ftboa.com • Friday • May 8, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION Casse, Wise Dan Among Seven FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION 2020 Hall Of Fame Inductees or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or BY NATIONAL MUSEUM OF RACING email: [email protected] AND HALL OF FAME PRESS OFFICE ___________________ SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Seven new In This Issue: members have been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame. The Golden Gate Fields Receives Approval class of 2020 is comprised of trainer Mark to Reopen May 14 Casse and racehorse Wise Dan in the con- temporary category; jockey Darrel NTRA 2019 Federal Legislative Action McHargue and racehorse Tom Bowling via Campaign Program Attracts Support the Historic Review Committee; and Soft Opening of Career Centers Begins Pillars of the Turf selections Alice Headley Chandler, J. Keene Daingerfield, Jr., and Ocala City Council Approves Small George D. Widener, Jr. Business Disaster Assistance Program The Hall of Fame induction ceremony Ocala International Airport Reports is tentatively scheduled for Friday, Aug. 7 Nightly Closures at the Fasig-Tipton sales pavilion in Mark Casse/MATT WOOLEY/EQUISPORT PHOTO Saratoga. The Museum is monitoring state 9 all time) through May 3. Successful in Thoroughbred Racing Economic Indicators and health regulations in regard to the both the United States and Canada, Casse Horse Farms Forever Summarizes COVID-19 pandemic and will be acting in has won the Sovereign Award for Northern Turnpike Connector Meeting accordance with those policies and best Outstanding Trainer in Canada a record 11 practices. A decision on the status of the times and was inducted into the Canadian Live Racing at Prairie Meadows in Works 2020 induction ceremony will be forth- Racing Hall of Fame in 2016. He won two- Gulfstream Park Charts coming. thirds of the American Triple Crown in 2019 when War of Will won the Preakness Tampa Bay Downs Charts and Sir Winston prevailed in the Belmont. Mark Casse Casse has trained Eclipse Award win- Track Results & Entries Mark Casse, 59, a native of ners Classic Empire, Shamrock Rose, Indianapolis, Ind., who grew up and con- Florida Stallion Progeny List Tepin, and Florida-bred World Approval, tinues to live in Ocala, Fla., took out his as well as Canadian Horse of the Year hon- Florida Breeders’ List trainer's license in Massachusetts at the orees Catch a Glimpse, Lexie Lou, Sealy age of 17 and saddled his first winner at Wire to Wire Business Place Hill, Uncaptured, and Wonder Gadot. He Keeneland with Joe's Coming, his first has won a total of seven races in the starter, in April of 1979. According to Canadian Triple Crown series (the Prince Featured Advertisers Equibase data, Casse has won 2,865 races of Wales four times, the Queen's Plate with purse earnings of $174,628,624 (No. Journeyman Stud twice, and the Breeders' Stakes once), five Breeders' Cup races (the Mile twice, as Highlander Training Center well as the Filly and Mare Sprint, Juvenile, Bloodstockauction USA Reminder: and Juvenile Fillies Turf), and the Queen Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company FSS yearling deadline is Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot with Tepin. FTBOA Casse has trained 18 horses that have won Florida Department of Agriculture May 15 and is $250. See $1 million or more and has been the lead- ing trainer at Woodbine (11 times), Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply ad on page 6 for details. Seminole Feed See 2020 HALL OF FAME on page 3 Pioneerof the Nile – Littleprincessemma, by Yankee Gentleman 2020 Fee: $5,000 S&N A Group-placed full-brother to Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah Half-brother to Grade 1 and multiple stakes-winner Chasing Yesterday Broke his maiden at 2 in his 2nd start at Del Mar defeating G2 SW INSTILLED REGARD Also standing Fury Kapcori and Khozan Brent & Crystal Fernung, Owners LOUISE REINAGEL PHOTO LOUISE REINAGEL 5571 NW 100th Street, Ocala, FL 34482 | Office: 352.629.1200 | Fax: 352.629.1201 • [email protected] | www.journeymanstallions.com 45757 Back to Top Page 3 2020 Hall of Fame Continued from COVER Turfway (four times), Keeneland (three times), and Churchill Downs (twice). Wise Dan Wise Dan (Wiseman's Ferry—Lisa Danielle, by Wolf Power) was bred and owned by Morton Fink and trained by Charles LoPresti. Named Horse of the Year in 2012 and 2013 and cham- &632'3%2()2(96) pion older male and champion male turf horse in both of those years, Wise Dan, a chestnut gelding, compiled a career record of *0=746%=7%0) 23-2-0 from 31 starts and earnings of $7,552,920 while compet- 0$< ing from 2010 through 2014. Wise Dan won 19 graded stakes, including 11 Grade 1 events. He won on turf, dirt, and synthetic surfaces at seven tracks. Wise Dan won the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Mile at Santa Anita in both 2012 and 2013. He also won the Ricoh Woodbine Mile (G1), Shadwell Turf Mile (G1), Maker's 46 Mile (G1), Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (G1), Fourstardave Handicap (G2), and Firecracker Handicap (G2) twice each. 6DYH 2))48$576 Wise Dan/COADY PHOTO Darrel McHargue 2))*$//216 Darrel McHargue, 65, a native of Oklahoma City, Okla., won 2,553 races and had purse earnings of $39,609,526 in a career that spanned from 1972 through 1988. In 1978, McHargue won both the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey and the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award. That year, he set a North American record with $6,188,353 in purse earnings, led all riders with 37 stakes wins, and finished second nationally with 375 wins. REIVFRP McHargue won a career-best 405 races in 1974 (No. 2 in North +LJKZD\ America). He began a six-year stretch of ranking among the top $LUSRUW5RDG See 2020 HALL OF FAME on page 5 Back to Top Back to Top Page 5 2020 Hall of Fame page 3 point for Keeneland and the American commercial mar- Continued from ket, as foreign buyers began traveling to the United 10 North American jockeys in earnings that States to buy classic winners. Chandler was honored by year. the Thoroughbred Club of America as the Honored Guest McHargue won the 1975 Preakness Stakes at its Testimonial Dinner in 2005 and she received the with Master Derby. According to Equibase 2009 Eclipse Award of Merit. data, McHargue won 79 graded stakes from Chandler has served as chairperson of the University 1976 through 1988. His Grade 1 wins includ- of Kentucky's Gluck Equine Research Foundation, pres- ed the Arlington-Washington Futurity, Santa ident of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association, and as Margarita Invitational Handicap, San Juan a director of the Breeders' Cup, Keeneland Association, Capistrano Handicap, Hopeful Stakes, San and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association. Antonio Stakes, Charles H. Strub Stakes, Some of the horses raised at Mill Ridge include Hall of Swaps Stakes, Santa Anita Handicap, Sunset Famer Point Given, Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, Handicap, San Luis Rey Stakes, Hollywood and champion Havre de Grace. Since 2000, Mill Ridge Invitational Handicap, Oak Leaf Stakes, Darrel McHargue/FILE PHOTO has raised or sold 34 Grade 1 winners, including six Santa Anita Derby, and Hollywood Derby. Breeders' Cup winners. McHargue also spent some time riding in Ireland and England, win- ning several stakes, including the 1984 Irish St. Leger at the Curragh and the 1984 Jockey Club Cup at Ascot. McHargue won Keene Daingerfield six graded stakes with Hall of Famer John Henry. He also won Keene Daingerfield, Jr. (1910-1993) was born in Lexington, Ky., stakes aboard Hall of Famers Ancient Title and My Juliet, as well as and attended the University of Virginia before becoming a trainer General Assembly, Run Dusty Run, and Vigors, among others. and eventually one of the most respected stewards in the sport's his- McHargue won six races on a single card at Santa Anita in both tory. Daingerfield had moderate success as a trainer and wrote the 1978 and 1979. He has been a steward in California since 1990 and book “Training for Fun (and Profit, Maybe)” before serving in the was named the state's chief steward in 2015. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in World War II. He resumed train- ing after the war before accepting a steward's position at Narragansett Park in 1948. Daingerfield went on to serve as chief Tom Bowling state steward in Kentucky from 1973 through 1985 and held the Tom Bowling (Lexington—Lucy Fowler, by Albion) was bred same role in New Jersey (1966 through 1973) and Illinois (1953 and owned by Hal Price McGrath and trained by Hall of Famer through 1956). He was an association steward at a total of 17 tracks. Ansel Williamson. A bay colt foaled in 1870, Tom Bowling lost his In 1985, Daingerfield was honored with the Eclipse Award of first two starts as a juvenile before winning 14 of his next 15 races. Merit. Following his retirement as state steward in Kentucky, He broke his maiden in the 1872 Flash Stakes at Saratoga, then Daingerfield served as a steward at Keeneland until 1989. He was won the Thespian Stakes at Monmouth, covering six furlongs in elected to The Jockey Club in 1989. Daingerfield also was present- 1:16 3/5, the fastest time to that date by a 2-year-old at the distance. ed the William C. Coman Humanitarian Award by the Kentucky Tom Bowling won seven of his eight starts as a 3-year-old, includ- Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association and the Joe ing the Jersey Derby at a mile-and-one-half, the Robbins Stakes at Palmer Award by the National Turf Writers Association.