Maryland-Bred Hall of Fame Inducts First Class
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Maryland Horse April 2013 Official publication of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association; Vol. 78, No. 4 Maryland-bred Hall of Fame Inside inducts first class Breeder of the Year: Dr. and Mrs. Tom Bowman ... 4 By Vinnie Perrone Broodmare of the Year: Poised to Pounce .................... 4 Maryland-bred foals ...................... 5 Maryland-bred Hall of Fame ........ 1 Maryland-bred stakes winners .... 5 State racing interests next Maryland Fund Report ................. 6 month will honor Maryland’s Maryland’s leading sires ............... 8 most accomplished race- Maryland’s top earners ................. 8 horses by unveiling the Mary- MHBA membership form ............ 8 land-bred Thoroughbred Hall 1 MHBA new business members .... 7 of Fame (MTHOF), an ascen- Stallion of the Year: dant cooperative that depart- Not For Love ........................... 4 ed different runways. MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS Scheduled for May 11 at ASSOCIATION INC. Pimlico Race Course, the Hall 30 East Padonia Road of Fame commemorations will Timonium, MD 21093 reflect a collaboration of the P.O. Box 427 Maryland Racing Media As- Timonium, MD 21094 sociation (MRMA) and Mary- 410-252-2100 Fax 410-560-0503 land Horse Breeders Associa- www.marylandthoroughbred.com tion (MHBA), racing-related entities that unknowingly had BOARD OF DIRECTORS shared a vision. R. Thomas Bowman Challedon, 1939 Preakness Stakes winner and the nation’s Early this year, MRMA vice President two-time Horse of the Year (1939, ’40), is a Hall of Fame elite. Donald H. Barr president Frank Vespe asked Vice-president whether breeders would par- Milton P. Higgins III ticipate in a budding plan to Secretary-treasurer create a Maryland-bred Hall a first-of-its kind state-bred Trump and Safely Kept are the Cricket Goodall of Fame. The response from racing Hall of Fame. The com- only Maryland-breds in the Executive director MHBA executive director mittee deemed eligible flat National Racing Hall of Fame; Richard F. Blue Jr., John C. Cricket Goodall: We’re al- runners and steeplechasers Find and Vertex were included Davison, James T. Dresher Jr., ready working on one. retired from racing at least in a comprehensive 1963 vote Michael J. Harrison, JoAnn Hayden, R. Larry Johnson, “Clearly they were doing five years, and selected 12 of state sportswriters who Ann Merryman, Suzanne something on a parallel track,” for its inaugural class: Broad determined the greatest-ever Moscarelli, Tom Mullikin, Vespe said. “So we basically Brush, Challedon, Cigar, Find, racing Maryland-breds; and Edwin W. Merryman, E. Allen said, ‘Why don’t we combine Gallorette, Jameela, Politely, Broad Brush, Jameela, Po- Murray, Joseph P. Pons Jr., forces?’” Safely Kept, Twixt and Vertex litely and Twixt are the only William S. Reightler Jr., The resultant collaboration, and jumpers Elkridge and Jay remaining eligible two-time Robert B. White which involved racing-indus- Trump. Maryland-bred Horses of the Directors Emeritus try members beyond those or- The committee chose the Year, an honor first awarded J. William Boniface, King T. ganizations, birthed a commit- distinctive dozen on the fol- in 1962. Leatherbury, Donald P. Litz Jr., Robert T. Manfuso, Michael tee that in January established lowing bases: Challedon, Ci- The committee considered Pons, Katharine M. Voss guidelines and procedures for gar, Elkridge, Gallorette, Jay only racehorses for the initial class but left open the pos- Goodall and MRMA presi- “If we could get a good In its mission statement, sibility of inducting notable dent Ted Black worked to as- cross-section of people from the MTHOF endeavors to persons in subsequent years. semble an MTHOF committee the industry,” Black said, “I celebrate the racing and stud- It also determined to limit fu- representing an array of state thought that would validate book achievements of state- ture classes to no more than racing interests. Others who the horses we selected.” bred Thoroughbred horses two equine inductees. attended the January meeting Black, in his first year as nationally and internationally, The May 11 inductions will were Cindy Deubler and Anne MRMA president, said he con- and “to showcase their endur- be ceremonial as part of a Pim- Pennington of MHBA; Joe ceived the MTHOF as a way ing legacies.” lico program that will name Clancy, Mid-Atlantic Thorough- both to burnish his legacy and Such was the aim in 1963, certain races for honorees. bred editor and MRMA mem- to involve the organization in when Laurel Race Track presi- The MTHOF will exist as an ber; MRMA’s Vespe; Josh Pons, a meaningful undertaking. dent John D. Schapiro enlisted on-line entity (www.mdthor- breeder and Eclipse Award- “I figured, let’s be part of a 58 sportswriters to determine oughbredhalloffame.com) winning writer; Katy Voss, project that people are going the five greatest Maryland- with plans to locate a perma- trainer/breeder and a director to remember,” Black said. bred runners in history. Here nent facility. of the Maryland Thor ough- “And when I looked over the again, the symmetry: Schapiro bred Horsemen’s Association; “It is virtual now but, as we list of all the Maryland-bred asked MHBA president Bruce Georganne Hale, Maryland move forward with a horse-in- Horses of the Year, I thought S. Campbell to help determine dustry museum, we will make Jockey Club racing secretary, that these were horses that de- protocols and facilitate polling. sure the great Maryland-bred and Jim McCue, MJC photog- served lasting recognition. At horses will have a place of rapher; and Vinnie Perrone, a the same time, I want to keep “Too frequently, we over- honor,” Goodall said. “It is frequent Mid-Atlantic Thorough- it in perspective: We’re not look the great horses pro- important that their achieve- bred contributor. The commit- saving Maryland racing. We’re duced in this state,” Schapiro ments be marked for all time.” tee likely will grow over time. just honoring the history of it.” said then. “It is time for us to 2 Lydia A. Williams Lydia The first Maryland-bred to surpass $1 million, Jameela was One of the greatest racemares in history, Gallorette regularly Maryland-bred Horse of the Year twice in the 1980s. beat the best handicap males in the country in the 1940s. Jerry Frutkoff Equi-Photo, Inc. Marshall Hawkins Jumping legend Jay Trump won the The gallant gelding Find was a stakes Superstar Cigar retired as the richest Maryland Hunt Cup three times (1963, performer through age 11 and retired North American runner of all time ’64 and ’66). In 1965, he travelled to in 1961 as the richest Maryland-bred with $9,999,815. He won 16 straight – Aintree and won the most grueling test with $803,615 for his career. He won or 10 Grade 1s– and the Eclipse Award for of all, the English Grand National. placed in 51 stakes in 110 starts. Horse of the Year in 1995 and ‘96. evaluate what has been ac- ceived plaudits of the racing terested in the Thoroughbred Fifty years later, a shared complished in Maryland. world when they were in com- should see to it that their fame initiative of that very sub- “Horses like Challedon, petition, and I feel that those never dies.” stance has taken flight. R Gallorette and Elkridge re- of us in Maryland who are in- Longshot Photo Turfotos Tough, durable and quirky, Broad Brush became the first A dominating presence in the distaff handicap division in Maryland-bred to surpass $2 million. One of the best the late 1960s, Politely carried 131 pounds to victory in stakes runners in the mid-1980s, he went on to be a leading sire. company and twice won the Matchmaker Stakes in record time. 3 Double J Photo No Maryland-bred has won more stakes races Averaging nearly 18 starts per year, Twixt was a machine, than Elkridge. The famed steeplechaser of the 1940s winning 18 stakes and placing in another 19 over four seasons. and 1950s won 27 stakes from 123 starts. She was twice named Maryland-bred Horse of the Year. The first Maryland-bred to win a Breeders’ Cup trophy Vertex charged into prominence in the 1950s, ranking among (for the Sprint in 1990), Safely Kept was an amazon in the the best handicap horses in the nation. Dealing with division, and was honored with the Eclipse Award over soundess issues, he made 25 starts over four seasons, males in 1989. The 22-time stakes winner earned $2,194,206. winning 17, nine stakes, including the Pimlico Special. Broodmare of the Year: Stallion of the Year: Poised to Pounce Not For Love Maryland has been home stallion but one trait must be to many influential stallions outstanding.” in the last century, but one Not For Love was rep- stands out for his dominance. resented by 13 stakes hors- Not For Love, Northview Stal- es last year. His five stakes lion Station’s 23-year-old son winners included juveniles of Mr. Prospector, has been Mystic Love and Classy Coco selected once again as Stallion and solid handicap horses of the Year, the 10th time so Not Abroad, winner of the honored. Maryland Million Classic, and In 2012, Not For Love Eight to fastto catch. His lead- led Maryland’s general and ing earner, Hello Lover, tied 2-year-old sires lists by prog- for second in the nation by eny earnings, and became the number of wins (with nine) state’s all-time leading juve- and was stakes-placed three nile sire by lifetime earnings, times while earning $304,495. a position he also holds on the “Now that Not For Love general sires list. His runners has turned 23, our primary JoAnn Hayden amassed more than $4.5 mil- interest is in his well-being,” lion in 2012 – the 11th consecu- added Golden.