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STONESIDER WESTERN Giant’s Causeway – Added Gold | $3,000 EXPRESSION Sired 2010’s #1 yearling conceived in NY, Gone West – Tricky Game | $5,000 an $82,000 filly and sired the #1 weanling of ‘09 Sired one of 2009’s fastest milers by a freshman sire standing outside KY. GSW I LOST MY CHOO (1:33 2/5) Breeding | Boarding | Sales Prep | Lay-Ups HIGHCLIFFInquiries to Suzie O’Cain FARM or C. Lynwood O’Cain DVM, Farm Manager & Resident Veterinarian Phone (518) 875-6168 • Fax (518) 875-6298 944 Eatons Corners Rd. • Delanson, New York 12053 Email: [email protected] • www.highcliff.com • Photos: Barbara Livingston New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. NEW YORK THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS INC. President: Barry R. Ostrager Vice President: Thomas J. Gallo III New York Breeder Secretary-Treasurer: Vivien Malloy Directors: December 2010 Jerry Bilinski, D.V.M. Chester Broman Lois Engel CONTENTS John Thomas McMahon Joanne Nielsen Executive Director’s letter..............................6 Suzie O’Cain News .............................................................8 Shirl Penney Grade 1 winners Rightly So and Franny Freud are sold for high Dr. Chris Purdy prices during the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky selected fall mixed sale; Directors Emeritus: Henry L. “Harry” Malloy, co-owner of Edition Farm, passes John Nerud Paul A. Schosberg Aqueduct racino breaks ground.....................9 Construction of Aqueduct’s video lottery terminals racino, which Staff: carries with it a promise of renewal for New York Thoroughbred Executive Director: Jeffrey A. Cannizzo racing and the state’s breeding industry, is under way Executive Assistant: Paula Hayes Event Coordinator: Cathi Jackson Adena stallions move to New York ...............10 Communications Manager: Sarah Mace Nationally prominent leading breeder Frank Stronach is relocating five Adena Springs stallions to New York for the 57 Phila St., Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 2011 breeding season Telephone: (518) 587-0777 • Fax: (518) 587-1551 Pedigree Profile: Get Serious ........................12 E-mail: [email protected] Get Serious, undisputed ruler of Monmouth Park’s turf course Website: www.nytbreeders.org this year, has a strong pedigree Racing Roundup ..........................................14 THOROUGHBRED TIMES CO. INC. Silver Timber pays a return visit to Keeneland Race Course and collects a second Woodford Stakes victory; New York Showcase Chairman: Norman Ridker Day recap President and Editor: Mark Simon New York-bred stakes winners.....................18 Deputy Editor: Steve Bailey A look at New York-bred runners who won stakes in October Contributing Editor: Don Clippinger and November Copy Editors: Deanna Bowden Sires of winners ...........................................20 Art and Production: Jeanette Vance (Art Director), Laura Lacy (Production Manager), Betty Gee, Sires of New York-bred and -sired runners who won LaDonna Murphy, Tami Zigo non-claiming races; plus sires of all juvenile winners of all races Advertising Sales: Hal Moss Leading Fund winners .................................22 Advertising Staff: Shelli Baker Leading earners of owner and breeder awards in 2010 Editorial, Advertising, Production, and Business New York breeders by earnings....................23 Offices: Leading breeders of New York-breds by domestic and foreign 2008 Mercer Road, Lexington, KY 40511 purses in 2010 Telephone: (859) 260-9800 • Fax: (859) 260-9812 E-mail: [email protected] Leading owners, trainers, jockeys ................24 Website: www.thoroughbredtimes.com Leading New York owners, trainers, and jockeys by domestic and foreign earnings in 2010 Statistics provided herein are compiled by Thoroughbred Times Co. Inc. from data General sire list............................................25 supplied by Jockey Club Information Systems Inc., Daily Racing Form Inc., and Equi- Leading New York-based sires base Co. Data provided or compiled by Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. generally is accurate, but occasionally errors and omissions occur as a result of incorrect data re- ceived from others, mistakes in processing, and other causes. The Jockey Club Informa- Calendar of events .......................................28 tion Systems Inc. disclaims responsibility for the consequences, if any, of such errors but Upcoming stakes, sales, and events in New York would appreciate it being called to their attention. Information as to races, race results, earnings, and other statistical data for races run subsequent to December 31, 1990, was obtained from Equibase Co. and is utilized only with permission of the copyright owner. Such information for periods prior to January 1, 1991, was obtained from Daily Cover Image: Touch Gold Racing Form Inc. Information pertaining to pedigree and production records contained Photo: Courtesy of Adena Springs herein is copyright the Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. 4 NEW YORK BREEDER December 2010 McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds Stallions for 2011 ALPHABET SOUP New to NY Cozzene – Illiterate, by Arts and Letters $6,000 CATIENUS Storm Cat – Diamond City, by Mr. Prospector $5,000 COAL PLAY Enters Stud 2011 Mineshaft – Wiscasset, by Kris S. $4,000 HARLEM ROCKER Enters Stud 2011 Macho Uno – Freedom Come, by Lit de Justice $3,500 Photo: Barbara Livingston SILENT NAME New to NY Sunday Silence - Danzigaway, by Danehill $5,000 TIAGO New to NY Pleasant Tap – Set Them Free, by Stop the Music $5,000 TOUCH GOLD New to NY Deputy Minister – Passing Mood, by Buckpasser $10,000 Limited seasons available. UTOPIA Forty Niner – Dream Vision, by Northern Taste $7,500 (518) 587-3426 [email protected] www.mcmahonthoroughbreds.com The year that was by Jeffrey A. Cannizzo, Executive Director New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc. As the year winds down, my thoughts are drawn If this is what New York-breds can achieve in the in two directions. sales ring and at the racetrack at the climax of this Looking back on the year, I cannot help but feel extended period of severe stress to the New York- proud of everything that New York-breds have bred program, just think of the promise our future achieved in 2010. I think of the exciting perfor- holds as those challenges begin to recede! mances of Grade 1 winners Franny Freud, Rightly Think how different the outlook appears from this So, and Haynesfield, who captured headlines time last year. across North America through their triumphs. As I write, Genting New York is busy building the I think of graded stakes winners Get Serious, Aqueduct racino, which will infuse much-needed rev- Silver Timber, and Khancord Kid, and of the many, enue into our New York State Thoroughbred Breeding many graded stakes performers that have come and Development Fund awards program. The New out of the New York-bred ranks this year. York City OTB bankruptcy is working toward a reso- I think of the command performance of Friend lution—and even though it is not yet quite clear what Or Foe in the Empire Classic Stakes, which capped that resolution will be, some fixed resolution will be JEFFREY A. CANNIZZO a wonderful New York Showcase Day. better than the limbo we’ve experienced in 2010. I think of the New York broodmare Fit Right In, who sold for Stallions are coming into our state, and people are calling our $1.05-million at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, office to ask about the program: “I’m planning to bring some of and of the success of several of our great New York-bred race- my mares to New York. What can you tell me about ... ?” People mares in the fall mixed sales. are excited about breeding in New York, and I was overwhelmed I think of session-topping yearlings and weanlings. by how many people wanted to talk to me about our program as And I think of the rising stars, two-year-olds Bandbox and Bug I traveled this fall to the sales and to the Breeders’ Cup World Juice—and juveniles as yet unknown—who will be grabbing the Championships. headlines next year. Breeders have many struggles ahead, and I will be talking to This was a year that began with video lottery terminals nowhere you about them. But please take a moment to look back with in sight, New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. tottering into bank- me on a memorable year of New York-bred achievements, and ruptcy, the future of the Breeding Fund in jeopardy, and dire sta- join me in looking forward to a new year with eager anticipa- tistics about the decline in activity of the state’s breeding program. tion of even greater things to come. 6 NEW YORK BREEDER December 2010 DISCO RICO Citidancer-Round It Off FREUD Storm Cat-Mariah’s Storm A New York Leader NOONMARK in Equine Care Unbridled’s Song-In the Storm For a quarter of a century, KEANE STUD has provided a superior environment for stallions and broodmares in the Northeast. Keane Stud is currently the only NY stud farm with three stallions ranked in the top fifteen READ THE FOOTNOTES Smoke Glacken-Baydon Belle on the 2010 leading NY sires list. BOARDING / BREEDING / FOALING / LAY-UPS / SALES PREP Winslow B.