverything that he did within the scope of the we won a Breeders= Cup. He was a great man. He was Thoroughbred business, he was extremely passionate probably one of the last true sportsman that we=ve seen about, but I think a lot of the things that Jess believed of late come into the game to have different in regarding our business really helped our business,@ philosophies, whether it was keeping horses in training Moynihan stated. AHe wanted integrity and an ethical longer and different things like that. He kind of put his marketplace, and he strove to put things in place to money where his mouth was. I think he had a real create that. He constantly wanted to improve the connection with what the sport needed and what the business model. Whether it was the wine business or fans wanted. We sold the highest priced yearling in the horse business, he gave his team the best tools North America in 2008. And a lot of that is directly possible to use. He wanted to use the best of practices relative to his direction and his involvement and striving to get things accomplished because he was very to do things the best way he could.@ concerned whether it was a horse buyer or a wine Moynihan believes it will be business as usual going buyer he wanted that consumer to get the best possible forward. product that they could get if he was involved in A[Jackson=s wife] Barbara [Banke] loves the game. producing it.@ She loves racing. She=s just as passionate,@ he Despite jumping into the game in earnest only a explained. AThey equally loved their horses together. It handful of years ago, Jackson racked up an envious set gave them something to do together. The family, the of accomplishments. kids, love the horses. It is very much a family enterprise, just as their wine business is.@ Cont.