Maryland Horse® June 2020 Official publication of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association; Vol. 85, No. 6 MHBA gets new home in historic Reisterstown MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION INC. at Goucher College 1021 Dulaney Valley Road Baltimore, MD 21204 P.O. Box 427 The Maryland Horse Timonium, MD 21094 Breeders Association will 410-252-2100 move to a permanent home at www.marylandthoroughbred.com 321 Main Street in historic BOARD OF DIRECTORS Reisterstown. The MHBA has Michael Harrison DVM had offices in Baltimore Coun- President ty since its founding in 1929. David Wade This area is home to many 1 Vice-president horse-related activities, in- Kent Allen Murray cluding the Maryland Hunt Secretary-treasurer Cup, Maryland Grand Na- Cricket Goodall tional, the Green Spring Hunt Executive director Club and Shawan Downs. The MHBA has been George Adams*, Richard F. Blue Jr., Richard Hackerman, searching for a location to Christy Holden, Michael house the offices of the associ- Horning, TK Kuegler, Louis ation, Maryland Million Ltd., Merryman, Sabrina Moore, D. Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred David Moose, Larry Murray, magazine and the Maryland “The acquisition of this his- dent. “I like to thank all those William Reightler, Thomas Horse Industry Foundation. toric building ends our orga- who’ve worked so diligently Rooney*, James B. Steele, The offices have most recently nization’s search for a suitable to achieve this momentous Theresa Wiseman been on the campus of Gouch- home which has extended goal.” *president appointed er College in hopes of being a over the last decade. It will al- The building is just min- Directors Emeritus part of a new equestrian facili- low the MHBA to better serve utes from Baltimore’s beltway (served 18 years) ty on campus. However, last our members and the general (I-695) and the Northwest Ex- J. William Boniface, fall the college decided to put equine community, in line pressway (I-795), and has R. Thomas Bowman, King T. several capital projects on with our mission and in the plenty of convenient, free Leatherbury, Donald P. Litz Jr., hold indefinitely, prompting best long-term fiscal interest parking for visitors and staff. Ann Merryman, Michael Pons, the MHBA to pursue a perma- of our organization,” says Mi- The plan is for the staff to Katharine M. Voss nent solution. chael Harrison, MHBA presi- move in by July 1. R Advisory Council The stately Reisterstown (past MHBA presidents) building is a 15-minute drive J. William Boniface, from the famed Sagamore William K. Boniface, Frank A. Maryland-bred Bonsal, R. Thomas Bowman, Farm and just more than 20 William G. Christmas, minutes from Pimlico Race registration extended Hal C.B. Clagett III, Kimball C. Course. The building com- Firestone, King T. Leatherbury, prises approximately 7,000 The Maryland-bred registration deadline for yearlings of J.W.Y. Martin Jr., square feet that will eventual- 2020 has been extended to Tuesday, June 30. Joseph P. Pons Jr., Michael ly feature a library and memo- To register your Maryland-bred yearling online, Pons, Katharine M. Voss, rabilia area, in addition to go to marylandthoroughbred.com. Robert B. White meeting rooms. but Iron Maiden was officially a Maryland-bred. Mayer sold Iron Maiden in Miss Disco, Iron Maiden flew October of her 3-year-old sea- son to breeder W.W. “Tiny” Naylor. The 6-foot-4, 300- Maryland flag with distinction pound Naylor, famous for his family-style restaurants and By Cindy Deubler drive-in diners throughout California, had purchased Iron Longtime racing writer and Maryland Horse contributor Joe B. Hickey Jr., who would later become Maiden in a spur-of-the-mo- general manager of Windfields Farm, was often compelled to sift through the archives of the magazine and ment deal, sight unseen. He highlight the careers of Maryland-bred runners. In 1958, he decided to “broach the task of compiling a per- paid $7,500 for the filly, raced manent and concise tabulation of modern-day Maryland-bred stakes winners and their successes. .” and her a few times, and decided to researched those who won stakes from 1940-57. The year 1940 was chosen as a point of demarcation as it was breed her during the racing the first year the Stakes Winners Supplement was printed byThe Blood-Horse magazine, which aided in blackout in 1945. He sent her the research. Hickey noted his tabulation was “as correct and as complete as available records permit.” The to Mayer’s stallion *Beau following chronicles two of the 172 Maryland-breds on the list, and what they accomplished after their rac- Pere – the filly born the next ing careers. year was Iron Reward. Naylor recalled in a 1955 in- terview that he sold Iron Maid- of the stout and longwinded en to Johnston for $12,000, and Discovery, the filly out of the her daughter, Iron Reward, to Pompey mare Outdone (one of Rex Ellsworth for $15,000. Iron Vanderbilt’s first stakes win- Reward never won in eight ners) captured the 7-furlong starts, but produced as her first Test Stakes at Saratoga for her foal Ellsworth’s future Ken- first stakes score, and added tucky Brood mare of the Year three stakes wins at 4, includ- Track Medal (by *Khaled), the ing the New Rochelle and In- dam of four stakes winners. terborough Handicaps at 6 Iron Reward’s third foal was a furlongs. full-brother to Track Medal, Iron Maiden won going Hall of Famer Swaps. The 1956 2 short early in her career, but Horse of the Year and champi- recorded her first and only on handicap horse won the stakes win against males in the 1955 Kentucky Derby and be- 1 Del Mar Handicap at 1 ⁄16 miles came a leading sire. Iron Re- in September 1947. She was ward also became a Kentucky stakes-placed at 7 in the Vanity Broodmare of the Year. J.C. Skeets Meadors/Keeneland Library and San Diego Handicaps, While making 20 starts at Sagamore Farm-bred Miss Disco left her mark on the breed. 1 also at 1 ⁄16 miles. In the two age 7 in 1948, Iron Maiden was years following her two-year in foal to *Old English (the re- Miss Disco. Iron Maiden. dead heat in the Carter Handi- hiatus, she made 42 starts and sulting foal, the gelding Iron The names are ingrained in cap. A decade later the bay fil- was on the board 22 times. She Monocle, failed to win in 10 racing lore. But in 1947 these ly would make headlines of retired with earnings of starts). Johnston, the founder two Maryland-bred runners, her own. $52,590 from 61 starts. of Old English Rancho in the competing on opposite coasts, Miss Disco was bred by Al- Miss Disco raced through 1940s, then sold Iron Maiden had yet to win a stakes. fred Vanderbilt’s Sagamore age 6, earning $80,250 from 54 to Calumet Farm. In 1950 the Iron Maiden was older by Farm and sold as a yearling in starts with 10 wins, three sec- mare produced her first of four three years. Based in Califor- 1945 at the Meadow Brook sale onds and 10 thirds, and was foals sired by Calumet’s cham- nia and racing in the name of on Long Island in August for sold privately to Mrs. Henry pion stallion Bull Lea. Ellwood B. Johnston, the $2,100, tied for the sixth least Carnegie Phipps’ Wheatley Miss Disco and Iron Maid- 6-year-old mare had returned expensive of the 14-horse con- Stable. By the time she retired, en were now based in Ken- to the track after delivering a signment. Pre-sale notes de- her year-younger full-brother tucky, broodmares in the foal in 1946. A daughter of War scribed her as “a very nice filly, Loser Weeper, racing for Van- hands of two of the most dom- Admiral, Iron Maiden was a tall, rangy, a good walker with derbilt, had won nine stakes, inant breeding operations in modest winner at 2 and 3, straight hind leg. Had a kick in including the Suburban, the world. In 1957, their worlds earning $8,065 from 19 starts. the flank in front of the point Vosburgh, Metropolitan and collided. She launched her racing career of the hip which is healing Dixie, and earned $232,920. Miss Disco produced 11 for her breeder, movie mogul well and does not affect the fil- Iron Maiden’s circuitous foals in all. Her first, in 1951, Louis B. Mayer, and counted ly’s soundness.” route began in Maryland for was the winning Rosemont fil- among her wins in his colors Racing for her buyer, Syd- the sole reason that her dam ly Hill Rose (dam of multiple an allowance at Aque duct ney Schupper, Miss Disco won Betty Derr was sent to William stakes winner True North); the June 10, 1944. Two races later twice at 2 and achieved stakes Brann’s Glade Valley Farm in last an unraced colt by Nadir on that same card Brownie, success the following August. Frederick to be bred to *Chal- named Great Adventure in Bossuet and Wait a Bit made Sprinting proved to be her lenger II. Betty Derr did not 1965. Of her other foals, six history by finishing in a triple strength. Although a daughter produce a foal the next year, were by *Nasrullah – all were Jerry Frutkoff Miss Disco’s son Bold Ruler speeds away to victory in the 1957 Preakness Stakes over Kentucky Derby winner Iron Liege, a son of Iron Maiden, to complete the exacta for the Maryland-bred stakes-winning, classic-producing mares.