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A look at region’s stallions | Besecker dispersal powers sale | Jump Season Review
Mid-Atlantic
Vol. 28, Issue 1 Thoroughbred
JANUARY 2020
Shiny Stud
Maryland’s Golden Lad puts together big freshman year
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Debuting for a Country Life Farm
Racing Partnership, LET’S PLAY NINE
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on Nov. 28, earning an 85 Beyer.
Country Life and the Moon Map LLC bred
TOMMY SHELBY, 3rd MD Juvenile Futurity on
Dec. 7, 3 wins in 6 starts, and earnings of $106,877.
43 Starters, 24 Winners, Earnings over $1.2-million.
Country Life farm StaLLionS
DIVINING ROD by Tapit ($5,000 LFSN) • FRIESAN FIRE by A.P. Indy ($4,000 LFSN) • MALIBU MOON by A.P. Indy
($60,000 in Kentucky) • MOSLER by War Front ($4,000 LFSN) • SUPER NINETY NINE by Pulpit ($3,000 LFSN)
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Josh Pons 443.807.0644 n Michael Pons 410.459.8517 n Christy Holden, Gen. Mgr. 410.808.1325
Bel Air, MD 21014 • 410.879.1952 • www.countrylifefarm.com • [email protected]
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Laddie Liam sold for $450,000 to set a winter
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mPaigxeed 3 0sale record at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic. LYDIA A. WILLIA
In this issue
DEPARTMENTS
Post Time 6
Mid-Atlantic Report 8
Breeding season brings stallion developments
Pensioner on Parade
Maryland-based Force the Pass is a rare new name on the Mid-Atlantic’s 2020 stallion roster, by Maggie Kimmitt 20
though plenty is happening with 2019 success by Warrior’s Reward, Flashback, Golden Lad, Editorial by Joe Clancy 22
Bourbon Courage, Imagining and others, plus first-crop 2-year-olds for Mosler, Peace and Around the Ovals
Justice, Uncle Lino, etc., in 2020. By Joe Clancy. Page 24 by staff and correspondents 42
Pedigree column 68
Stallion Rankings 70
Juvenile successes propel strong December sale
Stallion News 74
Stakes winner Laddie Liam, a Maryland-bred from the dispersal of major owner Joe Stakes Winners 78
Besecker, brings $450,000 to lead the returns from Fasig-Tipton Midlantic’s December Obits 81
mixed sale. By Joe Clancy. Page 30 Insights 82
Maryland newsletter 83
New Jersey newsletter 91
Certified program helps Virginia continue rebound
North Carolina newsletter 95
Colonial Downs is back, and so are the horses, as Virginia’s Thoroughbred industry gets Ohio newsletter 97
a boost from historical horse racing machines fueling state-certified incentives for owners, Pennsylvania newsletter 101
farms. By Katie Bo Williams. Page 40 South Carolina newsletter 105
Virginia newsletter 107
Steeplechase season draws to close West Virginia newsletter 109
NSA newsletter 111
Jockeys Michael Mitchell and Jack Doyle finish in a fitting tie for the Calendar 114
championship; Andi’amu claims the timber crown; double Grade 1 Looking Back 116
winner Winston C heads Eclipse Award race; NSA weathered Classifieds &
storms in 2019, looks ahead to 2020. Page 60 Advertisers’ Index 118
Acrostic 119
Cover: Northview Stallion Station’s Golden Lad steps into the spotlight with stakes wins and banner
Past Time 120
sales returns in his first crop. Photo by Barbara Livingston
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I R I S H WAR CRY
CURLIN – IRISH SOVEREIGN, by POLISH NUMBERS | $6,500 LF
Multiple G2 SW,
Classic-Placed
by CURLIN
Sire of Breeders’ Cup Classic-G1 Winner VINO ROSSO
Over $1.2 Million in Earnings
AT 2 TDN Rising Star in 4 1/2-length debut win
1st Marylander S. in 2nd start
AT 3 1st Holy Bull S.-G2 by 3 3/4 lengths
(101 Beyer) defeating Champion Classic Empire
1st Wood Memorial S.-G2 by 3 1/2 lengths
(101 Beyer) defeating Classic Winner Cloud Computing
2nd Belmont S.-G1 by 2 lengths, after
setting a pressured pace to 1/16th pole
AT 4 1st Pimlico Special S.-G3 by 4 1/2 lengths
First Foals Arrive in 2020
NORTHVIEW
STALLION STATION
BANDBOX • GOLDEN LAD • GREAT NOTION • IRISH WAR CRY • MADEFROMLUCKY • REDEEMED
Linda Bench: 410.885.2855, [email protected] Paul O’Loughlin: 443.566.2996 (cell), [email protected]
P.O. Box 89 • 55 Northern Dancer Drive • Chesapeake City, MD 21915
PHOTO © BARBARA LIVINGSTON
POST TIME
MOON WALKER. The last full moon of the
decade sets on a Fair Hill Training Center resident
in the early hours of Dec. 12.
Scott Serio, Eclipse Sportswire
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MID-ATLANTIC REPORT
SAY IT AGAIN
“Sometimes it’s heaven, sometimes it’s hell and sometimes I don’t even know.”
Sales consignor Marshall Silverman, paraphrasing Waylon Jennings, on the horse business
“Well, this way we can empty it when it fills up – like email.”
Country Life Farm’s Mike Pons, on why he was having a conversation
with MAT’s Joe Clancy while standing next to a trash can
“Keep your hand down.”
Trainer Lacey Gaudet, on how to behave at a horse sale
“Had we known, we would have had somebody on Boyd right? Maybe they could have escorted him out.”
Trainer Gary Contessa, on bidding against a telephone bidder on the line
with Fasig-Tipton’s Boyd Browning Jr. to get sales-topper Laddie Liam for $450,000
“This was supposed to be a part-time job; it’s technically still a part-time job, but
when you have over a hundred horses in training it’s not part-time at all.”
Jeff Matty, on his role as racing manager for owner Joe Besecker
“It’s like getting married. You’re going to be together for four years. You better like that horse.”
Bonita Farm’s Bill Boniface, on the stallion business
“People ask me who won, still. I say they both won.”
Boniface, who saw the 1989 Preakness (Sunday Silence-Easy Goer) from the Pimlico turf course
“Macy’s doesn’t tell Gimbel’s.”
Diamond B Farm’s Glenn Brok, about new-stallion chatter among farms
“He’s Chuck around here.”
Brok about stallion Uptowncharlybrown’s barn nickname
ELLEN PONS
Featherweights.
Country Life Farm retiree Mosby’s Raider (who turned 22 Jan. 1) helps some friends learn to ride.
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