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3 A MESSAGE FROM THE NYTB EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR very year on this special night we take time out to celebrate the biggest racetrack success stories of the New York Thoroughbred breeding program. EAs we have come to expect in recent years, New York-breds competed successfully at the highest levels of our sport in 2014. Last year, New York-breds won 20 graded stakes races from coast to coast, led by three individuals who combined to collect four Grade 1 victories: Dayatthespa, Palace and Artemis Agrotera. In all New York-breds won 30 stakes races in open company. Also in 2014, our program reached a long overdue milestone when Dayatthespa became the first Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup winner in the Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita Park. Here are a few more racing highlights from 2014: Samraat and Uncle Sigh were prominent on the Kentucky Derby trail. Ten New York-breds participat- ed in Breeders’ Cup Races, producing three Breeders’ Cup placings and one Breeders’ Cup victory. Dayatthespa and Artemis Agrotera were Eclipse Award finalists in three categories, and Dayatthespa was the near-unanimous choice in the Eclipse voting for Female Turf Champion. Over the course of 2014 no fewer than six New York-breds horses achieved millionaire status: Dayatthespa, Palace, Discreet Marq, Be Bullish, Zivo and Lubash. While New York-breds generated positive press all year long around the ovals, breeders had other reasons to celebrate. At auction, when the watchwords for the marketplace were “strong” and “steady,” the market for New York-bred yearlings and weanlings followed suit and held on to the spectacular gains of the previous year. The main sales headline of 2014 was that the 2-year-olds in training market experienced some dramatic new momen- tum of its own, posting an increase in total sales of 84 percent. Finally, for the second year in a row, New York-breds earned unprecedented awards from the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund. The new benchmarks for program awards follow: all awards increased 12 percent to $17.8 million, up from $15.8 million in 2013; breeders’ awards increased from $11.2 million in 2013 to $12.8 million; stallion owners’ awards rose from $2.7 million in 2013 to $3 million in 2014; and open company owners’ awards rose from $1.8 million to $1.9 million. Beyond this, every participant in the program in 2014 earned the largest “supplemental bonus” in the history of the Fund, an extra 16 percent of awards earned. Supplemental bonus payments for 2014 total $2.5 million. The New York breeding program is flourishing by any measure, not least in that for the third year in a row in 2014 New York reported an increase in both the mare population and number of foals born. Tonight 58 deserv- ing and accomplished nominees, representing nearly as many breeders, are under consideration for 10 divisional championships. The quality of the group is such that several individuals who in prior years could have been voted New York-bred Horse of the Year, will have to take a back seat to more accomplished horses even within their own divisions. As we review the nominees in each division and honor the champions tonight, every breeder in this room should feel proud of the individual and collective accomplishments of the best regional breeding program in the country.

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WELCOME Jeffrey A. Cannizzo, NYTB Executive Director INTRODUCTION Barry R. Ostrager, NYTB President DINNER PRESENTATION OF AWARDS Richard Migliore, Master of Ceremonies AWARDS CATEGORIES Thoroughbred Charities of America Award of Merit New York-Bred Champion Two-Year-Old Filly New York-Bred Champion Two-Year-Old Male New York-Bred Champion Three-Year-Old Filly New York-Bred Champion Three-Year-Old Male New York-Bred Champion Turf Female New York-Bred Champion Turf Male New York-Bred Champion Female Sprinter New York-Bred Champion Male Sprinter New York-Bred Champion Older Female New York-Bred Champion Older Male New York-Bred Champion Steeplechase Horse New York-Bred Horse of the Year New York Broodmare of the Year New York-Bred Trainer of the Year New York-Bred Jockey of the Year New York Breeder of the Year Awards Dinner Program produced by ST Publishing, the team behind The Saratoga Special and thisishorseracing.com Articles by Joe Clancy, Sean Clancy, Tom Law. Photos by Coglianese/NYRA Photos unless otherwise noted. ST Publishing, Inc. • (410) 392-5867 • www.thisishorseracing.com

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ichard Migliore is currently a broadcast analyst for The New York Racing Association, Inc. and works as an analyst on The Jockey Club Tour on Fox racing series on Fox Sports 1. Known best for a stellar career as a jockey, Migliore won more than 4,400 races over a career spanning three decades. RMigliore, who was born in 1964 and grew up on Long Island, got a job on a horse farm near his home and decided he was going to be a jockey at age 12. He began riding in 1980, and in 1981 won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top apprentice with 298 victories. Twice the leading rider in New York – in 1981 and 1985 – Migliore won or tied as leading rider at 10 different NYRA meets, most recently taking the 2005 Aqueduct spring meet. A fixture on the NYRA circuit, Migliore announced his retirement on June 2, 2010. “The Mig,” as he was known, rode 4,450 winners and the earners of more than $160 million in purses. Some of his biggest victories came later in his career, taking his first Breeders’ Cup race in 2008 aboard Turf Sprint winner Desert Code, and in 2009 capturing the Grade 1 Gazelle and Grade 1 Test aboard Flashing. In all, Migliore won 362 stakes, including 25 Grade 1 races.

7 TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Freudie Anne B. f. Freud—Lake Toccet, by Toccet. Breeder: Delaney Stable. Owner: Marc Detampel. Trainer: Eddie Kenneally. 2014 record: 4-3-0-0, $141,540. 2014 stakes win: East View.

argains slip through the cracks at public auctions around the world. Freudie Anne did it not once but twice, first selling as a weanling for $14,000 at the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga fall mixed sale and then going through the ring at Bthe 2013 Keeneland September yearling sale and bringing $9,000. The $9,000 looked like a bargain after Freudie Anne put together a season of three wins in four starts and a dominating stakes victory in her 2014 finale. Especially so considering she did it all without even making her debut until the first week of September. Trainer Eddie Kenneally, who conditions the daughter of peren- The ownership group that now includes Marc Detampel, who nial leading New York sire Freud for a partnership, hoped to debut was her listed owner at 2, along with Jayne Johnson, who signed Freudie Anne in a maiden race on the main track at Saratoga but it for her at Keeneland, aimed high again in her 2015 debut when didn’t work out. He went to Plan B and sent her out in a 6-furlong Freudie Anne was shipped to New Orleans for the Grade 3 Rachel turf maiden the first week of the Belmont Park Fall Championship Alexandra. meet and she won. The victory was worth $36,000, more than her two auction prices combined. She was pulled up and walked off after racing wide around the Freudie Anne didn’t take to mud hitting her face next time out first turn and has since returned to serious training with Kenneally in the Joseph A. Gimma on the main track, finishing last of five and at Palm Meadows in Florida. well back, but Kenneally didn’t lose confidence. He estimated she’d Foaled at Keane Stud in Amenia, Freudie Anne is the sec- “grown up a little bit” in the two months she was away from the ond foal out of the unraced Toccet mare Lake Toccet. Her older races before returning to win an off-the-turf allowance at Aqueduct half-brother, the Pomeroy gelding Lake Effect, was also a winner and then a 9 3/4-length victory in the East View in mid-December in 2014 and Lake Toccet is the dam of a 2-year-old Frost Giant filly to close her juvenile campaign. and a yearling colt by Giant Surprise.

Harlan’s Honor B. f. Harlan’s Holiday—Indian Rush, by Indian Charlie Breeder: Marty Zaretsky. Owners: Margaret and David Wimer. Trainer: Cal Lynch. 2014 record: 5-2-0-0, $71,750. 2014 stakes win: Colleen.

al Lynch liked what he saw when Harlan’s Honor zipped a quick furlong before last year’s OBS April sale of 2-year-olds in training. Margaret Wimer liked what she saw, too. CLynch says they valued her somewhere between $150,000 and $200,000, but they wouldn’t be faulted for thinking maybe they’d luck into a slightly better deal when the daughter of Harlan’s Holi- day went through the ring for one simple reason. “We bought her from Ciaran Dunne at Wavertree and she wasn’t overly big,” Lynch said of the two-time winner in 2014. “Actually, she’d banged her head on the gate the morning of the sale, so we Bill Denver/Equi-Photo were hoping that would help us afford her. We were somewhere gret to this day,” Lynch said. “It looked like such a good spot to get between 150 and 200 or 180, so it ended up being $165,000. My black-type on a 2-year-old filly that early in the year. Being a New number was 150 and the owner, Meg Wimer, she went down and York-bred and in there against two or three maidens, one of them bid a couple more dollars and got the filly. was Leah Gyarmati’s filly (Wonder Gal). We figured we would get a “She was nice, not overly big, but well balanced and carried her- piece of that, but like I said, hindsight being 20-20 I would not do it self fairly well. I know Ciaran fairly well, being Irish, and he told me again. We got beat and finished fourth, between second, third and she was the same filly every day. He’s somebody I trust and since fourth was (1 1/2 lengths). That was a tough beat that way.” that’s what we look for that’s one of the reasons we bought the filly.” Harlan’s Honor rebounded with a little more time and a switch Harlan’s Honor repaid her owners a bit two months later when to the grass to win the Colleen Stakes in early August to highlight she won a 5-furlong maiden at Monmouth Park. The chance to get her campaign. Bred by Marty Zaretsky, Harlan’s Honor is the first some quick black type lured Lynch to run the filly back quick in the foal out of the stakes-placed Indian Charlie mare Indian Rush Lynbrook Stakes, but she finished fourth behind first-time starter, and was foaled at her breeder’s Pine Ridge Farm in Old Chatham. runaway winner and fellow 2-year-old filly finalist Wonder Gal. Brent Malmstrom purchased her originally for $50,000 at the 2013 “We ran her back in nine days off the maiden win, which I re- Keeneland September yearling sale. 8 C ONGRATULATIONS to the connections of finalist Harlan’s Honor NY-BRED CHAMPION 2YO FILLY

“She was nice, well balanced and carried herself well. I know Ciaran and he told me she was the same filly every day. He’s somebody I trust and since that’s what we look for, that’s one of the reasons we bought the filly.” – Trainer Cal Lynch, about HARLAN'S HONOR, $165,000 purchase at OBS April last year and nominee for Champion 2-Year-Old Filly

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9 15-0326 Wavertree pg 4/c.indd 1 3/25/15 5:41 PM TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Quezon Ch. f., Tiz Wonderful—Kalookan Dancer, by Olympio. Owner: Marc Keller. Trainer: Bob Ribaudo. Breeder: Apache Farm. 2014 record: 3-2-0, 213,200. 2014 stakes win: Maid Of The Mist.

f you scan the list of finalists in this division, you’ll see a couple of names twice – Tiz Wonderful is the sire of Quezon and Wonder Gal, but even more notable is that Apache Farm bred both fillies. IOwned by the Moriarty family, Apache includes six broodmares and essentially two divisions. The mares foal in New York, under the care of Tim Moriarty. The young horses get started in South Carolina, under the care of Tim’s parents Jane and Bill Moriarty. “It’s pretty neat,” said Tim during a break from foaling season in March. “We’re really, really excited. We’re small time, but it proves that if you focus on the breeding and on the mare, anything’s pos- Mist Stakes going a mile at Belmont. Ribaudo put the filly in the sible. It’s the equine American dream.” Grade 2 Demoiselle next time and she finished fourth behind Con- Apache North is in Mount Morris, and includes 66 acres and a do Commando. The trainer has been impressed since the beginning. 10-stall barn. A Moriarty attends pretty much every foaling, watch- “She was feisty and tough coming out of her stall at the sale,” he ing from a bunk in the barn. said. “She’s really well put together and we thought she had poten- “From day one, they get patted and led around,” said Tim, tial to grow into something. I didn’t know much about her pedi- whose three daughters are part of the team. “It really makes a big gree, but I got a call from an agent friend of mine in California who difference. They go down south and get the same treatment from knew her mother and they thought the dam was a classy racehorse. my parents and by the time they get to the sale they’re used to it all.” That gave me a little more encouragement and Quezon has done Quezon sold for $90,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s 2013 New York-bred everything we’ve asked.” sale in Saratoga, after catching the eye of Marc Keller, trainer Bob Kalookan Dancer earned $404,031 almost entirely in Califor- Ribaudo and advisor Niall Brennan. The chestnut filly made her nia, and joined the broodmare band at Apache (via a $20,000 pur- racing debut at Belmont in September, and thumped eight rivals. chase at Keeneland November) in 2009. The California-bred died She came back a month later and won the $250,000 Maid of the in 2014.

Temper Mint Patty Dk. b./br. f. Congrats—His Beauty, by Adcat. Breeder: Gallagher’s Stud. Owner: Mark Stanley. Trainer: Dale Romans. 2014 record: 4-2-1-0, $191,800. 2014 stakes: Joseph A. Gimma Stakes.

emper Mint Patty has math down – $30,000, $95,000, $191,800. Consigned by Denali Stud on behalf of her breeder Gallagher’s Stud, Temper Mint Patty fetched $30,000 at Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Yearling Sale in T2013. Becky Thomas purchased her as a yearling and returned in February to sell her for $95,000 to Mark Stanley at the Fasig-Tip- ton Florida 2-year-old Sale. In four starts in her debut season, she earned $191,800. “I’m so happy Becky put me onto this filly,” Stanley said. “She’s been so much fun I bought another New York-bred this spring. I think Patty will have a big year now that she’s got some nagging problems behind her. My wife and I are looking forward to coming Temper Mint Patty spent the winter competing against open back to New York this year to watch her run.” company, finishing fourth in the Grade 3 Old Hat Stakes and third Making her debut at Saratoga, Temper Mint Patty stalked and in the Herecomesthebride Stakes at Gulfstream Park. pounced to win a 6-furlong maiden by a neck over My Super Nova. Stanley and Romans teamed up to campaign multiple stakes Three weeks later, she clicked off a quick double, decimating four winner Swift Temper, winner of the Grade 1 Ruffian and Grade 2 rivals in the Joseph A. Gimma Stakes at Belmont Park. Delaware Handicap in 2009. She tracked the pace before waltzing to a 13 ½-length score over Temper Mint Patty follows a long line of New York-breds from My Super Nova again. Staying on the New York path, Temper Mint Gallagher’s Stud. Patty finished second in the Maid of the Mist at Belmont in Octo- She’s out of His Beauty, winner of the Jena Jena Stakes in 2005. ber, failing to match Quezon’s kick. Temper Mint Patty complet- Bred by Gallagher’s Stud, His Beauty traces to Mine Forever, also ed her season with a fifth behind eventual champion Take Charge bred by Gallagher’s Stud. She traces to Mervat, a daughter of Vague- Brandi in the Grade 3 Delta Downs Princess. ly Noble and the French-bred mare Doha.

10 11 TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS The Lewis Dinner Dk. b./br. f. Posse—Nick’s Honor, by Jump Start. Breeder: James Lamonica, Lee Sacks, Soave Stables & Posse Syndicate. Owner: Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables and Gary Aisquith. Trainer: Rudy Rodriguez. 2014 record: 6-3-2-1, $229,500. 2014 stakes: New York Stallion Series Fifth Avenue, Key Cents.

very spring for nearly a century, members of the Lehigh University wrestling team and its extended family gather to at an event called the Lewis Dinner to celebrate the program’s success. EMike Caruso of Bethlehem Stables, which owns many horses in partnership with Michael Dubb, Gary Aisquith or some combination of those entities, knows the event well. He was a three-time NCAA champion during his days at Lehigh, the only member of the program to achieve such a distinction, and the school’s wres- favorite and expected pacesetter My Super Nova stumbled at the tling complex was named in his honor in September 2013. start – in November and won again. Same story in the Fifth Avenue More than a year and a half earlier a filly by Posse was born at division of the New York Stallion Series Stakes Dec. 28. Vinery NY at Empire Stud in Hudson who brought some of the Purchased by Eisaman Equine for $50,000 at the 2013 Fasig-Tip- above-mentioned owners together again and made sure she lived ton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale, The Lewis Dinner was up to the excellence of her name. The filly is The Lewis Dinner, who could very well earn some awards of her own if she continues to sold for the same price at the 2014 OBS April 2-year-olds in train- show the same promise she exhibited late in her 2-year-old season. ing sale. She breezed an eighth in :10 prior to the sale and was The Lewis Dinner lost her first three starts in July, August and bought by Dubb, who then brought on the partners. September. She dueled or rated in those first three starts. Once she The Lewis Dinner is one of two stakes winners out of the Jump went to the lead after the break, the outcomes started to change. Start mare Nick’s Honor, along with $198,894-earner Kelli Got The Lewis Dinner set the pace in a 6-furlong maiden on a mud- Frosty. Nick’s Honor is also the dam of stakes-placed $107,400-earn- dy track in October and cruised to a 5 1/2-length victory. She did er Princess Phoebe and a 2-year-old filly by D’ Funnybone and the same in the $100,000 Key Cents Stakes – getting an assist when yearling filly by Frost Giant. She was bred to Tale of the Cat in 2014.

Wonder Gal Dk. b./br. f. Tiz Wonderful—Passe, by Dixie Union. Breeder: Apache Farm. Owner: Treadway Racing Stable. Trainer: Leah Gyarmati. 2014 record: 4-1-1-2, $395,000. 2014 stakes win: Lynbrook.

onder Gal met New York-breds once in 2014. Well, she met them and barely got past the handshake. Owned by Treadway Racing Stable, the daughter of Tiz Wonderful won the Lynbrook Stakes in her Wcareer debut, trouncing New York-bred 2-year-old fillies by 14 ½ lengths. “I liked her a lot, she acted like an older horse, she always did everything right,” trainer Leah Gyarmati said. “I took a shot in the stake first time out because only one New York-bred maiden had run and that was the week before that so I didn’t think there could be much in there other than maidens. She’s pretty much a big laid- Sweat Reason won the Grade 1 TVG Acorn and the Grade 1 back filly who goes with the flow.” Test. Trainers don’t like to compare horses, but with these two, it’s Purchased for $210,000 at OBS March 2-year-old sale, Wonder hard not to compare. Gal never faced state-bred competition again. “She’s got that attitude like Sweet Reason,” Gyarmati said. Gyarmati placed Wonder Gal in the Grade 2 Adirondack for “Nothing bothers her, she’s not scared of anything, she doesn’t her second start. She finished third behind Cavorting and Angela jump around, she’s easy to work around, she seems very intelligent, Renee. For her third start, Wonder Gal tackled the Grade 1 Frizette, she knows what she’s supposed to do. Horses like her and Sweet and finished second behind By The Moon. For her fourth start, Reason get the idea that they’re supposed to be in front at the end Wonder Gal ventured to California for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile of the race, doesn’t matter how they start, it’s how they finish.” Fillies, finishing third, just a length behind champion Take Charge After finishing the year with a third in the Breeders’ Cup, Won- Brandi and Top Decile. der Gal took some time off and returned to the work tab in Feb- With a win, a second and two thirds from just four starts, Won- ruary. She had posted five breezes by mid-March and was actually der completed a dynamic duo for Gyarmati in 2014. scheduled to run before weather canceled racing at Aqueduct. 12 13 TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Bustin It Ch. c. Bustin Stones—I Drink Alone, by Intidab. Breeder: Casey Newick. Owner: SJB Stable, Michael Mareina and Keuhne Racing. Trainer: Michael Mareina. 2014 record: 3-1-2-0, $130,000. 2014 stakes win: Rockville Centre.

ike Mareina knew he had a fast colt when he shipped Bustin It from Ocala to Saratoga early last spring. What he didn’t know was how long he’d have to wait for the son of Bustin Stones to show that speed. MJuvenile maiden races were nearly impossible to come by – state-bred or open-company – in New York last spring and into early summer. One finally filled enough and Mareina, SJB Stable and Keuhne Racing watched Bustin It run a good second to Non- na’s Boy going 5 furlongs on a muddy track. but I knew there was no way International Star could run with him “What I wanted to do was put a race into him,” Mareina said. “It short. Even one of my owners kept saying, ‘what about this horse, came up pretty muddy, but I wanted to get the race because I was he ran 1:09 and change on the grass?’ I said, ‘that was the grass, this pointing to that stakes, the Rockville Centre, a few weeks later. We is the dirt. There’s going to be a difference.’ went on with Pletcher’s horse to the quarter pole and I told Rajiv “He’s always been a really good gate horse. I’d like to take the (Maragh), ‘get to the quarter-pole, see if you can go by and if you can’t just sit on him and let him coast in second.’ credit for it, but it has nothing to do with me. He’s just extremely “The main goal was the stakes. It was a real good prep for him, quick from the gate.” on an off track, I didn’t want to over-ask him or anything.” Bustin It was quick from the gate again in the Funny Cide Stakes The open maiden race was the perfect tune-up for Bustin It, who on the Saratoga Showcase card in late August but couldn’t hold off rocketed from the gate in the 6-furlong Rockville Centre a month Upstart. Bustin It grabbed a quarter in the Funny Cide and was later and cruised to a 7-length victory over International Star. later sidelined with an ankle chip, minor injuries that led to the “I was very confident going into that race,” Mareina said. “They decision to shut him down for the year and think about 2015 and liked International Star, he’d won on the grass and all this and that, beyond.

Good Luck Gus B. c. Lookin At Lucky—Tacticmove, by Deputy Minister. Breeder: Fred Hertrich III. Trainer: Rudy Rodriguez. Owner: Michael Dubb, Bethlehem Stables and The Elkstone Group. 2014 record: 7-3-2-0, $330,059. 2014 stakes wins: New York Breeders’ Futurity, Damon Runyon.

he status of Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale as a source of promising racing or pinhooking prospects for a fair price, comparatively speaking of course, continues to solidify. TFour of the seven finalists for champion New York-bred 2-year- old male in 2014 came out of the 2013 edition of the sale, including Good Luck Gus. Good Luck Gus sold very late in the second session of the New York-bred sale, but his hammer price of $97,000 was still more than $25,000 above the overall sale average and a pretty solid indicator of his value. That was then. On the racetrack in 2014, the son of Lookin At Lucky created even bigger figures. Good Luck Gus turned in a productive campaign last year, fin- that with a strong second to fellow finalist Ostrolenka in the Sleepy ishing first or second in five of his seven starts and taking home a Hollow on Empire Showcase Day and a win in the Damon Runyon pair of stakes wins for owners Michael Dubb, Mike Caruso’s Beth- going two turns for the first time in mid-December at Aqueduct. lehem Stables and Stuart Grant’s The Elkstone Group. Good Luck Gus was foaled at Majestic View Farms in Gardiner The bay colt also racked up more than $330,000 in earnings, the and is one of two winners out of Tacticmove, a daughter of Deputy most of the 100 foals for his sire who finished third on the North Minister and Grade 1 winner Strategic Maneuver. American freshman sire list. His half brother, the Kentucky-bred Elusive Quality filly Fol- The biggest win came in the $252,098 New York Breeders’ Futu- low My Luck, was a winner in 2014 in Puerto Rico and co-bred by rity in early October at Finger Lakes and Good Luck Gus followed Good Luck Gus’ breeder Fred Hertrich III of Delaware. 14 BOYS AT TOSCONOVA Winner of the Hopeful S-G1 Sire of NY-sired NY-bred top-priced weanling

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15 TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS International Star B. c. Fusaichi Pegasus—Parlez, by French Deputy. Breeder: Katy Voss and Bob Manfuso. Owner: Ken and Sarah Ramsey. Trainer: Mike Maker. 2014 record: 6-2-2-0, $200,979. 2014 stakes win: Grey (G3). nternational Star raced at least once on the three surfaces available in North America during his juvenile campaign in 2014. The son of Fusaichi Pegasus fared well, winning on the grass, winning on Polytrack and finishing second on the dirt. IHe finished second one other time on the turf and was only worse than fourth once, that being a ninth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita Park. Despite leaning a bit more in the turf/synthetic direction – with those two wins and four of International Star’s six starts – Ken Ramsey knew what was in store for the colt down the road. He knew it almost from the time he spent $85,000 to buy Inter- (Kitten’s Joy) and turf horses coming out of my ears,’ ” Ramsey said. national Star at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Eastern fall year- “He won that first race pretty impressively, ran a big number but I ling sale. still thought he was a dirt horse. Plus I’m trying to win the Derby. “I was thinking dirt even when I bought the horse,” Ramsey said The Derby is the big goal.” earlier this year, shortly after International Star emerged as a lead- International Star’s lone stakes win prior to this year’s success on ing classics candidate with wins in the Grade 3 Lecomte and Grade 2 Risen Star at Fair Grounds. the dirt in New Orleans was in the Grade 3 Grey going 1 1/16 miles Not one to denigrate his team publicly – he’s always quick to at Woodbine. He defeated probable Canadian champion 2-year-old credit his longtime farm manager Mark Patridge and his team of male Conquest Typhoon in the Grey before the Juvenile Turf and trainers that includes Mike Maker – Ramsey gave a little insight was a close fourth behind El Kabeir and others in the Grade 3 Ken- to the conversation that unfolded not long after International Star tucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs. won a 6-furlong open-company maiden race on the grass in his International Star wound up a New York-bred when longtime debut last June at Belmont. Maryland breeders Katy Voss and Bob Manfuso diversified their “I had to say, ‘I didn’t buy the horse for turf. I’ve got a turf sire foal crop of 2012 and sent Parlez to foal at Berkshire Stud. Ostrolenka B. c. Musket Man–Pumpkin’s Pride, by Louis Quatorze. Breeder: Eric Fein. Owner: Eric Fein and Christopher McKenna. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. 2014 record: 4-2-0-0, $187,292. 2014 stakes win: Sleepy Hollow.

odd Pletcher finished a conversation about late, great Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens and was asked to change gears from talking about The Chief to talking about Os- trolenka, nominee for New York-bred 2-year-old cham- Tpion. It was a big leap. Pletcher laughed at the segue, then actually thought about a connection. “You know, The Chief would have liked this horse,” Pletcher said. “He’s a big, heavy kind of horse, it seemed like you always saw The Chief training these big strapping horses who looked like they ate forever.” Bred by Eric Fein and owned by Fein and Christopher McKen- Pletcher unveiled the son of Musket Man at Saratoga in August, na, Ostrolenka finished 13th in the Remsen in November and fifth where he finished seventh over a sloppy track. in the Jerome in January before freshening. A month later, Ostrolenka returned to trounce New York-breds, He returned with a 3-furlong breeze at Palm Beach Downs at streaking to a 14 ½-length win going a mile at Belmont Park. Three the end of February and was aiming at a spring campaign in New weeks later, Ostrolenka became a stakes winner with a win over York. Good Luck Gus and Market Conduct in the Sleepy Hollow at Bel- Fein campaigned Ostrolenka’s sire Musket Man, who finished mont. third in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2008 before enter- “He’s a solid horse, for a big horse, he has tactical speed and can ing stud in 2011 and Ostrolenka’s dam Pumpkin’s Pride, who won carry it a ways,” Pletcher said. “We got a little bit unlucky, we caught three races in 2003. some sloppy, wet tracks he didn’t like but he’s a solid bread-and- She’s a daughter of Stark Ballet, who won at Saratoga and Keene- butter kind of horse.” land for Pletcher and John T. L. Jones Jr. 16 w¡

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17 15-0326 EQB.com 1pg 4/c.indd 1 3/26/15 9:03 AM TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Skyway Ch. c. Sky Mesa—Bedside Manner, by Dr. Blum. Breeder: Sugar Maple Farm & H. Lewis Rapaport. Owner: John Oxley. Trainer: Mark Casse. 2014 record: 5-2-0-1, $175,640. 2014 stakes win: Best Pal (G2).

eflecting back nearly six months from one of the most prestigious 2-year-old stakes races on the West Coast, Mark Casse contemplated aloud if something might have gone wrong with Skyway that didn’t show up until well Rafter he crossed the finish line. “I just wonder if maybe in his last race if that ankle was bother- ing him,” Casse said of Skyway’s effort in the Grade 1 FrontRunner Stakes last September at Santa Anita Park, where he finished sixth and 12 lengths behind eventual champion American Pharoah. “He never really showed anything, but he kind of stuck his head up in Keeneland photo the air during the race. American Pharoah went on to a 4 3/4-length victory in his second He came back after the race and was sound. (Then a few days start and as a maiden. later) we didn’t even breeze him, we galloped him one day and it “It was disappointing and it was a pretty significant fracture,” h app e n e d .” Casse said. “We’ve got him, but I don’t know if he’s going to make it It was a fractured sesamoid and an injury that will force one of back to be honest. We’re going to try and get him back toward the the country’s most promising juveniles in the early part of 2014 to latter part of the year, maybe in the fall.” miss most of if not all of 2015. Skyway was purchased by Casse on behalf of owner John Oxley The winner of the Grade 2 Best Pal on a synthetic track at Del for $165,000 at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling Mar after a maiden win on a similar surface at Keeneland in his de- sale. The chestnut colt’s half-sister, Ava K, was a multiple stakes but and a third on the dirt in the Grade 3 Bashford Manor at Chur- winner and 2011 New York-bred Champion 3-year-old Filly. chill Downs, Skyway was so promising he was actually favored over Skyway is out of the Dr. Blum mare Bedside Manner, who is also American Pharoah in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity. the dam of a 2-year-old Bluegrass Cat colt and a yearling filly by The New York-bred finished fourth that day after a wide trip as Posse. She was bred to Union Rags last year.

Startup Nation Dk. b./br. c. Temple City—Pennyrile, by Wagon Limit. Breeder: Spendthrift Farm. Owners: Klaravich Stable & William Lawrence. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2014 record: 4-2-0-0, $173,800. 2014 stakes win: With Anticipation (G2).

tartup Nation capped off a big two-day stretch in 2-year-old turf stakes for his connections late in the 2014 Saratoga Race Course meeting and in the process put himself in the mix for champion New York-bred honors. SThe victories for the son of Temple City came 21 days apart, the first in a state-bred maiden going 1 1/16 miles on the grass Aug. 7 and the second the Grade 2 With Anticipation on the same course and trip Aug. 28. The With Anticipation also came the day after owners Seth Klarman and his Klaravich Stable and William Lawrence and trainer Chad Brown celebrated a victory in the P. G. Johnson for 2-year-old fillies with Partisan Politics. The victories were also very similar given Startup Nation closed from well back in both, perhaps benefitting from a quick early pace in each race. Not that it surprised his connections all that much. “We were very impressed,” Brown said. “The horse had run similar in his debut, very impressive with a wide move going away but Belmont Park and was 11th after a wide trip into the stretch in the running back in three weeks and against open company, neverthe- Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita Park. less a stakes race, you need to move forward. To run back in three Bred by B. Wayne Hughes’ Spendthrift Farm and out of the weeks the way he did, 1:41 and change, he’s a real runner.” stakes-placed Wagon Limit mare Pennyrile, Startup Nation is one The Saratoga victories earned Startup Nation tickets to more of four 2-year-old male finalists that sold at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton graded turf stakes in the fall, but he couldn’t find the same luck and Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Consigned by Paramount finished fourth after a very slow early pace in the Grade 3 Pilgrim at Sales, agent for Spendthrift, Startup Nation sold for $95,000. 18 Congratulations to all of the award winners! Keeneland photo

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19 TWO-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Upstart Dk. b./br. r. Flatter—Party Silks, by Touch Gold. Breeder: Joanne Nielsen. Owner: Ralph Evans. Trainer: Rick Violette Jr. 2014 record: 4-2-1-1, $463,800. 2014 stakes win: Funny Cide.

ine days. That’s how long it took to solidify Upstart’s transition from impressive maiden winner to championship contender in the New York-bred ranks. He later showed he belonged with the best in North America, Nplacing in a pair of the 2-year-old division’s marquee late-season events, but that came after the nine-day span at Saratoga. Upstart made a stylish debut just past the midpoint of the Sara- toga meeting, winning a 5 1/2-furlong race easily. Shortly after the win, trainer Rick Violette called owner Ralph Evans to discuss running the ridgling son of Flatter back in a stakes race. “Rick did call me after he won his maiden race and asked me, said. “In other words, most of the time when Rick asks me some- well, we discussed, let’s put it that way, ‘I’m thinking of running him thing it’s more out of courtesy than anything else. He’ll say, ‘I’m back in nine days. I don’t normally do it, but the maiden race took thinking about using this rider,’ or ‘I’m thinking about doing this.’ I nothing out of him,’ and so forth,” Evans said in January, shortly don’t recall ever having said no, because when you start saying no after Upstart solidified his potential with a win in the Grade 2 Holy perhaps you don’t have the right trainer.” Bull at Gulfstream Park. Upstart won the Funny Cide, finished second in the Cham- The inaugural Funny Cide Stakes for 2-year-olds, one of six pagne and third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. He earned $463,800, stakes on the inaugural Saratoga Showcase program, was the race. a good return on the $130,000 Evans paid at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton Violette liked the spacing between the 6 1/2-furlong Funny Cide Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. and the Grade 1 Champagne at a mile 41 days later. The Cham- “I try to pick out some pedigrees that I believe I can afford,” pagne would be a possible path to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and Evans said. “Rick goes to the sales … finds potential purchases that Violette wanted some space between those races, so he gambled he likes and then calls me. There are some on his list that I don’t with the quick turnaround. particularly care for or won’t spend the kind of money it would “When you have a trainer and you are not an expert in anything take. It was one of the rare occasions where my pedigree preference except signing the checks, you go along with what he says,” Evans aligned with Rick’s examination of the horse.” Oh, the places we’ve been! Thank you, Upstart. – Judith F. and Ralph M. Evans

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21 THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Artemis Agrotera B. f. Roman Ruler—Indy Glory, by A.P. Indy. Breeder/Owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: Mike Hushion. 2014 record: 5-3-0-0, $541,800. 2014 stakes wins: Ballerina (G1), Gallant Bloom (G2).

ike Hushion walked down the stairs to the winner’s circle at Saratoga after Artemis Agrotera dominated the Ballerina and summed up one of the best performances of the year. M“I’ve loved her every day I’ve had her,” the trainer said. “This is the her that I always knew she was.” Chester and Mary Broman’s homebred filly had just crushed former champion My Miss Aurelia and veteran Willet in the Grade 1 stakes. Artemis Agrotera overcame an inside post, beat older fillies and mares, won for the fourth time in six starts and improved “Winning a Grade 1 at Saratoga, it gets to you,” Raine said. her unbeaten record at Saratoga to 3-for-3. “Chills. Just thinking about it is chills. I pulled her out, that’s my job Artemis Agrotera sandwiched three wins between two losses (in there, to get them out safely. She was another foal, another event the Grade 1 TVG Acorn and Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare on the farm. Nothing strange happened. Last year, I took one of Sprint) to complete her season with a 3-for-5 record and $541,800 her Jockey Club registration photos and blew it up. She looked like in earnings. Her three-race win streak began with a 10-length score against she does now, only a smaller version. I remember she was a good New York-breds at Saratoga, included her romp in the Ballerina student.” and culminated in a rallying head decision over La Verdad in the The good student won her debut at Saratoga in 2013, won the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom in September at Belmont Park. Grade 1 Frizette in her next start before finishing fifth in the Breed- Foaled on the Bromans’ farm in Chestertown, north of Saratoga, ers’ Cup Juvenile Fillies to complete her 2-year-old season. Artemis Agrotera holds a special place in Jeff Raine’s heart. The She’s out of Indy Glory, winner of the Videogenic Stakes and Bromans’ farm manager led her into the winner’s circle after the second in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes for the Bromans Ballerina. in 2001.

Flipcup B. f., Milwaukee Brew—Dream Affair, by Touch Gold. Breeder: Team Penney Racing. Trainers: Bill Mott, George Weaver. Owner: Team Penney Racing, Wachtel Stable and Brous Stable. 2014 record: 9-1-4-2, $198,950. 2014 stakes win: New York Oaks.

ulletproof. It’s not a word one usually hears to describe a Thoroughbred racehorse, yet it’s one word that Shirl Penney uses to describe his homebred filly Flipcup. BPenney, who bred the daughter of Milwaukee Brew and owns her in partnership with Wachtel Stable and Brous Stable, says Flip- cup is bulletproof not because of her ultra-consistent record or her tenacity that outweighs her size. He uses the word to describe the filly that’s become a fifth member of the family with his wife Mary- Ann and their two daughters. “We’ve had quite a few horses and we’ve never had one as calm card at Saratoga Race Course. Penney said he geared Flipcup’s sea- as her,” Penney said. “She’ll come out of a race where she races her son around the Fleet Indian, liking the race’s 9-furlong distance heart out and then the kids will be there at the barn, right at the and the fact it was at his hometown track. stall after the race and she’s as gentle and kind as can be. She’s pretty “That one for us – I set up the whole year for her for that race, spectacular.” for the Fleet Indian – was the midsummer classic for her if you Flipcup might be forgiven if she showed a bit of a mean streak will,” Penney said. “We were the favorite that day. The race set up after some tough losses, but that just wouldn’t be her style. Al- though Flipcup won just once in her nine starts in 2014, taking well. That one was a tough beat for us. Chester Broman owns Star the $75,000 New York Oaks at Finger Lakes, she was remarkably Grazing. We’re happy for him with that one. … But that was the consistent. She finished second four times and third twice, racking one that we wanted.” up $198,950 in earnings to go with $131,159 earned as a 2-year-old. Penney conceded that Flipcup’s nine-start campaign in 2014 The New York Oaks win came before a good second on Pol- was a “little too aggressive” and she was given some extended time ytrack in Woodbine’s Eternal Search for Ontario-sired fillies and off this winter before rejoining trainer Bill Mott at Payson Park just the $200,000 Fleet Indian during the inaugural Saratoga Showcase before spring with designs on a 2015 campaign. 22 A GOOD HORSE TAKES YOU ON AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY.

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23 THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Isabelle B. f. Successful Appeal—Merrill Gold, by Gold Fever. Breeder: Bluegrass Farm Partners & Jeffrey Tucker. Owner: William Schettine. Trainer: Lisa Lewis. 2014 record: 5-3-1-0, $176,500. 2014 stakes win: Bouwerie.

isa Lewis moved quickly out of the mid-August rain, safely making her way under the cover of the first floor of the Sara- toga clubhouse. She’d just gotten wet – soaked in fact – after Lposing in the winner’s circle with Bill Schettine’s Isabelle. The race was an allowance-optional for state-breds, a run-of- the-mill 6-furlong race in front of a small midweek crowd on a card that also featured a win by Spring to the Sky in the rained-off Troy Stakes. The trainer was greeted by a seemingly interested observer as she shook the raindrops from her slicker, grinned after his statement that the Successful Appeal filly was the best runner on the little more than a month before the soggy Saratoga score. card that day regardless of gender, before talking about the filly’s Lewis, who tried to run Isabelle a few times earlier in the meet affinity for the wet stuff. but didn’t keep her on the grass for the Coronation Cup and didn’t “She’s our best filly, so naturally you get a little nervous no mat- get to run when entered main-track only for a allowance-optional ter what when you’re running on a bad track,” Lewis said. turf sprint, hoped the mid-August win would lead to better things Isabelle didn’t give much reason to worry as she shot to the front, stayed there and won by 4 1/4 lengths. The victory was her third down the road. A series of small physical issues kept her on the from five starts in 2014, following a similarly splashy score in an sidelines for the remainder of the season, but she’s returned in 2015 off-the-turf maiden race in the slop May 9 and then the Bouwerie and won the Broadway Stakes for state-breds in mid-February for Stakes during the Big Apple Showcase program at Belmont Park. trainer Bill Mott. The only real blemish on Isabelle’s ledger in 2014 came in the Isabelle was bred by Bluegrass Farms Partners and Jeffrey Tucker Grade 3 Victory Ride, when she was rank while running down on and foaled at Tucker’s Stonebridge Farm in Gansevoort. Schettine the fence early and before a lukewarm three-wide rally into the purchased her out of the Stonebridge consignment for $100,000 at stretch. That loss came less than a month after the Bouwerie and a the 2012 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Princess Violet B. f. Officer—Lady Rapper, by Grand Slam. Breeder/Owner: Barry K. Schwartz. Trainer: Mike Hushion. 2014 record: 8-4-3-0, $392,810. 2014 stakes win: Empire Distaff Handicap.

red and owned by Barry Schwartz, Princess Violet missed the board just once in 2014, producing four wins and three seconds for nearly $400,000 in earnings. She finished second in her career debut in March at Gulfstream Park, won Bher next two starts against New York-breds before trainer Mike Hushion took a shot in the Grade 1 Mother Goose. Eventual Eclipse Award winner Untapable cast a long shadow before the race – and longer in it – but Princess Violet earned a determined line of open black type, holding off America by a neck to pick up second money in the five-horse field. 2015 season in Florida before shipping north to finish second in Two months later, Princess Violet shortened up for the Grade 1 the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie Handicap at Laurel Park. Prioress at Saratoga but failed to threaten. Buzz Chace bought Princess Violet’s dam Lady Rapper on be- Hushion regrouped and took advantage of an allowance race at half of Schwartz for $275,000 at the 2006 Keeneland September Belmont Park, where she rated and pounced to win again and came yearling sale. back 13 days later to win the Empire Distaff Handicap. In her biggest win, Princess Violet relaxed in fourth behind Pen- She made two winless starts before producing her first foal, nymine, Sunny Desert and Carameaway, rallied past when asked Baime, who won seven races for Schwartz and trainer Mike Ferra- and held off Flipcup by 5 1/2 lengths in a polished effort. Princess ro in 2013-2014. Violet had transformed from a frontrunner in May to a closer in Lady Rapper is out of New York-bred She’s Got The Beat, who October. won seven races and finished second behind Sightseek in the Grade Hushion aimed at one more big one, sending out the bay filly in 1 Go For Wand at Saratoga and Summer Colony in the Grade 2 the Grade 3 Go For Wand Handicap, she just missed, rallying from Molly Pitcher at Monmouth for Hall of Fame trainer P. G. Johnson ninth to fall a nose short of Classic Point. Princess Violet began the and owner Elizabeth Walsh. 24 Congratulations 2014 New York-Bred Champion nominees

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25 15-0326 StoneBridge NYTB AwrdPrgrm.indd 1 3/26/15 3:33 PM THREE-YEAR-OLD FILLY FINALISTS Star Grazing Ch. f. Sky Mesa—Unbridled Star, by Unbridled. Breeder/Owner: Chester & Mary Broman. Trainer: Jimmy Jerkens. 2014 record: 4-3-0-0, $201,750. 2014 stakes win: Fleet Indian.

hester Broman boxes the favorite and his horse in exactas. It’s a simple solution, used in every race. Broman nailed the $28.40 combination in the Fleet Indian at Saratoga. Even better, it was Bromans’ second-choice Star Grazing Cover favorite Flipcup. A homebred daughter of Sky Mesa, Star Grazing won three in a row to start her 2014 season, culminating in a hard-fought victory in the $200,000 Fleet Indian at Saratoga in August. Trained by Jimmy Jerkens, Star Grazing broke her maiden in July, won her first-level allowance in August and became a stakes winner 17 days later when taking the 9-furlong Fleet Indian. The win was number 10 for the Bromans at Saratoga in 2014. “This is what I’ve been striving to do for a number of years, it’s Saratoga to put the New York operation on par with some of the all coming together now,” Chester Broman said, after the win. “Ev- biggest names in racing. ery year they get a little bit better than the year before. The babies “It’s incredible. I couldn’t dream this up,” Raine said. “They don’t get better looking all the time.” go out and buy these horses, pick them out at the sale or some- Star Grazing ran once more, failing in a state-bred allowance in thing. These are all pretty much horses we started with at concep- September. Star Grazing freshened after losing that allowance and tion. There’s a bit of a committee, but (Chester) makes the decision. returned to the Belmont Park work tab in February. This is our lucky year. We’ve got nice foals. We’ve got a good pro- Star Grazing is a half-sister to the Bromans’ classy runner gram. It’s just going now. Keep your eye out for a few more. We’ve Friend Or Foe and the stakes-placed Stolen Star. All three were got some nice ones in the pipeline.” bred, raised and owned by the Bromans. With four nominees for New York-bred championships this After the Fleet Indian, farm manager Jeff Raine explained the year, the Bromans’ pipeline is strong – and getting stronger which enormity of the Bromans’ success – which included 11 wins at may require a new betting strategy for Chester.

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27 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Captain Serious B. g. Successful Appeal—Madame Diva, by Mr. Greeley. Breeder: Stonewall Farm. Owner: Barry K. Schwartz. Trainer: Mike Hushion. 2014 record: 9-3-1-3, $260,200. 2014 stakes win: Mike Lee Stakes.

hicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews scored three straight goals to help his team win the World Junior Championship. He scored the first goal for Team Canada in the 2010 Olympic final against Team USA. CHe sprung a short-handed goal to force overtime in Game 7 of a 2011 first-round playoff series. He was named captain of the Blackhawks when he was 20, the third-youngest captain in NHL history. In a New York Times article in 2013, Toews explained the pres- sure of his role as captain for the Blackhawks. “It’s the type of responsibility you want,” Toews said. “You take pride in that.” Toews is serious about responsibility and pride. Amsterdam, fourth in the Albany, fourth in the Hudson and third So serious, he was nicknamed Captain Serious. in the Grade 3 Fall Highweight to complete his season. Toews doesn’t like his nickname, but he would love his name- Showing versatility like Toews, he went end-to-end in the Mike sake. Lee and stood his ground at the blue line in other productive shifts Owners and trainers seek consistency. Barry Schwartz and Mike during the season. Hushion found it in Captain Serious. Few horses raced more con- Bred by Schwartz’s Stonewall Farm, Captain Serious began his sistently than Captain Serious in 2014. From 6 furlongs to 9 fur- 2015 season with a bang, winning the Hollie Hughes Stakes in Jan- longs, the 3-year-old son of Successful Appeal never finished worse uary at Aqueduct. than fourth in nine starts. Schwartz and Hushion campaigned Captain Serious’ dam Ma- He won his first three, including the Mike Lee Stakes at Bel- dame Diva. She won once in 10 starts, hitting the board in the 2005 mont, finished second in the Grade 3 Dwyer, third in the Grade 2 Ghost and Goblins Stakes at Delaware Park. Effinex Dk. b./br. c. Mineshaft—What a Pear, by E Dubai. Breeder: Dr. Russell S. Cohen. Owner: Tri-Bone Stables. Trainers: Richard DeMola, David Smith, Jimmy Jerkens. 2014 Record: 12-3-1-2, $345,850. 2014 stakes win: Empire Classic.

ours after engineering a photo-finish exacta with V. E. Day and Wicked Strong in the Travers Stakes at Sarato- ga, Jimmy Jerkens walked down his long shedrow, filled a feed scoop, leaned over each webbing of each horse to Htop off their evening feed. Jerkens flipped a half scoop to a filly, a full scoop to a colt, skipped a stall, then stopped in front of the stall of a big bay colt. In a barn full of stars, he was somewhat anonymous, though Jerkens liked the progress. “He’s a New York-bred, we haven’t had him that long,” Jerkens company in the Grade 2 Hawthorne Gold Cup and against New said. “Big, good-looking horse. We’ve thrown a lot at him but he’s York-breds in the Alex M. Robb. taking it, training better all the time. He might be OK.” Effinex completed his first year of racing with three wins, a sec- Effinex proved to be better than OK, finishing second to So ond and two thirds in 12 starts for $345,850. After freshening for Lonesome in the Albany in his first start for Jerkens and exacting the winter, he rejoined the work tab at Belmont Park in late Feb- revenge on So Lonesome in the Empire Classic at Belmont Park in October. ruary. Sent off 17-1 in the Empire Classic, Effinex responded to blinkers The son of champion Mineshaft and stakes winner What A Pear (the same ones worn by Jim Dandy winner Wicked Strong) and represents a long line of Tri-Bone runners, dating back to grand sitting closer to the pace than he had in previous races before col- dam Perfect Pear, who made one start for Tri-Bone and trainer laring So Lonesome in the final stages to win by a neck. Morton Goldstein in 1999. Bred by Dr. Russell Cohen, owned by Cohen’s mother’s Tri- In typical Jerkens style, the trainer summed up his thoughts Bone Stable and ridden to victory in the Empire Classic by Angel about trying the Empire Classic, “We were taking a shot.” Arroyo, Effinex finished his first season with fourths against open Effinex had good aim. 28 Creating racehorses, building relationships, and making memories! Tod Marks Tod

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29 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Empire Dreams Dk. b./br. c. Patriot Act—Ascended Dreams, by Thunder Gulch. Breeder: Pegasus Dream Stable. Owner: West Point Thoroughbreds. Trainer: Tom Albertrani. 2014 record: 6-1-2-1, $150,167. 2014 stakes win: New York Derby.

ight races into his career, Empire Dreams was untested beyond 7 furlongs. The son of Patriot Act sprinted in all five of his starts in 2013, faring well enough to earn a nod as finalist for champion New York-bred 2-year-old male. EAt 3, he raced at 7 furlongs twice and 6 1/2 once in his first three starts, placing in a pair of stakes in the process. Trainer Tom Albertrani and Terry Finley of West Point Thor- oughbreds faced a decision after Empire Dreams placed in the second of those stakes, a runner-up finish to Captain Serious in the Mike Lee on the Big Apple Showcase program. Stay in the sprint ranks or stay on the path of the Big Apple Tri- ple and stretch out? They settled for the latter and Empire Dreams made the decision look wise with a 2 1/4-length victory in the $161,000 New York Derby at Finger Lakes in July. though he described him as “kind of a plain horse.” “He really appreciated the two turns,” Albertrani said of Em- “The sale was very strong and I had a pretty good sense that he pire Dreams’ second career stakes victory to go with the New York might get overlooked,” Finley said. “He looked like a nice, athletic Stallion Series Stakes late in his 2-year-old campaign. “The added kind of tidy horse. He turned out to be all right.” distance seemed to really help him as well.” Empire Dreams is one of four winners out of the unraced Thun- Bred by Pegasus Dream Stable and foaled at Donna Sammons’ der Gulch mare Ascended Dreams, who is out of stakes winner and farm in Elizaville, Empire Dreams wound up in West Point’s stable Grade 1-placed Arrested Dreams. after he was purchased for $35,000 at the OBS April 2-year-olds in The other foals out of Ascended Dreams include the stakes- training sale. placed mare Court of Dreams and $133,748-earner Power Dreams, Finley felt that price was a good investment at the time, even who are both by Powerscourt.

Mark My Way B. g. Noonmark—Whichwaydidshego, by Storm Cat. Breeders/Owners: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: Linda Rice. 2014 record: 6-2-0-1, $132,510. 2014 stakes wins: N.Y. Stallion Cab Calloway, N.Y. Stallion Spectacular Bid.

he temptation to at least try Mark My Way on the main track got the better of trainer Linda Rice and owners and breeders Chester and Mary Broman early last year. For- tunately for Rice and the Bromans the experiment didn’t Thave any seriously detrimental effects and the Noonmark gelding came back better than ever once the grass greened up in the spring and summer. Mark My Way, a product of the hugely successful breeding operation the Bromans base at their Chestertown Farm on the eastern side of the Adirondack Mountains not far from Warrensburg in Chestertown, won a pair of stakes in 2014. He was also part of the juggernaut of green and gray color bear- ers that were frequent visitors to the Saratoga winner’s circle last Noonmark fit that bill after standing in the Empire State before summer. he was sold to stand in the Phillipines. “We gave him this winter off because we have proven he cannot “I was very happy and excited to get a few of those Stallion run a jump on the dirt,” Rice said, referring to a last-place finish Stakes wins for Mr. Broman,” Rice said. “And he enjoyed it as well.” in a 1-mile allowance-optional last January. “Mr. Broman and I Mark My Way was one of two winners for Whichwaydidshego turned him out for the winter and hopefully we’ll have a nice cam- in 2014 along with Hard to Stay Notgo, who broke his maiden two paign with him again this year.” days after the Cab Calloway and is already a stakes winner in 2015 Mark My Way, the second foal out of the Storm Cat mare for trainer Jimmy Jerkens. Whichwaydidshego, won the Spectacular Bid and Cab Calloway The Bromans purchased Whichwaydidshego in foal to Unbri- divisions of the New York Stallion Series Stakes, which are open to dled’s Song for $425,000 at the 2009 Keeneland November breed- offspring of stallions who stand or stood in New York. ing stock sale. 30 Congratulations << and Best of Luck to all the Nominees

NEW YORK BRED Multiple GSW SAMRAAT winner of the Gotham S.-G3 and Withers S.-G3 and runner-up in the Wood Memorial S.-G1 in 2014

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31 15-0326 My Meadowview Stable 1pg 4/c.indd 1 3/27/15 1:39 PM THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Samraat Dk. b./br. c. Noble Causeway—Little Indian Girl, by Indian Charlie. Owner/breeder: My Meadowview Farm. Trainer: Rick Violette Jr. 2014 record: 5-2-1-0, $745,000. 2014 stakes wins: Gotham (G3), Withers (G3).

late arrival to the races probably cost Samraat a chance at the New York-bred 2-year-old male championship in 2013. An early start to his 3-year-old campaign more than likely clinched – or at the very least solidified – the Achances for My Meadowview Farm’s homebred to make good and win the crown in 2014. That Samraat started the season with back-to-back victories in key Triple Crown graded stakes races against open company certainly helped, too, and his courage in defeat also gave his connections reason to be proud. “He’s just an amazingly brave horse,” said Rick Violette, who have that until they’re confronted with the challenge. He just gutted trains Samraat for Leonard Riggio’s My Meadowview. “He always it out all the time and won most photos that he was in. He gave us found more and you always got every ounce of his ability and effort an awfully, awfully good run.” out there.” Samraat’s sophomore campaign was cut short when he suffered Samraat showed his tenacity in those first two starts of 2014 – a stress fracture in his right shin preparing for the Grade 2 Jim the Grade 3 Withers and Grade 3 Gotham on the inner track at Aqueduct. Dandy. Violette said it’s been a “painfully slow process” getting Tested in both of those starts by fellow finalist Uncle Sigh, Sam- Samraat healed and back in training, but credited the colt’s owner raat won them both and earned trips to the Grade 1 Wood Memo- and breeder with showing tremendous patience. rial, Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes in the process. The son “The horse comes first with (Riggio and his team),” he said. of the late Noble Causeway was second in the Wood, fifth and only “They know that when you do right by the horse, everything kind 5 3/4 lengths behind Horse of the Year California Chrome in the of takes care of itself. They expect very, very little and I know it Derby and sixth and 4 lengths behind Tonalist in the Belmont. was very special to them when a homebred, by their stallion, wins “It was a terrific run,” Violette said. “You don’t know if horses graded races. I was just over-the-moon happy for the whole family.”

So Lonesome Dk. b./br. g., Awesome Again—Dash For Money, General Meeting. Breeder: Wateville Lake Stable. Owner: Patricia Schuler. Trainer: Tom Bush. 2014 record: 7-2-1-1, $264,667. 2014 stakes win: Albany.

n seven words, uttered moments after So Lonesome wired seven rivals in the $250,000 Albany Stakes at Saratoga, part owner Ed Schuler perfectly summed up the 9-furlong race. “They let him run and be free.” IThe son of Awesome Again outgunned Captain Serious for con- trol, sauntered on the lead and won easily by 4 lengths over Effinex and Eye Luv Lulu. Captain Serious wound up fourth. Owned by Schuler and his wife Patricia, trained by Tom Bush and ridden to victory in the Albany by Jose Lezcano, So Lonesome earned his biggest win of 2014. Beyond the upset tally in the Alba- ny, the dark bay gelding won an optional claimer at Belmont on the turf and finished second to Effinex in the Empire Classic to close his season. For the year, So Lonesome won two races from seven build him up,” Bush said. “It really did, it really helped the horse. starts, earning $264,667. When I was breezing him on the dirt as a 2-year-old, his hind legs So Lonesome won his career debut on the dirt for trainer Dale were all over the place, he put his head up, he just didn’t have the Capuano before shifting to Bush, who engineered a second in al- substance, he’s matured, he’s going to get better. He’ll run on any- lowance company, a third in the Bertram Bongard and a win in the thing, he’s just a big long-striding horse.” Virgo Libra on the turf to finish his 2-year-old season. Bush kept Bred by Waterville Lake Stable and consigned by Winter Quar- him on turf and synthetic before switching back to the dirt for the ter Farm, So Lonesome was purchased by Debbie Easter for $55,000 Albany. on behalf of the Schulers at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York- After the race, Bush explained the move to the turf and the re- bred yearling sale in 2012. turn to the dirt. For Ed Schuler, the Albany was the day it all came together. “You see how light he is, but he used to be a wobbly, gangly “Tom said he wasn’t sure he could run that fast on the dirt,” thing, that’s why I went to the turf, because I thought it would help Schuler said. “Well now we know he can. That was special.” 32 THREE-YEAR-OLD MALE FINALISTS Uncle Sigh B. c., Indian Charlie—Cradlesong, by Pine Bluff. Breeder: Milfer Farm. Owner: Wounded Warrior Stable & Anthony Robertson. Trainer: Gary Contessa. 2014 record: 4-0-2-0, $180,000.

n one of the best non-winning seasons in New York-bred history, Uncle Sigh finished second (to fellow 3-year-old finalist Samraat) in the Grade 3 Withers and Grade 3 Gotham and finished fifth in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial to earn a spot in Ithe nation’s most famous Thoroughbred race. The Kentucky Derby didn’t go so well as Uncle Sigh finished 14th behind California Chrome after getting strong early and setting pressured early fractions while wearing blinkers for the first time in a race. The son of Indian Charlie fought on pretty well to the quarter pole, then simply got tired. “It was the one thing I didn’t want to happen, but what can you broodmare. With her first foal, a Slew City Slew colt, a just-turned do,” trainer Gary Contessa said about getting stuck on the lead. “It yearling, Cradlesong brought $5,000 at Keeneland in 2005. was still an unbelievable experience for us. The hype, the walk over, Since then, the numbers have been much bigger. everything.” That first foal turned out to be Slew By Slew, who won nine races That’s where the year ended, as Uncle Sigh was prepping for a and $236,364 while racing mainly in the Midwest. Another son, summer return before going to the sidelines for the rest of 2014 with a pulled muscle in his back. As for 2015, he was back in work Percussion, won almost $500,000 and placed in graded stakes. in Florida, looking for a return by Saratoga if not sooner. Sales prices followed the upward trend as Cradlesong sold for “Are you ready for this? He’s a New York-bred a-other-than,” $80,000 in 2006 and $85,000 in 2010, the second to New York’s Contessa said when asked about a potential comeback race. “He’s Milfer Farm. doing well and hopefully everything keeps going well.” Percussion was a $200,000 weanling. Uncle Sigh sold for The story of Uncle Sigh starts with Cradlesong, a daughter of $270,000 at Saratoga to IEAH Sales in 2012, and joined his current Pine Bluff bred by Will Farish and Dinny Phipps. connections the next year via a private purchase after not meeting She sold for $50,000 as a yearling, but never raced and became a his reserve at the Fasig-Tipton February 2-year-old sale in Florida.

33 154724-DenaliStud-half-NYTBprogram.indd 1 3/26/15 11:39 AM FEMALE TURF FINALISTS Dayatthespa Ch. m. City Zip—M’Lady Doc, by Doc’s Leader. Breeder: Castellare DiCracchiolo Stable, Cracchiolo and Goldsher. Owners: Jerry & Ronald Frankel, Steve Laymon & Bradley Thoroughbreds. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2014 record: 4-3-1-0, $1,450,000. 2014 stakes wins: Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1), First Lady (G1), Yaddo.

teve Laymon, Pete Bradley and Chad Brown laughed it up, sipped champagne and kidded with Ronny Frankel in the Trustees Room at Saratoga Race Course, less than a half- hour removed from Dayatthespa’s victory in the 35th run- Sning of the Yaddo Stakes. They seemed like men at the top of the mountain.

Who knew at the time it would only be a small taste of what was Breeders’ Cup photo ahead for Dayatthespa and her connections? done a great job with her, patient. She’s so, not a mean filly, but she’s The victory in the Yaddo on the inaugural New York-breds Sara- very excitable and she wants to run.” toga Showcase program was certainly nothing to scoff at, especially Dayatthespa certainly ran for her ownership group and trainer considering it was Dayatthespa’s first win of 2014 and her first trip after the Yaddo, winning the Grade 1 First Lady at Keeneland and to the winner’s circle since the 34th edition of the Yaddo more than then posting a dramatic gate-to-wire score in the Breeders’ Cup a year earlier. The City Zip mare’s win also marked her fourth consecutive Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita. year of success at Saratoga, no small feat considering the competi- The Breeders’ Cup victory, which came two days before Ston- tion every year and the fact that Dayatthespa was on the comeback estreet Thoroughbred Holdings bought her for $2.1 million at trail after an injury in the Grade 1 Matriarch at Hollywood Park in the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky November sale, locked up the Eclipse December. Award for champion turf female. “Four years in a row, that doesn’t happen all the time,” Laymon She figures to hold a strong hand for divisional honors in the said of Dayatthespa, New York-bred champion turf female in 2012 New York-bred ranks, as turf female and older female, as well as and 2013. “It’s taken a long time to get here, but it’s exciting. Chad’s Horse of the Year.

Discreet Marq Gr./r. f. Discreet Cat—To Marquet, by Marquetry. Breeder: Patricia Generazio. Trainer: Christophe Clement. Owners: Patricia Generazio, Moyglare Stud Farm. 2014 record: 7-1-2-2, $348,000. 2014 stakes win: Ticonderoga.

he bright gray filly whose pedigree is rooted in the friendship between two successful husband and wife tandems, who happen to be successful breeders and owners, produced on and off the racetrack in 2014. TDiscreet Marq, New York-bred champion 3-year-old filly and turf female in 2013, was a stakes winner again in 2014, passed the $1 million mark in career earnings and elicited a final bid of more than twice that amount when she sold at auction. The daughter of Discreet Cat started her campaign with three straight placings in Grade 1 stakes – missing the chance at add- ing another Grade 1 to her resume by a total of 2 1/2 lengths. She while, then they went on their own. They of course raced Discreet then chased familiar state-bred rival, eventual Eclipse Award win- Cat. My husband always liked the horse. He picks all the matings ner and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Dayatthespa in so we decided to breed To Marquet to Discreet Cat and the first foal back-to-back starts before earning her lone victory of the season in was Discreet Marq.” the Ticonderoga Stakes on Empire Showcase Day. She was from the first crop of New York-bred foals for the Gen- Discreet Marq’s biggest win came off the racetrack when Ire- erazios, who previously bred horses in Florida and New Jersey. Pa- land’s Moyglare Stud Farm purchased her for $2.4 million at the tricia Generazio said she moved To Marquet, a multiple stakes win- Fasig-Tipton November sale. The sale not only proved Discreet ner raced by the couple from 1999 to 2002, to New York to not only Marq’s status as a sought-after breeding prospect, but validated her take advantage of the program but to get her out of the hot sun. pedigree forged through the friendship of her breeders Patricia and “We were having a problem with the mares, the gray mares,” she Frank Generazio and the late E. Paul Robsham and his wife Joyce. said. “They seemed to be bothered by the sun, getting some skin “They’re very close friends of ours and we started them in the cancer and things like that . . . Eventually we decided to move our business,” Patricia Generazio said. “We had them as partners for a better mares from Florida to New York.” 34 FEMALE TURF FINALISTS Effie Trinket Dk. b/br. f. Freud—Maya’s Note, by Editor’s Note. Breeder: McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds. Owner: Patsy Symons. Trainer: Rick Violette Jr. 2014 record: 7-0-1-4, $114,842

ffie Trinket set the bar pretty high for herself after a very strong 3-year-old campaign that in most years would re- sult in a New York-bred championship. She didn’t quite reach the same level in 2014 that saw her win four of seven Ein 2013, but she certainly wasn’t unproductive. “We were kind of just zigging when we should have been zag- ging a couple times last year,” trainer Rick Violette Jr. said of the daughter of Freud he trained for Patsy Symons. “She just wasn’t as effective as she was the year before.” The season started out very promising, with Effie Trinket finishing a close third behind Centre Court and Kitten’s Point in the the Big Apple Showcase card and was promptly returned to graded Grade 2 Honey Fox at Gulfstream before the 2013 New York-bred stakes company for her next start. She finished sixth in that assign- awards were even handed out. ment, the Grade 3 Dr. James Penny Memorial at Parx. She raced Effie Trinket, who lost out on the 3-year-old filly and turf female three more times after that, finishing third in both the Yaddo and awards to Discreet Marq, ran another big one on the Kentucky John Hettinger and then fourth in the Ticonderoga on Empire Derby undercard at Churchill Downs when she was third to even- Showcase Day. tual Grade 1 winner Coffee Clique and Dame Marie in the Grade “It’s too bad we couldn’t quite get her on the right track after we 2 Distaff Turf Mile. ran her at Parx,” Violette said. “That was the race where we stubbed Violette said the efforts in those two graded stakes against open our toe and we could never quite get back to her top game. She company were “terrific races to some really nice horses.” They also never ran poorly, but it just wasn’t her best.” set Effie Trinket up well for her return to her native New York. Symons sold Effie Trinket privately earlier this year and she was Effie Trinket was second at short odds to fellow 2014 turf female retired, shortly after she ran in the Florida Sunshine Millions Filly finalist Mah Jong Maddnes in the Mount Vernon in late May on and Mare Turf at Gulfstream. MY ADVANTAGE

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35 15-500-122 My Adv Partner_7.5x4.875_NYTB-Program-NoVal.indd 1 3/4/15 1:20 PM FEMALE TURF FINALISTS Inimitable Romanee Gr. m., 2008, Maria’s Mon—Cellars Shiraz, by Kissin Kris. Breeder: Gallagher’s Shiraz. Owner: Gallagher’s Stud. Trainer: Graham Motion. 2014 record: 6-2-0-0, $154,564. 2014 stakes wins: The Very One (G3), Bewitch (G3).

ood days and bad days. That might be the best way to describe the 2014 campaign of Inimitable Romanee, a finalist for top New York-bred turf female and older female. GThe gray daughter of Maria’s Mon won her 2014 debut in the Grade 3 The Very One at Gulfstream Park in February and repeated that performance in Keeneland’s Grade 3 Bewitch in April. Those were the good. Four losses, all in similar company and none better than a sixth-place finish, were the bad.

Of course, in racing as in life, you take the good with the bad. Keeneland photo Especially when the horses are as good as Inimitable Romanee. – over her final seven starts. She won the Grade 3 Long Island in She was bred by Gallagher’s Shiraz, a 60/40 partnership of Galla- November 2013, then added the two stakes last year. gher’s Stud and five farm employees – manager Mallory Mort, Bert Retired at the end of 2014, Inimitable Romanee joined the and Stephanie Poucher, Mike Ransford and Annie Jardine. They broodmare band at Gallagher’s and was destined for a planned split the breeder bonuses and any proceeds from sales and so on. Gallagher’s, owned by Marlene Brody, bought out the group on mating with Giant’s Causeway. Mort said motherhood will likely Inimitable Romanee for $210,000 at Fasig-Tipton’s Saratoga year- be delayed by the discovery of an ovarian tumor, however. She had ling sale in 2009. surgery in early March and probably won’t be bred this year. She wound up winning five races, placing in 11 others, earning Inimitable Romanee started her racing career in England, win- $478,439 and kicking in plenty to the home team at the farm in ning at Bath in 2010 before coming back to the U.S. in time for the Ghent. 2012 season. Her dam Cellars Shiraz also produced two-time win- Trainer Graham Motion found a key when placing her in mar- ner Malbec and has a 2-year-old colt by Giant’s Causeway, Parker’s athon grass races – and staying away from state-bred competition Choice, and a 3-year-old colt by Tapit, Vintage Matters.

Invading Humor Dk. b/br. f. Invasor–Very Funny, by Distorted Humor. Breeder: Dr. James Randall Mcglinn. Owner: Bloodlines Racing Partnerships. Trainers: Bruce Levine, Bernardo Callejas. 2014 record: 7-4-0-1, $232,644. 2014 stakes win: John Hettinger.

he emails to The Saratoga Special started coming in the summer. Longtime readers Ed and Miriam Castrege co- owned full-sisters Invading Humor and Distorted Beau- ty. Ridden by two brothers (Irad and Jose Ortiz), the two Tsisters combined for four starts at Saratoga. They won three and finished second in the other. Certainly feature material – at least column material – the two sisters never got to the top of the pile at Saratoga’s daily racing paper. They should have. Bred by Dr. James Randall Mcglinn, owned by Mcglinn’s Blood- the Grade 2 Mrs. Revere. She returned to the work tab in February lines Racing Partnerships and trained by Bruce Levine, Invading as well. Humor won four in a row, including the John Hettinger Stakes in As for the Ed and Miriam Castrege, they are living the dream. October. “I’ve been in love with racing since the days of Buckpasser and During Invading Humor’s streak, her younger sister won four I always dreamed of ownership. When the opportunity presented of five and finished second in the Pebbles Stakes at Belmont in Oc- tober. They are the first two foals from the Distorted Humor mare itself, I stuck my toe in for 1 percent, and needless to say, the sum- Very Funny. Originally campaigned by Jayeff B Stables, Very Funny mer of 2014 was beyond our wildest dreams,” Ed Castrege said. “To was winless in 12 starts before Mcglinn purchased her for $16,000 be in the Saratoga winner’s circle with Invading Humor on Travers at Keeneland January in 2009. Day was an out-of-body experience, and to stand on the stakes po- Invading Humor finished her season with unplaced efforts dium at Belmont Park brought Miriam and me to tears. Humor against open company. Freshened, she returned to the work tab at dueled for the lead for most of the Hettinger stakes, was passed by a Crupi’s New Castle Farm in February. stakes winner in Effie Trinket, and then came back to win, it shows Distorted Beauty finished her season with an unplaced effort in the heart and determination we love so much about racing.” 36 FEMALE TURF FINALISTS Mah Jong Maddnes B. m. Freud—Para Vidinha, by Jules. Breeder/owner: Very Un Stable. Trainer: John Morrison. 2014 record: 6-2-1-0, $146,893. 2014 stakes win: Mount Vernon.

oe Gioia stood alongside trainer John Morrison near the outside rail of the Belmont Park training track on a beautiful morning last spring, considered the task in the Mount Vernon Stakes in a few days time and spoke about the positives of the J New York program. “It’s a great program and it’s only getting better,” said Gioia, who breeds and races in the name of his Very Un Stable. “It’s amazing really and we’re very lucky. I think we have the best breeding program in the country, by far.” Gioia directly benefited from the program he feels is the best two days later when his homebred Mah Jong Maddnes upset Effie Trinket and the rest of the field in the Mount Vernon Stakes early on the Big Apple Showcase program at Belmont. Effie Trinket in the 1-mile turf stakes. Mah Jong Maddnes followed The Mount Vernon was one of two wins for Mah Jong Madd- up her Mount Vernon win in open company with a strong run- nes and it led a one-two-three finish for daughters of Freud in the ner-up finish to Joy in the $95,000 Perfect Sting going the same $125,000 turf stakes. distance. Gioia credited time spent in South Carolina in the winter “She’s probably a seven-eighths, miler type, although she’s won months last year for the development of Mah Jong Maddnes, who farther,” Morrison said. “That’s her best distance though, some- came back on short rest after beating open company in a 6-furlong where in there.” turf allowance 20 days before the Mount Vernon. Mah Jong Maddnes, who was foaled at Cedar Ridge Farm in “Like man other Freuds, she’s gotten better and better with age,” Pine Plains, was unplaced in three other starts to finish the 2014 Gioia said. season. Mah Jong Maddnes’ younger full-sister, the now 5-year-old Morrison saw the improvement in Mah Jong Maddnes, too, and I’m Hungry who is out of the Jules mare Para Vidinha, was also a that’s why he decided to take a crack against the heavily favored winner in 2014. w New for 2015 Grade 2 SW by TAPIT HONORABLE DILLON Tapit – Shy Greeting (Arg), by Shy Tom / $5,000 Live Foal

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37 15-0325 RKR NYTB DinnerProgram half pgs.indd 2 3/23/15 11:22 AM MALE TURF FINALISTS Hangover Kid B. h. Lemon Drop Kid—Absolute Patience, by Rakeen. Breeder: Steve Taglienti. Owner: Four Tags Stable. Trainer: Jason Servis. 2014 record: 6-1-2-0, $187,525. 2014 stakes win: Bowling Green (G2).

he connections of Hangover Kid admit they got a little aggressive in 2014. The son of Lemon Drop Kid performed admirably in his two tries against the likes of Main Se- quence in Grade 1 stakes and he did come away with a TGrade 2 win, just don’t expect a similar campaign in 2015. “We’ll probably be a bit more conservative this year,” said Bruce Grossman, racing manager for Hangover Kid’s owner and breeder Steve Taglienti. “He loves Saratoga and he loves Monmouth. The plan is if he holds up all right – now that he’s 7 his ankles need some care; he’s not like he was when he was 4 – we might take a shot in the United Nations again. After that we’ll get a little more conser- bothersome or caused lameness or anything, but sure enough, it vative, because we’d like to make a few more bucks.” took like a month to get over this stone bruise. It was really bad.” Hangover Kid earned some bucks – $187,525 to be exact – in Once the stone bruise healed, “we got crazy and started running 2014 after competing almost exclusively in graded stakes company. him in Grade 1 races,” Grossman said of a fifth and a sixth behind After a second in the Grade 2 Monmouth Stakes, Hangover Kid Main Sequence in the Joe Hirsch Turf Classic and Breeders’ Cup Turf. gave his owner his first graded stakes victory in the Grade 2 Bowl- ing Green Handicap at Belmont Park. Unraced, Absolute Patience got her broodmare career off to a The Bowling Green looked like the perfect setup for Hangover relatively slow start. She aborted two foals in the early 2000s, then Kid’s title defense in the West Point Stakes – not unlike in 2013 produced foals by modest stallions who achieved decent success when he finished third in the United Nations and then won the before Taglienti and Grossman settled on Lemon Drop Kid. The West Point – but a stone bruise forced him to the sidelines briefly. mating worked and they went back to it last year and Absolute Pa- “One day he was just lame,” Grossman said. “I was up there tience produced a filly by Lemon Drop Kid March 6 at Waldorf in Saratoga and when he came off the racetrack the rider said he Farm in North Chatham. Hangover Kid was born not far from didn’t feel good. Last year he had some ankles, but they were never Waldorf, at Cascade Farm in Nassau.

Kharafa B. g. Kitalpha—Exquisite Cassie, by King of Kings. Breeder: High Meadow Farm. Owners: Paul Braverman & Timothy Pinch. Trainer: Tim Hills. 2014 record: 7-2-2-2, $258,400. 2014 stakes wins: Kingston, Mohawk.

eldings as tough and as battle tested as Kharafa don’t often need excuses. The now 6-year-old son of Kitalpha gets a pass for starting the season with rare back-to-back defeats after a 2013 campaign that saw him finish first, Gsecond or third in six of his seven starts. “We had an issue with him hitting himself with an opposite hoof and he sustained some cuts on the inside of his hind legs that were really bothersome,” Kharafa’s trainer Tim Hills said last summer. Blacksmith Mark Dewey helped Hills figure out the issue, made some corrections and Kharafa quickly returned to the same form he enjoyed in 2013 and justified his position as one of the leaders of the ultra-tough New York-bred turf male division. Kharafa’s second loss of 2014 was a neck defeat to longtime rival Lubash and make a difference.” once the shoe issue was corrected he turned the tables on that foe Kharafa met Lubash twice more in 2014, finishing third behind in the Kingston Handicap on the Big Apple Showcase card at Bel- him and King Kreesa in the Ashley T. Cole in mid-September at mont Park. Belmont and defeating him by 1 1/4 lengths in the Mohawk on “That had as much to do with him getting beat, that and the fact Empire Showcase Day to cap his campaign. Lubash is a rival, but he had that issue with his shoes,” Hills said. Campaigned early in his career by his breeder, the late Lawrence “During the winter I had a different blacksmith shoeing him and it Durocher Jr., Kharafa was purchased by Boston investment man- changed it just subtle enough that we couldn’t quite get it right. It ager Paul Braverman in 2013. Foaled at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwa- was really dramatic in (the allowance loss to Lubash). He was late ter, Kharafa is one of two winners produced by the unraced King changing leads and I didn’t know why. Sure enough, cooling out he of Kings mare Exquisite Cassie from the first North American crop had a pretty good gash inside of his hind leg, so it was enough to sired by Kingmambo’s late full-brother Kitalpha. 38 39 MALE TURF FINALISTS King Kreesa Dk. b./br. g., King Cugat—Storm’s Advance, by Storm Creek. Breeder: Horse Partners. Owner: Gerald and Susan Kresa. Trainer: David Donk. 2014 record: 3-1-1-1, $135,000. 2014 stakes win: West Point.

avid Donk loved the new horse. A major turf talent who looked Wise Dan in the eye the previous summer, the 5-year-old arrived from Florida and would be pointed to spring turf stakes at Belmont Park. And then he heard Da noise. “I was here in the afternoon, I heard it happen,” said the trainer. “He was feeling good, got down in the stall to roll and got cast. He sprung a shoe and banged the (left front) coronet band pretty good. It opened up, he developed a bit of a quarter crack and we had to let it grow out.” The untimely, if relatively minor, injury derailed a spring campaign for Donk’s new horse, Grade 3 winner King Kreesa, but did not keep him from making an impact in the tough older-male New York-bred turf division. In his first start in eight months, King Kreesa wired the West “I know (former trainer) Jeremiah Englehart really well and he Point at Saratoga to edge fellow finalist Lubash by a head. Back did a nice job with the horse, but I was thrilled to get him when he at Belmont for the Ashley T. Cole, the two hooked up again and came in,” said Donk. “He’s a nice horse, they were new clients and I Lubash got the nod this time – winning by a neck with another remember thinking, ‘You’ve got to be kidding,’ when he got cast. It division finalist Kharafa third. A month later, it was Kharafa’s turn was a freak thing and he came back and ran really well.” as he defeated Lubash and King Kreesa. King Kreesa, bred by Horse Partners, finished 2014 with seven “That’s a tough group and really good for the program to have wins in 21 career starts for $792,370 in earnings. The front-runner horses like that running against each other,” said Donk. “They’ve was prepping in Florida at Crupi’s New Castle Farm for a second proven they can run with open horses and be successful.” chance at some spring races for Donk. The three-start campaign wasn’t what Donk or owners Gerald “I’m going to be watching him like a hawk,” the trainer joked. and Susan Kresa had in mind, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. “He’s a pretty neat horse, a lot of class and fun to train.” Lubash B. h. Freud—Nasty Cure, by Cure the Blues. Breeder: Aliyuee Ben J Stable. Owner: Aliyu Ben J Stable. Trainer: Christophe Clement. 2014 record: 7-4-3-0, $311,720. 2014 stakes wins: Tropical Turf (G3), Ashley T. Cole.

ubash crossed a milestone and added a second graded stakes victory – all in the same race and amazingly it didn’t need to come at the expense of one of his pesky fellow New York-bred rivals. LThe race was the Grade 3 Tropical Turf Handicap during the Gulfstream Park West meeting in South Florida, a rare out-of-town sojourn for the now 8-year-old son of Freud, and the $59,520 pay- day pushed Lubash’s career earnings ledger to $1,010,599. For a change the win didn’t come against either Kharafa or King Kreesa, finalists again in the New York-bred male turf cat- egory. respected New York Times journalist Arnold Lubasch. Lubash lost only three times in seven starts in 2014 and each The two went to baseball games at Yankee Stadium and Ebbett’s time he finished second – in the Kingston and Mohawk to Kharafa Field growing up, even attending Babe Ruth’s farewell ceremony at and in the West Point to King Kreesa. the former in 1947. Trainer Christophe Clement has described the rivalry as “fun” Foaled at Carapan Farm in Freehold, Lubash is out of the stakes- in the past – usually after one of Lubash’s dozen career victories – placed Cure the Blues mare Nasty Cure. while crediting King Kreesa and Kharafa as “always tough.” She’s produced four other winners and produced her last foal, Lubash, owned and bred by Leonard Pivnick’s Aliyu Ben J the unraced 3-year-old Freud full-sister to Lubash named Miriam, Stables, is plenty tough himself. In addition to the Tropical Turf, in 2012. Lubash won the Ashley T. Cole for the second time in his career. Another of Nasty Cure’s foals was the New York-bred stakes- He’s won eight stakes in his career, at 3, 5, 6 and 7. placed Meadow Flight horse Netcong, who won 10 of 87 career Pivnick named Lubash in honor of his childhood friend, the late starts and earned $327,924. 40 Always on the lookout

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41 FEMALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Artemis Agrotera B. f. Roman Ruler—Indy Glory, by A.P. Indy. Breeder/Owner: Chester and Mary Broman. Trainer: Mike Hushion. 2014 record: 5-3-0-0, $541,800. 2014 stakes wins: Ballerina (G1), Gallant Bloom (G2).

Galiana Ch. f. Stonesider—Baby Jess, by Interprete. Breeders: John Behrendt and Charles Marquis. Owner: Triple R Stable. Trainer: Rodolfo Romero. 2014 record: 12-6-2-2, $221,531. 2014 stakes wins: Dashing Beauty, Sweet And Sassy, Tax Free Distaff.

he plan of attack with Galiana is a simple one as far as Ro- dolfo Romero is concerned. “We learned [in 2013 at Sara- toga] that she doesn’t like to be rushed, never pushed,” said Romero, a former assistant to Tim Ritchey who is Tbased at Delaware Park for most of the year. “She [doesn’t] like pushing, rush, rush, rush.” Allowed for the most part to do her own thing in 2014, Gali- ana put her connections in the winner’s circle in half of her dozen starts. She won three stakes at her trainer’s Delaware base of operation winning the final race on the third day of the meet and returning – the Dashing Beauty in June, Sweet And Sassy in July and Tax Free $141.50. Distaff in September. Bred in New York by John Behrendt and Charles Marquis, Ga- Galiana returned to New York once in 2014 – finishing third liana races for the partnership of Triple R Stable that includes her behind fellow female sprinter finalists Willet and Risky Rachel in a trainer. Romero purchased the now 5-year-old Stonesider mare salty Saratoga allowance going 6 furlongs. privately when she was a 2-year-old from trainer Michael Matz. Foaled at Anne Morgan’s and Tim Little’s Mill Creek Farm in The purchase came at the time of year when decisions are made Stillwater, Galiana is the lone North American winner out of the whether horses stay or go, if they go south or wind up with others. unraced Argentinian-bred Interprete mare Baby Jess. “He was going to Florida for the winter; that’s when I bought Galiana’s 5-year-old campaign began with a win in a starter op- her,” Romero said. Galiana didn’t run until the following June, winning a maiden tional race in early January at Tampa Bay Downs and she later fin- claiming race for a $7,500 tag. ished third in her graded stakes debut in Gulfstream Park’s Grade 3 She famously lit up the Saratoga tote board in her next start, Hurricane Bertie Stakes in mid-February. 42 Wishes to congratulate all of tonight's nominees, including

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43 FEMALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Hot Stones B. f. Bustin Stones—Steamed Up, by Freud. Breeder: Jerry Bilinski, Roddy Valente. Trainer: Bruce Levine. Owner: Roddy Valente, Charles Casale, Darlene Bilinski. 2014 record: 7-3-1-1, $232,339. 2014 stakes win: Bed o’ Roses.

oddy Valente walked into the winner’s circle at Saratoga after Hot Stones broke her maiden and uttered the line, “Winner, winner…chicken dinner.” RCo-owner Charles Casale explained the 2013 victory with more clarity. “She’s a promising filly, it’s very exciting,” Casale said. “Winning here is a great thing.” Hot Stones has provided plenty of chicken dinners since. Bred by Valente and Jerry Bilinski, owned by Valente, Casa- le and Darlene Bilinski, the daughter of Bustin Stones won twice more as a 2-year-old and three times as a 3-year-old, including a stakes win in the Bed o’ Roses in June. the Grade 3 Bed o’ Roses, chasing down Merry Meadow to win the Hot Stones hinted at her progression from 2 to 3, winning an $150,000 stakes by a nose. allowance against open company at Aqueduct Jan 4. She returned Fresh off that score, trainer Bruce Levine took her to Sarato- to finish sixth against optional claimers in February, rebounded to ga where she finished third in the Grade 3 Shuvee, stretching to beat optional claimers in March. With five wins against allowance 9 furlongs for the first time in her career before shortening up for company, Hot Stones made her stakes debut in May. She finished the 7-furlong Ballerina where she finished eighth. Freshened since, second to La Verdad in the Critical Eye and never left the stakes Hot Stones began prepping for her 5-year-old season at Crupi’s division. New Castle Farm. Hot Stones chased La Verdad in the Critical Eye, falling just a Bred and owned by Valente and trained by Levine, Bustin Stones half-length shy of the frontrunner, who was in the midst of a four- won six races from six starts in 2007-08. The New York-bred broke race win streak. his maiden and streaked to five stakes wins, including the Grade 1 Three weeks later, Hot Stones made her graded stakes debut in Carter Handicap in his final start. La Verdad B. f. Yes It’s True—Noble Fire, by Hook and Ladder. Breeder: Eklektikos Stable. Owner: Lady Sheila Stable. Trainer: Linda Rice. 2014 record: 11-6-2-0, 632,400. 2014 stakes wins: Distaff (G2), Iroquois, Broadway, Dancin Renee, Critical Eye.

very year the list of finalists for champion New York-bred honors includes at least a few so-called throwback types, horses that stand up to a long campaign, race at the highest levels, win more than they lose and rack up a bunch of Ebucks. La Verdad fills one of those positions this year as a finalist for both female sprinter and older female honors. The daughter of Yes It’s True is no stranger to winning more than she loses – she won four of five starts to open her career as a 3-year-old in 2013 – and she collected six more victories (five of them stakes) in 2014. “She just has a terrific mind,” said Linda Rice, who trains La Verdad for Sheila Rosenblum’s Lady Sheila Stable. “She’s a big, strong, sturdy filly with a lot of speed and a great mind on her for male-only racing syndicates along with her Lady Sheila Stable. a racehorse. She walks into the paddock, nothing stirs her. She is Rice’s connection to La Verdad started early. She bought the bay obviously very fast, but to have a filly you can race for that length of fillys dam, Noble Fire, for $115,000 as a 2-year-old in 2007. She time successfully is a real tribute to her as well.” won two of four starts for Rice before becoming a broodmare. La Verdad’s first victory last year came in her 2014 debut in “I started working for Sheila maybe 2 ½ years ago and we’ve won mid-January and she won into mid-October, taking the Iroquois a lot of races together now,” Rice said. “I purchased La Verdad and on Empire Showcase Day. Along the way she won four other stakes, Hot City Girl for Sheila and they’ve been her best two runners to including the Grade 2 Distaff last spring at Aqueduct. date. She’s had a tremendous amount of fun with them, she’s very La Verdad was one of the first horses Rice bought for Rosen- passionate about horse racing and that’s very infectious to a lot of blum, a former model and ballerina who has started a set of fe- people, her passion for the game.” 44 45 FEMALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Risky Rachel B. m. Limehouse—Dancin Renee, by Distinctive Pro. Owner/breeder: Sanford Bacon. Trainers: Manny Coronel, George Weaver. 2014 record: 9-2-1-2, $111,486. 2014 stakes wins: Minaret, Manatee.

isky Rachel was as attentive and inquisitive as one might expect from a 7-year-old mare with more than two dozen starts on an otherwise typical morning at Saratoga Race Course. A few feet away stood her trainer at the time, RManny Coronel, and a few yards beyond that horses going about their paces around the turn at the Oklahoma Training Track. “She’s so talented and so classy,” Coronel said of Sanford Bacon’s homebred mare by Limehouse out of Dancin Renee. “He’s been patient with her and she’s very special for him.” Risky Rachel didn’t add another victory in the next day’s Union Avenue Stakes – a race she won in 2012 before a series of setbacks the Minaret and Manatee stakes about a month apart. forced her to miss the 2013 season. She was still able to put together “Most of the time owners don’t want to wait too long,” Coronel a productive campaign in 2014, winning a pair of stakes at Tampa said of the extended layoff that stretched from Oct. 20, 2012 to Jan. Bay Downs and placing in two others in New York. 11, 2014. “You don’t see too many owners that will wait, unfortu- A tendon injury in the 2012 Iroquois Stakes was the main mal- nately. He deserves a lot of credit for that.” ady that cost Risky Rachel. Bacon wasn’t in any hurry to bring her back, not surprising considering he’d kept Say Florida Sandy in Risky Rachel is the latest in a string of top New York-breds training until he was 9 and Dancin Renee in training through her from her family, along with the aforementioned Dancin Renee and 5-year-old season. She rehabbed at SGV Thoroughbreds in Ocala her half brother Say Florida Sandy. Lolli Lucka Lolli, the dam of under the watchful eye of Steve Venosa and his wife Dr. Jean White. Dancin Renee and Say Florida Sandy and Risky Rachel’s grand- Risky Rachel returned to Coronel in December 2013 and she was dam, is a two-time New York broodmare of the year. Risky Ra- ready to run by early January. Bacon and Coronel opted to send her chel was foaled at Mill Creek Farm in Stillwater and is the seventh to Tampa Bay rather than take on stiffer competition at Gulfstream foal out of Dancin Renee, who was pensioned and retired to Old Park and Risky Rachel rewarded them with back-to-back victories in Friends in Georgetown, Ky. in 2012.

Willet B. m. Jump Start—Katina K, by Distinctive Pro. Breeder: Michael Martin. Owners: James Iselin and Charlotte Assoulin. Trainer: James Iselin. 2014 record: 7-1-2-3, $192,000.

immy Iselin stuck to the same philosophy with Willet in 2014 that’s worked for him for many years. “You can’t run them all year long,” Iselin said after the Jump Start mare dominated a Saratoga Race Course allowance race early in the 2014 meeting. “I was always taught by my mentor, Jimmy Jones, to keep them Jwith you on the farm,” Iselin continued. “Keep your best horse near you. So we kept her, in the winter, in the freezing cold.” Willet stayed in the cold of New York in the winter of 2014, but was never thrown into the heat of competition until the warm weather returned. On the shelf from December 2013 until July 2014, Willet benefited from the time off. She finished second, beaten only 1 3/4 lengths by Grade 2 winner and fellow female sprinter finalist La Verdad in the Dancin Renee Stakes at Belmont Park. The Dancin Renee came 27 days before she won the Saratoga allowance race, a sharp score over Risky Rachel and Galiana. The “She’s been well-handled by plan, given vacations every winter,” victory was vintage Willet – off the pace early, swung wide into the Iselin said. “She’s a great, great horse who has tremendous ability stretch and finishing full of run to win by 4 lengths in 1:09.49. and talent.” Iselin said she looked like “a 3- or 4-year-old” in that victory, her Bred by the late Michael Martin and foaled at Highcliff Farm in lone win of 2014. Willet placed in four of her subsequent five starts Delanson, Willet is one of four winners out of the winning Distinc- on the season – including a third in the Grade 1 Ballerina, a third tive Pro mare Katina K. in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom and a second in the Iroquois on the In addition to Willet, Katina K is the dam of 10-time winner Dr. Empire Showcase card. Quirk and a yearling filly by Majestic Warrior. 46 Brilliant on his A game Alpha: G1 performer at two, three and four in New York, from a family packed with G1 winners. Is there a better stallion prospect in New York?

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47 MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Bandbox Gr./ro. h. Tapit—Empty The Bases, Grand Slam. Breeder: New Dawn Thoroughbreds and Aron Yagoda. Owner: Hillwood Stable. Trainer: Rodney Jenkins. 2014 record: 3-1-0-1, $155,170. 2014 stakes win: General George (G3).

rainer Rodney Jenkins routinely attends the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sales, scoping out the region’s best yearlings and 2-year-olds for longtime client Ellen Charles’ Hillwood Stable. TBack in 2009, Jenkins stepped outside the bounds a bit and bought a New York-bred. He couldn’t resist. Bandbox, despite some stops and starts, has been earning that faith ever since. Jim McCue/Maryland Jockey Club The son of Tapit won three of his four starts as a juvenile, added The following season, Bandbox stamped himself as a top 3-year- a stakes at 3 and became graded stakes winner in 2014. The latter old in Maryland and the Mid-Atlantic region with a second in the achievement, in the Grade 3 General George Handicap at Laurel, Miracle Wood Stakes and a win in the Private Terms at Laurel Park earned Bandbox a spot on the finalist list for top New York-bred before missing nearly nine months of action. sprinter of 2014. The victory also ensured a spot on the stallion He returned late in 2011 and raced through a winless (with three roster at Maryland’s Northview Stallion Station, where Jenkins paid a visit this winter. seconds) 2012 campaign that ended in August. Despite zero wins, “He looked happy at the Pennsylvania show and a lot of peo- Bandbox made plenty of noise in 2012 – with seconds in the Grade ple were looking at him,” said the trainer. “I already feel like a 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap at Pimlico and Wild and Wonderful great-grandpop so we’ll see how his babies do. Mrs. Charles bought at Charles Town. He missed 2013 entirely, recovering from surgery four or five mares to breed to him. She’ll support him well I’m sure.” to mend a bone chip and a suspensory injury. Bandbox looked like a potential star early in his career, tangling Produced from the Grand Slam mare Empty The Bases, Band- with To Honor And Serve and Mucho Macho Man in the 2010 box is one of two sons of leading sire Tapit standing their first sea- Remsen as a 2-year-old. sons in Maryland.

Be Bullish Gr./ro. g. Pure Prize—Smart Holly, by Smarten. Breeders: Carol & Herbert Schwartz. Owners: Drawing Away Stable & David Jacobson; Repole Stable. Trainers: David Jacobson, Bruce Levine. 2014 record: 12-3-4-2, $180,320. 2014 stakes win: Hollie Hughes.

dd up the number of career starts for seven of the finalists for New York-bred champion male sprinter honors and you’ll come up with 108. Add up the number of career starts for Be Bullish and the other finalists have him Abeat, but not by much. He does have them beat by career victories – 16 through the end of 2014 – and is second only to Grade 1 winner Palace by earnings with $1,023,488. Be Bullish added a dozen starts, three wins and $180,320 to his lengthy resume in 2014, a season that saw him win a stakes race in February, race eight times for a claiming tag and change hands through the claim box twice. trainer David Jacobson. Simply put, he’s come a long way since he was foaled for breed- Be Bullish won the Hollie Hughes Stakes (for the second time) ers Carol and Herbert Schwartz at Joe and Anne McMahon’s Mc- in mid-February for Drawing Away and Jacobson, defeating fellow Mahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs. finalist Marriedtothemusic in the process. He was gray that late February day back in 2007, but not nearly The son of Pure Prize raced in two stakes after the Hollie as gray as he was when he passed the $1 million mark in his final Hughes, finishing fifth in the Affirmed Success at Belmont Park start of 2014 nearly eight years later. and third in the Decathlon at Monmouth Park before returning to Be Bullish passed the seven-figure mark in a state-bred $20,000 the allowance and claiming ranks. claiming race that he won at odds-on Dec. 10 at Aqueduct. He was Levine and Repole dropped a claim slip when Be Bullish raced claimed from Repole Stables and trainer Bruce Levine that day, for $16,000 in late September at Belmont. Repole owned Be Bullish returning to the fold of Drawing Away Stable and co-owner and earlier in his career, claiming the gelding for $75,000 in 2011. 48 MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Captain Serious B. g. Successful Appeal—Madame Diva, by Mr. Greeley. Breeder: Stonewall Farm. Owner: Barry K. Schwartz. Trainer: Mike Hushion. 2014 record: 9-3-1-3, $260,200. 2014 stakes win: Mike Lee Stakes.

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nd that makes four. I’m Stoked joined Artemis Agrotera, Star Grazing and Mark My Way as a four-wide fan of New York-bred champion nominees for owners/breeders Mary and Chester Broman in 2014. ATrained by Mike Hushion, I’m Stoked posted five wins from eight starts in 2014, beginning with a win at Aqueduct in January and ending with a win at Aqueduct in December. In between, I’m Stoked won an allowance at Aqueduct and ventured to Finger Lakes to win the George W. Barker Stakes and the Leon Reed Memorial Stakes. Racing just as Hushion likes, I’m Stoked led gate-to-wire in the $50,000 Barker and replicated that effort with a 2-length gate-to- wire romp in the Reed. His five wins were earned on the heat. So, how did the Bromans wind up with four champion nomi- Part of the burgeoning breeding operation for the Bromans, I’m nees? Stoked hails from Wouldthisbemagic. The Clever Trick mare won Chester Broman explained the process that he, farm manager three times and failed to finish on four occasions, ducking out and Jeff Raine and advisors Alan Porter and Becky Thomas have per- losing her jockey once and pulling up the other three times. Unde- fected for the 40 mares on their 300-acre farm in Chestertown. terred by the blemishes, the Bromans purchased her for $110,000 “Alan gives me five picks for each mare, I tell Becky I want her at Keeneland November 2008. five picks and Jeff has five picks,” Broman said. “I tell them to put In foal to Street Sense, she produced a colt named Sim Sala Bim, them in the order they like. I break the ties. There is no exact sci- who was winless in two starts. I’m Stoked became her first stakes ence to that stuff.” winner. Maybe not an exact science, but certainly a stellar record. Marriedtothemusic Ch. c. Disco Rico—Significant Other, by Not For Love. Breeder/Owner: Dutchess Views Farm. Trainers: Dominic Galluscio, Linda Rice. 2014 record: 8-4-1-1, $193,725. 2014 stakes win: Affirmed Success.

orses change barns frequently and for any number of reasons. Very few change barns under the same circum- stances as Marriedtothemusic. Bred and owned by Michael Lischin’s and Anya HSheckley’s Dutchess Views Farm, Marriedtothemusic was in the midst of an ascension in his young career as the 2014 season got underway. He started with back-to-back wins to open the stand, dominating performances as the odds-on favorite for Dutchess Views and trainer Dominic Galluscio. He returned to stakes competition 17 about Marriedtothemusic. days after the second win and finished second to the venerable Be “Very nice horse,” Rice said. “It was a difficult position to take Bullish in the Hollie Hughes. that horse. I was happy to have him, but it was obviously emotion- Galluscio passed away a month later, losing a largely unknown ally very difficult for me. I was glad he won a few races and hope- and brief battle to pancreatic cancer at 55. Galluscio’s death left a fully I made Dominic proud . . . That’s all I can say about that.” sizable hole in the often contrasting collection of characters that is the backstretch community, and the loss was felt throughout the He’s proud. state and beyond. Marriedtothemusic spent some time at his owners’ farm this Enter Linda Rice, a close friend of Galluscio’s and a highly re- winter after finishing the season with three losses, and he was calm spected and successful trainer in her own right. and collected as visitors to a mid-January stallion show at Dutchess She took over the colt’s training and he didn’t miss a beat, first Views milled around his stall just outside the farm’s office. Foaled beating open company in a 6-furlong allowance and then scoring at Dutchess Views, Marriedtothemusic is the second foal out of the his first stakes win in the Affirmed Success at the same distance. Not For Love mare Significant Other, who is also the dam of 2014 Rice chose her words wisely and fought back emotions when asked winner Marriedtomichael. 50 MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Moonlight Song Dk. b/br. g. Unbridled’s Song—Moonlightandbeauty, by Capote. Breeder/owner: Albert Fried Jr. Trainer: Charlton Baker. 2014 record: 4-2-0-0, $156,000. 2014 stakes wins: Hudson, Gold And Roses.

lbert Fried Jr. has been involved in racing and breeding long enough to know that when a horse doesn’t make it to the races at 2, 3, or even 4 there’s no reason to fret. He and trainer Charlton Baker didn’t panic when Moonlight Song Awas beset by physical ailments and were rewarded for it in 2014. Moonlight Song, whose 7-year-old campaign was also inter- rupted by physical issue, won stakes to start and finish the 2014 season and ran credibly when defeated against both fellow state- breds and open-company sprinters. He won three of five starts as a 6-year-old in 2013 and moved would make his return. into stakes company for his 7-year-old debut. Baker picked the The Grade 3 Belmont Sprint Championship was eventually cho- Gold And Roses Stakes going 6 furlongs on the inner track at Aq- sen, and Moonlight Song wound up in a dead-heat for fourth be- ueduct for his 2014 bow and Moonlight Song showed he was ready hind track-record setting Clearly Now, Palace and Salutos Amigos. to compete with the state’s best with a 1 1/2-length win over 2013 He followed that up with a dull fifth in the John Morrissey at Sara- champion New York-bred male sprinter Palace. Unfortunately, just toga, after getting overly warm and washing out in the paddock as quickly as he arrived he was back on the sidelines. and preliminaries, but was able to bounce back and win the Hud- “We were in New York all winter with him,” Baker said last sum- son Handicap on the Empire Showcase card to cap the season. mer. “We were supposed to run him a couple times more, but we “He’s been like that since Day 1,” Baker said. “He’s just that kind came up with a foot abscess so we stopped on him.” of horse, one that might get a little nervous and wash out. He does Moonlight Song bounced back from the abscess fairly quickly, it but he wins, too.” but Baker and Fried opted on the side of caution and gave him an A half-brother to champion New York-bred Giant Moon, extra month. The extra time gave the foot more time to heal, but Moonlight Song is one of four winners produced by the Capote also forced their hand as to where the Unbridled’s Song gelding mare Moonlightandbeauty.

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15-00326 McMahonandHill half page.indd 1 3/26/15 2:31 PM MALE SPRINTER FINALISTS Palace B. h. City Zip—Receivership, by End Sweep. Breeder: The Peter J. Callahan Revocable Trust. Trainer: Linda Rice. Owner: Antonino Miuccio. 2014 record: 8-3-2-1, $797,500. 2014 stakes wins: A. G. Vanderbilt (G1), Forego (G1), True North (G2).

he caller made an assumption shortly after Linda Rice picked up the phone and agreed to talk about the four horses she trains that are up for champion New York-bred honors in 2014. T“No, you could say he was the best. He’s a Grade 1 winner,” Rice said. “That makes him the best. We had a great year with him. He’s probably our best chance to get a winner there, maybe sprinter of the year and maybe he’ll be older horse of the year. He’s in the running for that, too.” The horse in question is Palace, not only a Grade 1 winner in 2014 Palace’s productive campaign earned him champion New York- but a two-time Grade 1 winner in 2014. He registered those wins bred male sprinter honors in 2013. He’s a strong favorite again in four weeks apart on the state’s biggest stage at Saratoga Race Course. 2014, despite losses in the Vosburgh Invitational and Breeders’ Cup The son of City Zip won the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt and Fore- Sprint to end the season. Rice hopes for another good year in 2015. go in succession at Saratoga, victories that along with the Grade 2 “He really doesn’t relish the inner track at Aqueduct so this year True North on Belmont Stakes Day put him in the running for the above-mentioned honors and among the contenders for the Breed- I decided to just give him a break,” she said. “He’d gotten sick on ers’ Cup Sprint and the Eclipse Award as champion male sprinter. me when I shipped him back from California. He’d run hard for “He’s improved so much over the course of time, from the time months, ran fantastic, but he spiked a pretty good fever when he I claimed him in October of 2012 and then into 2013 we won the got back so I decided to turn him out right then. He’s training great Chowder’s First Stakes at Saratoga and I was happy with that,” said and we’re hoping to have another big year. Hopefully we’ll get back Rice, who claimed Palace for owner Antonino Miuccio for $20,000. to Saratoga and try to win those two Grade 1s, I don’t know if any “I told my client we were going to win a stakes at Saratoga, but the horse has ever done that before. He is a fantastic horse and he’s a horse just continued to improve.” pleasure to have in the barn.” Weekend Hideaway Ch. c. Speightstown—Apocalyptical, by Wiseman’s Ferry. Breeder: Flying Zee Stable. Owner: Red and Black Stable. Trainer: Phil Serpe. 2014 record: 9-2-1-2, $150,405. 2014 stakes win: John Morrissey.

arl Lizza Jr. spent nearly four decades building up his Fly- ing Zee Stables racing and breeding operation and evi- dence of his hard work continues to be seen on tracks in New York and beyond. Weekend Hideaway is one such Cexample, a stakes winner in 2014 and a fruit produced by the tree of Lizza’s efforts more than three years after his passing at 73. Phil Serpe was very familiar with the program having trained for Carl and Viane’s Flying Zee operation for many years. He also played a key role in picking out the mating that produced Weekend Hideaway and later recommended owner Mike Hoffman purchase ple stakes winner and Grade 2 placed as a 2-year-old. He was also a the Speightstown colt at auction in 2011. stakes winner at 3, winning a 6-furlong turf sprint at Belmont Park, “We were fortunate enough to get him at the dispersal because and started his 4-year-old season in a small stakes going 5 furlongs nobody knew at that particular point who Speightstown was,” Ser- at Gulfstream. pe said of Hoffman’s $40,000 purchase in the name of his Red and Weekend Hideaway was off the board that day but the race Black Stable at the Flying Zee dispersal in the fall of 2011 at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale. “I don’t know that we’d ever served him well and launched a strong five-race string that saw him have been able to get him if we bought him a year later. win twice, finish second once and third twice. One of the victories “It was sad because it was the end of the Flying Zee Stable and was Saratoga’s 6 1/2-furlong John Morrissey and at the immediate I was very close with Mr. and Mrs. Lizza. It killed us when all this expense of older male finalist Big Business. stuff happened and we had to sell all the horses, but it was another Viane Lizza was in the winner’s circle with members of the Hoff- door that opened for Mike and his stable, so we were happy.” man family and Serpe. Out of the Wiseman’s Ferry mare Apocalyptical (who was “Mrs. Lizza is a big part of everything we do,” Hoffman said. “She trained by Serpe for Flying Zee), Weekend Hideaway was a multi- helps us name the horses. She’s a big part of the Red and Black team.” 52 NorthNorth ShoreShore bloodstock Luck Is Not A Business Plan Congratulations to all PROTECT YOUR INVESTMENT North Shore Equine Insurance offers policies with the 2014 the most established and trusted underwriters in the business, including: New York-Bred Mortality Prospective Foal Championship Stallion Infertility Property & Casualty Farm Packages Nominees! Liability Policies

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Inimitable Romanee Gr. m., 2008, Maria’s Mon—Cellars Shiraz, by Kissin Kris. Breeder: Gallagher’s Shiraz. Owner: Gallagher’s Stud. Trainer: Graham Motion. 2014 record: 6-2-0-0, $154,564. 2014 stakes wins: The Very One (G3), Bewitch (G3).

very year the list of finalists for champion New York-bred honors includes at least a few so-called throwback types, horses that stand up to a long campaign, race at the highest levels, win more than they lose and rack up a bunch of Ebucks. La Verdad fills one of those positions this year as a finalist for both female sprinter and older female honors. The daughter of Yes It’s True is no stranger to winning more than she loses – she won four of five starts to open her career as a 3-year-old in 2013 – and she collected six more victories (five of them stakes) in 2014. “She just has a terrific mind,” said Linda Rice, who trains La Verdad for Sheila Rosenblum’s Lady Sheila Stable. “She’s a big, strong, sturdy filly with a lot of speed and a great mind on her for male-only racing syndicates along with her Lady Sheila Stable. a racehorse. She walks into the paddock, nothing stirs her. She is Rice’s connection to La Verdad started early. She bought the bay obviously very fast, but to have a filly you can race for that length of fillys dam, Noble Fire, for $115,000 as a 2-year-old in 2007. She time successfully is a real tribute to her as well.” won two of four starts for Rice before becoming a broodmare. La Verdad’s first victory last year came in her 2014 debut in “I started working for Sheila maybe 2 ½ years ago and we’ve won mid-January and she won into mid-October, taking the Iroquois a lot of races together now,” Rice said. “I purchased La Verdad and on Empire Showcase Day. Along the way she won four other stakes, Hot City Girl for Sheila and they’ve been her best two runners to including the Grade 2 Distaff last spring at Aqueduct. date. She’s had a tremendous amount of fun with them, she’s very La Verdad was one of the first horses Rice bought for Rosen- passionate about horse racing and that’s very infectious to a lot of blum, a former model and ballerina who has started a set of fe- people, her passion for the game.” Congratulations to the owners, breeders and trainers of finalists that we have had the pleasure of doing business with.

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57 OLDER MALE FINALISTS Big Business Ch. g. Eddington—Spanish Guitar, by Birdonthewire. Breeder: Henthorn Racing. Owner: Gary Barber. Trainer: David Jacobson. 2014 record: 10-3-5-1, $389,500. 2014 stakes win: Alex M. Robb.

o say that the ties in the pedigree of Big Business to the various states in the Union would make for good fodder for a geography lesson might be a gross under- statement. TConsider that the now 7-year-old gelding is a son of former Kentucky-based and current California sire Eddington out of a Texas-bred mare who is the dam of foals bred in Texas, Kentucky, New York (two) and Oklahoma (three). But back to Big Business, he’s a New York-bred who started his career in California before finally making it back to his native state. Along the way Big Business racked up 11 career wins and $763,430 in earnings through the end of last year, more than half during his 2014 campaign that earned him finalist consideration Indeed. The five times Big Business finished second in 2014 the for champion New York-bred older male honors. race winners were Zivo, Weekend Hideaway, Palace, Moonlight Big Business was first or second in his first six starts, the sec- Song and Sinistra. Of that group, only Sinistra was not a finalist for onds coming in stakes, including the Grade 1 Forego last summer champion New York-bred honors in one or more divisions in 2014. at Saratoga. He placed in one more in the fall before breaking Bred by Henthorn Racing and foaled at Pucker Ridge Farm through just in time on New Year’s Eve with a victory in the Alex in Warrensburg, Big Business didn’t bring his reserve at the 2009 M. Robb. Fasig-Tipton Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale and at the 2010 Trainer David Jacobson, who trains the gelding for Gary Barber, OBS March sale of selected 2-year-olds in training sale. took a philosophical approach to the defeats after the season-end- He eventually sold for $115,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic ing victory. He admitted it was “a bit frustrating to keep running May 2-year-old sale and started his career with trainer Mike Har- and finishing second, but that’s a credit to the competition.” rington and his longtime client Heinz Steinmann in California.

Moonlight Song Dk. b/br. g. Unbridled’s Song—Moonlightandbeauty, by Capote. Breeder/owner: Albert Fried Jr. Trainer: Charlton Baker. 2014 record: 4-2-0-0, $156,000. 2014 stakes wins: Hudson, Gold And Roses.

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Zivo B. h. True Direction—American Skipper, by Quiet American. Breeder/Owner: Thomas Coleman. Trainer: Chad Brown. 2014 record: 8-5-1-0, 767,200. 2014 stakes wins: Suburban (G2), Commentator, Kings Point, Whodam.

he 15-month stretch of time that marked Zivo’s return from a near year-long layoff was about as good an extended stretch of work as any racehorse in North America in 2013 into 2014. TZivo, a son of True Direction bred and owned by Thomas Cole- man, steadily advanced from competitive allowance horse to allowance winner to restricted stakes competitor to state-bred stakes winner to graded stakes winner during that period. His run ended at the highest levels of the game – in three straight Grade 1s that included the Breeders’ Cup Classic – and even though he didn’t make Moreno, Prayer for Relief, Romansh, Last Gunfighter and others. the final step forward his campaign was nothing short of a success. “It was time to step out of New York-bred company and try him The way Zivo went through a six-race win streak bridging the in open company,” Brown said of the decision to run in the Subur- end of 2013 and well into 2014 was as impressive as the streak itself. ban rather than wait for other New York-bred races. He almost always came from the back of the pack, or as close to the Coleman bred Zivo out of the three-time winner and back as he could get, before mounting a furious rally in the stretch. Coleman came in from the Hamptons to catch Zivo do some of $202,211-earner American Skipper, by Quiet American. Foaled at his best work in the Grade 2 Suburban July 5 at Belmont Park. Last Keane Stud in Amenia, where the French Deputy stallion True Di- of 11 through the opening half mile, Zivo uncorked a strong mid- rection stood in 2007 and 2008 until he was exported to stand in dle move and extended into the stretch run down eventual Grade 1 Argentina, Zivo is one of three winners from as many foals to start winner Moreno and win going away. out of American Skipper. Coleman almost missed the race, but he made the trip to the In addition to his Suburban victory, Zivo finished second to To- eastern side of Long Island to see his prized homebred earn the nalist in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont and fourth biggest win of his career going 10 furlongs in a strong field against in the Grade 1 Woodward at Saratoga. 60 ATC_NY Thoroughbred Breeders_2015_Layout 1 2/20/2015 10:24 AM Page 1

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he Widener family’s roots in racing run deep – through Belmont Park, the building of Hialeah, the National Mu- seum of Racing and Hall of Fame, Elmendorf Farm, Raise A Native, Eight Thirty, Phalanx and dozens upon dozens Tof major winners. And Cat Feathers is carrying on the family tradition. The champion New York-bred steeplechaser of 2014 was bred under the name of Happy Hill Farm, the Pennsylvania home of Cortright Wetherill and his wife Ella Widener-Wetherill. Their son, Peter Wetherill, took over the farm’s Thoroughbred interests and supported the New York-bred program. When he died in 2010 a 2-year-old filly was in Camden, S.C. lowed horses to Dubai and back and now run a breaking/training with Kate Dalton. While settling the estate and identifying likely operation while running a small steeplechase stable as well. sales candidates, attorneys asked Dalton for an opinion. Cat Feathers is the star, for now. She thrives at Saratoga, where “She probably wants to be 4,” Dalton told them. “And she’s really New York-bred purse bonuses add to the opportunity, with two going to be a lovely 6-year-old.” wins, three seconds and a fourth in six tries. She won the Mrs. Og- The estate sold Cat Feathers to the trainer for $1,000 and Dal- den Phipps Stakes in 2012 and repeated that score in 2014. All three ton’s assessment wasn’t all that far off. Cat Feathers – who goes by runner-up efforts have come in the Mrs. Walter Jeffords Stakes. Beatrice around the barn – ran four times at 3, winning a maiden And she’s continually on the improve. claimer over hurdles in November, became a stakes winner as a “When she won here two years ago, she was just a flat track 4-year-old, placed in two stakes at 5 and had her best year in 2014 horse, she was weak and leggy. She’s still weak and leggy but she’s with a win, a second and a third in three stakes starts. a lot stronger,” Bernie Dalton said after the 2014 Phipps win. “She The daughter of Catienus earned $66,200 to go past $164,000 for always upholds her end of the deal if she’s right.” her career, most of it while being ridden by Dalton’s husband Ber- Also champion New York-bred jumper of 2012, Cat Feathers is nie. The Daltons live in Camden, but met in Saratoga (she was gal- approaching her 2015 debut, with Saratoga on her travel schedule. loping horses for Jonathan Sheppard; he was riding out for Kiaran Her dam Mistress Hemming lost all three starts for Happy Hill and McLaughlin) and still ship north to the Spa every year. They’ve fol- has produced two winners.

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65 2015 Calendar B.indd 1 1/23/15 1:15 PM Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation

HAY! When you give to the 2015 Hay Drive, you feed the TRF’s 925 horses at 24 farms across the country that are working as teachers athletes, and healers.

But did you know? Your gift also supports local farming communities, helps to conserve land, and provides education in equine care.

To support the Hay Drive, visit: www.trfinc.org

The TRF thanks NYTB and its members for many years of generous support.

Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation PO Box 834 | Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 www.trfinc.org | 518-226-0028

66 LET’S GIVE A HAND To All theNominees! MCMAHON OF SARATOGA WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE ALL THE CONNECTIONS OF THE NY-BRED DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP NOMINEES

McMahon bred, foaled & raised EFFIE TRINKET Turf Female nominee

2015 ROSTER CATIENUS – CENTRAL BANKER – HERE COMES BEN – JUSTENUFFHUMOR – TEUFLESBERG – THE CLIFF’S EDGE

Inquiries to Joe or John McMahon / 180 Fitch Road / Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (518) 587-3426 / [email protected] / www.mcmahonthoroughbreds.com

67 The New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund is proud to be the major sponsor of tonight’s ceremony and congratulates all award nominees for their outstanding achievements.

By breeding and racing these quality NY-breds, the nominees have set an example for horsemen and horsewomen across the state to help the Fund achieve its mission:

“To promote by monetary incentives the responsible breeding of quality thoroughbred racehorses in keeping with the founding legislation to preserve New York's irreplaceable farmland.”