Z Racing Newsletter Z Volume 2, Issue 7, November 2012

2012 Breeders Cup World Championships

Fort Larned and had no rally finishing 7th in the won the featured 2012 Breed- Ladies Classic. ers Cup Classic and Ladies Trainer Frank Lucarelli’s Stormy Classic respectively. Groupie Lucy finished last in the Filly & Doll defeated Turbulent De- Mare turf but was only 7 lengths scent in the F&M Sprint. Frank back of the winner, 5 year-old Lucarelli trained runner Stormy mare Zagora, whose winning time Lucy and Northwest based filly was a very quick 1:59 3/5; a very Class Included finished un- good showing against the best in placed in the Ladies Classic the world. and F&M Turf. Turbulent Descent with John Velasquez up Royal Delta wins the Ladies Classic for The 2 year-old races determined In what would be Turbulent in the paddock for the F&M Sprint the 2nd year in a row for trainer Bill Mott who is the front runner for the Descent’s last race, she did not and owner Besilu Stables. 2013 Kentucky Derby when Star- exhibit the turn of foot of her light Racing and Coolmore’s Inside this issue: prime and finished 7th in a field Shanghai Bobby made it a perfect of 10. Fred Bradley’s home- 5 for 5 and won the BC Juvenile Breeders Cup News P.1 bred Groupie Doll, the winner of over Reddam Racing’s He’s Had 5 in a row since April with 3 of Enough. The Juvenile Fillies was Mizzen Mast is Sire of 2 BC P.1 them Grade 1’s, won the race won by Spendthrift Farm’s Be- Winners easily in 1:20 3/5 by 4 and 1/2 holder, by Henny Hughes, off of lengths. Breeders Cup Photographs P.2 an 11 length Allowance win and Mike and Amy Feuerborn’s who was 2nd by a nose to Execu- 2013 ZTR Offerings P.3 Class Included steadied when tiveprivilege in the Del Mar Debu- Shanghai Bobby with jockey Rosie rank entering the first turn and tante in July. Napravnik entering the starting gate. Mizzen Mast Leads All Sires with 2 Breeders Cup Wins in 2012 Flotilla (FR) and win the F&M Juvenile Turf and Turf Sprint

Mizzen Mast was the only stal- ed Stakes winners, and 29 lion to score a Grade 1 double total Stakes winners. at the Breeders Cup thanks to Mizzen Mast is the sire of the 4-year-old filly Mizdirection ZTR’s yearling colt who will be and the 2-year-old French filly offered for partnerships in Flotilla, both scoring wins on January 2013. turf. Mizzen Mast is following in the footsteps of his sire The ZTR colt’s broodmare sire Cozzene, a winner of the is El Prado (IRE), himself the Breeders Cup Mile who sired sire of Artie Schiller, the win- the BC Classic winner Alphabet ner of the 2005 BC Mile. Mizzen Mast is a 14 year-old , 16 . 1 1/2 Soup and the BC Turf winner Mizdirection’s scintillating stretch drive wins El Prado’s sire is Sadler’s hands stallion standing at Juddmonte Farm Tikkanen. the BC Turf Sprint against the boys. in Lexington, Kentucky Wells, the sire of 5 BC winners Mizzen Mast has had success with 6 wins, 5 of them on turf BC winners including Theatrical with the likes of Mast Track, including back-to-back wins in (IRE) the BC Turf winner in Madeo, Jibbom and Midships the BC Turf by High Chapparal 1987. making him popular in 2009, (IRE) in 2002/3. giving him a current crop of 96 The ZTR colt’s 2nd dam sire is 2-year-olds. He now has five Nureyev, himself the sire of 3 Grade 1 winners and 10 Grad-

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2012 Breeders Cup Photographs

Stormy Lucy, Blue Silks, in the F&M Turf

Ladies Classic Start

Groupie Doll

Class Included

Turbulent Descent Beholder on Rail Beating Executiveprivilege

2013 ZTR Offering is a Colt by Mizzen Mast and Filly By Good Reward

ZTR’s 2013 offering will in- Sunpenny is ZTR’s new filly is clude this unnamed Mizzen also in breaking training at Mast colt currently in breaking Jones & Jones farm in Ren- training at Jones & Jones farm ton, WA. She will be pointed in Renton. to the early 2 year-old races at Emerald Downs opening in Mizzen Mast is the colt’s sire April and is nominated to the and nearly half of Mizzen Northwest Race Series Mast’s Lifetime Stakes Per- stakes including the formers are Graded Stakes Gottstein Futurity. Performers and he has 5 This Mizzen Mast colt will be offered for Grade 1 winners in 7 crops. Her sire is Good Reward, a He is currently 12th on the full brother to the successful Sunpenny is a Washington-bred partnerships by Z Thoroughbred Racing by the Kentucky based stallion LLC in 2013. 2012 Turf Sires list in earnings stallion Pure Prize. Good and the colt’s broodmare sire Reward is a son of Storm Cat Good Reward. is El Prado (IRE). The colts 2nd and is 13th on the Kentucky dam sire is Nureyev, the prolif- based 3rd crop sires list. ic European turf runner, giving The filly’s dam, Cascade Co- the yearling an outlook of a rona by Pine Bluff, was the Mizzen Mast Colt Catalog Page very promising turf performer. winner of the Boeing and Sunpenny Filly Catalog Page The colt will be based primarily King County Handicaps in at Golden Gate Fields while 2004 at Emerald Downs at conducting his early training at age 4. Emerald Downs.

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Z Thoroughbred Racing LLC was founded by Steve Zerda in 2010 to bring the opportunity for thoroughbred ownership to more Z racing fans in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona. Steve is for- merly a successful airline executive whose interest in began back in 1978 when he calculated Beyer figures by hand for races at Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, and Del Mar. Steve has Z Thoroughbred Racing LLC studied pedigree analysis and conformation to enable the acquisition Steve Zerda of quality stock for racing. Along with his company based in Ren- President Phone: (206) 617-1534 ton, Washington, Steve previously owned a portion of the multiple E-mail: [email protected] Grade I winning filly Turbulent Descent based at Hollywood Park, winner as a 2 year-old in 2010 of the Grade I Hollywood Invest in Winning! Starlet , and an finalist for 2010. At 3, TD won the (GI) at Saratoga, the Santa Anita Oaks We’re on the web! (GI) and the Beaumont Stakes (GII) at and was 2nd zthoroughbredracing.com in the Las Virgenes (GI) and Acorn (GI) and finished 5th in the Breeder’s Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. She was 7-2-0 in 11 starts and had lifetime earnings of $901,350 prior to being sold to Cool- more in July of 2012.