DAILY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016 WWW.BLOODHORSE.COM IN TODAY’S EDITION TRACK SUCCESS BODES WELL FOR JUVENILE SALES 2 LUCKY LOTTO REGISTERS BIG NUMBER 3 HORSE OF THE YEAR FUTURA RETIRED 4 SANTA ANITA TO REPLACE TURF COURSE 4 GUN RUNNER APPEARS TO HAVE THE GOODS 5 RESULTS 6 JUSTICE REAL ESTATE ENTRIES 7 The Wests produced a number of graded stakes winners on their Waterford Farm LEADING LISTS 9 ASHFORD BUYS HISTORIC WATERFORD FARM By Frank Angst shford Stud has purchased the 725-acre Wa- Aterford Farm near Midway, Ky., for $10,135,072 from the West family. Kathryn Martin West, who died in 2015 at age 91, and her late husband, Robert Smiser West, a dentist It PAYS to who died in 2006, developed Waterford into a suc- cessful commercial breeding operation.They often NOMINATE partnered as breeders with Racing Hall of Fame There is still time to nominate your 2014 foals trainer MacKenzie Miller and his wife, Martha. to the ITBOA Iowa Stallion Stakes Races Some of the top horses bred by Waterford or the Easy one time payment makes your foal eligible Wests (sometimes with the Millers) include 1999 cham- for TWO races, one as a 2 yo and one as a 3 yo. 2015 Stallion Futurity, Stallion Stakes & pion 2-year-old filly Chilukki, champion grass mare De Stallion Filly Stakes had total purses of $217,375!!! La Rose, multiple grade I winner Lite Light, grade I win- LATE DEADLINE IS MARCH 1st ner Tweedside, Japanese grade I winner Testa Matta, Late nominations also due for IOWA Bred foals of 2014 and Peru Horse of the Year Al Qasr. Ashford Stud manager Dermot Ryan said Water- 2016 Prairie Meadows: April 28th - Aug 13th ford's history made it attractive, adding that Ashford would like to build on the breeding history of the IOWA THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS Wests and Millers. AND OWNERS ASSOCIATION For More Information Contact Our ITBOA Offi ce at 800-577-1097 ■ e-mail [email protected] "The quality of the land speaks for itself and we Nomination forms and more info at www.iowathoroughbred.com are looking forward to our association with it in the future," Ryan said. BH BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 9 TRACK SUCCESS BODES WELL FOR In addition to buying well-bred, well-con- JUVENILE SALES formed individuals that have been readied for the track, the F-T sale offers the additional By Ron Mitchell intrigue of a $1 million bonus for any horse f success at the racetrack is the litmus test for from last year's sale that wins the April 2 Florida Ian equine auction, then the March 2-year-olds Derby (gr. I). in training sales conducted by Fasig-Tipton in Likewise, OBS sales director Tod Wo- Florida and the Ocala Breeders' Sales are clearly jciechowski said racing success by horses from reliable sources of winners. the March sale is indicative of the deep quality With the March 2 F-T sale at Gulfstream Park offered by consignors. and the March 15-16 OBS sale in Ocala on the Last year's OBS sale produced grade I win- horizon, executives with both companies say ner Gomo and multiple graded stakes winner recent successes of their sale graduates bode Airoforce, among others. Recent sales graduates well for strong auctions. include grade I winners Stopchargingmaria, Car- Consider that from last year's F-T sale alone pe Diem, Secret Circle, and Jack Milton. have come champion 2-year-old male Nyquist "Each year it seems the quality of the horse and grade I winner Mor gets better and it Spirit, both among is showing at the leading contenders racetrack," Wo- for the Kentucky jciechowski said. Derby (gr. I), as well "We've been very as grade II winner happy with the Annual Report, mul- quality of runners tiple stakes winner that have come Awesome Speed, out of our sale." and grade III winner While F-T puts and multiple grade on a boutique II-placed Flexibility, auction, for the among others. second year OBS "The success has an expanded of last year's sales catalog, consist- graduates has been ing of 613 head. phenomenal and it JOE DIORIO "Our March is a testament to the Each year the quality of the OBS March 2-year-old sale seems to get sale was fabu- consignors and the stronger, according to Tod Wojciechowski, OBS sales director lous last year, buyers to see the so we kept the results that have been achieved," said F-T presi- same format," Wojciechowski said of the auc- dent and CEO Boyd Browning. tion. Browning said indications are that the 154 Among the changes at OBS this year is the head consigned to the sale are quality individu- company's introduction of the repository, simi- als, both physically and pedigree. "It is an out- lar to those at other major sales companies, for standing catalog throughout, and it's going to be radiographs, and enhancements on the sales quality horses on offer from start to finish." grounds. BH BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016 PAGE 2 OF 9 smartphone app LUCKY LOTTO REGISTERS BIG NUMBER LATEST HEADLINES FROM BLOODHORSE.COM By Frank Angst PA RACING 'REFORM' LAW SIGNED BY anny Chen's Lucky Lotto has never been better. GOVERNOR Legislation designed to modernize One start after earning the second horse racing in Pennsylvania was signed into D law Feb. 23 by Gov. Tom Wolf, who last fall stakes-placing of his career, Lucky Lotto rallied threatened to shut down the industry because it from sixth and drew off in the stretch to register couldn't pay for regulation. an 8 1/4-length victory in a starter-allowance race Feb. 20 at Aqueduct Racetrack. The race for hors- STEVENS CALLS AUDIBLE DURING MOR SPIRIT WORK Gary Stevens said he didn't know grade I es that had started for $25,000 or less in 2015 or winner Mor Spirit was wearing earplugs when he 2016 carried a $58,000 purse. jumped in to work him on the fly Feb. 23. After The 8-year-old Pure Prize gelding earned the failing to get a response on the turn, he eased week's top Equibase Speed Figure of 117, which was the Bob Baffert trained-runner. one point better than the 116s earned by Mineshaft KY OAKS AFTER-PARTY TO BENEFIT TAA The Handicap (gr. III) winner Majestic Harbor and narrowly Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance has been beaten runner-up Eagle. The 117 also is a career-best named the charitable recipient of the 2016 Fillies ESF for Lucky Lotto, who entered off a third-place and Lilies Party, to be held after the Longines finish in the Jazil Stakes Jan. 16 at Aqueduct. Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) on Friday, May 6. Current trainer Edward Barker claimed Lucky MARYLAND COMMISSION OKS TIMONIUM OTB Lotto for Chen out of a winning $12,500 Aqueduct PARLOR The Maryland Racing Commission Feb. claiming effort Feb. 5, 2015. Lucky Lotto is eligible 22 gave the go-ahead to the Maryland Jockey for races on New York Claiming Championship day Club to operate an off-track betting parlor at the April 2 at Aqueduct. BH Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. ROCKINGHAM BUYS MAJORITY INTEREST IN X Y JET Majority interest in graded stakes winner X Y Jet has been sold to California-based Rockingham Ranch, with the March 26 Dubai Golden Shaheen (UAE-I) at Meydan as the main target. XPRESSBET NEW TITLE SPONSOR OF FLORIDA DERBY Online wagering provider Xpressbet has signed on as the title sponsor of Gulfstream Park's preeminent races for 3-year-olds, the Florida Derby (gr. I) and Fountain of Youth Stakes (gr. II). ALEXANDER BARKOFF / HODGES PHOTOGRAPHY Majestic Harbor (rail) and Eagle (green silks) got the co-second-highest Equibase Speed Figure among stakes horses in the Mineshaft Handicap (gr. III) Top 10 Equibase Speed Figures Since Feb. 16 Rank Horse Finish Race, Track, Distance, Date 1 Lucky Lotto 1 STR, AQU, 8.5f, 2/20 117 2 Majestic Harbor 1 Mineshaft H. (gr. III), FG, 8.5f, 2/20 116 2 Eagle 2 Mineshaft H. (gr. III), FG, 8.5f, 2/20 116 4 Good Luck Gus 1 Haynesfield S., AQU, 8.5f, 2/21 115 4 Royal Posse 2 Haynesfield S., AQU, 8.5f, 2/21 115 6 Ostrolenka 3 Haynesfield S., AQU, 8.5f, 2/21 113 6 Point Piper 3 Mineshaft H. (gr. III), FG, 8.5f, 2/20 113 8 Bellamy Way 1 AOC, AQU, 8.32f, 2/19 112 8 Cinco Charlie 1 Duncan F. Kenner S., FG, 6f, 2/20 112 8 Paulina's Love 1 Buena Vista S. (gr. IIT), SA, 8fT, 2/20 112 BLOOD-HORSE DAILY Download the FREE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2016 PAGE 3 OF 9 smartphone app HORSE OF THE YEAR FUTURA RETIRED By Sarah Whitelaw utura, last season's South African Horse of the FYear, champion older male, and champion mid- dle-distance horse, has officially been retired and will stand at Drakenstein Stud in 2016. Trained originally by Brett Crawford before mov- ing to trainer Justin Snaith, the 6-year-old son of Dynasty won first time out at 1,200 meters. A narrow subsequent defeat preceded three consecutive wins before a surprise defeat in the grade I Cup Trial. He finished a good third in the 2014 Vodacom Durban July (SAf-I) before landing his first of two Champions Cup (SAf-I) victories. Futura added wins in the 2015 L'Ormarins Queen's Plate and J&B Met (both SAf-I) before taking the Champions Cup a second time.