A Publication of the Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association PAThoroughbred pabred.com November 2018 pabred.com Issue 56 REPORT Sire Power in PA The 2019 stallion PA Sires Report roster in Pennsylvania has seven additions to of Mares Bred date – millionaires, graded winners, leading sires, up in 2018 stellar male lines, fabulous Page 21 Page 3 pedigrees and more. PA-Breds selling at KY Fall Kolybabiuks living Mixed Sales the dream Page 22 Dr. Yaroslaw Jerry and Maria Kolybabiuk call their peaceful New Jersey farm Freedom Acres for the purest of reasons – they came to America to pursue their 2018 PA-Bred dreams. That includes a growing stable of Stakes Schedule Pennsylvania-breds. Page 13 Page 28 B K’s Angus’ PA-Bred Horses of the Year Unique Bella and Page Second Career McKenney retired due to injuries Lauren Lindsay first started riding her new off-track Thoroughbred B K’s Angus less than a year ago. She has since been rewarded many times over, including taking the Pennsylvania- A Letter from Executive bred award at this year’s Retired Racehorse Secretary Brian Sanfratello Project’s Thoroughbred Makeover. Page 15 Page 18 Multiple Grade 1 SW Won/Placed in 19 Graded Stakes Earned $4,712,625 NEW for 2019 HOPPERTUNITY ANY GIVEN SATURDAY – REFUGEE, by UNACCOUNTED FOR • 2019 FEE: $5,000 LF Winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup S.-G1, over Millionaire & G1 SW EFFINEX “SPEED, CLASS, STAMINA and SOUNDNESS will make you a multimillionaire in this business. HOPPERTUNITY has them ALL. Shares and ” Lifetime Breeding - TRAINER BOB BAFFERT Right Available NORTHVIEW PA A DIVISION OF NORTHVIEW STALLION STATION Sire Power New Sires Headed To The Keystone State in 2019 Welcome Home Smarty Jones Stud Fee: $3,500 LF The Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association is pleased to announce that Smarty Jones is returning to Pennsylvania for the 2019 breeding season! Standing at: Equistar 30 Crooked Road, Annville PA For bookings, contact Rodney Eckenrode at 302-236-3886 #21 on the Lifetime Active Sire List $36 Million Lifetime Progeny Earnings Pennsylvania Horse Breeders Association . 701 E Baltimore Pike Suite E Kennett Square PA . 19348 . 610-444-1050 . www.pabred.com Hoppertunity Northview PA in Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania Multiple Grade 1 winner and multimillionaire Hop- for purchase and I thought they had brought me the wrong one. How could a horse that’s run 34 times, 31 of them stakes races, have legs pertunity will enter stud in 2019 at Northview PA in this clean and joints this tight?” Peach Bottom. With career earnings of $4,712,625, Hoppertunity was trained throughout his career by Bob Baffert for the 7-year-old becomes the richest horse ever to Karl Watson, Mike Pegram and Paul Weitman. The bay recorded 15 tri- ple-digit Beyer Speed Figures, and only twice in his career was he worse stand his first season in the Mid-Atlantic region. His than fourth. He won at distances up to a mile and a half, broke his stud fee is $5,000 live foal, with shares and lifetime maiden at one mile at Santa Anita, and faced the best runners in training breeding rights being offered. year after year. In a career that spanned five seasons and 34 starts, Hoppertunity “Speed, class, stamina, and soundness will make you a multimillion- had 22 top-three finishes while consistently racing at the highest level aire in this business. Hoppertunity has them all,” said Baffert. from coast-to-coast. His nine stakes wins were all graded, with Grade 1 A son of Grade 1-winning Any Given Saturday from the male line of scores in the historic Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park and Chur- Forty Niner, Hoppertunity is out of the graded stakes-placed Unaccount- chill Downs’ Clark Handicap. He made two trips to Dubai and hit the ed For mare Refugee. He is a half-brother to Grade 1 Del Mar Debu- board in the 2016 Dubai World Cup-G1 when third behind California tante and Grade 1 Chandelier winner Executiveprivilege, an earner of Chrome. He won the San Antonio Stakes-G2 twice at Santa Anita and the $999,000 from 10 starts. Refugee’s weanling filly by Tapit sold for $1.3 Brooklyn Invitational Stakes-G2 at Belmont. million at the 2015 Keeneland November Breeding Stock sale. The mare Hoppertunity recorded his first stakes win in the Grade 2 Rebel has since had foals by War Front and American Pharoah. Stakes at Oaklawn Park before finishing second to California Chrome in Hoppertunity’s third dam is champion and Hall of Famer Davona Dale, the Santa Anita Derby-G1 next out. He went into Derby Week at Churchill winner of the Filly Triple Crown of the Coaching Club American Oaks-G1, Downs as the second choice for the Kentucky Derby-G1 until a foot issue Mother Goose-G1 and Acorn-G1 as well as the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks, forced his defection two days before the race. He returned at the end of Fantasy and five other stakes. Her foals include Belmont Stakes-G1 the year to nail down the Clark Handicap over older horses. placed Le Voyageur. “I could go on and on about his racing statistics, but everyone can Hoppertunity and the rest of the roster, including the region’s leading look them up,” said Northview’s general manager David Wade. “What sire Jump Start, will be available for inspection at Northview PA’s open most haven’t seen yet is this horse. I went to Santa Anita to inspect him house on Saturday, Nov. 17. PA THOROUGHBRED REPORT 5 Warrior’s Reward WynOaks Farm in Delta, Pennsylvania Young graded stakes sire Warrior’s Reward will Warrior’s Reward ranked in the top 10 in the nation as a first-crop sire, as well as on the second-crop and third-crop sire lists. He has total be standing the 2019 season at Barbara and Chip progeny earnings in excess of $16.8 million, with nearly $5 million in Wheeler’s WynOaks Farm in Delta. The Grade 1-win- 2018. He is also the sire of 2018 stakes winners T Rex Express, who ning sprinter by Medaglia d’Oro is currently ranked captured the West Virginia Breeders Classic Distaff in October; 3-year- olds Georgia’s Reward, winner of Oaklawn’s Rainbow Miss Stakes in 38th in the nation on the leading general sires list, five starts, and New York stakes winner Battle Station; Yockey’s Warrior, above any other Mid-Atlantic stallion. The 12-year- back-to-back winner of Fair Grounds’ Thanksgiving Handicap who cap- tured the Duncan F. Kenner Stakes in his only start of 2018; Puerto Rican old dark bay will stand for $4,500 live foal in 2019, Group 2 winner Exclusivo and 15-time winner Medal of Courage. with special discounts for mares foaling in Pennsyl- Warrior’s Reward was the fastest 3-year-old colt in his year, recording vania. a 113 Beyer and winning at 7-furlongs at Churchill Downs in 1:21.60 With five crops of racing age, Warrior’s Reward has sired 21 stakes over Munnings, Reynaldothewizard and Custom for Carlos, and finishing winners, eight in 2018, led by graded winners Axelrod and Warrior’s second or third in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy, Grade 2 Dwyer and Grade 3 Club, both entered in this year’s Breeders’ Cup. The 3-year-old Axelrod Northern Dancer Stakes that year. He returned at 4 to capture the Grade takes aim at the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1, drawing post 12 1 Carter in 1:21.62 for 7 furlongs and added graded placings in the for the main event on the Saturday, Nov. 3 card at Churchill Downs. An Churchill Downs Stakes-G2 and Phoenix Stakes-G3 before retiring to earner of $732,925 from 10 starts, he goes into the Breeders’ Cup hav- stud with a record of four wins from 17 starts and earnings of $565,716. ing won the Smarty Jones Stakes-G3 at Parx and the Indiana Derby-G3. A son of champion sire Medaglia d’Oro out of a Seeking the Gold The swift Warrior’s Club, a career earner of $704,104 who captured mare, Warrior’s Reward is from the family of Canadian Horse of the Year this year’s Commonwealth Stakes-G3 at Keeneland and was second in Catch a Glimpse, English champion Forest Flower, English classic-win- Saratoga’s Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap and the Grade 2 Chur- ning millionaire Night of Thunder, and Grade 1 winner High Yield. chill Downs Stakes on Derby Day, will break from the four-post in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint-G1. PA THOROUGHBRED REPORT 7 GRADE 3 PLACED WINNER EASTWOOD SPEIGHTSTOWN – FIFTH AVENUE BALL, BY DEPUTY MINISTER 2019 FEE: $2,500 LIVE FOAL NEW FOR 2019 CATIENUS–MRS. K., BY DIXIELAND BAND 2019 FEE: $2,500 LIVE FOAL SON OF G1 BREEDERS’ CUP SPRINT CHAMPION AND ECLIPSE CHAMPION SPRINTER SPEIGHTSTOWN ANOTHER SON OF SPEIGHTSTOWN, MUNNINGS HAS SIRED MILLIONAIRES I’M A CHATTERBOX AND OM SPEIGHTSTER, also by Speightstown, has bred a full book each of his first two seasons at stud GLENN & BECKY BROK u 1671 TILDEN ROAD u MOHRSVILLE, PA 19541 u 610.659.2415 u WWW.DIAMONDBFARMPA.COM SOCIAL INCLUSION and EASTWOOD Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pennsylvania He’s a big horse, standing 16.3 hands; he’s got a lot of bone, with a big hip and shoulder. He’s built like a horse that can get you both speed and distance.” Eastwood was an $800,000 sales purchase at the 2013 Fasig-Tipton summer horses of racing age sale, the second highest-price of the sale, after posting eye-catching victories in his first two starts as a 3-year-old.