WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2018 PATIENT, PRAGMATIC BILL FOR $10M ANNUAL MONMOUTH PURSE SUBSIDY ADVANCES By T.D. Thornton APPROACH PAYING After clearing a Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee Monday by a 13-0 vote, a New Jersey bill that would guarantee OFF FOR DALOS a five-year, $10 million annual purse subsidy for Monmouth Park could be up for a full Senate vote as early as Dec. 17. In addition, the State Assembly and Governor Phil Murphy still have to approve SB 2992 before it becomes law. The proposed bill would authorize the New Jersey Racing Commission to split a $20 million annual allocation from the state=s general fund equally between the Thoroughbred and Standardbred industries as follows: AOf the funds allocated to the Thoroughbred industry, 100% will be allocated to Monmouth Park overnight purses. Of the funds allocated to the Standardbred industry, 60% will be allocated to Meadowlands overnight purses; 16% to Freehold overnight purses; 12% to the New Jersey Sire Stakes purses; 6% to purse bonuses for New Jersey-sired horses; and 6% for breeders awards purses.@ Cont. p3 Ivan Dalos leading Amis Gizmo | Michael Burns/WEG IN TDN EUROPE TODAY By T.D. Thornton JUMPING JEWELS CLOSE ARQANA DECEMBER Toronto-based Ivan Dalos, who exclusively races homebreds The Simon Munir and Isaac Souede dispersal dominated the final and campaigns a stable of 32 primarily at Woodbine Racetrack, day of the Arqana December Breeding Stock Sale. Click or tap is quietly putting together a career year as an owner/breeder. here to go straight to TDN Europe. Entering the final week of racing at his hometown track, Dalos has won a personal best 23 races from 104 starts in 2018, and has averaged nearly $1.2 million in earnings in each of the past five seasons. Dalos, a construction executive whose company specializes in flooring, has bred Thoroughbreds under the banner of Tall Oaks Farm for the past four decades. He keeps a band of broodmares roughly equal in number to his racing stock split between farms in Ontario and Kentucky, and he has also developed four homebred stallions--a trio who service mares north of the border and the recently retired Ami=s Flatter (Flatter), who will stand at Ocala Stud in Florida for 2019. At last year=s Sovereign Awards, Dalos hauled home hardware for owning and breeding the Canadian champion older female and champion female sprinter Ami=s Mesa (Sky Mesa), whose dam, Victorious Ami (Victory Gallop), was also crowned the country=s outstanding broodmare. Tall Oaks also bred Johnny Bear (English Channel), Canada=s champion male turf horse (who raced for different connections). Cont. px GET MORE THAN A FOAL FOR YOUR STUD FEE. 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In addition to Asbury Park Press that he was being in the mix for individual Aextremely pleased@ to see the owner and breeder awards, he legislation move forward. appears to be a lock for accepting AIt's something that we've been the award for 2-year-old champion working very hard on over the Canadian colt that is likely to be course of the year and Monday bestowed upon Avie=s Flatter was a significant step forward (Flatter), a two-time black-type towards solidifying a revenue winner at Woodbine whose only stream tied to the purse account,@ loss from four starts this year was a Drazin said. trip-troubled fourth against deep, The timing of the bill comes open company in the GI Summer S. seven years after New Jersey=s AI=m sort of semi-retired from racing industry lost a $17 million Avie=s Flatter | Michael Burns/WEG work right now, and this is what I annual purse supplement paid for love to do,@ Dalos said via phone. by Atlantic City casinos, and six months after Monmouth AI=m 77 years of age, and it=s time to take it a little easier. I became the first racetrack in the nation to open a newly wanted to spend more time with the horses, to be honest. So legalized sports bet-taking operation. the construction business is now on my other people, and I can concentrate on my four-legged friends.@ Cont. p4 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • DECEMBER 12, 2018 Ivan Dalos cont. before running second in both the 1998 GI Kentucky Derby and Dalos claimed his first racehorse in the late 1970s after being GI Preakness S. and winning the GI Belmont S. introduced to racing by a business acquaintance. He undertook a AOver the many, many years I=ve found I=ve had pretty good Alearn by doing@ course of self-study after being instantly luck breeding to >oldies and goodies,=@ Dalos said. AWhen I bred fascinated by the intricacies and Victory Gallop, I bred to history of Thoroughbred bloodlines. Cryptoclearance when he was sort AI kind of fell into the sport, and of on his last legs as a stallion. To the only way I could figure it out this day, I still believe that some of was to read as much as I could, these older horses still have it.@ different breeding theories and Dalos explained that his ideas,@ Dalos said. AAnd as I started over-arching goal is to ensure a profitable racing operation, which reading about different opinions, I in turn feeds his passion for started forming my own ideas. The patiently honing multi-generational primary purpose of my breeding is bloodlines. to create a racehorse, the best I AObviously, I want to create can. And I am constantly trying to future broodmares and future create more and better bloodlines stallions, but the only way you can Ami=s Mesa | Eclipse Sportswire/Breeders= Cup for my future breeding.@ do that is to race them and to be It took about 20 years before Tall successful,@ Dalos said. AThe ones that we sell, we don=t sell until Oaks transformed theory into a brush with greatness: In 1994, they=re yearlings and we see what they look like. If they are Dalos mated a Vice Regent mare he had raced with exceptionally good-looking, and the opinion is that we can get Cryptoclearance, an affordable stallion option who was cycling some decent dollars for them, then I=ll put them in the sale. out of fashion at the time. The following year, Victorious Lil Other than that, I=ll keep them and try to create my own future produced Victory Gallop, who sold as a $25,000 KEESEP yearling racehorses, broodmares and stallions. Cont. p5 ACCELERATE Lookin At Lucky - Issues, by Awesome Again FIVE GRADE 1 VICTORIES IN 2018 Never off the board in 7 starts and over $5,000,000 in earnings Month Race Beyer Feb San Pasqual S. (G2) 101 Mar Santa Anita H. (G1) 110 Apr 2nd Oaklawn H. (G2) 107 May Gold Cup at Santa Anita S. (G1) 111 Aug Pacific Classic S. (G1) 115 Sep Awesome Again S. (G1) 100 BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC (G1) Nov Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) 105 $20,000 lanesend.com | t: 859.873.7300 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 10 • THETDN.COM WEDNESDAY • DECEMBER 12, 2018 Ivan Dalos cont.