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A Publication of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association PAThoroughbred pabred.com January 27, 2017 pabred.com Issue: 34 REPORT Blast From the Past: Olympian Bode Miller’s PA plans start with Red Vine While Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller is best known for his exploits on the ski slopes, his newest passion is an immersive foray into the world of Thoroughbred racing, including standing stallion Red Vine in Martie’s Anger Pennsylvania. The first PA-bred ever to earn an Eclipse Award, steeplechase star Martie’s Anger Page 3 gained that distinction as a 4-year-old in 1979 with a hard-fought half-length score in the season-ending Colonial Cup. Page 20 Freshman firsts for 2017 PA-Bred Uptowncharlybrown Stakes Schedule PAGE 17 Page 5 Eclipse champ Finest City and Graded Performances xxxxxx. PA-Breds UNIQUE BELLA, GRANNY’S KITTEN and recently crowned Eclipse Award winner FINEST CITY are off to a fast start in 2017, recording three A Letter from Executive graded stakes wins in the Secretary Brian Sanfratello first three weeks of the year. Page 12 Page 9 PA’s 2016 2nd Leading Freshman Sire* (FIFTH in Mid-Atlantic; 45th in Northern Hemisphere)* *among active sires Uptowncharlybrown (Limehouse - La Iluminada, by Langfuhr) 2007, ch, 16.2 hands, entered stud 2013 Progeny win by margins of 10 and 22 lengths! TWO SONS TRIPLE CROWN-NOMINATED Here’s an Offer You Can’t Refuse! 2017 Stud Fee: $1,500 PAY WHEN YOU WIN OR OWE NOTHING! Book Your Mare Today! Don’t forget: your foal will earn 40% breeder awards as a PA-bred/PA- sired runner in Pennsylvania Uptowncharlybrown’s Uptowncharlybrown’s Alan’s Legacy wins True Sweetheart 1 by 22 ⁄2 lengths romps by 10 lengths 1671 Tilden Road, Mohrsville, PA 19541 • 610.659.2415 • Email: Glenn & Becky Brok @ [email protected] Uptowncharlybrown0217.indd 1 1/20/17 11:50 AM Red Vine Kicks Off Bode Miller’s Big Plans By Emily Shields While Olympic gold medalist Bode Miller is best known for his dentials. It was super exciting to see Red Vine, who is really similar in exploits on the ski slopes, his newest passion is an immersive foray a lot of ways to his sire.” into the world of Thoroughbred racing. The year 2017 marks the ini- Red Vine’s wickedly fast, unbeaten sire Candy Ride (Arg) stands tial season at stud for Miller’s first two stallions, with multiple stakes for $60,000 in Kentucky, with 10 of his sons standing scattered be- winner Unfettered in Maryland and multiple graded stakes-placed tween California and Kentucky. Red Vine is Candy Ride’s first son Red Vine in Pennsylvania. to be available to breeders in the Mid-Atlantic region. His winning dam, Murky Waters, is a daughter of Storm Creek (Storm Cat) and The bringing of Red Vine to his new home, Xanthus Farm, was a out of the stakes-winning Fortunate Prospect mare Fort Pond, mak- carefully plotted plan executed when everything fell into place. Maria ing Murky Waters a half-sister to millionaire Fort Prado. The Candy Vorhauer, Miller’s stallion manager, said, “Bode wants to start rac- Ride – Storm Cat cross has produced the likes of millionaires Shared ing his own horses, and the breeder awards are very good in both Belief, Gun Runner, and Sidney’s Candy. Maryland and Pennsylvania. I said let’s not rule out these two states “Candy Ride’s style of running was so compelling, it made him that are so lucrative. When this horse came up in the [Keeneland doubly exciting,” Miller said. “There are some of his runners that are January] sale, we mapped out a plan for him before we bought him. great horses but don’t match up with why he was so successful, but We knew we would be coming in a little late, but we thought we could I think this one does. When Red Vine raced you could sense he would get a buzz going.” be coming at the end. It makes watching racing even more exciting.” Miller said, “When I was first discussing the process of finding Through agent Patty Miller, Bode Miller went to $25,000 to ac- a stallion with Maria, she said it’s tough. You can pay an insane quire Red Vine, who banked $775,915 in his career. After breaking amount of money for something that looks positive and has the cre- continues on page 7 PA THOROUGHBRED REPORT 3 RANKED IN TOP 20 MID-ATLANTIC LEADING SIRES BY NORTH AMERICAN EARNINGS IN 2016 TALENT SEARCH 2016 Progeny Earnings of over $900,000 Sire of 2016 Danzig Stakes Winner ROLIN WITH OLIN ($136,424) CATIENUS–MRS. K., BY DIXIELAND BAND 2017 FEE: $2,500 LIVE FOAL Won or placed in 8 Stakes Races, including the: TVG BC Sprint G1, Vosburgh S. G1, Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash S. G1, etc. GLENN & BECKY BROK u 1671 TILDEN ROAD u MOHRSVILLE, PA 19541 u 610.659.2415 u WWW.DIAMONDBFARMPA.COM Uptowncharlybrown Sires First Winners By Linda Dougherty Bob Hutt believes in magic. He has experienced it first-hand at the April OBS sale for $57,000 from bloodstock agent Norman since Uptowncharlybrown became a part of his Fantasy Lane Stable Casse. family in 2009. And he believes that the “racing gods,” if you will, are In what would be the first of many uncanny experiences sur- smiling down on his chestnut stallion, who recently sired the first two rounding Uptowncharlybrown, Hutt said that he returned to the barn winners of his stud career – 2-year-olds True Sweetheart and Alan’s at OBS after buying the colt and “out of nowhere” Casse appeared. Legacy, both owned and bred by Fantasy Lane. True Sweetheart romped in her career debut, a six-furlong “It was the only time I’d met him,” said Hutt. “He congratulated maiden event at Parx Racing. With apprentice Lery Pinero aboard, me and said I bought a nice horse, and then he said ‘I’m going to ask the dark bay filly seized the lead right out of the gate and increased a favor. I named him, and I know you can change the name, but I’m her advantage at every pole, roll- asking you to keep it, because he’s going ing home by 10 lengths over her to be very special.’ So we kept it.” nearest competitor. Seewald determined that Uptown- And Charly’s second winner, charlybrown, a big colt, needed time to Alan’s Legacy, broke his maiden grow, so he was turned out on a New Jer- in similar dramatic fashion. Jock- sey farm for several weeks before joining ey Mychel Sanchez sent him up Seewald’s stable at Monmouth Park. after the lead early in the one “Alan tells me that ‘this chestnut is mile, 70 yards contest, and then the best horse you’ve ever owned. What- he shook clear after three-quar- ever you do, don’t tell the partners.’ Min- ters of a mile and stormed home, utes later, an email went out to 500 peo- a whopping 22½ lengths in front. ple,” recalled Hutt with a laugh. Both True Sweetheart and Alan’s Charly’s first workout was also mem- Legacy were trained by Eddie Co- orable, with more than 50 partners lining letti Jr. the rail to watch him go three furlongs. To Seewald’s dismay, the The victories were especially meaningful to Hutt, who founded exercise rider couldn’t pull him up, and he recorded swift splits that Fantasy Lane Stable in 1999 in his father’s memory so that people included three furlongs in :34 and a six-furlong gallop out in 1:14 and of even modest means could “feel like a millionaire without spend- change. ing like one,” as it states in Fantasy Lane’s television commercial. “Alan was mad,” said Hutt. “He said we broke him down, but the Uptowncharlybrown was developed and trained by Hutt’s longtime vet didn’t find anything wrong with him afterwards. For his second friend Alan Seewald, who passed away unexpectedly in 2010, and breeze the rider was under strict orders not to go that fast, and he in whose memory Hutt has developed the stallion’s stud career and 3 went in :37 ⁄5.” raced his babies. Uptowncharlybrown made his debut December 26, 2009, at “I sat and cried for an hour, not taking any phone calls or talking Tampa Bay Downs, winning by 10 lengths, and came right back and to anyone,” said Hutt, in reflecting upon True Sweetheart’s win. “My won the Pasco Stakes by six lengths a month later for his 3-year-old first text was to Ryan Seewald, Alan’s son. I made Charly a stallion in Alan’s honor – that’s what this is all about.” bow. Alan’s Legacy, Uptowncharlybrown’s first colt to be foaled, was Hutt said that Seewald received an offer for him for $2.5 million, named for Seewald. His maiden-breaker on November 26 just so but turned it down, telling the Fantasy Lane partners that he wanted happened to be on Hutt’s birthday, too. to bypass the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes for the Belmont “It was an emotional day for all of us,” said Joerg Hoffman, a Stakes and Haskell Invitational, and then sell him. Those plans, how- longtime Fantasy Lane partner that was part of Uptowncharlybrown’s ever, seemed to be in jeopardy with Seewald’s death April 12, 2010. ownership group and is also a partner in True Sweetheart and Alan’s Uptowncharlybrown did indeed run in the Belmont for new train- Legacy.