EISAMAN EQUINE SOUTHEAST SPOTLIGHT ALABAMA • FLORIDA • GEORGIA • MISSISSIPPI • NORTH CAROLINA • SOUTH CAROLINA • TENNESSEE The champagne’s on Ice Belmont winner caps big spring for Eisaman Equine

BY ED DEROSA

OB BAFFERTstopped short of calling Barry Eisaman, BV.M.D., a miracle worker, Courtesy of Eisaman Equine but the Racing Hall of Fame trainer Barry and Shari Eisaman were instrumental in preparing this year’s knows the results that can come Kentucky Oaks and Belmont Stakes winners for the races from sending a horse to Eisaman Equine Services in Williston, Equine website reads like a who’s each other alone unless there’s a Florida. who of who’s in training right now. problem. “Last year, Barry had John Fort’s In addition to the aforementioned “I deal with some real good guys horses; all of Peachtree Stable’s Grade 1 winners, the Eisamans in Florida, and he’s one of them. horses were broken there,” Baffert broke and/or sold graded stakes We have mutual respect for each said. “He had the [eventual 2011 winners Adios Charlie, Aikenite, other. I’ve known Barry for years Kentucky] Oaks (G1) winner there Flashpoint, J J’s Lucky Train, Rod- and years. He’s probably the most for about a month. She was really man, and The Factor and stakes knowledgeable veterinarian when tough: wanted to run off, was speed winners Citrus Kid and Twinspired. it comes to horses, but he’s not only crazy; he got her settled. I told John The farm’s top earners are Grade a good vet but also a really good when we got her back from Barry 1 winners and sires Lion Tamer and trainer.” that he should have seen her be- Red Giant. The Eisamans’ operation en- fore.” Courtesy of Eisaman Equine “Barry does a great job getting compasses 300 acres where they Plum Pretty’s Oaks win was one The farm’s training track has produced such recent graded stakes horses ready; he puts a great foun- breed to sell, break clients’ juve- of three big events for Eisaman winners as Pants On Fire, Aikenite, and Flashpoint dation in them,” Baffert said. “When niles, and prepare horses for their Equine this spring. The pinhook- I send horses to his place, I never consignments at two-year-old sales. ing and training outfit started its sionally to have something come strong-willed, and likes the slop.” worry about it. I send them there, The Eisamans acquire many of their sales season (it does not sell at the through our care win at that level,” and he tells me when to pick them sales horses at the Keeneland Sep- Fasig-Tipton Florida sale of selected said Barry Eisaman, who operates Middle market up. That’s the way I like it. We leave tember yearling sale, and Barry two-year-olds in training) by con- Eisaman Equine with his wife, Shari. Shari Eisaman has taken an ac- Eisaman has said that a focus on signing the sale topper at the Ocala “It was fun. For Shari and I, the tive role in her family operation’s Eisaman Equine the middle market has helped his Breeders’ Sales Co. March sale of horse business is the perfect way to presence in cyberspace, develop- Services Inc. family’s operation weather the selected two-year-olds in training, make a living. It’s not work for us; ing a solid following (11,514 like downturn in the Thoroughbred Thoroughbred sales breeding and racing businesses. a Flatter colt bought by Baffert, it’s a way of life.” this) on Facebook, providing timely and training agent for Kaleem Shah, for As with Plum Pretty, the Eisamans tweets, and helping to develop and “One thing that’s helped me and $925,000. Now named Brigand, the tackled some foibles when dealing manage a multimedia section of the Proprietors: Barry and Shari Eisaman Shari survive is that we never ven- Flatter colt out of Silence Please with Ruler On Ice. Indeed, Eisaman website. Location: Williston, Florida ture out into the types of purchases Background: Barry Eisaman, V.M.D., grad- won his career debut on July 3 at Equine breaks all of the Halls’ two- “I’m so proud of our team of em- some others do,” Barry Eisaman uated from the University of Pennsyl- said. “We never swing for the home Hollywood Park. year-olds, and Barry Eisaman said ployees; we work so hard with the vania and practiced sports medicine in Less than three months later, that while the current crop of three- young ones, and Ruler On Ice was South Florida before moving to the Ocala run. It’s hard to digest a $200,000 another alumnus of the Eisaman year-olds was on his farm, Ruler almost impossible to break,” Shari area in 1982 to $300,000 horse who can’t run; Program: Breaking and training young it’s a tough loss. I’m always more two-year-old program—George and On Ice ranked only fourth among Eisaman tweeted shortly after the horses, two-year-old pinhooking, brood- Lori Hall’s Ruler On Ice—was being the Hall’s horses. Roman Ruler gelding won the Bel- mare band of about 20, rehabilitating comfortable with the meat-and- horses in training potato-type horse. We’ll buy at led into the Belmont Stakes (G1) “From that particular crop, [trainer] mont. “Thanks to our entire staff Family: Barry and Shari live on the farm winner’s circle after upsetting both Kelly [Breen] and I favored Sweet for a job well done. As evidenced $50,000, maybe $80,000 to with their daughter, Kristina. Their son, $100,000 tops. We provide a ser- Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Ducky and Pants On Fire,” Barry by Ruler On Ice’s behavior while Matt, is a captain in the U.S. Air Force Brands (G1) winner Animal King- Eisaman said of the two eventual ‘New York, New York’ was being Grade 1-winning graduates: Friends vice and develop repeat customers Lake, Gozzip Girl, Hot Cha Cha, Icon and make a living from that.” dom and Preakness Stakes (G1) stakes winners. “Ruler On Ice was played and his resistance to enter Project, Lion Tamer, Lucifer’s Stone, winner Shackleford to become tough, though. You cannot wear him the winner’s circle, he can be very Miss Linda (Arg), Mona de Momma, Nu- Eisaman Equine’s first classic- out. Even though he went into the difficult.” merous Times, Pampered Princess, Ed DeRosa is Internet news editor of winning graduate. Belmont as a longshot, his win didn’t The complete list of recent stakes- Plum Pretty, Proud Accolade, Red Giant, Ruler On Ice, Things Change, Traitor THOROUGHBRED TIMES. “It’s really rewarding profes- surprise me because he’s tough, winning graduates on the Eisaman SO MANY HORSES, SO LITTLE TIME Let the BUYER’S GUIDE

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