Sign Gets Her Pocahontas Win Back Sheikh Joaan Buys Treve
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THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here SIGN GETS HER POCAHONTAS WIN BACK HARMONIZING MOMENTS by Christina Bossinakis The disqualification and purse redistribution originally In the span of one week, Yvonne Schwabe enjoyed a ordered for Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider=s run of success that most small breeders only dream Sign (Pulpit)=s victory in the 2012 about. With just a GII Pocahontas S. at Churchill have modest-sized broodmare been rescinded, the Kentucky band boarded at her Horse Racing Commission Persley Den Farms, announced yesterday. AIn the Schwabe reached the process of amending the pinnacle for most regulation, however, certain Canadian breeders technical revisions in the process when Midnight Aria resulted in a misapplication of the (Midnight Lute-- regulation,@ KHRC Executive Shebandowana, by Mt. Director John T. Ward said. AThe Magazine), a colt bred Commission believes the by Schwabe, landed the disqualification and redistribution historic Queen=s Plate at Al Stall Jr. of the purse is discretionary rather Woodbine July 7. Horsephotos than mandatory under this AI@m beyond excited,@ regulation.@ The settlement said Schwabe. AI=ve agreement includes an admission of responsibility by decided I=m just going trainer Al Stall Jr. for two Class C medication violations to stay up on this little Shebandowana, dam of Midnight Aria, involving overages of methocarbamol, including in cloud I=m on.@ & Yvonne Schwabe Sign=s aforementioned Pocahontas tally and Upon Third in both the Reflection (Bernstein)=s victory in a maiden claimer May 5 Wando S. and Plate Trial S. against fellow beneath the Twin Spires Canadian breds June 9, Midnight Aria--sent off at last November. Stall generous odds of 16-1--stole the show on the front end accepted fines of over the rain-soaked main track when registering a half- $500 and $1,000 for the length victory from favored Up With the Birds (Stormy two infractions. Atlantic). The colt is campaigned by Tucci Stables and AKentucky has been and trained by Nick Gonzalez. Cont. p3 remains a leader in promoting integrity in horse racing,@ KHRC Chair Robert M. Beck Jr. added. Sign AOur stewards and staff Reed Palmer work diligently every day to protect the health, safety and welfare of all participants in horse racing to ensure that Kentucky racing is among the best in the world.@ SHEIKH JOAAN BUYS TREVE Sheikh Joaan al Thani has purchased the unbeaten G1 Prix de Diane heroine Treve (Fr) (Motivator {GB}), it was announced yesterday. Haras du Quesnay=s homebred, who this week was pencilled in by trainer Criquette Head-Maarek to return to action in the G1 Qatar Prix Vermeille at Longchamp Sept. 15, will remain under her care. AWe are delighted with the latest addition to our string of racehorses, and we hope that the unbeaten filly will carry on with her success in the colours of Sheikh Joaan Bin Hamad Al Thani,@ spokeswoman Sian Jones told the Racing Post. AWith previous purchases we have kept the horse with the original trainer and, as she=s unbeaten, there=s no reason to make a change with Treve.@ In This Issue Dullahan to Defend 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Title (732) 747-8060 (732) 747-8955 (fax) Donegal Racing's Dullahan (Even www.thoroughbreddailynews.com The Score), hero of the 2012 www.thetdn.com GI Pacific Classic over Game on Dude (Awesome Again), will be back to defend his title at Del Mar Barry Weisbord, co-publisher Aug. 25. 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AIt was way more than I expected.@ Victorious in last fall=s province-bred Fanfreluche S. on the Polytrack, Surtsey finished sixth in her 2013 debut in a six-furlong main track test against optional claiming company June 15. Let go at 41-1 for her turf and route debut in the Ontario Damsel, the Kevin Attard trainee showed signs in the mornings that the surface switch wouldn=t be a problem, but the added distance remained a question. AWe had breezed her on the grass and we knew that she liked it, but I didn=t know if she was quite ready for the distance,@ admitted Schwabe. AKevin had her in perfect order and she blew the doors off.@ Surtsey, currently the only horse in training entirely owned by Schwabe, is expected to return to stakes action in the near future. AShe came out of her race really well and we will probably look to finding another race against 3-year-old fillies on the turf,@ confirmed Schwabe. AOne option is the Wonder Where S. [at Woodbine Aug. 4] or the [GIII] Ontario Colleen S. [Aug. 17]. If she continues to train forwardly, she'll go to one of those two.@ Family Legacy... A lifelong horsewoman, Schwabe was introduced to the business by her father Carl Schwabe, a criminal defense lawyer; and her mother Dagmar, both German immigrants, who were exposed to horse racing in their native country by Schwabe=s grandmother, a pioneer jockey. Schwabe=s grandfather was a trainer. Schwabe said her parents fell on hard times following the war, so they emigrated to Canada with >only $200 in their pocket.= AThey bought a sheep farm [in 1961] from an old, Scottish Midnight Aria winning the farmer and he had always Queen’s Plate wanted to call the farm Persley WEG/M Burns Photo Den, so my dad said >Ok, let's name it that,= and he painted the name on the front of barn and that's how the farm got its name,@ explained Schwabe. AMy father was a very generous man.@ Cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 7/18/13 • PAGE 4 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Recounting her family=s introduction into Canadian AHer half-brother Time Limit broke his maiden at racing, Schwabe said, AMy father went to an auction around that time, and I was quite fond of Gilded Time, one day just to check it out [in the mid 60's], put his so I called [the Tuccis] to see if they would be hand up and bought his first yearling. He literally had to interested in selling her,@ recalled Schwabe. AShe was race back home and build a couple of stalls in an old entered for a $6,000 claiming tag, so I basically told tractor shed. That's how my parents became involved them I would take her for $6,000. She was sore, so in horse racing in this country.@ probably wouldn=t have run well anyway, we went to Located in Acton, Ontario, the 200-acre tract of land the track, picked her up and brought her home.@ has grown to 40 stalls and a couple of run-in sheds Schwabe continued, AA month after we bought her, AAfter my father passed away in 1995, I got much we found her hemorrhaging in her stall, so she ended more serious about the sport,@ said Schwabe. up at the University of Guelph at the Ontario veterinary Persley Den, which can swell to about 50 during the college. She had a condition called Guttural Pouch winter season, currently boards 25 broodmares, nine of Mitosis, and she underwent two very complicated those owned by Schwabe. With only two horses-- surgeries.@ including Surtsey--on the racetrack currently, Schwabe After getting off to a rough--and costly--start with the admits that she tries to offer all of her youngsters as yearlings at the sales. former claimer, Schwabe bred Shebandowana several times to Gilded Time before taking a chance on the AI am principally a breeder,@ concedes Schwabe. AI try to sell everything, that is my first objective.