SOUTHWIND GENDRY Bay Gelding 3, by Always B Miki – Gambler’s Passion – Cam’s Card Shark

OWNERS: Burke Racing Stable, Phil Collura, PA; Knox Services, OH; J&T Silva- Purnel & Libby, FL BREEDER: Southwind Farms LLC, NJ SALE: $30,000 Lexington-Selected Sale TRAINER: Ron Burke DRIVER: Yannick Gingras

YEAR STARTS 1ST 2ND 3RD EARNINGS MARK 2021 5 3 2 0 $151,772 1:49.1 M 2020 13 10 0 1 $583,069 1:50.0 DD LIFETIME 18 13 2 1 $734,841 1:49.1 M

• Won his Pace elimination by a neck in a personal best 1:49.1 on a track rated sloppy at odds of 10-1. He has post four in the final and listed at the 3-1 favorite on the morning line.

• “I was planning on taking him back and just maybe one-move him, just to get in the final for next week,” winning driver Yannick Gingras said after the race. “But then nobody was leaving, so I took a shot out of there. But he was more willing today. He hasn’t been wanting to leave all year really and today I planted him on the gate and he left out of there on his own.

• “He’s definitely better following horses actually," Gingras also said. "On the front, he’s a little bit lazy. Of course, those fractions helped tonight, but you could see even late he’s just waiting on them to get close to him.”

• Has two PASS wins on the season (one at the Meadows on May 1 in 1:49.4 and other at Harrah’s Philadelphia on May 30th in 1:51). He finished second behind fellow Pace contender One Eight Hundred in a PASS on May 16th and was second behind another Pace contender Perfect Sting in a PASS on June 26th.

• Southwind Gendry wrapped up this freshman year by winning the $193,000 Matron Stakes in 1:50 at Dover Downs.

• Southwind Gendry won seven races in a row including the Pennsylvania Sire Stakes Championship in 1:51.3 at Pocono Downs, Hoosier Park Elevation Stakes in 1:50.4, a division of the Bluegrass Stakes in 1:50.2 and a International Stallion Stakes in 1:50 at the Red Mile. He won his 2 year old elimination in 1:51 and finished third in the final.

• Southwind Gendry set an Arden Downs stakes record of 1:51.2 at the Meadows as a freshman.

• “He doesn’t love the front, but he’ll race on the front,” said winning trainer Ron Burke. “When he does things he doesn’t want to and still does them well, you know he’s a pretty good horse.”

• Gingras’ second Pace win came in 2020 with Horse of the Year Tall Dark Stranger. His first Pace win came in 2012 with A Rocknroll Dance. His debut in the Pace came with the favorite Timesareachanging, who was second in 2004.

• Gingras won four races on the 2020 Hambletonian Day card to capture the Championship Meet driving title with 86 wins and $2,539.384. Gingras moved into sixth on the all time money list, passing $191 million. He drove his second Horse of the Year, Tall Dark Stranger, the sport’s leading money winner in 2020 with $1.3 million. Gingras won his sixth with Sorella, finished second in the $1 million Hambletonian Final with Ready For Moni, and captured the with Tall Dark Stranger in 1:47.1. Gingras pulled Breeders Crown upsets with Peaky Sneaky and Summa Cum Laude, the latter in the first ever Crown dead-heat for win. Gingras is third in the series among active drivers with 25 trophies. He also won the Maple Leaf Trot with Atlanta.

• Trainer Ron Burke is looking for his first Pace win. In 2018, he sent out Dorsoduro Hanover who finished second from post ten at 57.80-1. He sent out two starters in the 2017 Pace Final – Miso Fast [sixth] and Filibuster Hanover [fourth]. In 2016, he had three in the Final, Check Six (third), Manhattan Beach (fourth) and JK Will Power (sixth). Burke finished sixth in 2014 with beaten favorite JK Endofanera and ninth in 2015 with Lyons Levi Lewis. He has also been off the board with Fred And Ginger (ninth) and Sweet Lou (fifth).

• Ron Burke, 51, continued to redefine dominance as the leading trainer in the sport in 2020 with 883 wins from 4,096 starts at various venues, and $17,541,537 in purse earnings. The Burke Stable rolled past the

unprecedented $250 million mark and finished 2020 at 11,335 career wins. Burke captured his ninth consecutive Championship Meet title with 50 wins and $1,099,667, and led the Big M in 2020 with 72 wins and $1,939,101.

• In 2021, he was named to the Hall of Fame ballot.

• “We knew watching his first qualifier that he’s something special,” said Burke early in Southwind Gendry’s two year old campaign.

• Sire Always B Miki finished second in the 2014 . He retired with $2.7 million in earnings and was the 2016 Horse of the Year. He set the world record of 1:46 in the Allerage Pace at The Red Mile.

• Always B Miki also is the sire of Pace contender and 2020 Dan Patch award winner Perfect Sting, 2020 Governor’s Cup winner Always A Miki and 2020 Breeders Crown elimination winner JK Alwaysbalady.