TALES FROM THE HEATH P9 FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2014 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here FEATURE PRESENTATION • GII JEROME S. Tommy and Wyndee Eastham officially announced the relaunch of Legacy Bloodstock a few weeks ago and the Lexington-based GYARMATI, TREADWAY TEAM UP IN JEROME agency will have its first by Catlyn Spivey consignment in two years at Trainer Leah Gyarmati and owner Jeff Treadway are next week=s Keeneland January all too familiar with racing=s ups and downs. A sale. Tommy Eastham formerly newcomer to the business, Treadway of Treadway co-owned Legacy with Mark Racing stables, became a part of Gyarmati=s New York Toothaker and, during a seven- stable a few years ago, and the road has been a bumpy year stretch, the agency sold one. A bit of bad luck in 2012 had Gyarmati frustrated nine sales toppers and with how things were unfolding. numerous Grade I winners, AA few of the horses we thought were going to be including champion Stardom superstars didn=t work out, things just happened, bad Bound (Tapit). Ahead of the luck,@ she said. January sale, Eastham sat Tommy and Wyndee Eastham Since that time, the duo combined to produce their down with TDN=s Jessica first graded stakes winner in Sweet Reason (Street Martini to discuss the reemergance of Legacy. Sense), who took the TDN Q & A cont. p4 GI Spinaway at Saratoga TDN TODAY Sept. 1, and earned a trip to Headline News.. 11 pages the 2013 Breeders= Cup. AIt was a big relief,@ said Gyarmati. AJeff is a great owner Noble Moon A Coglianese and he really showed a lot of patience. In this business so many things can go wrong and every year it was one thing after another. Last year was the year that nothing went wrong and hopefully things will keep going that way this year.@ Sweet Reason was given a rest after a fourth-place finish in the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies, but the team wasted no time bringing up another promising youngster. Noble Moon (Malibu Moon) followed up a wire-to-wire maiden win at Belmont Sept. 14 with a third in the GII Nashua S. Nov. 3. Squeezed at the break, the colt trailed the field early, but made a sweeping six-wide move on the turn and finished third behind Cairo Prince (Pioneerof the Nile). Gyarmati is set to saddle the morning-line favorite for Saturday=s GII Jerome S., and she believes the trouble in the Nashua answered a lot of questions. 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AHe got a case of the hives the night before and he AYou never know when a horse goes wire-to-wire just seemed to be really uncomfortable,@ Gyarmati what they will do when they have to play catch-up,@ explained. AHis face started to blow up and I had to the trainer continued. AI did have a little bit of a treat him to make him more comfortable.@ question about that when we were breezing him early In addition to an exciting 3-year-old colt in the barn, on. When he would get behind horses he seemed a bit Gyarmati and Treadway have the return of Sweet disinterested. He seems to have matured, and the Reason to look forward to in 2014. Nashua was a good representation of that. He got hit AI gave her 30 days off at Patricia Hogan=s in New pretty hard. He had every reason in the world not to Jersey,@ Gyarmati offered. AShe has been back now for make that run. I=ve worked him long a couple times, the about three weeks. I have not breezed her yet, but last time we sat off another horse, so he=s good to go.@ today she did a little two-minute-lick. She will probably A $200,000 yearling purchase at Keeneland breeze this next week as soon as we get a nice track. September, Noble Moon was one of three purchases by She looked great when she came back and she=s doing Treadway--the other two were Sweet Reason and really well.@ recent maiden winner Street Gent (Street Sense). ASweet Reason and Noble Moon were both bought ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ out of the same sale,@ Gyarmati explained. AJeff is very NOTE: In accordance with the policy of the American good at pedigrees and he had a nice list of some well- Graded Stakes Committee, last Saturday=s renewal of bred horses. Between what looked good and what he the GIII W. L. McKnight H. at Calder was automatically wanted to spend, those were the three we ended up downgraded to Listed status and conducted as such. with.@ The AGSC has reviewed the off-turf running of the race Gyarmati credits the switch from buying 2-year-olds and has determined that the original Grade III status of in training to buying yearlings for much of their the race will be reinstated. Twilight Eclipse (Purim) will success. be credited with a Grade III victory, while Dannhauser AThese were the first yearlings we bought,@ she said. (Johannesburg) and Flatter This (Flatter) earn Grade III AWhen you have control from the beginning with how they are trained and how fast they go, it makes a big placings. difference.@ After his troubled trip in the Nashua back in November, Noble Moon was entered for the GII Remsen Click here to access TDN Progeny PPs S. Nov. 30, but scratched the morning of the race. TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 1/3/14 • PAGE 4 of 11 • thoroughbreddailynews.com TDN Q&A cont. TDN: What prompted your decision to relaunch Legacy Bloodstock? TE: I think the overall health of the market and just starting to see an emergence of the smaller breeder started it. And, personally, I think it is a good time for me in my career. I=ve learned a lot of lessons and my experiences are greater now. But probably the main reason is just because my kids are showing an interest. If they decide to take this route in the horse business-- which I would love for them to do--one day I would want them to have the ability to do it. TDN: Your family is obviously a big part of the new Legacy. How many kids do you have? TE: We have three young boys--ages 10, 7 and 5. They are wanting to get involved in the business. TDN: So, they=re not on the payroll quite yet! Your wife has worked for Breeders= Cup and NTRA. Will this be the first time you=ll be working together. TE: My wife has been involved in the horse business for a long time and we=ve worked in the same industry working for the same goals, but never side by side. Being able to share this with her is great. TDN: Is it intimidating, are you worried at all, to be working with your wife? TE: It is.