Maryland Horse© WEEKLY JULYMAY 28, 19,2021 2021

There’s no place like home: Field Pass wins BWI Turf Cup

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MHBA Board selects 2021-2022 officers

t the Board of Directors’ meeting past president of Maryland Million, tion, Horning was a presidential ap- Aheld Wednesday, July 14 at the Blue serves as co-chair of the Maryland pointee to the MHBA board in 2018 Maryland Horse Breeders Associa- Horse Library & Education Center Cap- and elected for a three-year term in tion’s office in Reisterstown, the new ital Campaign Committee and on the 2019. board elected Richard F. Blue, Jr. as board of the Maryland State Fair. David Wade, MHBA Vice Presi- president, Christy Holden as vice presi- Holden, general manager of Coun- dent from 2018 to 2020, and Kent Al- dent and Michael Horning as secre- try Life and Merryland Farms, where len Murray, Secretary/Treasurer since tary/treasurer. she has worked since 2004, is serving 2018, were ineligible to stand for re- President of Blue & Obrecht Realty her second term on the board after first election because of having served six LLC, Blue first served on the board in being elected in 2018. consecutive years as a member of the 2001 and 2002, and later from 2011 A retired insurance executive and MHBA Board. to 2017, before he was re-elected for current board member of the Maryland another three-year term in 2019. A Horsemen’s Associa-

Field Pass fights hard for victorious homecoming in BWI Turf Cup

hree Diamonds Farm’s Field Pass and got there,” trainer Mike Maker winning by a neck over Invader as he Treturned to his home state for the said by phone from Saratoga. “There finished the one and one-eighth miles $200,000 Baltimore/Washington In- weren’t a whole lot of instructions. We on the all-weather track in 1:49.34. Af- ternational Turf Cup Stakes-G3. The basically said, ‘He’s the class of the ter a third in the War Chant Stakes, he homecoming, only his second Mary- field, get to the wire first,’ and they continued to pad his resume with back- land start in a 20-race career, wasn’t did.” to-back victories in the Audubon Stakes all that welcoming until he burst through It was the 4-year-old gelding’s first at Churchill and Transylvania Stakes-G3 the tightest of openings along the rail victory this year. He kicked off his sea- at . and caught Ramsey Solution late to son in April at Keeneland in the Mak- Field Pass finished seventh in the prevail by a neck at Pimlico on Satur- er’s Mark Mile Stakes-G1, finishing Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes last day, July 24. fourth. He was last of eight in the Man August, but it wasn’t as bad a race as Making his fourth graded start of o’ War Stakes-G1 at Belmont Park in it as it appears, as he was only three the season, Field Pass went off the fa- May and was beaten two lengths when lengths behind winner Domestic Spend- vorite in the scratched down field of fourth in the Stakes-G2 at ing (GB), the current top-ranked turf four. He found his place along the in- in June. horse in the country on the NTRA’s side rail as Ramsey Solution flew from The son of Lemon Drop Kid finished weekly Top Thoroughbred Poll. the gate to grab the lead and proceed- second in his debut as a 2-year-old at It’s been graded stakes ever since. ed to post pedestrian opening fractions Churchill in June 2019, but made up Traveling the country, Field Pass had for the 1 mile on firm turf of :24.59 for it in his second start a month later consecutive third-place finishes in the and :48.33. Sitting in third and wait- when breaking his maiden by American Turf-G2 at Churchill and Twi- ing for room as they turned for home three-quarters of a length at Saratoga. light Derby-G2 at Santa Anita before after three-quarters in 1:11.55, Field In August, Field Pass finished second returning to the winner’s circle in the Pass took advantage of a slight open- by a length to Fighting Seabee in the Ontario Derby-G3 at Woodbine in late ing when Ramsey Solution drifted out With Anticipation Stakes-G3, his grad- November. He was fourth, beaten just and started to push his way through. ed stakes debut. His final three starts of over a length, in the Mathis Brothers Ramsey Solution however wasn’t done the year included back-to-back fourth- Mile Stakes-G2 at Santa Anita in De- and moved back down towards the place finishes in the Laurel Futurity and cember to close out the year. rail, making it tight for the favorite. Dixiana Bourbon Stakes-G3. Named 2020 Maryland-bred With Ramsey Solution not giving an Last year, Field Pass won his first champion 3-year-old male off five wins inch, Field Pass managed to squeeze stakes in his first start of the season as and three thirds in 10 starts last year, through and got up just before hitting he scored by a neck in the Dania Beach Field Pass has improved his overall re- the wire in a final time of 1:35.12. at in February and cord to 20-7-2-3 with $728,143 “We’re obviously happy with the quickly followed with his first graded earned. He’s now won four graded win. We had a few anxious moments stakes victory in the Jeff Ruby Steaks-G3 stakes and placed in three others. there, but we’re happy he got through at Turfway Park the following month, 3

Bred by Mark Brown Grier, the 2018 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern ners from three foals for his dam Only gray/roan was sold for $37,000 as a Fall sale. Field Pass is one of two win- Me, by Runaway Groom. yearling to Owls Bloodstock at the

Can the Queen sweeps to victory in the Sensible Lady Turf Dash

oanne Shankle’s Can the Queen The 5-year- Jtook command in the stretch and se- old daughter of cured her first stakes victory by one Can the Man has and three-quarter lengths in the risen up the ranks $100,000 Sensible Lady Turf Dash, for from claimer to fillies and , 3 & up, on Saturday, stakes winner and July 24 at Pimlico. improved her re- Following a fourth-place finish in cord to four wins the Jameela Stakes at the same five-fur- and a third from long distance just a few weeks prior, 12 career starts, Can the Queen broke quickly and rat- with $139,033 in ed off early pacesetter What a Track earnings. from the outside through an opening Unraced at 2, quarter-mile in :21.63. Launching her Can the Queen run as they turned for home, Can the didn’t make her Queen flew past What a Trick and re- first start until Sep- pelled a late rally from Flyingon- tember of her theground to finish in :56.41. 3-year-old season “I’m so excited for this filly,” said when winning for a $16,000 tag at dirt, originally scheduled for the turf, as trainer Rodolfo Sanchez-Salomon. “I Laurel going five and a half furlongs on she hit the wire in :57.46. never expected her to run this good. the turf, her only win in three starts that This year began with a sev- She just needs a good ride, patient, year. enth-place finish in The Very One and she can run a little bit. At the end She returned in May 2020 and Stakes at Pimlico, followed by a fifth in when she started moving up, I was just won her 4-year-old debut, a waiver an allowance and her run in the Jamee- hoping she wouldn’t stop because she claimer, by three and a quarter lengths la. usually stops a little bit when she gets over a large field of 10. She hit the Bred by Carol Ann Kaye, Can the in front. She got [the] perfect ride. She board in a starter race that July, and Queen is the last of four foals for her wasn’t rushed in the beginning; she picked up her first allowance win last dam Queenterra, a daughter of Empire was just sitting there waiting for the mo- September at Pimlico by an impressive Maker. All are winners. ment to move on.” seven lengths going five furlongs on the

87th Annual MHBA Yearling Show: Sunday, August 1 I 87th ANNUAL I Judging begins at 10 a.m. YEARLING SHOW JUDGES Tom Albertrani, 2007 Lucien Laurin, 1974 Exhibitors, owners, and breeders: Charles A. Asbury, 1957 Horatio A. Luro, 1964 Thomas W. Barry, 1966 Michael Matz, 2020 Clarkson Beard, 1959 Claude (Shug) McGaughey, 1989 Frank Brothers, 1997 Kiaran McLaughlin, 1996 - Exhibitor numbers have been mailed – YOU MUST bring these numbers on August 1. J. Elliott Burch, 1969 Kenneth McPeek, 2013 Preston M. Burch, 1946, 1953 Jerome C. Meyer, 1968 Patrick Byrne, 1999 MacKenzie T. Miller, 1970 If you have not received your numbers by Friday, July 30, please call the office at 410-252-2100. Baden P. (Buzz) Chace, 2009 William I. Mott, 1994 Penny Chenery, 1984 Carl Nafzger, 1992 Edward A. Christmas, 1961 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest M. Oare, 1986 SHARING tops the 3-year-old division Henry S. Clark, 1960 Paul Paternostro, 1988 of the $40,000 MHBA 2020 Yearling Gary Contessa, 2021 Show Purse competition. Ben Perkins Sr., 2005 PHOTOGRAPHY COADY - Email proof of Negative Coggins Test and Vaccination for EHV-1 for all participating Warren A. Croll Jr., 1973 Danny Perlsweig, 1982 Grover Greer (Bud) Delp, 1981 Stanley D. Petter Jr., 1983 Lou Doherty, 1951 Virgil W. Raines, 1967 yearlings to Emily by July 29 at [email protected]. William duPont Jr., 1955 MHBA Linda Rice, 2001 Anthony Dutrow, 2014 Timothy F. Ritchey, 2006 Lee Eaton, 1979, 1987 , 2017 Yearling Show Paul Ebelhardt, 1950 Flint (Scotty) Schulhofer, 1990 Humphrey S. Finney, 1963 John Servis, 2016 TIMONIUM FAIRGROUNDS - HORSE SHOW RING • JUDGING BEGINS AT 10 A.M. At the show: James E. Fitzsimmons, 1933 - 1942 Jonathan Sheppard, 2004 Joseph F. Flanagan, 1958 For Maryland-bred Thoroughbred Yearlings • Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 Al Stall Jr., 2012 Robert Frankel, 2000 W.C. (Woody) Stephens, 1975 Cary Frommer, 2010 Michael Stidham, 2019 - There will be a food truck on the grounds for lunch service. Alex B. Gordon, 1948 Abram S. Hewitt, 1949 Barclay Tagg, 2003 Max Hirsch, 1947 Michael Trombetta, 2008 W.J. Hirsch, 1972 William H. Turner Jr., 1977 Neil Howard, 1998 Jack Van Berg, 1985 - Spectators are welcome! The amateur judging contest will take place during Class 3. Hon. George M. Humphrey, 1954 John M. Veitch, 1978 H. Allen Jerkens, 1991 Sylvester W. Veitch, 1965 LeRoy Jolley, 1976 Rick Violette, 2018 J.P. Jones, 1956 John T. Ward Jr., 2002 Russell B. Jones Jr., 2011 Sidney Watters Jr., 1971 Thomas J. Kelly, 1993 Oscar White, 1962 Unable to make it to the show? Each class will be streamed live on our Facebook page: Charles A. Kenney, 1952 John Williams, 1980 AIN’T DA BEER COLD tops the 2-year-old division of the Donato Lanni, 2015 Nicholas (Nick) Zito, 1995 $40,000 MHBA 2020 Yearling Show Purse competition. JIM McCUE Facebook.com/MarylandTB.

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