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WEST COAST MIDWEST/CANADA Mission Accomplished David Willmot steps down as Woodbine CEO In This Section LEADING CANADIAN SIRES after innovative run BY EARNINGS LEADING OHIO SIRES BY JENNIFER MORRISON BY EARNINGS LEADING ILLINOIS SIRES nnovation. Progress. Leadership. BY EARNINGS These are just a few of the words used over the years to describe what David Willmot has brought to the horse racing industry in Ontario since he bulled his way LEADING MICHIGAN SIRES I BY EARNINGS into the business 35 years ago. Under his aggressive, business-minded guidance, Woodbine racetrack has crawled LEADING MINNESOTA SIRES out of the depths of near-bankruptcy and been transformed into a stable and healthy BY EARNINGS business that is the envy of many racetracks throughout North America. LEADING INDIANA SIRES And riding the crest of a pleasing 2009 Woodbine meeting that boasted a 7% in- BY EARNINGS crease in all-sources wagering—almost unheard of in a trying economy—Willmot will hand over the reins and step down as chief executive officer of Woodbine Entertain- ment Group in June 2010. “You have to allow for growth and transition in a business,” said Willmot, 60, who will remain as chairman, a position he has held since 2001. “When I became chief executive officer in 1994, I said that I would stay for three years; it wound up being 15. And 15 years is the outer edge of an appropriate run of a CEO.” Taking over from Willmot will be Nick Eaves, 41, who was named president of WEG in 2006. Advertisers’ Index FIRESTONE FARMS 54 (www.firestonefarms.ca) SAM-SON FARM 55 (www.samsonfarm.com) OHIO THOROUGHBRED 57 ASSOCIATION (www.otbo.com) MCMASTER FARM 58 ([email protected]) MIDWEST EQUINE AND 59 VETERINARY HOSPITAL (www.mwevh.com) FOOT FALL FARM 60 (www.footfallfarm.com) VIC ZAST David Willmot (above) will remain as chairman while Nick Eaves will become CEO of Woodbine BloodHorse.com O DECEMBER 26, 2009 / JANUARY 2, 2010 53 MIDWEST/CANADA State sire lists updated daily online. Go to http://breeding.bloodhorse. 2009 Leading Sires in Canada com/sirelists.asp For stallions that stand, will stand, or stood (deceased) in Canada (exported stallions are excluded), and have runners in North America. Listed below are all available statistics for the Northern Hemisphere through December 16, 2009. As supplied to The Blood-Horse by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc., earnings exclude monies from Japan and Hong Kong. *Foal counts include Southern Hemisphere. Cumulative stakes winners includes all countries. (A ¶ indicates a sire represented by his first crop to race). Stakes Rstrct Cumulative 2010 Stud Rnrs/ Wnrs/ SW/ 2009 Stks *A-E *Comp Rank Stallion (Foaling Year, Sire), Farm Standing Fee Can$ Wnrs Wns BT SW (Chief Earner, Earnings) Earnings Foals Wnrs Index Index 1 MILWAUKEE BREW (97, Wild Again), Adena Springs/Gardiner Farms $12,500 147/84 5/9 1/5 (Milwaukee Appeal, $786,808) $3,661,833 236 8 1.46 1.56 2 BOLD EXECUTIVE (84, Bold Ruckus), Gardiner Farms $15,000 133/73 5/5 3/5 (Sans Sousi, $162,178) $3,576,612 660 42 1.71 1.34 3 ALPHABET SOUP (91, Cozzene), Adena Springs/Gardiner Farms $6,000 185/94 2/3 0/2 (Sal the Barber, $168,900) $2,983,076 *619 37 1.38 1.43 4 GILDED TIME (90, Timeless Moment), Bar None Ranches $7,500 144/74 2/4 1/2 (Gayego, $656,600) $2,822,541 *1068 46 1.41 1.74 5 CAPE CANAVERAL (96, Mr. Prospector), Highfield Stock Farm $5,000 133/83 2/2 1/2 (Made for Magic, $109,200) $2,073,703 299 17 1.25 1.39 6 SLIGO BAY (IRE) (98, Sadler's Wells), Adena Springs/Gardiner Farms $6,000 101/53 3/4 0/3 (Chirac, $298,883) $1,998,883 *178 4 1.12 1.84 7 TRAJECTORY (97, Gone West), Gardiner Farms $4,500 105/40 2/2 2/2 (Resentless, $184,476) $1,942,957 242 12 1.34 1.35 8 WHERE'S THE RING (99, Seeking the Gold), Gardiner Farms $4,500 65/37 2/2 2/2 (Who's Big Daddy, $151,123) $1,912,518 107 4 1.47 1.34 9 WHISKEY WISDOM (93, Wild Again), Thunderbird Horse Centre $1,500 64/32 3/6 3/3 (Double Malt, $239,293) $1,623,971 295 16 1.58 1.60 10 BOLD N' FLASHY (89, Bold Ruckus), T.C. Westmeath Stud Farm $3,500 66/34 0/0 0/0 (Lucky n' Bold, $109,080) $1,375,522 275 13 1.34 1.27 11 SKIMMING (96, Nureyev), Pacific Stud N/A 111/51 5/5 1/5 (Dewey's Special, $130,092) $1,348,012 253 11 0.86 1.17 12 PEAKS AND VALLEYS (92, Mt. Livermore), Gardiner Farms $4,500 82/36 2/3 2/2 (Oistins, $176,127) $1,286,649 488 28 1.31 1.47 13 ONE WAY LOVE (95, Regal Classic), T. C. Westmeath Stud Farm $4,500 83/36 1/1 1/1 (King Eddie, $114,285) $1,279,243 252 2 1.00 1.36 14 VYING VICTOR (89, Flying Paster) Died, 2008 110/53 6/6 2/6 (Disfunction, $117,749) $1,232,568 556 34 0.85 0.82 15 PIKEPASS (96, Forty Niner), Mountainview Farms $3,500 98/48 2/2 2/2 (You Don't Pass, $181,378) $1,202,225 233 4 0.75 0.95 16 PERIGEE MOON (98, Hennessy) N/A 62/36 0/0 0/0 (Lunar Linda, $136,908) $1,177,453 138 3 1.12 1.32 17 KISSIN KRIS (90, Kris S.), Esquirol Farms $3,000 62/30 2/2 0/2 (Delightful Kiss, $180,000) $1,029,121 440 15 1.15 1.18 18 MAZEL TRICK (95, Phone Trick), Canmor Farms Died, 2008 79/37 2/2 2/2 (Voy Por Uno Mas, $81,455) $1,021,753 *330 10 1.15 1.53 19 PAYNES BAY (98, Mr. Prospector), Norse Ridge Farm, Breeding Division $2,500 44/22 0/0 0/0 (Sunflower Drive, $117,334) $1,007,300 90 0 1.11 1.26 20 STEPHANOTIS (93, Regal Classic), Canmor Farms $3,000 86/52 1/1 1/1 (Restless Lady, $66,420) $998,627 217 7 0.72 0.85 *A-E and COMPARABLE INDEX: The lifetime Average-Earnings Index indicates how much purse money the progeny of one sire has earned, on the average, in relation to the average earnings of all runners in the same years; average earnings of all runners in any year is represented by an index of 1.00. The Comparable Index indicates the average earnings of progeny produced from mares bred to one sire, when these same mares were bred to other sires. Only 32% of all sires have a lifetime AEI higher than their mares Comparable Index. “I’m still very passionate about the bred breeding operations through the took hold. business,” said Willmot. “There is a fire ’80s and ’90s. “I was looked upon as the angry young in the belly that you need to have every Upon graduating from Osgoode Hall man on the board,” said Willmot. “I cer- day as a CEO. I still have it; it’s just that Law School in Toronto in 1974, the young- tainly spoke up in terms of the company’s the embers are not burning as brightly. er Willmot started his own law practice financial situation. I was quite vocal that But I do think I can contribute strategi- but also became more active in the Thor- we needed a strategic plan and more ag- cally as chairman of the board—there are oughbred industry as a board member of gressiveness in running it as a business. still serious issues out there facing racing the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Soci- “Not that they weren’t good business- and Woodbine Live! (a multi-million-dol- ety and Jockey Club of Canada. men, but they were focusing on the orga- lar development project) is still to come.” Within 10 years, when the state of rac- nization from the point of view of their A father of two sons, Willmot inher- ing and breeding in Ontario was in steep horses, not as a business. ited his love and dedication to the sport decline, the board of trustees of what was “Those days the rate of decline of the of horse racing from his father, Don- then still known as the Ontario Jockey industry and running of debt load was ald “Bud” Willmot, who took his then Club, a not-for-profit organization, asked becoming very critical. The banks were 17-year-old son to their first yearling sale Willmot to become a trustee. going to take our loans.” in September 1967 at Keeneland. “I assumed they were looking for Ironically, the troubles of Woodbine and That sale was where the Willmot fam- younger blood on the board, and I was racing contradicted the rise of Kinghaven ily purchased Cool Mood, a subsequent the youngest trustee of a large board of Farms, which won back-to-back Canadian Canadian Oaks winner and a foundation 27 people,” he said. Triple Crowns with With Approval (1989) mare for their Kinghaven Farms, which It was not long before Willmot’s repu- and Izvestia (1990) and produced dozens rose to become the cream of Thorough- tation for hard-nosed business practices of champions and stakes horses. Aim For The Winner’s Circle With Tomahawk Group 1 Champion 2YO SEATTLE SLEW Leading Freshman Sire Leading Sophomore Sire WIN AND REIGN Vandal Stakes Grade 1 MINE THAT BIRD Seattle Slew – Statuette, by Pancho Villa 2010 Fee: $5,000 Canadian Funds John R.