Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred January 2015

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Maryland Jockey Club shakes up staff, makes big plans
January 2015
Looking forward & back: 15 for '15 • Retired Racehorse Project matures • December sale
Maryland's "Cover Boy"
FEBRUARY 23, 2013 / NO.8
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Pulpit— Exog enetic, by Unbridled's Song
His mother is in foal to War Front. His father sired Tapit.
His owners are Spendthrift Farm and Country Life Farm.
His lifetime breeding rights are owned by signers of "Share the Upside" contracts,
terms of $5,000 for each of the first two breeding season's live foals. Stud Fee: $4,000.
He is the next BIG Sire in the Mid-Atlantic.
COUNTRY LIFE FARM STALLIONS
Cal Nation by Distorted Humor ($3,500 LFSN)• Freedom Child by Malibu Moon ($3,500 LFSN)
Friesan Fire by A.P. Indy ($4,000 LFSN)• Malibu Moon by A.P. Indy ($95,000 in Kentucky)
Oxman Lin & ItliournAND FARMS
Country Life Farm,P .O. Box 107, Bel Air, Maryland 21014
Merryland Farm, 12901 Bottom Road, Hydes, Maryland 21082
Josh or Michael Pons( 410)8 79-1952• Fax( 410)8 79-6207• www.countrylifefarm.com • e-mail: [email protected]
Midlantic 2Y0 Grad
Breeders' Cup
Classic Winner
BAYERN
Find your G1 Winners at Timonium!
Midlantic 2Y0s in Training
May 18-19 Entries Close: February6
Midlantic Fall Yearlings
September 29 Entries Close:J uly 10
Midlantic December Mixed
December 7 Entries Close: September 21
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In this issue D RTMENTS
Volume 23, Number 1
ost Time 6
Mid-Atlantic Report 8
Changes at top for Maryland Jockey Club Pensioner on Parade
by Maggie Kim mill 20
Tom Chuckas resigns from post; The Stronach Group hires Sal Sinatra from Parx Racing,
Editorial
commits to new direction at Laurel and Pimlico. By Tom Law. Page 24
by Joe Clancy 22
Fifteen Horses Around the Ovals
by staff and correspondents 46
Looking back, looking ahead, we check in with 15 notable racehorses as one year ends and
Stallion Rankings 64
another begins on the region's racetracks. Page 28
Stakes Winners 66
Ridgely's last moment Maryland newsletter 73
New Jersey newsletter 79
A half-sister to champion Declan's Moon tops the Fasig-Tipton December Mixed Sale
as part of the dispersal of late Maryland breeder Brice Ridgely. By Joe Clancy. Page 38 North Carolina newsletter 83
Pennsylvania newsletter 85
Retired Racehorse Project grows up South Carolina newsletter 89
The Maryland-based second-career organization completes successful Thoroughbred Virginia newsletter 91
Makeover event at Pimlico, heads to national stage in 2015. By Teresa Genaro. Page 42 West Virginia newsletter 93
NSA newsletter 95
Oh what a year it was
Looking Back 98
Led by stakes stars Demonstrative and Divine Fortune, who Calendar 100
accounted for five of the six Grade 1 stakes on the year, the
The Connection 101
steeplechase season comes to a close. Irishman Willie McCarthy
Classifieds & Advertisers'
wins his first jockeys' championship. Hot Rize jumps to timber
Index 102
crown. By Joe and Sean Clancy. Page 56
Acrostic 103
Cover: Past Time 104
A fixture at Laurel Park, no matter the weather, Billy Barton keeps an eye on the Maryland
track as major changes sweep the management team and direction. Photo by Jim McCue.
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Your best bet for
Quality Stallions in PA
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ALBERT THE GREAT CORINTHIAN
GO FOR GIN—BRIGHT FEATHER, by FAPPIANO PULPIT—MULTIPLY, by EASY GOER
G1 winner of $3,012,490 at classic distances. Sire of 21 Breeders'C up Dirt Mile & G1 Metropolitan Mile winner of
stakes horses, 3 millionaires, including 2014G1 Stephen $1,267,273.17 stakes horses-7 in 2014;t otal earnings over
Foster H winner MOONSHINE MULLIN. $2,500 LF $10 million. Family of NUREYEV,S ADLER'S WELLS. $4,000 LF
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MORE SMOKE NORMAN ASBJORNSON
SMOKE GLACKEN—SAUNTER, by STROLLING ALONG REAL QUIET—MERRYLAND MISSY, by CITIDANCER
G3 winner by 141/2 lengths posting a 112 BEYER. Sire of MSW of $536,600. G3-placed in Gotham Sand Excelsior S.
RAGING SMOKE ($175,200). From the family of champions Defeated Eighttofasttocatch, Javerre, Winchill, Arlo, etc. Out
BIG BROWN,H IDDEN LAKE and I CAN DO IT ALL. $1,500 LF of SW from the family of millionaire SMART BID. $1,500 LF
Pin Oak Lane Farm & Equine Clinic
Owned and managed by William J. Solomon,V .M.D.
P.O. Box 129, New Freedom, PA 17349
Phones: 717-235-4954 • 800-346-8398 • Fax: [phone]
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Fees payable when foal stands and nurses • Registered Pennsylvania stallions
Mid-Atlantic
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Editor: Joe Clancy
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The stakes schedule is approved through March 28, 2015.
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Associate editor: Cindy Deubler
Association at( 410) 252-2100, fax [phone] or visit [email protected]
irk'L eN FD1- JI Ei MHBA's website at www.marylandthoroughbred.com. Editorial assistant: Lydia Williams
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SAY IT AGAIN
GO FIGURE
002.10Trifecta
"You look forward to it, then a week after it's over
25 payoff
you're like 'man I'm missing racing already.'"
(for a 50-cent
Jumpjockey Ross Geragho on the end of the season ticket) when longshots Vicky Ticky Tavie,
War Relic and Mavourneen ran 1-2-3 in
"I knew you were in trouble when I said to myself, I'm getting Laurel Park's 10th race Oct. 25.
stuck behind Demonstrative.' I never said that before."
16.31 Average win payout of
Geragho, aboard Parker's Project, tojockey Robbie Walsh, after
the 131 turf winners at
Demonstrativef inished third in the Grade 1 Colonial Cup
Laurel Park's fall meet.
The grass course was closed Nov. 19.
"I wanted to give that horse a hug." 1
Kevin Cox, the Brooklyn Cowboy, after Divine Fortune, 0n Percentage of top-three finishes
at age 11,f inished second in the Grand National-G1 at Far Hills L/b y the team of trainer Jack
Fisher and jockey Sean McDermott over
the final four weeks of the steeplechase
"Woody Stephens is rolling over in his grave."
season. They produced six wins, six
National Steeplechase's Bill Gallo after hearing about trainers using GPS seconds and three thirds in their final 15
tracking gstems to monitor mileage, heart rates and speed of their horses races together.
"I cried, but I tried not to let anyone see me." 3Maidens broken by Raven's Choice
for trainer Todd Wyatt. The
Trainer Tim Keefe, after Eighttofasttocatch won hisf ourth
Maryland-bred won on the flat in
consecutive Jennings Handicap to retire as a millionaire
2010, over hurdles in 2011 and over
timber in 2014. The now 8-year-old races
for Ann Jackson and was bred by her late
husband Cary.
54 171.11Average purse
earnings in the
nine starts for Eighttofasttocatch and
jockey Forest Boyce. The duo produced
six wins from nine starts since teaming up
in April 2013.
LYDIA A. WILLIAMS 5.9 FOodrdtsu noef w Dhievinn hee
made his career
"Thanks for the memories."
debut in a $50,000 maiden claimer on
Laurel Park announcer Dave Rodman the dirt at Delaware Park May 16, 2006.
as Eighttofasttocatch crossed thef inish in the Jennings Ramon Dominguez guided the 3-year-old
to a sixth-place finish.
"I brought horses and I'm taking home money."
4.90_1 Ohedmdsaodef
Consignor Rick Abbott, defining success
Ben'his sar Ce he aer tn wde but
at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's December sale
as a $20,000 maiden claimer at Pimlico
May 8, 2010. Julian Pimentel guided the
"You can name that one, Answer The Call." 4-year-old to a front-running win going 6
Fasig-Tipton announcer Reed Ringler, after a would-be buyer furlongs on the dirt.
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could not be reached via telephone during the December sale
Odds of
Eighttofasttocatch
"The mare was pretty tough to get in foal and somebody,
when he made his
somewhere must have said 'There's no way, Tom."
career debut in a 2-year-old maiden at
Veterinarian Tom Bowman, about a horse he bred named No Way Tom Laurel Park Oct. 25, 2008. The late Joe
(who won 18 of 91 starts—and was a stall-walking demon—from 1978-84) Farley guided him to a fourth-place finish.
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