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FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2018 UP, UP AND AWAY FOR SECOND CAREER FOR ITALIAN RACEHORSES? HOW ABOUT AS MOVIE >UTCB STUD= PARTNERS STARS? by Diana Pikulski Reclaiming lives and starring in the movies are all part of a program for off-track Thoroughbreds in Italy. At Ippodromo Roma Capannelle in Rome, Italy, Standardbreds and Thoroughbreds pass each other on the many horse paths that cross the sprawling 345-acre facility. In between the training tracks, on large grassy areas, you will see Thoroughbreds being trained for the pleasure riding, the show ring and the cinema. Relived Horses, a rescue and retraining program located in an older barn at the edge of the stable area, exists because of the efforts of former leading jockey and movie stunt woman, Jaqueline Freda and veteran show rider and horse trainer, Sabina Findlay. Cont. p5 Uptowncharlybrown | Nikki Sherman by Ben Massam IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Statistics and raw data are one way to assess the success of a WILD ILLUSION DOUBLES GROUP 1 TALLY racing operation, but Bob Hutt of Uptowncharlybrown Stud LLC Charlie Appleby’s Wild Illusion (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) continued measures the upward trajectory of his venture a few different Godolphin’s fine season by winning the G1 Nassau S. at ways. Back home at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, the Goodwood. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. talk around the track tells some of the story. AThe best thing I overhear at Parx is, >Not another [expletive] Uptowncharlybrown.= I=ll stop and say to other trainers, >Thank you very much.=@ Uptowncharlybrown Stud LLC--a partnership borne out of Hutt=s Fantasy Lane Stable, which was founded in 1999--has enjoyed a stellar run of success in recent months competing offspring of the Pennsylvania-based stallion Uptowncharlybrown. As >Charly= has quickly stamped himself as a leading sire in the Keystone State while posting the highest earnings per starter among all third-crop stallions nationally, Hutt can only smile as he justifies a long-standing faith in the chestnut held by his late friend and trainer, Alan Seewald. AAlan was my best friend for 25 years. It wasn=t owner and trainer--we were best friends. We spoke three times a day,@ Hutt said. AIf Alan was alive, I=d [have him as my trainer] until the day I died. I always thought we were Davy Crockett and George Russell and we=d go down swinging empty rifles together.@ Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Friday, August 3, 2018 Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photo Editor Sarah K. 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That northward venture could have easily come in Saturday=s GI Test S. with Dixie Serenade (Uptowncharlybrown), who was last seen turning heads with a stunning last-to-first 47-1 upset score in Belmont=s GIII Victory Ride S. July 8, but the team will opt to stay home and compete in Parx=s Jose Flores Memorial S. Why? Because the race honors the life of the recently fallen Parx-based jockey, whose widow, Joanne McDaid Flores, is a former exercise rider-turned- hotwalker for trainer Eddie Coletti, Jr. Any temptation to chase Grade I glory was put on the back burner when weighed against the opportunity to pay tribute to the life of a respected figure in the Parx community. Nevertheless, Hutt has a basic confidence that their day to return to the spotlight will come sooner rather than later--and it could come as soon as next Saturday, with promising first-out maiden winner Grandma Gertie (Uptowncharlybrown) under strong consideration for the GII Adirondack S. at Saratoga in addition to being entered in the Colleen S. at Monmouth. The story of Uptowncharlybrown begins at the 2009 OBS April Sale, where the colt was purchased by Fantasy Lane for $57,000 and, upon the request of respected consignor Norman Casse, allowed to keep his unique name. After shipping Athe big chestnut@ north to New Jersey, it quickly became apparent that the colt had significant ability under the tutelage of Seewald. Hutt fondly recalled a time before Uptowncharlybrown=s debut when the horse matched strides with GI Kentucky Derby and GI Preakness S. third Musket Man (Yonaguska) in a late- season workout at Monmouth Park. Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 12 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • AUGUST 3, 2018 After Uptowncharlybrown captured his first two starts at Tampa Bay Downs by a combined 15 lengths, Seewald turned down an offer for $2.5 million, assuring Hutt and partners that the horse would eventually prove to be worth far more. Unfortunately, Seewald never had the opportunity to realize that potential--he passed away in his sleep on Apr. 12, 2010, leaving a giant void in the hearts of his friends. The Fantasy Lane team elected to push on in pursuit of Seewald=s goals of winning the GI Belmont S. and GI Haskell Invitational, and came within three lengths of crossing the wire first in the former in his lone start for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin despite a harrowing journey around Big Sandy after Rajiv Maragh=s eight-pound weight pad slipped mid-race. Uptowncharlybrown was disqualified and placed last for the Dixie Serenade and connections after the Victory Ride | NYRA incident, and emerged from the race with a bowed tendon--a setback he would never fully recover from. AThey=re actually pretty good,@ the trainer said. AThey=re a little Hutt readily admits that it required a major leap of faith to try bit high strung like he was. But they give you everything they=ve Uptowncharybrown as a stallion in 2013. In hindsight, it was a got--they leave everything out of the field after they=re no brainer--their current operation at Glenn and Becky Brok=s done...They just run hard.@ Diamond B Farm is a well-oiled machine, with new arrivals from Back in Saratoga Springs, Hutt and company were recently Uptowncharlybrown shuttled off to be broken and trained by invited to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame=s Irene Coletti and Gabe Rispo before ultimately arriving in the ARacing Partnership and Syndicate Event,@ where they passed barn of Coletti, Jr., who once served as an assistant to Seewald. out flyers showing a 41% win rate in 2018 and an average AThe reason I made him a stallion was in honor of Alan--what earnings per start that ranks up with leading partnerships such he couldn=t prove on the racetrack, I wanted to prove through as West Point Thoroughbreds and Team Valor. his progeny,@ Hutt explained. AAll I wanted to do was show that AA couple of people were going from booth to booth and said, Alan was right and show that he was the best horse of his >You=re winning at 41%, your average earnings per start is generation...He=s won with 77% of his babies...He=s had five $14,000 and you=re in the money 65%...and your minimum horses out of his first eight all earn over $100,000--two of which investment is only $825?=@ Hutt recalled. AWhat we=ve done are over $200,000. Some people have called me up and told me differently is that we have bred our own horses. And it seems that his Average Earnings Index is right up there with the top stallions in America, such as Tapit.@ From the outset, Hutt said he sought to mold Uptowncharlybrown=s stallion career after the wildly successful model that Maryland=s Country Life Farm used to initially promote the great Malibu Moon--who is incidentally Dixie Serenade=s damsire.