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Wit and Wisdom of Nelson Bunker Hunt By Ray Paulick “I have a real good time when I go to the races in France, in 1980 under the headline “The Billion-Dollar Gambler,” but maybe I wouldn’t if I could speak French and under- when he and a brother tried to corner the silver market stand what they were saying.” and it collapsed. Bunker lost $750 million dollars and was forced to mortgage over 500 he’d bought “Naw, I like those high-class Englishmen. They appreciate or bred since entering the business in a Texas-sized way a a good horse, no matter who the owner is.” decade earlier. He’d bought his first horses in the mid- That was the late Nelson Bunker Hunt, Bunker to those 1950s but upped the ante in 1970 when he announced a major global enterprise for racing and breeding. who knew him and Bunkie to those who really knew him. A Texan through and through. In 1970, Bunker had horses racing in the U.S. Australia, Once called the richest man on earth, he was driven to France, England, Ireland, New Zealand and Japan. “What succeed, sometimes to excess – making money is “the have you got against Paraguay and Patagonia?” a friend way you keep score in life, in business,” he once said. He joked to him at the time. would also say that “people who know what they are worth That bad bet on silver eventually forced Bunker Hunt to generally aren’t worth very much.” continued on Page 5 On the other hand, he was a regular guy who flew in coach, turned off the lights when he’d leave the room, drove an old car and would carry his lunch in a brown paper sack, just like his gambling, oilman father, who left Bunker, brother Lamar and other siblings a $5-billion fortune when he died in 1974.

Lamar went on to start the American Football League, which would later merge with the NFL, and owned the Kansas City Chiefs. The winners of the AFC Championship during the NFL playoffs get a trophy named in his honor. Bunker loved horses. “He was very smart, and he was willing to take a risk, be- cause he could see the prospects of what it might make,” his sister Caroline Rose Hunt told a reporter after Nelson Bunker Hunt died on Oct. 21 at the age of 88. “I was for- tunate enough to be invited by him to the Kentucky Derby and other big races. That was his love, horses.” He was the fellow Newsweek magazine put on the cover

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Fasig-Tipton kindly provides a venue to foreground some of represented by his first foals this year in Japan, and they the more commercially appealing foals in its one-day No- are being received well. vember sale, and one first-crop sire who is sure to get an exceptional proportion of lookers for his first foals is Bode- The sire of Pioneerof the Nile and Bodemeister, Empire meister (by Empire Maker). Maker, is also in Japan and is apparently being considered the great outcross for the overwhelmingly popular Sunday A horse of excellent speed, Bodemeister is arguably the Silence line that dominates racing and breeding there. best son of his sire, and the argument, whichever way it’s decided, is an advantage to Bode- With the surge of positive appeal meister because Empire Maker’s from Pioneerof the Nile and from other important son is Pioneerof his own speed and class, Bode- the Nile, whose second crop are meister is proving a wildly popular now 2-year-olds and include G1 win- young sire at the sales. He was the ner American Pharoah, who had leading first-crop covering sire last been the favorite for the Breeders’ year, and all indicators suggest he Cup Juvenile until a sore foot put is likely to fill that role with his first him on the sidelines. The sire has weanlings at auction. There are two five stakes winners from his first at Fasig-Tipton. crop of 3-year-olds, including Del Bodemeister’s daughter out of the Mar Derby winner Midnight Storm Miswaki mare Greyciousness is a and the recently retired Cairo half-sister to The Factor, a very fast Prince, who won the Holy Bull in the racer and one of the first runners spring and was considered a favor- by War Front who placed their sire ite for the Kentucky Derby. at the top of the lists as a major Each of these sons of Empire Maker is out of a quality young sire. Greyciousness is a half- mare with a great deal of speed in her makeup. Pioneerof sister to Chief Seattle (), who was second in the Nile is out of a stakes-winning Lord At War mare, and the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Bodemeister is out of a graded winning daughter of top The stallion’s other offering at Fasig-Tipton is Hip 21, a bay sire , and this is a strong and deep female family. colt out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Juliette Ava. The dam Both young sires matured in the standard pattern for Em- is a half-sister to G1 winner Siphonic (Siphon) and to the pire Maker/Unbridled, improving to show their best form dam of G1 winner Laragh (Tapit). in time for the classics at 3. Each placed second in the The first foals by Bodemeister, as well as those by his rivals Kentucky Derby, and Bodemeister looked all over like a win- Hansen and Union Rags, are certain to highlight weanling ner in both the Kentucky Derby and Preakness till I’ll Have sales over the next week. PRS Another overtook him to claim victory. I’ll Have Another is

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tioner Marcus Vitali and three races later pulled off a stun- ning 39-1 upset in the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Handicap, winning by 2 3/4 lengths over Imagining. Showing that the victory was no fluke, Vitali sent Lochte west, where he finished second in the Grade 1 Frank E. Kileroe Mile Stakes at Santa Anita. Among the horses he beat that day were Tom’s Tribute, Za Approval, Silentio and Regally Ready. He also finished third to two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan in the Grade 1 Maker’s 46 Mile Stakes at Keeneland. Lemon Kiss, herself a $40,000 yearling purchase by Jerry Hollendorfer, was a stakes winner for the Hall of Famer trainer. She’s from the family of Horse of the Year Black Tie Affair and has produced foals for breeders Mark and Mau- (2004, Bay mare, Lemon Drop Kid–Black Tie Kiss, by ra Gittins that yearling buyers have liked: the Elusive Quality Danzig. Consigned by Darby Dan Farm to 2010 Fasig- filly sold for $350,000 to Robert and Lawana Low and her Tipton November Sale. RNA for $475,000) 2013 foal, a colt by Giant’s Causeway, brought $300,000 from Alex and Jo Lieblog. All were sold at Saratoga by Hunt- The last time Lemon Kiss walked into the Fasig-Tipton Ken- er Valley Farm, agent, who is consigning Lemon Kiss to the tucky sale ring at the 2010 November Sale, she went home November Sale. without a buyer having been bought back for $475,000 in foal to Elusive Quallity. Lemon Kiss, who has a 2014 filly by Speightstown, was last So much has happened since then. mated and believed pregnant to Distorted Humor. PRS The following August, her first foal, a colt by Medaglia d’Oro named Lochte, sold for $475,000 at the 2011 Fasig- Tipton Saratoga yearling. After failing to win in five starts Random FactS for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, Lochte was entered in the by Ray Paulick 2013 Fasig-Tipton New York fall mixed and horses of rac- ing age sale, where Crossed Sabers Farm bought him for The 14 runners in Saturday’s Breeders’ Cup the bargain price of $60,000. Classic came into the race with a combined 12 Grade 1 wins. At Churchill Downs in Owner Carolyn Vogel must have used one of those sabers 1998, 10 runners had combined for 24 Grade 1 to geld Lochte, and since then everything has gone just victories, led by Skip Away’s seven. swimmingly. Lochte won in his second start for new condi-

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Back Ring Getting to know Grovendale’s James Keogh

Why have you dedicated your professional life to Thor- Who’s the best jockey you’ve ever seen? oughbreds? Lester Piggott. It’s just a passion. I’m just fortunate enough to work at something I truly love, and am able to support myself by What is it about the racing and breeding industry that doing this. gives you the most hope? What is your favorite part of this game? There is tremendous The sales. I love selling broodmares. I’m a bit of a pedigree opportunity. The sky nut and enjoy that. Broodmares to me are a culmination is the limit if you are of racing and breeding. prepared to work hard. You can attain What would you be doing if not this? anything you want – Hopefully I’d be hunting a pack of fox hounds somewhere. you just have to work at it. Who’s the greatest horse in your lifetime? Blushing Groom. I got to see him race as a teenager, then What’s your favor- went to Gainesway and had the opportunity to be around ite sport outside of him 11 years and work with him. I loved that horse. racing? Fox hunting or any- thing with horses. About What’s something Keogh aboard OTTB Tempted to most people don’t Tapit, aka “Alfred” know about you? For advertising inquiries please I’m probably very call Emily at 859.913.9633 boring.

Ray Paulick - Publisher [email protected] Who would you most want to meet and why? Emily Alberti - Director of Advertising [email protected] That’s an impossible one. I’ve been very fortunate in the horse business to meet everyone from the Queen of Eng- Scott Jagow - Editor-in-Chief [email protected] land to the President of Ireland and John Nerud. I worked Mary Schweitzer - News Editor [email protected] for Mr. (John) Gaines and Mr. (Joe) Taylor for 11 years, Natalie Voss - Features Editor [email protected] who made a profound impact on my career. Emily White - Weekend Editor [email protected] Frank Mitchell - Contributing Writer What’s the last thing you Googled? I Googled the word plaintiff. PRS Copyright © 2014, Blenheim Publishing LLC MIXED SALE 3rd Annual Sale HORSES OF ALL AGES Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014 11:00 a.m. Entries must Consign Now! be received no later than 2829 South MacArthur Blvd. Nov. 15th Oklahoma City OK 73128 405.682.4551 www.heritageplace.com email: [email protected] www.PaulickReport.com Page 5

Around the Town Bru Burger By The Galloping Gourmand

Located on the site of what was a mediocre (at best) Mexi- can restaurant in Beaumont Centre, the Bru Burger Bar could be nothing but an improvement, and what a pleas- ant surprise this eatery turns out to be. There is a congenial ambiance throughout theC tastefully decorated restauM- Have You Seen The Light? rant and the large U-shaped Y bar area. The subdued mu- We will be at sic helps the conversationCM flow, and there are a few flatMY Fasig Tipton Sales screens if there’s a sports event you wish to catch. CY all week. CMY If it’s beer you like, you’re in Please give us a call on K luck; there are 16 draughts to choose from, which include 859-270-7319 for more information. three rotating taps and one feature tap. The bar also car- ries a moderate wine list, serves four specialty cocktails, To Order: www.equilume.com and, this being Kentucky, 24 different bourbons. Tel: 859-270-7319 / +353 45 579025 Ah, the burgers … not so many choices as to be overwhelm- ing, but with such wonderful combinations of toppings, continued from Page 1 narrowing the decision down is difficult. We tried the Pro- disperse all his horses and sell 8,000 acres of Bluegrass farm- vençal and the Stilton bleu cheese burgers. The Proven- land. His 1988 Keeneland dispersal of 580 horses (including çal came with basil aioli, red onion jam, goat cheese and 281 broodmares and 168 yearlings) brought $46.9 million and sautéed mushrooms, while the bleu cheese burger was was the auction company’s biggest until the recent dispersal of topped with pear-bacon jam, fried onions, truffle aioli, and Edward B. Evans racing and breeding stock. spinach. As my dinner companion said, it was “an explosion of flavors.” Among the other burgers offered are the Ken- In a one-week period in 1976, Hunt won the English Derby with tucky bourbon, Kentucky hot brown, and The End, which is Empery, the French Derby with Youth and the Hollywood Invi- topped with a fried egg! All burgers can be substituted with tational with the great racemare Dahlia. He won three Eclipse a chicken breast, turkey burger, or veggie patty. Awards as outstanding breeder. Of course, burgers are in the spotlight here, but there are a variety of salads and sandwiches to please every pal- As Sports Illustrated wrote in an extensive profile at that time, ate. The salads come in two sizes and the small is plenty Hunt was “Standing Knee-Deep in Clover.” big enough for a meal, especially when topped with grilled chicken, mahi mahi, or shrimp. The menu also offers a pat- Bunker bought his suits in a section marked “rumpled” and con- ty melt, a pulled pork BBQ melt with homemade sauce, a stantly struggled with his weight. “Bunker is always on half a diet,” blackened mahi mahi sandwich, and a beer battered cod a longtime Hunt employee told Sports Illustrated. “That means he sandwich. Burgers and sandwiches are priced from $9 to skips the ice cream with the pie.” $11, with no accompaniments, but a side of fries, slaw, or cottage cheese is just $2. Onion rings are $3; they are He made a late 1990s comeback, of sorts, showing up at a Texas delicious, and if you want a more generous portion, order sale of 2-year-olds, buying some horses and operating a modest them off the appetizer menu. The starters also include a stable for a while. “When I went out there I had no intention of roasted jalapeno mac and cheese, a tasty concoction of buying horses, but when I woke up three or four hours later I had Andouille sausage and shrimp tossed with pasta in a spicy bought 12,” he told a writer. “When I got home I heard about it cheese sauce that had just the right amount of heat. from my wife.” We were too full for dessert, but the peach white choco- He wasn’t broke. Published reports said his trust was worth late bread pudding was highly recommended. Maybe next upwards of $200 million, even after the silver scheme wiped out time. And there will definitely be a next time! most of his wealth. After all, as Nelson Bunker Hunt once said so famously, “A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be.” PRS A gluten-free menu is available. Hours are Mon-Thurs 11- 10, Fri and Sat 11-11, and Sun 11-9. bruburgerbar.com/ lexington/ PRS www.PaulickReport.com Page 6

Five to Watch A look at some of the sale’s top hips By Frank Mitchell

Hip 125 Princess of Sylmar (2010 filly by Majestic winner Exotic Bloom, who won a couple of listed stakes and Warrior x Storm Dixie, by Catienus): Among the best of outproduced her own form with this filly. She sells as a rac- her crop, Princess of Sylmar won the G1 Kentucky Oaks, ing or broodmare prospect. Coaching Club American Oaks, Alabama, and Beldame. She stacked up earnings of more than $2 million and comes to Hip 155 Turbulent Descent (2008 mare by Congrats x the sale as a broodmare prospect. Princess of Sylmar is Roger’s Sue, by Forestry): A remarkably talented filly, Tur- the first foal of her dam, who is stakes-placed. Storm Dixie bulent Descent was a first-class performer at 2 and 3, is a half-sister to the globetrotting millionaire Rhythm Band. when she won three G1 stakes, earning more than $1.2 million. Turbulent Descent produced her first foal, a Galileo Hip 138 She’s a Tiger (2011 filly by Tale of the Cat x colt, earlier this year and is back in foal on a May 9 cover to Shandra Smiles, by Cahill Road): This muscular filly won leading international sire War Front. the G1 Del Mar Debutante last year, when she was named champion juvenile filly. She also finished first in the 2013 Hip 170 Believe You Can (2009 mare by Proud Citizen x Juvenile but was disqualified. This filly is a half-sister El Fasto, by El Prado): One of two Kentucky Oaks winners to Smiling Tiger, winner three times at the G1 level and by Gone West stallion Proud Citizen, Believe You Can was twice third in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. competitive and classy, winning eight of her 14 starts and earning more than $1.2 million. Each of her first four dams Hip 142 Stopchargingmaria (2011 filly by Tale of the Cat produced a graded stakes winner, although none would x Exotic Bloom, by Montbrook): One of the year’s leading rank more highly than Believe You Can. Carrying her first 3-year-old fillies, Stopchargingmaria has won a pair of G1 foal, Believe You Can is in foal to superstar sire Tapit on a races while earning about $1.5 million. She is out of stakes Feb. 19 cover. PRS

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