POINT OF ENTRY First Yearling sells for $135,000 AAAAA SSSSASS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM K A A K K K KK IN TODAY’S EDITION Cathryn Sophia Heads Saturday's Parx Program 3 VinMar Announces Dispersal, Lists Farm 4 Mulling Stud Plans for Flintshire, Arrogate 5 Smiling Tiger Filly Tops Barretts Yearlings 6 Flintshire Earns Week's Top Speed Figure 7 Loch Lea's Dr. Gordon Layton Passes at 84 8 Final Start in Jeopardy for Rich Tapestry 9 Report: Spa Surface Not to Blame in Deaths 9 Arrogate Reflects Legacy of Unbridled's Song 10 Results 11 Entries 12 Leading Lists 19 KEVIN THOMPSON Retired jockey Rosie Napravnik aboard retired Thoroughbred Dare Me CHALLENGE OF TRACKING HORSES DISCUSSED IN NY By Tom LaMarra he challenges of tracking retired racehorses were Tevident in the results of research discussed Aug. 30 during a New York State Gaming Commission aftercare summit in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The summit, designed to provide updates on current efforts and solicit ideas on raising aware- ness—and more funding—for aftercare, followed one held last year in New York. One of the projects started last year was an attempt to confirm the status of horses after their last races at New York's four Thoroughbred tracks. "Last year we provided an update on what the numbers are and what the needs are," said Jack Knowlton, operating manager of Sackatoga Stable and a member of the New York State Task Force on Retired Racehorses. "I'm still frustrated we're not able to get where we want to get." (continued on page 2) BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 19 CHALLENGE OF TRACKING HORSES LATEST HEADLINES FROM BLOODHORSE.COM DISCUSSED IN NY HERNANDEZ, BROBERG REPEAT (continued from page 1) EVANGELINE TITLES Evangeline With assistance from The Jockey Club, the task Downs concluded its scheduled 84-day force identified more than 3,800 New York Thor- Thoroughbred season Aug. 27, with oughbreds that raced in the state from 2010-12 but Colby Hernandez and Karl Broberg never raced again. Of the total, 1,325 last raced at repeating as the meet's top jockey and Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack, 434 at Aqueduct trainer, respectively. Racetrack, 387 at Belmont Park, and 126 at Saratoga Race Course. About 20% ran their last races at tracks NEW YORK OKS FULL CASINO FOR outside of New York. TIOGA DOWNS Tioga Downs, a Thus far, Knowlton said 1,082—a little more than Standardbred track west of Binghamton 27% of the total—have known status. Of that group in the struggling Southern Tier region 54% are broodmares, 29% are deceased, and almost of New York, will be permitted to install 15% fall into the categories of retired or adopted. Of slot machines and table games under a the more than 2,800 whose status remains unknown, plan approved Aug. 30 by the New York they raced for about 900 trainers; some had one- State Gaming Commission. horse stables while one had more than 90 horses in training, Knowlton said. REMINGTON REVISITS REPORTING OF Of the horses accounted for, 58% were in New HORSE WEIGHTS Remington Park in York and 42% out of state Oklahoma will offer more statistical "There are a lot of challenges in finding out where data to horseplayers and fans when it (the horses) went," Knowlton said. "This gives you brings back a program by which horses a flavor of the breadth of where these horses are. are weighed before each race and the We're looking for ideas on how, on an ongoing basis, information disseminated to the public. to track horses as they leave the racetrack so we can really understand where they are going." LOS ALAMITOS SCHEDULES It was noted during the summit that beginning CALIFORNIA CHROME DAY The most in 2017 microchips will be mandatory for any Thor- famous resident of Los Alamitos will be oughbred registered with The Jockey Club; the honored on "California Chrome Day'' program is voluntary this year but requests for Sept. 10 at the track. microchips were made for about three-quarters of registrations. For aftercare purposes, the chips will aid in identifying horses when they are found but can't take the place of responsible horse ownership as noted during the meeting. Tom Gallo III, president of the New York Thorough- bred Breeders, a farm owner, and managing of owner of Parting Glass Racing, said viewing a NYSGC video on Contact us (800) 582-5604 or (859) 278-2361 aftercare should be mandatory not only for trainers Comments, Story Ideas but for owners. [email protected] "We are in a modern era, and a lot of people have Advertising Questions a need for immediate gratification," Gallo said. "A [email protected] lot of owners (today) aren't in it for the love of the Customer Service horse. When I talk (to people interested in partner- © 2016 Blood-Horse LLC [email protected] ships) I tell them, 'You don't own a horse until its last race. You own a horse until it is properly placed in an accredited (aftercare program)." BH BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 PAGE 2 OF 19 smartphone app CATHRYN SOPHIA HEADS SATURDAY'S PARX PROGRAM By Tom LaMarra ix stakes and total purses of $845,000 for 11 races Swill be offered Sept. 3 when Parx Racing returns from a more than three-week break with a program for mostly Pennsylvania-bred runners. The Saturday card, dubbed "Pennsylvania's Day at the Races," includes one open race—the $150,000 Princess of Sylmar Stakes, which attracted Cash is King's locally based Cathryn Sophia, winner of the Longines Kentucky Oaks (gr. I). The one-mile Prin- cess of Sylmar for 3-year-old fillies serves as a prep for the $1 million Cotillion Stakes (gr. I), a 1 1/8-mile event for 3-year-old fillies Sept. 24 at Parx. There are five $100,000 Pennsylvania-bred stakes on the Sept. 3 card, including the Roanoke for 3-year- olds and up at 1 1/16 miles. The race attracted Some- DOWNS PHOTOGRAPHY/CHURCHILL COADY day Farm's grade III winner Res Judicata and two Kentucky Oaks winner Cathryn Sophia will use the Princess of Sylmar from the Graham Motion barn: The Elkstone Group's Stakes to prep for the grade I Cotillion Edge of Reality, winner of the Robellino Stakes for state-breds on turf at Hollywood Casino at Penn Association works to restore breeder and stallion National Race Course last time out, and Augustin Sta- award payments—about $6 million so far—that have ble's Forward Thinker, a regular in state-bred stakes been held up for about seven months because of who returns to dirt for the first time since July 2014. problematic language in a new horseracing reform The annual celebration of the Pennsylvania-bred law. BH program comes as the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders 31ST ANNUAL NATIONAL Please Join Us AWARDS DINNER Thoroughbred Owners & Breeders Association Saturday, September 10, 2016 • 6:30 pm COCKTAIL ATTIRE • LIMITED RESERVED SEATING Tickets Available Now at www.toba.org or call 859.276.3897 STONESTREET FArm – LEXINGTON BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 19 smartphone app SALES UPDATE VINMAR ANNOUNCES DISPERSAL, LISTS FARM By Ron Mitchell hen Marc Ferrell built VinMar Farm, it was Wdesigned with "the idea that we would provide the best environment for broodmares, weanlings, yearlings, or horses in need of some rest and relaxation from racing," according to the farm's website. Now, six years after starting the state-of-the- & CO. OF KIRKPATRICK COURTESY art nursery near Versailles, Ky., Ferrell has decid- VinMar Farm is listed for sale by Kirkpatrick and Company ed to leave the Thoroughbred industry, perhaps temporarily, to pursue a new business interest. Ferrell eventually left the track and in the early He is dispersing the 189-acre farm and its horses. 2000s established a health care company that VinMar announced it will offer a complete bought distressed hospitals and reopened them. dispersal of its Thoroughbred holdings during He returned to the horse industry after selling Keeneland’s September yearling sale, to be held that company in 2010, establishing a racing sta- Sept. 12-25, and November breeding stock sale, ble and building VinMar. which begins Nov. 8. Among the horses campaigned by Ferrell have Archie St. George’s St. George Sales will act been grade II winners Madame Cactus and Sec- as agent for the dispersal. Included are year- ond Summer (in partnership), grade III winners lings by Quality Road, Super Saver, Violence, and Goldsville and Called to Serve, as well as stakes Shanghai Bobby and weanlings by top sires Uncle winners Fiddlers Afleet and Well Deserved. Mo, Tale of the Cat, and Lookin At Lucky. Young Ferrell said the decision to disperse came broodmares in foal to proven stallions Awesome about because he has established another health Again, Mizzen Mast, and Quality Road also will be care company based in Washington, D.C., and part of the dispersal. those responsibilities along with him and his The farm is listed for sale through Kirkpatrick wife, Vinka, caring for seven children (ages one and Company, with an asking price of $3,848,000. through 22) left little time for the farm or horse Ferrell first became acquainted with Thor- racing. oughbred racing at a young age in Arcadia, Calif., "It is a bittersweet decision," said Ferrell, who home of Santa Anita Park. Shortly before he and indicated he might return as an owner in the a friend were going to graduate from high school, future.