Maryland Horse June 2013 Official publication of the Maryland Horse Breeders Association; Vol. 78, No. 6 Maryland champion Bold Affair goes out a winner for Reed, Zanella MARYLAND HORSE BREEDERS By Teresa Genaro ASSOCIATION INC. 30 East Padonia Road Timonium, MD 21093 P.O. Box 427 Timonium, MD 21094 410-252-2100 Fax 410-560-0503 Charles “Chip” Reed and www.marylandthoroughbred.com Mike Zanella first met on a BOARD OF DIRECTORS gambling trip organized by a 1 R. Thomas Bowman mutual friend. President “He said to me, ‘I want you Donald H. Barr to meet my friend Chip. I think Vice-president you’re really going to like this Milton P. Higgins III guy,’ ” recalled Zanella recent- Secretary-treasurer ly. “That’s how it started.” Cricket Goodall It was, as they say, the be- Executive director ginning of a beautiful friend- Richard F. Blue Jr., John C. ship. Davison, James T. Dresher Jr., Reed, now 67, had lived in Michael J. Harrison, JoAnn Hayden, R. Larry Johnson, Maryland his whole life; he Ann Merryman, Suzanne owns the iconic Corner Stable Moscarelli, Tom Mullikin, restaurant in Cockeysville, re- Edwin W. Merryman, E. Allen cently opening a second one in Murray, Joseph P. Pons Jr., Columbia. A New York native, William S. Reightler Jr., Zanella moved down from his Robert B. White upstate New York home about Directors Emeritus 30 years ago; his A to Z Loose- (served 18 years) leaf printing company is based J. William Boniface, King T. in Baltimore. Both of them Leatherbury, Donald P. Litz Jr., now live in Reisterstown. Robert T. Manfuso, Michael Zanella had grown up go- Pons, Katharine M. Voss ing to the races in Saratoga, Advisory Council while Reed discovered the Jim McCue (past MHBA presidents) racetrack when he began his J. William Boniface, William K. first job. final clearance. In the mean- “That’s where I developed my Boniface, Frank A. Bonsal, “I was right out of high time, you don’t have a whole love for horses. It was 1976.” William G. Christmas, Hal school and working at Fort lot to do.” He claimed his first horse C.B. Clagett III, Kimball C. Meade, about 15 or 20 minutes His supervisor, he said, was not long after that, with three Firestone, King T. Leatherbury, from Laurel Park,” he recount- an “everyday horseplayer.” of his friends. “It was two Dr. Robert Leonard, J.W.Y. ed. “I was working for the De- “So every day at lunch, years before we hit the board,” Martin Jr., Joseph P. Pons Jr., we’d go over to Laurel Park Michael Pons, James B. Steele partment of Defense, and it he recalled with mock – or Jr., Katharine M. Voss takes about a year to get your and play the horses,” he said. maybe real – dismay. three consecutive stakes victo- Reed knows what it’s like ries in Maryland. She crushed to own a good horse; he raced her rivals in the Maryland and bred Chip’s Dancer, Million Distaff at Laurel in champ ion Maryland-bred 1 October by a daunting 13 ⁄4 3-year-old of 1993. But for lengths. Zanella, “beginner’s luck” Unsurprisingly, the Mary- may be something of an un- land-bred filly with Maryland derstatement. The only horses connections who raced pri- he’s ever owned, all in Bold marily in Maryland built up Affair’s family, have been quite a local fan club. Trained winners. by Howard Wolfendale, she “I’ve been very fortunate,” came back and reeled off three he acknowledged. “They’re victories to start 2013, repeat- all winners. I’m afraid to go ing her 2012 scores in the Con- outside the family. Why ruin a niver at Laurel and the Prim- good thing?” Lydia A. Williams Lydia onetta at Pimlico. Even he admits, though, Mike Zanella (left) and Chip Reed during an interview after The plan, said Reed, was that he may end up with an- Bold Affair’s Maryland Million Distaff win last fall. to start her next in the Skipat other horse sooner rather than at Pimlico on Preakness Day, later. a race she won last year, then With the retirement of Bold His partner Zanella had it a en special weight at Delaware give her the summer off before Affair, Reed and Zanella have little easier. Park,” he remembered, laugh- bringing her back in the Mary- no horses racing. Hunka Hun- “He’d ask me if I ever want- ing. “I had about 30 people land Million in October. ka Lori Z has Cushing’s Dis- ed to get involved in the game, there. People came from New But within days of her ease and has not been in foal and I’d say, ‘By all means, but York, my relatives were there. Primonetta victory April 20, for the last three years. She’s I have to wait a little while.’ I and she finished last.” Zanella and Reed made quite with a specialist in Kentucky, had a daughter in college, and Bucked shins resulted in a a different decision, saying and they are hopeful that I said, ‘Once she graduates, three-month layoff, and Hun- that Bold Affair would be re- she’ll be bred this year. we’ll go,’” said Zanella. ka Hunka Lori Z returned in tired and bred to Ghostzapper. Lori Z’s Punch retired at A littler sooner than December at Laurel Park for “She’s raced 19 times and the end of 2012 and is in foal planned, he got a call from her second start. won nine stakes races,” said to Majestic Warrior. Hunka’s Reed, who was at a Fasig-Tip- “Of course she wins,” Zan- Reed. “She’s been good to us, Victory was given to a local 2 ton Midlantic sale at Timo- ella said, “and we had like and it was time. There wasn’t school with a riding program. nium. “He said, ‘I know you four people there.” a whole lot more we could “That was our last race,” told me you weren’t ready, She was one of those horses prove with her.” said Zanella, referring to Bold but I think I got one for us,’” that make racing look like an “The decision had been on Affair’s win in the Primonetta. Zanella remembered. “I said, easy game: “Hunka Hunka” the back burner,” said Zanella. “That’s why it was a pretty ‘I’ll talk to my wife, but I’m earned $266,533, a pretty nice “She ran her race and won it, sad day, and it’s going to be ready. Let’s do it.’ introduction to racing for first- and we said, ‘Well, maybe this long drought for three years.” “The rest is history.” time owner Zanella. Little did is the time.’ We got the oppor- Both Lori Z’s Punch and The horse they bought that he know when she retired that tunity to go to Ghostzapper, Bold Affair will, if all goes as day in 1999, a Colonial Affair the success was just begin- so we decided not to lose this planned, have foals in 2014; yearling out of the Raja Baba ning. season.” those foals wouldn’t race be- mare Bunka Bunka, became Hunka Hunka Lori Z’s Still, he admitted, “It’s a fore 2016, which might just be Hunka Hunka Lori Z. They first two foals, Lori Z’s Punch sad day. Exciting, but sad.” too long for these partners to paid $7,000 for her. (by Two Punch) and Hunka’s wait to have a horse to root for. “She was very, very good- Victory (by Victory Gallop), Their horse-of-a-lifetime looking,” said Reed. “But she were both winners, earning has left them with few re- “We might go to an auc- had no X-rays. She was a very $209,635 and $62,370. Her grets, retiring with earnings tion and buy something,” said tough mare and when they third foal was the horse of rac- of $719,540 and a record of Zanella. tried to do the X-rays, she field ing – and breeding – dreams. 19-12-2-3. But first, they celebrated goal-kicked the machine Reed owned a share in “It’s just been a tremen- their mare one more time, about 50 feet. I looked at her Two Punch, and in 2007 bred dous ride,” said Reed. “We when she was named cham- and thought she was fine, and Hunka Hunka Lori Z back to wished we’d been able to run pion Maryland-bred older fe- I was prepared to go quite a him. Bold Affair was born on in Saratoga or in the Barbara male at the Maryland Horse bit higher than we ended up May 12, 2008, at Green Willow Fritchie at Laurel, but it didn’t Breeders Association Awards paying. I loved her breeding Farm in Westminster. work out. We thought we’d Dinner at Pimlico May 11. and I loved her look, and She didn’t race as a 2-year- run in the Fritchie this year, And when Bold Affair is bred, when the bidding stopped at old, but when she hit the track but the track came up bad, she’ll come back to Maryland $7,000, I looked around. I the next year, she made up for and she hadn’t trained well to Green Willow Farm, where didn’t think I had the last bid, lost time, breaking her maiden over the mud. We thought she was born, to foal. but sure enough, I did.” first out and winning four of we’d run in Saratoga last year, “Her foal will absolutely be Predictably excited about six races in 2011, including the but we ended up giving her a Maryland-bred,” Reed de- his first race horse, Zanella $200,000 Jostle Stakes at Parx.