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HEATSEEKERGiant’s Causeway-Rusty Back, by Defensive Play In 2013, seven �rst-crop 3-year-olds have won or placed in stakes on turf, dirt and synthetic surfaces and �ve second-crop 2-year-olds in training averaged $89,000 at public auction. Fee: $5,000 Live Foal

THORN SONGUnbridled’s Song-Festal, by Storm BirdWire-to-wire Grade I winner twice at one mile and the only millionaire son of UNBRIDLED’S SONG standing outside of Kentucky. First foals will race at two in 2014. Fee: $2,500 Live Foal

LUCKY J. H. Cee’s Tizzy-Lucky C. H., by A. P. IndySire of Hollywood Park 2-year-old stakes winner ALPINE LUCK ($162,034) and undefeated 3-year-old Glorious Luck ($123,660) from 13 starters in 2013.Fee: $1,500 Live Foal

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UNUSUAL HEATNureyev-Rossard, by GlacialEclipse Award Champion sire and �ve-time leading sire in California has lifetime earnings of $40,680,349, 10 graded winners and an average earnings per runner of $90,200. Fee: $20,000 Live Foal

LUCKY PULPITPulpit-Lucky Soph, by CozzeneAverage earnings per runner of $54,620 produces positive results in the auction ring in 2013 as eight Barretts October Sale yearlings averaged $29,525 – nearly 12X his stud fee of $2,500 Live Foal.

DESERT CODEE Dubai-Chatta Code, by Lost CodeInaugural Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (now G1) winner and millionaire currently ranks second among California’s Freshman sires by Average Earnings per Runner. Fee: $2,000 Live Foal

For her �rst Grade I win in the Rodeo Drive Stakes as the 6-5 favorite, TIZ FLIRTATIOUS earned a fees-paid start to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf-G1 at Santa Anita on November 2. The California-bred daughter of TIZBUD owned and bred by Pamela Ziebarth has raced exclusively in stakes in 2012-2013, compiling a career record of 12-8-3-1 and earnings of $774,800.

TIZBUD, a G2-placed stakes-winning brother to TIZNOW, is one of only two “Active” California sires to have a Grade I winner in North America this year. From 49 starters, he is also represented by G1-placed Soi Phet ($260,940) and stakes-placed 3-year-olds Nina’s Dragon (G3) and Ambitious Brew.

Fee: $1,500 Live Foalby Cee’s Tizzy – Cee’s Song, by Seattle Song • Property of Pamela Ziebarth

October found the California Thoroughbred BreedersAssociation (CTBA) very busy.

On Oct. 8, many CTBA members participated in BarrettsSales & Racing’s October Yearling Sale. This auction was thelast opportunity to sell yearlings in California during 2013.California-breds once again performed well by securing thetop five prices of the sale.

Four days later, a wonderful group of current and prospec-tive CTBA members boarded a bus and spent a beautiful,sunny Saturday on the CTBA’s Central Valley Stallion Tour.

I was fortunate to be able to attend, lending support toCTBA Past President Leigh Ann Howard, who had workedhard to have the farms prepared, the stallions ready, andkeep everything moving smoothly on our tour.

The first stop was Madera Thoroughbreds, owned by Caland Jill Fischer. Our tour group viewed their resident stal-lion Elusive Warning, as well as the pensioned sire Lil Tyler,who is 30 years young!

Next was Rivendell Ranch, where we were hosted by ownersMyron and Jane Johnson. After we viewed the stallion Trap-per, Myron demonstrated their trailer trainer designed after asimilar one constructed by Leigh Ann. This device teacheshorses to load safely into any trailer or large van.

Our bus arrived next at theJohnston family’s Old EnglishRancho, where we enjoyed viewing Surf Cat, Cyclotron,Big Bad Leroybrown and Vronsky. We also were privilegedto view Acclamation, the only stallion currently standingin California who is an Eclipse Award winner! Old EnglishRancho also treated us with some refreshments.

Our last stop was Carol Lingenfelter’s Poplar Meadows,home of Bedford Falls. During a delicious lunch combinedwith fun raffles, we also viewed several of this sire’s off-spring. At the conclusion of our meal, Carol brought outBedford Falls for all of us to admire.

All the stallions and youngsters were well-behaved andgave participants a unique opportunity to view each individ-ual and gain insight on potential breedings. During the tour,

we educated attendees who were not CTBA members aboutour membership benefits. I pointed out that with a CTBAmembership, one pays a lower fee to register foals, is eligiblefor annual racetrack passes, and receives the California Thor-oughbred magazine and stallion directory.

Our new Golden State Series program was also discussed.The benefits of breeding and owning Cal-breds eligible forthese 30 stakes races, which offer total purses of $5.275million, were eagerly received. It was also mentioned thatseveral of the stallions we were visiting were being offeredat the CTBA’s upcoming Stallion Season Auction that bene-fits our Political Action Committee (PAC) fund.

Our PAC has benefited immensely from the generousdonations made at our stallion auctions. Stallion seasons for2014 have been donated by numerous farms throughout thestate and will be auctioned on Tuesday, Dec. 3. Our PAC isvital for working with legislators in Sacramento. We haveworked extensively in the past to educate and bring legisla-tors to farms and the various big race days. Their responsehas been overwhelming, and their enthusiasm has carriedback to the bills that we support or are a part of. We hopeyou are able to take advantage of the stallion seasonsoffered during our upcoming auction.

Santa Anita Park will once again host the World Cham-pionships of horse racing, Breeders’ Cup, on Nov. 1-2. TheCTBA and Thoroughbred Owners of California (TOC)will hold an “Open House” at our office on Wednesday,Oct. 30. This year will be the first time that two state-bredstakes races will be carded at Breeders’ Cup. These black-typeraces in our Golden State Series being held on Friday, Nov 1,are the Golden State Juvenile and Golden State JuvenileFillies. They offer a great opportunity for national recogni-tion of our Cal-bred stakes program and the benefits ofowning a Cal-bred. We are also joining the NTRA andJohn Deere to host a booth near Clockers’ Corner duringthe week leading up to Breeders’ Cup.

We hope to see many of you there.

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California-bred Acclamation, the 2011 Eclipse Champion Older Male and 2011-2012 California Horse of the Year,is presented to the participants of CTBA’s Central Valley Stallion Tour on October 12, 2013.

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Top TierIt’s only the few who make it to the top tier of the Thoroughbred business,

and some of these leaders from the local industry are celebrated in thisNovember 2013 issue of California Thoroughbred.

Firstly, we have Vessels Stallion Farm, the 1,300-acre Thoroughbred andQuarter Horse facility in Bonsall that is now in the capable hands of Frank“Kash” Vessels IV and which is home to California’s current leading freshmansire, Paul Reddam’s Square Eddie. Kash has managed the farm since the unex-pected August 2010 death of his dad Frank “Scoop” Vessels III who, with hisown mom Millie, purchased this property three decades ago and then developedit into one of the premier farms in the Golden State.

Also gracing the cover of this magazine, the official publication of theCalifornia Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA), are the California-bredsTiz Flirtatious and Points Offthebench. Reviewed in detail are their respective winsin the Rodeo Drive Stakes and Santa Anita Sprint Championships Stakes, two ofthe recent grade I prep races for this year’s running of the Breeders’ Cup WorldChampionships at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia on Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday,Nov. 2.

This duo also feature in an article analyzing the eight Cal-breds among thepre entries for horse racing’s biggest days of the year, while our latest CTBAMember Profile covers the equine exploits of Dr. Bruce Zietz, the breeder of dual2012 stakes winner Qiaona and owner of promising first-crop sire Roi Charmant.

The CTBA’s Central Valley Stallion Tour on Oct. 12, and the October Year-ling Sale hosted by Barretts Sales & Racing on Oct. 8, both receive in-depthreviews, and there is also an article on the Finish Line Sports Grill, located in thelatter’s Hinds Pavilion at Faiprlex in Pomona.

Racing In Southern California spotlights the past month’s stakes wins atSanta Anita by the Cal-bred quartet of Teddy’s Promise, Aotearoa, Qiaona andA Toast to You, while the Northern California Report highlights the black-typevictories by the Cal-breds Marks Mine and Life is a Joy at Stockton in Sep-tember and Fresno in October, respectively.

The latest chapter in out Cal-Bred Millionaires’ Row series features the 2011Eclipse Champion Older Male, Acclamation, who became the 56th locally bredrunner to reach this milestone with a victory in the grade I, $1,000,000 TVGPacific Classic Stakes at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in August of 2011.

A Blast From The Past revisits the story of Individual Style, the 1993 Cali-fornia Champion Two-Year-OldMale, and Down On The Farm dealswith the signs, cause, treatment andprevention of Potomac Horse Fever.

Last but not least, there is a GuestForum piece by Ken Snyder thatreminds us how great Jerry Lambertthe jockey and Native Diver the leg-endary Cal-bred were together,while the balance of the magazineincludes all our other regularcolumns, features and departmentsthat we hope will also prove to beboth enjoyable and helpful.

Until next time, may you breedthe best to the best and not justhave to hope for the best!

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In the Company of. . .Ted and Judy Nichols (left), the breedersand owners of the grade I-winning California champion

Teddy’s Promise who is pointing for the grade I, $1,000,000Breeders’ Cup Sprint after three black-type wins this year,during the Annual Awards Dinner hosted by the California

Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) atThe Westin Pasadena hotel on February 13, 2012.

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Chief Earner/Stallion Runners Winners Earnings Earnings

Tribal Rule 190 94 Ethnic Dance $4,044,275($249,500)

Unusual Heat 115 56 Surfcup $3,900,978($364,860)

Ministers Wild Cat 116 75 Tiz a Minister $3,035,747($405,000)

Eddington 125 70 Brushed by a Star $2,489,257($170,200)

Benchmark 108 61 Points Offthebench $2.422,061($434,780)

Kafwain 115 64 Raging Daoust $2,256,225($193,800)

Bertrando 101 45 Tamarando $1,924,046($273,120)

Old Topper 98 56 Hail Mary $1,813,591($198,288)

Southern Image 82 52 Winning Image $1,474,117($139,300)

Tizbud 49 22 Tiz Flirtatious $1,417,524($500,000)

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FeaturesThe Grade California-Breds: Tiz Flirtatious—More Good Times At The Races

by Gene Williams

The Grade California-Breds: Points Offthebench—What Might Have Beenby Gene Williams

Breeders’ Cup World Championships: Cal-Bred Grade I Winners Lead The Bid For Breeders’ Cup Gloryby Gene Williams

CTBA Member Profile: Dr. Bruce Zietz—Putting Theory Into Practiceby Steve Schuelein

Stallion Tours: 2013 Central Valley Stallion Tourby Lisa Groothedde

Regional Sales: Beginner’s Luckby Lisa Groothedde

Industry Insight: Finish Line Sports Grill—Exception To The Ruleby Marcie Heacox

Racing In Southern California: Cal-Breds Win Important Breeders’ Cup Prepsby Marcie Heacox

Northern California Report: Cal-Bred Consistencyby Jerry Klein

Cal-Bred Millionaires’ Row: #56 Acclamation—Leaving A Great Impressionby Emily Shields

A Blast From The Past: Individual Style—Bred To Be A Championby Jackie Barnes

Down On The Farm: Potomac Horse Feverby Heather Smith Thomas

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One of the premier Thoroughbred facilities inCalifornia is the 1,300-acre Vessels Stallion Farmin Bonsall, owned by the Vessels Family Trust andhome to the Golden State’s current leading fresh-man sire, Paul Reddam’s Square Eddie, a gradeI-winning son of Smart Strike whose progenyalready include the dual stakes winner Sprouts.©Vessels Stallion Farm

The California-bred duo of Tiz Flirtatious andPoints Offthebench were the respective winners ofSanta Anita Park’s September 28 Rodeo Drive Stakesand October 5 Santa Anita Sprint ChampionshipStakes, both grade I events worth $250,500.©Benoit & Associates

A Complete Review Of The 30th Edition Of TheBreeders’ Cup World Championships

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The $160,000sale-topper duringthis year’s OctoberYearling Sale hostedby Barretts Sales &Racing at Faiplex inPomona on Oct. 8,was a California-bredcolt by the RanchoSan Miguel stallionThe Pamplemousseout of stakes winnerTizakitty who wassold to Arnold B.Zetcher LLC fromAdrian Gonzalez’sCheckmate Thorough-breds consignment.


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Leading Sires in California

Leading Lifetime Sires in California

Leading Two-Year-Old Sires in California

Dates in California

CTBA Calendar

Classified Advertising

Indexes to Advertisers & Stallions Advertised

From the Executive Corner: A Busy Timeby Sue Greene

Managing Editor’s Welcome: Top Tierby Rudi Groothedde

Guest Forum: Jerry & “Diver,” A Tandem For The Agesby Ken Snyder

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Introducing to California Breeders...Grade 1 Winner and Million Dollar Earner

By a Champion, Out of a Champion

With a Championship Pedigree for dirt and a

proven Championship Performance on turf

•G1 Winner of $1,052,520• Career Record: 5 wins,

5 seconds in 14 starts• G1 Clement Hirsch, turf• G2 San Luis Obispo, turf• G2 Del Mar Handicap, turf• G1 Breeders Cup Turf

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Richard Mandella• Stallion is Breeders' Cup

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Standing at Legacy Ranch || Clements, California || (209) 759-3315

SIRE: Fusaichi Pegasus• Champion in United States• $4 million dollar yearling• Syndicated for $60 million• Sire of G1 Bandini and G1 Roman Ruler• 6 wins in 9 states, including:

• G2 Jerome, 1 mile on dirt• G2 Wood Memorial, 11/8 miles on dirt• G2 San Felipe, 11/16 miles on dirt• G1 Kentucky Derby, 11/4 miles on dirt

DAM: Salt Champ

• Champion in Argentina

• Winner of 3 Grade 1 races in Argentina

• Career 5 wins in 8 starts

• Winner of only start in United States, G1 Santa Monica, 7/8 mile on dirt, defeating G1 defending champion and $2 million earner Island Fashion

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Ultimate Eagle, winner of the 2011 Hollywood Derby (grade I) at 1 1/4 miles on theturf, has been retired after three seasons of racing and will stand his first season at stud atSpecial T Thoroughbreds in Temecula next year. The five-year-old son of Mizzen Mastand Captain Bodgit’s multiple stakes winner Letithappencaptain earned $547,800 from 13starts while also winning two grade II events at 1 1/8 miles, the grassy Oak Tree Derby in2011, and the 2012 Strub Stakes on the dirt.

Brazeau Thoroughbreds in Hemet is welcoming two new stallions for 2014; six-year-old Make Music for Me and five-year-old World Renowned. The former is a dual grade I-placed stakes winner by Bernstein, out of Carson City’s black-type victor Miss Cheers,

while the latter is a winning son of A.P. Indy and the dual grade I winner Splendid Blended, by Unbridled’s Song.Next year will also see the retirement to stud of Hidden Blessing, a winner on both dirt and turf from 5 1/2 furlongs to

1 1/16 miles. Fruitful Acres Farm in Aguanga will stand this seven-year-old by Oreintate, out of the winning Mr. Greeleymare Fast ‘n Fleet.

Grade I Winner Ultimate Eagle To Stud In California For 2014

During its monthly meeting at Fairplex Park inPomona on Oct. 24, the California Horse RacingBoard (CHRB) gave final approval to SouthernCalifornia’s 2014 and 2015 racing calendars,taking into account the scheduled closure ofBetfair Hollywood Park next month.

Santa Anita Park’s Spring/Summer meetingwas expanded and the Del Mar ThoroughbredClub now has an autumn meet, while Los AlamitosRace Course was granted five weeks of Thoroughbredracing contingent upon it converting its current dirttrack from five furlongs to one mile.

The following is the schedule of meets in SouthernCalifornia for the next two years:

2014Santa Anita Park – December 26, 2013 through July 2,

2014 & September 25 through November 2;Los Alamitos Race Course – July 3 through

July 13 & December 4 through December 21;Del Mar Thoroughbred Club – July 16

through September 3 & November 5 throughDecember 3; Fairplex Park – September 4through September 23.

2015Santa Anita Park – December 26, 2014 through July 1,

2015 & September 26 through October 25;Los Alamitos Race Course – July 2 through July 12 &

December 3 through December 20;Del Mar Thoroughbred Club – July 15 through

September 7 & October 28 through December 2;Fairplex Park – September 10 through September 25.

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In October, four runners out of California-bred mareswon stakes races.

On Oct.4, the grade III, $200,000 Stoll Keenon OgenPhoenix Stakes at Keeneland in Kentucky was won forthe second consecutive year by the four-year-old colt Sumof the Parts. Out of 18-year-old Enjoy the Moment,Slew’s Royalty’s multiple graded stakes-winningCalifornia champion who was bred by Jacoby FamilyTrust, the four-time stakes winner has earned $716,543from a 15-6-2-0 record.

At Ascot in England the following day, another son ofSpeightstown, the five-year-old gelding Tropics, won theJohn Guest Bengough Stakes to improve his record to13-6-3-1 and $484,510 in earnings. This dual stakes win-ner’s dam Taj Aire, a 1991 daughter of Taj Alriyadh who

produced five other stakes performers, was a stakes winnerbred by John and Doris Konecny.

The winner of the $100,000 Barbaro Stakes atDelaware Park in Delaware on Oct. 9, was three-year-oldPurple Egg, by Lion Heart out of Prized’s 18-year-oldstakes-placed, four-time winner Luminous Prize who wasbred by Cardiff Farm Management Corp. The dual stakes-winning gelding has a bankroll of $181,900 from four winsand a third in seven starts.

On Oct. 20, the sophomore filly Toasting won the$100,000 Dream Rush Stakes at Belmont Park in NewYork. By Congrtas, out of the winning Prized marePonderway who is 18 years old and was bred by Paul Varni,she has three wins, a second, four thirds and earnings of$291,350 from 12 trips to post.

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Santa Anita Unveils$15 Million Renovations

CARMA Benefits At Barretts Yearling Sale

Jockey Club Reports Again Show Slight Declines For California

Hollywood ParkGears Up For Its Finale

Just a few days prior tothe Sept. 27 opening ofSanta Anita Park’s 2013Autumn Meet, membersof the media were invitedby Keith Brackpool, thechairman of Californiaoperations for the StronachGroup which owns theArcadia track, to tour its

recent $15 million worth of renovations.Areas already completed were the repainting of the entire

exterior of the grandstand and substantial upgrades to the inte-rior of the mezzanine level, the box seats and clubhouse diningsections and the Directors’ Room. Also, the remodeling of theChandelier Room and the interior of the clubhouse and itsnew sports bar were on schedule to be completed by SantaAnita’s hosting of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships onFriday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov.2.

Based on the 2013 Report of Mares Bred (RMB) reportsreceived by The Jockey Club through Oct. 10, representingapproximately 90 percent of the eventual final count, bothCalifornia and the nation overall experienced similar decreasesfrom last year.

In North America this year, 34,174 mares, down 3.4 percentfrom the 35,391 reported this time in 2012, were bred to 1,698stallions, down 8.8 percent from 1,861, while in the GoldenState during 2013, 2,332 mares were bred to 136 stallions, indi-cating decreases of 3.1 and 18.1 percent based on last year’srespective totals of 2,406 and 166.

Kentucky, the nation’s perennial leading state Kentucky

bucked the trend with 15,695 mares bred to 235 stallions, up 2.2percent and 4.9 percent from 15,361 and 224, respectively.Second-placed Florida dropped by 7.1 percent for mares bred,from 3,070 to 2,853, while its number of stallions remained thesame at 126, and Louisiana’s mares bred fell 4.9 percent to 1,833from the 2,072 recorded a year ago. In New York, there was a 3.3percent increase in its mares bred, from 1,641 to 1,560.

The leading sires in California by mares bred were BallenaVista Farm’s Dixie Chatter and Tribal Rule with 87 and 84,respectively, Harris Farms’ Lucky Pulpit with 70, Legacy Ranch’sPapa Clem with 66 and Tommy Town Thoroughbreds’ MinistersWild Cat with 65.

On Sunday, Dec. 22, BetfairHollywood Park in Inglewoodwill hold a program of liveracing for the final time sinceit opened its doors as the Hol-lywood Turf Clubon June 10, 1938.The historic race-track will open itslast meeting on Thursday,Nov. 7, and will offer 21stakes races worth $4 million,including the $200,000 KingGlorious Stakes, for runnersbred or sired in California, onclosing day.

The meet’s other threerestricted stakes will be the

$100,000 Cat’s Cradle Handi-cap on Nov. 17, $100,000 OnTrust Handicap on Nov. 24,and $200,000 Soviet ProblemStakes on Dec. 21. The 27-

day stand will beheadlined by the$500,000 HollywoodStarlet and $750,000

CashCall Futurity on Dec. 7and Dec. 14, respectively.Plus, its popular Turf Festivalover the Thanksgiving week-end will feature the meeting’sother final grade I events, the$250,000 Hollywood Derbyand $250,000 Matriarch, onDec. 1.

The following runner(s), either California-bred or sired by stallions currently based in the Golden State, won or placed in graded stakes racesin North America (United States, Canada & Puerto Rico) from September 23 to October 27 inclusive:

Tiz Flirtatious m.5. Tizbud—Masquerade Belle 1st Grade I Rodeo Drive Stakes $250,500 1 1/4 m. (T) Santa Anita Park September 28Breeder: Pamela Ziebarth

Tamarando c.2. Bertrando—Tamarack Bay 3rd Grade I FrontRunner Stakes $251,250 1 1/16 m. Santa Anita Park September 28Breeders: Mr. & Mrs. Larry D. Williams

Soi Phet g.5. Tizbud—Summer Jersey 3rd Grade I Awesome Again Stakes $251,250 1 1/8 m. Santa Anita Park September 28Breeder: ARCHA Racing Inc.

Points Offthebench g.4. Benchmark—Mo Chuisle 1st Grade I Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes $250,500 6 f. Santa Anita Park October 5Breeder: Gary Rocks

Daisy Devine m.5. Kafwain—Devil’s Dispute 3rd Grade I First Lady Stakes $400,000 1 m. (T) Keeneland October 5Breeder: Reiley McDonald

He Be Fire N Ice h.5. Unusual Heat—Deputy Tombe 2nd Grade II City Of Hope Mile Stakes $150,750 1 m. (T) Santa Anita Park October 5Breeder: St. George’s Farm

Journey On f .3. Good Journey—Miss Del Mar 2nd Grade III Autumn Miss Stakes $100,000 1m. (T) Santa Anita Park October 26Breeder: Leatherman Racing LLC

Making The Grade

The coffers of the California Retirement ManagementAccount (CARMA), a non-profit that raises money for retiredThoroughbreds who have raced in California, were bolstered by$57,000 when Tim McMurray’s Fleetwood Bloodstock pur-chased a filly by Unusual Heat at Barretts Sales & Racing’sOctober Yearling Sale hosted in Pomona on Oct. 8.

Jan and Jerry Hawthorne’s Double J H Stables, the owners ofthe filly’s dam Practicaly Perfect, had teamed up with Madeline

Auerbach two years ago, to breed a horse who could then besold at auction with the proceeds going to CARMA.

Madeline Auerbach, CARMA’s Chair and the primaryowner of Unusual Heat, said, “Thank you to Jan for donating abeautiful mare and taking the responsibility of raising a won-derful baby at her own expense, to the Unusual Heat Syndicatefor donating the stud fee, and to Harris Farms and Barretts SaleCompany for waiving their commissions at the sale.”

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SSIRESIRES OFOF SSTAKESTAKES WWINNERSINNERS

† Indicates stallions who have died or have been retiredfrom the stud. • Indicates stallions who have moved out ofstate but have California-bred two-year-olds of this year. All sires will remain on the list until the year after theirlast foals are two-year-olds.

Racing Age

Stallion Foals of SWs

Salt Lake (1989)† 1,259 77

In Excess (Ire) (1987)† 986 63

Bertrando (1989)† 1,043 58

High Brite (1984)† 935 46

Unusual Heat (1990) 626 42

Cee’s Tizzy (1987)† 733 39

Benchmark (1991) 683 40

Tribal Rule (1996) 529 33

Olympio (1988)† 517 30

Stormin Fever (1994) 679 30

Swiss Yodeler (1994) 712 27

Game Plan (1993) 424 23

Old Topper (1995) 498 22

Kafwain (2000) 453 21

Sea of Secrets (1995) 447 20

Atticus (1992) 445 14

For Really (1987)† 247 14

Ministers Wild Cat (2000) 242 14

Siberian Summer (1989)† 402 14

Western Fame (1992)† 288 14

Rocky Bar (1998) 102 13

Comic Strip (1995) 302 12

Perfect Mandate (1996)† 298 12

Stallion News

AtticusThe broodmare sire credentials of this Magali Farms resident were enhanced on

Oct. 6, when his three-year-old maternal grandson Elettrotreno (Ire) captured thegrassy Premio Cancelli in Italy.

Congo KingThis 10-year-old dual graded stakes-placed winner by Horse Chestnut (SAf) will

stand the 2014 breeding season at Special T Thoroughbreds in Temecula.

Dixie ChatterArchitecture, a two-year-old filly by this Ballena Vista Farm stallion, collected her

third stakes trophy on Oct. 14: the $72,451 Fantasy Stakes at Hastings Racecourse.

Golden Balls (Ire)This nine-year-old stallion, a dual graded stakes-placed stakes winner by Danehill

Dancer who entered stud in 2011, has relocated to stand at Paradise Road Ranch inLathrop in 2014.

Good JourneyHappy Trails (Aus), a six-year-old gelding by this Magali Farms shuttle stallion,

won the grassy, group I Turnbull Stakes in his native Australia on Oct. 5.

Idiot ProofThis grade I-winning Benchmark stallion, a nine-year-old former California

champion whose oldest foals are two-year-olds of 2013, will stand at Victory RoseThoroughbreds in Vacaville in 2014.

Lightnin N ThunderFruitful Acres Farm in Aguanga is the new home of this dual stakes-placed winner,

a 12-year-old son of Storm Cat who has sired the collective earners of more than $5.1 million from seven crops of racing age.

Lone Star SpecialThis eight-year-old son of Malabar Gold, a two-time stakes winner and freshman

sire of 2013, has relocated from Louisiana to stand the 2014 breeding season atSpecial T Thoroughbreds in Temecula.

Oh TannerThis Hedrick Ranch sire attained his first winner on Oct. 14, when his two-year-old

gelding Private Tanner broke his maiden during the Big Fresno Fair meet in Fresno.

Prime TimberLegacy Ranch in Clements will welcome this sire of collective progeny earnings of

more than $9.3 million to date, a 17-year-old son of Sultry Song, to its stallion roster in 2014.

Rocky BarLazy Daisy May, a daughter of this E.A. Ranches resident, dominated the

$84,149 ATBA Fall Sales Stakes for two-year-old fillies at Turf Paradise on Oct. 19.

ThisnearlywasmineThis multiple stakes-winning Capote stallion, Daehling Ranch’s dual graded

stakes-placed sire whose collective progeny earnings exceed $1.4 million, died fromcomplications of colic at the age of 19 in September.

At Fasig-Tipton’s Midlantic Fall Yearlings sale in Maryland on Sept. 30, a filly by Not For Love out of LuckyDance, a three-time winner by Tommy Town Thoroughbreds’ Kafwain, was purchased by Champion Equine for $102,000.

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Friday, Nov. 1,is the closing datefor early entries to

next year’s Barretts Sales & Racing JanuaryMixed Sale at Fairplex in Pomona, whileregular entries to this 2014 auction willclose two weeks later. . .The CaliforniaHorse Racing Board (CHRB) will hold itsnext monthly meeting at BetfairHollywood Park in Inglewood onThursday, Nov. 21. . .CANTER California,a non-profit dedicated to providing retiringThoroughbreds with opportunities for new careers

and which will host its third annual online auctionto raise money from Friday, Oct. 25 to Monday,Nov. 4, also recently announced the continued sup-

port of the Thoroughbred Charities ofAmerica (TCA) through a $5,500 grantthat was partially allocated by GoldenEagle Farm in Ramona. . .On Oct. 16, TheJockey Club Information Systems(TJCIS) unveiled a new Equinelineproduct that provides access to detailedReport of Mares Bred (RMB) informa-tion on stallions who have bred mares in

North America.

Gone, But NotForgotten

On Oct. 11, both the 2005/2006California Broodmare of the Year,Miss Soft Sell, and California-bredMcCann’s Mojave, a multiple gradedstakes-winning sire, were eutha-

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Soft Sell, a1993 daugh-ter of SiyahKalem bredby her owner

Mary Caldwell’s late husband Tom,produced 10 starters with earnings of$2.9 million. Her nine winnersincluded the sire Brother Derek, adual grade I winner, two-timeCalifornia champion and $1,611,138-earner, and the filly Sister Kate, adual stakes winner of this year.

Bred and owned by MikeWillman and Alix Nikki Hunt,McCann’s Mojave earned $1,513,565from a 35-12-4-0 record. The 2000son of Memo (Chi) had already sireda stakes winner from his first twocrops of racing age.

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California Closers

Roi CharmantFirst ranked California first crop sire with $31,115 earnings/2-year-old runner.

50% Starter and 25% winners from foals.

29th ranked first-crop sire in North America by progenyearnings(BloodHorse Oct 19).

Sire of multiple stakes-placed front running Gangnam Guy,who was 2nd beaten a head in the I'm Smoking Stakes at

Del Mar, covering 6 furlongs in 109.3.

Barrett's Select Yearlings sold for $30,000 and $35,000.

All yearlings average 18.7 X his Stud Fee!

From the Sire Line of Lava Man out of a solid female family sporting a gradedsprinter in every generation.

Inbred 4x3 to Broodmare of the year My Charmer.

Passing on his speed that earned multiple 100+ Beyers figures and43 second 1/2-mile clockings .

Fee: $1,000 LF

Inquiries to Tom Hudson4050 Casey Avenue, Santa Ynez, California 93460

(805) 693-1777/FAX (805) 693-1644e-mail: [email protected]

website: www.magalifarms.com

Roi CharmantEvansville Slew-Cantina, by Seattle Dancer

Qualifying Claiming Levels

The following claiming levels forCalifornia owers premiums and stallion

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Santa Anita Park—$40,000(closes November 3)

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10 Years Ago

Lennyfromalibu, the first of 13 foalsto date by Unusual Heat out of Half aYear’s 18-year-old daughter Style ofthe Year, won the $175,000 John C.Mabee California Cup Mile Handicapat Santa Anita Park on Nov. 8, 2003.Bred by his owner Madeline Auerbachin partnership with her late husbandJames, the four-year-old gelding wasalso a black-type winner the followingyear, before retiring at six with a 21-6-5-2record and $442,165 in earnings.

The $109,400 On Trust Handicap atHollywood Park on Nov. 24, 1988, pro-vided that year’s California ChampionSprinter, Calestoga, with a 12th stakeswin in 44 trips to post from the ages oftwo to six. Bred in California by LouisRowan and Leonard Lavin, the son ofRelaunch and the unraced Mont-parnasse II (Arg) mare Vitelle retiredafter one more start with a bankroll of$651,225 from 20 wins, 10 seconds andfour thirds.

On Nov. 28, 1963, the $11,300Golden Poppy Handicap at GoldenGate Fields was won by Naleika whowas bred in California by RidgewoodCo. and whose four-year-old seasonalso included a prior stakes victoryin Mexico. By Nathoo (GB), out ofthe Alibhai (GB) mare Zuleika, thefour-year-old filly would make 23more starts before retiring in 1965,having earned $42,320 from a recordof 66-8-10-7.

50 Years Ago

25 Years Ago

IN MEMORIAMIN MEMORIAMIN MEMORIAM

November 8, 2003

Lennyfromalibu$175,000 California Cup Mile Handicap

Buck Abbott, a member of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association(CTBA) through 2012, passed away at the age of 92 on Sept. 11.

Raised on a cattle ranch in Ellensburg, Washington, the 1952 WorldChampion Bareback Bronco Rider had traveled the rodeo circuit from 1935 to1966, before establishing Abbott Ranch in Oro Grande.

Ralph Scurfield, who served on the CaliforniaHorse Racing Board (CHRB) from January of 1991through September of 1999, including as its Chairman,passed away at the age of 85 in Sacramento on Oct. 15.

He is survived by his wife Barbara, sons Donald,David and Steven, stepsons Ken and Chris, and 14grandchildren.


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Event Date(s) Venue(s)

CTBA Annual Stallion Season Auction Tuesday, December 3 CTBA Offices, ArcadiaCalifornia Cup XXIV Saturday, January 25, 2014 Santa Anita Park, ArcadiaCTBA Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner Monday, February 10, 2014 The Claremont Hotel Club

(2013 California-Bred Champions & 2014 California Hall of Fame Inductees) & Spa, BerkeleyFor further information, contact the CTBA’s Event Coordinator Christy Chapman at either [email protected] or (800) 573-2822, extension 247.

To further assist the membership of the California Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) and

subscribers of its official publication, California Thoroughbred, this monthly editorial page provides readers with updates

about the association’s current policies, latest news and upcoming events in the Golden State.

The CTBAWorking For You


Last Chance To Participate In The CTBA’s 2014 Stallion Directory

Completed contracts for the CaliforniaThoroughbred 2014 StallionDirectory are still being accepted by the CTBA, sostallion and farm owners canobtain a contract by contact-ing the magazine’s AdvertisingManager, Loretta Veiga, ateither [email protected] or(626) 445-7800, extension 227.

Top Sires IncludedIn CTBA’s

December 3 Stallion Season

Auction

Many of California’scurrent leading siresare among the more

than 50 stallions already listed for this year’sannual Stallion Season Auction that will behosted by the CTBA on Tuesday, December 3.Bids will be accepted by phone at the CTBAoffices in Arcadia from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., andproceeds from the event will benefit the associ-ation’s Political Action (PAC) Fund thatworks to support legislation which is favorableto local Thoroughbred breeders.

The CTBA Calendar Corner

CTBA Directors Election Deadline Reminder

Those members of the CTBA who wish toseek election to the group’s Board of Directorsthrough the petition process are remindedthat they have until Nov. 10, 2013, 90 daysprior to the CTBA’s Annual Meeting and AwardsDinner to submit their completed application. As per

the association’s bylaws, it needs to includea minimum of 25 signatures from currentCTBA members for the applicant to beincluded on the ballot for this year’s elec-

tion which relates to the three-year term as a directorform 2014 to 2016.

The California Thorough-bred Breeders Association(CTBA) has redesigned itsweb site, www.ctba.com, to bemore user-friendly.

The goal of the redesignwas to make the site moreaccessible, minimize clickingand maximize the user experi-ence for all devices—desktop,smartphone and tablet. Thenew site utilizes color and navigation schemes to improvethe overall ease of use, with aclean and modern look.

All forms—including foal registration, stallion registra-tion, mares bred reports and CTBA membership—will nowbe automated.

All data from the previoussite will be preserved and integrated into the new site,with a fully functional searchtool.

The site was designed byMad Haus Creative ofMonrovia, California.

TUESDAYDecember 3, 2013

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Memorial DonationsThe CTF accepts donations in memory of relatives and friends, with all such donations allocated to Scholarship

Funds of the Foundation and to the Carleton F. Burke Memorial Library. Please remember members of our industrywith a donation to the CTF Memorial Fund. Donations may be sent to CTF, P. O. Box 60018, Arcadia, CA 91066-6018.

California Thoroughbred Foundation

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Mrs. Jeanne L. Canty, PresidentWarren Williamson, Vice-President

Gregory L. Ferraro, DVM, TreasurerMark W. McCreary, Secretary

Peter P. DailyTracy Gantz

Jane Goldstein

Mrs. Gail GregsonGerald F. McMahon

Neil O’DwyerMrs. Ada Gates Patton

Thomas S. RobbinsJohn W. Sadler

Peter W. Tunney

2013 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

The California Thoroughbred Foundation (CTF) isdedicated to the advancement of equine research andeducation. Since 1958, the Foundation has operated as anon-profit 501(c)3 corporation that can accept tax deductiblecontributions. For more than four decades, the CTF has spon-sored numerous research and educational projects and awardedscholarships to veterinary students at U.C. Davis.

The Foundation maintains the Carleton F. Burke MemorialLibrary, one of the most extensive collections of equine

literature found anywhere. Several generous donations of bookcollections and artwork form the core of the library, which ishoused in the CTBA offices in Arcadia. Among its 10,000volumes are current veterinary publications, turf histories, salescatalogs, and books spanning a wide range of subjects fromequine nutrition and care to fine arts. The latest instructionalvideos also are available for viewing in the Library.

The resources of the CTF’s Carleton F. Burke MemorialLibrary are available to the public for research and pleasure.

Once again, the California Thoroughbred Foundation (CTF)provided the Spreckels Cup trophy for display at the United StatesPolo Association's Spreckels Cup competition held at the San DiegoPolo Club.

In one of the closest matches in recent years, Starmeadow/Monteverdebeat Hanalei Bay in double overtime, 12 to 11. It took over seven fullchukkers of play to decide the game between these two evenlymatched teams. Martin Ravina scored nine for Starmeadow/Monteverdeand Marian Fassetta scored eight for Hanalei Bay. Graham Bray wonMVP honors and his equine partner P1 was named Best Playing Ponyfor the tournament. This prize is giving to recognize the diversity ofuses of Thoroughbreds. Congratulations to all the participants.


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Vessels Stallion Farm is the legacy of a family which hasbeen a major force in both the Thoroughbred and QuarterHorse industries in California since 1947. That family’sworld changed dramatically upon the unexpected death ofits beloved patriarch Frank “Scoop” Vessels when the planehe was piloting crashed in August of 2010. The loss of theformer President of both the California ThoroughbredBreeders Association (CTBA) and American QuarterHorse Association (AQHA), an industry leader who was inmany respects larger than life, left a void that is not likelyto ever be filled by one person. However, the staff thatScoop assembled over many years remains largely intact, sothe 1,300-acre farm is in good hands going forward.

Vessels Stallion Farm is now owned by a Trust for thebenefit of Scoop’s sons Frank “Kash” Vessels and Frank“Colt” Vessels, each of whom are continuing the family’sinvolvement with horses in his own way. Kash, a 34-year-old who is very proud of his lineage, leads the Vessels Stallion Farm team, while 21-year-old Colt recentlygraduated from the Culver Military Academy in Indianaand is planning to continue with his education beforeworking directly in the family businesses. While at Culver,which Scoop also attended, Colt took a number of equine-related courses and was a member of the prestigiousBlack Horse Troop, riding in the nation’s capital as part ofthe 2009 Presidential inauguration ceremonies.

“My great grandfather (Frank Vessels Sr.) purchasedsome land in Los Alamitos, where the racetrack now

stands,” said Kash during an interview in Bonsall near Del Mar last month. “In photos, you can see nothing butstrawberry fields where Katella Street is today. He borrowedsome money from a longtime family friend on a handshakedeal, and when people asked him what he was doing buyingland out in the middle of nowhere, he said that he wasgoing to start a cattle operation, do a little farming.”

Kash continued, “The ground really wasn’t suitable forfarming and it didn’t do well with cattle either so, becausehis passion had always been racing the horses, he startedmatch racing Quarter Horses. That transitioned into himbeing instrumental in getting the pari-mutuel wagering system to have legal Quarter Horse racing.” And that’s howit all began for today’s Los Alamitos Race Course, with itsfirst official meet, an 11-day affair, in 1951.

“Grandpa (Frank Vessels Jr.) and grandma Millie laterran the track successfully for a number of years and that’swhere my father grew up, at Los Alamitos,” added Kash.“The family always kept a small breeding operation, afive-acre horse farm adjacent to the track. The track waseventually sold in the 1980s, and the proceeds were investedin a lot of real estate and land here in the Bonsall area; thegolf course, the San Luis Rey Downs Training Center, andthis ranch. So that little breeding operation (VesselsRanch) went from five acres to, at that time, 2,200 acres.”

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his father, a native of Paris, Kentucky, while Millie liveduntil 1992. That was long enough for her to see her onlychild develop Vessels Stallion Farm into one of California’spremier horse facilities of today. From the majestic frontgate and 65-acre pasture that immediately makes visitorswelcome to its river bottom, sandy loam soil and originalranch house built in 1886, Vessels Stallion Farm provides atruly wonderful tribute to Scoop Vessels.

The Next GenerationKash also explained how he got to where he is today.

“I was born at Los Alamitos Hospital and was one of thosekids always running around the racetrack. My mom and dad divorced when I was young, so I actually grew up withmy mom in San Luis Obispo on the Central Coast, but alsovisited my dad as much as possible. I worked every differentdepartment of the farm, handling the foals, sales-preppingthe yearlings, helping the breeding operation and trainingthe Quarter Horses out of San Luis Rey Downs, as well asbasic management of the farm.”

He then attended the University of Arizona and appropriately graduated with an Animal Sience degreeand completed its Race Track Industry Program (RTIP)that was founded by his own grandfather. “I had the animal side growing up, so there I learned more of the business side, the pari-mutuel wagering systems and all that kind of thing. I did an internship at the Del Mar Thor-oughbred Club before transitioning back to the farm where I ended up being the breeding manager for about four years.

“I then got more into the general manager role because my

dad was busy with other things at that point, especially hisfive-year term on the AQHA Executive Committee. In thefinal year of that, he served as the President and spent in excessof 200 days traveling domestically and internationally. Colt,whose involvement in the horse world had begun early in life when he was home schooled so he could travel with hisparents to events anywhere and everywhere in the vast rangeof dad’s equine business and leadership activities, was along for the ride then, as well as with trips to the races andyearling sales. Then in 2010, my plate filled up even morewhen dad died.

“As far as Vessels Stallion Farm was concerned, Kevinand I were already managing all the day to day business any-way. Where my plate filled up more was with the otherfamily businesses, the real estate, the golf course, and otherthings.” One of those was his marriage to Kelly in 2008, andthe birth of their first child, Kendall Grace Vessels, late in2011. Kash explained, “Grace was Frank Sr.’s wife. So thereare all these Franks, but there was never a female Vesselsborn in the family, so we had to come up with anothername.” On Sept. 23, the couple welcomed their secondchild, a son named Carson Kash.

“Dad was obviously very, very passionate about the horseindustry. He loved the sport. He really, really tried hard tomake the California market compete with Kentucky, but that’san uphill battle. He was blessed with the fact that because weran the day to day stuff, he could get involved in the otheraspects. He wanted to try to have at least a say or a hand in asmuch as he could, outside of just the breeding world. That wasnice for him. It took a lot of his time, but he enjoyed it.”

Square EddieThe farm has also been associated with a number of top

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a leading sire in California on multiple occasions who diedon May 17, to the like of two-time California Horse of theYear, Free House, whose memorial on the property is wellworth a visit.

Now it’s Square Eddie, a grade I-winning son of SmartStrike who retired to stud at Vessels Stallion Farm in 2010,who is continuing that legacy as California’s current leading freshman sire of 2013.

Square Eddie’s Canadian-born owner J. Paul Reddam, asuccessful businessman (Ditech, CashCall) with a Ph. D.in philosophy said, “Jamie McCalmont, my racing manag-er in England, was over for a visit in 2004, and was lookingfor a farm to stand Momentum. He said when he went toVessels the people were kind of cowboys but he liked themand the farm. We had Square Eddie stand at Vesselsbecause the team had been doing such a nice job withMomentum.”

He continued, “In the summer of 2010, we visited Vessels for a tour to see our horses with Scoop. I rememberthat day fondly with Scoop and his casual shirt, shorts andflip flops. It was an incredible shock that Scoop died fourdays later. It was really very sad. Kash and (Farm Manager)Kevin (Dickson) have carried on with the farm and havecontinued to deal with Reddam Racing in a casual, friendly relationship that Scoop established. We have about 30 mares at Vessels and our trainer Ed Freeman goes to Vessels every week to manage the day-to-day operationsbetween Vessels and Reddam Racing. Ed is very hands-on,from the breeding process through the breaking process andbringing horses up to the races. He works hard with myassistant Tricia Wilson to make sure we are on top of thingsand everything runs smoothly.”

Reddam then announced that Square Eddie’s fee for

next year would be $7,500 stands and nurses, and that his2014 book would be limited to 70 mares, consisting of 35 ofhis own mares and 35 approved outside mares.

“Paul is obviously our biggest client on the Thorough-bred side,” said Kash. “He has a great crew of people whowork for him, including Jamie and Edward, and they allliked what they saw here as far as horsemanship and busi-ness ethics. Having a large facility with wells and greengrass in California was a big plus too. Of course, our prox-imity to San Luis Rey Downs allows them to easily bring inand take out a lot of horses, and we are also relatively closeto Southern California’s major racetracks.”

Through mid-October of this year, Square Eddie heldthe top spot on the list of California leading freshman sireswith more than $285,000 in earnings, mainly due to theefforts of his two-year-old daughter Sprouts, who becamehis first winner with a victory at Betfair Hollywood Park onMay 16. Her record so far in 2013 is 5-3-0-0 and $149,490earned, including victories in June’s $100,250 CinderellaStakes at Hollywood Park and July’s $100,250 CaliforniaThoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) Stakes at theDel Mar Thoroughbred Club.

Finishing as the runner-up in the latter race was EddiesCurl, another daughter of Square Eddie trained by Freemanand co-owned by Vessels Stallion Farm and Reddam Racing.Meanwhile, Square Eddie’s other two winners this yearhave been the Hollywood Park graduate Smoove It, a subsequent second in the $75,020 Anoakia Stakes at SantaAnita Park on Oct. 13, and Versye, winner of her racingdebut at that same Arcadia track on Sept. 28.

As a racehorse, Square Eddie enjoyed two eye-catchingstints at the track.

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Square Eddie (Smart Strike—Forty Grans, by El Gran Senor)




Following four trips to post in England during 2004, whenhe broke his maiden in three tries and then ran third in thegroup III Toteswinger Sirenia Stakes, Square Eddie made abrilliant debut in the US with a 4 3/4-length victory in thatOctober’s grade I, $500,000 Lanes End Breeders’ Futurity atKeeneland in Kentucky. He then closed out his two-year-oldcampaign with a runner-up finish in the grade I, $1,951,080Breeders’ Cup Juvenile during the Oak Tree Racing Associa-tion meet at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California.

Square Eddie also made six starts at three, when he waswithdrawn just four days away from a start in the KentuckyDerby (grade I) after finishing second in Santa Anita’sGrade III, $100,000 San Rafael Stakes and then third inKeeneland’s grade II, $300,000 Coolmore LexingtonStakes. In February of his four-year-old season, SquareEddie was retired to stud with a record of 12-2-3-2 and$819,366 in earnings.

But his racing days weren’t over. After covering 34 maresin 2010, the majority of whom were owned by Reddam, hewas put back into training and made a spectacular return tothe races as a five-year-old. In an allowance race on Jan. 14,2011, Square Eddie set a track record of 1:13.11 for 6 1/2furlongs on Santa Anita’s main track that was having itsfirst season after converting back to a dirt surface from an

all-weather one. After two more starts, he returned to Bonsall to cover 40 mares before making three more trips topost late in 2011. With a final 18-3-3-2 record and$856,019 bankroll, Square Eddie retired again and has sincecovered another 83 mares in 2012 and 2013.

“Square Eddie is cool,” said Kevin. “His first crop ofbabies were born in 2011, so this horse was in training andbreeding at the same time. There were days when he wouldcover a mare in the morning, go to San Luis Rey Downs andswim, and then come train that afternoon. There are only ahandful of horses who can do that. He has a remarkable personality and character, he’s a kind, intelligent horse. His babies at two are wonderful, just as he was. I love hisprecocity.”

He added, “The great thing about Paul is that he has put all of his mares under this horse. So for an outside person breeding to him, you couldn’t ask for a better partnerin a horse. He is going to run every one of them and the vastmajority of them look like they can run, which is awesome.

“We also have a great relationship with Ed Freeman,with whom we have a constant flow of horses which worksout good for him and works out good for us,” Kevin concluded. “With San Luis Rey Downs closing in June, heis now at Galway Downs, but that is temporary. He’ll behere again three to four days a week when San Luis ReyDowns opens again in January. Not only are they all greatpeople to be around, Paul is just a phenomenal owner beingso hugely supportive of Southern California.”


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The House That Scoop BuiltWhen touring the farm, one easily imagines the joy

that it must have brought to Scoop Vessels on a daily basis.The facilities at Vessels Stallion Farm provide a permanentreminder of his vision and the fulfillment of a dream to create a place on such a grand scale.

The stallion complex comprises of an 11-stall (20x20)barn built around some old Eucalyptus trees and half adozen 1 1/2-acre paddocks wrapped around the farm’s pond, while the breeding center features a roomy and safecovering shed located alongside a state-of-the-art vet laboratory. Then there’s a “mare motel” comprising of 60 covered pens with lights that are monitored 24 hours aday, as well as a nine-stall (18x24) foaling barn.

Making up the farm’s breaking and training facility is ahalf-mile oval track with a quarter-mile straight, a four-stall starting gate, a 30-stall barn, two hot walkers, aEuroCiser and a 60-foot round pen. There are also more than 300 holding pens on the property, along with20 paddocks and pastures complete with loafing sheds andmanger feeders.

“We hit water here at about 12 feet and our four wells are about 70 feet deep,” said Kevin. “We have plentiful,plentiful water, enough to irrigate virtually every blade ofgrass on the farm.”

About 185 acres at Vessels Stallion Farm are leased to a tomato farmer, while approximately two millionpounds of Hass avocados are also harvested on the farmevery year.

A Competent CrewHelping Kash and Kevin in ensuring that the farm is

run as safely and efficiently as possible every day, is an experienced group of staff.

“Both Alejandro (Ochoa), who has been working for theVessels family for 40-plus years, and Trino (Carvajal) camefrom Los Alamitos,” said Kash. Kevin added, “Trino handlesthe stallions, the mares, the night calls, just about everything.We have a night watchman, but if there is an issue then he isthere. Alejandro now oversees the horse crew, keeping theguys on their toes by making sure they’re doing what they’resupposed to be doing. Everyone respects him because he’s seenand done just about everything to do with horses.”

Kevin, a Texas native who graduated from ColoradoState University’s equine science program, has been with Vessels Stallion Farm since the fall of 1994. “I started withdoing different things on the farm,” he said. “In Excess hadjust completed his first breeding season here. He had someconformational issues that some people didn’t like, but allwe ever had to say was that the numbers don’t lie. He wasremarkable. We’re happy that Mr. Reddam has two of thethree yearlings from his final crop.”

He added, “When Scoop died, we lost our patriarch butthe Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse industries lost anambassador, a goodwill guy. He was all about the horse.Man, I loved the guy. He was funny, had a huge heart, reallyalmost to a fault. He couldn’t say no to anybody. He was a

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kind, loving person. He knew what he was doing, too, at the end of the day. He had a great eye for a horse, and wasa great race car driver and fisherman.

“This family have always been wonderful people to workfor, including Kash,” continued Kevin. “He is a great guy, andhe’s also been very good to me. As a fourth generation Vessels, it’s in his blood. Like his dad, Kash loves horses. He istaking a little bit different approach but we’re still going to be,like we always have been, a commercial breeder of horses.Breeding premier mares to premier stallions to get premierbabies to sell, that’s what we do.”

Other members of a reliable and hard-working group ofstaff that fluctuates between 20 and 25 include: the four-strong landscape and maintenance crew led by Danny Lopez,a 30-year Vessels Stallion Farm veteran; Kasey MacFarlane,who handles the office administration while also being thefarm’s breeding manager and vet technician; Juan Santiago,who has been at the farm for 25 years and currently looks afterthe foals; and exercise rider Francisco Ramirez. “He’s veryhandy with a horse so he works with the young ones, breakingthe babies, doing sales prep, galloping them, getting themstarted,” said Kevin.

Kash also explained Bill Thead’s longstanding associationwith Vessels Stallion Farm. “He was hired by my grandma Mil-lie more than 25 years ago, and, in accordance with my dad’swill, was appointed as the trust’s president. He was my dad’s go-to guy for anything related to finance or business.”

On the vet side, the farm utilizes the services of Dr. Steve Colburn and Dr. Andy Walker of Creekside Vet,while its farriers are Greg Aguilar and Dallas Reiley.

Past PerformancesIn terms of performance, Vessels Stallion Farm has been

associated with many great racehorses since its inception.Besides such Quarter Horse stars as First Down Dash, Old

Habits, No Secrets Here, FDD Dynasty, Hez Our Secret, A Ransom, Wave Carver, Your First Moon and A Regal

Choice, its Thoroughbred graduates have been equally impres-sive. In-between the 1998 Santa Anita Derby (grade I) winnerIndian Charlie and 2010 California Cup Juvenile Stakes winner Slammer Time were 2003 graded stakes winner Excessivepleasure, 2003 group I winner and 2004 grade I winnerMusical Chimes, 2007 grade I winner River’s Prayer and themultiple graded stakes winner of 2007 and 2008, Notional,bred by Vessels Stallion Farm and owned by Paul Reddam.

The Next StepThe heydays of more than 800 horses residing at Vessels

Stallion Farm are gone and its Quarter Horse stallions are nowin Oklahoma, where the majority of that industry’s broodmaresare based, but Kash remains positive about the future.

“Even though we’ve downsized our broodmare band of Thoroughbreds to more of a quality versus quantity scenario, we are glad that we are still able to support such a great clientand friend as Paul Reddam with them. We were also happy to seethe recent deal that Los Alamitos made for five weeks of Thoroughbred racing next year, and another good sign is theincreased Cal-bred bonus money of the past few years.” Headded, “We have a lot of guys, especially outsiders, asking us howthey can get some of this Cal-bred incentive money. They seemto want to get a racing program put together. I’m sure that’s whatit was designed to do, and it’s doing that, getting some outsidepeople, who typically aren’t into it, to invest in horses.”

Reddam also commented, “Breeding in California ishighly profitable between the stakes and maiden programsthey offer. I really don’t understand why owners in California don’t take more advantage of these incentives. A California-bred and a Kentucky-bred who are of the samequality offers the California-bred owner so much greateropportunities to be profitable. We are having a ball with ourSquare Eddie California-breds.”

Kash concluded, “We’ve bred and owned horses who havewon the All American Futurity, which is the KentuckyDerby of Quarter Horses, but dad always wanted to breed aThoroughbred to win the Kentucky Derby.” So now that isthe dream of Scoop’s son, something that could very well become a reality considering that the winner of thatprestigious race last year was none other than Paul Reddamwith I’ll Have Another!


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VESSELS STALLION FARM FACT-FILE

Owner: The Vessels Family TrustFarm Manager: Kevin Dickson

Address: 5820 West Lilac Road, Bonsall, California 92003Telephone: (760) 414-3300

Fax: (760) 414-3304Web Site: www.vesselsstallionfarm.com

E-Mail: [email protected]: Breeding, Breaking, Training & Sales Preparation.

Stallion:Square Eddie (Smart Strike) ............................................$7,500 Live Foal

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California’s #5 Active Sire by Average Earnings Index (AEI)

SOUTHERN IMAGE Halo’s Image – Pleasant Dixie, by Dixieland Band/ $2,500 LF• First California-sired 2YOs are off to the races with BETTER BET, Del Mar

Maiden Special winner and on-the-board in Del Mar’s $100,000 Graduation

S.; GLAMSQUAD, 41⁄2-length winner at Golden Gate first time out in open

company; YODELMESOMEMAGIC, 2nd by a nose in open company to a

Stakes filly; & ZOOKS, a little more than a length off the winner in a $30,000

Stakes.

• His first crop, now matured to six, has average earnings over $71,000 and

has produced 10% $100K+ earners, like Grade 1 SW SOUTHERN SPEED (winner of $2.9 Million and who has won or placed in FIVE Grade 1 events) and Grade 1-placed CALIBRACHOA (5-time NYRA Graded

winner of $666,040).

• 2013 winners include WINNING IMAGE ($525,637), now with 7 wins in East

Coast Stakes and 11 career wins by nearly 40 combined lengths.

Ranked in the Top Ten Active Sires by 2013 Cal-Bred Earnings

MARINO MARINI Storm Cat – Halo America, by Waquoit/ $2,500 LF• Outstanding 2013 season with FIVE Stakes performers, and one being the

3YO star SWEET MARINI ($255,760), a 51⁄4-length Maiden Special winner

in open company in only start at two, 43⁄4-length winner of the $200,000 Fleet

Treat S. over Grade 2 Hollywood Oaks SW DOINGHARDTIMEAGAIN,

plus placed in Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo H. and $250,000 Melair S.

• Sire of 11% Stakes Horses, including 2013 Stakes Winner GREGOR

($113,512).

• Sire of 10% $100K+ earners in his first four crops like 2012 SWs STAR-LIGHT MAGIC ($334,900) and SHUDADUDAWUDYA ($329,629).

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Among California’s Leading Sophomore Sires

STORM WOLF Stormin Fever – Exclusive Rosette, by Ecliptical/ $2,000 LF

• Graded SW full brother to G1-performing GSW MISTY ROSETTE.

• Won 3 of 5 starts, including the G2 Lazaro Barrera Memorial S. by 6L in

1:22 1/5.

• Posted a 104 Beyer breaking his maiden at Santa Anita and a

101 Beyer winning an allowance there in 1:09 flat.

• 2013 juveniles sold for $95,000 at the Barretts March sale.

• Solid 89% of runners are hitting the board with big-time wins like 51⁄2-length

winner I’LL RUN THE SHOW, 5-length winner SEVEN STORMS, 4-length

winner SWAYZE ROAD, and 4-length winner PIRATA LOBO

Top TEN National Freshman Yearling Sire in 2013!

THE PAMPLEMOUSSE Kafwain – Comfort Zone, by Rubiano/ $2,500 LF• Sire of $160,000 BARRETTS SALES TOPPING YEARLING

in his First Crop!

• The #1 Freshman Sire outside of Kentucky, ranked among the Top Ten nation-

ally with a seven yearling average over $53,000.

• Santa Anita Graded stakes-winning miler by 2012 Top-3 California Sire

KAFWAIN.

• Won 3 of 5 starts, including the G3 Sham S. by 6L (107 Beyer) and G3 San

Rafael S. at one mile.

• Out of a half-sister to the dam of 2YO G1 SW STORMELLO ($700,100)

and 2012 G2 Del Mar Derby SW MY BEST BROTHER ($346,090).

• Precocious female family of G2 Arlington-Washington Lassie S. winner SPECIAL WARMTH.

Record-Setting G1 Performing Multiple Stakes Winner

SLEW’S TIZNOW Tiznow – Hepatica, by Slewpy/ $2,500 LF• Won on dirt and synthetic, including Del Mar’s El Cajon S. at one mile by

3 lengths and Hollywood Park’s War Chant S. at 1 1/16 miles in a record 1:40.34.

• Saratoga maiden winner and 2nd in Keeneland’s G1 Breeders’ Futurity

at two.

• In his final start, posted a 102 Beyer in Hollywood Park’s G2 Californian S.

• Full brother to Multiple Graded stakes winner SLEW’S TIZZY and

3/4-brother to the dam of 2012 Group 1 Winner THE HANGMAN.

• First crop will be yearlings in 2014.

No Booking Fees for 2014 Seasons / Stud Fees are payable Oct. 1 of year bred

Unbridled - Tom’s a La Mode, by Alleged

By champion and eight time classic winner UNBRIDLED ($4,489,475), sire of champions BANSHEE BREEZE, HALFBRIDLED, ANEES, SMUGGLER & GI Stakes-Winning Millionaires EMPIRE MAKER, UNSHADED, UNBRIDLED’S SONG, MANISTIQUE, GRINDSTONE, EDDINGTON, RED BULLET and NIIGON.

Out of Tom’s a La Mode, by three time champion ALLEGED. From the family of Champion two-year old colt, HOIST THE FLAG.

Runners by AFFIRMATIVE are led by multiple stakes winner WARRENS JITTERBUG, & stakes placed Warrens’ Venda ($179,944), 3 wins, 1 second, & two thirds in 2013.

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Contact Farm Manager: Marcos Menjivar • Email: [email protected]

2014 Fee: Private Treaty

In The Top 10 Leading Sires by Average Earnings Per Start. Average Earnings Per Start almost $40,000.

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Tiz Flirtatious:More Good Times At The Races

Grade I Rodeo Drive StakesSanta Anita Park—September 28, 2013

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For Pamela Ziebarth, the good times just keep rolling.Being connected first with her family’s two-time Breeders’

Cup Classic champion Tiznow and now as a part owner of thegreat stallion should seem quite enough to warrant a prominentplace in California’s Thoroughbred racing and breeding lore.Instead, an energetic, enthusiastic Pamela Ziebarth has set out tomake her own mark in the state’s racing and breeding industries.

Her latest effort in that realm is homebred Tiz Flirtatious, anultra-consistent five-year-old mare whose win in Santa AnitaPark’s Rodeo Drive Stakes has her with a date in the Breeders’Cup Filly & Mare Turf. The California-bred daughter ofZiebarth’s Tizbud, a full brother to the 2000 and 2001 Classicwinner who stands at Harris Farms, now has a record of eightwins, three seconds and a third in 12 career starts. Of her fourvictories this year, three have come in graded events, two atSanta Anita and one at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club.

Her victory in the $250,500 Rodeo Drive on Sept. 28,marked the first grade I conquest for the turf specialist.

Ziebarth rates Tiz Flirtatious as her top Cal-bred and pushesthe owner’s Healthy Addiction for all-time top runner. HealthyAddiction gave Ziebarth her first and second Breeders’ Cup run-ner by finishing 13th and 12th, respectively, in the 2005 and2006 Ladies’ Classic, now being run as the Breeders’ CupDistaff. A win in the Nov. 2 race could elevate Tiz Flirtatiousto the top of Ziebarth’s list, as well as give her an unforget-table 60th birthday gift.

After the Rodeo Drive victory, owner-breeder Ziebarth, whohas been a California Thoroughbred Breeders Association(CTBA) member since 2008, said, “We thought she should havewon the grade I last time (when she finished second to Market-ing Mix in Betfair Hollywood Park’s Gamely Stakes). It waswonderful that we had the second chance to go at her.” Go ather she did, finishing a head in front of her previous tormentor.

Prior to the Rodeo Drive, Tiz Flirtatious was a runawaywinner of Del Mar’s grade II, $250,000 John C. Mabee Stakes off

of a snail’s pace when winning by a comfortable 2 1/4 lengths.The result led trainer Martin Jones to say, “I didn’t envision therace (pace) going that way, but it couldn’t have worked out anybetter. When she relaxes, she raises her game to another level.”

As the daughter of Arthur “Bud” Straub and CeciliaStraub-Rubens, Ziebarth, who’s been married to her husbandGary for 40 years, grew up with racing. The family was a fix-ture at all Southern California racetracks. One of the manyoutstanding horses owned by the family was Cee’s Tizzy, amajor California stallion for years and the sire of Tiznow. Cee’sTizzy now lives as a pensioner at Harris Farms in Coalinga,while Tizbud rules as Ziebarth’s California standard-bearerthere. Since entering stud, Tizbud, who raced three years andcompiled earnings of $230,266 from eight starts, has producedsix crops of racing age totaling 145 foals, including four stakeswinners.

Ziebarth’s other stallions, Tiznow and Tizdejavu, stand inKentucky. Tiznow is at WinStar Farm in Versailles and Tizde-javu at Crestwood Farm in Lexington.

Masquerade Belle, the dam of Tiz Flirtatious, has been aprolific producer for Ziebarth; all her foals have resulted frommatings with the “Tiz” family. Three have raced, with two beingwinners and Tiz Flirtatious being the only stakes victor so far.Masquerade Belle, bought by Ziebarth as a yearling but neverraced, is at home, also, at Harris Farms. She’s part of a brood-mare band of 12 to 15, most of whom are located atColumbiana Farm in Paris, Kentucky, and include HealthyAddiction and Hello Sugar, a half-sister to Tiz Flirtatious.

While it’s only natural for Ziebarth to be eager for theBreeders’ Cup, she relishes the thought of sharing that withher husband, three sons, David, Tyson and Regan, andgranddaughters Zoe and Lux. The youngsters, in particular, areardent followers of Tiz Flirtatious’ fortunes. One, eight-year-oldLux, was heard by her grandmother to tell a friend, “I’m brokeright now, but I’ll be going to see Tiz Flirtatious at the races.”


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Grade I Winner Enters Stud For The 2014 Breeding Season

A versatile racehorse who won on dirt and turf up to 1 1/4 miles and retired with earnings of $547,800

At Three, WON the Hollywood Derby–GI, the Oak Tree Derby–GII & third in the Sir Beaufort S.–GII

At Four, won the Strub S.–GII and second in the Citation H.–GIIAt Five, second in the San Pasqual S.–G2

By MIZZEN MAST, the sire of two 2012 Breeders’ Cup winners and the 2008 Hollywood Gold

Cup Stakes winner MAST TRACK.Out of the multiple stakes-winning mare, LETITHAPPENCAPTAIN

SPECIAL T THOROUGHBREDS INC.Inquiries to Rick Taylor

35325 De Portola Rd, Temecula, Ca 92592 • Ph: 951 303 0313 • fax: 951 303 0613e-mail [email protected] • www.specialTfarm.com

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Mizzen Mast—Letithappencaptain, by Captain Bodgit2014 Fee:$3,500 LFG

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Points Offthebench:What Might Have Been

Grade I Santa Anita Sprint ChampionshipSanta Anita Park—October 5, 2013

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Riding the crest of two grade I victories put PointsOffthebench in a special place as the gelded son of top-notchCalifornia sire Benchmark headed into the 2013 Breeders’Cup World Championships at Santa Anita Park on Nov. 1-2.Tragically, a fatal injury suffered while training at the Southern California track on Oct. 26, ended his fairytaleascension into potential greatness.

With victories in the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s$300,250 Bing Crosby Stakes on July 28, and then the$250,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship Stakes on Oct. 5, Points Offthebench figured to be one of the favoritesfor the grade I, $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint on Nov. 2.The fact that both the reigning Sprint champion Trinnibergand 2013 Santa Anita Derby (grade I) winner Goldencentswere among those left in his Santa Anita wake, onlyenhanced his standing.

By winning two grade I events this year, Points Offthebenchjoined three other Benchmark runners as grade I victors—Brother Derek, Silent Sighs and Idiot Proof, all of whom wereprominent in California racing.

Points Offthebench was a second generation, of sorts, on theBenchmark family tree to carry the colors of owners Donnie Crevier and Charles “Chip” Martin. The pair also raced the darkbay gelding’s older brother Bench Points, and retain ownership inthe retired runner who was the 2010 California Champion Two-Year-Old Male. While the names of the two horses smack ofbasketball terminology, neither Crevier nor Martin relate to that,although breeder Gary Rocks once trained with Jim Buss, son ofthe late Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss.

Martin says he and his partner like to think of the namesimplying the horses are chips off the old block that is Benchmark, who stands at Ballena Vista Farm in Ramona. The22-year-old son of Alydar has led California-based sires in raceswon in three of the past four years.

The late Points Offthebench, who brought trainer Tim

Yakteen his first two grade I victories, posted a record of six victories, a second and a third in eight lifetime starts, with abankroll of $514,940, surpassing his big brother’s numbers inwins and earnings.

Co-owner Martin recalls that having Bench Points run in theSanta Anita Derby was a great thrill for him and his partner, butqualifying for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Points Offthebenchwas “truly remarkable.”

The victory at Santa Anita was hailed by trainer Yakteen as“the biggest win of my career.” As for the horse, his trainer, whospent several years as an assistant to both the legendary CharlieWhittingham and Bob Baffert, each Hall of Fame conditioners,said afterward, “The horse is a push-button type. Horses likethat, they make you look good.”

The gelding’s versatility was tested in the six-furlong SantaAnita race, and he came up solid with the win. The victory alsoproved he could preform on at least two surfaces; his Bing Crosby victory was accomplished on Del Mar’s all-weather Polytrack surface and the Sprint Championship win came onSanta Anita’s main dirt track.

Points Offthebench and his older brother were the firststarters for the unraced Free House mare Mo Chuisle. BreederRocks purchased the mare for $13,000 at the 2007 BarrettsOctober Mixed Sale while she was carrying Bench Points. Hermatch with Benchmark turned out so well, she went back thenext year to the California stallion and produced the doublegrade I winner and leading Golden State sprinter of 2013. Also,she has an unraced juvenile colt by Buzzards Bay and producedanother Benchmark colt this year.

Mo Chuisle means “my pulse” in the Celtic language and wasused as a term of endearment by actor Clint Eastwood, in thepart of a trainer, toward his boxing protégé Hilary Swank in theAcademy Award-winning Best Picture of the Year, “MillionDollar Baby.” Sadly, as in the 2004 movie, not all endings aredestined to be happy ones.


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Lovacres RanchLovingier Family Has Developed A Farm With An “Altitude”

Lovacres Ranch, whichrelocated to its currentWarner Springs locationin the summer of 2007, hassince developed into oneof the Golden State’s pre-mier Thoroughbred farmswith a 520-acre layoutthat features all the facili-ties needed for a full-serviceoperation, including a six-furlong training track.

The ranch’s owner TerryLovingier is enchanted bythe beauty of the setting. “Idon’t like to brag,” he said, “but I think this is one of theprettier farms in California. We have all new fencing andthe lay of the land is beautiful, set in rolling hills and fullof beautiful old oak trees.”

Lovingier, whose father Russ remains active on thefarm, describes the location as follows: “If one is cominghere from Murrieta or Temecula, we are about eight milesfrom Warner Springs. We’re at 3,500 feet elevation andthe horses love it. I’ve never seen happier horses. Andtraining at an altitude is good for them, too.”

“When you come up to the crest of the hill justbefore our place, it is spread out in front of you.” Thefarm is nestled in an area at the base of PalomarMountain and has a staff of 25.

Most of the pastures are at least five acres in size,and in spots, says Lovingier, deer often graze rightalong with the horses.

Offering breeding, foaling, boarding, breaking,training and sales preparation, Lovacres will stand sixstallions for the 2014 breeding season.

Awesome Gambler, a stakes-winning son of Coronado’sQuest, was the Golden State’s leading first-crop sire of2011. Among his earners of more than $2 million isWilla B Awesome, the 2011 California ChampionTwo-Year-Old Female who won last year’s grade I,$300,000 Santa Anita Oaks. The sire of six otherstakes horses, Awesome Gambler is out of a DeputyMinister mare.

Among California’s leading freshman sires of 2013,are two graded stakes-winning residents of LovacresRanch. Each with five winners to date from limitedcrops are Time to Get Even, a son of Stephen GotEven whose progeny have earned nearly $200,000 and

are led by the dual stakes-placed Time for Angie, andBushwacker, by Outflankerand already the sire ofstakes-placed Tupelo Cushamong his earners of morethan $180,000.

Swiss Yodeler, a perennialleading sire of juveniles inCalifornia, was relocated toLovacres for the 2013breeding season. The grade I-winning son of EasternEcho has sired the earnersof more than $25 million,

including 2006 Eclipse Champion Sprinter and$2,461,490-earner Thor’s Echo.

Completing the roster at Lovacres are Grace UponGrace and Empire Way. The former, by Rio Verde anddual stakes-placed at two, has yearlings of this year,while the latter, a grade II-placed Empire Maker full sis-ter to multiple Eclipse Champion Royal Delta, retiredto stud in 2013.

The first Lovingier venture was a partnershipamong Lovingier, his father, and his brother, Dan.They bought a ranch outside of Waco, Texas, and beganbreeding Quarter Horses. At one point, Terry Lovingierand his brother Dan bred and sold a son of StrawflySpecial who later won the 1996 All-American Futurityat Ruidoso Downs as Streakin Flyer.

The Texas ranch was sold that same year, and Terryand his father moved their stock to property theyowned in Murrieta and that became the nucleus ofLovacres Ranch. They put their Quarter Horse busi-ness aside and began breeding Thoroughbreds. TheLovacres operation usually develops between 50 and100 foals each year and they are broken and trained atthe farm. Those deemed saleable will be prepped forsale at the farm while others figure to head for theracetrack. The Lovacres Ranch homebreds Willa BAwesome and Unhitchthetrailor were the respectivewinners of the Barretts Debutante Stakes and BarrettsJuvenile Stakes in 2011.

Lovingier operates Lovco Construction Inc., a SignalHill, California, firm that is involved in maintenance ofoil refineries. Lovingier, who holds a civil and environ-mental engineering degree from University of CaliforniaIrvine, lives in Los Alamitos with his family.

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Eight California-breds were listed among the pre-entries forthis year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships being held atSanta Anita Park in Arcadia on Nov. 1-2, including the grade I winners Tiz Flirtatious and Teddy’s Promise, in anattempt to join the list of five Cal-breds to have previouslywon at horse racing’s biggest annual event.

Double Breeders’ Cup Classic (grade I) winner Tiznow isthe standout among these previous winners, with stirring victories in 2000 and 2001. The other Cal-breds with Breeders’ Cup titles to their names are Thor’s Echo, Dancingin Silks and Amazombie, respective winners of the grade ISprint in 2006, 2009 and 2011, as well as California Flag, the2009 Turf Sprint victor.

It’s a longshot that any Cal-bred will match Tiznow’s sterling efforts, but this year’s group certainly has the talent toset themselves up for that sort of future impact by winning atBreeders’ Cup in 2013.

Owner-breeder Pamela Ziebarth could be forgiven if she has begun dreaming of another Tiznow moment as Tiz Flirtatious moves toward the grade I, $2,000,000 Breeders’Cup Filly & Mare Turf. After all, the five-year-old mare is by Harris Farms’ Tizbud, a full brother to the two-time Classicwinner, and her record shows eight victories, three secondsand a third in 12 career starts.

She has been beaten only once this year—by a head to Marketing Mix in May’s Gamely Stakes (grade I). Sheoverturned that loss by defeating her previous tormentor bya head in Santa Anita’s grade I, $250,500 Rodeo Drive Stakes on Sept. 28, setting her up for a Breeders’ Cup run. Prior to that win, Tiz Flirtatious captured August’s

grade II, $250,000 John C. Mabee Stakes at the Del MarThoroughbred Club.

Teddy’s Promise, Ted and Judy Nichols’ homebred winnerof the 2011 La Brea Stakes (grade I), earned her way into thegrade I, $1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint with asharp victory in Santa Anita’s $100,250 L.A. Woman Stakeson Oct. 5, following a three-month freshening.

The five-year-old daughter of Salt Lake and Capote’sBraids and Beads previously ran second in Betfair Hollywood Park’s A Gleam Handicap (grade II), while hervictory in the L.A. Woman was her fifth in eight starts atSanta Anita and ran her career record to 26-10-4-2, withearnings of $822, 397.

Also carrying Cal-bred hopes for victory this year are: Cara-cortado, a California champion and dual grade II winner of $870,105 who is aiming for the grade I, $1,000,000Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, also the target of dual stakes-placedRock Me Baby; He Be Fire N Ice, a contender for the grade I,$2,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Mile as a dual grade II-placed stakeswinner of this year; Aotearoa, whose prep for the grade I,$1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf was a win in SantaAnita’s $100,250 Zuma Beach Stakes on Oct. 6; and Ismene,the 2011 California Champion Two-Year-Old Female whosesights are set on the Filly & Mare Sprint.

Cal-bred Points Offthebench, a grade I winner at SantaAnita and the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club this year, also was pre-entered for the grade I, $1,500,000 Breeders’ Cup Sprint. But the four-year-old Benchmark gelding suffered acatastrophic injury while training for the race at the hometrack on Oct. 26, and was unfortunately euthanized.


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Cal-Bred Grade I Winners LeadThe Bid For Breeders’ Cup Glory

Teddy’s PromiseTiz Flirtatious

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e-mail: [email protected]

35490 Highway 79, Warner Springs, California 92086

website: www.lovacres.com

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Empire Maker–Delta Princess, by A.P. Indy

GI Stakes placed winner of $119,170Ran second in the GII Robert B. Lewis Stakes behind

subsequent Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner I’LL HAVE ANOTHER

By EMPIRE MAKER, classic winner of $1,985,800, sire of 42 stakes winners including

Champion ROYAL DELTA ($4,491,126 to 2013), and 2013 GI winners, GRACE HALL ($1,416,360)

and BODEMEISTER ($1,304,800).Full brother to two-time Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic winner

and Eclipse Champion, ROYAL DELTA ($4,491,126).Out of the multiple graded stakes -winning

A. P. INDY mare DELTA PRINCESS who is the dam ofEclipse Champion, ROYAL DELTA ($4,491,126 to 2013),

and Graded Stakes placed Carnival Court ($161,662, to 2013).DELTA PRINCESS is a full sister to GI winner,

INDY FIVE HUNDRED and a half-sister toItalian Group 1 winner BIONDETTI.

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Eastern Echo—Drapeau, by Raja Baba

Perennial Leading Sire of 2-Year-Olds

2012 Leading California Sire of 2-year-olds by

Average–Earnings Index: 2.96 His 11th crop produced

California Champion TILDE,the leading money winner among

California-bred 2-year-olds of 2012. Average annual juvenile earnings

of $572,000.

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From hematology to horses, from blood to blood-lines, Dr. Bruce Zietz has carved out an enviable record.

A big-time doctor and small-time breeder, Zietz hasmade an indelible impression as an expert in both fields.

Zietz watched the races at Santa AnitaPark in October, wearing both a purplebaseball cap emblazoned with the gold let-ters “Roi Charmant,” in honor of hisfavorite stallion, and a gold horseshoependant dangling from his neck.

The lucky horseshoe may have helped,but hard work and study probably betterexplain the success achieved in both areasby Zietz, who found his first job at age 11 asa pinsetter at a West Hollywood bowling alley. “Haven’thad a day off since,” he said with asmile.

Now a youthful 74, Zietz stillworks part time in medicine andmeticulously follows his modestbreeding operation, which has pro-duced a two-time winner andanother placed horse in California-bred stakes races this year.

Born in Connecticut and raisedin West Los Angeles, the UCLAgraduate started medical school atthe University of Louisville with-out being distracted by the call ofthe bugles down the street. “I didn’tlike horses then,” said Zietz, who completed his studies atUniversity of California, San Francisco.

“I started practice in 1970,” said Zietz, who became a pio-neer in West Hills. “I was the only oncologist-hematologistin the San Fernando Valley when there were 1.2 millionpeople there. I had a huge practice. I practiced 38 years, soldthe practice five years ago and retired.”

Retirement led Zietz into rewarding new medical work.“I work 25 hours a week for a company in Brea,” explainedZietz. “I’m one of only four oncologists who reviews CancerTherapies from all over the United States.” Zietz alsoworks part-time for Tri Valley Oncology-Hematology inThousand Oaks, and performs some of the utilizationreview at West Hills Hospital.

Much of the rest of his time is devoted to horses, whichhe discovered and began liking in midlife. “My first wifehad an uncle who was a bartender at Hollywood Park, anda tout,” explained Zietz of his introduction to racing dur-ing the 1970s. “He would get us seats at the track.

“There was a lady sitting next to us with the rac-ing form and binoculars who cashed after everyrace,” added Zietz, impressed with her results. “I

got myself binoculars too.”Zietz liked what he saw. At 35, he started

riding hunter-jumpers and, a year later,entered Thoroughbred ownership. “Iclaimed a horse for $8,000 with somefriends but he broke down,” said Zietz,deciding there had to be a better system.

“I bought a mare named FriendlyPatricia at a sale for $2,300 and bred her

to Figonero (Arg),” said Zietz, whoenjoyed beginner’s luck as a breeder. “I got

Patrick McFig, a multiple stakes winner who earned nearly$250,000. I thought it was easy.”

Zietz went through a humblinglearning period. “I got cocky, mademistakes and got out of it for awhile,” he admitted.

But he studied pedigrees andbooks about breeding theories asdiligently as he had studied hema-tology and oncology during medicalschool, and more recently reapedthe dividends of 35 years ofpatience and perseverance.

Qiaona, a three-year-old filly hebred, won the filly division of the$300,750 California Breeders’

Champion Stakes at Santa Anita in January, while Gang-nam Guy, a two-year-old colt he bred, placed in two Del MarThoroughbred Club stakes—second in the I’m Smokin andthird in the Graduation.

Not bad for a guy with four bargain-priced mares and alightly-used stallion at Magali Farms in Santa Ynez. “I leaseone and own three,” said Zietz of his broodmare band.

The impetus for his breeding involvement centersaround Roi Charmant, a stallion he co-bred, raced andstands at Magali for $1,000.

“I bought his dam, Cantina, in-foal to Evansville Slew,at a Fasig-Tipton sale in Kentucky for $5,500 in partner-ship with Akiko Gothard,” said Zietz. “I named the coltRoi Charmant in honor of My Charmer, the dam of SeattleSlew and Seattle Dancer. (He has the influence of both inhis pedigree). I wanted to name him Prince Charming butthat was taken.”

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two to eight. He won on dirt, turf and all-weather surfacesand earned $337,678 while recording frontrunniing triple-digit Beyer numbers.

Roi Charmant finished second in the 2004 San MiguelStakes (grade III) at three and third in the 2005 PotreroGrande Breeders’ Cup Handicap (grade II) at four on thedirt at Santa Anita.

“He had four surgeries for bone fractures but came backat eight to win his last four starts at Hollywood Park andDel Mar,” said Zietz, who retired him to stud in 2010.

“To me, Magali Farms is the best in the state of Cali-fornia,” said Zietz. “They do everything right. (GeneralManager) Tom Hudson is a perfectionist.”

Zietz gushed like a proud grandfather of the earlyaccomplishments of Roi Charmant, who currently ranks30th nationally and seventh in California among first-cropsires, despite only an eight-horse crop.

That crop is headed by Gangnam Guy, out of theUnusual Heat mare The Toast of Troy, who sold for$16,000 at the 2012 Barretts October Yearling Sale.

Zietz is equally proud of Qiaona, although her rise tofame is more of a surprise bonus. “I went to a Keenelandsale and loved her mother Starlet Sky,” said Zietz of the Sky-walker mare. “Soundest pedigree I’ve ever found. I wasn’tthat interested in the foal, but she was in foal to Wilko,and I got her for $16,000. I would have gone to $50,000.”

Zietz sold the resultant filly as a yearling for $4,500 atBarretts in 2011, and kept track of her progress. Zietz wasan excited breeder at Santa Anita on Jan. 26, when Qiaonawon the $165,000 first prize in the rich stakes race.

“It was like a Silky Sullivan move,” recalled Zietz of thelate rally from so far back in the mile race that he wouldhave been satisfied with her hitting the board. “I told mywife, ‘I hope she gets through; she’ll get a breeders’ award.’”

Zietz was again ecstatic at Santa Anita on Oct. 12, afterQiaona had rallied from last to win the $100,000 CaliforniaDistaff Handicap against older foes in her first try on thehillside turf course to raise her earnings to $439,994.

“That’s $35,000 in breeders’ premiums,” enthused Zietz.“That’s why I love Cal-breds.”

Zietz has high hopes for the future progeny out of Star-let Sky. “When a mare has her first foal, there is a three percent chance she will have a stakes winner,” claimed Zietz.“If the first foal wins a stake, there is a 60 per cent chanceshe will have a second. Qiaona is her first foal.”

Her second, the promising Roi Charmant filly CharmingStarlet, finished third in a maiden special weight race fortwo-year-olds won by the subsequent grade I winner She’sa Tiger at Pleasanton this summer. She sold as a yearlingfor $20,000 at Barretts last year.

Kantina Kowgirl, another two-year-old filly bred byZietz, sold for $85,000 as a Barretts yearling and hasrecorded two seconds in three starts this year.

“I’m mostly a breeder but I occasionally keep them,”said Zietz. “I want to make racehorses. I’m not trying towin the Kentucky Derby.”

Zietz sold three Roi Charmant yearling fillies at the Bar-retts sale last month, including a full sister to GangnamGuy for $30,000 and a half-sister to Qiaona for $35,000.

In addition to his four broodmares—Starlet Sky, Cantina,Cantina’s Rose and The Toast of Troy, the latter of whomwas bred by Madeline Auerbach and is leased from ScottRegner—Zietz owns Kathleen Rose, a promising three-year-old maiden filly who was named in memory of hismother-in-law, the unraced two-year-old gelding DiabloEncantador, and four weanlings out of the above mares.

Zietz, a member of the California ThoroughbredBreeders Association (CTBA) since 1995, owns B & BZietz Stables with his wife of 14 years, Bev. He has a son,Kevin, a former high school football star and current Encinolawyer who has followed him into the sport. Kevin owns amare from Cantina’s family with her two foals and was a 10percent racing partner in Roi Charmant.

“I think the best way to get into racing is by breeding,”said Zietz, confident his theories will continue to bear fruit.“In my own way, I’ve been right but under the radar.”

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The opportunity to visit workingThoroughbred farms and get anearly start on breeding plans for2014 enticed approximately 25attendees to participate in the 2013Central Valley Stallion Tour, whichtrekked through two Californiacounties on Oct. 12. The charteredbus excursion was hosted by theCalifornia Thoroughbred BreedersAssociation (CTBA), and featuredstops at Madera Thoroughbreds inMadera, Rivendell Ranch in Fresnoand Old English Rancho and PoplarMeadows in Sanger.

Madera Thoroughbreds co-ownerJill Fischer kicked off the tour in themorning by introducing participantsto her farm’s stallion Elusive Warning, a group III stakes winnerby Elusive Quality. After presentingyearlings from the stallion’s first foalcrop, Fischer invited attendees toview two pensioned stallions whoreside on-site: grade I winner Birdonthewire, 24, and multiplestakes winner Lil Tyler, a 30-year-oldson of Halo who thrived in the personal attention showered uponhim by the visitors.

Next, farm owners Myron andJane Johnson opened up theirRivendell facility for the tour. Afterreciting the accomplishments of the farm’s resident stallion Trapper, astakes winner by Iron Cat, the

couple demonstrated the benefits oftheir trailer trainer, a custom-builtpiece of equipment which is used toteach young horses how to load into anenclosed space.

Participants were then treated to anup-close visit with North America’s2011 Eclipse Champion Older Male,Acclamation, the two-time CaliforniaHorse of the Year who highlighted astopover at historic Old English Rancho which was narrated by ranchmanager Jonny Hilvers. In addition tothe Unusual Heat stallion, a six-timegrade I winner who entered stud thisyear, Hilvers presented four othermembers of the Old English Ranchoroster: the Wild Again stakes winnerBig Bad Leroybrown, Grand Slam’swinning son Cyclotron, the six-timegrade II winner Surf Cat and the winning Danzig stallion Vronsky.

The tour concluded with a visit toPoplar Meadows, the birthplace ofseven-time grade I winner and$5,268,706-earner Lava Man, the2005-2006 California Horse of theYear. As guests enjoyed a leisurelylunch and refreshments while seatedon hay bales, farm owner Carol Lingenfelter offered conformationanalysis for several foals from the first three crops of the farm’s residentstallion, Bedford Falls, who wereparaded for the group. Serving as thegrand finale at Poplar Meadows was


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2013 Central Valley Stallion Tour

Acclamation (Old English Rancho)

Bedford Falls (Poplar Meadows)

Pensioned stallion Lil Tyler, 30, greets visitors at Madera Thoroughbreds.

A Bedford Falls juvenile colt is paraded for tour participants at Poplar Meadows.

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Bedford Falls himself, a winningForestry half-brother to North America’s 2012 leading sire of two-year-olds, Harlan’s Holiday.

The 2013 Central Valley StallionTour was especially memorable forone lucky participant: novice breederDawn Howe of Citrus Heights, whobred her first mare in partnership thisyear and who attended the tour alongwith her two partners. In addition towinning a CTBA gift prize, Howe

also won a free 2014 breeding season to BedfordFalls in a random drawing among tour attendees.

“As newcomers to the Thoroughbred industry, it is nice to be able to see what different farms have to offer and get a firsthandlook at the facilities and employees,” said Howe,who attended her first stallion tour last year in asimilar event hosted by CTBA for farms in thenorthern region of California, and who learnedabout this year’s Central Valley Stallion Tourwhile attending the Northern California YearlingSale in August.

“I believe that attending stallion tours is anessential component of breeding a high-quality horse,” Howe shared. “It is one thing tolook at a catalog page and a picture. It is an

entirely different thing to see a stallion inperson and be able to evaluate his progenyat the farm. As mare owners, the stalliontour also allows us an opportunity to interact with the people who will be handling our mares during breeding seasonand see how mares are managed at eachindividual facility.”

Howe and her partners were fortunateenough to come away with more than pleasant memories and an expanded education, however.

“Winning the season to Bedford Falls wasthe icing on the cake!” she beamed.

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Big Bad Leroybrown (Old English Rancho)Rivendell Ranch demonstrates its trailer trainer.

Vronsky (Old English Rancho) Trapper (Rivendell Ranch)

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As every Thoroughbred breeder knows, it takes more thanjust luck to hit a commercial home run. It takes years of meticulous planning and preparation for every auctionprospect, from arranging the mating between stallion andmare, to safely delivering and raising the foal, to choosing theright venue and sales agent for your horse. Being blessed withan extra bit of good fortune is sometimes all it takes to makeeverything miraculously come together for a financial windfall.

Such an achievement came to fruition at the 2013 Barretts October Yearling Sale on Oct. 8, when demand for aCalifornia-bred colt from the first crop of the Rancho SanMiguel stallion The Pamplemousse elevated his purchase priceto the top of the Hinds Pavilion leaderboard, at $160,000.

Bred by Skyline Stables and Alex Solis II and offered byconsignor Adrian Gonzalez’s Checkmate Thoroughbreds,the strapping gray colt attracted attention for his physicalappeal, as well as his catalog page. He is the fifth foal out of the stakes-winning Distinctive Cat mare Tizakitty, a half-sister to 2012 Haskell Invitational Stakes (grade I)winner Paynter from the immediate, productive family of2000 Eclipse Horse of the Year Tiznow.

Tizakitty was purchased for $20,000 by Solis Bloodstockfrom a complete dispersal of Applebite Farms holdings at the2011 Barretts January Mixed Sale, and subsequently joinedthe inaugural book of mares for The Pamplemousse, a dualgraded stakes winner and $209,280-earner by Kafwain whoinitiated his stallion career that year for a $3,500 fee.

The 2013 Barretts October sale-topper in Pomona reignsas the highest-priced yearling sold at a California auction to date for Gonzalez, who presented his first Checkmate Thoroughbreds consignment in 2009.

“I felt confident bringing this colt to the sale,” Gonzalezsaid. “I recruit year-round to find the best stock; to me, he

physically was a standout from day one. There was a buzzsurrounding him before he even set foot on the salesgrounds. Once the buyers had a chance to evaluate him, themarket backed up what we knew all along.”

For the second consecutive year, the buyer of the BarrettsOctober sale-topper was prominent owner Arnold Zetcher,who last year paid $150,000 for a session-topping Cal-bredson of Bertrando.

But Zetcher was not alone in his admiration for The Pamplemousse progeny. Six of the seven-year-old stallion’sfirst-crop foals who were led through the Barretts ring—fourcolts and two fillies—sold for a collective $373,000, yieldingan average price of $62,167 and accounting for nearly 12 percent of the sale’s overall proceeds.

Despite the fireworks at the top, the 2013 Barretts Octobersale suffered diminished returns in all other fiscal categories.

From the 248 yearlings cataloged, Barretts Sales & Racing reported the sale of 159 of the 216 horses ultimatelyoffered for gross receipts of $3,130,500, representing a 21.9 percent decline from the $4,006,600 total paid for 174 yearlings during the corresponding auction in 2012.The average dropped by 14.5 percent, from $23,026 to$19,689, while the median plunged 27.8 percent, from$18,000 to $13,000. The buy-back rate also faltered, from19.1 percent last year to 26.4 percent in 2013.

Unlike in 2012, when three horses sold for six figureseach, the 2013 sale-topper was the sole horse to cross the$100,000 barrier this year.

Coming closest to that mark, at $95,000, was Avenue of Art, an Artie Schiller colt out of the unraced Avenue ofFlags mare Sookloozy who was acquired by Quarter PoleEnterprises LLC. Consigned by agent Sam Hendricks onbehalf of Walking G Ranch, the youngster is a half-brotherto Unbridled Slew, an unraced son of Red Bullet who commanded $2.5 million at the 2006 Barretts May Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training to set a standard as the highest-priced California-bred ever sold at public auction.

Rounding out the top five sellers at this year’s event—each a Cal-bred—were a $70,000 Unusual Heat colt out ofAffirmed’s stakes-placed winner Midnite Mama, a $67,000Lucky Pulpit colt out of the Tactical Cat mare YerevanStorm and a $65,000 Unusual Heat filly out of the GrandSlam mare Match Ball. Named Unusually Fancy and purchased by agent Tim Cohen from the Harris Farms consignment, the latter yearling elicited the top price for hergender at the venue.

Quarter Pole Enterprises led all Barretts October buyerswith three yearlings purchased for an aggregate $195,000.

With 37 yearlings sold for $708,000, Havens BloodstockAgency ranked as the auction’s leading consignor.

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Beginner’s Luck

The $160,000 sale-topper at Barretts Sales & Racing’s 2013 October Yearling Sale was this colt from the first crop of

the Rancho San Miguel stallion The Pamplemousse.

On Sept. 22, the Barretts Race Meet at Fairplex con-cluded its 75th season of Thoroughbred racing during theLos Angeles County Fair in Pomona. With the exception ofthe World War II years, racing has been conducted theresince the inaugural fair was held in 1922, but pari-mutuelwagering wasn’t introduced until 1933. Pomona, as it waspreviously called, was the first Southern Cali-fornia track to introduce wagering after thepassage of State Proposition 3. Over the yearsit’s hosted racing for a variety of equine breedsand has changed its name to Fairplex Parkand, in March, Barretts Sales & Racing.

Though racing is dormant until September2014, Barretts Sales & Racing is still handling wagers andpromoting the sport to old pros and newcomers alike throughthe Finish Line Sports Grill. General Manager Kim Lloydsaid the facility’s handle has grown with each passing yearsince it opened in March 2009. That success is the exceptionto the rule among wagering sites during the economic reces-sion.

“There’s been a definite increase every year,” Lloyd said.“This year during Del Mar, we were up eight percent com-pared to the previous year. This year to date, we’re up 20percent.”

The grill is located in the Hinds Pavilion, the site of Bar-retts equine auctions since 1990. Inter-track wagering(ITW) was previously conducted in the Fairplex Parkgrandstand. Lloyd said the compact size of the new facilityis perhaps the main reason for its success. Grandstandwagering was spread over three floors. “Instead of having itwhere it was in a big area and spread out, there’s a lot ofenergy and each room has a different feel to it,” Lloyd said.

Finish Line’s distinct areas include the sports bar, outsidering, outside patio, sales ring auditorium and “garage,” a cov-

ered patio where horses are led into and out of the sales ring.“Each room has a different energy and crowd,” Lloyd said.

The outside ring is used mainly for special occasions, witha temporary canopy for events such as weddings, corporatefunctions and boxing matches. These events are among thehundreds the greater Fairplex facility hosts each year.

Food and drink service in the sports barincludes appetizers, salads, sandwiches and morewith sports- and racing-themed names. Wager-ing is available through live tellers, vouchermachines and through a RaceFan Club Card.

A beginners’ wagering guide is printed atthe bottom of the menus as part of Barretts’

effort to introduce new people to racing. “We have no chargefor parking and admission, and it gives more people a chanceto experience racing for the first time,” Lloyd said. “We’vehad a lot of luck bringing people to the sport with our facili-ty.”

Lloyd said the grill employs more than 50 people acrossmultiple shifts, including cooks, waiters, bartenders andcustodians. It’s open seven days a week, including duringsales. “On an average Monday or Tuesday, we’ll handleabout $30,000, and during a sale we’ll still handle the same$30,000.” Lloyd said.

Opening the Finish Line Sports Grill was a major step inBarretts Sales & Racing’s growing role in the Southern Cali-fornia landscape, especially in light of this year’s announcementthat Betfair Hollywood Park will cease racing after theupcoming autumn meet.

“We’re looking for opportunities to expand both thesports grill and Barretts as a company,” Lloyd said. “Anyopportunities that present themselves, we’ll be ready to takeadvantage of them. For sure we’re happy with how things aregoing now and we look forward to going into the future.”


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With the absence of California Cup races during this year’sAutumn meet at Santa Anita Park, every ungraded stakesrace was of greater importance for California-breds hoping tofind a way into the Breeders’ Cup World Championships onNov. 1-2. Two of the following four horses used their localprep race victory as a springboard to the sport’s biggest stage,while the other duo’s next races remain to be seen.

A Promising PrepTeddy’s Promise stirred hope for the grade I, $1,000,000

Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint in winning the$100,250 L.A. Woman Stakes on Oct. 5.

She comes into that Nov. 2 championship race in betterform than last year’s eighth-placed attempt, prior to whichshe hadn’t won a race since May. This year, a break since arunner-up finish in the July 13 A Gleam Handicap (grade II)at Betfair Hollywood Park may have been the trick.

Teddy’s Promise was able to relax and stalk two rivalsalong the backstretch, then pulled to the front in the finalturn, holding sway under jockey Victor Espinoza to win bytwo lengths. Great Hot (Brz) was second, with Cal-bredSister Kate third in the field of six fillies and mares. A fastdirt track yielded a final time of 1:15.28 for 6 1/2 furlongs.

“She hasn’t raced for alittle while, so we fresh-ened her up and she cameback running,” said TedNichols, winning co-owner and breeder alongwith his wife, JudyNichols.

The daughter of the late

stallion Salt Lake and Capote mare Braids and Beads beganher career slowly, breaking her maiden and winning onlyonce more until transferred to current trainer Ron Ellis.Since winning the grade I, $300,000 La Brea Stakes atSanta Anita on Dec. 31, 2011, Teddy’s Promise has beenone of the top Cal-bred females.

Her career record is 26-10-4-2 and she’s racked up$822,397 in prize money, with $60,000 of it from the L.A.Woman. With a good showing in the Breeders’ Cup, thatamount will increase substantially.

Zooming in the ZumaAnother horse with a strong pre-Breeders’ Cup perfor-

mance was Aotearoa, winner of the $100,250 Zuma BeachStakes on Oct. 6.

The two-year-old gelding named after the Maori wordfor New Zealand was last early as the longest shot in thefield of six, but picked off his rivals one by one to win bythree quarters of a length. Heavily favored Diamond Bach-elor was second, with Got Shades third. The final timeafter a fast early pace was 1:34.42 for one mile on the turf.

“I rode a horse that I loved at (the Del Mar Thorough-bred Club) and this horse blew right by us the day he brokehis maiden (Aug. 4), so Iknew this horse couldreally run,” winning jockeyCorey Nakatani said.

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Mar’s all-weather Polytrack surface. Winning trainerLeonard Powell predicted improvement.

“The breeding was there,” Powell said. “He’s by (MagaliFarms stallion) Good Journey and we always thought he wouldlike the grass, especially the way he moves in the morning.”

Triumphant owner Paul Viskovich bred Aotearoa fromhis winning Lil Tyler mare Madera Royal, a full sister to mul-tiple stakes winner Mateo. She had three foals, including ayearling filly by Good Journey, before dying of colic this year.

Aotearoa has earned $114,000 in his young career,including $60,000 from this latest stakes win. He isn’tBreeders’ Cup nominated, so Viskovich had to use some ofthe gelding’s profits to supplement to the grade I,$1,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf on Nov. 1.

Winning KickA daughter of 2004 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (grade I) win-

ner Wilko was the next Cal-bred to take an ungraded stakesrace during the autumn meet. Qiaona pulled a mild upset inwinning the $100,500 California Distaff Handicap on Oct. 12.

The chestnut filly was in her favorite position at theback of the pack in the downhill turf sprint. In the stretch,jockey Corey Nakatani steered her to the outside whereshe charged home under a strong hand ride. Dual black-type winner Ismene was stuck in second, followed by stakeswinner Bella Viaggia and four more Cal-bred or Cal-siredfillies and mares. The winner covered the about 6 1/2 furlongstrip on the grass in 1:11.66.

“She was spot-on today, she has that racing fight inher,” Nakatani said. “I know that six and a half probablyisn’t her best distance, but the race set up for us and I knewshe was going to put in a big kick.”

Qiaona is trained by Ed Moger Jr. and owned by Curtand Lila Lanning. She’sthe first foal out of the 13-time winner and $210,215earner Starlet Sky, by Sky-walker. She sold for$16,000 at Keeneland’s2009 November BreedingStock Sale while carrying

Qiaona. The buyer was B & B Zeitz Stables, which is cred-ited as Qiaona’s breeder.

Qiaona only broke her maiden in her seventh start,followed immediately by her only other stakes win, the$300,750 California Breeders Champion Stakes at SantaAnita on Jan. 26. Her career record is 15-4-4-2, with a$439,994 bankroll. Her trainer said he’ll keep Qiaona onthe turf for future races.

A Toast To The WinnerA Toast to You won a race named after a Cal-bred

Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (grade II) winner when he upsetthe $101,250 California Flag Handicap on Oct. 19.

The race was contested at its namesake’s favorite distanceon his favorite surface—about 6 1/2 furlongs on the CaminoReal downhill turf course. A Toast to You settled mid-packand saved ground on the left and right-handed turns beforejockey Mario Gutierrez found a path through the leaders andpushed his mount to win by a half-length. Favored Ain’t NoOther settled for the place, and grade III winner Tiz a Min-ister for the show among 10 state-breds aged three and up.

A Toast to You completed the race in 1:11.88, not far fromCalifornia Flag’s course record of 1:11.10. His final odds were18-1, based on his winless record in the past year. Winningtrainer Peter Miller explained the decision to enter a stakesevent off a fifth-placed finish in a $40,000 claiming race.

“We were either going to run him in a $25,000 claimingrace or the California Flag,” Miller said. “We decided to takea shot. . .The horse was doing good and I spoke to (winningco-owner Gary) Barber and I said, ‘Even if we run second orthird, it’s a big payday, the horse is doing well, let’s take ashot.’” Gary Barber and his brother, Cecil Barber, wererewarded for their risk.

Bred by W. R. Welty’sHidden Meadows Farm, AToast to You is by BallenaVista Farm’s Tribal Ruleout of the stakes-winningApollo mare Whitewinesip-per. His lifetime totals are20-6-3-3 and $352,872.

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Larry and Marianne Williams’ crack three-year-old fillyMarks Mine kept up her brilliant run of consistency whenshe grinded out a half-length victory over the 36-1 longshotKitty Marie in the $63,750 Harvest Stakes at Stockton onSept. 28. She has yet to be off the board in any of her 10starts in Northern California, while this win at the SanJoaquin County Fair was her third in a stakes race.

While the outcome was expected, backers of the 2-5favorite never felt confident due to the efforts of the runner-up, Shirley Ann Ragel’s homebred Stormin Fever fillywhose best recent effort had been at a route on the turf.The pair hot-footed away from the rest of the field, MarksMine from the outside stall and Kitty Marie from the rail,through a :44:53 half-mile.

They entered the stretch side-by-side but Marks Mineasserted herself at the furlong pole, gradually edging awayto the final winning margin, with Twitter Pie anotherfive lengths further back in third. Final time was 1:09.48.

Speaking of the second-placed horse, winning trainerSteve Specht said, “She scared the heck out of me. I didn’tthink anybody would go with us that hard early. I wasn’tworried until the eighth pole when I saw she wasn’t giv-ing way.”

Specht was happy with rider Frank Alvarado’s decisionto keep his mount relaxed until the stretch run. “Frankdid the right thing,” he noted. “He took her back a littleinstead of pushing for the lead.”

A bay daughter of Ballena Vista Farm’s Benchmark,Marks Mine boosted her record to 12-6-3-2, with earn-ings of $270,270. She is one of five winners bred by theWilliamses out of the Capote mare Ermine Fever, a half-sister to the 1995 Kentucky Derby (grade I) runner-upTejano Run.

A Homebred Through And ThroughTrainer Jerry Hollendorfer didn’t have a lot of success

on the racetrack with the Indian Charlie filly Tadita, whoalways toiled in claiming ranks while winning two racesfrom eight starts. But as a broodmare, she has been black-type and her third of three foals to gain that distinctionlooks like the best of them all.

Racing for Hollendorfer, his wife Janet and their main-stay client Dr. George Todaro, Tadita’s latest offspring, Lifeis a Joy, took command from the opening bell of the BigFresno Fair’s $67,400 Charlie Palmer Futurity at a mile onOct. 5. The chestnut gelding then waltzed home just under97 seconds later with his third straight win, posting a finalwinning margin of six lengths over the second-placedfinisher, stablemate Hirschy.

Jockey Leslie Mawing kept the winner well off the fencethrough the first turn after establishing his superiority justa few strides from the gate. Setting moderate fractions,including :47.85 for the half, he plowed that furrow aroundthe Fresno oval, allowing Hirschy, winner of the $64,300Cavonnier Juvinile Stakes at Santa Rosa in August, tomount a bid from the inside going into the far turn.

But entering the final straight, Life is a Joy foundanother gear and galloped home in mid-strip as Hirschyfaded. It was another 5 1/4 lengths back to El Sacrificioin third. An elated Mawing was singing the praises of hismount after he successfully passed his initial two-turntest. “I definitely want to stay with this horse,” he said.

The winner joins full brother Life is a Rock, who fin-ished third in the 2011 Robert Dupret Derby, and full sisterLife is a Stone, third and second in the Campanile andWine Country Stakes this summer, in earning added-money credentials. All three were sired by Globalize, thegrade II-winning son of Summer Squall trained by Hol-lendorfer who stands at Victory Rose Thoroughbreds.

Life is a Joy, the fifth stakes winner for his sire, remainedunbeaten in three stats with earnings of $85,330.


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Acclamation was always a good California-bred, but a littleover halfway through his career, he transcended “good” andbecame one of the greats. During five seasons of racing, Accla-mation grew from a gutsy allowance horse to a six-timegrade I winner, and became the 56th Cal-bred millionaire.

Acclamation was foaled at E. W. “Bud” and Judy John-ston’s Old English Rancho in Sanger, California, on May 16,2006. The bay colt was a third-generation homebred for theJohnston family, who bred him out of their unraced Sil-veyville mare Winning in Style, herself a daughter of theunraced Fleet Discovery mare Lady With Style. Johnstonclaims to have known early on that Acclamation was “theone;” he recalled seeing the bright bay son of Unusual Heatearly in the breaking process and was transfixed. “I turned tomy wife and said, “This is the horse I’ve been looking for mywhole life—this is the one,’” Johnston remembered later.

Although Winning in Style was a nice mare, there wasno reason to think she’d produce one of the state’s greats.Her first two foals didn’t make it to the track, and only twoof the next four won a race. In 2001, she produced five-timewinner Strut Your Stuff, who finished third in the 2005Cat’s Cradle Handicap at Hollywood Park en route to earn-ings of $233,137. Four years later came Always in Style, whoearned $153,252 from two wins and runner-up finishes in

both the 2007 California Cup Juvenile Fillies and 2011 LasMadrinas Handicap.

And then came Acclamation, who made his debut at Hol-lywood Park for the Johnstons and trainer Donald Warren onNov. 9, 2008. He finished fifth in the 6 1/2-furlong, all-weathertrack contest after tugging early but being held back to closehalf-heartedly in the lane. He didn’t break his maiden until histhird start, scoring by 1 1/4 lengths in a 1 1/16-mile grassy con-test at the same Inglewood track on Dec. 21. From there,Acclamation was put away until July of his sophomore season.

He finished third in his comeback, an allowance optionalclaiming event over a mile on the turf behind two royallybred rivals: the winner was Enriched, better known as LavaMan’s younger half-brother, while Nashoba Express, a halfto the 2007 California Horse of the Year, Nashoba’s Key, fin-ished second. Acclamation improved to miss by a half-lengthnext out on the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club’s all-weathertrack, then put it all together with a 2 3/4-length score in aone-mile grass event at Del Mar on Aug. 8. After anunplaced effort in an allowamce race, he attempted stakescompany for the first time in the grade II, $350,000 DelMar Derby, and finished third, beaten less than a length forthe victory.

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With only one exception, Acclamation would raceexclusively in stakes for the remainder of his career. He fin-ished second, beaten a length, on the Fairplex Park dirt inthe $99,000 Ralph M. Hinds Invitational Handicap. Aftera disappointing seventh place effort behind fellow Cal-bredThe Usual Q. T. in the Oak Tree Derby (grade II), Accla-mation finished third in a tough 12-horse edition of thegrade I, $300,000 Hollywood Derby at 75-1 odds. He com-pleted his season at Santa Anita Park with another thirdagainst older rivals in the San Gabriel Handicap (grade II).

At four, Acclamation would start nine times, showingflashes of brilliance in between bafflingly disappointingefforts. He was fifth, beaten 1 3/4 lengths, in the $500,000Sunshine Millions Classic Stakes at Santa Anita, then wasthird in the Arcadia track’s $200,000 Strub Stakes (grade II)as a 21-1 shot. He found a mile too short when last in thegrade I Frank E. Kilroe Mile, but improved to be fourth inthe 1 1/16-mile Inglewood Handicap (grade III).

Paired with jockey Christian Santiago Reyes, Acclama-tion went to the post for the grade II, $150,000 Jim MurrayHandicap on May 15, 2010. He was dismissed at 14-1, butsomething about the 1 1/2-mile distance triggered Accla-

mation’s best performance to date. Under Santiago Reyes’guidance, the big bay strolled out to a 10-length lead early andnever looked back, running his rivals off their feet in a stag-gering display of front-running dominance on the turf. Threeweeks later, they were at it again; Acclamation led every stepof the way to score his first grade I victory in the $250,000Charles Whittingham Memorial Handicap at 1 1/4 miles.

Unfortunately, Acclamation wasn’t able to take his showon the road: he finished last in the $760,000 BetFair/TVGUnited Nations Stakes, a grade I event at Monmouth Parkin New Jersey, and when he returned to California, he coulddo no better than sixth in the Eddie Read Stakes (grade I).Acclamation went back on the shelf, and was away fromthe races from July of 2010 until March of 2011. After twomore unplaced efforts, Acclamation returned to defend hisJim Murray Handicap title. He never lost again.

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$300,000 Eddie Read Stakes over eventual dual grade Iwinner Jeranimo and fellow Cal-bred Caracortado at DelMar on July 23, solidified Acclamation’s ascension to thetop of the ranks of older males.

To win races routing on the grass in California is onething, but to capture national attention, Acclamationwould have to do something outside of his comfort zone.With Rosario committed to race favorite Twirling Candy,Acclamation went to the post for Del Mar’s $1 millionTVG Pacific Classic Stakes under new regular PatrickValenzuela. The 10-furlong contest on the all-weather maintrack on Aug. 28, also drew the likes of grade I winnersGame on Dude and Stately Victor and the grade I-placedSetsuko, and while Acclamation was supported at 4-1, therewas a question surrounding his ability to win off the turf.

He answered that question in style, staging a stretch duelwith Twirling Candy to win by a head, while future PacificClassic hero Game on Dude finished fourth. With the win,Acclamation became the sixth Cal-bred to capture thesummer classic, and pushed his earnings over $1 million to$1,538,048.

As his final prep for the Breeders’ Cup, he returned to thegrass to win the grade II, $150,000 Clement L. Hirsch TurfChampionship Stakes at Santa Anita, but in a heartbreak-ing twist, injury would keep Acclamation from competingin the year-end World Championships. With longshotDrosselmeyer winning the Breeders’ Cup Classic and for-eigner St. Nicholas Abbey (Ire) taking the Turf, his EclipseAward hopes were kept alive. He ended up being named thecountry’s Eclipse Champion Older Male, but lost the TurfHorse award to three-time grade I winner Cape Blanco (Ire)and the Horse of the Year title to the filly Havre de Grace.

Possibly even more gratifying was Acclamation’s sweepof California’s year-end awards. After being passed over byThe Usual Q. T. in the Champion Older Male and TurfHorse categories in 2010, Acclamation swept both of thoseand the 2011 California Horse of the Year accolade. WithBud Johnston recovering from a heart attack and being

inducted into the California Hall of Fame on the samenight, the Annual Awards Dinner hosted by the CaliforniaThoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA) proved to bea magical occasion for the family.

Acclamation’s recovery continued well into 2012. War-ren picked out the Inglewood Handicap (grade III) for theprized horse’s return, but he was scratched the day beforethe race. Without a prep, Acclamation resurfaced in histhird consecutive Charles Whittingham on June 9. With-out showing any signs of rust, he won again, capturing arare grade I three-peat.

In his final career start on July 21, Acclamation success-fully defended his title in the Eddie Read by 2 3/4 lengths. Hewas riding a seven-race win streak into a hopeful repeat inthe Pacific Classic, but days before the race, Acclamationwas withdrawn due to a strained ligament.

He returned to training in September with an eye onmaking either the Breeders’ Cup Classic or Turf, but inOctober, he was officially removed from the year-endchampionships for the second season in a row. After 11wins, two seconds and six thirds in 30 starts, Acclamationwas retired with earnings of $1,958,048.

He now stands at his birthplace, Old English Rancho,for $20,000, and although there was talk of a return totraining for a campaign in the fall of 2013, Acclamationhas since been permanently retired and awaits his first cropof foals, to be born in 2014.

Despite the early end to his racing career, Acclamationstill had a few accolades to earn. In the 40 years of the Cali-fornia state awards, no horse had ever won the titles ofHorse of the Year, Champion Older Male and ChampionTurf Horse in consecutive years. Acclamation, with his twograde I wins in two tries, became the first to accomplishthat feat, and his six total awards rank him alongside thelikes of Lava Man (7), Snow Chief (6) and Best Pal (6).

Although he is gone from the racetrack, Acclamation willhave the chance to pass on his brilliance and versatility to hisoffspring. He won from one to 1 1/2 miles, ran admirably onall three surfaces, and competed against the best for threeseasons. Although there have been 58 other Cal-bredmillionaires, few left an impression like Acclamation.

Acclamation, Bud and Judy Johnston and Pete and Mary Hilvers’ Old English Rancho homebred son of Unusual Heat, became the56th Cal-bred millionaire with his victory in the grade I, $1,000,000 TVG Pacific Classic Stakes at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club on August 28, 2011.


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of the day as the four-year-old

gelding by Tribal Rule negotiated

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on Wednesday for the 2013 Breeders’

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on November 1-2.

Aotearoa was pre-entered in the grade I,

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Farms’ Good Journey, out of the Lil Tyler mare Madera Royal, was

bred by owner Paul Viskovich and trained by Leonard Powell. He

has two wins in three starts, earnings of $114,000 and is coming off

a win in the October 6 Zuma Beach Stakes.

Tiz Flirtatious was pre-entered in the grade I, $2 million

Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Tiz Flirtatious is by Harris Farms’

Tizbud, out of the Victory Gallop mare Masquerade Belle, was bred

by owner Pamela Ziebarth and is trained by Martin Jones. She has

eight wins in 12 starts, earnings of $774,800 and is coming off a

win in the September 28 Rodeo Drive Stakes.

Ismene and Teddy’s Promise were pre-entered in the grade I,

$1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. Ismene is by Ballena

Vista Farm’s Tribal Rule, out of the In Excess (Ire) mare Never to

During a time of year when tracks across

the country are featuring their state-bred

stars, California Cup, a fixture on the fall

racing calendar at Santa Anita Park since

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tested this season.

Instead, Cal Cup will be combined with the Sunshine Millions

program this winter and will be run at Santa Anita Park on

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breds, to be run on the Friday, Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup card at Santa

Anita Park, drew 16 nominations each.

The $200,000 Golden State Juvenile for two-year-old colts

at a mile drew five stakes winners, including Tamarando, winner

of the grade I, $300,000 Del Mar Futurity.

The $200,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies for two-year-old

fillies at a mile drew five stakes-placed runners.

The purse structure for the races pays $110,000 to the winner

down to $4,000 for eighth place.

For nominations and past performances of the Juvenile race, click

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Longshot A Toast to You was

up to win Saturday’s $100,000

California Flag Handicap by

half a half length under Mario

Gutierrez, providing trainer

Peter Miller with his third win

of the day as the four-year-old

gelding by Tribal Rule negotiated

the 6 1/2-furlong hillside turf

course in 1:11.88.

Fifth, beaten two lengths down the hill in a $40,000 claiming

affair October 5, A Toast to You was winless from eight starts this

year and was ridden for the first time by Gutierrez.—continued at

www.santaanita.com, From Santa Anita Park Publicity

Eight California-breds were pre-entered

on Wednesday for the 2013 Breeders’

Cup, which will be held at Santa Anita Park

on November 1-2.

Aotearoa was pre-entered in the grade I,

$1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. Aotearoa is by Magali

Farms’ Good Journey, out of the Lil Tyler mare Madera Royal, was

bred by owner Paul Viskovich and trained by Leonard Powell. He

has two wins in three starts, earnings of $114,000 and is coming off

a win in the October 6 Zuma Beach Stakes.

Tiz Flirtatious was pre-entered in the grade I, $2 million

Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf. Tiz Flirtatious is by Harris Farms’

Tizbud, out of the Victory Gallop mare Masquerade Belle, was bred

by owner Pamela Ziebarth and is trained by Martin Jones. She has

eight wins in 12 starts, earnings of $774,800 and is coming off a

win in the September 28 Rodeo Drive Stakes.

Ismene and Teddy’s Promise were pre-entered in the grade I,

$1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. Ismene is by Ballena

Vista Farm’s Tribal Rule, out of the In Excess (Ire) mare Never to

During a time of year when tracks across

the country are featuring their state-bred

stars, California Cup, a fixture on the fall

racing calendar at Santa Anita Park since

it was established in 1990, will not be con-

tested this season.

Instead, Cal Cup will be combined with the Sunshine Millions

program this winter and will be run at Santa Anita Park on

©Benoit.

The pair of Golden State Series races for eligible California-

breds, to be run on the Friday, Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup card at Santa

Anita Park, drew 16 nominations each.

The $200,000 Golden State Juvenile for two-year-old colts

at a mile drew five stakes winners, including Tamarando, winner

of the grade I, $300,000 Del Mar Futurity.

The $200,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies for two-year-old

fillies at a mile drew five stakes-placed runners.

The purse structure for the races pays $110,000 to the winner

down to $4,000 for eighth place.

For nominations and past performances of the Juvenile race, click

http://www.santaanita.com/stakesrace/2013/golden-state-juvenile

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Gilbert Hemming Jr. didn’t know how lucky he was whenhis stakes-winning mare Fortunate Betty foaled a bay colt bySomething Lucky at his ranch in Mettler, California, onApril 15, 1991. As the youngster grew, Hemming, a formerCalifornia Thoroughbred Breeders Association (CTBA)director, was impressed by his toughness and intelligence. Hehad an inkling that this one was something special.

Individual Style was owned by his breeder in partnershipwith Ron Penton and Jim Reynolds, and raced in the silksof First Cabin Stable. Under the watchful eye of veterantrainer Lin Wheeler, the colt trained forwardly toward histwo-year-old debut.

In his first racetrack appearance at Hollywood Park on June 18,1993, he outclassed a field of eight other California-bred maidenclaimers winning by 10 lengths going five furlongs in :57.54.

Just over five weeks later, Individual Style made hisstakes debut in the grade II, $102,600 Hollywood JuvenileChampionship Stakes at six furlongs. The colt showed speedfrom the start, but tired at the wire to finish third to Ram-blin Guy and Swift Walker.

Indivudual Style’s reputation was growing as he thenreeled off three wins in a row that began with 2 1/4-lengthallowance victory at the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club onAug. 19. His next two wins were both at Fairplex Park, inthe $49,000 Beau Brummel Stakes on Sept. 17, and the$42,000 Gateway to Glory Stakes on Sept. 30.

On Oct. 16, he faced old rivals Flying Sensation andgraded stakes winner Creston in Santa Anita Park’s$100,000 Budweiser California Cup Juvenile Stakes at 1 1/16miles. He took the lead from the start, but tired to finishthird to these two sons of Flying Paster.

Given nearly six weeks off, the colt closed out his juvenile

campaign on Nov. 26, in the grade III, $89,225 HollywoodPrevue Breeders Cup Stakes. Sent to post as the 6-5 favorite,Individual Style scored an easy 1 1/4-length victory overEgayant and Soul of the Matter. His final time was an excel-lent 1:21.17 for the seven-furlong trip.

With a record of 7-5-0-2 and earnings of $158,600,Individual Style was voted the 1992 California ChampionTwo-Year-Male. He was ranked at 115 pounds on the Exper-imental Handicap to Eclipse Award winner Dehere at 126.

At three, Indvidual Style won both the $110,050 Califor-nia Breeders’ Champion Stakes at Santa Anita in January,and Hollywood Park’s $82,700 Harry Henson Stakes in June.At four, his only win was the last one of his career in the$54,550 Montclair Stakes at Golden Gate Fields.

After six winless starts at five and six, he retired to stud inWashington for the 1998 breeding season. Individual Stylerelocated to Arizona in 2005, and currently stands at Jon RayRanch. A pair of his offspring, Barbie Q Style and FortBowie, just broke their maidens at Turf Paradise last month.

Individual Style’s dam Fortunate Betty earned $53,875,both winning the Brentwood Stakes and placing second in theBeverly Hills Handicap at four. A sister to the eight-timestakes winner Macarthur Park, she was purchased by Hem-ming for $33,000 at Westerly Stud Farm’s complete dispersalof Old English Rancho’s racing stock in July of 1975. Her othersix winners included Clear as Crystal, a stakes winner of$202,420 and the granddam of 2012 grade II winner Norvsky.

A grade II winner of $269,875, Something Lucky also siredthe black-type winners Always a Lady and Lucky’s First One.

Individual Style’s final totals were 22-8-2-3 with earningsof $327,468. The talented champion lived up to all the dreamsand expectations of Gil Hemming Jr., a truly lucky man.


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Individual Style:Bred To Be A Champion

Grade II Hollywood Prevue Breeders’ Cup StakesNovember 26, 1993

$54,550 Montclair StakesApril 15, 1995

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Potomac Horse Fever is a sporadic and seasonal (mostcases appearing in the summer and fall) disease. It is tech-nically known as equine monocytic ehrlichiosis, butbecause it was first documented in the Potomac River Val-ley of Maryland in l979,most horsemen know itas Potomac Horse Fever(PHF). Since then, ithas been diagnosed innearly every state, inevery Canadian province,in Europe and in SouthAmerica.

This disease proba-bly existed before 1979,and in other areas; “rivervalley fever” and “ShastaRiver crud” have been aproblem in NorthernCalifornia for a longtime. Affected horsesdeveloped diarrhea,fever and usually diedunless treated with tetracy-cline—the same drug currently used to treat horses withPHF. It just happened that a virulent strain emerged inMaryland during 1979,and gained attentionand a name.Signs Of The Disease

Dr. Amy JohnsonDVM, DACVIM (LargeAnimal Internal Medi-cine, New Bolton Centerin Pennsylvania) saysfever is the most consis-tent sign, and it’s often ahigh fever. “We see tem-peratures that are 103degrees, on up to 105degrees. With fever, thehorse is often depressedand goes off feed. Milddepression and reluc-tance to eat may be theonly signs you’d see at first, and this should be a clue totake the horse’s temperature,” she says.

“The fever usually happens prior to development of

diarrhea or laminitis. In regions where there are a lot ofcases, most veterinarians start treating the horse for PHFjust based on the fact it has a fever during the right time ofyear—which in our area is June through September or

October. Those are themonths we see the mostcases. If we have a horsewho has unexplainedfever and is depressed andnot eating, we often starttreatment for PHF. It isalways better to treatearly rather than late,”says Johnson.

“As the disease pro-gresses we start to seediarrhea in some of thesehorses; about 60 percentwill develop diarrhea.Some of them won’t havevisible diarrhea. It’s aninternal diarrhea inwhich the colon is

inflamed and losing fluidand electrolytes internally—but we are not seeing thehorse produce much diarrhea. The horse has all of the sys-

temic inflammatoryresponses that you seewith severe diarrhea, butnot much external diar-rhea,” she says.

“The terrible aspect ofthis disease is that itfrequently causes laminitis—in about 25 percent ofcases. In my experience,this is the major factorthat causes us to losethese horses. Most ofthem can get over thediarrhea (with good sup-portive treatment andintravenous (IV) fluids),but if their feet areseverely compromised by

laminitis we can’t always save them,” she explains.“I advise horse owners to take the horse’s temperature

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if it ever goes off feed or acts depressed. If they live in anarea where this disease has ever been reported, they shouldtalk to their veterinarian and see if he/she thinks PHFmight be a possibility during the time of year we tend to seeit. Any time that’s not winter or early spring, we are gen-erally thinking about this disease,” says Johnson.

In terms of diagnosis, most veterinarians just go by theclinical signs, rather than wait for test results, but there isa Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test available. “Youcan submit either a blood sample or fecal sample thatcould help confirm that it really is PHF as opposed tosome other cause of diarrhea. It can look just like aclostridial or salmonella diarrhea. It is important for own-ers to try to figure out what is causing the problem,because both salmonella and clostridial diseases can becontagious from horse to horse, whereas PHF is notpassed from horse to horse. You would want to know,especially if there is PHF in your area, because this mightprompt you to vaccinate the other horses or at least keep

an eye on them and their temperature—especially if it’sduring summer when swarms of insects are present,” shesays.

Treatment“If PHF is suspected, most veterinarians administer

oxytetracycline. The organism is very susceptible to thistype of drug. Sometimes the oral form (doxycycline) isused. In our clinic, we generally reach for the IV formula-tion, since the horses we see often have Gastrointestinal(GI) issues. If the GI tract is not working properly, it can’tabsorb the oral drug,” says Johnson.

“A person must be a little careful in treating these horses,because if they do have diarrhea or the systemic inflamma-tory response syndrome they may be quite dehydrated.Oxytetracycline can be damaging to the kidneys, especiallyin a horse who’s dehydrated, so we frequently give IV flu-ids as well. When we treat cases that are caught really earlyon the farm—the first day that they go off feed and have afever—we might get away with just giving the oxytetracy-cline IV for a few days without any other treatment, sincethe horse is not yet dehydrated,” she says.

“Regarding the possibility of laminitis, we tend to beproactive in trying to prevent it, but laminitis is not alwayseasy to prevent. The best situation is to treat the horse asearly as possible with oxytetracyline and also put the horsein a deeply bedded stall with soft footing. We make surethese horses are as healthy as we can get them with IV flu-ids and some anti-inflammatory drugs, and try to ice theirfeet before they develop laminitis. We sometimes put sup-portive pads on their feet. The ice and supports may bemore helpful with the type of laminitis that we see withsevere colic cases and some of the other diarrheas, but westill do these things to try to prevent laminitis in PHF.”

Prevention“Since snails are part of the life cycle in this disease, one

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The causative agent is a Rickettsial organism and wasnamed Ehrlichia risticci for Miodrag Ristic, one of theresearchers who identified it at the University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign in 1984. It is now called Neorickettsia ris-ticci. It belongs to the same family as the pathogens that causeRocky Mountain Spotted Fever, anaplasmosis and typhus (allspread by insects, fleas or ticks). It was assumed for nearly 20years that Potomac Horse Fever (PHF), like those diseases, wastransmitted by some kind of insect—one that is active fromJune through September (since these are the months whenmost horses get the disease) but no one was able to identify theactual culprit until the late 1990s.

The disease appears most frequently in areas with flowingwater. The Ohio River Valley has been another PHF hot spotfor two decades. Once it appears, the disease tends to stay in anarea. Most cases occur in river bottoms or areas with streams.This clue led a team of researchers at University of California,Davis, to establish a link between freshwater snails and theorganism that causes PHF, in 1998.

Ehrlichia organisms are usually transmitted by arthropods,but no one had ever been able to transmit PHF from horse tohorse with ticks or flies. Scientists first suspected in 1994, thatPHF had a link with water, when an Ohio State Universitymolecular biologist established a genetic relationship betweenE. risticii and another type of bacteria which infects salmonand causes illness in dogs that eat infected fish. This theory wasreinforced in 1997, when the UC-Davis research team discov-ered that PHF is the same disease as “Shasta River Crud,”which has affected horses for a long time near California’sShasta and Klamath rivers.

In 1998, the research team collected and tested snails inthe Potomac River watershed in Maryland. At first they foundonly four snails who tested positive, out of 1,000 snails collected.Then, when the other gathered snails were sent to Californiaand put into tanks to grow in warm water, they released asecretion containing tiny tadpole-shaped fluke larvae—whichharbored bacteria genetically identical to some of the strains ofE. risticii found in horses with PHF. The flukes are parasiticflatworms that spend part of their life cycle in snails.

The researchers tried to discover how the tiny fluke larvaeget into the horse—whether the horse has to drink them in

water or picks them up directly through the skin (the larvae arefree swimmers that can penetrate skin) or if an intermediateinsect host is eaten by horses as they graze nearby pastures. Onestudy showed that horses can acquire E. risticci by ingesting thetiny fluke larvae in infected intermediate hosts such as aquaticinsects. The immature flukes have been found not only in snailsecretions but also in caddisflies. These are small, moth-likeinsects with two pairs of wings, a soft body and long legs. Thewormlike larva of this fly usually lives in fresh water, encased ina protective covering made of twigs, grains of sand and otherdebris cemented together with the larva’s secretions.

The free-swimming larval stage of the fluke can penetratethe skin of an animal or the tissues of an aquatic insect such asthe caddisfly larvae. The researchers theorized that horses couldpick up the infection via skin penetration by fluke larvae whenwading in water, by drinking water containing these larvae, orby eating or drinking an aquatic insect infected with larvae. Todetermine the route of infection in horses, test horses werechallenged with infectious snail secretions and aquatic insectscollected from a region in northern California where PHFcommonly occurs.

Two horses stood with their front feet in water containinginfected fluke larvae, two horses drank water containing larvae,and six horses were fed various aquatic insects harboringE. risticii-infected larvae. The only horse in the study whowas successfully infected was one who was fed mature caddis-flies. The clinical signs and changes in the blood were consistentwith PHF. The horse developed laminitis as well, which occursin 25 to 40 percent of horses with PHF.

E. risticii exists in nature in a complex aquatic ecosystem,and is probably transferred to horses when they accidentally eatinsects such as caddisflies that contain the infected fluke lar-vae. One type of caddisfly, Dicosmoecus gilvipes, is widespreadin the western mountain regions of North America and veryabundant in the Shasta River. Mature caddisflies are presentthere from July to November—the same time of year that hors-es get PHF. Horses often eat insects along with their grass whengrazing near water, or drink mature insects trapped on the watersurface, or insects attracted to stable lights and falling into feedand water. Other types of insects may also be potential sourcesof infection.

Cause

of the ways horse owners might prevent PHF is to reducesnail populations in horse pastures. This can be tricky insome regions and climates, but eliminating areas of standingwater can help. Another strategy would be to get rid of thecarrier insects by using insect traps,” says Johnson.

“There have been some interesting outbreaks where wethink the insects that carry the organism were attracted tostable lights at night. There were outbreaks of PHF in thehorses who had stalls closest to the stable lights,” she says.The flying insects were gathering there and falling into thehorses’ feed and water.

Vaccination against PHF isn’t as effective as some of

the other vaccines, because it was developed with theidea that the organism was being spread by biting flies(blood-borne disease) rather than something ingested.“There is no harm in using the vaccine; I haven’t seenvery many horses who react adversely to the vaccine. Butit is not 100 percent protective. We do think (and thereis some research evidence to suggest this) that vaccinatedhorses may have somewhat less severe form of the diseaseif they do get it,” says Johnson. If this means that thehorse might recover with less intensive treatment, orwithout developing laminitis, the vaccine would certain-ly be worth considering.

Down On The Farm Cont’d.

FEATURE


By GULCH (1984), champion sprinter in U.S., Stakes winner of $3,095,521, 1st Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1),etc. Among the leading sires in U. S., sire of 20 crops of racing age, 1,100 foals, 910 starters,72 stakeswinners, 1 champion, 642 winners of 2,304 races and earnings of $86,008,667 U. S., including THUNDERGULCH (Champion in U. S., $2,915,086, 1st Kentucky Derby (G1), etc., NAYEF (Hwt. in England and UnitedArab Emirates, $3,594,157, USA, 1st Juddmonte International S. (G1), etc.), EAGLE CAFE ($4,227,985USA, 1st Japan Cup Dirt, etc.), BRAVE TENDER ($2,708,334 USA, 1st Arlington Cup, etc.), COURT VISION(to 5, 2010, $2,606,521 USA, 1st Woodbine Mile S. (G1), etc.), THE CLIFF’S EDGE ($1,265,258, 1stToyota Blue Grass S. (G1), etc.), WALLENDA ($1,205,929, 1st Super Derby (G1), etc., ESTEEMEDFRIEND ($805,237, 1st General George H. (G1), etc.).

First dam is by DEPUTY MINISTER, leading broodmare sire of more than 180 stakes winners, includingCURLIN, RAGS TO RICHES, HALFBRIDLED, JAZIL, BOB & JOHN etc.

From the prolific line of stakes producers Mr. Prospector and Northern Dancer cross.

Standing for 2014 Breeding Season The Only Son of Gulch to Stand in California

BONNRITAGulch—Icanseeyounow, by Deputy Minister

Breed For Speed and SoundnessBonnrita retired sound after a 64 race career!

Fee: $2,000-LF—No Booking FeeFor inquiries please contact Nancy Markwell 818-472-5626

Standing At:

RIDGELEY FARM3901 W. Esplanade Ave., Hemet, CA 92545

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Leading Sires by Money Won

RacesRank Sire Runners Starts Won Earnings

1. Tribal Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190 922 156 $3,886,3812. Unusual Heat . . . . . . . . . . .111 591 84 3,742,4503. Ministers Wild Cat . . . . . . . .115 746 136 2,888,2644. Benchmark . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 664 96 2,364,2575. Eddington‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 677 101 2,340,8846. Kafwain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 704 107 2,160,2297. Bertrando† . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99 476 78 1,872,7748. Old Topper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 585 89 1,741,3549. Southern Image . . . . . . . . . .82 536 84 1,475,056

10. Good Journey . . . . . . . . . . . .59 354 49 1,407,26911. Tizbud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 259 33 1,383,88012. Decarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 417 47 1,252,82813. Salt Lake* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 332 62 1,188,35914. Heatseeker (Ire) . . . . . . . . . . .51 247 33 1,052,22115. In Excess (Ire)* . . . . . . . . . . . .84 466 69 1,039,67316. Unbridled Energy# . . . . . . . .83 486 67 1,009,68317. Marino Marini . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 381 51 942,45218. Vronsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 180 34 922,43219. Swiss Yodeler . . . . . . . . . . . .85 493 68 881,09720. Stormin Fever . . . . . . . . . . . .68 379 37 789,01721. Lucky Pulpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 227 29 779,90422. Cindago* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 137 31 736,51023. Atticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 233 38 697,01424. Game Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 191 30 648,82225. Suances (GB) . . . . . . . . . . . .28 154 30 630,56526. Rocky Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 266 47 615,61627. Affirmative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 143 15 554,06228. Awesome Gambler . . . . . . . .41 230 20 549,45529. Terrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 347 33 520,65530. Perfect Mandate* . . . . . . . . . 35 185 37 516,23231. Globalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31 190 23 505,38832. Cee's Tizzy† . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 197 31 453,46233. Popular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 192 26 430,23034. Sea of Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . .70 377 33 412,54435. Lucky J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 53 11 393,18036. High Brite* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 253 32 358,05137. Freespool† . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 246 42 356,10138. Tannersmyman . . . . . . . . . . . 41 230 37 345,42839. Don’tsellmeshort . . . . . . . . . 27 174 19 336,61640. Ten Most Wanted* . . . . . . . 32 178 12 336,25241. Silic (Fr)* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 121 14 297,65842. Momentum† . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 200 24 296,77343. Grey Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 139 18 289,14144. Stormy Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 203 27 284,84445. Cyclotron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 59 13 283,04246. Iron Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 117 24 278,31147. Square Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . 8 21 5 272,78048. Birdonthewire . . . . . . . . . . . 12 74 3 262,40349. Peppered Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 129 16 261,50450. Council Member . . . . . . . . . 19 85 13 249,345

1. Tribal Rule . . . . . . . . . . . 190 922 156 3,886,3812. Ministers Wild Cat . . . . . .115 746 136 2,888,2643. Kafwain . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 704 107 2,160,2294. Eddington‡ . . . . . . . . . . .124 677 101 2,340,8845. Benchmark . . . . . . . . . . . 107 664 96 2,364,2576. Old Topper . . . . . . . . . . . 98 585 89 1,741,3547. Unusual Heat . . . . . . . . . 111 591 84 3,742,450

Southern Image . . . . . . . . 82 536 84 1,475,0569. Bertrando† . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 476 78 1,872,774

10. In Excess (Ire)* . . . . . . . . . 84 466 69 1,039,67311. Swiss Yodeler . . . . . . . . . 85 493 68 881,09712. Unbridled Energy# . . . . . . 83 486 67 1,009,68313. Salt Lake* . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 332 62 1,188,35914. Marino Marini . . . . . . . . . . 78 381 51 942,45215. Good Journey . . . . . . . . . 59 354 49 1,407,26916. Decarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 417 47 1,252,828

Rocky Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 266 47 615,61618. Freespool† . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 246 42 356,10119. Atticus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 233 38 697,01420. Stormin Fever . . . . . . . . . . 68 379 37 789,017

Perfect Mandate* . . . . . . .35 185 37 516,232Tannersmyman . . . . . . . . . 41 230 37 345,428

1. Unusual Heat . . . . . . . . . . .111 84 $3,742,450 $33,7162. Lucky J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 11 393,180 30,2453. Tizbud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 33 1,383,880 28,2424. Cindago* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 31 736,510 27,2785. Ministers Wild Cat . . . . . . .115 136 2,888,264 25,1156. Vronsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 34 922,432 24,9317. Good Journey . . . . . . . . . . 59 49 1,407,269 23,8528. Suances (GB) . . . . . . . . . . . 28 30 630,565 22,5209. Benchmark . . . . . . . . . . . .107 96 2,364,257 22,096

10. Birdonthewire . . . . . . . . . . .12 3 262,403 21,86711. Lucky Pulpit . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 29 779,904 21,07812. Heatseeker (Ire) . . . . . . . . . .51 33 1,052,221 20,63213. Affirmative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 15 554,062 20,52114. Tribal Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . .190 156 3,886,381 20,45515. Cyclotron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 13 283,042 20,21716. Salt Lake* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 62 1,188,359 20,14217. Anziyan Royalty . . . . . . . . . 12 11 240,754 20,06318. Bertrando† . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 78 1,872,774 18,91719. Eddington‡ . . . . . . . . . . . .124 101 2,340,884 18,87820. Kafwain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 107 2,160,229 18,785

Leading Sires in California

DEPARTMENT


Leading Siresby Number of Races Won


Leading Siresby Average Earnings Per Runner

(Minimum 10 Runners)Average

Races Earnings/Rank Sire Runners Won Earnings Runner

Available StatisticsThrough October 6, 2013

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1. Unusual Heat ............ 79 302 31 50 $2,623,3412. Tribal Rule ................. 66 154 11 14 1,128,0023. Tizbud ....................... 25 67 8 12 725,3964. Good Journey ........... 35 128 13 17 710,8435. Heatseeker (Ire) ......... 31 87 14 15 592,6216. Ministers Wild Cat...... 27 68 12 15 453,1177. Decarchy.................... 42 99 8 8 440,4158. Eddington‡ ............... 50 109 10 12 404,9249. Atticus....................... 21 65 8 13 401,098

10. Bertrando†..................30 73 7 8 394,52411. Old Topper ..................20 43 5 9 357,52112. Benchmark............... 25 62 6 8 348,37913. Suances (GB) ............ 12 46 6 12 320,91914. In Excess (Ire)* ........... 22 60 5 9 314,44315. Kafwain ..................... 28 66 5 5 281,28616. Affirmative...................16 42 4 5 262,93417. Vronsky .................... 17 38 3 4 246,62818. Southern Image ........ 26 68 6 6 206,49119. Popular ...................... 10 24 1 2 194,25020. Perfect Mandate* ........10 23 4 6 182,709

1. Anziyan Royalty................ 12 11 $240,754 $16,0302. Southern Image................. 82 84 1,475,056 13,6493. Cyclotron........................... 14 13 283,042 13,3994. Good Journey ................... 59 49 1,407,269 12,7975. Unusual Heat................... 111 84 3,742,450 12,6406. Cindago* ........................... 27 31 736,510 12,1467. Lucky Pulpit .......................37 29 779,904 12,0178. Heatseeker (Ire) ................. 51 33 1,052,221 11,7159. Atticus ................................42 38 697,014 11,475

10. Iron Cat ............................. 20 24 278,311 11,31511. Birdonthewire .................... 12 3 262,403 10,51512. Trapper .............................. 12 15 158,339 10,50313. Ministers Wild Cat ............115 136 2,888,264 9,92714. Bedford Falls ..................... 11 10 172,555 9,66215. Kafwain ........................... 115 107 2,160,229 9,18916. Tribal Rule ....................... 190 156 3,886,381 9,16017. Vronsky.............................. 37 34 922,432 9,05018. Western Fame*................. 14 23 237,845 8,89019. Lucky J. H. ........................ 13 11 393,180 8,72920. Unbridled Energy# ............83 67 1,009,683 8,645

1. Tribal Rule .........................190 93 156 $3,886,3812. Ministers Wild Cat............ 115 73 136 2,888,2643. Eddington‡........................124 67 101 2,340,8844. Kafwain .............................115 63 107 2,160,2295. Benchmark....................... 107 59 96 2,364,2576. Unusual Heat ....................111 54 84 3,742,450

Old Topper ......................... 98 54 89 1,741,3548. Southern Image.................. 82 51 84 1,475,0569. Unbridled Energy# ............ 83 44 67 1,009,683

10. Bertrando† ......................... 99 43 78 1,872,77411. In Excess (Ire)*.................... 84 42 69 1,039,673

Swiss Yodeler..................... 85 42 68 881,09713. Decarchy ............................ 83 38 47 1,252,82814. Salt Lake* ........................... 59 35 62 1,188,359

Marino Marini ......................78 35 51 942,45216. Good Journey .....................59 28 49 1,407,26917. Stormin Fever..................... 68 27 37 789,01718. Heatseeker (Ire) .................. 51 25 33 1,052,221

Rocky Bar .......................... 52 25 47 615,61620. Freespool† ......................... 42 24 42 356,101

1. Unusual Heat .................111 591 $3,742,450 $6,3322. Cindago* ..........................27 137 736,510 5,3763. Tizbud ..............................49 259 1,383,880 5,3434. Vronsky ............................37 180 922,432 5,1255. Heatseeker (Ire) ................51 247 1,052,221 4,2606. Tribal Rule ......................190 922 3,886,381 4,2157. Suances (GB) ...................28 154 630,565 4,0958. Good Journey ..................59 354 1,407,269 3,9759. Bertrando† .......................99 476 1,872,774 3,934

10. Affirmative ........................27 143 554,062 3,87511. Ministers Wild Cat..........115 746 2,888,264 3,87212. Salt Lake* .........................59 332 1,188,359 3,57913. Benchmark.....................107 664 2,364,257 3,56114. Eddington‡.....................124 677 2,340,884 3,45815. Lucky Pulpit ................... 37 227 779,904 3,43616. Game Plan ..................... 36 191 648,822 3,39717. Kafwain ..........................115 704 2,160,229 3,06918. Decarchy ......................... 83 417 1,252,828 3,00419. Atticus ............................. 42 233 697,014 2,99120. Old Topper ..................... 98 585 1,741,354 2,977

DEPARTMENT


Leading Siresby Number of Winners

RacesRank Sire Runners Winners Won Earnings

Leading Siresby Turf Earnings

(Minimum 100 Starts Lifetime)

RacesRank Sire Runners Starts Winners Won Earnings

Leading Siresby Median Earnings Per Runner

(Minimum 10 Runners)Median

Races Earnings/Rank Sire Runners Won Earnings Runner

Leading Siresby Average Earnings Per Start

(Minimum 100 Starts)Average

Earnings/Rank Sire Runners Starts Earnings Start

The statistics contained in these rankings are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their completeand total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicates that a stallion has been pensioned, an asterisk (*) that he has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere, a number sign (#) that he did not stand in California in 2012 but is standingin the state in 2013, a double dagger (‡) that he is not standing in California in 2013 but will stand in the state in 2014 and in bold that he is a freshman sire. In all cases, a sire will remain in the rankings until the year after his lastCalifornia foals are two-year-olds. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates only.

4 Doc Gus 12 10 214 371 12 730

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1. Unusual Heat, 1990, by Nureye 13 48 626 449-72% 321-51% 41-7% 42-7% 10-2% $40,266,080 2.14 1.24

2. Cindago*, 2003, by Indian Charlie 4 16 63 35-56% 26-41% 5-8% 2-3% 0-0% $1,614,481 1.64 1.39

3. Cee's Tizzy†, 1987, by Relaunch 21 35 733 522-71% 381-52% 59-8% 39-5% 9-1% $37,175,529 1.62 1.15

4. In Excess (Ire)*, 1987, by Siberian Express 18 55 986 732-74% 542-55% 116-12% 63-6% 11-1% $44,903,552 1.58 1.40

5. Lucky Pulpit, 2001, by Pulpit 4 23 91 54-59% 44-48% 18-20% 4-4% 0-0% $3,042,001 1.57 1.18

Vronsky, 1999, by Danzig 6 19 114 58-51% 35-31% 6-5% 4-4% 1-1% $3,224,881 1.57 1.15

7. Good Journey, 1996, by Nureyev 8 61 487 223-46% 123-25% 15-3% 8-2% 4-1% $10,163,681 1.42 1.01

8. Salt Lake*, 1989, by Deputy Minister 18 70 1,259 1,044-83% 840-67% 246-20% 77-6% 25-2% $62,457,737 1.41 1.40

9. Tribal Rule, 1996, by Storm Cat 8 66 529 360-68% 246-47% 94-18% 33-6% 4-1% $18,696,745 1.36 1.17

10. Bertrando†, 1989, by Skywalker 17 61 1,043 784-75% 539-52% 122-12% 58-6% 14-1% $44,880,349 1.35 1.51

11. One Man Army, 1994, by Roman Diplomat 8 9 74 47-64% 30-41% 2-3% 4-5% 1-1% $2,631,141 1.33 0.93

12. Birdonthewire, 1989, by Proud Birdie 16 16 263 190-72% 135-51% 39-15% 10-4% 1-0% $12,025,159 1.30 1.36

13. Benchmark, 1991, by Alydar 12 57 683 513-75% 391-57% 102-15% 40-6% 10-1% $29,426,051 1.25 1.13

Southern Image, 2000, by Halo’s Image 5 96 479 283-59% 181-38% 41-9% 6-1% 2-0% $12,594,037 1.25 1.34

15. Awesome Gambler, 2004, by Coronado’s Quest 3 31 94 61-65% 27-29% 12-13% 2-2% 1-1% $2,062,455 1.22 0.76

16. Eddington‡, 2001, by Unbridled 5 65 323 246-76% 176-54% 47-15% 5-2% 3-1% $10,920,067 1.21 1.60

17. Stormin Fever, 1994, by Storm Cat 11 62 679 491-72% 348-51% 110-16% 30-4% 12-2% $27,038,757 1.19 1.40

18. Tizbud, 1999, by Cee’s Tizzy 6 24 145 89-61% 49-34% 9-6% 4-3% 1-1% $3,365,923 1.17 0.94

19. Kafwain, 2000, by Cherokee Run 7 65 453 340-75% 248-55% 81-18% 21-5% 5-1% $15,355,668 1.15 1.29

20. Affirmative, 1999, by Unbridled 6 14 86 41-48% 23-27% 4-5% 2-2% 0-0% $1,454,779 1.10 0.79

Olympio*, 1988, by Naskra 18 29 517 403-78% 297-57% 61-12% 30-6% 4-1% $19,176,070 1.10 1.29

22. Ministers Wild Cat, 2000, by Deputy Minister 5 48 242 192-79% 134-55% 33-14% 14-6% 2-1% $7,936,562 1.08 0.97

23. Popular, 1999, by Saint Ballado 6 13 76 56-74% 43-57% 15-20% 2-3% 1-1% $2,639,886 1.07 0.95

Robannier, 1991, by Batonnier 14 7 104 68-65% 40-38% 8-8% 3-3% 0-0% $3,000,125 1.07 1.03

25. Atticus, 1992, by Nureyev 13 34 445 331-74% 199-45% 39-9% 14-3% 5-1% $13,991,722 1.06 1.45

Heatseeker (Ire), 2003, by Giant’s Causeway 2 46 91 53-58% 32-35% 14-15% 1-1% 0-0% $1,467,633 1.06 1.58

27. Snow Chief*, 1983, by Reflected Glory 22 12 272 187-69% 113-42% 27-10% 9-3% 1-0% $5,683,676 1.05 1.29

28. Kelly Kip†, 1994, by Kipper Kelly 10 11 111 87-78% 73-66% 16-14% 2-2% 1-1% $4,383,294 1.04 1.02

Suances (GB), 1997, by Most Welcome (GB) 6 18 110 54-49% 33-30% 4-4% 1-1% 0-0% $2,084,458 1.04 1.11

30. High Brite*, 1984, by Best Turn 22 43 935 731-78% 593-63% 145-16% 46-5% 9-1% $36,224,234 1.03 1.17

31. Rocky Bar, 1998, by In Excess (Ire) 6 17 102 71-70% 56-55% 20-20% 13-13% 1-1% $3,062,038 1.02 0.79

Siberian Summer*, 1989, by Siberian Express 12 34 402 300-75% 211-52% 28-7% 14-3% 4-1% $12,786,581 1.02 0.88

Swiss Yodeler, 1994, by Eastern Echo 12 59 712 541-76% 383-54% 157-22% 27-4% 2-0% $25,399,387 1.02 1.08

34. Silic (Fr)*, 1995, by Sillery 9 18 159 118-74% 76-48% 11-7% 2-1% 1-1% $7,390,207 0.98 0.92

35. Unbridled Energy#, 2002, by Unbridled’s Song 4 52 206 131-64% 85-41% 18-9% 4-2% 0-0% $4,315,961 0.97 1.19

36. Old Topper, 1995, by Gilded Time 10 50 498 399-80% 307-62% 108-22% 22-4% 0-0% $17,625,417 0.96 0.86

37. Decarchy, 1997, by Distant View 7 42 297 204-69% 133-45% 37-12% 7-2% 1-0% $7,961,965 0.95 0.98

38. Lake George, 1992, by Vice Regent 14 12 162 103-64% 61-38% 10-6% 6-4% 1-1% $4,225,204 0.94 1.02

39. Marino Marini, 2000, by Storm Cat 6 44 263 178-68% 124-47% 31-12% 7-3% 0-0% $6,488,204 0.92 1.00

Perfect Mandate*, 1996, by Gone West 10 30 298 170-57% 110-37% 18-6% 12-4% 0-0% $6,543,218 0.92 1.24

41. Sea of Secrets, 1995, by Storm Cat 11 41 447 368-82% 263-59% 75-17% 20-4% 2-0% $17,521,182 0.90 1.08

42. Western Fame*, 1992, by Gone West 12 24 288 190-66% 140-49% 45-16% 14-5% 0-0% $7,686,587 0.89 0.83

43. Epic Honor, 1996, by Honor Grades 9 8 70 49-70% 38-54% 6-9% 1-1% 0-0% $2,210,264 0.86 0.72

Iron Cat, 1995, by Storm Cat 12 12 144 109-76% 90-63% 8-6% 6-4% 0-0% $3,856,656 0.86 0.97

45. Game Plan, 1993, by Danzig 14 30 424 313-74% 245-58% 56-13% 23-5% 2-0% $13,118,631 0.85 0.80

Latin American†, 1988, by Riverman 16 20 313 209-67% 136-43% 28-9% 6-2% 2-1% $6,587,487 0.85 1.09

47. Globalize, 1997, by Summer Squall 9 18 159 109-69% 81-51% 30-19% 5-3% 0-0% $3,903,258 0.80 0.79

Thisnearlywasmine*, 1994, by Capote 9 8 73 45-62% 31-42% 5-7% 0-0% 0-0% $1,487,221 0.80 0.72

49. Sought After, 2000, by Seeking the Gold 8 12 94 54-57% 35-37% 12-13% 1-1% 0-0% $1,527,364 0.79 0.87

50. Comic Strip, 1995, by Red Ransom 11 27 302 224-74% 163-54% 36-12% 12-4% 1-0% $7,857,726 0.78 1.18

Skimming, 1996, by Nureyev . 840. 317 219-69%147-46%

Crops Crops of Average Foals of Graded Averageof Racing Crop Racing 2-Y-O Stakes Stakes Progeny Earnings Comparable

No Stallion, Year Foaled, Sire Age Size Age Runners Winners Winners Winners Winners Earnings Index Index


These statistics are for active California-based sires with a minimum of 50 foals of racing age, ranked here by lifetime Average Earnings Index (AEI). The statistics contained in these rankings are compiled byThe Jockey Club Information Systems Inc (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their complete and total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicatesthat a stallion has been pensioned, an asterisk (*) that he has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere, a number sign (#) that he did not stand in California in 2012 but is standing in the state in 2013, a doubledagger (‡) that he is not standing in California in 2013 but will stand in the state in 2014 and In bold that he is a freshman sire. In all cases, a sire will remain in the rankings until the year after his last California foalsare two-year-olds. Statistics cover racing in North America (US, Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) onlyPercentages are based upon number of foals of racing age.

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Leading Sires Of Two-Year-Oldsby Money Won


1. Tribal Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 54 13 $386,7482. Bertrando† . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 24 2 300,6203. Square Eddie . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 21 5 272,7804. Lucky J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 15 4 212,8755. Time to Get Even . . . . . . . .16 58 5 197,8606. Dixie Chatter . . . . . . . . . . . 20 40 7 189,9777. Bushwacker . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 68 4 165,3258. Swiss Yodeler . . . . . . . . . . . .14 35 4 151,1389. Kafwain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 22 4 151,110

10. Stormin Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 22 2 149,11611. Don'tsellmeshort . . . . . . . . . 3 10 4 147,32812. Awesome Gambler . . . . . . . 9 36 2 146,01213. Papa Clem . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 26 4 142,42414. Desert Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 22 1 139,12115. Decarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 20 4 135,19216. Good Journey . . . . . . . . . . 4 10 2 134,45017. Roi Charmant . . . . . . . . . . . 4 12 2 124,45918. Lucky Pulpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 25 3 120,63519. Birdonthewire . . . . . . . . . . . 3 13 1 114,66020. Southern Image . . . . . . . . . . 7 24 2 103,32021. Eddington‡ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 30 4 95,80522. Unusual Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 27 3 88,69623. Globalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 3 85,33024. Heatseeker (Ire) . . . . . . . . . .11 23 4 79,89825. Cindago* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 12 2 72,090


The statistics contained in these rankings are compiled by The Jockey Club Information Systems Inc. (TJCIS). While every effort is made to prevent errors and omissions, California Thoroughbred cannot guarantee their com-plete and total accuracy. A dagger (†) indicates that a stallion has been pensioned, an asterisk (*) that he has died, a dot (•) that he is now standing elsewhere, a number sign (#) that he did not stand in California in 2011 but isstanding in the state in 2012, a double dagger (‡) that he is not standing in California in 2012 but will stand in the state in 2013 and in bold that he is a freshman sire. In all cases, a sire will remain in the rankings until the yearafter his last California foals are two-year-olds. Statistics cover racing in North America (U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico), England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United ArabEmirates only.

Leading Sires Of Two-Year-Oldsby Average Earnings Per Runner

(Minimum 5 Runners)

AverageRaces Earnings/

Rank Sire Runners Won Earned Runner

1. Lucky J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 $212,875 $35,4792. Square Eddie . . . . . . . . 8 5 272,780 34,0983. Bertrando† . . . . . . . . . . 11 2 300,620 27,3294. Lucky Pulpit . . . . . . . . . . .6 3 120,635 20,1065. Desert Code . . . . . . . . . 7 1 139,121 19,8746. Tribal Rule . . . . . . . . . . 20 13 386,748 19,3377. Decarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4 135,192 19,3138. Kafwain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4 151,110 16,7909. Stormin Fever . . . . . . . . 9 2 149,116 16,568

10. Awesome Gambler . . . . 9 2 146,012 16,22411. Southern Image . . . . . . . 7 2 103,320 14,76012. Cindago* . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2 72,090 14,41813. Papa Clem . . . . . . . . . . 11 4 142,424 12,94814. Time to Get Even . . . . 16 5 197,860 12,36615. Swiss Yodeler . . . . . . . . 14 4 151,138 10,796

LUCKY J. H. (HARRIS FARMS )Leading Two-Year-Old Sire in California

by Average Earnings Per Runnerthrough October 6, 2013.

Leading Sires Of Two-Year-Oldsby Number of Winners

RacesRank Sire Runners Winners Won Earnings

1. Tribal Rule ........................ 20 9 13 $386,7482. Dixie Chatter .................. 20 6 7 189,9773. Time to Get Even .......... 16 5 5 197,8604. Bushwacker .................. 17 4 4 165,325

Swiss Yodeler ..................14 4 4 151,138Decarchy .......................... 7 4 4 135,192Eddington‡ .................... 13 4 4 95,805

8. Square Eddie .................... 8 3 5 272,780Lucky J. H. ........................ 6 3 4 212,875Kafwain ............................ 9 3 4 151,110Papa Clem ...................... 11 3 4 142,424Unusual Heat .................. 13 3 3 88,696Heatseeker (Ire)................ 11 3 4 79,898Benchmark ...................... 6 3 4 55,737Idiot Proof........................ 5 3 4 35,543

16. Stormin Fever .................... 9 2 2 149,116Don’tsellmeshort .............. 3 2 4 147,328Awesome Gambler ............ 9 2 2 146,012Roi Charmant .................. 4 2 2 124,459Lucky Pulpit ...................... 6 2 3 120,635Southern Image ................ 7 2 2 103,320Cindago* .......................... 5 2 2 72,090Vronsky ............................ 7 2 2 60,031Unbridled Energy# ............ 9 2 2 57,748Rocky Bar ........................ 7 2 2 56,415Surf Cat.............................. 6 2 2 46,317Jet West* .......................... 2 2 2 18,457

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Santa Anita Park, Arcadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sept. 27-Nov. 3Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Oct. 17-Dec. 22Betfair Hollywood Park, Inglewood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 7-Dec. 22Santa Anita Park, Arcadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 26-July 2, 2014Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 26-July 15, 2014Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .July 3-13, 2014Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .July 16-Sept. 3, 2014Barretts Race Meet at Fairplex, Fairplex Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sept. 4-23, 2014Santa Anita Park, Arcadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Sept. 25-Nov. 2, 2014Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Del Mar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Nov. 5-Dec. 3, 2014Los Alamitos Race Course, Los Alamitos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dec. 4-21, 2014

Dates in California

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Regional Race Meetings,Stakes Races and Sale Dates

NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER 2013 REGIONAL STAKES RACES

2013 AND 2014 REGIONAL RACE MEETINGS

Date Track Stakes (Grade) Conditions Distance Added Value

Nov. 1 SA Breeders’ Cup Distaff (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/8 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$2,000,000Nov. 1 SA Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,000,000Nov. 1 SA Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,000,000Nov. 1 SA Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (Gr. I) . . . . .2-y-o f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,000,000Nov. 1 SA Breeders’ Cup Marathon (Gr. II) . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 3/4 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500,000Nov. 1 SA Golden State Juvenile Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 1 SA Golden State Juvenile Fillies Stakes . . . . . . .2-y-o f., Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 1 SA Twilight Derby (Gr. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/8 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150,000

Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Classic (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/4 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5,000,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Turf (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/2 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . .3,000,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Mile (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (Gr. I) . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/4 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . .2-y-o f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2,000,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Sprint (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,500,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .abt. 6 1/2 f. (T) . . . . . . . . . .1,000,000Nov. 2 SA Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (Gr. I) . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,000,000Nov. 2 SA Senator Ken Maddy Stakes (Gr. III) . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .abt 6 1/2 f. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 2 SA Damascus Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 2 SA Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .abt 6 1/2 f. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 3 SA Goldikova Stakes (Gr. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150,000Nov. 9 BHP Moccasin Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 9 GG Golden Nugget Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50,000Nov. 10 BHP Hollywood Prevue Stakes (Gr. III) . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 16 BHP Sharp Cat Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 16 GG Oakland Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50,000Nov. 17 BHP Cat’s Cradle Handicap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m., Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired . . .7 1/2 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 23 BHP Real Quiet Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 24 BHP On Trust Handicap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired . . . . . . . . .7 1/2 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 28 BHP Vernon O. Underwood Stakes (Gr. III) . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 29 BHP Citation Handicap (Gr. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . .250,000Nov. 29 GG Berkeley Handicap Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50,000Nov. 30 BHP Miesque Stakes (Gr. III) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 30 BHP Generous Stakes (Gr. III) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Nov. 30 GG Golden Gate Debutante Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50,000

Breeders’ Cup XXX World Championships – $5.5 million in Purse Money – Friday, November 1, 2013


Breeders’ Cup XXX World Championships – $19.5 million in Purse Money – Saturday, November 2, 2013

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California-Bred/California-Sired Stakes RacesNovember & December

Friday, November 1$100,000 Golden State Juvenile Stakes

Two-Year-Olds1 Mile

Friday, November 1$100,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies Stakes

Two-Year-Old Fillies1 Mile

Sunday, November 17$100,000 Cat’s Cradle Handicap

Three-Year-Olds & Up, Fillies & Mares7 1/2 Furlongs

Sunday, November 24$100,000 On Trust Handicap

Three-Year-Olds & Up7 1/2 Furlongs

Saturday, December 21$200,000 Soviet Problem Stakes

Two-Year-Old Fillies7 Furlongs

Sunday, December 22$200,000 King Glorious Stakes

Two-Year-Olds7 Furlongs

It Pays To BeCal-Bred

January 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barretts Sales & Racing January Mixed Sale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Early entries close November 1, entries close November 15 & supplemental entries close January 13, 2014)

March 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barretts Sales & Racing March Sale of Selected Two-Year-Olds in Training: Training Preview on February 28, 2014. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Nominations close October 25)

May 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barretts Sales & Racing May Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training: Training Preview on May 9, 2014. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Entries close March 26, 2014)

July 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barretts Sales & Racing Paddock Sale at Del Mar of “Race Ready” Horses of Racing Age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Entries close June 4, 2014)

October 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Barretts Sales & Racing October Yearling Sale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Nominations close April 18, 2014)

2014 REGIONAL SALE DATES

SANTA ANITA PARK

BETFAIR HOLLYWOOD PARK

Dec. 1 BHP Hollywood Derby (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/4 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$250,000Dec. 1 BHP Matriarch Stakes (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250,000Dec. 7 BHP Hollywood Starlet Stakes (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .500,000Dec. 7 BHP Bayakoa Stakes (Gr. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150,000Dec. 7 GG Gold Rush Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75,000Dec. 8 BHP Hollywood Turf Expess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 f. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Dec. 14 BHP CashCall Futurity (Gr. I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/16 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .750,000Dec. 14 BHP Hollywood Turf Cup (Gr. II) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/2 m. (T) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250,000Dec. 14 BHP Native Diver Stakes (Gr. III) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1/8 m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Dec. 15 BHP Playa Del Rey Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3-y-o & up, f. & m. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000Dec. 21 BHP Soviet Problem Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o f., Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200,000Dec. 22 BHP King Glorious Stakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2-y-o, Cal-Bred/Cal-Sired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 f. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200,000

Date Track Stakes (Grade) Conditions Distance Added Value

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IMPORTANT EVENTS & DATES

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21CALIFORNIA HORSE RACING BOARD (CHRB)

MONTHLY BOARD MEETINGBetfair Hollywood Park, Inglewood, Calif.

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Veterans Day

Santa Anita ParkClosing Day

Betfair Hollywood ParkOpening Day


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CALIFORNIA-BRED/CALIFORNIA-SIRED STAKES RACES

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1$200,000 GOLDEN STATE JUVENILE

2YO, 1 MILESanta Anita Park, Arcadia, Calif.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1$200,000 GOLDEN STATE JUVENILE FILLIES

2YO FILLIES, 1 MILESanta Anita Park, Arcadia, Calif.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17$100,000 CAT’S CRADLE HANDICAP

3YO & UP, FILLIES & MARES, 7 1/2 FURLONGSHollywood Park, Inglewood, Calif.

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Gotham City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59Grace Upon Grace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35Heatseeker (Ire) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFCHidden Blessing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Idiot Proof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57Impeachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Indian Evening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57Kafwain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Lightnin N Thunder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Lucky J. H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFCLucky Pulpit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFCMake Music For Me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47Many Rivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57Marino Marini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Ministers Wild Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Monsajem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59Mr. Broad Blade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Old Topper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Onebadshark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Peppered Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59Prime Timber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Rendezvous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59Rocky Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Roi Charmant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11, 12

Sea of Secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57Sierra Sunset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IBCSlew’s Tiznow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Smiling Tiger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IBCSought After . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59Soul of the Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Southern Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Storm Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Stormy Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45Suances (GB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19Sundarban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27Sway Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IBCSwiss Yodeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37Tenga Cat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19The Pamplemousse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Thorn Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFCTime To Get Even . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35Tizbud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFCTribal Rule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8, 9, OBCTwice The Appeal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IBCUh Oh Bango . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Ultimate Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Unusual Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IFCWorld Renowned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

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Jerry Lambert—1971 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award

Fifty years ago, a quiet Kansan and an incredible horseteamed up to make racing history. Four, all-too-short yearslater, Jerry Lambert and Native Diver had put together arecord to rival any horse and jockey tandem in history: 23stakes victories, an astounding win percentage together ofmore than 50 percent, and three straight Hollywood GoldCup victories from 1965 to 1967.

His first ride on “Diver,” in October of 1963, was memo-rable for Lambert for more than both the win in the $10,875Westlake Handicap at Tanforan in San Francisco and thelaunch of an incredible collaboration. While Diver, then a four-year-old and already the winner of eight stakes races at two,three and four, could blow away competitors, he was alsoknown to blow turns.

“The same day I rode Native Diver I got my draft noticefrom the army. I said to myself, ‘Ain’t this nice. Not onlywill this horse probably kill me runnin’ through the outsidefence over here in this first turn, but now I gotta’ go to theArmy,’” he recalled.

Lambert had witnessed first-hand both unusual behaviormatched by equally unusual ability by Diver only monthsbefore. “The first time I saw him run, Ralph Neves was rid-ing him at Del Mar, and there was another horse in the racecalled Crazy Kid.” He explained that Diver and Crazy Kidimmediately engaged in a speed duel that literally put themout of sight of the rest of the field. “I turned down the back-side. Native Diver was on the outside fence and Crazy Kidwas in the middle of the racetrack.” According to Lambert,what happened next and how the race ended is both mind-boggling and telling of just how good Diver was: “I gotalmost to him and he saw me coming and took off again. Heblew the second turn and still beat me by lengths.”

Lambert’s first ride on Diver may have unlocked a secretto his prior unexpected forays to the outside rail and theblown turns by this son of Imbros out of Devil Diver, byCount Fleet. As another horse from the outside came over tothem going into the first turn, Diver ran over the heels of thehorse and was heading for the outside fence. “I, thought,‘Well, here we go.’” Resignation to disaster, however, wasreplaced by the kind of quick thinking that earned Lambert’srides more than $20 million in a stellar career based almostentirely in California. “I felt the horse change the front lead,but he didn’t change behind. So instead of cocking his headin, I cocked it out to make him switch behind.” Diver thenran the first turn with speed Lambert equated, with cowboycandor, to, shall we say, the digestive speed of a goose.

Helping Diver change leads wasn’t all Lambert learnedin his remarkable career with this amazing horse. “I quitwhippin’ on him and that satisfied him. And he didn’t likeanybody moving around on him.”

When “sat down” (suspended), Lambert, known for hisfilm study of races, noted how other riders couldn’t forcethemselves to let him run because of phenomenal earlyfractions. “But if you took a hold of him, you’d piss him offand he’d quit.” “Other riders” included the likes of WillieShoemaker, Johnny Longden and Milo Valenzeula.

For all of his success aboard Diver, his enviable earnings,and the 1971 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, Lam-bert has not yet joined his famous mount in the Hall ofFame, an oversight probably due to his by-passing theTriple Crown races in the East, which influence thoseselections. Lambert said, “I never was in business for glory.It’s all about winning”. . .and making history like perhapsno other horse and rider in Thoroughbred racing.

Guest ForumCOLUMN

by KEN SNYDER

Jerry & “Diver,”A Tandem For The Ages


Native Diver—1967 Hollywood Gold Cup

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CALIForNIA WELCoMES MILLIoNAIrE AND ThrEE-TIME GI WINNEr

SMILING TIGEr!! • A versatile racehorse that raced from the age of two

to six, winning at distances from four to seven

furlongs, he amassed $1,480,704 in earnings.

• he was in the money 16 of 20 Graded Stakes

including GI-Ancient Title Stakes defeating

Breeders' Cup Sprint winner DANCING

IN SILKS, GI Bing Crosby Stakes and a 3 ¼-length

victory in the GI Triple Bend handicap, defeating

Breeders Cup Sprint winner AMAZoMBIE.

• Throughout his career he defeated some of

the best in his class, including CoNCorD

PoINT, CArACorTADo, PrIVATE ZoNE,

CoMMA To ThE ToP, JIMMY CrEED, FAST

BuLLET, JuSTIN PhILLIP, CoIL, WISE

DAN, WArrIor’S rEWArD & KINSALE

KING.

• By hoLD ThAT TIGEr out of the stakes-winning

CAhILL roAD mare ShANDrA SMILES

• SMILING TIGEr will stand for the 2014

breeding season at a fee of $5,000.

Sierra Sunset Twice The Appeal Sway Away

Bertrando—Toot Sweet,

by Pirate’s Bounty

Fee: $2,500 LF

Won the GII rebel Stakes at oaklawn

Park, California Cup Juvenile Stakes,

and the Alamedan handicap at 1 1/16

miles (101 Beyer). Defeated two-time

Cal Cup Classic winner BoLD

ChIEFTAIN and multiple GIII winner

AuTISM AWArENESS.

From the female family of GI Belmont

Stakes winner DA’ TArA and dual

Classic-Placed winner DENIS oF CorK.

Successful Appeal—Double

Boarded, by Cormorant

Fee: $1,500

Won the $800,000, Sunland Derby

(GIII) by 1 ½ lengths defeating

Graded Stakes winner and Classic-

Placed ASTroLoGY, and Belmont

Stakes winner ruLEr oN ICE.

Afleet Alex—Seattle Shimmer,

by Seattle Slew

Fee: $2,500

Multiple GII Stakes-Placed son

of Eclipse Champion AFLEET

ALEX, finished second to JP’S

GuSTo in the GII Best Pal Stakes

and second to ThE FACTor,

defeating Breeders Cup Sprint

winner AMAZoMBIE in the GII

San Carlos Stakes.

Stallion Manager: Mersad Metanovic

[email protected]

www.SmilingTigerStallion.com

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(650) 653-1259 • Fax: (650) 348-1474

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