A Publication of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association PA Thoroughbred June 30, 2016 pabred.com Issue: 27 REPORT Blast From the Past: El Padrino: A Stud Career Launched in PA Rugged and robust, with a sound mind and mouth- watering pedigree, El Padrino Crowd offers a complete package for Pennsylvania breeders. Pleaser Page 3 Described by his breeder George Straw bridge as “about the best looking horse I’ve ever owned” Crowd Pleaser proved to be a crowd pleaser, especially on the turf. Page 16 Pennsylvania News Briefs PAGE 11 PA-Bred Stakes Schedule PAGE 14 Making the Grade Letter from Executive Secretary Illuminant and Tom’s Ready got their first stakes wins – both graded – on big stages on opposite coasts, with wins in Santa Anita’s Grade 1 Brian Gamely and Belmont’s Grade 2 Woody Stephens, respectively. Sanfratello Page 8 THE PA-BRED PREMIUM EARN MORE! PAGE 6 Pennsylvania’s Day at the Races Saturday September 3, 2016 12:00 p.m. PARX, Philadelphia Park All Breeding Fund Stakes Will Include a 25% PA-Sired Bonus for 1st, 2nd, & 3rd Banjo Picker Sprint S, $100,000 3 & up, 6 fur. Roanoke S, $100,000 3 & up, 1-1/16 mi. Marshall Jenny H, $100,000 3 & up, 5 fur., turf Dr. Teresa Garofalo Memorial S, $100,000 3 & up, fillies & mares, 6 fur. Mrs. Penny S, $100,000 3 & up, fillies & mares, 1-1/16 mi., turf Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association • www.pabred.com 701 East Baltimore Pike, Suite E, Kennett Square, PA 19348 • 610.444.1050 El Padrino: A Pennsylvania Rarity By Emily Shields Rugged and robust, with a sound mind and mouth-watering With such an active pedigree, Enchanted Rock figured as a pedigree, El Padrino offers a complete package for Pennsylvania live broodmare prospect. El Padrino was her first foal, with the breeders. He is also unique in that he is not a transplant from More Than Ready colt Verrazano coming one year later. Verraza- another state; rather, El Padrino was retired to Pennsylvania with no earned his way into the Kentucky Derby with wins in the Wood the intent of making him a sought-after regional sire, one that Memorial Stakes-G1 and Tampa Bay Derby-G2, and rebounded even Kentucky breeders would be interested in using. from a Derby loss with a stellar nine and three-quarter-length Bloodstock agent Carl McEntee, who was working for North- thrashing of the $1 million Haskell Invitational-G1. view Stallion Station but has since moved to Darby Dan Farm in “It’s unlikely for a mare’s first two foals to both run in the Lexington, Ky., is credited with facilitating the sale. Like many Derby,” McEntee said. “El Padrino was a horse we’d been follow- agents, McEntee followed the sophomore crop of 2012 with in- ing a bit, and after Verrazano won the Wood and showed he was terest, and the stunning El Padrino caught his eye. “I went and a good racehorse himself, I was contacted about my interest.” took a look at him, and saw he was a beautiful individual,” McEn- Northview Stallion Station’s Richard Golden and breed- tee recalled, “with a really good shoulder and top line. We had er Hank Nothhaft purchased 75% of El Padrino, with the other already brought in stallions that had previously been in Kentucky, 25% being retained by owners Let’s Go Stable. They later sold but we wanted to go out and make our own stallion.” their share to Golden, and 25% of the horse went up for public El Padrino was Grade 2-placed as a juvenile and a Grade 2 sale. Ten other breeders split that percentage at 2.5% each. “I winner of the $300,000 Risen Star Stakes at 3. Although he did genuinely believed he would work out,” McEntee said. “With the not run well in the Kentucky Derby-G1, El Padrino’s race record support of Mr. Golden and Mr. Nothhaft, we were able to bring was simply gravy on top of his outstanding pedigree. him in.” The son of Pulpit, who is famously the sire of leading stallion Hank Nothhaft noted that bringing in an unproven sire was Tapit, is out of Enchanted Rock. The Giant’s Causeway mare is a a risk, especially when the group decided not to shuttle him. “It daughter of Grade 1-winner Chic Shirine, making her a half-sister was the first time in recent years that a rookie stallion had moved to Grade 2-winners Waldoboro and Tara Roma. The latter pro- in without first standing and producing somewhere else,” he said. duced Grade 1-winner Serra Lake and multiple stakes winner “Part of our risk was not to ship him to the Southern Hemisphere. Cappuchino. 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Northview’s current bloodstock manager Paul O’Loughlin said, “The attri- Nothhaft is convinced that El Padrino’s foals are well-liked by their butes we’ve seen already in his yearlings are encouraging. El breeders, as not a single one has been up for public auction yet. The first Padrino is a good breeder, is well behaved, and is easy to man- will be Mike Palmer’s chestnut El Padrino filly in the Fasig Tipton July Sale age. He does his job well, really, he’s just been an all-around in Kentucky. “The filly I have is a big, strong, correct filly,” Palmer said. good horse so far.” X “If we weren’t commercial breeders, we would be racing her. She would be one I would not mind paying the training bills on.” The filly is out of the stake-winning Time for a Change mare Time to Dream. Another of her foals, Five Star Dream, is a stakes winner, while Time to Dream is a half-sister to stakes winner Five Star Deputy.