Maryland Horse April 2012 Official publication of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association; Vol. 77, No. 4 Stallion of the Year Northview’s Inside Breeder of the year ......................... 3 Not For Love Broodmare of the year ................... 3 Stallion of the year.......................... 1 Maryland-bred stakes winners ... 4 does it again Maryland foal report ..................... 4 Maryland Fund Report ................. 5 Maryland’s leading sires ................ 6 Maryland’s top earners ................... 6 MHBA membership form .............. 6 1 Southern States credits ................... 5 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., Michael Harrison, JoAnn Hayden, R. Larry Johnson, Ann Merryman, Suzanne Moscarelli, Tom Mullikin, E. Allen Murray, William S. Reightler Jr., Hamilton Smith, Robert P. White Directors Emeritus When it comes to num- Maryland’s 2011 Stal- years. Those sons and daugh- J. William Boniface, King T. bers, statistics, data, achieve- lion of the Year sired 96 win- ters made 1,144 starts, won Leatherbury, Donald P. Litz Jr., Robert T. Manfuso, Michael ments, you might know Not ners to claim the award for 171 races, earned $4.1 mil- Pons, Katharine M. Voss For Love. the ninth time in the past 10 lion. Six of them – Brushed by Love, Comet of Love, the easiest stallion you’ll ever years old again,” said Merry- “Some of the younger stal- Eighttofasttocatch, Love That want to be around,” Merry- man. “He’s creaky, slow, takes lions don’t listen to him, but Dance, Love’s Blush, Not man said of Not For Love. his time. He’s definitely a he’s setting the example, do- Aboard – won stakes. “But you don’t want to get be- character.” ing the right thing,” said Mer- But do you really know tween him and his feed tub.” Not For Love enjoyed a ryman. “He can get a little Not For Love? Not For Love can eat with prolific 2011 thanks to a host grumpy when it’s his time. He’s 22. He’s 16.1 hands. the best of them, but might of winners. You’ve got to respect that He commands a $15,000 stud appreciate being outside even Maryland-bred hero Eight- though.” fee. He rules the historic stal- more than a feed tub full of tofasttocatch led the way with He’s entitled. lion barn (once part of the grain, a sharp mint or a crisp $266,200 earned in 10 starts While at Kentucky’s Ash- legendary Windfields Farm) apple. including five wins (all but ford Stud, Merryman worked at Northview Stallion Station “He loves going out in the one a stakes). with top sire El Gran Senor, in Chesapeake City. He’ll eat morning, he’s not bad about Maryland Million Day who lived to be 25. pretty much anything, but it, not nervous or high strung, proved especially produc- They’re only loosely re- settles for a daily mash. but that’s the one time he is tive with a record-tying four lated (via Buckpasser and A day in his life starts with on the muscle – on the way to wins (to give him 25 for his Northern Dancer), but Not breakfast at 4 a.m., turnout his paddock in the morning,” career). In the Classic, Eight- For Love makes the farm at 6, a breeding session at 9, said Merryman. “You have tofasttocatch powered a Not manager recall his former more turnout time, another to be on your game to get the For Love trifecta over Cactus charge. breeding session at 2-ish, shank off him because he’ll Charlie and Not Abroad. “Not For Love reminds me more turnout time, dinner flatten you. He 22s it from the A full-brother to champion of a lot of those distinguished, at 4 p.m. and an evening of gate to his dirt hole.” Rhythm, Not For Love never older stallions,” Merryman snoozing in his stall before it After flashing his quarter- won a stakes himself but has said. “He’s got his stature in all starts again the next day. mile speed, having a good more than made up for the the barn. If you’re good to In a perfect world, Northview roll, bellowing a few calls to shortcoming via his progeny – him, he’ll be good to you. At farm manager Louis Merry- the mares or his neighbors gaining a reputation as an his age, he’s doing really well. man would leave the son of and gazing off in the horizon, effective producer of run- We do our best to help him Mr. Prospector outside all the bay stallion goes back ners, winners, success stories and he wants to do what you night, but that’s not going to to being a horse – munching through 13 crops to race and want him to do.” happen (insurance policies, grass and keeping an eye on counting. And now you know. weather, etc.). the farm’s action. Around the barn, he’s the “He’s a very laid back old “Of course, he walks in leader though the other /Joe Clancy man, he’s a sweetheart, about from the paddock like he’s 22 horses might not notice. 2 @MarylandTB Maryland Thoroughbred facebook.com/MarylandTB Maryland Thoroughbred Bowmans reclaim Baltimore pair breeder award lifts Gabby’s Love After Robert Meyerhoff’s Broodmare of the Year (all at Pimlico and Laurel) and back-to-back honors in 2009 Gabby’s Love had a local flair won five times. and 2010, Dr. and Mrs. Tom in 2011 as the dam of stakes Third in the 1995 Mary- Bowman earned their sixth winners Baltimore Bob and land Million Ladies and Sum- Breeder of the Year award, Baltimore Belle. The duo com- mertime Promise Stakes, the knocking out more than $2 bined to win six races and daughter of Perkin Warbeck million in earnings from 88 $272,587 on the year – a fine was a full-sister to multiple winners and five stakes win- legacy for Carol Kaye and Bar- stakes winner War Hos- ners. The Bowmans (and part- bara Smith’s mare. tage ($223,889, Humphrey ners) bred such 2011 stand- Gabby’s Love is also the S. Finney S, Spend a Buck S, outs as Jack’s in the Deck, granddam of 2011 stakes win- etc.). Both were bred in Mary- Concealed Identity, Bluegrass ner Action Andy (a winner land by Schelford North Farm. Atatude, Brushed by Love and partners topped $1.6 mil- of two stakes in his first two Kaye had kept an eye on and Not Abroad. lion in earnings led by dual starts of 2012) and multiple Gabby’s Love throughout the Juvenile Jack’s in the Deck Grade 1 winner Ask the Moon winner Saintly Love. mare’s racing career. led the way with $205,260 in (co-bred by Country Life “I wish I still had her,” said “I loved her pedigree, the earnings, including the Grade Farm). Stakes winners Bessie Kaye, as the partners lost Gab- *Vaguely Noble and Nijinsky 2 Futurity at Belmont Park M and Glib also represented by’s Love from foaling com- II. and with her sire being for Skeedattle Associates and the breeders. Dark Hollow plications in 2008. Fortunately named Perkin Warbeck [the trainer Robin Graham. Farm and partners bred 38 for Kaye, who owns and op- stallion’s namesake had laid The Bowmans led a con- winners of more than $1.1 mil- erates Wellington Park farm claim to the English throne tentious race at the top of the lion including stakes winners in Woodbine, she still has a during the reign of King Hen- state’s breeder standings. Mr. Plum, Poseidon’s Warrior and number of the matriarch’s off- ry VII in the late 1400s], she and Mrs. Charles McGinnes Eighttofasttocatch. R spring. seemed to tie in with my Eng- Gabby’s Love produced lish heritage.” 3 seven foals, her first in Kaye bought Gabby’s Love 1999 – five were winners. In privately from John Polek as a 2005, the same year her sec- broodmare prospect in 1997. ond foal, Gabianna, won Pim- “Barbara came in a couple lico’s The Very One Stakes, of years later, when Gabby’s Gabby’s Love dropped Balti- Love was in foal to Malibu The more Bob (by Malibu Moon). Moon,” said Kaye of her long- The two-time stakes win- time friend. “Barbara was ner in 2010 returned last year looking to get into the busi- Loyalty to take the Grand Prairie Turf ness, and I am so thankful to Challenge Stakes at Lone her for having faith in me and Star Park for owner Charles making a substantial invest- Fletcher and record two ad- ment into Gabby’s Love. The ditional victories. Through first foal we bred was Balti- March 4, Gabby’s Love’s only more Bob.” Bonus son had won 11 of 33 lifetime With Gabby’s Love’s grow- An additional 12.5% to breeders starts and $377,217. ing reputation as a dam of of Maryland-bred winners for ALL Baltimore Bob’s half-sister, stakes producers, Kaye re- maiden races for the Pimlico Meet Baltimore Belle (2007, by Bow- mains grateful to have her man’s Band), collected the daughters Love Me Twice, Lady Baltimore, Geisha and the dam of Action Andy, and 30% TOTAL* Dahlia Stakes in 2011 while Saint Dinorah, Gabby’s Love’s racing for owner Larry John- final foal.