MMarylandaryland HHorseorse MMayay 22010010 OOffiffi ccialial ppublicationublication ooff tthehe MMarylandaryland HHorseorse BBreedersreeders AAssociation;ssociation; VVol.ol. 775,5, NNo.o. 5 Harris keeps saying hello to good MD-bred runners William R. Harris lives in Inside Virginia, but for some 50 years his large and successful horse Gale Shaffer retires ......................... 3 operation has been rooted in Gov. O’Malley requests disaster aid 5 Maryland. Maryland-bred stakes winners ... 4 Now “past 80 and headed Maryland Equine Census ............ 5 toward 90,” and long since Maryland Foal Report ................... 5 retired as the owner of a me- Maryland Fund .............................. 6 chanical contracting firm, Harris Heating, in the Rich- Maryland Fund Stakes Recaps Sweet Goodbye ........................3 mond, Va., area, he continues to breed and race Thorough- 1 Maryland’s top earners ................ 8 EWING NEENA breds as avidly as ever. MHBA awards ............................... 2 And why not? in Maryland, Amaranth Street hound), who won the Mary- MHBA membership form ............. 8 Harris is having the time of produced the stellar perform- land Million Sprint Handicap William R. Harris ............................1 his life with Sweet Goodbye, er Amanti, who won or placed and Fire Plug Stakes and had his 5-year-old homebred race in 20 stakes for Harris, earning eight additional stakes plac- mare who went undefeated $306,981 in the 1980s. ings, including a runner-up MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS in her first three starts of this Amanti’s racing talent performance in the Grade 1 ASSOCIATION INC. season, all stakes, including shone through in her offspring, Frank J. De Francis Memo- 30 East Padonia Road the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie rial Dash; his earnings totaled Timonium, MD 21093 including multiple stakes win- P.O. Box 427 Handicap, for trainer Chris ner Nawmon ($276,701) and $408,530. Timonium, MD 21094 Grove. multiple stakes-placed Quiet Before this year, her top 410-252-2100 So named because her Gratitude ($260,316) and Im- earner was the gelding Five Fax 410-560-0503 dam, the exceptional stakes adefender ($113,518). Steps. A son of Yarrow Brae, www.marylandthoroughbred.com producer Thirty Eight Steps, Then Amanti’s unraced Five Steps amassed $413,746 BOARD OF DIRECTORS died a few months after she daughter Thirty Eight Steps – while winning half of his 20 R. Thomas Bowman was born, Sweet Goodbye has by longtime Maryland sire starts (six stakes wins or plac- President turned out to be Harris’s best Thirty Eight Paces – raised the ings) before his untimely A. Brice Ridgely runner yet. Champion Mary- family to a new level. death two years ago at age 7. Vice-president land-bred 3-year-old filly of Sweet Goodbye represents Milton P. Higgins III 2008, with her victories that Thirty Eight Steps pro- the first Maryland crop of her Secretary-treasurer season including the Mary- duced four widely accom- sire, Louis Quatorze. Harris Cricket Goodall land Million Oaks, she has plished stakes winners, all by attributes some of her success Executive director won 10 of 14 career starts (sev- stallions standing at Allen and to the Bold Ruler blood on Amy H. Daney, Rebecca B. en stakes wins) and earned Audrey Murray’s Murmur both sides of her family (Louis Davis, James T. Dresher Jr., $436,072. Farm in Darlington, Md., and Quatorze’s sire, Sovereign Carlos A. Garcia, JoAnn each campaigned by Harris. Hayden, Donald P. Litz Jr., Sweet Goodbye descends Dancer, is a grandson of that Suzanne Moscarelli, E. Allen from a mare, Amaranth Street Her first foal, the 1992 Nor- influential stallion). And he’s Murray, Michael Pons, James (by Up the Ensign), whom questor filly Norstep, won or looking to build on that nick. B. Steele Jr., Sally Thomas, Harris purchased off the track placed in nine stakes, earning Sweet Goodbye’s winning Frank P. Wright at Charles Town in the early $229,845. half-sisters Breezy Bray and Directors Emeritus J. William Boniface, King T. 1970s. Until recently, Thirty Eight Vontay (both by Yarrow Brae) Leatherbury, Robert T. Bred to Anticipating, a Steps’s best runner was the were expecting Louis Qua- Manfuso, Katharine M. Voss Bold Ruler son then standing gelding Deer Run (1997, Deer- torze offspring this season. R Another banner season for Meyerhoff Breeder of year: Robert E. Meyerhoff Stallion of year: Not For Love Broodmare of year: DOUBLE J PHOTO Tough Broad BALL SKIP Robert E. Meyerhoff built on The late Hal C.B. Clagett was a his legacy with Richard’s Kid. Tesio Award: major force within the industry. Hal C.B. Clagett Robert E. Meyerhoff was champions Not for Silver and named Maryland’s Breeder of Blind Date, Not For Love re- the Year for 2009 – the ninth peated his feat of 2008, when time that he has received this he became the first stallion honor. outside of Kentucky to be No other Maryland breed- credited with $6 million in er in history has compiled a progeny earnings in a single record to equal Meyerhoff, season. His offspring earned who rose to the fore in 1986 $6,117,580 in 2009. while campaigning homebred Not For Love has ranked as 2 Broad Brush and has achieved the nation’s leading sire stand- continuing success with the ing outside of Kentucky (by descendants of that multiple North American earnings) for graded-winning millionaire. seven consecutive years. In 2009, Meyerhoff’s Fitz- ✦ hugh LLC was represented as The Tesio Award, present- a breeder by three stakes win- ed only when a majority of ners: Horse of the Year Rich- MHBA board members feels ard’s Kid, Encaustic and Bran- that someone has made an don’s Oboe. exceptional impact on the in- Not For Love is the nation’s leading sire outside of Kentucky. Hero of the Grade 1 Pacific dustry, is presented this year Classic, Richard’s Kid (2005; Broad Brush daughter Broad ard’s Choice (by Private Ac- in recognition of the late Hal Lemon Drop Kid—Tough Expectations, joined the ranks count), for $260,000 at the 1988 C.B. Clagett. Broad, by Broad Brush) also of stakes winners at age 5 at Keeneland July Yearling sale. Clagett, who died on Feb- won the John B. Campbell Marquis Downs in Canada. Herself a multiple stakes ruary 1 at the age of 93, wrote Handicap at Laurel Park and In all, horses bred by Fitz- winner of $395,132, Tough the legislation that led to the added stakes placings in the hugh won 49 races in 2009, Broad died in early 2009 as the creation of the Maryland-bred Goodwood Breeders’ Cup and accounted for $1,877,721 result of a pasture injury that Fund in 1962. Stakes-G1 and Cougar II in earnings. also took the life of the Two A breeder/owner in south- Handicap for season’s earn- Richard’s Kid’s dam, Tough Punch foal she was carrying at ern Maryland for more than ings totaling $732,840, the Broad, bred by Meyerhoff and that time. 60 years, Clagett served three most for any Maryland-bred owned for the latter part of The MHBA’s annual Stal- terms as president of the last season. her life by Dr. Tom Bowman, lion of the Year award was Maryland Horse Breeders As- Broad Brush’s son En- earned the Broodmare of the likewise no surprise. sociation (1969 to 1971). caustic (out of Meyerhoff’s Year title. The venerable Not For He bred and raised five outstanding producer Ille- Although Richard’s Kid Love, a 20-year-old son of Mr. Maryland-bred champions, ria, dam of Grade 1-winning is her only stakes performer, Prospector standing at North- the most noteworthy being millionaire Include) won or Tough Broad has had four view Stallion Station, took millionaire Little Bold John placed in six stakes, including winners from five foals to race; Stallion of the Year honors for (champion older male in 1988 victories in the Mountaineer three of her offspring have the fourth year in a row, and and ’89). Others were Ameri Mile Handicap and Labor Day earned more than $100,000 on seventh time in his career. Valay (sire of 2002 Preak ness Stakes, earning $255,335. the track. Represented by 16 stakes runner-up Magic Weis ner), Brandon’s Oboe, a son Meyerhoff purchased winners, including graded- Carnirainbow, Run Alden and of Lemon Drop Kid and the Tough Broad’s dam, Rich- winning Maryland-bred Assault John. R Thoroughbreds while her then Longtime husband, David Shaffer, kept Appaloosas. Although Gale bred for the MHBA employee race track, the best horse to come off of her farm was stee- plechase star Treasure Island, Gale Shaffer retires who won the 1983 Grand Na- tional at Butler. In 1985, Shaffer rejoined the indoor work force, with a job as bookkeeper and adminis- Gale Shaffer, the Mary- ing industry as a whole,” said trative assistant at David and land Horse Breeders Asso- MHBA executive director JoAnn Hayden’s Dark Hollow ciation’s longtime receptionist Cricket Goodall. Farm in Upperco, where she and registrar, retired on March A lifelong Maryland horse- remained until being hired at 31. person, Shaffer, 66, grew up the MHBA in February 1990. During her 20 years with riding and showing in Anne Two years later, she became the MHBA, Shaffer fielded Arundel County. She recalls merce and was employed as the MHBA’s Maryland Fund countless calls from those buying her first horse during an administrative assistant at registrar. seeking information on a wide her senior year in high school, Alco-Gravure printing com- Shaffer lives on a 10-acre range of horse-related topics. using money she earned by pany in Glen Burnie until farm in Carroll County with “Gale’s cheerful and pa- baby sitting and working at marrying and moving to Car- several “geriatric horses, a tient manner, along with her the nearby stable in exchange roll County in 1968.