Horse Farm Tour Showcases State's Rich Resources
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Maryland Horse® April 2019 Official publication of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association; Vol. 84, No. 4 Horse Farm Tour showcases state’s rich resources MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC. at Goucher College Springtime on a horse 1021 Dulaney Valley Road farm is magical – mares and Baltimore, MD 21204 foals in their paddocks, the P.O. Box 427 bustling breeding sheds, the Timonium, MD 21094 bloom of the season. 410-252-2100 www.marylandthoroughbred.com A free tour of Maryland horse farms Saturday, May 11, BOARD OF DIRECTORS from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., will of- Michael Harrison DVM fer a chance to experience the President magic. The Maryland Thor- David Wade oughbred Horse Farm Tour 1 Vice-president has been arranged by the Kent Allen Murray Maryland Horse Breeders As- Secretary-treasurer sociation as part of the MH- Cricket Goodall BA’s 90th anniversary celebra- Executive director tion. Brooke Bowman DVM, Select farms and a number Rebecca B. Davis, David of agribusinesses in Baltimore, DiPietro, Richard Hackerman*, Carroll, Cecil, Frederick and Christy Holden, Michael Horning*, TK Kuegler, Louis Harford counties will be open Merryman, Sabrina Moore, D. to the public. Tour partici- David Moose, Larry Murray, pants may visit as many of the William Reightler, James B. farms as they would like, in Steele, Theresa Wiseman any order convenient for *president appointed them. Directors Emeritus Found on the tour are (served 18 years) Green Mount Farm in Reisters- J. William Boniface, town (Baltimore County), the R. Thomas Bowman, King T. birthplace of 2018 Mary- Leatherbury, Donald P. Litz land-bred Horse of the Year nurseries; and Northview peake City; and Sycamore Jr., Robert T. Manfuso, Ann Knicks Go, one of the top Stal lion Station in Chesapeake Hall, Chesapeake City (Cecil Merryman, Michael Pons, 2-year-olds in the nation last City (Cecil County), home to County). Katharine M. Voss year; Bonita Farm in Darling- Maryland’s Stallion of the Summer Wind Farm, Union Advisory Council ton (Harford County), long- Year for 16 of the past 17 years, Bridge (Frederick County). (past MHBA presidents) time home of the 1983 Mary- including Great Notion, Country Life Farm, Bel Air; J. William Boniface, land-bred Preakness winner named Maryland’s top stal- and Murmur Farm, Darling- William K. Boniface, Frank A. lion since 2016. ton (Harford County). Bonsal, R. Thomas Bowman, Deputed Testamony and cur- William G. Christmas, Hal rent home to a promising Other farms include: A complete list of farms C.B. Clagett III, Kimball C. young roster of stallions that Merryland Farm, Hydes; and businesses and their loca- Firestone, King T. Leatherbury, include millionaire and Ken- Sagamore Farm, Glyndon; tions appears on the next page J.W.Y. Martin Jr., Joseph P. tucky Derby-placed Dort- and Willowdale Farm, Butler and may be found online at Pons Jr., Michael Pons, James mund; Shamrock Farm in (Baltimore County). marylandthoroughbred.com. B. Steele Jr., Katharine M. Woodbine (Carroll County), Roland Farm, Warwick; Se- R Voss, Robert B. White among Maryland’s busiest lect Breeders Services, Chesa- MHBA 90 Years Celebration Event Maryland Thoroughbred Horse Farm TOUR Presented by the Maryland Horse Breeders Association 2 May 11, 2019 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visit some of our state’s finest Thoroughbred farms BALTIMORE COUNTY: GreenMount Farm, Merryland Farm, Sagamore Farm, Willowdale Farm CARROLL COUNTY: Shamrock Farm • CECIL COUNTY: Northview Stallion Station, Roland Farm, Sycamore Hall, Select Breeder Services • FREDERICK COUNTY: Summer Wind Farm HARFORD COUNTY: Bonita Farm, Country Life Farm, Murmur Farm MarylandThoroughbred.com FarmTourPoster.indd 1 3/19/19 3:58 PM Fund propels Maryland’s breeding industry The passing of House Bill 106, signed into law April 6, 1962, by Gov. J. Millard Tawes, was ground-breaking legis- lation, creating the innovative Maryland Bred Fund program, which rewarded the state’s breeders and stallion owners and offered more opportunites for Maryland- bred runners. Snowden Carter, then editor of the Maryland Horse, races restricted to Maryland was witness to what he wrote foaled runners, and the “was the biggest news ever to MHBA oversaw registration come to Maryland breeders.” which determined eligibility, A year after the bill’s signing, keeping records of state-bred Carter reflected: “Maryland - foals. A notice was printed in ers aren’t accustomed to being the August 1937 issue of the leaders in a national trend, Governor Tawes signs bill with Senate president George Della, Maryland Horse: “A score of but there can be no doubt that Speaker of House Perry Wilkerson, Secretary of State Lloyd Maryland-bred winners are other states are now Simpkins. Snowden Carter (third from left) looks on. not yet registered with the attempting to duplicate the Maryland Horse Breeders legislation which was passed would be governed by the Maryland Fund race. The Association. Let their in Annapolis. Maryland Racing Com mis- winner, Leddysmaun (by breeders, who are after all the “Expansion of the state’s sion. Country Life Farm stallion gainers, remember that they breeding industry is The results were immed- Saggy), ran for a purse of cannot race in any race for 3 inevitable. The quality of iate. $5,000, earned breeders Maryland-bred horses unless racing at Maryland tracks has The first Maryland-bred William Sims and his father so registered.” improved and will continue to foal crop (1964) conceived George a $475 breeder bonus, By March 1941, the Mary- improve.” after the signing of the bill and Stanley Sagner, owner of land Racing Com mis sion Carter added that the bill, jumped 86 percent over 1960, Saggy, received a $237.50 accorded the MHBA complete “has revitalized a struggling, to 877 foals. One year later, the stallion bonus. authority in determining if not moribund, industry.” foal crop surpassed 1,000 for In 1970, the fund received Maryland-bred eligibility. A The first state breeder the first time in Maryland another boost, as the takeout number of races were incentive development history (a 119 percent increase increased from 13 to 15 restricted to Maryland-bred program in the country, the in a five-year span). Maryland percent, and the percentage of AND sired, including certain Maryland Fund was a joint went to fourth in the nation by handle allocated also rose. stakes such as the Maryland lobbying effort sug gested to number of foals born in the Then in 1985, Gov. Harry Futurity. In 1947, the Mary- the legislature by the state (behind Kentucky, Hughes reduced the state’s land Breeders’ Stakes Series, a Maryland Horse Breeders California and Florida). share of the mutuel handle forerunner to the Maryland Association and the Prior to the start of the 1962 from 4.09 percent to 0.5 Fund stakes program, was Horsemen’s Benevolent and breeding season, 98 stallions percent, and the Maryland launched. Four restricted Protective Association as a were on Maryland’s roster. By Fund’s share of the handle stakes, one run at each of way to promote and improve 1970, the roster contained 190 increased to 1.1 percent. In Maryland’s major tracks the state’s breeding industry listings, and included the likes 1965, more than $1.04 million (Pimlico, Laurel, Havre de and to help supply runners to of Northern Dancer, Nearctic, in Maryland-bred awards and Grace and Bowie) were Maryland tracks. Sunrise Flight, Maribeau, purses were paid out; the offered, with the MHBA The bill raised the pari- Knightly Manner and Kauai figure rose to more than $1.7 handling the nominations, mutuel take at all Maryland King. The latter, a foal of 1963, million in 1971; by 1975, it was and collecting a $10 sub- tracks from 12 to 13 percent, was the first Maryland-bred nearly $2.6 million. scription fee. It was noted that with the additional 1 percent winner of the Kentucky Throughout the 1980s, more entry of a yearling in the going entirely to horsemen in Derby. His breeder, Virginia than $3 million a year was stakes series didn’t auto- the form of purse money and horseman Dr. Frank A. earmarked for Maryland- matically register the horse as breeder bonuses. Two-thirds O’Keefe, had decided to foal breds through the program. a Maryland-bred, which was of the 1 percent was to go into at least one mare in Maryland Incentives for Maryland still required in order for the general purse distribution, every year after the bill breeders were instituted by horse to be permitted to run in and one-third was designated passed. the MHBA decades before the any Maryland-bred race. The for the newly created By July 1962, the half-mile creation of the Maryland stakes schedule was Maryland-bred fund, which track Bel Air offered the first Fund. Local tracks offered expanded to five in 1958 with the addition of the Maryland decades. The owner award bonuses continue to be paid in 2018 exceeded $9.5 million Derby at Laurel. program was created in 1982, out, since February 2015 from (which includes the owner Changes have continued to replacing races restricted to the purse account, and in 2018 awards from the purse be made to the Maryland Maryland-bred runners that amounted to nearly $3.5 account). R Fund program over the had begun in 1962. Owner million. Total fund payments Maryland-bred Stakes Winners Blamed records her first graded stakes win of year at Gulfstream Leslie Martin Capping off a week in wire in the $150,000 Royal Alwaysmining, Bonus Points of :23.29, :45.63, 1:09.70 and 1 which she was named 2018 Delta Stakes-G3 at Gulfstream and Las Setas – at Laurel Park.