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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2019 FROM TDN LOOK: MEN, AND UBETWEREVEN, THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING FOR RED OAK STABLE WOMEN, OF WAR FIND by Christie DeBernardis SOLACE IN MACK=S PROGRAM The unraced mare Ubetwereven (French Deputy) has proven to be quite a shrewd investment for the Brunetti family=s Red Oak Stable. Privately purchased almost 15 years ago, she has produced seven winners from eight foals of racing age. Three of those winners have captured black-type events, including her youngest foal in training, King for a Day (Uncle Mo), who bested Maximum Security (New Year=s Day) in Sunday=s Pegasus S. at Monmouth Park. AI bought the mare privately for Mr. Brunetti about 15 years ago off of Irv Cowan in Kentucky,@ said Rick Sacco, Red Oak=s racing and operations manager. Cont. p4 by Sue Morris Finley IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Of all the terrible things that mankind has inflicted upon one ADVERTISE BACK ON TRACK IN COMMONWEALTH another, there is none so terrible as war. Phoenix Thoroughbreds’ Advertise (GB) (Showcasing {GB}) Estimates of the total number of people killed in war in the bounced back from defeat in the 2000 Guineas to take Royal history of the world range up to a billion lives, and for the Ascot’s G1 Commonwealth Cup. combatants, oftentimes just surviving the conflict seems like the Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. goal. But of course, too many people come home from combat only to find that they cannot leave it behind. Though she served in the military for 21 years, Tei Pascal can pinpoint the exact period during her service from which her post-traumatic stress stems. ADuring my 21-year career, I had five deployments, and one of those deployments was to Kirkuk, Iraq,@ Pascal recalled. AAnd at that particular time we had a lot of mortar attacks. The mortar attacks would happen almost daily; I would say five days out of seven. At the time, I wasn't really worried because I knew that I was trained properly and we had good camaraderie in my unit, in my squadron.@ It wasn=t until she returned home that she realized what a toll those daily attacks had taken on her. AWhen I got back from Iraq, I lived in Florida, and so here I am one afternoon with my son, and we're outside, and a car alarm was triggered by a thunderstorm. And I found myself taking cover. And it really scared me because I didn't know what was going on. I felt as if I was back in Iraq. I felt as if time kind of stood still.@ Cont. p3 PUBLISHER & CEO Sue Morris Finley @suefinley [email protected] V.P., INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS Gary King @garykingTDN [email protected] EDITORIAL [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Jessica Martini @JessMartiniTDN Managing Editor Saturday, June 22, 2019 Alan Carasso @EquinealTDN Senior Editor Steve Sherack @SteveSherackTDN Racing Editor Brian DiDonato @BDiDonatoTDN News and Features Editor Ben Massam @BMassamTDN Associate Editors Christie DeBernardis @CDeBernardisTDN Joe Bianca @JBiancaTDN ADVERTISING [email protected] Director of Advertising Alycia Borer Advertising Manager Lia Best Advertising Designer Amanda Crelin Advertising Assistants Alexa Reisfield Amie Morosco Advertising Assistant/Dir. Of Distribution Rachel McCaffrey Photographer/Photo Editor Sarah K. Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] All Smiles! 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In 2013, the Veterans Administration released a study which showed that 22 veterans a day were committing suicide. That means that just over every hour, a veteran takes his or her own life. While vets make up seven percent of the population, they account for 22 percent of its suicidesBa suicide rate over three times the average for other Americans. At the heart of their struggle, of course, is PTSD, or post-traumatic stress disorder. Especially common in combat veterans, PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that occurs in people who have experienced a traumatic event or a long period in which they felt trauma. It can cause flashbacks, nightmares, anger, fear, estrangement, and a lack of trust. It was that lack of trust that Pascal says was the obvious sign that something was wrong. AWhat I found was all of a sudden I was on edge,@ she said. AI didn't trust people. I was constantly looking over my shoulder. I went through moments of isolation and then finally moments, as the years went on, of depression. And it wasn't until 2017 or 2018 where I finally decided, 'Okay, I can't do this on my own. I need to see someone.=@ In a country that makes a public show of praising its veterans, at ballgames, in airports, and in signs and banners thanking them for their service, it is difficult, if not impossible, to find effective treatment for PTSD. It is especially frustrating to the people on the front lines of the mental health battle that more real assistance for America=s veterans is not a priority. ASadly, the military, the Department of Defense, the VA, the federal government has not done enough to understand the basis of psychological injuries of military experience in combat as could have been done,@ said Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Lieberman manages the largest psychiatric department in the world, with over 700 doctors working under him, and has taken a keen interest in the Man O= War Project. Concerned with the military=s mental health crisis, he is dedicated to raising awareness, and finding alternative treatments for PTSD. AThere are a lot of treatments that are being used, but they're not really very effective,@ he said. AAnd it's doubly shameful because of the fact that this condition--from the standpoint of how scientifically challenging or difficult it may be to understand--should be solvable.@ Lieberman stresses that last point. THE NYQUIST Won the Kentucky Derby in the fastest time for 15 years – faster than Justify and American Pharoah. Click to see his Derby REMEMBER THE FUTURE First Nyquist yearlings selling soon Darley TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 8 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • JUNE 22, 2019 AThis is not global warming. This is something which should be readily solvable but it's not because there hasn't been funding of the best scientific minds to do so.@ Into this breach, said Lieberman, stepped Earle Mack. To read the rest of the story in TDN Look, click here. Red Oak Stable cont. from p1 AWe were looking to upgrade and Mr. Cowan was looking to cut back and sell some mares. I just loved her physically and loved French Deputy. She is a mare with a lot of bone, good conformation and just looked the part.@ King for a Day showed promise from the start, finishing third to a >TDN Rising Star= performance from subsequent Grade I Rick Sacco (L) & Steve Brunetti leading King for a Day winner Complexity (Maclean=s Music) in his sprint debut at into the winner=s circle after the Pegasus S. | Sarah Andrew Saratoga Sept. 3 and earning his diploma next out when stretched out to 1 1/16 miles at Belmont Oct. 4. Concluding his ran super. Johnny [Velazquez] said there was a lot more in the juvenile campaign with a fourth in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club tank. We really benefitted from that first race back.@ S. at Churchill Downs Nov. 24, he returned from six months on He continued, AWe were scheduled to run in the [GIII] Indiana the sidelines to annex Pimlico=s Sir Barton S. May 18 (video). Derby [July 13]. We thought this horse was just doing so good AWe ran him on Preakness day on the undercard in a non- and he really got a lot out of the Sir Barton S., so we called an winners of a sweepstakes race,@ Sacco said.