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FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 2017 PINHOOK COULD PROVIDE GEORGIA ON THEIR MIND--WITH OR WITHOUT A TRACK by T.D. Thornton YAGODA WITH FIRST Two of the executive officers of the Georgia Horse Racing Coalition (GHRC) readily acknowledge that the decades-long GRADE I SCORE push to get pari-mutuel wagering legalized in the conservative Peach State once again faces long odds during the 2018 legislative session. Yet the daunting proposition hasn=t stopped Tom Schulte and John AJack@ Damico from starting up a small Thoroughbred breeding and racing operation 50 miles north of Atlanta just in case. The two Georgia-based Thoroughbred boosters have had little difficulty enticing local friends and business acquaintances to buy into the initial partnership shares they offered earlier this year on an auction-acquired crop of three yearlings and two broodmares. Nor, they said, is it hard to sell civic leaders on the visually stunning Aracetrack of the future@ design the GHRC commissioned from a renowned sports architecture firm that integrates a sleek, modern, horse-racing facility within a bustling, mixed-use, verdant public space. Cont. p4 (click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Aron Yagoda with Decorator Jenn (Shackleford) | Adam Coglianese ENABLE DOMINATES YORKSHIRE OAKS By Christie DeBernardis Enable (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) made it four Group 1 wins on the SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY -- Aron Yagoda will be the first to tell bounce with a facile score in Thursday’s Yorkshire Oaks. Click or you that he doesn=t keep any of his horses long enough for them tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. to carry his purple and white silks to a graded stakes score. The longtime owner prefers to claim and resell after a couple of races or pinhook. However, it is Yagoda=s resale policy that has connected him to a Grade I contender Saturday in GII Woody Stephens S. victor American Anthem (Bodemeister), who will be one of the favorites in the GI H. Allen Jerkens S. (formerly the King=s Bishop). ATom McGreevy picks my pinhooks and my partners [Jon and Len Green of DJ Stables] and I bought him for $180,000 from Book 1 of Keeneland September,@ said Yagoda, while watching horses work over the Saratoga main track Thursday morning. AWe made a list of sires and what we thought we would pay for them. Bodemeisters were very popular at the sales and we had a limit for his foals of $200,000. I try to stay away from a lot of the bubble sires for pinhooking at the higher dollar level. I try to stay with either the proven sires or first-year sires that have a lot of hype behind them.@ Cont. p3 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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It is hard to do that at Fasig July or Saratoga where first-crop of 2012 GI Arkansas Derby winner Bodemeister, every horse is being looked at multiple times.@ American Anthem sold to breeder WinStar Farm and China He continued, AThey are all there to sell, but sometimes they Horse Club for $435,000 at the OBS March sale after breezing in don=t. After OBS June, you run out of sales and then you have to :10 1/5. sell privately, which is tough, or sell on the racetrack. None of AHe was the most expensive horse [consignor] Pat Hoppel ever them are bought with the intent to end up in either of our silks.@ sold,@ Yagoda said. AI thought we would be in the $300,000 If a pinhooking prospect does not sell, Yagoda will keep it and range, but he became one of the now horses at the sale. He was race it with the hope of selling it later. He currently has 15 vetted 17 times, which is actually much more [than it appears], horses in training, spread between New York, Delaware and as the different vets represent multiple clients.@ Ohio. The New York native continued, AThe day of the sale, he had a AI try to claim fillies, race them once or twice, and sell them as little bit of a belly ache and he came off of a lot of people=s lists. broodmares and broodmare prospects,@ Yagoda said. AI have We bought him from WinStar and WinStar with China Horse one colt, Asset Allocation (Tiz Wonderful), who was a leftover Club actually bought him back. After the sale, we kept him for from pinhooking last year and he just won at Delaware the other two weeks and got him right, then WinStar honored their sale day.@ and the rest is history for them.@ Yagoda is a very hands-on A debut winner at Del Mar for owner, meticulously studying Hall of Famer Bob Baffert in the condition book, pedigrees, December, American Anthem sheets and past performances, finished a close second behind looking for the perfect spot for MGISW Gormley (Malibu Moon) a horse or his next investment. in the GIII Sham S. next out Jan. 7. He hand picks all of his claims Going a bit off form when and also consults trainer Linda stretched out for the GII Rebel S. Rice, who conditions his New and GI Santa Anita Derby this York string. spring, the dark bay rebounded ALinda and I work really well when cut back in trip for the together,@ Yagoda said. AWe go GIII Lazaro Barrera S., coasting over it and try to pick home to a 1 3/4-length victory something we can both live May 13, and followed suit with a with and go on from there. We decisive score in the Woody American Anthem | Christie DeBernardis always have a plan. I don=t just Stephens at Belmont last time open the paper and say let=s June 10. claim this one. I look for pace, bias and trip. I look for subtleties ATom picks a lot of good horses [including two-time champion others may have missed.@ Songbird (Medaglia d=Oro)] and he is my closest friend,@ Yagoda When not at the track, Yagoda is hard at work as Executive said. AAny of those can turn out to be good and it happened to Vice President of Streit=s Matzo, which was founded by his be him in this case.@ great-grandfather Aron Streit in 1925, but his career in racing Under McGreevy=s guidance, Yagoda and his partners can also be seen as continuing the family business. purchase eight to 10 yearlings per year and resell them at the 2-year-old sales the following spring, preferring to stay in the Cont. p4 $200,000 or less price range. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM FRIDAY • AUGUST 25, 2017 Yagoda cont. AWe wanted a place where I could just play, kind of do it all AThis is my 30th year owning horses, but my grandfather and myself,@ Schulte said. AIf you=re an owner, it=s nice to have my dad owned horses,@ Yagoda said. AI=m the third generation of horses in Lexington or Ocala or wherever. But if you can have horse owners, but I have the bug the worst. I have win pictures them in your backyard, it=s a lot more enjoyable.@ going back to the 1940s with my grandfather=s horses. In fact, I Despite the limited stock, auction buyers would be wise not to try to reuse the names of some of his old horses and I try to win dismiss Southern Oak Farm as an unfamiliar seller based on how on certain dates he won.@ the catalogue pages of some of their future offerings are While Yagoda tries to keep his family=s racing traditions alive, shaping up.