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WINSTAR STABLEMATES RACING SYNDICATE Issue No. 1 WinStar Stablemates Racing Syndicate February 1, 2020 IN THIS ISSUE February Profile: Coach Rocks by Sean Tugal WinStar Farm purchased Coach sire 14 Gr1 winners including Game on Rocks for $450,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Dude, Ghostzapper, and Ginger Punch. November Sale. Coach Rocks came with It is the bottom side of Oxbow that could a big resume being a Grade 2 winning have the most impact from the sophomore and multiple graded stakes matriarch Cee’s Song. She alone is placed over several racing seasons for responsible for two-time Breeders Cup Around Town: Gulfstream Park Visiting Gulfstream to watch one of your fillies run? her original ownership and trainer Dale Classic winner and Horse of the Year What to do around South Florida before the races, and Romans. She also holds claim as the Tiznow, as well as the full sisters Tizso, where do get a great bite to eat along with a view! most successful offspring of the young dam of Paynter and Tizamazing dam, of sire Oxbow, having earned over Oxbow. $550,000 in her career that has comprised 19 lifetime starts, 4 wins and Coach Rocks is a physical presence and a total of 12 on the board finishes. has an exciting season ahead for herself. Now with Todd Pletcher, a shoe Coach Rocks has shown versatility in her in first ballot Hall of Famer, she may be career winning on both dirt and poised to grab a top prize at some point turf. The turf influence in Coach Rocks’ in 2020. She has been training well this pedigree would be found from her winter at her Palm Beach Downs base broodmare sire El Prado, who is a son of and is already a graded stakes winner the breed changing sire Sadler’s over the Gulfstream oval. Coach Rocks’ Wells. Coach Rocks’ sire Oxbow was a pedigree and physical makeup gives us top-level classic colt for Calumet Farm confidence that she can mature and and trainer D. Wayne Lukas; it was no continue to improve as an older mare. Trainer Q & A: with Bill Mott surprise the amount of class he Last season she was only beaten a Get to know Bill Mott, trainer of Abounding Joy and other top Stablemates’ horses. showed. His sire Awesome Again was a length by the champion mare Midnight monster as a three and four-year-old, Bisou. capping his career with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and going onto WINSTAR STABLEMATES RACING SYNDICATE | Issue NO. 1 2 Q & A: with Bill Mott by Megan Quish It’s well known that Bill is one of the best in the business. 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