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Klau Managing an Elite Group of Trotting Stallions at Southwind Farms NEW PLAYERS Muscle Hill Has Ruled the Stallion Ranks for Years DRF HARNESS HOME DIGITAL HARNESS EYE HARNESS PPS DRF BETS ENTRIES ARCHIVE THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2020 Klau managing an elite group of trotting stallions at Southwind Farms NEW PLAYERS Muscle Hill has ruled the stallion ranks for years. Now Southwind Farms Stallion Manager Mike Klau has new blood in Walner and Tactical Landing DOUBLE YOUR FIRST DEPOSIT UP TO $250 JAYWALKING By Jay Bergman JOIN NOW @BergmanJay It’s one of those rare times in history that everyone is looking ahead. For those who breed horses on a regular basis, waiting is something they are all too familiar with, regardless of outside factors. Yet at the end of many rainbows, there is a foal, eventually a yearling, and hopefully a 2-year-old that Inside this issue shows up and has talent. The next generation always holds with it the promise of something Field set for Catch Driver Digital better than the last. Breeders Crown for 3-year-olds, Page 4 At Southwind Farms in New Jersey, there is a virtual assembly line of trotting talent Newest Catch Driver series features that has been built in large part on the back of best male pacers of the decade, Page 5 the 14-year-old Muscle Hill. The Hambleton- ian winner has gone on to sire Hambletonian Derick Giwner: A regional plan to return winners, as well as some of the best and most- to racing, Page 5 talented horses of the last decade. Mike Klau, who manages the stallions at Southwind Keith Gisser: Keeping busy while Ohio Farms, now sees two more trotting stallions racing remains on hold, Page 7 with what he hopes will be bright futures in LISA PHOTO Walner and Tactical Landing. Klau, a veteran Muscle Hill drinks from the Hambletonian Schnittker stable raring to go when in the breeding business that dates himself trophy after winning the 2009 final with given the green light, Page 8 back to Pine Hollow Farm in New York, has driver Brian Sears (pictured). seen much change. On The Backstretch: Profile of driver/ “I can remember taking Green Speed’s wind Farm stallion) was a different horse trainer Alan Schwartz, Page 9 first crop to auction in Kentucky,” Klau said and his offspring helped change the breed.” of the Hambletonian-winning son of Speedy Certainly the impact of Valley Victory is one Standardbred Canada announces Rodney. “The breed has become more refined. of the key reasons our trotters today can go at “Return to Racing” blueprint, Page 11 I think Green Speed trotted his best mile in speeds shading 1:50, some five seconds faster Comments? Questions? 1:55 and that wouldn’t be enough to win a non- than they traveled 50 years ago. winners-of-three these days. Email the Editor [email protected] “I think Valley Victory (a one-time South- CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 We are all in this together~stay healthy & safe! The Ohio Sires Stakes for 3-year-old trotting & pacing colts & fillies have been postponed & will be rescheduled for a later date. Kimberly Rinker Ohio Standardbred Development Fund 614-779-0269 [email protected] Updates will be posted at www.racingohio.net © 2020 Daily Racing Form, LLC - 10 Grand Central, 3rd Floor, NY, NY 10017 DERICK GIWNER Walner had his on-track career cut short but there was no denying his talent as a potential premier stallion prospect. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 they support him. His book is full and closed,” Klau said. “I think they will sell very well in Lexington. I know Steve Stewart Muscle Hill is a direct descendant of Valley Victory on the stallion has a few he is really high on,” said Klau about the Walner first crop. side and his book has been filled each year since his retirement, but Others have echoed those sentiments, including Walner’s former Klau noted a different wrinkle in the 2020 assignment. “A lot of the trainer. “Yes, I’ve seen a few of them and they look a lot like him,” syndicate that owns him is European. Frozen semen is shipped to Linda Toscano said. “I hope to be training a few of them.” Europe for 30 mares each year,” said Klau. “While those breedings How many from Walner’s first crop that will have his ability still don’t count against the numbers we’re allowed to breed in the U.S. we remains in the balance, but a look at other foals from the first crop still only bred 140 mares in total. This year we’ve not replaced those shows a pair of horses from breeders who clearly want to take over 30 European breedings and he’ll be bred to 110 mares in North Amer- the seven kingdoms of trotting. King Of The North is a colt from the ica.” At $35,000, Muscle Hill is the most expensive stallion in North $1.9 million-winning mare Check Me Out. “He’s definitely the best- America, but Klau says there are few breedings available. “We’ve cut looking foal from the mare,” said Ray Schniktter, who co-owns the down the numbers because of his age and because we’d like him to be mare and foal with Steve Jones. Check Me Out has had three fillies active at this level for the next six-to-eight years,” Klau said. thus far, with King Of The North her first colt. Sons of Muscle Hill are attempting to follow in his footsteps, and Jaqen H’Ghar put on different faces throughout the Game Of Tactical Landing, the full brother to Mission Brief out of a Southwind Thrones and his namesake is the first foal of Windowshopper, a Farms bred mare, has a full book in 2020, his second season as a stal- full sister to the outstanding juvenile of 2017, Fashionwoodchopper. lion. Knutsson Trotting owns Jaqen H’Ghar. Walner is the first son of top stallion Chapter Seven to retire to On the filly side, there’s a 2019 yearling by the name of Fashion stallion duty and his first crop of yearlings will hit the sales this fall. Schooner, who is a half-sister to the $1.4 million-winning Broadway “We’ve got two fillies and two colts that we will sell in Lexington,” Donna. She’s the seventh foal from the 2009 Hambletonian Oaks and Klau said. The Walner syndicate stands the horse at Southwind and Breeders Crown champion Broadway Schooner, but significantly just by agreement the farm gets five breedings each year to use. “I’m very the second filly from the dam. happy with the way my yearlings look,” said Klau of the Walner pros- Walner has another first-cropper from the 2016 Hambletonian Oaks pects. “He’s an atypical son of Chapter Seven in that he was a much winner All The Time entitled American Beauty. Hopefully, named bigger individual than his sire,” Klau said of Walner. “The foals for the 1970 Grateful Dead album and not the 1999 movie of the same resemble him in a very good way.” name. American Beauty is the second foal and first filly from All The Of the four, Klau pointed to the colt Southwind Domino, the first Time, the full sister to $2.4 million winner Ariana G, the 2017 Oaks foal from an Explosive Matter-sired mare named Drinking Class. champion. Marvin Katz and Al Libfeld own the impeccably bred filly. “She’s a half-sister to Classic Martine ($1.1 million winner) that was a Whether Walner or Tactical Landing will be the future of trotting winner on the Pennsylvania Fair circuit. It’s her first foal.” remains to be seen. Some have already conceded that it’s going to be With two crops on the ground, Walner enters his third season and very difficult for any to replace a prodigious Muscle Hill at the top of interest remains strong. “He’s got a solid syndicate of breeders and the trotting world. DRF Harness Weekend | 3 | April 30, 2020 Visit us online at drf.com/harness Virtual 3-year-olds set to battle in digital Breeders Crown The scene now shifts to By Derick Giwner Hoosier Park with the top nine winners on hand for The preliminary rounds are complete in the 2020 Breeders Crown/ the Breeders Crown final. Catch Driver 3-year-old Virtual Pacing Championship. All that Seven-eighths tracks tend remains is the Breeders Crown final to see if Papi Rob Hanover can to play fairest in terms continue his reign atop the standings. of post-position bias in A total of 2,816 races were contested on the Catch Driver app over Catch Driver and that the previous two weekends and Papi Rob Hanover won 684 times (24%) should serve as a perfect to lead Tall Dark Stranger at 452 wins (16%). Each horse competed in test for the top 3-year- five legs of the series. old pacers as we look to Let’s review the three stakes from this weekend: crown a champion. Below First up on April 24 was the Cane Pace at The Meadowlands. Papi is the field for the Crown Rob Hanover won nearly 34% of the races while besting Tall Dark final with total wins and Stranger at just under 25%. On the flip side, Tall Dark Stranger won the number of legs they in the fastest time (1:49 4/5) three times to Papi Rob Hanover’s one. On competed in the series. the driver front, I eked out a narrow 23-to-22 victory in total wins with a solid 18% win rate.
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