SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2018 REMEMBERING ROBERT P. LEVY INTO MISCHIEF COLT By Antony Beck ON TOP AS BOOK 3 My father-in-law, Robert P. Levy, was a larger-than-life character. Philanthropic, enthusiastic, a straight-shooter, and a CONCLUDES true sportsman. I met Bob before I began dating Angela, his daughter and my future wife. With me having not grown up in the U.S. and he being a co-owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, Bob took great pride in introducing me to his brand of Americana through the sport of baseball, showing me the strategy and science that had made it a national pastime. Of course, Bob also loved horse racing, and as a racetrack owner, was a pioneer in every respect. In the early years that he operated Atlantic City Race Course, Bob was eloquently, but accurately described by Daily Racing Form turf writer Joe Hirsch as "a veritable fountainhead of fresh and intriguing thoughts on racing." Cont. p3-4 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Hip 1574, a weanling son of Into Mischief, topped EXPERT EYE RETIRED TO JUDDMONTE Friday=s session of the KEENOV Sale | Keeneland Last weekend’s GI Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Expert Eye will stand at Banstead Manor Stud for £20,000 next year. Click or by Jessica Martini tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. LEXINGTON, KY - The Book 3 section of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale concluded Friday with continued demand for the quality offerings. A weanling colt by Into Mischief attracted the day=s highest bid when selling for $300,000 to the pinhooking partnership Clear Ridge Stables, headed by Gainesway=s Brian Graves. The second-highest priced weanling on the day was also by Into Mischief. A filly by the Spendthrift sire sold for $230,000 to Dudley Racing. AIt=s very expensive for the ones you like,@ Graves said of the weanling market. AYou think it=s Book 3 and you might get a little better deal, but when a nice horse walks up there, it=s expensive.@ Carrie Brogden of Machmer Hall purchased the session=s most expensive broodmare on the day, going to $280,000 for Sweet Lollipop (Candy Ride {Arg}). AIt=s strong in parts and weaker in others,@ bloodstock agent Hanzly Albina said of the mare market. AThere is still a lot of money, but there are still a lot of horses to go. The market has been good and solid. It=s been an honest sale.@ Through two Book 3 sessions, Keeneland sold 520 head for $32,696,500. 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Andrew @SarahKAndrew [email protected] Social Media Strategist Justina Severni Jockey Luis Saez poses for a photo in the Aqueduct winner’s circle after reaching a milestone Friday, notching his 2,000th win in North America when he rode Director of Customer Service Vicki Forbes Y'allcomenow (Invasor {Arg}) to victory. "I've been learning every day and working hard [email protected] and trying to do my best,” the 26-year-old native of Panama City said. “When I first came here [to New York], I didn't have the experience. But I've tried to develop. It's very Marketing Manager Alayna Cullen @AlaynaCullen special to do it here. New York has the best horses, the best riders and the best trainers. It's not easy. But thank God we did it." | Coglianese Director of Information Technology Ray Villa [email protected] GARY BROAD PURCHASES WALMAC FARM 10 Bookkeeper Looking to shift his focus from the racing to the breeding side of the Terry May sport, owner Gary Broad was the winning bidder when historic Walmac [email protected] Farm was auctioned off Wednesday. WORLDWIDE INFORMATION International Editor TODAY’S GRADED STAKES Kelsey Riley @kelseynrileyTDN [email protected] EST Race Click for TV European Editor 1:30a Musashino S.-G3, TOK -------------- ----- Emma Berry 1:45a Daily Hai Nisai S.-G2, KYO -------------- ----- [email protected] Associate International Editor 5:36p Commonwealth Turf S.-GIII, CD TJCIS PPs TVG Heather Anderson @HLAndersonTDN Newmarket Bureau, Cafe Racing Sean Cronin & Tom Frary [email protected] 60 Broad Street, Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 732-747-8060 | 732-747-8955 (fax) www.TheTDN.com TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 3 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 10, 2018 KEENOV Book 3 Concludes cont. from p1 The session average was $62,878 and the median was $50,000. The top price of Book 3 was $320,000 and there were 19 horses sold for $200,000 or over. A reformatted 2018 sale--which began with a single Book 1 section--makes comparisons to the 2017 renewal inexact, but last year=s Book 3 saw 512 horses sell for $30,198,500. The average was $58,981 and the median was $47,000. The top price for the section was $275,000 and that was one of eight horses to bring $200,000 or over. The Keeneland November sale continues through Nov. 16 with sessions beginning daily at 10 a.m. Remembering Robert P. Levy cont. from p1 Bob was able to channel his passion into brilliant and creative marketing. In the 1960s, he devised the Matchmaker S. to attract the best fillies and mares, not merely by purse money but also by awarding seasons to popular stallions like Hail to Reason and Round Table. In 1976, Bob had lighting installed around the oval to make Atlantic City the first major Thoroughbred track to conduct night racing. In 1983, he successfully lobbied for legislative approval to broadcast the Meadowlands races at Atlantic City and so trailblazed a future of full-card simulcasting. KEENELAND NOVEMBER SALE SESSION TOTALS 2018 $ Catalogued 424 $ No. Offered 347 $ No. Sold 261 $ RNAs 86 $ % RNAs 24.78% $ No. $200K+ 10 $ High Price $300,000 $ Gross $15,315,500 $ Average $58,680 $ Median $40,000 CUMULATIVE 2018 $ Catalogued 1915 $ No. Offered 1473 $ No. Sold 1093 $ RNAs 380 $ % RNAs 25.80% $ Gross $157,838,500 $ Average $144,409 $ Median $80,000 TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 10, 2018 In 1994, he brought racing to Houston opening Sam Houston his family, for his daughter Angela, and for our five children. Bob Race Park as a start-up. will be missed and well-remembered. Bob was a founding director of Breeders' Cup, former president of the Thoroughbred Racing Association, and a past Antony Beck is president of Gainesway Farm. director at Fasig-Tipton. He carried on his family's tradition of racing and achieved the highest levels of success as a racehorse owner with GI Belmont S. winner Bet Twice and Eclipse champion sprinters Housebuster--voted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 2013--and Smoke Glacken. Bob had tremendous insight into every aspect of the Thoroughbred industry, and he could draw on his knowledge to advise me. No matter how detailed his analysis might have been, he liked to underscore his point with a lighthearted axiom. ("Just because they can go three-quarters doesn't mean they can go seven-eighths!") For as enthusiastic as he was, Bob was a kind and decent man, and he possessed an incredible amount of patience. I remember an afternoon on the golf course, him teaching me how to chip and putt (he got me as close as I've ever gotten to what you could call a reasonable stroke). Even though I was a poor golfer, he had a natural ability to coach to match his love of sport. In college at the University of Pennsylvania, Bob played four years of tennis, later coached the women's tennis team, and was named to the Penn Tennis Hall of Fame. His father, dentist Dr. Leon Levy, founded Penn's School of Dental Medicine--one of the best dental schools in the country--and Bob continued his parents' tradition of philanthropy to Penn. He was also immensely philanthropic outside of Penn, devoting time and money to championing causes he was passionate about. In 1953, he founded and organized the Philadelphia Little Quakers football program, which remains active today and has benefitted at least 2,500 inner-city Bob Levy | Horsephotos student-athletes. Throughout his life, Bob cared deeply about the Little Quaker team members he had coached, and he would often sponsor their education and mentor them long after their youth football days. © Copyright Thoroughbred Daily News. Similarly, Bob became an Overseer of William Penn Charter This newspaper may not be reproduced in any form or by any School--the long-established Philadelphia college prep means, electronic or mechanical, without prior written institution from which he had graduated--and in that role permission of the copyright owner, MediaVista. Information as enriched the lives of hundreds of students. to the American races, race results and earnings was obtained Many people have reasons to be grateful for Bob, his ideas, his from results charts published by The Jockey Club Information friendship, and his generosity. I will count myself as one of those Services and utilized here with their permission.