2010 Maryland-Bred Champions Inside 2010 Top Maryland Sires
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Maryland Horse March 2011 Official publication of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association; Vol. 76, No. 3 2010 Maryland-bred Champions Inside 2010 top Maryland sires ............... 7 Beverly Raymond retires.............. 9 Championship voting .................. 5 Horse of the year In memoriam: Dr. Roger Olson ... 7 Laurel Park’s 100th anniversary 10 Maryland-bred champions Older male Ben’s Cat .................................. 6 Catch a Thief ........................... 4 Neversaidiwassweet.............. 3 Not Abroad ............................. 4 Richard’s Kid Patriot’s Path ........................... 6 Dk.b./br.h., 2005, by Lemon Drop Kid—Tough Broad, by Broad Brush. Richard’s Kid ........................... 1 Steady Warrior ........................ 2 Bred by Fitzhugh LLC; owned by Zabeel Racing International Corp.; Sweet Goodbye ....................... 5 trained by Bob Baffert. Foaled at Fitzhugh Farm, Phoenix. 1 Maryland-bred stakes winners ... 8 Maryland Fund Report ............... 11 Maryland’s leading sires ............ 12 Maryland’s top earners .............. 12 MHBA membership form ........... 12 MHIB’s top post to Peddicord ..... 9 MSA news ...................................... 8 Polar Bear Plunge ........................ 10 Maryland Horse Breeders Association Inc. 30 East Padonia Road Timonium, MD 21093 P.O. Box 427 Timonium, MD 21094 410-252-2100 Fax 410-560-0503 www.marylandthoroughbred.com BOARD OF DIRECTORS R. Thomas Bowman President A. Brice Ridgely Vice-president Milton P. Higgins III Secretary-treasurer Cricket Goodall Executive director Donald H. Barr, Amy H. Daney, Rebecca B. Davis, James T. Dresher Jr., Carlos A. Garcia, Michael Harrison, JoAnn hoto Hayden, Robert T. Manfuso, P OIT Ann Merryman, Suzanne N E Moscarelli, E. Allen Murray, B Michael Pons, William S. Reightler Jr., Frank P. Wright Directors Emeritus Race horses don’t get bred runner earned his second 5-year-old campaign that in- J. William Boniface, much tougher than Richard’s consecutive Maryland-bred cluded back-to-back victories King T. Leatherbury, Donald P. Kid. The Robert E. Meyerhoff- Horse of the Year title with a in two coveted California Litz Jr., Katharine M. Voss stakes – the Pacific Classic and running, finishing third in breds Include and Valley at Meyerhoff’s longtime train- Goodwood (both Grade 1). two major events, the Grade 1 Crossing. er and advisor Richard W. But those were far from his Hollywood Gold Cup (behind After that, Zabeel Racing (Dickie) Small, who cast his only accomplishments. Awesome Gem and Rail Trip) shipped him to Dubai in an- vote for the filly out of Twen- Campaigning for Zabeel on July 10 at Hollywood Park, ticipation of a 2011 campaign ty Six Girl (by Blade), rather Racing International, the nom and Cougar II Handicap-G3 in his owner’s home country. than another Private Account de course of Sheikh Rashid on July 30 at Del Mar. Baffert was publicly cha- daughter whom Meyerhoff bin Mohammed al Maktoum The $1 million Pacific grined over the decision not to was leaning toward buying at (the oldest son of Dubai rul- Classic – which showcased revisit the Breeders’ Cup Clas- that sale. er and Darley/Godolphin Richard’s Kid’s breakout vic- sic-G1 (Richard’s Kid finished As a race horse, Richard’s owner Sheikh Mohammed tory in 2009 – was a virtual sixth in the 2009 Classic, five Choice affirmed Meyerhoff’s al Maktoum), Richard’s Kid repeat on August 28 at Del and a half lengths behind Zen- worst predictions. A half- launched his season with a Mar, with Richard’s Kid and yatta). He noted that a Classic sister to two stakes horses, hard-fought victory in Santa jockey Mike Smith (aboard for victory would have put Rich- including multiple stakes Anita’s February 7 San Anto- a single time in 2010) charg- ard’s Kid in contention for the winner Kid Colin (by Broad nio Handicap-G2, scoring by ing five-wide into the stretch. 2010 Eclipse Award as the na- Brush’s close relative Bald- a head over Dakota Phone as His margin of victory was tion’s Horse of the Year. ski), Richard’s Choice retired 8-5 favorite and posting a 101 three-quarters of a length over Meyerhoff, under the ban- as a maiden after six starts. Beyer speed figure. Crowded House (GB), with ner of Fitzhugh LLC, will re- Her first foal, Tough Broad Then it was off to Dubai, Dakota Phone third. ceive his seventh Maryland- (by Broad Brush), provided where he contested the $10 bred Horse of the Year trophy, some redemption on the race million Dubai World Cup- The $250,000 Goodwood based on Richard’s Kid’s 2010 track, winning or placing in G1 at the new Meydan race Stakes, at Hollywood Park’s campaign. His previous win- 13 stakes and earning $395,132 course on March 27. Although Oak Tree meet on October 2, ners were Broad Brush (1986 for Meyerhoff and Small, then he finished seventh of 14, a would be his season’s finale. and ’87), Valley Crossing produced Richard’s Kid as her worldwide audience watched Underrated by the public, (1993), Concern (1994) and In- fourth foal. the Maryland-bred rally on who allowed him to break clude (2001). (A feature article Honored as Maryland’s the outside and cross the wire from the gate at odds of 8.3-1, on Meyerhoff appears on page Broodmare of the Year for only two and a half lengths Richard’s Kid flaunted his su- 22 of this magazine.) 2010, Tough Broad is an unfor- behind the winner, Gloria de periority with a rail-skimming Like many of Meyerhoff’s tunate example of the vagaries Campeao (Brz). half-length victory (over runners, Richard’s Kid goes of horse breeding. Meyerhoff Trainer Bob Baffert, who Crown of Thorns and Dakota back several generations at consigned her to the 2007 guided Richard’s Kid’s ca- Phone) that earned him a 106 Meyerhoff’s Fitzhugh Farm in Keeneland November sale, 2 reer for the last one and a Beyer. Phoenix, Md. where Marylander Tom Bow- half seasons – since the horse The win boosted his ca- Meyerhoff purchased his man bought her for $22,000, left Maryland for California reer earnings to $1,716,370 granddam, Richard’s Choice in foal to Officer. She subse- in May 2009 – gave him time and moved him to seventh (by Private Account), for quently lost the Officer foal to recover following the trip on the all-time leading Mary- $260,000 at the 1988 Keene- and died in early 2009 follow- halfway around the world. land-bred money-winners land July Yearling sale. The ing a paddock injury while in And Richard’s Kid came back list, jumping past Meyerhoff- name was a gentle barb aimed foal to Two Punch. R Two-year-old male Steady Warrior Ch.c., 2008, by Cherokee’s Boy—Slow and Steady, by Malibu Moon. Bred by ZWP Stable; owned by ZWP Stable and Non Stop Stable; trained by Gary Capuano. Foaled at Summer Wind Farm, Libertytown. Like father, like son. Mil- Boy) and raced by ZWP in lion-dollar-earner and 2005 partnership with the Non Stop Maryland-bred Horse of the Stable of trainer Gary Capua- Year Cherokee’s Boy had his no (who guided Cherokee’s first crop come to the races Boy throughout his career), in 2010, and it contains a colt Steady Warrior won a maiden whose career, so far, is a near- special weight at Delaware repeat of his own. Park on September 11 and Bred by the ZWP Stable of kept on going. ILLIAMS Foard Wilgis and David Pi- He swept to a seven and A. W carello (who bred, raced and one-quarter-length victory in DIA LY continue to own Cherokee’s the Maryland Million Nurs- ery (a race also won by his the Maryland Juvenile Cham- Steady Warrior was pro- stantial figure after he aired in sire) at Laurel Park on Octo- pionship Stakes on December duced by ZWP’s only cur- his 2-year-old maiden special ber 2, finished second in the 18 at Laurel, in which he was rent broodmare, Slow and weight debut at Laurel Park in First State Dash at Delaware fourth, four lengths behind Steady (Malibu Moon—Sa- Septem ber 2009. Park on October 16, and over- the winner, Concealed Iden- lubria, by Cure the Blues). A Boarded year-round at Jerry came a rough trip to score as tity. In five juvenile starts he $14,500 yearling purchase at and Laurie Calhoun’s Sum- 1-10 favorite in the Tri-State earned $197,358. the 2002 Fasig-Tipton Mid- mer Wind Farm in Liberty- Futurity at Charles Town on Cherokee’s Boy, a son of lantic December sale, Slow town, Md., Slow and Steady November 6 – becoming the Citidancer standing at Allen and Steady won four of 20 has a yearling colt by Chero- first Maryland-based son of and Audrey Murray’s Mur- starts, earning $123,510, and kee’s Boy and is in foal for a Tri-State Futurity winner to mur Farm in Darlington, Md., produced as her first foal 2011 to Not For Love. R duplicate the feat. is the first Maryland-bred Cappiwino (by Soto), whom Steady Warrior’s only out- champion 2-year-old to have a Godolphin Racing LLC pur- of-the-money finish came in son earn the same honor. chased privately for a sub- Two-year-old filly Neversaidiwassweet Dk.b./br.f., 2008, by Eurosilver—Surging Storm, by Storm Creek. Bred by Alan S. Kline Revocable Trust; owned by Red Oak Stable and American Equistock Racing Inc.; trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Kristin Mulhall and Greg Compton. Foaled at Honey Acres Farm, Boyds. Maryland’s latest Hol- cial weight starts at Ellis Park photo lywood star, Neversaidiwas- in July and August under OIT sweet, tasted success in her the tutelage of trainer Greg N stakes debut, Hollywood Compton.