2016 PENNSYLVANIA STALLION & BOARDING FARM DIRECTORY January 2016 Jump Start by Barbara D. Livingston D. Jump Start Barbara by Cornerstone to Success in the Keystone State EL PADRINO Pulpit – Enchanted Rock, by Giant’s Causeway | $5,000 LF Graded SW by Sire of Sires PULPIT Half-Brother to Champion/Multiple G1 SW VERRAZANO Classy Graded SW WON Risen Star S.-G2 WON 2YO Belmont MSW (by 13 lengths) WON Gulfstream Allowance (over TAKE CHARGE INDY) PLACED Remsen S.-G2 (by less than length) 4TH Florida Derby-G1 Strong Black-Type Family Under the fi rst two dams: 15 Graded SWs, Booked to over 200 MARES FIVE G1 Winners, including: his fi rst two seasons at stud • CHIC SHIRINE (2nd dam) • KEEN ICE (2015 Travers S.-G1) • SOMALI LEMONADE (2014 Diana S.-G1) David Wade: 443.309.0826 (cell), [email protected] Paul O’Loughlin: 443.566.2996 (cell), [email protected] Northview PA 163 Little Britain Church Rd., Peach Bottom, PA 17563 A DIVISION OF NORTHVIEW STALLION STATION BULLSBAY EL PADRINO FAIRBANKS JUMP START MEDALLIST northviewstallions.com PHOTO © BARBARA LIVINGSTON 2016_PA Stallion Register_El Padrino.indd 1 12/17/15 10:29 AM 2016 PENNSYLVANIA STALLION & BOARDING FARM DIRECTORY Pennsylvania Horse Contents Breeders Association Pennsylvania, An Elite Breeding Program 2 Sires Across the Centuries in Pennsylvania 4 Officers and Directors Questions & Answers 8 President: Roger E. Legg PA-Bred Earning Potential 10 Vice President: T. Bernard Houghton 2016 PA-Bred Stakes Schedule 11 Secretary: Dale Schilling VMD Treasurer: David Charlton Stallion Farm Index 12 Directors: Stallion Index 13 Richard D. Abbott Farm Directory 19 Elizabeth B. Barr New Sires Index 21 Peter Giangiulio Robert Graham Dr. Y. Jerry Kolybabiuk Prominent Pennsylvanians Deana Manfredi Susan Meckling Alphabet Soup 3 Gregory C. Newell PE Ambassador of Luck 29 Barbara Rickline Danzig 33 Jane White Smarty Jones 43 Executive Secretary: Brian N. Sanfratello Storm Cat 59 Assistant Executive Secretary, CIO/CTO: Dorothy B. Weber 701 East Baltimore Pike, Suite E Cover Image: Jump Start Kennett Square, PA 19348 Cover Photo Credit: Barbara D. Livingston Phone: (610) 444-1050 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.pabred.com Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Statistics provided herein are compiled by Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association from data supplied by Stallion and Farm Owners. Data provided or complied generally is accurate, but occasionally errors and omissions occur as a result of incorrect data received from others, mistakes in processing, and other causes. The PHBA disclaims responsibility for the consequences, if any, of such errors but would appreciate it being called to its attention. This publication will not be sold and can be obtained, at no cost, by visiting our website at www.pabred.com or contacting our office at Williams Lydia by Photo 610.444.1050. 2016 Pennsylvania Stallion Directory 1 PENNSYLVANIA An Elite Breeding Program Welcome to the fourth edition of the Pennsylvania Stallion Directory and the first published by the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association. “The Pennsylvania’s breeding industry has ranked in the top 10 in the nation for Pennsylvania the past 15 years by number of foals produced and Pennsylvania stallions Breeding sire more than half the total of state-bred foals. The numbers surged after the slot bill was signed into law by Governor Ed Rendell on July 4, 2004. Fund has paid When the first slot machines began operating in the state in 2006, a steady stream of revenue has benefited the racing and breeding industries. out over $30 Pennsylvania has always been at the forefront of lucrative breeding million on programs in the nation, rewarding those who breed, raise and/or race in the state. With the influx of slots revenue since 2006, money distributed average over through the Pennsylvania Breeding Fund has more than quadrupled! The Pennsylvania Breeding Fund has paid out over $30 million on average over the last four the last four years – far and away the richest of any program in the Mid- years.” Atlantic Region. More than $30 million was paid to PA-Breds racing in the state in 2015. There is plenty of opportunity, with an average of 450+ restricted races for state-breds over the past three years. PA-Breds can race at three different tracks offering 450 days of racing. Over the past two years, over 1,000 races were offered exclusively for PA-Breds, which included a restricted stakes schedule of 44 races totaling almost $4 million in purses. Breeders are awarded bonuses of 30 percent of the purse on all Pennsylvania races through third place if the PA-Bred runner is sired by a registered Pennsylvania stallion or 20 percent for out-of-state sired runners. The potential is there to earn money even when the horse is no longer owned by the breeder, as long as the runner races in the state. Owners also reap rewards, up to 40 percent, through Awards (earned in non-restricted races) or Bonuses of 25 percent, paid through third place for PA-Sired horses in PA-Bred restricted Stakes races. In 2015, the total for ‘Owner Bonuses’ will amount to nearly $6 million paid out on top of the purse! Stallion owners also benefit with 10 percent of the purse share earned for their stallion’s PA-Sired runners. Total Fund payments can exceed six figures a year for Pennsylvania stallion farm owners. This PA Stallion Directory provides statistics, photos and background on stallions standing in the state. Examine race records ... find the sire lines that work best for a particular mare ... evaluate a stallion’s top runners to find a common denominator. This Directory also lists Pennsylvania farms that offer boarding and foaling services. It’s an invaluable source for getting the breeding season off to a successful start! We would like to thank the PTHA and HBPA at Parx, Penn National and Presque Isle for their dedication and support in making the Breeding Program in Pennsylvania one of the best in the country. 2 Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association • www.pabred.com Recently pensioned Alphabet Soup overlooks the Photo by Nikki Sherman by Photo rolling hills at Old Friends Farm in Kentucky 2016 Pennsylvania Stallion Directory 3 Sires Across the Centuries in Pennsylvania Almost a century elapsed between leading American sires bred in Pennsylvania by John P. Sparkman Although Pennsylvania has not consistently rivaled Kentucky moved him to Erdenheim in 1872, where he stood until his as a producer of racehorses for more than 100 years, six death in 1878. leading American sires either stood in Pennsylvania or were Aristides, Rhadamanthus, Hyder Ali, Olitipia, and Reform bred in the Quaker State. helped make *Leamington leading sire in 1875, and he The first, English-bred *Leamington, by the famous repeated in ‘77, ‘79, and ‘81. By ‘79 most of his runners had Birdcatcher’s full brother Faugh-a-Ballagh, was a good stayer been conceived at Erdenheim. whose career was compromised by the fact his owner was *Leamington’s list of top runners bred at Erdenheim more interested in winning bets than winning races. Partly includes champions or classic winners Sensation, Spinaway, as a result, *Leamington won only eight of his 24 races, the Parole, Saunterer, Blazes, Onondaga, and Harold. Other most important of which were the 1857 and ‘59 Chester than possibly Longfellow, however, his best offspring was Cups and ‘57 Goodwood Stakes. Erdenheim-bred Iroquois, the first American-bred winner of the Epsom Derby (1881), of whom more anon. *Rayon d’Or In the 20th century it became common for American breeders to outbid their European counterparts for stallion prospects, but such a thing was quite unheard of when Pennsylvania coal baron William L. Scott paid a record 150,000FF (about $40,000) for *Rayon d’Or at the dispersal of the famous Haras de Dangu in 1882. Scott established *Rayon d’Or at his lavish Algeria Stud near Erie, and he stood there until Scott’s death in 1892, when August Leamington Belmont II purchased him for his Nursery Stud in Kentucky. Bred in France in 1876 by Joachim LeFevre, *Rayon d’Or was by the top French stayer Flageolet out of the famous Pocahontas’s last daughter Araucaria, by Ambrose. Trained in England, *Rayon d’Or won 18 of 32 starts from two to four, including the St. Leger, Sussex, and Champion Stakes, and Prix du Cadran. *Leamington stood six seasons in England, but served only Covering mostly mares owned by Scott, *Rayon d’Or a few modest mares and sired nothing of great import. In rose quickly to lead the American sire list in 1889, when 1865 Roderick W. Cameron purchased *Leamington and his swaybacked son Tenny rivaled Salvator as the best imported him to New Jersey, where Kentucky horseman Abe three-year-old in America, his juvenile son Chaos won the Buford leased *Leamington to stand at his Bosque Bonita Belmont Futurity, and his son Tea Tray ranked among the Farm, near Woodburn in Kentucky, for the 1866 season. best older horses. Though he covered only 13 mares, the produce included After *Rayon d’Or’s purchase by Belmont and transfer to champions Longfellow and Enquirer. *Leamington stood Kentucky, he sired the very good runner Octagon, winner of at Cameron’s Clifton Farm in New York in 1867, in New the 1897 Withers Stakes and Brooklyn Derby (now known as Jersey from 1868-’70, and in ‘71 at Annieswood Farm in New the Dwyer Stakes) when *Rayon d’Or ranked second on the York. That crop conceived at Annieswood included the top sire list. From limited opportunities at stud, Octagon sired runners Rhadamanthus, Hyder Ali, and Aristides, winner of Racing Hall of Fame member Beldame.