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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018 LEMONS FOREVER NAMED NY COLLEGE=S RACING MANAGEMENT PROGRAM RISING TO HEAD OF CLASS BROODMARE OF THE YEAR by T.D. Thornton Stephanie Preston=s official title at Morrisville State College, State University of New York (SUNY), is faculty director of the equine racing management program. But her real mission and passion since taking over that job in January is getting the word out about the best-kept secret in obtaining a practical two- or four-year degree to bolster a student=s chance of landing a good job within the racing industry. Preston has been involved in both the Thoroughbred business and in various higher education positions for some three decades, but she readily admits she had never heard of Morrisville=s racing management program until she came across a job posting for the position last year.A lot of other industry insiders also seem to be unaware of this hidden gem, even though it=s located just 2 1/2 hours west of Saratoga Race Course and about the same distance east of Finger Lakes Lemons Forever | Horsephotos Gaming & Racetrack, with numerous breeding farms dotting the landscape in between. Cont. p4 Charles Fipke=s Lemons Forever (Lemon Drop Kid), dam of champion Forever Unbridled (Unbridled=s Song) and Grade I IN TDN EUROPE TODAY winner Unbridled Forever (Unbridled=s Song), was named 2017 A FASTNET FINISH TO INGLIS EASTER Broodmare of the Year at the KTOB=s Kentucky-Bred Champions Kelsey Riley reports from the final day of the Inglis Easter Awards Luncheon at Keeneland. Yearling Sale where a son of Fastnet Rock (Aus) topped A As a breeder, Broodmare of the Year is about as significant as proceedings. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. it can get other than having something like Gun Runner,@ Fipke said. AIt is the ideal. We are very lucky to get that. It=s not me that does it though, it=s the broodmare!@ Winner of the 2006 GI Kentucky Oaks, Lemons Forever was purchased by Fipke for $2.5 million at the 2007 Keeneland November sale. The 15-year-old mare has seven foals with her top produce being MGISW Forever Unbridled, who was named 2017's top older mare after a perfect season that culminated in a victory in the GI Breeders= Cup Distaff. The bay, who was named KY-bred champion older female, was retired after finishing a respectable fifth in the Mar. 31 G1 Dubai World Cup and will now be bred to Medaglia d=Oro. Lemons Forever has a juvenile filly named Lemon=s Medaglia (Medaglia d=Oro) and recently foaled another filly by the same stallion. AJust over the weekend she foaled out a beautiful Medaglia filly,@ Fipke said. AThe filly has unusually long legs, weighs about 140 pounds and is bred similarly to Rachel Alexandra. She has a very distinct face just like Rachel, so we still have more ammo to come! 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[email protected] European Editor Emma Berry [email protected] Associate International Editor Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 9 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • APRIL 12, 2018 Lemons Forever Named Broodmare of the Year cont. from p1 ! Horse of the Year & Older Dirt Male: Gun Runner (Besilu Stables) ! 2-Year-Old Male: Bolt d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) (WinStar Farm) ! 2-Year-Old Filly: Rushing Fall (More Than Ready) (Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding) ! 3-Year-Old Male: West Coast (Flatter) (CFP Thoroughbreds) ! 3-Year-Old Filly: Abel Tasman (Quality Road) (Clearsky Farms) ! Older Dirt Female: Forever Unbridled (Charles Fipke) ! Turf Male: Beach Patrol (Lemon Drop Kid) (Nancy C. Shuford) ! Turf Female: Lady Eli (Runnymede Farm Inc. & Catesby Clay) ! Sprinter Male: Roy H (More Than Ready) (Ramona S. Bass LLC) ! Sprinter Female: Lady Aurelia (Scat Daddy) (Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC) ! Racing Abroad: Arrogate (Unbridled=s Song) (Clearsky Farms) ! Steeplechase Horse: Mr. Hot Stuff (WinStar Farm) Four merit awards were presented to individuals for their Gun Runner | Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders= Cup contributions to the Kentucky Thoroughbred Industry: Reigning Horse of the Year Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}) also ! P.A.B. Widener Trophy for KTOB Breeder of the Year: took home Kentucky-Bred Horse of the Year and KY-bred Clearsky Farms champion older dirt male for his sensational 2017 season during ! Hardboot Breeders= Award (pays tribute to distinctive, but which he won four Grade Is, including the GI Breeders= Cup unsung breeders): Don M. Robinson Classic. ! Charles W. Engelhard Award (acknowledges a member of the The full list of KY-bred champions (with breeders) is as follows: media for outstanding coverage of the Thoroughbred ! Broodmare of the Year: Lemons Forever Industry): Anne Eberhardt Keogh & Enzina Mastrippolito TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • APRIL 12, 2018 Lemons Forever Named Broodmare of the Year cont. NY College=s Racing Management Program cont. from p1 ! William T. Young Humanitarian Award (distinguishes a person or organization in the Thoroughbred industry Awho recognizes and promotes the human endeavor@): Central Kentucky Riding for Hope Also receiving awards were the top Kentucky Thoroughbred Development Fund (KTDF) money earners in 2017 in five separate categories. ! KTDF Sire of the Year: Kitten=s Joy (Ramsey Farm) ! KTDF Earner of the Year: Res Ipsa (Deborah V. Wilson) ! KTDF Owner of the Year: G. Watts Humphrey, Jr. ! KTDF Trainer of the Year: Ian Wilkes ! KTDF Breeder of the Year: Calumet Farm Stephanie Preston | SUNY Morrisville Recipients of the 2017 KTOB Kentucky-Bred Champion awards AI had no idea that I would be really interested in taking a job were voted on by the full membership of KTA/KTOB while the in upstate New York in January,@ Preston said with a laugh in a KTDF category leaders were tabulated using purse money won recent phone interview. ABut after visiting and seeing the at KY racetracks in 2017. KTOB merit award recipients were uniqueness of the program, the hands-on emphasis, the real voted on by the KTA/KTOB Board of Directors. desire from higher administration to make this a program that produces kids with skills that are employable, and then looking at the facilities, there was just no way I could turn it down.@ TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 9 • THETDN.COM THURSDAY • APRIL 12, 2018 NY College=s Racing Management Program cont. for Oxbow Racing, with divisions in Ocala and Lexington. Morrisville=s equine science program is currently the second Along the way, she worked toward a master=s degree in largest program of about 80 offered at the college, Preston said. equine veterinary medicine and surgery (also at Texas A&M), The school also has a decades-long involvement with harness and in 2011 Preston obtained a doctoral degree in large animal racing and breeding, hosting its clinical sciences and veterinary own annual sale of about 80 epidemiology from the Standardbred yearlings. University of Florida. She has But in recent years Morrisville done post-doctoral research and has been trying to incorporate has been a visiting scholar for more Thoroughbred-related the Hong Kong Jockey Club and learning into the overall Gluck Equine Research Center at curriculum (the racing the University of Kentucky, and management program, like the has published significant, breeding program, falls under separate studies involving both the umbrella of that equine lameness in young science heading). Preston=s Thoroughbreds and the use of recent hiring just might be the Lasix in racehorses. catalyst that will enable that But what truly resonates when endeavor to flourish. speaking with Preston about the After earning her bachelor of Morrisville program are three The solarium at SUNY Morrisville | SUNY Morrisville science degree in animal science points: 1) The need for at Texas A&M University in 1990, Preston worked as a prospective students who are already focused on the racing Thoroughbred jockey, trainer, owner, pinhooker, and farm industry to realize the value of a college degree so they=ll have manager, most notably at Prestonwood Farm in Lexington and more options later in life if plans change; Cont.